Conservation
Fanning News
H. E. Singletary and
T. E. Greene
J. C. Tolliver, oi the Edmonds
community, was assisted last,
week by\ the Soil Conservation j
Service in getting soil samples!
on « field where he plans to sow
alfalfa. Mr. ^plliver has done a
Vf# fasting*,
hut plans to dq more i®jthe;fu
ture. .'.: , .. >'•
vo in? " j,J
. Soil samples. vlera taken oil all
the fields of Elbert Crouse who
lives in the Whitehfead ebnjmun
ity. Elbert has-been treating with
lime and phosphate but wants to
find out how he ^ getting along.
Roy Poole was assisted recent
ly by the Soil Conservation Ser
vice in havinga-sofl map made
of his farm. This map is to be
used in planning for the best use
of the farm as it stands now. Roy
is interested in keeping Mis soil
from washing and has made a
start toward thii'-gcal.
Charles Horton, of tiie Furches
community, had samples taken on
two of his pasture fields a few
weeks ago. These soil samples
were analyzed and a recommen
dation given for the best igftwth
of his pasture, SMSiCr5?. d
“TUBXJH
Charlie Collins, of near Sparta,
is producing yam , and: •-■glover
where broon^^r^fM^r^Srrah
Here is a sale sign, friend, which
>u a safe, sore, profitable
far your future. Wherever
see it—at your bank, postoffice
ar where you work—stop, look and
set By action 1 mean joining the
Payroll Savings Plan. Or if you are
a professional man or woman or
seV-einployrd ask your bank about
Band-a-Month Plan by which yon
buy Savings Bonds auton\atical
•ut of money In your checking
ount. Your Uncle Sam sees you
hisblinute Man symbol, because
every time you buy another Savings
Baud you are standing guard over
Bh security of yourself and family.
U. S. Trt<u»ry Department
Make Sauer Kraut for Winter Meals
Don’t miss out on homemade
; sauer kraut served yrith spareribs
i or wieners next winter. Choose
fresh, hard, sound cabbage now
and make kraut. Remove the out
i side leaves, quarter, and discard
cores. Shred and mix thoroughly
with salt, one cup to 20 pounds
of cabbage.
Pack firmly in a stone jar or
tight keg and cover with wooden
lid or dinner plate which will fit
down on the inside of the con
tainer. A jar full of water on the
plat* will hold the kraut under
the brine which forms as the salt
draws the juice from the cabbage.
Keep at a temperature of 65 to
75 degrees Fahrenheit and remove
seum each day.
Sauer kraut is cured and ready
to can in from 20 to 40 days, de
pending upon the temperature at
which it is kept. Pack into hot
Ball jars which seal with glass lids
or Dome Vacu-Seal caps. Should
there not be enough juice to cover
the kraut, add brine made by dis
solving two tablespoons salt in
one quart of water. Process 30
—Photo ( courtesy Ball Bros. Co.
minutes in hot water bath.
Sauer kraut may also be made
by .mixing one scant tablespoon
salt with one quart shredded cab
bage and packing directly into
Ball. jars. Do not seal the jars
jet. Remove the scum as it forms.
When cured, then process 30 min-^
utes in hot water bath. Seal the
jars according to the manufac
turer’s instructions.
Bulk-cured kraut is superior in
flavor, texture and keeping quali
ties to that cured in jars.
High living costs, a special ses
sion of congress in November and
politics occupied the spotlight in
Washington as President Truman
arrived home from his vacation
in Brazil. The President imme
diately went into session with hii
White House advisors and mem
bers of his cabinet, while the
seriousness of the foreign situ
ation was highlighted by the
swearing in of James Forrestal
as secretary of national defense.
In the meantime a survey about
Washington would indicate it
questionable if a quorum of con
gress could be mustered even if
a special session were called what
with members junketing all
over the world. A count showed
that 57 members of the house and
30 senators were' either already
overseas or planning to go over
seas on some aspect of our for
eign policy. In addition, approxi
mately fifty members are jun
keting about this country hold
thorns were growing, also grass
and clover is growing and produc
ing excellent grazing where gul
lies once were. The secret of his
success is liberal treatment with
lime and fertilizer. Charlie is
planning for alfalfa next year.
I
This newspaper belongs to the Audit Bureau of
Circulations which requires that all subscriptions must
he paid up as they expire otherwise they must be
dropped. This is likewise a requirement of the Post
Office department.'
DON’T LET YOUR SUBSCRIPTION ELAPSE
Stud In Your Renewals
PROMPTLY
We will also appreciate it If you will urge your
neighbors to subscribe and if you will report news items
from your community and co-operate with our corre
spondents to the end of making this a better paper.
' ing hearing* on some phase of
the domestic- front.
Not satisfied with the probe of
the subcommittee on small busi
ness which is holding hearings
in the west on farm cooperatives,
Rep. Harold Knutson, of Min
nesota, chairman of the' house
ways and means committee, has
announced that one of the first
questions to be considered by his
committee when it convenes No
vember 4 will be tax exemption
of the co-ops.
And considerable interest is
centered in the announced con
tinuation of the Howard Hughes
airplane contract inquiry by the
senate war investigating com
mittee headed by Sen. Owen
Brewster of Maine. It would ap
pear that the committee, in view
of the boomerang of unfavorable
publicity which made a hero of
Hughes and a goat of the com
mittee, would proceed with the
hearing at least gingerly.
According to the thinking of
experts both inside and outside
of government here in Washing
ton, no price controls will be
voted to curb the runaway infla
tion which has boosted food
prices 97 percent; clothing prices
83 percent and all prices 56 per*
cent since 1940. There will be de
mands for a reinstitution of price
controls and even for rationing of
key commodities, but the experts
believe the GOP leadership wilj
have the votes to pupvenl any
action. |
Apparently, no one either in
or out of government has the an-1
swer fB the price question. In
the fields of industry and agri
culture, production is already at,
or near, an all-time high and ac
cording to the advocates of free,
enterprise, without any govern
ment interference high product
ion with a ready market should
drive pricfes down instead of up.
However, the opposite has been
true. Sen" Joseph C.‘ O’Mahoney
(D., Wyoming) bluntly warned
private industry that if it did
not voluntarily cut prices and
expand capacity, it would come
‘‘face to face with irresistable de
mand for government action.” He
made no prediction as to what
that action might be, but said that
“all danger of government act
ion could be avoided if business
would reduce prices and increase
production as-urged by President
Aruman in his economic report
in January 1947, eight months
ago.”
It is arrarent that the govern
ment will taper off its export of
grains and substitute other forms
of food in an effort to eliminate
high grain exports as an influence
on high prices here. While some
adfnit that exports to the starv
ing milions in Europe may have
had a part in raising some prices,
officials in the department of
agriculture point out that exports
of meat'from May 1946 to May
1947 amounted to only 2.2 percent
of production andyet meat prices
have increased- 8® percent k
At the same time, out of a pro
duction of about 1,156,000,000
bushels of wheat last year, ex
ports of the first six months of
Average price of wheat to the ’
fanner on January 15 this year
was $1.91 and on August 15 it
was $2.10.
And speculation in wheat is
given a greater percentage in this
increase in the price of wheat
than export. For this reason the
government asked the Chicago
board of trade to double the mar
gin requirements on wheat tra*
ding, which the board at this
writing has refused to do.
President Truman was at least
more diplomatic than Sen. Rob
ert Taft on the question of food
conservation to drive prices down
and help * build up a stock pile
which might be sent overseas to
starving Europeans.
Where Senator Taft urged the
people to “eat less,” President
Truman in his first tsep in the
war against high prices, urges the
people to “waste less” food and
he named a committee of top
flight business people to conduct
a nationwide campaign against
waste and purchase of more food
than essential. So whether or not
this campaign will bear fruit de
pends upon the voluntary action
of the people. President Truman
believes Americans will tighten
their belts and really try to get
along on less food if they are
really sold on_the fact that to
do so is essential if we are to
play our part in our humanitarian
role of preventing starvation in
EukqgC*.
Are the American people wast
ing food? This question is an
swered by leaders in retail food
organizations who declare that
in some food commodities as
much as 25 percent is wasted.
Bakers declare that enough
bread is wasted annually in the
United States to make up for
70,000,000 bushel of wheat. '
In the meantime, no one has
come up with answers to the
questions . . .How about a special
session of, congress? . . .What
about exports of foodstuffs as an
influence on high domestip prices? '
V . .What can be done to bring!
prices down? And . . .How is cost
of American participation in the
Marshall plan to be financed—
through direct congressional ap
propriations an dtaxes or through
a bond issue? i
If the question of lower prices
of Alleghany count;
week that a total
been turned over to .
board of education for use
county schools. Funds were deriv
ed by fines and forfeitures in the
fall term of court. %
This amount was conside
Ine of living is lef!
o the vountary action of business
ind industry, most experts in
Washington, in and out of govern
nent agree that we have not seen
he peak in living costs and that
>rices will continue to rise prob
ibly until next Spring.
With export controls now ex
cised by the department of
commerce ending next February
t is presumed that one of the
irst acts of the next session of
:ongress will be an extension of
hese controls. We may also see
lew limitations on the use of
main for both millers and brew
ms and distillers.
Despite the humanitarian as
>ects of the European situation it
s fairly certain that many mem
iers of congress will view the
Suropean situation from a busi
less viewpoint and not from the
lumanitarian aspect. It will be
emembered that scores of
ipeeches were made on the floor
>f congress in which hearts were
vrung over the plight of dis
placed persons in Europe, but no
learts bled enough -to force
ihrough a vote to carry out the
idministration program of bring
ng some of them to this country.
5o it is certain that with the
juestion of exports having a bear
ng on the' cost of food and other
:ommodities in this country, vote
>f many congressmen will be in
luenced by the effect of these
sxports and low exports bring
;ional districts or upon their
According to the records of the
apartment of commerce, level
: business in this country is di
>ctly influenced by exports with
nod business maintained bv high
{ports and low exports bring
ig depressions. Exports in 1947
re estimated at approximately
5 billion dollars and while tljat
not a record high, national in
line of near 200 billion dollars
kely will be a record high. Gove
rnment economists point out
lat a drop of as much as five
illion dollars in exports might
lean a drop of 30 to 40 billion
ollars in national income. But if
we are to keep up a high ratio of
exports where are the dollars
coming from which foreign na
tions must use to buy these ex
exports? One expert asked the
questipn—is it sound policy to
advance Europe four or five bil
lion dollars a year in order to
keep American exports at a level
of twelve to fifteen bilion dollars
a year?
At this wfiting, President Tru
man had not issued a call for a
special session of the congress
for stop-gap appropriations to aid
western Europe. There was a
prevailing, however, that such a
session would be called for some
time in November. From a politi
cal standpoint the President
would much rgther not call the
session but many of his advisers
believe that he cannot avoid it if
conditions are as painted in
Europe.
For accurate culling, chickens
should be in good health and
have been properly fed and mana
ged prior to the tune(of handling.
I thought you canto for
air and oxorciwl'*
Two research projects designed
to preserve quality and increase
acceptability of fresh fruits and
vegetables have been set up by
the U. S. Department of Agricul
ture under the Research and Mar
keting Act of 1946.
Membersftips in tarmer mar
keting and purchasing cooper
atives, went over the 5 million
mark for; the first time in the
1945-46 season, according to esti
mates made by the Farm Credit
Administration of the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture,
A research project aimed at
bringing about a reduction in egg
losses during handling, process
ing, packing, transporting and
warehousing has been set up by
the U. S. D. A. '
Grain export quotas for Nov
ember as announced by the U. S.
D. A. total 788,800 long tons of
wheat, flour (in wheat equiva
lent), and grain sorghums. The
November figure compares with
the October export quota of 1,
213,400 long tons.
The U. S. Department of Agri
culture announced the allocation
of 16,876.000 pounds of meat and
meat prpducts for commercial!
export during the October-Dec
ember quarter this year.
DOG HOUSE?
HAND HER The WALLET]
sad The ADS la This Paper;
Latly, Don’t Let Those
Clothes Get You Down
Call 100 For Laundry
And Dry Cleaning Service
Let Us Do Your Work!
»
Sparta Cleaners
Sparta, North Carolina
Friday Afternoon -1:30 P. M. ,
Sparta vs. Jonesville
The Local Gridiron
Support Your Team! They Deserve It!
Porter Lumber Co. and Lumber Shop