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Rice, U.T.D. Farmer of the Year Mr. and Mrs. Cprlie Rice of the Bolens Creek section of Yancey County, were chosen as the Unit Test Demonstration farm" - family of the year by the other U. T. D. farmers in the county. The contest was on the improvement made on the farm within last year. -- —M)-... The'prize for the contest win ner is an expensive paid trip to the valley Wide association meeting of Unit Test Demons tration Farpn Families in Muscle Shoals, Alabama next August. The rules of the contest were; To judge the farm on the im provements made during the past twelve months; the farmer must be present at all the farms visited on the tour the day bis farm was visited to be eligible to vote on the winner, or to have his farm eligible to be voted on. These rules were discussed at The summer quarterly meeting of the County U. T. D. Farm er’s Association in July and vot ed on by the group. The Rices started nine years ago as all of us do, a young married couple trying to get a start. They lived with theii families, and rented land. This was not what they wanted, thej wanted a farm and home of their own The problem o i money or financing, as with most of us, was the big stumb ling stone in their path. In 1949, the Rices found a run down mountain farm which they thought had great, poten tial. They weren’t as easily scared by briars, locust bushes, and copper-head snakes as were many other couples who had viewed this farm with the real estate agent. As the agent talk ed of the beautiful view, the potential of Cane River which flows on three sides of the farm, and the old water mill sitting on the bank of the road, the Rices .were looking at the topo graphy of the farm, the depth of the soil, the types of soil, how and where to clear first, where to build a home, and kinds of crops and livestock best suited to them and the-farm After returning to town from the farm, they stopped off to see about making a loan, get ting the boundary and checking the deed. The banks were a bit reluctant to make farm purchase loans at that time, but they were fortunate to find an individual willing to' cut on c '' ' //>>/ DOTTED L,NE cutawayVAA " ■ *.\ *TIRE CHAIN REPAIR ... Links on old tire chains often be come separated and no longer effective. An inexpensive and dur able repair job can be accomplished by replacing with rubber links M shown 'in above diagrams. * J hmct~ *.' iom mmi rmm om/r ————When —ehihlrvri come in— * after strenuoue play be sure they have a NUTRITIOUS snack. Give them a lunch with yj USSk \ Robinson’s Dairy r*w i , .* jw 4 ' ... '■ - 7T , help them out. They borrowed j $7,100 at 4% to purchase the . farm. This they repaid in two L years. The day they paid off the farm loan they decided to ’ go back into debt and build a ! new home. They secured a home ; loan from the Farmer’s Home ■ Administration in 1951 for $8,500 to build a six room brick vaneer ranch type home. The 1 home has a full basement with an oil furnace supplying hot air to each room. They have added a 21 ft. home .freezer to their all electric modern kitchen. The home sits on the knoll overlook ing the entire farm and the beautiful river surrounding most of the farm. The yard is land scaped and seeded to blue grass, white Dutch clover and riative shrubbery planted near the 1 foundation, tying the house to the lot. There is a low water bridge crossing the river at thei highway with a winding drive 1 up to the ROTTse. The Rices have added several items of farm, machinery to the farm, 35 head of sheep and 3 brood sows within the last two years. They plan to pay out of debt this fall as a result of good crop season in 1955. When asked to tell how they did it the Rices smile and say, “We don’t put all of our eggs in one basket, and just plain hard work with the help of all agri cultural agencies in planning and managing the farm busi ness.”'- ‘ ~ ‘ In addition to the hogs and sheep, they grow 6 acres of foundation hybrid seed corn, il/.> acres of pepper, 1 acre of sweet potatoes, 0.6 acre of bur ley tobacco, 6 acres of alfalfa, 6 acres of orchard grass, red clover meadow, 32 acres of im proved pasture, and they are selling gravel from 1.5 acres of what was waste land near the river. Since 1952, they have used 39,920 lbs. of T. V. A. phosphate and fused tri-calcium phosphate, several tons of lime, pius 2-12-12, Ammonium nitrate, murate of potasn, and commercial fertili zer. They plan to add feeder cattle and certified irish pota toes of the new Boone variety to their list of enterprizes. Beside their busy farming operations, Carlie and Ruth find tune to participate in communi ty and cnurch work. Ruth teach jes third grade at Clearmont I Elementary School, and both ; MPET lEEVE^ MAYBE you’ve wondered, too— why in this day and time, with our colleges and educational institutions overfilling their cam puses, with degrees as common as high school diplomas in the old i days why aren’t we getting 1 enough doctors, scientists, chem ists, industrial engineers, etc.? I don’t think you have to look very far to find the answer. Thte promising young man who might have discovered a force more powerful than the atom (pan prob ably seert chasing a football on your Sunday afternoon television screen. A limber giant with the fingers and agility needed for great surgery work probably chases a small round ball- in the outfiefds of the major leagues. Among our champions in the many profes sional sports lies an abundance oi hidden talents and suppressed , { abilities in other fields. 1 The reasons, too, are just as obvious. Read your sports*pages, i Ralph Kiner earned half a mil - lion dollars in 10 years of base- I ball * . . in 1954 Casey Stengel ■ signed a**two-year contract which, , with bonuses; could net him aboul SIOO,OOO a year . . . Tony Trabert signed a pro tennis contract which offered him $75,000 for less than a - year and a half . . . Three heavy weight boxing champions earned j over $2,000,000 in ring combat. But the great financial rewards are not to be aeceptedr. as the greatest lure offered by profes sional sports; There is the love of competition, of the “games,” and probably most important of all, the satisfaction of doing what one likes to do best of all. Let our educators and .indus trialists figure some way to up pay scales in the fields where we’re short on talent . . . and at the same time develop an interest in these fields among our new gen< •ration. * ... 1 The $1,400,000 weekly payroll of a single Southern aircraft plant goes to employees in 38 different counties. are active in P. T. A. Carlie represented the Yancey County Association of Unit Test De monstration Farmers at Muscle Shoals this year. They also at tend farm Bureau Meetings, A. S. C. affairs, and other com munity activities. They are al ways looking for new and better ways of helping others as well as themselves. PEPSICOLA BOTTLING CO. SPRUCE PINE, N. C. THE XANCEYRECORD^ gw ietS wgfe it i well, we'ye u>ith \ QsHotheird9i'/cfi hit J r— ■ "" t 9 J £n~T BOY kib WANTED L-o- M| As- LOOKING FOR A JOB? JUST TURN TO THE 'CLASSIFIED ADS IN THIS NEWSPAPER WHETHER JOB HUNTING OR HIRING, YOU'LL FIND THESE ADS A REAL HELP THE YANCEY RECORD l\Efl POWER! 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