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■Grace Qiloap Can Plnv Riff " Qual ’ ty " :ind "enktaicy" are two little words which
Xjldjj □liu£,V V><lll 1 l<lj l-lk, in 1947 can mean more to dairy farmers than’most any
Pars in hsirv Prntrram other two words you can pick out. in your old Uncle
Tall 111 17 dll j 11 Vgldfiil Bob’s opinion. Producing quality milk is the first step in
the whole program of building to still higher levels the
fl know you don t put up Qn farm _ more m jik per acre—is the way to
grass silage m mid- eru assure yourse ]f a gO od year from a dollar gain stand
ary, but if you re looking And greater efficiency means a solid foundation
ahead to more milk and for t|K (uture ... „... „
more profits you think '' 3h
about it now. ’
And I’ve just run across O ne °f our nien 2n ie (
some dandy information. South says a 1m it:
The Extension Services at once told him, Mister, .f7i
the University of Illinois, you can’t anymore tell
Urbana, 111., and at Mis- me nothing about
sissippi State College, something you don’t
State College, Miss., have know nothing about W&
bulletins on making grass anymore than you can Wg| A
and legnrv* silage.* The Illinois bulletin is Circular 605, come back from where MH
anc trie one from Mississippi is Bulletin 425. y° u ain t been -
An important angle to grass silage, as Illinois points 0311 1 S2t back on '
out. is that if you have a surplus of pasture in spring you Groundhog Day and
-ar make it into silage: use it for feed in mid-summer hot tell you what kind of weather you 11 get next summer. But 1
montr- then refill the same silo later in the year with recall that a long dry spell in this part of the country
other silage for winter feed. Either permanent or tern- summer knocked milk production and cut dairy
none s Silos will hold grass silage. farmers’ income. There are things you can do to prevent
vs til// an y sucb sharp decline in production this year.
If you :hivered on the I If you look OVer yOUr farm layOut ’ I>m SUre yOU ’ H be
\ ’o the bam this ! ! I P able to bnd a acreage tbat you can use for Sudan
mommg you’ll appre- \ U graSS ’ AU y ° U pbnt * * hak aCre PCr C ° W 3nd Y ° U “
• mate the timeliness of jtW X3T do a swell ob of taking out insurance against drought.
tiw ’■V'l L—JL i/tnl Pasture renovation is another important ‘‘insurance”
a bulletin from tne »\ I » .
UniversityofMissouri. m your program to prevent summer m.lk slump. A good
It is Circular 523 dis- V seed mixture tbat deludes legumes, plus soil bwldiiu
K ~ ’, „ through application of the right amount and the righi
trussing an ail weather . ....
, v-xfWFMhk. t. jrZ* kind of fertilizer, will do a great deal to give you more r.» it
tank. , c
, x , I better forage over a longer period of time.
?An insulated con- . . . . . .
, , . The extension service in your state has tested an
< crete tank has been in w . . . < •
z- it <■ o proved up a grass and legume pasture mixture suilar.
■ise near the College for a year and not a trace of ice 1 b
♦u u t/A r for your farm, no matter what kind of land you have,
••■showed on it even though the temperature dropped to 5 u ,
I suggest you get in touch with your county agent a l ,
ouite a problem on many farms to provide running have a soil test made, find out what fertilizer to ui .
„t„ for stock in the winter time, and this insulated tank P* “«“ *> P° s3lbk - Also ' « ct coum:
-n-ay’be the answer. The tank is equipped with an auto- agent’s recommendation as to a pasture seed mix that
matic float valve and trickle overflow pipe, water coming "ill provide the best possible grazmg for your cows,
from a. pond. *NOTEs — There is usually a 5c charge for pamphlets
Th-* Missouri circular gives complete details on how to mailed to non-residents of a stale; but possibly your oivn
The tank, materials necessary, etc. It’s well worth stale has a free pamphlet on
siding to the Extension Service, University of Missouri, '/is sawe Ask your /f U
Columbia, M'x, and getting a copy.* " a^nl ‘
r published as a service to the Dairy Farmers of America, by
KRAFT FOODS COMPANY
THE SKYLAND POST, WEST JEFFERSON, N. C.
Open Forum
COLUMN
FOR THE VOICE OF THE
PEOPLE
DO WE APPRECIATE
FREEDOM?
There are two answers to this
question—“yes” and “no.” Nat
urally there is an innate, inborn,
and inbred love for freedom in
the bosom of every rational be
ing. This is a God-given right
and no individual or set of indi
viduals have a right to curtail
this right so long as this right is
not abused. It is not too much to
say that every person is entitled
to all the freedom that he is cap
able of using. This presumes that
liberty is not licensed, and that
when it is used as such, then
restraints must be used.
One thing is ha'd to under
stand: why oppressed people will
fight and gain their freedom and
then fail to take advantage of
blessings derived therefrom.
Because of England’s arbitrary
rule we gained our indt pend
enee. By so doing, we are guar
anteed freedom of the press, free
dom of conscience, freedom of
speech, etc. Here in North Caro
lina we have a FREE public
school system; free books; free
transportation, and various ‘free’
things. All children are not only
allowed to go to these schools,
but are solicited to go. But
many refuse to go unless forced
to do so by law. This is strange
but true. If many children were
forbidden by law to go to school
their parents, who are now re
luctant to send them, would go
on the war path. They would
carry the matter to the highest
tribunal in the land. (‘‘What
strange creatures we mortals
be.”) This is illustrated in the
story of a depositor who had
heard his bank was about to break
and demanded his money. “Yes
sir,” said the cashier, starting to
count the money. “W’y, has you
got it?”, asked the depositor.
“Yes sir,” said the cashier, “Well,
if you has.” said the depositor.
“I don’t want it.”
If we didn’t have free public
schools a great clamor would go
up. But since we have them
many people do not appreciate
them.
Personally, I do not agree with
the whole set-up of the school
Miss Ortiz, Dr.
King Wed Jan. 1
On Wednesday morning. Janu
ary 1, at 10:30 a. m.. Miss Myrta
Ortiz became the bride of Dr.
Robert R. King, Jr., at the Jamts
I. Vance Memorial Presbyterian
church, Boone, with Rev. J. K.
Parker officiating. The wedding
was informal with only the imme
diate family of the groom present.
The bride is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Cesar M. Ortiz, of
Cayey. Puerto Rico. She ma
jored in Home Economics at the
of Puerto Rico and
taught school for two years be
fore going to work as Home Man
agement Supervisor for the Farm
Security Administration. After 3
years in this position she was
sent to the University of North
Carolina School of Public Health
on a scholarship from the Na
tional Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis to take her master of
science degree in Public Health
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Burns Fatal To
Mrs. Heck, Son
Result Os Fire Accident In
Pa.; Funeral Service
Is Held At Todd
Funeral services for Mrs. Ruth
Heck, 33, and her son, John, 6,
fire victims of Oxford. Pa., were
hi Id on last Saturday afternoon
I at 2:00 o'clock at Todd with Rev.
E. O. Stevens officiating. Burial
was in the church cemetery.
The fire, it was reported, start
ed after the family had returned
home from a visit at the home of
relatives in Quarryville on Sun
day. January 19. Mrs. Heck had
gone to the kitchen to prepare
supper, where she attempted to
start a fire with the use of kero
sene. When she lit a match an
explosion of the fumes resulted,
which set her clothing and that
of her son afire and started a
blaze in the kitchen.
Wiley Heck, husband and fath
er of the victims, carried his wife
and son to the outside of the
house and tried to beat out the
flam; s with his hands but the fire
had consumed most of the cloth
ing on tlwir bodies, it was report
ed. The house and contents were
completely destroyed.
Mrs. Heck and her son were
rushed to the hospital where they
were treated. John died on Mon
day afternoon and Mrs. Heck
died on Wednesday morning. Mr.
Hi ck was also treated for sec
ond degree burns, received while
he tried to extinguish the flames.
Survivors of the victims be
sides the husband and father.
Wilev Heck, are Mr. and Mrs.
William Heck, Barnsley. Pa.. Mr.
and Mrs. Julius Miller, of Todd,
parents of Mrs. Heck.
system, especially with the kind
of text books and the student
load in some of the grades. But
since educators like Charles D.
Mclver. Dr. J. Y. Joyner. Charles
B. Aycock and others plead so
strenuously that every child in
North Carolina should have an
equal chance with every other
child: and since the system is
uniform and the mam burden is
upon the wealthy, there is no
good reason why every parent
should not cooperate to the full
est extent, and not subject them
selves to the violation of a law
which is designed to safeguard
the interests of their children
throughout life.
C. M DICKSON.
Silas Creek. N. C.
January 5, 1947.
Education. She completed her
masters degree in December and
will soon return to Puerto Rico
for a few month's work before
returning to the States.
Dr. King graduated from Dav-I
ids >n College and Bowman Gray
School of Medicine of Wake For
est college and took his intern
ship in Gorges Hospital Ancon.
Parians Canal Zone. After this
he took a fellowship in Pathology
at the Emory University School
of Medicine in Atlanta, and a
three-months public health course
in Chapel Hill before assuming
his duties as health officer for I
Alleghany. Ashe, and Watauga
counties.
The bride wore a beige dress
with brown accessories. Wed- ■'
ding music consisted of Wagner’s .
“Wedding March” and "I Love .
You Truly” with Mendelssohn's
“Wedding Recessional.”
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