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'AGE TV0 THE FRANKLIN PRESS, FRANKLIN, N. C. , THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1123 "CIVILIZATION BEGINS AND ENDS WTTH THE PLOW" t u. s . '4 i f M 'j THINGS TO PLAN TO, THROUGHOUT COMING YEAR The Farmers' Day et the test farm at Swannanoa on May 17, 1928. Poultry loading depot with facili ties for grading eggs. An annual poultry show. Monthly livestock ale. Farmer' own line of delivery truck. ' 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 Last week there was a man in the office looking for some good Guernsey i;frc ami a ('odd Guernsey bull. Said that he had heard that Macon fountv had some good stuff. He was from South Carolina. He wanted to be sure that he could find a bull calf and a dozen or so heifer calves that were in no way -uA l rnnld not. of course, tell him anything definite, having no Guernsey Assoc. records ior me coun ty. That condition will soon be rectified when our recently formed County Assoc. gets to functioning. Tlilt tirncfif rtivp C'a hllver W3S tilt fifth out nf state visitor to visit us within two months. Each visitor or rrt11tl of visitors WiS frOITl 3. (lif ferent state, making five different states represented. They all said that they had heard so much of the progressivencss of the Macon county farmers that they Wanted to see. first hand. Thus does .M aeon s reputation spread. Repetition ; No where in. the- coun- ""pOf lUIITSJ nvwiWH- :., nomic salvation than they have right within .their own county of Macon. - It requires just the right amounts of Mind, Muscle and Manure. Any one trying to farm that has not these and uses them, better change his range, for he is not only an outrage to himself but an annoyance to his country and state. In other words, if one finds himself a square peg with only round hole in sight why look farther. When the square pegs and the round holes try' to fit each other, us never the hole thai gets the cussing but its the peg. . COVER CROPS There arc two tanners of this county who arc going to have green 'in all their fields this winter. Guess there are others for 1, would hate to think that, with the breaks beginning to come farmward at "last, that al but two men in this big county of ours are so badly 'neglecting their opportunities. 4 . v ' ? . . The two nun alluded lu above art two of the old reliables when it comes to thinking and then hustling.. ("has: Henderson and Frank Mashburn. ." Twenty men havfc agreed to plant . a small plot of Bur ("lover 'and a ; small plot of -Austrian Winter Peas. -f . -' These two c.$ are winter growing and arc legumes! They die down in the spring and the clover, if it vyih grow here, will rtewr need seeding again in our life lime, but vyill conic up again and again year after year after crops are laid by. 1 BREAD AND BUTTER SHOW -The programs .. for this . wiB be out in a ' few - days. We - have , tried to cover everything as well as vc could with the little we have had to do on If all farmers, will , do their part w will have a- most profitable and en joyable show. , '. It will be necessary for all those having exhibits to. let; the county . - agent" know by thc. -middle of Oc tober how much' space; they' will need for wc have h have shelves male. Not to reserve space might Mean that you will have to place your stuff on the floor and vyill be as good a-4 in; showing at all. . '.'. There will be a pp.' for the ! '- farm exhibit. It will be scored n the basis of .how many -whining. .y one individual gets. . ,.. DAIRYING That was one . good meeting that the dairymen of this county had at the picnic on the thirtieth of -1;s-t month. Mr. Farnham' knows his-nulfe A lot -of people . said they didTvrt get any notices of the meeting. Well, no I wont say it. I started to : say that I did not care if they didn't. I sent out two thousand CONSULT YOUR KEEP YOUR FARM AND IT WILL KEEP YOU AND YOURS five hundred staled notices. It was in the local paper two weeks and that looks like we did our part, It is my guess inai a "i oi ju,-. f,ui those letters and just did r.o; read them. It will soon be t"o late to get thai green pasture for this winter. f W f -r if v,m rannnt run to rvc or vetch, . n..irnf.r iif-as or anv of the more or less fancy things, just sow anything that you have that the cows win eai ih-At will trrow in the winter-duck -is better than no dinner. 'Vhcro h.'is been some question as to the prices and the tests at the creamery. 1 can, ana io icn one and all that in so far as the prices go that our creamery is paying the highest price for butter fat of any creamery in the state. We are also getting cream from farmers way down in ' Georgia that are a great icti nearer the Athens creamery than they are to this one. Might be well for anyone who thinks they can do better to ship their4 cream to try it out. One thing that they had bet ter keep in mind, however, is getting the pay check. There are so many farmers in Habersham county that have been owed for their cream a year and the money is still owing. ' : As to the test. An electric tester has been installed in the creamery v,nrf and from now on there will not be the possibility of human error. Its my guess that some ot tne tests are going to run a little lower. There is another thing that we just as well get into our minds for its coming. And that is' that we will soon have to sell our cream pn grades. Its too much to ask the man that has clean sweet cream to stay in the price class with the man that delivers cream with an extra degree of sour ness about. That makes me think of another thing. 1 have not yet seen a neat erwl. cans of cream" are left" oil, the "side" of the road and silting on the ground. What an attractive ad it would be if at every farm there was a nice Guernsey colored station with the sellers name and the name of his farm painted on. (If this were built a lot of people would just have -to paint their house out of shere shame.) Its well to ask all a thing is worth and to kick when wc do not get it. But there is another side to this question. That is to have something that we can conscientiously boost. Things sell on appearance, you know. f the butter maker puts the finished jroduct up in the same rough looking thing that he takes the cream from the farmer in, he would just sell ex actly none. He doesn't fuss and cuss. He 'just takes it off from the farm er's price that is when the cream prices are fixed they are made with this knowledge well in mind. And that's that. HOGS Mr. Hays, the best feeding man in the South with the exception of his bass. Mr. Shay, will be with us on the 10, 11 and 12 of this month. We l-ici ivrrk that he would be here Ion the 12, 3 arid 14 but this has had to. he cnangeu. . If there, is any thjng that any hog raiser wishes to see Mr. Hays about, especially, arrangements may be made. nt the count v agent's office. , Mr Havs will .be at the sale , and will iiold "a meeting there after the hogs are weighed and -will discuss the-feeding of hogs for profit. ,VY can alwavs learn something that will help us to improve on the way we are feeding otir livestock because im provements are always being made. We have no yearly "models', but con stant improvement is our method. V , (iot that patch of rape sowed ret? Jt will" lower the cost of pig produc tion fifty per cent if its handled riuht. ' ' . -J low . Jilany bushels of corn have some of us got to throw away this winter. Just .thought that I would inquire, for some of the bog houses- pardon, 1 mean slatted up roofless j,Cim. T ha.-, e .'seen .about make me think that co-n is too cheap to save by having, a warm dry house.. ' V ft Wish 1 had all the corn ' that is fed' to' hog lice and worms ' in ..'this county for "lie year I'd gosh, I'd buy The -Franklin Tress and send ii ".to every 'body free one year an how and then some. ' ' ' , ..-.- . . MARKETING SPRAYING Do you know, that you have started fixing your stuff for market the very mtinute" that ..you begin -working 'it ? The way some pep-!c spray ; makes one 'think I mean the way that some do riot spray that this thought 'does' not occur to them. COUNTY AGENT The farm pages of The Press are edited by the county agent in col laboration with the editor. Jt pays to -spray from the begin ning to the end of the growing seas on. ' . A man was telling me the other dav hov he was going to grow beans next year. He had some mighty good ideas on the suDject Deen unnKing r.- o giiit Aftrr a while I men tioned spraying and the extremely low cost if done in the proper man ner. Right there 1 hit a snag. io, says he, "I can beat that all holler. I just keep them brushed off. The -1.1 itrrnnati nnn the vountruns can just give bugs fits and it dont cost me nothing. 1 said no more calci to myself, and what I said to myself was, "WclJ, that guy works his folks and not his head after all. And his folks arc not here so it is no good talking anymore." Speaking a while ago of folks read ing letters pr circulars. I sent the following letter to every farmer in Nantahala township, addressed to him personally, with an addressed franked envelope for reply. . Three replies came back promptly. Some percent age. And yet all I hear is -the cry for a market. Men were in the office last week several times wanting caD bagc, apples and potatoes and beans. Said that ihey were coming back this week and 1 wanted to ten mem wiiyic they could go and buy a load there by taking the market right to the farmer's door. Course, now, if there were telephones in' the country letters would not be necessary and folks would be able to keep in touch them selvesthat is if they would. . If you want to answer any of the questions asked below, a post card will do. ' i wkot tinvp vou now on hand that you-want a market, for? How - v .-lM.tll'i. .T.Ui'iji'i.-MtJ have ... til liu Ji tho'' m ammrr t nni irr v. -., . 3. When will it be ready? 4. Do you plan to produce cream for the creamery ( 5. Would you grow truck for a cannery if you had one near? Would you raise chickens if you could get them to market? 7. Are you interested in sheep? In bees ? -& What would you rather grow as your main crop? Do you want the active assistance of the county agent on your farm? ( 10 If you want the farm agents services, in what way do you need them most? ' By giving full answers to the above you will be doing your part toward getting the most out of the county tax money that is being paid for county agent work. Macon county, the home of super farmers that think maybe.. LYLES HARRIS, County Agent. SUMMER'S BUSIEST DAYS North Carolina 4-H clubs sent 424 representatives to the annual short course and club camp at Slate col lege, Raleigh, the week of July 20th. Class work began early in the morn ing and continued until' 12 o'clock each of the five days. A special group of 30 boys and 30 girls studied recreation leadership each day. At 12 o'clock a club conference presided over by club members and directed . J . AAA- 1 entirely by them was new in me college auditorium. Recreation and inspirational events filled the after noon and evening programs. Friday evening the short course concluded with the annual banquet and party for the club members, arranged by a committee .of- club boys and girls. TRN YEARS AGO. Webster July the tenth anniversary of its. 4-H j tnc dropping boards, to prevent rem cami). The first camp' was 'a modest fetation. , ' . . affair held on a borrowed site with! The ' above treatment is for , birds only one leaky building. . .The tenth I out wf lay.. anniversary was held on 4-H owned , ' land, five "and one half acres of jf' j ' POULTRY ' SPECIALIST ' HERE '' on which the Websterites have built . . ...... "cabins, a caretaker's pottage, kitch-j Mr. C. F. Parr.sh. poultry specialist ,, i .ii. ...Li, i, ,.vtrtcivti itrvtco. . is here Pit aiK lioriiun. mn nu nan. council circle amphitheatre, . and barn for showing cattle. . In most cases the lumber" for these buildings Was given by local lumber companies and the club, members of the county were responsible for their .. erection giving Unth 1-iVioi- :;iw! mon'ev. The dining 'lia'H find- council" circle, .amphitheater ( ,A-'"'r the ''robbery 'of - the-' -Bprm-d were built during this year's canm, j "Clothing company and ntt.em'itc4 r."b older , boys' doing most of . the con-j.j-nM-y of Senders' store the town board , ..ii.lin- il-w. i.l i t-Orm Oi 'in experienced ccrpenter. A hydraulic rani"' was also installed. The dailjy schedule for the camp in chid ed 4 class periods in the forenoon, rest, games and swimming in the afternoon, ves- pers and " council . circles at : night, Dedication of tlie new council .-circle amn.hithecUer drew a capacity audience of 2.1HK0 visitors from all parts 'cf Webster a'nl adj-.iir.ing counties. As- sistant Director V . It. . Kcndnck : ol AS YOU WOULD the State extension service assisted county agent J. A. Wolfram and pre sided as "JJig Chief" while the 125 "squaws and braves" who were mem bers of the camp, sat in a circle about the dedication camp fire. A member of the Club Leader staff who attended the camp reports that th: residents of Webster county take much interest and personal pride in the camp and are actively in sympathy with Mr. Wolfram's program for its further development. TIMELY POULTRY POINTERS Suggestions for September prepared by C. F. Parrish, Extension Poultry Specialist ' The time of year has arrived when the poullryman should consider the following points with reference to his poultry activities. Housing Pullets It is time to transfer pullets from the range houses to the laying houses so they will become familiar' with the conditions under which they arc to live. As a precaution against false moults and possibly complete moults do not delay moving until the pullets have broken into production or ill results may follow. Housing Requirements Build a good house with comfort of hen' as first- consideration. An ex tremely cold or hot house is to be guarded against.' A low, deep, and properly ventilated house meets the need. 'A tight house free from drafts and cracks is cheaper than -feeding mm tn Irppn hirds warm. Windows should be placed under the dropping boards, also on the east side for light and ventilation in summer. Have a curtain to drop over open front on south side of house to be used on cold, rainy, and rough' days. Building Suggestions Build a house at least 20 feet deep and -as long as necessary to house flock. Face the house to the south on slope of a hill with woods or wind VirpalfH nn the north side. Three and a half feet of floor space arc required per hen for light breeds .and, four feet . tor heavy Doarus (.'i2.:..f& . ' inch rbo'suiig t spii'ivi--- " "" M.K.tf i -... f. ...... . ' 1 foot of mash . hopper space for each 12 hens kept. 1 nest for each 5 hens kept.- -r Plans may be had for building poul try houses upon application to Poul try Extinsion Specialist, State Col lege Station, Raleigh, N. C. Remodeling House Use old buildings such as barns, sheds, and tobacco barns which need only slight changes and possibly a little repair. If sketches of out buildings are drawn in .detail and fur nished the Poultry Department, with desired information, suggestions will gladly be submitted. Where possible and desired a personal visit will be made by specialist. ' Disease Notes Worm Pullets: Worm pullets prior to breaking them into lay where sus picion arises that there are worms in the flock. ' " ' . . " Symptons: The birds are pale, thin and feathers are ruffled. Worms are found in the intestines. Caeca worms probably do little damage to poultry. Control for Round Worms : One pound of tobacco steeped in hot wat er. Mix water with about 6 or S pounds of mash for 100 hens and give about ten or eleven o'clock. In about two or three hours follow this with Epsom salts at the rate of one pound per 100 hens. Starve birds before giving treatment. Clean drop ping boards early next morning. : The above is "for hens out of lay and pullets. . . Tapeworms: One -teaSpoonful ot concentrated' lye to two quarts of scratch feed covered with an equal .part of water and boil for one hour. Feed with starvation . treatment and follow with Epsom salts as rccom for tobacco treatment. Clean houses ' thoroughly, especially mui mc ia , , . c. o ctov if ff.nr davs. Those wish ing to consult him ahout the .'poultry industry, should visit, the con nt.a gent's office. More About Dogs laced R. M. Coffey on duty as ITgl j .watchman.'-. Mr, Cofev states that be j receiving manv .complaint's ' about i dogs .running at large, .at night. He j points' nit the fact that: it is' against j nf. Javy'-to- permit dogs to run at larg.e j after .. nightfall. Mr. - Coffey requests j owners -of does to keep -them nr.. j CMhe'nvisc' he will be compelled to protect -'th"' cit:-:crs of the town by j takinc such action as 'he may deem necessary.. YOUR DOCTOR OR THINGS TO PLAN FOR RIGHT NOW 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 Farmers' day next fall. Local Curb Market. .' Breed sows so that the pigs will go on tbe market in March, April. August and September. FAR1W.1 SAYS GROHLFAIFA With Proper Seed and Fer tilization Alfalfa Will Grow Well in Western North Carolina. A large number of Macon county citizens who are interested in dairy ing attended the creamery picnic held here last Thursday in the grove just back of the local creamery. The picnic was sponsered by A. B. Slagle, owner of the creamery, and Mrs. Slagle. Among the visiting officials were Frank Jeter, editor of the ex tension Service News, and F. R. Fam ham dairy specialist with the extens ion service. By means of many charts Mr. Farnham went into the matter of dairying in such a manner as to "' be easily understood by all present: He told his hearers that UlC 1 rtl ttiCl O - V V-. - Cy " alfalfa is the principarrcason" fortfuT prosperity. Mr.; Farnham stated that alfalfa will grow in this section of the state and advised the farmers to plant experimental acreages at once. He recommended the Kansas City seed as the best for Western North Carolina. After Mr.' 'Farnham con cluded his talk many individual farm ers discussed with him the matter of alfalfa. After the picnic dinner was served the county agent organized a tentative Guernsey association with Hal Slagle as president and J. W. Addington as secretary. Rose Creek Locals Miss Nobia Southard spent Thurs day night with Miss Chloe Parrish.. Wc are sorry to report that Miss Helen Hughes had to have a doctor called to her "bedside Thursday but has improved some. Mrs. Rachel Holden and daughter, Dessic, attended the association at Cowee Thursday. Mr. B. M. Hughes spent . Monday night with his sister, Mrs. Ella Womack, of Franklin. Mr. and Mrs. Harry WeHi and little daughter came on a visit to Mrs. Welch's sister, Miss Helen Hughes,' last Thursday. Mr. Norman Houston and family at tended the association at Cowee last' Friday. Mrs. Fred Lowe and children spent ! last Saturday night with Mrs. Lowe's i TV t I Af t w - t.i. JIHICIUS, iU I . ciuu una, j . y . nuiu- tem. Mr. Gradon Houston and family spent last Sunday night wil'i Mr. Houston's sister, Mrs. Tom Kokcr of lotla. Mr. Charles Downs and family at tended preaching1 here last Sunday. Mrs. Tom Roper of lotla, attended preaching here "last Saturday. "Mrs. Jim Parrish spent Wednesday with, her son, Mr. Carl Parrish. -Mrs. Ida Southards went to frank lin Thursday. - Mrs. Ralph Amnions of Franklin, came to ' sec her sister, . Mrs.- Helen Hughes, Thursday. Miss Goldie Welch visited her sis ter, 'Mrs. 'J. E. Buchanan of lotla, last Sunday.. Allison Mflls Locals Mr. - Jim Farmer passed through this' section Monday 'on his. -way to Xantahala where he has been at work for quite a whHe. Miss Laura Carpenter and . Miss Lall.ie Hastings, spent, the week end on Nantahala. They reported a nice time. .'",,..' Mr. and- Mrs.. Lawrence Hastings spent F'riday night with his parents Mr. and Mrs. l.uni'Hastings. ' Miss Lottie Hastings is staying a few weeks with Airs; Fred Conlcy.i Rev. Koten is planning to start a revival 'meeting at Maiden Chapel the second Sunday ' in September. Mr. . Mell Rigsby is mwving' t Bryson City this week. YOUR LAWYER i f O v. X 7