Marion Progress

TO COVER STATE
WITH FARM MESSAGE
A program of farm meetings for the purpose of carrying facts about the agricultural outlook and the need of food and feedstuffs production in North Carolina next season has been arranged by the agricultural extension service of State College to cover every county in North Carolina during January and February.

Five teams of extension specialists will go to work during the week beginning January 5 and starting in the coastal counties will work gradually westward toward the Tennessee line. Five meetings a day will be held. In these meetings, the speakers will present facts about the present production of food and feed supplies and will show how far the county is from being self-supporting, and will outline the program embodied in the adopted slogan, "Farm to Make a Living in 1931".

Dean I. O. Schaub says the campaign will be in charge of the district agents in their respective group of counties. The local home and farm agents will arrange the meetings and give them local notice. Leading key farmers, bankers and business men of all kinds will be invited.

There will be no guess work in the facts to be given, says Mr. Schaub. Already the economists are working out the need of a family or a livestock unit for food and feed for one year. The home demonstration people are also at work on facts about more complete diets which may be prepared from foodstuffs produced at home.