| per Acre Yield* Of Leading Crops In
Randolph County Show Marked Gain
. increase In Yields i)f
r Crops I* Past Ten
years Has Been Large.
Money Value Reaches
Thousands Of Dollars
•r^ue Of Lespedeza And Other
*Hav And Legume Crops In
cilculable To Farmers.
The board of commissioners of
-Randolph county was petitioned at
jTZular Aufrust meeting Monday
? do away with the county agricul
Z-i department Arguments pro
Sd con regarding the matter were
Sad, with the board finally de
to continue the work this
J60ne of the most effective argu
ments used in behalf of the county
^nt and the county agricultural de
Snent was the following:
“ have learned that there is before
-von gentiemen a petition or petitions
asking for the discontinuing of Coun
agent work in this county,
j am a believer in counting the cost
of any article or object for which
there is an outlay of money, let this
abject be private or public. I, there
fore have noted a few facts for your
consideration. The figures and facts
I quote are obtained from your own
lax books and from the U. S. Dept,
hf Commerce Bureau of the Census.
This is a comparative statement cov
ering periods from five to ten years
in regard to agriculture in this coun
ty, during which time the apiculture
of this county has been led by our
present county agent
In 1921 the average yield of com
In this county was 17 bu. per acre,
while in 1931 the yield had climbed to
24 bu. per acre or an increase of
7 bu. per acre. I am not able to give
you the exact acres planted to com
in 1921 but in 1931 there were 30,089
acres planted. Figuring that we had
the same number of acres in com in
1921 that we had in 1931 the increased
yield would be 210,623 bushels. This
increase at 44c per bushel, which was
the average price for corn in 1931,
amounts to $92,674.12.
Next we take up fhe wheat crop.
In 1921 the average yield of wheat
in this county was 11 bu. per acre,
while in 1931 it had climbed to 20
bu. per acre, which placed us in third
place in the state in production of
wheat. But realizing that 1931 was
a better year for wheat than the av
enge year I quote from i930 fig
ures. In 1930 the average yield was
15 bu. per acre or an increase of 4
per acre. In 1931 there were 18,
J99 acres sown to wheat. This in
creased amounted to 76,960 bu. The
average price of wheat in 1931 being
72c, this increased yield would
amount to $54,691.20.
Time will not permit me to give
job all the figures available on the
small grain crops of this county, but
similar increases are shown in oats,
barley and rye. Ten years ago it was
not generally accepted that 60 bu.
of oats could be grown on one acre of
land in this county, while last year we
bad yields in oats ranging as high
as 125 bu. per acre. One 6f our
<!ol«ridge farmers who took our coun
ty agents advice as to soil prepara
tion, fertilizers and seed, made an
! average of oats on a 16 acre field of
I 74% bu. per acre.
In order to save you time I wish
to give you a comparison on some of
our other crops for a period of 7
years. From 1925 to 1931 inclusive.
Tybacco in this county in 1925 aver
aged 562 lbs. per acre, while in 1931
the average yield was 727 lbs. per
acre, or an increase of 166 lbs. per
acre. Irish potatoes yielded in 1925
■was 68 bu. per acre, in 1931 the
yield was 95 bu. per aere*or an in
crease of 27 bu. per acre. The sweet
potato yield in 1925 was 60 bu. per
acre while in 1931 was 95 bu. per
»«e on an increase of 35 bu. per
acre.
This county in 1925 grfew - 3,066
acres of soy beans while in 1931 we
i; hid 6,794 acres sown to this hay
«op. lespedeza only a few years ago
aao practically unknown to our farm
era, while today I estimate we have
approximately 20,000 acres seeded to
thu legume, which we find to be one
ef our best soil building and pasture
crops. Our county agent must be
credit for the introduction of
‘his wonderful crop. Other legume
crops which are rapidly gaining in
«vor with our farmers are alfalfa,
«»«et clover, vetch, Austrian peas.
In spit® of the increased average
ci new hay and legume crops, red
clover has held its own and we still
;*row better than 5,000 acres of the
’ 7* liable red. The farmers ef,Ran
c«Ph county have leaned that to suc
?*srully grow clover and legumes
must use ground limestone, and
Group Preserving to
Aid Needy Families
By Jtne Rogers
you are a busy wife and
mother, with many calls on the
family purse, and yet want to do
your bit in helping to relieve dis
tress among the unemployed, here
is an excellent suggestion. Per
suade a group of your friends—
perhaps the community o* church
organisation to
which you be
long—to meet
once a week
this summer
and spend thi
day preserving
fruits and veg
etables to be
given to the
families which
next winter, will flDd in urgent
need of help.
The results of your* work will
prove a real boon. Preserves are
high in general food value. The
fruits and green vegetables pro
vide essential mineral salts and
vitamins. The sugar content is
one of the best possible sources of
energy. Another important point
Is that the expense to your group
will ha Small. Both fruits and veg
etables promise to be unusually
cheap throughout the season. The
price of sugar has nevey been
lower.
Below is a recipe for carrots that
Is well adapted to group preserv
ing activities on behalf of the
needy.
Carrots
Wash tender, young carrots and
blanch them in boiling water for
ten minutes. Then place in steril
ized jars and pour over them a
sauce made by adding 3 table
spoons of butter. 4 of sugar and 1
of salt to a quart of boiling wator.
The amount of the sauce prepared
may be increased as desired, keep
ing the same proportions of the
different ingredients. Fill the Jars
full with the sauce, adjust rubbers
and covers loosely. Process (boil)
for two hourp in a wash boiler
filled with water nearly to the
tops of the jars. Test for leaks
and cool jars before storing.
a loss to its members of $4,000, to
say nothing of the disappointment of
40 boys of our county who are soon
to take our places in this life.
I have tried to show you some of
the progress made in this county dur
ing our present count/ agent’s stay,
and when we stop to consider what
we have gained, while on com and
wheat alone the increased yield for
19$l ajone- figured^at 4031 prices
amounts to $147,365.32. I do not see
how anyone1 could ask for discon
tinuance of this work. I understand
that we now pay our county agent
$810.00 per year. This is less than
any office girl in this court house re
ceives today. I figure that the county
agent costs us less than 4-10 of lc on
our present tax rate. To the average
farmer of this county this work is
costing less than 10c per year, less
than the price of a pack of ciga
rettes. So when we figure the cost
as compared with the benefits derived,
I come to but one conclusion, that is
to maintain this work and our present
county agent, as you all well know
our county agent stands among those
at the top of the list in this work
in our state. We cannot afford to lose
this work neither can we afford to
lose our present county agent. “Do
nothing today that will bring regret
tomorrow,” is a pretty good motto.
I thank you.
Mutual Exchanges
Valuable To Farmers
Cotton continued in May as the
principal export from American
farms. He index of the export of
farm products as computed by the
i Bureau of Agricultural Economics
was 74, compared with 66 for May,
1931, and 56 for May, 1980. This
farm export index is based on the
quantities of 44 farm products. Ex
cluding cotton, the index of the other
43 exports is 75, compared with 89
in'May last year and 90 in May, 1930.
The bureau comjflites the index of
i cotton exports for May at 73, com
pared with 49 in May last year and
31 »n May, 1930. Cotton exports
| showed a seasonal decline in May,
but were greater than May exports
years. The
of the preceding
United Kingdom
the leading buyers of American cot
ton in May, as exports to the Far
East fell off considerably from the
high point reached earlier in the
^Exports of wheat and flour dropped
off materially during the month, fol
lowing a temporary improvement
during April, the May index amount
ing to 97, which was the lowest mdex
for that month since the year 1924.
Greece, the United Kingdom, the
Netherlands, Brazil and Bebpum
were the principal outlets, more than
6,142,900 bushels going to those mar
en ufenthn of 1930-31.
cup chopped cooked car
chopped cooked potatoes,
>pped cooked turnips, 2
id cooked cabbage, 1 cup
ked beets, 8 tablespoons
l cup milk, salt and pep
fce fat to a fryin*
ng hot pour in the above
spread evenly, cover and
l-2hour. Fold, turn and
BulJ Needs Exercise
To Keep In Condition
Bulls Kept In Small Pens And
StaDs likely To Become
Vicious, Expert Says. '
Bulls kept in small pens or stalls
soon become vicious and unrufy and
do not stay in the best breeding: con
dition. Neither is it wise to keep the
animals in the pasture with the cows.
Usually they become actually daiwrer
ous.
“At Vanceboro the other day, how
ever, I found a man who had solved
the problem of- handling an unruly
bull to good advantage,” says Fred
M. Haig, dairyman at State College.
“This farmer owned a bull that was
getting more vicious each day. Fin
ally, when the owner’s patience had
about become exhausted and he was
ready to sell the animal for meat, he
decided to make a yoke and put the
bull to work. After about two weeks
of training, the bull was well broken
and now works every day. The own
er said he had even used the animal
in logging and that h'e was stronger
than any mule on the farm. After
a few weeks of hard work, the ball
lost all signs of viciousness.”
This man not only kept a valuable
animal but also got an extra dividend
from the labor performed. The bail
got plenty of exercise as he was
placed in the pasture each night.
It is essential in these days of low
farm profits that only sires from high
' producing cows should be used. Some
times such sires get mean before the
owner knows the record of the daugh
ter cows, and it often happens that a
valuable bull is sold for beef before
his true value has become known. Mr.
Haig says no bull should be sent to
the butcher just because he is hard
to manage. Work out some suitable
plan for controlling him. Give him
plenty of exercise and green grass
and study a system of management
which will correct any tendency to
viciousnes3.
Do not keep a scrub bull because
he is gentle and don’t kill a good,
pure bred bull because he is mean,
says Haig.
SHRIMPS MAKE FOR DISTINGUE
This Sea Food In Salad Tops Off
Luncheon List.
Shrimps can make a very tasty
meal. In said they are particularly
good.
Chilled Diced Fruit
Shrimp Salad Potato Chip?
Buttered Asparagus on Toast
Hot Rolls Currant Jltm
Spring Dessert G>£fee
Salted Nuts
Shrimp Salad, Serving SgM
2 cups shrimps (canned or fresh),
2 cups diced celery
2 hard cooked eggs diced
V4 cup chopped pimento
stuffed olives
V* cup chopped sweet pickles
2-3 teaspoon salt
*4 teaspoon paprika
1 cup stiff mayonnaise
V2 cup whipped cream
Mix mayonnaise and eseara. Add
Vi of this to rest of ingredients.!
Chill. Serve on lettuce and top with
remaining mayonnaise.
Mayonnaise
1 egg
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon paprika
1 teaspoon dry mustard
2 teaspoons sugar
V4 teaspoon celery seed
4 tablespoons vinegar
1 cup salad oil
Chill all utensils and ingredients.
Beat egg in deep bowl. Add dry in
gredients. Add 1-3 the oil, pouring
slowly. Beat steadily. Alternate re
maining oil and vinegar. Beat two
minutes. Chill.
Ice Box Rolls
T cake compressed yeast \
Vi cup lukewarm water
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs ' .
5 tablespoons fat
1 cup warm water
5 cups flour
Crumble yeast and add lukewarm
water. Add salt and sugar. Add
eggs, fat and warm water. Beat two
minutes. Add half flour and beat
three minutes. Add rest ol ing|^~
dients. Mix well and coyer' wish
waxed paper. Chill. When roBs are
desired, break off. bits of dough,
shape as desired and arrange side
by side on greased baking !>»*•
rise until doubled in sue. It will
require between 3 and 4 hours. Bake
20 minutes in moderate oven.
Spring Dessert
8 slices angel food cake
1 square mint ice cream
3 cups strawberries
2-3 cup sugar _ M1 i
Mix berries and sugar, chut. Ar
range cake on serving plates and top
with portion of ice cream Cower
with berries and' serve wifca fork
Georgia Cana gee (Hot)
7-oz. can pimiemtoee
% tap. salt
lb. American cheeoe
Cayenne
Flour
Split the pimientoes (were win do
six large one#), drain. Sprinkle in
ner surface with aalt and eayqtne.
Place rectangles of ike cheese
lengthwise on pimient* awl «oM «P
Skewer with toothpicks, ioM t» floury
saute in hot fat 3 minute® tor until
cheeae melts and flour Rrowus).
Serve hot on ovals of tom wanes
New Department
-......afrg.'
Money From Hogs Is
Expected This Fall
Feeding Corn and Other Grain
To Hogs Is A Splendid Way
To Get A Good Price
Farmers who have hogs for sale
during the next two months may
expect to make some profit on the
animals. This applies especially to
those who have fallowed the system
of feeding the hogs with surplus
com supplemented by protein feed
and minerals.
“We fully expect those men who
have followed our system of con
verting their surplus com into pork
and who have animals ready for sale
during the next two months to make
some money,” says W. W. Shay,
swine extension specialist at State
College. “Feeding demonstrations
now under way show that the
animals are returning from 65 to 70
cents a bushel for the corn they are
consuming when sold at the present
Richmond prices. There appears to
be 'slight chance - of an early de
cline in price.”
Mr. Shay gives as his reason for
this, the fact that there was 64,
656,000 less pounds of pork in cold
storage on July 1 than on June 1,
one month previous. The amount of
such storage was 43,461,000 pounds
less than on July 1 one year ago.
Then too, he says, the number of
hogs receiveS at the 63 principal
markets during the past June was
10.8 percent less than in June 1931
and 23.6 percent less than the June
average for the past five years.
>The stocker and feeder shipments
were 28.4 and 4S.4 percent less than
one year ago and an average of the
test five years, respectively.
“We are srtsUH^f'Jhe opinion that
the man who win get into the hog
feeding game in North Carolina and
stay with it year in and year out
will make a more substantial profit
from his com than ihy cash crop
farming,” Shay says. “The man who
gets in or out according to the mar
ket however, will always be doing
both too late for greatest advantage.
I would like to see much of the great
com crop of North Carolina sent
.to market as pork to the advantage
W the land as well as the owner.”
Poultry Thrives Best
When Fed Green Feed
All The Vitamins Necessary For
Growth And Health May Be
Found In Green Feed.
When green feed is added as a
supplement to the regular poultry
ration, the birds grow better and lay
more eggs. All the vitamins essen
tial for growth and health can be
made available if a variety of green
feed is used.
“Legumes and the tender green
crops of the garden are all rich in
vitamins and food for poultry,” says
C. J. Maupin, poultry extension spec
ialist at State College. “Alfalfa, clo
vers, lespedeza, rape, soybeans, let
tuce, tender cabbage, collards, kale,
and young oats, wheat, barley or rye
are some 'of the crops liked by poul
try and valuable to them in develop
ing growth and increasing egg pro
duction. We have found that young
lettuce, for instance, has cured a run
down condition in hens. Green al
falfa, fed liberally, has been reported
as checking the deaths of poultry due
to .poor feeding. Where the birds are
given white corn, they need the food
properties found in legumes and other
green stuff.”
Mr. Maupin recommends curing
some legume hay for the birds to feed
.upon in winter. Well-cured alfalfa,
Iclover or lespedeza hay is very valua
ble. This hay should be cured bright
green in color with no rain allowed to
fall on it during the curing process.
In addition some field crops such as
Fulghum oats, Abruzzi rye, dwarf
Essex rape and soybeans might be
planted for the chiokens this fall.
Fresh lawn clipping#., are good and
bo are garden crops like carrots, cab
bage, and other leafy fegetables that
may be planted for the fall and win
ter garden. Green f
comes scarce during
of the summer and o
vide mash feed win p
le taken by extra pn
good health in the fl(
Spiced 3
Put in saucepan 1
1-2 cup sugar. Heat
and when sugar is 4
tablespoon whole cloi
a two-inch piece of
cinnamon]
Curing Hint Given
Growers Of Tobacco
Providing Steam For The Cur-1
ing Barn Effective Way Of !
Curing Tobacco Leaf.
Wetting the floor of the tobacco
barn and placing wet sacks over the
fire joints will provide a moist con
dition in the bam during the yellow
ing period which may increase the
value of the tobacco considerably
during this dry period,
“Because there is little sap in the
tobacco now going into the bams, the
leaf is drying before it yellows and
is therefore curing out with a green
ish color,” says E. Y. Floyd, tobacco
extension specialist at State College.
“One way to overcome this is to keep
the floor wet with water during the
yellowing period. This will make a
moist condition suitable to better yel
lowing. It is also a good idea to get
some old sacks, wet them thoroughly
and place over fire joints to generate
steam in the bam. This will also
help in better coloring. If our grow
ers now housing tobacco will follow
this plan it will mean thousands of
dollars to them in improved quality
of leaf.”
Mr. Floyd believes it is important!
to produce the highest quality of leaf j
possible this year. The crop was re- i
duced 25 per cent at planting time I
and the ravages of blue mold, flea ,
bugs and cold weather cut the supply
of plants to where the acreage is at
least 40 per cent under 1931. The un
even stands in most fields and the re
cent rapid curing will more than like
ly reduce the crop by 50 per cent in
North Carolina.
Reports to the department of agri
cultural economics at State College,
indicate even heavier reduct’ons in
I South Carolina and Georgia and it is
I believed that Virginia has reduced as
| much as North Carolina. Therefore
were not business conditions as they
are, tobacco growers would receive a
fair price for their weed this' fall. Or
dinarily growers would receive at
least 20 to 27 cents for the tobacco
that will he in sight this season, how- j
ever, sucli a price is not expected at |
present.
SAYS MUTUAL EXCHANGES
VALUABLE TO FARMERS
Mutual farm exchanges as operated
in a number of North Carolina coun
ties have great value and more of
them should be organized and the
whole finally welded into a state as
sociation or organization, believes J.
W. Johansen, extension economist at
State College.
Mr. Johansen says there are some
50 county mutual exchanges now in
operation. They are simply small co
operative' buying and selling organi
zations owned and operated by the
farmers themselves and incorporated
under the Mutual Exchange Act of
North Carolina. Under this type of
set-up, the farmers are permitted by
law to collectively pool their farm
products for the purpose of assemb
ling, grading, processing, packaging,
advertising and selling the products
to the best advantage. The Act also
permits the associated farmers to
buy their supplies collectively at
wholesale prices.
This volume purchasing and selling
has saved the farmers of the state
considerable money in recent years
so much so that a number of county
farm agents who have organized such
exchanges have been the targets of
attacks by certain business interests
which have disguised their attacks
under the head of saving taxes. There
is one exchange, says Mr. Johansen,
now in its second year which will
save the farmers of the county for
1932 between' $25,000 and $30,000 in
fertilizer costs alone. Another mu
tual exchange did a volume of busi
ness amounting to $375,000 for its
farmers in 1931. The bulk of this
business amounting to $225,000 was
for farm products sold for the mem
bership and $150,000 was for farm
supplies bought in pooled orders.
1 “As the farmer sees his way to af
filiate his local exchange with the
State Exchange and this in turn af
filiates with national marketing or
ganizations, the farmer will have an
improved outlet for his products,”
Johansen believes.
MUST FRED FOR RIG BGGS
The problem of small eggs in the
pullet laying flock is a serious one
on many farms. While, of course,
proper selection at breeders who
themselves produce good sixed eggs
is necessary, the way the new pullets
are fed haS considerable t* do with
egg> sise, K. ■' .s':
Much of this problem dan be avoid
ed. if the pullets are fed well during
the growing and developing Period.
If birds ale fed sufficiently id that
digestive systems are accust
0 handle Urge quantities of
b flock owner is not likely to
Iegga
Keeping a well balanced growing
mash before them all the time in hop
pers that are easily accessible and
feeding a grain ration once or twice
a day at the rate of about 10 lbs.
per 100 birds a day will provide the
necessary amount of feed. Growing
pullets that must “rustle their own’’
cannot be expected^ to produce many
large eggs.
DAIRYING — DON’T “GO
INTO IT”; GROW INTO IT
There is always danger »f overpro
\ Auction of any farm product, but Dr.
Tait Butler, the well known livestock
specialist, thinks there is nevertheless
a fine opportunity for Southern farm
ers in dairying. In the current issue
of the Progressive Farraer-Ruralist he
says:—
“The dairy cow can help to earn
that ‘$500 More a Year’ on many
Southern farms. Yes, there is, with a
favorable pasture season next sum
mer, danger of an overproduction of
dairy products, but this is probably
less serious when applied to dairy pro
duction than to almost any other farm
product, because milk is an essential
food, the consumption of which should
be greatly increased, especially
throughout the whole South. Also,
dairy prices, although low, have held
up better or suffered less in this de
pression than most farm products and
will probably cont nue to do so.
“Why shoulct call on dairy cows to
help him earn that additional $500 a
year, from his fawning?
“No one should go into the business
of producing milk until his farm is
equipped with buildings needed to
care for and protect the cows. He
does not need expensive buildings,
but he needs -buildings where the cows
can be comfortably housed. He' does
not have to protect them from snow
and cold, but he must protect them
from rain and mud.
“In certain sections it is often stat
ed that the land is too low and wet
for dairying. Such sections are often
better adapted to dairying than high
er sections where the soils are poorer
and feed production more expensive.
It is easier and cheaper to protect
cows from rain, with roofs, and from
mud, by sheds with concrete floors,
'than from the extreme cold of many
sections which profitably produce
dairy products.
“No one should go into the business
(of milking cows until he has convinc
jed himself that he can and will pro
duce an abundance of feed for them,
on the farm near or where the cows
are kept. In brief, no one should
start in the dairy business unless he
is determined to learn and succeed,
and believes that he can and will suc
ceed.
“It is usually better and cheaper
for the, beginner to grow into dairy
ing "Ss one or Ifcwb cows grow into a
herd of 25 or 30 by the natural in
crease, than to go into dairying by
buying a herd of 20 or 30 cows to
start with.
“It is often said that the best guar
antee of sufccessful dairying is good
cows. Good cows are necessary for the
best results, but since more than half
the costs of producing dairy products
in the South are feed costs, we have
put the feed problem first in South
ern dairying and propose to keep it
there until the cows we have are de
cently fed.”
L ,__
FRESH ORANGE JUICE IS
VITAL TO CHILD HEALTH
Fresh orange juice is vital to child
growth and development. In no oth
er form can babies get so appetiz
ingly and completely the needed vit
amins (including the scurvy-pre
venting vitamin “C” and mineral
salts for the satisfactory progress of
body, bones, and teeth.
In fact, science points out that
fresh orange juice and milk from
an almost perfect combination for
a baby’s balanced ration.
Oranges cause a greater retention
of milk’s minerals—a matter of
| great importance.
Most babies who are listless, fret
ful, lacking in vitality and under
normal weight give indication of
malnutrition. Fresh orange juice
will help correct this.
A generous daily allowance of or
anges may prevent many minor ail
ments of growing children. Orange
juice, fresh lemonade or pieces of
lemon in sugar are potent correc
tives of child-types of acidosis.
In making cokes, as in finance,
I make this contribution:
Don’t leave dividinpup to chance—
Be sure of distribution l
CtRREOT distribution Is not
Just a matter tot economists
to worry and wrangle over.
Every woman who does her own
baking (and most of us do these
(toys, thank goodness), has a prob
lem of' distribution on her hands
when It const to blending the
baking powder Vith the flour. Upon
its perfect distribution depends
much of the texture aad eyea ris
a of her cake. It la chiefly for
reason that some women sift
these ingredients together
five times.
A more simple method is to boy
flour to which the leavening baa
already been added. No woman
can Wend them together as perfect
ly as thay be done at the SsfH Ip
, the case of self-rising or pfdleav
enod flour. Self-rising flout tu ©r
• but once, before
•iOsstra flaecakss it
be sifted twice, in order to
a hnt AthArwlift this
Farm Papers Fight
For “Honest Dollar”
“We can have no real or enduring
prosperity in America until we have a
stable system of money—an ‘honest
dollar’ by which a man can pay debts
with the same values (plus interest)
that the original debt represented.”
So says The Progressive Farmer
Ruralist, which is one of a group of
farm papers which have united in a
fight to achieve this result, and
quotes Editor C. V. Gregory of The
Prairie Farmer:
“We have in America an abundance
of national resources. We have*' an
abundance of skilled labor and man
agement. We know how to produce
all we need and all we can reasonably
want. We live in a land of plenty.
There is no reason why we should
not all have plenty. No reason ex
cept that we have not learned how
to divide up what we produce. We
need to provide enough money—which
is entirely artificial and wholly sub
ject to human control—to finance the
business of the country. We nged to
provide for such a fair distribution
of the national income that we can
all buy freely from one another.
These two things are all we need to
make prosperity universal and per
manent in America.”
Another farm paper, Farmer and
Farm, Stock and Home, puts the
matter this way:
“Since 1915 the production of gold
has been on the decline. No new de
posit of consequence has been found
anywhere in the world since 1911. I
, heard Professor Alvin Johnson, of the
economics department of the tJnivef^
sity of Minnesota, say that he ex
pected a general decline in price lev
els until at least 1942. By that time
he hoped that prices would stabilize
themselves on the basis of gold sup-,
ply. I asked him if he thought the
hui^ian race was dumb enough to
submit to a scaling down of stan
dards of living that such a decline
implied, without finding a way out.
He said frankly he thought it was.
“While I am perfectly willing to
concede a certain amount of dumb
ness, I will not go that far. It is
too absurd to think we are going to
kill all business, all living, down to
the point of stagnation, comparable
to the period following the fall of
Rome to the discovery of America,
just because we are not able to find
gold as fast as we need it.”
WHITEWASH FORMULA
In connection with cleaning and
disinfecting, many poultrymen like to
whitewash their houses. It certainly;
makes a mighty neat and clean house.
A good formula to use is: 5 parts
cream of lime (made with 10 lbs.
quicklime and 2 gal. water), % part
disinfectant, 1 part kerosene and 6%
parts water. Slake the lime by plac
ing it in a pail and pouring the water
over it; then add the other materials.
One ounce of alum to 1 gal. of the
v/hitewash will prevent it from rub
bing off and t'nd addition of 1 pint of
molasses to 5 gal. of the wash will
cause it to penetrate wood better. One
lb. of bar soap dissolved in 1 gal. of
boiling water and added to 5 gal. of
the whitewash will give it a gloss like
oil paint.
BRIEF FARM NEWS
Alamance county poultrymen are
trying out the idea of growing pul
lets in summer range houses. Six
new houses were built during the last
week.
Approximately 550 club boys and
girls from the various North Carolina
counties attended the annual 4-K
club short course at State College last
week.
The State Farmers Convention will
be held at State College during the
week beginning August 29. Warren
W. Watson, of Lake Landing, Hyde
county, is president of the organiza
tion.
DON'T SLEEP ON LEFT
SIDE GAS HURTS HEART
If stomach gas makes you restless
and unable to sleep on right side,
take Adlerika. One dose will rid you
of gas or nervousness, and bring
sound sleep. Asheboro Drug Company,
Asheboro, N. C.,—in Liberty by Liber
ty Drug Store.
Salt, too, has been added t» self*
rising flour, along with the mono*
calcium phosphate used for leaven
ing. Accordingly, no salt is added1
and the butter used should be salt-i
free. Neither is soda needed, when'
sour milk Is used.
Try this recipe the next time you
want a cake to serve for tea or as
a dessert accompaniment;
8piee Cake.
H <mp butter H cup milk
1 oup brown ensar % tap. doves
t HP * tap. clans
IK cups eelt-rls- man '
lag flour
; Cream- butter thoroughly, add(
Sugar gradually while continuing*
to cream the mixture, add ope egg
end beat well, then the other egg,
pad beat Sift flour once and meas
ure and sift again with the spices.
Add the flour alternately wtttt the
milk and do not beat any more
than necessary. Pour Into a