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Carolinas’ Rhododendron Beauties
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Mias Alice Dunlap, Albemarle, N. C.
Thousands of “ohs" ami “ahs” greet
ed the bevy of beautiful southern girls
who regally graced floats honoring their
home states, anil were the center of at
traction in a whirl of smart social af
fairs, parades, pageants and celebrations
during the ninth annual Rhododendron
Festival at Asheville, N. C M June is
to 19. All of the girls were charming,
observers agreed, but none were more
so than the two lovely creatures repre
senting, by gubernatorial appointments,
the states of North and South Carolina.
Roth girls were decidedly among the
most attractive and personable girls who
were Asheville’s honored guests during
the colorful five - day festival wdiich
marks the height of the rhododendron
flowering season in the mountains of
Western North Carolina.
North Carolina’s charming sponsor
was Miss Alice Dunlap of Albemarle,
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. L. V. Dun
lap of that city. She was chosen to
represent her state by virtue of her elec
t tion as May Queen and leading beauty
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THE STATE FARMER SECTION
Miss Florence Dargan, Florence, S. C.
at Women’s College of the University
of North Carolina at (Ireensboro this
year. She attended the Asheville fete
as official representative for her state
through appointment from (iovemor J.
C. 11. Khringhaus.
M iss Florence Barnwell Dargan, of
Florence, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
H. F. Dargan, represented South Caro
lina. She was the May Queen and is
one of the most beautiful girls at Win
throp College, Rock Hill, where she is
a senior this year. Her appointment
came from (lovemor Olin D. Johnson.
Both girls graced floats honoring their
states in the floral parade. Upon their
presentation to the King and Queen of
the annual festival at tne Rhododendron
Ball, each charming girl was costumed
to represent her state flower. Miss Dar
gan was enthusiastically received in yel
low jasmine, as was Miss Dunlap, whose
gown represented the mountain laurel,
characteristic flower of North Carolina.
This year’s Rhododendron Festival
drew a record crowd.
Western North Carolina farmers, near Asheville, complete their haying in
the shadow of stately old Mount Pisgah. (Photo, Klliot Lyman Fisher, Asheville.)
Work Calendar For July ;
1. // hay is short, sow soy beans and
cow peas for legume hay and sorghum
and Sudan grass for grass hays.
2. Run the cultivator in rowed crops
and the mowing machine in the pasture.
There’s no law for weed protection. -
3. Coo/ milk and cream immediately
after milking. This controls bacteria
multiplication and keeps the milk good
to smell and taste.
4. Keep young poultry on clean range
with fresh water and cooling shade; ex
amine the fowls for lice, roosts for mites;
vaccinate pullets when 90 to 120 days
old against chicken pox.
5. Plant the following in the garden:
beets, snap beans, cabbage, collards, corn,
carrots, kale, mustard, tomatoes, ruta
bagas and turnips.
6. Produce pork now for sale in Au
gust or September by keeping the self
feeders filled with suitable feed. If the
animals are hand-fed, see that a well
balanced ration is provided.
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Left, picking fallen
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» olina cotton fieM to
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fefr. Below, young Tar
Heel Farmers of the
■ Madison (N.C.) -chapter
improve their school
' V '% V ‘ grounds. They sowr.i
*' * • * 1 .200 pounds of grass
H seed, distributed 10300
* ’ if’ J '** * pounds of lime, 3,000
j§s> terraced the grounds ,
(Below) Freshman class
members. Franklinton, N. |^gp|T^
C. high school, capomze a
cockerel. .* /
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Above, Vocational Teacher F. W. Beams *<■*%*? **
and some of hie students the Angier
school. HHJjHHJpt
Might, A I. Park, vocational teacher. ’X mt_ \
Cobb Memorial high echool. Ruffm. N. C.. jgA Ifc, «
displays part of his flock of prize Barred
Rocks. SHBP
7. Examine cotton squares at frequent
intervals and start dusting as soon as 10 »
per cent show signs of weevils.
8. At first signs of budworms in to
bacco apply a mixture of two pound
arsenate of lead to 50 pounds of corn
meal. Drop what you can hold between
your thumb and two front fingers into *
the bud of each tobacco plant. ()ne |>eci*
of this mixture is sufficient for an acre v
of tobacco.
9. Provide all livestock with ample
shade, fresh water and salt during the
hot Summer months.
10. Caponize cockerels when the) >
reach about tw’o pounds—they’ll then be A
ready for the market next Spring.
11. Force hens into molt. Hens molt
ing during July will usually hay moi*
Fall and Winter eggs than those molt
ing later. Farly molting may be brought
on by giving no mash, keeping on range,
and feeding grain only.