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Agriculture Growing
Business In N. Carolina
RECOGNITION FROM DEPART
MENT - Retiring Chief of the Hertford
Police Department, Ben L. Gibbs
(center) was the special guest at a
retirement dinner in his honor held
recently at the Hertford Cafe. Attending
were members of the Hertford Police
Rotary Governor
Visits Hertford
Department, the Hertford Town Council,
and spouses. Shown above, Mrs. Gibbs
looks on as newly appointed Police Chief
Marshall Merritt presents a plaque to
Gibbs from the department in recogni
tion of his service. (Staff photo by Kathy
Newbern)
THE KING
The hamburger is the king
of fast food restaurant
orders. Chicken is in second
place; pizza third; and fish
is fourth.
By JOHN SLEDGE
N.C. Farm Bureau
7 Federation
Agriculture is a growing
business in North Carolina.
The first totals released by
the Census Bureau, which
conducted a nationwide
farm census in 1974, show
commercial agriculture
making significant gains in
the state.
(Foe purposes of the cen
sus a farm was considered
any place from which $250
or more of agricultural pro
ducts were sold, or any
place of 10 acres or more
from which $50 or more of
products were sold.)
North Carolina farms sold
more than $2 billion worth of
agricultural products in 1974
compared with $1.2 billion in
1969, according to the
report. Total production ex
penses were $1.4 billion in
1974 versus $893 million in
1969. (In the meantime, the
state's farms sold nearly $3
billion worth of agricultural
products in 1976, with pro
duction expenses totaling
approximately $2 billion.)
Also according to the 1974
Census there were nearly
100,000 farms in North
Carolina occupying about 37
per cent of the state's total
land area. This compares
with 119,386 farms recorded
in the 1969 census.
The 'average size of a
North Carolina farm in
creased from 107 acres in
1969 to 115 acres, while the
number of farms with 500
acres or more rose from
3,113 to 3,295., The average
value per acre almost
doubled - during this five
year period.
Among other interesting
statistics, the value of sales
from crops, including
nursery products and hay,
doubled between 1969 and
1974, from $669 million to
$1.3 billion.
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HERTFORD
John C. Rice, governor of
Rotary District 771 visited
the Rotary Club of Hertford
on Tuesday, July 26.
Governor Rice discussed
the plans for the Rotary
year 1977-78 for our club and
for the district. John C. Rice
is a member of the Rotary
Club of Raleigh and served
as president of that club in
1968-69. He has served on
most of the district commit
tees. He assumed the post of
governor of District 771 on
July 1,1977.
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