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Largest , Industry Food Stores Can Help; “Cotton Bags Mean Jobs” Cotton is one of our maior agricultural products, the “mon ey crop” of 14 of our southern states, giving income and buying power to better than one out of every ten American citizens. It is, in fact, the country’s largest industry—when the growing and processing of cotton are consider, ed together. Among the major uses of such cotton textiles are print cloths, industrial sheetings, osanburgs and others, is their conversion into cotton bags for packing. Many of the products so packed are staple food commodities such as flour, sugar, salt, meal, etc. In a number of areas, grocers are now finding that they can do much to promote and increase the sale of their staples if pack ed in cotton bags. Something of the importance of cotton bags in providing the nation’s consumers with gain ful employment and spendable income can be gathered from some quick facts about packing requirements for flour, potatoes, sugar, and fertilizer. Illuminat ing data on this score have been provided by C. K. Everett of the CottonJltextile Institute in an nouncing the active cooperation of the retail grocery trade in this year’s observance of National Cotton Week, May 22-27. Promoting flour in cotton bags can give many hours of added employment. One carload of 24- pound flour bags would call for 300,000 bags. To manufacture bags enough for one carload shipment of flour requires 70 bales of cotton, or the total crop of 160 acres of land. A conserva tive, average estimate figures 15,226 hcurs of farm labor are needed to grow and prepare 70 bales of cotton for market. Fol low this raw cotton through the mills, Making 216,660 yards of cotton cloth takes 8,642 hours of cotton mill labor, and another 2,912 hours to manufacture the fabrics into bags. Figures may be dry, but if you multiply these aggregate 26,814 hours of labor by the total carload of flour shipped, the use of cotton bags for flour would mean a greatly increased number of jobs and buying power for a large number | Palace Theatre ADVANCE PROGRAM From Thursday, May 25 thru Saturday, May 27 Motion Pictures Are Tom Best Entertainment Thursday - Friday, May 25-26 George Raft - Ellen Drew with Hugh Herbert - ZaSu Pitts - Louise Beavers in “The Lady’s From Kentucky” From the heart of the blue grass country —a glorious ro mance of the turf colorful as the Kentucky Derby, excit ing as a photo finish! Robert Benchley in “Opening Day” Special Added Attraction: Walt Disney’s Silly Symphony “The Ugly Duckling” (In Tech nicolor) Special Morning Show Friday 10:30; Afternoons daily 3:15-3:45; Admission 10-25 c; Evenings Daily 7:30-9:15; Adm. 10 -30 c (Tax Included) Saturday, May 27 George O’Brien with BewHni Keith • Ray Whitley in “Trouble In Sundown” . .Episode No. 5 of the serial “Flaming Frontiers” (“Blood and Gold”) with John Mack Brown - Eleanor Hansen - Charles Middleton Terry toon: “The Three Bears” Afternoon 2:39-4:90; Admission 10.25e. Evening 7-8:30-9:45 (Box office opens 6)45). Ad minion 10-30 c (Tax included) of the nation’s flood consumers. What is true of flour is equally applicable to the packing of po tatoes in cotton bags. There is another advantage that accrues to grocers in addition to the ad ditional 5,419 hours of labor it supplies per 100,000 ten-pound bags. Potatoes in ten-pound cot ton bags increase the grocer’s unit sale and profits. These han dy cotton containers are appre ciated by American housewives, who have ingeniously devised many uses for the empty bags about the home. More sugar, packed in cotton bags, would be a tremendous boon to this large industry. Every bale of cotton so used makes 13,600 five-pound sugar bags and supplies 450 hours of labor. Cotton bags, too, are the ideal containers to keep sugar in perfect condition—tfree-flowing and immune from “caking.” According to Mr. Everott, it is an accepted fact that cotton gives wages to far more farm and factors workers than any substi tute materials.. .wages that buy groceries day after day. Lack of this employment and wages re duces consumer buying power, which immediately is reflected in lowered grocery sales. National Cotton Week, May 22- 27, is an outstanding sales oppor tunity which the grocery trade is expected to exploit fully in dis playing and promoting the eco nomical advantages of buying staples in cotton bags, along with items as cotton mops, clothes lines, cotton gloves, as well as the edible derivatives of cotton seed shortenings, cooking oils, etc. Upwards of 25,000 grocers par ticipating in this coordinated cotton merchandising event have a two-fold objective—to increase their own volume and to demon strate that cottons mean more jobs. o FARM QUESTIONS ANSWERED Question: Dees the feeding of a moist mash aid in egg produc tion? Answer: There is little to be gained by feeding moist mash continuously through the year, but it has an important place in Dolly Madison THEATRE ADVANCE PROGRAM Motion Pictures Are Tour Best Entertainment From Thursday, May 25 thru Saturday, May 27 Thursday - Friday, May 25-26 Myrna Loy - Robert Taylor with Joseph Alien - Henry O’- Neill - Douglas Fowley in “Lucky Night” (First Run) They laughed their way thru trouble and lost their hearts on fortune’s play! The Captain and the Kids in “The Seal Skinners” Color Rhapsody: “Peaceful Neighbors” No Morning Shows; Afternoons daily 3:15-3:45; Admission 10-25 c; Evenings Daily 7:30-9:15; Adm. 10 -30 c (Tax Included) Saturday, May 27 William Boyd with George Hayes . Russell Hayden in another Hopalong Cassidy ad venture “Silver On The Sage” (First Run) Episode No. 6 of the serial “The Lone Ranger Rides A gain” (“The Trap”) with Bob Livingston - Chief Thunder cloud - Silver Chief - Duncan Renaldo Popular Science No. 3 (In Co lor.) Afternoon 2:39-4:99; Admission 10.25 c. Evening 7-8:39-9:45; (Box office opens 6:45). Ad mission 10-39 c. (Tax Included) PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. feeding laying hens during the summer months. It will stimulate production in laying hens from June until October by increasing th'3 consumption of animal pro tein and producing an appetizing effect on the birds when egg pro duction is subnormal. The best time to feed the mash is about two o’clock each day. Three pounds of the regular laying mash moistened with hot water or milk for each 100 birds will give excellent results. Question: When should I select tobacco plants for next year’s seed? Answer: Select the seed plants before the tobacco is topped. Se lect the plants that are typical of the variety planted with the leaves well spaced on the stalk. Bag the selected plants in 14 lb. paper bags just before the first bloom opens to prevent cross pollination. Prune the branches of the seed pod to three or four in order to give room for develop ment under the bag and apply the bud worm bait to the seed pods before bagging. One plant will produce about one-half ounce of seed and, for best results, the plants should again be selected after the tobacco is matured. Question: How soon after shear ing should sheep be dipped? Answer: The sheep should be dipped from ten days to two weeks after shearing when all cuts made at shearing have heal ed. Usually one dipping is suffi cient, but if any ticks, lice or mit DRIVE A MILE And Save The Difference Come To Longhurst For Your Cotton Values This Week 5,000 Yds. Father George Sheeting yard s*c 1,000 Yds. Cotton Prints, 80 sq. Yard 13c Cotton Pants 98c to $2.98 Both work pants and semi-dress. Cotton Socks 10c pr. Ladies’ Cotton Hose, mercer ized 15c pr. Buy Cotton Goods this week, be loyal to the South and to local industry. Longhurst Mercantile Co* Longhurst, N. C. / * es are present, the dipping should be repeated ten days later to des troy any parasites that may have hatched from eggs since the first dipping. The treatment should be made in the morning of a warm sunny day so that the fleece will get. thoroughly dry before night. Any standard dip mixture will give good results if directions are followed. INSURED The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation has reported that 156,000 premium payments, rep resenting about 6,400,000 bushels of wheat, have been received for “all-risk” policies on the 1939 wheat crop. SORGHUM Feeding experiments in Ne braska have shown sorghum to be 90 per cent as valuable as corn in the feeding ration for all kinds of livestock. JUMP The annual tonnage of beef graded according to Federal stan dards rose from 408,000,000 lbs. in 1937 to 603,000,000 lbs in 1938, or an increase of 47.6 per cent. EQUAL. The Minnesota Division of For estry has found that a cord of black locust, hickory, oak or iron wood will produce about the same number of heat units as a ton of good hard coal. Cotton’s Biggest Year For FASHIONS I \ J 0 ME FIBRE OF i * AMERICAN - A COTTON SALES EVENT iponiored jointly by the National Cotton Council of America, and the Cotton-Textile Inetituta. Today is the day of Cotton Materials; Home furnishing editors, in response to inquires from thousands of readers, are devoting unusual space to promoting slip covers, matched draperies, bedspreads and etc. These editors know that cotton materials are selling and selling fast. Cotton is very serviceable and in society, too. Ask anyone who knows about the popularity of cotton slack ensembles. Paris’ Sponsorship Os Cottons Makes Women’s Style Cottons Wanted Merchandise Cotton stole the show at the spring openings in Paris. Mrs. Carmel Snow, editor of Harper’s Bazaar, sounded the keynote in her transatlantic broad cast on February 6. “This year cotton starts at the beginning of the day and never stops.” The leading countries said dresses must be washable to be in style ... and that is why today’s cotton stole the show. Both Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar have promoted women’s style cottons editorially So have the large circulation women’s magazines. Not only is cotton fashion’s No. 1 fabric, but dresses in cotton cover every price range. Ask Esquire if men are going to wear cotton this summer. The style scouts report it prominent everywhere. Cotton for beachw&tr, cotton for country week-ends, for all types of sportwear. The pace-setters in men’s wear have put their approval op cotton. The men who learned how cool and comfortable cotton can be last summer will be back for more. WEAR COTTON, BE IN STYLE, BE LOYAL TO THE SOUTH Roxboro CoUon Mills Longhurst, N. C. - Roxboro, N. 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