Hoke Agricultural Extension News
by Willie Feat her* tone, Jr., Agricultural Extension Agent
AGRICULTURAL LIME CAN
MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Spring is a time of promise.
But the promise of a good crop
production year could fall far short
of expectations due to a poor liming
program. Every year, county agents
are called out on farm visits to
identify crop growth problems.
Most of the time, tne farmer
suspects some exotic disease has
taken over, or he suspects that a
micronutrient is at fault, or he was
sold bad seed, or the fertilizer was
at fault.
These problems do occur, but
reports show that about 8 out of 10
times the culprit is acid soil. Acid
soil in 1982 will rob farmers of
hundreds of thousands of bushels
of corn, sovbeans, small grains and
thousands of tons of hay. Acid soils
will turn green pastures into, at
best, exercise fields.
Vegetable and fruit crops will
suffer the same fate -- reduced
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yields, poor quality and total
failure in extreme cases.
At the same time, thousands of
dollars will have been invested in
fertilizers and herbicides that will
be less effective because of acid
soils.
All of this can be avoided by a
sound liming program. It starts
with a soil test and is followed up by
applying the amount of aglime
recommended. Agricultural lime
can make the difference between
success and failure.
NITROGEN EFFICIENCY AND
LIMING
Nitrogen fertilizer prices at 75
cents to SI per pound of nitrogen.
Ridiculous -- maybe? A tripling of
persent nitrogen fertilizer prices are
being predicted in the next couple
of years. Whatever the increase in
cost, increasing the efficiency of
nitrogen use by crops is a must.
Most nitrogen fertilizers are
applied to the soil in the ammo
nium form. But most nitrogen is
taken up by plants in the nitrate
form. Therefore, ammonium nitro
gen must be changed to the nitrate
nitrogen form. TTiis is accomp
plished by bacteria.
Soil temperature, soil moisture
and soil pH all influence the
conversion of ammonium nitrogen
to nitrate nitrogen. The process is
very slow in cold soils and in very
acid soils. Also, adequate moisture
must be present. Wet or dry soils
slow up the process. Also, too much
rain will leach nitrogen from the
soil.
On very acid soils, nitrification of
ammonia sources of nitrogen slows
to a standstill. Even though ade
quate amounts of nitrogen fertilizer
may be applied, crops grown on
very acid soils may suffer from
nitrogen deficiency.
A sound liming program and
maintaining the soil pH between 6
to 7 will increase the efficiency of
use of expensive nitrogen ferti
lizers.
CUSTOMER SERVICE
Dundarrach, N.C.
COMPLETE INSECT CONTROL
FROM THE HOME TO THE FARM
? Federal Crop Insurance
Route 1 Box 251-A Shannon, N.C.
Phone 875-8912
Nights - Jimmy Clark 875-5098
Richard McMillan 875-2493
TAILORING WORKSHOP These women are shown at a modified
tailoring workshop sponsored by the Hoke County Agricultural Extension
Service. Mrs. Onnie Dudley is seated at the sewing machine working on a
jacket she is tailoring. The others are showing the jackets they made. L-R.
Mrs. Bea Graham and Mrs. Annie McKinnon. and. right. Mrs. Deborah
Wright. | Staff photo.]
20 YEARS COMPLETED -- Julian D. Parker. Jr.. [left), known to his
associates as J. D. . recently completed 20 years ' continuous service with the
Raeford Plant of Burlington Menswear. He is shown receiving his service
certificate from his supervisor in the maintenance area. Bobby Edwards.
Parker began work at the local plant as a service man in the Cloth
Department, worked on sewral jobs in the Preparation Department and
has been in the Shop the past six years, currently serving as a maintenance
technician.
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Located just off Hwy 74
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Owners & Operators
Laurinburg
North Carolina
School Board
Accepts Roofing Bids
The Hoke County Board of
Education Tuesday night accepted
bids of S46.000 to re-roof the J.W.
Turlington school building and
$17,000 to repair an Upchurch
Junior High School building roof.
The Turlington bid was submit
ted by Parker Of Fayetteville, and
the Upchurch bid by York of
Lumberton.
The funds were provided in the
1982-83 budget last week by the
Board of Hoke County Commis
sioners.
The school board also during its
Tuesday meeting, the regular
monthly session for May, granted
the requests of parents of two
children to permit them to attend
McLauchlin School, which will be
outside their school district next
school year.
The requests were granted for
medical reasons for Jonathan
Hardman, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Guy Hardman, and Michael Har
din, son of Mr. and Mrs. Brent
Hardin. Jonathan Hardman was
due to attend kindergarten at West
Hoke School. The child's father,
Guy Hardman, told the school
board he wanted to have the boy
attend McLauchlin because that
school is close to emergency
medical services in event the boy's
allergy calls for treatment. The
board denied Hardman's request
that his other son, who will be in
the Fourth Grade, be transferred
to McLauchlin from West Hoke.
Brent Hardin asked the board to
leave his son at McLauchlin. The
child is due to enter the Second
Grade next year and was scheduled
io attend West Hoke.
The board did not act on a re
quest of Mr. and Mrs. Bobbie
Allen to allow their son to attend
either Scurlock School or
McLauchlin. instead of South
Hoke, so that he would be close to
a physician. The board decided to
wait to act on the request till the
parents presented a note from the
child's doctor.
Action on a request by Mrs.
Parker also was postponed because
Mrs. Parker did not appear before
the board Tuesday night. Mrs.
Parker had requested her child be
transferred to McLauchlin from
West Hoke because of her work
schedule.
The board denied requests of
seven other parents for transfers of
their children to McLauchlin or to
either McLauchlin or Scurlock
from schools in their attendance
district, because of a medical 'J
reason or the parents' work
schedules.
The board also voted to accept
County School Supl. Raz Autry's
recommendation that Judith
Christian Cothran be employed as
interim teacher at Upchurch
Junior High School for the re
mainder of the current school year,
to serve in the place of Donna Ken
nedy, who is on maternity leave. >? |
The board accepted the low bid
of $3,935 of Avery Connell In
surance Co. to insure all the school
system's vehicles.
The board spent nearly three
hours in executive session on a re
quest of parents of a student in a
drug case but took no action.
"Things That Matter"
by Lucien Coleman
Well, the free-thinking souls who
wanted to rid out society of all those
Victorian hang-ups in the area of
sexual behavior have just about
succeeded. And now we're paying
the price. Boy. are we paying the
price.
According to the National Center
for Health Statistics, one out of six
American babies is born to an
unwed mother. That amounts to a
50 percent increase in the last
decade.
Nationally, more than one mil
lion girls between 15 and 19, and
another 30.000 who are 14 or
'younger, become pregnant each
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MOTHER S DA Y SING -? A Mother's Day Sing will he held at 2:30 p.m.
Sunday at J.W. Turlington School with the Choraleers [ shown above ) and
The Crusaders participating. The program is being sponsored by the Hoke
County Semi-Pro Baseball Association.
year. According to the Washington
Urban Institute. 22 percent of these
teenage pregnancies end in out-of
wedlock births. 13 percent end in
miscarriage, and 38 percent termi
nate in abortions.
Health professionals worry about
the high-risk factors in teenage
pregnancies. They point out that
teenagers are more likely to lose .
their babies soon after birth thanv
women who deliver in their 20s.
and that babies delivered by teen
age mothers are more than twice as
likely to be born with neurological
defects.
Mothers 15 and younger run a 60
percent higher risk of death in
childbirth than vyomen in their
early 20s.
Even when pregnancy is avoided,
sexual promiscuity exacts a terriblel
toll in venereal disease. Genital
herpes, for instance, is a growing
health threat of near-epidemic
proportions. This painful disease
produees a variety of serious com
plications. including aspetic men
ingitis. neuralgia, and. very pro
baoly. cervical cancer. It can also
cause fatal infections in newborn
infants. The estimated incidence of
this disease is 300.000 cases a year. J
And there is no known treatment
for it.
Pelvic inflammatory disease
(P.I.D), a sexually transmitted
disease, is the single greatest cause
of infertility among young women.
This disease resulted in at least 800
deaths in the U.S. in 1978.
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