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, . / 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.