Timely Farm Questions
State College Answers
Q What is the proper proced
ure to follow in planting fruit
trees for home use?
A. H. R. Niswonger, in charge
of horticulture extension at
Slate college, offers the follow
ing suggestions: Prepare a holt
wide enough to allow the roots
to spread their full length with
out folding Plant one or two
Inches deeper than they stood
in the nursery row. Place top
soil around roots and pack firm
ly. If soil is dry, water at plant
ing time. If there is a strong
prevailing wind blowing con
tinually, lean the trees slightly
into the wind.
Q. What precautions should I
observe in guarding against the
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feeding of a moldy silage, hay
or grain to livestock?
A. Here is a set of five recom
mendations emphasized by ex
tension dairy specialists at State
college: First, be sure that feed
is of good quality, properly
cured, and stored. Second, never
feed silage to horses and mules.
Third, don't feed spoiled can
ned goods to pigs and chickens
Fourth, if livestock develop
symptoms of forage-poisoning,
change feed at once, and have
the suspected feed tested. Fifth,
obtain a veterinary diagnosis at
once, because the paralysis and
weakness caused by feed poison
ing also resemble symptoms of
certain virus diseases of ani
mals.
State College Hints
To Farm Homemakers
By VERNA STANTON
To achieve a smooth consist
ency In some dishes made with
milk, adding the ingredients in
the right order is an important
detail If added at the wrong
time, it can cause separation or
curdling, cookery scientists of
the U. S. Department of Agri
culture advise.
When milk is to be combined
with an acid food, the right
order is: Acid food into milk.
For example, in making cream
of tomato soup, the hot thick
ened tomato should be added
gradually to the cool milk.
Then the mixture is heated
briefly and served immediately.
For Healthy , Fast- Crowing CHICKS
To have success with every brood, get all your
supplies at our store. We specialize in good
poultry equipment at thrifty prices.
Electric
POULTRY
BROODER
$15.95
AND UP
22-inches high, 48-inchet
square, thermostatically
controlled temperature.
POULTRY
NETTING
$5.50
and up
la rolls
A food grade
copper alloy
stool fencing
with galvanized,
rust resisting
finish.
GLASS
SUBSTITUTE
Admit! mora ultraviolet rays. Ap
proved by Agricultural authorities.
36-inches wide. In CA.
?tolls. Sq. yd UUV
POULTRY FEEDER
Galvanized > I ? ? I feeder. Top
slidei off for easier cleaning or
filling.
23-inches long 35c
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DOORMAT
Thick and strongly made. Long
lasting. Saves tracking in dust,
dirt and grime.
1 6"x27" size $2.95
Franklin
Company
Phone 117 On Square
PLAN CLINICS
FOR WORKSTOCK
Dr. Headrick, Murphy
Veterinarian, To Be
Here Next Week
By S. W. MENDENHALL
(County Agent)
Dr. A. J Headrick, veterina
rian of Murphy, will be in Ma
con County on Tuesday and
Friday of next week to conduct
our works tock clinics. Horses
and mules will be treated for
round worms and botts Any
denial work, such as floating
sharp teeth or cutting off long
teeth, will be done.
Practically all farmers that
have taken advantage of these
clinics in the past years report
good results and say that their
work-stock are greatly improved
3 NOW DO FARM
WORK OF 9. DUE
TO MACHINERY
Mechanization Brings
Many Changes To
Robeson Farm
xnree men are now doing tne
work that once required nine,
on the J. Mitchell Humphrey
(arm, near Shannon, in Robe
son county ? and it's all due to
the Increased mechanization you
hear so much about these days.
To accomplish the same
amount of work with a -third
as much help, the three Hum
phrey brothers ? Lewis, Edwin,
and J. Mitchell ? have added a
medium-sized tractor, combine,
disc, tiller plow, and a grain
drill. And they say that their
farm is still a long way from
being mechanized, although
they have reduced their work
stock more than half.
All these machines brought
about some very basic changes
in the Humphrey's way of
farming, according to O. P.
Owens, farm agent for the state
college extension service, who
says that cotton, corn, and to
bacco were the principle crops
when nine men were working
the farm. Now small grain has
replaced practically all of the
cotton and a portion of the
corn. Much of the corn and
other grain is marketed through
purebred hogs.
Crop yields have continued
to increase for the three broth
ers since they changed their
farming system, reports Mr.
Owens, who cites better fertili
zation practices on barley and
soybeans as examples.
"We may expect this progress
on many more farms in North
Carolina," the farm agent says,
"only to a much greater extent
when modern farm machinery
is again available in adequate
supply.
Likewise in making milk sher
bert with an acid fruit juice
such as lemon, the fruit juice
after sweetening is added grad
ually to the milk.
In all such mixtures the com
bining should be done gradu
ally with constant stirring to
avoid separation. When the mix
ture must be heated, the heat
ing should be as brief as pos
sible and at a low temperature.
Never use knives or rough
scouring materials to clean glass
cooking ware, household man
agement specialists of the U. S.
Department of Agriculture say.
Scraping with a knife or scour
ing with steel wool may scratch
the protective surface of the
glass and eventually lead to a
crack. Even a slight scratch may
make the glass less resistant to
breakage.
Generally, glass cooking uten
sils need only soaking in luke
warm water and then washing
in soapsuds for thorough clean
ing. Adding baking soda to the
soaking water may help loosen
food that has baked on. If some
brown traces still remain, re
move them by rubbing with dry
baking soda.
24 HOUR WRECKER SERVICE
OPEN ALL NIGHT
Our men are ready at any hour, to answer all calls.
Gasoline ? Oil ? Tire Repairs
Parts and Accessories
AVAILABLE ALL NIGHT
DUNCAN MOTOR CO.
SALES SERVICE
Main Street Phone 69
Arrange To Have
Analysis Made
Of Scil Samples
Arrangements have been
made through the county
agent's office to have Macon
County soil samples anal>tcu, it
was announced tins week.
Farmers and 4-rf ciuo beys
who wish soM -samples sen' o
Raleigh for analysis can obtain
information on the subject troni
the agent's office.
Scaly
Jim Vinson and two sons,
Toliver and Ralph, spL-iu a lew
days in Charlotte and Oastouia
last week.
Mrs. Irene James, who has
been ill for some time, is re
ported much improved.
Mrs. Mae Dryman and Mr.
physically. No charge is made
for the examination. A very
small charge will be made for
any necessary treatment.
On Tuesday, February 25, the
first clinic will be heiu at J. ri
Brookshire's farm on Cartooge
chaye at 9:30 in the morning.
At 2:30 in the afternoon the
clinic will be held at Clyde
West's store at West's Mill.
Friday morning at 10 o'clock
a clinic will be at Frank Moody's
farm on Iotla, and at 2 in the
afternoon at Wiley Clark's fill
ing station on Ellijay.
4 H Clubs
To Seek $350 For Camp,
Short Course, Show
The 4-H County council, at
Its meeting last Friday morn
ing at the Agricultural build- I
ing, set a goal of- $350 to be '
raised to help boys and girls at- I
tending the 4-H camp and short j
course next summer defray J
their expenses, and for holding
a junior dairy show.
The total is an average of
50 cents per member, is just
half the amount the 4-H-ers
raised last year for construc
tion of the Macon County cab
in at the 4-H camp.
Plans were made for the club
members to sell lunches at the
Farmers Federation picnic again
this summer. The club officers
are to consult with their neigh
borhood leaders on ways and
means for raising the fund.
Twenty-fhree members at
tended the council meeting.
and Mrs. Hugh Dryman were in 1
Toccoa, Ga., Sunday, visiting
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Garland.
The Rev. Enoch Jamerson, of
Scaly, celebrated his sixty-third
birthday February 14. Twenty
three people were present for
j the celebration, among them Mr.
and Mrs. Jesse Miller and fam
ily, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Miller,
Ted Vinson, Mr. and Mrs. Fred I
Vinson and family and Mrs. i
Toliver Vinson and daughter.
Albert H. Roger t Enter#
Navy Electrical School
Albert H. Rogers, electrician's
mate first class, son of Mrs.
Charles Rogers, of Route 2,
Franklin, has entered electrical
interior communication school
at Washington, D. C., according
to a dispatch received here. Mr.
Rogers entered the naval serv
ice in November, 1940.
Say: "I Saw it advertised in
The Press."
RADIO
REPAIRS
?
We make prompt, effi
cient, expert repairs on
all types of radios.
WESTERN RADIO
& ELECTRIC SHOP
EDGAR CARTER, Mgr.
Main Street
Over Reece's Service Station
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maiming men and women? and children.
Maybe it will be the devastation of a flood.
Or the destruction of a hurricane, or a fire. Or
the sweeping scourge of an epidemic.
But one thing can be foreseen in the disaster
that will strike every week of the year some*
where in our nation?
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