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ft. PANEL
Rroad street
l L Ward Finds
Irrigation System
Is Paying Dividends
First Chowan Farmer to
Adopt Supplemental
Irrigation
E. L. Ward, a farmer of the Eden
ton area of Chowan County, installed
an irrigation system for watering
truck crops and tobacco last spring.
So far he has irrigated 12 acres of
market com, 3 acres of tobacco, and
4 acres of garden truck.
Ward says that irrigation pays off.
According to R. C. Jordan, U. S.
Soil Conservation Service farm plan
ning technician working with the Al
bemarle Soil Conservation District,
this has been Ward’s oft-repeated an
swer to the often-asked question—
“ How do you like your irrigation sys
tem?”
This was quite a natural question to
put to Ward, says Jordan.
. This was because 1953 is the first
year in which supplemental irrigation
has been tried for row crops in Cho
wan County and because Ward hap
pened to be the first Chowan farmer
to purchase and use an irrigation out
fit for such purposes.
It was just natural to expect that
Ward’s friends and the neighboring
farmers would want to know “how he
came out” in his new venture.
To all inquirers, his answer has al
ways been enthusiastic and positive—
“it pays off.”
The job of carrying on regular I
farming operations on three farms and'
of applying irrigation water to the 15
to 20 acres regularly watered has kept
Ward on the go. However, when he
had time for talk he has furnished
his questioners with additional infor
mation concerning his new rain mak
ing operations.
In substance his story of the pro
ject goes about as follows:
Twelve acres of Aristogold com, 3 >
acres of tobacco, and 4 acres of other
garden vegetables were watered. When
the heavens dispensed no rain, Ward
put his artificial rain maker to work.
The market corn especially was not
allowed to suffer from shortage of wa
ter. In turn it responded to the boun
tiful supply of soil moisture and ad
ditional plant food which it was able
to extract from the land. It has now
been harvested and sold to the early,
high-priced markets.
With the returns from the com all
in results have been most gratifying.
How Much Do
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' Your answer to that question is important,
for it will indicate whether or not you are mak
ing satisfactory financial progress.
If you have not formed the habit of saving,
start now with a Savings Account at The Bank
of Edenton. Make deposits as regularly as j I
you pay your bills. Remember that the only | L
way to keep going ahead is to save systemati- I
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Ward certainly did not need to em
ploy any hesitancy in the relation of
his account.
One hundred and seventy-five more
crates of market com were sold from
each acre than from non-irrigated
acres in other areas of the community.
Prices received, due to earliness, were
practically double those received for
non-irrigated corn of the same age.
The average selling price was ap
. proximately $1.40 per crate. “When
l those figures are run up”, as Ward
says, “the total closely approaches
$3,000.”
Expanded production from the 3 to
bacco acres and that from the four
acres of garden vegetables should
push the total, in Ward’s estimation,
to well above $4,000.
“And that,” he likes to say, “is
more than enough to pay for my to
tal investment—including my pond
and my irrigation outfit.”
For an adequate water supply for
the 18 acres to be wetted it was nec
essary to excavate an 8 foot deep
pond 3/10 acre in size. The pond is
fed in times of rainfall from the in
termittent flow of a small ditch and
in other times from ground water.
The irrigation outfit consists of a
centrifrugal pump, aluminum pipe of
different sizes for main and lateral
lines, revolving sprinklers, and riser
pipes for over-top applications.
In his new venture of supplemen
tal irrigation Ward was assisted by
U. S. Soil Conservation Service tech
nicians working with the Albemarle
Soil Conservation District and col
laborating with the Chowan Soil Con
servationist, R. C. Jordan.
Joe P. Covington, S. C. S. Scientist,
made a land capability map from
which soil types, soil textures, and in
filtration rates Were determined.
William P. Weldon, S. C. S. Irriga
tion and Drainage Engineer designed
the irrigation outfit to fit Ward’s
conditions. Included in the Engineer’s
recommendations were application
rates for the given soil types, sprink
ler capacities, pipe sizes and pumping
pressures.
According to Jordan, several other
Chowan farmers have requested simi
lar assistance from the Edenton office
of the Soil Conservation Service.
These farmers will be furnished the
help they need to get a tailor-made
system for supplemental irrigation of
the soils on their particular farms, he
stated.
This service is available to farmers
who wish to set up irrigation sys
tems.
Brainy Gal
“Is my girl friend clever! She’s got
brains enough for two.”
“Then she’s just the girl you ought
to marry.”
Funeral Held For
Thos. AJmithwick
Prominent Merry Hill
Farmer Dies as Result
Os Auto Wreck
Funeral services were neld for Thos.
Allen Smithwick, 79, Merry Hill
farmer, Wednesday morning of last
week. Mr. Smithwick, who was a
frequent visitor in Edenton, died the
previous Monday night as the result
of an automobile accident Sunday.
Deceased was a native of Bertie
County and a prominent member of
the White Oak Methodist Church,
where services were held. He is sur
vived by his wife, Mrs. Martha Ja
cocks Smithwick; a daughter, Mrs. W.
J. Causey of Raleigh; two sons, R. P.
Smithwick of Windsor and W. J.
Smithwick of Rittman, Ohio; two sis
ters, Mrs. R.' L. Smith of Merry Hill
and Mrs. S. A. Adams of Merry Hill.
Burial was in Edgewood Cemetery at
Windsor.
Also injured in the wreck were Mrs.
Smithwick, who sustained a fractured
arm and leg and a sister, Mrs. R. L.
Smith, who received a broken arm.
Injured also in the wreck were Paul
Freeman, Negro driver of the ether
, automobile involved and his wife and
, daughter, All victims of the wreck
. were hospitalized in the hospital at
Windsor.
NEGRO CLUB PICNIC AUG. 28
The annual county-wide picnic of
the Negro home demonstration clubs
of Chowan County will be held Fri
day, August 28. It is also announced
' that the home demonstration clubs’
queen contest will be held Friday, Oc
; tober 30.
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SECTION TWO-
133 Receive Old Age
Assistance In June
During June 133 persons in Cho
wan County received old age assist
ance in the amount of $3,422. Ten aid
I to dependent children cases received
$378; 13 aid to blind cases received
$471 and nine aid to permanently and
totally disabled cases received $278.
According to the monthly report of
Mrs. J. H. McMullan, $35.02 was spent
for two general assistance cases and
other financial assistance included six
cases hospitalized in the county,
$312.50; one case hospitalized outside
the county, $17.27; one burial, $95 and
: one nursing case, sls.
Service cases included three adult
' parolees under supervision, four per
sons receiving free eye examinations
' through the N. C. State Commission
for the Blind, nine child labor certifi
cates issued, and 177 children receiv
■ ing individual service.
HIGH, LOW MASSES SUNDAY
EDENTON CATHOLIC CHURCH
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Every Sunday (except First Sunday
: of every month, when first Mass in
Palace Theatre, Windsor, at 8 A. M.),
■ a High Mass (Missa Cantata de Ange-
I lis) will be sung at BA. Mi, and a Low
. Mass celebrated at 11 A. M., EST,
; each including Sermon, Holy Com-
II munion, followed by Rosary in Honor
rl of Our Lady of Fatima for Conversion
:1 1 of Russia soon, Universal, Everlast
\ ing Peace, Sunday iScncol, with Con
t sessions for hour before Services, in
St. Ann’s Catholic Church, Edenton,
stated Father F, J. McCourt, Pastor,
I who invites everybody to all Services’,
f Week-days 7:30 A. M., Mass, Rosary,
s Saturdays 7:30 P. M., Choir meet.
I Through heaven and earth God’s
:’ will moves freely and I follow it, as
color follows light.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
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