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THE JOHNSTONIAN - SUN, SELMA, N. C. -« THURSDAY. FEB 17 1944
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Questions and Answers
Special Vegetables
For Home Gardens
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Don^t Forget To Cut
That Pulpwood Now
Here’s a message especially for
■workers on the forest front, -woods
and sawmill workers. It’s swell to be
in a land where you can take off a
day when you want it, but remember
this, there’s no time off for the boys
on the fighting fronts. America needs
wood for war. The day you take off
may deprive fighting men of the one
piece of equipment they need to win.
Stay on the job, keeping forest pro
ducts moving to the fronts.
Gardeners who wish to put in as
paragus, lettuce, strawberies and
other small fruits not generally
grown, should get busy at once, say
Extension horticulturists at State
College.
They suggest that a wider variety
of vegetables and fruits will not only
increase the food supply but will add
a delightful change to the family
menu and make gardening much more
interesting.
A special War Series Bulletin, No.
30, has just been issued by the State
College Extension Service to fill the
needs of just such gardeners and it
is free for the asking. Write the
Agricultural Editor, State College,
Raleigh, requesting a free copy of
this bulletin.
It contains interesting information
on how the city gardener may con
struct a frame garden. Tobacco grow
ers will find that the tobacco plant
bed is an excellent place for a frame
garden and can be used to advantage
in growing vegetables on the long,
hot days in summer.
The bulletin also contains informa
tion on the growing of onions. The
time of planting is February for the
Tidewater and Coastal Plain regions;
February and March for the Pied
mont region; and the lo-w'er altitudes
of the mountains in February and
the higher altitudes in March.
In growing onions the gardener
should be careful to follow the best
methods of cultivation, harvesting,
and curing and these are outlined in
the bulletin.
Other valuable garden publications
by the State College Extension Serv
ice are the Garden Guide, No. 261;
a Guide For Controlling Diseases In
the Vegetable Garden, No. 265; Vege
table Insect Control Guide, No. 13;
and Garden Manual, No. 122.
_ QUESTION: What kind of a graz
ing crop should I sow for spring
pigs ! a
Important Notice To
Hghth Grade Teachers
ANSWER; Ellis Vestal, Extension
swine specialist at State College, sug
gests that you plant sufficient acre
age to a mixture of oats, rape and
lespedeza as early in February as
possible. “An acre seeded to 3 pounds
of rape, 3 bushels of Fulgrain or Ful-
ghum oats, and 25 pounds of lespe
deza should furnish grazing for two
litters of pigs from the
middle of April until frost,” Vestal
says. The crop should be well fertili
zed.
COUNTY-WIDE EXAMINATIONS
QUESTION; How deep should I
apply my lime to the soil?
Good Quality Milk
From Family Cows
Milk and butter of good flavor and
quality from the family cow may be
produced in the home, if it is proper
ly handled, says A. C. Kimrey, Ex
tension dairyman at State College.
He gives a list of practical sugges
tions for home milk handlers to fol
low in taking care of their milk. First
he suggests that the milk be kept in
standard glass milk bottles in the re
frigerator or in a bucket or tub of
cool water, where refrigeration is not
available.
Just after milking, Kimrey sug
gests that the producers pour the
milk through three or four folds of a
good grade of cheese cloth. A small
tin funnel can then be used for get
ting the milk into the bottles. It
should then be capped with standard
bottle caps.
For cooling the milk, the bottles
can now be placed in a tub of cold
water, for it cools more rapidly in
this way than if put directly into the
refrigerator. Where no refrigeration
is available, Kimrey advises changing
the water in the tub several times
daily until the milk is used
After the milk has stood for about
12 hours, the cream can be removed
from the bottles by using a glass si
phon tube. This cream may be saved
for table use or allowed to sour for
butter making. Two quarts of such
cream will make about one pound of
butter.
“There is a gread deal of difference
in the flavor of milk and butter pro
duced in the farm home but this is
due not so much to the, diets and
characteristics of the cows producing
the milk as in the way the milk is
handled,” Kimrey says.
GRAZING FOR PIGS
An acre seeded to 3 bushels of oats,
3 pounds of rape, and 25 pounds of
lespedeza will furnish grazing for 2
to 3 litters of pigs from the middle of
April to frost, says Ellis Vestal of
State College.
March 4-12 will be National Mobili
zation Week for 4-H boys and girls. |
They will enlist additional members
in the “Feed a Fighter” program and
will appear before various groups in
the interest of 4-H.
Notice!
SAM J. RESPASS, Farm
Loan Representative of the
Mutual Benefit Life Insur
ance Company, now mak
ing loans on improved farm
lands in Johnston County
at reduced rates. Can be
reached through the office
of F. H. Brooks, Attorney
of Smithfield, N. C. No
commissions or inspection
fees paid by the borrower.
Loans for 5, 10 and 15
years.
F. H. Brooks
BUY WAR BONDS & STAMPS
ANSWER: When lime is added to
the surface few inches of the soil a
long time is needed for the neutraliz
ing effect to penetrate through the
entire plowed layer, report research
men of the N. C. Agricultural Experi
ment Station at State College. Field
experiments have shown that when
part of the lime is put deeper in the
soil, better crop gro-wth and root dis
tribution are obtained than if all the
lime is added to the surface 4 inches
of the soil.
QUESTION: Do crossbred broilers
outweight purebreds?
ANSWER: Yes, say research men
of the Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion at State College. In seventeen
groups of crossbred and purebred
briolers, including purebred Rhode
Island Reds, Barred Plymouth Rocks,
and White Leghorns, and six crosses
of these breeds, only one group of
purebreds was as heavy as the related
crossbreds. All crossbreds were fully
feathered at ten weeks. Differences in
mortality were not great, but the
percentage was lower in all groups of
crossbreds than among the pure
breds.
(By H. B. MARROW)
Perhaps more than any other one
■ emphasized that
m the future promotions and achieve
ments will be measured more and
more by competitive tests. The day
01 exempting from examinations for
daily grades, or other reasons is
passed.
In Johnston County, we would very
much prefer to have all of the eighth
grade pupils come to Smithfield and
take a uniform examination which
would be considered in determining
fteir promotions to the high school.
However, the gasoline and tire short
age makes this impossible for this
year.
Therefore, we have decided that
we will prepare examinations in each
subject now being taught in the
eighth grade, and arrange to have
these examinations given in the sev
eral schools, under supervision of
others than the regular teachers of
the eighth grade, and graded by a
central committee. We have not de
finitely determined the date for this
examination yet. This and other de
tails will be' announced later.
We wish to direct to your imme
diate attention the following matter.
In order that we may know concrete
ly what is being emphasized by each
teacher in each subject in the eighth
grade, we are requesting each eighth
grade teacher to prepare for us what
in her opinion would be a fair exami
nation on the entire year’s work in
each subject which she teaches and
let us have this examination not la
ter than March 10, 1944. This -will be
an excellent guide for us in preparing
an examination that will be fair to all
the children of the county. And at the
same time this ■will bring to the at
tention of each individual teacher the
exact field that is to be covered in the
remainder of the year. She will there
fore know better how to budget her
time to accomplish this result.
The county examination will be
given under four heads, or separate
examinations, which are defined as
follows:
1. ENGLISH, which will include
literature, grammar, spelling, com
position and all other phases of
English work.
2. SCIENCE, which will include
health.
3. HISTORY, which will include all
phases of geography, economics and
conservation taught in connection
with the North Carolina History.
4. MATHEMATICS, as prescribed
in the text.
DO YOU HAVE A DOUBLE?
YES! SAY SCIENTISTS
Somewhere in this world there is
the very counterpart of yourself.
No human patterns are exclusive,
say scientists, and they explain why
in an illuminating article in the Feb
ruary 27th issue of
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FEEDING
Blood samples of cattle show that
some dairymen are carrying more
animals than pastures and feeds
justify, say research men of the
Agricultural Experiment Station at
State College.
CHAMPION
W. M. Boykin, Johnston County, is
poultry champion among 4-H club
bers. His flock of 77 Rhode Island
Reds averaged 254 eggs per bird for
the 12-month period, — a real cham
pion’s record.
^PTATISTICS are tricky things
to toss around.
Obviously, % of a bathtub
wouldn’t hold water very well!
That figure means merely that
some 3 out of 5 American
homes hetve bathtubs.
Obviously, also, the electric
figure applies only to homes
that have electric service
(about 4 out of 5). But as a
nation-wide average of all
those homes, it is a fact—and
surprising to many people.
Most families own more
electric appliances now than
they did in 1929. Over the
years, as they used more elec
tricity, they earned lower rates
—and the rates, too, were
steadily reduced.
So—^though your bill today
may be as much as it was in
1929 —or even more—you’re
getting twice as much for what
you pay. And remember that
the price of electricity has
stayed down while most other
prices are going up.
That makes it just about the
biggest bargain in your war
time budget!
For this you can credit the
electric companies, manned
and managed by practical
business people. Their hard
work has made electric service
dependable and cheap.
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