' --- - - ' - - -J* -l - —-i i.t- ' Soil C*»a*rvation District fcaa entered Qqo&year contest for 1959. Dte supervisors met at the SCS work unit office in Elizabeth City Monday night, May 11, and , completed the application form. Ok the score card,, the Albemarle fiksti ct rated 2944 points of a possible 3400 points, LnSt year, when we won the poof year award, our ‘'core was 2758 po'"ts of a passible 3600 points. We cannot win first place this year afccording to the rules But will be eligible to 1 Win again' fn 1960. Conservation farmer of the year as elected by the board of super visors was H. C. Ferebee of Cam den County. Plant Materials Plant Sriq Twb plantings have been made or Gdliam Wood’s farm. These plantings*, were madqrfor the pur pose of /lasting their* desirability as quail, food. Gne U?a wild soy bean Glycine Max seeded be tween the flOws of Bicolor lespe- * deza and irrhgrplanted with corn.) The other feinting is Gillen’s Tick Clover (Desmodium dil’enii' al*o . for quaiP fond If tthp1 T» v - 17 O I 1 I eanuts ror Sale* I i cover crop yet didn’t feel that i you could afford it. spell, you can haVe a summer covet *iop tiijr seeding crobieria in- yotir corn. Broadcast 90 pounds of Giant* Striata Crotalaria at the last fcul tivation of.com, watermelons di other truck crops. E. M. Ward of GKden, Johnnie Chappell yt Crossroads . are trying crotalaria , after watermelons. Cost per |ere is ,dbot/t .56 per acre: ACP program haying $Z per acre pro viding you sign up fist ACP pay ment prior to seeding. 1 Fescue , W. W. Stevens* Slate Soil Con servationist, has stated that there is a shortage of tali'fescue seed. If you have a good stand of fes cue wi)y not coniAcKei saVihg seed. A good stand will produce from 300-600 pounds of seed per acre. Stubble-Mulch Do not burn your wheat or oth er small grain fields this spring. You can handle the straw by us -1 ing a shredder and mulch plant i ing. Cut your small grain high and run the shredder oVer the stubbles. Next use tat,middlebust ■r to Plow out the rows lapping he soil in the middles. Use a K-ilirv.- ow o j. disk blades to fill in about two-thirds of the plowed out farrow. Plant soy .nr mito in the farrow. Sev eral district cooperators are man line to try this method of plani ng behind small erain. Among them are T E. Corprew cf Gli ■•en, J. A. Webb. Jr., and Gilliam Wood of Yenr»i m . Dates of these plantings will be announced la ter. Coastal Bermuda And Bahia Grass Now is the time to top-dress these pastures for summer graz ing. Nitrogen in any form will do the job. Use about 100 pounds of Nitrogen now and again in July for beat results. . gHOWAK HERALD. EDtNtOft. NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MAY 21. 1955. 4*-. „ v v ■ mzsZßz Hr 9 mm Bgggi lEnN> IN MINNESOTA —One got away from this mirey mess in Minneapolis. Car, right center, was abandoned. Gas company truck, center, tried to pass. Stuck. Helper truck, left, got- stuck. Diesel cab, background, became stuck before this soggy saga began. A third gas company truck, piloted by a driver hep to mud, Stayed out trf “trouble. •* Marvin. Evans and Milton Evans of Bandori have, good pastures of .both these plants. Farm Planning S. W. Meore of Edenton is hav ing a conservation farm plan pre pared on his farm. He has plan ned open ditch and tile drain -age already. The existing field ditches will be filled when thes" drainage practices are installed. Use sod waterways as needed* On woodland, several decisions must be made to bring it into full production. His woods were cut : down to diameter size several years ago. This left him with a “stunted” 'stand loblollv pine*;, nlus non-decr ; p hardwoods. Mr. 1 Moore savs he wants to conve-tj this condition since his woods has a high potential for loblollv pines, j His conservation plan will be fin -5 shed this week. This is one of the manv ser vices of vour local Soil Conser- j vation District. Whv not see about your conservation plan? Police Make 50 ! Arrests In April Chief of Police George I. Dail reports that during Anril Edenton police made 54 arrests, of whom 50 were found guilty as charged. The arrests were led By 20 for nrvsoellaneous traffic violations, followed by 13 for be ing drunk. Os those arrested 25 White males,' three white fe males, 23 colored males and j three colored females. Fines amounted to 9220, costs $365.10 for a total of $565.10, of L which slsl was iurned back to the town -in -way of officers’ j fees.' Activities during the month j included 50 calls answered, j three automobile accidents in vestigated, one automobile stol en and one recovered, three fun erals worked, eight street lights reported out, 21 courtesies ex-' tended, 23 doors found unlocked, j 22 investigations made, three fir* calls answered and 411 traf- • fie citations issued. The police made 978 radio calls and were on the air one hour, two minutes and 40 sec onds. Legal Notices ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as admini strator of the estate of Ernest J. Ward, Sr., deceased, late of Cho- W'an County, North Carolina, this 'is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said I deceased to present them to thel undersigned within * one year I from date of this notice or fame | will be pleaded in bar Os their i 'recovery. All persons indebted to raid estate please make im mediate payment. ' This 21st day of May, 1959. ERNEST J. WARD, JR., Administrator of Ernest J. 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