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.
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< 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.
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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
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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
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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<l got it.' The union
agreed not to strike during the life of the contract.
Vet. the union struck on January 21.
Fighting for a Way of Life
Farmers have a big stake in continuous steel produc
tion. They have an opportunity to say what they think
ahout unchecked labor monopolies which bring to a
stop the nation's recovery efforts, through excessive
wage demands which could only add to inflation and
cause soaring prices.
Not until enough of them protest unfair, dictatorial
actions and urge proper safeguards against arrogant,
heedless union leadership and one-sided labor laws will
the country get back to sane, . profitable production
where everyone works together toward a better stand
ard of living.
American Iron and Steel Institute
3 5 0 Fifth Avenue, New York 1, N. Y.
OS Mm CENT OF THE WORKERS IN THE STEEL INDUSTRY ARE EMPLOYED RY OUR COMPANY MEMBERS
OET THE PACTS? FREE? 8?nd postcard for copies of recent interviews with steel company leaders