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HOW NEW YORK FAIR MOVES BIG TREES BY HUNDREDS NEW YORK (Special).—As the housewife repots t;oraniums or the gardener moves berry bushes, so Joes the New York World’s Fair 1939 Corporation transplant stately trees front five states to the 1216V4-acre exposition site. The Fair’s landscape engineers explain that the moving of the big trees differs from the replanting of small shrubs only in the matter of size, and that modern mechanical aid-s make possible the creation of a mature-looking park on the newly made land of Flushing Meadow. Shown at the top of accompanying photographs is a grown maple that has just been restored to up right position after a 120-mile ride on a specially built truck. Note truck's winch and the secure ball ing of earth about the tree roots. In the centre is • 35-foot Norway maple, 12 tons weight, moving the last few yards to its new home by means of the for ward gear of a modern tree mover. All trees shown, a number of the 474 veterans moved this spring, are new to the great expanse of Ailed land. The Fair will move 10,000 trees and 250,000 shrubs. Shown, just above, on the bay hunter is Harvey D. Gibson, President of the Manufacturers Trust Company and Chairman of the Fair’s Finance Com mittee. Up on the hapdsome grey and speaking to a landscape engineer is Grover Whalen, President of the Fair Corporation, during a horseback tour of the site extending three and one-half miles. Wilt Disease Attacks State’s Tobacco Crop Granville wilt, rapidly spreading into new areas, will probably cost North Carolina tobacco growers $1,000,000 this season, estimates Dr. Luther Shaw, extension plant pathologist at State College. Although no practical, effective cure for the disease is known at present, he said, growers can take action to check its spread and to protect future crops from wilt. The first step, he continued, is to identify the disease as soon as it appears in a field. Wilt causes leaves to droop or wilt, then wrin kle, turn yellow, and die. Finally the entire plant is killed. The disease is usually found in scattered patches over a field, but a high percentage of the plants in each patch is affected. If a di seased stalk is cut in two and pressed with the fingers, a dirty, yellowish ooze will drip out. Sdise- ^ organisms can be i it/ ' * infected areas by ru,' _ J from one field to sr, on*ne feet of men or an imals, or on wheels or other parts of farm implements. To check the spread of the di sease this season, Dr. Shaw point ed out, growers should exercise ev ery precaution to keep the orga nisms from being carried into new territory. To protect future crops, is is ad visable to start a four-year rota tion with wilt-resistant crops such us corn, wheat, rye, soybeans, cot ton, sweet potatoes and melons. These crops will give the wilt organisms a chance to die out be fore tobacco is planted again. On *. other hand, plants like Irish latoes, peppers, tomatoes, pea nuts, ragweed and horse nettle help keep the wilt organisms alive. AAA Leader To Tell About Farm Program The federal agricultural program for ip;j8 will be discussed by J. B. Hutson, assistant AAA adminis trator, Wednesday morning of Harm and Home Week to be held at State College, August 2-6. Starting at 8 o'clock, Hutson will exPlain tentative plans for the ag r'cultural conservation program to be offered North Carolina farmers "ext year. He wj)l also give the growers opportunity to express their opin ion of the program, as conducted this year, and ol' the proposed pro gram for 11138, said K. V. Floyd, of State College. In addition, Hutson will outline the bills now before Congress re garding control legislation for cotton, tobacco, corn, wheat, and rice, and which may be expanded to include peanuts and truck crops. “This will be your chance to get some first hand information on the program for next year,” Floyd stated in urging all growers who can to hear Hutson speak. John W. Goodman, of State Col lege, who has arranged the Farm and Home Week program, has an nounced that farm tenancy will be the subject of much discussion Tuesday morning. Two landlords will discuss the matter from their viewpoint, and three tenants will explain the pro blems confronting those who work land owned by others. Tenant security will be the sub ject of a talk by C. B. Faris of the Resettlement Administration, and Congressman Harold D. Cooley will tell about new tenant security legislation. Every day of the week will bring something worth while for North Carolina farmers as well as farm women, Goodman added, “and we hope to have a large number who will come to spend the entire week.” Explains Purpose Of Federal Leaf Grades The federal tobacco-grading ser vice, now entering its tenth year, was established to help growers determine whether they were get ting a fair price for their leaf. Until last year, all grading was on a voluntary basis. But in 1936 compulsory grading was started on Goldsboro, Farmville„ and Oxford markets after the growers had voted for it. Although four warehouses at Oxford have secured injunctions to South Has Many Assets For Livestock Industry KNOWLEDGE OF ANIMAL NU TRITION HELPFUL TO EVERY FARMER (Editor’s Note.—The following is the first of a series of authentic articles on livestock production and feeding, published as a service to farmers and stockmen through the cooperation of the local cotton oil mill.) Many natural advantages of soil climate and crops enable the South to produce livestock economically and efficiently, livestojk authori ties point out. With cotton no lon ger profitable as the only cash crop, Southern farmers are turning to livestock as the best means of supplementing cotton income and of marketing grains and roughage. To the farmer who is raising, or wants to raise, livestock, knowledge of a few simple but fundament facts on animal nutrition will prove most helpful. All farm animals are “living fac tories”, producing meat or milk, wool, eggs or mohair, or energy for work. To supply the needs of its body, each animal requires the fol lowing substances: fats, proteins, crude fiber, nitrogen-free extract, minerals, water and vitamins. Nitrogen-free extract and crude fiber, combined, are called carbo hydrates. Carbohydrates, made up of sugars and starches, are com bined with fats as sources of energy and fuel. When fed in a mounts exceeding that needed to maintain the body, they are stored up in the form of fatty tissue. Protein includes all nitrogenous compounds of feeds. The primary purpose of protein is to form lean meat and to restore worn-out tis sues and muscles; but, in addition to these functions, protein can be prevent compulsroy grading, the inspection work will be continued this season on other markets in these towns. The U. S. Department of Agricul ture has taken an appea from the injunctions and will carry the ease to the U. S. Supreme Court, if necessary, to determine whether compulsory grading will be re-es tablished in the four warehouses. Meanwhile, S. L. Clement, of the agricultural economics department at State College, has pointed out some of the advantages of govern ment grading. The grower is given a certifi cate showing the grade of his to bacco and a chart showing the av erage prices that have been paid for each grade. Thus the grower can see for himself whether the bid offered him is reasonably close to the av erage for his grade, and he can use this information in deciding whether or not to reject the bid. Without such information, the grower may sell his tobacco at too low a price or, on the other hand, he may reject a bid that is as much as the tobacco is worth, and thereby lose a sale, Clement point ed out. used—and is used—to produce heat i and is, therefore, a source of fat. Because no other food nutrient can i do its work, protein is the most important nutrient in feeds. Pro- i teins can substitute for carbohy- i drates and fats, but carbohydrates can not function as protein. In the South, the most aom- i monly used protein supplement is cottonseed meal, or cake, made from cottonseed grown on South ern farms. Cottonseed meal is an < economical and efficient source ol protein in rations for all farm ani- i mals; in addition, Southern farmers help the market for their own , cottonseed by feeding meal or , cake. Properly combined in the ra tion, tw'o pounds of cottonseed meal will replace about four pounds of corn or oats. When corn is $1 per bushed (35.70 per ton), cottonseed meal, used to replace part of the , corn, has a feeding value of $71.40 1 per ton. Mineral matter is found in all 1 vital parts of the animal body, so : that an adequate supply of mineral is essential in balanced rations. Salt, calcium and phosphorous are the chief minerals needed. Lime stone, oyster shell flour and bone meal supply calcium, while cotton seed meal is a rich source of phos phorous. Both water and salt should be available in ample amounts at all times. Vitamins are essential, also, for a balanced ration, Abundant past ures and good, bright grass or le gume hay will furnish the vitamins necessary for livestock. At least part of the roughage in rations should include one good source of vitamins, such as legume hays, grass hays, silage and pastures. By feeding home-grown grains and roughages, properly balanced with cottonseed meal-the South’s own concentrated protein-Southern farmers can produce livestock ef ficiently and economically, both as a second “cash crop” and to supply their own needs for food and farm power. statecolTege ANS. TIMELY FARM QUES. QUESTIONS: Will Johnson grass poison livestock ? ANSWER: Johnson grass pro duces a poisonous acid, known as hydrocyanic or prussic acid, when the normal growth of the grass has been stopped or retarded by adverse conditions as drouth, bruis ing, trampling or cutting. Usually no trouble is experienced from livestock grazing the grass except in extremely dry weather or on the second growth immediately af ter a cutting. Dr. C. D. Grinnells veterinarian of the North Caro lina Experiment Station, says cho-l SC HENLEY’S (Saldett Wedding BOURBON BLENDED STRAIGHT WHISKIES ceberry and black cherry also pro luce this poisonous acid under ad verse growing conditions. QUESTION: When is the best ime to cut soybeans and cowpeas or hay ? ANSWER: Cut the soybeans when he seed are about half-developed n the pods and the cowpeas when he first pods begin to yellow. A >oor quality of hay is often pro luced from these crops in North Carolina because most of us wait oo long to cut. them for hay. livestock do not relish stems and ough fiber, but do eat green, leafy lay with excellent results. QUESTION: I have a field of •orn on which I want to turn my logs. When is the best stage of trowth to do this'.' ANSWER: If the best stage of trowth for the com is meant, then inytime after tin1 corn grains have Hissed the dough stage. If the jest stage of growth Tor the pigs s meant, then anytime after the roung fellows are weaned. When logs are turned into standing orn, the self-feeder containing ankage or fish meal should be ,put nto the field. It would be well to lave a mineral mixture available ilso. Before he included lespedeza in lis crop rotation, John Lyon of Yanceyville, Route 1, produced on ly 7 and 8 bushels of wheat per acre on a nine-acre field. This past spaing, he averaged 15.3 bush els an acre. J. B. Hutson, head of the agri cultural conservation program for the East Central Region, in which North Carolina is located, will dis cuss the 1938 farm program on Wednesday, August 4, during Farm and Home Week at State College. Checking Halifax cotton fielck last week, the assistant county a gent, W. M. Bruce, found heavy infestation in many fields and pre dicted losses to growers unless the weevils are held in check. Hog growers of Beaufort and Hyde counties have organized a livestock mutual association for the cooperative shipment of hogs at Washington, county seat of Beaufort county. Render county farmers report one of the finest crops in recent years now growing in the county. New Hanover dairymen, faced with a shortage of grazing, en siled their oats and vetch with mo asses and have had an excellent succulent feed with which to main tain a normal milk flow this sum mer. , Juhnston county hog growers have found their cooperative ship ments so profitable that they plan to add sheep and lambs in the se ries of regular shipments. If you love to bask in cool pleasure these warm days, sip an icy mint julep or highball made with this “Double-Rich” straight Bourbon! A 90 proof whiskey with the Mark of Merit. Made in the Rluegrass Qjjl Country by master Kentucky dis tillers the good old Kentucky way. m M KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY INTIRE CONTENTS COPR. 1937, SCHENLEY DISTRIBUTORS, INC., N. Y.C,
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