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PULLORUM HELD ON THE WAY OUT By THOMPSON GREENWOOD Editor, N. C. Department of Agriculture. RALEIGH, March 4.—<#>—Pul lorum, a germ-borne disease com monly called ’‘white diarrhea . now stands as an obstacle afal”st the further rapid growth of the poultry industry in North Caro lina—but it may be on the way out, in the opinion of D. S. Col trane, assistant commissioner of agriculture. The Agriculture Committees of the Legislature have. reported fa vorably a strong bill designed to provide broad machinery for the eradication and control of this disease, which attacks young chicks, killing 3,000,000 in North Carolina alone during 1944. “If the measure is passed, pul lorum in North Carolina will have been dealt a staggering blow, and poultry will offer excellent oppor tunities for veterans and others during the readjustment and re habilitation period after the war, said Coltrane. Pointing out that the control of poultry diseases and the regu lation in the sale of disease-in fected chicks and hatching eggs have not kept pace with the growth of the poultry industry, he declared that the bill, prepared by poultrymen, the Extension Ser vice, the Experiment Station, the feed industry, and the Department of Agriculture, would “in one fell stroke show that the poultry busi ness is recognized at its true worth—a $50,000,000 industry for 300,000 farmers in North Carolina. Under the bill, Coltrane explain ed, baby chicks shipped into North Carolina would be required to meet the same high standards to be adopted for hatcherymen, breeding flock owners, chick deal ers, and jobbers in this State. He said that North Carolina hatcherymen are already losing out-of-State markets throuugh their failure to eradicate and con trol disease in local breeding flocks. The bill calls for an appropri ation of $40,000 in addition to the present funds available for this work, and this has been agreed upon as the "absolute minimum” needed for the program. There are approximately 1.000.000 birds to be blood tested, and the per sonnel necessary to do this work cannot be provided on any small amount of funds, according to Coltrane. NO BARGAINS [There are no bargains in in* gnrance. Insurance is a service •f indemnity. The cost is bawd on losses and experi ence. When the cost is cheap* toed the protection is weak* • [When yon hoy your insurance (through this agency you will get your money’s worth in sound protection plus the ser* vices of a competent agent ia your community who can (properly advise yon on insur ance matters—as well as assist |jpu m case of loss. 12 PRINCESS ST. 1GLENMORE DISTILLERIES COMPANY Incorporated LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY Feed-A-Fighter Winners LANE PRICE LAWRENCE CREECH CLEVELAND SHEPHERD SULLIVAN FISHER Winners of the 4-H ‘'Feed-A-Fighter’’ contest in North Carolina are Lane Price of Union County with 22.890 pounds of turkeys; Law rence Creech of Durham. 89,908 pounds of milk; Cleveland Sheperd of Durham, 22.750 pounds of pork: and Sullivan Fisher of Nash, 8.815 pounds of beef. Each has been awarded a $100 War Bond by Colonial Stores, according to L. R. Harrill, 4-H Club leader for the Agricul tural Extension Service at State College. First and second place win ners in each of the five Extension districts received $50 and $25 War Bonds. Similar awards will be given this year. Harrill said. Carolina Farm Comment By F. H. JETER The year 1945 will long be re membered in the homes of Amer ica. This is a trite thing to say when my two boys and your boys, and your sweetheart, and your hus band, or perhaps your father are in the armed forces and you pray ev ery day that they shall do their duty and come through unscathed by hurts of war. We shall remember the year 1945 because of them, of course, but if we are not very care ful we shall also remember this year because of the food situation. Information from Washington is to the effect that the army will "step up’’ its buying and that many of the foods which are now critical with us will t be bought in larger quantities than ever. We saw that this week in the higher point val ues going on fats and cooking oils. There seems to be a fear that once Germany collapses, if she does, the people of the United States will let down in their war effort and will not push things hard enough for us to have the supplies with which to whip Japan into submission. That sounds like good logic but it means that civilians are going to feel the good pinch. At the risk of being repetitious, therefore, I am going to ask every reader of this column to do some thing about it. In other words, if you you live in town and have a garden spot, please plant a garden and look after it all the year. If you are on the farm, please have a family-sized garden in which you can grow all the fresh vegetables your family will need for use fresh and for canning. If you are selling off your brood sows because of the high price of feedstuffs, please save at least enough of these to provide pigs for your home sup ply of meat and a little to sell to your town neighbors who know nothing about raising hogs. If you do not have the feed supplies for your dairy cattle or for your beef animals or sheep or poultry, please begin to plan right now about the feed you can grow and see that it is planted, grown and harvested. It is not becoming in an agricul tural worker perhaps to attempt be ing a prophet. No one can read thi future, but, certainly one can sei what the trend is. and despite th; lack of labor and the hardship; which farmers will have to put u] with in 1945, they must look afte their home supplies Of food am feed. Louis Broomfield said in 194c I believe it was, that we would ap proach famine conditions by th summer of that year. He didn’ know what he was talking about because the farmers of America broke all records for food produc tion up to that time and then went on to break them again in 1944. But they had good seasons. So far in this year, we have had no serious drouths, nor any great insect or disease outbreaks to affect our pro duction of food and feed crops. This has been true now for seven straight, successive years. It is simply too good to last. We may be in for the seven poor years of Jos eph’s day. It could not be as ser ious with us as it was with ancient Egypt because we have a greater diversity of soils and climate over this nation and are not dependent solely upon rains at the upper reaches of a river. But we could be hurt and hurt badly if something happened to the normal food supplies of the nation. North Carolina should never want for anything. From the seashore at Wilmington to the tops of the mountains, we have soils, climate, rainfall in such variance that some groups, somewhere, will have good crops. We can grow anything that can be grown anywhere else in the nation and then something more. Our orators have told us that time and time again. The thing we must do, however, to think through the situation as it might affect our own, jindividual farms and then make our plans sb that we shall not want on any farm. Then we also have an obligation towards the fam ily in town that normally buys the surplus which we product. Society is so divided that some of us make our living on the farm from the land, while others make their liv ing manufacturing or trading in the things which we need or in hand ling the things which we produce. We, therefore, have a responsi bility to see that these persons do not suffer from a lack of nutritious food. Reports indicate that we plan to increase our production of corn this year by using good seed, by fertilizing with more nitrogen, and by better cultivation. We have bet ter pastures for our livestock be cause we have used ground lime stone and phosphates upon them and they will turn out more gal lons of milk, more pounds bf beef and more eggs and broilers. Vic tory gardens are off to a good start in the states to the south of us. In some of the states, governors have issued proclamations urging all citizens to plant gardens and to husband the surplus. Reports from all parts of North Carolina indicate that we shall have as many home gardens this year as we had last year. This is good as far as it goes; but, the fact remains that we did not have many gardens last year as we should have had. The town people fell down on this job a little and if they are wise, they will remedy the situation in 1945. And just this one other word about food supplies. We are going to need all kinds of foods. Meat will be almost impossible to get later on. If we are to be properly fed, we must have fresh vegetables, peas, beans and other vegetables -DCCdUat: liiC i itoiucin lias back from the Crimea a muci happier man, he has come out o the personal seclusion into whici he had become more and mori withdrawn. Perhaps he has de Livered more eloquent speeches But not for a long time, if evej before, has he talked so easily with the Congress and the people rather than to them, and dowr to them in calculated and. guard ed phrases. It is evident tha he has been relieved of a deej anxiety about the course o events, and of worry whether hi could shape them in a way whicl he could justify to the country with a good conscience and wit! confidence that the people woulc understand and agree. For many months before hi went to Yalta he was a worriet man, uncertain of what to do unsure of what he could do, awari that the old line of his policy wa; working badly, in doubt whethei he knew how and whether hi dared to take a new line. So hi was on the defensive, his guarc always up, disposed to fence witr and irritably to slap down, thi Congress and the press and thi public, when they showed an an noying curiosity about the verj things which were troubling his own peace of mind. * * * The worry, and the irritable self-isolation which it caused, have for the time being all but disap noirhll TknrA aati Ka + ^amVo about the reason. He musterec up his courage, grasped the nettle reversed his old negative policy of postponing decisions, and founc that the difficulties were less thai he had feared, the response o: Marshal Stalin and the Prime Minister more forthcoming thar he had dared to hope. He told Con gress that he was in good health and much refreshed. Manifest!; he was. There is no tonic lik< doing the right thing boldy anc finding that it succeeds. The achievements at Yalta were so massive that his old dread o: talking to the people about foreigr affairs has given way to the cer tainty that how he has a story tc tell which, the more it is told, the more our people will understanc and agree. There are, of course many things which were discuss ed at Yalta that cannot be tol'c while our enemies, and some o] our doubtful friends, are listen ing. But after hearing the Pres ident and the confidential tall of his chief lieutenants, there car be little doubt that they have no1 come back holding any importsnl secrets that embarrass them. They have come back in the mood ol high in protein. Then, too, there h a place for more small fruits anc berries. North Carolina is a nat ural berry state. The old fashionec gardens of past years always con tained small fruits and berries They added much to the diet. The; sharpened the appetite. They made Sous refreshments for those who came to see us. Let s begin tc grow more of them and thus bettei fn?0y the other homegrown fooc that we shall have on hand. The Tar Heel Gardener By JOHN H. HARRISS N. C. State College____ This week the soil will be toi wet for working in most section! of the state. There are a numbei of jobs, however, that can be done if we will look for them. During the week-end I plantec my lettuce and cabbage plants it empty tin cans (the soil was toe wet in the garden). The cans were placed in a warm sunny place where the plants will grow mucl faster than if they were in the gar den. In two or three weeks these plants along with all the soil ane roots can be removed from the ' cans, (similar containers could be used), and planted. I placed abou one eighth teaspoonful of nitrate o soda around the inside edge of the can after placing the plants it them. The plants, of course, wil be fertilized again when they ari set in the garden. I also planted tomato, pepper i and egg plant seed in shallow Boxes. This box was placed in a sunny win dow and covered with a piece of elass (to hold moisture in the soil). : These plants will be treated similar to the cabbage and lettuce plants . when they get about two inches I ^Saturday afternoon I excavated i some apples that I placed in a dfft . mound, similar to a sweet potato I mound, last fall. The majority were in good condition and much ap . predated. A few had rotted be [ cause of water that had seeped in. ■ There was no sign of shriveling, or I over ripening in the, varieties that : I started. I My next job is to tie up my dew . berries. So far I have been unable l to find either stakes or wire, but l I am still looking. Strawberries i should be mulched immediately. These warm days are bringing out , new leases rapidly.___ College Entrance Boom Seen After GIs Return By DOUGLAS WALLOP WASHINGTON, March 4.—(UP) —A lot of G. I. Joes and Janes are going to trade in their unifoi'ms and military manuals for saddle shoes and text books after the war. A leading educator predicted to night that there will be enough of them with a thirst for higher learn ing to make the first normal peace time year the biggest in college history. He is E. V. Hollis, principal spe cialist in higher education for the i U. S. Office of Education. After the fighting stops, he said, college enrollment will get a lift from its present doldrums and soon will establish a new record. Em ployment conditions will have a lot to do with the actual mark, he ad ded. One of the chief stimulants will be the tuition allowance provided in the G. I. Bill of Rights. It gives military personnel a maximum tu ition allotment of $500 and also pro vides maintenance money. Hollis declined to predict how high postwar enrollment will reach . but it has never exceeded 1,500,000. . 000. ^ Campuses have been thoroughly ^ scoured of male students since the | war and of many women. In 1939 40. A normal prewar year. The national enrollment. was 1.493.203. During the current term it is 1.020, 780, many of whom are military personnel taking special courses. A great majority of enlisted per sonnel have not completed college. Of pn estimated 10,800,000 men in military service, only three per cent have graduated. And sheepskins are held by less than seven per cent of the 199,800 women. Of those totals, 6.300,000 eventual ly will matriculate, Hollis predic ted. Entries will be spread out over a number of years since many of them will not be ready after war. About 32 per cent of all military personnel have not finished high school. He offered a survey showing that servicewomen on the average have a higher level of education than men; that women in the Navy and Marines are better educated than those in the Army and Coast Guard, but that men in the Army and Coast Guard have completed more years than those in the other branches. The survey also showed that about 13 per cent of all servicemen have completed at least one year of college but that only about three per cent have graduated. About 29 per cent have not gone beyond the eighth grade. ' Today and Tomorrow ? L- By WALTER LIPPMANN - t — 11 t* • .■» .. j •» _ : ii i j ' i _ ii iiiv.11 rv 11V moil HIV. j vvuxu iv.ii more, and that, in my experience, , is a mood which public men can not act out if they do not feel it. • • * At Yalta, it is clear, the three ■ chiefs of state were able to agree on many difficult matters of the highest importance. The question now is, of -course, how well these agreements will work and how faithfully arid effectively they will be carried out. The real answer • to this crucial question is to be ' found, I believe, by noting how ■ many problems. conflicts and ■ cross-currents developed in the ‘ long period which had elapsed since the three chiefs met before i at Tehran. If these difficulties ' had been, the result o/ irreconcil able differences among the great 1 powers, then they would have be come aggrevated, not resolved and compromised, at Yalta. This proves that, once the Pres ident had made up his mind to face these problems and to deal with them, the agreements will work as long as the three chiefs of state are able to control the administration of them effective ly. In other words, we shall run into trouble in so far as officials down the line do not understand the agreed purposes, or go off on a tangent of their own in a particular situation. It is easier for three chiefs of state to col laborate than for the beareaucra cies of three great governments. That is how affairs got muddled in Greece until Mr. Churchill and Mr. Eden put their own minds on the matter. That is the common esi reason wny in some iocan,f as for example Romania, what Stalin and the highest leaders of the Soviets mean to do, and have promised to do, is contradicted: one of the men who has real au thority has, then, to be sent in as a trouble-shooter to set right a subordinate official. That, too, is how we first slithered into our troubles with the French. But there the President allowed him self to become involved in the con ' sequences instead of changing his subordinates, who had muddled the matter, and setting things right. * * * The most recent affair between the President and General de Gaulle shows how much depeVls upon the efficiency of subordinate officials. The President, it is said, was snubbed by General de Gaulle, and certainly that was unfortunate. But after every one has freely expressed his views about General de Gaulle, what re mains is the more important con clusion that it is the business of the State Department and of our diplomats abroad to see to it that the President of the United States is never placed in a position where he can be snubbed. That is the kind of thing that diplomats exist to take care of. They are not necessarily better ;udges than other men of how to solve the political and economic problems of mankind. 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