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g>ani>liUl Citizen Southern flUtrs. 5J. <tt. Published Every Friday By THE SANDHILL CITIZEN COMPANY C. L. NEWMAN, Editor Subscription Hates One Year .$1.00 Two Years .$1.50 Three Years .$2.00 Five Years .$3.00 Manuscripts sent to the Sandhill Citizen will not be returned unless return postage is enclosed. Advertising: Rates Furnished on Application D. C* PHILLIPS, Advertising Manager All display advertising copy MUST be in office not later than Thursday morning to insure going in the paper that week. WATCH LABEL on your paper. It will tell when your subscription expires. All sub scriptions are payable in advance. Entered at Post Office, Southern Pines, N. C., as Mail Matter of the Second Class. LEADERSHIP AND FELLOW SHIP IN VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURE It is beginning to appear sus picious when time and time again some enterprise, some forward movement, seemingly doomed to fail, becomes a glow ing success and for no other reason than that a program is being carried to its consuma tion through individual leader ship. With a program, leadership and fellowship then miracles can be performed by com munities, regions and nations. The complimations of life’s ac tivities calls for working to gether in* a group and in a cause. It is this that is marvelous in tne recovery of the United States under the leadership of our President and the deputy leadership of his lieutenants; and, this thought comes to us: If every school district in every state could have duplicated Mr. Bushongs daring and remark able performance between 1930 and 1933 the Depression would have reversed its concavity. We suspect that there are-thou sands of communities in the South and many in the Sand hills now lagging for the want Of leadership and the want of cooperative support of group activities. Read the report on the South master teacher of vocational agriculture in this issue. IS THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE FAIR SLIPPING? While we recognize the prob able existence of unsollved dif ficulties confronting the return of a State Fair in name and re ality we are, nevertheless, quite positive that North Carolina has not in recent years had a fair that approached in either volume and quality a display of our states resources as a state fair should. A comparison with other states that produce agri cultural products of about the same gross value will show that North Carolina falls far behind as a promoter of her State Fair. The body of men who have the honor and assume the duty and responsibility of promoting and safeguarding our state fair should ever keep in mind the necessity of exhibiting the whole state and its vast variety of products coming both direct and indirect from the farm. For many years responsibility of our state fair rested upon the shoulders of a semi-mythical corporation or society that performed its functions largely by proxi. When the fair threat ened to become stalled upon a rocky or muddy road, the com mission to hold a state fair was transferred to the State De partment of Agriculture. Re cently the Department sought to have the “cup passed.” We are inclined to think that the Department was wise in doing this in view of the fact that the last legislature was more inter ested in local than in state wide enterprises. It now appears that this State Fair “child’s” parentage is in doubt and that it is started for an orphans home, or to be farmed out for financial gain. A state fair is (or should be) a state-wide educational institu tion and managed with far more decorem than in the past. We doubt the propriety of placing the burden of a State Fair upon the shoulders of any existing state department or state institution. Its manage ment should be under the direc tion of a board or commission and its development should rest jointly with the State Depart ment of Agriculture and the State College of Agriculture, after the elimination of politics from the body having the fair institution under direction. At the present time it appears that we are facing the possi bility of the passing of the North Carolina Great Agricul tural Fair; else its becoming a local or regional fair and in com petition with other fairs of equal magnitude, each contri buting to the larger cities of the state. The contest that has long been waged between independ ent, and often selfish interest, and cooperative interests has been too often won by the for mer. That this should not be so is the heart and purpose of the New Deal. There may be more than one plan or program leading to the permanent development of a real State Fair in North Caro lina. Some way may be found and put to work permanently. The Sandhill Citizen is not criticizing any individual or any group of individuals. It is gen erally recognized that recent State Fairs have not represent ed the state’s variety and quali ty of products subject to exhi bition. Fairs should be truly educational. Past fairs have been of immeasurable benefit to North Carolina. On the other hand the plan and program of our State Fair is due to show i m p r o v ement commensurate with the states resources, prog ress and performance. At no previous time has our state been in greater need of a compre hensive and respresentative State Fair, and this should wit ness exhibitions not only from Cherokee to Currituc, but also from Ash to Brunswick. But the State Fair should not be leased, hired out or bound out, but nurtured by the breast of the State and remain the State’s child. * * * This presumptious writer has unselfishly worked with 21 out of the last 23 North Carolina State Fairs in several capacities. This close association with our State Fair has brought the con viction that a state fair should exhibit the whole states pro ducts; and, that the most logi cal plan by which the greatest number of counties (and people) can be influenced to par ticipate in a State Fair and make it a state fair of and by the people is found in the sensi ble principle and practice com mon in scientific discovery and classification; ie. resting upon progressive natural order of re lationship; and, above all simple and workable. This plan contemplates: (1) Community or township fairs in each county. Exhibits that here win highest awards enter in— (2) Competition at county fairs and again the first premiums go to—(3) District fairs from whence in turn the blue ribbons from all district fairs compete (4) at the State Fair. This simple program, if car ried out, insures the best of the best’s best at the State Fair! This plan offers an opportuni ty for unlimited participation. Every individual is privileged to produce, prepare and enter the product of his labor, skill and ingeunity. Should this plan be put* m operation in each state then groups of state may be organized for district expo stions and these feed a national exposition. The Sandhill Citizen is pre sumptious enough to offer the above as a basis for an orderly and logical system of fairs un der the general control of three ex-officio directors; the gover nor, the commissioner of agri culture and the president of the College of Agriculture. Where do the Sandhill far mers come in, some one may ask? The answer is that the Sandhill region with its dis tinctive soil, climate, products and people is already mapped and awaits the development of a plan and the putting of the plan to work in 1934. The plan “comes in” when our own people open the door. “PARKS” Continued from page 1 renew health in some far away re gion. They will have their own health and recreation centers. The New Deal is distributing cards to the mountains. The Coastal Plains are being given a “hand”; and, this is being done for two reasons; first, because the people living in the mountains and along the coast are asking that they be allowed to "sit in” the game; and, second, because I nature has given them a place to live that in unique, different, diver sified, and desirable. There is another region in the Carolinas at least equally unique, different, diversified and desirable in the whole and decidedly superior in some respects to the other regions; and, as eligible as the others for the establishment of a national park, as a conservational and demonstrational unit. Has the government been asked to aid in the development of this region, this district Sandhill terri tory? In continuing its editorial the State says: “Anything that any one can do, to preserve or help preserve, he should do it gladly. Only God can make a tree; but by His help in its preservation and its placement so to increase its beneficience, man may greatly enhance the value of this gift of God to humanity. “Perhaps in no other way may this help be so intelligently directed as in activity in behalf of parks.” If the Sandhills are to have a park, for conservation, demonstration or natural resource development, then the influential citizen and the civic and other organizations of the Sand hills Empire must unite in informing Uncle Sam of the opportunities he will not miss if he gives his people of the east, west, south and north another playground, another educa tional institution in a region that is different from any other, The Sand hills of the Carolinas. MAKE FODDER PULLING UNNECESSARY Let’s make whatever arrangements may be necessary for enough winter roughage and pull no fodder. Corn leaves stripped from the stalks and properly cured, producdjtfjsalatable roughage. But if there^^H no cost chargable other than the*.,stripping of the leaves, then stripped fodder still would be a costly roughage. Stripping or pulling is only a sftiall part of the cost. To make fodder that is worth anything, the leaves must be strip ped long before maturity of the grain. This means the food supply of the grain is cut off, since the food utilized by plants must first be taken up by the roots, carried to the leaves and there properly prepared and then distributed throughout the plant for its use. This fodder is made from corn leaves. It can easily be seen, therefore, that the stripping of the leaves from the corn plant im mediately cut off the food supply from the grain. By pulling fodder at the usual time the food supply is re moved before the grains of corn are completely filled out, and the result is a reduction of the corn yield all the way from 10 to 30 per cent and a loss in feed value depending on the stage of maturity when the leaves were pulled. There is sufficient grass and other kinds of hay produc ing plants on most farms to enable one to provide the roughage needed without pulling fodder and there is still time to plant some of the quick ly maturing forage crops, su«h as soybean, cowpeas, sudan grass and millet for winter feed and a dozen or more kinds later for next spring’s and summers hay, roughage and pasturage. Leading farmers, business and pro fessional men of Mitchell county have appeared before the county commis sioners to request that county agent work be continued.
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