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'llaBy Glikkens tnrnaM tbat'im^ ut);'] en6 coaid ^natrutt 'witb brick'or>, tlold stooea, at?a eoat,.Jtf all n»- terials had be bought. 4 n.M to I6.M. we wept to tbiit' printer and had thoasanda of thw. [^IN eats priOted aad mailed them to iJtUaBta,“;.,CBiL tke povltrp thdnatry In.WHkes ^ connty to growing by )«a|a Ina * ‘ j hundr^ orthe brooder plai». 1* • bgegada and to one that taa amtch- we alao 'had adme bropdW' any and ererybody we oyer tieard tell of. That fall,- we attended aU’^the surrounding oounty_ faJra. and carrred a few painted cbtokena to draw attentiOB. We distribut- iS' 'V'*- V’ . Pl«»« *'« ®“‘* f , note the increase. •■- -ftSf ■* It to abnost anbellerable to I By the openlap of the next' hatching seoson We had eucce^r' fa im. we took over the 150 brooder'houaea P "Wllkea Hatchery and after mak-jg^^gte^ local territory, i ytnt a 'thorough aunrey of the l,aa plenty of piiUefs eonnty. We could Ilnd only three ,p ,j,i niachlnes wttb eggs fjPWWerly constructed brooder ggei, year since tbit time more iK^aaes with heat units, these, of were very small, the larg- «e being 12x14 feet. There a scattering of small, fairly i ullt laying houses, but for' ost part chickens roosted in boms, up in trees or in very' y^ar turn out half-million amall, poorly constructed unsani I chicks each, and at this time can tary houses. inot holf supply the demand. If the present trend continues, >1^6 tt was *ooee pkylng kn ^mpoftaot port ii war today. BVwm^^err).. ratioda munltlicdiB. produeto AREEFORT ^to Bupp^ the utombBiil >ui' pe«6ut ^«luIdmV bttl olf iwdke. ■ yreaedi ’ ta labo. '■% ed -ta and more chickens have been nUsed, five hatcheries now operrto in the county that have around one hundred thousand tested breeders. Four of these hatcheries will iben^er’ 'tary-K' - ■ 'portion dit thbfl^Hime irop, ‘goap to-W^ diraetty iind indirectly,’' kceordlitg to l^oy. B. Parrish, preaident pt the ftot- tonal Peanut Council, Inc., which sponsors National Peanut week. |iK'> ,Vf;lb#P(toto «l: uheeri|g|' :rnw tiitotannt»iy.nr« "* , , |ei» is ■' j^^eiriv'ea ' 1 nbopf'tte coikUilritgdf^intritfvb and ■ Itogput. tndter to a lUMh-^ tile eu^ 'Sg gg '' .V 'Itongg . Ca..pog,gi^-' ^t to giad as toeking^ itoei eft «tfl* working aroaatf :W'|M .are being’4w-> totmble ‘*gd»w.'» n ^ now.ak a aourea qt and ■ ag^'i^iKWfdn thn'^>eai»tjiHitoM;'t^N i,^||pnp,vtttoriAlfiiii'’/'' 'inaiBfmnilr lead/ tor Ut#> Irdn »4 aW9» fmmflrtea the mess-table of iwHshWg haar*®8».'rtfti^tftiv and castings,'' Mr. J. C. Henry, former owner and founder of the hotchery, had bought some good foundation stock and had a few very good flocks of Barred Rocks, and Rhode Island Reds. When we started out to find hens to supply eggs we convassed this and thre** adjoining counties, taking on all flocks that the state inspector would pass. We tested flocks of only 30 birds and after we had tested all we could find in this and two adjoining counties, we found we had fifteen hundred breeders. We put in our first Wilkes county will be one of the largest poultry centers In the south. Those that are in position to know rnd have gathered statl=t’cs sry that income derived from poultry and eggs amounts to mo’-" thon two million dollars per year. This year will double any previ ous year. Poultry houses are sprinsing lip like musurooins. As you travel about the country-side you can I see them on every hand. The 1 type of houses now bein.g built C. C. GanikiH is shown here in a portion, of Tho Wilkes Hatchery, a pioneer firm in the poultry business in Wilkes and which he has owned and successfully operated for many years. Mr. Gambill, one of the lead ing poultry authorities in tl-is part of North Carolina, has produced many prize winning chickens fon many fairs and expositions. An article on poultry progress in Wilkes accompanies this picture. PCT IN LiragoMW— Millions of yonhdB of/peanuts hare been export^ in Mans and other foiiiB * tor lend-lease, and other millions of pounds have been pnrtvtobd by the 'Snrplus 'rt^utor’' on Amy eampt. ENGINBft— ‘ %irattfic reseai^Ii is making the peanut important, and peanut oil, fo'r^example. is rTOrldlng fuel and Inbrioation for Diesel engines. Peanut oil supplies glycerine for explosiTce. r As a substitute for olive oil, it stndk, .Airua psM «w — find a jfeannt *®*' f ¥■ MENDING* CLOTHES^^^ WHX SAVE MONEY Ldmlnistration of the is used in hospitals for massrging Home eeoBomtoU urge regular mending, repairing and altering of the family’s clothing. This ns- suits in actual money, savlngn through the longer HfiJ of gar ments. * • ★ k it 'ilk it ikii:*cAitififik^iti>'*-ir;^-ir*rir-k * jr f eggs in February end closed about tetter than I have ever seen May 20th. We hatched and sold j jj, gj,y ,jjg country I have visit thirty thousand chicks that sea- and thought we had almo'11 formed a miracle. After we closed the hatchery for the see.son, we started a cam paign to have brooder houses built. Brooder stov.s sold high and for the most part the type in use at-that time were unsatisfac tory and dangerous. Most Df them used kerosene. Up to that time brooding chick ens had rarely been profit,.;ble as the death rate was very high, of ten amounting to .50 per cent, or even more, of the chick.s started, and people were slow to invest money that was considered at an uncertain investment, secured from the AUibam.a ed.. Onr geogP-iphical location makes Wilkes county an ideal po’iitry-growing section. i North 'Wilkeshoro is. and has alwrys been, one of the best poul try markets in the western part of the state. .\s the industry in creases. buyers from o distance will be iitlracted by our supply. With the new egg drving plant thrt will strengthen our market and use onr local surplns of eggs the poultry industry in Wilkes county faces a brighter future th..in ever before. V Costa Rica expects to prod'ict this year 2,000 more tons of su gar than the record crop of 24,- If you are not getting your let ters and your newspapers on time compl'iin as little, as you possibly cm. The Journal-Patriot, as all other papers, has felt the slowing up process, but postoffices cannot help in every case. Just blame It on the war. It often happens that letters from W>:shington to New York or vice versa b.ike two or three da?s. They use to take e little more than one. The same applies to transconti nental mail; a letter from Kansiis City, for instance, may take as long to get to New Ybrk as one from I.os -Angeles liefore Pearl Harbor. ■At the Post Office Department, rea.sons given for delays are sum-' med up as; “There’s a war on.” The nation’s 'post offices have lost about 10 per cent of their men (including some of the most experienced) to the armed ser vices. The department says It has asked for no draft determents. Around 30,000 mail clerks, car riers and handlers have gone into the army or navy. Meanwhile war has increased the mails. In 1942 the depart ment figures it handled more than 30 billion pieces of naail. This was '881 million pieces more than in 1941. Postmaster General Frank C. Walker indicates that practically all kinds of mall have Increased, the only clear exception being third class mail, which includss certain types of cgtalogues and circulars. Mail order firms, he ■says, are sending out tevj^er of these. First class mail—ordinary let ters—is up ..ibnut 10 per cent. Congrjiesnien say government mail will^xceed .f70,000,000 in post- ag^alue this year. .■Nlail trains are delayed by OOP . movements going all over the country. The .-rmy has taken some of the dep.irtment’s postal cars for army kitchens to serve these moving troops. Train delays count heavily be cause in many cities deliveries have been cut down to one a day - so if the morning train gets in too late for, the morning delivery, the whole mail is held up 24 hours. Sorting, handling and carrying have been slowed because the crack men lost to the armed ser vices have been replaced in most chses by novice.s. Many women are becoming clerks rnd liandlers, hut there’s no official encouragement to be found here for the idea of women mail carriers. The average pack weighs six pounds and holds 35 pounds of mail. A city carrier sometimes makes 500 calls a day. going up and down almost that many sets of steps. Women, of ficials say, can’t stand up to such a grind as a rule. Air mail is delayed, it is ex plained, because in the first place the armed services have taken roughly half the mall planes. Meanwhile there’s been more than a 50 per cent increase in the amount of air mail to be handled. “The armed services have priority on all mail plane space, the or dinary air mails have to wait for the next plane or go by the quick est alternate route. Postmaster General Walker says every effort is being made to keep mail service up to standard with the limited manpower and facilities available, but deliveries and collections have been cut. Neither he nor any other postal official Indicates any improve ment is in sight. ’*There’s a war on,V they say, and turn back/to the.Job of mak ing do what they have. V- SOYBEANS GOAL IS 12 MILLION ACRES Of the oilseed crons, the goal for soybeans is 12 million acres, and for peanuts 6 1-2' miUlon acres. Most growers -will plant the acreage of cotton permitted producing abontK J l- ponnda of eottonvsM -tdl. - mmmmm
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