HALIFAX COUNTYI
FARM & HOME
NEWS
— by the County Agents
PRESSURE COOKERS:
For the benefit of those who
have not already heard of the av
ailability of pressure cookers we
should like to say that ration ap
plication blanks may be obtained
from the Farm Machinery Ration
Board, Halifax, N. C. City dwellers
as well as those who live in rural
areas may apply for a purchase
certificate for pressure cooker.
However, we are advising pros
pective purchasers to club together
in groups of from four to six
families to an application as the
U. S. Department of Agriculture
War Board has specifically in
structed local Boards to approve
applications that carry a group
of families first. Then after those
orders are filled if any additional
cookers are available, applications
of individual families may be con
sidered.The objective of the U. S.
Department of Agriculture War
Board is to see that each pressure
cooker that is manufactured ser
ves as many people as possible,
therefore the order was given to
consider clubbed applications first.
BONDS
War Bonds and Stamps have
been purchased by members of
the following organizations: Aurel
ian Springs Home Demonstration
Club - $C '0.50. Darlington Home
Demonstration Club - $29.80, Hali
fax Woman’s Club - $129.25, Hali
fax W. S. C. S. - $3.00 and Oak 1
Ridge Home Demostration Club '
$40.25.
RED CROSS SEWING l
Home Demonstration Clubs have 1
made the following garments for 1
the Red Cross: Oak Ridge one 1
sweater, Halifax 12 shirts and '
Darlington 5 garments. 1
MAINTAINING BEAUTY:
While our boys are away from
home let us try to keep their
homes beautiful for them to come
back to. Mr. John W. Harris, Ex
tension Landscape Specialist,
makes a few suggestions, Well rot
ted cow lot manure may be used
as fertilizer for flowers and shrubs.
Prune spirea and forsythia as
soon as the bloom drop. Spray
plant lice on tender growth with
nicotine Sulphate or Black Leaf 40.
Dust plants infested with mildew
with sulphur. Cultivate the soil
for a distance of about 12 to 18
inches around shrubs and young
trees. This makes the soil more
absorbent to rain water and pre
vents grass roots from seeping
The strength awav from the shrub
cr tree. The more work and care
you give your vegetable garden
the better garden you will have.
Take care of ^our lawn mower
and slings for the duration. Keep
rubber garden hose in a dark cool
place when not in use. Roll it up
but do not kink it.
HOW ABOUT CANNING
HUE8 7 L,
As we are able to get away
from home less and less and there
Is more and more for the average
housewife to do would it not be
a good idea to have canning bees
this sumer. Women need to get
together occasionally. Social con
tact keeps them on friendly terms
with their neighbors, it takes
their minds off their own prob
lems and helps to relax tense ner
ves. A canning bee will do all
these things and at the same time
pool equipment and labor. Canning
alone for many fruits and vege
tables is a slow process because
of the many steps in preparation.
A canning bee will give a worker
for each step in the preparation
and canning and expedite the
whole process as well as being
a social occassion. Each woman
could take her fruit or vegetables,
jars and equipment to the house
of the hostess for that day and
take home her finished jars. Then
she would be hostess in her turn.
BOIL CONSERVATIVE SERVICE
Allowing cattle to graze spring
pastures before the grass has
«
made sufficient growth to with
stand full use, is a good example
of haste making waste: Too early
and too heavy spring grazing does
not pay even though it is hard
to resist the temptation when pas
tures begin to "green up”.
While pasture grasses are rich
in nutrients during the spring
growth period, they may be pre
vented from making full growth
by over-grazing. Grass should be
high enough for cattle to get a
good mouthful when grazing in.
and in case of new plantings the
soil should be firm enough so that
when the cattle walk on it they
will not destroy the plants.
If these precautions are not ob
served and cattle are turned onto
pastures too early, the amount of
grazing will be reduced materially
later in the season.
When pastures come on some
what slowly, it may be desirable
to turn the cattle out for only
one or two hours a day. Some
times a rotational system of graz
ing is advisable. In rotational
grazing, a portion of the pasture
s “rested" while the other portion
s being grazed. i;
tlAljIr AJL VUUJSITY A. V. A. |
Necessity for good growth of
summer legumes is based on avail- '
ible mineral plant food elements i
n the soil. Plant growth and seed ■
delds of lespedeza, crotalaria, pas
ures, clevers and other summer
egumes can be appreciably in
leased by the application of
;round limestone and acid phos
)hate. For this purpose the chair
nan of the AAA Committee will
fladly accept orders for farm de
ivery of those vital plant food
dements.
Your AAA Committee now has
DON'T
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leave your Tires
on the pavement!
When wheels are out-of-line—
your tires suffer. Wheels that
wobble and shimmy grind away
rubber. These and other mis
alined conditions eat the tread
away. Thus every mile you
drive, small particles of rubber
are left behind on the pavement.
You can save your tires — get
more mileage and save money
by having your wheel alinement
inspected at our shop on genu
ine Bear Wheel Alinement E
quipment. This service not only
saves you money but offers
greater comfort, easy steering
and safety, too. Drive in today.
Identify our shop by
this Happy Bear sign.
BRICKELL
MOTOR CO.
WRECKER SERVICE
Dial R-414-1
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on hand quantity of acid phos
phate and daily delivery of ground
limestone is expected.
Contact your AAA Office in
Halifax for the purpose of placing
orders. The charges for these ma
terial will be taken out of your
soil conservation payment and un
its of credit will be given to you
for the purpose of meeting your
soil-building goal.
Miss Annie Belle
Bennette Laid To
Rest At Enfield
Funeral services for Miss Annie
Belle Bennette were held Sunday
afternoon at two o’clock from the
Chapel of the Branch Funeral
Home at Enfield, Interment follow
ed in Elmwood Cemetery. Rev. Ross {
Cadle and Rev. George R. Stair j
conducted the services and the,
Baptist Choir rendered favorite,
hymns. Active pallbearers were'
Ralph Rives, Jimmie Rives, Dorsey
Hardee, Robert Ivey and Egbert.
Barnhill. j
Miss Bennette, who was 55 years t
of age, died Friday following an ill
ness of several weeks. She was a
prominent citizen of Halifax Coun
ty, a devoted member of the Anti
och Baptist Church at Heathsville,
and a member of the Eastern
Star Chapel of Enfield.
Survivors are three sisters and
three brothers, Mrs. Hardy Bobbitt,
and Mrs. S. E. Hardee, of Enfield,
Mrs. W. T. Eure, of Halifax; S.
Li. Bennette of Enfield, George R.
Bennette, of Greensboro, and H. F.
3ennette, of Norfolk, Va. |
L. S. Neal and sons Charles and
3ynum spent the Easter holidays
n Leaksville.
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New Anesthetist,
Nursing Director
At Hospital Here
Two new department heads have
recently been added to the staff
at Roanoke Rapids Hospital, and
the ladies have already assumed
their new duties.
Miss Montez Wayne arrived a
bout the first of the month from
Salisbury to assume the position
as Director of Nurses for the hos
pital. In addition to directing
nursing activities at the hospital,
her duties also include supervising
nursing instruction at the school
of Nursing maintained by the hos
pital.
Miss Wayne is a native of Leb
anon, Kentucky, and comes here
from Salisbury, where she was
nursing superintendent at the Ro
van Memorial Hospital for some
!ive-years. She has been a resi
dent of the state since 1938, most .
of this time being spent in Salis- ^
bury, though she has done some
relief work and instructing in
Winston-Salem.
Miss Leota Cain arrived last
week from her former home at
Chadbourn, and will be the anes- *
thetist at the local hospital.
Both of these new department
heads expressed themselves as be
ing heartily in favor of main
taining the excellent standards of
the local hospital, even improving W
the service wherein possible.
They pointed to the apparent
shortage of supplies and materials,
and stated they were in favor of a
program of rigid economy, but
expressed confidence at the same^
time that in their opinion enough
supplies could be obtained to carry
on the work of the local insti
tution.
Mrs. O. Griffin and children,'*^
Billy and Margaret, were week end
visitors in Emporia.
NOTICE
TO PROPERTY OWNERS
I have been ordered by the Board of
County Commissioners to advertise all pro
perty on which taxes have not been paid on
May 1st, and to sell on the first Monday in
June, in order to comply with the law.
Pay Your Taxes Now and Save
Advertising and Selling Costs
L H. SIWTDI
Tax Collector of Halifax County
For the Convenience of
ROANOKE RAPIDS
TOWNSHIP TAXPAYERS
We are pleased to announce that
R. 0. CARPENTER
deputy tax collector, will
maintain office hours at
MURRAYS SERVICE STATION
904 ROANOKE AVENUE
EVERY SATURDAY
from 9 A. M. to 5 P.M.
See our deputy collector in Roan
oke Rapids during his Saturday
visits and SAVE unnecessary driv
ing to Halifax.
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