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MANAGEMENT DAIRY by.Q. W. Henna** Progressive farmers all over the world never miss a single thing that will help them do a better job in thelr -farm enterprise. They read and study every article they see about their particular line of fanning. They take time to study and plan their work, their farms, md their particular operation. They visit other farms to get ideas that are working. Armed with all of this informntion and these ideas, farmers make changes and progress. To give our dairy farmers in formation and ideas, we plan to run a series of articles on “Good Dairy Management.” We hope that by reading and studying these articles you can get some thing that will help you produce milk more efficiently in the years to come. It is a well known fact that if we could do something about the weather some of our problems would be solved. We cannot do mnch about the rain and when it falls, so let us do something about the things we can control. Any dairymen who expects to improve the inherent producing capacity of his herd or to increase the profitableness with which he can turn, his crops into milk must give attention td three fundamen tal practices in herd maagement— '■ulling, feeding and breeding. None of these practices can be conducted intelligently, nor veen with any assurance that they will lead to herd improvement or greater profit, without records of production on every cow in the in; d. Without production records the dairyman can only gutess which cows to discard, how much to feed those he keeps, and which [animals to use for breeding pur 1 poses. Most dairymen would not care to admit that they are unable, without production records, to point out the best cows in their herds. Yet time and time again, new members of dairy-herd im provement associations have found that their jugement did not agree with the records they ob tained when their cows were test ed. Many dairymen have been ask ed to r>oint out their host cows at the time they first joined an as ! oociation. and invariably at the enn of the year the records have shown that some of their “Best cows were reallv among the best in the herd. Not until a dairyman begins to keep reeords of fees consumption and milk production Qreat Is the spirit of Christmas that brings to every heart-Peace, Gocd Will...and Love towards all mankind. May you enjoy the full blessings of the Yuletide Season. ROY & TROY GROCERY AND MARKET "The Most of The Best For The Least" . on every cow in his herd is he in position to feed and manage his herd efficiently or to begin systematically to improve the breeding of his herd. It is easy to see that produc tion records are tools that can be used just as a manure-spreader, 1 that is to save labor and increase 1 efficiency. It was nearly 50 years I ago when a few progressive in I Michigan organized the first cow testing association in the United I States and begin to use records as a tool to improve the profitable ness of their herds. The cow-test 1 ir.g movement has grown until .!< ■ more than one and a quartern million cows are on test. Contrary to popular belief, cow-testing is just as necessary and important in a grade herd as in a purebred be cause you are wanting informa tion that you can work with to increase efficiency. Fortunately no large financial investment is necessary to keep good records—just persistant de termination to have a good herd. A set of dairy scales is all you need to keep your records. A milk and grain chart furnished by your County Agent allows you to weigh your milk for a day each month and then automatically compute the production for the month. The important thing is to weigh each month and keep a rec : ord of it. No herd is so (food that I it cannot be made better by ef fective culling, good feeding, and the use of production - tested I breeding stock. None of these 'practices can be conducted intel ligently without records of pro duction on every cow, no matter i how wel lyou think you know your cow, I heard a college pro I fessor say once that a cow would I produce 10 percent more milk if records were kept on her produc tion. Why don’t you try it? It seems to work. Lithium To Open Plant January 1 Lithium Corporate r. <»f Anion ic;., Inc., will start production in ! its; Bessemer City chemical plant lio, January 1, (lonerai Manager IG. A. Munson said recently. I Munson said that a considerable , amount of ore had already been ! mined and hauled onto the ! j grounds of the chemical extrac tion plant on the western edge of Bessemer City. Approximately 1:00 people will be employed when the plant gets into full produo Lithium Corporation hold- the richest vein of spodumene. This mining area includes a '15-niHv wide belt from Lincolntno t' Gat friends volume* of good cheer and contentment throughout the Christmas Season as veil a* the coming ‘Hew Ifear. •** DR. L. L. CHASTAIN BOUptttg m tbe curtain begins tc draw across year, wt pray tbat tbe spirit of Christmas be kept in tbe hearts eJ men net only this but every Jay. Tor with Christmas in our hearts tier fueneb tbe fdy or Jim tbe light of our ptact. t X PHONE: 6223 RAINWATER FURNITURE COMPANY “HAPPY HOMEMAKERS - BEST FOR LESS” 205 N. MTN. ST. MAX N. RAINWATER, Owner CHERRYVILLE, N. C. fney, !■?. C., where extensive min ing operations are under way. Lithium compound is the finished product at the Bessemer City plant, and will be shipped to cus tomers all over the United States. It is used in air conditioning tuUipriient, ceramics. greases, or ganic chemicals, pharmaeetueials. and many other industries. Tile Bessemer City plant is !K) per cent complete. Barring bad weather. Mr. Munson said, the construction work should be fin ished and the plant put into operation by January 1. The plant was built by Southeastern Con struction Company of Charlotte. Motor Vehicles Dept. Urges Safer Walking KALEIGH —"Maybe one of these days we'll stop thinking of most' pedestrian mishaps as 'acci dents' and instead put them on the record for what they actually are—‘self-inflictedT wounds’ !“ That wa Assistant Motor Ve hicles Commissioner Joe \V. Gar rett's word for pedestrians this week as the Motoi Vehicles 1>. pr.rtment intensified its campaign for safer walking. “There is a tendency." Garret! said, ‘‘to discuss motor manners as though they apply only to driv ers. Well, in my book there are plenty of discourteous pedestrians and a good many of the walkers injured and killed in traffic acci dents every year are victims of their own thoughtlessness, dis courte-y and stubborn***!” Walking against the traffic sig nal, crossing diagonally at inter sections, darting from behind parked cars and crossing streets between intersections were listed by the vehicles official as tne vio lations of etiquette—and law— most common among pedestrians. '•The one with the most, to lose in a trafic accident caused by a pedestrian’s bad manners,” Gar rctt said, "is the pedestrian him self. Hut this never seems to dter them. The drive sniffers from pe destrian discourtesies in terms of frayed nerves and exhausted pat ier.ee—factors that increase the likelihood of his being involved in an accident.” ! Garre't also pointed out occas I icon! instances when pedestrian I disc’ourtesips are the dim-? cause I of ac cidents in which the pedcs ' irian is not involved—as in the | case of a driver swerving to a void a pedestrian and striking an 1 other vehicle. “Haws regarding pe lestrians are relativley few,” Garrett said, “and for that reason, doubly im portant. The most important thing AND ALL GOOD IVISHES FOR A HAPPY HOLIDAY SEASON CHERRYVILLE DRY CLEANERS Red Dellinger tjt&hjrsihsnfhs!? hs&hszpi), ftsa'ij&lu&hsS’h/r. for the pedestrian to do is ob serve traffic signals. It’s not smart to jay-walk, to cross against red (lights, or to cross a street in the middle of the block between inter sections, except at plainly marked , ro“swa!ks. “Keeping these laws in mind can mean keeping yourself and others alive,” he said. “Let’s observe them. Remember, when you’re ; walking, let traffic "laws do the talking. Don't take a step in ihe wrong direction.” RECORD MILK PRODUCTION DURING NOVEMBER Raleigh. It--. 22 — - Estimated November milk production in N. (. totaled 141 million pounds—a record high for tile month accord ■ ing to the X. C. Crop Reporting Service. The November flow, show lied a seasonal decline of 1 1 million pounds from the October output hut was K million pounds higher than production during November 1.511 and 27'million pounds above j the 1943-52 average for the ■ C. S. milk production du nog November, estimated at S. 4 l.iliior pounds, was only a little above i last, year’s previous record for the month, but. was nearly 10 percent above the 1953-52 November average. I r*J » r1A KTJ It jrty it jr3* It v» RECORD EGG PRODUCTION FOR NOVEMBER Raleigh, Dec. 22—Laying flocks in the lar Heel State produced an estimated 102 million egtP during November — the highest production of record for that month, being 12 percent above the previous record of 91 uniHion in 1^53. _ _ The North Carolina Oop Re porting Service reports there wet e1 P,944,0*00 layers on hand during November compared to 8,972,000 a year earlier. The during November 1954 of 1,140 eggs per 108 layers was 12 per cent above the rate for November 153 of ,1014 eggs per 100 layers. TOBACCO AUCTIONS IN THE N. C. MOUNTAINS The chant of the tobacco auc | tioneer mingles with Christmas j mu*fr at bnrlev tobacco auctions at three North Carolina mountain markets: Asheville, Boone and West Jefferson. Visitors are wel comed at the mountain hurley auctions, as they are at the Pied mont and Eastern North Carolina |markets which have just closed a | successful season in the selling or ; flue-cured tobacc.o Burley mar kets usually continue sales anti I i after New Year’s.__ yhj&tiss'hrz? mss'llasiHSrWgfbSSfaRftPt 'v»A ‘ Christmas May the Joyful boars of Christmus overOpw will) good cheer and honpine: s for ail our friends Closed All Day Christmas Day Open Sunday, Dec. 26 At Noon MITCHEM'S GULF SERVICE Corner N. Mtn. & W. Church Junction Hwy. 150 and 274 Paul Mitchem Phones 9174 - 6255 11 COe would like each shining on your Christmas •ee to reflect joyous Season’s reetings and our best wishes >r a very Happy New Year. I Middlebrooks Jewelers
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