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FARM and HOME
J. E. McLNTIRK
1,885 HOME WATER
SYSTEMS INSTALLED
Nearly 2,000 farm homes in
North Carolina have water systems
today whereas they were in the
‘"bucket snd outdoor pump” bri
gade a year ago. To be exact,
1,885 home water systems were
installed in 78 counties during 1938
reorts Miss Ruth Current, state
home agent of the Extension Ser
vice.
These 1,885 systems ranged from
the simplest, a pitcher pump
bringing running water to the back
porch or kitchen and costing only
115, to the more elaborate systems
piping hot and cold water to the
home, yard, bam and orchard at
a cost of several hundred dollars.
Miss Current says the Pamlico
county extension agents, Sephie
Lee Clark and A. T. Jackson, used
this phase of agricultural engi
neering as a joint program for
men and women in 1938, holding
one "leaders’ school at which a
simple water system was demon
strated. As a result 14 water sys
tems were installed in that one
county and one bathroom was
equipped.
Miss Clark, the Pamlico home a
gent, tells of the following ex
perience in connection with the
farm and home tour conducted
last fall: “One of the water sys
tems was installed as a demonstra
tion and was completed only a
few days before the tour. In check
ing up on the demonstration, I vis
ited the home the day before the
tour. The husband met me at
the door, his face beaming. ‘Miss
Clark, it works but what is wor
rying me is that my wife may
use all the water and there won’t
be none when the folks get here
tomorrow.’ I assured him the
Water would last, and several
months later he told me it was
still holding out and had saved
members of his family thousands
of steps.”
In Cleveland County the wind
mill water supply for the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carpenter
was one of the interesting sights
on that county’s farm and home
tour. Rachel Everett, home agent
in Johnston county, says 24 water
pumps and 30 water systems were
installed in that county in 1938 de
spite a bad financial year.
CAUTION IS ADVISED
WITH ELECTRIC FENCE
Caution should be exercised in
the use of the electric fence, which
is becoming so popular with farm
ers in pasturing livestock, says
David S. Weaver, agricultural en
gineer of the State College Exten
sion Service.
While electric fences have met
with general acceptance because
the cost of the fence and the cost
of operation is materially less than
the standard type of stock fencing,
all electric fencing does not have
a clear slate of safety.
Reports by investigators have
shown several instances where
stock was killed by wiring that was
improperly charged. In some in
stances it was homemade contrap
tions which were rigged up by per
sons Who did not know what de
gree of shock the apparatus was
delivering and did not understand
how much shock was necessary or
safe foi „vestock.
A word of caution to those who
might be contemplating installing
an electric fence would be to se
cure the equipment from those
sources which have had extensive
experience and have the equipment
on a safe basis. The buyer also
should follow throughout the di
rections by the manufacturer for
safely installing the controller.
No person should attempt to in
stall homemade apparatus without
first consulting some person com
petent of giving information as to
safety precautions to be followed.
The proper grounding of the wir
ing system and electrical equip
ment around farm buildings is also
important, as a slight shock from
improperly grounded systems has
been known to kill cattle.
PERMANENT PASTURES
BEING PLANTED NOW
Farmers who realize that perma
nent pastures are the foundation
of economical livestock production
will seed an ample supply of edi
ble and nutritious grasses between
now and March 15, says L. I. Case,
animal husbandman of the State
College Extension Service.
The present increased interest in
growing of livestock in North Car
olina should logically be accom
panied by an increased interest in
improving old pastures and the
seeding of larger acreages to ad
aptable pasture plants.
Pastures should be treated as
crops, and they should be produced
on land that has been built up, pre
pared and fertilized.
The selection of adaptable varie
ties of pasture plants is import
ant. The kinds of grasses a lid le
gumes that a re now thriving un
der similar conditions is a good
indication of what will do best.
A variety of several pasture
plants is better than one or two.
One of the best pastures in East
ern North Carolina is on the farm
of E. E. Bell in Jones County. The
first plant to start growth in this
pasture is hop clover and close be
hind it comes blue grass, white
dutch clover and dallis grass.
Then as the season advances les
pedeza and carpet grass come
along which, together with the
dallis grass, furnish good feed well
up into the fall. When the weather
gets cool, blue grass and white
dutch clover again furnish good
grazing.
Finally, it is better to use 40
pounds of seed per acre than 25 or
30 pounds as is often done.
PLOWING OF TERRACED
FIELDS IS EXPLAINED
An automobile requires oil and
grease to keep it in good working
condition. Likewise, a terraced
field must have consideration at
plowing time to maintain it, says
H. M. Ellis, agricultural engineer
of the State College Extension Ser
vice.
Farmers in many sections of
North Carolina will be breaking
land soon, and unless they use
proper methods of plowing, the
work they have done during the
winter in building terraces is like
ly to prove worthiest. For this
reason assistant farm agents in
most counties of the State are pre
pared to conduct demonstrations
showing how to plow terraced
fields.
These demonstrations may be ar
ranged upon request by groups of
farmers, and the agents will at
tempt to make them as convenient
as possible by holding them at or
near the time the breaking of
ground is started.
In explanation of proper methods
THE ZEBULON RECORD
of plowing (terraced land, Ellis
says: “When breaking land the
terrace should always be broken
first by back-furrowing on the
ridge. The furrows are continued
(throwing the soil toward the
ridge) until the bottom of the flow
line is reached.
“A second furrow is then started
12 to 14 feet above the terrace
channel. Plowing is continued to
ward this back furrow, throwing
the soil uphill out of the channel,
until the channel is again reach
ed. This leaves an unbroken strip,
between terraces which may be
broken as a separate land.
The distance of the back furrow
above the channel should be varied
from year to year to avoid the for
mation of a deep dead furrow mid
way between terraces and also a
ridge just above the flow line.”
LESPEDEZA SEED
When broadcast, at least one
bushel (25 pounds) of lespedeza
seed should be sown to the acre
and the seed covered lightly as
with a weeder. Less seed are re
quired when drilled and the drill
should be set to run very shallow.
If a drill is used, the seed may be
mixed with superphosphate, basic
slag or ground limestone. This
method will give a good stand and
use less than when broadcast.
FAULTY
From the standpoint of nutrition
40 to 60 per cent of family diets
of white employed city workers
appear to be in need of improve
ment and the same is true for
about 60 per cent of the diets of
Negro families, the Federal Bureau
of Home Economics found in a
recent study.
GOING PLACES
American farms are now being
electrified at the rate of 200,000 a
year, a far more rapid acceleration
than was recorded in all the years
prior to the depression. Nearly a
million and a half farm homes are
now using electricity.
DROP
The government index of prices
for farm products dropped two
points during the past month,
falling to 94 per cent of pre-war
in mid-January as compared with
96 on December 15 and with 102
on January 15 a year ago.
POTATO COOPERATIVE
A small cooperative association
has been formed by a group of
sweet potato growers in Nash coun
ty to market their surplus sugar
spuds. Forty growers will take
part and the steering committee is
now at work.
WILD TURKEYS
In the Honolulu Star-Bulletin,
Frank Botelho, Supt. of the terri
torial game farms, suggests that
wild turkeys would be desirable for
Hawaiia’s forests. Several para
graphs reprinted below are from
an article written by Mr. Botelho.
There are no true turkeys found
native anywhere except in America.
The Indians in Mexico tamed the
turkey and as early as 1524 Span
ish explorers made it known to Eu
ropeans. All domestic varieties are
derived from the wild turkey of
Mexico.
There are only two distinct spe
cies of wild turkeys. One is the
North American wild turkey, of
which there are several subspecies.
The other is the Honduras, or
ocellatcd, turkey of Central Ameri
ca and northern South America.
Wild turkeys once were quite
plentiful in many parts of the
country. With the coming of the
white man they were hunted with
such thoroughgoing persistence
that genuinely wild turkeys are
now comparatively rare and can be
found only in the more remote and
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