DIAL R-326 ALL DEP’TS_ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1942 _SECTION B—PAGE 1
HALIFAX COUNTY
FARM & HOME
NEWS
— by the County Agents
Home Demonstration Department
More Eggs Needed: Statistics show
that North Carolina farms do not
produce enough eggs for our own
civilians each year much less the
armed forces and defense area
population within our borders. We
North Carolinians bring many
train loads of eggs that should be
sent to the dehydrating plants. All
overseas forces and our allies need
dried eggs, and yet we are using
them fresh here at home.
If Halifax County and the other
counties in North Carolina would
produce all the eggs we need in
1943, those we have been import
ing could go to the drying plants
onH holn fn ciinnlv thp ovpr in
creasing demand for dried eggs.
You as farmers and vacant lot
owners can start now to do some
thing about this. Now is the time
to get your houses and equipment
ready. That should be the first
requirement. Then get good qual
ity chicks, and feed and care for
them properly. They should pro
duce good pullets that will give
your family all the fresh eggs it
needs and a surplus to sell to
those who cannot have chickens.
Are you going to do your part in
helping to send dried eggs to the
boys in the Solomons?. —s—
Pruning: This is a good time to
prune. Prune now while you have
time, such things as grape vines
and late summer and fall bloom
ing shrubs. Among these are
Crepemyrtle, Abelia, Butterfly
Bush, Hardy Hydrangea, etc.
Spray: Look your evergreens over
for scale. If any is present during
the first warm spell spray with a
good mixture like orchard men
use on peach or apple trees for
scale. Enanymous, Pyracantha,
Capejasmine, and Camelia should
be especially examined as they are
very susceptible to scale.
Now Is The Time: Put all leaves
and undiseased plant matter in a
pile to rot. Add some superphos
phate occasionally. When they are
rAffo/1 fVir»tr will Violn (yrpflHv with
the fertilizer problem in your veg
etable garden and around your
shrubbery. Wood ashes are also
good to use except around acid
loving plants.
Try transplanting trees and
shrubs now whenever you find the
earth in good condition. It will
be a big help to you next spring
when there are a thousand other
things to do, and the plants will
have time to get thoroughly settled
in the ground before spring wnds
and dry weather set in. When
you transplant, remember that you
must prune the plants if you ex
pect them to live.
Food Boxes For Camp: The U. S.
Bureau of Home Economics says
that there is a lot of trouble with
food boxes that families are send
ing -to boys in the service. By all
means send boxes but remember
a few things when you do send
them. Whether or not your gift
is a success will depend on the
food and the packing. Both must
be able to stand heat and cold and
to knocked about for at least ten
. days. The food should not be
moist, easy to break, greasy or
sticky. Food that is doubtful as
chocolate .doughnuts, cheese or
anything else that might soften
with heat should be sealed in
a waxed paper carton or tight tin.
Never pack in glass.
Cookies that are Arm but rather
soft and thick ship better than
brittle ones. Date bars and others
with dried fruits ship well, also
refrigerator cookies. Cookies
should be wrapped well and pack
ed tightly. Salted nuts, fruit cake,
travelers. Fudge may be made and
and dried fruits candies are good
poured into a tin can to firm and
shipped in the can. Many other
things may be made and shipped
similarly. If you do this send
along a wooden spoon or cheap
knife to use with the eating.
Do not forget to use a strong
corrugated, or wood box and
plenty of shredded paper or wood
shavings. Also use strong cord
and plain address. With these
precautions, your boys should get
a thrill and uplift whenever a
package arrives from home. Send
them often but send them in a
way that the boys can eat the con
tents instead of sadly consign
them to the garbage pail.
j/-x2c/o ti/t- vvvin,. x lie gnia t-u
clubs in the county are now busy
at work raising money to help
in the North Carolina drive for
the purchase of a 4-H Ambulance
for the American Red Cross. Ev
ery county is asked to contribute
$15.00 as their part on the Ambu
lance. Extra funds beyond the
purchase price of the Ambulance
will be used for comfort kits.
Halifax County girls are expect
ing to exceed the small amount
asked of them. Fine spirit these
girls are showing and Halifax
County is proud of them.
Soil Conservation Service
For the past few years a new
summer legume has found a place
in the improvement of our more
sandy soil in the Coastal Plain
Section. Yields of cotton and corn
have increased and erosion has
been slowed by the use of Crotal
aria as either an interplanted le
gume with corn or broadcast in
field planting.
Like soybeans, the earlier you
plant crotalaria the better growth
will be obtained and unlike soy
beans this plant will make fair
growth on lands termed dead due
to depth of sand. Of course, the
better the land the more growth
will be obtained.
A. L. Garner, Route 1, Halifax,
has for many years grown crotal
aria with marked success. Mr.
Garner, like many other farmers
in Halifax County, values the im
provement that Crotalaria has giv
en some of his sandy land.
The two varieties of crotalaria
most used in this section are spec
tabilis and striatta. Of the two,
the striatta variety probably has
the most promise. It is hoped that
more farmers in Halifax County
will take this short cut to land
improvement in 1943. Ten pounds
of seed broadcast over an acre of
sandy land or three to five pounds
sowed in rows around the middle
of April and worked once or twice
urill rrurn oil r»r\ri o i rr rr facnlfo
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MRS. WOODRUFF ENTERTAINS
Mrs. Henry Woodruff entertain
ed with a party at her home on
Monroe Street last Saturday night
honoring her daughter-in-law, Mrs.
William Henry Woodruff of Tope
ka, Kansas. Refreshments were
served to the following: Mesdames
Coley Smith, C. M. Kirkland,
Thomas Perkinson, Alice Cole,
John Ingram, Ceve Vaughan,
Frank Vaughan and Misses Merle
Cole, Alease Bristowe, Gladys
Smith and Bernice Smith, Messrs.
Thomas Perkinson, Billie Brown,
Henry Woodruff, Elton Woodruff
and Rickey Perkinson.
Goldie Moore In
Delta Psi Kappa
Frat. At Brenau
Gainsville, Ga., Dec. 17 — Miss
Goldie Moore, junior at Brenau
College, and the daughter of Mr.
M. M. Moore of Roanoke Rapids,
was initiated into Delta Psi Kappa
national honorary physical educa
tion fraternity, Sunday, December
6. A banquet was held at the Dix
ie Hunt Hotel, to celebrate the oc
casion.
Miss Moore is an active and pop
ular student on Brenau campus.
Son Of City Man
Due To Complete
Officer Training
Sergeant Emmanuel Farber, son
of William Farber, merchant of the
city, who is attending Officer’s
Training School at Camp Lee, Va.,
expects to complete his course
Friday.
Marshall S. Shaw
In Medical Unit
At Camp Robinson
Camp Robinson, Ark., Dec. 17 —
Pvt. Marshall S. Shaw, of Garys
burg, has been assigned for train
ing to the Medical Replacement
Training Center here. His train
ing will embrace eight weeks, af
ter which he will be assigned for
duty to some Medical Department
organization.
Sign Of Times!
Grace Fox, young white girl,
was convicted in Warren Coun
ty recortler’s court last week of
a charge of driving a team of
mules while under the influence
of intoxicants.
She was given a sentence of
18 months at the State prison
farm for women, but judgment
was deferred until this week if
the girl left the county.
LITTLETON
Miss Fannie Newsom shopped
in Roanoke Rapids last Friday.
Lt. Millard Perkinson of Lub
bock, Texas, returned to his duties
after a long visit with his family.
Mesdames Julian Acree and
W. J. Benton were in Roanoke
Rapids Friday.
Mesdames Jessie Newsom and
Hinton Pritchard motored to Roan
oke Rapids one day last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Harmon of
Newport News, Va., were here
over the week end.
Miss Cora Lou Butts of Cole
rain spent the week end at the
home of E. C. Bobbitt.
Mrs. Robert Manning and sons
of Williamston were here for the
week end visiting her mother.
Pvt. Herbert Robinson of Camp
Butner visited his parents of near
Littleton.
Bobby Jones and Spotswood
Bower, both of Wake Forest Col
lege, arrived Saturday to spend
the holidays with their respective
parents.
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spot it every time
SUPPOSING you were Old Santa
Claus. What a job you’d havel
Chimneys waiting everywhere ...
youngsters’ gift lists to be checked.
The job certainly calls for that extra
something.
You’d get tired and thirsty, too. You’d
want that extra something in refreshment
—ice-cold Coca-Cola. Well, you’d find it
in many homes everywhere. You could
help yourself at the icebox and be wel
come.
You’d find thirst gone and refresh
ment arriving. You’d thrill to the
taste so delicious and distinctive
that it stands alone. You’d know
you were enjoying all the qual
ity that skill and choicest ingre
dients could put there. You’d
find refreshment going quick
ly into energy. You’d be ready
again to shout, “Ho, Prancer!
Ho, Vixen...”
(You can pretend you’re
Santa. You don’t have to pre
tend you’re enjoying an ice
cold Coca-Cola. Have one!)
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single source, and gA\ 7 K/__
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Happy moments at home are brighter I |
when ice-cold Coca-Cola adds its life TTn» fu>d
and sparkle. It’s an old friend of the ■*PCS*
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