WILL CONDUCT DAIRY CLASSES FOR FOLK HERE Specialist To Give Farm Training Courses Feb. 13-15 By SAM W. MENDENHALL County Farm Agent For several years an effort has been made by the county farm agent, business men, and leading farmers to secure a market for whole milk. Southern Dairies of Asheville is now buying Grade A milk, and Coble Dairy Products of Lexington has established a receiving station in Franklin for manufacturing milk. These two companies are both good, reliable concerns, and the county agent's office does not hesitate to recommend them as an outlet for the milk that is produced in this county. Both of these companies, however, are still having to buy more milk outside of North Carolina than they are buying within the state. Therefore, there is no danger any time in the near future of an over production of milk. We are very fortunate in that we have secured Mr. F. R. Farn ham, dairy extension specialist, to be in the county, February 13, 14, and 15, to conduct train ing courses on quality milk pro duction. He will hold these meetings in the schools, and it is important that everyone who can attend one of these meet ings. February 13 the meetings will be held . at the Franklin voca tional department from 9:30 un til noon, and at Higdonville school at 1:30. February 14, Iotla school, 9:15; Cowee school, 10:30; and Otto school, 1:30. February 15, Slagle school, 9:30; and Holly Springs school, 1:30. Farmers can not afford to produce milk and then have it turned down at the plant, due to poor quality. Therefore, it will be to the advantage of everyone who is selling milk to attend one of these meetings. State College Hints To Farm Homemakers By Ruth Current Citrus fruits rolling into market from this year's good crop bring a wealth of vitamin C, nutritionally speaking. Since sugar is still tightly rationed, oranges and tangerines rate a welcome for the help they of fer in the "something sweet" line. While most people know that orange juice is a high-powered drink for vitamin C, nutrition ists say that all of the familiar citrus fruits are bountiful sources of this vitamin. A half glass (4 ounces) of orange or grapefruit juice will go far to ward supplying a day's needs of vitamin C. So will half a grape fruit, or a whole orange, or a couple of tangerines or lemons. Because pulp, as well as juice, contains vitamin C, there is vitamin thrift in serving juice unstrained, and even higher vit amin economy in eating citrus fruit simply halved, sliced, or sectioned. So destructive are heat and air to vitamin C in cut or juiced fruit that the vitamin thrifty homemaker takes special care to keep them under con trol. To this end, the nutrition ists advise cutting or slicing citrus fruit as near as possible to serving time. If breakfast citrus juice is squeezed the night before as a time saver, key it cold and covered, remembering that the less air space there is between juice' and container top, the better for vitamin C. With these precautions, citrus juice will lose little of Its most valuable vita min, even if stored for 24 hours. Besides serving as sweets, oranges and tangerines have possibilities as sweeteners. Home economists suggest, (or example: In orange gelatin desert, If orange sections are used In ad dition to orange Juice, sugar called for may be reduced a third or even a half. And for those who like * sweet salad, orange bits or slices mixed with ?law or combined with grated carrot provide the touch of iWMtnM* without rationed sugar. Rayon Is threatening to orow4 cotton from 1M strongest peace-time marklt-the aUto? mobile lira oord lnduetry, Then were 7411 fatal ftrm work accidents in the Uplted Stately in thi three-year juried Ihiali, nonfarm owniri pre* Mnt the toughest problem now facing foresters Working to preserve tn< nation's wood lands. State Firms Bay Government Cotton A total of 11 North Carolina cotton firms have bought an i aggregate of 5,158 bales of 15 16th Inch flat cotton from sur pluses offered this month by the U. S. Department of Agri culture. The Tar Heel concerns bid against cotton companies throughout the nation for the lint which was offered by the government at the stabilization price of 23.62 cents per pound and above. Cotton prices on most south ern markets have been consis tently above 25 cents a pound (for 15-16th staple) for some time and many observers pre dict that if parity floors con tinue to raise, domestic prices may rise as high as 28 cents per pound, a condition which State College Extension service specialists have warned may break the back of southern cot ton markets and open the door for up-and-coming domestic synthetics and foreign products. Green winter blankets for fields of the southeast are like ! ly to depend upon precision timed dusting of fields in the far northwest because most of i the good seed comes from the | latter section. The year 1946 is not a good time to begin farming if the undertaking involves going into debt, says Economist H. B. James of the Extension service. Pastures To Take Great Postwar Role In the {ace of predictions by farm leaders that North Caro lina agriculture is about to enter an era of mechanization in which hay, small grains and pastures will be given consider ably more attention than in the past, far-sighted recommenda tions have been made for the seeding of permanent pastures in Warren and surrounding counties. The Warren County Agricul tural Council, combining the re ported experiences of farmers with the results of intensive re search, has released the follow ing mixture per acre for seed ing permanent pastures, with the first figure following each seed type indicating the number of pounds of seed to be used on poorer soils, the second fig ure indicating the number of pounds on medium to good soils. Orchard Grass, 10 and 8; Red Top (Herds) Grass, 6 and 7; White Dutch Clover, 3 and 3; Dallis Grass, 5 and 5; Lespedeza (either Kobe or Korean >, 20 and 15. Better pastures will result, the council says, if the orchard grass, Red Top and White Dutch clover are sown in September or October, with Dallii Orua and leapedeza to be sMdad in Feb ruary ot early March. It con ditions are such that seeding can not take place in the Fall, all varieties should be mixed and sown in February or March. Fertilizer recommendations in clude: 400 pounds of 18 per cent superphosphate and 100 pounds of murate of potash per acre with one ton of limestone at planting. If commercial fertiliz er is used instead, the recom mendation is: 400 to 600 pounds of 0-14-7 or 012-12. This pasture plan meets the 1946 AAA requirements. T. J. Pearsall of Battleboro is president of the State Farm ers Convention. Be Quick To Treat Bronchitis Chronic bronchitis may develop If your cough, chest oold, or acute bron chitis Is not treated and you cannot afford to takea chance with any medi cine less potent than Creomulslon which goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, inflamed bronchial mucous membranes. Creomulsion blends beechwood creosote by special process with other time tested medicines for coughs. It contains no narcotics. No matter how many medicines you have tried, tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulslon with the understanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough, per mitting rest and sleep, or you are to have your money back. (Adv.) popcorn looms as a postwar source oi cash on the sidt" for farmtrs In central and western counties of the State. The special services division operated 152 service clubs for enlisted men within the South eastern states up to the sur . render of the Japs. Columbiu county can increase cash return* from strawberries by 1170,000 this year simply by obeying the rules of spacing and pruning, accord ing to J. Y. Lassiter. horticul turist of the State College Ex tension service. PRESS ADS PAY Stark and Burbank MIRACLE TREES That Bear GIANT SIZE FRUITS 1 to 3 Years Sooner Often pay back their entire tree cost before ordinary trees start to bear NOW you can plant marvel ous new varieties of quick - (tearing trees, specially selected and bred to' hear years younger that break traditions for si/c of fruit and bushels |ier tnr vigorous, sturdy young trees. ?f fruil ami STARRING (TiOd?Mo rk) V H*w V Pot? tW VfeavylMriag ' Mglwst (Mky FRUIT TREES Tlk-y art* ihe cream of l.'tf) years of Stark -Burhank fruit and tree improvements. < hir (Government asks every family with available sp.ice to |>iant fruit tree*. There is now a serious national fruit shortage. Many authorities predict that in years to come only those who grow their own fruit will be able to supply their table plenti fully with the sugar-laden, health-giving, vitamin tilled fruits to which Vhey have Im'? n accustomed. I'd he sure that your family has enough of this delicious and healthful food, grow your own delicious tree-ripened fruit supply. I.et me show you how you can plant now enjoy delicious fruit* amazingly soon ? increase the value of your property. See, telephone or write me. No obligation. Authorized Salesman for Exclusive Burbank and Stark Record Bearing Pure Strain Trees W. A. STEELE, Box 164, Franklin, N. C. More Headaches for the Farmer Once more the fanner is being asked to break all food production records. To plow more acres, feed more livestock and harvest more crops than ever be fore. He is being asked to do this so that America may continue to feed and clothe the needy throughout the world, as well as our own folks at home. To carry out this job the farmer must have tools of production. Most of those he owns have taken a terrific beating. They can't be tied together much longer with rusty fence wire. In the teeth of this situation, the farmer ran into a strike in the steel industry ? a strike, winch hit at the 1 1 heart of food production. When the steel plants shut down, manufacturers of farm machinery and equipment, farm trucks and trac tors cannot get steel for their products. This year the farmer won't receive as many of the replacements he desperately needs. He'll fight ahead with his old. broken machinery trying to e-rack another food production record, but the cards are stacked against him. All this means more headaches for the farmer ? loss of vital food production, and a bad dent in his pocket book. , + Facts Too Frequently Omitted The steel strike was called by the United Steel workers of America? CIO, which insists on a wage increase totaling $166,000,000. The U. S. Steel Corpora tion has offered a wage rise which if applied through out the industry would amount to $135,(KX),(KH). Steel workers are already among the highest paid wage-earners in America. Before the strike their aver age earnings were approximately $1.16 an hour, $9.26 a day and $46.32 a week ? on a forty-hour week. The U. S. Steel offer would have given them about $1.31 an hour, $10.46 a day and $52.32 a week. But they refused Q . ' 1 it, and accused the steel industry of conspiring to ruin the union with an offered wage increase of $25 a month, the highest increase in the industry's history. The strike is a direct violation of the contract be tween the union and the steel companies. The union, wanted a long-term contract an