C.R Wood Announces
New Form Fertilizer
Pure Ammonia Gas Is
Injected Directly
In Soil
Science’s newest aid to the farmer
has come to Chowan.
Farmers in this area will soon have
a nearby source of nitrogen fertilizer
in the form of pure ammonia gas in
jected into the soil, Charles H. Wood,
M representative of Standard Fer-
Division, Mathieson Chemical
ration, says in announcing Ma
thieson’s completion of an anhydrous
ammonia bulk storage plant at Eliza
beth City.
This new Chowan County enterprise
will distribute the chemical which is
manufactured at Mathieson's Morgan
town, West Virginia, plant. Anhy
drous ammonia, considered the most
economical and concentrated form of
nitrogen for crops, is a gas consisting
of 82.2 per cent nitrogen and 17.8 per'
cent hydrogen. “Anhydrous” means to
be free of water.
Mr. Wood pointed out that anhy- !
. drous ammonia has increased crop!.
yields on millions of acres of farm-' ‘ (
lands throughout sections of the coun- |
try where it is available, and that the 1 (
need for a convenient local source of s
supply increased as farmers here be- |
came acquainted with its highly sue- 1 1
cessful use. It may be applied at any !
time when the ground is not frozen!]
and will remain stored in the soil un- J
til needed by the plants.
This is how it works: .
A liquid under pressure in tanks, it
is hauled to the farms on trailers
where it is transferred through a hose
to a smaller applicator tank mounted 1
on or hauled by a tractor. The liquid 1
ammonia flows by its own pressure
through metal tubing into injector
blades, sharp, curved, cultivator-like
knives. The pressure the gas is un
der in the tank is released as the ap
plicator blades move through the soil
at an approximate depth of six inches
and the compressed liquid expands to
a gas which is instantly absorbed by ]
the clay particles in the soil. A me
tering device controls the rate of flow
in pounds per acre. i
The bulk plant at Elizabeth City is I
one of six just completed in the Caro- ]
linas, part of a national network of j <
such installations. > 1
Mathieson Chemical Corporation is <
one of ’the nation’s largest manufae-! 1
turers of agricultural chemicals. i
Mr. Wood is plant manager at Eliz- 1
beth City. 1 1
Serf. William E. Holley |,
Graduates In Germany;
First Class William E. 1
son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert 1
S. ’Holley, was a member of the lar- 1
gest class ever to graduate from the 1
Seventh Army Non-Commissioned Os- , 1
ficer Academy in Munich, Germany, :
recently. , ]
A supply specialist in the 118th En- 1
gineer Combat Battalion, he is among
252 Army and Air Force personnel.
who successfully completed a five- 1
week course emphasizing leadership 1
of units, map reading and other mili
tary subjects. j
Holley, whose wife, Emma, is with ,
him in Germany, has been in the Army
since 1941.
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rairie, the daring riders o!
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ay. Faced by tremendom
mdicaps and perils, they
>uld be depended on
erd... if a Eve.
ur witting, experienced staff
ever reedy to relieve yoe of
1 responsibilities and details
time of need. No matter
hat your requirements: our
dependability is your protec
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Plain old “horse sense” is not enough these days.
Traffic being what it is, you also need “horse power sense” or automobile
sense—or just good judgment, if you please. ]
Old timers can remember when the country doctor, coming home at dawn ,
after a sleepless night of calls, could fall asleep at the reins—and his faithful ]
old nag would bring him safely home. That was horse sense.
But your automobile, miraculous as it is these modem days, just won’t],
do that kind of a job. That’s why you have to use your good judgment—and j
stay alert while driving.
Most accidents, in some degree, are caused by lapses of a driver’s com- ‘
mon “horse-power” sense—exceeding safe speed limits, driving on the wrong i
side, passing on the wrong side or on a hill or curve, and similar chance tak- ’
ing. But there’s one thing that hasn’t changed much. A horse used to do j
some of the work of taking care of himself—grazing and exercising, for ex
ample—calling for outside repairs only when in need of the blacksmith or the
veterinary. A car will do some of that work, too—recharging its own battery
as it operates, keeping itself lubricated with its oil pump, and so on.
But when it needs outside help—that’s the time to make sure you take it ( 1
to the man who handles your make of car, the man who knows it best.
It’s up to your horsepower sense to make sure your car gets the kind of
care that will keep it in safe operating condition.—(North Carolina Depart
ment of Motor Vehicles).
FHA Now Providing
Credit For Fanners
Funds Are Available For '
Using Better Farm i
Practices 11
Farmers in all parts of Chowan
County are turning to their local
Farmers Home Administration county
office for credit that will help them I
take up better farm practices and
make adjustments from cash-crop
farming to diversified systems, E. F.
Morgan. Ill'* agency’s County Super
visor, said this week.
Farmers who Vrve depended almost
whollv on cash-crops in recent years
are the ones most in need of farming
adjustments, he said. They find they |
can set up a sound system of farming
by switching to diversified production
on their farms. Many are looking for
credit necesary to put in livestock en-;
terprises to go along with their crops,
and are expecting to develop good pas
ture for their livestock. This type of
adjustment usually takes a few years
for completion.
Many operators of cash-crop farms!
say they are held back from making j
the adjustments because cf costs in-!
volved. If these costs cannot be han
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EFFECTIVE MARCH 1
Lv. Hertford 3:13 P.M.
Lv. Edenton 3:50 P.M.
Lv. Windsor 4:25 P.M.
Ar. Rocky Mount 6:20 P. M.
Ar. Raleigh 8:15 P. M.
\ . •
Other Daily departures for Rocky
Mount, Raleigh and pts. West and
South at 9:10 A. M., and 12:40
P. M.
EDENTON BUS STATION
322 S. BROAD ST. PHONE 186
KIUTPITZM
died by other local private or coopera
tive credit, and if Hie proposed farm
ing systems are sound, the Farmers
Home Administration has funds for
production or adjustment loans.
In addition, many farmers needing
loans for only a year are finding the
credit they need at the Farmers Home
Administration county offices. Long
i term loans for purchasing or develop-
I ing family-type farms are also avail
■ able, either as direct or insured farm
ownership loans.
A social program of loans to stock
men hard hit by drought conditions is
also administered by the agency.
These loans are to help farmers re
main in normal production of cattle
and sheep.
No matter what type of credit is
sought, Farmeis Home Administra- 1
tion cannot approve applications from
farmers whose credit needs can be
handled by private <.r cooperative
lenders.
I The local Farmers Home Adminis
tration office is located in Hertford,
on the second fleer of the bus sta
j tion buildiiH
“Thf L *!»*»• ~f
BIG type oic
j oervice Boars, Bred Gilts and Pigs
S. R. MINTON
! >IF.ftRY Hit .i N. i
Low Farts
From Edenton 1-way
Rocky Mount $ 2.05
Raleigh $ 3.45
Charlotte $ 7.45
Atlanta $11.50
Greensboro $ 5.45
Asheville $ 9.90
Dallas, Texas $30.35
Chicago, 111. $20.75
(plus tax)
Morehead Planetarium
Presents New Program
On ‘Stellar Populations'
A new program entitled “Stellar'
Populations” is being presented in the
Morehead Planetarium at Chapel Hill
each evening at 8:30, Saturdays at]
3:00 and 8:30, and on Sundays at 3:00,
4:00 and 8:30 P. M.
School groups may make reserva
tion to see a modified version of this]
program on Wednesdays at 2:00 and
Thursdays at 11:00 and 2:00.
In this story, explanation is made
of the recent astounding disclosures by
eminent scientists at Palomar Moun
tain Observatory, the men who sur
vey the depths of space through the
giant 200 inch telescope and study
other “Star Cities” and the “stellar
inhabitants”.
In the Planetarium, the modem ver
sion of the nature of our entire Uni
verse is explained with more than a
dozen actual reproductions of these
majestic Star Cities, some invisible to
the naked eye and yet hundreds of
thousands of light years in diameter.
The program will continue through
March 29th.
HUGHES INFANT DIES
] Patricia Gail Hughes, two-months
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Hughes, Jr., died at the parents’ home
I in the Rocky Hock section at 6 o’clock
■ Wednesday morning.
I Funeral services were held at Evans
'Methodist Church Thursday afternoon
at 3 o’clock. The pastor, the Rev. C.
H. Beale, officiated and interment was
in Beaver Hill Cemetery.
There is as much greatness of mind
in acknowledging a good turn as in
doing it. —Seneca.
I
Housework
Easy Without
Nagging Backache
When kidney function slows down, many
folks complain of nagging backache, loss of
pep and energy, headaches and dizziness.
Don’t suffer longer with theet discomforts
if reduced kidney function is getting you
down —due to such common causes as stress
and strain, over-exertion or exposure to
cold. Minor bladder irritations due to cold*
dampness or wrong diet msy cause getting
up mglrts or frequent passages.
Don 4 neglect your kidneys if these condi
tions bother you. Try Doan’s Pills—a mild
diuretic. Used successfully by millions for
over 60 years. While often otherwise caused*
it’s amazing how many times Doan’s rive
» relief from these discomforts —help
S miles of kidney tubes and filters
flush out waste. Get Doan’s Pills todayl
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MR. FARMER....
1 Soy beans now feeing cleaned
i
for seed at our plant.
I We invite you to try our new
ly installed Clipper Mode
cleaner. It does an excel ent
job.
PIONEER SEED CORN
WOODS FERTILIZER
PREMIUM FEEDS
Home Feed & Fertilizer Co, Inc. I
EDENTON, NORTH CAROLINA
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. VISITING HEALTH OFFICES
Miss Addie M. Darden, Field Secre
* tary of the N. C. Tuberculosis Asso
(ciation, is visiting the members on the
■ Board of the Pasquotank-Perqulmans
i Camden-Chowan Tuberculosis Associa
[: tion and other members of various
:] civic groups in the four counties.
BIG “FIGGERS”
11 Care for figures—big ’uns? Major
[ C. A. Speed, boss of the Motor Ve
hicles Department’s Highway Safety
. Division, had some on tap this week,
r In summarizing last year’s fatal mo
. tor accidents Speed found that traffic
. ; mishaps cost $106,115,000 in 1953.
. 1 That’s enough cold cash to. build a 24-
r foot highway all the way from Raleigh
• tp the outskirts of Los Angeles.
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
t Mr. and Mrs. Carl G. Downey an
, nounce the birth of a 6-lb. 14-oz.
Cathy Jane, born in Rich-1
f mond, Va., Saturday, February 20,j
Mrs. Downey is the former Miss Doro
j thy Lee Chestnutt, daughter of Mr.;
■ and Mrs. J. L. Chestnutt.
i NOTICE TO ADMINISTRATIS,
i EXECUTORS AND GUARDIANS
ii The law requires an ANNUAL ACCOUNT
i to be made each year and an Inventory to be
filed within 90 days after qualifying. If your
> Annual Account, Inventory or Final Account
are past due, we respectfully urge that you
file same at once, as we are required to report
all such cases to the Grand Jury, which will be
convened at the Spring term of Chowan
County Superior Court March 29.
YOUR COOPERATION WILL BE VERY
MUCH APPRECIATED
Sincerely yours,
E. W. Spires
Clerk Superior Court
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Pfc. Robert 0. Bird Is
Sent To Fort Bragg For
Exercise Flash Burn
Army Pfc. Robert C. Bird, 21, son
of Marine Capt. and Mrs. William W.
Bird, Edenton, N. C., will go to Fort
Bragg, with his unit in March 26 for
Exercise Flash Bum.
Normally stationed at Camp Gor
don, Ga., as a jeep driver in the 990th
Signal Large Base Company, he will
help provide communications for the
large training maneuver. More than
60,000 troops will use the Army’s new
est weapons and tactics in the exer
cise scheduled for April and May.
Bird, whose wife, E. Roberta, lives
in Augusta, Ga., entered the Army in
November, 1952.
CATHOLIC SERVICES *
Every Sunday (except first Sunday
of every month when first mass is in
Palace Theatre, Windsor, at 8 A. M.),
I the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is cele
brated at 8 and 11 A. M., in St. Ann’s
Catholic Church, Edenton, stated Fath
|er John Beshel, pastor. Week-day
Masses at 7:30 A. M.