THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1932
THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER
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A Page F r Haywood Farmers 1
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Tobacco Crop In Haywood
Is Most Encouraging This
Year, Says E. J. Chambers
Remember These?
E. J. Chambers, senior member of
the firm of Chambers, Reeves, Yar
boro, and Saunders, operators of the
Carolina Tobacco Warehouse in Ashe
ville, was in Haywood county last
week looking over the tobacco crops,
and in an interview with The Moun
taineer stated that the crop this year,
as far as he had seen, was much bet
ter quality than that of last year
from this county.
Mr. Chambers has just closed a
successful season in vr'non'., where
he has been located for a number of
years in the tobacco business. His
house there this year, he said, sold
47 per cent of all the tobacco sold in
that city and paid out 48 per cent of
the total amount for the crop.
When questioned as to the probable
prices in Asheville this year, Mr.
Chambers could not say, but indicated
that the prices should be better than
they were last year, or at least as
good. The Asheville market, he said,
woud open on either December 8th or
9th, the date not having been defi
nitely settled.
The pre.itrt businoi? of the firm
of which Mr. Chambers is a member
is most unique in several respects.
The four members have all had many
years experience in the tobacco bus
iness, in fact they have made it their
life's work. Mr. Yarboro, was be
fore entering the partnership with
Messrs. Chambers, Reeves and Saun
ders, one of highest paid nu'.tbr.cers in
the trade. It is said of Mr. Yarboro
that he is one of the tew auctioneers
that can be urderstood by peopl? 'iot
familiar with "autio.t jr.' language."
Mr. Saunders has been in Asheville
for several years and will be welcomed
this year by his many friends of this
section.
Mr. Chambers is very optimistic
over the prospects for .h." coming year
and feels that the future of
the tobacco business in this part
of the state will evenually grow to be
one of Western North Carolina's
greatest assets.
IDEA
EXCHANGE
COLUMN
The publishers of this paper real
izing the value of scientific and mod
ern farming methods to any commu
nity, will in the future devote this
page to the interest of agriculture in
Haywood county, and we ask that the
farmers of this county help us make
this page prohtable, not for ourselves,
but for themselves.
Each week we will try to hav0 a
number of ideas from Haywood farm
ers printed on this page, and if you
have tried out any method that saves
time, or labor, write in to the editor
and give the other farmers an op
portunity to profit by your method.
Watch this column each week and
also send in your ideas.
WRAPPING CABBAGE
We are reprinting a suggestion
made last week by Charles R. Liner.
So many people mentioned it that this
paper thought it best to begin with
Mr. Liner's idea in the Idea Exchange
Column this week. ,
Mr. Liner finds that by wrapping
cabbage in newspapers and storing
it away in boxes in a cool place
it will keep much better than
when buried or banked.
Cabbage wrapped in paper in the
manner which Mr. Liner suggests will
le'iiain firm and good until spring.
Only one thickness of paper is nec
essary to insure the vegetable from
going bad, according to Mr, Liner.
Value Of Bird
Measured By Egg
The biggest income from poultry
:n North Carolina is through the sale
of eggs and about the only way to
measure the value of either males or
hens as breeders is the jeeprd
made by their descendants in pro
ducing eggs.
Roy S. Dearsyne. head of the poul
try department at State College, says
the average flock owner cannot under
take the time and expense neces
sary to measure this performance and
so he suggests that highly bred birds
or hatching eggs be secured from time
to time from professional breeders.
"The work of accummulating this
information about the laying quali
fies of hens, starts with using only
pedigreed males mated in single pens
with trap-nested female? and in turn
trapnesting this female progeny,"
says Mr, Dearstyne. "This system is
rather expensive, but it i: the only
souad method of .determining the true
worth of the breeders and in the
run. it pays an extremely high divi
dend." "
Mr. Dearstyne know, this is . sound
doctrine because ho has built up the
poultry flocks at Stata College by
following such a system. For in
stance, he has a Leghorn hen that pro
duced 178 eggs in cue year: an;1 yet
this hen has two' daughters i hat pro
duced 282 and 208 eggs respectively
last year. Some of th? ether records
are even more startling. A Rhode
Island Red hen tha: produced 136
eggs in on s year has 'live daughters
which produc-d. 2.T?, 215, 231, 228 and
21 1 eggs earh.
This was not (hie t feeding bc
eauso similar records wor;: kept on
2r,000 birds n the demonstration
flocks over the State Avh'c'h do rot
show such increases. Then, too, re
cords on 800 birds, at. the College
poultry- plant, show 4,1,600 eggs in
crease with little in.-ieas'T in the feed
ing cost. hG say?.
Will someone please tell how to rid
the farm of rats? What is thL most
effective, rat poison? Send in your
idea today.
Farmers Should Advertise
Wood, Says Farm Expert
If Farm Doesn't Pay
Rotation Of
Will Help Situation
.' jrops
A farm broken up into snail, poorly-shaped
fields on which no syste
matic crop rotation is practiced does
not pay. When such farms have
been recognized, better results have
been secured.
"This is the finding of the North
Carolina Experiment Station in re
organizing several farms at the re
quest of owners in both piedmont and
eastern North Carolina." fays R..H.
Rogers of the department of agri
cultural economics at State College.
"We have analyzed a number of farms
where we found fields about three
acres in size and no definite crop ro
tation followed. A sound cropping
plan is impossible on such small,
numerous fields and as a result pro
duction costs are high. Cover crops
needed to reduce erosion and soil
building legume crops are generally
absent from the farming program
and most of the plant food has to be
bought each year."
On such farms, Rogers finds the
( Those folks who enjoy a lire-place
Sand appreciate the cheer and coziness
Vof a fire-place fire on frosty evenings
say tnere is no substitute lor wood
as a fire-place fuel.
The wood lire in the kitchen range
will heat the kitchen while the food
is cooking and will also give a supply
of hot water thus reducing the costs
of the three operations, says B. W,
Graeber, extension forester at State
College, who believes farmers, should
advertise the virtues of wood as a
fuel
, "For the farmer himself, there is no
more sufficient fuel than the wood from
his own forest," says Graeber, "and
it undoubtedly is true that many city
people may save on their fuel bills
by using wood for both cooking and
heating. Particularly is this true in
the early fall and spring when it is
not economical to have the furnace
going. A wood fire is quickly started
and when the fuel is dry and well
seasoned, the amount of smoke and
gas is reduced to a minimum. Many
a city person has found that ho can
use. wood in his furnace at less cost
than coal. : Some use wood, during the
day and coal at night, A wood fire
in a furnace requires more attention
than areoal ure. but by using huge
chunks of hardwood and giving at
tention to the grates and drafts, this
objection may be largely overcome.''
Mr. Graeber believes the merits of
North Carolina "hardwood . as fuel
should be continually 'emph;;.-.i::od by
farmers and other woodland owners.
It should not be hard to establish a
dependable trade in the f uel where
the buyers' are assured . of a eii;-!..nt
supply. This lack of a : up-,!y is
one reason why more city people do
not buy more wood. At this time
however, many people are intere-tod
in reducing their living costs and will
give mqre attention to the argu-.
ments in favor of wood., lie says.
Above is a picture of the first -gas Buggies'" ever made. In the days when
the one pictured above was the latest model, only a very few citizens could
afford them. This paper will be glad to get the names of all those in this
county who owned automobiles of the above model. Send them in to The
Mountaineer and they will be printed next week.
Tobacco Experts Predicting
Bright Future For Tobacco
Market In Western Carolina
Combination Of Experienc
ed Warehouse Men Will
Help This Section.
labor to be over-worked during a few
months and practically idle for Other
long periods.
The experience of past years in
reorganizing farm ' shows first the
necessity of an inventory of all prop
erty; ..next, the need of a detailed
map of the farm; .third, a definite
cropping plan, which may be changed
Using native rock and concrete,
Henry Francis of Wayncsville, route
3. Haywood county, is building a
combined apple and potato storage
house. A second floor will be used
for other storage.
E. E. Bell and J. M, Foscue. of
County sold 13,000 pounds of fat beef
steers at 3M cents a pound f, o. b.
their farms last .week. The buyer
stated the animals were of the finest
quality he had ever seen in eastern
North Carolina.
(By R. V. McFarland.)
Fortunate indeed is Asheville and
the tobacco farmers of that section
for it will have this season which
opens Dec. Tith, all that it takes in
buyer-, warehousemen and money, to
make it on, of the leaders of the
IJui ley Tobacco Belt. To make a good
market it takes not a few, but all of
the important buying concerns to be
represented and this Asheville will
have, for not only is Asheville. one
el' the.-most delightful cities in the
world in which to live, but Burly To
bacco, by reason of its superior burn
ing qualities is the coming tobacco of
tli,. world. To make a real tobacco
market so as to sell every pile for
the high dollar, it takes warehouse
men of high calibre, .skilled in a
knowledge of tobacco, to the end that
the grower may not '. .siller, for its
nothing but human nature for any
si t of men to buy at a little less than
market value, unless pushed Up to it
by' men-who' know .the limits of the
purchasing companies. 1 his is true,
not onlv of tobacco, but ot every pro?
duct sold.
Fortunate, therefore, is this beau
tiful citv in the land of the skies, and
the farmers of that section in the
coming to Asheville as tobacco ware
housemen. Chambers Reeves & Co-
This outstanding concern, one of the
strongest warehouse financial institu
tions in the State, is comnosed of E.
J. Chambers. O. A. Reeves, J. E,
Yarboro and B. B, Saunders, inen
who can read tobacco, regardless of
its type, like it was an open book, for
it has been their life work.
It was the' pleasure' of the writer to
serve as sale supervisor at Fairmont,
N. C. for many years and to come in
contact during the selling hours of
the day constantly with Chambers and
Reeves and their splendid associates.
He watched with pleasure ami with
pardonable pride, the Fairmont mark
et grown from a five million pound
market to a thirty-live million pound
market in the short period of seven
years, and he noted the important
part that Chambers-Reeves played in
its ..development, for they were on
the job personally every minute of
the (lay, with their eyes "wide open."
lie saw them sell che . past season,
which is now : closed, at their two:
warehouses, "The IVoplr's." and the
"Big .V one (lay 411, 7 HI -pounds -..of
tobacco for $70,1 4.",!)0,: which was ...in
average for the whole of $IX..1'.I. On
this same day the whol markei. upon
which . there ar(, seven warehouses,
sold 808.018 pounds '. tolciie.i for
ftl.'i f l'.SI.lO; :m average: -.for . the
whole of Slii.fiT, Again, on another
day, .Sept. 12t!r, they sol. I ai their 2
wirehmv.-es. :ii)2,728 pounds of to
bacco for S02.84:).::8; an average for
the--whole of SIC. while the entire:
seven warehouses sold !' )',' pounds,
for S117.lfiS.22, an -average: for the
whole of $15.4"). It was such sales as
thes2 that caused th 'in to sell during
the season of 1032, approximately 47
per cent ;of all the tobacco sold in
Fairmont, and, for this 47 per cent
paid out 48 per cent of all the money
paid out.
The fr'jn- of Chambers-Reeves .&
Co. is composed of E, .1. Chambers, a
product of the: Ilig Flat Creek sec
tion of Buncombe county, O. A.
Reeves, a product of Little Sandy
?! j-b. 'Medison cocnty and ,li:n Yar
boro, a country boy of Nash county
and their associates. It is therefore,
but natural that the first two named
I gentlemen. Who have decided to lo-
caie , m me ocauuiui lanu ol ineir
nativity, "whose sunlight summits
mingle with the sky." should bring
with them to Asheville thok- ;kdied
associate? and togc-ther with Jim
Yarboro, the fine auetione1' r. and 15.
B. Saunders who operated in Ashe
ville last se&son, endeavor to make
it (and they will) one of the leading
tobacco markets of the entire buriey
tobacco belt.
Keep A Few Cows
For Dairy Sideline
3 Purebred Bulls Are
Brought To Haywood
County By Fanners
'I'; :v ' u.'i-Mr.l bu'K were recently
i :-. '.in., llaywoed eaniy. ucord-
' Uo: fnM-.. i; unty I arm
" -v.. thuf adding to th,. quality of
i t!..r .heady i-i the county.
'!,. ii '. j 'aimer .i;vi X. I' Jaiues,
1 lal'trec, pun-hased a registered
S'i tlvin bull each from Alfred
S-.'an. of Pandridge, Tenn., and R- II.
r-'ene, Waynesvile, Route. .! bought
a rolled H 1 bull from the Hick
ory Nut Cap Farm in Buncombe
cuinty.
Mr. Robinson said that he estimated!
ttie number of purebred bulls in Hay
wood county at this time would be
about ISO. When a survey was made
last April there was 147. 20 for dairy
ing and 127 for beef. At the bull
sale several of these were sold and
more br irght in, b'.'vcver.
Tin' farmers of this county are real
izing the importance of purebred
stock, and the majority of the farm
ers are taking much interest in this
matter.
Timely Questions
And Answers On
Farm Problems
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l'airy development in North Caro
lina has reached the point now where
there is u nearby market either in
the form of a creamy, milk plant or
cheese factory available o everv farm
in the the State.
"For that reason very farm should
jieep a few cows," declares John A.
Any. dairy extension specialist, at
State College, 'i.ast year the produc
tion of cheese in the State was eleven
million pounds short of actual con
sumption while production of butter
was Hi million pounds short.: This
means but one thing. We can still ex
pand our dairy industry considerably
lit fore oven our local market is sup
plied. One of th,, best ways to do
this is in the form of farm dairying,
By this I do not mean that one must
become a -professional dairyman but
that he should keep at least five cows good Short horn heifers from Haywood
or .more-depending on the supply of county.
home-grown feed produced and the
pasture available."
Mr. Arey says further that this
kind of dairying furnishes a good
market for honuigrown feels and
provides paying employment for all
the farm labor throughout the year.
When cream is sold, the skimmilk is
left for poultry and hogs and every
tarm with five cows should stock at
least 100 hens and one good brood
sow. Usually the returns from the
cows, poultry and hogs will equal the
operating expenses of the farm and
will thus leave the income, from the
cash crops as profit.
While the number of cows which
may be kepi in this kind of farming
is -determined by the amount of home
grown feed available, still one should
not keep less than five. The expense
of handling and maketing th" product
from a smaller number-will be too
great for the margin i f profit availa
ble. Success in this kind of dairying
depends on the farm , operator himself,
oil the quality of cows. the. feed avail
able and the equipment for handling
the mill;, Arey says.
I'. S. Hines if Ircnoir county re
cently --arranged to purchase' a car of
there any benefit
cutting and plowing under to-
stalks after harvest?
wer: Yes. Standing tobacco
and the suckers that grow on
furnish a feeding and breeding
for millions of insert pests
winch will attack the crop the follow
ing season. W hen plowed under many
of these insects are destroyed. TbjB
stalks also furnish a small amount of
plant food to the soil.
-talks
ilicni
plan
Question; What kind of lime is
best for acid soils?
Answer: Where limo is used aim
ply to neutralize acidity, it is best
bought on the basis of calcium car
lamate equivalent and the fineness of
grinding. On sandy soils, subject to
magnesium deficiency, however, it ia
best to use a dolomitic limestone which
carries magnesium.
Question: What is a good grata
mixture for yearling heifers and how
much should I feed?
Answer: A good grain mixture for
dairy hetfers of this age consists of
3 parts, by weight, of corn meal, one
part wheat bran, and one part ground
oats. This mixture, however, should
be used with a good legume hay or a
hay in which legume predominates.
The amount to be fed depends upon
the condition of the animal, from 2
to .! pounds a day is usually sufficient
where roughage is fed in liberal quantity.
Kigbty-thrce men and women sold
$148. 58 worth of surplus farm pro
line,, on the Durham curb market last
l.espedeza seed pan number 10
has been purchased in Person county
for the harvesting of a home supply
of seed for sowing on small grain
next, spring, says II. K. Sanders, farm
agent. . ;
The turkey crop of Cartere; county
reported above . the average due to
the excellent weather conditions for
raising the birds this season. A car
has been engaged for the Thanksgiv
ing trade.
The Election Is Over And-
We
In Serving The People Of Haywood County Efficient
ly And Economically
Especially The Farmers
Fred Colvard of Ashe County is
rasing 90O turkeys hatched in art incu
bator and reared around a brooder.
The poults were not allowed to touch
the ground until they were eight
weeks old. Losses tj data are far
below one per cent-
Rutherford county farmers have not
only seeded an excellent crop of small
grain this season, but have increased
their acreage to vetch, Austrian win
ter peas and such legumes.
VritGLOW
COAL
is also the Choice Fuel
of those who know
Quality and are econo
mizing. Join the ranks
of the Satisfied
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USERS
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we do honor io
our Ex-Service
Men of The
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Hyatt and Company has always made
it their policy to give their customers
their money's worth that policy is
still in force. We buy only merchan
dise we can recommen dconscientious-
b.
No matter what farmers need for
their farm it can usually he bought at
our store. When in need of
Farm Machinery, Fertilizers, Seeds
FeedSj Hardware, Lumber, Mill
Work, Fancy And Heavy Groceries,
Paints, Coal. Etc.
See us before buying elsewhere. If we
do not have it in stock we will gladly
order for you.
On that next lot of feeds you buy be
sure to get our prices before making
your purchase. When we buy feed we
buy both Quality and Quantity get
the benefit of this by buying from us.
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