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^~"^7rything and,
|A ? itS! place" is a i
fe/U states Profes-,
?t' ^ Weaver, head of \
""Jltu* Engineering De-j
^ StaW tt>llege. wh0 em"
phasized this week the Import
ance of a thorough clean-up on
the farm to promote efficiency
and 3afety.
Disorder is responsible for put
ting one out of every five vic
tims in the hospital, according to
a study conducted a few years
ago by the National Safety Coun
cil, Professor Weaver says, ^x
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BY C. B. RATCHFORi
Farm Management Exten?uu j
Specialist
The best policy for most to
bacco farms is to grow the
full allotment of tobacco, strive
to produce high quality tobacco,
and use the rest of the land and
labor for other enterprises. Most
farmers plant the allotted acre
age and, as a rule, produce high
quality tobacco. The major prob
lem deals with the use of land
and labor not employed in tobac- (
co production.
Combination Is Needed
Tobacco occupies from ten to;
forty per cent of the cropland on'
most tobacco farms. Thus, a con-1
| siderable portion of the cropland. I
I and all of the pasture and wood-!
land is available for other uses, i
Tobacco requires a great deal of
labor, but the bulk of It is re-!
quired during harvest season. A
good combination of enterprises j
is one whioh uses all the farm'
and labor throughout the year.1
There are many such combina- j
tions.
On small farms which are not!
well suited to mechanization, cot-!
I ton, poultry, and grain are good j
I enterprises to combine with to-j
bacco. On somewhat larger farms!
j dairy cattle or hogs, and feed j
crops are good enterprises to add j
i to tobacco. On farms with a
I large acreage and which are well!
i suited to mechanization, there are j
I many enterprises which may be
[combined with tobacco.
! There is some land on most j
[farms which is best suited to j
(Pasture and hay crops. Livestock!
! should be added to properly uti
i lize such land. Livestock enter
prises generally require more la
| bor during seasons when the
j crops require little or no labor.
[For these reasons some livestock!
should be included on most farms, i
[A Nash County farmer has done!
(a good job of combining tobacco j
and dairying on a medium size j
| farm. He has about twenty milk i
i cows, and nine acres of tobacco. |
He has most of the cows fresh
ened in the fall after tobacco
is harvested, and turns them dry
just before tobacco harvest the
next summer. He has considerable
acreage of land which may best
be used as pasture. This com
bination of enterprises is giving
him a very good land use pro
[gram and provides for full use of
labor throughout the year. Such
a system is resulting in a very
nice income from an ordinary
size farm.
Many farmers in the Piedmont
plaining that the largest single
cause of injuries, other than the
personal factor of poor judg
ment, is disorder.
The time spent now to elim
inate farm danger spots through
clean up efforts may result in
the saving of many days lost
through accidents during the rush
season later on, Professor Weav
er pointed out.
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are combining milk cows and to-1
bacco. On small farms there is
a real opportunity for combina- j
tion of poultry and tobacco. On
the large farins, beef cattle is a
good enterprise since tobacco
takes little lan?l nnrt a ?reat "i0?.1 j
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Almost half the farmland in
North Carolina is in woodland.
The woodland should be consid
ered as a crop and proper man
agement used. A great deal of
the surplus labor can be used
profitably during the winter
months in working in the wood- {
land. Another Nash County farm- |
er illustrated last winted the way j
woodland management fits into
a balanced farming program.1
This farmer has a fairly small
acreage of woodland. A woodland
management plan was worked out
by John Gray, Extension Forest
er, and H. E. Vernon, assistant
county agent in Nash County. As
soon as the crops swere harvest-1
ed the farm labor was used to!
cut the mature timber and the
undesirable species. The laps
were worked up by the farm
labor. The entire farm labor
force was employed from the time
crops were harvested until spring
when it was necessary to start
the regular farm work. The
farmer earned a nice profit, the
farm labor was profitably em-[
ployed, and the woodland was in
better shape after the selective,
cutting than before.
There are similar opportunities
available on many farms.
Use Recommended Practices
Recommended practices should
be used on all enterprises. Farm-1
ers usually follow recommended
practices fairly closely on tobacco
and cotton, the major cash crops,:
but not on other enterprises. The
Experiment Station found in a
recent study that cotton yields
could be Increased only 5 per
cent if recommended practices
were used on all prases of pro
duction. Corn yields, however,
could be increased only 5 per
cent if recommended practices
were used on all phases of pro
duction. Corn yields, however,
could be increased 100 per cent,
wheat yields 76 per cent, and oat
yields 82 per cent. If alfalfa hay
is substituted for annual types
of hay, the yield is increased
sharply. The net income per acre,
which is the important considera
tion, would be increased on corn
from $4 to $30, on wheat from
$3 to $22, and on oats from $9
to $28.
Rates of production for live
stock may be increased sharply
through use of recommended
practices. If recommended prac
tices are used on milk cows from
which manufacturing milk is sold
the net cash income can be in
creased from $8 to $53 per cow.
The net income from 100 hens
can be increased from $115 to
$252. If if grade A milk is sold
the net Income can be increased
from $8 to $168 per cow. These
figures should convince even the
most skeptical person that it is
good business to use recommend
ed practices on all enterprises.
See your county agent for the
latest recommended practices.
Increase Efficiency
Even though the prices farm
ers receive have been high and
are still supported at a fairly
high level, some farmers are los
ing money. The costs have been
rising and will probably continue
to rise. Every farmer should
strive for greatest efficiency.
Special emphasis should be plac
ed on labor efficiency since la
bor is the largest item of cost
in farm production. Labor effi
ciency can be increased through
better work methods and the ad
dition of machinery. Good plan
ning will help increase labor ef
?.c'e"cy: Unnecessary expenses
should be cut. It is not good bus
iness to decrease the expenses for
fertilizer, good feed, and similar
expenses. It is good business to
cut expenses for labor, repairs
to machinery, equipment, and
similar items. The use of recom
mended practices will help in
crease efficiency.
Agriculture Act
Continues High
Support Prices
1948 Law Gives New Meth
od Of Figuring Parity
Prices; Government May
Help By Purchasing The
Crops Or Making Loans
WASHINGTONJDepartment of
Agriculture officials say the new
long-range farm law, approved in
the closing hours of Congress,
moves toward a philosophy of
plenty. The law, known as the
Agricultural Act of 1948, works
this way:
It continues, with some chang
es, the present high wartime price
supports through 1949. Then the
long-range plan, with lower price
support, goes into effect. Aftei
1949 the more abundant the crop,
the less support the farmer will
receive. The government may
provide this support by making
loans, purchasing crops or other
means.
Department spokesmen say the
purpose is to give some support
to abundant crops, but not so
much support that the man who
has to buy food has to pay prices
too liigh for His pocketbook. If
prices start sliding downward be-j
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has been such an arrangement
covering major crops.
The new law has a new meth
od of figuring parity prices. The
parity formula attempts to define
the buying power of farm pro
ducts during a period of fair farm
profits. Then it attempts to in-j
sure the farmer the same buying
power today. CAs an instance, if
two bushel3 of wheat, in a given
period, bought a pair of shoes,
today's price for wheat would be
set so that two bushels would be
sufficient to buy a pair of shoes,
although in dollars the price is
twice as high. More than 900
items the farmer buys are used
in determining the price he should
receive for products he sells.)
The new parity will be based
on prices In the 1910-14 period.
But in addition it will attempt
to take into consideration chang
es that have taken place in farm
ing practices and demand for
farm products since then. For
instance, it costs less to produce
grain today than it did In 1910
14 because grain planting and
harvesting machines have been
invented, reducing farm labor.
Also the demand for grain has
changed. The new law averages
prices for all farm commodities
during a recent 10-year period.1
Then thfs average is used, at one
stage of figuring, to establish a
"modern" relationship among the
crops and the profits they bring.
Farm officials say in general
this will tend to reduce grain
prices and increase prices for
livestock and dairy products.
The law spells out the way the
secretary of agriculture may sup
port prices of the "basic" com
modities?corn, wheat, cotton,
peanuts, rice and tobacco. He
may support other products at
his discretion. The tobacco price
will be set at 90 per cent of
parity indefinitely. The other five
basic commodities may be sup-1
ported at from 60 to 90 per cent
of parity. The level will be de
termined by the abundance of
any commodity. The price may
be set at 90 per cent of parity
when the size of the crop is 70
per cent of normal but it may be
reduced as low as 60 per cent of
parity if the size of the crop
reaches 130 per cent of normal.
In the case of tobacco the price
will be 90 per cent of parity
Elm Beginning
To Vanish From |
American Scene
nuay Maple Family May
Keplace Favorite Native
> r? e In Many Sections
her famous "Vanishing
an" is the elm, a tree that
Is doomed in many sections. Ra
vaged by* Dutch elm disease,
phloem necrosis and other troub
les, this most popular of native
trees is on its way out in widen
ing areas.
Dwindling elms may be re
placed by forward looking com
munities with trees of the maple
family on both streets and priv
ate property, advises D. Q. Grove,
chief field supervisor of Davey
Tree Expert Co.
The big three in this category
are the sugar, Norway and red
maple. These are most desirable
because they are reasonably free
from serious diseases, long lived,
beautiful in form, easily main
tained, easily transplanted since
they are shallow rooted, strong
wooded and generally mature to
a good height and spread.
Equaiiy as Important, they are
adaptable to climatic conditions
in practically every section of
the United States. Only slightly
less desirable are three other
maples, the hedge, sycamore and
Japanese maples.
As community replacement pro
grams gain impetus, the hardy
maple will become a more and
more familiar part of the Am
erican scene along with the pin
oak and other old favorites.
whenever marketing quotas are
in effect to control the size of
the crop.
Wool prices will be supported
at 90 per cent of parity until
production reaches 360,000,000
(m) pounds a year. At present
it is 300,000,000 (m). White po
tatoes will be supported at from
60 to 90 per cent of parity. Other
farm products, including poultry,
may be supported at from zero
to 90 per cent of parity.
The secretary of agriculture
may establish marketing restric
tions on the basic commodities
when supply is 115 per cent of
normal or prices are below 70 per j
cent of parity and supply is lessj
than normal. When the secretary!
establishes marketing quotas for i
| a basic crop, farmers may vote j
upon it. If more than one-third j
of the votes are against the quo
tas, the support level will be re-j
duced to 50 per cent of parity.
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