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1 Thursday, June 23, 1955 THE CUNTON CHRONICLE Pace FHrt Textile Industry Feels It Has Been 'Sold Down the River Blowing Rock, N. C, June It —The textile industry feels that the State Department has flouted the obvious Intent of Congress by moving forward to “liqui date” both cotton textile manu facturing and cotton agriculture in the United States. A. K. Winget of Albemarle, president of the American Cotton lianufacturen Institute, ex pressed such a view here today, assertmg that the textile indus try and cotton agriculture have simply been “sold down the river”, in repudiation seeming ly of White House promises made to Congress and industry repre sentatives. Textile tariff concessions just granted Japan at the GATT (General Agreements on *Tariffs and Trade) conference in Ge neva are equivalent, he said, ac tually to more than the current profit margin of the mill indus try from the production of stand ard goods. And he noted that the Geneva agreements were signed just a few days before the new trade law, H. R. t, prohibiting tariff cuts for more than three years, was to become law. That fact he Observed, is one of the ‘Vnost shocking” the Industry has ever had to race. Addressing the annual meeting here of the Southern Textile As sociation, Mr. Winget pointed out that the tariff reduction in un finished goods amounts to 27 per cent and on fabrics having aver age yam numbers ranging from 30s to 50s, the cuts average in excess of 48 per cent. This range of goods, the AMI president added, represents 75 to 80 per cent of the cotton fabrics worn by the people of the United States, and embraces print cloths, broadcloths, poplins, oxfords, twills,* and all manner of gar ments, including underwear. ‘The deepest cuts apply to those very cloth categories that represent the bulk of Japanese output and exports to America,” he emphasized. Mr. Winget observed that a country like Japan, using Ameri can cotton and American type machinery but paying only one- tenth of the American wage, can throw the whole U. S. industry into confusion even by relatively small shdphnents. Now, he added, the Japanese who in recent months have been sending goods to this country in “an alarming and ever-increas ing volume,” have been given “an open invitation from our government to take over our do mestic market — in fact, they have the incentive now to mo nopolize it” The Geneva action, he said, constitutes a “staggering blow” to the U. S. cotton farmer, who for the last few years has been under quotas and sharp acreage cutbacks. He explained it this way: “The people of the United States now consume just about 100 per cent American cotton. Normally our U. S. mills use just about two-thirds of U. S. cotton production. But two-thirds of the cotton in Japanese goods is foreign-grown fiber.” ‘To the extent that the U. S. cotton mill industry is wrecked or impaired,” he added, “just to such an extent the last great cus tomer of the American cotton grower will be liquidated.” Mr. Winget said the action un der the reciprocal trade program — which, he observed, hasn’t been “reciprocal” at all — sub stantiates the U. S industry’s feeling all along that the state department considers the U. 6. cotton industry expendable. “No other major industry of the United States has been so earmarked for the sacrificial al tar, or Jus been asked to sacrifice a fraction as much,” he asserted. Pointing out that cotton pro duction and manufacturing con stitute the livelihood of millions of people, largely in the South, he said the outlook is “very bleak” and that he ‘hesitated to contemplate the outcome.” RABBIT HITS PLANE Grand Porks, N. D. — Farmer Leo Mondry was buzzing along in a plane about three feet above the ground dusting crops when 4 jackrabbit leaped up and hit the plane. He was forced to land with a damaged propeller and spraying mechanism. SLOWLY TO DROP ENGLISH New Delhi—A commission has been appointed to plan a sched ule for Hindi to repalce English gradually as the official lang uage of India. Artificial Insemination Service Increasing Production y Milk Clemson, June 20—An upward trend in milk production is de veloping in counties which have artificial dairy cattle breeding cooperatives. C. G. Cuchman, leader, Clemson Dairy Extension Work, says reports continue to be received from these counties showing this upward trend. One of these reports came re cently from the Laurinton Dairy Farms, Columbia. This farm, owned and operated by R. M. McGregor and his son, Sam E. McGregor, is one of the larger dairy farms of the state using the artificial breeding service of the Clemson bull stud exclusively. Some of the records from this herd were listed in a recent let ter to Mr. Cuchman from the junior partner in this father-son enterprise. He says 14 daughters of the Guernsey bulls. High Hon or, Hornet, Hollibri£it, Lad, and Main Stay, produced an average of 8,657 pounds of milk, 380 pounds of butterfat, in 3i9 days starting their records at three years and one month of age. Fifteen daughters of Holstein bulls in the Clemson bull stud, Rotarian, Jolly, Chief, and Ad miral, produced 11,316 pounds of milk, 416 pounds of butterfat in 306 days, starting test at 2 years and 10 months of age. All cows in the Laurinton herd are milked two times daily. The average production for the herd has increased 34.8 per cent since 1042. Mr. McGregor states that this increase can be credited to the daughters in his herd re sulting from artificial breeding. “Such a record becomes more significant,” Mr. Cushman points out, “when you consider that production of these 29 daughters of bulls in the Clemson bull stud averaged 10,033 pounds of milk, 313 pounds of butterfat, in 313 days, which is 54.3 per cent high er than the average milk produc tion of 6,000 cows on DHIA test in 142 South Carolina herds in 1954. “High milk production per cow ration of a dairy herd that every owner of a dairy cow in South Carolina should take advantage of the artificial insemination ser vice wherever it is available," he adds. POPULATION GAIN India’s population is gaining at a rate of about five million per year. Control Of Mites And Lice Importont Job For Pooltrymen J. J. Cornwall of Clinton, re ceived assistance last week in surveying three stock watering ponds on his beef cattle farm 6 miles north of Clinton. Mr. Cornwall said that during the drought last summer the short age of water on his farm was a problem. He had to go ro much trouble and expense to provide water for his cattle. He plans to utilize his cost sharing payments through the local ASC office in the construc tion of the ponds. • • • The Presbyterian College Ath letic Department was assisted last week in the planting of Tif- ton 57 Bermuda grass on John son Field. The grass stolons were secured from the former SCS nursery located near Rock Hill, which is owned by Mr. R. A. Fewell. Tifton 57 Bermuda was intro duced several years ago by the Georgia Experiment Station at Tifton, Ga. It was bred for quali ties which enable the grass to withstand heavy traffic and rough treatment. It is one of the best grasses known for athletic fields, school grounds, church yards and such places subject to heavy use. • • * R. L. Guinn, Rt 3, Laurens, and F. O. Wyley of Laurens, have requested assistance from the District in surveying a pond oh their farms, 6 miles west of Laurens. A preliminary survey has been made and work is al ready underway in clearing the trees and brush from the pond basin. The necessary engineer ing layout of the pond will be furnished by the Soil Conserva tion Service before the construc tion of the dam is started. H. J. Pitts of Clinton, planted four sericea meadow outlets last week on his faxtns near Clinton. Tbese outlets are being estab lished to provide for safe dis posal of water from terraces which are to be constructed later on. Mr. Pitts plans to use his cost-sharing payments through the local ASC office in the con struction of the terraces. The terraces will be built by the Dis trict’s motor grader at a cost of $1.40 per 100 feet of terrace. The ASC payment is 90 cents per 100 linear feet, leaving a balance of 60 cents to be paid by the farm er. Clemson, June 20—Wtih the coming of warm weather poul- trymen should endeavor to rid their poultry houses of external parasites. The two most com mon external parasites affect ing poultry are lice and mites. Lice live on the birds all the time. Mites live in the cracks and crevices of the building and go on the birds at night to feed. P. H. Gooding, leader, Clem son Poultry Extension Work, points out that some people are of the opinion that lice do not do any great harm since they live on scales of the skin and feathers and do not suck blood from the bird’s body as do mites. He says this idea is not correct as proved by experiments at the Alabama Experiment Station which showed that lice lower egg production as much as 20 per cent when the birds are heavily infested. Mr. Gooding says that lindane sprayed in the house, on the lit ter, and on the birds will kill both mites and lice. One pound of 25 per cent lindane to 10 gal lons of water is the strength to use. 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