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THE FRANKLIN PRESS AND THE HIGHLANDS MACONIAN re 'XJt agle Described f" ounty Farm Agent 'tfie following report was made by Sam McndiviJiall, county farm agent, anil . published with other county reports made to Fred Sloan, district farm agent: In 1938 A. 13. Slagle seeded 119 acres of pasture. To this pasture he applied one ton of lime, 100 pounds of triple superphosphate and a 61 pound mixture of grass -.ind legume seed per acre. The mixture was composed of 3 pounds of white Dutch clover,. pounds of Alsike clover, 19 pounds of blue grass, IS pounds of red top . grass and 15 pounds of lespedcza. The pasture wa,s- divided into four lots which permitted the cattle', to be rotated which prevented any part of the pasture from being over grazed. Hay was cut front 15 acres of this pasture to be threashed for seed. Cattle were permitted to graze this area through April- The hay vvas cut the last of July and the tattle were permitted to graze the area again August- l,st. The' 119 acres afforded excellent ' grazing for 90 head of cattle from April 1st through October 10th. From the 15 acres six average size stacks i' ha v was secured. This hav was FFABtfRMER A RACING CAR WHEEL HAS BEEN CHANGED Cand the car serviced) m(Bjimw$ READY FOR USE IN 4 TO 6 HOURS Whatever you finish with Kur fees Granitoid Quick-Drying Enamel . . . furniture, .floors, walls, woodwork . .';. it will be thoroughly dry, ready for use in 4 to 6 hours! And it will eparkle with new beauty . . the beauty of Granitoid's brilliant, tile-like finish! Try Granitoid! Easy to use . . . flows freely without brush marks. Washable . . . cleans readily. Choose from 24 beautiful colors and white. Come in . . . let us show you how Inexpensive it is! FREE! New Color Cards! FRANKLIN Hardware Co. FRANKLIN, N. C vu A FDR SPRING vjo) OIL-CHANGE MOTObZ Notice to. Taxpayer The Macon County Board of Equalization and Review will meet at the C&urthouse in Franklin on Monday, April 28, for the purpose of hearing any and all taxpayers who own or control taxable property assessed for taxation in the county in respect to the valuation of such property or the "property of others. Lester L. Arnold Tax Supervisor Cullasaja By MRS. VERNON BRYSON Mrs. Annie Vanhook of Prentiss, anr Mr. and Mrs. Van Devcr of Canton, were visiting Mrs. J. T. Bryson lecently. Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Clark motor ed to Asheville last Wednesday to shop for furniture for their home, they were accompanied by Mrs. J. L, Clark and Mrs. Sam Bryson of Cullasaja, and Mrs. Harry Womack of Sylva. Mr. and Mrs. Lawton Zachary of Norton spent one day last week with Mrs. S. A. Bryson. Mrs. Joe Bryson, Miss Grace Bryson and Edna Holland left last week for Buck Creek Ranch at Rainbow Springs where they are employed for . the summer. Sam Frady and Woodrow Hol land left recently for Fort Bragg to take military trainimg. Dewitt Thompson of the- Aquone CCC' camp is spending this week with home folks. ! Mr. and Mrs. Newell Wright and daughter, and Miss Betty Pell of Brevard, and Mrs. Annie Richard son of Highlands, visited friends and relatives in this community last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. David Estes of Idaho and Green's Creek were visiting Mrs. Robert Estes last week. Tom ' Russell has painted his house the past week. Vernon Bryison is remodeling his house. More Twins Reported From Cullasaja By MRS. VERNON BAYSON Mr. and Mrs. Jess Stewman have twin girls, Leasie and Lacy. ';' Mr. and Mrs. Arthur McConnell havo twin girls, Bessie and Jessie. John Potts is a twin. His twin sis ter, Mrs. Martha Pienson, lives at Norton. Mr. and Mrs. Radford Holland, : have twin girls, ' Anetta andvWaneta. Mrs. Raleigh Holland had twin boys, .Manuel and Sam uel, Samuel died in infancy. Who can add twins to the Culla saja list ? Buck Creek School Miss Mary Elmore, entertained the pupils of the Buck Creek school with an Easter egg hunt last Thursday. The eggs were boil ed and colored at the school lunch room. Tvvo prize , eggs were in cluded, which were found by Glenn Gibson and Jeanette Holland. Work Oh Census Nearing Finish olina's annual farm census, with 70 per cent of required informa tion already assembled, will be ready for distribution to farmers and others in June, W. T. Garris; census supervisor of the State Department of Agriculture reports. Approximately 1,035 farm census books are . received yearly from tax supervisors who take agricul tural inventories from growers at the time they" list their taxes; . 730 complete books have , been return ed; North. Carolina Ls the only Southern State making an annual farm census survey. Information from the census- is used by farm ers, agricultural leaders, ' farm groups and others in planning farm programs and as guides in map ping other programs. This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in, un less we make it , a good place for all of us to live in. I Theodore Roosevelt. North Carolina ranked fourth in the Nation in 1940 in cash; income from the sale of crops, reports the State. Department of Agriculture." threshed with the TVA thresher and 800 pounds of excellent seed comprised of approximately 13. white Dutch and 2-3 ajsike clover. The time required to thresh 'the seed was three days.' The labor cost was $112.00. Valuing the seed at 60 cents per' pound, the seed saved were worth $480. Armistice in . . . '-- fa i , i , I a -' - k ' Wiiile war rages around the world, two mortal enemies reach a non aggression agreement in New York. This extraordinary cat-and-mouse scene was snapped in a deserted hallway by a passing cameraman. Good Milk Is Most Important . Food Timely Hints By W. F. HART County Sanitarian Good milk has done more than any other single food to attain and maintain health. Bad milk is responsible for more sickness and death than all other foods com bined. There are several reasons for this. Milk carries a wide va riety . of infections. Germs grow well in milk, therefore a Alight in fection may produce wide spread epidemics. Also milk products may become quite as dangerous as milk. Here are a few suggestions that will help, make milk safer. ( Make Milk Safer Cows should be tested at least annually. ..The udder and . teats of milking cows should be clean and rinsed with a disinfecting solution at the time of milking. The milk er's hands should be clean and rinsed with a solution just be fore milking. Milkers should have examinations every . six months. Milk pails should be of the small mouth design. All containers and utensils. ulfed in handling and stor age of milk should be rinsed with a solution and stored so that they will not become contaminated. Beware Of Fliet Flies should not be allowed to come in contact with milk or milk containers. Whenever passible it is always best to use Grade A Pasteurized or Grade. A raw milk Information and assistance will be given to atnyone who will call at the Health Department. . Lions Club Has Sixty In Attendance Ladies Night' The sixty places at the banquet table in Panorama Courts were filled to capacity Monday night as the Lions and their Lionesses and guests made merry. The .oc casion was Ladies Night with neighboring clubs invited to come and carry off the district govern or's traveling trophy, which is a large bronze Lions Club emblem on a plaque. The' 10 Lions from Murphy, with their ladies, success fully winning over Canton which was represented by four Lions. Dr. H. V.- riuckett, deputy governor of the Lions district for Western North Carolina was also present. The large crowd was more or less kept in hand by President Tliad Bryson. He introduced Scout master Jim Hauser and four of his Boy Scouts'. They put on ' an interesting program covering the Scout movement. Eagle Scout John H. Wasillic traced the his tory of scouting from the time Lord Baden-Powell started the first scout troops in England in 1903. In 1910 the scout idea was brought to America and today there are about tvvo million scouts in this country, John reported. A boy must be 12 years old to belong to the Scouts, and pro gresses through the Tenderfoot class, Sccond class, First class and Eagle Scout grades. Franklin has nine Eagle- Scouts. Scouts Bobby Leach and Jack Angel gave an interesting exhibi tion of knot tying! followed by first aid demonstrations on Scout Harold Bradley, plause. Daicing followed the program. Elmer Crawford, chairman of the sigtit conservation committee, re ported that a follow-up of the 16 children . supplied with glasses by the Lions Club have shown a de cided improvement in their studies at school. No child has been de nied a pair of glasses if needed. and had no funds. Help of the Macon County Health and Welfare office in selecting, those children W greatly appreciated by the Lions. Tom Collins of G. M. A. C. who has recently come to Franklin, was welcomed as a new member. Although MUsouri is known as the proverbial mule state. North Carolina has 37 per cent more mules tan the "show me" state. North Carolina ranks fifth in the number of mules' as compared with other states. . I Animal World Measles Fatal To Georgia Bell Bingham Georgia Bell Bingham,- the nine year old daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Billy Bingham, died at the home in Smith Bridge township on Wed nesday, after an illness of three weeks. Death was caused from pneumonia following -measles. Funeral services were held at Gillespie Chapel on Thursday morrt ing at 11 o'clock. The Rev. Claude Ledford was in charge-, of the serv ices. Burial was in the church cemetery: Surviving, besides . the parents, are one brother aud three sisters.. . Peek Infant Dies At Ellijay Funeral services were held for little Bertha Mae Peek, age one month 1,6 days, who died April 4, funeral service was held in the Ellijay cemetery. She is survived by her parents Mr. and Mrs. Paul Peek and one brother, Ennest Lee, of Ellijay, White Pine Seedlings. Planted The acreage surrounding Chapel school and Frazier community house on Highway 04, has recently been planted with 6,300 white pine seedhngs. The1 work was done under the .supervision of the Kev. A Rufus Morgan in cooperation with the Naatahala Forest Super visor Charles Metiqhar. About five acres will also be planted in soy beans, for which an allotment of nine tons of lime has been granted by AAA. The acreage is part of the prop erty belonging to St. . Cyprian's mission. The community house is built on part of this: tract which was deeded to the county by the Episcopal church in Western North Carolina for that purpose. N. C. Dept. Agriculture Weekly Bulletins rN. C. Lima Act North Carolina's 1941 lime law, "streamlined" by ehe General As sembly to give farmers greater protectiom, requires that all man ufacturers make strict guarantees for their products and pay grow ers for atv deficiencies of ingredi ents., i '.'' The present law is written so as to permit the cooperation and as sistance of the North Carolina Ex periment Station in coping with liming problems that may arise in the future. Leapedeza Crop Norjh Carolina ranks second in the Nation in the production of clean ' lespcdeza seed. Production of clean lespedeza seed last year totaled 19152,000 pounds, 11 per cent under the pre vious year. North Carolina ifarmers held 43 per cent of their clean lespedeza seed produced in" 1940 for planting ttlie , War with 38 rr rn f (nr Spring planting and five per cent C : 1. . t: . for later Tieeding. Livestock Higher i North Carolina farmers received substantially greater prices for the' livestock products last month com pared , with- the same ' period in 1940 as a result of increased pur chasing power, ' partially attributed to an expansion of (national de fense program. Quoting the U. S. Agricitltural Marketing Service' report for March 15, comparing prices with the same date last year, hogs brought $6.80, up $1.50 per 100 pounds; beef cattle, $6.10 per 100 pounds, up 30 cents; veal calves, $8.50 per 100 pounds, up 60 cents; sheep, $4.90 per 100 pounds, up 20 cents. Chickens were selling for an average of 15 cents a pound March 15, or 1.3 cents above the same date last year; butter averaged producers 24 cents a, pound, or two cents above the same period a year ago: The price report" for March 15 compared with the same period in 1940, follows:. Wheat, $1 per bushel, clown nine cents; corn, 70 cents a bushel, up five cents; oats, 55 cants a bush el, down one cent; barley, 79 cents a bushel, same as last year; rye. 97 cents a bushel, down one cent; Irish potatoes, 75 cents a bushel. down 25 cents; sweet potatoes. 85 cents a bushel, up 15 centi. i Ellijay v By MISS HAZEL AMMONS The Ellijay Sunday school met . We are having some tine weatn last Sunday and reorganized flie ' er at this writing, and the farm Sunday school for the coming . ers are getting ready, to plant com. , year. There will be Sunday school There are several cases of mea,s- everv Mmdav morninc at o'clock! We hope to have good attendance for the coming year. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Elliot and family of Rabbit Creek was' visitinu Mrs. Elliot's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Levi Hraskett, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Larkey Young and two sons, Jimmy and Jerry, spent Faster Sunday at Holly Springs. . Mr. and Mrs. Joe Henry and sons, Gilmer and Dorscy, visited Miss Gallic ' Henry of Iotla Sun day. v Jake Price of II. ' S. Army at Fort Bragg, is visiting home folks, Mrs. Fred Mincey is confined to her bed with measles. Mr. aind Mrs. Roy Stiwinter and daughter Jerlean of Culkisaja vis ited Mrs. Stiwinter's parents, Mr. and Mjs. Alex ' Coggins Sunday, . Mrs. Cbud. Holland and daugh ter of Cullasija visited Mr. Snd Mrs. Eldon Coggins Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Mainnuel Ashe and family have moved from this community to Willets. Frank Clouse of Sylva was vis iting his place on the head of Ellijay Sunday. at pflflD ATI MM1I STREET! ,hle! Dealer today. VMM AND COMMERCUl U.M 1sb Hp ."?" J m: - We also have several good Used Cars and Trucks SEE US BEFORE YOU BUY Duncan TJHotor Co. Your .V. it"".' J Dealer - Franklin, THURSDAY-, APRIL 17, 1941 Maple Springs By DONA CARPENTER tu . ics in i.uu.uv.. Rev. Lesier Sorrells filled his regular ''appointment at Pleasant Hill' Easter Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Jud Tallent vis ited Mrs. Ta-llent's parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Sanders. Mr. arid Mrs. Silas Ledford vis ited their parents, Kev. and .Mrs. Lester - Ledford, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs.' E. L Deliart vis ited theiri son and family, Worley Dchart. Charley Ledford who is working at Fort Bragg, visited home folks this week-end. D, J. Carpenter made a business trip to Asheville one day the past week. Carl Dills visited home folks Sat urday night. Hardening of the heart ages people more quickly than harden ing of the arteries. ' Join Now Potts' Burial Ass'n. Protect Th Who Family Fine Solid Oak Caskets Office Over Pendergra' Store the . farm Track "'T IP 'mm li Mill Mil N.C I lift' .
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