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IAROUND THE FARMS
:&gglN QIOWAN COUNTY
| By C. w. OVERMAN. Chowan CouiKr i|«nt
Twt Sweet Potato Growers Re
ceive 300 Bushel Awards: Wil
bert M. Hare of Cross Roads
Community and J. D. Peele of
Rocky Hock community were
presented “300 Bushel Club’ cer
tificates at the Yam Growers
meeting in Goldsboro on Febru
ary 15. These yields were pro
duced in “All J Praetice” demon
strations conducted last year.
Here are the practices em
ployed by these growers. Plant
beds were fumigated with
methyl bromide and the fields
were fumigated with DD to con
trol nematodes. Soil was tested
and lime applied according to
soil test report. Mr. Hare used
certified Gold Rush and Mr.
Peele used uncertified Gold
Rush seed. Seed were graded
into two sizes, then treated with
Semasan Bel. Bedded seed were
covered with two inches of soil.
Twelve ounces of 8-8-8 fertilizer
per square yard was raked into
tihe top of the bed and then
watered.
The fields were fertilized with
400 pounds of 6-12-6 fertilizer
per acre in the row. Plants
were set eight to ten inches
apart in 38 inch rows about
May 24. Shallow cultivation was
used, keeping a high row. A
sidedressing of 400 pounds of
8-0-24 per acre was applied be
fore lay-by. Last cultivation was
made before vine turning was
necessary. Mr. Hare broadcast
twenty pounds of nitrogen per
acre about August 1 and again
about September 1. Mr. Peele
did not use additional nitrogen.
Mr. Peele dug his potatoes on
October 14, which was perhaps
too early for maximum yield.
His yield was 294 bushels of U.
S. No. 1 potatoes per acre for
which he received an associate
membership award.
Mr. Hare dug his potatoes on
November 8. His yield was 356
bushels of U. S. No. 1 potatoes
per acre for which he received
a 300 bushel certificate.
Wilbert Hare produced certi
fied Gold Rush seed potatoes
last year and has about 600
bushels for sale. This year he
is growing certified seed of 'he
new Nugget variety also. Mr
Hare should have certified ' QO ' S
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of both the Nugget and Gold
Rush varieties for sale next sea
son.
This year, Mr. Hare is plan
ning to conduct a variety test
demonstration using Gold Rush,
Nugget and Centennial varieties,
all from certified stock. This
demonstration will be open for
visiting growers to observe.
Cotton Acreage for 1981: Ac
cording to the last cotton acre
age report I find the following
information. Thirty-eight coun
ties have released 9,475 acres of
allotment to the State pool for
this year. Twenty other coun
ties have requested 22,328 'acres
of additional allotment for this
year.
Chowan County is one of the
twenty requesting additional
acreage. We need 712 addition
al acres to fill our requests for
this year, as of the present. I
urge any growers who do not
plan to use a part or all of
their acreage this year to release
it at the County ASC Office if
they haven't already done so.
Chowan County Farm Bureau
To Meet: The Chowan County
Farm Bureau will hold its
March membership meeting at
the Center Hill Community
Building on Tuesday night,
March 14, at 7 o’clock, accord
ing to President Woodrow Lowe.
This will be a “dutch” dinner
meeting.
Mr. Alonza “Lon” Edwards
will speak to the group on “Ag
ricultural Legislation.” All
white Farm Bureau members are
urged to attend, but be sure to
notify Secretary David Bateman
in advance so he can have your
name in the pot. If you can’t
attend the dinner, come on for
the meeting at 8 o’clock.
ASKS ROAD IMPROVEMENT
W. B. Shepard on Monday
filed an application with the
County Commissioners request
ing the Long Beach road to be
placed on the state’s secondary
road system for maintenance. A
school bus uses this road which
becomes very treacherous dur
ing periods of bad weather, so
that the request has been sent
*o the State Highway Commis
sion.
. $209,735 Bond
Issue Authorized
Continued from Pago 1. Section 1
school and elementary school.
The school trustees taiso point
ed out that they were informed
by the school planning commis
sion that the state group would
not look favorable to allowihg
any more building on the pres
ent site after the proposed ad
ditions are made.
With the additional class
rooms at the colored school, the
trustees are considering aban
doning the St. John’s School,
Where the building is in e bad
state of repair and comparative
ly few children are enrolled.
These children will, of course,
be enrolled in the Eden ton
school.
County Attorney John Shack
elford was authorized by the
Commissioners to proceed with
the, necessary preliminary legal
matters for holding the election.
While on the subject of schools
the County Commissioners turn
ed their attention to transferring
high school students at Chowan
High School to the Edenton
School. This transfer, they be
lieve, would be in the interest
of economy and at the same time
tend to increase the standing of
the Edenton school in way of
added subjects.
Inglis Fletcher
Will Be Honored
Continued from Page 1, Section 1
check the accuracy of galley
proofs of “Raleigh’s Eden,” her
first book of the Carolina series.
Her interest in writing goes back
to her childhood in Illinois when
she penned poems, short stories
and novels. Life as 'the wife of
the late John G. Fletcher, much
of which was spent in the min
ing camps of the west, developed
a love for the land that emerges
in her novels.
The idea of writing about Co
lonial North Carolina took seed
at a tea in the office of the Co
lonial Secretary in London when
the conversation turned to the
American Colonies and the tax
on tea. At the time of the in
cident she was on her way back
from a daring safari in Africa
from which she drew material
for her first two novels, ‘"Hie
White Leopard” and “Red Jas
mine”.
With days of research over the
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author sought a quiet place to
write 'the second of the series,
“Men of Albemarle.” In 1941
the Fletchers moved into the
Greenfield Fishery, as the house
was called on the Albemarle
Sound, a half mile from the
plantation mansion owned by
Mrs. George Wood. Mrs. Wood
feared it was inadequate for a
distinguished writer.
The Fletchers moved from
California to make their home
in the Albemarle in 1944 and
purchased Bandon Plantation in
Chowan County, not many miles
from the home of her ancestors
in Tyrrell County. Since living
at Bandon she has written ten
books of the Carolina series with
the last due for publication in
the fall. The latest book, which
she titled “Wicked Lady,” is set
during the years at the end of
the Revolution with the back
ground in Edenton, Yorktown
and Charleston. She is current
ly working on a non-fiction
book about Scotland, which she
said is untitled. She has also
signed a contract with the Uni
versity of N. C. Press to write
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a Colonial history of Edenton.
Mrs. Fletcher writes from 9
A. M., until 4 P. M., frequently
in her bedroom at Bandon and
at times retires to the school
house built by Parson Daniel
Earl in 1754.
Bandon, built ca 1790, will be
open to the public for the tour,
as well as Greenfield, Mulberry
Hill, the Cupola House, ca;
1725; The Chowan Courthouse,'
1767; St. Paul’s Episcopal
Church, 1736; the Custom House
on the Courthouse green and the
James Iredell House, 1759; all;
settings in her novels. -
A number of other seventeenth
and eighteenth century houses
will be open for this year’s tour, |
April 14, 15 and 16. An antique
show and waterfront tour are
scheduled. Additional informa
tion write Mrs. R. J. Boyce, gen
eral chairman, 205 West Church
Street.
Residents of Chowan County
are urged to be at the Court
House to pay tribute to Mrs.
Fletcher for her many benefac
tions and services to the com
munity and to participate in ?.!!
■the activities scheduled. It is
also hoped that more local peo
ple will visit the homes during
the Pilgrimage this year.
UNC Band Will Be
In Edenton March 15
Continued-from Page I>—Section 1
Rimsky-Korsakov; The Man I
Love, Gershwin; Variations on, a
Shaker Melody, Copland; Select
ed Quickstep Marches.
Mr. Fred, serving in his fifth
year as director of bands at the
University, is .nationally known
as a composer, conductor, adjudi
cator and clinician and has serv
ed in these capacities in mamy
midwest, eastern and southern
states. He is a member of the
American Bandmasters Associa
tion, College Band Directors Na
tional Association, Phi Mu Alpha
and Pi Kappa Lambda. His
compositions ana arrangements
for band are played nationally
by high school, college and pro
| fessional bands.
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Judges for the county contest
were George Lewis, Peoples
Bank & Trust Co.; H. O. .West,
ASC office manager, and J. D.
, Cos ton, Albemarle Electric Mem
bership Corporation.
L. C. Bunch, chairman of the
supervisors of Albemarle Soil
•Conservation District, was pres
ent for the judging, along with
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Othet entries in the contest,'
aside from the winners, were:
Chowan School: Durwood Bunch,
Ervin Lane, Lee Bass, Susan
Harrell, Don Evans, Allen As
bell, Belinda Perry. Edenton
School: San fra Ange, Rose
Wheeler, Ann Harrell, Lanny
Hollowed, David Copeland, Da
vid Nixon, Sue Powell, Sher
wood Bass, Dianne Toler, Carroll
Lassiter, Judy Mills, Judy Ann
White, Richard Bateman and"
Raymond’ Layton.