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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-09
New Deal Farm Program
Real Examination

.O'Neal, who grows cotton near Flor
ence, Ala. He has been a warm sup.
porter of administration farm
policies. The Federation was a spon-
sor of the present agricultural ad.
justment act. He would resort to q
system of high government loans
to peg farm prices at more satis'
factory levels.
The present program" O'Neal as.
serted, has not placed farmers on
a basis of full income parity with
non.farm groups. Consequently
many of us feel that the new con.
gress converting next month should
examine and possibly revise the pro'
gram"
O'Neal, like many other Fedora.
ton leaders. contends the New Deal
program is weak" because of its
dependence on annual appropriations
from congress. Funds made avail.
able for farm subsidies this year
amounted to about $3.50, 000, 900. This,
O'Neal declared, was fully $500, 000,.
900 short of the amour needed to
put agriculture en- an income parity
with business, labor and industry.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-09
Trees Should Be Kept Thin
ned In Order Not To Kill
Ground Cover

ION all areas used for wildlife de-
velopment the trees should be kept
thinaed to a point where ground
ove will not be killed by shading.
The most desirable shrubby plants
should be left in moderate numbers
to grow in clumps. The plant c
sion on not cultivated every
year will give variety. Food bearing
plants, such as sassafras, sumac, and
plum are preferred to pine and 9TH
er large trees.
when time cannot be spared for
the preparation of seedbeds each
spring, it is advisable to include a
perennial OR reseeding species in each
food-producing mixture that is ap-
piled on land other than guilles. Such
areas will remain in satisfactory con-
dition from three to six years Dr.
more. BY reseeding a few such plots
each year a continuous supply of
food can he maintained.
when the farmer is unable to re-
seed designated wildlife areas, light
disking, which may be done during
the late fall or winter at intervals
Of two or three years, will generally
stimulate desired volunteer growth.
this is to be done on rolling
land, narrow strips should be disked
on the contour on a two or three
rotation basis.
With each harvesting Of small
grain and hay crops, narrow strips
should be left standing along the Dor
ders and in odd corners Of the field.
It is especially important that a strip
be left standing on the lower. part
of the field to serve as a filter strip
and increase food, supply for quail
near the woodland"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-09
By OVID A. MARTIN
Associated Press Staff Writer

BALTIMORE, Dec. s. Up The
New Deal farm program faces a
critical examination this week at the
hands of n of It's staunchest sup
porters in the past-the American
Farm Bureau Federation.
Suggestions for changes-some of
which undoubtedly would be opposed
by the administration-were offered
as producers of cotton, wheat, corn,
livestock and other farm products
gathered for the F%ederation's 22nd
annual convention opening tomor.
row.
The suggestions were born of con.
Germ over shrinking export markets
for American farm products, in
creasing crop SURPRISES, forecasts of
higher prices for goods farmers buy,
and predictions that national defense
spending may do little to increase
agricultural buying power.
Perhaps the most far-reaching al
formation was offered by the Fedora
tons veteran president, Edward A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-09
New Congressional Conflict
Over Base In Guam Promised

ward Japan-evidenced recently by
the extension of an additional $780,
00O,0 in credits to the Chungking'
Chinese government to aid Chang
Kai-Shek in his fight against the
Japanese - will be reflected in a
change in congressional sentiment.
Opponents said it will not, assert
ing that there had not been suf-
ficient changes in conditions in the
Orient to justify the United States
in pushing it's defense outposts $500
miles beyond Honolulu to Guam.
Their view was summed up sue
cinctly by Senator Adams D-Colo),
an influential member of the senate
appropriations committee, with this
observation:
There won't be any need to
tortify Guam if we tend to u own
business"
On the other hand, Senator Byrd
O-Va), a member of the senate
naval affairs committee who previ-
ously had taken no active part IN
the controversy, said he would vote
to authorize construction Of an ad.
vance base at Guam if the navy
thought such a base would be a
necessary link in the nations de-
lenses.
The navy has regarded Guam
since 1905 as a potential link in its
chain Of defense positions in the
Pacific.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-09
By JACK BELL

WASHINGTON, Dec. s. Up -
The Navy may have pitched Itself a
battle in congress by proposing -
as Admiral Harold r. Stark has
done - the establishment of an
advance base on the sland of Guam,
an American flyspeck in the Pacific,
1850 miles south of Yokohama,
Japan.
Proposals to fortify Guam have
been fighting words in congress for
years and present indications point
to little, if any, %lessening Of opposi-
ton to that course in the 1871 ses
sion.
Based largely on the contention
that the establishment of a base at
Guam would signal the adoption of
an "imperialistic" policy and could
only be interpreted as a warlike
threat to Japan, this opposition was
strong enough to cause the house to
whack out of the regular navy bill
last FEBRUARY an apparently innocu-
Gus $4,000, 5000 appropriation to
dred2a the harbor there.
Admiral stark, as chief of naval
operations, has revived the issue
with a report recommending con-
struction of advance bases wherever
they may be needed. be it in Puerto
Rico, Hawaii or Guam"
The question now is whether a
stiffened administration attitude to-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-09
COTTON CONTROL
TO Be CONTINUED
Another Year Assured As Re.
turns In Referendum APP
prove Quota System

WASHINGTON, Dec. g. R -
Another year of marketing and
production control over cotton was
assured today as returns from a
grower referendum in 10 states
piled up big pluralities for the
agriculture departments quota
system.
An incomplete count of yester-
days voting showed 761, III for
continuation of the cotton program
and 61,408 against. The percent
age approving it was 92.5.
Agriculture department officials
said less than half of the $3.50, 900
eligible farmers had participated
in the referendum. APPROVAL by
tWo-thirds of those voting was re.
CURED to continue the program.
Under the system, the depart
ment establishes marketing quo.
tas for all cotton growers. Sales
Of cotton in exces of the quotas
are subject to penalty taxes of
three cents a pound.
The program was inaugurated in
1888 and has been in effect ever
since. In the first years r~eferen-
dunn, 92.1 per cent of the growers
approved. In 1889, the count show
84.l per cent favoring the pro-
gram, and 1910 quotas were ap-
proved by 9l.2 per cent.
Yesterdays referendum was
conducted in Alabama, Arizona,
Arkanas, California, Florida, Geor-
gla, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky,
Mississippi, Missouri,
New Mexico, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee,
Texas, and Virginia.
Approval of the 1941 program
had been taken for granted by
agriculture officials here. They
said little opposition had been in
evidence
The 1871 program is designed
to limit paintings to 27, 900, 900
acres, the same as this year. Nor
mally, that acreage would yield
approximately 49, 900, 900 bales. In
1887, the year before the cotton
program was undertaken, produc-
ton reached an all-time high Of
more than 49, 900, 900 bales. In the
days OF uncontrolled paintings. cot
ton acreages some times were as
high as 40, 900, 900 acres.
The 1871 program faces the pros.
pect OF diminished exports and in.
creaslng SURPRISES. The war
abroad has reduced the already
dWlndled exports market to the
point since Civil war years.
Despite the 1939-4O export SUBJ
sldy program and other federal
devices to dispose of cotton. the
surplus of the staple increased. The
government nov owns about 6,347..
200 bales of defaulted loan cotton
and expects by the end of this mar.
ketlng season to hold an addition.
al 5000, 900 bales of collateral on
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-09
sae4&News of Interest to North Carolina Farmers adk$@@
Turkeys Are Profitable
To Farmer In Clarkton

EL1ZABETHTOWN, Dec. g.
Joe Gibson of Clarkton found
turkey raising profitable this
year, reports r. NJ. Williams, as
slstant farm agent of Baden
county.
He grew all even 100 turkeys
this year for the holiday market.
Part of the crop went for the
Thanksgiving trade and the re.
mainder has already started NOV
ing to help meet the Christmas
demand.
So far he has sold the birds at
rs cents a pound and has realiz.
ed a profit of $1.50 for each tur-
key after deducting all expenses.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-09
HORSE AND MULE
CLINICS SLATED
First In Series Planned In rs
Counties Will Be Conduct
ed Here Today

RALEIGH, Dec. g. First in a
series of horse and mule clinics to
be conducted in Is counties will
be held Monday in New Hanover
county, Sam Williams, assistant
Extension animal husbandman OF
N. c. State college, announced to-
day. The clinics will continue in
New Hanover and other counties
through December and January.
Arrangements for the meetings
in the counties are in charge of
county farm agents and local vet
erinarians will administer treat
ments to animals brought to the
clinics. They will announce times
and places for local meetings. Co.
operating in the program of work
stock improvement are the Exten-
sion Service and the veterinary di-
vision of the N. C. Department Of
Agriculture, headed by DR.. William
Moore.
Williams will attend all the elm
les and discuss sanitation and sys-
TENS of feeding, disease and par
asite controls. He announces the
following counties which will be
the scene of clinics, ranging from
Is in Johnston county to one or two
in some of the smaller cunties:
New Hanover, Harnett, Hoke,
Johnston, Bladen, Sampson, On
slow. Jones, Lenoir, C~arteret,
Pamlico, Halifax, Gates, Curr1-
tuck, PerGuimans, BERTHE, Wash
ington, Tyrell, Clay, Catawba,
Mecklenburg, Moore, Richmond,
Stanly, and Union.
Local veterinarians will adj
treatments and diagnosis
Of disease and parasite troubles.
They also will do minor dental
work and make arrangements for
further treatments where needed
and requested. Williams says there
are very fw hol ses or mules III
North Carolina that are entirely
free from parasites, and in many
CO ses the owners do not realize the
of the animals,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-09
BRINGS MANY.
CHICKEN PROBLEMS
Cooler Weather Makes II
More Difficult To Maintain
Production Level
BY GENE KNIGHT
Assistant Extension Editor,
n. c. State College


RALEIGH, Dec. S-R-During the
late fall and early winter, there are
as many problems facing poultrymen
as during any other season of the
year, T. T. Brown, Extension poul-
tryman of N. C. State college, said
today.
III the first place, he explained, it
is more difficult to keep the flock
in steady production and good health
than it is at any other time of the
year.
If maximum egg production is to
be secured, the house must be made
fairly comfortable for the laying
flock. A cold drafty house usually
results in comparatively low egg
production through the late fall and
winter because such a condition
easily produces colds and other res
p~iratory diseases and causes the
flock to crowd more on the roosts.
If the house is cold and uncom.
Portable, it reduces both feed and
water consumption and requires a
larger percentage of feed that is
consumed to keep the bird warm,
thereby leaving less feed to go into
egg production.
Many successful North Carolina
poultrymen like to use curtains on
the front of the laying house in the
winter, Brown said. However, much
damage can be done by improperly
installed and used curtains. Appar.
emily the most practical curtains for
the front of the laying house are
the ones built on frames in sections
anG hung with a weight so they will
slide up and down.
Should fall colds and bronchitis de-
velop in the flock, the cause should
be determined and corrected at once
if possible. Then treatment should
start Immediately. This consists of
giving the flock a dose of salts early
in the morning in the drinking water
and mixing a small amount of biolo-
gically tested cod liver oil OF sardine
oil with the scratch grain.
Since the egg is about Sc per cent
water and the flock must consume
a normal amount Of water in cold
weather to keep up normal produc-
ton, warm water should be supplied
early each morning. At the present
time, there are a number of electric
and oil-burning devices ON the mar
ket for taking the chill off water
that are safe, practical and econo-
mical.
The State college specialist said
that if production slackens during
the coming weeks without apparent
reason and the flock begins to show
signs of a neck mott, it is wise to
start feeding a moist mash at noon
each day or use lights on the flock
to give the birds a 13-hour day if
such practices are not already in
use. Some poultrymen prefer to use
pellets instead of the moist mash at
noon.
"The poultryman who cares for
his flock properly at this time of
the year." Brown said, lis well re-
paid for his extra trouble with a full
egg basket when eggs are selling
comparatively high"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-09
CONTROL OF WEED
DISEASES SOUGHT
War On Granville Wilt And
Black Shank Is Started d
In Pitt County

GREENVILLE, Dec. s.-A con.
certed program to control rapidly
spreading tobacco diseases which cur
tailed the income Of more than 5000
Pitt county farm people in 1910 has
been started in cooperation with the
extension service and experiment sta
ton of N. C. State college, R. r.
Bennett, county farm agent, an
nounced today. One of the diseases
is Granville wilt; another is black
shank, which made it's first appear
ance in eastern North Carolina in
1886 on a farm in Pitt county.
Bennett said that a survey showed
that 280 or farms, on which
$40 families or 5,O4O people depend
for a living, L affected by tn.
Granville wilt disease. Twenty to
80 farms, on which live 80 to 70 fami-
lies comprising 400 people, are affect
ed by the black shank disease.
A program to develop and promote
control Of the diseases is being work
ed out jointly by the county commits
sioners, the county agents, leading
farmers, and the State college asen-
cies. Four hundred or nor farm
men and women attended a recent
meetinc at Winterville: to discuss
the problems.
Bennett said that Brown Ho 7s,s
and G. H. Pittman, county commits
sioners, agreed that the county will
sLpply an assistant farm agent to
work with the farmers in tobacco dis
ease control. Also attending the
meeting and pledgins their support
we're: John w. Goodman, assistant
extension director; B. Troy Fergu-
son., district farm agent; DR.. Luther
Shaw, plant pathologist; DR.. L.. d..
Baver, agronomy leader and associ-
ate research director; L. T., Weeks,
extension tobacco specialist; II H..
B. James, assistant farm manage
ment specialist, all of State college.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-09
Supreme Court May Act
On Music Case Today

WASHINGTON, Dec. S.-QP-The
supreme court may act tomorrow on
litigation growing out of the battle
over control of prices charged for
music played for public entertain
ment.
Nebraska officials sought a review
of a decision holding invalid a state
anti-monopoly law which permitted
public playing Of music upon pay
ment of the original purchase price.
A three-judge federal court held
the legislation violated the national
copyright law by depriving the copy
right owner of the right to sell or
withhold from sale as he may, choose.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-09
DRIVE ON BANGS
DISEASE PUSHED
Agriculture Department Says
It Is Virtually Eliminated
In 43 Counties
BY LOUIS H, WILSON
Editor, N. c. Department of

RALEIGH, Dec. s. Up Bangs
disease, dreaded malady of dairy
animals and other cattle, has been
virtually eliminated in 43 North
Carolina counties, the State Depart
ment of Agriculture reported today.
Counties designated as modified
accredited Bangs disease-free-areas'
are: Alamance, Allegheny, Arson,
Beaufort, BERTHE, Baden, Burke,
C%abarrus, Catawba, Cherokee, Chow
an, Clay, Cleveland, Columbus. Cum
berland, Davidson, Davie, Duplin,
Durham, Forsyth, CASTOR, Gates,
Granville, Guilford, Iredell, John
ston, Jones, Lee, Lincoln, Macon,
Mcdowell, Moore, Onslow, Orange,
Richmond, Rowan, Stanly, Surry,
Union, Wake, Washington, Wayne
and Yadkin.
"All the dairy and breeding cattle
over six months of age i'll the &C
credited areas have been tested I'M
der the Bangs control program
DR.. William Moore, chief of the de-
partment's veterinary division, ex-
planned.
The cattle in counties receiving
this distinction must have not more
than one per cent Bangs infection
and herd infection not to exceed five
per cent.
All herds of cattle in which Bangs
disease is known to exist have been
quarantined. However, accredited
counties erecive a further protec-
ton under the law which enables
the department to prevent the ship
ment or movement of cattle into an
accredited area without first having
been tested"
DR.. Moore said that with nearly
half of North Cardinals counties
now on the honor roll as Bangs free
areas, a distinct contribution has
been made looking toward the build
ing and protection of the states
great cattle industry
The Bangs disease control and
eradication program is a project
conducted in cooperation with the
United States Bureau of Animal In
dustry. However, : before Bangs
testing work can be inausurated in
any county, the board of commits
sioners enter into an agreement to
cooperate in the disease-eradicatlon
work.
Diseased animals are slaughtered
and their owners are paid indemn1-
ties not to exceed $50 for pure bred
stock and SIS for grade ANIMALS.
Money to pay for slaughtered stock
is furnished on a $3.50 basis oy the
state and federal governments.
/. The Bangs control program Is now
being conducted in % counties. They
are: Alexander, Edgecombe, Hay
wood, Hyde, Lenoir, Madison, Neck
lenburg, Pitt, Rutherford, Washing
ton, Carteret, Ashe, Buncombe, Chat
ham, Randolph, Robson Rocking
ham, Nash, Northampton, Pender,
Polk, Vance, Watauea, Wilson,
Yancey, HEREFORD and Harnett.
The following counties have signed
agreements under the program:
Camden, Caswell, Halifax, Marion,
Perquimans, Stokes, Pennsylvania,
Tyrell and New Hanover.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-09
KILLING Time
ARRIVES in STATE
Extension Service Announces
Revision Of The Folder
On Curing Meat

RALEIGH, Dec. g. Smoke cur
ling through the crisp December
air from outdoor fires is an indl-
cation that hog KILN time is
here again.
To assist with this important
Job on the farm, the State college
Extension Service announced today
the revision of its Folder No. "a,
"Killing and Curing Meat on the
Farm" Copies are available free
upon request to the Agricultural
Editor, N. C. State College, Ra-
leigh.
The publication contains the best
advice of the State college animal
husbandmen on killing and curing
pork, beef, and lamb, says Editor
Frank H. Jeter. A recipe for max
ing sausage, and information
about keeping shippers and other
insects out of cured meat is also
contained in the folder.
Included in the data is a dis
cussion of the average dressing
percentage, or the proportion OF
chilled dressed carcass to live
weight, of different types OF live
stock. The dressing percentage OF
hogs runs from 70 to 80 per cent.
For instance, if a barrow weighed
200 pounds live weight and the
dressed carcass weighed $50
pounds, the dressing percentage
would be 80 percent.
The average beef steers has a
dressing percentage of so to So per
cent, depending upon the paunchi-
ness, fairness, quality and type.
The average dressing percentage
for lamb is so percent.
Instructions for making corned
beef are included in the publica-
ton, and the folder shows that this
process is amazingly simple. 1t
also tells how to cure or corn
lamb.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-09
Aliens Are Warned Not
To Defer Registration

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.-R-The
Justice department tooay cautioned
aliens not to defer registration any
longer in the hope that citizenship
formalities would be completed be-
fore the alien registration deadline
of December 26.
1.-THE time has come when any fur
Their delay in registering for this rea-
son is risky" Earl G. Harrison, di-
rector of registration, said in a state
ment.
Harrison said that 3,525,933 aliens
already had registered, a figure
which he interpreted as meaning that
the total number in the country ex-
ceeded his agency's $500, 900 estimate
nd perhaps was well over the A.
600, 900 mark"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-09
Thomas Praises Students
Who Fought Consumption

NLW BRUNSWICK, N. j., Dec. 8.
-R'-Norman Thomas, socialist
party leader, told Rutgers university
students today he felt my sympa.
thies going out to those students Of
the Union Theological Seminary who
a the courage to take the hard
way, the unpopular way out and
fight conscription."
IhomaS, guest speaker at the uni.
versity's chapel, said the students.
convicted of failure to register for
the draft il New York city, now IRE.
side in prison cells but their courage
IN their convictions is still remem.
bered."
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-09
Auto Injuries Fatal
To Dr.. Paul Schitder

NEW YORK, Dec. S.-CP)-Dr.
Paul Ferdinand Schiller, 81, one of
the nations leading psychiatrists,
died Of injuries received when he was
struck by an automobile last night.
Author of several books on psyche.
logy and psychiatry, DR.. Schilder
was clinical director of the Bellevue
hospital psychiatric hospital and a
research professor of psychiatry at
the New York University College of
Medicine.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-09
Conference On Labor
Legislation To Open

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. Up -
A ~three-day conference on labor leg.
islation, attended by representatives
of the states and called by Labor
Secretary Perkins, is scheduled to
open here tomorrow. The purpose of
the meetings, Secretary Perkins said,
is to enable states by comparing their
experiences to develop effective labor
laws and efficient administration.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-09
NOT AFFECTED

Federal experts believe that the
present European war will not SLIM
ulate the horse and mule export mar
ket in the United States, says f. Nj.
Haie. professor of animal husbandry
at Stat, college,