Rural Development Panel
Hears Talk By Mrs. Clayton
«lrs. Eva Clayton,
assistant secretary for
Community Development
with the North Carolina
Department of Natural
Resources and Commun
ity Development, was the
speaker at the regular
August dinner meeting of
the Warren County Rural
Development Panel, held
at the Warrenton Car
riage House at noon on
last Friday. Hie panel
consists of representa
tives of all department
heads and special inter
est groups.
Mrs. Clayton was pre
sented by L. C. Cooper,
chairman, Agricultural
Extension Service, who
presided over the meet
ing. For many years she
made her home in
Warren County, where
she was active in the Civil
Rights movement.
After expressing her
pleasure in coming home
for an afternoon with
friends and neighbors,
and pledging the support
of the Department of
Natural Resources and
Community Develop
ment, Mrs. Clayton brief
ly reviewed the character
and occupation of the
people of North Carolina
and the work of the
agency with which she
works.
North Carolina is a
mong the most rural
states of the union, with
most of our people living
in small towns and rural
communities, the speak
er said, and pointed out
that in October 1978,
North Carolina was the
first state to enter into a
cooperative agreement
with the Farmers Home
Administration to work
together to alleviate
problems in rural areas,
and Governor Hunt es
tablished the Rural De
velopment Coordinating
Committee to deal wth
rural issues and pro
blems.
In spite of the availabil
ity of state and federal
assistance, Mrs. Clayton
continued, local leader
ship will be required to
ensure that this assist
ance is accessible to the
local community. She
said that the state's
interagency cooperative
efforts are being tried as
demonstration and pilot
programs.
Mrs. Clayton said that
Warren County citizens
continue to suffer from
the lack of job opportuni
ties, low income, decent
health care, poor hous
ing, lack of child care and
a general lack of com
munity facilities and
services.
The ability to attract
and retain the type of
leadership and industries
needed, Mrs. Clayton
pointed out, depend upon
the quality of life in
Warren and other rural
North Carolina counties.
These include decent
housing, a good educa
tional system, recrea
tional facilities, and ade
quate community facili
ties and services.
Mrs. Clayton said she
feels that the Warren
County leadership com
mittee should identify the
ten most important needs
of the county and give
priorities to theae, and
work out some strategies
to rectify the top three or
four most pressing is
sues.
Through the state com
mittee and Dr. Blalock,
chairman, Mrs. Clayton
said, we could take our
lists of priorities to the
Governor's Rural De
velopment Coordinating
Committee for help or
other sources Through
this process, she added,
we have a golden oppor
tunity to at least be
beard.
In closing Mrs. Clayton
MRS. CLAYTON
expressed her confidence
job responsibilities.
that we can make "some
significant inroads into
solving our problems
here in Warren County."
Members of the agency
reviewed the July meet
ing, at which L. C.
Cxjper, chairman and
Jim Huew, secretary of
the panel were elected
with each member giving
a brief summary of their
Copies of the secre
tary's statement on rural
development were distri
buted to members pre
sent.
Among those present,
in addition to Mrs.
Clayton, were Vernon R.
(Pete) Vaughan, Warren
ton town administrator;
Mrs. Inez Miles, N. C.
Senior Citizens Federa
tion of Henderson ; Paul
Keck, Employment Com
mission, Henderson; B.
G. White, mayor, Town of
Warrenton; Thomas E.
Watson, county executive
director, Agricultural
Stabilization and Conser
vation Service; L. C.
Cooper, County Exten
sion chairman; Glenwood
B. Rose, road mainten
ance supervisor ; James
E. (Jim) Duey, district
conservationist, Soil Con
servation Service; Ms.
Andura Harris, associate
director N. C. Senior
Citizens Federation; and
T. T. Clayton, Warrenton
attorney.
Fire Destroys Tobacco
(Continued from page 1)
destroyed at a fire in a
barn belonging to M. C.
Abbott, which was left
standing, at 12:53 p.m.
Tuesday. Eight firemen,
a pumper and a tanker
were sent to the scene.
Twelve men, a pumper
and tanker were
dispatched on Monday at
1:15 a.m. to the farm of
William Henderson on
Macon Route 2, where a
tobacco barn, the
property of John
Henderson, was (Mi fire.
Barn and contents were
destroyed.
On Wednesday, Aug. 6,
at 6:35 p.m. eight
firemen, a pumper and
tanker were dispatched to
the farm of Leon Cheek,
where a barn, the
property of Ella Cheek,
was on fire. Barn and
contents were completely
destroyed.
The fourth barn to be
completely destroyed
with its contents was the
property of Steven Alston
of Route 1, Warrenton.
The alarm was turned in
at 12 o'clock on August 8.
Seven men, a pumper and
a tanker were sent to the
scene.
Ou Monday of this week
at 5:45 o'clock 11 men, a
pumper and tanker were
called to a grass fire on
the Warrenton Henderson
road, only to find that the
ryll was a false alarm.
A frame building, the
home of James Green on
the Churchill road. Route
2, Macon, was completely
destroyed by fire at 7:25
o'clock on August 7. Five
men, and a tanker were
sent to the scene ia
support of the Macon
Company.
On Aug. 8 at 7:10 pjn.
five firemen and a
pumper were sent bade to
the scene of the Steven
Alston barn fire where
they extinguished an oil
barrel fire.
A dumpster fire at 12:40
a.m. on August 9, was
responsible for *hree men
and a pumper being sent
to the scene where the
fire was extinguished.
Six men were placed on
standby at 2:15 o'clock on
August 11, because of a
brush fire near
CentarvUle, but were not
called out
Five firemen, two
woods trucks and a crash
wagon were sent to the
Pett Boyd Fa™ n®*r
Warrenton at 1:46 o'clock
on Thursday of last week,
to a grws, woods and
brush and sawdust pUe
fire. The fire was
extinguished after having
burned approximately 21
to 38 acres. The origin of
the fife is not known.
On the sum 4ay, at
2:30 p.m. Nine men and a
tanker were dispatched to
a woods fire on the Davis
farm between Areola and
the Fishing Creek road.
The woods were ignited
during controlled burning
and were extinguished.
Six firemen and a
tanker were sent to the
scene of a wreck near
Areola at 4:45 on
Thursday when two cars
were involved in a fatal
wreck.
Controlled burning on
the Connell property near
Warrenton was
responsible for seven
men, a pumper and a
woods truck going to the
scene.
A eall to a house fire in
Greenwood Village at
6:45 o'clock on last
Saturday proved to be a
false alarm. Twenty men,
two pumpers, a tanker
and a crash wagon were
sent to the scene.
Drought Aid
(Continued from page 1)
harvested so that an
appraisal can be made.
3. Keep production
separate by farm. This is
necessary in order to
determine eligibility and
amount of payment for
each farm. Do not furnish
false production data.
Warren County was
declared eligible this
week to participate in the
Emergency Feed Pro
gram. This program
provides assistance to
eligible livestock owners
by sharing the cost of
feed for eligible livestock
when such feed must be
purchased in quantities
above normal. The assis
tance is for the preserva
tion and maintenance of
livestock in any area
where drought exists and
the County Committee
determines that an emer
gency exists.
Farmers interested in
this program must have
suffered a loss of at least
40 percent below normal
production in their live
stock feed and pasture.
The amount of assistance
is 50 percent of the cost of
the feed purchased not to
exceed 3 cents per pound
of feed grain equivalent.
Watson stated that
producers who would like
to apply for assistance
under this program
should apply immediate
ly at the ASCS office as
the pounds of assistance
is determined by the
number of days in the
feeding period which
begins on the date of
application.
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Blood pressure checks were part of a recent
program ow chronic disease presented to the
Warrenton Lions Club by members of the Warren
County Health Department Taking part in the checks
are, left to right, J. Howard Daniel, Mrs. Betty Bolton,
Mrs. Pam DraffLn and Phil Daniel. Not shown but
having a part on the program was Mrs. Margaret
Mangum. (Photo by John Boyd Flensing)
Wisconsin Family Learns To Avoid
The Crunch And Become Debt Free
ByC. F. MAULEY
Out in Wisconsin the
Peters family have a
different way of farming,
including the stimulation
of earthworms. It seems
to work, for the family
seems to be both
prosperous and debt-free.
The article is reproduced
from Acres U. S. A. by
special permission, in the
hope that our readers will
enjoy it-Editor.
While many, many
farmers are suffering
under an interest crunch,
eco-farming and dairying
has meant economic
independence and good
nerd health for Roger
Peters and his father,
Albert, Elkhorn,
Wisconsin. Equally
enthused, Roger's son,
Paul, now has become a
partner in a business
which has a good future.
The Peters family
farms thin upland clay
ground in the undulating
hills of southeast
Wisconsin. Some of their
cropping and" feeding
practices make this a
one-of-a-kind operation.
There they maintain
110 head of dairy cattle,
43 of which are in
lactation, on 160 tillage
acres out of a 180 acre
farm.
The Peters farm is free
and clear of any pesticide
or herbicide, free and
clear of salt fertilizer or
anhydrous ammonia, and
best of all free and clear
of debt.
And, this was no case of
coming into a family
inheritance. The Peters
family made it on their
own.
In the 1940s, Albert was
crop share renting the
prairie lands of Illinois,
near Kankakee.
In the late 1940s, Albert
took his family to
southern Wisconsin, a
move which was to set the
stage for current
operations.
Roger says he "always
had a feeling toward eco
farming" but it took some
nerve and studying to
make the switch. Part of
that studying had to do
with books and literature,
along with a study of the
Bible.
Roger will tell you his
dairy herd is profitable
now at a time when there
are lots of reports of farm
distress. He says it is
"because we have
learned to maintain our
own production and keep
other peoples's hands out
of our pockets."
At the same time their
very thin soil on those
Wisconsin hills is pro
tected against erosion.
A very conservative
crop rotation, spreading
of liquid manure,
encouraging angle worm
populations, and some
unorthodox cropping and
dairy rations make the
Peters operations not
only unusual but are in a
large ' measure
responsible for the good
animal health and good
returns they receive.
The rotation is 5 years
of alfalfa followed by 1
year of row crop silage,
then 1 year of oats. Every
7th year calls for the
application of 100 pounds
per acre of Planters II to
increase earthworm
populations.
In order to enhance
earthworm activity, the
Peters have discontinued
the practice of close
cutting of alfalfa in favor
of leaving a 4 inch stubble
as a mulch and ground
shade.
"We found that if we
cut too close the ground
surface dries out and the
angle worms move
down," Roger says.
Peters likes to keep his
earthworms active
regardless of the crop
being grown. He says
neighbors who apply
anh"drous ammonia find
4,hey have few or no
earthworms. Peters says
he has about 30
earthworm' punch holds
per square foot.'"
To get the best possible
response from the use of
manure, Peters applies it
as a liquid and at such
time as he can moldboard
plow it down almost
immediately. He says lots
of the beneficial nitrogen
will be wafted away into
the air otherwise. The
manure is applied to the
alfalfa fields that are to
be plowed under to raise
silage.
Peters' silage crop is
quite unusual, and the
silage produced is fed
along with a grain ration
even more unusual.
Peters plants corn,
soybeans, and sunflowers
in the same row. It is this
mixture from which he
makes his silage.
Getting the most of the
silage mixture requires
selecting varieties of
com, soybeans, and
sunflowers that will be at
optimum growth at
harvest time.
Peters uses 100 day
corn, 110 day sunflowers
and tall, growthy
soybeans. He harvests
silage when leaves are
still on the beans. He
plants in 40 inch rows to
make forage handling
easier.
After Peters gets his
silage crop, the next year
he plants these acres to
oats. This provides him
grain as well as bedding
straw. He can also start
his new seedings of
alfalfa.
We mentioned Peters
unusual grain ration. He
includes in it some of the
oats he raises, but in
large measure grain
screenings and weed
seeds which he buys from
neighbors at 2 cents per
pound make up the
ration.
The ration he feeds his
cows is made up of 1,100
pounds of such material
plus SO pounds of black
strap molasses.
Peters put up a 4,500
bushel bin with • full
drying floor to store his
weed seeds and
screenings. He says the
screenings are dry when
he receives them, so
there is no problem with
keeping them. Ordinary
outside air does the job.
Peters uses custom
grinding services, and
has his weeds and
screenings ground the
finest possible so as to
make certain they do not
pass through cows and
become a source of weed
contamination. The weed
seeds involved are
largely made up of giant
foxtail and buttonweeds.
He uses no herbicide and
yet has no problem with
these weeds even after
manure is spread.
Peters says weed seeds
have about 17% protein
and are a source of
beneficial amino acid.
Before launching into
this admittedly radical
method of feeding, Peters
checked it out with a
farmer near' Appleton
who had a reputation for
feeding weed seeds. It
turned out the Appleton
man had fed weed seeds
for years and had
maintained a 4.7% test on
his dairy cattle. Peters
says he was convinced
and then copied the
system.
Peters not only has no
problems with weeds, but
his farming and cropping
system has meant better
herd health as well.
Nearby farmers using
anhydrous ammonia are
having troubles with
vitamin A deficiencies in
their cows. The result is
abortions and high
veterinary cost to supply
the vitamin A which the
cows must have.
Neither does Peters
have insect problems in
his fields or among his
animals. He has not even
sprayed for flies for
years.
While Peters does not
test their cows in
production they do sell
breeding stock and do
keep track of any records
they make.
For example, the
record of a cow bred by
Peters, Hyalone
Moonlight Fancy 2E-92.
and her picture was
published in the March
25, 1980 Holstein-Friesian
World. She is listed as
having lifetime credits of
99,820 pounds of 4.3%
milk.
Peter sums up his
experience by saying
"healthy soils, health
crops mean healthy
animals."
It goes without saying
that being free and clear
with an operation like his
in today's uncertain
economy has to be an up
beat feeling.
Cool Dad
Fathers are the calm, coot,
self-assured individuals who
ash their wives, as they're be
ing wheeled into the delivery
room, "Are you sure you want
to go through with this?"
Canned Iranian
My grandmother would have
known precisely how to handle
the Iranian situation She
would have frozen some of
their assets and canned the
rest.
New Line Is
Developed Here „
A tobacco breeding lin^
which may contribute to
the development of
commercial varietiea
with resistance to the
disease Potato Virus Y
(PVY) has been
developed in North
Carolina.
The flue-cured
breeding line NC 744 is
being jointly released for
research and breeding
purposes by the
Agricultural Research
Service at North Carolina
State University and the
Science and Education
Administration of the U."
S. Department of
Agriculture.
PVY is a potentially
destructive disease of
tobacco that has occurred
sporadically in North
Carolina and other
producing states since it
was first identified on
tobacco in 1964.
The source of the PVY
reistance in NC 744 is a
resistant line obtained
from Rhodesia. It was
crossed with the multiple
disease resistant variety
Coker86.
NC 744 was tested at the
Oxford and Whiteville
research stations and
later entered in regional
tests where it was tested
in all of the flue-cured
tobacco growing states, j
The breeding program
began in 1975.
The development of this *
line involved the use of a -
new breeding method
known as the haploid
diploid technique which
reduces by about one-half
the time of developing a
line, according to Dr.
James F. Chaplin,
director of the Tobacco
Research Laboratory at
Oxford.
The experimental line,
which possesses many
favorable traits of a
commercial variety, has
tolerance to the mild
strain of PVY and appar
ent immunity to the ^
severe strain of the
disease.
NC 744 is being released -
to plant breeders as a ~
source of resistance inr
breeding commercially^
acceptable PVY resistant*
varieties. Z
Correction Is Noted
In an account of the
proceedings of the
Monday night meeting of
the Warrenton town
board on last week it was
stated that Ms. Jereann
King, promotion director
of Radio Station WVSP,
appeared before the
board to request that
August 26 be designated
as Radio WVSP Day.
Mrs. King did not appear
before the board. Instead
the station's promotion
director, Mb. Georgia
Collins, appeared andn
made the request. Mr*.~
King was on the agenda"
concerning another,
matter but failed to«f
appear.
The Warren Record 2
regrets its confusion of
the two names, and:
apologizes for any
embarrassment it may
have caused Mrs. Collins
and or Radio Station
WVSP.
PROCLAMATION
WVSP DAY
WHEREAS, Public Radio Station WVSP of Warrenton,
North Carolina, has completed four years of
broadcasting; and
WHEREAS, the station has made dedicated efforts to
meet the musical and informational needs of the
residents of Warrenton and the surrounding area; and
WHEREAS, Warrenton as the city of license has
received local and national recognition for being the
location of this regional resource;
NOW BE IT THEREFOR RESOLVED that I, B. G. White,
Mayor of the Town of Warrenton, North Carolina, and
the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Warrenton
do HEREBY DECLARE
August 26,1980, as WVSP Day in Appreciation for
the station's commitment to make public radio a
valued resource, accessible to our community. We
hereby wish thestaltion many more years of service.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the town to be afforded
this 18 day of August, 1980.
b. a. whit., i