Edgecombe Farm bureau to hold annual meeting September at Ball Park
in Tarboro, with barbecue dinner, says W. V/. Eagles, Chairman. Arran
gements and Dinner Committee are Bill Eason, Chairman, Lory'Bulluck
and Willis Powell. Program Committee R, L. Corbett, J. T.Lawrence
and H. P. Foxhall have extended an invitation to J. 3, Hutson, Head of
the Commodity Credit ■ Corporation, to be guest speaker. W, Randolph
Eagles, of Macclesfield, and W. J, Eason attend Southern Farrs Bureau
Convention at Auburn, Alabama.
A prisoner-of-war camp is being established at Scotland Neck to help
with peanut digging .in Edgecombe, Nash and Halifax counties. Edge
combe's share v/ill be I50 prisoners^ Majority are G-ermans caDtured in
Italy and will be available the middle of September, A committee con
sisting of W, R, Powell, Chairman, H.G. Shelton,.John Mayo and Henry-
A. Braswell (v/hose son, Lt. Homer Braswell, is a prisoner of the Japs
in Philippines) to work with County Agent in allocating r^risoners to
farms where need is greatest,
Tobacco on the G-eorgia market and on the Border belt is selling at
ceiling and near ceiling lavels. G-eorgia ceiling on untied and ungrad
ed tobacco 39^• C. ceiling on tied and graded tobacco ^3/^ 1"^.
Good tobacco crop reported by farmers hard hit by early drought-—
made record recovery after July rains reBtored soil moisture. Excel
lent prospects for cotton and peanuts. Record yields predicted for
cotton in N. C. Very little boll weevil.
Cliff Weeks ships four car loads of watermelons to New York. Eight
hundred fifty melons to the car. Lee Ruffin still raising the big
ones.
H. M. Stott, Work Unit Conservationist, with the Soil Conservation
Service, for Edgecombe County, has promotion to District Conservation
ist, with headquarters at Whiteville. Boyd Robinson, of Halifax Coun
ty, succeeding Stott. Robinson formerly employed by U. S. Army as a
buck private.
Following farmers ship hogs to Richjnond market, thus complying with
Government request for more food: B, B. Braddy, E, B. Draughon, Dr.
S, P. Bass, Mrs. A. R. Burnette, Carl Doughtie, Claude Etheridge, Thur
ston Caton, Romaine Howard, M. T, Ruffin, J. A* VJhitehurst, B. C, Mayo
J. E. Eagles, P. A, Weeks, H. T. Edmondson and R, D. Cokor.
New tobacco v/arehouse, fourth for Tarboro, practically com^Dleted. lias
floor space of 20,000 sq. ft., located on W, St, James St., will be
operated by Bunn, House, and G-ardner.
Board consisting of H. G-. Shelton, C. A. Mayo and W. R, Eagles set up
to pass on farmers requests fof* lumber as per VJPB order of August 5*
H. C. Scott, Asst, County Agent, says ^-H Club niembers are working on
the home front. Leading 5-H member in producing food is William-
Moore, Tarboro, R-2, of the Speed Club. William is producing enough
food this year to:? ^ six service men. Hilton Carlton, ^-H Club member
of PinetoDS, R-1, is now selling milk , in Pinetops. ■ Hilton.took over
when' Mr. Parker had to stop on account of labor shortages. ^-H Club
members helped put over the' Fifth V/ar Loan Drive. Bobby Parker^ Mac
clesfield, R-1, sold 23 bonds and Mark Stapcil, of same school, sold
11 bonds. Robert Davenport led the group in total amount by selling
#3,262.75* Oliver Brown, Rocky Mount, R-2, and Agnes Eason,. Maccles
field, R-1, were elected best all around cam^oers at the 4-H camp this
year, William Moore, Tarboro, R-2, Peggy and Virginia Bryant, Tarboro
R-1, Bruce Flye, Battleboro, R-1, Felix Stallings, Tarboro, R-1, and
Douglas Eason, fecclesfield, are feeing out baby beef steers for the
Rocky Mount Fat Stock Sho^^ next April.
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