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■M - North cnlill farmers Rant ed approximately 130,000 acres of trees under the Conservation Reserve Program. This acreage will be released in 1087 and 1988. these farmers are now faced with a decision as to how to handle this acreage. 'What will become of this land? Will the landowner leave it in trees, or will ho rut the ereage to other uses? . ’Whatever the landowner de cides should be based on real and projected value for the trees, and the real and pro acted values for any alter tative enterprise. W. J. Baker, leader of Exten sion forestry work at Clemson University, hopes that land owners will not decide to clear cut the woodlands unless such a course is economically favor able. Whether to cut or leave pine trees should be based on the condition of the planting and the growth rate of your trees. In most cases, it would pay the 'andowner to wait another five yews, even if he plans to clear cut the acreage. The reasons, are as follows: “A 10 year old stand of pines on average South Carolina land probably has a growth rate of about 0.4 cords of saleable wood per acre. This would yield on a clear-cut basis about four cords valued at $20. “Within five years, the same stand of pines should be show ing a growth rate of one cord per acre annually. The stand should contain a total mer chantable volume of about 15 cords an acre. If the stand were clear-cut five years from now the dollar value of the wood should be about $75 per acre, Baker esti mates. Very good land would pro duce about twice the volume of vood given in the illustrations, When you think of prewrlp Hons, think of VARNER'S, adv _w Troubled by muscular fatigue and nagging tack complaints that rob you of your looks < nd vitality? 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There will be 8 bulls and 130 females ' offered for sale. Animals included will be those of E. G. Langston of Hen dersonville (Walnut Grove Farm). Dairy North Carolina State 4 - H Dairy Cattle Judging Team won the National Contest at the and poor land would produce about half as much. Leaving the trees until their 20th year may be even more desirable. Hie growth rate bf the 20th year should be about 1.5 cords per acre on average land. This is higher tier the rates at ages 10 and 15 years. This means that, under good management, your trees could . conceivably be worth $150 rn acre if clean cut after 20 years. The grow th rate'is the thing to watch. If in doubt about whether tc leave or cut your trees, get the advice of a forester. North American Dairy Show at Columbus, Ohio, Monday, Octo ber 16. This is the first time that a North Carolina team has won the National Contest. Thir ty-four state teams competed. The North Carolina 4 - H’ers were first in judging Holsteins and Jerseys, and second in Ayr s hires. Blueberries Blueberries are becoming popular in North Carolina. Plan now to plant a few this fall or winter. Blueberry bushes are attractive and may be used as ornamentals as well as for fruit. They make good borders, back grounds and screens. They may, of course, be planted in the garden purely for fruit. They will tolerate some shade, but do best in full sunlight. Recommended varieties (In ripening order) — Highbush— Western North Carolina; Wey mouth — Earliblue — Coil! is, Blueray — Bluecrop — Berk ley — Herbert — Jersey. Plant any time during t ie dormant season. Well dev slop ed 2-year old plants are best. Make a hole 3 feet across aid at least 12 inches deep. Fill the hole to receive the plants with a mixture of 1/3 peat, 1/3 sand, and 1/3 toosc i! Babam Grove Club To Meet November 24th By J. B. BROWN BALSAM GROVE—The Com munity club will meet Novem ber 24th at 7:30. This will be a very important meeting and Ml interested persons are asked to come. Rev. Lames Singleton preach ed Sunday at Shoal Creek. Preaching next Sunday will be held at Uncle Albert Owens’ at 2:00 o’clock. Mrs. Donald McCall had a surprise birthday. All her chil dren came to see her. Tom Ashe was visited by three of his children. Charles, from Camp Lejeune, and George and Surran from Pick ens, S. C. Mr. and Mrs. Kriten Galloway of Rosman visited Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Brown. Also Reverend G. M. Parker and his wife, Flor ence, Mr. and Mrs. Flem Ashe and his daughter, Lela, Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Brown and son of Brevard, Mrs. Edith Chapman and girl of Easley, S. C., Mr. and Mrs. Chester Brown and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Wood of Pisg.ah Forest Charlie Norirs had as visi tors Mr. and Mrs. Roy Green and Mrs. Crick Lamance, all of Brevard. With this dry windy weather, do as Smokey the Bear says: prevent forest fires. Upper County Personals Reported By HESTER HANSEN SAPPHIRE - WHITEWATER —Sapphire has enjoyed nearly a week of exceptionally warm weather making Fall chores of winterizing easier and even en joyable. Mrs. Ruth Wilhelm and Mrs. Leila Summers of Sarasota, Florida* spent several days at 'the Wilhelm cottage on Weasel Way last week. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Whitted are visiting with their daugh ter’s family, the Otis McCalls, in Candler. Walter McNeely attended the Christmas briefing for postmas ters in Asheville last Tuesday. Ensign Eugene Hansen writes of their going to Borneo earlier this month to escape the rav ages of typhoon Emma Friends of Gene Nicholson of Rosman celebrated his birthday with a surprise party at the Moose Lodge in Brevard Fri day evening. James Brewer and son, Wal lace, visited Mrs. Dora Monteith and Mrs. Mary Kinsey at Selica. Mrs. Kinsey, who is 97 years young, is mostly confined to bed and requires constant at tention. Singing At Crab Creek On Sunday The Crab Creek Baptist church will hold its regular singing on Sunday, November 19th beginning at 7:90 p.m. Lawrence Barnwell, conven tion president, invites all sing ers and listeners to attend. Decayed sawdust or woodsmold may be used instead of peat To avoid trouble later, have your soil tested before plant ing. A pH of 4.0—5.0 is best Never plant blueberry plants deeper than they were planted in the nursery. After setting, mulch the plants wi* « in ches of rotted sawdust. Main tain a mulch around these plants with sawdust Pine nee dles, or peat for the Bfe of the planting by adding about 2 in ches of mulch each year. Hand pull weeds and no cultivation should be necesw. From ALMAR FARM In Transylvania BY-CtARANCE CARPENTER m This week I should like to digress, as I shall do quite often, from the happenings at ALMAtt Pam For It is November, the end of the Harvest Season, the month of Thanksgiving; the time for joyful contentment with a harvest safely in shel ter. It is the time of the year when the leaves are on the ground and chill winds drain down from the Smokies with a grim reminder of cold and snowy mountain tops to come. It is the time of white frost on the rooftops in the morn ings; a time when the dark backs of the mountains, late ly stripped of their coats of many colors, are seen dimly through the silvery base from which the Great Smokies get their names. It is the time when, as my Dad used to say, “the Good Lord puts ice in the poor man’s water.” He was, of course, referring to the days before a refrigerator and deep freezer were part of every farm household. He was thinking of the days when most men were farmers, when there weren’t so many other jobs at which a man could make a living. And in those days, I think, November and Thanksgiving had more mean ing. November was the tradi tional end of labor, the time when a man could look forward to a season of rest; or, if not rest, at least a lightening of his heavy labor of the rest of the year. It was the time when a man could look out over his fields with the satisfaction of his long season of tilling the soil finished: at the rows of wheat stubble and corn "stobs”; at the corn in the shocks and hay in the stacks; at the dead weeds and dying grass; at the soil at rest, awaiting its next year’s labors. For me it is easy to roll New Fiction Books Added To Library A Traveler in Time by At leon Uttley (1964). Penelope, e modern English girl, trans cends time and goes back to the days of Queen Elizabeth L She finds the old tragedy of Anthony Babington and bis plot to save Mary, Queen of Scots, being re-eaActed. The Cardiff Giants by James Among the many new books added to the BHS library this fall are the following novels: Hannah Herself by Ruth Tran ches (1964). In the early 1830’s sixteen - year - old Hannah Fairchild made the strenuous journey from Connecticut to Illinois. She found the estab lishment of their academy for boys was viewed with distrust and even open hostility. Event ually she grew to accept the restraints and hardships of frontier life. The Animal Family by Ran dall Jarrell (1965). After a mermaid comes to share his island cottage, the hunter brings home a Bear and a Lynn to live with them. Then one day the Bear and Lynn find a Boy in a rowboat on the beach and bring him home. The Gammage Cup by Karen Kendall (1959). This novel is a fantasy about the Minnipins, a race of small people who live isolated from their enemies, the Hairless Ones. When the Minnipins are threatened with destruction, they are saved by the efforts of a few village characters who show strength in the face of danger. No Head For Soccer by Phil ip Harkins (1964). A quarter back in the high school foot ball team back home in Cali fornia, Tony Hansom, played soccer poorly when he came to a Swiss boarding school in Geneva. The coach was anti American, and the players wete snobs — with the exception of Aliy a friendly Arab. He tackl ed his problem squarely with some unpleasant repercussions. At last, however, some clear cut thing brought Tony to grip with his difficulties. Edge of Manhood by Thomas Fall (1965). With his family, the young Shawnee boy, See-a way, is forced from his home to live in Indian territory. He tries to understand this new world but his resentment of the white man and his ways grows stronger each day. South Town by Lorens B. Graham (1988). Sixteen-year old David Williams, who had ambitions of getting a college education and becoming a doc tor, lived quietly with his re spectable hard - working Negro family on a small farm near South Town. When his father refused to accept less than the wages paid white mechan ics, some of South Town's white citizens decided it was time to teach the colored folks their place. What happened as a re sult of the mob violence is told. I, Juan do Pareja by Eliza beth Borfen de Ttovino (1988). When the great Valazques was back the carpet of years, to nights such as these, when the pioneer farmer stood be fore his cabin and watched that great orange lantern of a moon lift its fury of color above the world’s edge. The cold wind was whispering its promise of hardship to come, but he had little to fear. The corn was in the crib, the wheat in the barn. The dug out cellar was filled to burst ing with cans of beans, toma toes, kraut, pickles, Jellies, jams; piles of pumpkins, box es of apples, bags of walnuts and hickory nuts. A frosty mound in his garden was the resting-place of bushels of Irish potatoes, another of “sweet” potatoes, another of cabbages, buried with the roots turned upwards. Fat tening hogs were in the pen, shortly to provide a winter’s supply of hams and middlin’ and fatback; inside the cabin, a “Hog” rifle hung above the door and a “Poke Stalk” shot gun leaned in one corner, in suring a supply of fresh meat when the snow would fall. Behind the rough cabin were tall ricks of stovewood and stacks of logs, fuel to keep a roaring fire in the mud-daub ed fireplace when the nights were cold and silent and the white fist of winter lay heavy on the land. As years are counted, this was not so long ago; there are probably those reading this column who know those days in the memory of their youth. I envy them this memory. They have a priceless personal heri tage of days now gone. I’m sure they would not want to go back; those were hard times too, but by now, the darker memories of youth have been brightened by time. And time, no doubt, has enchanced their memories of those old fashion eeP'TfdVembers and Thanksgiv ings even as it has less long ago memories for me. Thompson Is Now Visiting Local Jehovah's' Witnesses This week will be one of stimulating activity for the Brevard congregation of Jeho vah’s Witnesses due to their visit from their traveling cir cuit minister, D. B. Thomp son. Donald A. Jones, presiding minister of the local congrega tion explained: "Mr. Thompson will principal ly be giving attention to the spiritual needs of the brothers of the congregation, by working with them in the field ministry and by checking the congrega tion organization.” Since this week will be one of spiritual feasting, all the regular meetings will be held and some special ones too. Tuesday night the programs will be the Theocratic Ministry School at 7:30-8:15 and Minis terial Activities meeting at 8:15 9:00, followed by forty - five minutes of upbuilding counsel and Scriptural information from Mr. Thompson for the entire congregation. Thursday night is set aside for the congregation study of "Life Everlasting in Freedom of the Sons of God” at 8:00 p.m. Saturday light another spec ial meeting will be held at 8:00 p.m. in which Mr. Thompson When in need of job printing, call The Transylvania Times. M. B. THOMPSON discusses with everyone pres ent the spiritual condition of the congregation, their ministry and what he recommends for improvement. Part of the pro gram is devoted to a stimulat ing review of new things learn ed through the Watch tower since his last visit The Sunday morning program will begin at 10:00 a.m. when Mr. Thompson will deliver his key address on “Science, the Bible and Your Faith.” At 11:00 a.m. the Watchtower study will be on the topic “Let God Arise, Let His Enemies Be Scattered.” All interested persons are wel come. 1 SHIRT NEWS! U/G&Bda&Hk Dura-Wite"* 'No-Iron’shirts of 650/o Kodel® & 350/o cotton stay Permanently-Pressed, Permanently-White for the life of the shirtl Manhattan* “Dura-Wite” permanently pressed shirts insure fashion without fuss! No more ironing ever! Wash, tumble or drip dry and they’re ready to wear! They come out wrinkle-free, super smooth and newly white every timel And the famed Mantrlm* tailoring combined wi#i the luxury blend of Kodei* and cot ton makes “Dura-Wltef a must for every man’s wardrobel mm ...
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