THE ZEBULON RECORD
Volume XXVII. Number 28.
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Battery A, Zebulon’s National Guard battery, has two men work
ing full time to keep the hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of
equipment and the countless records and forms in order. Cpl. Ken
neth Hopkins, left, is unit administrator for the field artillery unit,
and Cpl. Elton Price, right, is caretaker. With them is one of the
105-mm howitzers belonging to Battery A.
New Strawberry Ready
For Growers in Carolina
R. W. Cummings, director of the
North Carolina Agricultural Ex
periment Station, and A. H. Mose
man, chief of the Bureau of Plant
Industry, Soils, and Agricultural
Engineering of the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, have an
nounced the release of two new
blueberry varieties and of an ex
ceptionally high-yielding new
strawberry variety.
The new strawberry, Albritton,
tested as N. C. 1369, has produc
ed up to 100 crates more per acre
than Massey, the standard varie
ty grown in eastern North Caro
lina. One cooperating farmer ob
tained a yield as high as 493
crates per acre.
Baptists Plan Vesper
Services Wednesday
Vesper services will be held
Wednesday evening at 7:30 in the
Zebulon Baptist Church. The
Christmas Story will be told with
colored slides and music.
Following the service, the dif
ferent departments will have so
cial hours and then a general ga
thering will be held around the
Christmas tree.
White gifts will be brought to
be distributed to the needy during
the Christmas season.
GARDEN TIME
By Robert Schmidt
The poinsettia has long been a
popular Christmas plant but
probably few people have given
much thought to the fact that it
does come into bloom each year
only at this season. The so-called
blooms are really leafy bracts
which color up a brilliant red. The
true flowers are the small insig
nificant yellowish cups found in
the center of the whole of red
bracts.
The poinsettia is one of a group
of plants known as short day
plants because it will bloom only
in the season of the year with
short day length periods, prefer
ably ten hours or less. That is
why it is always in bloom during
the Christmas season and not dur
ing the suinmei. It could be pre
vented from blooming now by
The ripening season for Albrit
ton is about the same as that for
Massey. The berries average medi
um to large, are strong to vivid
red in color, and are exception
ally glossy. They are quite uni
form in shape and the flavor is
good to excellent.
New Blueberries
The new blue berries are Ango
la, tested as N. C. 246, which is a
very early variety, and Ivanhoe,
tested as BL-32, which is a large
fruited midseason variety. The
plants of both are vigorous and
productive. Angola is highly re
sistant to canker, and Ivanhoe is
much more resistant than Stanley.
100 Plants Each
Neither the Experiment Sta
tion nor the Bureau of Plant In
dustry, Soils, and Agricultural En
gineering has plants of distribu
tion can be obtained from the lo
cal county agent or by writing E.
B. Morrow, Department of Horti
culture, N. C. State College, Ral
eigh. An estimate of the num
ber of Albritton strawberry plants
available indicates it may be ne
cessary to limit each grower to
100 plants. Application forms for
reserving 100 plants or more
if they become available may be
obtained from the local county
agent.
| lengthening the daylight period to
15 hours by means of artificial
lights.
Flower growers have learned
how to bring garden chrysanthe
mums into bloom any month of
the year by using shading cloth
to shorten the days and artificial
lights to lengthen the days. The
chrysanthemum is also a short
day plant.
How can one keep a poinsettia
plant until next season? After its
usefulness is over, place it in the
basement or some dry place
where it will not freeze. Do not
water it, or at least very little,
and let the soil dry up. Next May
bring the plant out, cut the stem
back about two thirds, wash the
old soil off the roots and re-pot
! in new soil. From then on handle
j it like any other pot plant.
Zebulon, N. C., Tuesday, Dec. 18, 1951
Lime Aids Crops,
Extent Is Shown
By New Records
North Carolina crops grow best
where the soil is limed.
According to E. R. Collins, ex
tension agronomist at State Col
lege, lime is often needed to get
the best yields per acre from cot
ton, peanuts, soybeans, Ladino
clover, and many ither crops. Even
tobacco land in many cases needs
lime, the specialist says.
For example, in North Carolina
Experiment Station tests on Nor
folk loamy sand, areas not limed
produced 1,188 pounds of seed
cotton per acre. Areas treated with
half a ton of lime produced 1,-
479 pounds of cotton, and areas
treated with one ton of lime pro
duced 1,607 pounds of seed cot
ton.
On soybeans, an average yield
increase of seven bushels per acre
was obtained in tests over a
three-year period.
On Ladino clover, a yield of
3,115 pounds per acre was ob
:ained when no lime was added.
Out with one ton of lime added the
yield jumped to 5,682 pounds.
Collins says records over a per
od of years indicate that one to
>aoco Lela in 10 in North Caro
lina needs more lime. On peanuts
ind corn, one field in every two
needs liming. And on cotton, soy
beans, Ladino and other pasture,
alfalfa, and sweet potatoes, the
percentage of fields needing lime
is at least two out of every three.
These figures are average for
the whole State. They may or
may not apply to a particular
farm. The only way a farmer can
be sure, says Collins, is to have a
soil test made. And the best time
to do that, he adds, is right pow.
It Was Cold!
Bitter cold weather held the
community in its grip over the
weekend with the mercury drop
ping to 4 degrees above zero Sun
day night in Zebulon.
The frigid weather kept many
homeowners busy thawing frozen
pipes.
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Pesticide Meeting
Planned at State
The fourth annual conference
for dealers, processors, and dis
tributors of pesticide products will
be held at N. C. State College on
January 10-11.
The col rse will cover plant di
seases, insecticides, fungicides,
herbicides, and rodenticides. Lat
est recommendations for dosage,
mixtures, and methods of applica
tion will be given.
Instruction will be given by
Glenn C. Klingman, weed control
scientist for the Experiment Sta
tion; L. C. Whitehead, extension
rodent control specialist; H. R.
Garnss, extension plant pathol
ogy specialist; G. D. Jones, leader
in extension entomology, and oth
er members of the faculty con
cerned. J. C. Ferguson, extension
agricultural engineering special
ist, will give a discussion on care
of equipment tmd machinery.
The conference will be present
ed by the School of Agriculture
and the Extension Division of the
college. A similar school early in
1951 attracted an attendance of
more than 100 representatives
from companies that make, distri
bute, and sell pesticides.
Further information on the
course may be obtained by writ
ing Eugene Starnes, Extension Di
vision, North Carolina State Col
lege, Raleigh.
Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers
Garden Club Has
December Term
On Monday Night
The Zebulon Garden Club had a
delightful Christmas meeting last
Monday night in the home of Mrs.
Melvin Massey, with Mrs. Aaron
Lowery and Mrs. Craven Brown
and Mrs. Massey as hostesses. The
home was decorated throughout in
the Christmas motif.
Mrs. R. H. Herring, program
chairman for the meeting, gave a
history of Christmas Cards, and
showed many interesting and
beautiful ways in which they
could be saved and displayed.
Mrs. Exum Chamblee told legends
of Christmas flowers, and told of
how candles came to be used for
Christmas.
An unusual feature of the eve
ning was the demonstration of
making Christmas corsages from
trees, berries, shrubs which grow
in our immediate vicinity by Miss
Gladys Baker. Everyone was pre
sented a corsage made by her
students in school, and was also
invited to make corsages for her
self with the varieties of mater
ials Miss Baker had brought for
the demonstration.
Carols Are Sung
Christmas carols were sung by
the members and the Christmas
Story from the Bible was read by
Mrs. Ferd Davis.
Mrs. Elwood Perry announced
that forty-four members are now
enrolled in the Garden Club.
Delicious refreshments were
served buffet style in the dining
room. They consisted of punch,
toasted nuts, mints, sandwiches
and frosted cakes decorated in the
motif of Christmas.
Histoi'y of 4-H Work
Is Ready for Members
The first normal history of 4-H
Club work, a unique voluntary
educational program which has
reached an estimated 15,000,000
persons in the last 40 years and
which now enrolls some 2,000,000
teen-age rural boys and girls an
nually, has recently been released
by the National Committee on
Boys and Girls Club Work, Inc.
Written by Franklin M. Reck
with help from a committee of 4-H
leaders, the back is entitled “The
4-H Story.”
According to L. R. Harrill, State
4-H Club leader for the State Col
lege Extension Service, North Car
olina’s delegates to the 1851 Na
tional 4-H Club Congress, held late
last month in Chicago, received
copies of the first printing. It was
released for the first time to cele
brate the 30th anniversary of the
Club Congress.
The author attempts to clarify
the beginnings of 4-H work in the
United States. All parts of the
book are backed by written evi
dence.
“This is an excellent story of
4-H,” commented Harrill, “and it
should soon be available to all
4-H members and leaders.”
The volume carries pictures and
discussion of the work of two
North Carolina 4-H pioneers I.
O. Schaub, who organized Boys’
Corn Clubs beginning in 1909, and
Jane S. McKimmon, who formed
Girls’ Tomato Clubs a short time
later. Reference also is made to
State Leader Harrill, who as
1951 chairman of the national Ex
tension Subcommittee on 4-H Club
Work was one of the six signers
of a scroll read at the dedication
of the National 4-H Club center
near Washington early this year.