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feSDAx, :.-'.:.CII 21,1940
THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER
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Registered
Herefdrds Put On Haywood
etid Stock
Into Every
Of County
:e Than 1,000 Persons
J L ed Cattle From Kansas
tStables Here
e than 1.000 persons visited
Fett's stables ' during four
,!rom Saturday through Tues-
view the twenty-one regis-
bulls and the thirteen regis
: heifers which were recently
ksed by the county farm
agents in Kansas, which reached
the county last Saturday.
They were exhibited' for four
days and during that time a large
number of outstanding beef breed
ers in the county, examined the
purebred Hereford herd as well as
several well known out-of-the
county breeders. Among the latter
were Dr. J. M. Lynch, and James
G. K. McClure, of Buncombe,
Ralph Hunter, of Jackson Coun
ty and Harry Hayes, of Hender
son County.
Many of the extension workers
in the neighboring counties also
inspected the animals, as well as
many of the business and profes-
Farmers Should Pay More Attention
To Legumes, Says Jarvis Allison
By Jarvis II. Allison.
Jnrr.os E. Allen Insurance
Haywood Representative
SECURITY Life and Trust Co.
Educational Retirement Income Insurance
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DOGWOOD
We have been buying Dogwood for the past 15 years, and are
a position to pay the most for your timber. Will receive all
"imber in three lengths 20, 36 and 54 inches. See us before
belling. (Must top 4 inches at small end.)
O. L. COPE
Next to Erkraft Plant Hazelwood
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r GARDEN SEEDS OF ALL KINDS
. FERTILIZERS, NITRATE OF SODA
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toes, corn or any other produce you have on your
, farm. Come in and, see if we can't trade you
your planting needs and let us handle your
produce. We are quite sure that we can save
you money.
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Phone 130-M
Asheville Road
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Edwin Fincher
At the last annual meeting of
the.Haywood County association of
Demonstration Farmers it was sug
gested that we often have some
thing in the local paper relating
to some current farm activity or
in the discussion of some farm
problem. The county agent's of
fice suggested to me that it was
my time, and at the same time
named the subject "The Value of
Legumes."
It would be well in the outset
to list a few of the legumes com
mon to our section; namely, all
clovers, red, sapling, crimson, al
sike, white, alfalfa, and lespedeza.
In another family are cowpeas, soy.
beans, and vetch. In still another
family are certain forest growths
such as locust and walnut. What
do these plants leave in the soil
that is so valuable to other plant
life and how and where do they
gather it? We are told that they
have the ability to reach into the
atmosphere and gather it from an
inexhaustible storehouse and carry
it into the sap flow, and store on
its own roots in the form of nod
ules. They call it nitrogen. Yes,
nitrogen is the chief element of
plant food. If it is, why do we not
buy more of it in our fertilizers?
The answer is the price is prohib
itive. If the price, if bought, is
prohibitive and if there is such an
abundance in the atmosphere about
us, why not encourage the growth
of such plants as have the ability
to store it in the soil. We are told
that the main elements for the
nurture of legumes are lime and
phosphate. Under the farm pro
gram this can be had for freight
cost and hauling charges, and this
small charge is deducted from the
farm payment.
There have been many tests
showing the value of lime and phos
phate in securing better sods and
growths, As further evidence
that lime is the chief element for
legumes plant growth, I need only
to call your attention to the fact
that the sections of our own county
lying nearest the limestone sec
tion of Tennessee voluntarily grow
white clover and lespedeza in a
greater degree than other sections
of the county.
Under bur farm program we are
encouraged to take out of cultiva
tion much of our hill land, es
pecially such as cannot be controll
ed against erosion and instead of
sodding in the new, add to what we
have more legume seeds and dress
with lime and phosphate. Under
such soil treatment, such filth as
sage grass will ' eventually give
way to blue grass, white clover,
and lespedeza.
To me the word "conservation"
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JARVIS H. ALLISON
is one of the most valuable in the
language. Its meaning is the op
posite of the word "waste." If we
wish to be part of the program
that has for its goal the conserva
tion of our soil, water, and scenery
and at the same time assist in
setting up a barrier against floods,
let us take the plow and the axe
off of the hills and help nature
restore that which is lost This
would indeed be a beautiful and
valuable country if our hills were
sodded in blue grass, white clover,
and lespedeza, furnishing pastur
age to hundreds of cattle and grow
ing better from year to year by
Use.
sional groups in this section.
On Tuesday there was a special
show held which was attended by
some 400 farmers. Present for this
exhibit were L. I. Case, Extension
Animal Husbandry specialist; Earl
Hostetler, of the Animal Husbandry
Research department, of State Col
lege, and W. B. Collins, farm man
agement specialist. They all made
brief talks in which they express
ed approval of the movement to
improve the cattle industry in Hay
wood, and on the care that these
breeding cattle should be given.
The bulls and heifers were bred
by J. M. Lewis and son, of Lamed,
Kansas, one of the outstanding
polled breeders : in the United
States, who has shipped cattle to
Hawaii and many foreign coun
tries. The horned heifers and
bulls were bred by T. L. Welch,
of Abilene, Kansas.
The First National Bank and
the county board of commissioners
were sponsors of the movement
to bring the cattle to the county.
The twenty-one bulls and thir
teen heifers were all purchased by
Haywood County farmers as fol
lows: the Hereford horned : bulls,
by C. D. Ketner, Ivy Hill township:
Fred Allison, Jonathan township;
T. O. Chafin, Waynesville: John
B. Campbell, Ivy Hill; Ellis Wells,
Pigeon; u. S. Green, Fines Creek;
W. L..Messer, White Oak.
Mark Ferguson, Fines Creek;
Sam Ferguson, White Oak; D.
Reeves Noland, Fines Creek; L. Z.
Messer, Fines Creek; K. L. Bur
nett, East Fork; W. R. Franklin,
Waynesville.
Buying Hereford polled bulls
were: W. F. Hipps, of Cecil;
Henry Francis, of Waynesville;
Mrs. C. T. Wells, of Beaverdam:
Hugh Welch, of Waynesville, W.
A. Moore, of Pigeon; J. L. West
moreland, of Beaverdam; and M.
O. Galloway, of Waynesville.
Those purchasing the registered
Hereford heifers were: Jarvis L.
Palmer, of Jonathan Creek town
ship; J. R. Boyd, Waynesville;
T. O. Chafin, Jr., of Waynesville;
Jarvis H. Allison, of Waynesville;
Claude Francis, of Waynesville;
C. N. Allen, Hazelwood ; W. F.
Hipps, of Cecil; Pink Francis, of
Waynesville.
Hobert Hoglen won the $3.00
prize for guessing the weight of
one of the bulls in the guessing
contest.
Farm Glasses Of
Fines Creek Made
Good '39 Records
The following summary of farm
project records of the Fines Creek
vocational agriculture classes for
the year 1939 has been announced
by B. G. O'Brien, instructor.
The total charges for the suc
cessful year's work amounted to
$1,(536.82, with total credits reach
ing $8,281.75, and a profit of $6,
644.93. The total number of self hours
the boys worked on projects
amounted to 6,800, while the value
of self labor at 10 cents per hour
totaled $580. The labor income
came to $7,224.93.
There were 90 projects started,
76 completed, by the 56 out of 41
students enrolled. The percentage
of projects completed came to 84.4,
while the percentage of students
completing projects was 87.8,
Likes Farm Page
Editor The Mountaineer:
You have made a great step forward in your farm
page, but we are wondering if all your readers know of
it and read it as they should. This is something to study
about and perhaps worthy of space on your editorial
page.
Haywood county is a section to itself and all farm
ing has to be done in a different manner from other
sections. The elevation and soil types differ from sur
rounding sections and even the rainfall varies, there
being a variation from 38 inches at Enka to 84 near
Highlands, Now, all farm operations have to adapt
themselves to our conditions, and there is a difference of
about two weeks in the growing season even between
Haywood County and the nearest farm experiment sta
tion at Swannanoa. With these differences to be con
sidered, your farm page, with its reports of the best
farms, is the most reliable guide for us farmers. Al
ready you have a running start on any farm page in any
newspaper known to us. Good luck to a better page.
Respectfully,
BILL MEDFORD, JR.
7Ae lOeatUe Report
H. M. HALL, Official Observer ,
Mar Max Min 7:30 a. m. Free
14 54 35 39 0.45
15 49 25 25
16 46 25 44
17 59 29 30
18 65 31 61
19 63 44 45 0.91
20 60 30 31
Mean maximum
Mean minimum ..
Mean for week
High for week
Low for week ..
Mean for 7:30 a. m
Below March normal
Precipitation for week
Precipitation for March
Below March normal
. -55.r
43.2
65.0
25.0
-28.0
3.3
-1.45
222'
1.04'
Boyd Re-elected
As Director Of
Farmers' Group
R. T. Boyd, of Waynesville, route
2, was nominated to succeed him
self for a two-year term as a di
rector of the Farmers Federation
at the annual meeting Saturday
afternoon of the co-operative's
Haywood county shareholders.
The federation's warehouse near
the depot was not large enough to
accommodate the crowd so the
meeting was held in a vacant store
nearby.
A county advisory committee of
10 members was re-elected as fol
lows: II. Arthur Osborne, Canton;
Henry Francis, Waynesville, route
1; Glen Boyd, R. T. Boyd, J. B.
Medford, R. F. Davis, Dave Boyd,
N. W. Carver, all of Waynesville,
route 2; Glenn Palmer and C. S.
Greene, of Clyde, route 1.
Mr. Osborne also is a member
of the federation's board of direc
tors and his term extends for an
other year.
making the average number of
projects completed per Btudent 2.1.
The average labor income per stu
dent completing projects was
$206.94.
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Delivered at our mill at Caldwell Service Station on
Dellwood Road, Waynesville.
SPECIFICATIONS: Cut your wood in 20, 40 and 60-inch
lengths, not less than 4VS -inches at the small end. All wood
with a red heart must have not less than 2V. -inches of white sap
between the red and bark, with not more than one defect to every
20-inch length. We cannot use timber with sap knots and burr
knots. Price per rick of 160 cubic feet delivered, if cut according
to above instructions, $20.00.
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Springtime"
Turns Our Thoughts To
Agriculture
The first robin of spring brings more than
romantic thoughts . . . it is a sign of renewed
agricultural activity in Haywood County. For
tunately, too, Haywood County is not a one
crop section, but has a diversification that in
cludes all products of the soil.
Springtime not only brings activity to those
who actually till the soil, but to many busi
nesses closely allied with farming . . , such as
fertilizers, seeds, implements and equipment.
We at the First National Bank have a vital in
terest in agricultural progress. The services of
this bank are always available to those actively
engaged in the farm life of Haywood.
JU QlizHdlf Bank"
First National Bank
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
($5,000 Maximum Insurance For Each Depositor)
Today...
It Is Spring - - -
AND WE ARE PREPARED
TO MEET THE
NEEDS OF ALL
PLANTERS
Fertilizers . .. Plows .. .
Seeds... Hoes...
Implements . . . Rakes . . .
Being Out of The High
Rent District, We Can
Sell For Less
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"Everything to Build Anything"
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