THE
FARM
AND HOME
FARM NOTES
J. E. McINTIRE
The Seed Judging Team has
been selected and will leave on
Monday, February 7, for Lexing
ton, N. C., to compete in the an
nual contest. The Future Farmers
selected to represent Wakelon
YTHF Chapter are: Harry Lee
Bissette, Talmage Gay, James
Pulley and Eric Perry. The boys
will be accompanied by their Ag
riculture teacher; and Donald
Chamblee will go as an alternate.
The first of a series of ten ev
ening classes was held Monday
night to a small but enthusiastic
group of farmers. Due to the bad
weather there were only ten pres
ent A profitable hour and a half
was spent in discussion of the 1938
Conservation Plan. In future
meetings individual charts will be
worked out, and the contracting
parties will know exactly what the
benefit will amount to. If for any
reason an interested individual is
unable to attend the evening
classes I will be glad to assist in
any way to a better understanding
of the 1938 program. The second
evening meeting will be held on
Monday, Feb. 14, 1938.
Seed Exposition
The North Carolina Crop Im
provement Association will hold its
fourth annual seed exposition and
meeting in Lexington Feb. 8 and
9th.
The farmers’ displays at the
show will include certified and
uncertified seed of high quality.
The students of vocational Ag
riculture and the 4-H Club boys
will compete on the first day in a
crops judging contest.
On the second day of the expo
sition prominent men in the Agri
cultural field will make addresses
to the crowd. The association now
has a membership of approximate
ly 350 members scattered through
out the State. These growers are
producing superior seed and high
producing, disease-resistant char
acteristics.
In an effort to assist the farm
ers in controlling blue mold, which
has caused so much damage to
young tobacco plants in this sec
tion, I thought the following in
formation would prove valuable to
the growers:
Blue mold attacks young tobac
co plants in seed beds and stunts
the growth or kills them. No
complete control has yet been de
• veloped, and there is no treatment,
fbr plants already affected. H6w
e*e‘r,’ > cuprous oxide spray of
. benzol vapor fumigation has prov
en highly effective in protecting
young plants from the mold, j„ ■ 4
To make 100 gallons of the
spray requires one pound of red
copper oxide, one gallon of cotton
seed oil, and two quarts of lethane
spreader. In one container, the
copper oxide should be moistened
with a little of the spreader and
then one or two gallons of water
for each 25 gallons of spray should
be stirred slowly into the moisten
oxide. In another container,
remainder of the lethane
spreader, the cotton seed oil, and
■v '‘from one to two gallons of water
‘ ’’' fdr each 25 gallons required should
he stirred together aad this mix
ture should be passed through the
. nexxle of the regular spray pump
•era bucket pump eo that a milky
white emulsion is produced. With
constant stirring, the first mixture
(copper oxide, spreader and water)
and the remainder of the water re
quired to make 100 gallons should
be added to the emulsion. The
complete spray mixture must be
stirred frequently to prevent sep
aration and used the same day it
is prepared.
The spray should be applied as
a fine mist, wetting upper and
lower surfaces of the leaves thor
oughly, but not drenching them.
It should be applied only when the
plants are dry. Spraying should
begin as soon as the plants are up
and applications should be made
twice weekly until the plants are
set.
Equipment needed for applying
the material includes a sprayer ca
pable of maintaining a pressure of
at least 100 pounds per square
inch, a 3-8 inch spray hose long
enough to reach all parts of the
bed, a our foot spray rod, a nozzle
directed downward, with replace
able discs having an opening of
3-64 inch, a supply of extra for
replacement as they become worn
and the spray becomes too coarse,
and the buckets and a larger ves
sel such as a barrel for mixing.
One hundred gallons of spray
will cover 4000 square yards of
small plants or 1000 square yards
of large plants. Growers having
smaller beds can prepare the spray
material in proportion to their
needs.
Benzol vapor treatment is ef
fective in controlling the mold,
but is considerably more expensive
and troublesome than the spray.
Benzol, which is highly inflam
mable, is placed in shallow pans in
beds tightly framed and covered
with good muslin sheeting. The
treatment is applied every night
and on rainy days. Covers are re
moved an hour after sunrise, if
the weather is dry, in wet weather
the covers remain and more benzol
is placed in the pans. 3to 6 quarts
of benzol, depending on the tight
ness of the covers, is required
nightly for each 100 yards.
TEN YEARS TRIAL IN
FEEDING
An experiment has been begun
at Geneva, New York, sponsored
by the State Agricultural Depart
ment, to test the value of various
commercial feeds for calves as
compared with the plan of adding
minerals and cod-liver oil to the
diet for vitamin benefit. It will
take ten years for the teats to be
Complete, as the calves must be
come mature cows and their rec
ords ’ placed :bp these of cows
which as calves wfcre fed in the
ordioity way. One-fialf the calves
born on the selected farm will be
raised in one way, the rest in tha
sthar.
NEW POTATO
The Minnesota Agricultural Ex
periment Station has developed a
new variety of Irish potato which
it is claimed is superior to the
popular cobbler. The new potato
is named Mesaba, and is said to
have very shallow eyes and a
smooth surface. It is the result of
twelve years of btaaUng, following
the crossing of the parent varie
ties, one of which was a seadHng.
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Birds Are Friends
To Most Farmers
New Bulletin by Department of
Conservation and Development
Tells of Benefits.
Birds are North Carolina farm
er’s most valuable allies in check
ing voracious insect hordes, ac
cording to Ross O. Stevens, of the
zoology department.
In helping birds to find food
and shelter during the winter
farmers and others are helping
themselves, Stevens pointed out.
These winged friends act as a
natural check on insects, and the
extent to which the pests will be
held in low numbers will depend
greatly upon the way that men
care for these insect-destroyers.
More birds will result if grow
ers leave strips of uncut grain
and lespedeza next to good cover,
Stevens said, and plant food patch
es especially for these wild crea
tures. Fruit-bearing shrubs can
be planted and encouraged to
grow naturally in the out-of-way
places with great many forms of
wildlife.
Stevens explained that some of
the most beneficial birds nest in
cavities of trees and in other hol
low structures. Many times they
can be induced to live in a properly
located nest-box and, if erected at
this time of the year, these boxes
will have weathered by next spring
and will be more attractive to
prospective home-maker*;.
A new bulletin entitled “Wildlife
Management in North Carolina”
has just been issued by the Depart
ment of Conservation and Develop
ment.
—Extension Farm News.
Lennie Liles of Route 1, in to
pay his Record subscription Wed
nesday said not much farming is
being done out his way yet. But
he is very busy building a dwelling
house for a share hand on his
farm.
J. S. Pulley, of Route 1, remark
ed Thursday in the Record office
that he hauled wood every day of
that cold weather last week. He
added that the cold delayed farm
ing operations considerably.
| POULTRY INVENTORY
SEEN AS NECESSARY
Inventories, highly important
to the business man, get title at
tention from the average fanner.
In the poultry industry this
glaring failure of bringing facts
and figures up to date is especially
true, says Roy S. Dearstyne, head
of the State College poultry de
partment.
Perhaps the fact that practically
all farms maintain some poultry is
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responsible for this condition, as
in North Carolina the small flock
predominates and is only one cog
in the wheel of diversification.
Another cause may be due to
indifference and lack of under
standing on the part of the owner
as to the potential possibilities of
poultry as a profit-making ven
ture.
A great majority of the State’s
poultrymen keep no books on their
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costs and production. conse
quently, they know little or noth
ing of their business.
Quite often the grower deceives
himself into believing that he can
carry the detail of twelve months
work in his head. However, such
mental prodigies are few and far
between. ' „ ‘
Besides keeping ' records, 'the
wise poultryman pays attrition to
other details closely associated
with success. Such factors include
proper housing facilities, breeding
practices, feeding, and disease pre
vention.
In Polk County, farmers are pre
paring to make one of their heavi
est seedings of lespedeza. Seed are
being purchased co-operatively for
broadcasting over small grain.
M. W. Bunn, of Route 1, in the
Record office one day this week,
said farmers out his way have be
gun cutting stalks and “showing
■ signs that they are getting ready
to go to farming.”