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Staff Oorrrapondeat of The Wall
Street Joara&l
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Continued From Thursday's Issue
^ Costing Qcaas
Processed Seeds, Inc., to bow
running tests on different mlx
tnres for coatings to bo wed on
"Umo stem" and created wheat
grass. If these are snoceasfnl, the
Government wJU buy enough pel
leted seed to sow 65,000 acres of
burned-over range in Wyoming
and Idaho this fall. In hiB office
at Midland, Dr. Vogelsang of Pro
cessed Seeds has a box with a
dosen rows of these two "grasses"
several inches high. Fifty seeds
were sown in each row. Only 14
of the bare seeds grew. In the
row with the best pelleted seed,
46 of the 50 spronted.
Do you grow tomatoes in your
garden T With pelleted Mods, yon
won't hare to set out plants. The
digging and water lugging that
go with transplanting can happily
be dispensed with. With coating
it is possible to sow tomatoes two
to three weeks earlier than bare
seed. As a result, pelleted seed
will produce fruit at about the
came time as transplanting do, ac
cording to Processed Seeds.
Pelleted seed offers big poten
tial sayings to commercial toma
to growers. In northern Illinois,
it costs farmers $15 to $20 an
acre to set ont an arce of toma
toes. By drilling or "checkrow
ing" pelleted seed, they should be
able to plant an acre for $2.
Enough plants for an acre ooet
from $12.60 to $18. Five pounds
of seed pellets, which is enough
for an acre, cost $1.50. Labor
costs for setting plants will run
between $1.50 and $4. Putting in
an acre of pelleted seed requires
about 50 cents worth of labor.
Growers have obtained varying
results with pelleted tomato seed.
One of the biggest users of toma
toes, the Campbell Soup Co., has
been experimenting with coated
seeds. Dr. S. G. Younkin, chief of
Campbell's experimental farm at
Riverton, N. J,, termed results
thus far as "highly disappoint
ing." The seeds were slow to em
erge from the ground in one test
and in others extra moisture was
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firm deaUng In cotton seed, Mid
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its performance.
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Through pelleting, seed, can
to s,™. «Ud«l
may make them, sell better, y
introducing a little Pjf1®"* **
the mixture used for the eating,
they can be made any de^re^8
or bast year, Processed Seeds
colored sugar beet J^Uet. red.
white and blue. Ift helped f
who planted three types of beets
keep them separate.
Pelleting otters an opportunity
to do a better Job wttbjhemlcjJ
weed killers. Many of these are
just as deadly to flowers and
vegetables as to the weeds^ «
sprinkled on the ^*n^tb * t
kill both good and bad seeds. Bu
Processed Seeds has discovered
that a coating of active carbon on
the outside of a seed Protects "
from such chemical weed killers
as 2-4-D. The chemical kills the
weed seeds but has lost its potency
by the time the coated seeds em
erge through the ground.
Special chemical mixtures make
the seeds distasteful to crows and
rodents.
Seed processors apply coat
ing by whirling the seeds In a re
volving spherical chamber in
much the same way as candy cov
ered nuts are produced. Proces
sed Seeds, Inc., sticks the ingre
dients an with a water-soluble ad
hesive that frees the seed from
its coating when there's proper
ground moisture for good grow
ing. Filtrol coats seeds with a
specially processed volcanic ash
that is sticky when wet and adds
other ingredients according to
customers' specifications. The pel
lets can be made almost any
size but most are coated until they
I become about as big as a pea.
i What goes in the different
I coatings? Fertilizer and homones
[are included to promote quick
I growth. Fungicides and insecti
cides are added to protect against
diseases and insects; they are
also helpful in keeping the germ
in the seed alive when the weath
er is bad. Processed Seeds is ex
perimenting with other growth
stimulants Including amino acids,
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That feeling of
BELONGING
Hard to beat Isn't It? That foaling of
being accepted—of being a respected
past of yoor community.
A business—like a man—is Judged by
the way it does business. To be accepted
it must, of course, be law-abiding. It must
fill a community need. It must create Jobs
... pay taxes... meet its obligations..,
keep its self respect.
A case in point is the business of sell
ing beer a self-regulated, legal business.
Because it meets all these requirements,
it has come to belong.
And having merited your support and
respect, this business is continually work
ing to retain your confidence.
How?
By cooperating with State and
enforcement agencies
strict control
beer is
Picked To SMk
Senator Hoey's Seat
H. B. LEAVTTT
-ASHEVILiLE—Halsey B. Leav
itt, Aaheville insurance man, will
be the Stat* Republican conven
tion's nominee in the West for
the United States Senate, J. M.
Baley Jr., chairman of the Re
publican State Executive Commit
tee, announced hare yesterday.
Leavitt, Baley said, was the un
snimoos choice of a nominating
committee composed of Republi
cans from all parts of the State.
As a candidate for the west,
Leavitt will oppose the Democrat
ritamin B1 and eren dried animal
blood to draw nitrogen out of the
air. ft>r soils that hare a mineral
deficiency, the firm is trying out
small amounts of boron, manga
nese and the like in its pellets.
How much do pelleted seeds
cost? Burgess sells packets for
backyard gardeners at 20 cents
each, about twice what its bare
seeds bring. There are fewer of
the coated seeds per packet, but
they produce more vegetables.
Processed Seeds, Inc., recently
listed its prices for pelleting in
quantity. The firm will pellet 28
different kinds of vegetable,
flower, grass and tree seeds at
from 13 to IS cepts a pound.
two announced Democratic can
didates.
Also announcing for office yes
terday were A* W. Whitehurst,
Marshall banker, who will seek
the Republican nomination for the
11th Congressional District seat,
and Colonel John A. Wagner of
Asheville, Spanish-American War
veteran, who filed as the party's
nominee for Congress in the 12th
District.
W. C. Henessee of Sylra was
nominated at the recent 12th Dis
trict convention but withdrew
Wednesday.
o—
Enrollment At ,
Appalachian Now
At High Record
Boon^ — The enrollment for
the year at Appalachian State
Teachers college has claimed to
the all-time high of 1869, with
the opening of the spring quar
ter, according to H. R. Bggers,
registrar.
An analysis of the figures
shows that there hare been 630
men enrolled, and 719 women.
The number of graduates for the
year, including those expecting to
graduate at the end of the term
is 124, 86 men and 88 women.
Last summer the college had
the largeet number of students*
prer to register for a rammer
quarter. According: ot ChapeU Wil
son, director of the rammer
schools, this, icmme/ is expected
to reach or to exceed last sum
mer's enrollment. Enrollment in
the graduate school is expected
to be the largest since graduate
work has been offered.
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Meat production under Fed
eral inspection for the weak
ended March 11, totaled 190 mil
lion -V'
NOTICE OF SALE OF
personal Property
. By Virtue of .the power of sale
contained in a certain chattel
mortgage, executed by Paul Bald
win to the undersigned mortga
gee, said mortgage being ghren to
secure a note, and the party hay
ing failed to pay said note, the
same being past due and unpaid,
the undersigned will expose to
publk sale to the highest bidder
for cash in front of the Wiles
Garage in the village of Traphill,
North Carolina, at 12:00 o'clock
noon, on March 28, 1960, the fol
lowing described personal proper
ey, to wit: One Buick Sedan
Coupe, Motor Number 44206634,
Serial Number 14031404, known
as the Atlas Shepherd ear. Terms
ef said sale are cash on the day
of the sale.
This the 7th day of March,
1960.
ARVEL PRUITT,
Mortgagee.
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