farmers In Southeastern Not th Carolina Re-Seeding Tobacco Beds
m ACTIVITIES
ID PENDER TOLD
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rni«rs 01 -,-e correct prepara
tvpcs of farm produce
t a- ■ unit are being con
,-,o- nout the county.
]C«d "rStrations. conducted
A* “ p;t.ij farm agent, and
'B' Laces Register, home
Vration agent, are given on
r-.-oducts used to an ad
1 f'e ti,e cold storage unit.
(Stag? plant, built and op
erated on a cooperative basis by
the farmers of Pender county has
ueen in operation approximately
or.e month. Rich said, and is the
greatest project the farmers of
this county have undertaken.
County Agent Rich estimated a '
loss of $100,000 to the county’s let
tuce crop due to the freezing tem
peratures. The strawberry crop
of Pender has also been damaged
a great deal by the led spider
insects, he said.
The Pender county 4-H club boys
rave been engaged in a corn pro
ducing project for the past month
[in an ptterdpt to produce 100
bushels of corn per acre by the
use of hybrid seed, proper fertili
zation and cultivation. The Lions
club and the Chamber of Com
merce are offering prizes to the
county champion in the project.
The annual meeting of the Four
County Electric Membership Cor
poration is to be held in the Bur
gaw school auditorium on Tues
day. Feb. 25 at- 10 a. m. Hon. J.
Melvin Broughton is to be the
principal speaker.
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Sampson County Taking
Precaution After Cold
(Special To The Star)
CLINTON, Feb. 23.—Many Sampson farmers are re
seeding their tobacco beds as an added precaution against
recent cold snap, according to county farm agent E. J. Mor
gan.
Not too many plants have been reported killed, he said,
but farmers in several sections of the county are taking no
CHURCHES BUILD
STRONGER FARMS
Relation Between Churches
And Better Farms Cited
By Authority
RALEIGH, Feb. 23.— (IP) —Em
ployment of an extension specialist
to work with rural pastors and their
churches in North Carolina is plan
ned by the agricultural extension
service at N. C. State college on the
principle that the rural church pro
motes better farming amd better
framing promotes the rural church.
The extension service is asking
the general assembly to appro
priate money for a church-minded
extension specialist who would
work with country churches in
building better farming in North
Carolina.
Dr. I. O. Schaub, director of the
extension service, said today the
interests of agriculture and the
rural church are so closely linked
that a prosperous farming com
munity can be found wherever
there is a prosperous, influential
church. On the other hand, he said,
country churches raaik high in in
fluence and service wherever there
is a modern farming community.
“For instance,” Dr. Schaub ex
plained, “wherever you find a
flourishing livestock program,
there you’ll find a strong rural
church.”
Dr. Schaub emphasized that the
rural church has a vital place in
every community not only for what
it does to build the spiritual level
of that community but flso for what
it does in raising the economic
level.
Land prices, he pointed out, are
higher in communities with astrong
ru.al church, and general property
values are more stable. People
seem to live better. There is more
neighbor-lines and the community
gppears more prog essive and
alert.
“Ordinarily, one finds more
painted homes and farm build
ings,’’ Dr. Schaub contniued. “The
people have more conveniences.
Their yards are beautified, and
they do better farming. The church
leaches home life, and home life
leads to home owne’ship. The f
sident farmer, owning his own
place, is a more devoted workman
and consequently a more success
ful farmer.
‘When all of these a.e taken into
consideration, there is a great
work which the rural church can
do in helping to build better fai-m
ing in this state. By having some
one to work with the rural min
isters, studying their problems in
relation to the farming areas about
'.heir churches. North Carolina can
cnances and are adding seed so
as to insure a sufficient number of
plants come setting season.
The county agent reported that
so far no disease in the beds has
been reported to his office, with the
chief reason for the state of affairs
being that few farmers have plants
large enough as yet.
He revealed, however, that an
extensive program calling for the
application of fermate to plant beds
as a guard against blue mold is be
ing planned just as soon as the
plants reach a size comparable
with a dime or a quarter.
Farm specialists point out that
fermate can be used in either ^a
dust or liquid form, with dusting
performed with the use of a good
crank duster. Application in liquid
form, however, is by use of a
sprayer.
Morgan gave no definite time for
the program to begin but pointed
out that the start of the application
period depended upon the indivi
dual farmer’s need according to
the size of his plants.
ROBESON COUNTY
FARM AGENT ILL
Special To The Star
LUMBERTON, Feb. 23 — O. P.
Owens, Robeson county farm
agent has been confined to his
home for several days, but ex
pects to resume his duties again
tomorrow morning, he said last
night.
The farm agent said a series of
meetings with the farmers in his
area had just been completed. “I
am not quite up to date on the
farming events here at the mo
ment,” he told a representative of
the Morning Star. “I have been
ill for several days,” he continu
ed.
He disclosed that his assistants
have quit, including the home
demonsvration agent. “The work
with the 4-H clubs has been getting
along nicely,” he reported.
Owens said he would report to
his office Monday morning. The
main problem facing him at the
present time is the securing of ad
ditional assistants to replace the
resigned members, he reported.
In the early 19th Century, air
tight sealing of bottles and jars
was effected by use of a cement
! made of cheese and powdered
j lime, which hardened fast and re
sisted water and heat.
The time required by an aver
age person to act after a signal
is given increases from 60 hun
dredths of a second at age 20-29 to
66 hundredths of a second for ages
above 60.
take still another step in the di
rection of a better rural life.”
Dean Schaub said three or four
states, including Ohio and Wiscon
sin, have extension specialists
working with rural churches.
Farm Notes Of Interest
By EPLALIE McDCWELL
United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23—(U.R)—
Although the dreaded foot-and
mouth disease is still 350 miles
from the United States-Mexican
boundary, livestock and dairy- in
terests in this country are wor
ried over possible infection of
their herds.
Congress has been asked by
Secretary of Agriculture Clinton
P. Anderson to act quickly to give
the Agriculture Department ex
perts the authority they need to
go into Mexico with a control and
eradication program. Pressure also
is great for the completion of a
fence along the border.
Agriculture Department scient
ists have mobilized their man
power for immediate action should
the infection develop in herds in
this country.
While they wait for action from
Congress they must face the fact
that approximately 151,800 cattle
entered this country from Mexico
between Oct. 18 and Dec. 27, when
the quarantine was temporarily
suspended. While they stare across
the border and realize that the
most contagious cattle disease
known to science is prevelant, they
know, however, that to date no
cases of the infection have appear
ed either in this country or in
northern Mexico.
Treaty Violated
Basis of the present threat to
the cattle industry from foot-and
mouth disease can be laid to vio
lation by Mexico of a preventive
treaty. Lack of authority for Agri
culture Department officials to co
operate with other countries on a
scale sufficient to control and
eradicate the infection, on the
other hand also has played a major
role in the present situation.
Anderson’s request that Congress i
act with emergency legislation to
meet the peril carries with it the
suggestion that a large appropri
ation will be needed. With an esti
mated 2,000.000-pius cattle in the
quarantine area of the neghbor
ing country, livestock destruction
undoubtedly will have to be on a
grand scale and at a great price.
How much of the bill this country
will have to pay as a price for
keeping the infection out of our
domestic herds cannot be estimat
ed now.
The history of the present out
break can be traced back to 1930.
when the two governments exe
cuted a treaty to safeguard live
tock interests by prohibiting the
importation of livestock from coun
tries where foot-and-mouth disease
is known to exist.
Infected Cattle Admitted
Fifteen years later, in October,
1945, the Mexican government, in
what the Agriculture Department
interpreted as a violation of that
treaty, permitted the entry into
that county of a consignment of
approximately 130 head of zebu
cattle from Brazil, where the in
fection is known to exist. That was
the start of the present crisis.
Last September, a second con
signment of 327 head of cattle
was permitted to enter. On strong
protests from this country, Mexi
can authorities undertook precau
tionary measures. But the infection
had already gained a foothold.
As for the thousands of cattle
which entered this country late
last year when importation re
strictions were dropped for a while
under the impression that the di
ease was under control, they are
under constant surveillance by of
ficial veterinarians.
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USE OF RESEARCH
FUNDS UNDERWAY
Effect Of Soil And Weather
Variation On Vegeta
bles Studied
The first step in the utilization
oi funds for agriculture research
autnorized under the Flar.nagan
Hope Bill and recommended by
President Truman in his budget
message to Congress has now been
taken. Regional agricultural re
search projects, one of the most
important aspects of the Federal
measure, have been decided upon
for the first year of activity.
The decisions were reached early
this month in a meeting of agricul
tural research heads gathered in
Washington to consider and agree
upon the cooperative projects. The,
group deciding this matter, known;
as the Committee of Nine, is head
ed by North Carolina’s Agricultural
Experiment Director, Dean L. D.
Baver of State College.
“This Committee,” Dr. Baver
says ‘‘is charged with the re
sponsibility of approving all regi
onal research projects to be un
dertaken as a result of Public
Law 733 (the Flannagan-Hope
Bill). These projects are those
in which two or more experiment
statimis of a region work together
to S(3tve cooperatively a pressing
prblem that affects their respective
states or tneir entire region.
A problem in which North Caro
lina has a major responsibility is
the project designed to study the
effects of wide variations in soil
and weather on the nutritive value
of vegetables. This project was
chosen by the Committee of Nine.
Dr. Bavor says, because it has
long been common knowledge that
vegetable crops produced under,
different conditions showed a great
variation in their nutritive content.
“In this project as many as 10
states will be growing the same
vegetables with the same fertility
treatments and using the same ex
perimental techniques. The major
differences will be that the soil and
climate will vary from state to
state.
“All this work,” he explains, “will
be done at the respective stations
on funds other than those ear
marked by the Flamiagan-Hope
for regional research . However,
the group has requested that the
monies specifically set aside for
regional research be allocated to
the North Carolina station for this
project to handle all the statistical
work associated with the planning
of the research and the analyses
for the cooperating- stations.
“In other words, this will be 'the,
only station doing statistical and
soils work in this project,” Dr.
Baver concludes.
Other projects with which he in
dicated the station will be coop
erating include: Cotton genetics,
farm structures for crop storage.
| poultry breeding potato marketing,
and milk and dairy products
| marketing.
I As time goes on, other projects
| will be added to the regional
! agenda, and various other types of
projects have already bean given
tentative approval by the Com
mittee of Nine.
“This group." he points out.
‘‘will have the responsibility for
coordinating a total of $5,000,000
worth of research if the full ap
DR. NATHAN HALL
TO HEAD PROJECT
OF SOIL RESEARCH
Dr. Nathan S. Hall, a former
Student at N. C. State College,
has been chosen to head the new
research project set up by the
N. C. Agricultural Experiment
Station in which radioactive pros
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release from soils. The announce
ment comes from Dr. Ralph W.
Cummings, head of the Agronomy
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of the Station.
Dr. Hall began work on Febru
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he and a group of scientists from
the USDA and Cornell University,
cooperating with the local Station
are setting up the initial phases
of the project. Work is being
financed by a group of fertilizer
manufacturers.
Additional Farm News On
Page Eight
propriation, as authorized by Pub
lic Law 733, is forthcoming from
Congress.
“The benefits to the farmers of
the South and the Nation as a
whole, however will be worth many
times that amount.”
PRESIDENT TRUMAN
ISSUES MESSAGE TO
4-H CLUB MEMBERS
President Truman has issued a
message to all 4-H Club members,
who are observing National 4-H
Club Week, March 1-9.
The President said: “We are
proud of your 4-H clubs which are
spread across our great nation
They constitute an outstanding
body of youth aiming to attaii
worthwhile goals in life . . . 4lJ
Clubs have become a significari
influence in developing the cultur
al. social and recreational as wel
as the practical aspects of moderi
rural life. As a character-build
ing influence they are unsurpaa
sed."
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