5c COPY—$1.60 PEE YEAR VOtUMfe I. HAYESVI6LE, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1926, jr Farms By B. W. Sip*, in the Citizen On a recent inspection trip of the farm agent work or Clay County, ' District Afent John-W. Goodman, of ^Asheville, found mudh to elicit com mendation “and praise. County Agent W. R. Anderson Jias a progressive farm program under way which is fast producing resuts. His pro * gram is progressive in that it is plan ned so that one thing «will lead nat urally to’Bomething else. When .Anderson came to Cloy Coun ' ty oetOanuary 1, 1924, he made a cursory survey of the county and plan ned a program for it. Although he had .'many obstacles to meet with, he t, beenpcarrying that program out ' AndejSfcu’s program called for dairy ing, poultry production and pig rais ing, together with alPthe minor ac tivities that are required to make these major activities successful. A moment’s reflection will reveal tl|e progressive nature of such a program. The dairy industry called for good * dairy cattle. In order to find an out let for the' dairy products, the milk had to be separated and cream sold to fcreameries. in Atlanta, Asheville, * Knoxville, Hickory, pud now at Franklin. Some use had to be found for the skimmed milk. Once the iuitrjr was firmly establish ed; attention was turned to the sec in tle program, and pdhltry ounty Agent Goodman was in Clay County a few days ago he found that the first two parts of this program was on a sound basis and Anderson • was beginning to push the third part, . the raising of hogs. The hog indus try will furnish still another means of utilizing the otherwise waste pro ducts from;the dairy industry. Thus in Clay County a beautiful piece of farm agent work is being accomplish ed. „ Work* From Sturt County agent work was established in Clay County on January 1, 1924. * Anderson had his program mapped ' out and succeeded in getting the first *n of cream ready for shipment by e 20th of February. This cream was produced' by an old black cow without breeding. This cream was shipped over, the Southern Railway from Murphy And is Believed to have been the first can of cream shipped frOm this section. . . Anderson soon convinced the farm ers and dairymen of Qlay County , that . /if the cream business was to be a suc * cess better cattle must he brought in tO the county; Accordingly. t]*r° bulls were importwHfc June !4. The bulls Were brought to as Rosier to build up a herd from gf*uiei'aov& ' and good , sires rather than from Food cows and grade Sires. When these bulls wore brought to the county there was only one, blooded sire there. It was a registered bull brought in several years before by attorney ' B. 6. Anderaop of Hayesville. In terest grew, and before thesumwer was. oy«r twenty registered cows •were brought into the county. In the spring of 192S about twenty-dye sre brought in, .Waging the unm ir of imported,#«als un to near Mty. During ms sixty-eight gigtered cow. and twelve bulls have No. J.—Hershell Garrison, and the registered Jersey he now owns that has taken the place of four grade cows. ~ ■ No. 2.—J* B. White, Hayesville, N. C.\pnd his registered Duroc with ten HAYE$yiLLEVS JiL< Hayesviile won her third straight game of the season Friday when she met and defeated the Robbinsville quintet on their own court. The final count being 13 to 10.- , Line-up and score. Hayesviile: Penland, rf, 10. ■ Rogers, If, 2 Jarrett, c, 1. Cherry, rg. Kitchens lg. Robbinsville: Jones, .rf, 2. Millsaps, f, 8 Rogers, c. George, rg. May, g. Forty-four hogs belonging to two farmers of Pasquotank County were vaccinated by the county agent in time to atop an outbreak of cholera. The .hogs were valued at $600. ing approximately 600 pounds of butter fat. „ - ^ The shipping of cream called Jor cream separators. Early in 1924 the first cream separator was sold. Dur ing that year ten or twenty- were distributed throughout the county. Kitchens built the first silo in' 1925. Ifow there are about thirty-five in and the nun^jg^? ?t«adtiy groyr ~A better grade of cows called for better winter feeding if tfce: farmers were to continue to sell cream at a profit. This made ft necessary to de vise better methods of storing and preserving roughage. The silo was the aifswer as green feed can be stored in it so as to. preserve all its juices and .palatableness. B. and Ed Kitchens built the first silo in 192b. concrete ones were erected in aiid five wooden ones have thus far iff 1926 been constructed. N. 3—Second silo built by B, Kitchen, Hayesville, N. C. This silo has been painted. He built the first silo ever built in Clay County. No. 4.—Ben Kitchen, Hayesville, N. C., and I. 0. C., Gilt of Frankie Kitchefi, a club member. .This five TOWNS COUNTY FAIR HELD AT HIAWAS5EE Hiawassee, Ga., October IT.—The annual Towns county fair was held in the courthouse dfi Hiawnsiee yes terday. The public schools f of the county had a program of spelling declamations, recitations an ELF COMMUNITY FAR A SUCCESS The Elf Corrimunity Fair which was held at Ef school house in Hia wassee Township Friday, October 22, was a fine success considering the late start in planning the fair. The var tous exhlbitd^speafc well of what the farmers and Air wives are doing and the progress they are making in mod ern agricultural methods. While there was not a great quanity of com modities the Quality was as good as can be found -sB^fwhere. There were twenty-three fine dairy cows exhibit ed and eleven fine hogs. The follow ing is'a list of those who won prizes, first, second and third, on the various exhibits. Best mature cow, Ben Kitchens, first; Carlton Ledford, second; Bill Patterson, third. Heifer under enighteen months, Harve Patton, first; Fred Gribble, second; Harve Patton, third. Best mature beef cow, Bill Patter son, first; Charlie Burch, second. Best beef calf; Frank Penland, first; W. T. Henson, second. Best dalf under six moths old; Carlton Ledford, first; Holt Patton, second. Poultry, meat breed; Mrs. Carlton Ledford, first; Mrs. S. L. Ledford, second; Mrs. Ben Brown, third. | Laying breed; Mrs. Holt Patton. Only one entry. Club pens; Earl Ledford, first; Mury Patton, second; Sam Hender sond, third. The prizes on hogs were not award ed at this time as the feeding record had to be taken into consideration and this was not available at this time. The live stock and poultry were judged by Mr. W. R. Gray, Criunty Agent for Cherokee County. Corn, Mark Weaver, first; W. T. Henson, second; H. M. Crawford, third. Wheat: H. M. Crawford, first; Er vin Kitchens, second. Soy Beans: Bill Patterson, first. Pumpkins: Ervin Kitchens, first; Mrs. McCracken, second; Canton Ledford, third. Irish potatoes: Bill Patterson, first. Sweefi Potatoes; Mrs. McCracken, first; Vapce Ledford, second; Charlie %obertsoiW third* -v * •' Ladies Department: Miss MjtfJoogan teacher of Home Economics ip Hay esville High Schooled Mrs. Ed