THE FRANKLIN PRESS AND THE HIGHLANDS MACON IAN
THURSDAY, MARCH 24. IMS
Recent Forestry Bulletin
Contains Interesting Facts
Everybody but Attendants on Job
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The United States department of
agriculture has just released a bul
letin, Miscellaneous Publication No.
249, , "Careers in Forestry" which
can 'be obtained from the superin
tendent of public documents, Wash
ington, D. C, for five cents. For
one interested in forestry work, an
nounces Supervisor Gerrard, of the
Nantahala national forest at Frank
lin, the-publication is full iof inter
esting facts. It shows that there
are 160 national forests, containing
more than a million acres each,
employing 3,300 technical f6resters.
Also there are 40 states employing
state foresters.
The United States forest service
has employed most of the technic
ally trained foresters in the past
few; years. This organization with
headquarters in Washington, I). C,
is composed of 10 regions scattered
throughout the United States, Alasr
ka and Porto Rico. Each region is
composed of a dozen or more na
tional forests and each national
forest is further divided into ranger
districts. A forest ranger is in
charge of each district and may
have several men under his super
vision to assist in the administra
tion and protection of federal land.
The forest supervisor is in charge
of a .national forest and has a staff
of technical men who are assigned
to such work as acquisition of land,
timber plans and sales, fire control,
timber culture, recreation, flood and
erosion control, or general technic
al work.
The research program is carried
an at 12 regional forest and range
experiment stations and at the for
est products laboratory at Madison,
Wise. The number of technical men
engaged in the entire research pro
gram in forestry is 332. There are,
however, a number of men employ
ed as temporary assistants. Re
search work generally requires an
advanced degree or equivalent.
State and Private Cooperation
More than' 450 million acres, or
four-fifths of our total timber
Loyal Order
of Moose
Franklin Lodge, No. 452
Meets
In Americal Legion Hall
Each Friday
7:30 P.M.
S. J. Murray, Sec'y
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HORN'S SHOE SHOP SAYS
WE ARE STILL MENDING
SHOES
When you can't go about
With cold, wet feet,
We'll help you out
With a sole complete.
HORN'S SHOE SHOP
Box 212 Troy F. Horn
Opposite Courthouse
CAGLE'SCAFE
OFFERS
You a good variety of food
to choose from. Take her
out to dine at least once a
week . . . she will appre
ciate'it. A. G. CAGLE, Prop.
To Get Rid of Add
nd Poisonous Waste
. Tour kidneys help to keep yoa.wal
by constantly filtering want matter
from the Moo. If your kidneys get
functionally disordered and fell to
i remove txemm impurities, there may bo
.poisoning of the whole ."tern sad
1 body-wide distress.
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, Mtion may be warning of sous kidney
nwuvr uiiLuruinct, ,
You may suffer nagging backache,
persistent headache, attack of discloses,
getting tip nights, swelling, pufflness
under the eye feel weak, nervous,' all
played out.
In such eases it Is bettor to rely on s
medicine that has won country-wide
acclaim than on something lens favor
ably known. Use Voan't FtlU. A multk
tnde of grateful people recommend
Do'. Aik your ntighborl
growing area is now in state or
private ownership. Practically 95
per cent of this is privately owned.
The farm woodland makes up 185
million acres of this,, which is a
surprisingly large amount. -
The federal government is work
ing to bring about protection of
state and private lands from fin
through fire aerial aid to the states
under provisions of the Clarke
McNary. law of 1924. There were
38 states cooperating in 1936 and
the area they protected from fin
was 255 million acres. This is esti
mated to be, only . 60 per cent o
the total area needing fire protec
tion. The forest service is also cooper
ating under the Clarke-McNary lav
with 40 states (also Porto Rico anc'
Hawaii) in the production and dis
tribution of young trees for plant
ing shelter belts and farm woodlots.
A total of approximately 36 millioi
trees were distributed to farm own
ers in 1936. Under the, Farm-Forestry
Act of May 18, 1937, an en
larged program is contemplated.
Additional assistance is offeree'
by the Government under the
Clarke-McNary law in the form of
aid to farm woodland owners li
the' management 'and care of theii
timber.
The Fulmer law, approved by th
President on August 29, 1935, au
thorizes cooperation with the sev
eral states for the purpose of stim
ulating the acquisition, developmen'
and proper administration and man
agement of state forests. Unde
this act up to five million dollars
was authorized for use in this way
if and when appropriations an
made.
Those who live within the Nanta
hala national forest are acquainted
already with progress the forest i.c
making in improving the roads ant
trails, providing recreation area
which attract summer tourists
planting fish and game, promotinr
sale of timber on a regulated basir
and striving to make this section
of the Southern Appalachians a
better place to live.
Lespedeza Improves
Quality Of Pasture
Waiting till the cows come home
is a much longer wait than it used
to be on the farm of R. G. Robert
son, near High Point, since he gov
lespedeza started in his pasture.
He says his cows used, to be up
at the lot by 3 or 4 o'clock in the
afternoon, "bawling to get into the
barn." But with a good growth of
lespedeza started in his pasture last
summer he had to go after them
every evening.
Whereas formerly he depended
on wild meadow hay for his winter
feed, last winter 'he had plenty of
lespedeza hay for his stock, and
saved 1,000 pounds of clean lespe
deza seed in addition to several
tons of hay.
But this isn't all that lespedeza,
good crop rotations, and other soil
conserving methods which Robert
son has established as a 'part of an
erosion control program have donr
on his farm. With a rotation o
corn, lespedeza, and small graii
he made twice as much corn on 11
acres as he made on 20 acres fou
years ago Robertson says. Othei
erosion control measures include
contour cultivation, strip cropping
and terracing. ,
Before he adopted these soil and
water conservation measures, Rob
ertson says his well had a habit
of drying up during the hot sum
mer weather. Last year his water
supply never failed. Robertson has
an idea that increasing absorption
in his fields had something to do
with it.
Since erosion-control practices
have become generally established
in the Deep River watershed area
of the soil conservation service,
Robertson says a small stream flow
ing through his farm now main
tains a more even flow throughout
the year, and deeper, clearer water
fills the once silt-clogged channel.
Cottonseed Meal Is
Good As Stock Feed
Manure produced by livestock
has a definite cash value to the
fanner who spreads it on his fields.
Earl II. Hostetler, head of ani
mal husbandry research , at State
college, said that in terms of the
fertilizing elements the annual ma
nuro production of various animals
may be valued as follows:
Horses, six tons worth $15.36;,
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Unmindful of their duties, two young bridal attendants march majestically beneath arched sabers in the
van of a happily newly-married couple who await congratulations during a fashionable wedding ceremony in
London. The newlyweds are Diana Brassey and Capt. Humphrey William Lloyd and their ceremony took
nlace at St. Margaret's chapel at Westminster.
dairy cows, nine tons worth $18.99;
fattening steers, 7.8 tons worth
$20.59; sheep, .8 of a ton worth
$3.66; and hogs, 1.7 tons worth
$3.21.
Well balancecr . rations not only
;ncrease efficiency in livestock feed
ing, they also increase the value of
manure obtained from livestock.
Cottonseed meat, abundant and
iomparatively inexpensive in the
South, is rich in proteins and other
elements that make it a good stock
feed when properly ibalanced with
other rations.
It is also rich in nitrogen, phos
phoric acid, and potash for fer
tilizing purposes.
When cottonseed meal is placed
directly in the soil as a fertilizer,
farmers miss the opportunity to
nilize its feed value. This is an
economic waste.
But when the meal is fed, three
fourths of the fertilizer value of the
meal can be returned to the soil in
the manure, if the manure is "prop
erly handled. '
Livestock men can restore to the
soil 96 pounds of nitrogen, 12J4
nounds of phosphoric acid, and 27
pounds of potash from each ton of
cottonseed meal they feed, Hostetler
says.
Girl Scouts Select
Patrol Members
The Girl Scouts met last Friday
afternoon and selected members for
their patrols as follows: ,
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Eagle patrol, Dorothy Sloan,, lead
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Bob White patrol, Sarah Conley,
leader; Emogene Landnum, Inez
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Each patrol then chose their own
signs, songs, and emblems.
Then the girls played games and
closed the meeting with taps.
Now. you can get a baby powder
that will keep youi baby safer
against germs and skin infec
tions It's Mennen Antiseptic
Powder Your doctor will tellt
you that whenever you buy a
baby powder it-surely ought to
be Mennen Because Mennen is
more than just a dusting powder
-it's antiseptic! And it costs no
more! So. mother.-buy a tin
from your druggist, today.
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