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ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AUGUST 20, 1928, AT THE POST OFFICE AT TRYON, N. C. UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3, 1879 3% Srnon Bmlg lc per copy (The World’s Smallest Daily Newspaper) lc per copy Vol. 12. Est. 1-31-28 TRYON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1939 Attend Board Meet Nelson Jackson, Jr., Dr. George F. Taylor, Dr. C. Arthur Lincoln, B. L. Balienger and Seth M. Vin ing attended the executive board meeting of the Piedmont Boy Scout Council at Shelby on Tues day night. The camp at Lake Lanier will be improved this sum mer with more additions and the enrollment of Scouts from over the 11 counties will be greater than ever, judging from reservations already sent in. Hen Gone Aerial While visiting the farm of Pringle Hipp, near Saluda, a “Believe it or not” hen was in troduced. The hen, a four-year-old blue game bird, laid and hatched a brood of 14 chickens thirty-five feet high in a maple tree. Mr. Hipp says the hen goes up a spruce pine, which is very limby and near the maple. She then flies to her nest in the maple. This high-minded hen is laying again this year in the same nest. If these chicks roost as high as they are hatched, they wil 1 roost too high for the average chicken “lifter.”—From Farm Folks col umn in Polk County News. Jump The annual tonnage of beef graded according to Federal stan dards rose from 408,000,000 pounds in 1937 to 603,000,000 pounds in 1938, or an increase of 47.6 per cent. Senator J. W. Bailey Has Farm Bill Recognizing the need for im proved marketing facilities for al t\ farm commodities, Senator Bailey on April 24th introduced legisla tion in the Senate providing for an appropriation of $5,000,000 to develop and improve the market ing services for such commodities. Senator Bailey’s Bill, S. 2212, states that it is “for the purpose of organizing, fostering, promot ing, and developing marketing* and marketing services for farm com modities in such State, with a par ticular view to providing a market ing system which will furnish a steady flow of standardized basis farm commodities to centers of dis tribution and will provide for farm ers adequate and readily available marketing facilities for commodi ties produced by them.” This Bill'. l has the approval of many of the State Commissioners of Agriculture, and at the meeting of the Commissioners of Agricul ture held in Washington on May sth and 6th, unanimous approval in principle was given to the legislation. Dr. Clarence Poe, editor of the Progressive Farmer ( has com mented on the legislation as fol lows: “I believe the $5,000,000 a year your bill proposes to set aside for marketing farm pro ducts will accomplish ten times as much good for farmers and pub lic at large as average Congress ional appropriation of same amount.” The Bill at the present time is in the Senate Committee on Agri- Continued fin Back Page —
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