Tips for keeping your garden in shape for the summer
First quarter of the moon
today.
BEYOND THE
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Jean Winnlu* i
Feed hollies with a light
dressing of fWWt fertilizer. They
are tired after producing berries.
You would be too.
Bruise a few leaves on each
^omato plant. A hormone will be
activated that gives sucking
bisects fatal indigestion.
L* Pinch chrysanthemums for the
st time. Plants will be buishier
}nd more productive.
' Iris beds may be renewed now
by carefully digging up old
plants, leaving the tops intact. I
find a spading fork indispensable
for this job. Remove old woody
portions of the roots. Reset the
remaining good tubers in a
shallow bed. Cut leaves back to
about five inches, water well.
Give yourself a swift kick for
forgetting (for the third year in a
row) to mark iris when they were
blooming so you'd know exactly
which ones you wanted to
propogate.
Plant some more snap beans
and tomato suckers.
Buy seeds or plants of beets,
broccoli, brussels sprouts and
rutabagas. The seeds can be
shown in a little out-of-the-way
spot and transplanted to a
permenent home in August.
A little DAP will do it. That's
right ? this popular tub sealer is
perfect for treating pruning cuts.
The white color reflects the sun's
heat and does not get soft in hot
weather.
Here's a trick for gardeners
with poor eyesight. Avoid eye or
facial injuries, when your
mistakenly lean over a garden
stake, by padding it. Cut the foot
off a stocking and stuff it with the
rest of the stocking material
Pack the foot firmly around the
top of the stake and bind the
resulting ball with white fabric
tape.
Potatoes are more nutritious
when baked rather than sliced
and fried. For heaven's sake
don't leave the delicious skin for
the compost pile ? the skin is
where the protein is.
Check out your fall catalogs
and order thesd drought
resistant perennials: Armerea
alba, white thrift; Artemesia,
silver mound; Coreopsis;
Erygium maritimum. Sea holly;
Gaillardia, blanket flower;
[Local program aids farmers
?
^'Area farmers and Bplvidere
Farmers' Exchange are
participating in a new program
to promote development of better
markets for farm products.
'The program, called
V. 0. T. E. (for Velsicol's
i Operation Trade Expansion), is
^underwritten by Velsicol
'Chemical Corporation. Under the
?terms of the program, Velsicol is
'donating 50 cents for every
falllon of their herbicides sold to
one of six farm commodity
organizations which will spend
the funds on market
development projects.
In order for the funds to be
donated, area farmers and
ranchers must cast ballots at
Belvidere Farmers' Exchange
when they purchase Velsicol
herbicides between October 1983
and September 1984. Velsicol
herbicides included in the
program are Banvel, Banvel II,
Weedmaster, MonDak and
(jood management
is the key to survival
BY JOHN SLEDGE
N. C. Farm Bureau Federation
} Talk to any farm economist
and he will tell you that risk
Management is the key to
farmers, especially young
farmers, surviving the 1980s.
? Farmers are in the risk
Management business. A well
known farm economist once said
that where there is no risk there
is no profit and there is no return
to management because there is
nothing to manage.
When farmers sink a small
fortune into their spring crops,
ttiey're risking a financial
disaster if a crop failure occurs,
"fen or 15 years ago when
production expenses were
$wered and therefore less risk,
farmers didn't need to worry so
?' luch about a financial disaster.
oday, many are being forced
|pto risk management by their
bankers.
When they go to the bank for a
loan, more than likely they will
be told to take our crop insurance
or utilize forward contracting
and hedging to assure at least a
break even, if not a profitable
price.
USDA's guaranteed farmers
disaster payments are a thing of
the past. Crop insurance is now
considered the solution to coping
with crop failures.
Farmers, like all businessmen
today, can't afford to blindly spin
the wheel of fortune and expect
to survive. Farmers must be
more flexible by diversifying into
several commodities, spreading
the risk out.
Without proper risk
management, farmers will find it
increasingly difficult, if not
impossible, to show a profit.
|V. C. unemployment
jl showed decrease
? ?
!| RALEIGH ? Unemployment
j 4n North Carolina decreased to
ffts lowest level in more than four
?years from mid-April to mid
ijMay, according to figures
'feleased by the North Carolina
Security Commission (ESC).
> ^Unemployment rates decreased
> 4?n 76 counties and increased in 18.
!*! Ninety counties showed single
i 4'Kit unemployment rates, while
; ien were in the double-digit
Category. The state's total
I ^unadjusted rate for May was 5.8
! "percent. The national unadjusted
Ijfcate to which state rates are
1 jcompared was 7.2 percent.
Counties with the lowest^
unemployment rates were Wake,
2.9 percent in May down from 3.1
percent in April; Durham, 3.3
percent down from 3.5 percent;
Currituck, 3.7 percent down from
5.2 percent; Gates up slightly to
3.4 percent from 3.3 percent; and
Orange up 3.6 percent from 3.5.
The unemployment rate for
Perquimans County in May, 1984,
was 4.3 percent
Carbyne.
The six producer-supported
organizations receiving funds
from V.O.T.E. are:
American Dairy Association,
Cotton Incorporated, National
Association of Wheat Growers,
National Cattlemen's
Association, National Corn
Growers Association, National
Pork Producers Council.
The total contributions Velsicol
makes half of each farmer who
V. 0. T. E. s could reach well in
excess of a half million dollars if
all Velsicol herbicide purchasers
cast a ballot. The company has
put no limit on the total amount
of V. 0. T. E. dollars they are
willing to contribute.
American Dairy Association
will allocate funds raised
through V. O. T. E. to promote
milk and other real dairy foods to
the food service and restaurant
industry. Cotton Incorporated
funds will underwrite a major
trade and consumer promotion
which will dramatize benefits of
cotton over similar products
made from synthetic fibers.
V.-O. T. E. funds designed to
the National Association of
Wheat Growers will help build
domestic and international
demand for U. S. wheat. A
booklet titled "Mythes and Facts
about Beef" will be produced by
the National Cattlemen's
Association with V. 0. T. E.
dollars to help clear up
misconceptions about beef and
beef production.
National Corn Growers
Association funds will be
directed to NCGA's planned Corn
Domestic Development Center
and its initial goal of increasing
corn use for fuel alochol. The
National Pork Council will use
V. 0. T. E. monies as part of
their continuing Consumer
Education Program.
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Kniphofia. red-hot poker; Salvia
ozurea, blue salvia; Yucca
sm alii ana, Adam needle.
What elae is important for this
week? Ah, yes, one last thing.
Japanese serows, an endangered
species of goat-antelope, eat
camellia bushes as a regular
part of their diets. Of course, if
you have your own pet serow you
know all this.
Horticulturist Jim Park at the
San Diego Wild Animal Park,
Escondido, California, is busy
collecting camellias for his two
serows, who eat first the flowers,
one at a time, and then the whole
bush.
Help Jim out. Send him all
your used camellia plants,
species 'Debutant' preferred.
You will then be entitled to a
complimentary lunch. Yes,
indeed, you will munch along
with Sylvester and Cerise Serow
on fine fresh raw veggies, alfalfa
pellets, and unlimited camellias.
It's a fun afternoon. The main
problem is trying to chcw
gracefully while 2,000 visitors
are staring at you across the
moat.
Especialy when some kid
hollfrs
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?Gurney Nursery
tanfaire set for July 13
Fanfaire: An Elizabethan
Festival is being sponsored by
the Museum of the Albemarle, on
July 14, 1984 at Charles Creek
Park, in Elizabeth City. The
festival will recreate an
Elizabethan marketplace in 16th
century England and is being
held in conjunction with the 400th
anniversary of the Roanoke
Voyages.
The noises of this period of
history were raucous. The
streets were full of bawling
apprentices, shopkeepers, and
serving men, while angry carters
engaged in heated discussions.
On marketday, men and women
would flock to the market to sell
their wares. Women could be
found washing and mending
clothes on the bank of a nearby
stream of river, while actors
might entertain the crowds, in
the streets, with their talents.
There are still a few openings
for persons interested in
participating as one of these (or
many other) characters at
Fanfaire. If you would like to
become a part of this festival,
call Buddy Sheely at the Museum
at 335-1453 or 335-2987
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