AAA Farm Program
Outlined By Floyd
Fundamental Objectives
Will Be Retained During
Next Fear, He Says.
The agricultural conservation
program for 1939 will be about
the same as it is this year, E. Y.
Floyd, AAA executive officer at
State College, has announced.
Although plans for next year’s
program are subject to minor
changes, he says, the fundament
al objectives wiill be retained.
These are: Conserving the soil
and assuring an adequate pro
duction of farm commodities
without piling up price-depressing 1
surpluses.
An added feature will be the 1
establishment of ever-normal 1
granaries to absorb grain in 4
years of heavy yield and to pro- •
vide grain for consumption in 1
years of crop failure. (
National allotments will be es- 4
tablished for soil-depleting crops, ‘
and these will be divided among i
the States and then among the 4
individual growers. 1
Grower’s payments will be c
figured on a basis of their allot- 4
ted acreage a|f depleting crops 1
and on their acreage of general
crop land. If a grower complies
with the program, he will receive :
the full amount of his payment.
But deductions will be made for *
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over-planting his acreage of de
pleting crops or for failure to 4
carry out soil-building practices 6
recommended. s
The rate to be used in calculat- 1
ing a grower’s payment will be c
about the same as this year, but 4
the exact figure cannot be de- c
termined until Congress makes 4
the necessary appropriation. 1
To encourage the production ''
of vegetables for home use, fam- '
ily garden areas will not be 1
counted as soil-depleting acre- 1
age.
The program will be admin
istered by state, county, and com
munity committees, composed of
farmers, who will have the as
sistance of the State College ex
tension service and AAA repre
sentatives.
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THE BUSINESS WEEK
The steady upswing in indust
rial indicies continues and this
week reached a point compar
able to the beginning of the up
ward movement in the Fall of
1935, which continued uninter
ruptedly until the slump in the
Summer of ’37. A slight in
crease in the cost of living was
revealed in the Department of
Labor report for the quarter end
ed June 30, less than half of one
percent. Bureau of Agricultur
al Economics report cash income
from farm products for 1938 at
$7,500,000,000 a drop of a billion!
dollars from last year’s total. —|
The recent increase in steel pro-!
duction brought the index up to;
41 percent of capacity, a jump of)
4 points in weeks. The!
movement of flower bulbs from'
Holland starts this week and is
expected by the end of SeptemJ
ber to reach 100,000,000 bulbs
with a value of $5,000,000. They 1
are transported in ships having
special ventilating devices.
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Wayne County cotton has ex- 1
tra good weed, but the fruit is
somewhat limited due to boll
weevil attacks.
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FARM
QUESTIONS
ANSWERED
Question: Can broilers be start
ed in the fall as successfully as
in the spring?
Answer: While a number of
winter broilers are produced in
the State, it requires very care
ful management on the part of
the poultryman and is not recom
mended for the farm flock ow
ner. One of the main reasons for
this is that it is difficult to se
cure chicks with a high consti
tutional vigor at this time of the
year as the baby chicks are us
ually from eggs that are produc
ed from hens going out of lay or
from pullets just coming into pro
duction. Then, too, if the chicks
are developed on range the green
feed is scarce. Bad weather often
necessitates confinement and the
chicks are overcrowded which
leads to devitalization and the
resultant diseases.
Question: Is it too late to plant
a fall garden?
Answer: The time to plant a
fall garden depends upon the
hardiness of the different vege
tables and upon the time requir
ed for maturity. Many of the cool
season crops will grow and ma
ture through light frosts, but all
crops should be planted in time
to mature before hard frosts oc
cur. Vegetables such as beets,
Kohl-Rabi, turnips, snap beans,
mustard, leaf lettuce, and spin
ach may be planted as late as
September 30 in the extreme
eastern part of the State. The
best way is to figure-the time re
quired for maturity and then
plant in time to get the crop off
before killing frosts.
Question: What is the best age
for breeding heifers?
Answer: No arbitrary age can
be set as the time should be de
termined by the maturity of each
individual. As a general rule
Jersey and Guernsey heifers
should be bred so as to freshen
from 24 to 30 months of age. The
Ayrshire and Holstein animals
should be bred to freshen at
from 27 to 32 months of age.
Heifers which are fed a liberal
grain ration in addition to the
roughage will mature more rap
idly and can therefore be bred
earlier.
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Extension men at State College
like the AAA's ever normal gran
! ary plan. It will insure enough
| wheat to take care of all needs
| even in drought years.
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| Nearly all farmers in Craven
| county are cutting their tobacco
| stalks after harvesting their leaf
I and are planning to sow a winter
cover crop as soon as possible.
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Negro Pupils Are
Often In Higher
Grade T han White
That white pupils, much more
frequently than Negro children,
are found in a lower school!
grade than their mental age |
would indicate, was one bit of
evidence found from a recent
survey of white and Negro grad-j
ed school pupils in piedmont
North Carolina.
The study was made by Dr.
Harry V. Bice under the sponsor
ship of the State Board of Chari
ties and Public Welfare and its
participating divisions of Mental
Hygiene and Child Welfare.
The question of whether or
not North Carolina should estab
lish a special grade for mentally
handicapped children in its pub
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lie school system, while far from
being answered by the results
learned in the survey, has a
great deal of affirmative evi
dence for the establishment.
State Superintendent of Pub
lic Institution, Clyde A. Erwin,
in the foreword to the pamphlet,
was of the opinion that in ac
cordance with past practice in
the state “the child m,ust fit the
system rather than the system
fit the needs of the child. Facts
now clearly indicate that modi
fications must be made if the
public school is to prepare all
pupils equally well. *
“When handicapped pupils
and normal are mingled in clas
ses, and an uniform curriculum
is placed before both, both suf
fer. The earlier in the school life
of the child the facts of his abil
ity are known, the better it will
be for the child and the more
completely can the program be
fitted to his needs.
“Compared with pupils in
states having eight years of work
in preparation for high school,
the North Carolina pupil is at a
disadvantage;” Erwin stated.
In conclusions drawn from da
ta gathered in his survey, Dr.
Bice said it was now up to col
leges to sift out those not really
able to do the work or else to
lower their standards.
Facts of the study showed that
“an increasing number of men
tally handicapped children pre
vented even a good teacher from
achieving normal success with the
non-handicapped portion of her
pupils.”
Study of the mental ages of
the pupils showed that the mean
for the Negro in each grade is
lower than is that for the white
students, while the chronological
ages showed the mean for the
Negro in each grade to be great
er than that for the white.
Both group and individual tests
were used by white and negro ex
aminers of the students in the
two schools which were located
in a county in the piedmont sec
tion of the state.
Finding it impossible to make
the study on a statewide basis,
selection of a representative
county was the only course open
to Dr. Bice, the county chosen
being led by, and itself leading,
49 other counties in economic and
social consideration.
“Our study indicated,” said Dr.
Bice, “that elimination of the'
mentally unfit from the profes
sions doss not begin at an early
enough point iq their education
al career. The public school
should assume a greater portion
of this burden.”
(Establishment of the special
grade for those mentally handi
capped, he pointed out, would
help alleviate the situation.
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MAY CALL GEN. JOHNSON
Washington, D. C.—After hear
ing witnesses testify that various
government officials are steeped
in Communism and that the
World Youth Congress and the
American League for Peace are
“Moscow controlled,” the Dies
Committee investigating un-A
merican activities may summon
General Hugh Johnson, former
NRA head and later Works Pro
gress Administrator in New York
to tell all he knows about Red do
mination of WPA Workers. Chair
man Dies reports that 90 per
cent of the avalanche of letters
reaching the committee praise
its work in exposing organized
bodies working for the over
throw of the American form of
government.
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THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 1, 19381
PRISON STRIKE BEATEN j
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Holmeaburgj, iPa.—Ajftetf pr« 9
senting a “demand” that hambu3
ger steak, spaghetti and cheesfl
soup, bologna and fried eggplaJ
“never again” appear on the ptf!
son bill of fare, 650 out of 1,43a
inmates of the Philadelphia CoiinJ
ty Prison started a hunger striv J
After watching non-strikers del
molish a luncheon of corned beed
and cabbage, boiled potatoes, tajfl
pioca pudding, bread and butter]
and coffee, the strikers began tol
desert in groups until few reJ
mained. The joker was that th*|
penitents had to go on bread and!
water diet until the usual prison!
menu looked good enough to stop!
all further “demands.”
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