Tips for catching-up and manicuring the summer garden
?Plant some more marigolds
and xennia seeds They are
handy for transplanting in hare
places in the late summer
cardan.
BEYOND THE
WEEDS
Jean Winalow
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?Abe lias are too often sheared
into giant balls. Tsk, tsk. Leave
them alone and they will flower
longer if you just clip branches
individually when they get out of
hand.
?Fertilize and mulch lily-of
the-valley . Apply Vi cup 5-10-10 to
each square yard.
?Treat metal lawn furniture
with a rust-resistant compound
and paint.
? Stake lilies and
chyrsanthemums against the
wind.
?Pinch chrysanthemums back
before July 1 for bushiness and
better flower production.
?Make sure asaleas are
mulched against heat and wind.
Pruning must be finished by July
1.
?Plant some sempervivums, or
hens and chickens, in a
strawberry jar. Give them a
sunny location and gritty soil.
Write Rocknoll Nursery, 9210
U. S. SO. Hillsboro, Ohio, 45133
for a catalog. Enclose 40-cents.
?Examine hollyhocks for rust
and apply a fungicide containing
ferbam and zineb.
?Asparagus should not be cut
much longer. Dress the ted well
with ? balanced fertilizer and
mulch thoroughly.
?Brown patches in the lawn
should be treated with a
fungicide such as Daconil 27S7,
Fersan lttl and Tersan LSR.
You dre expected to be able to
ask for these at your local
nursery without referring to
notes.
Brown patches can be reduced
i
by frequent mowing, thorough
watering and withholding
nitrogen.
?Webworms live in silk lined
tunnels near the surface of grass.
Treat with Diazioon, such as
Spectricide, D unban, Prozol.
?Place artemesia on closet
shelves for prevention of moth
damage.
?When stung by an insect, rub
parsley on your skin. Put the
juice of onion* or savory leave*
on bee sting*.
?Enjoy wild (lowers now
blooming afield -Queen Anne's
lace, blackberriea, trumpet
vine*, silky asters, butterfly
weed, and mullein, that fussy
looking gray plant with spikes of
yellow or white flowers. William
Lanier Hunt notes that before the
advent of modern cosmetics,
young ladies, just as their beaux
were about to arrive, used to rub
the (ussy tad prickly leaves over
their faces to give them color.
Sounds just Uke your typical
adolescent masochist doesn't it?
?Finally, considering the weird
weather over the last 12 months,
a Joint announcement has been
made by Joe Folkes. Gordan
Barnes, Allen Archer, Don Slater
and Steve Baakerville: You may
now remove snow tires.
June is Dairy Month
BY JOHN SLEDGE
N.C.Farm Bureau Federation
June is Dairy Month, and
throughout the Southeast the
celebration will take place under
the theme, "Milk's Got More!"
Since 1937 consumers have
paid special tribute to dairy farm
families during June for their
unique contributions to our
nation's health. Although milk
production and promotion take
place all year long, June has
been designated as a special
month-long salute to the people
and industry who provide
consumers with their daily needs
of high quality, nutritious milk
and milk products.
June Dairy Month in 1984 takes
a special significance because of
the continuing problem of
surplus milk throughout the
country.
Unfortunately, the "solution"
to the problem has become part
of the problem affecting the
dairy industry in North Carolina
and the Southeast. This so-called
"solution" is the National Dairy
Price Support Program enacted
last year.
This legislation was opposed
by a majority of dairy farmers in
this state mainly because it still
assesses all dairymen 50-cents
per hundredweight on all
production through March 1985.
This assessment is being used to
offset some of the USDA's cost of
the program which pays 110.00
per hundredweight to dairy
farmers for not producing
certain volumes of milk.
As it turned out, only 20
percent of dairymen, nationally,
and 16 percent in North Carolina,
signed up to participate in the
diversion program which was
designed to help eliminate the
surplus milk problem. However,
with such a small sign-up, the
program will have relatively
little impact on the surplus
situation especially since many
who did sign up had already
reduced their production prior to
the program. In the rest of the
Southeast the sign-up was higher
than in any part of the country.
This, plus high feed costs and low
milk prices, is expected to cause
tight milk supplies in the
Southeast by the fall of this year.
Another part of the National
Dairy Support Program
stipulates that all producers,
effective May 1, be assessed 15
cents per hundredweight for a
national dairy promotion
program. Any dairyman
contributing to another qualified
promotion program can review
up to 10-cents per hundredweight
as credit toward the 15-cent
assessment. This means an extra
five-cents deducted from the
dairyman's cash flow, but
hopefully the promotion program
will be successful in increasing
consumption.
The dairy program, which is
due to expire next year, was
supported primarily by large
midwest dairy cooperatives
whose members stand to gain
from the $10.00 program at the
expense of dairy farmers in
North Carolina and the
Southeast.
Temperatures are
HOT and so are
the savings of
?4.50 off the news
stand price of
*13.00 per year.
Subscribe now and
save.
150-in-county
*9.50-out-of -county
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Address
THE PERQUIMANS
WEEKLY
COURTHOUSE SQ. HtAtHjfP
Tips for more profitable livestock
For this week's column, a
quick note or two regarding four
types of livestock.
Carolina
[AGRICULTURAL
CE
By J*4f Cop*lo?<d
lit I
Beef Cattle: Producers should
consider planting a summer
annual for supplemental grazing.
Pearl millet is one good choice,
without the worry of prussic acid
poisoning, and it furnished
grazing till frost. Reports of
three cows/calves per acre on
pearl is not uncommon during a
favorable growing season.
If you have not planned for fly
control this year it's not too late
to try insecticide impregnated
ear tags. Most county producers
who try them are very satisfied.
Swine: Help for producers
wanting to get better control on
mange is now available. A new
product available through your
veterinarian can be used as an
effective mange and louse
control aid and also a wormerln
one easy injection. Producers on
spray programs for mites and
lice will have better results if
they use high pressure, being
careful to cover the entire hog
and spray on 10 to 14 day
intervals.
Super sows are on every farm. '
She is the one who always weans
off the biggest, fastest growing
pigs and returns to beat and
breeds on time. They have them,
but many farmers can not
distinguish them from the other
sows in a dry lot. Why not make it
a point to identify your best sows
and breed them to a white-line
boar (i.e., Chester white,
yorkshire, landrace, etc.) to
breed the rest of the sow herd;
and produce fast gaining,
growthy pigs. (This idea is much
better than just going out to the
feed floor and pulling the best
doing gilts out, not knowing
anything else about them.)
Sheep: Consider weaning
lambs nursing ewes as soon as
possible to promote the chance of
having ewes breed back earlier.
Early born lambs are when the
money is in sheep. The 1984 Wool
Pool for the Northeastern
District will again be hosted by
Perquimans County at Herford
Supply Company on Thursday,
June 21 from 8-11 a.m. The best
grade of wool, (clear) is a
fraction over 80-cents this year.
Producers need to take steps to
insure as marketable a product
as possible. Avoid using plastic
feed bags, staples and wire.
Poultry: When the weather
gets really hot, there is a
tendency to lower the curtains
and leave them down until falL
And along comes a perfect
nesting place for mice and
moisture to accumulate. The
moisture not only helps rot the
curtain, but also provides a place
for mosquitoes to breed.
Since it costs around four or
five hundred dollars to replace a
curtain on one side of a 400 ft.
chicken house, a little time spent
once a week raising and lowering
curtains is time well spent.
The threat of avian influenza is
still near North Carolina. A form
of this flu is infecting poultry in
Southwestern Pennsylvania, and .
the Shenandoah Valley of
Virginia. This threat is
important to everyone from the 1
small backyard flock owners and <
especially to the grower '
contractors. Strict isolation of
your flocks from anything that
moves is a good rule. Wild fowl
such as doves, pigeons, and ,
ducks; dogs and cats; trucks, .
and even people can spread this
and other diseases.
Thanks to the voters of Perquimans
County who supported Rufus Edmisten in
the Democratic primary. Your continued
support in the November election will be
appreciated.
A special thanks to those who tele
phoned and transported voters to the
polls.
Paid for by the Committee to elect Edmisten Governor
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Double-crop beans
after wheat calls
for weed control that only
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It takes.
? a special kind of herbicide
In control wvcdsin double-crop bean*. One that can wash through stubble
and crop residues into the soil Sonx- herbicides jjet all tied up in residues.
But ikk Dual.
Il also t.ikfs 3 herbicide thai will stay put. to control weeds all the
way to harvest. Dual lasts two m four weeks lonKer. Xo danger of Dual
runninH out too soon.
Other herbicide* call lor increased rates when used in minimum tillage
But not Dual. Dual is applied at the same rate, surface apt>lied or incor
porated. E\vn if you haw black nightshade
? Dual perform* like you expert it to. And at a per-acre c?st that i*
lens than the competition.
Sprtty Dual to control grasses in your double-crop beans. Cleaner brans.
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