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PAGE TWO THE FRANKLIN PRESS, FRANKLIN, N. C. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY, 16, KZZ "CIVILIZATION BEGINS AND ENDS WITH THE PLOY" THINGS TO PLAN TO THROUGHOUT COMING YEAR The Farmers' Day at the test farm at Swannanoa on May 17, 1828. Poultry loading depot with facili ties for grading eggs. An annual poultry show. ... Monthly livestock sales. Farmers' own line of delivery trucks. " , Purebred sires and seeds. Guernsey cattle association. ., A semi-annual seed exchange day. . A Harvest Carnival one day of the bread and butter show. Farming As She Is Done In Macon Mrs.'W. Mi Parrish sold 105 dozen eggs during January for $33.60. Mr. Parrish sells $75.00 worth of cream monthly. No hard luck story there. Charles, Sander stopped me on the -street -one - day last week and fairly bawled me out. Said after I was over to his place and talked chickens to his wife, hed be dashed if she didnt make him go and build a new chicken -house. ' Mr. Allen sprayed watermelons and Irish potatoes with Dormant spray, with good results. Suppose someone else gives this a trial - While talking over the phone from my office with Mrs. Jeff EnJoe the other day about her daughter's 4-H . club work I heard numerous hens cackling. 1 i, asked Mrs. Enloe what it was, and she said that was her music. The cackling of a Jaying hen is one of the most, wholesome kinds of music we can have on a Macon county farm. Mr. Wurst, a man of practical acres of strawberries. Three cheers f or the wise Mr. Wurst J Mr. Tommy AngeL in a. long con versation here in the office the other day, said his taxes are quadruple what they were ' 20 years ago, but they are twice as easy to pay. Speaks well for the hog, hen and cow diversi fication program among our other numerous improvements. FERTILIZER It's a waste of time and money to wse fertilizer on poorly prepared land or where, crops are given half culti vation Just as well pour gasoline in your flivver and never step on 'the starter. - , What arrangements, if any,' have you made toward receiving Messrs. Bean , Beetle, Cabbage Worm, Caterpillar, Flee Hopper, Plant Aphis, and Po tato Blight? Just as well prepare to meet these gentlemen (?) with a well planned .rcppntinn or else slitter inc rnnse- quences. ' It is indeed the v "Hick Fanner" that cannon out farm these pests. . DAIRYING Shipping frozen cream from Maine to Florida for making ice cream is a reflection on' each farmer in the Southeast. Keep Down Production Costs The farmer, who milks cows, is being protected by a tariff from com peting with dairy products from other countries. But if dairymen in Cana da, for instance, can produce cream, milk and butter more economically than can the farmers in the United States their produce will come in. That this is happening right nOw can be gathered by a careful reading of this article taken from the SOUTH ERN AGRICULTURIST. It shows that the dairymen of the United States miist kpen flown thfir rnst 4 nf iirn- duction. ; Producers of dairy products are one class of farmers who are enjoying at present tariff . rates which are largely effective on the price of domestic pro ducts. Foreign, butter brought into the United Mates must pay a duty of 12 cents per pound; cheese, 5 cents per pound; cream,' 20 cents per gal lon 'fluid milk, 2l-2 cents per gallon. Since substantial quantities of dairy products were being imported" before the tariff duties were put 'on, ..trie duties have acted to raise the price received bv Amprirnn nrnHncer's Fv. en with the duty of 12 cents per pouna on Duner smaii amounts nave Vipn cpnt irt ttiic rnnntnr frrm Tn- mark, New Zeland, and other coun tries'.'" The tariff on. milk and cream has benefited dairy producers who are in the territory in which Canadian dairy men can ship these products to cities like Boston, Buffalo and Detroit. In spite of the tariff the amount of milk CONSULT YOUR KEEP YOUR FARM AND IT WILL KEEP YOU AND YOURS and cream coming to the United States from Canada amounts to nearly eleven million dollars' worth a year. This is about double the amount' being re ceived 7 years ago. Canadian milk and cream coming over the tariff wall now constitutes a considerable part of the supply, of the greater New York. Soy beans are an absolute necessity for cheap cream production,. Are you growing soy beans, or are you just a "Hit and Miss" dairyman? Many Counties Conduct .Better-Sires Drives Many requests received by the United States Department of Agricul ture early in January for . literature and assistance in livestock-improvement work . by the use of purebred sires indicate unusual activity in this field. The success of two counties Craig, county, Va., and Russell coun tV) Ky, during 1927 in eradicating all grade and scrub bulls has shown that this much-sought goal is actually at tainable. In Virginia many other counties have adopted systematic agri cultural programs in which the use of purebred sires is one of the chief aims. Newaygo county, " Mich.," of which Harold C. Stinson is county agent, is preparing- for an arly drive- against inferior sires in which a bull-eradication map similar to the one sucess fuTIy used in-Craig County, Va.f is expected to figure. Other counties, judging from requests for literature, are depending in part on such meth ods as scrub-bull trials, posters, and enrollment blanks. The blanks, when filled out, entitle stock owners to purebred-sire barn signs. Department records .show that the first county in the United States to win freedom from the domination of scrub and grade bulls was Union countv, Ky!, this distinction being won in 1926. Two more reached the same goal in 1927, '. and prospects for 1928 are especially favorable in view of the, growing public interest and sup port which the breeding of improved Mineral mixUire 'for "cows lVdS'iVi- lows; 12 parts' charcoal, 3 parts ground bone, 3 parts wood ashes and 1 part salt. " ' "' ' . These are also necessary for eco nomical cream production. , - Breeders' Organizations Increasing "It is apparent that the activity and successful operation of a number of our 350 state and county clubs have generated a desire to 'go and do like wise" says Secretary Karl B. Mus ser of "The American Guernsey Cattle Club. . ' He based his statement on the fact that fourteen new county Guernsey Breeders' Associations have been or ganized with a plan . of work during the last few' weeks, and several more old organizations have been rejuve nated and started on more active pro grams. These local clubs are doing invaluable work . in the . promotion of 4-H clubs, Cow,-Testing associations, Purebred Sire clubs, tuberculin testing and other disease prevention work, under the supervision of the national organization. : t . . . CANNERY Remember that the cannery will be operating ail summer, after the seas nil opens, and will take care of all you can grow. " ' A cannery check every time you come to town will give you a mighty comfortable feeling quite different, ! suspect, from the way. it's been in many cases heretofore you come ; to town with money and go back home with empty pockets. Cannery prices and full details of operation will appear in these columns next week. . I POULTRY We have 15 'poultry sales scheduled for this year. These sales, as you know, are always cash and you also know that you always get the very top of the market, which is, as a rule, about 3 to 5 cents above the local market. .. The sales we will ' have will not only benefit the fellows who sell di rect to the Car but they will help everybody by moving out the surplus and netting a better v local price. . The, price is opeing up fine .and indications are for a good , price throughout the year. .'' Are we going to take advantage . of the price, or are we going to sit down and say : "Well, the price might not be good, so I won't bother with them." .: ' .' How many things do you raise that you know the price will be high on before it is ready for the market? , Think this over and then get busy and raise out about four times as many friers as you intended to. COUNTY AGENT The farm pages of The Press are edited by the county agent in col laboration with the editor. Poultry Is Ready Cash A young farmer at a country store was complaining bitterly of the price paid for farm produce. An old farm er carrying a can of coal oil smiled quietly and. remarked, ."Young,, man, you're right in what you say an' still you're wrong. Prices are a whole lot better'n they used to be.- When I was about your age, I used to swap three dozen eggs for a galldn of coal oil. Nowadays I bring over a dozen fresh eggs an I, carry home over two gallons." Eggs and poultry are always thor oughly worth while on the farm. They are always ready cash at the store and but here is what the SOUTH ERN AGRICULTURIST has to say on this important subject : The poultry and egg crop of the United States is one of our big harvests. The farm does not seem right unless there is heard on it the crowing of the cock and the cackle of the busy hen. Sometimes the flock should be smaller than the 200 hens Tecommfcnded as an economi cal unit; buHt should be- large enough to consume waste food from the kitch en, and the barn and granary, and to supply the farm . home with eggs and fowls for the table, and generally surplus to sell. .Conditions touching farm poultry have changed wonderfully. Market ing conditions have improved greatly, and so have the demands. Eggs and poultry exchange for more "store goods" than they did a generation ago, but it takes a better grade of eggs and better bred and finished ppultry to meet market demands. Al so, most of the feed that is given the poultry has a selling value directly, or when fed to hogs, so it must be combined intelligently if a profit is to be realized. The poultryman, whether he cares for ten or a hundred chick- what he is doing, if satisfactory re sults are to be secured. . i HOGS Purebred sires are the surest profit makers of any one thing on a farm. SEEDS On March the 5th Commisisoners' Day there will be an all around farmers' day in Franklin. The mer chants have been asked to co-operate. This is a great day for exchanging or buying seeds, poultry, bulls, etc., etc. Why not look over what is in your county before going outside? We are going to try to get Dr. R. Y. Winters, of state college, to speak to us on that day. This opportunity is given to the people of Macon county, and it is up to them what use they make of it. Gneiss, N. C, Feb. 14, 1928. Editor- Franklin . Press, Franklin, N. C My Dead Mr. Harris : Will you allow me space in your columns for a few words ? You know it is "human nature" for the most of us to want to boost a little some times, so as I have nothing of my own achievements particularly worthy of mentioning at the present time, I'll boost a little about what one of my neighbors is doing, thereby, getting a little glory for what this, our Pine Grove com munity, is doing, if not for myself. Something over a year ago one of my neighbors, Mr. John C. Dills, having become tired of feeding good corn and other feed grown on his farm to a bunch of run-out, poorly bred, hogs, decided, to risk his judg ment, and money, on a new venture in the hog business. Accordingly, after getting in touch with a well known hog breeder of the middle-west, he proceeded to order a pair of purebred, registered O. I. C. hogs, paying something over $60 for the same, most of the neighbors shaking their heads and .pitying the poor fellow's judgment ; but now after a' year's time the grin is on the other side of their faces. Air. Dills has recently killed one hog from which he reports getting 120 pounds of lard, middlings weigh ing 100 pounds each, nearly enough sausage to last all summer, and any one who has ever had John Dills at his table knows that means some sausage. Besides Mr, Dills' has some nice gilts for future breeders and a dizen or more nice pigs for sale at the present time which are worthy of any farmer's attention, either for breeders or killing purposes. Moral Feed better bred stockf and get out of the rut. ' Yours truly, C. W. HENDERSON. AS YOU WOULD YOUR DOCTOR OR Just About the Farm PRICES OF FEED GRAIN WELL ABOVE LAST YEAR Supply About Same as Twelve Months Ago, in Spite of Record Barley and Larger Corn Crops The total supply of the principal feed grains for the remainder of the, season is little, -if , any, r larger-. thari it was a year ago, in spite of the record barley crop and a larger corn crop this season, says the Burear of Agricultural Economics. While this season's corn crop, ac cording to the December 1 estimate, is about 94,000,000 bushels larger than last season's, the total supply is only about 22,500,000 bushels larger than a year ago, because of the smaller carry over from salt year. Receipts of corn at the markets' since November 1 have totaled practically the same as a year ago, but have pased more rapidly in to consuming channels, and market stocks have not increased materially 'since the movement of the new crop began,' whereas last season market stocks increased about 10,000,000 bush els from November 1 to December 31. The location of a larger surplus waste of the Mississippi River where, a largr er percentage ' is generally fed- on farms, tends to-retard the accumula tion of commercial stocks. ' . The supply of oats August 1 was the smallest since 1913 and about 120,000,000 bushels below k 'last year's supply. The grain-sorghums crop, ac cording to the December 1 estimate, is but little larger than the revised figures for last years production; it totals about 137,608,000 bushels. The 1927 barley crop of 2 5',500,000 bushels was the largest on record, but the active demand early in the season, from both, domestic buyers and ex porters, materially reduced the sur plus. The excess in exports of barley and oats since the 1st of August over ex ports for the same period last year, is almost sufficient to offset the in crease in the total supply of feed prainsthis season .When. the. brevier early 'm 'the season,-caused -iirTii t by high corn prices is taken into ronsideration, the supply of feed consideration, the supply -of feed grains appears vno larger than a - year ago. Prices of the principal feed grains have ' been well above last season reflecting a better demand and the absence of the depressing influence Prepare the Bees For Spring Nectar Raleigh, N. C, Janf (When the bees are not properly prepared for the first spring honey flow, many colonics waste their energy in swarming rather than m gathering the great stores of nectar available from the early flow ers. "Experienced beekeepers ar antici patjng a good yield of honey for the year 1928," says C. L. Sams,, ex tension beekeeper at State college; "The past year was not so satisfactory but the outlook is cood for the com ing season.. When this season opens, the Dees will be thrown into great ac tivity and unless the colonies have been prepared, much of their energy will be misdirected in swarming and a large amount of the early nectar will De allowed to waste. For that reason Mr. Sams advises putting the colonies in the best pos sible condition for. the opening of the season. The strength of the individual colony should be ascertained, ennin- ment prepared, suitable hives arranged and the bees properly, managed. Col ony strength is the first essential, states Mr. Sams. Without strnncr colonies at the beginning of the honey tiowapiary owners need not expect a profitable yield of honey. An abundance of food is imnortant in colony strength: A good queen will li... ki.'.. 1 AAA I A AAA iay u(inc j,uuu aim h,aju eggs a day and the colonv will increase its working force from 15,000 to about 80,000 bees. It requires about one pound ot honey to raise 1,000 bees and this means that at least 75 nounds of honey should be in the normal hive so that the bees mav meet the snrincr boney-ilow at-normaLstrength Some ot this supply, the bees will collect from the earliest flowers, but when the supply, of food .. drops below 10 to 15 pounds the queen will stop lay ing and the hive is weak." Air. hams advises those who do not have sufficient eauirinent to look after this at once. The "time to get a supply of modern hives is before the season opens. It is also well to get a simply of literature on bees and read about the best methods of handl ing. : News has been received that Mrs. Harry M. Strain and sons, Harry, Jr., and Earle, have, .safely arrived at their home in Dunsmuir, Calif. Mr. Strain, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Higdon met them in Sacramento, and motor ed o)n to Dunsmuir. Mrs. Strain is the daughter of Mr. W. L. Higdon, of this city, with whom she spent this summer. , ' THINGS TO PLAN FOR RIGHT NOW That cream check weeks. every two . That cannery check every time you come to town. Fat hog sale in March. . Poultry sale on Wednesday, Feb. ruary 29th. :,' Bread and Butter Show next fall. , , ..,- Encourage the 4-H Clubbers. Big Farmers' day on March 5th. Local Curb Market. Breed sows So that the pigs will go on the market in March, April, August and September. of large commercial stocks. Corn prices at the principal markets De cember 23 were, on an "average, 12 cents per bushel higher than a year prior, with . discounts for the lower grades much smaller because of the relatively higher quality of the crop. Oats prices have been averaging about 9 cents higner than at the same time in 1926, jrith ' premiums beimj paid .''for heavjr-weiglit, high-quality, grains Malting- types A barley- have been bringing 15 to 20 cents per bushel more than last season, in spite of the large crop, while feeding gradles. have been selling at wide premiums: over last season's quotations at the same time of year. Grain sorghums have been bringing 25 to 30 cents per 100 pounds better prices in the southwestern markets than last seas on. i Secretary Jardine has said: "In agriculture we should continue to ob tain greater output per unit of cost." But we should not. stop at that! we should aim to gain that bargain ing power which industry and labor have attained bv workincr together I I fa cjj cj , through their organizations built; alonK JRr , . ..-- -T- --VPN - r- - -'''"-''yB--ty,.-; "Farmers won't get together no- , . how." , -v " - T 1 Listen to thus!i Ahnnt ive thrmcanrr (5,000) co-operative livestock shipping, associations and other local' ossocia- tions and local associations shipping livestock are doing business in the United States. . In 1926 they . handled $40,000,000. worth ot livestock for members. . Macon county has a sleeping giant in her fields, the toes of which she has never even caused to wiggle yet. When will she wake him up ? ' HICK FARMER: ' The man that works his .whole time every day in the fields. . SUPER-FARMER : The -man who puts in 6 hours a day in his fields and the rest planning and "diversify ing." . -. The people who take time to live that . is, plan your work so ybu are its master and not its slave. . - ; ; - (Incidentally, work vnur rnnntv agent 'whenever you need to, for ail ne is wortn;. " Trouble mav be the vprv HpvIT but it erives us an nnnnrtnnitv tn ob tain great satisfaction in knocking him out. f This telenhone business is - trpttitw serious I mean ,the lack of rural telephones. Some day right soon somebody is going to have the oppor tunity ot saying,"!, told you so."1 - . Farmine to 1 he successful mnct a balanced iob. We have all tiMtvt V this before, and most of us know it, uui ao we oo it r , ' . . i - - First. , We must nlan hlir oneratinnc. to fit - our pocket book. ' Next, to suit OUT Own individual" inclinations. Next. tO" Suit Our Own nartirnlar- farm. Next, a co-ordinated svstem of rmv. rotation and stock ' breeding. Next, the nroduction of.rmalitv stm'r for quality stuff in quantity always hens. ' , ' ' Next, we will be farming on i?v years to come. : Next. Our main ioh in life aftrr all is home building and family support. "S No forward movement for keto' farming in Macon county will be sut cessful unless a maiorTtv nf population interest themselves in it. V- w MACON Countv The T and n( c, er-Farmers Who Think. LYLES HARRIS, County Agent. YOUR LAWYER i c (
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