TIMES-NEWS, Thursday, August 1, 1968
4-H’ers Attend
Camp At Manteo
By EDNA L. SHOULARS
County Reporter
RICH SQUARE - During the
week of July 15-20, 21 4-H’ers
attended camp at Roanoke Island
in Manteo. It was a most enjoy
able, exciting and educational
week, attending classes inhandi
craft, swimming, wildlife, elec
tric, casting, archery, recrea
tion and telephone know-how.
When we arrived, all 4-H*ers
were assigned to groups: Head,
Heart, Hands and Health, with the
groups assigned to different
duties each day, Cynthia Boone
was named girl captain of the
Hands group for the week. Dor
mitory captains were Josephine
Stancell, Edna Shoulars, Cynthia
Boone, Dorothy Ricks andCecelia
Joyner.
We toured the beaches, Bodie
Island’s Lighthouse, Jockey
Ridge, Wright Brothers Me
morial, Fort Raleigh, saw “The
Lost Colony” and a boat show
which was presented by the
wildlife department, Joseph Gor
don Jr, gave the invocation at our
banquet on Friday night and spe
cial music was presented by Rita
and Shelia Hawkins and Cynthia
Boone, They also participated in
the talent show.
Four-H awards were presented
to Dorothy Ricks and Carol Boone
in handicraft, Shelia Hawkins in
swimming and Joseph Gordon Jr.
in casting and archery. The
awards are given in recognition
of cooperation, sportsmanship,
leadership, initiative and
achievement as displayed and
exhibited during the week in
classes. Hoistene Stancell, Ce
celia Joyner and Edna Shoulars
won the honor banner during the
week.
Janet Vaughan and Edna Shoul
ars were the junior leaders at
tending camp along with Mrs.
R. M, Stancell, Galatia 4-H lead
er, and Mrs. Gwendolyn H. Por
ter, associate home economics
extension agent.
Four-H’ers attending were
Janette Vaughan, Josephine
Stancell, Diane Boone, Deborah
Ricks, Cecelia Joyner, Dorothy
Ricks, Angela Jordan, Randy
Thomas, James Kindred, Gloria
Glover, Dottie Lassiter, Horls-
tine St an cell, Cynthia Boone,
Carol Boone, Joseph Gordon jr,,
Edna Shoulars, Shelia Hawkins,
Rida Hawkins, Phyllis Branch,
Carl Bell and Ricky Majette.
Graham Defines Grading
Inspection Differences
Flue-Cured Leaf Crop
Forecast Below 1967
Farm Pond Owners Can
Fight Weeds By 3 Methods
RALEIGH —Owners of the more
than 30,000 farm ponds in North
Carolina have at least three ways
of fighting back when water weeds
begin taking over.
Biological, mechanical and
chemical methods are often
available to help pond owners
keep down the weeds, said Dr. A,
B. Rogerson, extension weed con
trol specialist at North Carolina
State University.
By “biological” control, Rog
erson means “keeping the pond
in balance.” This means keeping
water, plants and fish in a cer
tain proportion to one another,
which is often a difficult job,
especially if the pond is used for
irrigation.
By “mechanical” control,
Rogerson means cleaning out in
and around the pond. Mowing
along the shore, for example, will
help to control weeds. Altering
the slope of the pond, both above
and below the water line, is
sometimes helpful. Lowering the
water level so that weeds can
be exposed to the full sun and
killed is another method of me
chanical control.
Adding fertilizer in the spring
helps stimulate the growth of
plankton (a form of algae), which,
in turn, keeps the sun from reach
ing troublesome weeds. Some
people have even tried dredg
ing the bottom of their pond,
but this is often difficult.
By “chemical” control, Rog
erson means the use of herbi
cides.
Before a person begins using
herbicides in a farm pond, he
should ask himself a number of
questions.
The first question is will the
water be used for irrigation?
If so, the owner should not use
the “phenoxy” chemicals, such
as silvex, 2, 4-D or 2, 4, S-T.
This is especially true where
the irrigation water is to be used
on such sensitive crops as to
bacco and tomatoes. The “phe
noxy” chemicals are okay if the
pond is to be used chiefly for
swimming and fishing.
The next question that the pond
owner must consider is the type
of weeds that are giving him the
problem. Are the weeds floating,
submerged, rooted from the bot
tom or creeping from the sides?
Copper sulphate will take care
of the algae. Broadleaved plants
require contact herbicides, such
as dlquat and aquath^^ or sy^
temlc herbicides, such as 2.4-D.
2, 4, 5-T or silvex.
Brown Recluse Spider
Found In North Carolina
RALEIGH - Even with a violin
shaped spot on his back you don’t
“fiddle around” with the Brown
Recluse Spider. Discovered re
cently in North Carolina, this
brown spider has a bite more
fearful than the black widow.
Dr. David Wray, State Depart
ment of Agriculture entomolo
gist, says a Winston-Salem chil
dren’s museum has reported the
first finding of brown recluse
spiders in North Carolina. Sev
eral spiders, found in the work
room of the NaturalScienceCen-
ter, were apparently carried
there on specimens sent from the
Mississippi Valley, he says.
Dr. Wray ad^ses that the
brown recluse spider has a bite
more serious than the well-known
black widow spider. The brown
recluse is native to the Missis
sippi Valley region of the United
States and usually makes his
home in dimly lit and cluttered
places, the entomologist says,
“The brown recluse spider is
about the size of a bottled drink
cap, and has a mark resembling
a fiddle lying along his head and
back,” Dr. Wray points out. “His
bite when left untreated is sel
dom fatal. But it often makes a
person 111 for several days with
soreness, nausea and fever.
Fig ures Told
RICH SQUARE - “What theOil
Industry Does For Us at Home”
was explained to members of the
Rich Square Rotary Club on Mon
day night by C. W. Lassiter, local
oil jobber.
Lassiter stated that approxi
mately one and one-half million
gallons of heating oil are con
sumed in Rich Square and four
million gallons within the county
annually.
Retail outlets in Rich Square
sell more than one million gal
lons of gasoline annually while
more than nine million gallons
are sold or used countywide, he
noted.
There are 85 retail outlets for
sale of gasoline in the county,
Lassiter told the group, and these
outlets employ a total of 180 per
sons. Oil industries, wholesale
and retail, in RlchSquare employ
a total of 35 people, he added.
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By JAMES A. GRAHAM
North Carolina
Commissioner of Agriculture
RALEIGH - First, let’s distin
guish the difference between
grading and inspection. Grading
activities are often confused with
inspection.
Inspection is essentially the
checking of food products in all
forms, fresh and processed, for
wholesomeness and purity. Grad
ing, although a first cousin to
inspection, is the actual physical
soling or classing of products
according to established stan
dards of quality.
Grades and standards were
established as a result of the
needs for a common language in
trading and pricing of farm prod
ucts by measuring quality. More
recently, however, consumers
have become more conscious of
quality and want their food to be
of reliable quality as well as
wholesome.
Both services are not merely
incidental, a kind of optional ele
ment, in marketing. On the con
trary, they are a key factor in a
decentralized, competitive, na
tionwide marketing and distribu
tion system from the ferm gate
to the consumer’s kitchen.
Certainly, inspection of food
such as meat and poultry for
sanitation and wholesomeness is
directly in the service of con
sumers, Likewise, the grade
stamped on meats and packages
of fi^ts and vegetables, fresh
and processed, is a direct help
to the housewife doing her shop
ping, particularly if she knows
how to recognize it. The grades
are simply guides to quality.
One further essential differ
ence between inspection and
grading is that Inspection is man-
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datory, while grading is general
ly permissive in nature. Grading
and official certification is re
quired only for most state and
federal purchases and marketing
agreements and orders.
My remaining comments will
be limited to the grading services
rendered by the Markets Division
of the N. C. Department of Agri
culture, As stated, the use of
grades and standards, is gen
erally permissive in nature. Any
producer, packer or shipper may
label his product any grade he
desires. However, state and fed
eral laws require that the prod
uct must meet the requirements
of the grade designated.
Our poultry and poultry prod
ucts grading has expanded tre
mendously during recent years.
Why — because of consumer de
mand for imiform quality prod
ucts and the desire of producers
and processors to expand their
market outlets. The results of
this service are outstanding.
North Carolina poultry and egg'
products are now recognized as,
top quality products in all mar-!
kets, whereas a few years ago
they were not looked upon with
fevor. Yes, Mrs. Housewife, you
are able to buy North Carolina
poultry and eggs at your local
store with confidence and at rea
sonable prices. They are not only
wholesome but of imiform and
consistent quality. The grading
service has played a major role
in such progress.
Our meat grading program is
just as meaningful. Only a rela
tively short time ago, we as
sumed that only meats imported
from midwestern states were fit
for our table. Now we are begin
ning to recognize the fact that
North Carolina beef and pork are
just as tender and tasty as any
imported from other states. You
can buy our graded meats with
confidence.
The division’s grain grading
service is of direct importance
to producers and handlers. Grad
ing is conducted on the basis of
official grain standards. The sec
tion samples soybean meal and
analyzes it for protein content.
We also sample flour, corn meal
and many other products for of
ficial analysisl These are indi
rect or latent benefits to con
sumers in their purchases.
Then we conduct a broad grad
ing program for fruits, vege
tables, peanuts, Christmas trees
and berries. This is one of the
oldest services rendered by the
Division of Markets. During the
twenties, the division’s principal
activities were grading fruits
and vegetables.
The North Carolina Depart
ment of Agriculture was one of
the first to establish a grading
program which was designed to
promote and protect the repu
tation of our products through
quality determination at point of
origin. With the many changes
and developments in buying and
selling methods, especially con
sumer packages, fast transpor
tation from farm to market, re
frigeration and more careful
grading the consumer can today
buy just about whatever quality
desired. Grading services are
designed to benefit all parties
from producer to consumer,
A quote from a highly regarded
economist will best bring out the
point, “It is our firm conviction
that standardization and grading
services contribute to the better
functioning of our marketing and
distribution system of food prod
ucts of agriculture. In a broad
sense, they are not selective as to
whom they benefit most. Con
sumers are among those who are
helped directly or Indirectly,”
It may be of some surprise to
many to learn that these grading
services are conducted on a self-
supporting basis. The trade pays
the department a fee for this
grading service. They do it to
promote their products, to insure
consistently uniform quality and
to instill confidence in the brand
or grade they offer. So, Mrs,
Housewife, buy graded products
when you can.
Public Notices
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE
NORTH CAROLINA
NORTHAMPTON COUNTY
Under and by virtue of the power
of sale contained in a certain deed of
trust executed by J. P. Beaman and
wife, Charlotte H. Beaman, to E. B.
Grant, Trustee, dated the ioth day
of November, 1948, and recorded in
Book 357. page 217, In the office of
the Register of Deeds of Northampton
County; and under and by virtue of
the authority vested In the under
signed as substituted trustee by an
instrument of writing dated the 8rd
day of June, 1968, and recorded In
Book 535, page 67. In the office of
the Register of Deeds of Northamp
ton County, default having been
made In the payment of the indebt
edness thereby secured and the said
deed of trust being by the terms
thereof subject to foreclosure, and
the holder of the Indebtedness there-,
by secured having demanded a fore
closure thereof for the purpose of
satisfying said indebtedness, the
undersigned substituted trustee will
offer for sale at public auction to the
highest bidder for cash at the court
house door In Jackson, North Caro
lina, at twelve o’clock noon, on the
5th day of August, 1968
the land conveyed In said deed of
trust, the same lying and being in
Jackson Township, Northampton
County, North Carolina, and more
particularly described as follows:
That certain lot, piece or parcel of
land In the town of Jackson, Jackson
Township, Northampton County,
North Carolina, with all Improve-
RALEIGH - Production of flue-
cured tobacco in North Carolina
is forecast at 725 million pounds.
If this estimate materializes, the
1968 crop would be 11,5 per cent
below the 819 million pounds
produced in 1967.
This is the first forecast for
the season and is based on re
ports from growers as of July 1,
Flue^cured growers expect to
harvest 364,000 acres _ 31,400
acres or 7,9 per cent less than
the 395,400 acres harvested last
year.
The expected North Carolina
average flue-cured yield for all
types combined is 1,992 pounds-
or 79 pounds below the average of
2,071 pounds per acre realized in
1967,
The supply of plants was re
ported as adequate in all areas
this season, and transplanting of
the crop was completed near
average to one week later than
usual.
mcnts thereon, which is bounded on
the North and East by the Bowen-
heirs land; on the South by the Bap
tist Parsonage Lot; and on the West
by the State Highway leading from
Jackson to Seaboard, this being the
home place of J. F. Beaman.
A deposit as required by statute
wlU be required of the successful
bidder.
This Ist day of July, 1968
Joseph J. Fly the
Substituted Trustee
TNc 8-1
WANTED
Extra $1 Million from
Peanut Sales In
Northampton In 1968
PEANUT GROWERS OF NORTHAMPTON COUNTY
NOW IS THE TIME TO:
11) Apply on extra application of LANDPLASTER.
Due to excessive rain during the post three weeks
it is necessary to apply another opplicotion of
plaster (400 to 600 pounds per acre) for maxi
mum yields.
(2) Apply Vs pound of actual Boron on peanuts.
An application of either of the following materi
als will give one-holf pound of Boron:
Dust — 15 pounds of copper sulfur with Boron
per acre.
Spray — 2Vi pounds of 20.5% Solubor per acre.
Apply 600 pounds of londploster with Boron per
acre.
(3) Apply Root Worm control measures now.
14% Diozinon — 15 pounds per acre.
10% Thimet granules — 20 pounds per acre.
10% Niron granules — 20 pounds per acre.
Apply either of these materials over row with
granular applicator or duster. Never fill duster
hopper over one-third full during opplicotion.
With most dusters too much of o gronulor moferi-
ol in 0 hopper will cause cogs to strip.
(4) Apply Leofspot control measures.
‘Note — When using any of the moteriols listed
under copper ammonia complex Moke
sure that all fittings, nozzles, and oil
metals in contact with spray solutions ore
steel, oluminum, or plastic. These materi
als will disintegrate brass fittings.
New Materials
It is my understanding that o limited amount of
Fungi Sperse and Sperlox-SZ will be sold in the oreo
Treatment
Material
R.te
Dust
4% 'Copper 5ulfur'
5% 'Cyprex'
5% 'Polyrom'
18 to 20 lbs. per acre
20 lbs. per acre
25 lbs. per acre
Sprays
Cyprex WP
Polyrom 80 WP
Liquid Coppers:
(o) 'Copoloid'
(b) 'TC-90'
Va lb. per acre
1V^ lbs. per acre
gallon per acre
% gallon per acre
’Copper Ammonia
(o) 'For-Cop 80'
(b) 'Col-Cop 10'
(c) 'Cop TO'
Vi. gallon per acre
Vi gallon per acre
Vz gallon per acre
this season for leaf spot control. When using these
materials moke sure that manufacturers' recommen
dations ore followed.
(5) Apply Terroclor for control of "Bluemold" or
Southern Stem Rot.
Use 35 lbs. per acre of 40% Terroclor dusf;
or
35 lbs. of 40% PCNB:
or
400 lbs. of Terroclor londploster
(6) Apply Nitrogen on yellow (drowned) peanuts.
Apply 100 to 150 pounds of nitrofe of soda on
neonuts when foliage is dry.
CONTACT THE COUNTY AGENTS’
OFFICE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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Harvesting of the crop was
underway in the Border Belt
(Type 13) during the first week
of July and is expected to be
come rather general during the
week July 8-13,
Acreage, yield and production
forecasts for North Carolina, by
types, as compared with 1967
are as follows*
Type 11 - (Middle and Old
Belts); Production 267,900,000
pounds from 141,000 acres with
a yield of 1,900 pounds. The 1967
production was 294,000,000
pounds on 150,000 acres, yield
ing an average of 1,960 pounds.
Type 12 - (Eastern or New
Bright Belt); Production 362,-
850,000 pounds from 177,000
acres wito a yield of 2,050 pounds.
In 1967 a production of 409,-
920,000 pounds was harvested
from 192,000 acres with an aver
age yield of 2,135.
Type 13 - (Border Belt): Pro
duction of 94,300,000 pounds on
46,000 acres yielding 2,050
pounds per acre as against a
1967 crop of 115,077,000 pounds
on 53,400 acres with a yield of
2,155 pounds.
Type 31 (Burley); production
17,940,000 pounds on 7,800 acres
with a yield of 2,300 pounds.
ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE
Having qualified as administrator
of the estate of Fannie J. Hodges,
deceased, late of Northampton Coun
ty, North Carolina, this is to notify
all persons having claims against the
estate of said deceased to exhibit
them to the undersigned at Box 115,
George. N. C. before the
15th day of January, 1969,
or this notice will be pleaded in bar
of their recovery. All persons in
debted to said estate will please make
immediate settlement.
This 12th day of July, 1968.
William E. Dixon
Administrator of the Estate
of Fannie J. Hodges,
Deceased.
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