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a teachat home during Jefferson attended Concert in Raleigh Miss Helen Brown Jefferson, a member of the High School faculty of Bethel, wu at home during the week end. Mrs. W. E. Lang and Ms. I. F. Smith of Walstonburg visited relatives here Thursday. Misses Jean Owens, Mary Batts, Lucile Yelverton and Mrs. 'Carter Smith have enrolled in a First Aid class in Saratoga. Misses Ann Marie, Mary Emma and Martha Harden Jefferson and James Lane Jefferson spent Saturday in Richmond, Va. «■ Miss Mary Emma Jefferson has returned to E. C. T. C., Greenville, to resume her studies, after spending the Spring holidays with her parents. Students Borne Far Spring Holidays. College students at home for the Spring holidays are; Earl Trevathan, Jr., and Dwight Johnson of U. N. C.; Misses Maude Emily Smith, Una Mae Edwards and Mary Emma Jefferson of E. C. T. C.; Scott Peele and Gibbs Johnson of Maxton and Franklin Lewis of N. C. State. LHaruy News. Approximately 70 volumes have recently been added to the public library shelves by; the Wurtty librarian. The majority of these are current fiction and juveniles. Special requests have been honored in as far as we possible and these new titles should meet the increasing demand made by the library patrons. The Fountain Public Library reports a total circulation of 424 volumes for February which is t noticeable increase over previous months. Everyone in the community is using the library more and more as each person realizes the valuable service it renders to the town. Visit your library today and browse through the new books that have been placed there for you to enjoy. War Cuts Off Source Of Farm Legume Seed "Kudzu if becoming increasingly popular with North Carolina farmen," Garrett said, "because of it* dual ability to control eroatan and, at the same time, furnish grazing and hay for livestock. It is, a fine leguminous plant which makes a tremendous root growth, thereby holding soil and preventing further gullying on steep Land. It i» remarkably drought resistant doe to it* fine root system which penetrates' deep in the One of the first effects of the war with Japan on farmers was the cutting off of the source of kudzu seed, from which the three million kudzu plants distributed to North Carolina farmers this year by the Soil Conservation Service were grown in the SC8 nursery at Chapel Hill. E. B. Garrett, State coordinator of the Soil Conservation Service with N. C. headquarters at State College, says other sources of kudzu crowns are already being developed. He an, nounced that a series of field demonstrations held throughout the State last week to show SCS technicians how to dig kadzn crowns from old j be bred in 1942. , "We hear that the agriculture in the United States has become mechanized," Prof. Haig declared, "but the 1940 census showed that less than 26 per cent of the farms in the nation own a tractor. The census found 1,567,405 tractors on 1,409,686 farms. "On the other hand, there were more than 10 million horses on three million farms ill 1940. Nearly two million farmers reported ownership of 8,844,560 mules. This indicates that workstock are still the principal source of power on more than 75 per cent of our farms." Prof. Haig said the alarming part of the census report is that workstock breeding has been neglected because of the general impression that "the horse and mule are on their way out." He asserted that "the horse is not doomed, and there is still a market for workstock. The war will stimulate this market, and farmers with good brood mares ^11 serve National Defense by having their mares bred to registered stallions or jaclfs in 1942." The animal husbandman said the census indicated that there was a shortage of 541,939 colts in the United States to barely maintain the present horse population. An additional 327,493 mule colts are needed to maintain this type of workstock. Long-Staple Cotton: Sought In This State The war has created a demand for long-staple cotton, measuring from 1 1/8 to 1 1/4 inches in iength. North Carolina farmers have been called upon to produce 42,000 bales of this long-staple cotton in 1942, which is an increase of 25,000 bales over 1941. J. A. Shanklin, Extension cotton specialist of N. C. State College, says farmers should be cautious about going into the production of long-staple cotton. "In the first place," he says, "Coker 100 and Coker-Wilds varieties are the only ones grown in this area that produce the desired staple length. Farthermore, only a small percentage of the Colter 100 variety can be expgg£ed to staple 1 1/8 inches *88 Tongar.' Both breeder^grower and other seed stocks of Coker-Wflds are very limited for 1942, and Shanklin says every care possible should be. taken to secure seed of kpown varietal purity. The other varieties normally producing the medium-long lengths are grown principally in the Delta, and all available stocks of good seed will be planted in that section. For farmers planning to grow the long-staple cotton in 1942, the Extension cotton specialist offers the following suggestions: "Test planting seed and use only germinating Sff percent or Treat all seed, before planting, with] Ceresan, to reduce Ion of plants and to assure a good 1 "Where facilities are av S^^SSe^SdTS thtoT^ . ■ (km MeUnery . . .Jtap torn tfc»t y— *m*t i being made to Aiaerieen fvw** by the U, 8. Department of Agriculture. ■mfe to be to top cendiUo. f* «J* INI feodHor-freeAun crt*. Scrap iron on farm. U badly Meded by Ue «toe) toda.trj to «d*r U Ur. •* a*#** -uoitW ■ ! DOUBLE DOTY FOR N. C. FARMERS North Carolina farmers have responded enthusiastically' to the national need to repair farm machinery and to sell scrap metal, according to reports made to the State USD A War Board. Machinery moat be in tip-top shape for production of u£g~ ently needed war crops this your, and sc*»p Debd ii eesential for steel mills producing arms to fight the A*ia. Approximately 2#,000,QOO pound* of scrap metal have .been collected in the State so far, with much own to be gnthensd fnm T*e Heel fame. New appeals are being nude for mors swap fnm farms-by the War Production Board ethics says some mills *re slowin* down due to laA of: swap. The board says there still ia enough scrap metal on farms of tfaa nation, if asail with attar materials, to make more battleships than time §re in the world today, or enough 2,000rpound bomb* to drop S a minute for more than three ysara, or enough 100-pound bombs to drop one every* second for more than three years. A WEEK OF THE WAR (Continued trorn page dm) :nliabad men. Amr and N*tjArmy Chief of Staff Mawhallsaid reorgaoiswtian 9* tie Amy has reduced the Genet*! Staff from about 500 offio^B to 98 who will concern themselves primarily with tianninsr "11(>f >> ~r* mi. •" * ' ' • 'P of military opentkuu. The War Department's construction Advisory Committee and the Contract Negotiation Board were consolidated into the Construction Contract Board which will recommend and negotiate contracts a**arded by Engineer Corpe. Navy Secretary Knox announced Admiral E. J. King, Commander in Chief, U. S. Fleet, will also be Chief of Naval Operations. Admiral H. R. Stark was named Commander U. S. Naval forces operating in European waters. The War Front. The United States forces, in one raid on Japanese shipping sank two Japanese ships, set four more on fire and beached one. In another action U. S. Naval Forces sank a heavy destroyer and a large tanker and put three cruisers and one aircraft carrier out of action. U. S. Forces also sank three freighters and one passenger cargo ship, shot down five enemy bombers, and destroyed three Japanese-held airdromes in New Guinea. The Navy reported 12 United Nations warships were lost in the battle for Jam, including the U. S. Cruiser Houston and the U. S. Destroyer Pope. Two U. S. tankers and two freighters were sunk in the Atlantic. General MacArthur reported no activity on Bataan Peninsula. emergency hue hospitals. The program will 1m carried oat by the OCD Medical Division ix cooperation with the U. S. Public Health Service and state.and local authorities. The OCD President Roosevelt, in a radio addree*, said the fight "against inflation is not fought with ballets or with bombs, bat is equally vital—it calls for mutual good will sad will ingneas to beiiere in the other fellow's good faith." The Labor Depai luisal reported the average family's feed bill Jumped 0.5% between New Farm Publications Available At College Stat* College announce* that three new faro publication* are available for free distribution to North Carolina farmers, and that a popular Extension circular on egg production has been revised and re-printed. Hie new publications are: Extension Circular No. 261, "Chick Raising;" Extension Circular No. 252, "For Better Fanning in Western North Carolina;" and Extension Folder No. 49, "Crop Feeding Beef Calves." F. H. Jeter, agricultural editor at State College, announced that Extension Circular No. 158, "Feeding for Egg Production," was revised and re-printed because of the demand which exhausted the supply of the original publication. He explained that interest is high in expanded egg production to meet the goals in the Food-for-FVeedom campaign which is a part of the National Defense program. C. F. Parrish, Extension poultryman, and Prof. R. S. Dearstyne, head of the State College Poultry Department, are co-authors of both the Chick Raising and FVseding for Egg Production circulars. T. T. Brown and C. J. Maupin, other Extension poultry sparialjsN, helped with the former, and H. C. Ganger, poultry dieses specialist at the coiisge, assisted with the latter. The circular on Batter Fanning in North Carolina it a compil<Jf reports made by faraaerwho attended the annual Western North Carolina Farmers' Convention at Boone last summer. The reports, offering recommendations for approved fanning practices in 18 enterprises, were compiled by R. W. Shoffner, Extension farm man Sam E. Williams, assistant Extension animal husbandman, prepared the Cnep Feeding Folder which contains a drawing of a calf enep. Any, or all, of these publications will be sent to faunas free upon request, by name and. number, to the Agricultural Editor, State College Station, Raleigh. We make "Bundles" for the British. They make their own "bungles." ness program. You enlist in the vast growing army of men and women who are determined to defeat all who seek to destroy our way of life. The Bank of Farmville is cooperating' with the government — without profit or remuneration—in making these bonds avail- wamph ii eonmymaaW able. Stamps are avail- "Ji ^ abli for a/vmxrxnlnj-incr - , ■» " , .6 « m $ u.n f tM( smaller sums. See table js sum «m» at right for denomina- ,J -Jfe* JJJJJ 1 tions of both stamps and m* 7hm t,nm bonds. : ' mum w* nutm* >■ i> r—»
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