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It has over 150.000 members.
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ANNUAL FOOTBALL AWARDS, presented by
Sluder's Furniture Store of Canton to outstand
ing gridders at Bethel High School, were made
recently by A1 Phillips (third from right), repre
senting the donor, to (starting second from left):
Gerald Hill, captain and best team spirit; Joe
Rob Fish, best defensive lineman; Bud Phillips,
best blocking back; John Russell, best blocking
lineman, and Henry Capps, best defensive back.
At left is Bethel Coach Charlie Poindexter. ?
(Photo by Frances Studio).
Remove Defective Trees,
Aid Growth Of Other Trees
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By ROV R. BECK
Soil Conservation Service
Last week I took pictures of the
woodland improvement cutting
Mark Ferguson had just completed
on a three-acre tract on Fines
Creek.
Mr. Ferguson had removed some
40 crooked, defective, undesirable
trees so as to give the young pop
lars, walnuts and oaks a chance to
grow fast. There must be over 40
straight young poplar trees left by
Mr. Ferguson that are six to ten
inches in diameter and just ready
to start growing real money.
Most of the wood removed in the
40 logs will be sold as pulpwood
Yet, Mark says he will have a few
nice logs to saw for use around the
farm making repairs and doing the
never-ending building that a farm
requires.
Several farmers in Haywooc
County are considering making use
of the Conservation Reserve of the
Soil Bank for tree planting on
steep land and for building ponds
on cropland. Planting trees on
these real steep hills is good land
use, according to G rover Ferguson
of Fines Creek. He and his two
boys own stands of white pine,
both planted and those that came
from natural seedings. All three
are proud of the fast-growing white
pine timber.
If a farmer elects to plant trees
under the Soil Bank it must be on
land that he has been cultivating.
1 The government will cost-share 80
per cent of the cost of seedlings
' and planting, plus $10 rent each
1 year, through a contract period of
1 ten years.
1 If a farmer elects to build a
farm pond on cropland the cost
sharing schedule is a little more
1 complicated. It is 80 per cent of
> the cost up'to $025, 40 per cent of
the cost from $625 to $1,000 and
20 per cent of the cost in excess
of $1,000. provided that in no case
shall the cost-sharing exceed $1,
500.
If water is backed over non-crop
land the basis for cost-sharing is
reduced by the percentage of the
non-cropland under water Water
storage contracts are for a five-year
period.
If a farmer "banks" land under
the Conservation Reserve, he must
reduce his basic crop acreage by
the acreage placed in the Soil Bank
I for the entire contract period. Also,
, neither idle land nor other acre- \
age can be brought Into produc
tion of "basic" crops during the
contract period.
Soil Supervisor D, J. Boyd sug
gests that farmers who are inter
ested in using the Soil Bank pro
gram to further their conservation
farming. fir$t contact the County
ASC office for complete explana
tions of that program.
Conservation farmers know that
stable manure, disked into tneir
row crop land, is a big help in mak
ing high yields. It also helps con
trol erosion. The erosion control
ling effect of stable manure has fin
ally been measured'and the saving
of soil is surprising. A 16-ton ap
plication on an Iowa cornfield '9
per cent slope) reduced loss of soil
by 77 per cent and the rainwater
runoff by 63 per cent. In Ohio, 80
years of systematic manuring of
light-colored soil saved 170 tons of
soil materia^ per acre, or over two
tons per year.
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Tax Listers
Named For
The County
Haywood tax listers have been
named, and will begin work Jan
uary 1, it was explained by Bryan
Mcdford, tax collector and super
visor this morning.
The listers are: Clyde, Spurgeon
Byers; Crabtree, Mrs. Bob Fisher;
Cecil. Mrs. Clyde Caldwell; Cata
loochee, Mack Caldwell; East Fork.
Bryan Heatherly; Fines Creek,
Mrs. Carl Rogers; Iron Duff, V.
R. Davis.
Ivy Hill, Albert Siler; Jonathan
Creek, Mrs. Fred Allison; Pigeon,
Mrs. David Edwards; White Oak,
Mrs. Francis Teague; Waynesville,
j Mrs. Ruth Kelly and Mrs. Boh
Williams; Beaverdam, Vaughn By
ers, Marie Smathers and Fred Wil
liams.
PFC Hannah In Korea
With QM Company
? PFC Vcrlin Hannah, 21, wfceoe .
wife lives at 413 Killian St., Way-!
nesville, is assigned to the 529th
Quartermaster Petroleum Supply
Company in Korea.
Hannah, a driver, entered the
Army in May. 1955 and arrived
overseas the following October. He
is a former student at Waynesville
High School.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. C.
Hannah, live on Route 1.
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