Floyd Spikes Rumor
Of "Food-Grabbing"
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Currently making its rounds in
certain communities is a story that
"the Government is going to take a
part of all the foods people have
canned or stored for winter use."
E. Y. Floyd, State AAA executive
assistant, has labeled this rumor as
"preposterous", saying that evident
ly "some people are attempting to
misconstrue the aims of the farm de
fense program".
In one Virginia County, it was re
ported that an individual has actual
ly appeared at farm homes with a
truck and represented himself as a
collector of food for the Govern
ment even taking food from some
unsuspecting farm families.
"It would appear," Floyd said,
"that a few individuals are trying
to take advantage of the farm de
fense program for their own gain by
misrepresenting the facts to people
who have not been informed.
"Actually," he continued, "one bas
ic objective of the program is to en
courage people to produce and pre
serve food for home use as well as
certain commodities for countries re
sisting aggression."
The AAA executive emphasized:
"No one is authorized to collect food
and anyone attempting to do so
should be reported to local law en
forcement atuhorities at once."
North Carolina farm families have
given their wholehearted support to
the Government's request for more
food in 1942 and are now making
plans to produce the extra food prod
ucts needed in the food-for-freedom
campaign, Floyd said
Cows Help Increase
Total Farm Income
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The farmer who keeps five to ten
cows and pays strict attention to
their feeding, breeding, and man
agement knows the meaning of bal
anced farming and permanent se
curity, according to Fred M. Haig,
professor of ariimal husbandry and
dairying at N. C. State College.
Within less than 50 years, the
production and utilization of milk
have so increased that today the
United States is the greatest of the
dairy nations. Around 25,000,000
cows are milked daily on three-quar
ters of the country's 6.000,000 farms.
Although dairying has made steady
progress in North Carolina, especial
ly during the past 15 years, there are
still far too many farms not owning
a single dairy cow. This is especially
true of cotton and tobacco farms,
Haig said.
The State College professor said
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he doesn't advocate getting rid of
tobacco and cotton on most farms
but that he does advise srongly the
addition of a few cows as a sideline
to the cash crop income.
On thousands of these farms, he
pointed out, sufficient feed for five
to ten cows could be raised without
interferring with the production of
the regular cash crops.
He also explained that the dairy
industry is closely related to the
maintenance of soil fertility, and the
ifarmer must consider this an indi
rect profit. In other words, the live
' stock farmer gives back much of
what he takes from the land. Then
too, he anchors the soil. Valuable top
sottdoes not wash or blow off In dust
from hill-sides where grass is green
and cattle graze.
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Nazi Torpedo Plane In Action
According to the German caption with this photo, a torpedo plana
of the latest design is shown in action. Caption did not state Where or
what the target was. The two-motored craft has dropped one torpedo
and has another ready in its rack.
Shoes from U. S.
The expression of Doreen Ma now
in this photo from bomb-blitzed
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trying on one of teven pairs of chil
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More Incentive
For Cotton Quotas
With North Carolina farmers pre
paring to go to the polls again on
December 13th to cast their ballots
in the cotton marketing quota refer- I
endum, qualified observers see litle
reason to doubt that Tar Heel pro
ducers would reject the orderly mar
keting system under which they have I
operated for the past four years.
Basis for this, according to E. Y.
Floyd, AAA executive assistant of
State College, is the fact that 1942
provides even more incentive foT
cotton quotas than 1941 when an ov
erwhelming majority of 92.8 per
cent of the 60,246 cotton fanners
casting ballots favored allotments
and quotas.
The added incentive has been ere-,
ated by the opportunities offered by
the Farm Defense Program for us
ing acreage taken out of cotton for i
price-supported food crops i
"The Food-for-Freedom program,"
said Floyd? "is tied up directly with
quotas?if acreage is held within the
circle of demand, there will be ex-1
tra acres on which to grow commodi-!
ties that are needed in America and
by Britain, and which are being pur
chased under the Lend-Lease pro- j
gram at good prices.
"Quotas keep the entire farming
Mosl Satisfactory Vessels
For C.urinfi I'ork Meat
Kills Vestal, extension swine spec
lalist, says oak barrels or large stone
jars aro the most satisfactory vessels
for curing pork. A dean container is
absolutely essential for successful
men! eunng. Tim should always b?"
washed out and thoroughly scalded J
befoiv using "Killing and Curing
Meat on tin Farm," a folder con- ?
taining valuable information, may be |
seeum-4- without charge by writing
to tbe Agricultural Editor, State Col
lege, Ibileigb.
industiy of North Carolina and oth
ef Vlates i mm plunging headlong ih
4-u t-he pnHluction of commodities
which are not needed. Our farmers
nave learned that over-production
undermines prices mid have voiced
their convictions through the refer
endum Certainly now is the time to
grow the. e food commodities for the
farm defense program, and certain
ly this should prove a banner year to
n:ili/r 1 lie benefits of the orderly
marketing provided by the use of
quotas."
Cotton Prices Due
To Quotas and Loan
Cotton growers of this county will
make an important decision affect
ing their income from the next crop
when they vote in the referendum,
December 13, to decide whether mar
keting quotas shall apply to the 1942
crop,, says G. T. Scott, Johnston
County farmer and chairman of the
State AAA committee.
"Marketing quotas and cotton loans I
wen- largely responsible for the high |
level of 1941 cotton prices," Mr.
Scott declares, adding that "the ef
fectiveness of this price protection
in the future depends upon whether
growers vote to hold total plantings
within the goal set for 1942. Loans
under the law," he explains, "will
not be available unless quotas are
approved."
The chairman believes that good
prices' for the 1942 cotton crop will
not be brought about by wartime
conditions alone, and points to the
supply-and-demand situation to sup
port his point. According to U. S.
Department of Agriculture esti
mates, there is now a carry-over of
12,300,000 bales of cotton on hand.
The estimated 1941 production of 10,
710,000 bales will run the total on
hand to approximately 23 million
bales. The United States will con
sume about 11 million bales the cur
rent consumption year and will ex
port one million more, leaving a car
ry-over of about 11 million bales this
time next year.
"In view of these supply-demand
figures, it is evident that marketing
quotas ami loans cacounted for the
favorable 1941 price, and it is as nec
essary in 1942 as in 1941 to comply
with acreage allotments," the chair
man says
Save Soybean Seed
Now For Next Year
Farmers of North Carolina/are
asked to increase their production
of soybeans by 56,000 acres 1942
as one of the goals of the Food-for
Freedom campaign.
J A Rigney, agronomist of the N.
C Experiment Station with head
quarters at State College, says the
soybean goal cannot be met unless
seed for the* 1942 crop are saved
right now.
"With soybeans selling at more
than twicv what they brought at
this time last year," Rigney said,
"and with very limited storage facil
ities on the farm, most of. our beans
will go to processors' warehouses
within the next month. Any at
tempt to establish a seed source for
the prospective planting next year
must be done right now. Once seed
is bulked, retrieving pure seed is im
possible."
The agronomist said that a mixture
of varieties of soybeans will do as
much to reduce the yield as any one
factor. Differences in the time of
maturity make harvesting difficult,
and subsequent storage of seed haz
ardous. For instance, Rigney pointed
out that Herman variety beans ma
ture in 135 days, Tokio in 140 days,
and Wood's Yellow in 160 days. "A
mixture of these, or most of the oth
er varieties, will cause complica
tions," he stated.
The Experiment Station has found
in its texts that the Wood's Yellow,
Toklo and Herman beans do best in
the Coastal Plain, with the Wood's
Yellow yielding good as beans, be
ing shatter-proof, and producing a
fair amount of oil. TTie Herman
bean yields the most oil, but shatters
badly and is only a fair yielder of
beans. The Tokio also tends to shat
ter. is a fair yielder of beans, and is
better than the Wood's Yellow in
percentage of oil.
Rules of the
Road . . .
AT RAILROAD CROSSINGS
Sec. 104, Motor Vehicle Laws" of
North Carolina: "Whenever any per
son driving a vehicle approaches a
highway and interurban or steam
railway grade crossing and a clearly
visible and positive signal gives
warning of the immediate approach
of a railway train or car, it shall be
unlawful for the driver of the ve
hicle to fail to bring the vehicle to
a complete stop before traversing
such grade crossing."
.This means that you are required
by law to come to a full stop at all
railroad crossings where--a.. light- or .
bell device warns of the approach of
a train. You also are required to stop
at crossings marked by an official
eight-sided, black and yellow Stop
sign, whether any automatic signal
device is present or not Of course,
all school trucks and passenger buses
are required to come to a complete
stop at all railroad crossings.
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Fruit Tree Order This Full
Edgecombe County's cooperative
fruit tree order for 4-H Club mem
bers this fall consisted of 258 peach
trees. 17 apple trees. 02 pear, plum,
and apricot trees, 69 grape vines,
and 67 pecan- trees:
NOTICE OF SAFE
North Carolina Martin County. |
Under and by virtue of an order
of the Superior Court of Martin
County made in the special proceed
ings entitled "James E Griffin, ex
center of the Estate of Su^an A.
Thomas, vs. Mabel Peed, et a Is." the
undersigned commissioner will, on
the 31st day of December, 1941, at
12:00 o'clock M.. at the Court House
door, offer for sale to the highest
bidder for cash, a certain tract of
land in the Town of Williamaton,
Martin County, North Carolina, and
more particularly described as fol
lows:
A house and lot in the Town of
Williamston, N. C., on the South side
of Warren Street adjoining the lands
nf B. B. Rogerson, Herman Bowen,
R T and W. O. Griffin, and being
Lot No 21. Block B of the J W. Watts
Land Division, said Division being
of record in the Public Registry of
Martin County, in Land Division
Book 1. at page 322.
Dated this 29th day of Nov., 1941.
WHEELER MARTIN.
d2 4t ' Commisioner.
NOTI C E
North Carolina. Martin County. In
The Superior Court. Before the
cit rk
Mary S. Gray, Administratrix of the
Estate of Warren A. Gray, vs. J.
I>. Gray, William Warren Gray,
?and others. 1
The defendant above named. Wil
liam Warren Gray and all the other
heirs at law of Warren A. Gray,
will take police that an action en
titled a ab.we.has been commenced*
in the Superior Court of Martin
County, N. C . to sell a piece of land
for the purpose of making assets, in
which said defendants own an in
ter. ... and said defendants will fur
ther take notice that they are re
quired to appear before L. p.
Wynt Clerk of the Sup. rior Court
of Martin County, at his office in
Williamston. N. C. within ten days
after completion of this service by
publication, and to answer or demur
,l > the complaint of the plaintiff in
tins actioM oi' the plaintiff will ap
ply to tia court for the relief de
:*itf;Tn.U .1 in said complaint.
~Tt mho 27th"day of Nov . 1941
L B WYNNE,
dl! 4t ci. rk Superior Court.?
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