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PAGE TWO THE FRANKLIN PRESS, FRANKLIN, N. C. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1S23 "CIVILIZATION BEGINS AND ENDS WITH THE PLOW" THINGS TO. PLAN TO THROUGHOUT COMING YEAR . 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 batter thow. Just About the Farm Well, a pretty g.od frost has conic. About the only outstanding thing that is to be commented on; about it is that had our fanners worked and so planned their work so that they would have had profitable work, to do all the year 'as they have worked to get in their fall crops, Macon county would have been at, least one million lollars better'. -off than it i.: now. And wouldn't that million dollars have made our homes better to live in? They Would have all been paint ed had lights and water, good barns, self feeders for hogs, up-to-date poul try houses, flower gardens, an all-year-round pasture, an all-year-round gar den, good books and magazines -ir. .every home, a'; nice radio set; the girls could all have music lessons, the boys would all have had a well, ap pointed . workshop where they could put in rainy days or they could have had good hunting dogs and fisliin tackle and so on and so on. All the above is not a mere dream. Some. day 1 am going to .write you a dream a dreanr within everyone -r .rcachcayott.,wiU-begin-' jo-' set single man or woman or. child in th; county is to dc oiameei ior tmiigs : a.- 1 11 l f i.L! . they arc, tor we have just now g t in touch with the rest of the wori 1 and got a chance to show our sttm. ' There, will be-room for blame plenty in the very near future if we sleep W.l U IW . i wit. liv ..-.. , v Speaking of ; being a sleep n the job. Wonder if then, are a half do.-Jy0n have three cows in your herd cn farms in this rutiuty that arc go-, goo(i cnough to start with. I will ing to have every field a green fie.dgct you a good pure bred sire free this winter ( I know ui oniy two so:ot cnarge. Then, if vou will follow far. Wondering agai-r, rire there one half dozen farms v tiiis county that are arranging for .. i,..uuli permanent nastnrf for ilicir n.uds? 1 moan by that are they pvuv grass .mixture; : RAT down' a good . The depai ;r.i' .:. . timate.s that :u worth of pr.ji-ny . good old United Si Macon county iYrn'i so that the rats- wi. in helping tlunwl. they will, warn i all r-'shiiigton e:--, .7 $400,00(),C()!) ;. h year in these How many : M :ed their corn ha .'.e no trouble to as mu.ch as 1 winter? There was i.riv ...iu!i .old me the oth er day that he vn.oied that rats ate up more tlian iwi e as much as his taxes came to every year. No wonder taxes are hard to pay the rats get at. tin in. a 7 BEEF CATTLE Every once in . ; while a friend of mine comes in and, in the course of a general conversation tells mc that he wishes 1 would help on the beet cattle situation more han I do. Well, I just want to say right here and once and for all; thut I am anxious and will do . any , and ;. everything in my power for the beef industry if those that are - fixed '. for and want to work beef cattle will raise them. But I am not goitm t assist any man to speculate in buving and selling on ly. 1 am cspeciafiv . emphatic 'in this ...U. I .. "...1, :..,.,, ct 1-1-.. . VVIIV.I V . 11 nn. nrr irt ivw -n- . small man. - !k si . I have worked - beef rattle, in my time and like it and think that rtiere is a great future for it in Macon county. When we are raising thousand -head of beef cattle annur -'y we may .well say that we are ii on the road to prosperity. There is another very serious th: -.g to consider in beef cattle productio'n. The time from peak to peak in beef prices is eleven years. We have had high prices now for some years. I'd be a wise guy, indeed, if I helped a mail go head oyer -heels into this game only for him to realize that about the time he got well into ii that the bottom fell out of the mark et. I study these trends . in produc tion and prices if the man most vi tally concerned does not. So there. CONSULT YOUR rrro vhiid cadvi a ran it wii i vrro vrm autfx vauop "Four Pounds of Lard In Thirty Years" Ji. 15. ikVbha-.v, of Wilson county. North' Carolina, looks on his- farm ;,s a place to live and make . a living. Or::;.' one -.year ,.on, of thirty his farm failed' to shew a profit.' He has raised eleven children, lias tnrtgb! or.ly four pounds f:f lard in SO years and has - never' bought feed ' f(or hi? stock but-.'one year since h(Hk-gr.n farming. The cotton ard tobacco that he grows is just so . much "velvet." He has .two tenants who. follow hi? system and clear money every year. Thirty-five years ago, J. W. Gaston, of Spartanburg county, South Carolina, started farming with a rented mule. Adding a work animal every year for 25 years, he acquired a 26-horse farm of over 900 acres. He sells around $1500 worth of bacon every year without robbing his smokehouse. Needless to say, poultry' and dai-y cattle account for no small part of Mr. Gaston's substantial income from (Continued on page three) Three-Way Proposition Gets Results Success Comes to Dairyman With Aid jof County Agent and Michigan Central Six years ago a young farmer, located near Gaylord, Michigan, sat in the office of the county Agricul tural agent, discussing the; pcrplexirg problem of how to make money out of a farm without the necessary capi tal. He had come up from southern Michigan a few years before and had been struggling- along- without much , citc nt;, ' u',,. -hi- r99M. -r county agent had ; been urging him to build np a good dairy - herd, and when' he repeated his advrcc, this young farmer said, "Why that takes a life time, and anyway I haven't the money to buy a good foundation stock, to say nothing about the pure j bred sire. j County -'agent Lytic replied my advice, J will guarantee you a herd of ten cows within ten years which will return you two dollars for every dollar you spend on th'eni ' for feed." J A'mazen and incredulous, Sam Haga-1 dorn closed the deal, wondering how the party of the second part could possibly deliver. As lor the latter, he never bet on a surer thing in his life. He had been informed a few weeks previously that the Michigan Central railroad, through its Agricul tural Department, had become so thoroughly convinced that dairying on the Mackinaw Division would result in increased mutual prosperity for' both the farmer and the carrier, that it had decided to lease good pure bred sires free of charge to such groups of responsible farmers as were earnestly striving to build up more efficient dairy herds. He was satis fied that Mr. Hagadorn and his neighborhood would qualify. Discouragement lakes to Its Heels A few months later Mr. Hagadorn was notified that a Guernsey bull calf was waiting for him at the Michigan Central s-ration at Gaylord, and he hastened down to transport it back to his farm. From then on the battle was waged in earnest, and too much cannot be said for' Sam and his family, as they endured the dailv grind. Sams determination and Mr. Hagadorn's ' inspiration and helpful hand ,-roved toco much for Old. Man Ds-; couragtnient -arid -year by year a few rwore choice heifers rejilaccd the ol scrub and. grade cows, until, at the end . of six yea'rs,w.L' fitid th e hurd consisting of eight heifers from th; Michigan -antral . sires-a-- different! ago and the two foundation cow. In the cow testing association records we t:r.'l tint (he r,en! averaged a retuni. ( ( f $2.31 for every doi'.arV. worth of ' feed given thein. The county agent had, indeed, made good. He delivered the pure . bred sire, the herd produced in six years what he had itromised it wonJd within ten years, and the most ama;:-1 ing of all, he did not have to furnish Sam with very much advice after the first year because the latter began to study farm papers' and soon be came well informed on the subjects of "feeding, breeding and weeding." The scene returns after six years, to the county agent's office September VQ27, with Messrs. Lytic and Haca- dorn present. J he reconls ot the COUNTY AGENT AS The farm pages of The Press are edited by the county agent in col laboration with the editor. cow testing association arc before them and Mr. Lytic says: "Well Sam, your herd placed first in the cow testing association ' this year, your cows averaged 393 pounds of butter fat a cow and they returned, you $2.31 for every dollor's worth of feed. This is a remarkable perform ance, but much more7so because four of these ten cows arc only two years old and. only two of them are mature cows. Moreover, you are now recognized as a well informed dairyman. May I consider the con tract made six years ago as fulfilled?" The reply was still more surprising. M r. Hagadorn said : "You have more than filled the contract and I am "glad you think I- have done my part. However, 1 am not stopping now. I have just purchased two pure bred cows for $340 which will each produce over 600 .pounds of butter fat in a year, and 1 am starting, all over again with that production as my goal for the herd average. Moreover, my neighbors and 1 have just bought a pure bred Guernsey-bull calf worth I Michigan Business Farmer in the is $500 which is recognized 'as one of j sue of November 19, in part as foi Ihc best bred Guernsey bulls in the; lows: state." ' , ' "Michigan is fortunate in having Mr. llagadurn's statements have j such a railroad as the New York Cen been verified and, without a doubt he ; tral Lines serving its citizens in many is on the way to become one of j sections. Any movement to improve northern Mishigan's leading dairyman ! agriculture in the state usually has as-well as a prosperous patron of the ; their ready ' moral and financial sup Michigan Central railroad. To add port." x to his joy he is rearing a mamily of j County agent Lytic, commenting on which he may weir be proud. . All of the encouragement given the. pure them are in 4-H club work and are bred sire idea by the railroad writes, winning many prizes. The oldest i girl, Fern, aged thirteen; won first UTlHii ill cL. UlC lUUMi'r,. Her brother, fifteen, placed second in j the- same-contest -err also woii second in an essay sontcst conducted j by the Top o' Michigan Potato Show! asociation, while her brother Edward ! .nc -o,tn,i q trin 1 u n c to t ; fa;r representing his county as the ! bov who . had the highest average at I ncss men ana ine viego cuiimy larni "Sam i the" eight grade examination. : j crs joined-lunds in 1920 in employing M.ch.gan Central Does lit. Part Ihus. working hand in hand with mmierous agencies, a man wno wouui be a farmer but was hanhicapped by insufficient capital and scientific train ing, has become a prosperous, con tented, skilled farmeran asset to every business agency dealing in the comunity, and a sucess before his family and friends. . It is but an illustration somewhat outstanding, we admit of the work which is going on' in Northern Michigan and elsewhere, a work in which the New York Cen- tral Lines arc playing a part. A definite dairy program for north eastern Michigan was. launched by the Agricultural Department of the Michi gan Central railroad in 1919, when fiyc pure bred Holstein sires were purr chased and released to responsible parties. This was followed by a pure bred sire train in 1921 when seventy mil"1 lirfl Kllltc wnrr iriAnA fni- no' many scrubs. In 1922 and 1923, this was to lower nn with thp iiiirrhas,. nt twenty aditional sires which were leased to groups of farmers. Some of them were purchased at nominal prices, through the cooperation of broad-minded breeders. Among the latter was John W. Endicott, president of the Merchants National Bank, De troit, who raised the calf on which later was founded the splendid Haga dorn lu-rd ( T Wnrvr nmmmpnt : business man in JacksrAi,' Michigan,! breeder of Holstein cattle, also as- j sisted in this movement. . Since .:.1923 representatives gf . the ; TO -, , . -' in vv;.rv wav ossib,c to j cncniinieo ,hc . ,la-'rv business, civing 'i io ;., . c . ..' -, : rallies at Standish, organizing a cow, teeing association at. Pinconning, rur-1 rhasing cows for individuals and i i- :r-psiwxiibitsndlivij i jH-izes at county fairs, etc. Assist-! - KHvW: to the' Gaylord iiankj ance was givwi to the Gaylord Bank ; last vrar w'hrn it ):wrhoA ram. paign to finance the purchase of two ! carloads of high grade cows a year i unti! Otsego eom.tv takes its place I ..m.m.v iK,' l,-i,!,-c it,,- ,1-,;,-,. kc.-. , ness. . Does It Pay? Naturally, the question prises, 'Does it pay the railroad to take such an active part in the development l of the dairy business?" Some would say that it is Worth while from the Davenport; WHO. iDcsMoin.: public relationship, standpoint alone. 'AVOW. Omah ; ' -W.DAF. Kansas Citv, Others would . wish,, to consider the-Mo. ; KWK, St Louis; KVOO, Tulsa; monetary value of a contented pros-vOAT. Sri .AnWo:' WHAS. Louis perous . farmer, patron to the carrier. villo ; WSM. N?chville ; WSR, At This was estimated by James J. Hil!,har,t-,'; pnd KOA.' Denver. '. the railroad builder, at not less than; The :Mio: Service of the denart $15,000 each. Others would consider ' ment is in charge of the arrangc the increase, in direct 'revenue which menr " of programs. YOU WOULD YOUR DOCTOR OR (he car reh irsracccived, and this is probably the most tangible. The dairy busines of necessity de velops Very slowly, especially in a new comitry, without capital. Hence, it is a little early to look, for striking increases in revenue at the . end of six years. Nevertheless,' using Gay lord as an example, because the dairy program of the railroad has largely centered there, itis found that the revenue on milk and cream shipped by baggage has multiplied itself six limes since 1921. The butter, ship ments by express have increased in direct proportion. Although these percentages do not represent a vast surp of money, it is, an indication of the results which may be looked for within the next six years because it is satisfactory to know that the dairy business is being firmly established in that country. No less than twenty pure bred sires of outstanding breed ing have been placed in Otsego county this year, replacing largely the Company-owned sires, of which there are only five left in the county. Prosperity In Sight It is work, if this type which pro moted the editorial written in the i l.n.1nriit Virt-rl lii..T f1- ' t inf1lirtir(, in onrom-aLinV the Great movemtns arc not brought . r tU ' .u:.:.i intelligent ," coordinated efforts of a group of -individuals or agencies. The development .at Gaylord is no ex: cent ion. With bankruptcy staring thcm 111 tnc 'aCG the Gaylord busi- ! aKricultural program that Would stave . , f cf T tU- hn nv,etnA support of the Michigan Central rail road, the Northeastern Michigan De velopment Bureau, and others. The result is as . satisfactory as the most optomistic dared hope, comparative prosperity is in sight, disaster has been averted throught the adoption, of a sound dairy program. A Con crete evidence of this result is the case of Sam Hagadorn. NETWORK TO BROAD CAST FARM PROGRAM FROM WASHINGTON The United States department of agriculture announced the opening on Tuesday,. October 2, of' a five-day-a-week broadcast direct from Washing ton to the radio audiences of a net- i wrk .f. .14 stations associated with i l,,v .& The broadcast is scheduled at 12:15 to 12:30 p. m., Central Standard time. W. M. Jardine, secretary of agricul ture, will inaugurate the program Tuesday with an address, "Putting Facts to Workon Ouri Farms." Stations associated in the network arc audible over an expanse of farm ing territory reaching from the Alle ghanics to the Rockies and from the. Canadian border to the Gulf Coast, Jt lS estimated that. fX),000 farm homes within good reception, radius of thc. 14 stations are cquippcM witn radio receiving sets. On Monday, Tuesday Wednesday, Thursday, and, tridav of each week federal workers in charge of mvesti- gPtions in farm production and fartn conomics will give the . most timely 1 110 .11ew roairast m esiaui sneci.- ar tllc invitation or me ivauonai m Casting COmpailV and aSSOCmtC.d the .invitation -of ..the National Bro-xd.- as a unit in the radio infor- nia!lon .sJ'rvlc,e of -,h,c dffartment. It '' considered a valuable .supplement to- the already ixistmg arrangemen1 with more than ,200 radio stations f t-j'-t emission, of weather, markets,- and gi-i.-rpj agriH.ilfal ktrwledge-. Stations ni the network for the I noon -hour br'vdca'st- irom Ua!vn"- ton are KDK A. Pittsburgh J -KVW. Chicago: WCCO. Minneapolis; WOQ THLNGS TO PLAN FOR RIGHT NOW That cream check every two weeks. That cannery check every time you come to town. .. Bread and Butter Show next fall. Encourage the 4-H Clubbers." Big Farmers' day next fall. .' v. Local Curb Market. Breed sows so that the pigs will go on the market in March, April, August and September. ' BUILD BETTER SOILS WITH SWEET CLOVER Raleigh, N. C, Oct. 2 As a pas ture and soil improving crop, sweet clover is winning a popular place for itself 'among good. farmers in " all parts of piedmont and western North Car olina. As a1 cover crop for plowing under in the general field, in the orchard, or nastnre. if is said to be unexcelled. Recent tests in Illinois show an ac cumulation of - nitrogen in the tops and roots of around 250 pounds per acre from clover planted one spring and tested in May of the following year. This is as much nitrogen as is contained in 25 tons ofV average farm manure or in over 1,600 pounds of nitrate of soda. Success with the crop, say tnose who have grown it, depends on a" good seed bed, well limed. At least one to two tons of finely ground limestone must be used to each acre. Inoculation of the seed is also im portant. In many instances farmers have not, obtained a good stand with the first trial evenf under thetbest of sweet clover will be found one of the most valuable crops 'on the farm. A recent bulletin trom Kentucky says, "Sweet clover is perhaps the most valuable of all , legumes " for pasture and soil improvement on Ken tucky farms.- Properly.' managed, sweet clover pastures "will support at least one steer or "dairy cow per acre from early spring until late fall, which is two or three times the capacity of Kentucky pastures at the present time. The growth of grasses is grcat Iv stimulated by sweet clover when it is included in the 'pasture mixture." This has laso bee nthe experience of those who have tried the crop in North Carolina. D. J. Lybrook of Davie county, Charlie Brown of Row an and Sloan' Brothers of Scotts are three successful growers who sing its praises. Field Selected Seed Increases Corn Yield , Go through the corn field before gathering time, with a bag strapped over"" the" .shoulder, and sectve seed ears from the proper type of stalks growing under average conditions and thus spend a highly profitable day. This is the frrmula for better corn vields advocated by C. K. Hudson of the farm demonstration department at State college. The seed corn, ac cording to Mr. Hudson, should be secured from stalks that arcf -strong and stocky, and have stood up under the storm conditions of the summer. Two-cared stalks give larger yields. The cars should be of medium, height from the ground and the stalk should have no advantage over the other, stalks as to space on the row or fertilizer. . . , -. : Other good oualilics in the seed cni- ir . h-jt - tlw mrs lroon over to prevent the. entrance, of rain into the husk, the shuck should cover the tip of the ear to keep out insects and the car should be large and short rather than long and slender. ' flnrp the seed ' corn has been se- eWMllv! Initio' 1T leeieu, on. mis .h'uim ..u.., ... a dry place or spread on a dry floor to permit evaporation of moisture. Nev er store ' them .in bags, boxes or hzr-ni - until thorouchlv drv. It is a good practice to mrtke a gcrminatiotii test ' sometime in the winter and use only those ears' with high' germinat ing power. ' . , . Mr. Hudson 'states that good seed corn is adapted to the . soil and cli mate where it is to be grown; is of a high yielding variety and from high stalks; is well matured and properly cared for from maturity to planting time and is free from insect and dis- eae injury. By following these suggestions for a few years, any farmer may have good seed corn for his own needs and may in time build up a trade with his neighbors in the same lo cality. YOUR LAWYER
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