*rmiRSPAY, MAY 22, 1930
INTERESTING S
FACTS FOR
FARMERS
TIMELY HINTS |
ON GROWING
CROPS. 1
News of the Week on
Chatham County
Farms
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A good flock of sheep furnishes
an inspiring picture to those inter
ested in livestock, but when these
*heep happen to be grazing on
good pasture, the sight is doubly
inspiring. Last Thursday, we dropped
in to see Mr. J. W. Womble, pro
minent farmer near Pittsboro, and
while there we saw some thirty
ewes and lambs grazing a five
ocre field of white dutch clover.
There was a perfect stand of clover
on this field, yet Mr. Womble
declared that he had never seeded •
clover on this pasture, the growth ,
coming naturally. !
These are two thnigs that
farmers in this county should give
more attention to; Sheep and White j
Dutch Clover. J
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Mr. U. J. Dark in the Hickory '
Mountain community has eight acres !
of corn almost knee high. This |
corn was planted early and has |
been worked thoroughly, fertilized .
and cultivated well, and shows it. |
Mr. Dark is cooperating with the
County Agent in growing this corn ;
in the corn contest.
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Mr. Hamp Ferguson, Prominent
Hickory Mountain farmer has
about the largest field of corn in
one body that we have seen. He
lias appromixately twenty five acres
just across the highway from his
home in corn. This corn is also
almost kne high, and already shows
the effect of good fertilization,
good soil preparation and thorough
cultivation. j
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“On one side of a field on our
farm, native Japan clover has been
growing for years”, declared R. H.
Thomas of Siler City RFD 5 re
cently . “We noticed that where
this Japan clover grew, we always;
made our best crops” continued
Mr. Thomas. “The soil here was a
rocky flinty natured one, and very
shallow. Nevertheless, Japan Clover
thrived here, and when plowing,
one could always find this side of
the field in better condition than
the rest. This was all I needed to
convince me of the value of Les
pedeza, and three years ago, I
seeded some of the improved |
strains with such success that I ;
doubled my acerage the following
year, and hope eventually to gee 1
my whole farm in Lespedeza.” Mr.
Thomas stated that he cut a large
quantity of Lespedeza hay last
year and found it to be of excellent
quality.
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Mr. Lee Harmon seeded three
acres of sweet clover this spring
with spring oats with good results.
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DON’T take any chances with this year’s
crops. Side-dress them with Chilean
Nitrate of Soda—the world’s only natural
I nitrate fertilizer. With prices and conditions
as they are, it is more important than ever
to make every acre produce to the very limit.
Chilean Nitrate increases yield and qual
ity. Brings late planted crops into quick
maturity. It is the “make-sure” food for
every crop you grow.
On cotton crops, 1,007 supervised demon
strations showed a return of $5.70 for every
dollar invested in Chilean Nitrate. On corn,
526 demonstrations showed that every
dollar brought back $3.40.
. Chilean 4
Nitrate of Soda
EDUCATIONAL BUREAU
403 Professional Bldg., Raleigh, N. C.
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Farm News j
i Edited by N. C. SHIVER, County Agt.
Mr. Harmon seeded sweet clover'
last year with good results also
and hopes eventually to get his
land in condition for alfalfa through
the growing of sweet clover.
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In addition to being a splendid
soil improving and hay crop, vetch
is just about the prettiest of our
legumes when in full bloom. Last
Thursday, we saw a field of vetch
on the farm of Mr. W. D. Burns
of Moncure RFD 2 that was in full
bloom and just ready to cut or
turn under. Mr. Burns seeds vetch
for hay and soil improving and has
been getting good results from it.
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FARM TOUR for CHATHAM
FARMERS
J During the “Laying-By” seasons,
when farmers have their crops off
their hands for the present, and
i when there is nothing on the farm
J that demands immediate attention,
| thoughts turn to vacations and
I travels. There is nothing that stim-
I ulates better farming or that fur
; nishes a better vacation for a farmer
I than a farm tour. On a tour,
I farmers are enabled to see how
j farming is done in other sections,
i the travel takes their mind off of
things that may be worrisome and
i they usually come back home from
such a tour with an added inspira
tion for year’s work and also with
valuable information picked up by
observing “How the other fellow
■ does it.”
Last year for the first time, a
tour of the county was held.
Farmers from the eastern and
western sections of the county
visited each other and visited the
various demonstrations that had
been undertaken that year. This
; year, it is our hope to take a group
of farmers on a tour out of the
state and county, through the
dairying and fruit sections of Vir
ginia winding up the trip at Wash
ington and coming back home
through the famed Valley of Vir
ginia. A schedule for
this tour has been arranged. This
schedule calls for a stop at Char
lottesville, Va., the first night, visits
among the dairies and commercial
apple orchards in the vicinity of
Charlottesville, and a visit to Monti
cello, home of Thomas Jefferson.
According to this schedule, the next
two days would be spent at Orange,
Va., visiting the dairy herds in this
i section, and also Montpelier, the
home of James Madion, now owned
by the DuPont family, and the home
l of a famous herd of Jerseys. The
trip would be continued to Wash
ington, D. C., where two days vvould
be spent in visiting points of inter
est at the national capital. Con
tinuing the trip from here, the trip
would be made through the moun
tain and blue grass section of Vir
ginia, including Winchester, natural
Bridge, Mammoth Caves and the
Order Yoif
We can supply your side-dressing
requirements. But don’t wait too long.
Get your order in at once to make
sure of a paying crop.
We recoisiimemd aaid sell
Ofillean Nitjrate of Seda
Chatham Oil & Fert. Co., Pittsboro
V.-v.
Siler City Mills, Siler City, N. C.
THE CHATHAM RECORD, PITTSBORO. N. C.
I DOINGS OF |
CHATHAM
FARMERS
STOCK FARMING,
POULTRY,
ETC.
State College at Blacksburg, from
there coming in to Roanoke and
and then home. Stops at points of
interest would be made along the
way.
The above arrangement is tenta
tive, and the final arrangement, and
the possibility of holding the tour
depends of course on the number of
farmers that are willing to partici
pate. Expenses will be kept down
as low as possible, and while they
have not been estimated, the trip
will be made as cheaply as possible,
and at the same time as pleasurable
as possible. The county agent would
like to have suggestions from any
farmers in the county who have
any to offer regarding the routing
of this tour, and we hope that a
large number of Chatham farmers
will go. In case the tour is ar
ranged, the trip will take seven to
ten days. The county agent would
like to hear from any farmers who
may be interested, and we hope that
every farmer in the county will
take an active interest in this tour
and help us make it a success.
ALAMANCE JERSEY BREEDERS
WILL HOLD BANQUET
At seven p. m., Friday, May 29,
there will be held a dairymen’s and
Jersey breeders’ banquet, at Mel
ville Dairy farm No. 2 operated by
W. Kerr Scott of Haw River. Mr.
Scott is inviting all of the breeders
and dairymen in Alamance, Chat
ham, Orange an<T Guilford counties
to attend this banquet. A splendid
meal is being arranged by the
ladies’ auxiliary of Haw Fields
church at 75 cents per plate, and
the Robeson String Band of Bethel
community will furnish plenty of
wholesome music.
Mr. Scott states that he would
be pleased to have those who would
care to look over the pastures and
cattle to come earlier than the ban
quet hour. Mr. Scott also asks that
anyone expecting to come let him
know beforehand in order that Tne
ladies may know the number of
plates to prepare.
This banquet takes place the
night before the sale of Jersey Cat
tle at Mebane. The county agent
hopes that some of our dairymen
and breeders will attend this ban
quet, and we also hope that a repre
sentative crowd of Chatham folk
will be on hand the following day
at noon at the fair grounds at Me
bane for the sale.
CHATHAM SOIL ADAPTED TO
GROWING GRASSES
The other day we happened to
be walking through a farmer’s pas
ture, discussing cows, lespedeza and
various other things. In connection
with cows, the question of pastures
naturally came up, and the farmer
asked us to identify some clovers
and grasses that he said had al
ways been in this pasture. This man
had growing in his pasture a mix
ture' of four grasses and two clovers
that to his knowledge had never
been seeded there. The grasses were
Dallis grass, orchard grass, red top
and Kentucky blue grass. The clov
ers were W hite Dutch and lespe
deza. . I
Not only do we find these mix- >
tures growing without seeding in
this man’s pasture, but in a num
ber of other pastures in the county.
Now this does not mean that we
do not have to seed pastures. Quite
the contrary; it means that we ;
should seed more of these grasses 1
and clovers, giving them a better
chance, as a result of the way in
which they have already taken hold.
RECENT RAINS GREAT HELP
TO CROPS
The ranis this week could not
have been more timely. Young pas
tures and clovers and lespedeza
seeded this spring were drying -mp,
cotton was not up, and corn also
showed the effects of the drouth.
Quite a number of farmers had not
seeded soy beans, waiting for the
rain before they seeded. Now how
ever, things look different and with ;
a fair season, Chatham should make
a bumper corn and hay crop.
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Adults Contract
Children’s Diseases
Adults can, and do, contract many
children’s diseases. And, usually,
thye suffer from them mch mare
than children do. For instance,
many adults contract worms, an ail
ment usually associated with child
ren. Sometimes they suffer intense
ly and take expensive medical treat
ments, without realizing that worms
are the cause of their troubles. Yet,
the symptoms are the same as in
children, loss of appetite and
weight, grinding the teeth and rest
less sleep, itching of the nose and
.anus, and abdominal pains. And,
the same medicine that surely and
harmlessly expels round and pin
worms from children will f do the
same . for adults—Whitens Cream
Vermifuge, which’ you can get, at
Pittsboro Drug Cq. . —Adv.
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Vol. 11, No. 8 Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corporation Copyright 1930
When Growers Unite
“Constructive changes in the cot
ton industry are projected. These
require the cooperation of entire
communities of growers. Popular
understanding and leadership must
be developed before progress can be
expected. Interest has been aroused,
however, and many demands made
for assistance. Community cooper
ation makes it possible to change
the basis of production from the
usual condition of mixed and mon
grelized seed stock to regular sup
plies of pure seed. Thus all the
farmers in an organized commun
ity or district can produce fiber of
the same character —and the way is
open for improved varieties and
methods.” — W. M. Jar dine, former
Secretary of Agriculture.
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There are 2,100 county agricultural
agents in the United States.
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The quality and value of “man
ufacturing tobacco,” says an ex
change, are influenced more by the
curing than by the character of soil
used in growing it. Burley grows best
in rich and heavy soils, such as heavy
loams, but it can be grown in a
wide variety of soils.
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“Our business has increased every
year since we began handling V-C.”
—Sterling Grocery Co., Dealer, Prince
ton, W. Va.
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‘‘No longer does the individual farmer
live unto himself .” — J. C. Marquis.
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Makes Pound for Pound
“The North Carolina Experiment
Station found that a pound of seed
cotton was produced for every
pound of fertilizer used up to 1,000
pounds per acre. Similar results
have been ’obtained at experiment
stations in other states. An agrono
mist at one station says that the re
sults indicate high quantities are
practicable. The danger lies in using
too little rather than too much
fertilizer.” — WardH. Sachs.
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DID YOU EVER
STOP TO THINK? ,
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By EDSON R. WAITE i
Shawnee, Oklahoma
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Ray Lyman Wilbur, 'secretary s
of the Interior of the United j
States, says:
“Did you ever stop to think what
a flower garden means?
“Flowers are perhaps useles,
they last but for a little while, and
yet their presence about a home
give it a recognized character. We
cannot eat them, we can only see
them and smell them. We gather
them for weddings and birthdays.
We place them about our dead.
Their one great value is beauty:
“It is the love of beauty and the
recognition of it by bringing it
to our doorsteps that separates
us off from the beasts. It is this
love of beauty, it is the values
associated with it that connectus
up wuth the Divine.
“A flower garden costs but little
but it means much. A few seeds,
a little dirt, a little energy, some
water, a box in the window or
soil \ about the house, and our
children can learn to understand
life, to love color, to appreciate
order, and to admire beauty, and
our neighbors and the stranger
passing by can get a bit of happi
ness and cheer.”
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Unintentional Suicide (
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Many people are slowly poison- I
ing - themselves just as surely as if* <
they drank iodine every morning
for breakfast. They are daily ab
sorbing the toxins, or poisons, cre
ated by accumulated wast matter
in their constipated digestive sys
tems. Sooner or later disease will
conquer their weakened bodies.
If you have dizzy speels, head
aches, coated tongue, bad breath, in
somnia, no appetite, bilious attacks
or pains in the back and limbs,
you are probably suffering from self
poisoning caused by constipation.
The surest and pleasantest relief for
this condition is Herbine, the vege
table cathartic which acts in the
natural way. Get -a bottle today
from Pittsboro Drug Co. —Adv..
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“Don’t you and your husband
patch up your quarrels?” asked a
friend.
“Mercy, no,” replied -Mrs. Money
bags. “We can always afford to
have new ones.” —The Pathfinder
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Watt—What kind -of a woftian
is Henry’s wife?
Howe —Well,, he has as much
chance of going out alone as one
of the Siamese twins would.—The
1 Pathfinder.
“Every plant taking any element
from the soil is removing that which
must be returned if fertility is to be
maintained.” — Florida, An Industrial
Survey.
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Dollars from Old Wastes
“Much promise lies in the in
creasing use of by-products and
farm wastes. Cottonseed, formerly
a waste piled up about gins or
dumped into nearby streams, is
now used for the manufacture of a
score of products. Sugar-cane ba
gasse is in demand for wall board.
Paper pulp is being manufactured
from corn stalks. Low grades of
corn are being converted into grain
alcohol, acetone and other prod
ucts. Citrus fruit growers have
learned how to convert formerly
worthless fruit culls into products
they now sell for about sl3 a ton.”
Dr. H. G. Knight, U. S. Dept,
of Agriculture.
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“Low costs offer more hope than high
prices.”—Wheeler McMillen.
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Maybe They’ll Learn
“A field becomes exhausted by
constant tillage” is just a high
sounding way of saying your land
will wear out if you work it to death
without fertilizer.
Sounds like it might have been
said by some earnest scientist at a
meeting of the So-and-so County
Agricultural Society last week,
doesn’t it?
Know who did say it? A Roman
poet named Ovid, and he wrote it
down in Latin.
Know when he wrote it? Two
thousand years, twenty centuries
ago—long before anybody had dis
covered that it wasn’t the field that
became exhausted, but the plant
food in the field.
Two thousand years ago—and
some folks haven’t heard it yet!
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“Change indeed is painful, yet ever
needful .”— Carlyle's Essays.
Waht you can’t get is just what suits you.— lrish proverb*
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WITH RELIABLE FERTILIZERS AT
OUR PLANT IN PITTSBORO. MANU
FACTURED FOR CHATHAM COUNTY
SOILS. • '
BESIDES GUANO WE CAN SELL YOU
MEAL AND NITRATE OF SODA.
YOUR PATRONAGE IS SOLICITED.
THE CLAYTON OIL MILLS
E. R. Hinton, Manager
CUT COFFEE COST IN HALF
You get as many cups from one pound of “Gold Rib
bon” Brand Coffee and Chicory as you do from two
pounds of ordinary coffee, because it is : Double
Strength. Cut your coffee bill in half by using “Gold
Ribbon” Blend —one pound lasts as long as two pounds
of ordinary coffee —and. you pay no morel
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" Potash Hunger” Signs
“The tobacco plant must develop
a large leaf area within a short
period of time, and potash is an effi
cient aid in maintaining the health
and vigor of the leaf. Without suf
ficient potash the leaf begins to lose
its normal green color and soon
small specks of dead tissue may ap
pear. The specking may spread
rapidly. The tip and edges of the
leaf tend to curve downward, and /
often the edges become broken and
ragged. The quality of the leaf is
greatly injured when these symp
toms of potash hunger develop.”—
Yearbook of Agriculture.
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“Have been selling V-0 ten years
and the demand grows each year.
V-C is second to none.” —J. R*
Thames, Nelson, Va.
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Down With Low Grades! j
“The campaign for the elimi
nation of low grades has been very
effective. Extremely low grades are
uneconomical. No opportunity to
improve the quality of fertilizer,
either by statute or general con
sent, should be neglected. The agri- •
cultural press has been solidly be
hind this progressive movement.”
— E. L. Robins, President, National
Fertilizer Assn.
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“Have been selling fertilizers 30
years and have always gotten the
best results from V-O. My trade
have already asked me for V-C for
next year’s crop.” — J. H. Baker,
Dealer, Ocilla, Ga.
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“The farmer of the future
will preferto remain self-reliant. He
will be more group-conscious than,
his grandfather was. He will be bet
ter organized for the safeguarding
of his economic interests. He will
achieve greater control over his own
business through control of the
periodic surpluses which do so much
to break his markets.” —Renick W.
Dunlap.
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