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More Than 100 Bushels Corn To Acre In Pasquotank THREE FARMERS .PASS THAT MARK W. F. Jennings of City Route, Two Wilis S100 Prize in Production of 571.25 Bu shels on Five Acre Plot. Awards in ihe corn contest held : in this section during the production of the last crop have Just been made known by County Agent Falls. Some : delay was experienced in receiving the returns and the complete report j has just been made. Prizes were offered last year by! 'N. G. Grandy & Company and Brock ! & Scott, and the Albemarle Fertili zer Company for the best yield of j corn on a five acre plot. Five prizes I were offered consisting of $100,; $50. $25. $15. and $10. The winners in order are W. F. i Jennings. City Route Two. S. W.. Scott, Weeksvllle Route One. W. J.1 Saunders. Weeksvllle Route One. B. j F. Bray. City Route Two, and Miles Bright. City Route Five. Mr. Jennings, winner of the $100 prize was far ahead of the field i with a yield of $571.25 bushels on his plot which gives him an acreage of 114.25 bushels per acre. S. W. Scott had 10 8 bushels per acre and W. J. Saunders, 102.114 bushels per acre. The leading three each had i over 100 bushels per acre. The other two prize winners! missed an average of 100 bushels by 11 and 13 bushels respectively. Mr. Bray averaged 89.264 and Mr. Brite 87.321 bushels per acre. There were 17 participants for the prizes none of which reported less than 60 bushels per acre. The con test was open to farmers In Curri tuck, Camden, Pasquotank, Per quimans. Chowan. Gates, Washing ton, Hyde, Tyrrell, and Dare Coun ties. The results of the contest are said to be highly satisfactory and the in terest stimulated In better methods of corn culture will no doubt be of great benefit to this section. Farms News and Views The time for the second spraying of fruit trees in this section has ar rived. The mixture of one and a half pounds of powdered arsenate of lead, one and a half pounds of commercial lime sulphur, and 50 gallons of water should be used. ?? J. H. Jeter of Raleigh and J. K. Sherman of Washington, D. C. will arrive In Elizabeth City Monday, May 19, to take pictures and com pile data in regard to the a?;rlcul tural development of this section to incorporate in an account of the re sources of North Carolina. The program for the summer at the North Carolina State College includes. State Club Encampment. June 23 to 28; House Demonstration! Agents Short Course, July 19 to 22; Farm Agents annual conference, July 14 to 22; and State farmers meeting, July 23, 24 and 25, accor-1 ding to County Agent Falls. F. P. Markham, Jr., of Weeksvllle! Route One has added two fine Duroc Jersey gilts and a Duroc Jersey herd bore to his herd. This young and enterprising farmer of Salem town ship promises to have one of the finest pure bred herds in this County. Farmers have been busy this week moving pea baskets and potato bar rels. Final preparations are being made for the harvesting of both | crops. Cotton is up but estimates as to Plan Now Under Consideration ; ? Will Save $360,000,000 Annually \ For Midwest in Freight Tariffs JAMES P. ^ GOODRICH if ry'o+c/ ? tW?rrw??.c7. HOWARD. James P. Goodrich, former gov ernor of Indiana, and James K. Howard. former president ot the American Farm Bureau Federa tion* arc two of the men who will serve under the chairmanship of Herbert Hoover. Secretary of Com merce, In an attempt to seenro a deepening of the Ft. Lawrence waterway that, According to en gineers and economists, will save the American f*rtn?*r upwards of I360.ooo.ooo a year. Fivt cents a bushel saved on wheat shipments to New England, New York and Europe; ch?ap ship ment of phosphate* to ll?? mid western farmer. and a general pulling together commercially of the Great L^ikcs territory ar.d the Atlantic .jcabourd uro expected from the proposed Improvement It la proposed to decrease the number of locks along the St. )*a\vrcnco route from 40 to 13. to Improve tho remaining locks nnd to deepen the chauncl so as to permit ocean-going steamers fret* access from the Great I^ahcs to the Atlantic. Secretary Hoover has been working three years in fur therance of the plan. He main tains that the estimated saving of live ci-nts a b'lHliel on grain will give the mid-western farmer a lirst-rati- tnarjrm 'o flght with in the markets of the world, and that such basically sound help is pro perly within th?? province of gov ernment and should draw the t?up por? of all Americans. The St. l?awrencu project con >8fttut?-s one of a Partes, Including the Colorado River Irrigation sclu-mc, the attempt to organize arrnlust extremes In tho business cycle, the superpower co-operation recently agreed upon In the Coat and the vast .simplification reforms 8UKK<'Nted to manufacturers by tho Department of Commerce, which Mr. Hoover believes are sound steps toward permanent pros perity. Others who will servo on the St. Lawrence Commission of tho United States Include Charles F\ Cralf?, secretary. Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Tidewater Association. Stephen II. Davis, well-known New Mexico attorney, William C. Breed. James bl Davidson. James D. Noonan und Charles L Allen. RAIN WORTH A i COOL MILLION I County Farm Agent Think* Safe to Say So If Value to Gardens Is Added to Truck | and Cotton Benefit. , A million dollar rain visited Eas tern North Carolina this week res cueing the May pea crop from par? tiaI failure, instilling new life and j energy into the potato crop, filling the young cotton sprouts with en thusiasm and otherwise brightening | the prospects. That the rain was worth a million dollars to Eastern North Carolina is certain providing the value of peas and potatoes Is normal according to County Agent Falls who believes that the May pea crop alone has been benefitted to the extent of $125,000 at least, on a total valua tion of a quarter of a million. It is accepted as obvious that without the rain the May peas were burning up and a curtailment of fiO per cent would have been the Inev itable result. The rain was also of great ben I the extent of the acreage are not be ing advanced at present. It is fairly certhln that considerable more cot ton is planted than last year. efit to thousands of home garden*! which will he depended upon morn than ever in these times of unccrluin j markets and the boll weevil. The cotton seed planted a few j weeks ago were Just beginning to! peek through the soil and finding no rain discouragement was about to set in. With the Joyous downpour this week," however, the young cotton shoots feel that life is perhaps worth! living after all. Estimating the value of the rain, therefore, upon the new impetus to the cotton and potatoes and the sa/-i Ing of the May pea yield as well us to all other crops in farm and gar-! dens in this entire section, Mr. Falls feels that a million dollars is a low valuation to place upon the latest visitation of rainfall. WILL OVERMAN WITH XEWBBKX Will Overman is now with the j firm of J. R. Newborn, according to an announcement made by jullan Newbern this week. The firm is' to handle May peas, sweet and Irish j potatoes and other truck crops. PLOW Tl'ltNH n? COIN Ilotwell, Germany May 10 ? A Roman coin of the year 15 was re-1 cently turned up in a field near tills I city by a plowman. It was coined under the reign of Einperor Tiber-! lus. On one side is a head of Au-! giistus crowned with a laurel, while on the other side is the figure of the Emperor's mother, LI via with a seep-, tre in one hand and a flower in the ; other. AIDING GIRLS TO SECUKE EDUCATION Raleigh. May 10?Since the estab lishment of the educational loan fund eleven years ago by the Fed I eration of Woman's Clubs of North 'Carolina, 61 girls have taken ad vantage of its opportunities and have I thus received a college education. ; it was announced at a meeting of the federation during its annual meet ing here. During this time not one penny has been lout and the fund has increased to $9,000. it was said. This year 11 girls attended college by means of aid from the fund. liONDON'H SI,000,000 A?*L'ARIL*M Ixindon. May 10?A new million dollar aquarium has been erected by the Zoological Society for their gardens at Regents Park. The building contains 900 tanks and shows nearly every kind of living fish. ThV: tanks are filled with; water br Might from the Ilay of Rls cay, which with scientific aeration and filtering will last for years. I'liAY AT FORK SCHOOL MONDAY The play, "A Little Clodhopper," | will be given at Fork School Monday night at 8 o'clock by the boys' and ' girls* senior class of Berea Sunday school. Admission 25c and 15c. my 10-12pd I a* *?**????? ???????** *" SERVICE WORTH WHILE A record of many yearn in the successful handling of May Peas and Potatoes commends our services to you this season. We know that you hesitate to forward your shipments through an organization that has led the market season after season, and saved thousands of dollars to the farmers. We will follow the same methods this season: That is to keep in touch with the markets in every city so that we can forward all shipments daily where the demand is strongest. And we will gel you good prices on these markets hy quick shipment of your pro duce, properly iced in REFRIGERATOR CARS Brock & Scott Produce Company PHONE 104. Burgeta Street and IV, S. R. R. Track? P R O S P E C T S A K E G () () D Let us handle them for you. Our press service and ap preciation of your patronage will not he excelled. Spence-HoltaweliQo. xkkkkkkkk~x~xkk~xk~xk~xkk~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~> I MAY PEAS LET US HANDLE YOUK PEAS? It Will Be to Your Advantage. X I J. R. NEWBERN V I IIONi: ?!.*>I. IliirKPNN St. m?l Pennsylvania Ave Buckeye Cultivators One set-screw for standard instead of U-bolts? Roller action shaft Seat adjustable to weight of operator Tilting lever for changing height rear-end of tongue Master lever controls for raising or lowering gangs without affecting depth No helping spring necessary to lighten lift 42-in. wheel-steel-adjustable width 36 to 48 inches 400 MATTHEWS STREET The Elizabeth City Buggy Co. WE SOLICIT YOUR SHIPMENTS MAY PEAS ? AND POTATOES You can drprnd 011 us handling your May Pea* and Potatoes to best advantage this year. We are in touch with the heat market* and will get you good prices. We will give good refrigerator car service on Peas. All we ask is a TRIAL. We can handle thousands of barrels of Irish Potatoes and promise you as much consideration as you can get elsewhere. See Us For May Pea Baskets Produce & Ginning Co. West Main Street i-i ft Elizabeth City, N. C.
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