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Norris Finds N. C. Lagging Father of TVA Reports Farmers of State Lack Many Modern Conveniences Washington—While North Caro lina is one of the richest states it is lagging behind in many modern conveniences, according to data which has been sent to Senator Bailey by Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska. Senator Norris is the father of the TVA, and one of the outstanding progressives in Cong ress. He is now urging his rural electrification bill as a measure that will carry greater conveniences and comf orts to the rural population. Senator Norris points out that 98 per cent of the homes of the farm ers of the state are without elec tric light, and that 97 per cent of the farm homes there are no waterpipes for drainage and sani tary purposes. When it comes to the telephone, which now jingles | in nearly every suburb and hamlet of the Tar Heel state, Senator Nor ris says that 91 per cent of the farmers’ homes in the state have no telephones, and that despite the viewpoint that the automobile is a household and farm utility, that 5 5 per cent of the farmers of North Carolina have no automobiles. Senator Norris has not sent this information to Senator Bailey to in any sense to reflect on the rural population of North Carolina, be cause he has had a survey con ducted and advised each and every Senator along the same lines as to his state as he has Senator Bailey. And even at that, it is shown that North Carolina was far above the average of a number of states in which farmers possess the con veniences and comforts referred to. In transmitting this information Senator Norris says should his rural electrification bill providing $40, 000,000, whereby farmers can make loans at very low rate on long terms, pass, they could install elec tric equipment on their farmers and that other modern conveniences would follow. Garden Contest boes On Despite Setbacks The fall and winter garden con test, though handicapped by snow and extreme cold weather this winter, is still being pushed by the State College agricultural exten sion service. "Don’t be discouraged,” Miss Mary E. Thomas, extension spe cialist in foods and nutrition ad vises home gardeners entered in the contest. "Other people’s garden have been set back, too. "Don’t give up and quit keep ing your records. All you who I keep up your records until the clos ing date, March 31, will be eligi | Chari Congress" 1j CHIOAGQ . . . Delegates;and guest speakers on the platform at the opening of the Third Annual Woman Congress held here, included, left to right, Mrs. D. B. Phetpister, and Mary K. Cox of Chicago, Chari Ormond Williams of Tennessee, President of the National Federation of Business i and Professional Women’s Clubs. Bear, Irene Wicker, radio star. Chari Williams is a contributor to this newspaper, writing under the title of "Modem Women". ble for the cash prizes to be award | ed.” The four highest scoring indivi duals in the State will receive prizes of $20, $12.50, $7.50, and $5. The four home demonstration county councils with the greatest percentage of their club members competing the contest will receive cash prizes of the same amount as the highest scoring individuals. In each county with 10 or more contestants enrolled, and sending in complete records at the close of the contest, the first and second prizes will be $5 and $2.50. The objective of the fall and winter garden contest, Miss Thomas; said, is to stimulate the growing of year-round gardens to provide rural people with an adequate, well balanced diet in winter as well a* in summer. Although fresh vegetables this winter are scarcer than usual, she added, every family should make an effort to have, at the very least, three servings of vegetables in the diet every day. Bulky vegetables help to keep the digestive tract in order, she pointed out, and provide the minerals and vitamins which tone up the system. _ Brick Brooders Are | Gaining Popularity From 18 to 20 million chicks will be raised in North Carolina this year, poultry specialists esti mate. Thus may be seen the import ance of good brooders to the poul try industry, said C. F. Parrish, extension poultry specialist at State College. Although a number of brooders are now in use, he said, the brick or stone brooder is generally con sidered the farmer’s stand-by. It is both inexpensive and efficient. In a house 12 by 14 feet in area, 300 chicks can be cared for with a brick brooder. If additional brooding space is desired, a 300 chick unit can be added by extend ing the length of the house 12 feet and adding a hot water at tachment to the brooder. Parrish pointed out the follow ing advantages of 'brick brooders: They are practical, and easy to build. Farm women and 4-H club boys have constructed them suc cessfully. With them it is easy to maintain an even temperature in all parts of the house. There is no fire hazard if the roof and flooring are well insulat ed. Fuel cost is low where wood is available. They do not give off any fumes inside the house; in fact, they aid in ventilating the brooder house. There is nothing to get out of order, and they are easy to operate. Sufficient brooding space prevents crowding the chucks. Brick holds heat and keeps the brooder warm when the the fire gets low. Directions for building a brick brooder and house may be obtain ed free from the agricultural edi tor at State College, Raleigh, or from county farm agents. SHORT STORY "The King of Armageddon Is land,” an amusing short story, is one of many features in the March 8 issue of the American Weekly, the magazine which comes regular ly with the BALTIMORE SUN DAY AMERICAN. Get your ■copy from your newsdealer. Horticulturists Give Garden Tips March is one of the busiest months on the gardener’s calendar. Unless delayed by bad weather, crops should be started in this month for spring and summer harvest, according to H. R. Nis wonger and E. B. Barrow, exten sion horticulturists at State College. Such cool season crops as cabbage and lettuce, garden peas, beets, carrots, onions, and Irish potatoes should be planted early in March in eastern and Piedmont Carolina. In the mountain counties, cab bage and lettuce may be planted early, but it is best to wait until the latter part of the month for beets, carrots, potatoes, and garden peas. i omato seea may De sown m out door, cloth-covered frames in east ern Carolina during the first week of March. In the Piedmont the plantings should be a week or 10 days later, and in the mountain counties wait until the first of April, the horticulturists said. For an early start in the Pied ment and mountain counties, toma to seed may be sown in a box placed in a sunny window in the kitchen or in the poultry brooder house, and transplanted to a cold frame as soon as the weather per mits. Pepper and eggplant may be started in the same way, except that they are a little more sensitive to cold. For an early patch of sweet po tatoes in eastern and Piedmom Carolina, bed eight to ten bushels of seed for each acre to be planted Bed the seed in clean or sandy soil free from disease. If manure is used to furnish heat, place it undei the potatoes and cover it with three or four inches of sand. To get bright, clean strawberries mulch the bed with pine straw in the month. The mulch should be just heavy enough to protect the fruit from sand and dirt. Need Better Method For Pricing Cotton North Carolina farmers would raise better cotton if their lint sold according to grade and staple length, said Glenn R. Smith, assist ant agricultural economist of the N, C. Agricultural Experiment Sta tion. The production of better cottor would not only raise the average price, he added, but would also in crease the foreign demand foi North Carolina cotton. The present system of paying an average price with little regard for grade and staple length is not conducive to the production of high quality lint, he declared. The findings of a survey con ducted by the experiment station, and the conclusions drawn, have been set forth by Smith in techni cal bulletin No. 51, "Cotton Mark eting Practices in North Carolina. Free copies may be obtained from the agricultural editor at State Col lege. . The setse, an African fly, is said to carry the germ of sleeping sickness. Specialists Offer Hints For Planting With the planting season only a few days away, many specialists at State College are offering grow ers helpful information on the Carolina Farm Features radio pro gram. I or instance, during the past month, one of the points stressed was the making and proper care of tobacco plant beds so that the grower might have healjthy, vi gorous plants when the time for transplanting comes. As this is also the baby chick season, specialists from the Poul try Department have been in structing chicken raisers as to the best methods of caring for and feeding the chicks. The free plans for building a brick brooder, which were offered on the program, had a wide response from Iistenters. Fforticulture and home demon stration specialists are urging the men and women on farms to grow more varieties of vegetables so that they will have enough for use dur ing the spring and summer and also a quantity sufficient for canning. This enables farm families to have a year-round supply of vegetables for table use. The full schedule for the week of February 24-29 follows: Mon day, E. H. Hostetler, "Farm Work Stock”; Tuesday, M. E. Gardenr, "Caring for Fruit Trees”; Wednes day, J. B. Mann, "Farm Credit”; Thursday, Dr. Jane S. McKimmon, "The Home Garden”; Friday, Roy S. Dearstyne, "question”; and Ans wers on Poultry Problems”; and Saturday, Forestry Department. Lice Retard Growth Of Heifers, Calves Cattle lice are a serious handi cap to the development of calves and heifers. When infested with lice, the young animals rub against posts and trees, wearing away their hair and inflaming their skin. Some times the calves become thin and weak from loss of weight. In the late winter and early spring, said Fred M. Haig, associate professor of animal husbandry and dairying at State College, dairymer should inspect their calves to see whether they are infested with lice The insects are found around the necks and shoulders of the animals but they also infest other parts ol the body. The first step in eradicating lice Professor 'Haig said, is to clean anc disinfect the stalls thoroughly After removing the bedding anc sweeping the stalls, disinfect then with a five per cent solution of any good coal tar disinfectant. Allow the stalls to dry, ther whitewash the interior. When th( whitewash is dry, place plenty ol straw bedding or other clean ma terial in the stalls. Meanwhile, apply to the calve; a solution of one ounce of sodiun fluoride in a gallon of water Brush it in throughly so that it will reach every part of the body and penetrate loose folds of skin. Tie the animals in a sunny place, protected from drafts, until they are dry. The calves are then ready to be placed back in the newly dis infected stalls, and a second treat ment will hardly be necessary un less they become infested again from other animals, Professor Haig stated. Wearing a ring marked at Speyside, England, a woodcock has been shot in Portugal, 1,100 miles away. WHO DISCOVERED AMERICA? Berlin—"Who discovered Amer-j ica?” has lately been publicly dis cussed by German enthnologists j who have devoted years to the collection of material that might prove to include indications on which to base at least a tentative answer. The views put forward by the natural scientists have been summarized by Prof. Dr. Walter Krickeberg of the Berlin Ethnolo gical Museum, who has published the substance of their arguments and conclusions. The theory is generally admitted by European ethnologists that Am erica was originally peopled mainly by overland incursions by way of the Bering Straits, and not from one of the two oceans. It is also assumed by the majority of the ethnologists who have studied the question that the old Asiatic cul ture was carried by immigrants from the north to the southern point of America. Erland Nordenskiold, the Swed ish ethnologist, showed that num erous marks of civilization are dis covered among the Indian tribes of southern South America (in the highlands of Boliva, Chile, Gran Chaco, Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego) that are essential and typi cal constituent parts of the ancient North American hunting communi ty. Among these are screen tents and underground dwellings, leg gins and moccasins, material foi striking fire, the earth oven, the suction reed, from which the to bacco pipe developed, the quivei made of hide, boats made of bar. leather round boats, games wit! balls, such as hockey and battle dore, and various religious rites and myths. These objects, the present-day ethnologists agree, were not th< common property of early mankind but were strictly the possession of a certain race whose wanderings they accompanied. Furthermore, it was only on the Pacific side of America that the Indians possessed a higher type of boat, correspond ing with the double boats and the sailing boats with double masts of the South Sea islanders. A report has, the investigator; ascertained, been handed down ir several forms of a landing by sea farers of a foreign race at th< Punta de Santa Elena, on the soutl coast of Ecuador. Only men, tra dition says, arrived, and they wer< finally illed by the native popu lation on account of their canni jbalistic customs. Professor Kricke j berg points out that it is obvioui | that these invaders came from th< South Seas, for the reports agre. in the detail that "the stranger dug deep springs through the rod ! of the coast until the undergrounc water was reached. As a matte; of fact the professor observes, then was no question of springs, th< wanderers merely worked the sur face soil as they had done at home where the upper, unfertile strat; of the soil was removed until th( underground water level was reach ed. This form of cultivation, th( ethnologists believe, exists in Am erica today only on the arid Peru vian coast, and in their opinion it was brought there by those immi grants from the South Seas. The ethnologists see also an "Asiatic type” in Central America, especially in the forms taen by art, in the symbols, and in sacred functions. the idea ot the worldly and heavenly mountain and its earthly materilization, the temple pyramid, the earthly-heavenly, dualism, in corporated in the fight between the eagle and the snake, and the chief subjects of the ornamentation of the facades of the ancient temples, are all considered by the investi gators to connect Mexico and the Maya realm with the Indian cul ture of Southern and South East ern Asia. The ethnologists conclude from all the indications now available that the old stream of Asiatic cul ture did not cross the Pacific, but followed down the Pacific coast, gradually reaching Central Ameri ca. This conclusion is regarded by the investigators as being support ed by the isolated remnants of east Asiatic manners and customs, es pecially in connection with fishing and hunting, found among the In dians of the northwest coast. The ethnologists surmise that the an cient Asiatic seafarers discovered, on their way down the northern edge of the Pacific ocean, the fiords of the northwest coast, with excellent fishing grounds, and sur rounded by forests, and either stay ed there permanently, or rested for a time on their way southwards. America was thus, the ethnolo gists sum up, "discovered from the west, not only in the gray antiqu ity by northern Asiastic hunters, but also very much later, though long before the arrival of Colum bus from the east, by oceanic sea farers and by southern or eastern Asiatic colonizers. Farm Work Is Good For Foaling Mares More colts will be born in North Carolina this spring than at any time during the past 10 years, said R. H. Huffner, head of the animal husbandry department at State Col lege. A renewed interest in horses and mules has spread over the State, he said, and the high price of good draft animals has induced many farmers to breed their own work stock. The foaling mare does not need to lose a great deal of time from her work, Ruffner pointed out. In fact, ordinary farm work is the best exeercise she can get prior to foaling time. « l 1 1 _ ne rccyimiiciius uwt ant nun\ up to the day she drops her colt, then be given an eight-day rest. After the rest, it is better for her and the colt if she returns to work. If for some reason however, the dam and foal are not doing well, it may be best to prolong the rest period. Meanwhile, endeavor to ascertain the trouble and correct it as quickly as possible. I Before the colt is dropped, feed the mare an abundance of legume hay. A 1,200-pound brood mare at farm work should get a grain ra tion consisting of 6 pounds of corn, 6 pounds of oats, and 2 pounds of wheat bran per day. The first two days after the colt is born, do not give the mare any grain except two pounds of a wheat bran mash morning and night, Professor Ruffner continued. On the third day, a pound of oats : may be added to the mash. Keep up this light feeding dur ing the eight-day rest period to in sure a gradual development of the 1 milk flow and to prevent digestive 1 disturbances of the mare or foal. 1 If good pasture is not available, ; give the mare all the legume or mixed hay she will eat. HEROIC PHONE GIRLS An intensely interesting article which relates many recent examples of courage, quick thinking and re sourcefulness by the women who stick to their switchboards, no mat ter what the danger. Read this feature in the March 8 issue of the American Weekly, the magazine which comes with the BALTI MORE SUNDAY AMERICAN. All kinds of printing done prompt ly at The Carolina Watchman, 119 East Fisher St. Many a Friend Recommends BLACK-DRAUGHT People who have taken Black-Draught naturally are enthusiastic about it because of the refreshing relief it has brought them. No wonder they urge others to try it! ... Mrs. Joe G. Roberts, of PortersviUe, Ala., writes: “A friend recommended Black-Draught to me a long time Bgo, and it has proved its worth to me. Black-Draught Is good for constipation. I find that taking Black-Draught prevents the bilious headaches which I used to have.” ... A purely vegetable medicine lor the relief of CONSTIPATION. BILIOUSNESS I - —... IB addition to plumbing and plumbing supplies, we feature RUN NING WATER SYSTEMS for rural and city homes—as modem as tomorrow. I C.J.W.FISHER Your Plumber™, MARCH IS THE MONTH TO TOP DRESS YOUR GRAIN! Many grain growers in this territory earned as much as 500% on their investment last Spring by topdressing their wheat with extra Nitrogen. WE CARRY A FULL STOCK OF Chilean Nitrate of Soda “Aero” Cyanamid Zenith 10*0*15 Our new plant, at the same location, is completed. ZENITH i; FERTILIZERS containing Lime and Ground Tobacco Stems for filler, are manufactured in Salisbury to suit Rowan County soil. ZENITH CHEMICAL CO. SALISBURY, N. C. 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