J J
A V ' r IS A
PAGE TWO
W)v. . . . ' TUB PEIMHIIMAU
THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY, HERTFORD, K. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1940
t 4 1
fa .n
U
'I 4
V
4
j. gii
-if
1
LIVE SMI EMPLOYED TO CLEANSE
COTTLES, TAfwlS, CAf JS, PIPES AliD PAILS
Guernsey Herd Always
Brushed and Curried
Before Milking Every
Day
MILKEDBY HAND
Men From Barn Never
.Allowed to Enter Milk
House Where Bot
tling Takes Place
Cleanliness is the first and last
order of the day at the new Elm
wood Farms Dairy out on the Eli
zabeth City Highway.
Cleanliness is not confined to the
milking barn and the milk-house
themselves, but extended painstak
ingly to the Guernsey herd as well.
Each member of the herd is gone
over with brushes and curry combs
before milking . . . until her sleek
sides shine with sparkling cleanli
ness. The new buildings are clean, the
bottles are clean, the floors are clean,
the milk cans, the men who work
there; everything is spic and span.
Even .the new whitewashed fences
around the dairv lend an air of
healthful cleanliness.
The cows are brushed and their
udders washed before milking so that
nothing of a foreign nature will fall
into the milking pails. Even after
that, many added precautions are
taken to insure cleanliness. The milk
is never poured from one receptacle
to another in the milking barn.
The milking is done by hand . . .
Not by electricity . . . but the men
who do the dairy maid chores pass
through two doors from the milking
barn before they pour the milk into
a huge tank. The men from the
barn never enter the cooling and pas
teurizing and bottling rooms.
Live steam from a boiler in the
rear of the 9-room milk house scalds
everything to a point far beyond the
possibility of leaving harmful germs
alive. The bottles go through three
live-steam cleaning processes . . . .
and everything about the place is
spotless.
Poured into the first tank, the
milk runs through pipes into the
storage room where it is kept at a
temperature of 40 degrees or less.
jected to heat -of not less than 40
degrees and then moved to other re
frigerator units . . . thence to the
bottles and to your breakfast table.
From the cow to the lock-top bot
tles, the whole process at the Elm
wood Farms Dairy is one of detailed
safeguards.
U.S.
Yearly Mil
Supply would Maxe
3,000-Mile River
Estimated That Nation
Uses 50 Billion Quarts
Annually; Milk Most
Widely Distributed of
Foods
It has been estimated that the na
tion's yearly milk supply of around
50 billion quarts would make a river
3,000 miles long, 40 feet wide and" tilizers."
So3 Tests
ErtcnsiveSsvinsl
Dr. Miles Predicts Free
Service Will , Save
Farmers Thousands of
Dollars
Thousands of dollars will be saved
this year by North Carolina farmers
who have taken ..advantage of the
State Department of Agriculture's
free soils testing service in an effort
to affect economy in the purchase of
fertilizers and increase crop yields.
That is the opinion of Dr. I. E.
Miles, director of the Department's
soils testing division, who reported,'
that from February 1 to date 60,000
tests on 7,000 samples have been
made for farmers, who have also
been given free fertilizer recommen
dations based on the type cupp to be
grown on the individual field.
"No inforced agricultural leader
would term rapid, soil testing a solu
tion for all sol ailments," Dr. Miles
emphasized. "However, in the hands
of trained workers, soil testing is a
valuable tool and when properly
used can result in substantial econ
omy in the purchase and use of fer-
In the pasteurizer it is then sub- market.
over 2 feet deep. Possibly the
size of the annual supply and its
many uses alone make the economics
of milk difficult, according to the
Milk Industry Foundation.
Complex factors of milk economics
are visualized in an understandable
way for the layman by a new pictor
ial prepared by the Milk Industry
Foundation. With a series of seven
ty photographs or pictographs anu
concise explanatory captions, the
farm to home economic story of milk
is analyiH as "Vhe Mfflk Dollar
Where It Comes From and Where It
Coes."
Milk economics is considered a
complicated subject. Surrounded by
innumerable sanitary and marketing
regulation, demanding efficient and
skilled handling, milk is one of the
most widely distributed foods and a
principal source of farm cash in
come. How the vast amount of milk used
in butter, cheese, ice cream and other
dairy products affects the economic
picture is visualized. Milk is one
crop that does not get thrown out
nr lpft to rot as there is always a
CONGRATULATIONS
E
in
LL1JO0D
FARMS
ON YOUR
When soils are submitted to th
Department chemists, they undergo
analysis to determine chemical in
gredients. On the basis of chemicals
found in the soil and after consider
big the crop to be grown on the par
ticulai dand, the agronomist recom
mends to the farmer the fertilizer
containing the necessary plant food
to assure greatest economy and crop
production.
"The farmer is questioned in de
ing laboratory for analysis," Dr.
tail as to the cropping and fertilizer
Miles explained. "Information ob
used in connection with future soi'ls
agronomist making fertilizer recom
mendations, but furnishes valuable
background material that can be
history of each soil sent to the test
tained is not only valuable to the
tests and fertilizer recommenda
tions." Dr. Miles said that soil tests were
used to:
1. Determine whether or not a
i specific crop will grow on the par
ticular soil analyzed.
2. Determine whether or not a
specific soil can be economically
treated and adapted to growth of a
specific crop.
3. Determine the degree of acidity
or "sourness" of the soil.
4. Determine the plant food defi
ciencies of soils and provide fertili
zer and lime, recommendations that
will give the soil the necessary
"food" to permit the profitable
growth of a specific crop.
- m
Cilia
We are proud of the part
we played in the building-of
this new up-to-date
Dairy.
X
.
V
5: BUILDING, CONTRACTOR
- ElfzabeatyvN.C ;
Soybeans Can Be Used
For (Feeding Of Swine
A method by which pigs may be
fed considerable amounts of soy
beans and still produce firm pork has
been announced by Prof. Earl H.
Hostetler and Dr. J. O. Halverson of
the North Carolina Agricultural Ex
oeriment Station. The announcement
was contained in Technical Bulletin
No. 63, entitled "Feeding Soybean?
to Pigs the Effect of Gains and a
Method of Producing Firm Carcass
es," which the research workers
wrote after conclusive feeding tests.
The method used in producing firm
pork was to put pigs on rations of
30 to 50 percent soybeans until they
attained a weight of 100 pounds,
when a corn-tankage ration contain
ing 13 per cent cottonseed meal was
fed to an average weight of 230
pounds.
The bulletin notes that the chilled
carcasses of the pigs used in the
tests were sent to the Beltsville' La
boratory of the U. S. Department of
Agriculture in Maryland, where all
except five of the' 153 pigs (96.7 per
cent) were judged firm.
. This experiment followed similar
investigations through which - the
State College Experiment Station
proved that limited amounts of pea
nuts may be fed. to pigs and still pro
duce firm carcasses.
The publication is technical, and
therefore, not Intended for general
aisiriDuuon. o inose interested may
procure copies on application to the
Agricultural .Editor at State College.
Hurry, Hurry, Hurry
The fond parents were talking
about their courting days and hap
pened to mention a circus both had
enjoyed. ; ?;.
v "Why wasn't I along, Mama!" de
manded little Elsie. ,
"You weren't, born yet, child," said
her mother. , , 4 ,
"Well," sniffed the tot, "ydu might,
have waited a few years."
The Skades f Nlght-V
In a Negro schoor there was one
boy so black that even , the other
pupils called, him "Midnight" This
was all ,ery yrttt until .new pupil
only a fe shades lighter than he en
tered the school. , On being ' called
the ' nickname ' by the new . pupil,
"Midnight"- got huffy. . ' - ' w-
', "Listen heah! - Don't you call me
uo 'Kidnight.1
leben yo-se'
W ' Yo's about half-past
9,
CONGRATULATIONS
FOR YOUR MODERN AND SANITARY DAIRY
AND APPRECIATE THE PART WE PLAYED
IN EQUIPPING
W. G. WEWELL CO.
GREENSBORO, N. C.
"The South's Most Complete Stock of Dairy
Equipment and Supplies
1.
: E
-
Congratulations
to
"Brach" EDasoni
AND
imniwoo
d Far
Oil niE OPEKIIi'G OF THEIR
h
r "J -4
it h pi
i
waBKtrnf friMtMT 'sMP'-fiJ -litsam ii A
1 ' -j r it X 1
i i - ft i
pi
id
BBS' f r
'X
v. . f t If
I
Wk 1 ' f i St !
if vt
I"