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Our Neighbors
By MISS REBECCA COLWELL
Chowan County Home Agent
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The Fair is in full swing and it
really is the best yet. The hard work
ing Legionnaires, under the leader
ship of Jordan Yates, Commander,
and Willis MoClenney, Chairman of
the Fair Committee, have developed
a fair in three years that will com
pare favorably with those in many'
counties that have been operating
for a much longer period of time.
Hope you saw the parade. I'm
writing this Monday A. M., but I’ve
heard enough about it to know it’s
going to be good.
You still have three days to shop
at the Home Demonstration Club Ba
zaar for cakes, candy and canned
foods, hand-made toys, children’s
cloths, toys, aprons, and other ar
ticles for your own use or gifts.
Some of the clubs will sell dried flow
ers for winter arangements. Oak
Grove and Ryland Clubs are selling
today, with a good supply of articles
you will want. On Friday Advance
and Beech Fork will display their
wares in the Home Demonstration
Bazaar booth, offering canned foods,
cookies, cakes, etc., in addition to fot
ted plants, dish garlens, aprons, toys
and they have even had a quilting
party and made a quilt to sell.
I’ve just had breakfast with the
Center Hill and Ward Home Demon
stration Clubs at their concession
stand located just back of the armory.
For breakfast and lunch go to the
back of the armory on the right side
to enter Fair grounds. The main
entrance will not be opened until 1:00
each day. Their specials for dinner
and supper today are chicken pot pie,
country ham, barbecue, and of course,
ham biscuits which are always special.
Each day they have hot dogs, ham
burgers, barbecue sandwiches, and
french fries, which are a part of a
good fair. Take your family to the
Fair and have supper with these good
cooks from Ward and Center Hill
Home Demonstration Clubs. They’re
serving home-cooked meals (and “be
tween-meals”) at reasonable prices
today, Friday and until the Fair closes
on Saturday night.
Three Home Demonstration Clubs
and the 4-H Clubs have done a grand
job arranging educational booths.
Beech Fork Club’s booth is on “Church
Ground Improvement.” Byrd Club’s
is on a very important subject “Plan
ning for Better Farm Family Living”
and Oak Grove Club’s is on “Farm
stead Improvement.” The 4-H Club
Girls’ booth, which was planned and
arranged under the leadership of Miss
Carolyn Biggerstaff, Assistant Home
Agent, ( is on “Room Improvement”
which represents one of the projects
carried by the 4-H Club girls. This
booth will be carried to Elizabeth City
to the Seven County Fair. The other
4-. H Club booth is on “Entomology,”
planned and arranged by Mr. Over
man and Mr. Marsh, Farm Agents,
and will be used in the State Fair
next week. The Home Demonstration
Club booth that gets the highest
rating when they are judged this week
will be used to represents Chowan
County in the Seven County Fair in
Elizabeth City October 14.
The proceeds from the booths, ba
zaar and concession will be used by
each Home Demonstration Club for
their community projects.
Home Agent’s Schedule
October 9—2:30 Enterprise with
Mrs. John F. Perry.
October 10—Office
October 11—District 4-H Rally in
Washington.
October 13—2:30 Chowan Club.
October 14—.7:30 Beech Fork with
Mrs. W. H. Saunders.
October 15—Office.
Detoured Enroute
A sailor passed away and upon ar
riving at the gates of his eternal
home, remarked, “Gee, I never
thought heaven would be so much like
Texas.”
“Son,” said the man at tne gate
sadly, “this ain’t heaven.”
f VALUABLE FARMS T
tAT PUBLIC AUCTION |
The Coffield Farms will be sold at public auction on Thursday,
, t October 23, 1952, at 10:30 A. M. on the premises. t ,
First Farm: Containing 300 acres more or less. 106 acres
, ( more or less in cultivation with a tobacco allotment of 5.4 acres ~
* and a peanut allotment of 26.8 acres. Two tenant, houses and out
buildings. .
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Second Farm: Coffield homeplace, containing 400 acres more or
less. , 94 acres in cultivation with a peanut allotment of 27.1 acres,
a Dwelling, two tenant houses, barns and outbuildings. 1 ’
| Sale subject to confirmation of owners. .
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Terms: 10% on confirmation of sale. Balance on delivery of
I W. H. Coffield, Agent 1
A STOP
FIRES
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KEEPING UP ON FARMING
With Uncle Walt .
Wll, I see by the paper where some
of the sweet potato auction mar
kets is openin up so I guess they’ve
started diggin ’em down in the east
ern part of the state. I sure do hope
so anyhow, ’cause I’ve been wantin
m a mess of baked sweet potatoes
for the longest kind of time.
I didn’t raise none this year and
I’m mighty sorry of it, too. I been
settin out a patch ever year for ’bout
as far back as I can remember. I let
the time slip by one me ’til it was
too late to set any out, so I reckon
; I’ll hafta buy what we eat this year.
I This feller Joe Gourlay, one of the
marketin specialists they’ve got down
i there in the Agriculture Department (
> at Raleigh, was the one that had
■ wrote the piece in the paper. Some
body else might of wrote it, but Mr.
• Gourlay was the one who was tellin
» ’bout the markets a openin.
I The piece went on to say that he
5 said they was gonna be another pretty
‘ good crop of sweet potatoes this year.
’ Seems like from the way he give it
> in, the dry weather kept some of the
5 farmers from settin ’em out as soon
r as they ordinarily would. And this is
• gonna make the crop a little bit late
’ maybe ’cause some of the farmers
- will leave the potatoe isn the ground
, as long as they can to let ’em git
p a little bigger. Course if we have
i a early frost this time, they won’t
t be apt to leave ’em so long. Once a
; frost hits a patch of sweet potatoes,
i they ain’t gonna grow no nore, and
l a bidy might just as well go on and
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git ’em out of the ground.
I didn’t leam how many bushels
they figgered would be raised in
North Carolina this year but Mr.
Gourlay said he expected it would be a
little bit more than wais raised last
year. Seems to me I read somewhere
not so long ago that we weren’t raisin
nearly as many here now as we use
to. I believe the piece I read about
the markets openin said our total pro
duction is still far under the 10-year
average. I reckon that means we
ain’t raisin what we’ve been at durin
the last ten years.
I reckon the growers will be glad to
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hear what this feller said about the
prices this year too. He figures that
they’ll be jest as good or maybe a
little better than they wee last year.
And if I ain’t mistaken, the sweet
potato fellers gait a right good price
for their crop last year. Weil, I’m
all for ’em gittin it again this year,
even if I have got to buy some for
me and the old lady.
Course the way this feller Gourlay
put it, the growers can’t expect to
git such a good price if they ain’t
willin to do a few little things to
help make their potatoes worth it. He
talked like a body’d have to be mighty
careful a harvestin, handlin, and pack
in their potatoes jf they wanted to
git the most money for ’em. One
thing I remember him a sayin for the
farmer bo grade his sweet potatoes in
the field and pack them to meet U. S.
No. 1 Grade which is sized from 1%
inches to 8% inches .through. I don’t
know much about sweet potatoes so
if that’s the size that sells the best
then that’s the size the farmer oughta
try to raise and pack. I’ll tell you
one thing though, some of the pota-
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toes I’ve raised will measure a lot
bigger than 8% inches through.
Another thing he brought out was
to fill the baskets full to keep them
from gittin bruised when they was
bein hauled. Now I know for a fact
that that’s some good sound advice.
If you don’t believe the hide on a
sweet potato is tender and easy to
break, you just try hdtrtSn one against
another and you’ll find out mighty
quick. And once you git a potato
aorta messed up you ain’t apt to git
much good out at it ’less yeu cook
it and eat it right away.
Yessir, I’m glad they’ve started dig-
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gin ’em and soon as I git around
where they’ve got some I aim to buy
a couple of bushels and git Fannie
to fill the oven full. Then I aim to
git me « cake of butter and a jar of
mink, and I’m gonna eat ’til my
heart’s content.
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