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•W \1V \V ii/vf, , . / j/^^?flljr9 By Joe C, Powel3i T I All previous records for \ I ■ \ i'at stock . . shows and ■ ^'4 J r iX'^: A. \ sal-®s in the Southeast ; . \ ' smashed at the 6th An- ^1* * oIiXciolI“ vL d. u ulJLt? Q uX 9''jT \\ nual Fat Stock Show and Sale when the Grand Champion, a Hereford jy./,'l / / steer, . eold for $1 -oer l/j/j \ \ . (pound, live weight. The /WV \\ f--"'-'; I Steer was purchased by //y. ;\/ \P. R. ' Woraie'y’s Stock '( \ j \\ j "^fards .at Rocky Kt. and ) (.r j shov/n by Jimmie Dew of ,u. ' V'/ /■ * V / i^ash County, Club /S j \ /( boys ’ and, girls showing j from ‘ Edgecombe were: / ,/;7X ''^^illiam Moore, Jr., Tar- . ’ boro, R-2; i.'’iye;. |i Battleboro; ’Felix Stal^- lings^ ‘Tarboro, R^l; -‘Peg' gy and . Virginia'Bryant', ■, ' ' tarboro., H~i; Sallie'An derson, Macclesfield, R^l; and Dou.crlas Sason, KacclesfieTd. - Sixty nine' steers in.; show averaged 23^$ per pound. Edgecombe; ’farmers' walked away with most 'of the blue'rib]pons in the Swine De>)t Win ners in. , this der)artmeht were:' "'VI, N. Flye, Battleboro: F.^'L; Wif^~ gins^ -xarboro', R~3> -^aylor, Tax’boro, R—C, L, Hai^dy Bat— Weeks,* 'Tarboro, R-3; '5-uincy, "i’/liitakers; Kar- old A Braswell, \^fhitakers; and^ Cliff Weeks, Jr., Tarboro. Kocre sold for ceiling pri’ce of $1^.55 per Cwt„- Governor of N C" Orregg Cherry, spoke at banquet for participants in^ shoxv^ ■ ' ’ ^ f’reddle: Slrod CMarion C-rev S husband 1b with 7th Army In Sei-mar.y, anA.Miss Frahces iug^ell_. To assist with, labor prosram Mrs. Saa'.Satterthwaite- (uraae /lai'rsn) In County Agent's Office. ‘^°'^nty Agent, named as Agricultural Chalr- hv ^riye. Following, township chairmen appointed cott. r^o. 1 'AOiirnship— Mrs. C. J, V;ee}-tB* I'Tq. 2 Townshin-- R C r & Jolin Mayo; Ko. 'It-. Toxvnshib- A.’m.'.: ^ iurner; !'d. .5 j-ownship- J. E. Fountai;’,' No. 6 Townshir>- J', P Bur 7 ;{• f:- 'Vivsrette; Ko. g Tovmshio- W. R. 'm 1 ? Township- It. harron; I-o. 10 TownshiT)- S.. |3. lO.t- 11 -^o.TOshlp- W J. Eason; Wo. 12 ToTOchio- R. 0. Bi-ownt 110. 13 J-ownship- .ifarren Lancaster; and Ko. ll; 'Jownshlo-: H, E M- T-j,er, • . . • . * * Rooky Mount, R-2, and H. Ox. Shelton, Spedd, con- Co'''*inVinI'^ r'o f Hereford sales at Selma, Alabama and OoLc nbua, Greorgla. C. Kayo sold two fine repi s.tpred hej fers at iitata Hereford Asr.ooiation in Statesville. ■• '=’" • •' K^w cotton insuranoe ' program inaugurated by government. Local' of I ice handled saif-is/ insurance covers every hazard except neg- Iciot and is bao'ed on'cost of production. Un.^upaiy; early sr.ring has resulted in early tobacco i:>].ants. A number of farmers’b£)gan setting in the week beginriin^^ Aoril ?th Setting would have been more widespi^ead exce-pt " .for dry weather Blue mold extensive but damage relatively lighc. Drouth of 6 weeks affecting stands'- peanut and cotton planting t'jell under, way. Practically every farm short of labor - many" acres still unbroken. ■ • Club boys and girls dramatise ideals of under direction cf Asst. Agos, Mr. .Scott and Miss Boone. Following rioS's and girls in cast appearing before' oivlo-clubs of l>iirboro‘ & Rocky Mt.: , Peg gy Manning, M^irie Edmondnon, Mary Louise Allen, Cora Lee Warren, Cullen Cobb, Cecil Simons, Calvin Briley, Ralr)h Lewis & John Wors- ley of the Cone toe Club ^ Pianist, Rosa Lee Brake of Leggett Clubr.
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