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SECTION THREE AROUND THE FARMS] §39pl\ CHOWAN COUNTY 7 By C. W. OVERMAN. Chowan County Agent Planning For 1960 should be| under way on every farm and in every home now. Likewise, planning for Extension work for next year must also be done now. Each fall Agricultural Ergten- ' sion workers have to make plans for the next year’s work. Frankly, we are not getting enough help from you people out in the county. The women are doing a much better job than the men. We need youri help in answering the following | * questions. What are the needs on your, farm and in your home? This refers to income, needed im-1 proved practices, farm and home, improvements and so on. What' are the main needs in your community? What are one or two main needs in Chowan County? What are a few things ; you would particularly like to have us help you work on next year? We want to make Extension work most effective in helping you on your farm, in your home, in your community and in the j County as a whole. We know j w hat a lot of needs are and j try to channel our program of, work along these lines. Often, | we put effort, sometimes much effort, to solve ,needs that we | think are very important but our farm people don’t see it that way, the effort doesn’t appeal to them, and we accomplish very y little. We want to spend our time and place our efforts where we can help you peoDle solve l£e problems and meet your needs as you want us to and as you see them. Please give us your suggestions right away so that we can do better planning for the coming year. From the standpoint of specialist help it is necessary to plan well in advance. Our spe cialists formulate their schedules for the ,100 counties based upon | the plans of work we send in by | early November. After’ they have set up their schedule it is often difficult for us to get them on a special request. We need jiour help in order that we might help you most effectively. What Is Wrong With Cotton In Chowan County? As I see it, the main problem is our method of harvesting. Yesterday, I stopped by J ; m { Ward’s gin. I was very frank in my discussion with Mr. Ward. [ We went out to the gin house and he showed me seed cotton j ' jn the bins. One large pile of | Cotton on the floor had leaves,! burrs, green unopened blocks,! and other trash in it. Mr. Ward; told me that he had bought that; cotton and then asked me what ; he could do with it. I told him fi / - Cardigan, slipover, casual, l jn' v dressy, classic or brand new I II f fix fA for fall: your sweater mwc'.- f THE CHOWAN HERALD | that it looked like to me he had bought a lot of trash that he would most likely lose money on. Mr. Ward also showed me the cotton in the bins, some of which 'was about as bad as that on the floor but one particular bin looked very good. Mr. Ward in formed me that cotton picking is getting poorer each year. I was frank to tell him that he was as much at fault as anybody, i He told me that he was paying I nine cents per pound for seed j cotton. I asked him if he cut , the price any for poorly picked cotton or paid a premium for I well picked cotton. He told me | that he paid the same for all of 1 it. My answer was, “You are paying a premium for poorly picked cotton and penalizing the man who does a good job, which isn’t right.” I suggested 1 that ‘he cut the price on cotton that was brought in trashy, damp or otherwise not like it should be, and that he pay a premium for a good grade of seed cotton. He tcild me that !if he cut the price on poorly j picked cotton the grower would 1 get mad and take his cotton somewhere else. I informed him that I thought he would be bet ter off if the trashy cotton did [go somewhere else at the same ! price. « This system of grading seed cotton would probably hurt him a year or two but no doubt other ginners who buy cotton in the seed would likewise fall in line and then it would work it self out. In this way tha seed cotton buyer would pay as near as possible a price comparable to the product he is purchasing. Chowan County used to pro duce right much middling grade cotton. Most of our cotton grades low middling and some striot low middling. The dif ference between the pries of middling cotton and low middling is approximately $35 | per bale. Most of the time the difference between these grades is the way the cotton is picked. We have a reputation for pro ducing low grade cotton and we will keep this reputation just as (long as we continue to pick cot ton as we are doint;. The solu tion to this problem lies first vyith the grower and second with the seed cotton buyer. Warwick Swamp Watershed lies both in Gates County and jin Chowan County. Interest has "been shown by some cf the j farmers in this watershed in | working out a watershed dram ' age and management project I with Federal aid. Yesterday, j James Griffin and I met w : th j Gates County Agent A. New some and the Gates County Soil ' Conservationist. We decided r 4 ~~ — - Edenton Aces Preparing To Meet Powerful Wallace-Rose Hill Team Friday \ : -■srfSWk yfc;, bp IK* ±4 Blippbmfa-.Ajir lo liflft^99 -ML . 7 jiJL p m Piciurad above is the lineup tor the Ed.nton Aces when they meet the powerful Wallace-Rose Hill team on Hicks Field Friday nghi at 8 o'clock. At jest end is Fred Britton; left tackle, Wayne Baker; left guard, jimmy White; center, Johnny Forehand; right guard, Minton Small; right tackle, Donald Fairclolh; right end, Johnny Phillips; quarterback, Lloyd Lassiter; left haifb ack, Richard Dixon; fullback, Bubba Hopkins and right halrback, Jerry loi.ey.— (Photo by James H. Griffin). upon a plan whereby we might get information to the people; in this watershed in order that they may intelligently decide whether they want a watershed: project. Many farms on the watershed ; sit high and dry, so to speak, j and owners often don’t see any need for a. watershed project, j Some of these farms have errs-j ion problems which need to be j checked. All farmers need to! look at a watershed project asi a community or area improve- j ment. In the end, every fa:m er will benefit -by his invest-1 ment. The farmer who has land subject to drowning- or flooding I will be helped most and natural-_ ly he will pay most. i We hope that you farmers in the Warwick Swamp watershed j area will give serious considera-! tion to the opportunity and that : you will attend a meeting in 1 your community when it is held to learn all you can about the regulations and method of par ticipation. A New Sweet Potato House is planned to be r°ady for | tom curing and storage about .October 1. This house is-locat ‘ ed at the Home Feed & Fertiliz . er Company and under the man j agement of Gilliam Wood and 1 Haywood Jones. ‘ It is my understanding that | the operators will be in the mar ket for purchasing sweet pota- I toes as well as commercial s or | age. This should be a definite I asset to the community. No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain. —Aristophanes. In an honest man there is al ways something of a child. , —Martial. I'"”'”' * j fSo Comment v. —- /- By JAMES W. DOUTHAT ; Assistant Vice rreaident. Government Itelutioiis llivision of the National ; Absociatioii of Manufacturers 'NO COMMENT" is a report of ! j incidents on the national scenes I ’nd does not necessarily reflect i MAM policy or position. j Washington, D. C.—The labor) ! reform measure passed by Con- j ! gress is generally regarded on ! Capitol Hill as the best that j ; could be obtained under the cir- j cumstances. Legislatcrs who had advocated | a strong measure were gieatly ’ pleased at the result. The bill | was not all that they had desir ! ed. But it constituted a step in | the right direction. 1 This group was highly grati -1 lied that such effective legisla j tion came from a Congress which j had been considered by many j a few months earlier to be strongly pro-labor. J The explanation given fqr the j outcome was this: the power of public opinion. An irresiatable demand arose from the grass roots for legis i lation to curb the evils exposed j by the Senate Rackets Commit | tee, headed by Senator McClel len (D-Ark.). This was stimulated in a num ber of ways: by aroused Sena ; tors and Representatives, by | President Eisenhower, by na ! tional, state and local organiza tions; and by many other advo cates of good government. This produced a bill which I was fairly close to the Lan ! drum-Griffin measure originally ' passed by the House over the protest of union bosses. | The bipartisan bill, by Repre sentatives Landrum (D.-Ga.) and Griffin (R-Mich.) was subs.itut |ed on the House floor for the completely ineffective bill re i ported by the House Labor Com j mittee. Then a House-Senate Confer ence Committee, after 12 days of negotiations, succeeded in rec j onciling the differences between ‘ the House-passed bill and the j measure by Senator Kennedy i (D-Mass.) which had been ap proved earlier by the Senate. | Agreement came fairly easy on I the first six sections containing I anti-racketeering provisions. But there was vigorous and prolong- \fr Model cs-i • AUTOMATIC DEFROST • new ' • Full-width porcelain crisper • Dairy Keeper • Egg nest I 1 "™™ , ~ ' "' ' I NORGE 11 ',!: REFRIGERATOR with today’s most wanted features at a never-before price! • Distinctive "Built-In" styling • Full-width porcelain crisper • Full-width chill tray • Color-styled interior • Complete Handidor storage • 5-year protection plan BF Only *219- |||j ' M*d*l 0-11 * WITH TRADE^ SOLD, SERVICED AND GUARANTEED EY YOUR NORGE QUALITY DEALER! Colonial Furniture Co. 1! Broad Street PHONE 2219—“ WHERE YOUR HOME BEGINS” C. - ej ce.iuove-i y ue.ore a meet ing of minds was reached on the seventh section—dealing with lalt-Hartley amendments to curb secondary boycotts and organiza tional picketing, and to settle the 1 “no-man’s-land” controversy by ! giving the states more authority to handle labor disputes. At the conclusion of the Con ference Committee negotiations, j even Senator Kennedy pro- 1 nounced the final product “sat-1 isfactory” and said he support- 1 ed it “wholehearted.” I But there was no delay in pointing out that additional leg-, islation was needed to curb the) monopoly power of union bosses' —and that the campaign must Thursday, September 17, 1959 EDENTON, NORTH CAROLINA ! be continued until such a meas ure is enacted. Senator Goldwater (R-Ariz.) mentioned this objective only a few minutes after the Senate had been advised of the Con-; ference Committee agreement, i After explaining that he 1 strongly favored the proposed legislation, he added: “'Naturally, I should like to see this body continue to seek leg ! islation which will tend to curb, (reduce or equalize the almost I unparalleled power which re-: I sides in the leadership of some ; jof our unions; but that is a problem for the coming ses sion.” A number of his colleagues in 1 both the Senate and the House! agree that more legislation is needed. Many share the view of industry that such legislation 1 should include placing unions under the antitrust laws, a se cret strike ballot, regulation of union political activities, curbing compulsory unionism, and res toration of traditional states’ rights. i PROMOTED IN GERMANY Harmon E. White, son of Mr.! and Mrs. Leon E. White of Edenton, recently was promoted to Private First Class in Bam berg, Germany, where he is a. member of the 2d Armored Cav-1 1 airy Regiment. j White, a tank driver in Com- ■ pany E of the regiment's 2d , Battalion in Pambrru. entered the Army in July, 1957 and ar j rived in Europe in February, ! 1958. I I j i MASONS MEET TONIGHT I A stated communicapon of Unanimity Lodge No. 7, A. F. Sc ,A. ‘ M., will be held tonight at j 8 o’clock. Ernest J. Ward, Jr., 1 master, urges all members to at tend. Will Feeding Hogs To Heavier Weights Pay? The most critical question in the hog feeding business is, “When should I sell?” And the J question becomes even more im- I portant this year. Fred A. Mangum, Jr., farm management specialist for the N. C. Agricultural Extension Service, says that dur.ng the past four years average price for hogs in North Carolina from Au , gust to November has dropped | $2.42 per hundred pounds. That’s a dilference of $4.84 per 200 ■ pound animal. With a 12 per cent increase ’in this year’s spring pig crop, j the price drop is likely to be even greater this fall, declares Mangum. I The question hog feeders must decide, says the specialist, is whether to sell their hogs early to take advantage of these prices or to feed their hogs to a great er weight with the relatively cheap corn that is avaiiab’e. j Two disadvantages .of feeding I hogs to heavier weights are (1) ! feed conversion rate is not as ! favorab'e above 200 pounds, and (2) declining hog prices. If hogs are selling at sl4 and coin is 1 costing you sl.lO per bushel, you must receive at least $13.42 to I pay feed co t alone if you add I an additional 25 pounds of gain. ! Since around 80 per cent of the cost of sending a hog to mar ked is feed, the greatest oppor tunity for profits lies in manag ing feed. I Getting hoes on the early mar , ket may well mean the differ*- I ence between profit and loss this year, declares Mangum. Do the duty that lies nearest thee which thou knoweth to be a duty! The second duty will al ready become clearer. —Carlyle.
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