, KEEPMG UP ON FMMNC With Unde Walt The Good Lord has let ane live a right long time and I git more thank ful for it by the day. 1 jest wish I could of been about 40 years later a gittin here then maybe I could real ly enjoy all these new fangled things they’ve got for us farmers to work with nowadays. I’d been thinkin for the past 8 or 10 years that me and Fannie would take off to Raleigh to this here Farm and Home Week they have ever year down there at State College. But U seemed when fte for it we had so much to do that we jest couldn’t afford to* go. The heat and dry weather sorta took care of it for us this year though, so we tore out and went down to it. We didn’t get to take in the whole thing but we saw and heered enough to last this old feller for a right long time. In fact, we didn’t get down there ’til about dinner time on Tues day. And no sooner had we driv up the school ground some feller told us how to git over to the collusem or Soms building to sign up and git us a room. < / Well, when we got over to the col lusem and went in you could of knock ed me over with a tooth plclt. I Slli't never aeon such a buildin. I jest Stood there a gazin and tumin. It was really a sight to behold. Final ly, Fannie grabbed my arm and said, “Walt, come on and let’s git over to' our room and see what it’s like.” l| went on out without sayin a word and j didn’t say nothin til Fannie asked me what I was thinkin about so hard. I said, “I was jest thinkin what if we had a bam as big as that collusem. Couldn’t we stack a mess of hay in it though? She jest sorta laughed and said I was crazy. The woman over there where we signed up told us how to git to our room, but I bet we asked a half doz en different folks ’fore we found it. We finally got there though and after we rested awhile, we got out and began to mosey around. We ’lowed we’d jest look and see what we could see fore we got tangled up in the pro gram. Well, I’m her e to tell you we saw a plenty. I ain’t never seen the like of so many buildings. We was stand- Jn in front of one of ’em and some .feller come walkin by. So I stopped him and asked if that was the school buildin we was lookin at. He must of thought I was crazy ’cause he sorta laughed and said, “Yessir, that’s 9 ne of them and so is all these others you see right around here.’’ I thought iMHmHiHHf s ■Ni i w M J \ 1lUU1 UU 71 ]' [J Tm m This Beautiful Console Heater Now! mBSS^SBSS^^SSSSSIm I •.IF Qenhis % W?*™^£jj£g f wjw^'* : ' of extra cost &nmh 3» valuibien e they lust, you’ll get a free of ad Mchamcalthermostat, of your T ded cost with purchase )uo-Therm. Mirror smooth enamel fini.i, r Exclusive Dual Chamber Bur» *» finest furniture styling, every drop ofoiL Automatic 7 set gives more heat from dial-the-heat Control. Horn ' draft Minder. Waist-High extra cost! /difier. Other extras at no Add exclusive Automa ; forced warm air heating r OC Power-Air Blower for frei bills. Let your Jrtt d> bat saves you up to 29% on ■■ ——. Asraipsut tend the fire. - USE ° PR L /.Y AWAY PL AI? ““TWf l jRNniIRE COMPANY r> * / jl jf\_ r p 1 J »f P JLa JjfiJ* I*H.i\ ————— > he was jest bein smart but before Hie - week was over I learned that he was I tell in the truth. They teach one r thing in one buildin and another in - another. Where I went to school they 9 teached everybody the same thing in i the same buildin. We was pretty well whooped down r by supper time, but we went on over I to the College eatin place and got us i a good supper. Then we went out to • the football field and set in on the ; doins there. I really got a kick out list Jbat ZXS* bad a bunch of ...- l \ . 1 | I good singers, a whole bunch of runny ; fellers a cuttin up and they was some ■ man asking questions to different i ones. Ever time they’d answer one of the questions right, he’d give ’em ■ a silver dollar. And, I might say, he give away right many too ’fore he ■ sit down. Next mornin after we eat breakfast Fannie lowed she’d go to one of the , womens classes. So I figgered I’d go to one they was holdin for the men on fertilizers. Well sir, that was one of the interestinest meetins I’ve ever sett in on. This feller Hall who was doin the talkin told us abou£ ftoW| they fiad Seen usui this atomic ma tSrial to learn where us farmers should plftcd our fertilizer for best results. He not only told us about it, he showed us with some kind of con traption that found that stuff in a 1 tobacco plant like a hound dog would | a settin rabbit. j That even in Fannie went to another j class with the women and I went on a poultry trip with a bunch of others. We saw jest about everything they was to be seen in the way of chick ens and a lot of things they use with ’em nowadays I didn’t know they had. We went back over to the collusem that night and heered the Governor speak. He give a migthy good talk and said it in words that a feller like me could understand. After he talked they had a bunch of square dancin and what not cooked up, but me and Fan nie went back over to the room and lay down. Thursday bein the last day, they really put on the dog for us. They had a demonstration of all sorts of farm machinery and told us all about each piece of it. I’m a little too old to be messin around most of what they bad there, but some of these young fellers a comin up, they showed ’em how to save a lot of back breakin work. We didn’t stay for the meetin Thursday night. W« figgered we’d : THE CHOWIAIN HERALD, BDBNTON, N. C., THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 4,1962. had about as much as we could take in so we headed back home. I told Fannie a goin back that we’d sure been missin the boat by not comin to the Farm and Home IWeek afore now. She fully agreed with me and said , she didn’t know where we could have f gone and seen and learned so much , and had so much fun at the same ( time. ; Folk Festival Set For KenansviHe Sept 12 First of Kind to Be Pre sented In This Part Os State Preparations are going along at a fast clip for the presentation of the Eastern Carolina Folk 'Festival sched uled to be held at Kenan Memorial Auditorium at KenansviHe on the nights of September 12-13. The 'Festival, the first of its kind to be produced in this part of the state, will be under the direction of Bascom Lamar Lunsford, nationally known authority on folk-lore. gome 60Q participant nglnf Jn ages from 10 to 80, and including both male and female, are expected to take part in the two-night performance. Both performances will feature old time singing and dancing, clog, buck . and wing, and plenty of fiddling, ban jo and guitar picking. There will be . artists on the Jew’s harp, the mouth ; harp, jug bands—there will be indi- ; vidual singers, playing their own ac- : companiment, duets, trias, quartets, 1 string bands, harmony singers, sever al bagpipe performers and Scottish dancers, and competitive square dance ' teams. The Festival here, which will be an ' annual event, is sponsored by the Parent-Teacher Associations of Dup lin County, on a non-profit basis. The new Kenan Memorial Audi torium, in which the festival will be staged, will seat approximately 4,000 persons. It is located on part of the “Duplin Story” site, the historic drama so successfully produced here in 1949 and 1950. More Nutrients Saved By Using Grass Silage Research and experience have shown that gr&&8 silage is a more effective way to preserve feed nutrients than field-cured hay, especially in humid regions, C. W. Overman, county agent for the State College Extension Ser vice, reports. 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