For Grades K-12
TV Instruction Slated
Parents of public school
children in Edenton-Chowan
Schools will be given the
'opportunity to look in on
* some instructional
television that children in
grades K-12 can benefit
from during the school day
as part of their classroom
activities as a result of the
cooperative efforts' of the
UNC-TV Network and the
State Department of Public
Instruction:
Four evenings in Sep
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Kay Slades
Kay Slades
Is Awarded
Scholarship
The board of directors of
the Center-Hill Crossroads
Fire Department have
selected Kay Slades as the
1977 recipient of a S2OO
scholarship known as the
Liza Elliott Fire Depart
ment Scholarship.
She was chosen for her
over-all grade average in
t* high school, participation in
"School, church, and com
v*^^ctiv.ties.
m ßf Slades is a 1977
grumPi of Chowan High
School And is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. C.W. Slades of
Edenton. She plans to
further her education in the
field of physical education.
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work with the state
education agency will show
teachers, school ad
ministrators, parents, and
others that instructional
television offers high
quality programming for
students in the classroom.
"School Television
Previews” will feature ITV
series for grades K-6 on
Monday and Tuesday,
September 5-6, from 8 P.M.
to 9 P.M. A different one
hour program will be shown
, each evening. Instructional
television for students in
junior and senior high
schools will be previewed
the following week on
Monday and Tuesday,
September 12-13. A different
special preview program
will be aired each evening
from 8 P.M. to 9 P.M.
This awareness project is
designed to highlight the
strength of instructional
television and show that ITV
should be an essential part
of the child’s learning
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Rate Revised
Paul H. Henson, chairman
of United Telecom
munications, Inc., and L. S.
Blades, HI, president of
Norfolk Carolina Telephone
Company, have announced
that the proposed exchange
of 1.2 shares of United stock
for one of Norfolk Carolina
has been revised by mutual
agreement to 1.1 shares of
United for each of the ap
proximately 780,000 shares
of Norfolk Carolina.
The adjustment was
occasioned by a reduction in
the toll revenues previously
stated by Norfok Carolina as
expected from settlements
with the Bell System.
Norfolk Carolina’s board
of directors have approved
the revised exchange
proposal in principle, but
consummation of the
acquisition is subject to the
preparation of satisfactory
dbcumenttr'snd final a{F
proval by the boards of
directors of both cor
porations, appropriate
regulatory bodies and the
stockholders of Norfolk
Carolina.
Norfolk Carolina served
12,940 telephones in
southeastern Virginia and
40,384 telephones in north
eastern North Carolina at
the end of 1976. United
Telcom operates the United
Telephone System, the
nation’s third largest
telephone system, serving
3.6-million telephones and
3,000 communities in 21
states, including North
Carolina and Virginia.
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SECTION-C Edenton, North Carolina, Thursday, August 25,1977 SECTION-C
Corn Crop Yield Estimated
RALEIGH—The Crop
Reporting Service of the
N.C. Department of
agriculture has estimated
the current drought will
drop 1977 com yields for the
state to 53 bushels per acre.
This spells disaster for
many of our farmers and
will cause a general belt
tightening throughout our
economy.
Some farmers can
remember when an average
of 50 bushels per acre was a
bragging yield. Fifty bushel
yields now leave little or
nothing above cost of
production. A. L. Hatfield,
agronomist with the
Agronomic Division of the
Department of Agriculture,
traces some of the struggle
that has made 15Q bushel
yields common and raised
the “impossible” yield
above 200 bushels.
Southern agriculture
boomed during the
Napoleonic wars but peace
in Europe cut foreign
demand for tobacco and
grain from the new world.
The boom-to-bust cycle,
however, had already taken
it’s toll. Early efforts
toward land management
reform and failed, and
under continuous clean
cultivation and the stimulus
of a profitable market,
exploitation had produced
guiiied and unproductive
tar ms throughout the South.
Land and abandoned and
poverty with its ac
companying demoralization
prevailed.
While many southern
farmers were going west in
search of virgin land, a
young man named Edmond
Ruffin began farming in
Prince George County,
Virginia. He soon concluded
that the poverty of the south
was caused largely by
neglect and bad
management of the soil.
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the prevailing theory that
abandonment of poor soil
and clearance of virgin land
was the only recourse.
Ruffin tried repeatedly to
grow clover as a soil im
provement crop on eroded
land and, after many
failures, observed that it
would grow on calcareous
soil or where he applied
marl or sea shells.
Amid the jeers of neigh
bors, who referred to his
farm as “Ruffin’s Folly,” he
patiently acquired scientific
books from Europe,
developed soil tests and
checked his procedures on
soil samples from as far
away as Alabama.
Ruffin believed that
carbonate of lime acted
somehow to unlock the
fertility of the soil. He soon
found that lime or manure
alone was not enough, but if
both lime and manure were
applied, crops responded
dramatically. His ex
periments, begun in 1818
and continued for 26 years,
proved beyond doubt that
lime was the key material
needed to rebuild the
eroded, barren soils found
throughout the South. Thus
began the tedious task of
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rebuilding the soil that
would return the South to
agricultural prominence.
The test of time proved
many of Ruffin’s theories to
be essentially correct, but
little real progress was
made in the next 100 years.
After moving to a new farm
in 1845, in three years
Ruffin’s corn yield in
creased from 14 to 28
bushels per acre. Corn
yields in North Carolina
were averaging less than 20
bushels per acre in 1939.
At this time, however, a
growing groups of
professionals called
agronomists were being
mentioned in some circles.
Agronomists adapt the pure
sciences such as chemistry,
physics and genetics to
problems related to soil
management and crop
production. Conducting
educational programs
related to soil and crop
management is an equally
important activity of the
agronomist.
North Carolina attracted
a good share of these new
professionals and soil
testing was gaining in im
portance to Tar Heel far
mers. The 1939 General
53 Bushels/Acre
Assembly recognized the
importance of soil testing to
the overall economy of the
state and enabled the N. C.
Department of Agriculture
to offer a free testing ser
vice. The new laboratory,
which is now part of the
Agronomic Division, began
to supply some scientific
basis for the use of lime and
chemical fertilizer which
had largely replaced Ruf
fin’s animal manure.
In the ensuring years the
push by Tar Heel farmers
for more knowledge and a
better share of the nations
wealth has but North
Carolina among the top ten
states in the nation in total
cash farm income. Average
corn yields for the state, in a
normal year, are inching
above 80 bushels per acre
and average farm yields of
150 bushels are being
reported.
All the soil fertility
problems have not been
solved. Despite Ruffin’s
early demonstration of the
importance of lime and 150
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years of experience in
coping with the problem,
Hatfield noted that soil
acidity is still the number
one fertility problems in
North Carolina. Soil, like
other segments of our en
vironment, is a dynamic
system. “We can fix it today
but it will change by
tomorrow and by next year
it may need to be fixed
again.”
Tar Heel farmers are not
as inflexible now as they
were in Ruffins time. He
became somewhat bitter
because none would heed his
advice. Today a competent
adviser is seldom without an
audience.
“The state laboratory is
now being asked" to test
more than 100,000 soil
samples each year to grow
crops that are the primary
source of the money flowing
through our pockets,”
Hatfield said.
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