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piulished eveky rpi m jr_ / published evmy monday The Mountaineers mondat Farm and Home Page Interesting Farm Facts From About State And Nation Between October 1, 1953 and June 1, 1954. some 3,000 fires will burn over 220,000 acres of North Carolina forest. Only you can pre vent forest fires. Flue-cured domestic tobacco is expected to be 3 to 5 per cent higher in 1954. The 7.760,000 bushel North Caro lina wheat crop this year was 7 ptr cent below that of 1952. The 6,204,000 bushels of Irish potatoes produced in North Caro lina this year was above the 5, 456,000 bushels produced last year, but below the 9,513,000 bushel average. Sheep production in North Caro lina is on the upswing. Planned burning of sagebrush on Idaho cattle ranges has increas ed the grazing capacity of the land 40 to 100 per cent in the last 15 years. The Dutch government says it will take $15 million to recover the land that was under water during last winter's disastrous flood. A synthetic rice is being develop ed in Japan. During the marketing year end ed June 30. United States flue cured tobacco exports were off 17 per cent. ? 1 Youth Plans Conservation CHICAGO (API ? A "Young Outdoor Americans'" conference designed to stfmulate interest in conservation work will, be held here next spring. , , *?? The Izaak Walton League of America, celebrating the 300th year of the publication of Walton's "Comnlete Angler," will play host. Boy Scouts. Girl Scouts. Future Farmers of America. 4-H Clubs and CamD Fire Girls will have rep resentatives from 48 states. Gov 11 nui v- tuiiniimws wiimwm mo youths who attend on the basis of their interest in the subject. The league's executive director, William Voigt. Jr., says "Ideas de veloped at the conference. March 10, 11 and 12, 1954, will'be filter ed back to state conservation groups for study and application." Want ads bring quick results. State College Answers Timely Farm Questions QUESTION: Is there any check on the butterfat tests made at milk plants in the state? ANSWER: As a service to the state's milk producers an N. C. Department of Agriculture regula tion requires that department tech nicians check butterfat tests re sults of all dairy plants in North Carolina. State laboratory techni cians make regular spot-checks of composite samples already tested by milk plant technicians. If the two results vary more than 0.3 per< cent, both the plant and producer are notified. QUESTION: How deep should soil samples be taken? ANSWER?The depth sampled is an important factor affeoting the results of soil tests. For cultivated crops or new forage crop seedings, thg, plow layer should be sampled. In most cases, this will be about six inches. Some pastures may only be plowed four inches. Information should be obtained on.the soil lay er with'which the lime and fertil izer is to be mixed. Where lime and/or fertilizer has been top drpssed. such as pasture or alfal fa. the top two inches should be sampled, first scraping ofT the surface litter. Row ridges may present a sampling problem where this type cultivation is practiced. In these instances, the soil should be taken from the sides of the ridges being careful not to get into the fertilizer band or row. QUESTION: If I add a few good Jerseys to my dairy herd can I ex pect my butterfat tests to be high er? ANSWER: Yes. depending on the number of Jerseys added and the number of cows of other breeds in vour herd. Here's an example: One herd consisted of 12 Ilolsteins producing 300 pounds of milk per 4av and eight Jerseys producing 150 pounds per dijy. Here. 67 per cent of the total production came from the Holsteins with a 3.4 per cent average. Only 33 per cent was produced by the 5 per cent Jer sevs. A much larger percentage per cent test for the entire herd. The first recruiting station of the Marine Cofps was at "Tun Tavern" in Philadelphia. Pa. The proprietor of the tavern, Robert Mullan. was appointed to the rank of captain and became the first Marine Corps recruiting officer. Prowler Under Bed OKLAHOMA CITY <AP>?Mrs. Minnie Slaton, 43, Oklahoma City, was puzzled when two policemen banging on her front door awak ened her. They pointed out a win dow screen had been cut and the window was open. The front and back doors also were open al though Mrs. Slaton said she had locked them. The policemen looked under the bed in which Mrs. Slaton had been sleeping, and found a 15-y.ear-old boy who admitted breaking in to Moote money, v- M ; Overpayment Corrected I CLIFFSIDE PARK. N. J. (API It took special action of the Mayor and City Council to cancel an over payment of taxes made by Raeffaele and Jennie Campana. The amount was one cent! Titles Make Headlines NEW LONDON. Conn. (AP) ? Titles of two of Eugene O'Neill's plays inspired a copy-reader on the New London Day, where O'Neill once worked, in composing a headline for his story about a desolate piece of property on Cape Cod where O'Neill did much of his early writing. Provincetown, Mass., was about to foreclose on the property, owped by O'Neill, when a friend paid & back tax bill, halt ing the action. This is how the Day headed the ? Story: ? AH WILDERNESS i (THE TAXMAN COMETH) Royal Charger was the ?> leading juvenile sire in England and Ire land in 1952 with 13 winners.^ His Royal Serenade?was the winner of the American Handicap and the 1 1953 Hollywood Gold Cup. OF ALL THE MILLIONS of Americans celebrating Thanksgiving Day, Robert Smith feels that he has particular reason to be thankful. The first quadruple amputee to return from the Korean war. he married and settled down In Takoma Park. Maryland. Here he Is cuddling his son. Don Rugene. born just a few weeks ago. (International) HAS GOOD REASON TO BE THANKFUL ?" ??aMMM?agaiMi?aawCT Margaret Johnston County Librarian FREEDOM IS OUR HERITAGE I Our heritage of freedom is the nost precious we have. By it. all he others are made" possible hroughout this great land of ours. \s one result, in your Library you ire privileged to read?read the noving and inspiring story of hose who founded the United states, its government and ideals, is well as the people who tamed he wilderness, developed the and, and sought ever new fron iers, spiritual, cultural, and ma erial. Your Library invites you to ex >lore the books about these peo ?le. For the United States is nany lands and many peoples. In his nation, our backgrounds and 'ultures may differ, but all have leen held together by a common ove of freedom and opportunity. In order to understand so vast i country as ours, and how it irew and developed, we need to ;now more about the diversity of 'egions and peoples who make ip America. Books make vivid who hey were, why they settled where hey did, and why they developed he kind of life and thought they lid. Books show how each region ind each person, no matter how liverse, helped form the warp and voof of the patterned tapestry wb all the United States. Your Library has books of fact nd fiction both, about the people vho have brought contributions of nany races and nationalities to mr United States. And there are nany stories of the - ever-Western rontier, and the men and women fho pushed it forward in search if a better and fuller life. Your ibrary has, too, books about the lative American?the American ndian ? who is still leaving his mprint in many fields of our cul ure and civilisation. In your Library are recorded ome of the tales and songs of the icople. passed on from family to family in all sections of our coun try. These tales of folk heroes and the adventures of just plain people give zest, humor, romance and depth to the traditions of our country and its manv regions. You will find here In all this i varied reading, new appreciation and understanding of our country ? the United States?a new dis covery of its richness and diver sity. Best of all, you yourself are a part of this story and are help ing to make it, now, by reading and understanding that "FREE DOM IS. OUR HERITAGE". ?'Public Relations Planner, The U. S. Census Bureau estim ates that an American is born every 9 seconds, on the average. Coyotes Protected TOPONAS, Colo. (AP)?Coyotes are now finding a friend in west ern ranchers who once shot them on sight. The ranchers are posting "Coyotes Protected", signs says Audubon Magazine. The change of attitude r^ults from the discovery that coyotes help keep down mice, gophers, moles and rabbits. The rodents have destroyed as much as one-third of the hay crops and have cut the livestock carrying capacity of the ranges -by js much as one-half. Oct,..31 marked .the end of the ^ear for the IJrulds, ancient reli gious order in France, England and Ireland. St. John's High Sel Honor Roll Release Billie Jo Staneili up leads the St. John'- High honor roll for the seto weeks' period with a 94 ft a Others on the "A Honor H Paula Staneili. freshman. 94.3 average, and Regina J sophomore, with 93.6. On the "B" Honor Roll a ricia Reeves, 92; Wilbur I 89.6; James McGowan. 89.2. as Edge, 88.2. WORKERS AT La Guardia Airfield, New York, looking at the wreckage ol a Piper trl-pacer, try to figure out how a plane so small could carry the five persons who met death when it crashed in a heavy fog. Two of the dead were children. While names of the victims were not im mediately available, the craft is believed to have been one reported missing on a flight from East Hampton, N. Y. ? (International) FIVE D'E IN CUB PLANE CRASH Library Notes TURN YOUR CAL INTO AN EXTRA RIGHT NOV/ ...I If you raise 7 or 8 ealvi Wayne instead of the old 1 milk method, you can tun equivalent of an entire j production from one cow. The cost is usuallj than half the money yo from the extra milk. Just of the extra Profits Per C ask us for complete deta FORTIFI WITH ANTIBI01 Haywood County FARMERS CO H. M. Dulin, Mgr. Dial GL 6-4621 Depot Headline News FOR TRUCK- BUYERS! NEW CHEVROLET TRUCKS FOR'54 ~~~~?"""""""""""""""""""l They're the most powerful, finest performing, r??????????? NEW POWER IN THREE GREAT best-looking Advance-Design trucks ever built! NEW HEAVY-DUTY 3-SPEED HIGH-COMPRESSION ENGINES They're engineered to do your kind of hauling TRANSMISSION* # more efficiently and at lower cost. Come in, ? NEW COMFORTMASTER CAB scc ,h.?5 ne* in the completely NEW, BIGGER LOAD SPACE, new 1954 Chevrolet trucks. ?Optional at antra ooat. 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