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The Republican., 1935-11-14

The fault for the Leagues weak
nesses should be pinned on the folks
that deserve it. The blame does not
lie with Uncle Sam but with the hypo-
critical European nations who only
support the League when it is to their
selfish interests to do so and are will
ing to let it go hang in crises which
do not affect their national fortunes
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-07-04
TRUCKS BOUGHT TO HELP
FIGHT FOREST FIRES

Enthusiastically designed fire
trucks for use in combating forest
fires will be added to equipment in
II North Carolina counties which CO.
operate with the state in fire preven-
ton work.
Chatham was the first county in
the state in which one of the forest
fire fighting trucks was put in use but
they are also used on private cooper
alive projects in Scotland, Baden
Hartnett and Moore counties.
The trucks have centrifugal pumps
to fill water tanks they carry and
have hose through which stream
can be played on the flames under
pressure.
With added facilities for detention
of fires, such as miles of new tele-
phone lines, number of new lookout
towers, and the use Of radio in fire
protection, Mccormick said the trucks
would allow greater mobility of fire.
fighters and srorld result in sub.
stantial reduction of damages from
forest. fires.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-07-04
COUNTERFEIT COIN DEVICE
is FOUND IN CONVICT CAMP

Raleigh.-Inmates of Camp Polk,
state prison stockade near here, have
one more less source of wealth.
Guards examining the convicts'
quarters confiscated a crude device
used to manufacture counterfeit buff
falo 5-cegt pieces and turned it over
to L. G. Whitley, assistant superin-
tendent of the penal division here.
The device was added to Whitley's
collection of prisoner handicraft
which includes, clubs, knives made
from nails, and a wooden gun with a
soap cylinder.
The "mine"-that's what the con-
victs called twas fashioned from
two small blocks of wood, each of
which was followed and filled with
cement moulds made by impressing
real nickels when the substance was
soft. A lead alloy poured into grove
bewtween resulted in a coin that
might easily pass if not too closely
examined.
The counterfeiters were not dis
covered.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-07-04
TO PROTEST SALES TAX

Directors of North Carolina Mer-
chants Association in session at Char
lotte, Monday of last week, authoriz-
ed appointment of committee to
confer with representatives of other
organizations interested in fighting
the states general sale stax.
AS re-enacted by the last legisla-
lture, the sales levy will tax basic
foods formly exempt, which was eff
fective July 1. The merchants organ
ization has announced it may contest
constitutionality of the tax.
j. G. Harrison, of Mount Airy,
president of the state merchants
group, will appoint committee to
confer with other organizations op-
posed to the sales levy. The commit
tees findings will be us:,i in chart
ing plans for a fight on the sales tax
The directors decided to employ a
full-time field secretary.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-07-04
Using MEAT PRICES
LEADING TO THREATS

Washington Rising meat prices
,ad agriculture adjustment officials
worried over whether they might lead
70 possible consumers strike.
Protest over the recent increases
in beef, pork and lamb quotations are
deluging the agriculture department.
Some have reached Capitol hill. Two
groups have appeared to protest to
the department over the AAA pro-
cessing taxes and what has been
termed the packers spread"
Rumors that efforts would be made
~ some organizations to start con-
sumers' strike have reached AAA
foficials and Chairman Smith, Demo-
crat, South Carolina, Of the senate
agriculture committee.
Farm administration officials said
they were looking toward continued
rise in meat prices until fall and
there was little they could do about
it. AS a barometer of future meat
prices, AAA officials said they were
looking to the spring pig narrowing
crop report due Friday.
Senator Smith said "the high meat
prices are the natural result of two
factors; first, the artificial or govern
ment destruction of farrow sows and
immature pigs; second, the extreme
drought of 1884 that cut off the food
support cattle, hogs and sheep that
survived.
"The prices will continue to rise
unless the consumers buck up their
sales resistance throgh a consumers
strike, or their inability to buy meat"
In a report to Secretary Wallace,
farm Administrator C. C.. Davis said
today cattle and hog prices this year
would be higher than in 1884 due to
the control program and the drought.
"The changes which have occurred
in the supply of CATTLE" Davis said,
"are expected to result in materially
higher prices for cattle throughout
1885,"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-07-04
LARGE WHEAT CROP IN OFFING

The wheat crop this year will total
approximately 671,000,000 bushels,
the biggest in three years and more
than ample to meet usual domestic
requiremnts, the Department of Ag-
riculture estimated in its last report.
Normal domestic consumption is
about 625, 100000 bushels.
Rains whcih recently broke up the
Midwest drought helped the wheat
crop so much that the department re-
vised it's estimate of a month ago by
adding 100000 bushels.
The spring wheat crop on June 1
was 85.2 per cent of normal, the de-
partment reported, indicating produc-
ton of more than 100000, 900 bushels
which, with an anticipated winter
wheat yield of AL $4,000 bushels,
would give a total crop of GIL 100000
bushels. Last year production was
A26,O00,0 600 bushels and the year be-
fore 529,000,000 bushels. Severe
drought limited the crop bith previ-
Gus years.
Weather conditions have been I'M
favorable for corn, with less than
two thirds of the crop planted on
June 1, in contrast to 95 per cent in
normal years. Wet soil delayed plant
ing.
Without making a formal estimate
of the oats crop, the department said
the crop on June was 84.4 per cent
of normal, indicating production of
about 1,2O0,OOO,O 900 bushels compared
to 528,815,O0O last year.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-07-04
HEAVY TOLL FROM SOIL
EROSION is FUTURE MENACE
DO YOU KNOW THAT


When the slope of land is increased
four times, the speed of the water
flowing over it is about double, the
cutting power is multiplied by four,
the power to carry soil is multiplied
by 80 and the size of particles it can
carry is multiplied by Ga?
Erosion removes 81 times as much
plant food from the soil as cultivate
crops?
Erosion costs the State of North
Carolina &c million dollars yearly by
removing plant food alone?
Rotating crops reduce soil loss
about one-third?
Burned over woods lose over 38
times as much soil as do unburned
woods?
More than so per cent of the cult
waited land in the Piedmont region is
severely eroded and quilted?
Seven and one-tenth per cnt of all
land in Piedmont North Carolina has
been abandoned due to excessive
erosion?
Three and one-tenth per cent Of all
the land in North Carolina has been
abandoned due to erosion?
The second most badly eroded soil
in North Carolina is one of the pre-
dominant soils in the Deep River ero-
sion control areas?
Terraces built by the Soil Erosion
service in this area recently with
stood the heaviest 36-hour rain on
records in the last ten years?
(The foregoing information was
furnished by the soil conservation
service Of North Carolina, headquart-
ers at High Point.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-07-04
GERMANS COULD FEED
Or WOOD IN NEXT WAR
20 Per Cent of Wood Would Be
Turned Into Sugar Through
HydrOlytic Process

Munich.-Germans could in the
event Of war, feed on sawdust, drink
sap, go dressed in birchbark, and
speed about in woodworking motor
cars and planes, said DIR. Bergius,
Nobel prize-winner, in lecture here.
He was addressing the Polytechnic
cal society of Bavaria, and summarize
ed the work of the new German-Ber-
gin company for wood-hydrolysis at
Manneheim- Rheinaus, near Heidel-
berg.
Thrugh the hydrolytic process, de-
clared DR.. Bergius, 70 per cent of
wood could be transformed into va
rieties of sugar.
The treatment consisted basically
of break down by means of highly
concentrated acids, which freed all
carbohydrates and celluloses in the
wood. This left an inedible substance
known as lignin.
Lignin itself offered possibilities
as fuel for motor vehicles.
In Germany successful experiments
had long been made in fueling both
automobiles and aeroplanes with
wood preparations.
The sugar-like product of the n.y.
drlytic process had been refined in
different ways, such as the prepare
ton of alcohol, the production of
sugar by capitalization, and as the
basis of new folders.
The production price was so low
that the invention provided an eco
nornic substitute for many raw ma
terials. $50
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-07-04
1885 SPRING PIG CROP 20
PER CENT UNDER 1884

Westinghouse decrease of 20 per
cent in the 1885 spring pig crop as
compared with the small 1884 spring
crop, was reported by the agriculture
department.
Officials said "this means very
definitely that the pork shortage will
continue until spring and summer of
1885,"
The departments pig crop report
as of June 1 estimated the number of
pigs saved in the spring season of
1935-December 1, 1884 to June 1,
1935-at 3O,4O3,OOO head for the
United States, decrease of 7,405, 900,
or 1916 percent from the number
saved in the spring of 1884.
This estimate, the report said, is a
decrease of 40 per cent, or 2O,814,O0O
head from the average number saved
in the spring of 1882 and 1888.
In the corn belt, the department
said, the number of spring pigs saved
this year is estimated at 23,703, 900
head, decrease of 1928 percent from
1884 and AZ per cent from the 1928
average.
Blaming the short 1884 corn crop
for the decrease in the 1885 pig crop,
officials declined to comment upon
the possible effect of the pork situa-
ton upon the price of meat.
Noting that in the principal hog
states, production in 1885 will be be-
low the maximum allowed under the
corn-hog adjustment program, Gerald
B. Thorne, director of-the division of
livestock and feed grains, said that
the AAA is attempting to increase
the hog crop to normal.
Thorne said that whereas the 1884
hog contracts provided that farmers
might not produce more than Is per
cent of the 1928 average, the 1885
contracts allowed 80 per cent of the
1928 average. This allowance, he
said, is omre than the farmers can
produce, but the 10 per cent limita-
ton was included to present over
expansion in corn acreage next year.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-07-04
HISTORICAL EVENTS IN JULY

/. Battle Of Gettysburg 1863.
2. Pres. Garfield assassinated 1881.
3. Battle of Santiago 1898.
4. independence Day.
z. Hawaii annexed 1898. ..
9. Davis nominated by Dem. 1924.
10. Bryan's Free Silver speech 1896.
IL. Hulls invasion of Canada 1912.
IS. Atlantic Cable laid 1866.
IA. First Wold's Fair in U. S. 1853.
Is. Battle Chateau Thierry 1918.
Is. Capture % Stony Point 1879.
II. Spanish Army surrenders 1898.
10. Lincoln calls for 100000 volun-
teers 1864.
10. West Point fortified 1879.
20. Confederate Congress met 1861
FL. Battle of Bull Run 1861.
%. Pilgrims leave for Amer. 1920
%. U. S. Grant died 1885.
"a. National Convention Populist
Party 1896.
Is. Grant made General 1866.
q. Jane McCrea slain LIT.
%. First official mail car 1862.
20. 18th Amendm. proclaimed 1868
80. First U. S. paten issued 1870.
81. British take Plattsburg 1914.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-07-04
Farmers Urged to Raise
Own Horses

OWM 11VISCS
North Carolina farms will always
have breed of horses and mules, SAYS
Prof. Earl H. Hostetler, of N. C.
State College.
Landowners who breed their best
animals will find ready sale for the
workstock not needed at home" he
points out.
"Last year, North Carolina paid
at least $1,OOO,OOO outside, the State
for mules which could have beeR1pFQ-
duced more cheaply at home.
This runs up needless, expense
and also deprives our farmers of the
money they might have gotten from
the sale of home-raised work ami
mails" :,
The average farm mare can pro-
duce colt each year and still do
about as much work as the other
stock, said Prof. Hostetler, who has
charge Of livestock research work at
the N. c. experiment station.
If the mares are bred so that the
colts will be dropped in the early
spring, two-week vacation at foal-
ing time is enough time off from
their regular work.
Both the mare and the colt will be
in better health if the mare continues
to work, he said. However, the colt
should be allowed to nurse in the
morning and in the afternoon during
the first few weeks.
"Take good care Of your work ami
mails" he added. "Heat prostrations
can be prevented by allowing the
stock to drink regularly through the
day and by keeping plenty of salt
in the stalls of pastures.
"a good pasture, with plenty of
salt, will reduce the feed bill, tone
up the animals health, and provide
more comfort on hot nights and idle
days."
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-07-04
MISS REEVES AND MR.. PUGH
T.. ?uRTAIN AT SHADY SHACK

Miss Irene Reeves and Walter
Pugh entertained number of their
young friends with weekend party
at Shady Shack at Mouth of Wilson,
Virginia. The group was chaperoned
by Mrs. Will Pugh.
Guests invited were: Misses Mari
ennice and Susie Osborne, Imogene
Miles, Madge and Jean Mcmillan,
Virginia Gambill and Carolyn Halsey
and Dwayne Irwin, Russell Barr
James and Herbert Hawthorne, Buck
Higgins, and Woodrow and Gentry
o sborne.-Alleghany Times.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-07-04
Seal Sailors Stuff

Ship !t:.,.yls were formerly made al
most exclusively by seamen and were
exclusively of vessels on which they
had voyaged. Now they are frequently
made by landlubbers, perhaps by some
who have never seen either the Allan
tic or the Pacific.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-07-04
PRESIDENT TO WORK July A

Neutrality-suspicious. is the tentative
schedule of President Roosevelt for
the Fourth of July.
Asked about his plans for that holt
day, the President said he probobly
would be at his desk. Congress likley
will be on the job too.
A year ago the President stopped
for some fishing in the Bahama is
lands on July during his cruise to
Puerto Rico and Hawaii.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-07-04

Greece, which has no broadcasting
stations. took drastic action against
radio listeners in the recent revolu-
ton, ordering the use of all receiving
sets prohibited. The police actually
dismantled visible aerials in order to
assure no reception.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-07-04

A German goat is five inches high
and eight inches long. It is perfectly
formed, healthy and big eater.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-07-04

If unmarried at IA, girls on the
island Of Madura, West Indies are
considered cold maids"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-07-04

The only living insects on the sum-
init of Mt. Everest are small spiders.
They eat one another.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-07-04

Question: What size can is best
for putting up fruits and vegetables
for home use?
Answer: The number two or three
is the size most generally used for
home canning. Only experienced can
ners should use the No. 10 cans as
it is difficult to sterilize so large a
filled container. Corn, squash, peas,
or pumpkin should never be put up
in a No. 10 can. Where one has the
necessary experience, string beans,
tomatoes, soup mixtures, peaches,
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-07-04
FARM AND GARDEN

pears, and blackberries may be sue
cessfully canned in these large con-
tainers.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-07-04
Timely Farm Questions Answered
Mt State College

at State College
Question: Is the appearance of
poultry mash any index as to the
quality?
Answer: No. The value of poultry
mash cannot be determined by the
appearance of texture. At one time
it was believed that a finely ground
mash was more easily digested but
experience has shown that in some
cases, the regrinding is done to hide
inferiority in quality. Certain mash
ingredients, such as wheat bran
should not be ground too fine. The
flakes of bran in the mixture tends
to produce bulkiness which aids d.
gestion. Check carefully on the in
gradients and see that sufficient
bulkiness is allowed.
Question: When should alfalfa be
cultivated?
Answer: Cultivation is often of
very little value except under certain
conditions. When the stand is thin
and crab grass comes in late in the
summer, the crop may be cultivated
during July or August. This will
destroy much of the grass. If any
cultivation is done it should be made
Immediately after a cutting. A
spring-tooth alfalfa harrow is the
best implement for this work. In no
case should a disc harrow be used as
it splits the crown and renders the
plants more susceptible to diseases
and freezing.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-11-28
CORN-HOG SURVEY
PLANS ANNOUNCED

The final compliance survey of
the 1885 corn-hog program will be-
gin December 2, announces Frank
Winter, chairman of the Stearns
County corn-hog allotment COM
mittee.
A compliance supervisor will visit
each farm under contract, and
check the number of hogs on hand
and the depth of silage in the silo.
The silage must be checked, Mr..
Winter explains, because the corn
hog contract requires the producer
to have filled his silo this year to
the same average level as he filled
it in 1882 and 1888, and with corn
of the same average quality.
The supervisor will also examine
the contract signer's records show
ing the number of hogs he has
bought and sold during the year
ending November 80, 1885. His re-
port will be used by the Agricul-
tural Adjustment Administrator in
determining whether or not the
contract signer should receive his
final 1885 corn-hog payment, due
on or about January /, 1885.
The corn-hog compliance reports
for all Minnesota farms will be
audited in st. Paul this year, in
stead of in Washington, as in 1884
This change should make for speed
Ter handling Of the reports after
they leave the county.
The allotment committee has no
titled all Stearns county corn-hog
signers to dispose of all hogs in ex-
cess of the number permitted by
their contracts before Decemter1
Mr.. Winter says. 1t has also asked
them to have their sales and pur-
chase evidence ready and their feed
er hogs and home-farrowed hogs
penned separately when the super
visor calls. Compliance with these
suggestions will hasten the COM
pletion of the survey and speed the
payment of cash benefits.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-11-28

Farm and Home Week, to be
presented at University Farm, st.
Paul, January to II, will offer
excellent training in community
leadership through a special All
conference on this subject, fea-
turing community organization,
planning of community programs
or work, rural dramatics, and COM
munity singing and music. A. E.
Engebretson, district county agent
leader, who will direct this con-
ference, invites rural organiza-
tons to send one or two delegates.
Such delegates can take back to
their groups the many ideas and
suggestion that will be presented.
An able staff will present the diff
ferent phases of subject matter at
this conference, including j. R.
Bachelor of the National Recre-
alton association, Chicago, a ma.
tionally-known expert in rural
music and dramatics.
Another special 2 day conference
will be held for county AAA ad-
ministrators, under the direction
of DR.. Andrew Boss, state AAA ad-
ministrator.
Fourth club leadership will be
the topic of 4-day conference,
directed by T. A. Erickson, state
4-H leader. This will cover All
club organization, detectives in
Al work, recreation for young
folks, and leadership problems in
different lines of project work and
demonstrations. Mr.. Bachelor will
conduct the recreation part of this
conference.
Rural youth problems will be the
subject of fourth Farm and Home
Week conference that will run
through days. Miss Charlotte
Kirchner, who recently Joined the
state home demonstration staff at
University Farm, will direct this
conference which will concentrate
attention on problems of particu-
Ian concern to young folks plan
ming to become farmers or farm
homemakers.
Further information about these
conferences, or about the entire
Farm and Home Week program
may be had free by writing l.. A.
Churchill, Farm and Home Week
Office, University Farm, st. Paul.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-11-28
JUDGE SETS HIGH VALUE
ON FARM SHELTERBEL.

A windbreak is more than just
an ornament to a farmstead, in the
opinion of a Canadian judge who
recently fined a tenant $1,000 for
damages to a windbreak of trees
planted around farm buildings.
The shelterbelt was not COM
pletely destroyed and the judge
conceded that the damage could be
repaired for considerably less than
1000. In awarding that amount to
the landlord, however, the judge
pointed out that it would take sew
eral years to get the windbreak
back into condition and that in the
meantime the farm would suffer
considerably in appearance and
loss of protection.
This court decision should i'm
press Minnesota farmers Of the real
Importance of shelterbelts for
prairie homes, says Parker o. An
derson, extension forester, Univer-
sity Farm Farmers who would like
to find out about windbreaks and
correct methods of establishing
them, should have Mr.. Anderson's
bulletin, planting the Standard
Windbreak." A copy may be had
free from county agent, high
school agricultural instructor, or
by writing the Bulletin Office, Uni
versity Farm, st. Paul, for Special
Bulletin 1853.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-11-28
IMPROVED RULES FOR
MEASURING HAY STACKS

New rules for measuring stacked
hay, more accurate than those
used in the past, have recently
been worked out by experiment
stations in Minnesota and other
! states, cooperating with the U. S.
Department of Agriculture. L. F.
Carey of the division of agricul-
tural economics, University Farm,
st. Paul, says these are the only
rules based on research.
Three dimensions of the stack
must be determined in feet; namely
the length, "L"; the width, wv;
and the over, "O". The over means
the distance from the ground on
one side, over the stack, and down
to the ground on the other side.
The average of several measure
ments should be taken for the
over, if the stack is irregular.
Knowing the above three measure
ments in feet, the volume of the
stack in cubic feet should be COM
puted according to one of the fol-
lowing methods:
Fiat-topped stacks (0.56xO)-
,(0.55xW) (WxL)
High round-topped stacks (052x
O)-(0.46xW) x (WxL)
Low round-topped stacks 20 SIX
O)-(044xW) x (WxL)
Here is an example that will
make clear the use of the rule: A
high round-topped stack is so feet
long, 20 feet wide, and has an over
of As feet. 0.52x45 equals 23.4; DAG
x20 equals 90; 23.4-9.2 equals ZAP;
20x50 equals 1000; 14.2x1, 900 equals
ii 200 cubic feet.
The number of cubic feet to allow
per ton for hay stacked 80 days or
more is as follows: alfalfa, 470;
wild hay, $50; other hay, 625. 1t
the stack in the example above
were alfalfa hay, the 1920 would
/ be divided by 40, giving the
amount as 30.2 tons.