Farm Part-Time
Insure Against
9 Loss Of Jobs
f - Part-time
farming turns full-time soon for
Ivoys Morton after 16 years in a
hosiery mill. * m a
told me they just would
not need me any more,” said Mor
ton. “Not enough business.”
Morton is fortunate. His invest
ment in 70 acres, in outbuildings,
in his handsome bridle home _
is turning out to be insurance a'
gainst job loss.
There are others in the hosiery
plant who are not so fortunate.
Some live in oomjpany houses
and have no experience in
other work. Worst of all, they
have no money saved up.
Morton plans to go into broilers
and replacement calves. “Next
year, you’ll see two or three big
chicken houses back here,” he
said as he stood in his back yard
and looked out over his gentle
hills..
On one side of the yard was a
pen of big, healthy cockrels. On
the other was a small house fill
ed with hybrid layers. And at the
back were five small pens, each
housing a small Holstein calf.
“It doesn’t look like much
now,” said Morton. “Buit those
are good calves with excellent
histories; my hens are averaging
85 percent on eggs; and my coc
kerels are really growing on mi
lo.”
The Mortons and their three
Children — Jenny, 15, Venita, 8,
and Sonja, 6 — raise "a little
bit of everything.” ,
"We’ve got small grain, com,
four acres of milo, a half acre of
aromatic tobacco,” said Morton.
"I have three acres of cotton this
year, but I didn’t get but two ba
les. Couldn’t kill the boll wee
vil.”
(Morton has found milo an ex
cellent feed for Chickens, mixed
with a ration. “It’s fine for hogs,
too; but don’t feed it to cows,” he
said. Milo has plenty of nutrients
and the chickens like it.
When you get right down to it.
(Morton probably is glad to get
into farming all the way. He’s a1
man of energy and enthusiasm
and a good manager. In farming,'
he knows he can be independent.
One look at his house, and you
know he’ll make out all right. He
put together most of its 2,200
square feet himself.
Most part-time farmers were
once full-time. They get “public1
work” partly as insurance a
gainst poor crop years. Loys
(Morton is proving the wisdom
of "storing up the sheaves” a-1
gainst poor business times.
Church Women
Aid Needy
Kings Mountain area church-1
women donated home medical'
kits and children’s gowns to the
needy as a feature of World
Community Day Friday.
A program, “A World Made
Free,” called attention to the
needs of people In all parts of
Che world, after which the gifts
were assembled and an offering
was received to he Up train wo
men in nutrition and welfare so
they may assist their own people
attain higher standards of heal
th.
Mrs. Jacob Cooper was pro
gram chairman, and participating
in the playlet were Mrs. William
Herndon, Mrs. Charles Neisler,
Mrs. George Plonk and Mrs. Tol
ly Shuford.
mergency
V*.
Whet (to you do
when you cou't wait?
WHEN A CRISIS COMES
... and you need a prescription filled
at midnight
.or yew plumbing starts leaking
1
•.. or your cor won't start
• or you run out of dean shirts
•.. or whenfhe cupboard or the baby
is bare
DO YOU saddle up and take a day off
to get the matter taken care of in the
City, or do you write to a catalog
house for help?
OF COURSE NOT* Likely you hardly
recognize these and similar predica
ments as crises. |
Because YOU'VE GOT NEIGHBORS,
right here at home .7. with their skill
and their money invested in establish
ments able to take most of your trou
bles on their own shoulders so quickly
0
V .
♦hat you scarcely notice they are dif
ficulties at all.
But HOW MANY skilled craftsmen,
and good business men, and good
neighbors, and good workers in civic
and church affairs, and good taxpayers
• *, how many of these have cut down
their stocks, laid off employees, or left
the country . . . because all you were
buying from them was the things you
couldn't wait to get somewhere else
♦ * . and how many will leave in the
future to ^go where A your _ money is
going?