HOG PRICES NOW
ATTRACTIVE TO
THE PRODUCERS
Meat Price Advance More
Than Corn Values
Since 1932
-«
The production of pigs has again
become attractive as compared with
the past three or four years, primar
ily because of the increase in price
without a corresponding increase in
the costs of feeds.
For example, says Earl H. Hostet
ler, professor of animal husbandry
at State College, in June, 1932, hogs
were worth only $3.62 per hundred
pounds. In June of this year their
value was almost three times that
amount, yet the price of corn has
advanced to only about twice its
value in 1932.
Because corn ana nogs go nana
in hand in the corn belt section of
the United States, it is only natural
that corn and hog prices should fol
low each other closely, points out
Hostetler. So now is the time to
ra se more pigs while corn prices
are low.
North Carolina is better suited
for the raising of swine than the
Mid-Western states, declares Hos
tetler. Not only is there an abun
dance of feed avialable for com
mercial hog production but there is
also a milder climate. This per
mits a greater use of forage crops
and requires less expensive housing.
Then, too, this State is within a
reasonable distance of the highest
market in the United States, New
York and vicinity.
Another distinct advantage, points
out Hostetler, is that there is plenty
of protein supplements to corn such
as fish meal, cottonseed meal, soy
bean meal and peanut meal. These
products are all high in nitrogen
and are relatively cheap because
they can be fed in the vicinity in
which they are produced and manu
factured without paying any con
siderable amount for transporta
tion.
Creswell School
Inspection Made
—♦—
State school officials meeting at
the Creswell school last night de
cided that the building was safe
enough for school to open today,
but that the same fire hazards that
have been prevalent for some time
exists.
H. H. McLean, superintendent of
public instruction in Washington
County: W. i’. Credle and W. H.
Dietrich, of Raleigh, inspected the
building. A new building is need
ed. At one time it was thought the
school would not open with the oth
ers in the county on account of con
gestion and fire hazards. _
Other Countries
Taught Tobacco
Raising by l. S.
r ^
--9
Department of Commerce
Official Says Future
Problematical
-■ -
Dillon, S. C.—B. D. Hill, chief of
the tobhcco division, Department of
Commerce, attributed the decline in
American exports of tobacco in re
cent years to general world condi
tions and increased production of
tobacco in other countries in an ad
dress at the opening of the Dillon
tobacco market.
"What the future will bring forth,”
he said, “is problematical. Your
type of tobacco leads in the export
trade, and any adverse effect upon
that trade as a wThole is reflected di
rectly on the farms of Carolina
growers.”
Hill said growers had benefited
temporarily by increased values, but
that this was a factor in declining
exports.
"Values necessarily placed upon
your tobacco in many cases are con
sidered by the foreign buyer beyond
his ability to pay,” he said. “For
this reason he has looked elsewhere
for his supplies, and found them, al
though they were a poor usbstitute.”
In recounting the increase in pro
duction of tobacco in other coun
tries, Hill said they had been taught
to grow it by the United States.
“Not only have we -welcomed for
eign emissaries, seeking knowledge
of tobacco, into our country, but we
have thrown wide open the gates to
our farms, the doors to our barns,
and our firesides, and upon depart
ing we have filled our guest’s pock
ets with tobacco seed, the duplicate
of which cannot be grown anywhere
else in the world.
He added that tobacco growing
had now become an important fac
tor in Italy, China, Japan, Canada,
and the English colonies.
-»
Time for Planting
Gardens in Fall
The time to plant fall gardens de
pends upon the hardiness of the veg
etables and upon the time required
for maturity. Tender vegetables
must be planted in time to produce
a crop before killing frosts. Many
of the more hardy cool-season
plants will mature a crop through
light frosts, but even these should
be planted in time to reach maturi
ty before the heavy frosts. Tables
showing time to plant and the kinds
of vegetables to plant are given in
Extension Circular No. 122 and the
copies may be obtained free upon
application to the Agricultural Edi
tor, State College.
TO MAKE STUDY
SHAD FISHING IN
THE STATE SOON
-•
Survey Likely To Center In
Rivers of This Section
Of North Carolina
Some of the unrevealed life hab
its of the shad, the most valuable
branch of the food fish industry of
North Carolina, will be studied by
a special committee of the Board of
Conservation and Development in
cooperation with department of
ficials in the near future. This
study was directed by the board at
its recent meeting held at Morehead
City upon recommendation of Di
rector R. Bruce Etheridge and was
suggested by fishermen in an effort
to work out means of checking the
apparent steady trend toward de
pletion of this valuable food fish.
Does the spawning shad sacrifice
her life after providing a new gen
eration of the species or do the same
fish return from the sea each year
to reproduce repeated crops of pro
geny In what part of the ocean do
the small fish, hatched in fresh wa
ter, spend the early part of their
life? What are the logical measures
to provide a continuous reproduc
tion of the shad each year? These
are some of the questions with re
gard to the fish which have not
been fully solved and on which the
committee will seek additional
light.
The special committee consists of
J. L. Horne, jr., Jas. L. McNair and
E, S. Askew, working in conjunc
tion with Director Etheridge and
others. Director Etheridge has ap
pealed to the U. S. Bureau of Fish
eries scientific division for assist
ance in making the study.
Union Meeting Held
At Mt. Tabor Church
-V
Creswell.—The Albemarle Union
meeting and Sunday school met
with the Mount Tabor Free Will
Baptist Church last week-end with
Rev. E. C. Morris, of Elizabeth City,
conducting the opening devotional
services Saturday morning and the
Rev. W. L. Jernigan preaching at 11
o’clock.
The afternoon ladies’ auxiliary
program opened with devotionals
conducted by Mrs. D. H. Furlaugh
and Mrs. Loomas Furlough welcom
ing the ladies and Mrs. John Cope
land, of Elizabeth City, responding.
A duet was rendered by Rev and
Mrs. Jernigan.
Miss Juanita Copeland, of Eliza
beth City, made a talk on missions.
Rev. A. C. Morris and Mrs. M. M.
Jernigan sang. Short talks were
made by Mrs. H. S. Swain, of Colum
PUBLIC
Auction Sale!
OF
The J. C. Spruill’s Stock
Plymouth, North Carolina
2 DAYS
ONLY
Friday and Saturday
SEPT. 4th and 5th
Commencing
FRIDAY
10 A. M. SHARP
RAIN OR SHINE
2 DAYS
ONLY
Friday and Saturday
SEPT. 4th and 5th
This stock consists of all kinds of Hardware, Horse Collars, Enamel
ware, Tinware, Glassware, Patent Medicines of All Descriptions, School
Supplies, Shoes, Boots, Dry Goods, Snuff, Underwear, Screen Wire, (2) Fire
less Cookers, Paint, Kalsomine, Bridles, Spool Cotton, Stove Pipe, Nails and
hundreds of other items too numerous to mention.
This stock will be sold in small quantities to suit all buyers.
Come prepared to buy your necessities at your own price. Nothing re
served. Everything must be sold to the bare walls.
Merchants are invited to attend this Auction Sale.
LADIES ARE INVITED TO ATTEND THIS SALE
HIGH
$
Goods Will Be De
livered Soon as Sold
Sale Conducted by
NORFOLK SALVAGE CO.
M. Nelson, Auctioneer
Don’t Miss This
Big Event!
HIGH
$
Goods Will Be De
livered Soon as Sold
bia, and Mrs. D. H. Furlaugh, of
Creswell.
Devotional services for the Sun
day School convention were held
Sunday morning by Rev. E. C. Mor
ris. A talk on unday school work
was made by Nat Meekins, of Colum
bia. Rev. Mr. Morris preached at
11. Next meeting will be held at
Malachi Chapel in November.
Two Cars Collide
At Intersection
-T
A settlement was reached be
tween M. S. Divs, Weldon Assyrian,
whose automobile was in collision
with that of Herman Hooker at the
intersection of Washington and
Third Streets here by the Baptist
church Monday.
Divs was entering Washington
Street and Hooker was proceeding
down Washington street toward the
down-town area when the machines
collided with the Hooker car being
forced into the grass plot beyond
the curb at the home of Mrs. Mat
tie Ausbon.
Divs was thought to have received
internal injuries, but an examina
tion by Dr. T. L. Bray failed to re
veal anything except shock from
impact. Hooker received lacera
tions about the head. eyes, and was
shocked. William Brickhouse, rid
ing with Divs, was not hurt.
In settling the matter out of court.
Divs is said to have agreed to pay
the medical expenses of Mr. Hooker
and to pay him for a week's work.
This figured to about $27.50. Hook
er is janitor of the local white
schools.
New Right-of-Way
Is Bought by N. S.
—»—— ■■
Deeds have been recorded here of
the purchase of a right-of-way for
a new route for trains entering and
leaving Plymouth by M. S. Hawkins
and L. H. Windholz, of Norfolk, re
ceivers of the Norfolk Southern Rail
road Company.
A little more than 3 miles was
purchased in a strip 66 feet wide
for the new track on the south side
of Plymouth. Trains entering Plyrn
outh from Washington will leave
the present track in a bend on the
Lucas farm and run across the
Wolfe property, Ransom and Brink
ley property to the union station.
Those selling property were R. H.
Lucas, 714 feet; A. L. Owens, 2,537;
Z. V. Norman, trustee for O. O.
Jackson, 135 feet; John T. Ransom,
380 feet; P. W. Brinkley, 442 and
1,350 feet; Bain Peanut Company,
505 feet. It cost close around $1,000.
Work is expected to start soon on
this project of laying a railroad
track. Several lives have been lost
at the old grade crossing near the
Lucas farm, which the new route
will eliminate for through trains.
EXPlicFcATTLE
PRICES WILL GO
UP NEXT WINTER
Shortage of Feed Crops in
Midwest Sure To Cause
Higher Prices
The shortage of feed crops in the
north central and midwestern states
is expected to result in higher prices
for meat animals next winter and
spring.
In the drouth area, said L. I. Case,
extension animal husbandman at
State College, growers are selling
much of their stock because they do
not have enough feed to carry it
through the fall and winter.
Case expects a drop in prices at
first, with the lowest point being
reached in November. After that,
prices will start up again, and will
1 probably exceed their present lev
els, he stated.
North Carolina growers who have
cattle suitable only for stocker or
feeder purposes, and who plan to
sell this stock any time soon should
try to market it before the price
falls. Case pointed out.
But those who have better grade
animals and enough feed to last into
the winter or spring will probably
find it more profitable to delay their
sales until prices reach a higher
point, he added.
Just to indicate how current prices
are running. Case stated that on the
Kansas City market, good to choice
stocker and feeder cattle bring from
$5 to $7 per hundredweight, common
and medium steers bring $3.50 to S5,
good to choice heifers bring $4.25 to
$5.25, and common and medium heif
ers range from $3.25 to $4.25.
In September and early October,
he continued, many western North
Carolina cattle, both steers and heif
ers of various weights and grades,
will be moving to feeding yards in
t his state and Virginia
To persons interested in purchas
ing cattle in the western counties,
but are unfamiliar with the proced
ure, Case suggested that they get in
touch with the county farm agents
or the animal husbandry depart,
mftil at State College, Raleigh.
Funeral for T. C.
Craddock Monday
— —«*—
Funeral services were held Mon
day for T. C. Craddock, well known
and well-liked farmer, of near
Roper, in Washington County, who
succumbed Saturday as the result
of a severe stroke of paralysis. He
was 75 years of age.
The final rites were held in Pleas
ant Grove Methodist church, with
Rev. J. W. Watson officiating. Sur
viving are two sons, Terry, of Rop
er, and Charles, of Rockingham;
one daughter, Mrs. Harvey Langley,
of Morehead City. _
Teachers Meeting
Held Wednesday
-<S>
Teachers in the public schools in
Washington County gathered here
Wednesday to discuss matters of the
opening of schools on Thursday.
Problems were discussed, supplies
issued, new teachers introduced, in
spirational talks made, and book
rental plans were discussed. H. H.
McLean, superintendent, led the
discussions.
White teachers met in the morn
ing and colored in the afternoon.
Miss Katherine Dennis, state super
visor of this work, met with the
three new home economics teachers
and outlined their work.__
checks
MALARIA
in 3 Days
CnLDS
I.(quid. Tablets first day
Salve, Nose Drops Headache 30 min
Try “Rub-My-Tism”—World's Best
Liniment _
tett meant
cli
an(je<
Cu-1. E L E C T R I C
COOKERY!
KJOT so long ago, air-travel was regarded as something of a novelty
a venture of the daring minority.
<34
Today huge all-metal transports ply the shies, and the smooth hum of
powerful Motors is a familiar sound. Passengers relax in comfort, enjoy
ing the freedom of a luxurious passenger salon. As the huge ship wings
its way, it is guided by modern electric beacons and radio beam.
Just as speed, convenience, and constantly decreasing cost marh the
changes progress is mahing in air travel, so also do those things marh the
progress in the design and construction of modern Electric Ranges.
Electric Cookery is today’s method! It is fast—clean—efficient—
safe—and economical!
As Electric Ranges become more and more desirable—more and more
modern—they become easier to own. Right now, you can purchase a
modern, automatic Electric Range on surprisingly easy terms.
Change to Electric Cookery now!
c~Vf ij?tix .(calcr, l
VIRGINIA ELECTRIC
AND POWER COMPANY
Small Jobs Are
Important When
We Do Them
Little jobs can accom
plish big things, be big
jobs in their own right,
with the proper handling.
The small job you send
here is accorded this han
dling, always, to make it
do a big job for your bus
iness.
THE ROANOKE BEACON