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News Mrs. Charlie Mitchell, who has 'been quite ill with pneumonia, ban had a relapse and is not im proving very much. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Douglas and son, Paul Steven, of Peden, and Mrs. Turner Vaughn, of Mt. Airy, spent a few days last week with their father, Oscar Richardson. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Wolf, of King, N. C., spent Easter with Mr. and Mrs. Dorman. Atwood. Mrs. J. R. McLeod has been quite ill for several days. Mr. and Mrs. George James and daughters, Nancy and Louise, Rockwell, and Mrs. Ennice James, of Hamlet, spent the holi day visiting relatives here. Mrs. Mat Sturgill, who has been 31 for sometime, is improv ing Mis. Franklin Hendricks and son, Roy, are spending sometime with relatives in Portsmouth, Va. Mr. and Mis. Dewey Leonard, and son, Herbert, left Saturday far Wyoming, where they plan bo live. The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Murray was buried at Antioch, Sunday. Mrs. Purvis Lee and daugh ters, of Burlington, spent the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Irwin. Other guests, Sunday, included: Mr. atad Mrs. I. B. Richardson, Mr. and Mis. Edgar Mabe and chil dren, Edwin and Christine, Mrs. Cart Douglas and son, also Mrs. W. G. Richardson. Mrs. ‘Claude Critcher and daughter, Linda, spent the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mis. Made Taylor. Mis. X B. Richardson and Hannah Leak Joines visited Mrs. Charlie Mitchell, Monday. Mrs. Mitchell remains quite ill. Nancy and Louise James of Rockwell spent the week end with torrine and Kathleen Atwood. John Mabe, one of the oldest «dtizens of this community, is very ill at the home of his grandson, Glade Valley Drive Will Be Launched During May A $300,000 campaign to pro vide new buildings at Glade Val ley School between Roaring Gap and Sparta will be spearheaded by Presbyterians of Orange and Winston-Salem Presbyteries dur ing the Month of May, according to a joint announcement just is sued by J. A. Kellenberger of Greensboro and Charles M. Nor fleet of Winston-Salem, co-chair man of the pending fund-raising venture. Soliciting organizations are be ing perfected in all Presbyterian churches throughout the two areas under direction of I. Paul Ingle of High Point, chairman of Glade Valley campaign activities in Orange Presbytery, and Tully D. Blair of Winston-Salem, chair man of the drive in his Presby tery. Campaign, chairmen for each of the seven districts embraced by the two Presbyteries are be ing enrolled and it will be the job of district chairmen to assist in setting up campaign organiza tions in each of the various churches between now and May 4, official opening date for the $300,000 drive. Funds are being sought to pro vide an administration building on the school campus in addition to dormitories for both boys and girls which would replace the present wooden structures erect ed in 1910 and which have be Odus Mabe. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Delp and daughter, Pauline, spent Sunday with Mrs. Delps parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Napier at Twin Oaks. Letcher Crouse and son Joshua, of Virginia, spent one night last week with Mr. and Mrs. I. B. Richardson here. National 4-H Club Sunday will be observed on May 25, with em phasis being, placed on the spiri tual implication of the theme: “Working Together For a Better Home and World Community.” Sparta Lodge No. 423 A. F. A. M. , MEETING EACH MONDAY NIGHT Work and Instruction ALL MEMBERS URGED TO ATTEND CLIFTON EVANS, Master R. C. GENTRY, Secretary THE FACT IS By GENERAL ELECTRIC *J 600-M.PH. HURRICANE IS CREATED IN THIS WIND TUNNEL AT MOFFETT FIELD, CAL IT TAKES GENERAL t electric MOTORS totalling 27000 HORSEPOWER ID TURN THE BLADES SHOWN IN THIS PICTURE. LIGHT IN A CIRCLE/ rV CIRCUNE A NEW CIRCULAR FLUORESCENT LAMP DESIGNED BY G-E LIGHTING ENGINEERS -WAS MANY USES. SSnWATTSiZE GIVES , AS MUCH LIGHT AS A loo-wwmr S.iNpWDESCENT LAM«r ^MILLION OWNERS/ THE NUMBER OP GENERAL ELECTRIC STOCKHOLDERS NOW about 2SQ000, HIGHER THAN EVER come outmoded and inadequate. Glade Valley was established by Presbyterians in Alleghany county to serve mountain boys and girls. At the, time it was brought into being there were no high schools in the vicinity and youngsters ol that part of the state were not able to continue their education past the element ary grade school level. Although the school is owned and operated by the two Presby teries, its students come from many walks of life and many creeds. Religious exercises, which are held at the school daily, are non-denominational in nature. During its 37 years of exist ence Glade Valley has graduat ed over 400 boys and girls of the Blue Ridge Mountain section of the state. Today many of them are ministers, missionaries, religious educational workers, doctors, dentists, bankers, and scores are teachers or farmers. Glade Valley does more for its students than prepare them to receive a high school diploma. All of tfie boys and girls are re quired to work at least 20 hours each month to help pay their school expenses and room and board. Students learn to use their hands as well as their heads as the boys study farming, mod ern dairy practices and learn skills in a work-shop. Girls learn to cook and sew, and courses in musical instruction are open to them. A, Home Onlile" Farm With The City Cousin Peeking in the door of the Smith Hardware Company’s farm equipment shop over in Qolds boro a couple of weeks ago, I noticed five different makes of tractors lined up in the display room. “Somethin’s goin’ on here" I says to myself, knowing as I do that Ben Lewis, president of the company, only handles a Certain make of tractor. I’d made my way through the door when I heard the sound track of a movie cornin’ frorti behind a closed-off section of Ben’s show room. “Ben,” I says to the old Wayne County dealer who won $75 in gold back in 1911 as a Corn Club Contest high-yielder, “what’re you doin’, givin’ the customers a free movie?” He told me HE wasn’t doing anything—that the Extension Service and the American Oil Company were just using his place for a 4-H Club Tractor Maintenance School. “They’ve been here for three days now,” h,e explained “twenty—eight boys from four teen counties around here. They have movies and lectures in there, then they come out here to these Rowan County is now one of the state’s leading growers of purebred Hampshire hogs. tractors for a little practical work-out” I asked Ben how the boys were selected from their home counties, and he introduced me to “Shorty” Powers, assistant Nash County farm agent. "He’ll know all about it,” Ben assured me. “Glad to make your acquain tance, Cousin,” says Shorty, all the time puffing furiously on a fresh pipeload of tobacco. Then he started to tell me that each boy was outstanding in 4-H Club work, and that he either owned or operated a tractor. Selection to attend the school was also based on the boy’s willing ness and capacity to assist the Extension people as future local leaders in tractor Club work among 4-H members, he said. About the time “Shorty” was just getting underway with his explanation of the school, the boys began to pour out of the lecture period. I spotted lanky Bruce Butler, assistant Wake ggent, who charged through the crowd with an outstretched right hand to greet me. Congenial bunch, these Extension agents, I always say. Well, then Butler thought I should meet Morton Bellamy, Lubrication Engineer with Ameri can Oil, who was doing a lot of the instructing. I found out later that the farm boys had kept Bellamy right up on his toes with some mighty sharp questions about de-sludging motors and the like. ‘That shows they’re really in terested,” Bellamy says, explain ing that their intelligent queries were p r o m p t e,d by serious thoughtful consideration of the problems of tractor maintenance.' . Service out at Sta< who supplied the movies and K>ok part in the instruction. He told me a similar school had been held at Salisbury the week before, and it was hard to tell which bunch of boys worked the most. L. R. Harrill, State 4-H Club Leader, was plenty busy taking I asked him what about missing three days of high school, “Must be fun,” I suggest ed. “I thought it would be, too," he said, as if he wasn’t too happy about the whole thing. ‘But my teacher’s been sending my lessons over every day!” 4 Lumber Wanted 4-Quarter and 6-Quarfer POPLAR AND BASSWOOD 4-Quarter GUM, CHESTNUT AND SOURWOOD 4- Quarter, 8-Quarter and 8-Quarter SOFT AND HARD MAPLE 5- Quarter, 6-Quarter and 8-Quarter OAK SEE US FOR PRICES Mt. Airy Lumber & Tie Co. B. H. RICHARDS, Mgr. West Jefferson N. Carolina Gangsters in the Grass Weed, and brush are gangsters in the grass.' They literally steal your cattle and sheep by re ducing the carrying capacity of grating land or pastures. They rob your soil of moisture and min erals. They choke the life out of your grass. Mesquite and sagebrush in Western range coun try are often thieving plants. They’re tough and aggressive. The carrying capacity of a hundred million acres of good grazing land has been greatly reduced by these two alone. Weeds and brush can. be burned or poisoned, grubbed out with bull dozers or yanked out with tractors and cables. Grass thrives again when the brush is gone. Then, cattle or sheep production can be increased, some times as much as 300 %. From farming states come reports of doubled beef production per acre of pasture simply by mowing weeds. In dairying sections startling im provements in production, flavor, and milk and cream profits have resulted from cutting pasture weeds two or |three times a season. Promising experimental work is proceeding with 2, 4-D and other new chemical weed killers. Spraying pas Soda BUI Son ...the time to hold on hardest is when you’ve just about decided to let go. iMatfAa SBogadbr (5R*cfy» fb* FRANKFURTS AND HOT POTATO SALAD (YMdi^Nfvinfli) 6 frookfurts 14 cop diced proof) poppof 41 — — . i V an nnn ■ uinfraf I Clr Q O pOlQiwvl 3 tabiwpooni bacon drippinp 2 tooipoom sopor 14 cup dic*d Orton 1 teaspoon «oh 14 Tifp TflmQiir 14 twnpopi block |)4pp4f Cook potato*!. PmI and cut In H-M aba*. Ptac* frankfurts in sauco pan of boiflng wotor. Impu from hoot and lot itand front 5 to 9 min utes. H*at drippings. Add onion and groan pappor, and brawn. Add vin*gar, water, sugar, sail, and pappor. Cook over tow h*at until flavors aro thoroughly blond*d. floor bat saoca ovor cubod potato*! and mix npmiy. i op wots ifQnRpRN 000 psvtr nos* Judging Prodneing Ability of Heifer tabes W.W.Swett ' by W. W. Swctt • Bureau of Dairy Industry U. S. Department of Agriculture The result* of preliminary analyses of data obtained by scientists in the Bureau of Dairy Industry, United States Department of Agriculture, offer much promise that dairymen will soon have a new, practical, money-saving system for judging the future producing ability of heifer calves. We have round that by examining the udder of a dairy heifer when she ia 4 months old we can get a good idea whether or not she will be a good milk producer. We think that with a little practice any farmer can learn to judge heifer calves the same way. Working with our experimental dairy herd at Beltsville, Maryland, we first determined, by feel, the average udder development of calves. Then we graded all the heifers as High, Medium, or Low. Later we checked the grades of these calves against their milk production records as cows. We found a fairly close match between the grades of the calves and the milk production of the oowa. Since theee results are based entirely on the study of animals in one herd, the plan must be rigidly tested for reliability iq other herds where the inheritance for milk ction may be at different levels and mere variable, i it can be recommended for metical use. > pay-off, of course, comas to culling out low p*o ducers at an early age. It costa about?125 to miss a r to milking age. Nearly one-third of the h< ^ If t tures is proving effective in destroying these live stock rustlers. Once weeds are under control, pastures benefit by liming, fertilizing, reseeding with recommended pasture mixtures, by harrowing or discing to break up manure. Few crops give as great return for a little attention as does grass. A good starting point in an improved grass program is to take steps to control weeds and brush. We—both you and Swift—are interested in mak ing the best use of what we have. It has been said that "a penny saved is a penny earned.” There are many dollars to be saved by making the most effi cient use of grass lands. We suggest that you con tact your state agricultural college, county agent, or vocational agricultural teacher for further in formation. r OUR CITY COUSIN i-'SMsfc- /V 1 fool) gin i nin < i PRODUCERS BENEFIT FROM QUALITY CONTROL Quality Control protects the buyer ot Swift products. It also serves the fanner. For it insists that his products be proc essed into the best possible consumer products. v “When Mr. or Mrs. America buvs a Swift product, they expect top qual ity,” says H. S. Mitchell, dimctor of our nesearcn LaDoraionef i ney . ••■«* also depend on it to be just 1 as the ' »t t aw they bought it. That’s why eep conn back for Swift products. They ha\ ry right to expect uniform high quality. And it’s .ie job of the auaiity control system to make sure that they get it.’’ Quality Control begins with the livestock and other “raw materials’’ selected by Swift buyers. Next, it lays down exact written suecifications for the control of each step in the processing of many products. Finally, it sets up strict quality standards tor the finished products. Our Research Laboratories are in twenty-one cities. More than 1,000,000 exacting tests are made each year in our Quality Control program, Each test takes time and work. But constant testing is the only way we can be certain that the quality of Swift products is uniformly high. This constant Quality Control not only builds confidence in Swift products, but it also helps create a steady, dependable market for the livestock and other raw materials we p- - chase from producers. A permanently successful b< - ness must be grounded on the solid foundation of uni form quality. Price balances supply and demand There is always a demand for meat. Yea, at some price. But that price is not determined by the meat’s cost, or set by the meat packer. It is set Dy wnai me consumers are wiwng ana aDie to pay for the meat and by-products. That is something which must be known and remembered if one is to understand the meat business. A good many people think that the meat packers sell meat for the cost of the livestock, plus expense, plus a profit. But that is not how meat prices are made. We must sell our meat—because it is perish able. We hope, of course, to sell it at a price which S'vee us a profit. But profit or loss, we must sell it. s our president, John Holmes, said recently, ‘We seek the price that balances supply and demand. Sometimes this is a profitable price; sometimes there is a loss. The Tecoras chow that, on the average, we make a modest profit year by year.” As for prices paid for livestock, they, too, are set by the forces of supply and demand. No meat packer could control them because there is so much com petition both in buying and selling. There are over 4,000 meat packers and 20,000 commercial alaughter -*■ competing daily for live _ son. Agricultural Research Department t Things are NOT always as they seem Which weighs more? The cubic foot block of iron, or those four big rolls of 26' fence wire? The wire looks much heavier, but it isn’t. They weigh the same—491 pounds each. rso, tnings are not always aa tney seem. taae that fence wire, for example. The fence maker paid perhaps 2i a pound for the iron. You buy it as fencing at around H a pound. That leaves a “spread” of 51 a pound between the raw mate rial and the finished product. This “spread” covers heat treating, drawing the wire, weaving it, rolling, and other processes we may not know about. It includes also manufacturer’s profit, transportation, jobbers’ and retailers’ costs and profits, and delivery to you. There is also a “spread” between what you producers get for livestock and what you pay the meat dealer for meat. For one thing, an average 1000-pound steer produces only 543 pounds of meat and 161 pounds of by-products, both edible and inedible. In processing there is unrecoverable shrink and waste of 296 pounds. We also have the costs erf “disassembling” live animals into meat, refrigerating, transporting to market, and delivery to retail stores. The “spread” coven also retailers’ costs and profits— plus a profit for the meat packer which averages only a small fraction of a cent per pound of prod uetr “ * SWIFT & COMPANY union stock yards , ^ CHICAGO », ILUnOIS } NUTRITION IS OUR BU$INIS$~AND YOURS JVpIi* —ting mkb Ufm to fmrymn—m*4 y*mr» to jmmr Hto . s j ' - i# H; ~
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