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Farmers Urged To Ascertain Worth Os Timber For Sale Money Thus Spent Gen erally Pays Tidy Dividends Wlbat is my timber Worth? This is a question every farmer should find the answer to before he makes a con tact for selling his timber. Host farmers sell their timber rather blind ly as far as their knowledge of what their timber is worth is concerned. Yest, it is very easy for every farm er of normal intelligence to learn how to estimate timber and determine what a tract of timber is worth at the cur rent market price. This is a question which faced Col bert Byrum, a young farmer of the Ryland community. Colbert had pur chased several acres of timberland which he plans to cut clean and dear up for cultivation and pasture. The question of how much saw timber and pulp wood is on this area and what it is worth on today’s market was one which Hr. GBy rum could not determine, Upon his the County Agent secured the services of IW. T. Ellison, Jr., District Extension (Forester, and the two went into the woods and dem onstrated to Mr. IByTum how to esti mate timber and assisted him in esti mating this small area. Mr. By rum was anxious to find out what the timber on this tract was worth and was amazed to find that it is worth approximately three times what he thought it might !be worth. Now he is in a position to market this tract of timber to the best advantage and also he is able to estimate other tracts himself. Through the Extension Service this part of the forestry program is avail able to the farmers only on a demon stration basis. 'A farmer who has 20 or more acres of timber for sale can determine the amount of timber he has and what it is worth by one of the following methods: (1) (He may call on the County Agent for a demon stration and after the demonstration given he can estimate the timber himself; (2) If the tract of timber is 50 acres or less, he may he able to secure the services of a State Forester to assist him in cruising and esti mating it; (3) (He may secure the services of a certified timber esti mator, which he will have to pay for. The timber estamaiter will give him a detailed cruise of his timber regard less of the number of acres and give him a record of the board feet of various types of timber there, also the amount of pulp wood, if so desired. Money spent in determining what your timber is worth when you are ready to sell will generally pay many, many times the cost of the cruiser’s ser vices. (Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul may keep the path, but will not reach the goal; while he who walks in love may wander far, yet God will bring him where the blessed are. —Henry Van Dyke. ' fytiSijfi, ! FOR HIGH YIELD! \ bi WSI, nearly 40% of *• State's com ocmaQ* waft a*ed»d to hybrid*. Thit recant swing to hybrids k a • And mmit of ilnla wlrh mntWHVMI voritty - - i- ** - > f VpHS which nave mown n/wms vo owjwkj mv spot* rinn nnWnnlnrl Hms by at much at 30 buitioli mt • UPfij || |f faraur old Kb this that htlpi mob North 1 Carolina a bottor plooo b which to wotfc# play ! and Ivn. ‘ -.-:. ‘ j ; 5 ,•- > : ' -\T . ... '"I . : » Aha floaftribvhfl to Moo ploc— cmt iMnn lor North .* jmu wnmwwmiy nw ■- - .- - ■--• , pcgw mhii. .*almlin Mwi nldlii. j GAMOAC KDKJ Tliis Week’s Poem I By WILBORNE HARRELL THE TWIG AND THE ROSE I The first rose' of summer greeted, With a timid rosy blush, A bare twig of dying winter Floating down from tree to bush. In faded coat the little twig Sadly smiled and then looked down Upon the rose that grew beneath, Wearing such a lovely gown. | “You are so beautiful to see,” ' 'Said be, "in that coat of red, ■ So lovely that I wish ’twas me, IBut alas! I’ll soon be dead.” : “Sigh not at all, my little fckig, Bloom I just a summer’s span, . And back to dust the same as thee Go I—and twigs—the same as man. ' “And just what destiny is ours, Flans that only heaven knows, Tn miracle may cause us bloom, I a twig, and thou a rose.” -Mvvvvvvvvvvvvvxn/u*^ : Hobbsville Resident Dies In Suffolk i . I Walter Dee Spivey, 63, of Hobbsville : died in a ‘Suffolk hospital Friday as -1 temoon at 4:30 o’clock after an ill ness of only four days. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. ICelia ■ Spivey and a brother, Curtis 'Spivey I of Gatesville. He was a member of • the Warwick Swamp Baptist (Church, ■ where funeral services were held Sun day afternoon at 2 o’clock. The pas • tor, the Rev. Lee A. Phillips, offi j ciated. Interment was made in the l churchyard. Pallbearers were (Fletcher Spivey, 1 Chester Spivey, Frank tSpivey, Her ; man Pierce, Ralph White and William Hollowell. 1 Colerain Airman i Now At Argential Argentia, Newfoundland, once an 1 early English fishing and silver min ing settlement, and for the past 12 ; years, an advanced base of the U. S. 1 Navy, is the present station of Eldon • T. Powell, airman, UiSN, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Powell of Colerain. Powell is attached to the Air Opera • tions Department. i Aigentia was a ghost village in 1 1940, when the U. S. Navy selected the site as one of the first advance bases to be constructed under the terms of the Leased Bases Agreement between the United States and Great Britain, which was finally approved . on March 27, 1941. Construction of the Naval Base ! began in December, 1940, and a oom ' pany of Marines raised the American i flag on February 13, 1941. The Naval Operating Base, which is located on ■ a small peninsula in Placentia Bay, i was commissioned on July I's, 1941. ■ It was there that the historic Atlantic Charter was signed by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Church ill aboard the cruiser USS Augusta. The base was consolidated and re ! designated Naval Station, Argentia, July 1, 1950. The love of heaven makes one 1 heavenly. —Shakespeare. THE CHOWAN HERALD, N. C., THURSDAY MARCH 19, 1953. Unprofitable Birds Cut Down Egg Profits ICodnty Agent C. W. Overman this week issued the warning that poultry feed is high and the price of eggs is down, so that poultrymen cannot af ford to keep any unprofitable birds in their laying flocks. “They cannot afford to keep un profitable birds at any time,” says Mr. Overman, “but unprofitable birds under the present situation can eat up all of the profits and keep the laying flock in the red!.” Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ward of Cross Roads community, realized that they had a lot of unprofitable birds in their laying flock and their flock was running in the red. Upon their re quest the County Agent conducted a culling demonstration with them. Be i fore the demonstration was completed , Mr. and Mrs. Ward kn©w what to look for in unprofitable birds and were cull ing out the loafers very well them selves. Out of a flock of 112 birds, 61 loafers were removed. Even with the r lowered price of eggs the remaining 51 birds should show a good profit. To their surprise they found the birds infested with lice and this in turn was cutting the production. They im mediately treated the house and birds for lice and this should assist them in getting back into good production. All poultry houses should be ex amined for mites or chiggers, and if found in the cracks of the house and where the roost poles rest on the sup ports, the whole house should be treat ed thoroughly with DDT mixed in used cylinder oil which may be thinned with kerosene if if is too thick. The Tjrestoncgggga tuEss^^P AT A NEW MBaK LOW PRICE j with the CSAFETY LINED PROTECTS AGAINST ' ISt«WOOT*I 1 MWICTOTWI • y ** Hera is a tire with new prm- \ Here is a tire that gives you Bciples of design and con- ... . . . .. ..." protection against punctures, struct ion which protects you No J J | oots. In this new safety tire, ' >-;• dangerous traffic, because that's banded to thsT inside safety line* ' * Lin#r ,hat< * bond ® d *° < of the tire. 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Earth’s actors change earth’s scenes; and the curtain of human life should be lifted on reality, on that which outweighs time; on duty done and life perfected, wherein joy is real and fadeless. —'Mary Baker Eddy. It is only the ignorant who despise education. —iPublilius 'Syrus, EXCITING MYSTERY STORY BY POPULAR WRITER 'Mbe Curse of the Kingsway”, ex citing true story by Will Oursler, well known writer, reveals the farewell voyage of an evil ship that was the curse of a woman’s treachery. Look for this feature in the March 29th issue of THE AMERICAN WEEKLY Magazine in Colorgravure with the BALTIMORE SUNDAY AMERICAN Order from Your Local Newsdealer WHITE’S LANDING FISHERY Rocky Hock OPEN FOR BUSINESS Monday, Wednesday And Friday Harrell & Nixon $2-30 BB $3-65 ** Pint M M V 5 Qt. I Glemnore I KENTUCKY STRAIGHT ■ BOURBON ■ ■ WIISRIY ■ | ■ / kentucky\ / STRAIGHT V / BOURBON \ GLENMORE 6UNMORE DISTILLERIES COMPANY ■ LOuiSVILLE, KY. 86 PROOF Try A Herald Classified Ad For Quick Results! 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