Farm Problems j
Are Important in
Worid Aflaks
If Farmers Prosper All
Will Prosper Student
Leaders Told
Asheville, N. C.—Vital importance
of the farm problem in work! affairs
was pointed out to. youthful delegates
of International Student Conference
here by IL G. Mann, general Manager
of Farmers' Co-operative Exchange
of Raleigh.
Sketching the history of civilization,
Mr. Mann showed how injustice
to agriculture, while farm prosperity
brought general well-being. "Make
the fanner prosperous and all will
be prosperous" was quoted as an
eternal truth. "But even today,"
said Mr. Mann, "there are those who
are willing for industry to make its
huge profits, and for labor to demand
highe/ and higher wages, and yet
they are fighting at every turn
of the road to keep farm prices down,
even though farmers work longer
hours, produce more efficiently, and
are paid the lowest wages of any
group."
The cost of food to urban consumers
in April, 1942, represented
the smallest percentage of their total
income of any period during the past
thirty years" said Mr. Mann, supporting
his contention that higher prices
for farm products, and higher income
for farmers were not selfishness,
but justice to a part of jthe
population long denied its rightful
rewards.
"There are just two ways to make
farming a profitable business and a
happy way of life," Mr. Maim went
on. "First, produce better crops at
less cost. Second, market them so
as to give the farmer his rightful
share of the consumer's dollar." Improvement
in both ways Mr. Mann
declared could best be attained cooperatively.
Increased production
through such co-operative practices
as group purchasing and fair prices
based cm open formulas and real
values of seed, fertilizer, and equipment
was given as the best hope of
producing better crops at lower cost.
In the field of distribution, Mr. Mann
called co-operation "the only mstrtiment
which will remove the toll gates
between producer.and consumer."
Mr. Mann's answer to the question:
"If that is true, why don't all farmers
join co-operatives?" waar "Not
all our people go to church, and yet
the church offers the greatest invest
Burnt that man has ever received."
Concluding, Mr. Mann declared:
"We can never have permanent peace
in America," with 90 percent of all
oar savings in the hands of 10 percent
of our people. It must come
through oo-operation of labor, industry,
and agriculture. Go-operation is
a way of living: as well as a way of
baying and siting. It is economic
democracy at work, helping to preserve
the democratic way of life.
The thirty odd millions of Americans
living on farms need sympathetic
understanding and cooperation in
bringing about a better day, not only
for America, but for the world."
America To Be Food
Basket Of The World
Richmond, Va., Aug. 19.—(ANS)—
America is now, and will be more
than ever, when this confict is over,
the Food Basket of Humanity, according
t» Dr. T. K. Wolfe, of Southera
States Cooperative.
"Planners have heavy responsibilities
in this total, ail-out war effort,"
Dr. Wolfe declared. "They
must produce food and more food.
And they- -will produce it in spite
of handicaps and shortages over
which -they have no control."
No. 1 shortage Dr. Wolfe named
as transportation, pointing out that
"many supplies are limited not because
they are scarce but because
they cannot be moved where they
are needed. In the interest of better
service, and in order to have supplies,
it is important to look ahead
and take delivery early."
Labor shortage like 'that in transportation,
"will become worse before
it becomes better." Dr. Wolfe predicted,
quoting estimates that, by
the summer of 1943, one half the nation's
man power will be in the fighting
forces or war industries.
'To produce more and more food
in the face of steadily mounting handicaps
requires wiser and sounder
planning than ever before, better use
of available labor and the use of better
seed and more fertilizer to make
each acre produce more heavily," Dr.
Wolfe concluded.
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TREATMENT
Experiments just concluded at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
show that- old-fashioned molasses
is about the best food known for
treating nutritional anemia.
HISTORIC PLOW
The Smithsonian Institution in
Washington has just acquired the
first steel plow forged by John Deere
at Grand Detour, Illinois, in 1837 to
add to its collection of early American
plows. . . ,
QUESTION: How do wheat an<
barley compare with corn u a (•#
for hags?
ANSWER; .Pound for pound, bur
ly is almost aa good as oorn, says E
V. Vestal, Extension swine specialist
if it is ground to a medium fipsnes*
Also ground wheat is equally as goo<
as corn. Ground barley or groum
wheat can be fed with com ,or f«
as a substitute for com. The con
shortage in many counties may re
quire the substitution of wheat ant
barley.
QUESTION: Where should i
trench $k> be located,
ANSWER: The silo should be dua
as dose to the feeding barn as possible
and preferably on a slope ao ai
to give ground-level entrance at one
end and at the same time provide
drainage. In clay soils the sides and
one end should be left vertical. In
softer soils vertical walls will not
stand unless boarded up or plastered
with concrete over a wire reinforc*
ing, so they may be sloped. The bottom
should slope slightly toward the
open end to provide drainage.
QUESTION: Should canned foods
be stored in any special way?
ANSWER: A well-planned storage
space for canned foods, whether
in a closet, a cellar ,or an outside
building, is a good investment of
time and money. Any home can
have adequate storage space for food
with a little work and initiative. Extension
Folder No. 47, "Storage for
Canned Poods," contains suggestions
and ideas that will be helpful to the
home camrmr. A free copy may be
secured from the Agricultural Editor,
State Co'lege, Raleigh.
We need million* of these first aid
kita tor emergency treatment They
are also used by Red Cross workers,
in field hospitals and wherever
needed until hospital treatment may
be obtained. Even a child could buy
one or mare of these kits through
purchase of War Stamps. Buy War
Bonds and Stamps every pay day
and invest at least ten percent of
your income in these government
Securities. t7. f. Trmtmry Vtfmrfuni,
SUBS AND SOYS
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Submarines off the Atlantic and
Pacific Coast have driven fishing
fleets back to port. Lees fishing
means leas fish and less •' fish means
lees fish meal. The same submarines
have cut down imports from Argentina,
which means that meat scraps
are gmwkgt scarce.
J. A. McConnell, general manager
of GLF, pointed out these facts and
also pointed out the remedy—soybean
oil meal. The need for fats
and oils has led the government to
increase the acreage of soybeans, so
soybean meal is plentiful. Poultrymen
have used it for many years as
a source of protein and now they'll
use it even more to offset the dwindling
supply of meat scraps and fish
meal.
s, Agricultural colleges have agreed
fhat the move toward the use of more
soybean oil meal is sound, both nutritionally
and economically. They
Say that at least one-half of the
protein, other than that supplied by
•cereal grains and their byrproducts,
can come from plant sources. If
more than one-half the protein is
from plant sources, additional calcium
and phosphorous should be included
in the ration.
Without a doubt, hens in the future
will eat more soybean oil meal.
Test pens of 176 to 200*egg hens
showed no appreciable difference in
production where birds were, given
their protein requirements from soybeans
alone. •
BOY H. PARK.
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| Farmers
Save Up To 20 Percent
ild, Mass., Aug. 19.—Farthe
Northeast an saving up
to twenty per cent on grain bills by
range feeding of 'pulleU, according
to Walter Ellis of the information
division of the Eastern States Farmen
Exchange.
Citing E. B. Farm enter of Franklin,
Mass., as one of the poultrymen
who is doing exceptional work in
establishing and maintaining ranges
which provide pullets with abundant
green feed through the entire ranging
period, Mr. Ellis said, "His Rhode
Island Red pens are well known in
the country's leading egg laying contests.
Mr. Parmenter has adopted
the unique practice of scattering
mash pellets and scratch grains over
the range night and morning instead
of putting the feed into range hoppers.
It is a distinct saving on labor,
Under and by virtue of the judgment
made and entered in the above
entitled cause in the Superior Court
of Pift County, dated July 27, 1642.
the undersigned commissioner will, on
the Slat day of August, 1942, at
12 o'clock noon, at the door of the
Court House of Pitt County, in
Greenville, North Carolina, sell at
public miction to the highest bidder
for cash, subject to the confirmation
of the oourt, the property hereinafter
described, located fn the County of
Pitt, State of North Carolina, and
more particularly described aa follows:
Being the GalHe Hopkins property
located in the Town of Farmville
and described in those deeds recorded
in Book U 20 at page 444, and Book
D 22 at page 578 or the Pitt County
Public Registry.
This the 80th day of July, 1942.
ROBERT BOOTH,
' Commissioner.
Celebrating Farmville's Tobacco Market Opening
WITH A- —
LATE SHOW
Monday Night, August 24-11:30
"Juke Box Jennie"
• HARRIETTE HILLARD and KEN HURRAY •
I Bring your first load of Tobacco to Farmville for Opening, Tuesday,
remaining MONDAY NIGHT, Aug. 24, for this stupendous show!
• 10 Star Musical Hit Parade • 10 Latest Song Hits!
FEATURING
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Charlie Barnett Orchestra — Wiagy Manone Orchestra
Milt Herb Trie - The King's Met
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