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AROUND THE FARMS IH CHOWAN .-By C. W. OVERMAN, Chowan County Agent Colton Insect Situation The cotton situation in Chowan V jCounty is now looking quite sad. The dry weather during the past if two weeks has really affected cot ton and caused most yields to go Marvy of the newly r 'formed bolls are wilting and fall ing off. This is something grow ; - ers can do nothing about except |r, where irrigation can be applied. • By all means keep cultivating H equipment out of the fields un less absolutely necessary. The ten fields were surveyed again on Monday, July 22, to de l, termine the insect situation. In five fields properly treated to C control the boll weevil and other insects there was an average of two percent weevil punctured i |j squares. Less than one per cent * boll worm damage was observed. 1 Red Spider was getting a foothold in one field and the grower ad-j vised to dust immediately before! severe damage occurred. * The five undusted or particaliy dusted fields showed punctured square count ranging from 12% to 52%, averaging 36% of the squares punctured by boll weev-j il. In cjne field 15 live weevils, were found in the 100 squares ex i amined, in another 10 live weev- 1 ils were found, and in the other fields two or three live weevils were found in each. My advice to growers is to care ' fully exarnine your fields for boll worm damage. If and when the boll worm starts to work an ap-1 plication of 20 to 25 pounds of the J combination dust containing 2Vfe% j r Aldrin, 5% DDT, and 40% sul- , phur should be applied. This I Pond Fertilizing - Helps Grow Bass By JAMES H. GRIFFIN Soil Conservationist L. E. Francis of the Edenton community, discovered that fish ponds need to be fertilized regu larly to grow fish. He had been doing some fertilizing but not enough, according to an inspec tion of his pond by James R. Fielding of the U. S. Fish andi Wildlife Service. Fishing had been fair in his pond since it was stocked in 1952-53 with 700 blue gills and 70 bass but practically ■* no bass.had.been caugJU. , They just didn’t want to strike it seem ed. At one time he wondered if there were any bass in the pond. Finally, he set a wire trap in the , pond and caught a bass. In December, 1956, he enlarged 1 the pond to 1.2 acres to increase the amount of irrigation water. This lowered the fertility of the pond water. A request was then made through the Soil Conserva tion Service office for additional bass and advice on management. In June, Mr. Fielding came and with assistance of Mr. Francis and James H. Griffin, Jocal SCS tech nician, the pond was inspected, , A seine was uSed to catch the fish for a count of number, kind, and ratios. There were no signs of bass reproduction, a few shin ers, warmmouths, and good repro duction of bass. One large-mouth bass was examined and it was ip , poor condition. When the inspec tion was completed, it showed that‘food was low in the pond. What was happening was ‘hat the food supply was low apd the bass were only getting enough to maintain themselves with no re-, production. A pond needs to be fertilized about every 3 to 4 weeks using 100 pounds of 8-8-8 or 8 8-2 per acre. Where the water is For Rent UNFURNISHED 5-Room Apartment Hot Water . . . Kitchen Stove Refrigerator . . . Central Heat . . , First floor. FURNISHED 3-ROOM* Garage Apartment . . . with bath, stove and re frigerator. k 3-Bedroom Home 120 Morris Circle . . . Available now! v AVAILABLE NOW! 3-Bedroom Duplex Home Brick and Central Heat Route 17, North . . . No. 6 Pine Grove Terrace See or Call % | IGAMPEN-SMITH ESTATE - AUCTIONS Eden ton, N. C* combination dust will possibly come the nearest to cleaning out all insects damaging cotton in cluding the red spider unless the red spider infestation is very heavy. In the case of heavy red spider infestation 2% Parathion dust at the rate of 15 pounds per acre will be more effective. Cotton has now reached the point of no return, generally, even if rain does come. Some fields are still showing good square for mation in the top and controlling insects in these fields will cer tainly be beneficial if rain comes. Where fields are wilted and there are no young squares, about all the grower can expect is the bolls already formed. This is a sad sit uation but something we can do nothing about. Nickels For Know How and A Dime Per Bale For Colton A referendum is scheduled for August 23. Farm people in Cho wan County are urged to remem ber this date and go to the near est store and vote in this referen dum. County Fair Booth For State Fair Chowan County has been asked to stage a booth at the N. C. State Fair in October on the subject “More Dignity and Contentment in Country Living.” The Agricul tural Workers’ Council has had two meetings and have about de cided how to arrange the booth to exemplify the title. It will be necessary for some of our leading farm people both youth and adult, to render some assistance in pre paring this booth. More informa tion regarding this will be given in the near future. being used for irrigation, as this j pond is, an application more often is needed. The “bloom” in the water shall be maintained so that a bright object cannot be seen 12 to -18 inches below the surface. $205 .00VALUE For Only $179-»5 mmuX ' n _ I BIG HEAVY-DUTY [ j Bgfe I WRINGER % v * f||B'l WASHES BIG I _lO-LB^^ml ' H DOUBLE-WALL i^BBK|L S HEAT-RETAINING , Kjlgllll m TUB HnH % |||Hy^BßSß| Ojjjhw. . Regular washer value WRINGER WASHER / • f-Riy£ FREE *24.95 GIFTS—i GENUINE I PEARLWICk HAMPER CANNON RATH TOWELS v Horry! Offer good this week only white this special purchase lasts Western Gas Service, Inc. 204 S. Broad St. PHONE 3122 . Edmton, N. C. ■ THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1957. A “bloom” is a growth of micro scopic green plants which gives the water a green, blue-green, or yellow-green color. This bloom feeds a large pound age of small worms which are fed on by the bluegills. The bluegills spawn heavily when plenty of food is available and their off spring are fed on by the bass. Bass do most of their growing during' the summer and it is im portant in keeping the correct ra tio of bream to tJass by having plenty of food available. These bass, if well fed, will reproduce the following spring. The important “thinning'' of the bluegill population by the bass begins in October, following their spawning season. Summer ferti lizer will insure plenty of small bluegills for bass growth at that time. : i * T flf A farm pond furnishes one of the best examples of Nature’s cycles. First, a microscopic plant algae) must be grown to furnish food for the small worms to feed. The worms, in turn, are fed on by the bluegills who reproduce young fingerlings. These young bluegills are fed on by the large mouth bass. Some of the young bass and eggs are etaten by the bluegills. Good ponds and good fishing requires summer fertilization to make this cycle run smoothly. Next year’s bass crop depends on it. COMPLETES COURSE Joseph M. Thorud, local repre sentative of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance Company and Nationwide Life Insurance Company at Edenton, is one of 47 sales representatives who has completed a group insurance workshop earlier; this week in Fayetteville, conducted by the Companies’ training department. 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