Negro Home Demonstration News
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$We wish to thank the com
munities for working so nicely
on the Red Cross Drive. On
very short notice, after learning
the need, leaders organized and
canvassed their respective com
munities. The following was re
ported:
Hudson Grove, $51.00; Warren
Grove-Green Hall, $32.00; Cen
ter Hill, $14.34; Triangle, $6.68;
Paradise Road, $5.50; Ryans;
Grove, $5.00; St. John, $2.75.
Under our work on Foods and
Nutrition Home Demonstration
Club women have set up these
objectives: (1) To have all fam
ilies know and appreciate the
relationship of good health and
an adequate diet. (2) To have
all families seat the 7 Basic
Food Groups daily. This month
our demonstration was on
“Gfreen Beans Dressed Up.” This
vegetable is liked by most fami
lies and can be used often as
one of the five servings of fruits
and vegetables every one needs
ti eat daily. They add color,
flavor and texture to your meal.
To get the most food value,
cook green beans in a small
amount of water for a short pe
riod of time. To do this start
beans in boiling water and use
a tight fitting lid. You will get
one-third more vitamins B (thia
mine) and C (ascorbic acid) than
when you cook them in much
water for a long time. Green
beans are a fair source of vita
min A value in the body. One
cupful will meet one fifth of
your day’s vitamin A needs.
We have a lesson sheet which
gives eight ways to prepare
green snap beans. You may get
one from our office if you wish, i
Farm Tenancy Shows Decline {
Farm tenancy in North Caro
lina decreaied sharply from 1954
to 1959, reaching its lowest level
since 1880. |
A preliminary report from the!
1959 Census of Agriculture!
shows that 31.4 percent of the!
farms in North Carolina were]
operated in 1959 as com
pared with; 36.9 per cent five]
years The national per
centage was 20.5 in 1959.
into actual num
bers, North Carolina had 59,925
tenants in 1(959 as compared with
98,819 in 1&54. The total num
ber of farms in the state de
clined from 267,906 to 190,567
during the period. A change in
the definition of a farm ac
counted for 16,661 of the loss.
Dr. Selz; C. • Mayo, head of
the Department of Rural Soci
ology at North Carolina Stab
College, says that farm tenancy
in North Carolina reached its
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May I remind you that some
r of the factors which contribute
i to' poor nutrition are: irregular
; meals, too few vegetables and
1 fruits, too little milk, too many
■ sweets, food fads and frequent
. snacks.
To supply the body with the
many different nutrients needed
daily, means should include milk
for every one—children, 3 to 4
cups; teenagers, 4 or more cups;
adults, 2 or more cups; two or
more servings from the meat
group; 4 or more servings from
the vegetable-fruit group; and 4
or more servings from the bread
cereal group.
It would be well for families
to conserve all surplus foods in
order to have penty the year j
around and of course when we
produce and conserve foods at!
home, the family saves money.
How To Can Snap Beans I
Wash beans. Trim ends; cut
into linch pieces. I
Raw-Pack—Pack beans tightly
to % inch of top. Add % tea
spoon salt to pints; 1 teaspoon
to quarts. Cover with boiling
water, leaving %-inch space at
top of jar. Process in pressure
canner at 10 pounds (240 deg.F.)
pints 20 minutes; quarts, 25
minutes.
Hot Pack Cover prepared
beans with water and boil 5
minutes. Pack hot beans loose-1
ly to Vi inch of top. Add Vfe I
teaspoon salt to pints; 1 tea-'
spoon to quarts. Cover with
boiling liquid, leaving x k inch at i
top of jar. Process in pressure]
canner at 10 pounds (240 deg-F.)
pints 20 minutes; quarts 25
I minutes.
peak about ,930.
While the percentage of ten
ants has been declining since
then, the decrease in North Car
olina has not been as rapid as
in other Southern • states.
He attributes this slower de
crease to tobacco, which has ]
been called America’s last great'
unmeghanized crop.
Irj 1959,-fcjf example, 18 Tar
Heel counties Still had over half
their farms operated by tenants.
Edgerombe led the. list with 74.1
per cent. Others (listed in order
of tenancy percentage) were
Greene, Wilson, Pitt, Nash, !
Robeson, Hertford, Granville, ’
Scotland, Person, Lenoir, Mar-1
tin, Vance, Halifax, Wayne, Ber
.ie, Hoke and Caswell.
All counties falling in the
>ver 50 per cent category are j
heavy producers of tobacco with |
the exception of Scotland, Ber- i
-ie and Hoke, which produce
either cotton or peanuts in large
I amounts. .
• Watauga had the distinction of
having the lowest percentage of
tenants in 1959—1 per cent as
compared with 8 per cent in
1914.
. Most mountain counties had
] very few tenants. Alexander,
j Alleghany, Avery,- Burke, Cald
well, Macon and Watauga, for
example, had less than 5 per
cent.
Hyde, Jackson, Mitchell and
Orange had more tenants in
1959 than they did in 1954.
Percentage of increase was small
in each of these counties, how
ever.
Dr. Mayo says that where ten
ancy rates are low the tenant
is usually in one of two cate
gories: first, he may be a young
farmer without much capital
working toward farm ownership;
|or secondly, he may be a rela
tive of the landlord beginning
to assume ownership.
“In either case,” Dr. Mayo
added, “his position is much dif
ferent from the traditional to
bacco or cotton sharecropper.”
Thomas Parks Dies
After Short Illness
Thomas Jaryis Parks, 42, of
the Cowpen Neck section died
Wednesday afternoon of last
week at 5:25 o’clock in Chowan
Hospital after an illness of only
two days.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Alice Hassell Parks; a daugh
ter, Loretta Geanne Parks, at
home; a brother, Herman W.
Parks of Newport News; four
sisters, Mrs. Gladys Byrum, Mrs,
Carrie Kinnamon, Mrs. Maggie
Harrell and Mrs. Minnie Roger
son, all of Edenton.
He was a member of the
Macedonia Baptist Church where
funeral services were held Fri
day afternoon at 2:30 o’clock.
The pastor, the Rev. Gordon
Shaw, officiated and burial was
in Beaver Hill Cemetery.
Insurance Agents
Attend Luncheon
Two residents of Edenton are
among the representatives of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.,
scheduled to attend the annual
business meeting and. luncheon
of the company’s Veterans As-
rooch<S\ rats t
I forth« Mike of your home
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THE CHOWAN HERALD. EDENTON. NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. JUNE I, 1961.
A Great Ship is Ours
Let s bring the
U.S.S.
NORTH CAROLINA HOME
sociation at the Shoreham Ho
tel, Washington, D. C„ today
(Thursday). They are Leroy H.
Haskett and Jesse W. White, re
tired. Both are attached to the
company’s Tidewater office,
Norfolk, Va.
Membership in the association
is made up of persons employed
by the company for at least 20
years. Altogether, over 250
members from district offices in
Washington and the State of
Virginia are expected to be
present.
Glen Montgomery, agent in
the Anacostia office, Washing
ton, and president of the local
association, will preside. The
speakers will include F. Court
ney Williams, superintendent of
agencies for the Southeastern
territory. I
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