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ptatotrads of ^fcssrsds of of MsJjMk farra^com wMch badly needs .additional «*»b income because farmers ae^Otilitr too indifferent or too this corn crop represent*, ». * v[ The farmers’ indifference or ignorancebegins even earlier in the year when he put** large portion of his farm alloearikm of corn into the soil nude, Thial of that to now raWy to the overall ec SR'secss s loss to tiie local econ area to the freight on meat counter. even with this great eco waste, and the additional on the national treasury worst blow falls in the fall n an overwhelming majori of the corn that is grown is sold on a glutted market for a reduced price. •, Fortunately all of ouf farm ers are not indifferent or ig norant to the value of corn in their overall income picture. Each year a growing number are storing their corn and hold ing it off of a glutted market. But an even wiser and slow er growing percentage of our farmers are realizing the maxi mum potential income from the com on their farms. They are the group in hog, beef or poul try production on a commercial level, rather than on a hit-and miss basis. Lenoir County even after NOT growing about 25,000 acres of corn this year still have 40,594 acres of com, compared to 13, 849 acres of tobacco. Hog Deficit And while our farmers are VOLUME XVI Two Jones Arrests In the past week the office of Jones County Sheriff Brown Yates reports two arrests, both on charge of drunken driving, against Johnny Ivey Hudler of Kfevr Bem and Johnny Askew Thompson of Maysville route 1. Many 4-H'ers Honored With Annual Achievement Following here is a listing of ie project awards given last eek in the annual Achieve ent Day program of Jones junty -H Chibs. Money Management, J. N. Hill I. Poultry Stllley. Sr, — Janice Lowery. Flower Growing, Annette Low* ery. Dog Care, 1st — Annette Low ery, 2nd — Paul Faulkner. Frozen Foods, Jr. — Carol Cauley, Sr. — Janice Lowery. Automotive m, J. N. BOB HI. Room Improvement, Jr. — Rope Ann Rtibanks. Sr. — 1st — Christine Eubanks, 2nd — Janice Lowery. Clothing, Pre-teen — Kathy Koonce. Early-teen — 1st — Lolly Byrd, 2nd — Annette Low ery, 3rd Claudia Armstrong. itt —-'vJttiiwvt*wary, Mary Lendgl Gpac. >r LfisdcrsliiTi*1 2nd — Claude P. Banks, . , Safety, 1st — Linda Kaye Had dock, 2nd — Annette Lowery. Poultry, 1st r— Sherwood Mc Daniel, 2nd — Rodney Scott, 3rd —* Beatrice Andrews. Continued on Pack jo Auditor Named for Drainage District By Clerk Hinder son This week Jones County Su perior Court Clerk Wetter P. Henderson appointed Account ant Earl E. Franck to audit the affairs of the Jones-Lenoir Drainage District No. 1. Under the existing law an an nual audit of all drainage dis trict books is called for, but no auditor has been appointed for this district which :W»nf set: up in the mid-flftfai.‘f^s^ek is now at work on Smithfield Man Becomes Lenoir's 32nd Highway Fatality in Friday Accident G Last Friday morning Melvin C. Moore, 45, of Smithfield be came the 32nd highway fatality of the year in Lenoir County. T h e accident that claimed Moore’s life came just inside LAND TRANSFERS Jones County Register of Deeds Bill Parker reports re tcording the following land transfers in his office during the past week: Prom Mr. and Mrs. Albert Griffin Jr., Mr. and Mrs. George Griffin and Mr. and Mrs. Brace Griffin to Eunice T. Grif PA^fchree tracts in Cypress • ; - CdMTINUBO "JON Fapk to ' Lenoir County on Highway US 70 west of LaGrange when a pair of mules wandered into the path of the truck-trailer driven by Moore. Contact with the mules caused Moore to lose control of the truck loaded with hogheads of tobacco which plunged off the road, hit a utility pole and fi nally crashed into a tree. Patrolman Bill Baker who in vestigated estimated damage at not less than $50,000. Damage to the utility line left LaGrange without electricity for nearly four hours. Moore’s death ties the 1962 all-time death toll record of Le noir County, reau Convention Urges Change Acreage to Poundage Controls The North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation in annual convention at Asheville Tuesday passed a series of resolutions calling for major changes in the flue-cured tobacco program of the federal government. the first instance the res caH Jbr a 20 per cent w 1965 crop, ion if any is to be he announced on,or 1st by the sec retary of agriculture. Secondly, the resolutions call for legislation to implement a poundage allocation system for the flue-cured tobacco crop. Thirdly, if this poundage al location system is authorized by congress the Farm Bureau con vention urges the secretary of agriculture to fix the 1065 allo cation at 1,100,000 pounds, which would of course be divid ed on an equitable basis among those presently engaged in the production of this crop. The convention also strongly #pry 100 hogs Piters has to a far beyond area *— some as the middle rcentages run 26,000 beef orn slaughters be imported the local t^ from as far it west. And tb even hlgfeafvl animals Firost each year. Farmers ii they cannot . hogs for around ocally that tably grow 15 cents a |s of thous mth locally m are mak •owing hogs One man who is vitally con cerned with the meat produc tion of the local economy says, “Our farmers can do it anytime they want to, but after years of preaching to them I’m convinc ed that they will not do it until they are forced to it." With the tobacco income shrinking on our farms each year and with more and more members of the family looking to the farm for the basic neces sities of life, plus such newer necessities as a college educa tion, farmers increasingly are looking around, and many have found ways of materially add ing to their cash income by a wise use of their biggest money crop: Com. Now it appears that the pres sure is eh, and that many of our farmers have reached the point WhefC they are forced to do something in this direction. But not enough have yet felt this prepare,, and many never will yield to It no matter how strongly it Is applied. Their sur vival on the-farm, as farmers is not possible. When 1964 started there were 5,549 people living on farm tracts in Jones County. Using the area average of 4.5 memb ers per family this means some thing slightly more than 1,230 families who receive the major part of their income from the farm. Yet when the New Year dawn ed there were only 1,588 sows and -gilts kept for breeding on these 1,230 farms. An average of just over one per farm fam ily. P« And at the beginning of this year there were just 1,588 beef animals kept for breeding and just 't53 eows in Jones County. So if the total of milks cows, beef cows and brood sows is added up:for Jones County there is less than three per fam ily of all varities. Ahd each of these categories of animals is the most efficient converter of corn into cash — even more efficient and legal than a whisky still. Governor Kerr Scott touched the sore spot of Eastern Caro lina a long time ago when he said all that was holding back East Carolina was development of a cow tint could be milked just five day* lb the week. In his satirical way he was we are: Lazy, we all love to our laziness and pinch comes, as it to be approaching now, id more of us will learn cows seven days to the feed hogs seven days ate surely slow about
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