SEEN AND HEARD
NEW BUILDINGS
You might be surprised to drive
along the dirt road from Zebulon
to Hephzibah church and note the
new buildings. First is the Cham
blee home just outside town, which
has had rooms added and a new
front built, making it much more
attractive in appearance. Farther
on is the new tenant house on the
Walter Page farm, and right near
the banks of Little River the new
Page home, as yet unoccupied, but
very near completion. An unusual
type of house it is, but perfectly
adapted to its setting. On the hill
beyond the river the house occu
pied recently by the Hagwood fam
ily, has been repaired and newly
painted. Near tne Luther Liles
home a new (cottage is being built
that promises to be up-to-date and
comfortable. Hardly a home along
the route that does not show some
improvement during the year. Drive
this way some time instead of keep
ing to the paved highway and see
if you do not enjoy the change.
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Springfield, 111.— A jury in the
Federal District Court convicted 36
‘defendants in the bombing cases
growing out of the union warfare
oif 1932 and 1936 in the Illinois coal
mining district involving the dyna
miting of mines add coal trains in
a fight with the John L. Lewis in
terests seeking to dominate the
state’s mining industry. The guil
ty deefndants face a maximum of
four years in a Federal penitentia
ry and a fine of $20,000 each.
Levelling off at 28 per cent of
* capacity the steel industry is be
lieved to have hit bottom, with only
an upturn possible from January
Ist onward . . . More than 200,000
stockholders of the Pennsylvania
Railroad will receive as a Christ
mas present checks representing a
dividend of 76 cents a share, bring
ing the year’s disbursement up to
$1.25 per share . . The movement
of gold toward Europe in the last
quarter is believed to approximate
$250,000,000, although no exact
figures are available. Since all re
patriated gold has been withdrawn
from the ‘“sterilized” gold horde
of this country, its loss has had
no effect on Government credit . . .
New Yorkers with business in Bag
dad may now enjoy direct tlephon
ic communication with the capitol
of Mesopotamia. The Bell System’s
overseas service can now make
connection with 93 per cent of the
world’s 38,800,000 telephones . . .
Canadian mines producing gold
and base metals have declared dur
ing 1937 dividends amounting to
$101,296,000. The largest contribu
tor to the list was International
Nickel, with disbursements of
nearly $35,000,000.
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IT’S HOG-KILLING
TIME IN CAROLINA
“Hog-killing time. How this ex
pression stirs the activity of the
farm family as cold weather arriv
es!
“It means plenty of hard work,
but it also means fresh pork, sau
sage, spare ribs, liver pudding,
cracklin’ corn bread filling the
smoke-house,’' said Prof. R. E.
Nance, of State College.
A moderately cool day, with the
weather above freezing, is better
than a bitter cold day for hog-kill
ing, he continued.
Stop feeding the hogs 24 hours
before they are to be slaughtered,
it Is easier to clean and dress the
carcass when the digestive tract is
empty. And when the system is not
gorged with food, the blood will
drain out more readily.
Don’t overheat or excite the ani
mals before killing. Getting s he
hog wrought up produces a feverish
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greetings did not pass between customer and dealer.
8* So, in true appreciation of the patronage you have
Su? extended to us in the past year, we wish you all ©
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§ “ZEBULON’S FOOD CENTER” A
; condition that prevents proper
bleeding and causes the meat to
sour while in the cure.
For scalding the carcass, Profes
| sor Nance said that water at a tem
: perature of 150 degress is best. In
; ccld weather, add a buckett of cold
| w.”,ter to half a barrel of boiling
wk-er, and this will give about the
light temperature.
Or dip the finger into the water
quickly. If it burns severly the
first time, it is too hot. But if the
finger can be dipped in three times
in quick succession, with the w r ater
burning severly the third time, the
temperature is about right.
A vat sunk into the ground beside
a platform close to the ground level
provides a convenient place to
scald the carcass and scrape off
the hair.
Tools that will aid in dressing
the carcass are: A common six
or eight-inch butcher knife, a six
inch skinning knife, a smooth steel
for sharpening knives, several
hog gambrel sticks, two bell shap
ed hog scrapers, and a 28-inch
meat saw.
TERRACES ALONE CAN’T
PREVENT SOIL EROSION.
By I. O. Schaub
Terracing a farm is not the only
thing that is needed to stop it
from washing away and improve
the soil.
While terracing and contour cul
tivation is the foundation of any
good erosion control program on
most North Carolina farms, some
thing needs to be done to take care
of the water at the end of the ter
races, and that farming methods
need to be adopted that will check
erosion between the terraces and
put every acre on the farm to uses
to which it is suited.
Actual tests at the Soil Conser
vation Service Experiment Station
t Statesville show that tons of rich
topsoil wash out the ends of the
best terraces that can be built,
where farming methods that check
erosion between the terraces arl
not followed. I
As long as water runs down un
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protected slopes soil will go with
it. Experience in erosion control
demonstration areas in North
Carolina, however; show that farm
ers can do much to protect their
fields by terracing them, farming
on the contour so that each row is
a litle terrace, keeping the land
covered with close-growing soil
building crops as much as possible,
rotating crops, planting badly
eroded fields and bad strips across
good fields to close-growing soil
improving or hay crops, vegetating
outlets to safely carry water from
terraces, developing meadow strips
to protect natural draws in the
field, contouring and improving
pastures, putting badly eroded land
vege-