SOIL CONSERVATION NOTES
H. F. KIZER
, Soil Conservation Service
Farmers in the Lower Cape
Fear Soil Conservation District
abe working together to save and
improve their soil, District Sup
ervisor James Bellamy said to
ddy.
“During the last 12 months 29
more farmers in Brunswick coun
ty began carrying out complete
soil and water conservation pro
grams,” he explained.
Each of these men received
help through the District in mak
ing a plan for the best use and
treatment of each acre. Many of
the practices have already been
put on the land.
Since the organization of the
District in 1944. complete farm
plans have been prepared for 155
fdrms in Brunswick county. Since
that time, according to the last
progress report recently compiled,
approximately one mile of terrac
ed have been constructed on these
farms, 62 thousand feet of drain
age tile laid, and approximately
45 miles of canals and farm drai
nage ditches constructed. Cover
crops have been planted on about
1^200 acres. Over 400 acres of im
proved permanent pastures have
been established mainly on land
not suited to cultivated crops.
Approximately 200 acres of the
above was seeded during the year
1949. In carrying out these and
other soil conservation practices,
farmers have received technical
assistance from the personnel of
the Soil Conservation Service and
other agricultural agencies.
More than 75 Brunswick coun
ty farmers now have their appli
cations in for assistance. Farm
plans will be made for them as
fast as it is possible to do so.
Clyde Galloway, a young far
mer of the Bolivia section, is
starting the new year off right
by making preparations for his
1950 pasture to be seeded this
fall. A heavy growth of broom
straw was cut in the land last
fall and has laid over the winter.
Ground limestone is now being
spread at the rate of two tons
or more per acre, and the land
will be cut again to work the
limestone into the land and to
prepare a seed bed for a crop of
annual lespedeza to be sown in
February. The land will stand in
lespedeza during the summer.
Next fall the fertilizer will be
applied, the land cut again, and
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Strange Drain
Makes Island
Water From Stanberry Bay
Flows Into Two Separate
Rivers, Qualifying The
Surrounded Area As An
Island
Few folks, if anybody, have
ever come to recognize the fact
that Lockwoods Folly township
1 fnay have the largest island in
| the State of North Carolina. The
| dictionary defines an island as a
j tract of land entirely surrounded
or isolated by water.
At a point in the fertile Stan
berry Bay in Lockwoods Folly
the elevation of the surface of
the land is only six inches higher
than it is at eigther end of the
bay. Some years ago to drain the
Stanberry Bay J. M. Roach and
j other enterprising farmers who
owned the land decided to cut
drainage canals completely.
Instead of sloping to any ex
tent, the bottom of the canals
were run almost on a level. After
the canals were dug it was found
that near the center of the bay
water began to run westward
through Ox Pen Swamp branch
and thence into the Shallotte
River.
At the same starting point
water goes east and down through
Stanberry Branch into Lockwoods
Folly River. ,
Mr. Roach stated this week that
if a person stood holding an um
brella over the center of things
while it was raining, water that
ran down one side of the um
brella would flow into the Shal
lotte River and that which ran
down the other would go into
Lockwoods Folly River. A still
more interesting fact is that
there is always water at the
center of the bay, flowing both
ways. This occurs even during dry
weather.
Such things as water flowing
towards two different rivers may
occur elsewhere, usually on some
mountain. But for this to happen
in the middle of a day is dis
tinctly unusual. The water flow
ing from Stanberry Bay into the
Shallotte and Lockwoods Folly
Rivers virtually makes an island
out of several thousand acres of a
thickly populated township. The
two rivers in which the streams
empty both flow into the intra
coastal .waterway.
Andrews Chapel
W.S.C.S. Formed
Church Group Organized
By Pastor And Officers
Elected; First Meeting
Scheduled For February
A Woman’s Society of Chris
tian Service has been organized
at Andrew's Chapel Methodist
church of the Hickman’s Cross
roads community, Shallotte, by
the pastor, Rev. James Carroll.
The election of officers was
completed on January 17th. Offi
cers of the newly organized
society are as follows: President:
Mrs. Leob Hickman; vice-presi
dent: Mrs. Lowell Bennett; sec
retary: Mrs. Amos Walton, sec
rotary CliriKtiarr “sbciaDrelatlbns
and local church activities: Mrs.
Harold Hickman; secretary mis
sionary education and service:
Mrs. Mike Spivey; secretary of
youth work: Mrs. Johnnie Bell
Smith; secretary of spiritual life:
Mrs. Leamon Hickman; secretary
of literature and publication: Mrs.
the pasture seeded.
A complete water and soil con
servation plan for this farm was
recently prepared by Soil Con
servation Service techincians
working with the Lower Cape
Fear Soil Conservation District.
Mendel Norris; secretary of sup
ply work: Mrs. Louis Murden;
secretary of status of women:
Mrs. Fredrick Hickman.
The society will meet each
month on the second Tuesday eve
ning at 7 o'clock. The first re
gular meeting will be held at the
home of Mrs. Lowell Bennett on
February 14th.
County Credit
Union Meeting
Negro Citizens Have Organ
ized In Effort To Promote
Business Practices Among
Membership
The Brunswick County Union
entertained more than three hun
dred farmers and friends at its
first annual membership meeting
at the Piney Grove School at
Bolivia Friday night. Although
the organization is only three
months old, tremendous progress
is being made and enthusiasm
shown in its social, as well as
financial activities.
Highlights of the evening in
cluded a barbecue dinner sponsored
by the social committee, com
munity group sirring, choral
group singing, readings, speeches
by two leading community busi
nessmen, a movie and demon
strations. The group was served
free assorted drinks.
The organization is an out
growth of the community work
of J. A. Francis, local teacher
of vocational agriculture, who has
supervised the consolidation of all
Negro farm organizations in the
county into a single cooperative
undertaking.
The objectives of the organiza
tion are: (1) To promote thrift
among its members by providing
a safe and convenient medium
for the investment of the saving
of its members; (2) To promote
industry, eliminate usury and in
crease the purchasing power of
the members by enabling them to
borrow for productive or provident
purpose at a reasonable cost;
(3) To train members in the
management of their economic re
sources, thus building up in the
minds of farmers a profit con
Practices Open
To All Farmers
PMA Chairman S. L. Pur
vis Points Out Ways In
Which Brunswick County
Farmers Can Profit By
Cooperation With Pro
gram
Farmers of Brunswick county
have an opportunity in 1950 of
making better use of the Agri
cultural Conservation Program
than ever before, says S. L. Pur
vis, chairman of the county PMA
"ommittee.
With allotments on tobacco, cot
ton and peanuts and the need
to shift production on some of
the acreage in these crops, farm
ers have an opportunity to use
the Agricultural Conservation
Program in the seeding of grasses
and Legumes. In this, cooperating
farmers will not only be helping
to bring production into balance,
but they will be building reserves
in the soil for future needs.
The seeding of grass and le
gumes is only a part of the job
of most effective conservation. To
obtain the maximum in stands
and growth, the chairman points
out, most s&ls require lime, phos
phate and potash, and the agricul
tural conservation practices for
the application of these materials
are an important part of the
current conservation effort.
A copy of the 1950 County
Handbook has recently been mail
ed to every farm operator. ACP
assistance for these .practices is
available to all farmers in Bruns
sciousness to replace the outdat-.
ed marginal farming.
All officers, members of the
board of directors, committees
and advisers are resident farm
ers of the community. The organ
ization holds a legal certificate of
cooperation and ample bond
coverage on' its secretary-treasur
er. Membership at present is con
fined to citizens of Brunswick
county. Application for member
ship may be filed with any mem
ber of the board of directors or
member of the supervisory com
mittee.
I wick county, says the chairman,
i With these practices as tools in
the effort to control erosion and
' build soil fertility, farmers of
Brunswick county are in a posi
tion to make greater and more
effective use of the program than
ever before.
To help farmers use the pro
gram to best advantage, elected
! farmer committeemen are avail
1 able in eevry farming community.
The chairman urges all farmers
to use these men in analyzing
conservation problems and in
helping to seelct practices to meet
them.
Urging full use of the program
to take advantage of the current
conservation opportunity, the
chairman says: "Because the con
servation of our soil and water
I resources is of such vital impor
tance to all the people of the
country, the ACP has been pro
| vided as a means of getting the
job done through coperation of
the farmers and the people who
depend on his land for a living.
Farmers cooperating in the ACF
must realize that 15 to 20 city
people are helping them and are
depending on the farmers to pro
tect their heritage in the soil.
The present period of adjustment
offers a real opportunity for far
mers to assure the Nation of
their wholehearted effort to as
sure continued abundant produc
tion.”
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Mrs. Benjamin Hineman, in Stat
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