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S. P. SATTERFIELD. A C. GENTRY S. M. BASON CasweM insurance & Rea)ty Co. INSURANCE-BONDING- REAL ESTATE "PROTECTION THAT PROTECTS" YANCEYVILLE, N. C. ' * % We are ordering to the citizens of Caswell County a service in all kinds of insurance, bonding and real estate, on a larger scale than the county has known before. We represent the strongest and most liberal companies doing business in America. We understand insu rance and are anxious to serve our patrons. It will give us pleasure to explain any insurance contract that is not understood. And when it does nQt seem possible to pay the premium on a Hie policy, it i§ likely that we can show how it can be done. Mr. Gentry has the management of the business, assisted by Mr. Bason, and a courteous stenographer that you will hnd always rea^v to serve you. ^ Our oHice is in the Bank of Yanceyville Building. Come to see us. Caswell Insurance Realty Co. YANCEYVILLE, N. C. COW RECORDS PAY Raieigh, N. C., July 7.—Records j kept by cow testing associations in North Caroiina pay targe dividends when the resutts are] studied and apptied to the owner's herd, states J. A. Arey, dairy ex. tension specialist at State Cottege. Mr. Arey gives the experience of two herds in one of these asso ciations. One herd contained 3t cows white the other had onty 9, yet the difference in profit over feed cost was onty $5.0: in favor of the targer herd. The owner mitked, fed, and tended !2 cows the greater part of a year for $5 ot. The next receipts were $667.59 for the targer herd as compared with $662.58 for the smatt herd. The qwner of the smaiier herd had bet ter cows and fed them in pro portion to their production - There is a graduat improvement in ail herds where the testing work is being carried on, states Mr. Arey. The production cost shows a decrease with a corresponding increase in actuat production. This, he finds, is due to the adop tion of better feeding methods and the eiimination of the iow producing cows. "There has been an average of 30 cows soid each month from the herds in the five cow testing asso ciations in the tate," says Mr. Arey, "and this eiimination wii! continue untii aii unprofitabie cows have been soid or slaughter ed "Twenty five cows in the Wake Durham Association were found to be unprofitabie during the month of May and were either aoM or butchered. In the For syth Davie Association seven cqws were soid for beef and other associations report numbers rang ing from three to seventeen as be ing soid or siaughtered. "A standard dairy ration tec othmended by the dairy extension speciaiists is being used in aii herds and records show that the average production and cost is very dose in aii associations." DQN"T CRITICIZE; HELP One of (he South's foremost business men sends us an editorial from the Wall Street Journal em phasizing the importance of agri culture in our national welfare and saying: "The agricultural community buys more than any other class in the country. About 40 per cent of the country's pur chasing power is in the farming section. When agriculture pros pers there is a good buying de mand all over the country." As our friend goes on to say in his letter: "It has always appeared to me that while interests such as papers of this class represent recognize the importance of agri Culture, they are always ready to critize measures that ar proposed for the benefit of the farmer. I would not have any quarrel about this, as there are a great many suggestions made which I think are impracticable, if when they critize they would offer some con structivc advice to aid the farmer in solving his problems. " This Southern business man hits the bull's eye And both Sen ators and Representatives in Washington have been pursuing the very same policy to which our friend rightly objects They have declared the Haugen Bill was un j sound and impracticable, but they have not come forward with any thoroughgoing and practicable plan for farm relief as a substitute for the Haugen measure The American farmer has bad his All of destructive criticism And is sick and tired of both Congress men and metropolitan editors who are perfectly ready to proclaim the importance of the farmer id our national life but always ready to denounce as Impracticable any proposal for agricultural better ment It is time for farmers to say both to our law makers and to the American press: Don't criticize; help —The Progressive Farmer TIME TO PLANT LATE HAY CROPS Raleigh, N. C., July 7.—Recent general rains in North Carolina furnish the opportunity of p!ant ing fate hay crops and farmers who need feed should take advant age of this opportunity. "These hay crops might be planted after small grain or on land where the spring planted crops have come up to a poor stand," says E C. Blair, exten sion agronomist at State College "Matty of our farmers will be hard pressed for hay and forage this year and they should by all means, plant such late croptf. In the extreme eastern part of North Carolina, these crops might well follow Irish potatoes." Mr. Blair points out, however, that the late planted hay crops must grow rapidly to produce good yields. For that reason they should be planted on the fertile land or be well manured or fer tilized. Good seed should be used also. Promptness in planting is the essentia! thing, states Mr. Blair. For this reason the ease in ob taining good planting seed should be the guide to the kind of crop to plant. If soybeans of the Laredo, Virginia and Herman varieties can be secured these will mature early and produce excel lent hay Cow peas 8!so fit in well. Sorghums and millets are often used and yield well though they are not quite as good as Sudan grass On good land. Mr. Blair states that there is no bet ter late hay crop than Sudan grass. * It will produce heavy yields when sown broadcast at the rate of 30 pounds to the acre, ft will give two cuttings if plant ed by July to Nearly every one has some seed com and ordinary held corn will produce tremendous yields of forage if sown thickly in rows three feet apart and cultivated two or three times h should be cut when the blooms fall from the taasels. POOR TOBACCO OUTLOOK The tobacco situation prac ticaHy ait over North Carolina, South Carotina, and Virginia, and more especiatiy in the Oid Beit in Virginia and North ( aroiina, ap pears to be ahnost uniformty bad. Prospects are for both a short crop and poor quaiity. White the short crop might have a tendency to boost prices, this jendency is tikcty to be oifset by the ;ax)r quaiity of the butk of the crop. Piants which start stunted seidom make gtwd tobacco. Meanwhiie, the open ware houses of Eastern North Carotina have aiready issued an edict that they wiii not accept scrap tobacco this year. With a short crop of !ow grade, farmers wiii probabiy need more than ever their co operative association to protect them in order to insure a iiving income from this year's tobacco crop The campaign for a new sign up in the Oid Beit of Vir ginia and North Caroiina wiii be gin next month and ought to have the support of everybody interest ed in the farmer.—The regres sive Parmer. ENJOY LIFE But aiong with aii our pians for the improvements 6f home and grounds, iet's take some time off this summer to reatty enjoy iife. I tike to keep house and potter around and do ai! sorts of tiouse hotd jobs, but it's no use turning a pteasure into a penance and exist for the house instead of making the house exist for us. "Time for every pieasant thing" is going to be my motto from now on. We ah have to take time to die, no matter how duties press, so we might as wett take time to !ive white there is time for us to take!—Mrs. Lindsay Patterson, in the Progressive Farmer. About 500 ciub boys and gifts wit! attend the annua! short course for ctub members to be hetd at State Cottege during the week of Juty 5th. UPGRADE SWINE HERDS WITH BETTER SIRES Raking, N. C., July 7.—Swine can he more easily improved by the use of a good, pure bred sire than most any other class of live stock. Recent results secured in swine investigations at the Black land Experimental farm prove thi^i to be true. "The foundation herd of swine at this farm was selected from a carload of grade and scrub gilts purchased from southern Geor gia," says Prof. Earl H. Hostetler, in charge of swine investigations for State College. "These ani mals farrowed their first pigs dur ing the fall of !922 but due to cer tain difficulties no definite feeding trials were begun until the fall lit ters of 1923 were available. These pigs while on test made an aver age daily gain per pig of < 83 pounds and those farrowed suc ceeding year increased this gain to 2.14 pounds, while the original Georgia pigs made only !.o6 pounds average daily gain under the same system of feeding and management." Prof. Hostetler states that a pureBred boar was used in the herd and that this method of breeding is known as up-grading. It is just as effective when a pure bred dam is crossed with a grade or scrub sire but the results are slower and more expensive. When the pure bred sire is used, his influence is shown in all litters farrowed. The rapidity of improvement is quite marked also, states Prof Hostetler. At the time the sec ond generation is farrowed, the pigs will contain 75 percent of pure blood and will be practically equal to pure-breds when only economy of gains and value of pork from the market standpoint are considered The results are less striking when continued through several generations. The greatest danger from this plan of upgrading is the tempta tion to use some of the better in dividuals for service boars after one or two generations have been bred. These may took good, but they wit! not be ab!e to transmit the desirable characters to their offspring. ^ KEEP COW RECORDS TO DETERMINE PROFITS' Raleigh, N. C, Ju!y 6.—The progressive dairyman keeps re cords on his cows to get informa tion needed for selecting his best animals and for giving them the proper feed and care. "Testing cows to determine the milk and fat production is not done simply to work the animals to the limit," says Prof. Fred M. Haig, of the animal husbandry department at State College. "Its purpose is to find out the best selection of feeds to use and to give the most skillful handling. All of our cows in the State Col lege herd are tested and accurate records of feed consumed are kept. These records are made under norma! conditions as we believe the true measure of the dairy cow is her ability to produce milk year after year, through eight or ten lactatiou periods, and to give birth to as many strong calves aa she milks years A study pf our best producers will bear oat this idea." State Sans Pogis is one of the good producers in the Jersey herd at State College. Prof. Haig states. She was started on test on No vember 2t, :92s. To date, she has completed 192 days of the test and in this half year has produced 6.996 pounds of milk containing 462 pounds of butterfat. The total cost of all feed consumed during the same period was $95 She has produced 814 gallons of milk which has been sold whole sale for 40 cents per gallon brings ing in $325.60. This leaves a pro fit above feed cost of $330.60 or approximately $38 per month. Prof. Haig states that it is fm* such cows as this that dairymen in North Carolina must develop their herds. It can easily be dow$, he states, if records are kept and the information used in selerthtg the cows to be used for stock.
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