FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2. 1938
FARM and HOME
J.E.McINTIRE
MAINTAINED
Prices of the better grades of
daughter cattle in October and
early November were maintained
near the seasonally high levels
reached in the early fall, and prices
of lower grades showed a tendency
to strengthen, says L. I. Case, of
State College.
IMPROVEMENT
•I. A. Shanklin, extension cotton
specialist at State College, says
that upland cotton ginned to No
vemh. r t was longer in staple, on
the average, ‘ban cotton ginned to
the same date la-4 year. ’! he grade
remained about the same.
PROPOSAL
Consideration is being given to
the working out of a plan whereby
hurley tobacco in excess of the 1 938
marketing quotas might be stored
and loans made available on the
stored excess of producers who did
not overplant their 1938 acreage al
lotments.
HID HER
Household operation costs were
higher in small southeastern cities
than in similar cities in other parts
of the United States, a survey just
completed by the U. S. Bureau of
Home Economics reveals. Gastonia
was the North Carolina city stud
ied.
130,215,000
Preliminary figures of the Bu
reau of Census show the United
Stages to have a population now of
130,215,000.
EROSION CONTROLLED
BY WATER DISPOSAL
A well-planned water disposal
system for farm land is essential
to the developing of a complete ero
sion control program, according to
W. D. Ix'e of the State College Ex
tension service and E. B. Garrett,
state coordinator of the Soil Con
servation Service.
The first step consists of making
a general survey of the entire farm,
in which consideration is given to
topographic features, slope and ero
sion conditions and the individual
farm requirements based on avail
able land and proper land use poli
cies. In the Soil Conservation Dis
tricts being set up throughout the
State, the next step is a detailed
survey, from which a water dispos
al map of the farm is prepared.
A copy of the map is presented
the farmer and it shows the pro
posed location of terraces, with
length, direction of flow, and drain
age area indiuated; the proposed
location of waterways and disposal
areas, with size and planned treat
ment indicated; the location of field
boundaries, including possible re
location of fences; the location of
existing and proposed roads to pro
vide access to all points on the
farm; and the propoeed location of
other erosion control structures,
such as contour furrows, diversion
ditches, gully dams and stock
ponds.
To complete water disposal
plans, a schedule of operations is
worked out by the planning tech
nician and the farmer, showing the
order and the year in which ter
races and outlets in the various
fields are to be constructed. Such
factors as available labor and
equipment, volume of work, and the
order in which this work is to be
done are taken into consideration
in preparing the schedule.
WHEN TO SOW
The best time to sow seeds in
hotbeds for early vegetable crops
depends upon the time the plants
'are wanted in the field and the sec
tion of the State in which the gar
den is located. In Eastern North
Carolina such hardy crops as cab
bages and lettuce are sown in the
fall in open beds or cold-frames
and transplanted as early as Jan
uary 15. In the mountain sections
these hardy crops are stated in the
beds about January 1 to 15. For the
early crop of tender vegetables
such as tomatoes and peppeis, th»
seed should be started in lu Inni
or win-low boxes from eight to ten
weeks before it is safe to set in
the field.
CAN FRESH MEAT
It will be a good thing to can a
part of the fresh pork, especially
the liver, ribs, loin, and sausage
that need not be used at once.
Kept in the smoke-house the meat
rapidly loses its freshness and be
comes too salty. Canned, it is as
good months later as when first
put away.
Have the liver well done before
putting it into jars, and use liquid
enough to cover the pieces, which
should be fairly small. Do not get
it too salty, as adding salt is eas
ier than taking it out. Don’t use a
jar larger than a quart and he
especially careful about jar rings,
as grease is hard on them. Boil the
jars after filling with the cooked
liver or meat and partially sealing.
Unless you have a pressure cooker,
it is better to boil quarts two hours <
after the meat is cooked and packed
in them. Lots of trouble, but no
worse than feeling bad from trying
to eat all the sausage, ribs and ■
‘‘bone” before it gets salty.
FIREWOOD HARVEST WILL
IMPROVE YOUR FOREST
Hy J. C. KEITH,
Assistant County Agent
Farmers can defy the old adage,
“You can’t have your cake and
keep it too”. No. sir. that does
not apply to the Harm timber
crop when we use common sense
in cutting the annual supply of
firewood. Every good farmer is
interested in keeping every acre
of his land at work producing an
income and at the same time sup
plying the needs of his farm. Quite
a few farmers are finding it good
business to help their woodland
grow better and bigger crop of
commercial timber by practicing
timber stand improvement through
a systematic thinning of their
timber.
Using this method the farmer
can make his firewood cutting serve
as a “two-edged sword”. He gets
his needed fuel to heat the home,
cook the meals, cure tobacco and
at the same time improve the grow
ing condition for his timber crop
by taking out the crowded, crip
pled, diseased, or otherwise defec
tive trees. He thus reduces com
petition for both roots and crown
of the choicer trees, giving each
tree an opportunity to develop a
smooth, straight stem or trunk and
grow fast enough to pay good
profit for use of the land. Folks,
it’s just a ‘‘common sense” way of >
doing the job—just like thinning
and weeding your corn or chop
ping your cotton.
The firewood needs on the farms .
' of Wake County can be taken from
THE ZEBULON RECORD
woodlands of our farms through
these thinnings and the cutting of
otherwise worthless trees without
the necessity of clearing more land
to become idle and non-productive.
If you will walk through your
woodland you will see acre after
acre where trees are too thick for
growth. By cutting out the crowd
ed, diseased, and crippled trees
these areas will yield 5 to 10 and
even as much as 15 cords of good
firewood and leave a full stand
of 200 to 000 choice trees per acre,
according to age and size of tim
ber. On other acres previously cut
over, you will find many trees of
i quality too poor for timber at
time of logging and under these a
good stand of reproduction fight
ing for ground space below and
sunlight above. Cutting these cull
trees will serve the double purpose
of furnishing firewood and releas
ing the young trees for a future
timber crop.
The winter season is wood cut
ting time. Why not do the job sys
tematically? We are now planning
for a number of Timber Thinning
demonstrations in Wake County.
Would you like to have one of these
demonstrations on your farm or
in your community? Let us have
your request early.
COTTON ACREAGE FOR THIS
COUNTY TOTALS 17.827 ACRES
Wake county’ cotton acreage al
lotment for 1939 is 17,827 acres it
was announced in Raleigh hy F. Y.
Floyd, AAA executive officer at
State College.
This allotment represents this
county’s share of the 931,031 cot
ton acres alloted to North Carolina
for 1939 under the federal farm
program. Os this total. 882.047
acres have been divided among the
state’s cotton-growing counties. Os
the balance, 10,128 acres have been
held in reserve for allotment to new
growers and 32,256 acr es have been
reserved to be used to give all
farmers in the State who have
been producing as much as five
acres an allotment of five acres,
and the remainder is to be used to
give all farms an equal share of the
county allotment.
In addition to the original quota,
this county will receive its propor
tionate share of the 32,256 acres
and also will be allotted the number
of acres required to give each in
dividual producer an allotment
equal to 50 per cent of the 1937
planted, plus diverted, acreage of
cotton.
The largest county allotment
went to Robeson, which received 51,
244 acres. The smallest allotment,
24 acres, went to McDowell, a
mountain county that grows very
little short staple cotton.
Cotton allotments to individual
farmers already have been worked
out for all counties by county AAA
committees composed of local farm
ers. Cotton and flue-cured tobacco
allotments to individual farmers in
all counties are expected to be
made before the December 10 ref
erenda on marketing quotas.
SMALL GRAIN TROUBLE
Greene County farmers report
small giain dying from anthrac
nose. The disease is reported to be
common on rye, oats and wheat
with oats most seriously affected.
Dr. Frank Poole, pathologist of the j
Experiment Station, says the fun
gus w r ill disappear with cooler
weather and the giain will recover.
| AAA OFFICER TELLS
WHY QUOTAS NEEDED
In the referendum on cotton and
fhic-cured tobacco .quotas for 1939,
scheduled for December 10, produc
ers of North Carolina will have a
chance to decide for themselves
whether or not they want to keep
the supply of cotton and tobacco at
a more reasonable level and then
to keep excessive supplies that ruin
prices from piling up in the future,
says. E. Y. Floyd, AAA executive
officer at State College.
“Quotas also protect the farmers
who plant within their acreage al
lotments from having their efforts
defeated by those who overplant,”
Floyd said.
In this connection the AAA offi
cer pointed out that with quotas in
effect this year, the national cot
ton allotment was not overplanted.
The national allotment was about
27,500,000 acres and producers ac
tually grew about 26,450,000 acres.
This indicates that quotas were
one factor in keeping the adjust
ment efforts nf cooperating farm
ers from being defeated or made
less effective by those who other
wise might have stayed out of the
program.
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Every farmer owes it to himself
• to learn all he can about the 1939
AAA program, and then vote his
I convict' n in the December 10 ref
, erenda. Meetings to explain the
- program are being held throughout
i the cotton and flue-cured tobacco
- sections, to In* climaxed by a mass
> met ting of farmers at the Raleigh
Memorial Auditorium on Thursday,
i December 1, to hear Henry A. Wal
i | lace, secretary of agriculture.
. Separate ballot boxes for cotton
■ and tobacco quota voters will be
provided at community polling
place.- for the December 10 refer
enda. Any farmer who produced
j flue-cured tobacco in 1938 and cot
’, ton producers of a staple of 1 1-2
i a he- m less are eligible to vote.
FOR SALE—DYNAMITE, GAPS,
fuse, stone jars, kettles, heat
ers, and irons, grates. A. G.
Kemp, Zebulon, N. C.
|| YOU WANT
HAY BALED
See or Write
L. J. C REECH
Route 1— Wendell
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