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Frosty Mom has 260 Hog-Killing Days —”—— This is the Frosty Morn time of the year when those of us with farm backgrounds tend to look out the window and say, “This is hog killing weather.” But at Frosty Morn Packing plant just west of Kinston, there are 260 hog-killing days to the year, and something around 500 hogs are killed on each of these hog killing days at Frosty Morn. The dressing (or undressing) line above sees a steady stream of freshly killed top hogs heading past Federal inspectors and toward the huge refrigeration rooms where the carcasses are chilled before processing or sale as a whole car cass. Frosty Morn recently installed new machinery in this depart ment that makes possible the slaughter of three hogs per minute. SENATOR SAM ERVIN ☆ SAYS * North Carolina agriculture has a great stake in the trade talks underway with members of the European Common Market. Vast strides have taken place in in dustrialization in our State, but as late as 1960 sales Of North Carolina farm products aggre gated nearly $800 million.' North Carolina has a rural farm population of more than 800,000 people. Tobacco, cotton, poultry, dairy, and livestock pro duction are major economic con cerns in our State, In the field of tobacco alone, North Carolina ranks as the largest tobacco growing and manufacturing,state. Tobacco harvesting and manufacturing statistics for the State are im posing. In 1959, the Census Bureau reports that North Carolina had 119,856 farms harvesting tobac co, on 467,945 acres, with a crop value of $538 million. In the manufacture of tobacco pro ' -— ducts, 62 North Carolina factor ies, with more than 25,000 em ployees, produced products worth $1.2 billion. The so-called Kennedy round of current trade negotiation, pursuant to the Trade Expan sion Act of 1962, relates to the U. S. ability to produce surplus, farm products and the key fact that a large part of our farm production must be marketed overseas. According to the Department of Agriculture, “one out of ev ery four acres harvested in the United States, were used in 1964 to produce crops for ex port, up 27 percent from 1962.” But in the area of tobacco export, the Department reports that these 1964 exports are like ly to suffer a three to four per cent drop below 1963. This poses problems of concern to tobacco farmers. Trade negotiations underway come under new authority grant ed by Congress in October 1962, in Public Law 87-794, which gives the President a five year authority to cut tariffs by 50 percent; to eliminate tarriffs on goods of which the U. S. and the Common Market account for 80 per cent of free world trade, and special authority to “eli minate duties on agricultural commodities or products if the President determines such ac tion will tend to assure the maintenance or expansion of U. S. exports of the products in volved.” Current talks, if successful, could strengthen the U. S. agri cultural situation. U. S. agri cultural exports to the Euro pean Common Market in 1960 were more than $1.1 billion. Of importance to North Carolina is the fact that these exports in cluded $313 million in cotton and $88 million in tobacco. More recent statistics con cerning poultry exports to West Germany, a Common Market na tion, show that in the period of January-August 1964 the U. S. exported 60 million pounds of poultry products. Yet this was far below the 1962 period when 119 million pounds were exported. The U. S. poultry mar ket got some strengthening on August 1st when the Common Market reduced tariffs on poul try items. The reduction was selective and further efforts are needed to gain access to the largest foreign market. Overseas markets are becom ing more and more essential to profitable farm operations, be cause of the advanced technical efficient of our farmers. Today about one-fourth of the value of all U. S. exports lies in farm products. Farm exports total about $5 billion a year and have Immense economic implications. For these reasons, North Car olina and other farm states have much to gain or lose in the trade talks. Our negotiators should be hard-headed tradesmen in their endeavors to open markets IN VIET NAM Capt. Robert T. Brafford, whose wile, Shelby, and parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Braf ford, live on Route 6, Kinston, was assigned to the Support Command in Vietnam on Nov. 30, as a pilot. for our products. This is parti cularly necessary for the best in terests of the farmer. REAL HOME MADE CAKES, PIES AND PASTRIES Donut*, Glazed, Chocolate, Jelly and Cream — Good Variety of Breakfast Bun* — Fre*h Daily Special Order* for Wedding, Birthday and Party Cake*. Aunt Jennie9s Bake Shop 813 N. Queen St. Kinaton, N. C. Phone JA 3‘4611 Tubing Applicators Patching Tape Tobacco Seed Plant Bed Gas Plastic Covers Parrott Bros 300 N. Heritage Kinston We Serve Regular Dinners Short Orders — Sandwiches Chicken recite New Bern, N. C, JAMES R. HOOD ANNOUNCES THE OPENING OF OFFICES FOR THE GENERAL PRACTICE OF LAW IN THE COURTHOUSE BUILDING, TRENTON, NORTH CAROLINA EFFECTIVE DECEMBER 21, 1964. Hogs and Cattle Bought Daily Premium Price Paid for Meat Type Hogs “Honeycutt Meat Products” Let us slaughter and chiH your cattle and hogs for you, saving you the drudgery of slaughtering on the farm. We slaughter every day except Saturday — just bring us the live animal any day — get the dressed meat the following day or we will deliver it to the locker plant for you. Charge; Hogs 2c per pound; Cattle $2.50 per head plus the 5th quarter. NEW BERN PROVISION Co. Phone: 638-1127 New Bern, N. C.
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