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I he Farming Guide (By A. S. KNOWLES, County Agent) The tobacco crop as a whole is much improved over the past few crops in both quality and yield per acre. Here and there farmers complain of certain va rieties being hard to cure into blight cigarette type tobacco. About the time marketing is completed a survey will be made in order to determine how the va rious varieties performed this sea son. The results of the survey will be made public to be used as a guide in future years. The in dividual farm information will be confidential and not used other than to summarize and to add to similar information from other counties. In order to get the most out of this crop through marketing, it is important that grades be kept separate. Be sure that green or trashy leaves be kept out of other grades. Tie the tobacco into neat and medium sized bundles. This sized bundles dry much fast er than large bundles. When re drying is slowed up, the entire msjrketjvhfts to slow down, and often c&tiSe's a drop in price. Do not fail to take not of any disease appearing in the tobacco crop. Only by finding out the source of trouble now can it be avoided in future years. Animals Cause Many Accidents Animals rank third among the causes of accidental injuries to farm people, according to H. M. Ellis, head of extension agricul- j tural engineering. Falls and machinery top the list. Increased reliance on artificial breeding of dairy stock has freed many farmers from the hazards of handling bulls on their farms. But when a bull is kept, regardless of how gentle it may appear, substantial fenc ing is absolutely necessary for safety. A safekeeper bull pen of the type developed by Agricultural Research Service is recommend- j ed for bulls kept for dairy or I beef stock breeding. The pen j includes a shed with stanchion ! and manger, and it is so con- ! structed that the attendant can handle and feed the animal with out coming in contact with it. j Beef bulls that run with the herd have infrequent contact with the owner. If a bull on the range or in a pasture must be approached, do so while on horseback or in a vehicle, if possible. If you must approach a bull in a pasture on foot, be sure there is a vehicle nearby to afford a barrior in case the bull should charge. Bulls aren’t the only dangerous animals. Boars also come in this category. Tusks should be re moved from boars. Even an or dinarily gentle animal may strike without warning. Deaths have i occurred from such accidents. A hand hurdle will keep off a boar if he should attempt to strike. Sows may be a source of j danger, particularly before and after farrowing. A hand hurdle should be carried when enter ing the pen at such times. Leave the pen door unlatched to per mit a quick escape. 1 Tn 3 College Tniuries Caused By Athletics CHICAGO—Dying for dear old Rutgers may be an exaggeration, | but college athletics do account for almost one out of three in juries to college students. That was revealed by a special study of student injuries at 11 colleges made by the National Safety Council and the American ! --- Farmers must feed their swine and other livestock in a way to get economical gains in order to stay in the business. It is a known fact that good pasture will help in the production of cheaper pork. A new approach to feeding swine is through the use of low grade fats. Feeding efficiency was increased 20 per cent by feeding diets containing 10 per cent added fat to pigs. These results were j obtained in two feeding trials with pigs fed from weaning to i market weight on diets contain- j ing added animal and vegetable fats. The first trial was conducted | during the winter months. Pigs on the fat diet ate only 288 pounds feed per 100 pounds gain, while those on control diets required j 347 pounds. Pigs on the fat diet j also gained faster — one-third pound more per day (2.37 lbs. vs. j 2.02 lbs.) Fat has two and one-half times as much energy per pound as coin. Thus, feeds with higher fat contents are worth more than oth er ingredients in the diet are equal. These results indicate that when fats are favorably priced they may be used at low levels in beef cattle and swine rations as a source of energy. i I College Health Association and reported in the 1955 edition of the Council’s statistical yearbook, "Accidents Facts,” just off the press. The study showed that an av erage of one out of nine students was injured during the school year. Athletics led the list of couses, with residence accidents, recreation, motor vehicle and lab oratory the next most important causes. Seasoned Wood Vital To User For steaks, tastes may differ, but lumber always should be well seasoned. The US Forest Products lab oratory, Madison, Wis., a recog nized authority on lumber and lumber products, offers the fol lowing advice: "Wood swells and shrinks with changes in moisture content. It is vitally important, therefore, that the lumber used in a house be thoroughly seasoned. "The objective of the season ing process (air or kiln drying) is to bring wood down to a mois ture content in reasonable agree ment with the conditions of use. so that the main shrinkage will have taken place in the rough product rather than in the semi finished or assembled product From then on, the seasonal changes in dimension seldom should cause much trouble.” So insist on dry lumber for your house. The grading rules of the southern p ■» lumber in dustry require that lumber be seasoned to a specific moisture content, and the industry’s grade mark, SPIB, indicates that lum ber meets the requirements for seasoning, manufacture and grade. Pole Frame Buildings Win Farming Favor NEW ORLEANS The rising | popularity of the pole frame I -ype of construction for farm 1 mildings can be credited to a rare combination of utility and economy the system affords. Durable new buildings can be erected quickly with a minimum of parts. Any farmer who is handy with tools can do most of the work himself. Pressure treated south- . ;rn pine poles first are driven I Victorgrain Oats (ONE YEAR FROM BREEDER) $l.oo Per Bushel (IN 3-BUSHEL BAGS ONLY) Anderson Wheat (ONE YEAR FROM BREEDER) $3.oo Per Bushel UN 3-BUSHEL BAGS ONLY) Quail Rest Farm RICE GWYNN, JR., Proprietor LONGWOOD, N. C. MRS. IVY BAKKR PRIEST (left), treasurer of the United States, and Homer J. Livingston, president of the American Bankers association, will address the third annual Young Bank ers Conference at Greensboro on*Aug. 14-15. The meeting is sponsored by the North Carolina Bankers association. into the ground, and then the other parts of the building simply are nailed to the poles. The poles are of sufficient strength to support all of the j loads, and since they are also [weather and decay proof, foot ings or other masonry founda tions are unnecessary. The re sulting reduction in material | saves the farmer a good deal of i money. For the parts other than the poles, the farmer needs little more than standard lumber sizes which are readily available from his retail dealer. Pressure treated southern pine poles long have been used by telephone companies, railroads Aspirin Usage Can Kill Tots CHICAGO—Aspirin can be ns deadly as an asp—if eaten in quantities by young children. The 1955 edition of “Accident Facts." the statistical yearbook of the National Safety Council, and other industrial users be cause of their strength and long record of service. Now these same qualities are being put to good use on the farm. Many of the state agricultural institutions have plans. l!i District Elects Frink'' ;a meeting’ called by Judge Rgond E’ Mallard, attorneys of tii.3th Judical District elected Si inn Frink of Southport to sen as its president. 13th District is made up ojblumbus, Bladen and Bruns vk counties. biers elected were Joe W. Pfrn of Whiteville as vice pfdent; Ernest E. Parker of Sinport as secretary and treas ugi Edward C. Clark of Eliza bl’own as counciler; J. B. Lee of'hibeville as Columbus county rlfsentative; Dwight McEwen ogouthport as Brunswick rep rlntative and Leon D. Smith of j- Poff the press', shows aspirin a i the salicylates to be the c ;non drug killers of young c itren. Bariturates are next. All a frequently kept in the family n (icine chest within reach of c ilren, the Council says. ccidental poisoning is one of t < principal causes of home d i;hs among children under five y ifs old. Three main groups of r ions caused 99 per cent of the d ‘;hs: drugs (35 per cent), p itoleum products, of which Iflensene is the most important ( St per cent), and products for e ct rnal use (38 per cent). I-ad is the No. 1 killer among l e external use products, and a nic is second. Caustics, such i i ve, ’cresol and ammonia, rat p >i ons and fly sprays also rank !r g... Other dangerous products H< ide shampoos, rubbing solu :iovi, bleaches, moth balls and 'mature polish. Elizabethtown as representative for Bladen county. Attending the meeting held in Hotel Whiteville, were all law rears from the counties of Colum bus. Bladen and Brunswick. BRIEF SESSION Continued From Page One purpose of sale fined $50 and costs. William Earl Waddell, speeding (65-mph) fined $10 and costs. Walter Davis, Jr., speeding (65-mph) fined $10 and costs. Preston Henry Johnston, allow ing minor to operate, costs. Eesau David, no operator’s li cense, fined $25 and costs. Bennie Wade Newton, speeding (60-mph) fined $15 and costs. Roland Crum Poindexter, speed ing (65-mph) fined $10 and costs. Maurice DaLong Osborne, speed ing (65-mph) fined $10 and costs. Clifford Elwood Newsome, speeding (65-mph) fined $10 and costs. Bennie Stevenson, assault on female, nol prossed. George Weston, operating on wrong side of highway, fined $10 and costs. Alfred Louise Bunting reckless operation, not guilty. TOBACCO MARKET Continued From Page One zation. The heavy government buying is credited with a weekend de ! eision to cut selling time for Border Belt markets from 5l4 to 3 V2 hours. The order will take effect in the Columbus markets : beginning Aug. 15. Fred Royster, Henderson, presi dent of the Bright Belt ware house association, said stabiliza tion purchases make it “impos sible to continue on a normal sales schedule of 5V& hours . . . For protection of the stabilization corporation and the marketing program, and in order that the crop may be marketed in an or derly manner," the sales commit tee adopted the change. In Whiteville, W. D. Durham. [ re-drying technician for the Whiteville Tobacco company, said i the heavy stabilization purchases ! forced the re-drying plant into an around-the-clock, 5'^-day schedule the second day of the I market. “Normally we don't go irito a 24-hour day until the sixth to eighth day of the mar ket," Durham said. At Chadbourn, Billy Nobles reported the first week saw 655, 034 pounds sold for an average : of $52.60, with possibly 36 to 38 percent going to stabilization. Chadbourn sales were expected to open light today, but Nobles i said, the cut in time for next week may bring in more leaf for the latter part of the week. He said folks are still busy cropping tobacco. "I've seen fields this j week that still have three crops jto come.” At Fair Bluff, Ciyue Town lend, commented ho was surpris ed to see that the 586,512 pounds averaging $54.15 was “ahead of last year. It is surprising after watching the sales. We’ve had some $3 and $4 tobacco here, but we’ve had a lot of $60 and $65 stuff too, and that is what is keeping it up.” Tabor City’s R. P. Counts, al so reported that sales and aver ages were leading last year’s figures for the first three days. “We sold 731,466 pounds last week for an average of $53.78,” he said. The Tabor City gain in poundage was more than double the first three days of 1954. Counts said 1954 showed 328,778 pounds for the first three days. The average was $51.98. Stabili zation got 35-40 percent. 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