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PAGE SIX BECTION TWO AROUND THE FARMS IN CHOWAN By C. W. OVERMAN, Chowan County Agent Dry Weather Killing Many Trees * The severe dry weather, has se verely damaged many trees and killed some. Fruit trees, shade trees and oaks are the principal dines observed. In response to. calls, - several home orchards have been visited where trees were seriously dam • BEE GEC”' Lrgas, rYOULL PRAISE IT TO THE FULLEST MEASURE, TO COOK WITH BOTTLED SAMCO GAS RANGE SI 5S' ISMp' r ■ n Champion bourbon mm i : / ■VI ll < « 8 Years Old s 2§§ . aged'or dead. In every case the main trouble was found to be ap parently due to the severe dry weather. Young fruit trees in dry areas have had a most difficult time this year. There was one home orchard where several trees were dead and many more seri ously affected. On the live trees the agent recommended a heavy mulch around the tree but not against the tree and then water ing each tree slowly for three or four hours with the hose to be sure the water gets good penetra tion. This appears about all that can be recommended. Many pecan trees and many dogwood in home plantings are showing leaf yellowing and parch ing due to the severe dry weather. An application of about one quart HI-WAY 17 Drive-In Theatre Edenion-Hertford Road OPEN EVERY NIGHT Friday and Saturday, August 23-24 Howard Duff in "BLACKJACK KETCHUM. DESPERADO" Sunday, August 25 Victor Mature in "SAFARI" Cinema Scope and Color Monday and Tuesday, August 26-27 Gordon Macßae and Sheree North in "THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE" Cinema Scope and Color o Wednesday and Thursday, August 28-29 Rock Hudson and Cornell Borchers in "NEVER SAY GOODBYE" THE CHOWAN HERALD. EDENTOW, HORTH CAROLINA, THTTREDAT, JLTOPfcT 3*, lift. HP* i ■p-*-v SjgsP *£>•'&':>!'.% x'ZVz , t .c C lip / h' > r i: •: ■k , ¥ X / * ■Pi / fMBH mm- - 1 / V-A: - ;#» i , ■H -yW'ik If• f■- W m, i 11 / ■HL § i aHBb INSOMNIA WHAT’S THAT? lt’s no problem. t 6 relax when you’re in the late two’s or early three’s. Holly Stafford makes a sleeping bag of a suitcase while waiting for her plane to depart from New York’s Idlewild Airport. of nitrate of soda placed in a cir- j cle around the tree out under the tip of the limbs and a good water- j ing with the hose is about all we know to recommend and this should help considerably. f Many oak trees particularly and some other trees are showing in jury by the drought and many have died. Os course, there is nothing 1 we can do for the trees that are dead but those still liv : ing can helped by a good wa tering each week. The water must be applied slowly over ape- j riod of 4 or 5 hours instead of hurriedly in order to get good, penertation down to the root area. : Peanut Crop Condition The peanut crop in Chowan County has been greatly improv ed since the rain on July 23 and' 24. The plants have grown con siderably since that rain, but now are getting very dry again. An, estimate of the peanut crop of ] 1957 has been made as 80% of Taylor Theatre Edenton, N. c. THURSDA Y~AND FRIDAyTaUOUST 22 23^ Kirk Douglas and Susan Hayward in “Top Secret Affair” SATURDAY, AUOIJST 24 Scott Brady and Mala Powers in “The Storm Rider” COMEDY 3 CARTOONS SUNDAY, MONDAY AND TUESIMyTaIjGUST 25 26-27 JACK E&q wEßß %yju ' v4 4 ‘ ShsT Jr -f fIKI JLhe first story of that special nigged breed they pall the Drill Instructor. You give him a boy~ ■ and IS weeks later he'gives you back a Marine! a . 1 pwesenteoev nnw l\mm lArKir I nunHFPY W £ r '-fp WARNER BROS, starring DUN UUUD! 10 MO AIL LUUUnLn I ■ |j>. Lin Mkm- Monica Lewis -\rn\k Gresg AND "PLATOON IDA"-NEAL MARINES WHO MANE A DN**T »I#«Y NINO I‘NUBI Screen Play by JAMES IEE BARRETT- Produced and Dircctcrf frlAC* mi- DIAIltVtl IT&Pfifactißii WEDNESDAY, AUGUST Double Feature Cornel Wilde in Lex Barker in “Beyond Mombasa” “Duel on the Mississippi'’ j normal. It can be this good, may be better, or maybe __worse, de pending upon the season from now on.- If rains come in suffi cient quantity and not in excess, j it is possible that we will make a good normal crop but if the dry weather prevails our crop will be short. There has been very few re ports of disease in peanuts dur ing the last 60 days. A few fields have been damaged by southern stem rot, but none of them real serious that we know of. Terra chlor in the land plaster was used j by several growers and we hope ! that this is helping toward off the ! disease. Insects' have invaded some peanut fields and it has been necessary for the grower to dust with 10 per cent DDT to control them. We know of no severe j damage so far. Gei-Acquainled Meeting The Southern Pulpwood Con servation Association sponsored a two-day get-acqirainted and ed ucational meeting and tour for county agents and soil <*>nserva tion technicians. This was held at Williamstoii on Monday and Tuesday. On Monday the pro gram was devoted to getting ac quainted and an educational meeting. The “agricultural work ers and members of the pulpwood industry were presented individ ually in order that we might know of them. Some of the talks were illustrated by slides made of work being conducted in this area. . As the county agent, I have of ten wondered about the advisa bility of farmers selling blocks of their woodland to pulpwood com panies. In riding through- the county I have observed many tracts of woodland with the line trees planted indicating the pulp wood company’s holdings.' Again the impression that the pulpwood companies are out to buy up all the timber possible. That a company which once buys a tract of woodland it is forever lost from farm ownership. This last state ment may be somewhat true but the extent of the company’s hold ings according to the figures we were given are not near as exten sive as I had thought. According to the figures given at this meeting the pulpwood companies purchase about 90 per cent or more of their supplies of pulpwood from farmer-owned and other individually owned tracts. This means that there is a large market for pulpwood from farm er owned tracts and farmers csn supply this demand by properly thinning and managing their farm woodlands. The pulpwood companies are like any other factory in that they have to have a continuous supply of raw material to operate. Dur ing the busy seasons on the farm there is less pulpwood being cut on farmer owned* tracts. During these slack seasons the pulpwood company cuts their raw supplies from their own pulpwood sup plies in order to keep in continu ous operation. They explained to us that it was only their intent to have their sufficient acreage of company owned land to assure them a continuous supply for op eration. We made a tour of several tracts of woodland owned by the company. In one tract they are .making taee selections for seed purposes. The, seed from these trees are to be used to propograt ing the type of pines that have quick growth, straight growth and will give them the most return per year of growth. They explain ed that some breeding work is be ing done in an attempt to develop fast growing, high quality stock. On another tract observed young plants which are off to a good start now. Here the hard woods have been controlled and the young pines released with a chance to make good growth. In another tract we observed the poisoning of hardwoods in order to control the hardwoods so that the area might be developed to pines. In the next tract we ob-i served heavy equipment discing the area preparatory •to planting next winter. We were very much impressed with the way the pulp companies are farming their woodlands. While in these instances the com pany was using its own equipment for preparing land for planting, they explained that in some in stances that they have to hire equipment to do the work. Farm IT'S SNOWING s SAVINGS at your PLYMOUTH dealer's ! k/ S * §>r I i ‘ ' l » It's Plymouth’s greatest year— and "Operation Snowball" is your greatest chance to save on the one oar i ’ “i that will still be new next snowfall! Right now is saving weather at your Plymouth dealer’s! Plymouth sales are storming ahead at a record rate ... snowballing to an all-time high. Your dealer is in a position to give you an of savings on the new Plymouth of your choice. - The more Plymouths he sells, the more cash you can save. £ ;*C look ahead... buy ahead... buy „• I and own more of the future right uowi I ers can hire such equipment t 6 do work in their home woodland in, where? they don’t have it.; These demonstrations we saw are ju&plain good* woodland manage ment, and (things that- farm wood laftd owners can do to make their forest land produce and pay max imum reti^ms. We were taken on ’a tour through pulp plant at Ply mouth. We were shown the vari ous operations beginning with the unloading of the pulpwood from trucks and cfers through to finish ed paper being loaded in the caiy SERVICE YOU CAM DEPEND ON S Expert Repairs & Installations We service oil makes and mod els. Our workmanship is guar anteed. Reasonable rates by job or on contract. to be sore, call 3519 JACKSON’S Radio-Tv Service You’ll really go for the “below zero” prices youir Plymouth dealer is featuring during his spectacular 30-day “Operation Snowball.” And you’ll like the very liberal allowance , he can give you for your present car. So don’t miss out on the big sav ings—pick out your 3-years-ahead Plymouth today. fpr shipment. This is trudy an interesting, process and . farad woodland owners coultl cooperate in joining together for a sched uled tour through such a plant. \ Casual Discovery Deliberation “ls a diplomat supposed to tell the truth?” “Oh, yes. But he is often per mitted to take his time about discovering i^.” virtue is no slight evidence oi one’s own.- —Montaigne.
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