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THE FRANKLIN PRESS, FRANKLIN, N. C. THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, IZZ3 "CIVILIZATION BEGINS AND ENDS TFTM THE PLOW-PIato PAGE TWO THINGS TO PLAN TO THROUGHOUT COMING . YEAR The Farmers' Day at the test farm . at Swannanoa on May 17, 1S28. '. - t Poultry loading depot with facili ties for grading eggs. r An annual poultry show. Monthly livestock sales. Farmers' own line of delivery trucks. .. Purebred sires and seeds on every farm. Guernsey cattle breeders associa tion. , A semi-annual seed exchange day. ., A Harvest Carnival one day of the bread and butter show. Just About the Farm CAN N E R Y Its no use to tell folks who know that"" farmers cannot grow truck at cannery prices and make money. It is not visionary when we say we sec $100,000.00 worth of produce sold to the" cannery this year. - . . 1 Tkp idpa is to sell what stuff VOU can in" the green state, and bring the rest to vour cannery. . "Your cannery" is used advisably, for under our charter, whatever the cannery may make, after the present stockholders are refunded their mon ey, will be divided pro rata among the patrons of the cannery, according " to the amount of stuff they deliver. I have talked to several people who have eaten vegetables packed at the cannery last season, and not one has had a fault to find with it, and nearly all have been high in their praise of the quality. Out Mr. Moore is some food packer. I guess in parenthe ses KJi.'w,,v'1,w that our Mrs. Moore lias something to ilo-vith-it-twX?" There, may be a cleaner creamery in the land than our Nantahala Cream ery, but we Trove failed to see it. VIc have watched this feature pretty closely and never yet have we found a musty smell or any flies about .. ' ' c-i tne creamery, ouintr. lccuimuciiuaiiuii. that. Three cheers for Mrs. Wyman! According to tests just completed, .. the 4J3-2-l dairy feed beats tbern all in production. And this is a home mixed feed. No freight to pay, no middleman's profit, no mixing charges, no sacks or . sacking tecs. It is: 1 . 4 parts corn meal 3 parts cottonseed meal , 2 parts wheat bran 1 part ground oats, and 1 per cent of salt should be added, All above by weight. With this feed, plenty of home grown legume hay, summer and winter pasture, a farmer will make his butter fat at around 20 cents a pound. Not much room there tor hollering "A oore farmer ain't got no chance no howWe know a poor farmer hasn't got any chance. Nor a poor anything else, The following men in the order named, are the 10 - highest cream producers in the county the first two weeks of the new year: C. H. Norton, G. W. Culver, G. W. Dowdle, A. B. Slagle, J. C. Ferguson, E. A. Vanhook, E. N. Keener, D. W, Love, J. H. McDowell, E. V. Amnions. The above is the "Big Ten." Their checks total $196.67. H O G S A lot of people are complaining about rheumatism and down-in the back sore joints in thrir hogs. This is not a thing but the effects of i malnutrition. Malnutrition is simply ' starvation, - - " - - 1 know you feed your hog a lot of corn and slop, but that doesn't say that he gets proper feed. He needs minerals and tankage as well. - : The following mineral mixture will prevent all that in most cases: '0 Lbs. of wood ashes 10 Lbs. acid phosphate (just com mon or garden fertilizer) 2 Lbs. of salt. Mix this well and keep in a dry place where the. hogs may have free access to m at all times. A self feeder will make vou .money in more ways than one. We have the working drawings for these here in the office; and if you can't come in to get it, just drop us a card. No man can make pure meat when he grows his hog in a close pen " and keeps it standing belly-deep in tiitn. The time is near at hand when pen fed hogs will bring less money. -.' Many do not believe this, but many did not believe' we would have flying machines either. PO ULTR Y 200 jam-up bens oh every farm in Macon county,, Why break your back heaving poles and tics about, when a few hogs and chickens will make you more money and save your health? A' great many weak hearted poultry raisers are not going to grow as many chickens as they did last year, be cause the prices are not right. . If folks would pay more attention to the cost of production and not guess so .much they would find that they are making a good profit at 15 cents a - pound for chickens take it one' year with another, and all seasons together. That is, of course, where proper management is exercised. This egg business. Dirty and under sized eggs keep the ' market price down. Better eat those and sell your good onesr '' A lot of hens arc not laying now; How can they lay and fight this cold weather too, when they are left to shift for themselves? A hen, like a cow, is a highly re fined producing machine and she won't work under . improper conditions any more than your flivver engine ' will work with sand in the cylinders. SHEEP The following letter was sent to the - following -nicni'C.-Jlaglc,. Joe Sweatman, J. T. WattsTErr K: Bradley, J. M. Cabe, D. L. Cabc, Miss Allie - Dills, John Dills, Miss Flora Norton, L. B. Norton, Fred Shope, G. L. Shope, Mrs. Mary Williams, M. S. Burnette, J. W. Byrd, Luther Jacobs, Allie Martin, E. L. Roper, N. C. Hay; Craig Steppe, Lee Russell, D. W. Neal, Sim Roper, R. L. Bar nett, C F, Evans, C. L. Ingram, J. U. Keener, J. E. Taylor, W. S. Moffitt, J. B. Snyder, O. E. Snyder, E. T. Battles. C. T. Byrd, E. G. Cruse, C. N. Dills, E. W. Doughty, R. V. Dills, Hez Dills, Mrs. L. T. Gillespie, J. M. Harrison, J. L. Kins land, W. BB. McGuire, G. W. Moffitt, L. F. Setser, J. R. Slagle, W. W. Hedden, Mrs.; J. E. Hedden,. F. E. A --.a A - A f ashbrn,, G. D. Hedden, 1). M. .Rogers, Mattic-Moss, Cope, John DeHart, H. A. HalL R. M. McGaha, J. A. Parrish.-J. R. Ramsey, W, G. Rowland, J. L. Smith, E. M, Tallcnt, G. H. Brendle, G. H. Gibson, V. B. Mason, Mrs. C. 'A. Raby, Rass Duvall, Hattie Johnson, Tom Cope, J. W. Neal, J. J. Waters, D. M. Lunsford, Matthew Rowland, B. H. Rowland, J. B. Ammons, Edd Goer: Franldin, N. C, January 21, 1928. . Dear Sir : There has been a. good deal of com plaint in regard to the activities of sljeep-Tcinhrg dogs. Several sheep growers of the county have requested me tp call a meeting of all the sheep growers in the county, to discuss this matter with the county commissioners and other officials. They also want to discuss the sheep growing of this county, to lay a foun dation for better practices if it ap pears that these are needed. There are 84 people, according to our re cords, who have sheep. To my knowl edge there are several others secur ing sheep for the vfirst time this year. It seems to me, thai some general policy- that- is-practicaland that the folks ean work under their present conditions "would increase the-value of the returns from your sheep. Par ticularly, is this true in regard to eradication of worms, breeding of spring lambs, and the importation and exchange of purebred sires. ' Please think this over, and if you cannot come, write a letter to the meeting stating your views. I am trying not to call meetings or to do any shouting or bell ringing in regard to our farm improvement, but I do regard this meeting as one of importance and well worth your while to attend. If you will come this time and we can get acquainted and lay down some definite plan to work to, we will not be calling meet ings every whip-stitch, to dis,cuss som'e little trivial matter. : Do not forget the date, Monday, February the 6th, 1928, at the county agent's office in Franklin. I hope you will consider this matter important enough to be present, for it may mean several dollars more profit to you, and will certainly, do you no harm. Very trulv vours. LYLES HARRIS, County Agent. This is a , very important meeting and every 'one -of the above named men are very resnVtfully urged to be present rn the date mentiond. P AS T O R E Our pastur land is the most profit able acreage 'on the farm. Why do we neglect it so much? A little attention at" the right time will double the profit on the average pasture in Macon county. Of course, a jot of people; don't believe this to hear them talk, but talk doesn't buy the baby s shoes anyhow. Not even what vye. .clutter up , this page with every week unless folks read it and put it into practice. . . BE E S It's about time to take a look at those bees and see how thev have stood this cold weather. They may need feeding before the honey flow; The farm pages of The Press are edited by the county agent in col laboration with the editor. starts, and some colonies may need doubling up, . . It's not profitable to keep less than 15,000 bees about 4 to 5 lbs in a ve. n fatpc that manv to rear a brood to balance the natural mortality -and to store up surplus honey lor tne use of man. . FARM MA NAG EM E N T Here's a question that it would be well for every farmer in Macon coun ty to ask himself and then answer it : What is the status of my business now? What profit is it yielding on the investments and on the labor output? Another question is : Hew much of my farm income is due to the ,un recompensed labor of my wife and children? It doesn't pay any man, to enslave his family in a vain endeavor to make up for his negligence in management. It always seemed strange to me that a few merchants or ' manufacturers with $3,000.00 or $4,000.00 each can light zj" and-spend- half theircapital on reorganization new" buildings and equipment, when a farmer with a $5,000.00 or a ' $6,000.00 farm cannot afford to have anything but lean-to sheds and tumble-down barns in the. way of farm equipment. ;-', All the legislation in the world will not make up for individual inefficiency. The only way to get outside recog nition is to do the job in hand so well that it will attract oujside atten tion. ' 4-H CLUB WO R K To make the best better! What's the best of all that grows. on the- Macon county larmsr Not all the boys and girls that I have written to in the past few weeks have answered my letters. Now not to answer letters will count against you when your record is scored next fall. Just a post card . will usually serve the purpose. The following boys and girls have answered the letters writn to them, promptly and correctly: Charles R. Patton, Lucy Sanders, Bruce Edwards, Lou Ella Rowland, Elmer Rowland, Edgar Hicks, Lucile Morrison, H. H. 'Hylton, Charles Hunter, Ila Grant, Cecile Gibson, John Davis, Hassie Clark, Woodrow Gibson, Ruby Shields, Cecil Edwards, J. C. Hunnicutt, Robert Davis, Elmer Ly tie, Floyd Dills, Gay Dills, Augusta Batemart, Hope Lowry, Etta Lowry, Lester Patton, Katherine Ramey, Furman Stiles, Robert Fouts, J. L. McConnell, Wilmer McConnell, Edna Angel, Marie Rogers, Ezra Srook, Roy Stiwinter, Cora Hedden, Dolly Hedden, Eulah Houcton, Bulon Houston, Beulah Houston, Edward Bryson, Oma Wooten, Velma Wooten, Grace V. Bryson. Eddie Clark, Mary Belle Rogers, Mary Cumi Teague, J. D. Dowdle Hazel Matlock, Earl Rickman, Dorsey Matlock, Paul Mc Coy. The rest of the 325 have not. . The record books are 'going for ward this week to all members, with a letter explaining in detail. This keep you busy untill I can visit you and go more into detail. , We are up against some stiff com peletion. Some of these club mem bers have been in club work for years ; but wouldn't it be great if some Macon County youngsters beat out some of these old timers? I be lieve you can do it. Pender County in North Carolina is sure making a record in club work They' have over 500 boys and girls in club work. , , Listen to this: Sam Roper of North Carolina made the State record in the ton litter pig contest last year. His pigs weighed 3165 lbs at 180 days old. Sam has made oyer $700.00 from his pig club work in the last two years. ' ' . In the corn club, these South Car olina boys kind of think they are up and coming. Three years ago Pat Boland of New berry, S. C., won the Southern Railway's big trophv cuo for the best corn raised in the ' State. Two years ago it came ' into North Carolina, to a grown up farmer this time, but last year it was taken back to S. C. by 12 year old Dan Rickley, of Lexington County. Boys. I guess Macon County better take this prize next year. Don't see any way out of it, in fact. -' How many of our club members are going to complete their projects thev have started? No where in the United States has there been a 100 per cent finish. That is, never have all the boys and girls that started in completed their records. What a bout setting out to make Macon Co- inty make a world's record ? - It can be done. ' WORK STOCK Look out for your work stock when throwing them into hard spring work. Sore shoulders, over-heat and over feeding and over-driving at first will play thunder with any mule or horse, no matter how good. Just give them the same consider ation that you do your old flivver en gine, and they will make you money in place of burrning it up for you. , F L OWE R S What about fixxing a' place for the old lady and the girls to have a few nice flowers this spring, summer and fall ? No one thing you can do will add more to the value of your farm and the pleasure of farm life.than a few flowers stuck around in out-of-the way nooks and corners. .. , ' Right now before the hard rush of spring work starts, haul out a half dozen loads, of manure and fix up about one-tenth 'of an acre in real ship shape, and turn the wife and girls loose on it. SO I L S There's no excuse for some' of our fields being so poor that three cow peas have to be planted in one place to get a stand two to push and one to do the grunting. , Every day should be put in the fields now, - plowing if the ground will do and getting ready to plow if the ground is too wet. Macon County's motto for next win ter on the soil propersition, is: Ev ery field a green field. Don't forget it. " .' " '. A farmer and his son were clearing off a ' new ground, and the farmer tripped against a root, and exclaimed: "I wish that root was in h ." "Dad, you ought not to wish that," said the . boy, "Cause if you put' it there you are liable to trip over it again some day." ,'. FARMING AS SHE IS DONE IN MACON .'.. Mrsjess Thomas is the earliest -fit jgwww,qfc34itsl these cold days find Jess hunting for a warm place where there are no chicks or setting hens, but he is just out of luck. She has them every where. There is one young" man back up in one of our coves that is on the way to become a master farmer. His name is Claude Henson. Was up to his place one day last week, kind of giving it the once over. He has been putting in this winter while there, was nothing to do clearing a 20-acre pasture and hauling rocks off a 3-acre field and putting up some fencing. Claude says . next year will see nothing but purebreds on his place. He has one of the finest locations I know of anywhere, for ideal farming.- His biggest asset is his will to do. SPEAKING OF THE WILL TO DO Mrs. W. M. Parrish is making eggs at 17 cents per dozen. She is keep ing . records and knows what she . is doing. When she first began her re cord keeping, her eggs were costing her 51 cents per -dozen. - She is get ting more eggs per hen per. month now than she was then. ' Another record keeper is George Dowdle, up on Ellijay. He is the junior partner of Gray and Dowdle, farmers. George is keeping records in his cows. He finds he is netting 50 per 1 cent more in his herd now than before he began testing. Inci dentally, Mr. Dowdle's fortnightly cream check is larger than any other cream check that goes up Ellijay And he is way up in the 'list of the "Big Ten," too. Mr. J. A. Berry, whom we all know, has been note I said has been a life long breeder of beef cattle, is now ad vertising for 25 bred Guernsey heifers. Nuf sed. --' , """ . Another, fine bred Guernsey bull has come to make his home in Macon county. Mr. John Ferguson lias just bought a high class bull. Next to Mr. Hal Slagle's bull, this is the best bred bull in the county. The record of this bull's grand mother follows below: The new world record Guernsey cow in rlss CCC, Coker Golden Car nation 135,458, is owned hv the Pedi creed Seed company, Hartsville. S C. It is not the first time she ha? made an Advanced Register record a she has a' rlaec rerrwA rt 12,088.7" rounds of milk and 628.5 pounds of butter fat to her credit. otrer Golden JCarnat;ion 135,458 with' 12.387.3 wundsC. of milk ?nd 630.7 pounds of butted fat qualifies for first nlae in clas CCC, being the second daughter of Amelia's Rosf Gold of Onhir 80.460, A. R. to make a state leader and national class lead er record within a year's time. "Campion" l's ont f Carnation of Coker Farms 133,161 that has ? recoM of 9,795.3' pounds 'of ' milk and 429.65 pounds of butter fat in class G . ; . With such high class stuff . as Miss Mae Bervl Moody, and Messrs, Fer ruson and Slagle have been bringing THINGS TO PLAN FOR RIGHT NOW That cream check every two weeks. That cannery check every time you come to town. Hog sale first of March. . Poultry sales all along. Egg sales. w- ' Bread and Butter Show, dext fall. .'. Encourage the 4-H Club young sters. Boost your Farmers Federation. Local curb market. . Big Farmers Day on March lsh into the county, things are bound to. happen in the Guernsey cattle line, . . Sam Vanhook, the truck farmer, In putting out an acre of asparagus. Sain is also planting scads of truck for tho, cannery. He says he is going tQ sell what he can and can what he can't. Harley Ledbetter is off on a trip to buy himself 50 Hampshire ewes', and 4 pure bred rams! Three cheers for Harley J- Mr. Ledbetter is put ting these ewes on his mountain pas ture. ; Consult your county agent just -like you do your doctor or vour lawyer. MACON COUNTY-The Land Of Super-Farmers That Think. LYLES HARRIS, County Agent. HATCHERY TO START We arc starting our hatchery the 2nd day of January and expect to have it supervised by one of ; the best hatchery men in the state.. We arc .co-opcrstinjt .wi"ui Mtc'wui vr to be mated by a representative of the State Poultry association and to be housed, fed and cared for accord ing to the state's plan. We breed for utility, but birds from our flocks have carried off Blue Ribbon at the Western Carolina Poultry Associatior shows for .the past four years. . We have had to disappoint som customers because they did not plaiv. their orders until just about the time they wanted -the babv chicks. Yen? ' certainly should place your order at least three weeks before you want the chicks and four to six weeks would" be much better. Send a 25 per cent ( dpnnsili with vrSnr nrrlr int omp B ttiall fiavf niir vorv Kncf oftsnt Jnti T in both quality and service. Wisly ing you a prosperous baby chick yer.r as well as wishing you health and ' happiness for 1928, we arer i ours ror service, . SYLVA HATCHERY. Head Your Fanning Right Wherever there arc flocks and herds and big manure piles, prosperity is evident in smiling fields and abundant crops. Wherever there- are wide stretches of land planted to cash crops and verv litllp 1ivpstk tbr fields grow pale and crops look sick. That the reader may get a clear picture of what livestock and manure piles will do toward the upbuilding , of aj community, the county agent ie rnnvinor tUn f cent issue of the SOUTHERN AGRI CULTURIST: To get farming and farm life start ed off right there must be a visioru- that leads and directs. The Germa( ) Swiss settlers who located in theW Belvidere "community of Franklin cuuiuy, icnnessee, had the vision when they located there about a half century ago. It was a long step from what they started with to that which exists there now. Their ancestors and doubtless some of themselves-. remembered what livestock meant fo soil fertility. They also knew well , the art of making the most out of me manure irom livestock. Thev had seen or had been told of. thV manure pile that was always care fully built just off from the door of the Swiss farmhouse, and that lv was a proud farmer who could boat of the largest one. TheseXettlers ir. Fr-anklin fed cattle, they used plentv of bedmg, and they tried to save every ounce of the- sm'l fprt;i; hof was possible. The soil responded to opi.vauuH oi manure and crop yields were boosted. A step had been i made in the right direction on th naturally thin land. Bone rrieal"Vv used and this filW a nA '!.:- phosphate-hungry soil, and crop yields 1 were boosted again. Lime was usp.fi " laicr, ana it made alfalfa possible while the land wac miA j more feed was grown for livestock. wvt uyMcp jarmmg has grown bf ter in that section nA that on the start planned everythirtr v,.. .llJr liuw g,ve$ some tention to the production of cash i.uoniinued on page 3)
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