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PAGE TWO THE FRANKLIN PRESS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1327 Just About the Farm Chicken Day! November 7th, at 11 o'clock, at the court house in Franklin. On our trip to the National Dairy Show we struck a county in Missis sippi tha sells $1,800,000.00 worth of poultry per annum. 1 That makes our little effort look small. They have an average of a couple of hundred hens to the farm. We have an average of 19 hens to the farm. ; J There will be one more co-operative poultry sale this fall. That will be on Wednesday, November 2. AH boarder hens should be , got off on this sale. i . Now about the meeting' at the court hcuse on Monday, November 7. It is sincerely hoped that every one who has sold chickens co-operatively this year will attend this meeting. If you want to bring in roosters or eggs for exchange, all well and good. The main reaso your county agent calls this meeting is to give you an opportunity to express yourself as to how you think the poultry industry should be. carried on ; how often sales should be held; and in what manner the sales should be held. - . To decide whether or not you want to try to build a loading shed. .'. To decide whether or hot you want me to handle eggs co-operatively. And to decide various other ques tions that anyone may care to bring up. It will soon be time for- ordering baby chicks, and we wish to know whether or not each farmer wants to order theirs separatelly, or whether they want to pool the order and en deavor to get a discount, k Another thing that should be done, is the election of a poultry council to study the requirements of the county, and to generally supervise the. dales. Another thing that should be done is arranging for 3 poultry show here some time this winter. . It is simply square up to each in dividual that sells poultry, to take a direct and personal interest m his own business. If he does not I tail to see wherein he has any kick com itiK for anything that happens. . . When anyone doesn't care enough about his produce to know what is being done with it, right there he nets in the "Hick Farmer" class. b Irt me strain urge every one of you, men, women and children, to come in to Franklin on Monday, November 7, in. behalf of your own interest. i On our trip to the National Dairy . Show there was so much to see and so much to learn that we could only touch the high spots. One great thinir we noticed was the diversifica tion and soil building methods prac ticed by the farmers. The conclusion one is forced to draw from this is that if Macon county folk don't wake up and get in line and produce ' quality stuff and sell it co-operatively they are going to. DC lett away ue hind in a very short time. " On the other hand, when one took notice of the climate, soil and native ability of the farm population,, one was easily lead to the conclusion that if Macon county folk would apply modern methods to the farm business they could easily stay away ahead of the average run. When you find a bunch of 40 farm ers from one county dead bent on dointr one thing right and all pullin tccether. vou have found a force which only God and death can stop. .. At the cattle show there were ex hibited the world's finest Guernseys, Brown Swiss, Holsteins, Jerseys and Ajshires. There was also several train loads of 4-H Club heifers. .These came from New York State, Min nesota, South Dakota, Missouri, Mis sissippi and Louisiana. There were also on exhibition over i.000 entries of . chickens with the meat breeds predominating. In the detail of the fair there was one thing stood out above all others and that was the understanding be tween the cattle and their attendants There was practically a complete ac ;. cord between even the most ferocious bull and his attendant. ; .... The hogs were, in themselves, worth the trip to see. There were sevcra hundrd exhibits, including all breeds One thing in connection with this was the microscopic photographs showing the effect of kicks and bruises of al sorts. Once a hog is bruised it never comes out of the meat. It was an education to watch 500 or 600-pound boars being driven into the show ring at one time. These hogs seemed to have mere sense than a hog ought ro have: in the vernacular, they sho' "strutted their stuff." . Going back to the dairy cattle it was the main feature of the show the mammillary development of the champion cows in all breeds was a sight for the pMa. To see an udder . that was as bii?, as a bushel basket before milking dwindle away to a, peck measure after milking gives you some idea of this development. Hut right here let me say that that was not made on coarse meadow hay and cot ton seed mean.1 A perfectly balanced ration, inciluding minerals is what did it. ' By way of illustration of the work ing ability of a cow, there was a glass form of a cow which had elec tric lights passed through it, showing the course of the feed from the cow's throat to the udder. This dummy cow was rigged up with belts and pulley from the outside, typifying the ma chine she is. The authorities have decided to hold the Southern Dairy Exhibit at Mem phis at the Tri-State Fafr next year. There "should be 100 Macon county farmers make the pilgrimage to that fair. The cost of the trip to each individual member for actual neces sary expenditures was $17.00 which is very nearly as cheap as living at heme. MACON COUNTY-The Land of Super-Farmers Who Think. -LYLES HARRIS, County Agent. Bound Over Glenn Tallent was hailed before Justice of the Peace George Car penter Wednesday on a charge' of having a small .quantity of liquor in his possession. He waived preliminary hearing, and was bound to Superior court. Bonds was fixed at $200. No, this doesn't refer to the year Columbus dis covered America, but to the number of miles recent ly made in a Chevrolet by the County Agent and four other citizens of the county. Without trouble of any kind, excepting one puncture, these gentle men drove through five states in a Chevrolet to. at tend the National Dairy Show and Tri-State Fair at1 Memphis. All are high in their praises of the ch-oi et WHY WAIT? PERRY-JONES CHEVROLET CO. FRANKLIN, N. C. s mm AT St&'-filj J. S. PORTER & COMPANY FRANKLIN, N. C. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, October 27-28-29 White Crest Luncheon Served Each Afternoon. Come and Bring Your Friends One 24-Pound Bag "WHITE CREST" Flour Given Away FREE Each Afternoon at Place of Demonstration WHITE CREST PURITY Every kernel of the carefully selected wheat used in making WHITE CREST FLOUR is washed and scoured before it is milled. Then only the choic est part of the flour ground from this wheat is made into White Crest Flour. This is one of the many reasons why White Crest makes lighter, whiter, better tasting bread. WHITE CREST saves short ening and is good for all bak ing purposes. WHITE CREST "GROCERS Your grocer is . firmly con vinced of the superior quality of WHITE CREST FLOUR. He has anticipated your ap preciation of the perfect flour by placing orders with us that will enable him to supply your future needs in baking. Ask him for WHITE CREST to day. WHITE CREST is a pure,, soft wheat flour. No phos phate added. Ask J. S. Porter & Co. for "White Crest" the Quality Flour, and have perfect baking results. Every bag guaranteed Give your order to the ladies who call at your home, it will be de livered through J. S. Porter & Co. Free Cook Bopks will be given at place of Demonstration. A flacks iGii?lDrroi Wholesale Distributors 1 '.', . J. S. PORTER & COMPANY Retail Distributor Franklin. N. C. j . - ! Gainesville, Ga. R
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