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AGRICULTURE i in airffliwniiMfflilWWIWM Seed catalogs often offer "garden helpers "as well as seeds ?March la the month of the V Awakening Moon. ?Flower of the mo+th la Jonquil. ?Firat quarter of the moon on the ! 10th. ! 1 BEYOND! THE WEEBS fc? 1 Jean Wira>l<>? j 'Sprinkle bonemeal on daffodils, ; fertilize perennials, four lbs. per 100 ? square feet. ; 'Start lightening mulch on ajugas, ? primroses, pansies. ?Apply pre-emergence chemicals to control crab-grass. ?Sow in greenhouse or sunny sill: ageratum. china aster, carnation, dianthus, marigold, caladlum bulbs, petunias, salvia, stock, allysum, verbena, sennia, nicotinia, stock. Unusual Offerings There's a lot more to catalogs than seeds, and I've found some great garden helpers for you. Urban Farmers, Inc., POB 22198, Beachwood. Ohio, 44122, offers little thematic entire gardens, such as French, German, Oriental, Windowsill and Dutch. It provides 10 to IS selections of seeds ranging in price from $4.25 to $10.00. It's an excellent deal. Spiff the patio up with Terra Rossa Italian Ring Poti from White Flower Farm, Litchfield. Conn. 06759. Shaped by hand in small family factories in northern Italy, they are beautiful, expensive, and look it. Gardener's Eden, POB 7307, San Francisco, OA, 94120, features a clever tool ? an expanding aluminum rake that goes from 25" down to 7" wide, perfect for awkward corners and small spaces. Epicure Seeds, Ltd., POB 450, Brewster, NY, 10509, thinks a lot of its new "Towerpot," interlocking clover leaf modules with 12-ounce water supplies. When you put them all together the tower is 23 inches high and holds 12-24 plants. Just in time for the 400th: Walter F. Nicke, Box 6676, Hudson, NY Marketing costs cause higher prices By JOHN SLEDGE N. C. Farm Bureau Federation ! Marketing costs over the years have been the principle (actor behind "rising food prices at the supermarket. This includes costs added on after the food leaves the I farm, such as labor, transportation, ' advertising and many others. J - Although labor costs account for J about a third of total food ; expenditures, there is another marketing cost that is perhaps often overlooked but is a very large factor in food marketing, and that is packaging. This includes metal cans, glass and plastic bottles and other containers for food products, as well as the boxes and other materials used in shipping. In fact, out of every dollar the consumer spends for food, approximately eight cents goes for NORTH CAROLINA farmL _ BUREAU Insurance Lewis Evans Pat Ward Agency Mgr. Agent 426-5636 426-7401 705 Church St., Hertford BtQG Elizabeth City, N.C. Your lUSED CAR| LEADER Offers these specials during March 1977 Graad M* ? *2.995 1 1976 OWs Cutlass *2.993| 1979 Dodft Diplomat. . . . *3,995 f ?1980 MtrcNij Capri *4,695 1980 Pontiac Grand Pita. . *4,995 1912 CIm?. Cawlitr *5.295 | 1979 Gran Pita *5,4951 1911 Harem) Covfar *5.995 1910 (Ms Cutlass, 4 dr. . . *6,595 19S3 OMsOwtp *7,295 1912 Cuttasi *8,995 1 1982 LsSabw IMM *9,495 1981 Etocfrt IMM *10.600 1982 RnfcW. . . : *10,900 4982 Mm Dn?* *12,900 | Porrtwc EUmcA MltocOWsmoWf HizabethGfy N.G Hw\ 17 Two Mil** S?Hilh Of EliswbHh CHy Phone 338-2131 N C OMtar No. JOS* packaging and container costs. Though food packaging costs run high, they do some necessary jobs, the biggest of which is to protect and preserve the foods they hold from light, heat, oxygen and infestation. So, a lot of the price of your food and beverage items is set by the kind of package in which you buy it. And that's something over which the farmer, who often gets the blame for high food prices, has no control. 12534, builds a better English Thatched-Roof Bird House, a quaint 16th Century hospice for your 20th century birds. When buying starter mediums at your nursery or hardware make sure you get the new Jiffy-7 pellet from Carefree Garden Products. This new nugget now contains Canadian spagnum moss. The size is perfect for the bottom of a six-ounce styrofoam cup, besides its usual place in flats, milk cartons, old aluminum trays, etc. Something else: you can slice on length wise for air layering. There are a few articles that are dead serious, but hit me funny. Like this traveling sprinkler put out by the Clapper Company, 1125 Washington St., West Newton, Maine, 02165. It propels itself across the lawn on a pattern laid out by the supplying hose, cover 16,000 square feet. It has two speeds (G & T, gentle rain and thundershower; I'm joshing...) a neutral and a cut off. Try to operate this one cold sober. Little buggy-looking thing making steady progress across a large expanse of green, spitting all the time ? you may find yourself trying to pick objects off your sleeve that keep getting away. Finally, you have to to have a Donkey Whirl-a-Gig from Henry Field, Shennandoah, Iowa 51602. This otherwise upright and efficient nursery undoubtedly sells a lot of these things or it wouldn't offer them. Mounted on the weather vane are a plastic donkey facing one way and farmer, hoe in hand, facing the other way. Everytime the wind changes, the donkey's back feet let the farmer have it in the ol' kiester. A northeaster could provide a laugh a minute, couldn't it? Timberlake & Sykes, P.A. Certified Public Accountants 110 West Market Street (Pitt Hdwr.) Hertford, North Carolina Phone: 426-5531 Office Hours Monday-Friday 9 A M 5 30 P.M. Saturdoy 9 A.M.-l P.M. Terry L Chapped. CPA Minnie Lee Winslow Winfall Supermarket [Great Grocery Buys VEG-ALL MIXED VEGETABLES -49* CANS ? ^ KEEBLER (SAVE 30 ) AA(fc Krunch Twists? 51" 8 OZ. PKG. BAM A (SAVE 20') EA( Party Shells K 33 DEL MONTE GREEN LIMA /* A( ioz03 Beans CAN RICHFOOD Waffles pkg. 29' 2 LITER LIKE COLA 69*
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