Eight From Grfteite
County Will Attend
State 4-H Club Week
Eight delegates from the Greene
county 4-H chiba will attend the 4-H
Club Week beginning August IS < at
State college, Raleigh. The programs
for the week include conferences,
study, demonstrations, recreation
contests and special events for ap
proximately 1800 boys and girls who
will represent every club in the
state,
Delegates from Greene county are:
Agnes Carraway and Richard Mew
bom, Snow Hill: J. C. Parker, Carl
Tlinson and Marjorie Barfield, Wal
stonburg; Elisabeth Williams froi
the Hookerton club and J,. B. McLaw
hon from the Maury club.
N. C. Corn Crop
Will Equal Record
Prospects indicate that yields for
North Carolina's 1947 corn crop will
equal the all-time record of 27 bush
els per acre harvested last year, re
ports the Federal-State Crop Re
porting Service of the State Depart
ment of Agriculture in a summary
of the general crop outlook.
Although dry weather during late
April and early May caused growers
some anxiety, rains since that time
have contributed considerably to the
fw
_ at
8482,000 acres, the same as last
?sar', and July 1 prospective yields
point to a crop equal to toe 68,914,
000 bushels harvested in 1046.
for Motto Carolina's
wheat crop improved during June
and yield is now estimated at IT
bushels per acre, equaling the record
high yield harvested in 10461 -Acre
age for harvest, however, increased
from 871,000 to 407,000, or 84 per
cent above the acreage harvested in
1046. The 1047 crop is now estimat
ed at 8,449,000 bushels and compares
with the 1946 crop of 6,807,000
hushels.
Production of oats in North Caro
lina during 1946 is now estimated at
12,302,000 bushels?about four per
cent less than the 1946 crop. Indica
tions point to a yield of 29.6 bushels
for this year, compared with the
1946 average of 38 bushels.
Production of ail Irish potatoes lit
North Carolina in 1947 is estimated
at 8,468,00 bushels, er 30 per cent
less than the record-high production
in 1946. Yields per acre were esti
mated at,116 bushels, compared with
the record-high yield of 161 bushels
harvested last year.
Production of sweet potatoes in
the State is now estimated at 7,700,
000 bushels, 20,000 more than was
harvested in 1946. Yield pgr acre
for the 1947 crop is currently esti
.0 bushels compered with
Bhrvested per sere last
ye^r
Reporte from peanut growers in
dicate that the acreage of peanuts
grown alone for all purposes (nuts
sad hogging) will show no change
from the 817,000 acres grown alone
in 1?4?.
Production of all peaches (com
mercial sad farm) in 1047 is now es
timated at 3,104,000 bushels, two per
cent less than in 1946. Production in
the six counties of the Sandhills area
is six per cent less thsn the 1946
yield.
ECONOMIC
HIGHLIGHTS
For a number of obvious ipnni,
the desperate plight of England is of
increasing concern to the American
government and the American
people. In the first place, she is our
sole major ally abroad, and we have
depended upon her for essential as
sistance in our social and political
conflict with the Soviet Union. In
the second place, we are spending an
enormous Bum of money in an effort
to underwrite and stabilise the fal
tering British economy, and our com
mitments for this purpose may be
still further increased. Lastly, Eng
land is still the nominal head of a
world-empire, even though the ties
that bind have loosened perceptibly,
which Ilea astride some of the most
strategic areas in the earth.
"Export or die" has literally be
come the theme, of present-day Eng
land. And, so far, the results obtain
ed have been depressingly below an
ticipations. Hie American loan is
being consumed at an alarming rate,
and England's dollar credit in this
country?with which she purchases
many of the essentials of life?is go
ing down and dowip. Unless condi
tions materially improve,* it will be
used up in a very'few years. It is,
in brief, providing the English people
with a minimum standard of living?
but it is not expanding the export
trade upon which, a sound "and self
sustaining economy may be built for
the England of the future.
This failure, is certainly not due to
a policy of pampering the average
Briton in his daily life. The English
diet is still poorer than in wartime.
Only -a small part of the manu
factured goods made?such as tex
tiles, motor cars, china, Scotch whis
key, silverware, leather articles, and
the rest?can be sold in England.
The great hulk of it, -by law, must
go abroad in search of more dollar
credits. All of the necessities and
many of the luxuries are severely
rationed. This is what the British
call their-"austerity program" and
ft fully justifies its name.
As a result, the vast majority of
'art waging their own in
dividual battles to keep the wolf
from the door." Then has been a
tremendous price inflation, and in- I
comes have not kept pace with it
This is particularly true of the
white-collar classes, who i
to pay 1047 prices with,
which are not much above the-1939
40 level. The buying power if the
pound isVonly about a quarter ef
what it was seven or eight years
ago. Worst of all, prices are still
going up, and the end is not in sight
To make the situation still men dif
ficult, the quality of* the manufac
tured goods available to the English
people has gone down in must in
stances, which in itself is a form of
price rise. .
The Labor government did not
create England's terrible economic
problem. That was the result ef the
incredible drains of war, of her loss
of foreign markets, of ^h* shift of
economic power to the United States.
Any government would have had to
face the same problem, and most au
thorities think that any government
would have had to put something
very much like the present austerity
program into effect.
? ' Secretary of Agriculture Clinton
P. Anderson in addressing the Fourth
Annual Oklahoma Save the Soil
Clinic in Oklahoma City, recently
made the following remarks, which
could well be studied by all people
interested in our soils and their pro
duction: "What will the United
States be like a hundred years from
now? Will the people be prosperous
?well fed?with plenty of nutritious
milk, fruits, and vegetables for a
balanced diet? W1U they be more
vigorous than we are?healthier?
longer-lived? Or weaker sickly?
aging and dying before our time?"
These questions are asked by Secre
tary Anderson. In. answering, he
said:
"The story of soil exploitation be
gins about three and a half centuriee
ago, when the white man's plow.first
broke American sod. The plow that
stroke the plains loosened the dust
cloud as well .As the dust storms
boil up in the West and carry across
the Mississippi, and the Ohio, and
the Allaghenies, and the Atlantic
Seaboard, we find that our account
with nature's bank of soil is marked
'overdrawn'.
"Wise leaders suddenly see that
the tired and worn-out countries fit
ting exhauatecL along the sidelines of
history are oar counterpart in the
ancient world. Once-, they too had
stood strong and vigorous, but they
alllowed their land's life tp ebb out
in the red and yellow and Mafic lit
vuleta, just as we are permiting ours
to do. Already -more than half, of
our farmland has bean seriously in
jured. Each year erosion is tstf
mated to coot th? country cloM to
four Mllion dollars. Tliii consist* .?*j
plant food materials." ~
Weevil Inf&tatioii
_ Greene County
I Cotton 31 Per Cent
W. F. Welfare, Snow HiU, Route 2,
baled 64 bales of alfolfa bay with
tiie third cutting from a two acne
field seeded in August of last year
Latest holl weevil check in the cot
ton fields of Greene county shows an
infestation of 31 par cent. A was
bar of farmers are dubting with
calcium anenate dust for control.
To "THE ENTERPRISE*^
].- NOTICE
NcS^^dS "M- St3
interested persons that an assess
ment roil covering aH Street
provements in the Town of Fhrm
ville for the rears 1946 and 1947, as
authorized prior"to the date of this
notice, was deposited in my office by
6. L. mid* T. W. Rivers, Town En
~ the total amount of the
ascertained by
li oners of the
J ? _ Rt F. CL, on June 26,
1947: that said assessment roll vie
doty confirmed by the.Boasd of Com
missioners of the Town of Farmville,
N. C., after due notice, on July 8th,
1947, at 9:00 o'clock P. M.; that any
assessment contained hi said Strhet
Improvement Assessment noil may
be paid to the undersigned in cash
on or before August 81, 1947, with
out any addition for interest; in the
event said assessment is not paid in
foil in cash on or before the 31st
day of August, 1947, then and in that
event said assessment shall bear in
terest from July 1st, 1947, at 6% in
terest, until paid; provided that said
assessments may be paid in tan equal
installments, the first installment to
be due on October 1st, 1947, and all
subsequent installments to be due
and payable at the same time that
the Town taxes are due and payable.
This notice in compliance with G.
S. 160-92.
This the J29th da^r^of^_July, 1947
Clerk and Treasurer, Town of Farm
ville, N.,C. 1-4
ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE TO
CREDITORS
Having qualified aa , Adminstra
trix of the Estate at W. G. Gay, Jr.,
late of Pitt County, North Carolina,
thia is to notify all persons haying
claims against the Estate of the de
ceased to exhibit them to the under
signed at Esrnrville, North Carolina,
on or before the 26th day of June,
1M8, or this notice will be pleaded
in bar of their recovery. All persons
indebted to said Estate will please
make immediate settlement
I This the 26 day of June, 1M7. '
KT MRS. RUBY S. GAY,
Administratrix of the Estate of
W. G. Gay, Jr, i
Buy "Savings Bonds" Hsyei Hold!
BENJAMIN L. GARDNER
Benjamin L. Gardner, 72, dtad at
hie home near Fountain .late Thurs
day nigfci following several years of
declining health.
Funeral services were held from
the home Saturday afternoon at 3:30,
conducted by Elder Smith of Elm'
City and Elder Flye of Rocky Mount.
Interment was in the Fountain eeme
Surviving an his wife, the former
Lucy Owens; four sons, Harry E.
Gardner of .Raleigh, Carlton L. Gard
ner of Fountain, B. L. Gardner, Jr.,
of Farmtille, and R. D. Gardner of
the home; two daughters, Mrs. F. E.
Kellam of Philadelphia and Ifn. Min
nie Hayes of Rocky Mount, and 11
grandchildren.
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