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PAGE TWO-A Around Chowan County Farms By C. W. OVERMAN County Peanut Mooting: The annual Peanut Infor mation ami Awards meet ing will be held at the Chowan Community Build in g Tuesday afternoon, Kehiunry 13, at 2 o'clock. Peanut growers, industry people and all others who ore interested in peanuts should mark this date on their calendar and remem ber to attend. County Cotton Mooting: A county-wide cotton meet ing will be held at the Chowan Community Build ing on Tuesday afternoon, February 20, at 1:30. Grow ers and others be sure to remember this. 1967 Annual Extension Report Continued: Canta loupes and watermelons: During the past three years (1964-1966) Extension Spe cialists W. W. Reid and D. V. Phillips worked with us on the problem of canta loupe and watermelon dis eases. As a result five va lieties of cantaloupes and four varieties of watermel ons were found to have good to very good resist ance to the soil-iborne dis eases plaguing varieties be ing grown. The grower committee with the specialists and agent agreed on the fol lowing objectives for 1967: To impress upon growers the importance of good production practices; to get at least five growers to try the new Harper Hy brid cantaloupe variety which has performed best; to continue variety com parisons and chemical soil treatment trials; to try plastic for earliness and weed control. Results were both pleas ing and disappointing. Fif teen growers tried the new Harper variety; however, excessive winds blowing soil damaged most of the fields severely. Growers whose crops survived the weather damage reported very profitable results and were well pleased. These growers say they will use the variety more extensive ly next year. • The iwe of clfear plas» over the row resulted in seven to 10 • days earlier harvest, increased yield and excellent weed con trol. One grower plans to use plastic on an acre in Bashful Type She’s one of the demure types—the kind you have to whistle at twice. —Stringer. Midway Island. Self-Selling It's all right to believe in yourself—but don’t be too easily convinced. —Tribune, Chicago. SEAGRAM’S V.O. IMPORTED CANADIAN WHISKY lUfjl seaJjLn*| ( **U»w^il«* r I k. *-* ***»» - I «?‘»»^ l . I * l> ■« wnit.l’.ji# I NiHjmniwiS* I * . r . *u nw _ 1.. 13.70 jfjtW ,5 »- 1968. Chemical treatment of soil to control disease was not economically success ful. Variety comparisons performed as in the past. Additional new varieties were not successful. In watermelons, our work was confined to va riety comparisons with good production practices. No additional disease re sistant varieties -were found. In the winter vegetable meeting held in February, the all-practice production method for cantaloupes and watermelons was empha sized and each growers given a copy of the guide. Coen: Chowan County had a base allotment of 13,622 acres for corn in 1967. Approximately 2,900 acres of this base were signed into the feed grain program. Yields in 1967 are expected to be a near record high. One variety demonstra tion was conducted this year. Yields on this dem onstration ranged from 144.8 to 181.3 bushels, aver aging 158.8 bushels per acre on the six varieties compared. The all-practice method of production was followed on this demon stration and the farm. Work towards the 1971 goal of 100 bushels per acre, county average, will be continued in 1988 through newsletters, radio and other means to further emphasize the importance of proper fertilization and grass and weed control to high yields. Soil Tasting: Soil testing is very important in de termining lime and fertil izer needs for crops. Each field should be sampled at least every three years. Emphasis in this area was twofold: to influence farm ers to take soil samples and to interpret soil test reports. Soil testing was empha sized in all crop meetings, radio, newspapers, farm management letters and personal contacts. Several fertilizer dealers otopar at<s br* Sendinjf th|m Jh for farmers. Soil t4>t re port interpretation was ex plained in meetings and to of the ‘‘The Soil Test Re port Guide” was given to each fertilizer dealer. Deal ers helped many farmers interpret reports. Based on copies of soil test reports received, dur ing this year, 187 farms had soil tested from 1,212 fields. About 10 soil samples were tested for home garden, lawns and ornamentals. This is some increase over 1966. THE CHOWAN HERALD, RDKNTON, NORTH CAROLINA, fIOMDAf, FEBRUARY 8, 1968. K1 ' 1 u mm kI Trim HImF GR O UND beef SLICED BACON 7",“ tlft rssn m Ac r=ri m ■■c! 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