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THE FRANKLIN PRESS, FRANKLIN, N. C.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, i;23
CIVILIZATION BEGINS AND. ENDS WITH THE PLOW
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THINGS TO PLAN TO
THROUGHOUT COMING YEAR
The Farmer' Day at the test
farm at Swannanoa on May 17,
1828. x
Poultry loading depot with facili
ties for grading eggs.
An annual poultry show.
Monthly livestock sales.
Farmers' own line , of delivery
trucks.
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Purebred sires and seeds.
Guernsey cattle association.
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A semi-annual seed exchange day.
A Harvest Carnival one day of
the bread and butter show, .
FARM HAPPENINGS IN MACON
' " Successful Bean Growing
. Messrs. Gray and Dowdle on Ellijay
sure have done some good work on
the bean growing stunt. They had
a measured acre. Last week they
picked the first picking and sold them
to the cannery. . After paying for
seeds, fertilizer, and picking they have
$61.00 to the good. "This sure is a
very hard blow to the self appointed
prophets that have been telling us
to the cannery. Its all foolishness to
tell me any thing about it." Well,
after remarks like that, 'we of course,
.agree that it is worse than useless.
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"You just can't get beans picked."
That is another bogey that belongs
to the limbo of exploded excuses.
Last week a man came into town say
ing' that he had a hundred bushels 1or
... more of beans that was in bad need
,'. of jpicking.. .We. looked .around and
tound a truck oaa oi dovs mat were
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UUing milling IIC1C ill 1 idilMin aiiu iuun
them out and picked his beans. Ihey
made a dollar and a quarer and the
man got his beans picked. Now these
same boys are asking every day if
there is any one else that has beans
to pick. You see there always comes
a way if its looked for.
KEEP YOUR FARM AND IT WILL KEEP YOU AND YOURS
get the habit of barley -growing so
as to. be ready.
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Ever heard of the Japanese Beetle?
Well, that is a little bug that is
coming south. He is in Maryland
now. There is not anything grow
ing that he will not cat. After a
spraying, the government men have
picked up as many as one bushel
under one apple tree. And when
he gets in a grain field or a meadow
he eats the roots so that you can
go in the field and pick up the grain
or grass just like it had had a sharp
knife run under it. And I meean
all of it as you go and not just a
stalk here and there.
The solution is winter crops and ro
tation. Better study these a little.
If you cannot be bothered, just quit
farming and get out.
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What about getting up about ten
cars of scrub cattle and selling them
and buying a couple of loads of real
good stuff? It would pay.
Do you read the letters that I send
out to you from time to time? Bet
ter look over these each time. If
there is nothing in them at the time
that you can use at the moment, there
might be at some time in the future.
Then we cannot get too much knowl
edge any way- assuming that there
is anything in the letter that could
be called knowledge.
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The National Dairy Show to be
held at Memphis, Tenn., from the
thirteenth to the twentieth of October
is well worth a good crowd going to
see. You need a vacation any how.
Our Own Bread and Butter Show
comes off on the 25, 26 and 27 of
October. The entries will be the
same as last vear with the addition
of the 4-H club entries. Remember
I offered a prize of fifty dollars to
the man woman or child that has the
largest winnings with their exhibit.
Everything will be counted that wins
a prize of any kind.
The farm pages of The Press are
edited by the county agent in col
laboration with the editor.
roots are of the most service to the
corn just when it is coming into
from then on.
It is to be regreted that Prof. Har
bison is so far away from us. There
are many things besides farming that
we would learn ,from him. Maybe
there will i come a chance in the near
future for us to get somewhat better
acquanitcd with him.
BETTER RURAL LIFFE
URGED IN RESOLUTIONS
, 1 .-To, look., around , over the county
an experimental way this fall. If
there are any more that would like to
see ; wnat u 7 wui - cio, piease lei me
. know at once for its time the seed
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WUV VIUVIVU.
Bur clover takes the same iiinocula
tion as Sweet clover and grows just
at the opposite time of year. It be
gins to come up now and grows till
late .winter and then dies down to
come' up again of its own accord the
next fall. There is one man in Spar
tanburg , county, S. C, that has had
green fields every winter for ten
years and has only planted the clover
one time. The idea is to go right
'on with the summer crops in the
usual way and the clover will take
care of itself and come on again as
if it had been sowed.
Every Field a Green Field This
v Winter
Are you going to save your soil
fertility by a little and a very little
effort light at tnis time or are you
going to sit back and let your fields
wash and ltjach away? Sow anything
that will grow in the winter and turn
it under in the spring and you will I
save at least ten dollars worth of fer
tilizer. Then think what a good thing
it will be for, your cows all during
the winter as well as air other live
stock on the place,
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The following are field crops that
should be planted now. Pick out one
or two that you know and sow them
in the fields in large amounts. Then
get a few seed of the ones that you
do not know and that you think you
would like to try. Plant them and
see what the indications are for their
being of economic value to you:
Alsike clover, Blue grass, Bur clover,
Canada Field Pea, . Crimson Clover,
Herds grass, Mceadow Mixtures, Or
chard Grass, Pasture Mixtures, Rape,
Red clover, rutabagas, rye, Sweet
tlover (unscrified seed), timothy,
vetch, and White clover.. Surely out
f this lot you can find some one or
two that will suit your personal taste
and be suitable and profitable to your
own soil and feeding conditions. The
best farmers are using them. ,
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I notice that Irish potatoles are
ougming very Daaiy in nearly ail
- parts of the county. Still you hear,
"No sir, my potatoes do not need any
spraying. Why I raise potatoes every
year and I don't spray." No, you
didn't, but how much better off you
would have been if you had. Our
granddads did not ride in flivcrs, but
we do. Its a "Pore Farmer" indeed
that does not use his head. .
Speaking of head work. Do .you
- - fc.j,r
in His heaven ancPthat all is well.
No big distastef s have befallen us
in. this crop 'year. No - backsliding
is in evidence," but rather a steady
pull upward, and onward. Of ""course
there has been" hinderanaes and stop
pages and what not, but generally and
particularly has there been a forward
movement. Now. that the crop is
made its a good time to take a look
at our tracks and see how far or how
little we have come.
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Raleigh, N.' G, AugustMatters im
perative to the continued success of
farming in North Carolina were pass
ed upon at the business meeting of
the 26th annual State Farmers Con
vention and the First Farm and Home
Week recently held at State College.
The convention elctd M. L. Adder
holdt of Lexington, as president for
the next year. J. T. Albritton of
Calypso, Duplin county, was elected
first vice-president; C. A. Ballentine
of Varina, Wake County, was elected
second vice-president and James M.
Gray of Raleigh, was re-elected sec
retary and treasurer. For the state
federation of home demonstation
clubs, Mrs. W. T. Whitsett of Whit
sett in Guilford county, was elected
president; Mrs. W. C. Pou'of States
ville, first vice-president; Mrs. Miles
Marsh of Asheville, second vice-president;
Mrs. Henry Middleton of War
saw, recording secretary and Mrs.
Estelle T. Smith of Raleigh was elect
ed secretary and treasurer.
J. J. Hackney of Bynum in Chatam
county, won the wood sawing outfit
offered as a prize in the tree nam
ing contest and W. A. Connell, Jr.,
of Warren Plains, Warren county,
won first prize in the crop indentif i
cation contest.
The resolutions adopted called for
more attention to livestock farming,
especially in view of competition in
cotton and iobacco growing from
tectums of ihe Souiiil' lui'c
THE EYES OF THE
WORLD ARE ON US
The following message, brought
home to Idaho club members by
Dean E. J. Iddings of the University
of Idaho, College of Agriculture, after
a seven months tour of thee world,
applies equallywcll to 4-H club
members .in all parts of the United
States so we will all appropriate
Dean hidings' message to ourselves.
"One returns to the United. States
after seeing conditions in other lands,
convinced of the distinct leadership
that we have in work for boys and
girls among our rural population. In
fact, our methods of providing study,
the whole plant of encouraging and
supervising club work in America,
have served as an example for the
other countries of the world.
"Our boys and girls should .be
proud to know that we are furnish
ing leadershp in this important piece
of work and that our work right
here in .Idaho is far in advance of
that in most' other countries. Our
example is being watched , by the club
members who live in other lands, in
cluding many who do not speak our
. a a m .
language Dut who qesire some day to
equal our achievements."
BULL CALVES ARE PROBLEM
A large number of farmers are
handling purebred, cattle. Many, of
these men are interested primarily in
the dairy end of the game. They do,
however,-have registrd animals, espe
cially bulls, for sale occasionally and
would be glad to know how to place
them to advantage.
In the following short article by
J. L. Anderson of the Georgia State
College of Agriculture, which appear
ed in thee Southern Agriculturist,
there are many very sane suggestions
for the sale of purebred cattle:
With the increased interest in. pure
bred cattle, a larger number of people
are getting into the purebred bus
iness. Many of these are milking a
number of cows and have four or
five good purebred cows from which
they are expecting to build a herd.
In many instances they do not wish
to sell their heifer calves. What to
THINGS TO PLAN FOR RIGHT
NOW
That cream check, every two
weeks.
That cannery check every time
you come to town.
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Fat hog sale in June.
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Bread and . Butter Show next
fall. '
Encourage the 4-H Clubbers.
Big Farmers' day next fall.
Local Curb Market.
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Breed sows so that the pigs will
go on the market in March, April.
August and September.
Eighteen poultry club members in
Litchfield county, Conn., have pur
chased 1785 chickens from accredited
flocks. County club agent, Albert L
Marmf has been carrying on a cam
paign to get club members to start
with chickens free from disease and
then to keep them in clean surround
ings. Two Weeks' Work
"Club Work's contribution to the
good of agriculture in Orleans county,
Vermont, during the past two weeks
nas included l pureDrea caives, a
bushels of certified seed potatoes,
1875 certified baby chicks, 4000 Red
Pine and Norway Spruce seedling"
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Clothing Echoes
"Scarcely a week goes by" says
Mary L. Sanborn, assistant state club
leader, "without our hearing about
some club girl making a dress for her
little sister or her mother, or- teach
ing a neighbor how to make bound
buttonholes, or set-in pockets, or per
haps teaching some older girls how
to do Italian hemstitching. Two thous
and girls were enrolled in clothing
clubs in New" Hampshire last year."
Good Returns
know that the European Corn Borer
is 'in West Virginia and headed this
way? Do you know further that J'his
iitte gentleman flics as far as twenty
miles in one flight? Barley is as
good a ;feed crop as corn for most
things. The wise man will begin to
After looking over our actions in
the past its a good thing to look and
see where we can make the same
time and energy go farther and bet
ter in the future. There is always
room for improvement and its a sor
ry man indeed that does not realize
this and mend his licks accordingly.
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There is one crop that is large in
this good County of Macon this year
and that is weed and' grass seeds.
Many a man will wish next spring
that he had more fencing and could
keep sheep and hogs in his fields to
eat these same seeds when they come
up to pester him in his .work. Did
you ever stop to think how many
pounds of meat could be raised on
the weeds and grass on every place
in this county that is now going to
waste? Also, did you ever stop to
think how many hours of back break
ing toil is spent in getting rid of the
weeds and grass that could be avoid
ed by a little head work?
One of the hotel keepers told me
last week that he had about quit try
ing to get chickens from the farm
men because they were so unreliable
in getting the chickens in on the day
that they promised. Of my own
knowledge I know that this is a fact
To keeep good trade it is imperative
to fulfil all promises. Its no use
hollering hard times and that they
are agin us if we do things like that.
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That grand old man, Prof. T. G.
Harbison sure has a farm that is
a credit, not only to himself, but to
the whole county. He will have three
thousand bushels of first class apples
this year. They are sprayed and the
trees have been fertilized and pruned
so that they are as strong as it is
possible to get them for the hard
work of producing a bumper -crop.
The professor has a field of corn
that has not been worked since it
was planted. He says, and rightly,
that we work our stuff seventy-five
per cent too much after planting and
only ten per cent enough before plant
ing. You recall "I told you so" some
week or two ago in The Press that
this is a year when work would do
more harm than good after getting
rid of weeds.
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In a wet season the corn roots are
so near the surface of the ground that
any kind of plow will cut them off.
This, of course is the" very .thing
that should not be done for the
Poe. Dr'f J.' Y. Joyner, . Charles F.
Cates, committees to begin the pr
ganization work. Adjustment of tax
es -on farm - lands - and farm forests
was requested; better school facilities
as a state-wide duty was asked- fop
rural sections and the eight months
term was endorsed. More attention
to health, support of co-operative
organizations, support of the State
Fair and more attention to political
leadership by farmers were some of
the other important matters u pon
which resolutions were passed.
WE DENOUNCE BUT WANT
Human nature is just human nature.
do with the purebred bull calves is
'pilc&A -roUiftTbc'oIIa'ias-'pciats he' eight members' of . the . Eden
ginner in the purebredjcatitiebusiness
1. Know your breeding records. You
must be able t6 explain to those in
terested in buying,: the line of breed
ing of your cattle, the production rec
ords., and other things about their
history. Just to say you will furnish
the registration papers will not be
likely to make a sale.
2. Advertise your offering. Tell the
public what you have to sell. You.
may think that with only a tew calves
to sell, that this will not pay. How
ever, the right kind of advertising
will pay. It only costs a few dol
lars to run a small ad in farm papers
This, together with an ad in your
average net mcome of $111 on their"
club projects during 1927. Their lab
or income showed $1.32 for each hour
of Jabor
riuman naiure is urn numari nature, h j m help you sell
The average mar. will, denounce 3 rjse mctures of the animals
When someone writes you about one
wealth as a personal danger; but wel
comes it for himself. He never has
believed in the tariff; but would be
glad to have it if it happened to pro
tect him. And so it goes,
Below are two paragraphs cut out
of a rather long editorial in the
Southern Agriculturist. They are
worth reading and then re-reading
carefully:. '
The chief reason that special priv
ilege and governmental subsidies to
certain groups are condemned by a
sound philosophy of govcrnnjent, is
not that special privileges and sub
sidies confer unusual benefits on those
receiving them, and thereby put them
above those who are denied the sub
sidy. To make such an interpretation1
as this is to grossly . misinterpret the
American philosophy of government.
Subsidies and special privileges to
certain favored groups are condemned
fundamentally because, they are curses
to those receiving them, and tend to
destroy efficiency in the fields to
which they are applied. Subsidies and
special privileges are of the nature
of charity, and charity to normal peo
ple is to be condemned, not be
cause it gives unwarranted help to
the recipients, but because it tends to
destroy them as ; helpful members of
society.
The attitude of certain so-called
leaders in the fight against subsidies
and special privileges is so stupid that
it becomes ludicrous. They denounce
special privilege and subsidy in one
breath, and then demand that these
evils be bestowed on them in the
next.. These things are bad, it would
seem, only when they are not the
recipients. A similar attitude is main
tained with reference to the centrali
zation of power. The hostility of
many so-called Jeffersonoan Dem
ocrats to centralization is only equall
ed by their enthusiastic support of
almost every centralizing measure that
comes up before congress, as is
demonstrated in the support given to
federal control! of children, federal
education, federal maternity bills and
so on. 1
of your animals, send a picture along
with vour reply.
4. Handle the animals well. Have
them gentle and under control.
It is often 'difficult for a beginner
to sell at what he terms high prices.
However, when these points are kept
in mind, and carried out, they will
help any young man to establish
himself as a breeder.
SEEN AT A DAIRY EXHIBIT
"4-H Dairy' Members do" not keen
COWS ....;',.
They . make Cows keep Them."
by Club Leader Farley, Mass.
VIRGINIA, HERE THEY ARE!
Virginia's challenge of last month
brought forth the following:
Washington county, Vermont, an
swers the challenge with a county
wide ' club in alfalfa with 167 new
members enrolled. In addition, 40
other club members are taking alfalfa
as an added activity, making a county
club of 207 members.
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From Arkadelphia, Arkansas: "We
answer the challenge from Virginta
with 113 members enrolled in the
Amity Club."
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Florida answers - with 122 active
members in the Girls 4-H club of Ft.
Meade. The majority of these girls
arc carrying two projects, as garden
Or poultry and clothing. .
Tennessee brings forth threee top
notch clubs from Hamilton county;
the Soddy Boys' 4-H club, with 127
active members carrying 192 individ
ual projects ; the Hixson Boys' 4-H
club, with 1'22 L active ; members carry
ing 201 individual projects; and the
Tyner Boys' 4-H club with 99 active
members- carrying 135 individual pro
jects. North Carolina Posts a New Challenge
Considering each year of work on
a project as a 1 project year, rnnip
Lutz, a 4-H club boy of Catawba
county has completed : more than 25
years of project work. He has Car
ried corn, cotton, pig, poultry, and calf
projects.
Pnn Rjthv Beeves- -
The labor profit, of baby beef club
members in Pennsylvania jumped"
from $22.74 last year to $47.79 this
year. This was due to a more favor
able market and better feeding prac
tices. The cost per cwt. - of gain'
dropped; from $10.64 to 9.97. -The -149-club
members who' completed their
work by showing and selling their
steers at the 1928 Farm Products
Show sold their steers for $24,291.44.
They represented 98.8 per cent of the
enrolled baby beef club members.
SOME CLUB ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Purebreds Enter
The Jersey calf club of Lee county,
Missippi, has imported two. carloads
af Island bred Jersey calves this year.
The club is composed of 101 active
members. The Lee County Blinkers
SOME GOOD WORK
by
CLUB MEMBERS
Cloyce Clover, a sixteen-year-old
club member of Kosciusko county,
Indiana,, set a new corn judging
record for the state in the boys' corn
judging contest with a perfect score
of 100 per cent. This unusual achieve
ment was the result of correctly plac
ing three tenear samples of corn,
five single ears, scoring three single
ears, and making a perfect grade in
the written test covering the corn
score card.
Another corn specialist is Ednest'
Carlson of Jasper county, Iowa who-
was awarded the Penick-Ford cup for
the highest yield of corn in any
5-acre contest in the state last yeaer.
He Bakes Brcead
Orleans county, Vermont has a boy
who walked right away from 20 girls
in the county bread making contest.
This boy is Russell Lawes. The
judging was based on the loaf sub
mitted but Russell also has a record
that should be the envy of most,
girls. He didn't stop at making bread
five times and with ten loaves which
were the requirements, he made bread
25 times and in all 95 loaves. 2
From Tree to Desk
The handicraft project of William
Meyers, M6ontmorncy county, Mich.,,
produced an oak roll-top desk from
start to finish. With the assistance
of his father he cut down an oak
tree during Christmas vacation. The
logs werre -taken lo theJocal saw mill
and sawed into boards. The boards
were cured at home, and after workr
mg 480 hours, he completed the roll-
top desk, which resembles .very close
ly, so 'tis said, a factory made article.
In addition to making the desk, he
has made a bookrack, and a ship
model of the Santa Maria. '
Money in Pigs
A pig club member, Kenneth Smith
of Winona county, Minn., made $519.
61 from his litter of pigs last year.
Kenneth has been a pig club member
for several years.
Another club member, John Schab
er, 13 years Old, of Hudson, South
Dakota, undertook a sow-litter pro
ject. He bought a registered sow,
saved, 13 of the litter of 14, and has
already sold these for fall delivery at
$40 each. ; .
CONSULT YOUR COUNTY AGENT AS YOU WOULD YOUR DOCTOR OR YOUR (LAWYER