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SOIL CONSERVATION NEWS
By JAMES H. GRIFFIN, Soil Conservationist
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Following: is an interesting
article written by Rad Bailey,
Edgecombe County /Conserva
tionist :
This fellow was telling his friend
about something and his friend
shaking his head, refusing to
accept it as pure, unvarnished
truth. It was considerably more
than a reasonable man could be ex-1
pecied to believe. I
Finally the friend said, “Old
Buddy, you wouldn’t have believed
that yourself if you hadn’t seen
it, would you?”
“I sure wouldn’t,” this ffellow j
said.
“Well, Old Buddy, I ain’t seen
' it!!’
That little incident really took ,
place in Alabama over fifty years
ago. Now that’s far removed from
the present day in Chowan Coun
ty—both in terms of time and if I
distance—but I’m telling it now lor |
a purpose. j;
Just exactly and precisely how
will it serve its purpose. I don’t :
know. But today it has to do with,:
crotalaria and the things it can dc
for our sandy, thirsty fields right 1
here in our county.
Crotalaria is a tall growing sum- '
mer legume. And of course you ;
know that a legume is one of those '
plants which team up with cer
tain bacteria and together they
manufacture and store up nitro
gen which previously had been ■
ii Candidate For j
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Councilman-at-Large I
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Os Edenton
After serious consideration and urging on the part of
many friends, I have decided to seek election as a mem-
ber of the Board of Public Works in the Edenton Muni
cipal election May 7,1957. I have had several years' ex
perience with the town's government as a member of
Town Council and feel that I am acquainted with its
functions. If elected, I will devote my efforts to the best
interest and welfare of Edenton as a whole.
It te impossible for metb contact all voters personally
but nevertheless I earnestly solicit your vote and sup
port, which will be greatly appreciated.
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Walter M. Wilkins
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floating around in the air.
That process in itself is one of
nature’s miracles. But that’s not
today’s subject. Othes of our le
gumes do the same thing. Such
as soybeans, field peas, lespedeza,
crimson clover, vetch. Just for the
heck of it I’ll mention that a locust
tree is also a legume,
i Skipping along like a county
I barber, that’s what I’m doing. I’d
better get back where I belong."
Crotalaria isn’t remarkable for
just being a legume. It is remark
| able for being able to do such an
I excellent job of soil building on
sandy land too poor to sprout peas.
It does this in two ways—by
adding nitrogen to the land and by
adding tons and tons of organic
matter to the one group of our
soils which undoubtedly need it the
most.
Since nothing will eat crotalaria
—not green, not dry, not cured, not
at all—l firmly believe the Goo' 1
Lord put it here to be used for soi 1
improvement on our poorest sand
iest land.
Following that same line o'
thought. I am truly convinced th.V
the .man who first introduced oro
talaria to our part of the work’
right then and there went a lon'
way toward earning a reservation
in Heaven.
But. to get back again, crotalarir
has still other advantages in its* fa
vor—and, of course, all the advan
THE CHOWAN HERALD
tages are in favor of the farmer
who plants crotalaria where he
J needs it.
Crotalaria does not need to be
| artificially inoculated. You know
when you inoculate a legume you
put the special kind of bacteria in
the ground when you sow the seed.
Crotalaria’s special variety of bac
teria is already in our Chowan
soils. And that makes its nice.
Crotalaria doesn’t require lime
as do a number of our legumes.
And it’s not fussy when it comes
to fertilizer, although it does re
spond very well to moderate
amounts of phosphate and potash
Crotalaria can be seeded alone.
It can he seeded right on top of
rmall grain. It can be seeded ir
"om at laying-by time. It’s adapt
able, that’s what it is.
Seeded alone it can make the
best show. That’s because it can
get an early start and not have
to compete with other plants sor 1
fowl and moisture. Come fro s’
and it’ll be almost head high to a
basketball player.
Seeded with small grain it bp.
haves very much as does lespe
deza seeded with grain. It comes |
•ip and more or less bides its time
mtil the grain is harvested. The
t. does a whale of a job of catch
ing up, making up pretty well for
ost time.
Seeded in corn middles at the
'ust last cultivation it acts prett?
much the same way. It comes u
ind seems to just mess along unti
he com is about made. Then i'
gets in high gear or overdrive rt
omething, and you can almost sec
‘he stuff growing. And whe>
'rost comes you have your con
■rop and a whole lot of crotalari r
‘oo.
Another thing, crotalaria and
nematodes just naturally don’t ge
along together. I guess that’s be
-ause even the nematodes won’*
-■at crotalaria and when nematodes
don’t eat they die. Thus yoe
might say that crotalaria is onr
of the home-grown medicines which
has really made good.
! I could go on about the wonders
of this miracle plant so well suit
ed to so many acres right here in
our county. But if I’ve gone far
enough to get you interested to the
point of wanting to do a little
•Sdtftvr-ftw-yworsfelf, then fve jfohe
far enough.
You plant a few acres, or even
a few tenths, on the very poorest,
sorriest, sandiest, thirstiest land
you have and you’ll find out for
sure whether or not your soil con
servationist needs to be run out
of the county *
j You try some crotalaria. I’il
I take my chances.
P. S. You can earn some ACP
money tn your crotalaria* if yo.
handle it through H. O. West’s
ASC office. I’ll be glad to talk
with you about it if you wish.
How About Trade-In Value
“Won’t you spend more than 50
pounds on my ring? I wanted a
dearer one.”
“All right, dear. We’ll buy it
on credit, then it will cost sixty
I pounds.”
j Crotalaria For Soil Bank Land )!
By C. W. OVERMAN, Chowan County Agent J|
Chowan County farmers are
showing considerable interest in
using crotalaria as a cover crop on
land placed on the Soil Bank this
year. The Giant Striata variety is
being recommended/
Chowan County agriculture
workers agreed that crotalaria
would perhaps be one of the best j
cover crops for land placed in the]
Soil Bank thi* year, particularly on j
sandy, light Land and on medium,
or mixed land. Since nothing can
he harvested or grazed from the
land this year, crotalaria fills the .
bill. The Giant Striata variety :*■
being recommended as this varie
ty will not likely reseed in this
climate. Crotalaria is an excellent
soil improvement legume, should
make sufficient fats growth to
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CONSUMER INSTALLMENT CREDIT
How it Grew, m 1956
OWED END OF 195 S OWED END OF 1956
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Federal Reserve Board econo
mists recently issued a- special re- i
port on consumer installment cred-1
it, initially sparked by the rapid j
$5.5 billion expansion in this kind
of credit in 1955. However, in 1956
this debt increased by only $2.5
billion.
At the start of 1956, consumer
installment credit outstanding
'amounted to $29.0 billion, and by
the end of the year was $31.5 bil
lion. Underlying that $2.5 billion
increase in 1956 was a tremendou
amount of activity in the form of
hew installment credit extended to
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I keep down weeds and grass if the
| land is well prepared in advance of
seeding and should control noxious .
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j weeds as is necessary under the j
j Soil Bank program. The Giant’
J Striata variety should be seeded j
broadcast at the rate of ten pounds I
j of seed per acre.
] Quite a number of farmers par
| ticipating ir. the soil hank program
plan to use crotalaria as their cov
!er crop on Soil Bank land this
j year. At least two local seed deal
ers are stocking seed. Farmers
who have not decided on what cov- ;
i er crop to u.>e could wisely consider
1 this variety of crotalaria since it
should not reseed and he trouble- -
some in peanuts or other crops to ]
follow this year.
consumers for the purpose of pur-
I chasing automobiles, furniture, re
j pairs and modernization of homes,
j medical services and other consum
er wants entailing rather large ex
i; penditures.
At the same time a tremendous
amount of repayment of credit pre
■ viously received was taking place.
This is graphically illustrated in
the chart.
Consumers started the year with
installment debt of $29 billion. In
the course of tile next 12 months
they borrowed $39.6 billion —hut
' during the same period they were
busily paying back earlier debts to
the tune of $37.1 billion.
I Since the amount borrowed dur
j ing the year was only $2.5 billion
more than the amount repaid in
same year, the outstanding install
ment debt was increased by only
, this $2.5 billion difference.
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To promote their free moth
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of Edenton is giving away three
all expense paid trips, one each to
Free Europe; Havana, Cuba; and
Palm Beach. Each trip is for two
and includes round trip air trans
portation.
To be eligible to win a second'
honeymoon trip one must register
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There are no slogans or essays
to write and no purchase 's re
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The winners will he announced in ■
July.
Tnnior GA Rally At
Warwick On May 10
Mrs. L. C. Briggs, Associational
Counselor, announces that a Junior
GA Rally will he held at the War
wick Raptist Church Friday after-1
noon. May 10, at 4 o’clock.
The guest speaker will he the
Rev. R. F,. Gordon, a returned mis
sionary. An interesting program
is planned and a large attendance
is expected.
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