pARF Corporation Expands
Business Over U. S. - Canada
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Local Concern Larg
est Manufacturer of
Wheoi Type Rake
DARF Corporation, manufac
turers of farm equipment, at
Greenfield has expanded its bus
iness from the fields on the Cho
wan to all over the United
States and Canada.
The company specializes in a
wheel type rake and is the sec
ond largest manufacturer of this
type of rake in the United
States. Not only is the rake
manufactured here, but at Win
nipeg, Canada and Tulare, Cali
fornia. . <
The DARF Corporation was
organized in 1951 and moved to
Greenfield from Raleigh in 1957
akid set up shop in a barn with
offices in a tenant house. The
physical .facilities have not ex
panded a great deal in the last
few years, but the business has
been established and is recogniz
ed for its competitive farm ma
chinery. , , .
George Wood, president of the
corporation, has been assisted in
the venture by his brother, Bem
bry Wood, secretary-treasurer,
and his half-brother, Frank Wil
liams, buyer. Other officials are
Ernest W. Harris and Harold W.
Jarvis, vice-presidents.
The home business, which em
ploys a dozen persons, has na
tionwide contacts and sends
equipment by truck to any des
tination.
The major product is the ro
tary rake, which is in use in
every state except Hawaii and
Alaska, has proved itself as an
excellent first time cultivator
for corn. Georgia growers use it
tjo windrow peanuts and in Flor
ida the rake is useful in digging
palmetto roots out of soil to
make it tillable.
'The machine consists of a
heavy steel pipe frame that sup
ports five or six wheels (depend- 1
ihg on model) with springed
tdfith projecting outward around
the circumference. Each wheel
is independently mounted on a
member and kept in prop
er tension by a coil spring. The
wheels are rotated by contact
with the ground during forward
mqtion and the spring teeth ga
ther the hay (or other crops) de
positing it in a neat windrow by
last wheel.
The latest model of rake man
fuctured by -DARF is the “S”
rake.
Another important product of
thg company is a potato digger
made only on special order. The
patent to the machine is owned
by Clemson College and royal
are paid to the college.
This digger makes possible a
twenty-five percent increase in
haryestajMe potatoes. / v ? > .
’ The Companion”
production by DARF was design
ed by a North Carolinian, John
who was looking
a tool to completely prepare i
tlje soil for planting without dis-1
tubing the moisture content of
tlje soil. |
■The machine has been term
ed one of the most important ad
vgnces in agricultural equipment
in this generation due to its
ability to retain maximum mois
ts**, thereby assuring fast ger-j
The rake is adjustable*
*Qr width of swath, tractor po-!
®$ on arM * i an d contacts. It
sgyes operating time, labor and
costs. \yith the
machine the inventor has been
asle to transform a pasture into
a corn field at the amazing rate 1
o{ an acre an hour. j;
In addition to these machines ;
•dfae , company makes a tobacco •
Transplanter, a tree planter, a '
f<*w stalk cutters and a tobacco
tqp clipper that saves a lot of
hkhd labor. |
ifrofn Greenfield, which dates
bfpk to 1752, now comes mod- ■
tfarm machinery. *. BARF !
•oration is able to supply j
farmer with advanced ma- <
ery to meet the technological !
developments of farming. >
Watched Wqrk Ta j
qpffln By March 5 «
from Pap* 1, Section! j;
E." O. Graham, Assistant State '
(Watershed) that 1
th ». Pollock Swamp Watamhed 4
project would not be delayed be- j '
p-l »SSSCI;
sis by panning the Gum Neck';
Congressional approval
qft ftyear waiting for approval i
■Mid be necessary. ' |
date of December Bth wasf;
set for the planning party to,!
should he st*rii** on J;
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Pictured above are two of a number of modern pieces of farm
equipment manufactured by the DARF Corporation at Greenfield.
(<One of pronged rake—narrow cut). The "S" rake is the latest
model of rakes in which the company specializes. (Cut with man)
John Kirkpatrick, inventor of the "Seed Companion" poses with
his machine, which does an overall job of preparing the soil for
planting. This revolutionary machine is in production by DARF.—
(Photos by J. P. Ricks. Jr.)
project should b-; constructed
before the crop year 1962, ac
cording to Mr. Graham. This
met the approval of the land
owner committee and the spon
soring Albemarle Soil Conser
vation District.
Mr. Graham was high in
praise for the progress made
by the local people and the co
operative spirit shown by them.
He stated that Pollock Swamp
watershed was the best develop
ed of any watershed in the state
to date. The people know what
they want and have shown it by
progressing fast toward their
I goal ... a watershed project.
Several landowners’ meetings
will be held between now and
March, 1961, to plan certain
parts of the watershed program
such as land treatment practices.
Dates of these meetings will
be. announced by Chairman Wal
lace Goodwin, Sr.
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THE CHOWAK HERALD, EDEMTOft, NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY NOVEMBER 24, 1960.
CIVIC CALENDAR;
Continued from Page 1, Section 1
for the Eastern Class 2-A cham
pionship in Greenville Friday
night. November 25, at 8 o'clock,
i Chowan County's Home Dem
‘ onstration Clubs will hold a
- Christmas Festival at the Cho
. wan Community Building Tues
> day night. December 6, at 7:30
- o'clock.
Colton growers in Chowan
: County will vote on 1961 mar
keting quotas Tuesday, Decern
-1 her 13.
Friends of Brown-Carver Li
: brary are requested to meet at
the library Tuesday bight, De
cember 1. at 8 o'clock.
Edenton Lions Club will meet
Monday night at 7 o'clock.
Edenton Jaycees will hold
Iheir annual Thanksgiving eve
dance Wednesday,' November 23,
at the Ed an ton armory from 9|
*0 1 o'clock.
Chowan Rteiian Club wii ob-l
serve ladies' night at the Cho
wan Community Building Mon
day night, November 26. at 7
o'clock.
William H. Coffield. Jr. Post
No. 9280, Veterans of Foreign'
Wars, will meet Tuesday night
at 8 o'clock.
A Thanksgiving service will
be held at' SI. Paul's Episcopal >
Church Thursday morning. No-;
vember 24, at 10:30 o'clock.
Rovember term of Chowan
Superior Court will convene on.
Monday morning, November 28. I
Chowan Tribe of Red Men
will meet Monday night at 7:30!
o'clock.
Edenton firemen are now re-,
ceiving old and discarded toys
which will be repaired and dis
tributed among needy children, j
Edenton Baptist Church will
observe week of prayer Sun
day, November 27. to Friday,
December 2.
Winners Named In
Lions Corn Contest
Continued from Page 1. Section j
Harvey M. Spivey, 87 bushels;
Thomas Peele, son of Charlie
Peele, 75 bushels; Jerry White/
son of Sid White, Sr., 171 bush-1
els; Richard White, son of E. S.:
White, 150.5 bushels; Leon Ev-|
ans, son of Marvin Evans, 145;
bushels; Ray Evans, son of Mil- j
ton Evans, 140 bushels; Robert
Skinner, son of J. C. Skinner.
109 bushels; Bernard Dale, son
of Ralph Dale, 90 bushels, and
Percy Robinson, son of A. E.
Robinson, 86 bushels. The aver
age yield was 118.5 bushels per
acre. I
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Frankly Speaking j
By Frans fb-beris
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This is the second in a two
part series on a well-remember
ed interview with the late W.
, C. Randy, combined with a be
| hind-the-scenes look at some of
the seamier aspects of song pub
| lishing. Some time ago Woody
i Hermai. wrote an article dis
| claiming the fact that Handy
wrote a song called “Careless;
I Love.” Actually, the melody of j
! that song is over half a century 1
. old, having been sung in the
south to guitar and banjo ac
! companiment by illiterate sing
-1 ers whose diction led musical
research students to list “Care
less Love,” as “Kelly’s Love.”
! The song was given its greatest
impetus by a Kentucky tragedy
which furnished the motif for
an impromptu epic containing
approximately 100 stanzas which
Handy himself sung, as a young
man, in Henderson, Kentucky,
but because of the fact that an
important Henderson family was
involved, as wel] as Archie
Brown, the son of one of the
former Governors of Kentucky,
the police interferred. Anyway,
j in 1929, Mr. Handy’s music com-
I pany, Pace and Handy, copy- j
i righteC the melody, publishing,
lit as the chorus to “Loveless
; Love.” Both “Loveless Love,” 1
j and “Careless Love” were ae
i tually published by Handy. To
this day, “Careless Love” is still 1
widely sung. So much for the
history of one particular song.
Now for a few very brief notes
on the history of jazz itself or,
( more specifically, the blues. |
■ Supoosedly originating in New
Orleans, the blues actually was
bom in Memphis, Tennessee.
What is blues? Well, it’s a
lorm of jazz, usually slower, and
with breaks that distinguish it
make it unique. The first piece
of jazz music, with that unique
break in it, was “Memphis
Blues,” written by Handy. Many
other tunes before that paraded
around, as happens even today,
with the word blues in the title
but they don’t have that spe
cific musical break which places
tnem in the category of a tr. •'
blues number. By the way, the
little known reason for the word
blues being in many song titles
is this: they were originally
sung by members of the Con
federate army during the Civil
War. The soldiers from Jack
sonville, Mississippi, would sing
“Jacksonville Blues.” Soldiers
from Columbia, South Carolina
would sing “Columbia Blues.”
And so on. The word blues
was used because that was the
color of their uniforms. It prov
ed, though, to be a very melod
ic word and it fit easily into
many songs and those songs that
followed the Civil War with the
word blues in their titles were
no different from any other
songs of that particular period.
Actually, when jazz first started
getting popular in New Orleans,
many tunes were written with
the word blues in the title and
people referred to them as
“blues”. Around 1912, though,
thi. first true blues tune was
written by Handy, written in
and about Memphis. This was
the first tune that had that
break which distinguishes blues
from other forms of music. In
the last two columns I had a
chance to talk about the only
original art form, jazz, and its
baby brother, the blues. What
little knowledge I have on the
subject comes from years of hap
piness listening to and playing
jazz and from the fond memor
ies I have with the great gentle
man of jazz, the late W. C.
Handy.
Closing thought: The true way
to soften one’s troubles is to
solace those of others.
The bravest thing you can do
when you are not brave is to
profess courage and act accord
ingly. —Corra Harris.
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