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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-12-08
Sam Thompson Named Cumberland's
Outstanding Young Farmer Ot 80

The Cumberland County Young
Farmers Association has selected
Sam A. Thompson as its out,
standing young farmer for the year
1859.
Thompson lives in the John Ran
dolph district Of Cumberland county
and has been a member OF the
Young Farmers Association since
its beginning in October of 1857.
| Since graduating from Cu1nbar-
land High School. he has been farm
ing. He began farming in partner
ship with his father while attend
ing high school After his father 5
death earlier tnis year, lie took
over the B5-acre farm and rents
100 acres. In addition 10 his farm
ing operation, he works for the
ASC office in Cumberland.
Farming has not been easy for
the Thompson family. They began
farming with beef cattle. Being at
tracted by the advantages of
monthly check. the young farmer
changed to producing manufacture
ed milk. He plans to build a milk
ing parlor and to produce Grade A
milk. His cows are now averaging
better than $500 pounds Of milk
and have a butter fat test Of AS
per cent.
Dairying does not make up the
| whole farming business. There are
two broiler houses on the Thomp-
son farm. Only limited number
of broileis were raised this year
because Of the sharp decline in
prices. but to fill in for the broil-
ers. Thompson is trying the idea
Of raising pigs for the Richmond
Feeder Pig Sale
The 30-year-old farmer has 40
! acres of woodlands, and he has some
n acres Of cash crops and hay
which includes Is acres Of i'm
proved orchard grass, ladino clio
yer. and alfalfa pasture. The rest
is pasture land. With the help OF
the Soil Conservation Service, a
conservation program has been
drawn up and is being followed
to increase the efficiency of the
farm.
\ In the past several years, more
than $1,000 has been invested in
farm machinery. including a tractor
a combine. and essential diary
equipment
( Being a young man Of many
abilities. Thompson built his home
! in 1854 He is now in the process
of building a cottage for his mother
Since starting in the dairy bust
ness. a tramp shed for the cows
was constructed He hopes to build
an additional machinery storage
she'd.
1 Married to the former Martha
j Herndon. of Buckingham county.
Thompson also takes an active
part in community affairs He il
a deacon in Browns Presbyterian
Church. past president Of the John
Randolph Young Farmers Coopera-
tive, treasurer OF the Cumberland
County Young Farmers As socia
ton. a member of the Cumberland
County Farm Bureau. member
OF the Cumberland Ruritan Club
\ and president elect OF the Cunber-
land Young Farmers Association
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-12-08

/ Conservation practices for 1860.
The closing date for the initial
sign lip period in these counties IL
December p Every tarinei plan.
niag to carry out one OF more ~
these practices should visit his local
Asc County Office u or before De
,s.fftf.. II
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-12-08
Powhoton Notes
Annual Dinner
Dance Postponed

The dilnerldance will not be held
on December 81 this year. due to
many scheduled private parties
and other entertainments during
Christmas week, but will definitely
be held during January. Watch the
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-12-08
Conservation Sign-Up
TO End December q

The AaC Offices ii Apponat-
tox. Buckingham. Cumberland add
Prince Edward Counties are noY
taking applications for Agricultural
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-12-08

apo feet Of Del I've rayon
curling gift tie ribbon in self
dispenser box. -" wide. AS
sorted colors.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-12-08

Christmas design paper
continuous roll soft. long,
20" wide. In safety cutter
edge box.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-12-08

SAVE ST 20, Fine quality
multiple set with imported
lamps. Each light burns in
dependently.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1959-11-15

management OF StOck IdnCHSSs ehC
question used as the title for this article
in one that I encounter often. Though
this question does not appear to be
complex one, there seldom is simple
or an easy answer. Often there must
be several answers to the several diff
ferent parts of the question, if the an
swers are to be adequate.
Usually the first aspect of this ques-
tion to be examined and studied is that
of the size of the stock ranch in terms
of the number of animals to be Oper-
ated.
In considering this question, one
must analyze the ranch in terms of
these aspects:
1. Is it big enough to provide an out
let for the operator and family labor?
2. Is it large enough to produce an
adequate family income?
3. Is it large enough to attain good
organization, such as, for example,
making adequate use of efficient equip
ment and of specialized labor time?
Minimum Size
1t is my opinion that the minimum
size for an economic unit for the stock
ranch is around $50 head of stock cat
tle-breeding cows or their equivalent
in other classes of cattle. This is the
smallest size for a one-man unit, for
full use of labor time with very little
hired labor.
1t is, of course, true that there are
many cattle ranches smaller than this,
and that of these a good percentage
operate with fair degree of success.
1t is my observation that most stock
ranches smaller than the $50 head size
have some diversification into other
enterprises, such as hogs, poultry or
cash crops, or that the operator has
outside work or other income sources.
A ranch of this small size inevitably
has limitations in owning and in MAX
ing good use of equipment, such as the
haying equipment or the needed farm
ing equipment Often this problem is
met by hiring the use of equipment or
by having work done on a custom basis
when the use of specialized equipment
is necessary.
Annual Net Income
On the basis of the present outlook the
$50 cow-unit ranch should afford an
annual net income of $4,000 to $4,000 to
the operator This rather large spread
in my estimate of the net income is
due to the inevitable differences in the
productivity of ranches, and to the
usual differences in the amount of in
terest paid on borrowed capital.
If the natural productivity of the
ranch is good, if the management is at
least average, and if the owner uses
only small amount of borrowed capi-
tai, the $50 cow-units should produce an
annual net income of around Sc, 900, or
perhaps bit more. available to an
owner.
For good organization and for eff
cient use of modern mechanized equip
ment the stock ranch needs to be sew
eral times the $50 head size. | would
place this figure at around 700 or 800
cow-units for good efficiency in the
CHASING of the cattle and in the use of
labor and equipment. An operation of
this size can afford adequate mecha-
nized equipment and can specialize in
The use of men, machines and land re-
Montana farmer-stockman., 1959-11-15
Managing Farm and Ranch
What Is the Economic Unit
For the Stock Ranch?
By MONT III. SAUNDERSON

er there is an upper size limit for the
economic stock ranching unit beyond
which it is uneconomic to expand.
There probably is no such limit as far
as organization and technical opera
tional efficiency are concerned.
However, / doubt that there is much
to be gained in organization or in tech
nicaI operating efficiency beyond the
700 or 800 cow-unit size. Whether a
size larger than this will be as produc-
tive or as efficient as 700 or 800
cow-unit size depends pretty much on
the managerial capabilities of the op-
orator.
It is my opinion that strictly from the
production efficiency standpoint the
700 to 800 cow-unit size is somewhere
near the optimum. There may be econ
omies of size beyond this in other man.
agerial aspects, such as supply pur-
chase, finance and marketing.
Management Load
Once the manager of a $500 cow
unit ranch, with the supervisory re-
sp0nsibilitieS for spread of $4,000
acres of land, 20 hired men, $50 miles
of fencing and an equipment investment
of $4,000, said to me, .'You have to
have birthstone in your britches to stay
on top of job like this"
I have seen very few ranches with
over 1000 cow-units of cattle with a
manager capable of holding the per
unit production efficiency up to that
attainable from what I regard as the
optimum size of 700 to 800 cow-units.
Besides the size aspect of what makes
for an economic unit for the stock
ranch. the attaining of a good balance
between the land unit and the livestock
may be and often is significant. It is
essential in attaining an economic unit
that there be a good capacity balance
between the hay and the feed crops and
the rangelands, and between the sea-
S0nal rangelandS if seasonal range
lands are used in year round opera
ton.
varying Natural Resources
Usually it is possible to round out
well-balanced, year-'round stock ranch
unit and to attain an economic relation
ship between the numbers and classes
of the livestock and the capabilities of
the different kind of lands in a ranch
unit.
Sometimes this is difficult, however,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-31

Do you remember how many took get the bugs out of all the
after World War II? The whole automobile industry put cah
programs get back production the models they had been
building before the You know hn that matter how
big how ch going be abewih completely mhied model
to equal Rambler.
Yes agancash programs can't produce Rambe because
they can't reproduce Rambler's basic excellence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-31

NTYN Whitley Beaster and I'm Chief of the Test Drivers Amer
W. lean Motors Proving Grounds For 81 years I've been driving
for company hundreds of Rambesboth production
and prototypes modehough their engineering trials And
exhaustive the other American makes and practically
every foreign
That's why know that craSh program produce with the
quality and troubleree operation of todays Rambler.
There's big hurry right tool several with about the
wheelbase Rambler and it's knowledge that they will copy
Rambler ideas But thing nobody copy and nobody buy
Rambler experience building quality Compact Here's what
need to build of Ramber's basic excellence:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-31
3. YOU NEED Time TO DEVELOP

NEW Mind Uf MAN. spend lot of time with Rambler
engineers The odm tell the toughest part about changing over to
Single Unit Construction wasn't designing completely and as
semby line but training kind of engineer and production
You ordinary built with separate body and separate frame
which bod together Bodies and frames usually built in different
plants Body engineers and frame engineers work separately The goes
for production men,
But with Rambler modern Single Unit Construction (Which all the
mao will copy body frame built together solid unit like
aane There's such thing separate body and separate frame
&c. you have whole breed ofengneers and production
who think frame alone body alone but also like
of single unit They this takes months
but years and years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-31
new PROOF o Fl ;;Z::I 81 Frs
BASIC EXCELLENCE
Best Satisfied Owners
Of Any LoW-Priced Make

POPULAR MECHANICS magazine reports mot one owner of
Rambler Six his poor Actually less than percent 9
percent be precise of all Rambler give their poor
rating This the best record achieved by any American since
Owners Report series began in 1880 usually four or five
percent their poor Occasionally many 10 percent
Rambler better satisfied Rambler sales are at an
ame high and constantly growing Rambler resale value
highest all cars because of one hngbasc excellence
Basic excellence that shows balance Neither large
small Neither ovepowered undepowered Instead the best
balance of performance with economy the best balance of big
with small handling the best balance of high
quality with low price.
Discover Ramblers Basic Excellence for yourself today
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-31
1. YOU NEED YEARS NOT MONTHS

VI IES IVN. When first with Single Unit Construction
off the production line in 94 had than four years eng
neerng and testing back of it.
wasnt until after eight designing and experimenting and mil
lions of miles this track and roads, that they brought
out the first compact Rambler in 1880
Even with all that background they started slowly and carefully with
only one model.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-31
2. YOU NEED BILLIONS AND 81
OF OWNER. DRIVEN MILES,. After

ducon the public will find bugs engineer dreamed Of We
drivers give times the punishment the moost would
and then fragile 0pound lady will find way dreamed of
to strips gear or burn up transmission.
engineers learned from nearly 100000
of single cars made Improvements the past
10 years.
On Rambr alone I'm told have rolled than Is billion
miles since 1850 With all that experience every Rambler has been better
than the previous years model
Todaywe just ask any Rambler See he doesn't tell it's
the most ouble-free he has owned.
For example, it's generally admitted Rambler has the gh quetest
solid car in the industry
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-31
a. YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE PRIDE
OF CRAFTSMANSHIP. don't think there

Uf VNAf ISVIANSHIFs don't think there is any
bile plant the world where there pride of craftsmanship
attention paid quality than plants Kenosha and Milwaukee
And l don't mean just by management and the foremen
Everybody talk tothe officials and stewards of the unionSand the
other empoyees have the every Rambler though
you going own it yourself"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-31
S. YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE UNIFORM

QUALIFY Jun KUL. They complete automo-
bes the American Motors plant Kenosha than other single plant
in America That makes lot easier keep your and build every
with top quality than when plants scattered all the country
another of Rambs advantages building quality
The Robbins eagle. (Robbins, Ill.) 1951-1963, 1959-10-03
4th Anniversary Of
Trustee Aid Club

T he Trustee Aid Club of
Bethel A.M.E.e Church will be
having it's 4th year Anniversary
Sunday, October II, 1859 at 8
O'Clock pm.
New Friendship Baptist Church
The Rev. F. c.. Taurvin of the
will be preaching our anniver-
sary sermon along with his
church and choir.
Please come out and enjoy a
spiritual feast with us. Ii you
The Robbins eagle. (Robbins, Ill.) 1951-1963, 1959-10-03
BY Pastor Stephens
"CHRISTlAN RELIGION"


THE Christian Religion is so
= unique in it's power and rev.
citation so that when it is viewed
in obedience, all other religions
looses their significance. T h e
word Christ is it's heart and
life. Christians are folk who &C
cept what has been revealed
through h e Bible concerning
Christ, and by faith have re-
ceived the power of His resur-
rection.
This power creates a hatred
for sin, and love for holiness
and peace. We come to a knowl-
edge of this truth by faith
through hearing the Word of
God. This is the Christian reli-
gion in a nutshell.
Any relfg ion, philosophy,
ere ed, or ethics which deny
what is revealed in Gods Word
concerning the Virgin Mary in
her her immaculate conception
of Jesus Christ, His suffering
under Pontius PLATE, His death,
burial, resurrection, and ascen-
sion, is not christian.
The great reformer of the
sixteenth century wrote an ar
ticle on redemption and this is
what he had to say about it:
81 believe that Jesus Christ,
true God, begotten of the Fa-
Their from eternity, and also true
Man, born of he Virgin Mary, is
Continued on Page ~
The Robbins eagle. (Robbins, Ill.) 1951-1963, 1959-10-03

miss this program you will miss
a. treat. Free refreshments will
be served after the program.
c.. Crudup, Pres.
l.. Tillman, Sec.
H. Galloway, Pastor
The Robbins eagle. (Robbins, Ill.) 1951-1963, 1959-10-03
@clTY SERVICE

woman to husband as she
arrives in car wit h smashed
front: And the policeman was
so nice about it. He asked il I'd
like the city to remove all the
telephone poles"
-Earlville Leader.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-07-03

prise. antimonopoly. a%nti-claSs. anC
the spices Of variety and compe'
tition, from the deadly totalism
into which Europe has fallen and
infected u land.
Dean Weidner say nothing Of the
South-but to read him with the
South in mind is to know that with
all our sins we are nevertheless
the "mainstream'' as others are
| not.
above the bayonets, fixed and
crossed,
Men saw a gray. gigantic host Y
Gray, because it is a confederacy
of Americans devoted to the princi-
pie on which all American principle
hangs the states rights which
mean limited and decentralized
government by men in an Image.
Gigantic, because from the nature
of things it represents a majority of
the American people.
We tend to forget that a majority
Of the House Of Representatives, no
matter how composed. means a ma
iority of the people of this country.
The 225 to 1872 majority in the
House Wednesday which OVERRIDE
the National Democrats and the De-
partment Of Justice to pass a
States Rights Bill against Federal
usurpation was described correctly
as a Southern Democratic : Re
publican coalition" But it happened
to be also the will Of the people Of
the United States.
A House majority is like that.
Some have it that a coalition is
a sort Of conspiracy or trick, that
there's skullduggery involved. This
can be the case sometime, but in
this case the coalition is one which
has been holding the line in
America and for America for 16
years. It is so automatically and
automatically the voice Of our
people against the pressure group,
special pleaders and socialist sick
ster from oversee that it needs to
be called at the polls as well as in
Congress.
And the man to call it could be
Dwight Eisenhower, politically dis
embodied now in the lone splendor
Of his last IS months. his own man
finally against all who took him
w as a novice, devoted to his
own philosophy which the coalition
represents. Stories which speak of
last weeks vote as an Admins
tration as well as a National Demo
cratic defeat forget that the Presi-
dent and his Department of Justice
are not speaking the same langu-
age any more. The Department
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-07-03

IF the red slayer thinks he Stays,
Or if the slain thinks he is slain,
They know not we'll the subtle ways
1 keep, and pass, and turn
again IA.
The way Of the West at Geneva
not subtle but it was absolute
about Berlin and that is sufficient,
it seems. K~hrushchev has invested
face than the free lands al
for him, try as they Will at
next meetings.
His people are bound to know that
he has challenged and been called.
This is victory in the only dlrec-
ton that promises an end to the
cold war. 1t is victory over Russian
leadership as it appears to the
Russian people. That way lies hope
Of eventual rule by the people. It
may be a long time off but IL is on
the way. The Russia OF To-Day would
never endure another Stain, and
the Russia Of tomorrow will refuse
to endure another Khrushchev, it
seems to me. In Stains time
people were uneducated and leaders
were consdcrated. Today people are
educated and leaders are sophisti-
bureaucratic. s~elf-serving.
Khrushchev may be strong
enough to persuade the West to
help him save some Of his face.
but he has not face enough to spare
what he viii. lose in spite Of help
Is his defeat, victory.
He has talked too loud not to
have been heard al home.
But what does the West itself
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-07-03
John Temple Groves
Khrushchev Loses Face

hear at home2 Muffled it may
have been at Geneva but there is
division, not only between the free
lands but within each, including our
greatest one. division between those
who are letting western civill-
cation" 60 BY default and those who
are holding fast. 1t will get us no
where to win the cold war with
Russia and find we have become
Russia. have lost the ways We are
supposed ito keep. and pass, and
turn again"
This is why, before the South de-
cides to return to that "malnstream
Of Western civilization from which
South Cardinals Henry Savage, Jr-,
is said to picture it withdrawn lin
his Seeds of Time. it must do a
lot Of home work IN mainstreams.
The big idea Of America and the
West is in a state Of seeming disco
luton. The mainstream is reported
lost in raging waters which over
run the banks and cause the main
stream to diappear.
Y
From one Of the country's most
thoughtful i~ndustrialists comes copy
Of an address before the recent Ma
tional Military : Industrial Confer
ence III Chicago BY Engineering
Dean @ Ken Weidner, Of the
American University Of Beirut in
Lebanon. Entitled An American
Dilemma" it is a brilliant and
moving plea for a sort Of last ditch
stand IN behalf of the American ira
dltion Of moral Law. eternal princi-
pies. limited and representative
government, states rights. separa-
ton Of church and state. free enter
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-07-03

under Rogers speaks as the De-
partment did under Brownell. And
even though he does not pipe it
down, the President has set him.
self personally free Of the Depart
ment line, conspicuously free.
It's a funny set-up but it's a fact.
- r.
Why Time should wish to make
it out otherwise / don't know but
Southern Democrats definitely did
not join the Liberal Democrats in
voting against confirmation Of
Strauss. OF the IS Democrats for
confirmation 10 we're Southern. OF
these 10, nine we're members of the
long-standing Southern Democratic
coalition.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-07-03
Independence Day

growing problems. Leadership brings re-
sponsibilities. Leaders either face response
bilities or cease to be leaders. America, as
a leader Of the free peoples Of the world, is
facing international forces of terrific pow
er, and ideologies, the antithesis of free
dom, carried on by subterfuge, infiltration
and intrigue.
Americans learned. generation after gen.
GRAFTON, that freedom and independence are
neither easily achieved nor preserved with
out effort and sacrifice. Just 50, today,
freedom and liberty of the people and basic
principles of the union of the states is still
to be safeguarded by those who would save
these hard-earned rights Of individuality
and sovereignty.
AS we come to Independence Day, stop
for a minute in the activities of pleasure
and review the full meaning Of this day
and let's rededicate ourselves to principles
of this constitutional Republic.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-07-03

ONE hundred and eighty-three years ago
y dedicated and brave men made a decl-
sion. Many were reluctant. Some were sure
there was a better way. All knew they were
facing hardships. But there was no fear
among them when they voted That these
United Colonies are and Of Right ought to
be, Free and Independent States" They
were embarking on a voyage into uncharted
seas. They could not then see its glories,
but they could be sure of its perils and it
was not lightly that in support of their
Declaration they pledged Our lives, our
Fortunes and our sacred Honor"
Through the hardships and the vicissi-
tudes Of war and heartbreaks Of ~disappoint-
ments, they resolutely followed through to
adopt a Constitution providing for a Re-
public. They builded better than they knew,
for the nation thus established, prospered
and has grown to prominence in the World.
The nation faces today complex and