Agriculturally Speaking
Good Weather Helped
Produce Record Yield
By L. B. HARDAGE
Exteaskm Chairman
Warren County's estimate*
gross farm income for 1976 is i
record of $18,814,000. The
tobacco income was $11,998.49t
in 1976. In 1975, the tobacco
crop brought $8,103,694, an
increase of $3,894,801 over the
1975 crop.
The yield per acre was
estimated at 2014 pounds per
acre due to better weather,
good plants, proper fertilization,
and doing a better overall
job in producing the crop.
Tobacco accounted for about
2/3 of the total farm income in
1976.
Total crop income was
$14,510,000. This included corn
small grains, soybeans, etc. The
soybean income was $1,330,000.00
or the 2nd ranking crop
in income.
The total income from
vegetable and fruit crop was
roughly $356,000.
In 1970, the income from
cucumbers in Warren County
was $171,000.00. In 1976 it had
dropped to $150,000.00, however,
acreage in 1970 was
estimated to be 950 acres and in
1976 around 500 acres, prices
increased considerably.
Saw timber, pulpwood, and
other wood products over the
years has been a steady and
reliable source of farmer
income. Normally over the past
several years the farm income
has been about a million dollars.
In 1976 it was estimated this to
be $1,250,000 —this does not
include forest products from
company lands in the county.
The income from swine was
up very little in 1976 over 1975.
However, there was a good
jump in income from beef cattle
due to a large feeder operation
and some increase in feeder calf
sales.
Grade A milk production and
income dropped slightly in
1976.
The total livestock income
for 1976 was about 2'/» million.
This is somewhat larger than in
past years due to larger
incomes from beef cattle,
swine, and other miscellaneous
livestock and products from
livestock.
Total government payments
to farmers in 1970 was
$502,440.00. In 1976 this had
dropped to $72,638.00.
The total estimated farm
income in 1975 was $14,230,000.
A word of caution, gross
income does not mean that the
net income increased according
ly. Hope it did but would tend
to think not due to increased
costs of nearly everything
farmers used in 1976.
Bake Sale
The Mamie Russell Acteens,
from various churches in the
community, will sponsor a bake
sale on Saturday, March 12.
The sale will begin at 9 a. m. at
the AAA Gas Company
building.
To Attend Meeting
Warren County Extension
Agents will attend a state
conference of Extension Agents
the week of March 14 through
IS. at North Carolina State
University in Raleigh.
TRACTOR PULL
Warren County Track and Field
5 miles South - Highway 401
Sunday, Mar. 13,1977
Admission $2 Raindate: March 20
• 4-Wheel Drive Vehicles
• Stock Farm Tractors
Concessions by Afton-Elberon Ruritan Club
Phone 2574687 or 257-2160
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OPERATION ON THE MOVE!
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efficiently, now and in the future. Whether
you need to invest in better methods, new equipment,
more cows, additional land or buildings, you
can depend on Farm Credit for capital. PCA loans
provide short and intermediate-term financing and
Land Bank loans provide long-term capital. Whatever
your credit needs are, depend on us!
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Depend on us ... Warrenton. N. C.
Lily Day Drive Will Be
Launched At Court House
4 H leaders and members
from around the county will be
meeting at the Courthouse
Thursday night, March 10 at 8
p. m. to kick-off the annual
Eastern Seal Society Lily Day
drive. A film of the Society's
special camping program at
Camp Easter-in-the-Pines near
Southern Pines will be shown
by Charles Drake, Regional
Director for the Pine Valley
Easter Seal Society.
Warren County 4-H clubs are
defending champions of Lily
Day for the most money
collected by 4-H Clubs within
the nine county Pine Valley
Region. Last year $388.00 was
collected county-wide. A higher
goal will probably be set this
Haliwa 4-Hers
Have Session
By TYRONE CARTER
Reporter
The Haliwa 4-H Club met on
Monday evening, March 7. at
the Haliwa School. An
educational program was presented
on "Safety in the
Home." A skit was presented
called. "The Go-Go Ghost Club"
narrated by Mrs. Kathv
Wilson, adult counselor. About
ten members participated in
the skit robed in white bed
sheets symbolizing their ghostly
nature having died in some
way from accidental poisoning
in the home. It was sad as well
as heart warming to see simulated
tragedy and success team
up for youth education.
Carol Richard, president,
presided over the meeting.
Rusiness discussed included an
Indian Culture Film Series
scheduled for later this month,
community projects and fund
raising.
Nineteen members and two
other adults including Herbert
J. Richardson, leader, and
Marshall Wilson were present.
The next meeting of the club
will be scheduled later pending
the arrival of the expected film
series.
Warren Eligible
For Federal Aid
Warren County is among 30
North Carolina counties declar
ed by President Carter as being
eligible for emergency aid for
livestock feeding because of
d'ought damage to last year's
feed crop. The U. S. Disaster
Assistance Administrator said
the aid is being provided so
livestock farmers can maintain
their base of foundation herds
and not have to sell them off
because of the high cost of feed.
The program will allow
qualified applicants to be reimbursed
for a part of the cost of
livestock feed grains bought
under an emergency program
which will run through April
30.
Program details are available
at the county ASCS office and
applications are being accepted
now.
Complete Ports
Service For
All Form
TRACTORS
ALSO
WE REBUILD
TRACTOR ENGINES
STANDARD
Motor Ports Co.
Henderson Oxford
Retdsville, Warrenton
year according to local Lily Day
leaders. Miss Deborah Tarleton
of Wise is this year's Chairman
and Mrs. Eva Holtzman of
Ridgeway will be co-chairman.
. George W. Koonce, County
Extension Agent for 4-H, will
be aiding in coordination of the
drive.
Lily Days will be held
throughout the county on the
last two Saturdays prior to
Easter, April 10. 'The Society
provides many services to
handicapped children and
adults in Warren County each
year," according to Mrs. R. B.
Butler, State Society Presidwt,
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Woodland Owners
Look For Banner
Year During '77
The economic outlook for
farmers is spotty for 1977,
depending on the commodity
produced, but one source of
income that appears strong for
the year is farm woodlands.
The outlook is good for forest
products demand, according to
an analysis by North Carolina
State University extension
forest resources specialists.
A strengthening national
economy, that is expected to
result in more new home
building, is one major factor in
the anticipated strong demand
for wood products.
A 13 per cent increase in
housing starts is expected this
year.
Prices for timber of all
marketable species are expected
to increase moderately as
demand continues to grow.
Southern pine stands suitable
for lumber and plywood are
expected to experience the
strongest demand and the
sharpest price increases.
Demand for hardwood timber
is expected to strengthen
also, but with only moderate
price increases.
Pulpwood demand statewide
should he slightly stronger than
1976 levels. Clearcut tracts will
continue to show the strongest
demand with only limited
demand for thinnings in most
counties.
unristmas trees, another
important income source from
North Carolina farms, are
expected to continue to find a
strong market. Tar Heel
growers last year harvested
about 700,000 trees at a value of
almost $4 million. A strong
demand for Fraser fir and
sheared white pine produced
wholesale price increases of 10
per cent.
Prices for high quality
Christmas trees are expected
to increase 10 per cent in 1977.
Over the long term, the
NCSU specialists believe the
demand for forest products will
remain strong. But they caution
landowners with mature stands
of trees to time sales carefully,
since demand and prices can
vary within a given county
throughout the year.
FOOD FACTS S FANCIES
Potato chips, it's said, were
invented in the last century
when a diner kept refusing his
French Fries demanding
thinner ones. The irate cook
sliced them paper thin, fried
them up and created the first
potato chips.
WE BUY
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If You Are Interested In Selling A Tract Of Timber, 30 Acre# Or '
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You. Or Write Continental Forest Industries, Inc.
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There are three kinds of
molasses. blackstrap, usually
used for feeding livestock, ordinary
molasses, a by product of
sugar refining that contains
sulphur dioxide and unsulphured,
such as the kind called
Grandma's Molasses, that's
the sweetest of the three and is
pressed directly from sugar
cane.
• • •
According to Greek historians,
the builders of the great
pyramids in Egypt did it on a
diet of onions and garlic.
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It's not a good idea to cook
vegetables, particularly asparagus
and artichokes, in iron
or aluminum pan*. They may
discolor the f<x>d and give it a
metallic taste.
Bate cabinats with pullout
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Field Trip Is Held
By LINDA WILLIAMS
The second period Biology
class of John Graham High
School went with their teacher,
Mrs. Cora Hawkins, on a field
trip in the Largo community,
recently, and visited the Devil's
rock. This is a hugh, high rock
with the Devil's Hot Rod (or
chariot) prints and it also has
big foot prints on the surface.
Climatic conditions had
caused the rock to have cracks
similar to an earthquake. We
walked on the rock, which was
very level.
After visiting the rock, some
of the students went to Dianne
Davis' house and her mother
served fried chicken. Dianne's grandmother
owns the rock.
We wish to thank our
principal. Mr. W. E. Terry, for
allowing us to go on this trip.
This trip was made in
connection with our study of
our changing world in the
chapter on "Organic Variation"
from our textbook.
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