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THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday, December 18, 1959
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Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas!
Such is the Christmas greeting
■of Santa Claus, or Father Christ'
mas, as the jolly old rascal is often
catted in Australia.
You folks back home are un
doubtedly filled with the Christ
mas spirit in one form or another
The two young people on this end
of the line are back on the high
seas sailing for Los Angeles, U.S.
A., where we shall arrive January
1. (If any of you have any extra
Rose Bowl tickets, we know some
one who could use them!)
Our year in Australia is over,
and our year of corresponding
some of our thoughts and experi
ences through the Mirror is over,
too. Both have been most enjoyable
and we leave Australia and our
brief writing careers with -consid
erable regret. But don’t think that
we’re crying in our Pepsi-Cola (I
should say Coca-Cola for Louis
Daniels’ benefit.)
We arc both looking forward to
going home, and this ship just
won’t move fast enough for us. A
lot of things have happened back
home since we left. Most of it has
been good news (if anyone could
call people getting married “good
news”), but we have had some bad
news.
Through the year we have re
grettably received reports of more
than a few friends of ours and our
famiiies who had been kilied or
badiy injured. I think receiving
the news this far away hurts the
most because it is not possibie to
actively pay our last respects. It
has hurt even more because in al
most every case it was an automo
bile accident. I know talking does
n’t do much good, but I do wish
all people would drive more care
fully and respect other drivers on
the road.
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There I go wishing again. You
poor people have been subject to
this malady of mine all during the
year. I’m afraid you folks will have
to write me off as one of those
young idealists who still strives to
keep his faith in each human be
ing despite all the harsh realities
of life.
All right—all right! No more
philosophizing, I promise. After
this article I shall live by a quota
tion which is often times all too
applicable to me. “T’is better to re
main silent and be thought a fool
than to speak and remove all
doubts of it.”
The other night I was reading
back over some of the articles we
had written. It suddenly dawned
on me that we had written about
45 newspaper articles and never
even started to say all the things
we wanted to. You can imagine
that we’ve been pretty busy in Aus
tralia but the articles didn’t fully
tell the story in that respect, eith
er. Of course, I couldn’t resist the
chance to do some preaching all
along, but I usually tried to tie my
thoughts up with things that were
happening here in Australia. Very
often I threw little digs at some
of America’s weak points around
New Bern; sometimes they were
subtle, but Jean says that some
times they were painfully evident.
We probably did step on a few
toes this year in an offhand man
ner. I don’t want to apologize for
stepping on toes unless they were
someone’s whom we treated unfair
ly-
Somewhere publicly I do think
we ought to thank J. Rascal Mc
Daniel for giving us the chance to
write these articles. However,
thanking him in The Mirror is
more like thanking him privately
than publicly. He is the only man
who has enough courage to market
either our or his brand of journal
ism. Also, please excuse me for
taking little pot shots at J. Rascal
McDaniel. You see, half way
around the world is the only place
I feel safe in getting a shot in;
when we are together, he cuts me
to ribbons with an expertness born
of years of experience.
In all seriousness, though, we
both feel that Mr. McDaniel is one
of the finest men we have ever
met. We might thank him for let
ting us write these articles, but we
should sincerely thank him for
putting out a newspaper which
bares his very soul and unquestion
ably shows his tremendous love for
his home town. No city could ask
for greater service than he has giv
en New Bern.
And now Christmas is almost
here. We have seen in our slight
travels around the world that no
matter what form Christmas cel
ebrations take, they owe their ex
istence to the fact that a certain
baby was born some 1959 years
ago. This child grew up to change
the course of history more than
anyone or anything has ever done.
Even agnostics must admit these
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points. But our faith allows us to
know Jesus Christ personally rath
er than just knowing him. Thus
we rejoice with all other Christians
in the world; may Jeanie’s and my
“Merry Christmas” to you be filled
with all the deep meaning and sin
cerity that the true Christmas Spir
it implies.
So we shall close not with that
old “Cheerio” but with a warm and
heartfelt Merry Christmas to you
all!
Robbie
GARDEN
TIME
By M. E. GARDNER
N. C. State College
“My sweet potatoes have crack
ed so badly this year that they are
hardly fit for stock feed. Have you
any suggestion?” This has been an
exceptionally bad year on sweet
potatoes because of excessive rain
fall during the growing season.
There are three factors which may
cause cracking: lack of boron in
the soil, nematodes, and fluctua
tion in the water supply.
Boron can be supplied in the
fertilizer mixture and the soil
can be treated for nematodes. If
these two things are taken care
of, the cracking should be reduced
to a minimum. If you are prepared
to irrigate, the water supply can
also be controlled except during
periods of excessive rainfall, as
mentioned.
“My muscadine arbor is a mess.
Some of the main support posts
have given way and many of the
cross supports have broken. Should
I try to prune these vines and re
new the supports or should I be
gin all over?”
If the arbor is as bad as some I
have seen, I would begin over. If
the plants have not been neglected
too long, I would suggest severe
corrective pruning. First, remove
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all of the dead wood. Next, select
.some of the younger arms, coming
from the main stem or trunk,
which can be used for renewal.
Care should be taken not to cut
what you want to save while re
moving other growth that should
be pruned out. Tear some rag
strips and mark the parts to be
saved. Usually this severe treat
ment will permit renewal of the
posts and cross supports. You will
have to decide about this.
“This summer I noticed leaves
on my peach tree which were
thick, curled and discolored. If
this is a disease how can I con
trol it?”
This is a peach leaf curl and may
be controlled by spraying, thor
oughly, with winter strength lime
sulphur. It is especially trouble
some in the Piedmont and moun
tains and can only be controlled
by spraying in the winter or dor
mant season.
“Please distinguish between vari
ety, strain and hybrid. I am parti
cularly interested in the term,
strain, because I have frequently
heard that certain strains are bet
ter than some varieties that are
grown. Is this true?
Perhaps a good beginning would
be to define variety, strain and
hybrid. A variety is a group of
closely related plants, of common
origin, having similar characteris
tics—Homestad tomatoes. Golden
Delicious apples, Japanese Convex
leaf holly, etc.
A hybrid is the first generation
progency (family) resulting from
the crossing, in the flower, of dif
ferent varieties or strains. To pro
duce a hybrid, the parents are care
fully selected with a definite ob
jective in mind such as disease re
sistance, color and size of flower
in plants grown for their bloom,
and many other factors. When seed
is produced, the progenies must be
grown, selected and tested before
they are released as named vari
eties.
A strain is a special type which
has been selected from a variety.
These types, or strains must be su
perior in one respect or another to
the variety. Some good examples
occur in the apple and are called
color strains or bud sports. Stark-
ing and Richared are strains origi
nating from the (Red) Delicious.
Blaxtayman and Staymared ori^
mated from the Stayman Wines-,f
Red Rome from Rome Beauty ami
many others. ■'
Many of you are familiar with
the Louisiana strain of the Port
Rico sweet potato which was select
ed from Porto Rico. More recentlv
a new variety was developed which
was named Goldrush. Now we have
Copperskin Goldrush which is a
strain selected from Goldrush The
skin color is better and the C u
Goldrush will outyield Goldrush
under certain conditions of environ
ment.
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