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THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1323 PAGE TWO "CIVILIZATION BEGINS AND ENDS WITH THE FLOW" THE FRANKLIN PRESS, FRANKLIN, N. C. ; ; h tiii wr. c Tn PLAN TO THROUGHOUT COMING YEAR The Farmer' Uay ai ine i farm at Swannanoa on May 17, W28' Poultry loading depot with facili ties for grading eggs. . . An annual poultry show. Monthly livestock sales. ,. Fanners' 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. KEEP YOUR FARM AND IT WILL KEEP YOU AND YOURS Just About the Farm The Cannery Work is going forward on. the large extension to the cannery build- ' ing at a very rapid rate. Mr. Case, a' man with thirty years canning exxperience arid well known throughout Tennessee, Virginia and the Carolinas, will, have charge oi the canning. . . This announcement comes from Mr. Charlie Teague, and you will see a further announcement from him in this wccks issue. . -. It appears that there will be a very large blackberry, crop, this year. In is like getting money trom home. Scores" of people have told me the things they woujd ao n uicy w, had a little money, or anyway to eet it. Well, here's your chance, it .you want it. And if you dont want it-well, that's that. t:.l .uj fritto familv in Macon Willi ui ".'b" ' , f Should the weather turn off dry then frequent shallow cultivation will be necessary. At present, however, crops had bet ter be left to grow and not hindered bv the cutting of the root system: J VJvr. it nossible to kill all grass and weeds before planting, in a seas on like we have had, tne icss tm tivation the better, for cultivation has but two primary objects, lhat is, the eradication ot weeas ami i.a conservation oi son No matter how much or how little cultivation is given, every other mid dle should be cultivated and allow a few days to elapse before working out the other one. . This will leave half the root system intact for feeding the plant. . Purebred Winter Seed TJ.... mmv mnrp farmers are mtcr- iiun . ested in taking" on high grade seed production? jf. . This will mean two crops a year, and more feed than we are getting now, for the screening could be used for livestock, feeding on the farm, and the high class seed sold. . Home . Economics The state has the money to pay two-thirds of the salary of a Home Economics Demonstrator, and expen ses, and has offered it to Macon county- ' What is Macon county going to do about it? Home Demonstration Ag;i)t The farm pages of The Press are edited by the county agent in col laboration with the editor. NO INTEREST IN FARM RELIEF works with the wives and daughters on cooking, sewing, canning, and all other things pertaining to the home. A county as progressive as Macon cannot let this opportunity pass. The cynic is one who knows the equipment. The barn eventually col lapsed and has since been replaced by a neat frame barn sufficient for their needs. A new nouse nab nsu been built. They moved in on Fri day, October 13, which .their friends pointed out, was sufficient to bring them all kinds oi Dau nit, uu they did have their share of hard times. . . , They bought 200 Leghorn hens as r,r,A hpcran clearing away brush and trees; but they neceded ready money, so Mr. liryant went 10 work in a sawmill, leaving Mrs. Bryant and the small son and daugh ter to carry on at home. Water Carried From Brook There was no well.' All the water ior nouse ana luiv.-" , rarriod from a brook that flowed i,r thf. ennth . edtrc of the place just below the knoll on which the buildings stood. Both the ' children were willing helpers, but the hardest and heaviest tasks naturally Jell on Mrs. Bryant in making garden and ,i,.:.,,r tun rtinrrs nn the place while Mr. Bryant was away working tor f:i. thnv had no money with which to buy cither an incubat or or baby chicks, ana not unm u i second year could, they really embark on their poultry venture. Their tirst incubator, 500-egg capacity, was set u timnc TVipv now have 1A in cubators, from which they are doing an annual baby chick business of more than $4,000. Hens Reward for Work Thece fibres indicate the growth of the business iself, but that is not half the talc, for out of the years of struggle, hard luck and sacrifice has come a poultry farm that is now one of the best lmpruvcu u. Farmers of Macon Working Out Own Salvation With out Reference to Congress Co-operative Sales Pay. That the veto of the farm relief bill has met with little or no criticism in Macon is evident to those who will . take thq trouble to interview the farmers of this COUlltV. Those who till the soil in the valleys and coves of Macon county have, long since come to the conclusion that the professional politician can bring them no relief. One progressive farmer states that all the bills for farm re lief have overlooked the important fact that it is encumbent upon the farmer himself to keep up with the fimnc qiuI to nrar.tice imnrovced farm ing methods by taking advantage of the State Extension Service. That tho farmcirs of Macon county are coming to depend more and more nnnn the . work of the Extension ic indicated bv figures ob taincd At the office of Lylcs Harris, rront Those records show WUIllJ ubt..i.. , T.T 1 that since the first of last Novem ber 1 QQS farmers have called at the office of the county; agent foe in formation on various agricultural subjects. During this time the agent revived 5177 telephone calls for in formation, traveled in the county on official business 5,845 miles, wrote 856 letters and sent out 37 circulars totaling 15,813 copies. -During aD sence from the office 640 farmers called for information. Meetings Are Held . , TliirfPf.il enrrialists from the Ex A .1.1 iv. v . . , i:, ifiriMf-f Vinvp visited the coun- Everything is paid ty since the first of November last . .J . I " in il , .! I r. flirt n rrnn The cvnic is one .who - v ,: ir..,tU',n(, ic nr. d tr'ff 3 v? H1 -4Hp "MVsjt , - th c a pen THINGS TO PLAN FOR RIGHT NOW i That cream check every two weeks. That cannery check every time you come to town. . Fat hog sale in June. ' Bread and Butter Show next fall. ' Encourage the 4-H Clubbers. Big Fanners' day next fall. Local Curb Market. Breed sows so that the pigs will go on the market in March, April, August and September. X tit twmww I wonder if any one familywu sell onq hundred dollars worth t berries to the cannery this season. I am going to ask the cannery management to give a prize ot twenty-five dollars for two families (fifteen dollars for the first and ten ... r ,!, cPMinrt familV) tliat ciouars iui - -i,,irf..l bring ,to the cannery one hundred dollars worth of blackberries. That is, berries picked by only one family, not hired picKca or ui i.a.iv.-..., ,.,;tii anv other family. v Tomato Plants Strong vigorous tomato plants arc now on sale at the cannery for a dollar and a half per thousand plants and now is the time of year to set these out. . . Some fewpeople, mostly Ac "scarc auicks" aid head-shaking I-told-vou-sos" are afraid that the cannery will not take the stuff that is being, or could be, piamcu un n. , '" 'These people are, in .some cases, hesitating to plant their -late ta! crops. I want to say right now that they are making a mistake. The cannerv will op,crate and will buy all first ' class stuff brought t it. re- wc Macon county, the land of Super Farmers that think perhaps. . Yours truly, . . LYLES HARRIS, County Agent. Letter From C. W. Teague About the cannery as it was stated in last copy of The Press, we - have for sale a nice lot of tomato plants at the cannery. Any one wishing to buy them may see the Franklin Furniture company near the cannery. Price $1.50 per thous and. Would like to say a little further, that we" would like to have all these plants set out. Why not give the girl or boy a little plat of ground and let thehv make a little school money ? J am anxious that the cannery may do wen ana un less the farmers back it up it cannot exist I find that in most eases pcopic have failed to get . a stand of sweet corn. It is a very difficult thing to grow. So 1 am not ex pecting much from it, but we can grow tomatoes and beans, and there is plenty time yet to plant cither, lwi'c tin nnr best. Wc have pro- cured a ,Mr.y Case of Henderson- and painted the house wnue, in. other buildings gray with white trim tiling In two houses, ceiled and with con crete floors, and with plenty of win dows for ventilation .are installed the 24 incubators, all oil-lamp ma chines. , 28,000 Chicks Sold Yearly - T...,t,roirrlif thousand babv chicks are sold annually and, in addition, sufficient are kept from which to se lect ' -LOOO pullets to go into the lay ing house hf the fall. ThenT are two brooder houses, one 14x32 feet, the other 14x40 feet. Each has a brooder room equipped with an oil-heated brooder and an exercise and feeding room to take care of the chicks that are kept on the place. arge uouu.c yards arc attached to each house. These arc used on alternate years so one yard can always be plowed and sown to grain to keep down soil con- TV,,, mr.ii! lavinir house, into which iho millets uo ic ,uiv v i m Aimist or early in September, is 24x cf the cannery and the .Extension . . c .l:. u i,L I c .1 fmnrc -f thp rountv 1f4 feet In the muuiic oi uns uuir.i-, oerv ite mv '""- -rA inc is a two-story feed and storage , have planted this year 750 acres in house 24 feet square from oposite ! sweet corn and other truck crops Jo ides of which extend quarters to be sold to the cannery. Three or care for 500 pullets each. The first! four yCars ago.it was rare to see care ior i , , , , prmvnc' n Alacon county. our OI tniS ICCU iuuiu u uw. y,y ,v.n..., r, i j. i S storage, feed mixing, sorting This year the farmers have planted Ma'u siy'b1-, , o,-,,r .nrpviniis vear more Tarmcrs were" piesem. - mr w"" number of meetings held in the period in question was 83 with a total at tendance of 4,042 farmers or members of their respective families. Ihe agent has also made 105 special vicitc tn farms. He has also made hundreds of calls to attend ailing cows, hogs and poultry. Within' the past seven months the direct in dividual services by the' county agent to the farmers total 6,785 not taking into consideration the telephone calls and letters written. By taking each individual contact as a unit of service the farmers of Macon have called upon their county agent since No vember 1, last year, for 40,144 units Besides the above the Extension Service has been called upon to as c,ct in tho direction of the policies of the Farmers Federation, the local creamery, which is privately owned, and the Macon County Food Products company, a co-operative canning com or,,, tliat bandies all surplus truck Spurred oil Dy tne oinciais county the figures contained herein will give some idea of the extent t whic.h the farmers of Alacon arc- utilizing the services of the count;' agent. A few politicians here and yonder are advocating the discharge of the agent from the viewpoint ot expense. One prominent farmer has taken the trouble to figure up the benefits of the agent that come to the farmers only through co-operative sales. His figures follow: Since No vember the farmers have received from co-operative sales the sum of $24,065.75. During that priod thes cost - to the county of the county agent's office has been $1,429.20 Those who remember the clays be fore the county had a representative of the Extension Service claim that they have received at least 20 per cent more for their poultry, hogs and wool under the co-operative plan, than they would have reecived had these products been sold to peddlers. Hence they claim that the Extension Service in co-operative sales alone hn5,sivcd .the... farmers $4,813.15 or Ki i n c- t- ..,,..4-Uv,.Jpo.of.f ;bi.",nf f ire"" "" "tVCTl"" a Casual -OOSCrVivtrwr,- - .-. agricultural industry in Macon county will suffice to indicate that tne larm- ers here are not depending upon farm relief from Congress. ' On every hand are numerous evidnces that tne tillers of the soil in this county have awakened from their sleep of a cen tury, are casting old methods' into the discard and are adopting those t v ..:n T r tn dn our nackine. who Field Seed Selection. has 'had more than "a quarter of .a. e : Mi rrr rnllll- . I UiiliUr How many tanners i .new. ccntUry s experience ana is ty have a single field or patch - into rccommended by those who have had which at harvest time they could, go (kalines with him during this time, tu c,.,f1 Wnowmtr that they anc getting standard-bred seed, true to variety. ' T do not know of a single one. ( '-'. ' In the cornfields about three stalks out of every ten at least is barren. Three have perfect ears, well de veloped, and the balance some where in between this. Figure out your loss from such methods. The cause of this is, first, absence of field selection of seed. Second, too close spacing throughout years perpetuates barreness. Third, lack of a balanced plant food weakens the stalk. . ' Crop Cultivation . All growers of 1 crops would do well to exercise great care m tivation. . . In fact, it would be well not to cultivate, af present at least, any more than just enough to keep the weeds and grass uncier comrui . The reason for this is owing tc the exxcessive rains up to now, an the root systems have not developed to the extent that they would have normally. , , a ,oit flral of time must be made ud by the growing crops from now on, and they need every inch of root surtace tney can vj v velop. ,7 n7winff ecus, and is the mainjin excess of any .'previous year more r U;,, tn ihe lavimr houses.' In the ; than a carload of soy bean seen ,ov both as a packer and salesman, and I feel that we are very iorumaic m getting Mr. Case connected wun our cannery. C. W. ILAOUt, Manager. ' ; ' ' t . FAMILY WINS INDEPENDENCE BY RAISING POULTRY un takivi Debt of $1,500 Assumed at Outset- Father Labors in Sawmill to auppiy Cash-AU Buildings Replaced. fn.. n.mM r.Unworth Shumaker) Mrs. Albert E. Skoggs of Portland, Ore., sends the following article clip ped from an Oregon paper with the notation that "It could be done in Macon county just as wel as in Oregon, don't you think?" re . : Myxt.1.1 K,,t will it r yjl course 11 iuuiu, uuv ........ An outstanding success in the" poul try business, in a state where there arc many successful poultrymen, is that of George N. Bryant of Junc tion City, Ore., 18 miles northwest of Eugene;- his shipping and trading point. , ',, Eleven years ago Mr. and Mrs. Bryant purchased 15, acres of hill land, practically all in brush, lying a half mile south of , the village ot Franklin on the old Territorial road for $100 per acre, going into debt foi the whole amount, with the avowed intfntinn of troiner into the poultry business. With the land ' they ac quired an ancient house into which u fomilv moved. A few 'ram shackle outbuildings completed thei Villi C11K.1. iv j c - ctnrv is Rtorcd baled straw, which can be pushed through doors down into the houses below when the litter is to be changed. There are five breeding houses,, each 20x30 feet, and each containing 210 mature hens. These breeding flocks are replenished annually by ii. .v,:ct individual' from the laying flock-of. pullets of the previ- ous year, ine maies arc icu.6. .w. individuals of the highest quality. From these matings come the eggs that go into the incubators : from which are hatched vigorous chicks. With a total laying and breeding flock of more than, 2,000 hens and pullets maintained on the Bryant form the cross annual returns run into very substantial figures. The sale of 28,000 baby chicks irom ine breeding flocks, besides their eggs in the market outside of the early hatching season, added to the egg ,t.,r frntn the 1.000 nillletS. IS no mean sum in the total. To this nv be added the amount brought by tne coi nf t nm broilers annually, cock erels for' breeders and the surplus aged hens from the breeding hocks. The poultry buildings and the horse and cow barn complete the outbuild :fYe the Rrvant farm. ' The old house has lately been replaced by a" fine, modern home of eight rooms, with full cement basement, with an eight-foot porch and sunroom on the front anda large screened i kitchen porCh at the side.- ; cioftriritv and runnine water are provided for all buildings. Water is taken from a deep, drilled wen, ano frf.ch rnM water mav be ; had direct frem'the well without passing through the pressure tank. soil improvement and cattle feed. 100 Cows Under Test A few years ago not one farmer in a hundred knew what was meant by testing the milk of a cow. Now more than 100 cows in the county are on test "under the supervision .of ua TT-vrtpncinn Service. the Exten- tilV A-V.V. sion Service also has underway u demonstrations in sweet clover and several in fertilization. Under the active leadership of the county agent 500 boys and girls nave enroueu m the 4-H club who list among their nrr.if.f-tc hees. calves. Dies, poultry, gardens, flowers, potatoes, corn, and forestry. ' . Within the period under review the Extension Service has conducted two co-operative hog sales, one co tivf wool sale and 10 co-opera tive poultry sales, the last totaling 82,324 pounds for which the farmers ,1 S17 SX1 in casn. ine iarm- thA rnnntv have also pur chased in the past seven months a carload of grade dairy neuers an hoars. Ac a general rule the farmers arc also building good poultry houses, in stalling self feeders tor pigs ami f.u onit nrderinir nure seed for nlantinp. The Extension Service is now putting on a campaign to grow ni cfffl fnr the marKet. n nas Wofi cf.i f.ral letters of inquiry regard intr mountain seed. Experts claim that seed grown at high altitude is better for the low countries than native grown seed. Value of Agent's Work Considering the fact that there ... Uc thQn ?nf)0 farms in the Alt itsa J that will bring handsome returns from the soil. Farmers " everywhere in the county are taking heart and are predicting that at thei present rate of progress Macon county with in 10 years will be the pride of the state from an agricultural standpoint. MANY AREAS BLIND TO LOSS OF RICH SOIL BY EROSION" Tprrarino- of farm lands in the South and Southeast is common, but not nearly so common as it should be if the erosion of fertile surface soil is to be prevented. North of Oklahoma and Tennessee there arc few terraces for .soil saving. "Farm ers do not even know what they are," says. H. H. Bennett, soil scientist of. the United States department of agri culture. Erosion is gathering momen tum: As the more absorptive top soii is washed off down to the less absorptive subsoil, the rate of wash ing increases. ; So, the region which b-,ie alroadv suffered most from rain- wash is really just on the 'thrcshhold of the more impoverishing kind ot erosional wastage, and nothing is be ing done to conserve these splendid agricultural lands, which arc, the cap ital of the farmers living on them and a vital heritage to posterity." v , Farmers too otten believe that their mA ; 'Warinir out" when the real trnnble is that "it is "washine out. Clay spots begin to appear in lieids for no other reason than the. iact.- that the darker surface, soil with J a larger content of humus has been washed away. The clay beds do not grow and crop up through the 'sou" y.h-a rrrfYwjino- nlants 1 he real sit- w liivv (5 '' 1 - - uation is that they are uncovered by the rains that wash away the topsoil.. The Missouri Kiver region suiters; seriously from erosion. But, says- Mr. Bennett, it is not to be under stood that erosion in the north-centraf part of the United States is restricted to the Missouri River region. The wastage is taking place generally throughout this great region, most violently, of. course, on the sloping areas. Soil displacement by this process is slow on the very extensive flat areas of the prairie regions mat formerly were covered by a most ef ficient soil-conserving mat of native grass; but even here the gradual re moval of the rich surface material is miirh crreater than is commonly recog nized, since tne clearing oi ine 1"pjtm' ing and rolling areas anu uesirucuirt of the virgin sod, much costly wash,-'f ing has taken place m Missouri, lowa, . Nebraska, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, 'Wis- . consii and other states. Recent soil . surveys in southwestern Wisconsin have shown that the problem of , erosion is a most serious one in many localities." ' mMQIILT YOUR COUNTY AGENT AS YOU WOULD YOUR DOCTOR OR YOUR LAWYER M
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