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THURSDAY APRIL 17, ltM Over Production Serious Menace to Farmer FARM HOARD'S i HARDEST TASK IS KEEPING ( HOPS | DOWN TO DEMAND Wheat, Tobacco and Cotton Acre agr Must be Reduced If Grow ers are to Make Profit* Through the activities of the Federal Farm Board the warn ing of the danger of overproduc tion Is being tarried fdrcibly and continuously to the farmers of the United States. • The Farm Board is only nine months old this April, but Its with the farmers of the Unttld States are already more direct and widespread than any contact Is through that most other Governmental agency. This is natural, since the Farm Board sensitive part of the human make-up the "pocket nerve,' The Farm Boards purpose is to help the farmer to get more money for his products, if not by increasing the cost to the cus tomer, at least by insuring that the grower shall get all of the price which has been heretfore f you get amous Goose and known brands. 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ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA ; - ' - " " r ' I 1 M. 1 wasted between grower and con sumer, by unnecessary middle men's tolls and the operations of speculators. 1 Soir?ncw, as human nature Is constituted we pay more atten tion to the man or organization which promises to make more 5 money for us than we 3o to the ' institution which merely tries to ' teach us how to run our business ' better. The manufacturer of any 5 commodity is likely to show how much- mope interest In the report 1 of its salesmen as to what sort ' he Is to the engineer who merely; 8 shows him how to improve his! ! product. And the Federal Farm ' of goods the trade demands than; Board, —or ratehr, the national 'cooperative selling agencies set, ' up under its direction —Is In thej 1 position of the farmers salesman.! In the course of time and per-i ' haps a shorter time than some! 3 of the critics of the system now ' believe, an overwhelming ma " jorlty of all farm products j t grown in the United States will j i be handled from grower to con * sumer through these agencies. And when these cooperative ■ selling agencies tell their raem ' bers that they are producing too much of this or not enough of ! that, and to prove it to them by the prices which they get for the commodities designated, there is certain to be attention from the .growers. i So far only eleven coramodi ; tea have been designated by the Farm Board as requiring special die the exclusively. They are cot national selling agencies to han ton, dairy products, wheat, rice, |livestock, wool and mohair, to- I hacco. pouftry and eggs, seeds, potatoes and coarse grains. ['There are. of course, dozens of i other agricultural products j which will be organized either n singly or in groups. An entirely | new kind of adminstrative ma chinery canftot be expected to ■'get into full swing instantly. It is going to take three or four •: growing seasons in probility i | before all of the farmers of the II United States fully 'understand how the ne wsystem operates and 'how to take advantage of it. NORTH CAROLINA Control of production, in the Interest ot 'mote staple prices for Ihe growers, is a definite func tion ot the .Farm Board under the law which created It. And al ready the board has found the situation in some Commodities, wheat, tobacco and cotton, to be such as to point de finitely to lower prices because of overproduction. Ten per cent decrease in wheat acreage is being advocated to day by the Board which points to a surplus of 100.000,000 bushels in 1929 above the total demand of the world's markets in proof of its statement that too much wheat Is being grown. Farmers '■ould make more money out of 6 5 070 0 0,0 0 0 bushels than they are making now out of 850,000,- 000 bushels. And when the en tire wheat market is in control of the farmers themselves —and 'hat is what the cooperative mar keting program is headed for — It will not be so difficult to con vince growers that low prices are not always the result of manipulation by speculative in terests. They will recognir.e, as many of them do now. that the remedy is in their hands. The tobacco situation in the burley districts is so serious that the Farm Board the other day sent a long telegram to state agricultural directors in Tenn essee and Kentucky warning 4 hem that planting reports for 1930 indicate a 15 per cent in crease over 1929. which would 75,000,000 more tobacco than last year, and that last year's A rop was • 50,000,000 pounds more than the market for burley would absorb. Cotton is much in the same situation with everything point ing to another large crop, which added to the carry over from last vear will force prices down to a lower level than in 1926. So long as each individual grower is a law unto himself, 'here is no practical way to pre vent over production. But when 'he onlv market, or the best mar ket available to the grower is through the cooperatives, and 'lie individual grower who dis rgards the warning against plant ing too large an acreage finds himself unable to finance his operations through the channels which are open to his neighbors who do play the game of cooper ation. there is hope for everyj farmer. What is the grower of any "oramodity going- to do when he Is all set to grow one kind of •rop and nothing else? There isn' anything for him to do but try something of-radio "{talks '•ecently Mr. Samuel R. McKelvie i member of the Federal Farm Board, illustrated this point. He said: "There are available actual figures of the cost of production of various agricultural crops in 'hese facts were consolidated in different states and regions. If to one picture I as a wheat far mer in eastern Nebraska, observ ing what is costs to produce wheat In Dakota, western Nab raska. Kansas, Montana and oth er regions, might conclude that I had an awful handicap because of the ftrice of my land and my smaller operating unit. Then I would begin to see what else I could do to get out of compete tition with that wheat growing farmer out West. "I saw a statement by Mr. Henry Ford recently in which he said that he did not fire a man until he had to. If he found an employee was not adapted to one task he put him at something until he had found a niche in which that man fitted. So it is else and then at something else with us farmers. We must adapt ourselves to the thing we can y do best.' There is no subjec* no Impor tant today and Utr a lonK time to come, to evefy farmer and every business man in communities which depend principally upon farmers for their trade than the pnogram of the Federal FArm Board and the way in which that program is being put into effect. The Board has Just issued an eight page pamplet in which the whole system is set forth in the of easily understood questions and answers. No American can regard himself as adequately in formed about fundamental in dustry. farming, without know ing the answers to every one of these questions which can be asked about the Federal Farm Board. A copy of this pamplet will be sent. I am informed, to anyone who will take the troub le to write for it. A post card will do. Address the Federal Farm Board. 1300 R Street. Washington. D. C., and ask for Circular no. 1." Just give your name and address: you do not need to send postage. CARD OF THANKS i I wish to express my sincere thanks to my friends tor the sympathy and knidness shown me during my recent bereave ment. Mrs. Blanche Rogers. NWAK CRKEK NKWN The farmers are certainly busy these nice days fretting ready to plaut corn. There will be a singing at Swan Creek Baptist Church the fourth Sunday evening in April. r >ets everybody come and make it a joyful event. Mr. Harey Couch and Miss Ethel Swaim spent last Saturday in Winston-Salem. Mrs. Walter Stroud of Jones ville spent Sunday with Mrs. Home Gregory. Miss Beulah Gregory spent Sunday in North Wilk4sboro, visiting realtives and friends. | Messrs. Glenn Swaim, Charlie Myers. Will Bell and Elmer Dobbins attended the flag rais ing at Haynes School Sunday afternoon. Mr. M. A. Swaim of High Point visited his mother. Mrs. Mary Swaim last Sunday, v Miss Ruby Jester of Jonesville is visiting Miss Agness Vestal. Mr. and Mis. Jim Fremean spent last Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. Guy Myers, in Elkin. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Swaim of Elkin visited Mrs. Manuel Par due Sunday. Miss Fannie Mae Cooter spent last Sunday with Mrs. Glenn Swaim. Miss Opal Pinnix spent Satur day night with Miss Dula Swalm. Mrs. Lntlier Gray of Cycle visited her sister, Mrs. Robert Swaim Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Luther Chipman of Houstonsville spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Cook. Miss Myrtle Myers had as her Sunday guests. Misses Ruby Arm strong, Opal Pinnix and Ester CHILDREN ALMOST HATE GROSS, NERVOOS MOTHER "My children almost hated me, I was so cross. Thanks td Vinol my nervousness is all gone and we are happy again."—Mrs. T. Johnstone. For 30 years doctors have pre scribed Vinol because it contains important elements of iron, cal cium and cod liver peptone. The very FIRST botlte brings sound sleep and a Big appetite. Nervous worn out" people are suprised how QUICK Vinol gives new life and pep! Tastes delicious. Abernethy's Pharmacy, agents. The Men's Store... ANNOUNCED THE ARRIVALTHIS WEEK OF OUR COM PLETE NEW SPRING LINES OF Suits, Hats, Oxfords, Ties Shirts, and Everything that Men and Boys Wear i Snow Clothing Co. ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA and Opal Weatherman. Mr. and Mrs. Dee Cook spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Har vey Hayes nea r Harmony. TO GIVE I'LIAY There will be a play given at Pleasant Hill schol next Satur iday evening. April 19 at 7:30. |The title is !'A Manhattan Honey imoon." There will also be special music. Proceeds will be used for the Macedonia Baptist Church. iThe' public is cordially Invited to attend. | Week End Specials j These prices are good only for Friday and I v Saturday | f — —— j Below are a few of our specials: $2.00 Stationery Merrells Pure Miner sl.l9 al Oil, Pints 79c 25c can talc free $1.25 Stationery with purc hase of 35c j Tube of shaveing I „ . cream. 125 and 30c Stationary 19c Merrells and McK.es i sons Bathing Alcohol I 50c Stationery 39c Pints 48c | V 2 Pints 24c Kotex, 39c, 3 for Merrells . Antiseptic _ Solution, pint 48c Razor free with pur- , . ca chase of 50c package Cardu ' 69c | of Durham-Duplex Several brands of | Blades. cold and vanishing ( Merrells Milk of f" d P ow : f Magnesia der al '® c ' 39c » nd 1 Pini. 39c 79c Vz Pints 23c Bath Salts 79c Palmolive Soap 5c a Fountain Syringes cake. 5 to a customer 79c Choate& Browne Pharmacy II "Service Druggists" j Phone 84 We deliver anywhere ;xi\vvr DUOS Funeral services wore held Thursday afternoon for the In fant son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed wortib Haris from thq, home on West Main street, with Ravi L. B. Abemetby officiating. Inter ment was in the family plot in Hollywood cemetery. Surviving are the parents and one brother, Bobby Harris. Mr. Edgar Spatnhour of North Wllkesboro was a business vis itor in Elkin Monday.
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