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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-26
Excellent Method
For Farmer To Reduce
His Costs Of Labor
BY GUY A. CALDWELL
General Agricultural Agent
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co.

In view of the rapid increase in
interest in livestock in the south,
with particular reference to Vir.
ginia and the Carolinas, the follow
ing information published as an
Educational service article, National
Cottonseed Products association, one
of a series of practical Methods for
the Cotton Belt" is called to the
attention of u readers:
Spending 5000, 600, 900 annually for
hired farm labor, American farmers
can reduce labor costs and make
more efficient use of hired and
family labor through livestock pro-
duction, John M. Thomas pointed
out in the gold medal essay con.
test of the Saddle and Sirloin club,
Chicago.
Probably the most acute phase
Of the farm labor problem is the
seasonal variation in labor require.
ments," Thomas essay said. This
fluctuation is the major problem in
the cotton belt and wheat producing
areas.
Because crop production re-
quires most of it's labor during the
growing season, livestock naturally
fit into the system quite well. For
example, a beef herd is on pasture
throughout the growing a 81 and
requires practically no labor; while
in the winter, when car is devoted
to feeding the beef herd, crops re-
quire NO labor. The sheep flock,
lamb feeding and swine production
likewise require the major part of
their attention during winter
months"
In addition to even distribution
and more efficient utilization of
labor, livestock reduce labor in
many cases. Cattle, hogs and sheep
harvest many crops effectively,
when feeds secured in the field are
supplemented with cottonseed meal
or cake and other sources of essen
tial nutrients not furnished by
grazing. Pastures also are labor
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-26
WEATHER AFFECTS
SALE OF PEANUTS
Earlier Movement OF Crop
Would Have Produced Diff
ferent Situation

RALEIGH, Feb. rs. - If peanut
growers had been anxious to sell
their product actively during the
past few weeks, they would have
been in a difficult situation, B. Troy
Ferguson, district agent of the State
college extension service, said to-
day.
For weeks the snow-covered roads,
which eventually turned almost to
mud after the snow melted, made
transportation difficult. Recent con-
slant rainfall has kept country
roads impossible for heavy trucks.
Some sales of farmers stock have
been made from commercial ware
houses and from farms located on
main highways
Quoting a report of the u. S. bu-
rea uof agricultural economies, Fer
guson said market prices are holding
steady, and those who retain farm
ers' stock show nc disposition to
sell at lower prices. Best Jumbos
are commanding 4 to 4 Is cents a
pound and best bunch r bringing
8 7.S cents a pound.
Inquiries and sales of shelled and
cleaned peanuts have improved
slightly during the past week, espe-
cially for peanuts in the shell. There
to be a slight strengthening
of the price range during the last
few days, although a number OF
millers have been offering peanuts,
especially extra large stock, at slight
concessions in order to move them.
The January processing and stocks
report issued on February is shows
l89, 900, 900 pounds Of farmers stock
Virginias in mills and warehouses or
January 81, or almost exactly the
same amount as was reported one
month previously. However, this
is approximately $1,000, 900 pounds
more than were on hand at the END
OF January, 1889.
The report showed that for al
types Of farmers stock peanuts al
the beginning of this month, the sup
plies we're IS, 900, 900 pounds less thar
they were one year ago.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-26
Offers Good
Use Of Dixie Man Power

savers through livestock harvest
ing, and feeding of cottonseed
products on grass is an increasing
practice in many states.
Increasing use of labor-saving de.
vices in livestock production is re-
ported from many areas. Among
important labor-savers gaining pop
ularity with feeders of the south
and southwest are:
Self-feeders for fattening hogs,
with whole grain in one compart-
ment and the protein supplement
mixture of half c%ottonseed meal
and half tankage or fish meal in
the other; or, with the half-and-
half supplement and ground grain
mixed in proper proportions. In
using the self-feeder for breeding
stock and young pigs, authorities
recommend feeding a balanced mix
ture of protein supplements, grain
and bulky feed.
Creep-feeding of calves, lambs
and pigs, reduces labor and the
time required in finishing animals.
Creep-feeding has sproved practical
bic for many ranchmen as we'll as
farmers, and is a common practice
in many range areas of Texas, New
Mexico, Oklahoma, Arizona a d
other states.
Other ways in which livestock
ave labor as cited by the essay
include:
Manure, by increasing yields. re-
duces the labor cost per crop unit.
Labor in marketing crops is cur
tailed by the fact that several hun
dred pounds of grain and rough
age are converted into 100 pounds
of meat Or milk in d finished prod
uct for marketing.
Weed eradication, without labor,
is possible through livestock graz
ing, especially by farm flocks of
sheep.
"Thus livestock" Thomas con-
cluded, when combined with prop
er farm enterprises and efficiently
managed, to a great extent aid in
reducing the total labor require
ments of a farm and distributing
the yearly labor requirements
evenly and effectively. Thus, live
stock become an important and
necessary factor in the solution of
the farmers labor problem"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-26
Many Farmers With Fatted Calves
Favor New Locker STORAGE Plan
GAP Feature Service)

ST. PAUL, Feb. 25.-Rural cold
storage locker plants are bringing
about the most significant change
in the American farmers process
ing and storing of meats since co.
lonial times, University of Mime.
sofa agricultural economists report.
The first detailed study of these
plants has shown that in the last
five years thousands Of farmers
have abandoned time-honored prac.
tees of handling meats, says DR..
A. A, Dowell, university economist.
In many cases. the study shows.
even slaughtering has been moved
from the farm. Tho survey covers
Minnesota alone, DR.. Dowell says,
but is indicative of the trend in
most other states.
The idea has m%ushroomed In
Minnesota from five plants with
fewer than 1000 lockers in 1885,
to than 200 plants with CO.,
about the same ratio of increase,
says Dowell.
On a basis of five persons to
each family served by lockers,
some 800, 900 persons in Minnesota
are directly affected by the new
trend, with perhaps more than
5000, 900 affected throughout the
nation.
The survey showed beef and
pork formed 95 per cent Of the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-26
WEED ACRES
WASTED IN STATE
Tobacco Has Placed Heavy
Hand On Thousands OF
Acres That Produced 1t
BY GENE KNIGHT

RALEIGH, Feb. 25.-R-Tobacco,
the cash crop that has enriched
North Carolina farmers, has laid q
heavy hand on thousands of acres
which produced it, w. D. Lee, Of the
N. C. State college extension services
said today.
Literally thousands of acres Of
abandoned land, grim reminders OF
the toll following tobacco culture. lie
in mute tribute to the crop. In one
Piedmont county alone, there are 56,s
90 acres SO badly washed and gul-
lied as to be entirely abandoned.
Also there are another los, 900 acres
of land, partly farmed and partly
idle, handled at a. loss because OF
erosion.
"There is probably no phase of to-
bacco production" Lee said, that
has more effect on the crop than soil
conservation-or the lack of it. And
yet, less attention has been paid to
this than to any other factor-until
the last few years"
Ninety-siX of North Cardinals 100
counties grow some tobacco, but the
problem of saving soils is largely
confined to the upper coastal plain
and Piedmont regions. Erosion is but
a minor factor in the lower coastal
plain area where tobacco is grown.
In the mountains where hurley Isl
produced to a considerable extent, in
dividual fields are usually small and
good land is selected where run.off
from rains is usually not excessive.
The areas of ideal tobacco soil, like
all ideals, have definite limitations.
In the Piedmont counties, lands with
rather compact subsoils have been,
and are being to an eve greater
extent, utilized for the production
of tobacco.
In order to secure the drainage
believed necessary, it is the custom
to use the sleeper slopes, or to run
crop rows downhill. AS a result,
the loss of soil material has been
terrific. The sandy loans have be-
come clay loans or even clays be-
cause Of erosion.
10 meet this problem, Lee recom-
mended that growers use appropriate
erosion control measures. The use
of vegetation OF of mechanical meth
DDS, possibly both, for controlling.
erosion on tobacco land will bring
excellent results.
Vegetable methods of control may
be strip cropping, by seeding down
so-called critical slopes and depres.
sions, and ven by rotations. Me-
chemically, terraces could be used.
Extensive observations and studies
conducted by the N. c. experiment
station and the soil conservation
service throughout the Piedmont and
upper coastal plain tobacco-growing
areas during the past three years
indicate that no M treatment is
sufficient to control erosion and at
the same time permit drainage Of
the land.
In addition to good terracing, it
was found necessary to work out ade-
quate row arrangement; to protect
minor field depressions with vege-
tation; to establish buffer strips
above terrace channels; to reduce
row lengths to a minimum; and to
keep up a protective V of vege-
tation when tobacco is not on the
land.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-26
com PRACTICES

Farm record books now being sum-
married. for Western North Carolina
farmers r revealing the result OF
good farming practices, report coun-
ty agents Of the State college extern
sion seYice. ~.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-26

meat handled in the lockers and
consumers used about equal guam.
titles of each.
Lockers r rented on an annual
basis. Meat is available at any time
of day the patron wants to get it.
The storage lockers most impor.
tant advantages over home butch.
ering, as disclosed in a question.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-26
FIT

Beef cattle and sheep fit admira-
bly, into the new order of farming
If the cotton and tobacco sections
of the south, says I. I. Case, animal
husbandman Of the State college ex-
tension service.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-26
COTTON OUTLOOK

North Carolina cotton growers will
probably plant $4,000 acres of their
ssO,OoO-acre Triple-A allotment, &C
cording to E. Y. Floyd, AAA execu.
tive officer at State college.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-26
"BOARDER" COSTLY

Poultry authorities estimate that
it takes two good laying hens to
support one "boarder," says c. r.
Parrish, poultryman Of the State
college extension service.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-26

naire to more than 5000 patrons.
was the availability of the equiva-
lent of fresh meat throughout the
year and elimination of work. Ad
vantages over purchase of meat at
retail, markets, the survey showed.
included cash savings and the fact
that a higher quality of meat could
be obtained,
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-05-04
Louisvlle's Cold,
But BilneIech's Hot
BY DAN PARKER
LOUISVILLE, MAY 3.

3.
IT'S GOOD THING Kentuckys land
pspeV sunshine and eedsed with honecsles and magnoss
named simeech.
otherwise the steaminS DgOO would freeze In its Caudrou
and The Soneyss vines would be whsrsd By the Arctic blasts that
S. p o o oSn Sp @ e Ss ana s the
Od vessels Not since The chestnut colt Astidss won the first Derby
matters hotter favOrte than
Man War Quoted At 2 between ,epns from
was reported like Lefty in the early fOrtieS
Rnelech merely impressed public. of
Che derby G o. eight converting !" their stall. IKE equine rsych s
had predict anything daring than that his
Fred smith issued :'%,:%." hts ssn: while driving
will either the
American lad who has been Bins accomplish his
pouch guard against the rsors OF the southern climate
shecd the colonel Looking around HIM to that
ped Though successfully by whppersnappers Of the daily
press said Il dare say you give Bmeech the kind of ride
nterposns well spoken colone, at this point
Whereupon
Jockey smith, Derby tomorrow has
big cattle wilams spanish
The Texas tsI IN country
ss"i, s 1S S the he 5 s he Tsw he was
ssn"s' settled =" Ga%.ssy which also gave the world Col Ar
born n 1919 Looking more s Cuban tina" Freddie
out for America and wound n
wyoming There he learned 10 ride
contract rdes with Col Bradley
jockey In America.
The colt smith VIII ride tomorrow afternoon about 49o
buNt like He
ght ana dainty looking when
picture from the southern
see where he gets his driving His
developed rs his torequarteys slight.
All Jockey Smith claims three od
ng that can beat him at distance
wards bmeleeh like Man War
like the Immortal Riddle
70 relish oil the attention
VtorS are near -Four planclotes
stretch Churchill
stable permitted 10 get within nodding distance
There hopes Kentucky would redeem itself
before Derby time with weather for which
ae state IN noted along with is Iulep Grass II
Merc mo rain between and time
should the going there
possibility that True STAR the Louisville special also be
withdrawn. " ~ "
However barring accidents and there
more than an chance that But the
only name heard Louisville unprnable
ones addressed 70 the weather. egheter With
"B' and ending with ' ~
Copyight 1870. King Eeatures
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-05-04
City.Wide Soft
Ball Season
Starts Monday

On next Monday evening, May
9Th opening Of the season games In
the City-Wide Softbail league have
been carded. The Boys Club Cadets
won the championship last year,
beating the North Squares In q 2 OF
3 game e''yoff Schedule for Mnoday
places for games and ulnpires were
named this morning by President
Johnny Thompson rs follows:
American League
West Ends w Fulton Markets,
Diamond No. 3, New Stadium, Phil
ibert.
Valley Stars vs. Kelley A. g., Ola.
mond No. 2, Washington, drudzin.
ski.
North Squares w Wonderland
Grill, Diamond No. !, Fulton, Croc-
co.
Pine Hills vs. 81. Joe's II. N. Dia-
mond No. 2, New Stadium, Erocli.
National League
Cadets vs. Warriors, Diamond No.
/, Washington, Runivudge.
Mauoney'S Tavern VS. DeBlaslo's
Tavern, Diamond No. 4, New stad-
ium, Caulfield.
Trojans W. Props, Diamond No. !,
Fulton, Ray.
L. G. p. G. VS. Patsy Browns, Dia-
Inond No. ], New Stadium, Kenny.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-05-04
CALEHOUSE FACES
BROWNS TODAY

Boston, May 4-(UP)-Protecti
Of the slim first place lead OF the
Boston Red Sox In the American
League rested today on Pitcher Den
ny Galehouse when he faced the
81. Louis Browns at FenWay park
Resuming their hitting stride
again yesterday the Sox gained o
well-earned 0 TO 8 victory In 10 In
nIngs over the Browns. Breaking OF
that hitting stride was the assign
ment given Hurler Bob Harris Of
81. Louis In today's game,
Jimmy Tabor, Sox third base
man, was yesterdays hero, knock
ing out two home runs, and batting
In three, including the one That won
the game. The bases were loaded
In the 10th when Tabor's high single
OF Silent John Whitehead scored
the winning run,
Tabor's homers were not the only
ones Of the day, for young Ted
williams and Manager Joe Cronif
OF the sox, and Walt >Juenich Of
the Browns accounted for one each
In 81. Louis, the Boston Bees won
their second game OF the season
with Sailor Bill Posetlel hurting
them 10 the 40 victory over the
Cardinals. Posedel limited the Cards
TO seven scattered hits, granted
three walks and struck out seven
And Il was his lead.off double In
the sixth that started the Bees
three run spree that won the con-
test.
The Bees remained In ST. Louis
today with Joe Sullivan slated Ia
match throws with Hurler Bill Nc
Gee Of the Cards.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-05-04
Bradley Colt 2 To On Morning Line
Mann "Walks Out
In Seventh Round
Against Bud Baer

New York, May 4 - (U.P0 - Tho
kindest thing that could be said
about Heavyweight Buddy Baer To-
day was that he has graduated into
the improved" class. As a poten-
tial threat to Joe Louis title he still
rated no better than kindergarten
opposition.
Baer, slow and apparently as in
ept as ever, won a technical knock
out over Nathan Mann. New Haven
trial-horse, In the seventh round Of
a scheduled l2-round bout at Madi-
son Square Garden last night be-
fore a meagre crowd OF 5,l54 which
paid $ii,3ll to see the fight.
The younger OF the two Baer bro
Tiers has as his chief fault, an APP
parent inclination 10 get discour-
aged early. After winning the first
two rounds, he was outfought by
Mann. But when the bell rang for
the seventh he tore into Mann and
sent him crashing TO the ropes with
a savage right hook TO the head,
When they broke out Of the clinch
that followed, Manns right eye was
severely cut,
Blinded by blood, Mann couldn't
see Baer's punches and was fioored
twice for the count Of nine, After
Referee Arthur Donovan separated
them from clinch few seconds
after Mann's second knockdown, tee
New Haven fighter threw up his
arms, indicated he had enough and
reeled to his corner.
Baer weighed 249, Mann, 1888.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-05-04
TRIO SHARE MAJOR
BATTING LEAD
!. \: I. III \,

New York, May - CU.P)-Taft
Wright, Chicago White Soxs eccen-
trio right fielder, holds the undis-
puted American League batting lead
and Hank Leiber, Chicago Cubs
outHelder, and Babe Young, New
York Giants rookie first baSeman,
share the National League batting
honors, according 10 the official av-
erages released today and including
games Of Thursday, May 2.
Wright has dubbed out 10 hits In
43 times at bat for q .4i0 average,
ten points ahead Of Jimmy Foxx,
Boston Red Sox. Ieiber has banged
out % hits IN So trips and Young
has connected for IA hits In IS times
up, each for 400 average.
Bucky Walters, Cincinnati Reds
leads the Natiosal League pitchers
With three victories and no defeats
while four American Leaguers share
pitching laurels with two wins and
no losses each.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-05-04
ABRIGADORS PLAY TWO

On Sunday the Abrigadors will
play a double bill against the Bald
win Aces and postponed Pirate
game which was cancelled last We'd
nesdy at Hopeville.
The boys will have a chance TO
don their new uniforms for the
coming 1910 season. Pilot George
Evon re quests the following TO re-
port; Captain Larry Porto, Sunny
Rinaldi, r. DUANE. d, Murphy, Stan
Grynick, Red Hale, Beef Droznick,
Caffrey. J. Wrenn, Mullaly, Rear
don, Donnelly and Spillane.
The above mentioned are asked
to report for practice today, Satur-
day the fourth day OF May at =
o'clock at Washington Park.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-05-04
Hobeville Boq0ling Notes
ny "HAPPY" HoWARD)

Bid Monti Captain OF McKay's
Clothes stands out as a leader Of
bowling teams; not only as q No. |
bowler himself, but rs a leader 70
men, inasmuch as Sid led an aver
age team In any bowling league 10
q winner OF one OF the largest bowl
Ing leagues In the city--The Hope.
vile Bowling League, Sid's Stick
to.itiveness with Johnny Beet"
Maszafella and o few more Of the
boys) was enough 10 put McKays
Clothes In top position by one game
over Burt'S ESso Station after 80
weeks OF bowling, Burts ESQ and
Joe's Barber Shop (who were IN
first place most OF the way wound
up second and third respectively,
Individual honors are captured
for the second consecutive year by
Al tconsistenU Drexler, with an
average Of ii5, although he was
crowded by Joseph Last team
Grickls and Undie DelRusso with
averages Of III, and Sid Monti,
with an average Of il3. Val Car0n
wound up with an average Of liz;
although Val might have been up
on top u he hadn't been laid up for
the last six weeks due 10 an acct
dent, and the NJ. ID. hadn't put the
'kibosh" on his bowling.
"Vin" Downey. president Of the
league and Tony Gam ! gonna
bowl next year, Cardinale come in
for their share of credit for con-
Quoting one OF the most successful
bowling seasons In their decade or
so Of pin topping.
Individual averages and league
standing follow:
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-05-04
ANCOTT new NbA
TITLE H OLDER
Dempsey Gives Him One
Point Edge Over Davey
Day

Louisville, Ky, May 4 up
Sammy Angott OF Louisville said TO-
day he was ready 10 meet oil COM
ers for the right TO be recognized
rs undisputed world lightweight
champion.
Angott won recognition as the Ma
tional Boxing Association champion
last night when Jack Dempsey, ref
cree and sole Judge, awarded him
popular i5-round decision over Da-
vey Day OF Chicago.
The second largest fight crowd In
Kentucky history - 10000 - reared
approval, Dempsey said that he gave
Angott six rounds, Day Ave, and
scored four even. He said his point
calculation Of the bout gave Angott
the edge by a single point.
Last nights match was the third
between the two, Angott having
beaten Day In a hereunder and Day
winning i2-rounder. The victory
won title recognition for Angott In
the 80 states affiliated with the
MIA, but Lou Ambers Of Herkimer,
N. y, remained titleholder In the
money" territory, New York, Call
formal, Pennsylvania and Michigan,
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-05-04
WHITAKER LOSES
TO SHAKER, 1857

The marked confidence OF youth
full Bob Whitaker, participant In
the city pocket-billiard champion
ship play now IN progress at the
Wooster, was blown sky high last
night when he was handed the worst
trimming Of any player In the tour
nament TO date, Joe Shaker defeat
ing Whitaker 1875 TO ~. The winner
showed two runs Of 20 balls each,
while the losers best effort was IA
balls. Tonight Bob Stone and Danny
Martin will resume their rivalry on
the green table which began short
ly after the turn of the century.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-05-04
Davis Pitches No
Hit Ball Game

Another no-hit game was marked
up In Parochial school baseball rec
ords for 1910. the second one with
In o week, when Ray Davis OF ST
Mary's shut out Sacred Heart IA 10
0 In q seven.inning game yesterday
Davis also struck out ID Heart bat
ters and hit q home run himself In
the first inning. Eagan, McGrath
and Howell also hit well for ST.
Mary's.
Other results saw st. AIMS q close
8 10 z winner over Sts. Peter and
Paul; while st. Francis Xavier set
back st. Thomas IS to 2. ST. Mar
garet's won by forfeit from ST. Jo-
Seph's.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-05-04
LEAVENWORTH MEETS
CROSBY 9 TODAY

Sugrue for Crosby and Heaton =.
LeaVenworth were named as the
starting pitchers In today's sched-
uled baseball game at Hamilton park
weather permitting. Heaton Is o
southpaw, Sugrue a right-hander,
while Coach Bill Tracy has Saggin-
arc and Bowes In reserve for pitch
Ing II Crosby gets the jump on
Heaton while Darling may divide
the pitching duties with Sugrue
Crosby was scheduled for q batting
drill at 9:45 this morning, The game
TO be played at 2:30 this afternoon,
II not rained out.