National Farm Safety Week July 22-28
Award to Farmer Who Answers
Farm Safety Quiz Correctly
Gatesville.—In connection with National Farm Safety
Week, set aside for July 22-28 by the National Safety Coun
cil, this newspaper will give a year’s subscription to the
first farmer who mails into this office the correct answers
to all the below questions on farm safety.
It is estimated that sudden death will strike more than
40 farm dwellers each day throughout the United States
during 1945, and that every minute three farm people will
be injured and a billion dollars lost this year because of
farm accidents unless farm folks really try to reduce the
toll.
Circle the letters before the correct answers and mail
these questions to this paper. Answers will appear in next
week’s issue.
1. The best way to hitch a tractor to a machine or a
trailer is to:
a. Have someone stand on the ground behind the trac
tor to direct and lift the tongue of the machine, b. Have
the driver use an iron bar with a hook on the end to lift
the tongue, c. Let the tractor stand and push the machine
up to it.
2. If you have to crawl under your car to work on it,
the safest way to do it is to:
a. Jack up the car. b. Dig a hole under it. c. Block up
the car.
3. According to all available reports, what farm ma
chine is involved in the most accidents?
a. Plow. b. Mower, c. Tractor.
4. What is the most common and frequent occupational
disease?
a. Dermatitis, b. Silicosis, c. Pink eye.
5. What is the “Buddy system” of swimming?
a. Going swimming with a buddy instead of a sweet
heart. b. A new stroke developed by Buddy Finangill. c.
Never going swimming alone but always taking a buddy
or friend along with you.
6. The safest way to lead aJDull is:
a. With a rope. b. With a staff, c. With a steel chain.
7. The hours when industrial workers are most prone
to accidents are:
a. Right after starting in the morning, b. Just before
quitting time. c. Three hours after starting in the morning
and three hours after lunch.
8. Electric irons which were not disconnected are
estimated by the National Fire Protection Association to
have caused how many fires every day in the United
States?
a. 10. b. 40. c. 120.
9. If you should come into contact with poison ivy,
what should you do?
a. Wash the affected parts with copious quantities of
water and strong soap. b. Bandage the affected parts im
mediately to keep the air out. c. Paint the affected parts
with iodine..
10. The major industry with the highest accidental
death toll in 1944 was:
a. Manufacturing, b. Farming, c. Construction.
Little Hopes For
Increased Sugar
Ahoskie. — A survey of the
sugar supply in Ahoskie, which
is exhausted in tooth retail gro
cery storfes and wholesale esta
blishments here, indicates that
people in this community along
with many others in this country
will have less sugar than ever to
use for a while.
The wholesalers here have
been unable to get sugar within
the last three of four weeks and
do not know when they can get
any. Barnes - Sawyer. Grocery
Company had the numbers of
two cars that were being ship
ped to them, but before the cars
arrived here, OPA officials sent
one to Texas and one to New
York. However J. Bailey Bathes
was the only wholesaler who
seemed optimistic about getting
sugar. He‘said he hoped to get
a small supply this week.
All of the retail grocers here
except Pender’s, who had sugar
through Friday of last week,
have had none to sell for the last
two weeks and some have had
none in a month. W. N. Herrin,
manager of Pender's;, was the
only retailer who seemed to be
sure of getting sugar any time
soon. Mr. Herrin said that, he
was still getting a small supply
each week.
The wholesalers and most of
the retailers still have small
quantities of brown sugar and
powdered sugar.
J. Bailey Barnes of Barnes
Sawyer Grocery Company says
he expects the situation to get
better within the next few weeks,
but thinks the acute shortage will
last through this year.
New Shoe Stamp
Valid August 1
Raleigh.—OPA District Direc
tor Theodore S. Johnson an
nounced yesterday that Airplane
Stamp No. 4 in War Ration Book
No. 3 would become valid as
a shoe stamp on August 1. Air
plane Stamps Nos. 1, 2 and 3 are
valid indefintely, he added.
It was pointed out that the in
tervals between Validation of
stamps depends on the available
supply of shoes. The last stamp
OPA validated was on November
1, 1944. -
To ip crease the serviceability
of non-ratiohed shoes for men
and juveniles, OPA'-further an
nounced that in the future,
manufacturers will be permitted
to use leather welts and light
weight leather insoles. Straight
or short shield tips and back
stays of pigskin leather will also
be allowed on these shoes, John
son said.
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Boll Weevil Is
On An Increase
J. M. Maxwell, Extension En
tomologist, reports that boll
wesvil populations were higher
on July 7 of this year than they
were on July 29 last year. The
weather for the past three weeks
has been favorable for boll
weevil development. Rainy
weather in July favors excessive
stalk development of cotton. It
is expected that boll weevil will
do serious damage to the cotton
crop this year.
Maxwell says this will be a
good year to test the effective
ness of boll weevil dusting. He
recommends the use of from five
to seven pounds of calcium
arsenate per acre in each of foui
applications made from five to
seven days apart. This should be
applied with a dusting machine.
A number of farmers now have
dusting machines for dusting
peanuts with sulphur, which
could be used for * dusting cot
ton in boll weevil control. At the
present price of cotton, it will re
quire .'about twenty-five pounds
of lin^ cotton per acre to pay for
the calcium arsenate to dust an
acre four times. A much larger
increase in yield than this may
be expected.
Maxwell advises farmers dust
ing cotton for boll weevil con
trol to watch for aphid or plant
lice infestation. If they become
numerous, he advises using one
pound of Black Leaf 40 to twen
ty poiinds of calcium arsenate
to make a 2 per cent nicotine
dust. *
Maxwell says* “Boll weevil
dusting will pay this year.” The
expense for land reni, seed, fer
tilizer, and labor in producing
the crop is the same whether
the crop is destroyed by boll'
weevil. Thirty pounds of calcfurii:
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FROM B-17 CONTROLS
TO STORE MANAGING
Windsor.—Jack Herman Gold
stein, Firs't Lieutenant Army Air
Corps, has been put on the in
active list of the air corps, and,
as a civilian, left Sunday with
his sister, Doris, for a tour of
Baltimore and New York to re
stock the Goldstein Department
Store, the management of which
he will assume.
Goldstein, who arrived in
Windsor Tuesday night, says he
believes most of the servicemen
will want to return permanently
to the homes they left in small
towns and, as for him, of all the
places he has seen Windsor is
good enough for him.
While overseas, Lt. Goldstein
was pill^t of B-17 with Gen. Jim
my Doolittle’s 8th Air Force. He
flew a complete combat tour,
having been in the D-Day raids
and ibombed Berlin six times.
For his services he has been
awarded the air medal with three
oak leaf clusters, the distinguish
ed flying cross, and a president
ial citation with oak leaf cluster,
cluster.
arsenate per acre and the labor
in putting it on may make the
difference of whether a good
crop is produced or destroyed by
boll weevil.
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Task
Somewhere in the
John Q. Adams, Jr., seaman, first
class, of Colerain, has /been ad
vanced to his present rating
aboard a new 45,000-ton battle
ship which has been participat
ing in recent carrier task force
strikes against the Japanese
homeland.
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