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OUGH IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES NUMBER 4 ten abused line be and the i. All over eports are seeded to practical* ly nothing but At this time phssiblBdlj^e inm htevery- Investigation ne which is true are: ducted by local seed n as well as by State i a long st impor id in the izgam in education Jack Tyndall of the Tyndall Seed Feed and Supply Co. says It it his opinion; that some ‘‘sharp operator” has been guilty of de llberately committing this act. W* O. McLamb Jr. of the PCX store says that lot numbers on these “wrong” Seed have been turned over to the state headquarters of his business and that everything is being done to get to the bot ,M«gLOf the situation. Ray West is Httle tire farmer can do with & situation like this more than aggravate the already aggravated seed merchant but he recom mends in late September or early October that flie pasture be gone over With a pea weeder or culti vator very lightly and spme real fescue seed sown. Planted for Fescue m Casco Sparrow, Deep K«n far mer, was named to a*three year term pn t|«p*nolr County AT chollc Board of Control Jn' a second ballot Monday in a Joint meeting of the Countytboard of Elisabeth Womble. Greene County assistant home agent, looks on. At right, the senior winner, Peg gy Loftin, of Southwood School, is being checked by fb* third judge, Mrs. Mary Helen Loffin, Jones County home demonstration agent. (Whitaker* Xnffew Photo) a livestock priced herds suck as and. Dir. Paul Whitaker own in’ Jones County and Currin How ard, Jim Parrott, Ben Scarbor ough and Herbert Jones own in Lenoir County are greatly need ed as a source for good blood lines. Continuing Work among young farmers through 4-H and FFA clubs is necessary .. to not only create interest in tlwfeboys themselves but to interest meh1 parents. Almost on an equal footing: with the‘above two and certain ly ahead sof them so fjir as the time element Is concerned is an improved pasture program, be cause profit cannot be made by raising "'beef cattle on “store bought” foods. - Lenoir and Jones counties have thejr share of the things men tioned above, ibut hi order to in terest.the average small farmer in Raising beef for profit the sin gle most important thing to find is A SMALL FARMER WHO IS GROWING BEEF FOR PROFIT. Jim Parrott, Currin- Howard and Dr. Paul Whitaker could not come close to breaking even if they sold their herd off for beef. Their animals are just too high priced for that. Leon’ 'Barwick, who lives at Liddell, is one young farmer who m going about the business ' of beef production on a sound and profitable basis. No high priced herd for Ber wick, He has One pedigreed ani mal in hi* small herd, , the bull, He is breeding this Hereford bull to milk cows and as the picture withi this article illustrates it will not fake but a very few gen erations for Bar.wick to -acquire »- “commercial herd*’ at a rea te figure. His pasture pro is adequate and sensible. [using a good hull Barwick ft to produce grade beef animals cheaply enough to ,0 a profit by selling them in the open market Preston Harper is another beef rodueer who has built up a ighggjpd herd over a longer pft ■t exactly the same man in one that h Tbdayhis to - sell and many.h jiod ner sun; good Stock get in the direction of a profit making “commercial herd”. Many small farmers pick up the paper and read about some one buying a $1,000 bull or heif er for beef production and they immediately get the notion that beef production is a rich man’s toy. Far from that, it is a smart man’s' business and the sooner small farmer can see this like those now be BarwjCk, Pres F. Mewbome, or others, mg ®P*K F» A. tite sooner Bast Carolina will be come a real beef producing area. Last week The Great Eastern Livestock Commission Company had a' sale of lightweight pasture type cattle, with the most run ning to Hereford blood. These were pot slick, show animals but were golden opportunities for those, farmers with a nice pas ture getting deeper and deeper in clover, One of those light an imals placed on a good pasture would make some farmer a nice profit between now and Sep tember and the only work need ed' Would be a check every day or two to see that screw worms Hds up to ff-$ond* „ ,000 tor Its renovation and etfpamsioij,, Led Harvey, R. A. Whitaker, Kersey Smith, George Skinner, George Jordon and P. A. Hooker appeared before the group in favor of the election and Dr. Rachel Davis, who em phasized that she was appearing for herself only, spoke briefly in opposition to the proposal. had not gotten in cuts or bruises. XSr&se' is all it takes to put •weight on a decent toeef type ani mal and with the rains of this spring grass is even growing through some of Governor Scott’s highways. The farmer who does not have a small piece of land big enough to carry three or four of these profit-makers is rare indeed and as the pinch gets tighter and tighter on that old tobacco dol lar more and more of these are going to spend one day a year less at the comer filling station and take out time from their resting to seed that improved pasture and put a fence up so they can sit in the shade and watch the cattle make “T-fbone steaks” out of themselves. One Way to Beef Profits m This father and daughter scene on the farm of Leon Barwick shows clearly the direction Barwick is heading in his effort to make profit on beef production. The registered hereford buH at left teed to a dairy cow gave the heifer at right in one generation. Predominance of the hereford Mood is clearly shown and in another generation it will take a livestock -ex
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