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?r' The Mountaineer's ?EF Henderson County Finds Soil Conservation Valuable In just three practices under the 1955 ACP, 8,950 acres of vulner able Henderson County farmland wet1* permanently protected from deterioration and erosion These figures were contained In, the annual teport for Henderson County covering operation of all Agricultural Stabilization and Con servation Programs in the county, according to Prances P. Honey cutt, office manager. Sirs, Honeycutt says that 343 acres on 103 farms were provided with a permanent vegetative cover to hrotect this eroded land from further erosion and to start bull'l inr the land back up. Ijnder ACP Practice 3, some 049 acres were treated by the applica tion of lime during 1955. "Within a matter of weeks attar the lime was applied, there waa evidence at ad ditional growth and erosion pro tection." she aatd. The leading practice in the coun ty in the way of acres of farmland Improved and protected was tne Improvement of grassland sod Mrt. lloneycutt said that 2,958 acres of potentially valuable farmland re ceived needed amounts of lime, fertiliser, and seed to assure a good stand of legumes and grasses. If Chicks Eat Less, ' Seek Cause Are your chicks eating you out of house and home? Well, It's when they start dawdling over their feed that you have to worry. State College extension poultry men point eut that as chicks grow,, they will eat more feed. The need will be greater for each week dur ing the growing period. When chicks slow down or stop eating, there's trouble ahead. The poultry specialists say that If chicks eat less feed today than they did yesterday, the poultry man should try to stimulate appe tites by using wet mash, pellets, crumbles, or an antibiotic in the drinking water of feed. But the specialists warned not to feed more wet mash than the chicks can con sume In 20 to 30 minutes. One-half cup of molasses to each gallon of water for two days Is also s good way to stimulate appetites. So anytime you think you're sav ing on feed because the chickens ?ren't eating as much as usual, lon't thank your stars. Check to we what's wrong. There's usually tome cause like a cold, coccldiosls, itale or moldy feed, disease, or It nay simply be too hot in the brood t house. ' " ? ' ' i ' BETWEEN NOW AND APRIL 15 PLANT i * *' I BEETS ? TURNIPS 4 CABBAGE ? KALE ? LETTUCE ? BROCCOLI 4 MUSTARD ? SPINACH ? KOHLRABI ? ONION SETS ? RADISHES ? RUTABAGA ? IRISH POTATOES ? GARDEN PEAS We Have A Complete Line il Well Known Brands of PACKAGE SEEDS Haywood County FARMERS CO-OP H. M. ^nlln, Mar. J Depot St. GL 6-4621 1 I \1 PAINTING GUIDE I XW > h. ?*-.?. I (if wNl?, CillMJa, wmnHfl, Nvwiy Wwwi? IMM lAHlJkMtffA Cm.. L ?H |M wm 1 MMRW IfWWWl MM ? ml KitItotf?'? S?H?M*>tr?oh*?#l (hMti Itmi II mv fcnntof tritrt Mwt tn?i I nnil I ? woikabl*, Mti*-Mfl Mdi. g? MSSS& I CLINE - BRADLEY CO. I Joe Clinfe . Dick Bradley ? GL 6-3191 Hazel wood f[) BIG NEWS I FROM ROGERS TRACTOR Co. Ford Motor CN9117 ??tw a m MMaMk Mm flo ki) P- _P mam ?o?r?tl?o aa<| .ipol. A ? maOM f A fcotor, detUoed for oae^o^UMoodjwytoyotPPO^;WWH vnique p wf wwcii'pncci ?iivr icn* p w ivv ivwuwwuiti mocUpo to tto Food 250, mflokto la lira Modoto, opftao Mow vitfc (tarter or wltfcoot (Urtor, nd fovpr Ukood. ? - ? Pny Only 1/3 Dowp (Cash or T?*?) Balance Up to 3 Crop Payments or 34 Monthly Payments. ROGERS TRACTOR Co. gpocialiata la Wmem Epaipanat Fiapadsg BwO** m n*nt Gladiolus Among Best Of Flowers By ROBERT SCHMIDT The gladiolus U one of our mo?t satisfactory garden flowers. It ii an excellent cut flower and makes a conspicuous show of color In the garden. Also, It Is easy to grow. Gladioli will succeed la any good garden soil that is well drained and where they may be well wat ered. The fact that we plant well developed conns or bulbs instead at having to nurse teedling plants ma^es them much easier to handle for the average gardener. A suc cession of blooms may be had by planting every three or four weeks during the season beginning In February In Eastern North Carolina and contlnu|ng until July. In sandy'tolls the corns should be planted about Ave Inches deep and six Inches apart in the row, In clay soils four Inches deep and six Inches apart In the row. Fertiliza tion should be moderate with any good grade garden fertilizer and care should be taken that none of the fertiliser comes Into contact with the bulbs. Select nice plump bulbs free from any disease spots. Most of the bulbs offered for sale are of the large sizes but with our long sea sons the medium and small sizes will also give us nice blooms. There are hundreds of good vari eties. The following are depend able and beautiful: White: Flor ence Nightingale. Snow princess. Leading Lady; white shades; Mar garet Beaton, Corona; pink and rose; Picardy, Ethel Cave Cole, Splc and Span. Rosa van Lima. Chamouny; lavender: Elizabeth the Queen; yellow: Spotlight; red: Red Charm, Valeria; blue: Blue Beauty; orange: Pactolus, Orange Gold; Jeep-rose: Burma. Fortunately, there Is only one pest that gives us much trouble on the gladiolus In the garden apd that is the gladiolus thrlp, a small suck ing insect. It causes light streaks 9n the foliage and a deforming of the blooms. If noticed In time, thrlps can be controlled with a dust or kpray of 5 per cent DDT. Headquarters For GARDEN TOOLS Push Plows ffc5Q Laurel Hoe $135 to Bow Rake $2.75 Work Gloves $1.35 pr. Garden Hose 25 ft--$298 50 ft. ? $4L98 Limited Supply State . Halt-Runner Beans A Tender Bean Especially Adapted For Home Gar dens. Excellent For Frees-' Bay Earty! FARMERS FEDERATION 1 " BUI OL Mm - tse n*Mt m. I WWiMiffl*, N. C. Plant Food Saves Work, Ups Yield and Quality Placement method of apptriar pint food is favorite for row crops. By increasing their uie of fertilizer, farmeri have reduced their cost of production. Home gardeners can do the same, sav ing both money and work. Fertile soil gives heavier yields, requiring a smaller area to produce the needed amount of vegetables, for example. Well fed crops mature faster and c-xcel in tenderness and flavor. They also resist the attacks of insects and diseases far better than ill nourished plants. Less seed to sow, less time to sow it, less work to care for the plants it produces, all re sult from an adequate use of plant foods. Plant food mixtures contain ing all the elements needed by plants, are better for the ama teur, than attempting to analyze his soil and apply precisely what it seems to need. For a garden of 1,000 square feet a balanced commercial plant food use of six pounds per 100 square feet takes only 60 pounds. It would require a.eii pounds to fertilize an acre at this rate and there might be few farm crops on which such heavy feeding would pay, ' But this feeding would raise even poor soil in a home vegeta ble or flower garden to good . fertility. , In most 'eases t or 4 pounds of plant food per 100 .square feet should be applied at plant ing time. The method used de pends on the acidity of the soil. In neutral soils plant food may be apread evenly over the gar den area and spaded in. This method should be followed in preparing flower borders and bedi, including flowering bulbs. In the vegetable garden the same method may be followed, but for row ctops many prefer to apply plant food ia bands on either aide of the row. First stretch a line to mark the drill in wtiich the seed will be sown. On either side a few inches away make a trench 4 inches deep or so, and in each trench pour half a pint of plant food for each 25 feet of row. Cover this with soil and proceed with soil sowing. The trench, or placement, method should always be used where there is reason to suspect acidity. Acidity is easily corrected by applying limqptone. Potatoes and watermelons prefer slightly acid soil, but most vegetables grow well in neutral soil. Beets, aspar agus, cauliflower, muskmelons, parsnip and spinach all demand a neutral soil for best results. Having applied four pounds of plant food to each 100 square feet before planting the garden, the remaining two pounds is re served for use as the crop ma tures. It can be applied dry as a . side dressing, or in liquid form. Soluble plant foods are useful for feeding growing crops, be cause of the ease with which they can be applied. By using a siphoning device they can be mixed with the hose water, di luted sufficiently as to avoid burning green leaves. It has been proved that plant leaves will absorb plant food and what does not fall on the leaves will reach the ground and sink in to where the roots can get it. Yep, we've borrowed several pigs from one of our, local hog men and set 'em up right in the store. * We are feeding our pigs Purina Baby Pig Chow now and will switch to Pig Startena a little later. They'll get Purina and water?that's mil. The pigs will be weighed every week and a record kept of every pound they e^t. We know how this demonstration will come out, because we know what Purina will do. But we want ym to see for yourself the fast, low-cost gains our pigs make. That's tha surest way to make you another of our satisfied Purina Customers. Come in and get acquainted with our pigs today.., and come see them often. I CLINE - BRADLEY COMPANY Jo* ( line . Dick Bradley 5 Pcdata Haadwood m tm a A _ ? ? m m - ? mm mm mm Disease Is Major Threat To Hardwood By GEORGE & BETTING Forest Disease Specialist C. S. Forest Service Our children probably do not realize It. but chestnut trees made up over one-fourth of the hard wood timber of our Southern mountain -area only a generation ago. Unfortunately, a blight ac cidentally transported to this country from China, and discovered in New York City in 1904, swept through the entire range of chest nut, practically eliminating this 1 useful tree from our forests. The blight is caused by a fungus that ! kills the vital inner bark, even tually girdling the tree as effec- * lively as if girdled with an ax. ; This killing process can still be observed on sprouts from old chest- : nut stumps. ? - i Fortunately, the chestnut blight , fungus is destructive only to : chestnut and to some extent to i post oak, one of the less valuable ' oaks. Our white, red, black, and , scarlet oaks do not take the chest- , nut blight. Neither do any of our j other mountain hardwoods. Tree-disease specialists were not 1 able to- find means of checking 1 chestnut blight, but they' have 1 scoured the Orient for blight-re- 1 sistant chestnuts that would grow 1 here. They shipped bushels of nuts to this country, and thousands < of trees have been grown from 1 them and tested against the blight. < Some were resistant, and now 1 blight-resistant Atlantic chestnut i stock can be purchased from sev- < eral commercial nurseries. i While the chestnut blight was 1 spreading southward from New t York, another fungus was killing J oaks in the Middle West and work ing southward. It is called oak wilt. By 1955 this disease, which can kill any species of oak, was doing important damage in Wis consin and adjoining states and had been found in a total of 18 states including North Carolina and Tennessee. In North Carolina, oak wilt has been found only In Buncombe, Haywood, and Swain Counties. The only Swain case, in Bryson City, has died out. The few known cases in the other two counties have been treated by the North Carolina State Forest Service to prevent spread of the disease. The state foresters also conduct ' surveys by airplane and automobile to locate oak wilt suspect' trees. If a suspected tree is confirmed by laboratory test, tt Is destroyed. Although some cases of oak wilt have occurred In and about Way nesville, the disease has done little damage there or elsewhere In North Carolina, and there is no reason now to take any drastic action regarding oak timber be cause of this disease. If a case of wilt is found, the tree should be removed by state authorities, and It is Sometimes advisable to cut the oaks adjoining the diseased tree, but no major disposal of oak timber seems necessary so long as the disease becomes no more ser ious than it is at present in our eastern states. When a landowner suspects dis ease or insect attack of his trees, lie should notify his county agent >r a state or federal forester. Eloper advice' will be given as to what should be done. Through cooperation of timber land owners ind public forestry agencies, we iope to prevent a repetition of any such timber disaster as the chest nut blight. _ State College Answers Timely Farm Questions QUESTION: When should I nlant strawberries? ANSWER: Melvin H. Kolbe, ex tension horticultural specialist, says that anytime between Novem ber and April is all right, provided the plants are lafge enough and the weather and soil conditions are suitable. QUESTION: I have several doc wood trees In my yard, bet I would like is include some sther small trees. What would you suggest? ANSWER: You ntight try some dowering crab apples, flowering cherry, Japanese red maple, saucer star magnolia, American holly, red bud, or Japanese Pagoda trees. ?? I ? jilj ra ?Ti | ^ T ' Mow It's easier and cheaper to ?mmmmrn * ' * ? ? '? grow 'em better I v . ; PARTON FEED STORE 420 Depot St., Wajrnesvillo mneApmroK. *\ CLINE-BRADLEY CO. I n ro&sr - - I pnrpeeSeeds) YoeTl lad the bat vegetable ud Sower leeda in Iowa at... CLINE-BRADLEY CO. 5 Points ? Haaehrood It Is More Necessary Than Ever To Make Your TOBACCO CROP TOP QUALITY a*d HIGH YIELD . in order to keep your income up on the reduced acreage allotments. Many of the finest productions of TOBACCO in Haywood and adjoining counties are being made with BLUE RIDGE SPECIAL TOBACCO PLANT FOOD starting in the plant bed, and following through to maturity with BLUE RIDGE BRANDS prepared especially for that purpose. These high quality TOBACCO FERTILIZERS are made to assure best results, and contain a maximum of If chlorine and a minimum of 2% magnesium (1% water soluble added) at greater cost than many ' ? ? l other Tobaccos brands offered ? but they sell at the same price. Check The Guarantee Tag Before You Buy SMOKY MOUNTAINS FERTILIZER CO. Ask Your Dealer For pLUE RIDGE PLANT FOQD
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