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t ( I m " ."", I J" III It , 1 I v w ii 4 Li i- Soaking, steaming, or cooking stock feeds increases their digestibility slightly, but usually, not enough to pay for the expense and work. When maximum gains are desired, cooking fnay encourage the animals to eat more feed. According to available reports more than one-third of the annual farm slaughter of hogs takes place during one month December, in some years .4. M 1 , ! 1 1 a s 1 ima irl Vf - mure iiu&s uc Mutu uu amj cember than in all the packing-houses and other places where Federal meat inspection is carried on. . k Many farmers now carry fire pro tection thVough farmers' mutual fire insurance . companies. According' to the latest figures available, about $10,(X)0,000,OOa worth of fire' insurance is carried by these mutuals, at a low annual cost averaging-26 cents per $100 for the country as a whole. When the calf is three weeks old, it should. e given; a little hay and grain.' Clean, bright clover, alfalfa, tor mixed hay is best. Alfalfa hay that is too" leafy should not-be fed -I .... , in a verv voune call. urn, uais, wheat .bran, and linseed meal are the best, grains. for a calf. "Shredded Corn stover has about the same feeding, value as unshredded stover. It is better than timothy hay : nr straw for milk cows, and better ; than . straw for horses. , For bedding 'purposes, shredded - stover is more valuable than straw, and much better . than the long unshredded stover. ' Failure to grade eggs is one reas on why many farmers don't get a higher aperage price per dozen. for their eetrs. When small and bad , eggs are marketed with good, ones thi result is a lower price tor au. If only a few isggs' arV obtained" from ii rt 1. 1!tin B 1fc lilrplv a smait nutK, - .gmuiuBi -v . to be done than when the eggs are ' produced by a good-sized flock, : A flOCk Of ZUU to W Birus f AaairiUa in nrAer that the marketing of the eggs and also -the management of theV flock may be put on the most economical basis. The time to' buy feeder, cattle de pends on the system of feeding, the feeds used, and the quality of the cattle. If . the llorerj grades,, ofy cattle arY bought for immediate fattening in dry. lot, if is generally better to buy in early fall, .so as to get them mark eted in late winter or early spring. The lower grades usually reach their peak prices before June, though steers of . good quality and condition may sell to advantage a little later in the season. If cattle are to be finished on grass and there is sufficient rough age to carry them through the winter, fall is the time to buy. Buying feed ers in the spring for finishing on grass the following summer should be limited to cattle that are fairly mature. Not much finish can be ob tained on young growing cattle that are roughed through the winter and marketed off grass the following sum mer. The little pig that doesn't get to market has much to do with losses in the swine industry.' The average hog raiser markets only 56 per cent of the pigs farrowed and gets no direct benefit from 14 per cent of the feed iied on this account. Efforts to ward reducing this Jnfant mortality obviously must begin with the sows A olan that has proved successful at the U. S. Animal Husbandry Farm at Beltsville, Md., is to put the bred sows in a corn field after the corn has been gathered. When they have cleaned up the field, shelled corn is fed by scattering it thinly over the field. This -gives the sows plenty of exercise About 2 pounds of corn per 100 pounds weight is allowed, and enough corn is thrown out at one feeding to last a week. Good third- cutting alfalfa is always accessible in a rack, also 60 per cent ' tankage or fish meal in a self-feeder. Then each sow eets about 1 pound a" day of middlings or shorts, fed dry in a trough. Water is always available in an automatic waterer. The sows are housed in "ordinary ; ho? houses with The best fuel for smoking meat is green hickory or mtrple . wood smothered with savvducst of the same material. Hard wood of any kind is preferable to soft wood. Resinous woods should not be used, as they may give a bad flavor t the meat. Corn-cobs are a good substitute for hard wood. Juniper berries or fra grant woods may be added to the fire to flavor the meat. The fire should be kept burning slowly, keep ing the temperature between 70 de grees and 90 degrees. If the fire dies down too much the meat gets cold and the smoke doesn't penetrate readily. If it grows too hot it may scorch the! meat. Oiled or waxed paper is best to wrajp the smoked meat in. It should then be done up in heavy muslin or canvas and covered with yellow wash or ordinary lime whitewash to which' glue has been added, as a protection againust flies and insects. Hang each piece separately in the storage room;, do not stack in piles. A dry, cool cel lar or attic, with free ventilation, is a good place to store smoked meats if it is kept dark and flies are excluded. . Industry's Stake In the Home Market Pledge (Editorial, The Minneapolis Tribune, October 14, 1929) Industry's stake in ' the Republican party's famous "home market pledge ' (reproduced at the end of this edi toriaiy is as . pronounced as agricul ture's. At present the American people pay about a billion dollars a year to foreigners for agricultural , products which American agriculture could quite as satisfactorily produce." , Through the home market pledge the ' Republican party promised, to exclude from American shores" this annual billion dollars' worth , of im ported' agricultural products and so to - turn that ' billion dollar market over -to the: American farmer. The exclusion was to be accomplish ed by a tariff revision which would wall off that inflow, of competitive agricultural products. This particular billion dollars of American money spent on agricultural products is now passing outside the boundaries of continental United States, and traveling to the Argentine, Cuba, the Philippines, the West In dies, the East Indies, Java, the Ha waiian islands, Germany, Holland, Porto Rico, and countless other far places.. ' ' ':: :'";;.-f How much good to American indus try is;-a billion dollars of American monev scattered over the four corn ers of the globe? Perhaps some small fraction of it may be recovered by the American automobile manufacturer and the American movie corporation, but the bulk of it, obviously, is lost to Amen can industry. "':.'. Consider now what would happen i: that billion dollars, instead of be ing disbursed abroad, were disbursed among the American farmers living on the mainland of the United States , The largest part of the sum would inevitably linger but a short time in the hands of the American farmers. It would quickly be turned over to the American manufacturers in ex ibhange for products which the manu facturers have to sell. Thus that billion dollars might be likened to a football which the Unit ed States government would toss to agriculture, and which agriculture, :n turn, would toss to industry. Logically, therefore industry should be fighting as hard as agriculture to see the transfer of that billion dollar market effected. Yet here we are confronted by the paradox1 that industry is opposing the fulfillment of the home market pledge instead of championing it. Here we are confronted by the paradox that industry is making extra and special efforts to .. escape the annual billion dollars' worth of sales freely offered it. "' What causes industry to stand in its own light, to range itself against .its own interests, to block its own advancement? ; One need not . hunt long to dis- rnvpf" whv. i- --. j. The individual -American industry' is well organized, but American in dustry as a-whole is not. It so hanpens.' that the interests' of ,.T The County Agent it responsible only for articles over his signature For the rest Editor. blame the editor oftcn diametrically opposed to the interests of American industry as a whole. . Thus, while a fulfillment of the home market pledge m terms , or casein might be harmful to one in dividual American industry, it would be helpful to American industry as a whole. Or while a fulfillment . of the home market pledge in terms of vegetable oils and fats might be harmful to one indidvidual American industry, it would be helpful to American indus try as a whole. Or while a fulfillment of the home market pledge in terms ! of starch might be harmful to one individual American industry, it would be help ful to American industry as a whole. Hence this strange situation de velops: When a concrete issue is under fire, the one adversely affected industry, that is to say the one un-. representative industry, is certain to speak for industry as a whole. V Industry as a whole, being unor ganized, is inarticulate. . It remains silent and indifferent while the one individual industry which is really fighting its best in terests volunteers to act as its spokes man. . In other words, industry as a whole is the' victim ot unrepresentative representatives. Were industry organized as a solid unit, did it have a supreme direc torate let us say. this sort of thing could never happen. The directorate would put all its power and weight and authority behind every move in tended to fulfill the home , market pledge made agriculture. The v false credentials of the individual, vocal, and unrepresentative industry would be exposed. 1 t Surely it is high time that industry as ' a whole began to organize ' in its own defense. A failure to redeem the home mark et pledge will cheat industry out of an annual billion dollars worth of sales quite as certainly as it . wilLdo the same thing to agriculture. Agri culture's loss will be industry's and industry's will be agriculture's ; the two are one and coterminous. Can not American industry as a whole see the damage it is likely to suffer un less it finds some method of stamp ing out this evil of unrepresentative representation? The Republican Party's Promises to Agriculture A protective tariff is as vital to American agriculture as it is to American . manufacturing. The Re publican party believes that the home market, built up under the orotec tive policy, belongs to the American farmer, and it pledges its support o legislation which will give this mark et to him to the full extent of his ability to supply it. We favor adequate tariff protection to such of our agricultural products as are affected by foreign competi tion. The Republican party pledges it self to the development and enact ment of measures which will place the agricultural interests of America on a basis of economic equality with other industries to insure its pros perity and success. Extracts from the Republican platform, adopted at Kansas City, June 12-15, 1928. Will the Republican party keep its campaign pledges to the farmer! GOOD WOOD SHED NEEDED ON FARM Because about one-half the weight of freshly .cut wood is water, every farm needs' a good wood shed under which the fuel wood may dry and season before being used in the home. "A good wood shed on every farm will mean timber conservation anc less labor expended in cutting and preparing the annual wood supply,' s"ays R. vf. Graeber, extension for ester at State College. "Dry, wel seasoned wood is 'an efficient fne It will lighten the work' of the house wife and will pay liberal dividends to the whole family in terms of greater comfort and happiness. The more water there is in wood, the less, heat it will throw- tiff, because consider T boil the water and ; change it to steam." F As a basis for this argument, Mr. Graeber uses figures recently se- cured from investigations in another state. Ihcse figures show that when irst cut, about one-half the weight of wood is water. A cord of red oak, when . freshly cut weighs about ,000 pounds or about 2 1-2 tons. About one-half of this is water. Thus is seen the need of drying or season ing before such wood is needed. During the first six months if the wood is piled in loose stacks, in the open where the sun and rain can work on'it, the timber will lose about 40 per cent of its water content. A cord of red oak, therefore, after six months of efficient seasoning would contain about 1,500 pounds of water. At the end of the' year, if stored properly under shelter, it would still contain about 1,000 pounds of water. But wood piled in the open, ab sorbs a large amount of water every rainy day. The water content of red oak wood during a rainy spell may go as high as 1,500 pounds to the cord, says Mr. Graeber. But wood stored under cover, in loose piles. will shqw small change in water con tent after it is once dry. Brief News Items Seventy-one 4-H poultry club members of Catawba county made a net profit of over $12,000 with their locks during the past season. The mass meeting of tobacco ' grow ers to be held at State College, for the purpose of deciding on the forma tion of a' co-operative marketing as sociation has been scheduled for Tuesday, December 17. ,A car containing 77 fat hogs was shipped to eastern markets by a group, of six Carteret county farm ers last week. Sixty-three cars of fat hogs have been shipped by Craven county farm ers this season. The first co-operative car of peanuts was, also' shipped this fall. - Eight pure bred Guernsey bulls were sold , recently in Cumberland county for an average price of $81.00 each. A co-operative shipment of 200 turkeys was made to the Baltimore market from Avery county last week, After farming for 40 years, G. W. Owenby of Candler, in Buncombe county says the opportunity for the young farmer is greater than ever before. ' E. D." Bowditch was recently ap pointed as county agent in Clay county. W. F. Bowman of Flat Rock in Henderson county reports that his flock of 114 White Wyandottes paid him a net profit of $2.51 a bird dur ing the past year. Tho Best Purgative for Relicrcs vllie congestion, reduces ccnrpLcatbns, hastens recovery, 10 Piece.Cosmetic Set $1.97 This is a Famous Vivani Set and includes Face Powder, $100, Rouge, 75c, Tissue Cream $1.00, Depilatory, $1.00, Facial Astringent, $1.75. Bath Salt, $1.00, Toilet Water, $1.25, Per fume, $2.75. Brilliantine. 75c. Skin Whitener, 75c. Total Value, $12.00. Special price, $1.97 for all ten pieces to introduce the line. ; Send no money but clip coupon; Name Address Send wi parcel post C O. D. Your money promptly refunded if not satisfied. -. : : . TV Tl mm mm- 5 Cullasaja, N. C, Dec. 3, R?9. Dear Santa Clans: I am a little girl seven years old. I have been a good girl tlii'. year. Please bring me a dolf, a little stove, some candy, and some ranges. Your friend, MARIE SCOTT. Cullasaja, N. C, Dec. 3, 1929. Dear Santa: I am a little girl nine years, old. I have been a good girl. Please bring me 'a doll, a tea set, and some candy and oranges. Your friend, JESSIE TALLENT. Cullasaja, N. C, Dec. 3, 1929. Dear Santa: I want you to bring me a doll, some candy, some nuts, and apples. have been a good girl. Your friend, HELEN McCONNELL. Cullasaja, N. C, Dec. 3, 1929.' Dear Santa: , I am little -girl six years old. I thank you for what you brought me ast year. This year I want some nuts, , some candy, oranges, and a wagon. I will' thank you very much. Your friend, . LOIS CLARK. Cullasaja, N. C, Dec. 3, 1929. Dear Santa Claus: I am a little girl seven years old and in the first grade. For Christmas I want a doll, candy, nuts and bananas. Don't forget my other brothers and sis ters. , Your friend, EDNA HENRY. Kyle, N. C, Dec. 6, 1929v Dear Santa Claus: I am a little girl eight years old I am in the second grade. 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