FSA Farm Families Are Planning
To Increase Production This Year
Plans Call For More Milk,
Poultry And Meat To
Help Win War
Recognizing that food production
now ranks in importance with the
production of guns, tanks and
planes, small farmers of North
Carolina bolstered by Farm Se
curity Administration loans and
supervision, have converted their
farms to a war basis and have
planned to increase their produc
tion this year even beyond favor
able increases of last year, said
Ralph L. Smith, Transylvania coun
ty FSA supervisor.
A summary of FSA borrowers’
farm and home plans for 1943,
just released here, indicates that
FSA families in this state will
increase their milk cows this year
by more than 5,900 cows, or an
average of slightly more than one
milk animal per three farms.
In terms of average milk pro
duction per cow during 1942, this
increase in milk cows will mean
an additional 2,700,000 gallons of
milk will be produced by FSA bor
rowers in North Carolina in 1943,
or enough to supply 58,700 sol
diers one pint each per day for
an entire year. The summary was
based on 8,200 farm plans, cover
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PETE BIKAS, Owner
Brevard, N. C.
ing 1943 farming operations by,
FSA, rural rehabilitation borrow
ers in North Carolina.
The summary also shows that
North Carolina borrowers have
planned to increase their laying
flocks, over last year, by 384,000
hens, or an average of 25 hens per
farm. This increase would feed
eggs to 70,800 soldiers for a year,
on the basis of 30 dozen eggs per
soldier, per year.
The planned increase in meat
and poultry during 1943 averages
169 pounds per borrower, or a
total increase over last year of
2,640,270 pounds for all Farm
Security families in the state.
Similarly, 99 additional quarts of
fruits and vegetables will be can
ned by each family this year, or
a total of 1,542,510 more quarts
than was canned last year when
the average was 380 quarts per
family.
‘ Past studies of food production
performance have shown that low
income families make the greatest
proportionate increase in produc
tion the first year on the FSA
program/’ according to a state
ment accompanying the summary.
“The needs of low-income farm
ers coming on the FSA program
are reviewed with each applicant
by the FSA county supervison.
Usually such families have surplus
family labor. However, in order to
materially contribute to the Food
For-Freedom program they need
additional operating funds, farm
and home equipment, technical ad
vice, and supervision. The first
step toward increasing the pro
duction of Food-For-Freedom has
been achieved w'hen these needs
are made available to FSA bor
rowers coming on the program. Al- j
though borrowers show' the great
est percentage increase in food
production the first year, past
FSA records reveal that families
on the program for two or more i
years continue to increase tneir
production.”
The statement emphasizes that
the figures summarized show in
creases over 1942 only. “In 1942,
supervised FSA borrowers consti
tuting only 7.6 per cent of all
farmers in the United States, pro
duced 36 per cent of the entire
increase in milk production, and
accounted for at least one-tenth of
the entire increase in the produc
tion of beef, dry beans and peanuts
for that year,” it was pointed out.
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We All Have A Part In This War....
PVT. W. HAROLD FISHER
Let’s back the boys who j
are fighting for us!
Pvt. ,W. Harold Fisher, son
of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Fisher,
of Calvert, Texas, formerly
of Transylvania county. He
is a barracks inspector at
Sheppard Field, Texas. He is
a grandson of Mrs. Lee Nor
ton, of Lake Toxaway.
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NAVY RECRUITER
TO RE HERE SAT.
To Interview Applicants For
Navy, Seabees, Waves
And Spars
(Special To The Times)
ASHEVILLE, June 16—Yeoman
Wayne W. Blanton, of the Ashe
ville Navy Recruiting station, will
be at the court house in Brevard
cn June 19 and 30 for the purpose
of interviewing applicants for en
listment in the Navy, Seabees,
WAVES and SPARS. He will have
complete information concerning
the requirements for enlisting in
any branch of the U.S. Navy
Yeoman Blanton said today that
he is particualarly interested in
interviewing 17-year-old youths or
those who will be 17 soon. The
Recruiter pointed out that youths
must register for Selective Service
when they become 18 and added
that they are not able to volunteer
for any branch of the service after
that time.
Any person that has been turned
down for the Navy is urged to
contact the recruiter, as the physi
cal and mental requirements have
been lowered in the last few days.
Complete information will also
be available for women between
the ages of 20 and 50 who desire
to enlist in the WAVES and
SPARS, the women’s divisions
of the Navy and Coast Guard.
The SEABEES, con§truction di
vision of the Navy, is now accept
ing for enlistment men between
the ages of 17 and 50 who have
the necessary experience and phy
sical qualifications. There are 84
different trades which are needed
in the construction battalions, and
that list includes practically every
phase of construction work.
Those unable to report for a
personal interview may receive in
formation they desire by writing
to the Navy Recruiting Station, I
Post Office Building, Asheville, j
FARM QUESTIONS |
| AND ANSWERS j
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Question: When should I cut
my alfalfa hay?
Answer: Experiments show that
alfalfa hay cut in the early bloom
•stage produced 23 percent more
pounds of field cured hay per acre
than when cut at the full bloom
stage. The early bloom hay yield
ed 1,427 pounds of cured protein
per acre as compared with 977
pounds at the full bloom stage.
A large percentage of the hay in
North Carolina is cut at too late
a stage of growth to make the
best hay.
Question: How can I cure my
chickens of sorehead, or pox?
Answer: Dr. R. S. Dearstyne,
head of the Poultry Department
at N. C. State College, says that
there is no satisfactory teratment
for this disease. Pox is caused by
a filterable virus and is very con
tagious in flocks under one year
of age. Young stock should be
vaccinated against the disease and
this can be done by you at small
cost. Mortality in the flock is
usually not high, but egg produc
tion is lowered. Survivors are im
mune to further attacks of this
disease.
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF TRANSYLVANIA.
ENTRY OF LAND NO. 2653
TO MELVIN L. GILLESPIE, EN
TRY TAKER OF TRANSYLVA
NIA COUNTY:
The undersigned claimant, be
ing a citizen of the State of North
Carolina, hereby sets forth and
shows that the following tract or
parcel of land, containing 60 acres,
situate, lying and being in Dunn’s
Rock Township, Transylvania
County, North Carolina, on the
waters of Carson’s Creek, and
more particularly described as
follows:
Being entirely surrounded by
lands of Earle A. Thurman. BE
GINNING at a Spanish oak on the
upper side of the Mill Hill Road,
in the line of the Mary C. Henry
tract, now owned by Earle A.
Thurman, and runs thence with
his line, South 55 deg. East 180
poles to a white oak on a ridge;
thence still with the line of Earle
A. Thurman, North 35 deg. East
70 poles to a black oak in a hol
low; thence still with the line of
Earle A. Thurman, North 60 deg.
West 76 poles to a stone; thence
still with the line of Earle A.
Thurman, North 7 poles to a lo
cust; thence still with the line
of Earle A. Thurman, North 80
deg. West 120 poles to a stone;
thence still with the line of Earle
A. Thurman, South 30 deg. West
19 poles to the BEGINNING,
is vacant and unappropriated land
belonging to the State of North
Carolina and subject to entry.
The undersigned hereby makes
entry of, lays claim to, and prays
for a grant of said land.
This the 31st day of May, 1943.
R. L. BRIGGS
Claimant
Witness:
M. T. Carroll
6-3-4tc
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JOIN IN THE
Payroll Deduction Plan
This month has been designated by the Treasury Department as Payroll
Allotment Month and the county war savings staff has appointed committees to
make a canvass this week with a view to inducing as many additional firms as
possible to adopt this plan of aiding the war effort. Where a plan is already in
operation, employees will be asked to increase their purchases.
The occasional buying of bonds is, of course, helpful but it is not adequate
to sustain the war effort. What is desired is systematic purchasing . . . with a
fixed portion of income . . . on the part of every wage earner.
We are gjad to say that here at Ecusta virtually all of our employees are
each week setting aside a portion of thei r earning to purchase War Bonds and the
firm has made substantial War Bond investments. Our minimum goal is a per
manent 50 per cent increase for each employee now buying bonds and a deduc
tion of at least ten per cent from the pay check of each individual.
County Quota Increased
The Treasury Department anticipates that at the end of
the present fiscal year June 30, the nation will not have
purchased the amount of bonds anticipated earlier in the
year—twelve billion dollars—so the North Carolina and
Transylvania county quotas for June have been increased
by 50 per cent. This means that Transylvania county
citizens this month are expected to buy $45,150.00 worth
of bonds and we believe they will do it willingly as a
prelude to the victory that all of us know, and our enemies
fear, is certain.
Ecusta Paper Corp.
HARRY H. STRAUS, President