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Two Soil-Savers Honored with Awards From Goodyear Rubber Company One hundred and thirty-six out standing American “soil-savers,” farmers, ranchers and conserva tionists, will be guests of honor at a series of luncheons in 17 midwest and plains states during Septem ber and October. These contest winners will represent thousands of other grass-roots Americans who have participated in a joint industry-agriculture movement to safeguard the nation’s future. All of the 17 events will be state wide affairs, bringing public recog nition and impressive awards to eight men in each state. Five are members of the governing body of the outstanding soil conservation district in each state, and three are the farmers or ranchers con sidered to have done the best job of putting sod-saving techniques to work in their operations from July 1, 1950 to June 30, 1951. Bronze Placques Each of the 136 winners will be presented with a commemora tive bronze placque at the lunch eons and 72 grand award winners will receive in addition a one week vacation trip to Arizona dur ing December where they will be guests of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, sponsor of these This, That and the Other Mrs. Theo. B. Davis If my flowers could have a theme song, it ought to be “Will you love me all through August as you did in May?” For in Aug ust I am so busy and so tired the poor flowers peer wearily out from the tall crabgrass that almost smothers them, like the neglected things they are. In May I hoed, weeded, and transplanted in a fine frenzy of cultivation. In August the canning has me by both hands and my feet are heavy. Something simply has to go undone. • One more irritation of hot weather is suffered by those who wear spectacles. Perspiration caus es an oily film on frame and lenses and mere rubbing with a soft cloth or tissue will not remove it. The glasses need to be really washed with warm soapsuds. An oculist told me soap water is bet ter than any fancy preparation. • The latest issue of Woman’s Home Companion has two deeply interesting articles. One, “I Am Dying of Cancer,” discusses prob lems that arise when the head of a family discovers he is incurably ill; and tells what he and his wife have done toward solving some of them. The other article, “Journey To gether,” is by the Robert Turneley who wrote “Rise up and Walk,” the story of some of his experi ences as a victim of polio when Obedience When mortals learn to love a right; when they learn that man’s highest happiness, that which has most of heaven in it, is in bless ing others, and self-immolation— they will obey both the old and the new commandment, and re ceive the reward of obedience.— Mary Baker Eddy The Zebirion Record Published Tuesday and Friday of each week at Zebulon, Wake County, North Carolina Entered as second class matter June 26, 1925, at the post office at Zebulon, North Carolina, under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rate: $2.00 a year. soil conservation awards to dram atize the preservation of America’s vital topsoil. Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Wy oming will each be represented by eight grand awards winners who will receive the Arizona trip. The other eight states, whose winners will be honored at luncheons and receive plaques, include Illinois, lowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Mis souri, Ohio and Wisconsin. Winners from these states in past years have been awarded Arizona trips. Winners in the conservation contest are selected by a state judging committee in each state, which reviews the work records of district governing bodies and rates them according to a uniform point ~ystem. Principle factors considered by the judges include organization, education, publicity and accom plishment. Destination of the grand award winners in December, will be the Wigwam guest ranch, on Goodyear Farms, the rubber company’s 17,- 000 acre agricultural research and development enterprise, 18 miles West of Phoenix. over thirty years old, “Journey Together” tells of his going from Warm Springs, Georgia, to Cali fornia. The trip was made in a specially equipped automobile. Fully as remarkable a character as the author is his wife. By all means buy or borrow a Companion and read these stories. • On Saturday afternoon I went down to take some vegetables to the sons’ wives and happened to hit the suppertime of both ba bies. Susan, now eleven months old, was playing on the floor. She crawled to a cabinet door and pull ed it open. Seeing there were vases and small jars on the shelves, I closed the door. She gave an in dignant screech, yanked the door open again, then turned and look ed at me with a triumphant grin. Her mother picked her up and put her in a high chair at the table and offered her a spoonful of strained carrots. She grabbed the spoon. Selma said firmly: “Let go this spoon. We are not going to have any argument this time.” Su san’s grim clutch caused her to add in a low tone: “Not a bit of argu ment. I’ll just get another spoon.” Trying to feed herself, Susan spill ed carrots on the freshly-scrubbed floor which was to have been waxed as soon as the children went to bed. She caught the sauce-dish of carrots in both hands and be gan trying to drink the vegetable. I left and went to see Judy who was hurrying to get Michael’s sup per. She said I could talk to him until she had things ready but he was not tpuch interested. Mike is now three months old and is be ing given pablum and apple sauce. Judy has a system. She takes Mike on her left arm and places his left arm back of her body, holding his left hand in hers. That pinions him, in a fashion, and she spoons food into his mouth like this—pablum, apple-sauce, Mike’s mouth, only she goes so fast it’s pablumapplesauceMike’smouth, over and over. He, with a look of intense concentration, swallows. When I commented on the speed Judy said sometimes she had to go faster than that. No doubt those babies will in time be trained to have good table manners. Meanwhile, I am per fectly satisfied to be their grand mother instead of their mother, or mothers. The Zebulon Record From our Record files of nine years ago this week: K. P. Leonard announced the development of a new variety of peach. Irby Gill staged a mock trial at Rotary with Vance Brown as the defendant. El mo Bunn was promoted to staff sergeant at Maxwell Field. Rev. M. M. Turner was called as pastor at Wakefield. Funeral services were held for Mrs. Rosa Bunn at Hopkins Chap By Robert Schmidt Community, county, and State Fairs will soon attract our atten tion. Many gardeners will enter exhibits of fruits, vegetables and flowers others will not go to the trouble, but will stand around the exhibits and say “I have better turnips, potatoes or cab bages than those, at home.” Haven’t you heard them? Every one should be public spirited and place his best products on exhibit at the near-by fair. Fair Suggestions Here are a few suggestion that may be helpful in preparing your exhibits. Read the fair catalogue over carefully and especially the information about the classes in which you are making entries. If the class calls for five tomatoes, a peck of potatoes, a pound of pe cans, then be sure that you enter that many no more or no less. Unless the class calls for the larg est specimens, do not exhibit the over sized fruits or vegetables exhibit the best market size. In any exhibit the fruits and vege tables should be uniform in size and shape and color, free from all insect damage and disease, free from bad bruises, and true to type. In an apple exhibit the stems must be on each apple. Unless they are muddy or dirty, it is not -Announcing, — Opening of the (Cornelia Smith Specialty Shop 'lAJednesdag, 29 \ 1951 \ featuring, ol S^istinction for oCadieS an J Bat ieS. the intersection of (jannon and near the stop light. Looking Backward ! el. Carl Bunn claimed to have grown Wake County’s tallest to bacco, havesting over a thousand sticks of tobacco from six-tenths of an acre, the stalks being ten feet high. Rom Moser was called to active duty as an aviation cadet. The marriage of Miss Mary Wal lace and Sgt. George Henry Tem ple was solemnized on August 15. Funeral services were held for H. F. Wade, father of H. C. Wade of Garden Time necessary to wash Irish and sweet potatoes in fact sometimes washing shows up the defects more. It is usually necessary to know what variety of fruit or vegetable you are exhibiting. I have seen many entries disquali fied because they were not of the proper variety. For a few vege tables, certain conditions are called for: tomatoes should be ripe, bell peppers green, pimiento peppers red, hot peppers red or yellow according to variety. Root crops About 95 per cent of the home demonstration club women of Clay County already have started fall gardens, according to Mrs. Velma Beam Moore, home agent. Most of the members have planned their gardens according to the needs set forth in a food conservation plan prepared by specialists of the State College Extension Service. About 25 animals were entered in a community dairy cattle show held recently by Negro farmers of the Poteat section of Rockingham County. A cow owned by Ed Sims of Tar Heel Farm Facts Friday, August 24, 1951 Zebulon. Last rites were held for Albert V. Medlin. Cleveland Chamblee lost a to bacco barn by fire. Funeral ser vices were held for Solon Baker. Mr. and Mrs. John Barrow, Jr., en tertained their club at bridge. Sgt. Carl Kemp returned to his station at Dallas, Texas, after being home on furlough. Mrs. Foster D. Finch had charge of the Methodist Mis sionary Society program. such as turnips should have tops removed because the leaves will wilt badly before the first day is over. Os great importance is the care in packing fruits and vegetables for transportation to the fair. Each specimen should be wrapped separately in paper. Many a good exhibit is ruined before it gets to the fair. Next week I will give some sug gestions for preparing flowers for exhibit. near Waynesville has broken the North Carolina milk production record for Holsteins. The animal’s H. I. R. record for 365 days shows production of 21,521 pounds of milk and 679.8 pounds of butter fat. On three-fourths of his cleared land, the average Tar Heel farmer earns less than S3O per acre each year. There were 11.3 million people at work on farms in the United States in June, 1951 as compared with a 12.4 million 1945-49 aver age.
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