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Veterans Visit Roy Swain Farm Young Town Creek Farmer And His Father, Layton Swain, Carrying Out Ad vanced Farm Practices Accompanied by J. H. Tlnga, veterans instructor at the Bolivia school, a group of the Bolivia veterans visited the Roy Swain farm in the Mill section this week. They were impressed by the fact that all of the crops looked good, and that the farm was mechanized to such an extent that Roy and his father, Layton Swain, are able to do all of the farm work. One of the first things shown the visitors was the kudzu vine and next to it the sericia les pedeza. These two crops are growing on land that would not make a corn crop because of thelight, sandy nature of the soil. I"?Don't plant corn on land that you know is not good enough I for it", Mr. Swain advises. I The kudzu can be grazed in i July and the serecia can make J several crops of hay. Neither crop requires cultivation and both are 1 soil builders and far more pro-! 1 Greensboro Men Boost Beaches Two Visitors At Long Beach From Gate City Very Much I m p r e s sed With Brunswick Coastal Area Their vacation at Long Beach last week has created two strong friends for Southport in Jim Rey nolds, Sunday editor of the Greensboro Daily News, and Foots Fesmire, Greensboro sporting goods dealer. Both believe that Brunswick county has the nicest, safest and beach area of any fitable than any crop of corn that can be grown. Next for a visit was the five acres of ladino clover and fescue pasture towhich Roy added les pedeza in March. Eighty head of fine Duroc hops are grazing on this pasture. The corn which young Swain has entered in the 100 bushel per acre contest looks very good with two ears to each stalk and the stalks closely spaced. 1 The N. C. 27 variety is being used. ' Tobacco head-high to a grown man is another Swain farm pro ject. Six rows were shown where corn fertilizers were applied by mistake. Mr. Swain has proved to himself that tobacco is one crop where over fertilization is not profitable. The biggest thing that the visiting class of farmers could see was proper land use fertilization. Mr. Swain thinks that is a wise farmer who plants his cron on land suitable for corn, pasture grasses on land suitable for pas ture and tobacco on no other land save that for which the crop is suited. He believes that for the dry sand ridges no other crop is so well suited as the longg leaf pine trees. After you choose good land, suited for the crop you intend to plant, it should be fertilized according to the recommendation of the soil sample. Soil testing service Is available to all who wish to take advantage of it. Mr Tinga has consistently advocated soil testing by all who are taking farm training and by all farmers. part of the State. Mr. Reynolds stated that the coming of the North Carolina Baptists to Fort Caswell will re sult in widespread publicity to Southport and the Brunswick county beach areas. Owing to their proximity, Caswell Beach and Long Beach will profit the most from the coming of the Baptist. Still, the entire coast line of Brusnwick county will be ef fected favorably, he said. The Greensboro newspaper man said he was sure that when he returns to Long Beach next sum-1 mer he would find that place,1 Caswell Beach, Fort Caswell and! Southport all presenting scenes of real activity. One handicap to all' of these places at the present j time, he said, is the incompleted state of the River Road between| Southport and Wilmington. Once this road is finished one can look j for a continuation of the Long | Beach road to Lockwodo Folly Inlet, across that stream and! down through Holden Beach. It will be but a matter of a j very few years, he said, before J the economic development of the i beach areas has progressed so J far that a road will be a neces sity between the waterway and ocean all of the way down' the coast. Waccamaw Boys Play Baseball Unknown to the rest of the county the Waccamaw township boys under the management of J. I. MilliKen are said to have devel jpod a first class base ball team that is anxious for games anywhet 9 with anybody. I The team has a promising pit 'cher in Claxton Jenrette, and Tony Tysinger is doing excellent (work behind the bat. In a game with a Wilmington team Sunday the Waccamaw boys came through with a 9 to 1 victory. They have another game sche duled with (he same team for the coming Sunday. Manager Milliken is very anxious to ar range games with other Bruns Iwick County teams. This Assignment Literal Picnic Wilmington News' Phil Wright And Rovin' Repor ter Decide To Do Caswell Story In Class Mr. and Mrs. Phil Wright and children and Mr. Wright's, father and Mr. and Mrs. David Peter son, all of Wilmington, and W. B. Keziah of Southport spent all of Sunday at Fort Caswell. Wright is state uews editor of the Wilmington News and Mr. Peterson is the staff cameraman for both the Star and News. These two along with Keziah were looking for story and picture material that will better acquaint J the Baptists of North Carolina with the wonderful coastal pro perty they acquired when they bought Fort Caswell. Getting a close-up survey of | the property Wright could not conceal his astonishment at all that the Baptists got for their j ! $86,000.00 He went over there j ! with the idea that they paiil I ' more than the place was worth, j 1 Before he had been there half hour he expressed the belief that they had secured the finest pro perty on the coast at a fraction of its value. Numerous pictures showing I buildings, docks, concrete fortifi cations, etc., were secured by i Peterson. These will be generally 'distributed in papers throughout (the State. j Sgt. Mann, who still remains , custodian of the property pend ing the formal transfer of the [property from the War Assetts | Administration to the Baptists, j was very cooperative to the visi 'tors, giving them free rein to go and see what they wished. I Mrs. Wright and Mrs. Peterson j served a picnic dinner to the ! newsmen at the yacht basin docks , at noon. They, as well as the | working newsmen, were enormous ly impressed with the North Car !olina Baptists have in Fort Cas | well. iRead The Want Ads. OPEN FORUM A column fledl?Ud ?o opln'oii 'j the public. A mouthpiece for ??r wUn* Blld ObWrTEUOBI . , y.| friends and reader(i, for "Me est* .s0 ds^asuy- fx ??? exceed three hundred word.. Bolivia, N. C. July 25, 1949 Dear Brother Editor: There has been much specula tion and injury on the matter of the Fort Caswell property and its purchase by the Baptists of North Carolina from the WAA. I personally would like to state that the Baptists of our State considering- Caswell as their as sembly In the East will be of vast importance to the up-build ing of Brunswick county's youth and the welfare of the county as a whole. Brunswick Baptists have long needed a place nearby to which they could send their delegations for an assembly that will take care of the demands that the churches are needing today. To | own Caswell will be instrumental in giving to our young people the advantages that they have never 'had. I would like to list a few i of these advantages: 1. Tt will j give a place that all of the i churches of our county can meet for a general assembly for a week or for Just a day. 2. It will also provide for our pas tors who have not had the ap portunity to go forward with their education to attend the "Pastors School" that is held on I Semester basis the year-round. J 3. It will take away from some of the beaches our young- boys and girls who at the close of church time go to the beaches which are now over-crowded and will put them in close touch with our Baptist emphasis. 4. It will give to those who attend this Assembly an opportunity -to' hear the best spea)c7^s| under the best teach?.''I Bible that can be *1 where. 5- It will bullj J, 1 civic life, the social ?l above all will build to v j est degree the spiritual Jl the individual. "<l Brunswick county ^1 ford to miss the J tunity that awaits her 3 ing as its missionary j | to state further that golden thing thrown laps will be a blessing nj be long remembered tw| years to come. ^ W. R. xj BUY in BRUNSWICK We rejoice with the labocco I-anj that they have been able to produce si* fine crop, and we urge them to spend t| money where it will, do the most good1 Right In Their HOME Community. R. GALLOWAY General Merchandise SUPPLY, N. C. LONG BEACH BUS SERVICE Safe, Dependable Transportation When You Need It. DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY and SUNDAY Leave Southport 8:45 a. m. Leave Long Beach .... 9:15 a. m. Leave Southport 3:00 p. m. Leave Long Beach .... 3:30p.m. Leave Southport 8:00 p. m. Leave Long Beach .... 11:00p,m ? SATURDAY SCHEDULE ? Leave Southport 8:45 a. m. Leave Long Beach .... 9:15 p.m. Leave Southport 3:00 p. m. Leave Long Beach .... 3:30 p.m. Leave Southport 8:30 p. m. Leave Long Beach .... 12:00 p. m ? SUNDAY SCHEDULE ? Leave Southport 3:00 p. m. Leave Long Beach 5:30 p.m. W.B.&S. BUS LINES SOUTHPORT, N. C. THE NEW 1949 NORGE with exclusive DEFROSTS YOUR REFRIGERATOR EVERY NIGHT Low Monthly Payemnts Cash or Credit Msd*l SDf-?4C ^ SEE THIS AMAZING REFRIGERATOR NOWl ROBINSON'S SOUTHPORT, N. C. Mr. Tobacco Farmer: This is the season toward which you have been working for these many months, and it looks like this year's Tobacco Mar ket will be one of the best in history. We offer our congratulations to you for this good fortune, and we know that you have earn ed every dollar by long hours of hard work. We invite you to spend the proceeds from your harvest where it will circulate among your fellow citizens and fellow taxpayers. Where there is a choice to make, we urge you to favor your home county dealer or merchant. Money thus spent helps to keep prosperity alive. WHEN WE CAN BE OF SERVICE TO YOU...CALL ON US!! Shaliotte Trading Co. HOBSON KIRBY, Proprietor SHALLOTTE, N. C. 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