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PAGE FOUR NI O’! F ™ fBflF Ml?* -,. jjjY \VHNL |wPr s®"** -^5, f|| g *2» / 1 I I 'nAp/ • Ld^jgrj/ | y^J|Pk» Br Ki.J9Ej3 JHIhi lA| ■ '* ' I Bra H Mm- * IMBBmBHHHHBIHHHHMnHWHHHHBIr •*■ A comfortable tent camp on North Chickamauga Creek, Tenn. VTOW is the time to plan that mid summer vacation trip tor the youngsters, to be taken when the corn’s laid by. Young folks delight in camp ing. Mothers enjoy the novelty of let ting the men folks try their hand at cooking. Every man who has camped thinks he is an expert at cooking pan cakes or broiling steak. Nowadays when most farmers own one or more automobiles, motor camp ing is a popular sport. Motor camping permits extended trips at moderate cost. I know a Kentucky farmer who winters in Florida at no extra cost over living at home, excepting gas and oil for the trip. He and his wife live in a comfort able trailer coach. Most of the win ter’s food supply is taken along from the farm. Can Ba Built The farmer who has a fast light truck can readily convert it into a camping car, either by building in bunks and lockers, or by using it to haul a tent outfit. Many second-hand tent outfits are on the market now at a fraction of their original cost, due to the popularity of coach camping. A compact tent out fit may be hauled in a sedan or touring car, equipped w'ith trunk and luggage racks. Probably the best tent for motor camping is an umbrella model, about 9x9 feet for four persons. Folding cots may be used, or air mattresses may be spread on the floor cloth. The tent should b< vermin and mosquito tight. Small gasoline camp stoves are inexpen sive, although an outdoor wood fire will suffice for cooking. Some sort of food cabinet or refrigerator should be bought FRANK FARMER Says By A. B. Bryn Cheering spring thought: “He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread.”—Proverbs 12:11. • • * High production per animal is just as important with livestock as high yields per acre with crops. * * * After building good poultry houses for my chickens 1 have learned that a tree is a mighty poor hen house. • • * Insisting on their independence has kept farmers from becoming independent through group action in their business of growing and selling products. • * * Farm women are no longer content as mere house-keepers, but are utilizing their vast "woman power” to create better homes and better communities. • • • What the wheel of progress in south ern farming still needs is more spokes around the cotton hub. • * * I/earning the how of better farming is important economically, but learning By DICK WOOD or made. A nesting cook kit designed for camping is a convenience. A good outfit can be assembled in any dime-to dollar store, including enamelware cups, plates and soup bowls. Camping DeUuxe While tent camping is more of a change from homelife, and will be en joyed for its novelty by the youngsters, elderly folks on an extended tour will appreciate the greater comforts of the camp trailer. Now that cars are fitted w'ith four brakes, and good roads ex tend in all directions, the properly de signed camp trailer is no burden. It is a relief to passengers to have the entire camping outfit in a single unit back of the car instead of piled up in the ton neau and on running-boards. The fold-dow’n camp trailers with their canvas tops, are lighter and com fortable for ordinary camping trips. Camp coaches are more bulky and heavy, but represent the last word is de luxe camping facilities. They are fitted with Pullman type beds, breakfast room, kitchenette, refrigerator, water tank, cabinets, drawers and clothes lockers. Some have a heating stove and bath room. The cost of factory jobs range from S3OO up. While camp life is interesting, there should be some objective to a camping trip. Usually it is sight-seeing, or it may be a fishing trip, or a tour of national parks. It’s a good idea to try new equip ment out near home, before leaving on an extended trip. Relv on a check list to avoid forgetting such essentials as matches, salt and the money bag. the why is what ’adds interest and zest and removes drudgery. • * * The scrub sire has been the South’s heaviest handicap in the race toward better livestock. * * • TTie very close relation between farm income and crop yields, as shown by sur veys, leads to one basic thought—build better soils. • * * The fanner who waits for “some more convenient day” to fight injurious diseases and insects becomes rapidly wiser and poorer. • * * The best club to use on a farm boy is the 4-H Club—it trains and enter tains. • • • Whether in livestock breeding or in seed improvement we must folow the principle of culling by test to keep the best. • * • A balanced ration .educational, social, recreational, spiritual, is the biggest need of many country communities. THE STATE FARMER SECTION x " : v » A :[ First thing to learn in drivin’ a car is to think. An’ that advice’s good for the feller on the farm, too. D’jever realize what blamed hard work it is to just plain think? Hut the less you work your brain the more you have to work your legs. About the first big mistake a would be farmer makes is buyin’ up a lot of hogs, cattle an’ chickens—with no pas ture, hay nor corn —jest didn’t "think” he had to feed ’em out of his pocket ’stead of off the land. An Oklahoma feller—used to be county health superintendent recom mends roast crow as a dainty dish. An' why not? On our place weVe been feedin’ crows seed corn, bird eggs, young guineas an’ chickens all our lives. It’d settle the crow' problem if it turns out they’re a delicacy. Hut like makin’ rabbit pie—you’ve BETWEEN THE ROWS By Roy H. Park Down in Enterprise, Alabama, a few’ years ago they erected a monument to the boll weevil because the keen appe tite of this pesky I insect was the only thing that was e\ir able to convince farmers they must diversify their crops. The monument is in the main part of town and bears this inscription: “In profound appreciation of the boll weevil and what it has done as the herald of prosperity.” The boll weevil may also be credited with another isdirect accomplishment— organization of the 4-H Clubs. I read how in 1903 when the boll weevil became a serious menace the De partment of Agriculture assigned Dr. Seaman A. Knapp to the task of finding out what could be done to produce cot ton under boll weevil conditions. He worked out a plan calling for ro tation of crops, better tillage, and pro duction of home-grown crops and feeds. The problem was to get farmers to adopt his plan. He decided the best way to im press them with its advantages would be through actual demonstrations on farms. Dr. Knapp was particularly anxious to get farmers ro grow more corn. To carry out this aim Boys’ Corn Clubs were organized over the South. The Knapp idea of crop rotation was never able to stop the pesky boll weevil, but Dr. Knapp did something that has placed his name among the immortals— he organized what has since become the 4-H Clubs which now dot rural sections of the nation with approximately a mil lion members. Remember Columbus never found the short route to India he was seeking—- but discovered a New World of much greater importance. You may have read about a school teacher in a city school up North having a cow brought to the school for the na tu re class because none of the boys and girls in her cla*s had ever seen a real JESTA-WHITTLIN' AN'A-THINKIN' BY PETE GETTYS first got to ketch the rabbit and ketchin’ him ain’t no where to gettin’ Old Jim Crow in the pot. Uncle Remus said Old Brer Rabbit had more sense than all the rest of the creatures but Old Sis Crow’s got ’em all beat. . Recollect when you were a little old dirty-faced boy an’ you’d be playin’ an’ stub your toe an’ it’d hurt so bad—you wouldn’t cry in front of the other bo\s but jest as soon as you got home you’d jest go a-flyin’ to mother an’ stick your head down in her old calico apron lap and cry like your heart’d burst—an’ she’d pat you and love you an’ say you’re her little man, tie up your toe an’ kiss away the dirty little tears, you’d feel so good an’ know nothing could get you. Then she’d hutter you a great big piece of her salt raisin’ bread—put lots of jam on it an’ you’d go out an’ sit on the kitchen steps an’ eat it —old shaggy Shep’d set an’ watch, beggin’ for every bite you’d take, an’ the old rooster’d come stalkin’ up an’ every now an’ then pick a crumb outta your hand—the old cat with her tail straight up in the air’d rub up against your bare legs and’ purr just as contented-like. BC* - " jMM jdm live cow. It may have been one of those girls making her first visit to the country, staying with her uncle in West Virginia, and w'as much interested in everything she saw. “Oh, what a funny looking cow!” she exclaimed. "Why hasn't it any horns?” “ I here are several reasons,” answered the uncle, "why a cow don’t have horns. Some are born without horns and don’t have any ’till the late years of their life. Others have their horns taken off. Some breeds are not supposed to have any horns. So there are many reasons why a cow sometimes does not have horns, bur the chief reason why this cow doesn’t have horns is that it isn’t a cow at all. It’s a horse.” Judge Ed Thompson of Missouri, stopped at a negro farm house :n South Carolina to ask for highway informa tion. While the housewife was directing the judge, her small son interrupted her. In admonishing him, she called the boy "Pizlum Civ.” The judge, puzzled, ask ed whe r e she got the name signified. "Ah got it right from the Bible, mis tah," she replied, and revealed a well worn copy of the Scriptures. “It’s right here,” she said, pointing to Psalm CIV. “Now I’m not going to-talk very long,” said a candidate for a political office in starting his speech, “but if you get what I’m going to say in your heads, you’ll have the whole thing in a nut shell.” And he looked surprised when a roar of laughter followed his unintentional slam!
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