TRANSYLVANIA'S
“GARDEN TIME”
ROBERT SCHMIDT
This is ‘‘bug time” as well as
garden time and garden fruits,
vegetables and flowers seem to
have more than their share of pests.
It is not possible to give specific
control information in a short col
umn such as this. but certain prin
ciples of control can be mentioned.
Spray materials and labor are ex
pensive and unless used properly
and intelligently may be a waste
of time and money.
In order to carry on a success
ful spray program you should first
know or determine what pest you
are trying to control. Is it a disease,
is it a chewing insect like a bean
beetle or a sucking insect like an
aphid, and what sort of damage
does it do? Second, you should
know what spray material to use to
control the pest and how to apply
it to be effective. For example, it
would require a fungicide to con
trol plant diseases, and this spray
would have no effect on insects.
Insect sprays would not control
diseases. It is often necessary to
know howr to apply the spray. For
example, the Mexican bean beetle
feeds mostly on the under side of
the bean leaf. Therefore, the spray
must be directed against the under
side of the leaf in order to effec
tively control it. Third, the spray
must be applied at the right time.
This is very important, especially
fer control of plant diseases as well
as certain insects. Fourth, do a
thorough job. Good coverage is
necessary for effective control.
Your county agent can help you
identify the specific pests that arc
giving you trouble and can furnish
you information for controls. Or
you may obtain bulletins from the
N. C. Agricultural Extension Ser
vice, Raleigh, N. C.
Pasture Will Help
Lower Dairy Costs
If Tar Heel dairymen are to com
pete with other sections of the
country, they must lower their milk
production costs and increase their
net income.
This is the opinion of A. C. Kim
rey, dairy specialist for State Col
lege Extension service.
“The greatest single thing that
can be done.” says Kimrey, “is to
provide enough pasture for at least
seven months of profitable grazing
during the year. Also, there must
be an abundance of high-quality le
gume roughage for winter feeding.”
Kimrey asserts that the cheapest
source of nutrients for milk pro
duction is grass, which can be pro
duced anywhere in North Carolina
when the dairyman is willing to
devote good land to pasture build
ing.
“Profitable pasture can no more
be built on poor soil than can a
profitable corn crop be produced
on such soil,” declares the special
ist.
This doesn't necessarily mean
that the most desirable tillage land
must be put in pasture. Instead, on
many farms there is good rolling
land that will wash badly if culti
vated and that might much more
profitably be put into permanent
pasture, together with the adjacent
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cription, is of educational value to every
poultry raiser.
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Sowing Seeds In Summer
Easy With This Technique
Top Loft: Make Deep Drill and Soak Soil Deeply. Top Right: Mix Seed
With Sand and Sow on Damp Soil. Lower Left: Cover Seeds With a Spe
cial Porous Soil. Lower Right: Keep Soil Moist Until Seeds Germinate.
Even experienced amateurs oft
en confess that they have many
failures when sowing seed in hot.
dry, midsummer weather. They
could easily succeed by taking a
few precautions which involve no
more work, but better manage
ment.
To open a shallow drill, drop in
the seeds, cover and let alone until
the seeds sprout, may be sufficient
in the spring, when the weather
is cool, and rains frequent.
But with temperatures in the
nineties, and rains definitely not
dependable, a different technique
is called for. Hot weather will dry
out the top soil to at least two
inches, and seeds sown at this depth
will lie inert un’il a shower comes.
Following the shower, the sun will
bake the soil to a hard crust, so
that the seeds when they germinate
cannot break through.
Here is the way you overcome
these difficulties. First, the drill
in which seed is sown is made
leeper. three inches at least; and
water is run in this trench until
the soil is soaked several inches
down. Then seed is own in the
damp oil, and covered with a spe
cial material. This mnv be com
mercial peat moss, passed through
a sieve, or a mixture of this with
sand, or top so:l or all three to
gether, in equal parts. A porous
covering is needed which will ad
mit air, water and in some cases
light, and will not crust, no mat
ter how hot the sun.
This covering soil is watered and
then covered with shading mate
rial. This may be dried lawn clip
pings, burlap, or almost anything
suitable for a mulch, which will let
in water and air but reduce evap
oration and temperature.
Now sprinkle the row daily with
a fine spray until the seeds ger
minate and the seedlings have
made roots deep enough to reach
the soil moisture. You can grow
most seeds with this protection,
and you should not fail to start the
short-harvest vegetables, such as
beans, beets, carrots, endive, tur
nips, and lettuce, to insure a con
tinuing supply all season on your
table.
Lettuce seed likes cool weather
for germination: but if you sprinkle
‘lie seeds on a damp cloth, and
leave it overnight in the ice box,
then dry and sow, it will come up
quickly.
In early summer, sow seed of
Chinese cabbage, brussels sprouts,
and cauliflower. These are vegeta
bles difficult to grow in the spring,
but easy in the fall. The Chinese
cabbage and cauliflower will not
develop normal heads in hot weath
er, but grow seed stalks instead. In
the fall they have no such tendency,
and the quality is high in the cool,
moist weather. Brussels sprouts is
a fall crop only for the home gar
den, and it can be used for long
after freezing weather begins.
As the season advances, the num
ber of days before freezing weath
er must be considered in selecting
vaiieties to sow. For late sowing
•■so the early varieties of short
harvest vegetables, because they
grow fast and mature quickly.
Question: Is there any easy meth
od to check the moisture content
of grain right on the farm?
Answer: Yes, says John M. Cur
tis, marketing specialist for the
State College Extension Service.
First, place a sample of the grain
in a small glass bottle with some
ammonium chloride. Second, make
the bottle airtight by closing the
opening. Third, shake the bottle 50
times. If the ammonium chloride
becomes damp, the grain is too wet
to store safely.
A more accurate check can be
obtained through the use of a mois
ture tester, but the ammonium
chloride method is quick, easy, and
can be made on the farm.
branch and creek bottoms. If this
is done, plant food washed from
the more level fields will be cap
tured and converted into grass,
and the fertility will be returned to
the fields of the farm through the
medium of the dairy cow, if she is
allowed to graze.
“The great grazing sections of
the country,” says Kimrey, “take
the same dairy blood that we have
and consistently develop from it
larger and better cows that produce
more milk. The difference is not
blood but pasture—not just fenced
land but good soil that has been
properly prepared and seeded to
suitable grasses.”
Question: How should 2, 4-D be
used to control weeds in corn?
Answer: Apply half a pound per
acre of amine 2, 4-D while the
weeds are small. This will control
cockelbur, morning glory, giant
ragweed, common ragweed, lambs
quarter, and pigweed. Cost of the
chemical probably will be less than
$1 an acre.
Some common weeds such as
smartweed can be controlled with
three-fourths to one pound of amine
2, 4-D if the chemical is applied
when the weed is in the two or
three-leaf stae. Established grasses
cannot be controlled with 2, 4-D at
rates which can be used in corn.
Post-emergence treatment (ap
plying chemical to a growing crop)
can be used to control broadleaf
weeds. It should be used before the
com reaches a height of three feet.
Post-emergence applications can be
used best about 10 days after the
corn is laid by. The material should
never be applied into the growing
whorl or tip of the com plant. Noz
zles dropped down between the
rows of com are suggested.
If they make good graVy at your
house, consider yourself fortunate
and compliment the maker this
very evening. _
When you think of prescrip
tions, think of VARNER'S—adv.
Poultry Is On
Increase In U. S.
Americans are now consuming
poultry products at a faster rate
than ever before.
In 1946, for example, the average
American consumed 374 eggs, 25.4
pounds of chickens, and 4.5 pounds
of turkey. The 1952 rates are esti
mated at 409 eggs, 31.2 pounds of
chicken, and 6.0 pounds of turkey.
To meet this increasing demand,
Tar Heel farmers have greatly ex
panded their production of eggs,
turkeys, broilers, and farm chick
ens, says R. S. Dearstyne, head of
North Carolina State college’s poul
try department.
According to Dearstyne, a recent
report by the U. S. Department of
Agriculture’s bureau of agricultural
economics shows that the gross in
come of North Carolina farmers
from poultry hit a record-breaking
$99,383,000 in 1951.
Eggs accounted for $54,237,000
of the total; turkeys, $5,308,000;
broilers, $25,472,000; and farm
chickens, $14,366,000.
These figures include products
consumed at home. Cash farm re
ceipts, totaling $78,475,000, were
divided as follows: eggs, $41,119,
000; turkeys, $5,204,000; broilers,
$25,472,000; and farm chickens, -6,
680.000.
Commercial broiler production
in the Tar Heel state jumped from
28,109„000 birds in 1950 to 32.606,
000 in 1951. Poundage figures for
the two years were 78„705,000 and
91,297,000. The price per pound
was 26.3 cents in 1950 and 27.9
cents in 1951. Gross income from
this source increased by nearly $5,
000,000 during this period.
NOTICE OF SALE
On Saturday, June 21, 1952, at
11:00 o'clock A. M.. at the Court
House Door in Brevard, Transyl
vania County, N. C., I will offer for
sale at public outcry to the highest
bidder for cash the following lands
and premises, situate, lying and
being in the Town of Brevard.
Transylvania County, N. C., to-wit:
Being all of those two certain
tracts of land described in that cer
tain deed from C. Lewis Osborne
and others to Paul P. Smathers,
dated March 24, 1943, and recorded
in Book 81, Page 74, Records of
Deeds for Transylvania County.
That at 12:00 o’clock noon the
undersigned will offer for sale at
public outcry to the highest bidder
for cash the following personal
property, to-wit:
The machinery and equipment,
and tools located in the buildings
on the property described above.
The sale of the said personal
property will be held where the
personal property is located, to
wit, on the lands above described,
known as the Acme Manufacturing
Company, Inc., located at the inter
section of North Broad Street and
French Broad Avenue.
The property hereinabove de
scribed shall be conveyed subject
lo outstanding taxes and the fol
lowing instruments:
(1) Deed in Trust from Paul P.
Smathers and wife, Grace Smathers
to Julius C. Smith, Trustee, for Pi
lot Life Insurance Company, dated
February 6, 1946, and recorded in
Book 34, Page 450, Records of
Deeds in Trust for Transylvania
County, N. C.
(2) Deed in Trust from Paul P.
Smathers and wife, Grace W.
Smathers to Edward H. McMahan,
Trustee for State Trust Company,
dated January 15, 1947. and record
ed in Book 38, Page 237, Records
of Deeds in Trust for Transylvania
County, North Carolina.
(3) Deed in Trust from Acme
Manufacturing Company, Inc., to J.
W. Jackson, Trustee, dated Octo
ber 23, 1950, and recorded in Book
36, Page 404, Records of Deeds in
Trust for Transylvania County,
N. C.
(4) The Machinery and Equip
ment and Tools is subject to a chat
tel mortgage from Paul P. Smath
ers and wife, Grace Smathers, to
Transylvania Trust Company, and
filed for record in the Office of
the Register of Deeds for Transyl
vania County, N. C.
Sales made pursuant to the pow
HOGS SCENE IN FARMER'S DRIVE
NO HOG CALLER is Billie Nelson, but she’s an excellent attention-caller
for pig farmer Henry Krajewski, of Secaucus, N.J., who is a candidate
for President on the “Poor Man’s Party” tjcket. Ready to start on a
campaign tour, Billie pays a visit to the Krajewski farm where she
finds a hog doing its own rooting. (International Exclusive)
er and authority conferred upon j
the undersigned trustee by that
Deed in Trust dated November 9th, ;
1950, and recorded in Deed in ,
Trust, Book 36, Page 407, Records j
of Deeds in Trust for Transylvania j
County, N. C., to which instrument
and record reference is hereby j
■'dc for all the terms and condi
tions thereof, default having been
made in the payment of the indebt
edness thereby secured.
This the 26th day of May, 1952.
J. W. JACKSON.
Trustee.
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