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Major Adjustments Urged
In Tar Heel Agriculture
I RALEIGH Major adjustments
ire Weeded in North Carolina's
igriculture if the State’s rural cit
izens are to make full use of_tlV
resources which they have avail
able,'David 8. Weaver, director of
the State College Extension Ser
vice, told a Farm and Some Week
audience in Riddick Stadium here
Wednesday night.
The average Tar Heel farmer.
Weaver asserted, has an. annual
hcome only half as large as that
♦f tee average U. S. farmer, and
kfe Utms only about one-third as
many acres.
The State produces only two
thirds as much milk as it needs. It
produces less than one egg per
person each day and less than a
nickel’s worth of beef per person
;aoh day.
iree- fourths of his cleared
e Tar Heel farmer earns
n S3O per acre per year,
an automobile for every
of paved road, we have
farm people sleeping on
ith no mattresses,” the ex
director said. “We spend
r car out less per child at
olhouse than all but three
facts, Weaver declared,
ire the need for adjust
n North Carolina's farms
ts farm homes.
LANCE IS NEEDED
The State’s farm problems, he
saUL. consist chiefly of balancing
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farm production to make the best
use of land and labor; increasing
labor efficiency, mainly through
mechanization; improving the
quality of farm products and pack
aging them properly;, better mar
keting, and using increased indi
vidual incomes for better living.
“North Carolina has almost un
limited opportunities in agricul
tural production,” Director Weav
er told the group. “We have the
land, although 75 per cent of our
cleared acres are yielding only 25
per cent of our farm income. We
have the labor, but unbalanced use
of this labor is resulting in low
income.
“We also have the know-how
to produce good crops and live
stock,” he continued. “For example,
our com and tobacco yields have
almost' been, doubled in the past
few years.
"Finally,” he asserted, “we have
a favorable climate, we have an
abundance of rainfall well distri
buted throughout the year and in
all parts of the State, we have
good soils, and we are close to ft
market of 60,000,000 potential cus
tomers in the East.”
“But if we are to make the most
of our opportunities,” Weaver de
clared, “we need an educated, ag
gressive, thrifty, intelligent peopte
who will use technical skills add
scientific knowledge to put all
their resources and advantages in
to use.’”
THE DAILY RECORD, DUNN, N. C.
Cleared on Security
T
John Paton Davies Jr.
SACK AT his desk in his Wsshin~tor
office is John Paton Drvics Jr., 43.
after he was cleared of all charges
of security violations and di loycltr
by the State Department’s Lr-yalt*
Hoard. The veteran of ncar.v ii
years of Toreign service t.-s oce r
restored to duty “without prr'urfr
md with full conficl-n'c r ' the r '~-
'irtment” rs a memberef its ro' ”
MUST WIN ALLIES
Nine of every 20 persons in the
world live in "undeveloped” coun
tries where hunger, poverty, and
misery make them easy prey for
Communist propaganda and meth
ods. Winning these people, he as
serted, is a problem of major im
portance for the-United States and
its allies.
The need for Increased efficien
cy in production, Weaver said, is
emphasized by the fact that the
world’s 2.2 billion population, fed
from 4 billion acres of land, is
increasing by 55,000 every day and
will double in 90 years, leaving
only three-fourths acre for food
production per person.
An indication of what Americans
are able to do, he said, is shown
by the fact that although agricul
ture requires most of the labor in
nine-tenths of the world. It re
quires only 13 per cent in the
United States. In the past 100
years, he added, we have been able
to release seven of every eight
farm workers for mployment in
industry.
Following Director Weaver’s talk.
Governor Scott Introduced North
Carolina’s 1951 blaster Farm Fam
ilies who have Just been selected.
' ”■ The families are:
Gilbert B. Bell, Iredell County;
C. S. Bunn, Nash; S. W. Butler,
Robeson; Edward A. Cox, Curri
tuck; J. F. Fritts, Davidson; Floyd
Osborne, Henderson; James A.
Parker, Sampson; J. T. Hooker,
Warren.,
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WAMPUM, Pa. (UP) Al
bert Harper, a Chew ton farmer lost
bis wallet containing $314 in bills
while plowing his fields las* Sep
tember. The other day while plow
ing the same strip of land. Har
per’s plow turned up the wallet
full of money.
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Keeping Fence
Costs Down Is
Major Problem
Keeping down fence costs is a
problem that more and more Tar
Heel farmers are facing as fencing
needs grow to keep pace with the
State’s expanding livestock indust
ry. * ~ '
The answer to the problem, says
N. C. Teter of the North Carolina
Agricultural Experiment Station,
lies in using native materials when
ever possible and building sturdy
fences that will last.
The State College agricultural
engineer asserts that the winter
season, when other work is slack, is
a good time for farmers to plan
their fencing for 1951 and the years
ahead.
“It costs no more to put up a
good strong fence than to erect a
shoddy, poorly stretched fence that
has to be repaired constantly.” says
Teter. “If fences are well planned
and carefully built, they will last
last season. Geri was home in Pho
-15 to 20 years without too much at
tention—and that’s where the far
mer saves money.”
POSTS LIMITING FACTOR
Posts are the limiting factor in
fence-building, since they usually
are the first part to break down.
However, Teter says the -Tar Heel
State is fortunate in having avail
able plenty of native materials,
which can be used for making long
lasting posts.
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nese film star Shirley Yamaguchl
leaves plane at LaGuardia Field,
N. Y., following flight from Holly
wood. The actress, who recently
completed her first American
motion picture, is in the city for
brief visit (International)
Poles obtained by thinning a pine
posts when properly treated, says
the agricultural engineer. Os the
untreated- woods used for posts,
black locust has the longest life.
Because of the plentiful supply and
ease of traveling, however, pine
poles probably are the most natural
for use in North Carolina.
Professional Forth# Teams
Usher In New Gridiron Year
BY EARL WRIGHT
UP Sparta Writer
SARANAC LAK£, N. Y.—Wl
The New York football Giants are
training in a picture postcard set
ting and coach Steve Owen thinks
they will have something to write
home about this fall.
Owen has more than the pictur
esque lakes, trees and clear air to
make him happy. He has the back
bone of the team that twice whip
ped the champion Cleveland
Browns and he has a Jack-of-aU
trades rookie named Kyle Rote.
Rote isn’t the only promising
Giant rookie and he wasn't even
in camp today. He’s in Chicago
with Herman Hickman's college all
star squad but he’s Owen's favorite
subject.
"He’s just terrific,” Owen said
as his men began jogging around
the field before beginning practice.
“He’s an All American boy and I
don’t mean he's just a good foot
ball player. I think the kid could
do anything.
"He certainly can do Just about
anything with a football. He can
run. He can cut and he can pass
and kick. When he runs, he has
perfect balance. He .reminds me
of Tuffy Leemans.”
That’s high praise. Leemans. who
retired in 1943, was one of the
Giants’ and the National Football
League’s all-time greats.
The boy can play fullback, left
or right half in the T formation,
and fulback or wing back in the A
formation,” Owen said, indicating
he already is planning the offen
sive tricks that cost his fellow NFL
coaches so much sleep last season*
Rote will be a triple threat in
the attack that probably will con
sist mainly of the T but may turn
up as the A with all of Owen’s
pet variations at any time in a
game.
“We’ve been working with the T
so far," Owen said, “but we may
use the A some just as we did last
■ year. I think the offense of the fu
ture will be a combination of the
, two.
Owner-coach George Halas pull
ed bis second lineup shift when he
moved fullback John Hoffman to
end at the Chicago Bears camp at
Rensselaer, Ind. Halas previously
moved halfback George Oulyanice,
the team’s leading ground gainer
last year, to fullback.
At Bowling Green, 0., place
kle k e r Rex Groesman followed
quarterback Stan Heath and center
Gene Huebner out of the Cleveland
training quarters. Grossman had
hoped to replace Lou “The Toe”
Groza as the Browns' place kicker.
With Red Strader out as bead
coach of the New York Yanks, as
sistant Shelby Calhoun continued
two-a-day practice sessions pend
ing owner Ted Collins’ selection
of a new hoes for the (Jlub.
At Cambridge Springs, Pa., the
Pittsburg Steelers worked, without
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NICE FOR FIREMEN
LENOX Mass. (UP) - Lenox
firemen hope they have to answer
a lot of alarms like this one. The
Red Cross Canteen Corps decided
to see what It could cook up ip .
the way of disaster rations. As
“victims” it invited the town's ss~
firemen to sit down to a meal of
fish chowder and strawberry short
cake. • !*■
Joe Geri, an all-league halfback
enlxvUle, Pa., with a pencil and
paper trying to decide whether Urn
salary increase offered by Steel#
president Art Rooney was large
enough.