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prosperity and progress" theme
Mr.. Hall said that "a millior
Americans are employed at the
highest wages in history anc
that national income has riser
to 1897 billion in 1865 bill
lions more than in 1852, at the
height Of what Mr.. Hall called
."Mr. Humans Korean War"
The G. o. P. chief put in a
plug for the reelection of Sena-
tor Butler--"a fine Republican.
Senator Butler will be opposed
in November by former Sena-
tor Willard E. Tydings, Demo.
crat who served "a years in the
Senate until Mr.. Butler defeated
him in 1850 in an unusually
bitter election-in which Mr.
Butler got help from supporters
of Senator Mccarthy, Repub-
lican of Wisconsin.
Mr.. Hall was introduced by
Gov. McKeldin, who said he
thought continuing bitterness
in State Democratic ranks may
help Republicans in November
The Governor suggested that
Mr.. Tydings was the choice OF
a Democratic Clique of control
which ignored the wishes of its
rank-and-fil He said many
Democrats favored George p
Mahoney. narrowly defeated by
Mr.. Tydings in the primary, but
that Mr.. Mahoney had "defied
the clique"
In addition to nominating
Senator Butler formally, the
Republicans also were to choose
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|Stute Democrats
Coll Baltimore
ConcIuye Monday

BALTIMORE. May 16 DR.
T. Barton Harrington, chairman
of the Democratic State Central
Committee. last night called the
State convention for 2 pm. Mon
day in the Emerson Hotel.
Mr.. Harrington announced the
convention date after comforting
with party leaders, including
Mayor D'Alesandro of Baltimore
former Gov. William Preston
Lane, jr., and former Senator
Willard E. Tydings, the Demo-
cratic nominee for the Senate.
In addition to formulating Mr.
Tydings' nomination, the conven-
ton will choose the delegates who
will cast Maryland's Is votes in
the national convention next
August.
Delegates to the State conven-
ton also will name a national
committeeman and committee
woman. Mayor D'Alesandro and
M. Alice Candles now hold the
posts.
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"a delegates for the national
party convention in San Fran
cisco August 20. Gov. McKeldin
was expected to be named chair
man once again.
Maryland's delegation to the
G. o. P. convention will support
President Eisenhower on the
first ballot and until he has a
reasonable chance for success
There is no hard-or-fast rule
after the first roll call.
In the April 7 primary, Presi-
dent Eisenhower polled 52,14l
votes to 2,522 for an "unin-
Structed delegation" No write
inns nor crossing of party lines
were permitted.
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MARYLAND-V VIRGINIA NEWS
u. S. Labor Fares Better
Under GO. P, Hall Says

BALTIMORE, May is (P).-
Republican National Chairman
Leonard w. Hall said today that
under the Eisenhower admin
lStration labor has been get
ting a bigger share-and bust
ness a smaller slice-of rising
national income than when
Democrat Harry S. Truman was
President.
when the self styled friends
of the common man were in
power Mr.. Hall said in a speech
prepared for the Maryland
a. o. P. convention, labor got
less. and business-big business
III you like-got more than under
the Eisenhower Administration. y
Some Democratic leaders, in
GLIDING presidential hopefuls
Adlai Stevenson and Senator
Estes Kefauver of Tennessee,
have characterized the Eisen-
hover administration as inclined
toward big business and as I'M
friendly to labor.
Replying, Mr.. Hall said:
"Labor's share of the total
national income amounted to
SIS per cent during the Truman
years, but has risen to SO per
cent in the first three years of
the Eisenhower administration.
"And corporation profits, after
taxes. which averaged. 7.8 per
cent of the total national income
during the seven Truman years,
dropped to 6 per cent in the first
three Eisenhower years.
Bearing down on the peace,
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Rockville Drops Plans
For Human Borricode'

Plans for a human barricade''
to block the opening of the new
National pike from Germantown
south to the Rockville city limits
fell by the wayside last night.
Rockville Mayor Dickran Y.
Hovsepian. who last Saturday
had told Of plans for the barri-
cade. yesterday backed of and
said that as far as he personally
was concerned there would be
mo such barricade."
And the City Council joined
with the Mayor last night in
adopting a resolution stating
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D. Campbell and Alan L. Dean,
former board member, will con-
duct part of the meeting.
Each candidate will be allotted
IL minutes for nominating
speeches and his own speech.
Voting will be by ballot.
Candidates sign an agreement
that if they lose the nomination
they will not run independently.
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Merchants Elect

| CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va,
May Is tSpeciaD j. r. Ponton
has been elected president of
the Retail Merchants Association
lat the 32nd annual meeting of
the group. He succeeds NJ. A.
Cohen.
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School Concert Set

The spring concert of Arlington
Junior high schools will be pre-
sented at 8 pm. Friday at Will
liamsburg Junior High.
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lower than the preceding week.
Richmond prices last week were
so cents higher at $3.50 to Sl8;
auctions. $3.50 average. 20 cents
lower: Western markets. steady to
50 cents higher at $l7 to SIT 50.
Baltimore. $18.25 to $3.50. and
smithfield- Suffolk. ST. to sl7.75.
During the first week in August.
prices went above last years level:
Last year they dropped off fairly
rapidly from that point on This
year they'll probably ease off less
rapidly and on a higher level
Turkeys
There's softer market prospect
on turkeys with stiff competition
from chickens around peak slaugh-
ter time. but efficient growers will
probably be able to keep out of the
red.
We have % per cent more heavy
tln Keys coming to market, but a
part Of these will probably 90 at
light weights to offset the 20 per
cent decrease in light birds. Nor
talily is reported as higher among
Virginia birds
Slaughter is now running 70 per
cent above last years late crop
"A per cent above the preceding
week and will increase into the
holiday season. Right now. it looks
like 4 bigger percentage of the sup
ply will be ready for Thanksgiving
than there was last year
In the Shenandoah Valley las
week, y cents was the prevailing
price on small turkeys q to %
cents for heavy hens and toms
Last year, fryer prices started up
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Cattle
Optimism in cattle depends on
what kind you have. There will be
more grass fed cattle so prices
may not do too well There'u be
less grain fed. and those prices
may do all right
Cattle on feed in the west is down
10 per cent from last year. which
may indicate lack of confidence
among feeders With drought con
ditions in the West, their cattle
may be pushed to market in droVes,
and that may be in September or
October, or even earlier. Histori-
cally. the September price is better
than August.
Chicago steer prices last week
were higher than they had been
since April 1855, and about S. more
than four weeks ago Choice and
prime. S26-S30, good and low-choice,
s23 so to S255 Virginia prices on
good grade steers were up. too, and
generally $50 to 500.
Slaughter IN the first half of 1856
was up over 1855. and the last half
may be. too
If you plan to bank on fed cattle
prospects. be sure you feed good
quality animals You should add
II pounds a day to come out
and IL takes quality to do that
Hogs
Prices may hold this week, but
don't expect them to stay up much
ionper.
For the first time III over a year.
receipts last week went below the
same week last year. about 10 per
cent lower They were per cent
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-08-24
Use Calf Bones
For Human
Bone Crafts

The successful grating Of bones
taken from calves for use n human
beings has been reported in t h 9
Journal Of the American Veterinary
Medical Association
The report says that after the
bore is taken from a calf it is
placed in solution Of bovine plas-
ma containing mibiotics Tins is
refrigerated for about six months
before being used.
In the successful use of this tech
nique il was found that as the
graft Is absorbed, the fine fibrle
structures serve as a scaffolding on
which the patients own bone cell
can build
One of The. chief advantages OF
calf bones IN this type of bone
GRATING is that it is available in
almost unlimited quantities, officials
say
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leaves are cured BY the heat from
/ flues that run along the bbttom of
the barn. The fires to provide the
heat are either oil fired or fired by
wood It takes about four days to
complete the curing process.
Then the leaves are taken down.
/ packed in the packing houses.
Barksdale has his packing house
near the curing barn Later this
/ fan the tobacco will be placed in
/ the order room where the leaves
will pick up enough moisture to be
handled easily
/ Then the tobacco will be tied into
bundles. and are made ready for
market.
/ Then the magic chant of the to-
bacco auctioneer will be heard the
length and breadth of the county.
Mr., Barksdale figures he cures
$4,000 leaves at one time. There are
/ three leaves in a bundle. "A bundles
b4I q SUM. anu HIS II IlOlttS .)tNI
sticnS.
/ Swapping labor to help one anoth-
er in the harvesting season Eugene
Dunkley and his family were help
ing the Barksdales with their crop
Then they worked the field of Mrs
Yeats.
Dunkley said that this was the
third pulling of tobacco. He expects
to finish pulling around the middle
Of September. He raises 5 II acres
d flue tobacco. and has already
cured two barns.
j He has two barns and uses oil
In one and wood in the other. Cur
ing with wood is not so bads'
DHnkleN remarked. After the first
barn. il gets to be second nature to
wake up every couple of hours and
watch the fire We have cured BY
word and not had the temperature
TO vary degrees all night
Dunklev reports that he has had
some trouble with flea beetles, but
the Use OF spray has been helpful
in controlling this pest Worms
have not been too bad so far.
His tobacco is of the medium
"lade, and he epects to sell ii at
between $50 and $50
/ DUnkley said that the further up
the stalk YOU pulled the tobacco. the
thicker the leaf becomes The thick
er The leaf the longer it takes to
cure It
On the primers that they have
been curing, extremely high tenn
peratures 100 degrees are needed
only To cure the stem Yellowing
the main part of the leaf is done at
10 degrees
Starting now they will be pulling
the cutters. which are the leaves
on the lower middle of the stalk
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You can discourage vermin
from infeSting nests in the poui-
try house by inserting tar pa
per liners into the nests before
adding straw, next cleaning
time. Make liner inches long
err than width of nests and Sl.t
ON the corners. Later, remov-
ing the liners will give nesting
units thorough cleaning.
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and ratio of fertilizer to use.
Healthy Cow Belches;
Even If So Quietly

A COW or beef steer is very po-
lite-even if unintentionally so 1t
belches almost inaudibly And il
belches a great deal. Ii has to-
q really ambitious COW will chonk
down from 100 to 200 pounds
of grass in a day of grazing When
she can't belch. that means bloat
And bloat can mean death.
TO anplify the quiet COW belCh
and to listen to other nside-animal
sounds, University of Minnesota
veterinarians use an electronic
stethoscope which listens at the
ANIMALS side and relays the sounds
TO an amplifer unit and loud
speaker. The once-quiet burp
comes out thunderous york! 80
Bloat-too much gas on the ston-
ach--is common problem in
ruminants Ruminants are com
plex-stomached animals such as
cows. and sheep. whose stomachs
are IN four parts, the first and
largest called the rurnen
Bloat is most common in dairy
cows and beef cattle Gas devel-
ops while the animal is grazing II
usually is eliminated the Same way
as in manly belching But bloat
results if, for some unknown real
son. the animal cannot relieve il
self by belchlng
University veterinarians induce
bloat experimentally and then try
10 resto9e the animals belching
ability by drugs or other treat
ment They need the instrument to
listen for the welcome belcn which
meaas success
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-08-24
Local Farmers Expect Fall Market To Be Good For Tobac
Calf, Yearlin 9
Sales Planned
For This Fall

Some 5000 yearhngs and Is 900
feeder calves are headed for the
auction ring at this falls series Of
organized sales III Virginia, says X.
c Williamson. associate animal
husbandman at VPI.
Williamson says cattlemen can
expect the best from the livestock
world At the sales All animals sold
will meet regid qualifications is SET
up by tho sales committee
In this area the sales are planned
for: Charlottesville. September 25;
Lynchburg October / Richmond,
October TO- South Boston, October
IL and Petersburg, October 10
County agents in the areas in
VcheG car give details as 70 time
ana place. ana can designate which
sales viii offer yearlngS, and which
Wi! Offer feeder calves
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IN October, heavies in November.
Brothers
LOOK for Steadiness to maybe a
little strength in broiler prices at
least through Labor Day.
Virginia prices were 1919 cents
last week. North Carolina II d
Georgia Is cents during the week.
Georgia picking up to 10 cents at
the end of the week
At 20 per cent above last year S
supply, We're probably just about
peaH.ng now. and after couple of
weeks easing off will probably
start down pretty fast. but on a
hlgher level than last year.
IN Virginia. we're well above last
years small supply. but demand
seemed to be keeping up very well
Eggs
with supplies decreasing. YOU can
expect egg prices to gain a little
strength for while yet.
+1Production is up a little from last
year-3 per cent above in July
but the population increase should
take care of most of that. Storage
was IL per cent less at, the end of
july than year ago, and was
equivalent to about so per cent Of
July production
Virginia prices averaged 2 cents
higher last week Richmond price
was AZ cents for Grade A Large.
3 cents for Mediums; Harrisonburg
II cents for A Large. IS cents for
MeclNms. Roanoke 46 for A Large
and 80 cents for Mediums. N e W
York picked up % cents at 50-53
cents for A Large Western mixed
brown and whites were 80 - to
Al cents.
Supplies Of mediums are picking
Up as pullets are getting into pro
dIcticn.
There's not any of the old crop
corn left IN Virginia to speak of. so
prices of the early new crop should
he favorable, probably good bit
more than the later crop.
Chicago cash price last week was
s. So, last year it was 81 80; Sep
tember futures price is 81 80: De
cemhel futures. 81 43.
In the U. S. production is per
cent less than last year, with an
estimated 3.l44 900 900 bushels. Viz
GINA crop is up about per cent
from last year with "a ,288 900 bush
els.
The loan rate Of $l25 for non
commercial counties may be the
low for any U S No corn.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-08-24

A registered Guernsey COW. Clio
Tvs Silvia Of La N0ce owned by
W J Norris and Sons, Amelia, has
completed an official production
record of 1881 pounds Of milk and
5o5 pounds Of fat according to the
American Guernsey Cattle Club
This production made in the
AGCC's Herd improvement Regis
try, is equal to $500 quarts Of high
quality milk
"Silvia" was a junior four year
Ga, met calving requirements, and
was MIXED two times daily for 305
days while on test
This official production record
was supervised by VPI.
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Flue Cured Crop
Being Processed
On Many Farms
Rain or Shine
Barksdale And
Dunkley Work

Harvesting of the flue-cured to-
bacco leaf picked up as more of
the leaves began ripening.
For the State as a whole the pull
ing END curing of the flue cured leaf
IS behind last year, but prospects
are good for this years crop.
Farmers in the Germantown sec
ton just outside Of Farmville on
Route have been busy this week
harvesting their tobacco crops.
W L. Barksdale has re d v
cured two barns of tobacco and at
the beginning of the week. wa S
starting on his third barn. He has
an 81 acre farm on the German
town road. and grows 3 - acres
Of flle tobacco
Besides tobacco Mr., Barksdale
has hogs and milk cows on his
farm. He sells cream to the Farm
vile Creamery His main field crop
is corn. which is used as feed for
his farm animals.
Barksdale said that this is the
first year he has used oil to cure
his tobacco, and reports that the
results are fine His tobacco is of
the middle grade and he believes
this years crop viii be a good one
The flue tobacco goes through
several hands before it finally ends
up in the curing barn. The bottom
leaves or primers are pulled first
These are pulled from the stalk and
placed in a sled. which is pulled by
a horse on most farms
From the sled the leaves are TAX
Ell to the curing barn. Here the
leaves are separated into bundles.
usually three leaves to the bundle
A handler" hands the bundles to a
"stringer" who strings the bundles
on a tobacco stick.
These loaded sticks are placed in
pile and later are hung up in the
curing barn For flue tobacco, the
A warning watch moisture at
marketing time. Don't move any
corn with moisture above 20-22 per
cent because of high discounts.
Wheat
If YOU have wheat in farm stor-
age, il locks wise to hold on to it
for a while, maybe even until you
reed the storage Tor soybeans.
There's reasonably short supply
Of free wheat available
Richmond price was s207 | a t
week, sl95 to sos elsewhere in
the state Support price is SILT.
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Weekly
FARM PRICE
OUTLOOK

This is the prospects Virginia prices
to the Virginia Department Friday
warning can
predict be right the
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-08-24

Hardwood blocks at each end
OF this hog trough give ii dou-
bic strength. Short lengths of
2X4 are bolted to the trough
boards and to the end boards.
Carriage bolts are best for
trough boards. the heads being
placed on the inside of the
trough to- prevent INJURY while
hogs are feeding.
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impationet student called out in
precise Oxonian:
Come on. Bulgy, I want my
tea"
After visiting oxford the two
Russians hustled off to the 40
room Tudor country house which
is the official country residence
of British Prime Ministers.
Peace was the~,topic for in
formal weekend talks. and espe-
cially the Middle East. an area
the Soviet leaders have offered
to help to stabilize.
But the Moscow radio began
pumping out charges that Bri-
tain and America were the vii
lains there. 1t said the two West
ern powers are guilty of policy
primarily directed against the
Arab countries"
In London Sir Ivone Kirk
patrick. permanent head of the
Foreign Office, conferred for two
hours with Andrei Gromyko,
Soviet deputy foreign minister
They were working to directive
given them yesterday by Sir
Anthony and his Soviet guests.
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arms sales to the Mid-East. re-
sisting aggression and generally
stabilizing the political and mill
tary rivalries plaguing relations
in the Middle East.
Marshal Bulgann and Mr..
Khrushchev will visit Queen
Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle
and take tea tomorrow. Then
they return to London and their
Claridge Hotel headquarters.
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Arab countries because her ruling
minority are members of the
Zaidi sect Of Shah Moslems,
while other Arab states are
mostly Orthodox Moslems or Of
the Sunni sect.
Yemen never ratified the Arab
League collective security pact of
1949. though she cautiously
Joined the League in 1945 and
the United Nations in 1948.
Egypt already is Joined in
separate defense pacts with
Saudi Arabia and Syria by which
their forces are supposed to come
under a single commander, Maj.
Gen. Abdel Hakim Amer of the
Egyptian army.
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sun set on a day Of bristling
activity.
The two visited the British
secret atomic city of Harwell,
then went on to Oxford-and
one of the biggest RACES seen
in the university town in decades.
Crowds of students began
their chant about the late and
down-graded Soviet dictator as
the two Russians left Sheldonian
Theater and repeated it inter-
minably Neither Marshal Bull
ganin nor Mr.. Khrushchev I'M
derStand English but they had
plenty of interpreters with them.
Both Russians TOOK it well.
Mr.. Khrushchev once raised his
hands in grinning surrender
when backed against a wall by
autograph-hunting oxford resi-
dents. Marshal Bulganin beamed
benignly.
The Oxford students were de-
risively good-natured and re-
fused to take the two Russian
dignitaries seriously. They
roared the "Volga Boatmen, "
cheered, boisterously offered
comment and at one point an