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InoibiEbrs” Provide Spring Grass The Year Around^ • tfin btterr* I VttkMt Nil? bntkan— vH DwM Md Jaw Um ihMN eMHMuity have proved a fM to toaa. ato 4aa» m a hig •niB to pmMa ada^uats grton Im4 ter a mllkiiif herd of 00 hun- grf HaWeint. Hadricallp-eoDtnUed weatber k toa aavtot “wHnklc" that has kalpad toaf tka Hoaphrajr dainr tiraak wHh a eompatitlTa field. b April the Bamphrapa put io ta aparatloB a aaiqua graae-grow- lag iaatallation that has helped aatiatp the voradous appetites of their daliT cows for the “green abff.- Sinoc the first wodc of Its oper- atiao, the grass incubator has tamed out a crop of luscious Vwea eats eearp six days—^without ttoag an oubco of soil. The aeeom^hment comes a- bmt thta way: the oats arc soaked, spread, sprouted and ght to eight inches of ver- ffowth in a week’s time, well-insulated metal build- ars equipped for automatic nal of U^t, temperature and day in and day out. In aaah arc heat pumps, unique win- dtosalBS units which use electri- aMp and air to heat or eool the btrikhif as the outside tempera- toM atoafaa. The interior is kept at a amatant 08 to 70 degrees. PiMMaaaat lights mounted on the wdto aparate S4 hours a day, and walMr h fad to the seeds 30 min- toaa mmf dap. autonatinlly. Ike eats are first soaked in ai^ daalMd far 44 home. Mixed toih ttom are special nutrient ■ili wMah aat as fartUaqr. After W dMow soaUng peri^ the priB la spread In two-inch deep, M toa end of the fiiet two days to—Bk tof*V- to the third and isarth dia fiiey have grown to fiBr or toe inchaa. to fits end of the atolh day they are seven to atgto hMhee taU. lUa is feeding time! Out. comes the green growth. Grass, sprouts, reola, seed and all ate fed to the Bumphrey herd. Each cow gets about two pounds per day. "They love it,” David Humph rey remaita, "the only difficulty we have laJk keapbg ana cow from eatiilf'ito oOk^s" share.” The en^ Ira staggared so there's always a now batch ready to feed. Any dairyman knows the value of spring ,grau. The Humphrey outfit makes “sping grass” avail able the year around. As a supple ment to the regular (tot of grain and com liUge, the sprouted, no- soil oats are a boon to the opera tion. Each 2^ square fast of growing s^ce yields up to a ton of grass per year. Iho yield is ap proximate twice the original weight of the grain; so for the Humphrey|herd this tteaw. about 80,000 poi^ of additional green feed per year- litor, Tfane iavers This is Just one of the many aaedem ton practieei earned out by the Humphrey brothers. They use' artifleiel insendnatioe to aaiBltoi a Mto qudity hard. SENIT8R JORMI REPORTS GSASS CkOf WITHOUT SOIt.—Tk* HMnpkrty fan* of Hit Skonnen communify neor ted Spnnai furnt sut • crop of grteii grou erery in days wirh irs electricoHy- operafod groM "mcobalor.” Top ItH pkolo skewt Dovid Humphrey removing a container of eot seeds that hove soaked and drained for 48 hours. (Note window-type electric heat pump in tke background.) At top center he spreads the seeds in on open metal troy—no soil needed. At top right ore shelves of gross at vorious stages of growth. At bottom left James ond David Humphrey hold o mot of gross, seed and sprouts that will be fed to the Humphrey herd. At lower right is port of the herd of 60 Hoisteins coming ra from poshirt. The Humphrey "incubator" will turn out close to 50 tom of grtcu food oenwolty by eioctricoHy-coatrolled temperature, light and moisture Ibt yoor around. Cora, millet and other silage crops fill their two 205-ton upright silos and massive trench silos nearby. (They’re still feeding last year’s silage.) The Humphreys sell their milk to Cumberlsind Dairies in Fayettq- 000,000 pounds of milk annually. The milking process is almost com pletely automatic for them; they have electric milkers and have re cently installed a 1,000-gallon bulk cooling tank. In virtually all of their opera tions the Humphreys faavo used eleetricity at a time and labor sav er. CaroliiM Power A Light Co. haa served the farm for the pest 20 years. The Humphreys have been full time dairymen since 1954. They store arop their tobacco acreage on the homeplaee which straddles the Hoke-Robeson county line. I (Cows are milked in Robeson and often graze in Hoke.) The young men are graduates of Red Springs High, and Donald and James have degrees from N. C. State College. Janies majored Ville. Their yitfd ia 9(X),000 tg^ in field cro^ and worked a cou- lAIEiSI IHING pie of years with the Soil Conser vation Service before returning to the farm. David “kept the home fires” while his brothers were a- way at college. Their father, J. H. Humphrey, lives on the farm with them. Perhaps the most deserved com pliment the family could get is proffered by a neighbor: “They’re the hardest working folks I’ve ever seen!” Washington — There acems to be some misunderstanding as to the function of the Senate Rackets Committee on which I serve. Rackets Committee Function The purpose of the committee is to conduct investigations to de termine whether or not any new Federal law is necessary and not to determine who is right or wrong in industrial disputes. This pur pose and function will be followed in the Henderson strike matter. The determination of whether neiv laws are needed is based on what we find in many areas of activity in the labor and management field. The correct title of the McClellan Committee is “Senate Select Com mittee to Investigate Improper Activities in the Labor or Manage ment Field.” We have investigated a pattern of violence in labor-management disputes in Wisconsin and Indiana. The hearings on the Henderson strike will be for the purpose of determining what, if any, recom mendations should be made to the Senate on the subject of bringing about effective bargaining or pre venting violence in industrial con troversies. How does the committee func tion once a decision is made to conduct an investigation, The se lection of witnesses is left to the staff of the committee without in terference from its members. The chief counsel of the committee in terrogates the witness and the witness and the committee mem: hers ask questions for the purpose of securing information. Let me reassert that the com mittee does not function to settle strikes nor does it attempt this mission which is outside of its pur pose as a legislative committee. At a member of the committee I will hear the evidence on the Hender son strike solely for the purpose of determining whether the com mittee should recommend addi tional Federal laws. Action Needed Now Action is needed now on labor reform legislation, despite the pressures from some organized labor and some management or ganizations who feel that the Sen ate-passed labor reform measure does not provide precisely what they want. If my judgment is cor rect—and I believe it is sound— the people of the country expect action to curb corruption uncover ed by the McClellan Committee. To further delay reform measures by a “whole hog or none” ap proach on the part of labor and management will be a sad day for this nation and may well signal the death of reform legislation for a long time. Civil Rights After completing hearings on pending bills, the Committee on the Judiciary which handles these matters will now begin considera tion of the so-called civil rights measures. Aa a member of this committee I expect to continue my efforts to prevent the passage of any harsh legislation in this area, legislation that is not need ed, a statement which the hearing record sustains. Wuhington — The tobacco price stabilization bill haa finally pasaed both tba Houm and Senate after many months of bickering and wrangling that at times put the future of the entire tobacco program in jeopardy. The bill haa been sent to the White House, and I see no reason why the President should not sign it. The opposition to the bill, which stabilizes prices at the 1956 level until further pronounced in creases in production costs take place, came mainly from those who want to destroy all price sup ports and acreage controls. It goes without saying that remov ing price supports would virtual ly ruin North Carolina’a farm economy. Now that the proposal has wea thered it’s biggest storms, I think all of those interested in agricul ture should take a long, hard look at the future, and the prospects it holds for tobacco. There is no doubt that the leg islation will help increase tobacco exports. It serves notice to manu facturers all over the world that United States tobacco intends to hold its own in expanding world markets. The importance of the legisla tion was dramatically illustrated last week during a visit of Italian tobacco officials in the United States. They made cigar that it is extremely important for them to plan the purchase of American to bacco on a long-range basis, not a year-to-year, piecemeal basis. This, plus maintaining high qual ity, seem to be the controlling fac tors. I am sure if this is the case in Italy, which has been using in creasing volumes of American to bacco in recent years, it is true in many other foreign markets. It must be remembered that the price stabilization bill will not solve all of tobacco’s problems. Tobacco has a great many prob ■toBStotoHMtoto FfM WmilUTtl l«ma, and golutiow to lMai h» emnlng more dlffi^t to Bad ai more and more 4nti*f4m mdnt ia tUri^ up by tbaaa wBa art trying to brtak down to larai program. The future of tohaodo, ta a vw great extent, than,, dapanda an tia degree of qnity with which yaw erg, warehougeman, axparthri^ manufacturart, and otham ia tha industry, work togelhar. AU aa# menta of the industry ware adai^ pletely unified on tha prica ataW* lization bill, and I am certain that this unity, demonatratad tima and again undar axtrema^ circumstancei, made the toMev* ence betwaan suaceai tad fettura* 0 USDA figiu-es show that tha averaga factory workar could buy 10.4 pints of milk with an hour’s pay in 1939. Today, ha can buy 16.8 pints. iMiunmiii Rely on ua for bast workmanship always Inside and out, we do every job right . . . save you money on costly furniture replace ments. WOODELL’S On Turnpike Road ftr 5 And TOBACCO mm SOUTHEAST BUTANE CO. Phone 8200 Collect Lumber Bridge, N. C. 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