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The Duffv Silk ComDanv's New Plant at Biurd v Four Cows Living On Four Acres Of Fescue And Ladino Clover By CHARLES KIRK Four Guernsey cows are making history by living entirely on four acres of fescue and clover at the Georgia Mountain Experiment Sta tion near Blairsville. In more than two years the on!y thing they have tasted that did not come from their little pasture was salt?plain salt in the summer, a mineral mixture in winter. The only times they have left the field were on their trips to BOX SUPPER A Box Supper will be held in the Community Building at Bell view, Saturday. November 17, at / 7:30. Proceeds will go to help pay for heating system in the Bellview Methodist Church. Symptoms of Distress Arising from STOMACH ULCERS due to EXCESS ACID QUICK BELIEF OR HO COST Ask About 15-Day Trial Offer! Over four million bottles of the Willabd Tbiatvknt have been sold for relief of symptoms of distress arising from and lliiiliiislMMiMtM doe to ?_ Nor Plprtlos. Saur or Upsst Stomachs Add. Ask for "WIIUnTo which fully explains Iff remark able home treatments?frss?at PARKER'S DRUG STORE 1 'i :> "l. The hoy they at? is dried i fescue and clover from their own I I pasture, and milk production has I . r. eeeded 6.000 pounds per cow for j i each cf the last two years. I These are the first cows that' ! vci iricu jiving cn a single acre | I pl'C.', end <i.ey already have dal-j I - xsn int; rt "ted throughout the : v.-.theas: v:a."!y every day cat-) ' men, pinched by high feed bills, j 'rl.e up to the fence end marvel i there contented eud-ehewers, or I troll about the pasture kicking at i clumps of the cucelient grass. , The e" prrixent was started in j Vugus:, 1041, v.iih associate agro- j tun 1st OH n L. Brooks in charge it the pasture, end assistant animal husbandmen V?'. H. Mrllinney Iook ng after the cows. Mr. 3:doks p'antcd the grasses i ? it's full etn'idence. "I knew ii rculd grow more fescue and clo-. - tr on an acre than a cow could | eat," he said. "And I felt certain 'hat this c:i"t would supply all of1 a cow's needs." The grass was allowed to get a ?'?oar*3 start, by producing only hay1 Vfrre the four Guernseys started grazing. "I don't mind admitting that 11 ?as skeptical." said Mr. McKinney. | "In fact, I didn't believe the pro-1 iect would survive the first win-, 'cr. But the grass stayed green, the | nws gained weight, and their milk Production was right up to nor mal." Then last winter the big freeze ?aiae. Ever. .Erov.n looked doubtful vhen the gross turned brown, and jtayed that vay week alter week. The thermometer dropped below ?ero twice, and tou 'bed zero again, vith a mt ea tempo:'Sture of 34.8 iegrees for 91 days. But the txv* went ahead eating ?.heir frowned fescue. Tlfcy kept up their milk production arid con tinued to gain weight. Since McKlr.noy has been con vinced, he crpissds Brooks en hueiasm. As soon as the weather thawed out, the t"0 started an other experiment. They p~t four more cows on fesctte and clover, :ncf are giving them a supplemen tal feeding o*' grain, to see how milk produetic rr ef th'ese cows com-1 oared with fire original four, \ ?vhich continued to eat only grass. . Eight cows are also being tested in the same manner on a standard' Appalachian mixture. "The figure', loo.t impossible," :aid Mr. McPlnncy. "But they've t been checked' over and over. In the I August drru"frt, when the grass; turned brown again, tfle milk pro- ! iuction of , the graiir-fed cows; popped a greater percentage than 1 did the straight fescue-Itadlrro eat-1 ors!" The secret of growihg fescue and clover is in proper ferrilizatfon, Mr. Brooks pointed out. Every Sep ember the Experiment Station oastures are covered wifh" about "?00 pounds of 4-12-12 (4 per cent -.itrogen, 32 per cent plrosphafe nd 12 per cent potash) ami 100 pounds of ammonium r.itrtte par acre. Tl.is costs about $16. "The ideaxif putting J 6 an acre on pastures is disturbing to some cattlemen,' said Mr. Brooks. "But the farmer gets his fertilizer mon ey back, with interest. After graz ing our aere-and-a-thirt ir.r u h the cold months we let the p?ot gc to seed in the spring, and har vested 934 pounds. Right now fes cue seed is bringing 90 cents a pound:"?Journal Ctn:ti.u.ion< Magazine. ac SOGS . ? " i I x The Xantahala Power and Light* Company of Franklin, which serves a 1trjj area at Cherokee and sur eundlni counti-j, received a word of of iclal i pprcciation from the State Novell J-r 8, when the North Carolina UtiJiies Commission said the com pan; leads the state in ser vice to mra*. people. The Utilities Commission said that the Kantahala has already brought light and power to "more than 95 per cent of the rural homes" In its territory, and plans tr have this boosted to the perfect 100 per cent by the end of 1952. 1 The rural resident symbolizes more than 75 per cent of all of Nantahala's 8,844. By the end of this year, more than 100 miles of new lines will have been put up In the firm's area. Late last spring Nantahala com pleted the job of boos ing the line into the Cherokee-Boson Citji area from 12.000 volts to 66,003. I Five years ago, only 67 homes on ! the Cherokee Reservation had eleo , trie lights. Today, there are 450. The first dam In the pioneering | company's system was Cheoah, msaz started In 191? by John Edward Stirling Thorpe. The seventh. - the >1.250.000 plant on the east fork if the Tusgaselgee River In Jacll ion County, was completed earlier this year. Nantahala also brings education in electric power to boys and girls by sponsoring electrical projects contests, and conducting demon strations in care and repair of electrical appliances, and in home and farm wiring. The Ruth Bagwell Circle met > Monday, 7:30 p. m... at the home of lire. Everett English, with Mrs. J. B. Hall presiding over the bust Miss Elolse Davis geve the sec retary md treasury reports, and Mrs. Ver.'on Jones gave the Com munity Mission report. Mrs. M. L. Williams was In clisrge of the program, "Whither Astf?" Opening prayer was led by Miss Elolse Davis. Mrs. Jack Crawford ggve the devotional. Others tak ing part Were Mrs. Williams, Mrs. B. J. Fish, Mrs. Boyd Davis, Mrs. Don Ramsey, Mrs. Everett English, and Mrs. Verlon Jones. Closing prayer was given by Mrs. Williams. The hostess and Mrs. 3. H. Hall served refreshments to the 11 members present. BAKE SALE The Jr. Woman's Club will have a bake sale at E. C. 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