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PAGE TWO THE FRANKLIN PRESS, FRANKLIN, N. C. THURSDAY, AUGUST 33, 1023 "CIVILIZATION BEGINS AND ENDS WITH THE PLOW" THINGS TO PLAN TO THROUGHOUT COMING YEAR The Farmers' Day at the test farm at Swannanoa on May 17, 1928. Poultry loading depct 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. Just About the Farm COVER CROPS Corn has blown down so badly, in some places that it is practically ut of the question to think of sowing winter cover crops in the corn at this time. The only thing to do is to get all the other land sowed and just as soon as the corn has turned a good rich yellow, cut it and shock it in rows in the field and then sow the corn land after the corn is cut. - - : The farmer that sows his land to some winter crop has already gone $10.00 towards his fertilizer bill next year, paying for it I. mean. J It does not matter if you are going to cultivate the land in a tillable crop next spring. Just plow ' the winter cover crop after you have grazed it down and give the livestock a good lot of early green feed. Then again its the same old story, soil improvement. There is no way of getting around the fact that to get profitable returns, the soil must be kept up to a high state of fer tility. L ' Its alright to say, "I know what is 'good for my place" arid all that sort of thing, but there are tundamental HfheOOf'"hoVlSer" "" WILD ONIONS : Now is the time to begin real eradi cation work on wild - onions if - you have any. There are several places in the county where they are getting a right smart of a hold. The object of the first effort is to destroy the soft-shelled bulbs before they have advanced far enough to produce new bulbs. The best time is when the food in the bulb has been transferee! . to the growing plant ad before the new plant has grown enough so that it forms new bulbs. This condition exists during a" fairly long period when the, new plants are about ten or 'twelve inches high. This is any time from the first of October to the end of December. When this stage is reached the lancL should be plowed deeply so as to completely turn under the whole of the onion plant. If the plowing is put off till the spring the new bulbs have fo-med' and will be able to grow. If all the tops arc not put under the ground ' they will keep on growing. The following spring a highly cu tivated crop i-hoiild T . 't I 1 1u 'i1-ini.'l on the1 in iiianiv'i on mi. bi-st to nuf n k land. Jt win oe v. - ,ver crop on the land . and turn is under in the -P'.ng just .before cover th planting. The spring an:1 early work should be done s that all the plants that come, nn from 'the hard bulbs that m thron:,h the winter and co.ro up in the sprinr;: will be killed, before they get staried. ..... . . By fol'lowiiv-; ;. the :-l)ove practice there will be no wild onions left after two years.' Except of . course in the fence corners ad along the ditch banks. And that is another problem. Right there is where a few o - - t " , sheep will conic to advantage and its the onlv wav that I know of to handle the situation. But' sheep will cat off the onions early in the spring before there is any other green feed So that is another argument in favor of a-few -sheep on the fanns of Ma con county. . HOGS " September the 12 has been set for the-da't'ep"rrvhich Our- first- fall -fat . hog sale will be heldi. Those that will have hogs for sale on that date should let the county agent know as soon as possible so that we may set another date if this one is a little early as it may be. Number owe hogs are bringing 13 cents per pound, on foot in Chief o now md it will pay to get ours off as soon as we can. Please advise county agent if you have any for sale. A commission of two per cent will be charged for handling the sale. This, just by way of telling you before hand that you1 will be charged this amount. If there is anything over it will be kept in a fund for future use.' .. Right there is where a board of KEEP YOUR FARM AND IT WILL KEEP YOU AND YOURS agriculture .would come in to good advantage. Wc have tried sever?.! limes jo get. ;;;i.h a board established, but och time ' there has cornc up something to offset 'the efforts. Some day . vc will have it. Never saw many-, things in my . time that would not give some where if it was ham mered on enough. . Who,' in your community would make a good man to go on ihis board ? FARM PLANS FOR 1929 Now is the time to get in most of your heavy thinking on the next year's crop. It is also the ' time to do most of the heavy work between now and real winter time. In our planning lets ever remember that we cannot say "NO," to Nature and get by with it. And the first step in working out Nature's plan is to look to the fertility of our soil. And the best way of doing this at this time of year is to plan and then act on getting in cover crops in every available piece of ground that we can. There is not another group of farmers any where else in the land so free to. work their own economic salvation as are . our farmers right here in this countv. It isn't that wc are lazyor that we dance away our time in the fall of the year, but that we just do not plan out the things that is best suited and the most profitable. We have not learned to plan and we are con tinually harking back to what might have been or what ought "to be or why "they don't." Acre for acre, barley is just as said. a crop as corn and yields right along with corn in( pounds of feed per acre, and barley is a better feed than corn. Then if we miss the barley there is still time to get in the corn ... A7n ' frrrrf ttiot tnn .TVlpn iuA ic orww H,; tW ,oc nnf ;P;i frtWr hark When we . 'tlfe-fe1 iil tn "work in tion of Tfi,.n harlpv i.nts soil to work in winter. Moreover, the barley crop comes in at a time when we are sad- ly in need of feed. Though the above facts have been determined dozens nf times, vet somehow we cannot net them , . There arc dozens of good farmers right here in this county that know these things, but the big question is,, why do we not get action on these things? It takes action, action, ac tion and more action. SEEDS yjn me, ufm immuay m vaiumu we are going to have our fall seed v" i , . . i r . uk . I This is a dav for neighbor to con- er with neighbor on 4he ; seed tion. There wil 1-be J arge number; of samples of fall seeds from the best seed men within buying radius of us so that all may see the seed and , J , get the prices. i 4 , ,i ' f.. it. r: t. if 1 : rv... i n . uLi producer from fewer death losses, but people did not let their wants be1, , .. c , ' ,. ir- ,t,....-.-. ...i,,i the better condition of animals results h u l dl lilt. I lilt iiitv w H V d3iiV.U I . i . f if thcy wanted to orjer seed, ta ram, Jround iatcr. . This is no wav:httcr development with a more sat- to t action Action must bc t'maciory price. inu proius nave at hc richf time. If there are any J bccn f n ad? from catt c dunnR the ()u.t w;.u- tt, , , ,t trt w lucent . trying years where conscrva- . .C iii T ir f ,Z ; V VI I VI 1 l M V 111, lit VWIl VI V 1L II III V. V will let their wants be known on the seed day. ru i . ... i . ZX nnv X ,'r ' i" .i i FDUCATION CROWING RAPIPIY 22 Averc tinallv 1 brought to lias onc man any where can get them. t"utAiun uRuwinu kahuli 4, " ....u t mere is an advantage in ordering . xpans.on or me system ur rural e manufacturcr from outside of mu " n j-fcii w ,. u,uuuU11 -"vyuKn . tvithe. countv for $6.32 a -; hun ,. , , ""7' ' '", v ",IC""1 r , ' , , : pounds. Uu. the same day -2a pure him to get up a wholesale lot. services of the federal -and state gov- , fe , to farmer at ' ernmcnts is reflected in some degree . Tins year, so; far, has beer, a great by the record : of anprdpnat.ons by But"the nrovcmcnt H1 not . end. on y eaf What " next year will be ; de-, congress m support of the work, ihe . dA states Mr. Arey. On Aug pends on each mans efforts Now is , original Smith-Lever Act. effective ; County Agent Altman reported the tune to set the course for those July 1 1914 provided a total of hat u moe rcbre(i animals had efforts. $480,(XX), at the rate of . $10,000 for I .1 n ,.i L '. . , Keniember that planning right and working to the plans does not simply 1 602 935 for the : coming year, which. am, 33. scrubs eliminated. Mr. Alt mean a better feeling for vou bv with supplemental appropriations and -i, .t 1,- 1,0,1 i.i navmga iittic-Tnoney-in-your-tiocket.f It means manv Other tbines 7..'j1""31' - - It .means, fertile ''fields that you will be proud of. .'... ,' It means convenient barns and out buildings including electric Mghts and power. It means you 'and yours will be able Ho. get more out of life by hav ing better books to read and more time to read them in. : It means that your houses and fences will be in good repair and that you and your family will take a just ana deserving pride in your surroundings. ' It means the right kinds of schools ior your cniiuren r iMi i The farm pages of The Press are edited by the county agent in col laboration with the editor. It means the right kind of churches in your neighborhood so that the moral, atmosphere will be kept pure. It means that the best of medical attention may be had just when it is needed and that your children may have the opportunity to grow to their fullest manhood and womanhood. It means more than that. It means that the good lady may have the best of medical care at the s critical times that she often goes through and that your babies will start life with an even break. " A thing which is . so sadly lacking all over this fair land of ours. Let's think it over, folks, and see where our duty lies and then go to it to win or go down in the effort, so that in after years when the fight is over our friends may, with a clear conscience, put on our tomb stones. "He fought and lost, as we will all lose, but in the losing, he gave of all he had, hence we have lost a man." . -. Every field a green field this winter is the goal. ; ' . .... , Macon county, the land of super farmers that, plan and then carry out the plans maybe. ,LYLES HARRIS, County Agent. ADEQUATE FEED REDUCES LIVESTOCK POISONING Conservative grazing, which assures an abundant4supply of nutritious range forage, is an important factor in re ducing losses of livestock from pois onous plants, says the Forest Service, United States Department of Agricul ture. At a recent meeting of the Inter-. mountain Livestock Sanitary associa tion Prof- C. E- Hemtng, of the tion ot the Detter torage plants, which forced the livestock to eat plants of inferior value including those that arc poisonous in sufficient quantity to prove fatal. Doctor Murray, of ' Salt Lake City, also stated that m ... . .. . . ., nis opinion many losses on tne winter range were due to malnutrition as a result of livestock having to subsist mainly on inferior range plants and having an inadequate forage supply. in tne nrougnt region ot soutnern Arizona it is extremely important, the Forest Service has found, to graze the range conservatively, since short rainfall may result in the productipn of a feed supply materially smaller than usua, jt founj tfa t b utiljzing approximately m per cenJt of the growth of the important palat- able plants in the average year and b J . ln tPhe vegetation cures ,f he ,k d . i i 1 1' u j jt r fced- losstS c1( be :educefd ftron? S n'inf, f lu per cent to about c to 6 per cent of the animals grazed. Not only is there a direct saving -to the livestock t'e grazing has been practiced, al though net losses werc shown by those outfits in the region which utilized their range forage too closely. EXTENSION SYSTEM OF RURAL I caGh- Statu (ipdual!y thest;' aPPro-. I priations have been increased to"$4,- i an-appropnation unuer- tnencwu..uap per-Kctcham Act makes available more- than $7,000,000 for Federal aid to the extension work.; ". -, -- Explaining these, figures recently, C. W- Warburton, director of ex tension work, United States Depart ment of Agriculture, said that each state and Hawaii now receives $30,000 annually without requirement that the state match this sum with ad ditional appropriations. The remain der of the fund is divided among the states in proportion to the rural pop ulation, . and with the added proviso that the state must provide an equal amount of' money for extension work in order to qualify for the appro priation. Actually the states, on the average, do much more than match federal funds. Fcr the current year state appropriations were nearly doub le federal appropriations. Comparing expenditures for exten sion work with other activities, Uirec or Warburton noted that the govern ment spent .approximately ten times as. much in aid of roads. Extension activities cost at. the rate of about $1 for each three persons on farms or about 7 cents per capita for the whole population. This amounts to one-twentieth of the value of farm equipment purchased in 1927,. and to about one-fifth of 1 per cent of the value of lats year's crops. RURAL WEATHER LORE IS FREQUENTLY RELIABLE Intelligent farmers nowadays arc not greatly interested in predictions in almanacs or in other long-range fiction, according to Dr. W. J. Hum phreys, of the Weather Bureau. They rely on official reports by radio and on their own observations. Scientific forecasting of the weather does not place reliance on many of the old "signs," particularly of those that are supposed to forecast one season from occurences in the previous season. . But Dr. Humphreys says that many of the sayings in regard to the weath er that have been handed down from generation to generation are based on many observations and are often re liable. For example, he says a warn ing of somevalue but not highly re liable is embodied in the verse : A rainbow in the morning J Is the shepherd's warning A rainbow at night Is the shepherd's delight. " "A pretty good guess" is to be found in: If the sun sets in gray The next will be a rainy day. One of the "very best indicators, of the weather for the day," Dr. Hum phreys says, "is the state of the dew in the morning. It gathers on grass and other exposed objects when they are cool enough to condense it out of the air, just as moisture is cen densed out of the air on the side of a pitcher when filled with ice water. Now, the grass and other outdoor things cool considerably only on still, clear nights, the kind that oc ---"- the skv clear, at "least during life latter .half of the night. And it is pretty certain that if there was neith er wind nor clouds during that lime, the day will be a good one for all outside work. On the other hand, if there is no dew in the morning it is almost certain that either the sky was clouded of that there was ap preciable wind, or both; and both, as a rule, precede a general .rainstorm by - 6 to -12 or even 24 - hours, accord ing to circumstances." Consequently Dr. Humphreys savs there is much reason back of the two proverbs : When the grass is dry at morning light Look for rain before the night. When the dew is on the grass Rain will never come to pass. NO SCRUB BULLS IN GASTON COUNTY Raleigh, N. C Gaston county is well on the way to be free of scrub di.iry bulls ?nd these are being re placed rapidly, with valuable pure bred stock. "A committee of leading dairymen, supported by the bankers of the countv, are behind County Agent L. B. Altman in this . wise movement, says John A. Arey, dairy extension specialist at State College. "With some help front the college, Mr. Altman and his committee - conducted a drive in the county during the week of July 16. On July 20, a big sale was held. I took two days to haul in the scrub animals consigned drcdl gone to the sausage maker. This " i.c mtoi f n n-.hAa nUrA pledges for the furtherreplacement of scrubs with blooded animals. M r. Arey states that excellent work in this movement was done by local dairymen, who helped to JoQate all the scrubs in the county. A. census was taken by communities and when the final campaign was put on, these dairymen took the lead in encourag ing others to dispose of. their scrubs and replace, them with purebreds. The banks, too, lent substantial aid. The cost incident to hauling in the scrubs was paid by the banks and they gave further support by running large ad vertisements in the local papers show ing the , value of having purcbr.ed sires in the dairy herd. The success of the Gaston campaign has attracted the attention of other counties' and Mr. Arey states that a similar campaigg will begin in Cleve land county at once. THINGS TQ PLAN FOR RIGHT NOW That cream check weeks. every two 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. i Big Farmers' day next fall. Local Curb Market. Breed sows . so that the pigs will go on the market in March, April, August and September. Quality Brings the Price ' Whenever the dealer and the pro ducer can come to an understanding as to the standard of quality, better prices can be paid for quality pro ducts. Clean eggs should call . for more money than soiled eggs. Fresh cream ought to bring a much higher price than old sour cream. ' - That a decided start has been made along this most important line, can be gathered from the following clip ping taken from the SOUTHERN AGRICULTURIST: The Kentucky Agricultural Experi ment Station, in cooperation with creameries, announce a plan whereby cream delivered at intervals of not more than four days will command a premium of extra price. Cream cans will be tagged, showing the date of the last delivery, so both buyers and producers will know that the cream is being delivered at least cmce in four days or twice a week. Such cream when free from undesir able odors and flavors, will be known as premium cream, and will bring the producer more money than cream of the same quality but not delivered ion of better cream to make better butter, which in turn will sell for a better price. .- Farmers are learning that they can get their cream to market in a much better condition by cooling it quickly and keeping it. in water as cold as possible until it is shipped. Another point they have learned is to cool each skimming in cold water before adding it to the can of cream being held for shipment. QUICK ESTIMATE OF CROP PRODUCTION (C. L. Chambers, Field Agent) A problem that stands in the way of interesting farmers in estimating 'crop production and keeping records is a simple metnou oi measuring yields. L. M. Wilkinson, district agent of Louisiana, reports using a quick method of estimating production, which he' describes as follows : "Harvest 21 feet of any average row of any crop ; multiply the weight or amount by 10 (21 feet is 1-10 of row acre long) to obtain the weight or amount in the row 1 acre long. The yield per row multiplied by the number of rows per acre (210 feet) gives the yield per acre." By holding field meetings when re- j sut demonstrations are measured, far,ners not only study the practices ;vriich govern economic production, j but are encouraged to return home I an",i contrast their vields with those ; 0f the: demonstration. . The results i obtained from the demonstration as , wc11 as the results " obtained bv other farmers afford material for news items and circular letters. Tlflis farm ers outside the demonstration group may be tied up to extension work by seeing their names in print.. More Forest Officials C. V. Rcisiey, forest field clerk, has reported for duty at Franklin with the Nantahala National Forest. Mr. Reisley's; family, consisting of wife and small daughter, will join him here in the near future. David S. Findlay and L. M. Cun ningham, with the acquisition depart ment of the forestry service, have also reporfc-.d for iuty and ; are now en- gaged in estimating a tract of land in Clay county. : .:A. . . In Memoriam ' M rs., Claude Scott, a good woman and faithful member of Bethel Mis sionary Society, has been called home. We miss her smiling face. She will no more cheer us , by her kindlyv presence here. The life j she lived will remain a blessed memory and we will be helped, and encouraged along the way be- v cause of it. We mourn the loss of one of our beloved members. She; was a true and sincere mother to her 'small family. For her, earth's joy and pain is passed :n a fairer clime. All suffer ing anc: sorrow is ended and she rests frtjm her labors. , MRS. TOM SANDERS. 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