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14 THE NEWS AND Monday Morning, Corn Varieties To Be Observed LUMBERTON A demonstration of production of eight varieties of hybrid corn will be offered Robeson County farmers afternoon on the Mitchell Humphrey farm in Saddletree community. Seedsmen, a fertilizer distributor and the farm extension service are cooperating in the field day. Humphrey declared that production of corn should be doubled in Robeson County referring to it as the most neglected crop in the county and noting that it is a crop of proven worth for which a ready and continuous market exists. Each variety has been grown on a four tenths acre plot and visitors will be asked to estimate yield, with various awards 1 made to the most accurate. When In Raleigh See Us! For the Best in RECONDITIONED FARM EQUIPMENT TERMS ARRANGED RALEIGH TRACTOR and TRUCK Co.

Old Garner Rd. at City Limits For Bigger Yields And More Profit PLANT RE CERTIFIED Look For This BLUE TAG AND OBSERVER, RALEIGH, N. C. Morning, September 23, 1957 The FARM OBSERVER By Bill Humphries article by the farm relations ofBank Trust Company, Rocky from that institution's monthly the Farm By T. H.

LECROY. disturbing that more and more people, businessmen, are stating that all crop abandoned and let farmers produce as to. for abandoning crop controls has not proportions in this area at present, support for the program by the rank and at least inactive opposition by the program in operation. Local opposition stems from several things. Chief reason is that it was necessary to cut tobacco acreage 32 per cent in two years, coupled with the necessity of outlawing certain varieties.

But perhaps nearly as important in stirring up opposition crop controls at this time is the attitude of the Secretary of Agriculture on the subject, along with the increasing amount of "red tape" connected with checking compliance. Should crop controls be abandoned? People in this country have inherited a dislike for regimentation and being told what they can or cannot do with or on their own property. The right of people to produce to the limit of their capacity has been a chief factor in making this country there has come the time when overproduction, as well as underproduction, is everybody's business. The time has come when farmer cannot "go every year and stay in business as it was possible to do prior to 15 or 20 years ago. The farmer's income today must stay high, else not only he will suffer, but many, many re- Your Guarantee of Satisfaction NATHANE PAINT APPLIANCES BEDDING TELEVISION FURNITURE BOTTLED GAS FERTILIZER FARM MACHINERY "Cash If you have it Credit if you need it" JOHNSON COTTON COMPANY DUNN, N.

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OLIVE GREENVILLE WILLIAMSTON WASHINGTON CLAYTON FARMVILLE And FCX Dealer Agents Officers Are Named For Bertie Program WINDSOR Bertie County has launched its rural development program by electing the following committee officers: Chairman, H. H. Sandidge, Woodard; vice chairman, C. W. Capehart Merry Hill; chairman of industrial committee, Fin- Johnson, Askewville: chairman of the agricultural commitley tee, Herbert Jenkins Aulander; and chairman of the health, education and welfare committee, John M.

Chamblee, Aulander. Pattern of Farming. Contour strip cropping is pattern of farming in alternate contour bands of close-growing and till crops. lasted businesses will also suffer. Unless the farmer's income stays relatively high, more farmers and farm youth will leave the farm to compete in our already crowded cities Production could drop too low to feed our growing population.

Farm community life would suffer. The question is, Would farm income drop if crop controls were abandoned? In general, the law of supply and demand is still a fairly predictable thing. If crop controls were abandoned, there is little doubt that not only present producers would increase their acreage, but many additional farmers would become producers of commodities now denied to them. The American farmer now has the tools and know to greatly expand production of practically all the allotted crops. More total money would not necessarily come from producing more than the public would need.

To be sure, there would be some increase in consumption at lower prices. But the consumers would sell less of their goods and services if the farmer received for his produce. Farmers could no longer get adequate production financing without the pricing effect of crop control and parity supports. To those who still remember the predicament of farmers in the early thirties, in 1939, and what happened to cotton with no controls from 1 1949 to 1953, the question of no controls is unthinkable. If crop controls were abandoned for only one year, it would take us many years to get over it.

be sure, the crop control program is not perfect, and some changes made in the program during the past 23 years have not always improved the program too much. Crop production control in some form is here to stay. It is best that we try to improve the program and eliminate the most objectionable features, rather than kill the whole program. Active support for our general farm and our commodity organizations can help us keep and improve the crop control program. Bertie Planning Livestock Show WINDSOR- Bertie County Livestock Show and Sale Association has made, plans for the annual show a sale to be held in the spring.

A new system of marketing the animals has been adopted and the event expanded to include an adult division. All animals will be graded and premiums paid according to grade and will be sold in lots except the champion and reserve champion. The champion and reserve champion steers will receive premiums and will be sold individually and anyone may bid on them. There will be four premiums given for showmanship in the steer classes. The swine will be graded and premiums paid for US No.

1 and US No. 2. Premiums will be given to the champion individual, reserve champion individual, champon pen of three and reserve pen of three. There will be four premiums given for showmanship in the swine division. In the adult division, there will be no limit on the number of steers a person may show: however, the swine will be limited to the same number as the 4-H and FFA division which is a pen of three and an individual.

Forestry Group Sets Convention ASHEVILLE- North Carolina Forestry Association will hold its annual convention here at the Battery Park Hotel on Oct. 11 and 12. Announcement of the Association's convention plans came from Carl J. Blades, acting president and Duke Power pany official of Charlotte. Blades said that registration will open late Friday, Oct.

11. The convention schedule ineludes a scenic trip of the Asheville area as well as a field trip to a nearby center of forestry activity. The, convention will close with an annual banquet on Saturday night. Plans for the gathering are being completed by a committee under the chairmanship of E. L.

Demmon of Asheville. DRAINAGE PUMPING STATION housing two 36-inch pumps. Construction required 84 cubic yards of concrete and five tons of reinforcing steel. Water level outside the area is three feet higher. At Fort Landing Big Drainage Project Completed By PAUL LIVERMAN.

-The hurricanes of 1955 made a lot of people stop and think. But the people of Fort Landing community, 14 miles northeast of Columbia on old Highway 64, have done more than just think. Immediately after, the hurricanes W. A. Hollis, H.

W. Davis, W. A. Howett, H. E.

Davis, Floyd Hollis, W. O. Howett, T. D. Brickhouse, R.

M. Cohoon, B. D. Sutton, H. L.

Davis and J. B. Bryant decided something had to be done. They petitioned the Pamlico Soil Conservation District for assistance in helping them solve their soil and water problems. The Tyrrell County Board of Soil Conservation District Supervisors composed of G.

L. Hopkins. M. V. Cohoon and J.

E. Woodley felt the project should be planned by the Soil Conservation Service as rapidly as time and conditions would permit. The first surveys were begun in November, 1955. A soils survey was made and the land capability and needs of the various soils were determined. Pasquotank and Weeksville silt loams along with Fallsington fine sandy loam are the predominant soil types of the community.

Four to six hundred acres of Irish potatoes are grown in this community each year, along with corn, soybeans, and small grain. The soils in this community are excellent for the production of all these crops when properly drained and managed. The engineering surveys showed that the cropland was relatively flat with elevations from 0.5 to 3.0 feet above mean water level. Water, as a result of the hurricanes, covered most of this land, destroying the crops and leaving enough salt in some of the land to damage the crops in following years. Rains during May and June in recent years have caused heavy losses of Irish potatoes and other crops.

A drainage system consisting of dikes, gates, and pumps was designed to improve the drainage in this community. The Tyrrell County ASC through the Agricultural Conservation Program allocated funds to assist in the construction of the canals and gates in this project. Two 36-inch propeller pumps with a combined capacity of 44,000 gallons a minute were installed. Three 48-inch and three 24-inch automatic water control were installed to prevent the influx of tide water and to provide extra drainage during excessive rain. Four miles of dikes were built high enough to withstand the hurricane waters of 1955, which were the highest they have ever been in this community.

Eight miles of secondary mains or laterals bring the water from the farmland to the two main canals 40 feet wide which carry water to the pumping station. Outlet ditches were dug to provide sufficient flow to the automatic water control gates from the field and from the gates to open water outside the dike. Construction of the main canals and gates was completed in January, 1957. The pumping station was completed in June. All the farmers in this community have become cooperators AUTOMATIC water control gate which prevents entry of salt water and provides extra outlet during excessive rain.

ONE OF the main canals which supply water to the pumps. in the Pamlico Soil Conservation, District and are developing and applying conservation plans on their farms. No project the size of this one is accomplished through the efforts of one agency or one individual. The Soil Conservation Service contributed the technical know-how, the Extension Service the latest research and economic information available, the ASC contributed ACP funds, and FHA made available soil and water loans to the farmers of the community. There also has to be a willingness on the part of the people involved to cooperate- to give and take in order to accomplish the ultimate objective.

Phone Co-Op at Clinton Has Own Office Building By E. P. HOLMES. CLINTON There are now 10 telephone membership corporations chartered in the State in the western and central portions and four in the east. Each of these corporations has dial phones and automatic dial exchanges.

The equipment in design is the latest that can be had. Lower Cape Fear Telephone Membership Corporation dips into eastern Carolina and serves part of Bladen and Columbus, while Tri-County Telephone Membership Corporation with headquarters at Belhaven serves part of Beaufort and Washington. The newest addition to the telephone cooperatives is the Atlantic Telephone Membership Corporation, at Shallotte, which part of Brunswick. Attractive Office. The only 1 telephone cooperative in the State that is housed in its new office building is Cumber- Telephone Membership Corporation, serving parts of Bladen, Cumberland, Duplin and Sampson with headquarters about a mile out of Clinton.

This is a very attractive new building. The structure is 46 48 feet and is built out of Sanford brick. It is very modern in every respect with tile floors and most of the walls are plate, glass. The same heating plant that cools it in summer heats it in winter. It has six rooms, two slorage rooms, two baths and a directors room.

The lighting is indirect and the two clocks are made in the wall. The furniture is modernistic. They now have around 800 subscribers with a five year figure of 1406. They employ eight people one manager, two secretaries, and five outside men. The office is equipped with the very latest office machines and the rolling stock consists of one station wagon, one pickup truck one line truck.

Will Pigs Topple Ezra Benson? By OVID A. MARTIN Washington, Sept. 22 UM Pigs may come nearer unseating Ezra Taft Benson as secretary of agriculture than critical politicians. Benson has weathered many political start storm of since the he took Eisenhower over administration in 1953. Leaders of his own Republican party as well as those of the Democratic party have demanded his scalp.

President Eisenhower has waved them aside. New Storm. But a new storm on the farm horizon is threatening and, because of its nature and prospective timing, could topple Benson. Signs point to a new hog market debacle which would engulf producers about the time they went to the polls in November 1958 to elect a new Congress. Hogs are a major source of farm income in the Midwest.

Right now hog prices are good. Producers are making the money. There is also a surplus of stock feed grains a surplus that may well be enlarged by this harvests. PLANTERS WEEKLY FARM CALENDAR TUESDAY Yearling steer sale, West Jefferson. District junior dairy show, Asheville.

WEDNESDAY Junior, tobacco show-sale, Wallace (through Thursday). THURSDAY Martin County all-breed purebred hog sale and feeder pig sale, Williamson, 1 p.m. Feeder calf sale, Hillsboro, 7 p.m. Feeder calf sale, Greensboro, 1 p.m. FRIDAY Feeder calf sale, Shelby, 1 p.m.

J. B. Fearrington Sons Holstein dispersal sale, Pittsboro, PLANTERS FERTILIZERS PLANTERS COTTON OIL COMPANY Rocky Mount, N. C. McCULLOCH CHAIN SAWS The New MAC-35 NOW ONLY 169 with TRADITIONAL McCULLOCH QUALITY! YOUR McCULLOCH DEALER HAS A NEW SAW FOR EVERY JOB.

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at City Limits TE 2-5871 McCULLOCH Chain Saws AND OVER 70 MORE DEALERS IN THE CAROLINAS TO SERVE YOU This superabundance of grains is weakening feed prices. With prices of hogs unusually high in relation to feed prices, farmers would be encouraged to step up pig production sharply next year. Such a situation in the past has almost always brought about an overexpansion hog for with ensuing low prices. History to Repeat. Veteran livestock experts in the department believe history will repeat itself next year.

Hogs have been bringing producers an average of about $20 a hundred pounds. This is 25 per cent more than the average a year ago and double the low level -to which markets tumbled in 1955, the peak period of the last previous over-production cycle. The expectations of the experts were borne out Thursday by an Agriculture Department survey showing that producers in 10 corn belt states are breeding per cent more sows during the current fall season than a year ago, and that they plan to breed 7 per cent more during the first half of the 1958 spring season than a year earlier. If producers step up hog breeding operations sharply and no new market develops, the chances are prices will tumble and hog farmers again will be in trouble. Naturally critics administration would point fingers of blame at Benson and his farm policies.

Should the election bring Democratic gains in the Midwest farming area, Republican leaders doubtless would insist upon a new farm chief to help win back farmer support before the 1960 presidential campaign. Harder to Resist. Himself out of the picture as a 1960 candidate, Eisenhower might find it much harder to resist antiBenson forces after an unsuccessful 1958 congressional election than heretofore. Benson foresees the inherent dangers in the hog situation. It has led him to appeal to farmers to resist the temptation to overexpand again.

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