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; the wells-oswald PUBUSHING CO. Wallace, N. C. Subscription Rates (One Year.»100 (Six Months. .6° {Throe Months. •26 |W. G. WELLS.Editor •£. L. OSWALD .... Superintendent This paper does not accept responsibility for the views of correspondents on any question. patsred as Second Class Matter January 19, 1923, at ptia Postoffice at Wallace, Noorth Carolina, nnder the pet of March 8, 1879. Thursday, April 23, 1936 -- A town booster does not have to be a liar fc>r a fool. Tornadoes, floods, droughts, dust storms— psrho said nature was grand? ' The campaign for highway safety will not fdo much if you fail to cooperate. How many little children, now laughing at - (>lay, will die on the battlefields of the future? r Earners are now planting crops aiid won Berlng what the harvest will be, expressed in {dollars and cents. Beautify the town by making your own home ftnore attractive. You needn’t wait on what Four neighbor does. About this time of the year we realize that the natural beauty of this section is its great (potential asset but we do little or nothing about It. ’ Some of these days when the wise men of the earth learn the truth they will look back tot the pretenses of our era and enjoy a hearty laugh, mellowed with kindness. i " ’ The subscriber who comes in to ye editor’s Office and planks down ye subscription price With the remark, “I can’t get along without the taper”, deserves some reward. / -- ■> " “BECAUSE THE BIRDS SANG” For twelve days an eight-year-old girl was lost in the forest around New Melbourne, N. F. When rescued little Lucy Harris was too Weak to walk, but from her cot in the hospi tal she smiled at those around her and said, f,l wasn’t lonely or afraid because the birds pang.” How fortunate the grown-ups of our town lost in the mazes of modern life, if they can smile at those around them and say, as they lie down for a long sleep, “I wasn’t lonely or afraid because the birds sang”. MORAL SUASION FAILS Moral suasion, or the force of world public opinion, had a good test in the Far East when the Japanese walked into China, and, more re cently an opportunity when the Italians decid ed to civilize the Ethiopians. The lesson that stands out clearly is that World public opinion cannot be expected to keep the peace when strongly armed powers make up their minds to take what they want. This does not mean that joint action for World peace is wrong. It simply makes clear the necessity of force to restrain wrong-doers in the area of international affairs. One of these days peace-loving nations will be willing to put forth the efforts upon which peace de pends. TRADE AND THE BONUS Distribution of the soldiers’ bonus will begin in less than two months and about $1,700,000, ©00 will be available in cash if the ex-service men and women desire it. This is some dollars. They make quite a splash in the business world and many ex perts expect trade to improve in response to the stimulus. Already hopeful salesmen are planning determined assaults upon the recip ients and manufacturers of motor cars, and like necessities, are bouyant. This county will receive its share of the flood of cash and participate in the business that results. In the fight for trade many of those who get their bonus money will be over persuaded to buy, with the result that some of will acquire a headache. Every individu I be on guard and make good use of the long time THE FARM PROBLEM The farm problem, in this country, we think revolves around those crops which our farm ers normally produce on an £port basis. At present, there is little evidence that oth er nations are ready to buy our crops, although effort is being mad* to develop outside mar kets and something has been accomplished along this line. Present opinion is that the new conserva tion program has little prospect of regulating the production of these basic crops unless the farmers of the United States cooperate to an extent not yet accomplished by volunary me thods. Hence, with the hope that we may be wrong, we fear that larger yields this season will not help solve the farm problem, which has plagued the nation for more than a decade. Farmers of the nation, like business men and industrialists, are threatened with disaster by the unscrupulous practices of what should foe termed a wilful minority. Always, everywhere, there is a small group ready to seek selfish ad vantage at the cost of general welfare. How to handle this problem is a real problem in view of past experiences. CHAIN FARMING RURAL ELECTRIFICATION THE FARMERS’ COUNCIL Payments of AAA benefits of more than $1, 000,000 to a Florida sugar corporation, $961, 000 to a Puerta Rican sugar producer, $1,022, 0C0 to a Hawaiian sugar concern, $123,000 to a cotton planter, $157,000 to a hog raiser and more than $50,000 to a wheat grower, raises a question as to the number of growing farms in the nation. Large scale farming units, particularly in the production of sugar and rice, have been mentioned by Secretary Wallace as one of the “hard facts” faced in the program. Looking at the payments as a whore, it appears that fam ily plots remain the rule, although corporate and chain farming corporations are growing. Significantly, experts point out that the aver age farm has been growing in size. In 1880 it was 144 acres and in 1930, 148 acres. At present, large farming'is usually hionfined to a single crop and the general belief is that it will be transitory unless combined with a system of rotation or a combination of farm ing and stock raising. In some instances, farmers operated under corporate control em ployment gangs of farm workers on a wage ba sis. It is conceivable that vast social and ec onomic changes would occur if this type of farm expands, and that the development would be fraught with some danger to scattered land owners. Chain farming has occasionally developed when a creditor, such as an insurance company comes into possession of a number of farms from the default® of owners. In this instance, the system is a method of liquidation. Another form is found where family units work togeth er under a single management. Often it exists in the form of renters or croppers. This is emphasized by the fact that a cotton payment of $84,000 to one firm was split among 1,125 tenants, that a wheat payment of $29,398 in cluded $23,528 for tenants, and that the larg est tobacco payment, $41,454, went to the oper ating company with forty-nine farms of 29, 158 acres. Rural electrification on a permanent basis is now assured, with a fund of more than $400, 000,000 for the next ten years. The Rural Electrification Administration will become a permanent body. The money available will be used for making loans to build transmission lines and buy gen erators, and also to enable individuals to in stall wiring and electrical fixtures in home and farm buildings. The general idea, it seems, is to carry electricity to farm areas now without this modern convenience, rather than to dupli cate existing and adequate facilities. Loans! would be available to States, municipalities, farm cooperatives, and private power compan ies. The Farmers Independence Council of Amer ica, organized in April of last year in Wash ington "to protect the freedom of every farm er te operate his farm according to his own best judgment”, was subjected to the recent scrutiny of the Senate Lobby Committee. Dr. Earley V. Wilcox, formerly connected with the Department of Agriculture and a free lance writer on agricultural subjects, gives a partial story of the formation and activities of the Council. Although listed as Secretary and Treasurer of the organization the witness said Howe FOR — OlNHCR.' i "Those who ask the fewest favors are received as favored guests.'' APRIL rr K* Atlantic in record of IS I 24—Start of toeing five-day ' Irish Rebellion, 1910. IS—Cugllehno l». rentor of radio, born, 1874. 26—Federal taw aboUahao im prisonment lor debt, 1811 27—City of Tripoli surrenders to the United States navy, — 1805. _ 28—Napoleon starts for Elbe 2= and anils, llli S 29—Sundbacb patents the I e»»o hooUsss fastener, 1915. CARDWELL’S OLUMN Guy A. Cardwell, Agricultural anti Industrial Agent A. C. L. Railroad Co. TRY VELVET BEANS By GUY A. CARDWELL, Agricultural and Indnstrial Agent A. C. L. Railroad Co. Xglvet beans were first con sidered valuable for cattle chiefly because they would eat them from vines in the field throughout the winter, even picking off the ground and nos ing them out when they were trampled in the mud. The fact that they were kept moist by ground did not seem to affect rains and lying on the wet their palatability or nutritive value. It was soon found that steers could be fattened to a considerable degree by pastur ing late in the fall and early in the winter on good-yielding fields of velvet beans. That velvet beans are a val uable protein concentrate is in dicated by the following analy sis of thin-podded, speckled beans by the Bureau of Chem ia^ry, United States Depart ment of Agriculture. Crude protein, 18 percent; Crude fiber, 14 percent; Nitro | gen-free extract, 48.1 percent; Ether extract, 4.3 percent; Moisture, 11.7 percent; Ash, 3.9 percent. The thin-podded, speckled beans, similar to the original Florida beans, are much high er in feeding value than sever-1 al varieties which have a very thick pod and consequently a low shelling percentage. The thick-podded beans also are relatively unpalatable. The popularity of these varieties, such as Osceola, rests on hea vier yields and the absence of stinging fuzz. It is stated that a pound of early speckled beans in the dry pod have a higher feeding val ue for mature cattle than a pound of shelled corn. This is the conclusion reached from comparing velvet bean feeding experiments at the Coastal Plain Experiment Station, Mc Neill, Miss., with feeding ex periments at other stations where shelled corn was fed with silage to the same class of cattle. Two pounds of velvet beans, dry in the pod, are equal to one pound of high grade cottonseed: meal for fattening cattle and there is a considerable saving in rough Eg*1 Kv +iw» bean hulls. Dry velvet beans in the pod make a palatable feed without grinding or soaking and when fed dry make the cheapest gains. The beans are difficult to grind, heat and mold quickly when ground and are less pal-! atable than either the dry or soaked beans. Steers will notj eat enough of the ground beans to make satisfactory gains. Although soaked beans are somewhat more palatable than dry beans it was not found pro fitable to go to the extra labor of soaking. The palatabilitj the beans is increasedr sprinkling a small amount cottonseed meal over them E. C. Blair, Extension Agro nomist, State College, Raleigh, is urging farmers in Eastern North Carolina to plant velvet! beans. He states the quality of the seed is unusnallv *' PEOPLE'S FORUM JtMdm an invited to eontribnto U ftl* column. Communication* afcooM ba brief and cany tba waiter's wr net name and address which will h« published under the article. Ms communication will be accepted fei publication unless it is signed. The publishers reserve the right to in ject any article not deemed worthy of publication. My Circle My circle includes not, Pride, fancy and whim, But Jew, Greek and Hottentot, And, am sure, has room for HIM. By B. F. PEARSALL, The Crank. Wallace. Colby U. Chester, president, National Association of Man ufacturers : * “Industry is sure that we are on the verge of prosperity and industry can be counted upon to do its part.” soil-improvement crop for light sandy land, and they are the best crop that can be grown for winter pastures in the coastal plain area. For best results in eastern North Carolina, velvet beans should be planted in April in alternate rows with corn. A bushel of beans will plant three acres. Both the beans and the corn should be fertilised in the row before planting wih an applica tion of S00 pounds of a 4-8-4 mixture to the acre. The beans should be cultivat ed until they begin to run, and the corn should be cultivated until the bean plants grow up to the corn rows. Reports from South Carolina and Georgia indicate that the high quality of the seed this year is due to the good weather that prevailed at harvest time, The good weather was also responsible for a large crop, and this probably Alienee in lowerin* the i j Early speckle velvet beans t recently quoted at W cents a bushel, while the of Osceola is about $1.10. Whatever Eke You Read Don’t Miss ? No man in tha history of newspapers has avar Qainad such a loyal fol lowing—no oiirar nos avar approachad tha influence of his column THIS WEEK ARTHUR BRISBANI illuminates with strong light the complex fores* and na tivities of modern society. His short, crisp sentence* ere pecked with the mean ing that has mad* his writ ing Justly famous and haa gained him the title of “the highest paid editor in the world.” No wonder 25,000^ 000 Americans torn to Mm ban* to sift the news of ttii greatly expanded world and interpret for them the otd@ standing events of our swift ly moving time*. Whatever else your reading includes —don't miss his inform*-^ tdve column. k READ THIS FEATURE REGULARLY IN THIS NEWSPAPER, Strawberry r-1 v . <$. -■ f Growers WE CAN PRINT TOUR STRAWBERRY CHECKS ON THE SAME DAY WE RECEIVE THE ORDER. WE USE THE REST QUALITY CARDBOARD AND OUR CHECKS WILL LAST SEVERAL YEARS. 1000 Checks $2j PRICES LOWER ON LARGER QUANTITIES — MAIL ORDERS WILL PROMPTLY FILLED The Wallace Enterp
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