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PUBLISHED svut mi * g , ? / PUBLISHED EVEBY k mondat The Mountaineers MOia>A, ? Farm and Home Page State-Wide Tobacco Field Dav Slated Here W ednesdJ SIGNS OF PROGRESS in Iron Duff Commun ity are the new road signs at intersections. Of a simple, modem design, they attract the eye and are easy to read. Here Jarvis Caldwell rives a final inspection to one of the newly erected markers. Cutting Tobacco Too Early May Mean Big Cash Loss ? ? ... i ~ mucn 01 tiaywooa county s to bacco is being cut entirely too green, warns County Agent Wayne Franklin. "Too many farm ers feel that because the bottom leaves are burnt out from the drought, it is advisable to cut the plant. They should realize that they are sacrificing the top leaves to save the bottom, when they could , cut the bottom leaves only and save both." Even without unduly dry weath er, burley tobacco growers can ? WVtgc. of, 2Q1I *400 pounds and make from $100 to $200 more per acre from their crop by priming the bottom leaves from the plant once or twice instead of cut ting the entire plant. This has been proven locally by experiments at the Mountain Test Farm. Since tobacco ripens from the bottom of the plant upward, the lower leaves in most seasons will become weather damaged or will fall off before the top leaves are fully ripe. In the past it was gen eral practice to cut the entire stalk off when a few of the lower leaves had been damaged or had fallen off. Generally the middle of the plant would be ripe, and the upper leaves still green and im mature. With this practice leaves or quality are lost at both ends of the plant, with a consequent loss in the value of the crop. Priming pefore cutting is a prac tical way to increase yield and In come per acre. It enables the farmer to harvest leaves at the bot tom of the plant that would other wise be lost or weather damaged, ' permitting the top tobacco to reach the ripe and mature stage before cutting. Harvesting ripe tobacco pays. The quality is better and it is eas ier to cure. DAIRYMEN & COW OWNERS Tour better herd starts . when you breed your ^ cows artifically to sires proven great. Dial wm GL 6-3575 by 11 a.m. f ff for same day service. If you wish to call be- ?tt'/f'frJW fore 8 a. m., call John R. Carver DIAL GL 6-5352 Registered Guernsey, Holstein, and Jersey semen available. Hog Butchering Equipment Listed To do a good job of butchering your hogs this fall. State College tolls us, you should have on hand one sharp 6- or 8-inch butcher knife, one sharp 8-inch boning knife, one smooth steel for straight ening edge of knives, one good sandstone or carborundum, one hay hook for handling hog in bar rel, one or two bell-shaped hog scrapers, several hog gambrel sticks or single trees, and a saw, prefer ably a meat saw. Run-Away Cow Killed By Car A run-away cow met instant death Friday night about 10:20, when she collided with a car on Smathers Street. Chief of Police Orvllle Noland said that R. L. Parks, driver of the car, was blinded by an approach ing car. and did not see the two stray cows. The Parks car was damaged a bout the left fender and hood. The cow, owned by W. H. Burgin, was valued at about $125. Test Farm Leaders To Confer Here End Of Week A conference of department heads of experiment station work at N. C. State College and branch station superintendents will open Wednesday evening at the Moun tain Test Farm, running through Saturday. About 65 deoartmet personnel and their families are expected. The group will stay at Camp Schaub. Purpose of the meeting is to provide an opportunity for dis cussion of organizational prob lems, as well as a "get-together" for staff members and their fami lies. It will be under the leader ship of C. D. Thomas, state direc tor of test farms, and M. R. , Whisenhunt, local superintendent. Commercial slaughter of cattle, calves, sheep, lambs, and hogs in North Carolina during June total ed 19,724.000 pounds, 6.9 per cent above the same period last year. Extension Specialists Due For Talks, Demonstrations | Poor Tobacco Soil Can Be Improved Although utilizing other land may be the best solution to the problem of growing tobacco on land unsuited to it, Extension tells us that the condition of the soil can be improved in several ways. A bulletin Issued this month ex plains: "Efforts to change the consisten cy of your soil may not be desir able if suitable land is available within five miles. However, there are several ways of improving the organic content and physical con dition of soil for plant produc tion. You can haul in dark rich loamy soil or woody dirt, you can incorporate three or four inches of well rotted sawdust with the up per four or five incites of soil in the fall so that it will be well rot ted in the spring. Heavy stable manure can be mixed with the soil in the fall before treating with methyl bromide or other chemical for weed control, you can try l^rilium or other soil conditioners on a small scale at first. Grow a heavy stand of crotalaria on the site in the summer and disk it into the soil in early September. Or you can locate the bed near a dis ease free water supply so the sur fac of the soil can be kept moist in dry weather." Tobacco men from all parts of North Carolina are expected *o at tend the annual tobacco field day planned for the Mounta n Test Farm on Wednesday afternoon. Sponsored by State Extension Serv ice the meeting is open to ware housemen, fertilizer dealers, bank ers tobacco company representa tives and other business people, as well as tobacco farmers here and across the state. Opening at 1 p.m. the tour dem onstrations will last about three hours. Scheduled are a special study on priming burley, a man agement test to include spacing, topping, suckering and fertilization, a variety test, nitrogen source, sucker control, time of topping, a demonstration on setting up methyl bromide plant bed treatment, cur ing equipment, harvesting demons tration, priming demonstration and a demonstration of fertilizer dis tributor equipment. Those in attendance will also ob serve a tobacco variety demonstra tion, including wildfire and black shank resistant lines. They will take part in a discussion on tobac co barn construction and improve ment. Extension and research men will be present to answer growers' questions regarding various.phases of tobacco production. Under She direction of Dr. Luth er Shaw, United States Depart ment of Agriculture agronomist stationed at Waynesville, the pro gram is divided into six demon strations as follows: Fertilizer placement in the field, weed control in the plant bed - - - led bv R. R- Bennett, and Harold Nau, ' Extension tobacco specia - ists of North Carolina State Col lege. , Tobacco barn construction and management during curing ? led by Mr. Nau; Cutting and priming demonstra tions?led by James R. Davis, as sistant county agent of Buncombe C?Feruiization and sucker control led <bv E- Col well, assis tant director of the agricultural | experiment station at State Col lege: j, _ Burley varieties and breeding materials - led by Dr. E. L. Moore, USDA agronomist. Observation and discussion of burley management test involving varied fertilization, spacing, top ping and harvesting practices ? led by Dr. Shaw. Hereford Tour Has Attendance Of 200 Some 200 Hereford fanciers and their families turned out Thurs day for the annual Haywood Coun ty Hereford tour. Beginning at the Walnut Knolls farm of Dr. J. L. Reeves, the group wound up at Joe Reinertson's farm for lunch, an afternoon ef discussions, demons trations and games, and a water melon feast supplied by the First National Bank. Several calves which-t-HClub members are fattening for stock Show soon to be held were on display after lunch, and one wash Bookmobile Schedule Aug. 25 BETHEL - CENTER PIGEON - HENSON COVE Riekman's Store 0:15- 9:30 Abie's Grocery 9:45-10:00 Morrow's Grocery 10:10-10:40 Roy Suttles 10:50-11:15 John Blalock 11:20-11:35 Robert Clark 11:40-12:30 Lonnie Green 12:45- 1:05 T. W. Cathey 1:15- 1:30 Hugh Terrell 1:45- 2:00 John M. Rigdon 2:05- 2:30 Aug. 26 CECIL - BETHEL Parris Store ., 9:15-10:15 J. P. Ledbetter 10:20-10:30 James Reeves ......10:35-10:50 W. R. Hargrove 11:35-11:50 John Johnson 12:00-12:15 Harrison Henson 12:30- 1:00 Wright's Self Service ... 1:15- 1:30 Southern School Service 1:35- 2:00 Jack McCracken 2:15- 2:40 West Pigeon Food Ctr. 2:50- 3:15 Aug. 28 CRUSO - FRANCIS COVE Mrs. Lorrie Mann 9:15- 9:30 Robert Freeman 9:45-10:15 Cruso Grocery 10:30-11:00 Deavers Grocery# 11:05-11:25 Dosha Burress 11:30-11:45 Springdale School and Camp .'. 11:55-12:15 Burl Henderson 12:30- 1:00 Burnett's Cash Grocery 1:10- 2:30 Stocks of corn, wheat and oats in North Carolina on July 1 total ed 12.087,000 bushels, 28 per cent below the same date last year. Dead Weeds M Soil; Growing? Weeds Harml? Growing weeds left or garden are the -reatei? of soil moisture. aecorj^? tension Service, but weeg^? killed and kept un top along with other plant ro? come an efficiei.. aid ig^H Ing what water there is ia^? Controlling weeds it in? portant as not having h^? soil in your field on i^? day. A wet, bare silt loam? lose a quarter of an incfc? in a single clear dr> day. To conserve moisture,]? suggests keeping tillable^? ered all year round eitl^? grass, a growing crop. residue (weeds will doi.i^| ed in the soil in winter,^? help of a ground cover, I available for other cropi? lowing cummer. PARRIS ISLAND, S. C. August 12?During training In the field, two men of the Western Carolina "Mountaineer" platoon, now in training at the Parris Island Marine Corps Recruit Depot, find a chance to fill their canteens for a Lister bag. At left is Private Alan K. Swayngin, whose uncle, Mr. Vincent McElroy, lives in Waynesville, and at right is Private Oscar West, 19, son of Mrs. O. J. West of Liberty. (Marine Corps Photo). ' ' North Carolina broiler I tion continues to rise. TbiH 000 chicks hatched in the! months of this year repnH per cent increase over tH period a year ago. News Notes From East Pigeon By MRS. MARY BLAYLOCtf Community Reporter Mrs. John Chaplin, of East Pig eon, has been visiting her husband who is stationed at Fort Bragg. Mr. and Mrs. Talmage Blaylock and their three children, of Dur ham, are visiting relatives here for a week. Woodrow Burnett and family have moved into their new home. It will be complete very soon now. Roy Griffin who has been em ployed in Oregon for some time, Iras' returtled to thfa comftlunity. ' Mr. and Mrs. Joe Sales are at present guests of relatives in Lakeview. Mr. and Mrs. Delmer Games and their children, are vacationing in Florida for a week. They are join ed by the Games' niece, Miss Bertha Sharp. Mrs. Ben Revis is on the sick list and is in the Haywood County Hospital. Ralph Cook, who has been quite ill in the Waynesville Hospital, has returned home and is very much improved. Everyone is excited over prepa rations for school again. ? North Carolina farmers should keep something growing on all of their tillable land to help pre serve soil moisture. used by guest speaker Sam Buch anan in pointing out attributes to e looked for in selecting stock. ( BIG, FAT HOGl (...give you more good eatin' meat! h i for tots of low-cost pofl SW'SO"! HOG MEAl ? This complete, balanced ration Irl il everything it takes to grow 'em fa^H r ?iO\b. i? . and big. You'll get more I .eCK-**Vt* M meat by hog-killing time ... And it^^B cost less per pound I i It's a Real Pork-Maker... espeoiB %. built to make meat.,, fast and economics? 3 Parton's Feed Store 420 Depot Street Waynesvillt H. S. Ward ? LAND AT AUCTION SATURDAY. AUGUST 29th - 10:30 AM. SUNBURST RANCH LOCATED Midway Between Waynesville and Canton, N.C. ? Pigeon Valley ? Haywood County. 500 ACRES Pasture .nd Tillable?1055 Acres Woodland. Subdivided into 15 tracts. You will have an op portunity to buy any or all Of the land. TIMBER estimated One Million and Half feet of original growth. Land will be sold with or without the timber. Timber will be offered separately. All farm equipment, including Ford car and Jeep. All household furni ture. Space will not permit us to describe this Ranch. Drive out and look it over. The Residence PROPERTY?1555 Acres. 500 acres in pasture and tillable land, 1055 acres in woodland. Ranch can carry 200 head of cattle, 100 sheep. Little East Fork of Pigeon River flows through land for about a mile. Approximately 10 miles of trout streams feeds large trout and bass pond on property. Second trout pond near residence. Ample water from many springs in pasture and several brooks. Crops regu larly rotated; fenced pastures, Kentucky blue grass, Ladino clover, red orimaon clover, Dutch clover, timothy and alfalfa. Growing sea sort, 9 to 10 months. Timber lands include chestnut, oak, hemlock, hickory, hard maple, poplar, basswood, ash. Large apple orchard. Walnut trees. All kinds of berries. Elevation 3400'. if-' | 'Ify., ^ F?m^uV?o^n.nrni?.^e ' Smoky Mountains, North Carolina's Land of the Sky. 1 Bressive .if ? oC^ry' ,excellent W round climate. Near Canton, a pro facimjas aTmlt n 1?chooJ8- ch?rches, recreational activities, all est and nn wllLl Vi r?an ? boulMted on North by Piagah National For Branch 3wi!.S? Champion Paper * Fibre Co. forest property. Asheville-Murohy 12 mTa. ' mi,e8 ** bUS "neS on U S 19 PENNY BROTHERS The World's Original Twin-Auctioneers of Chorlotte, N. C. J. C. Penny, General Manager. If you rare to buy or ted land, write or aee no?Phone Charlotte, N. C? 1-7SM. View of the Land V ESIDENCE 10 rooms (6 bedrooms, 2 baths) 2 story native Swiss chalet, built 1940. Oil hot water heat. Electric hot water fc*" Modern plumbing; copper hot water pipes. PS electricity. Tele*' 8?en tenant hoUMS and flv? ^ ^ ^ ^ >ppr?x,mllJ '6 ^?x stalls, 150-ton hay storage capacity; 2 stone silos "lldim) 60-ton-capacity each. Additional barm. sheds, torlcey h???s. Manager's house-6 rooms, electricity. ? Mrs. Edith B. Young, Owner.
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