Seed Treatment Is
Urged On Farmers
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Seed decay, one of the chief fac
tors of poor stands, is usually caused
by fungi and bacteria, wb’ch ere
...carried on the seed or live in the soil.
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frequently cause the seed to rot in
the ground, especially under adverse
weather conditions. The result is
ragged, poor stands. Poor stands
mean poor yields, waste of seed, fer
tiliser and labor.
Treating seed before planting is
usually not expensive. It prevents
much of the loss from rotting be
cause the treated seed is protected
from the rot organism. The seed is
able to germinate normally and pro
duce a healthy vigorous plant that
will produce more pounds per acre
and more uniform in the row.
Peanuts: Treat with Arasan. The
cost will range from 14 to 28 cents
per 100 lbs. of seed. Tests in Virginia
and Georgia by Du Pont showed at
least one third more plants from
treated than untreated seed.
Sweet Potatoes: Treat with Seme- '
san Bel or Mercurie Chloride. Seme
san Bel will cost from 1.6 cents to 5
cents per bushel. Protects the plant
from stem rot, black rot, scurf or
rust. Use one pound Semesan Bel to
7 1-2 gallons of water, which is en
ough to treat 60 to 80 bushels. Let
the potatoes stay in the solution for
one minute.
Mercuric Chloride Treatment: One 1
ounce to 8 gallons of water from 90
to 100 degrees F. Leave the potatoes
in the solution for 15 minutes. Cotton
seed treat with Ceresan.
All seed to be treated should be
well cured and dry. It is desirable
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Peanuts Mean Money For Farmers
mere Mould bo a strong do*
■land (or the 1046 peanut harvest.
Growers should get on the whole
better prices than last rear.**
These are conclusions set forth by
Stephen Paco, Representative in
Congrej*- (row &<* Srd District of
'■*** 5s«...3ucta* area, i
In a recent statement about the
1946 peanut program.
“There will be a support price
of 90 per cent of parity. The exact
amount of the support price will
not be announced until July or
August as it will be based on 90
per cent of the parity price on
July 1st. It is hoped that parity
prices will be a little higher then.
The support will be maintained
by both a loan and a purchase
program, that is, if the buyers
should not offer as much or more
than the support price the pro
ducer can get a loan equal to the
j support price, like on cottcyi, or
1 the government will buy them at
the support price.
“Peanuts are short now. All the
buyers are begging for them. This
means there will be no surplus or
carry-over and there should be a
strong demand for peanuts when
we start harvesting this fall.
Therefore, the producers should
realize near ceiling prices and on
the whole should get better prices
than last year when peanuts
brought the farmers the biggest
price per ton on record."
Figures of the U. S. Department
of Agriculture show that Ameri
cans are eating more and more
peanut butter, salted peanuts and
peanut candies and that peanut
production has almost doubled In
, the last ten years. In 1943 2,110,
State College Hints
To the Homemaker
Stooping is the cause of much
washday fatigue yet most of it is un
necessary, say home management
specialists.
The family laundress often stoops
to sort clothes on the floor and again
to pick them uo from the floor. They
also stoop over low tubs, washing
machines and clothes baskets. Stoop
ing is the most tiring part of the
laundry job. Equipment should be
elevated to save stooping.
All the work of sorting, removing
stains and starching can be done at
a large, high table that allows the
worker to stand erect without strain.
If there is no table that can be used
for this purpose, one can easily be
provided by placing boards across
trestles or sawhorse, or by building
a wide shelf.
Washing or rinsing can be done
with little stooping if washing ma
chines, tubs and baskets are raised to
a comfortable height, and the work
er uses a sturdy stick to lift clothes
out of suds or hot rinse water instead
of bending over and lifting them out
by hand. Stooping when hanging
clothes on the line is not necessary
if the clothes basket is placed at
waist level on a wheeled cart. Direc
tions for making the wheel cart may
be had from Pauline Gordon, Exten
sion Economist in Home Manage
ment, State College, Raleigh, N. C.
I Keep bread cool and well covered
! to prevent mold and drying out. The
, refrigerator is the best place to store
I well-wrapped loaf if there is room.
I Otherwise keep it in a ventilated
bread box in a cool place say food
specialists.
The bread box needs washing,
rinsing with boiling water, and
thorough drying and airing, in the
sun if possibly, at regular intervals.
to have the seed cleaned to remove
all dirt, trash, faulty seed and weed
seed. After the seed is treated they
should be planted as early as possi
ble. Treat only the amount of seed
that you expect to plant the same
day.
STEPHEN PACK,
GtoorgU Cniranu, wkt oom
Mg demand and better thaa ever
price* for l»4d peaamt crop.
^5,000 pounds were picked and
hreshed as compared with 1,151,
95,000 pounds in 1035. During
he past few months more thaa
ine-half the No. 1 grade nuts, ap
iroximately 55%, hare been used
or peanut butter. Of the remain- I
ler about 33% ware salted and
9% went into candies. Up to 1043
arm production kept pace with
he demands of the manufactur
ers of them three products but
ince thaa the demand has cob- j
lnually exceeded what the farms I
tave been able to supply, owing j
o the ever increasing popularity
if peanuts and peanut products.
Secret Weapon Of
War Aids Deaf Now
For years, great engineering and
?search laboratories have been
•eking to reduce the size and weight
f a hearing instrument to the mini
ium, while raising the hearing pow- I
■ to the maximum. And now, this !
mold appears on bread, discard
iat part of the bread at once, and
ash the bread box thoroughly to I
revent spread of mold.
very thing for which the hard of
hearing have been waiting and hop
ing has become one of America’s first
thrilling postwar realities. And it
emerges from the crucible of the
j world’s most destructive war.
Actually, this thrilling and unpre
cedented advance in hearing instru
! ments was inspired by two of the
war’s greatest secret weapons—the
tiny B battery that powered the
radar proximity fuse whicii defeat
ed the Jap suicide planes—and the
1 equally tiny “R” cell whose amazing
lasting power under tropical condi
tions made possible our successful
Pacific jungle warfare.
Since these batteries were not only
, small, but also extremely powerful,
Acousticon, the first and oldest man
j ufacturer of electrical hearing in
, struments, immediately seized upon
i them as the possibility for creating
, the world’s smallest, lightest and
I most powerful all-in-one hearing in
| strument. They combined these bat
..
nwmn wAIVwL INA
! terle» Into the tiniest battery oom
I binatlon In the world—actually no
bigger than a match-book. And they
perfected the revolutionary Aeoua
, ticon “Super-Power” hearing instru
ment—the only hearing instrument
which can operate on these tiny bat
teries.
With this great bold engineering '
feat Acousticen was then able to
combine the revolutionary "Super-j
Power” instrument and the remark
able batteries all in one case. The
resulting instrument — now on dis
play at Acousticon Ray Company,
508 Trust Building — is probably the
smallest, lightest, most powerful all
in-one hearing instrument ever
made.
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North Carolina is expected to meet
a federal request for 46,000 new acres
planted to soybeans this year
Box-car shortages present the
most serious of all obstacles to the
relief of farm feed shortages.
Mr, Farmer
If you haven’t purchased your
tobacco harn curers see me at
once and place your order for a f
Dowless Curer
/ i
We sincerely believe it is the best curer
on the market au<l we would like to give
you a demonstration at our farm before 1
yoii buy. 1
V. G. TAYLOR
Lmphasia will be placed upon food
production by th# state’s 92,000 4-H
boys and girls in projects this year,
says State 4-H Leader L. R. Harrill.
ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE
Having this day qualified as ad
ministrator of the estate of Agnes A.
Tyre, deceased, late of Martin Coun
ty, this is to notify all persons hold
ing '■loitns against said estate to pre
-ssasssaass
rAUfc I HH££
»ent them for payment on or before
the 10th day of March, 1947, or thle
notice will be pleaded in bar of their
recovery. Any person indebted to
said estate will please make imme
diate settlement.
This the 16th day of March, 1946.
Albert Tyre, Administrator of
Agnes A. Tyre, deceased,
m 19 6t
Mr. Peanut
FARMER
Why fake any ehanee on bad shelling?
Peanuts are too high. The seed peanut
sheller we have has proven to he the best.
We did not have a dissatisfied customer
last year.
Tin' peanuts are cleaned anti graded for
size before going into one of three shell
ers, each size peanut going into the shell
er for its proper size, which shells all
size peanuts with less splits anti dam
ages.
During the rush season we will operate
our sheller at night if requested. We
are equipped to treat your peanuts with
arasau.
Gillam Bros.
WINDSOR, N.
Keep Bine Mold Out of You Tobacco
Fermnte Spray Is Effective Way, Specialists Say
Blue Mold Cuts '
Tobacco Profits
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Blue mold robs North Carolina
tobacco growers of $3,500,000 a year,
much of it needlessly, according to
Plant Pathologist Howard R. Garris
of State College.
If blue mold appeared in epidemic
proportions throughout the State,
farmers probably would be better
off, Garris asserted, but hastened
to clarify his remark. Here is his
reasoning:
"If the disease occurred generally
each year, growers would have to
use control measure in order to ob
tain sufficient plants.
"There are definitely effective and
practical methods of controlling the
mold.
“When growers began using these
control measures they would find
that sufficient plants to set their
acreage were being insured on one
half to one-fourth the bed space
seeded.
■^W^gc jrs would reduce - AJifai
amount of plant bed seeded at sav
ings far greater than the cost of
treating sufficient plant bed space.
“Growers would generally be as
sured of plants at the proper time
for transplanting, thus avoiding the
reduction in profits frequently caus- i
ed by late setting.
“Spread of new diseases by im- ;
port.ation of plants would cease. ;
“There would be a greater reduc
tion in the chances of blue mold
damage to plants in the field.”
Because blue mold does not ap
pear in epidemic proportions, Gar
ris said, farmers tend to plant two
to four times larger plant beds than
necessary and neglect 'fighting the
disease. The extra cost eats up
profits, blue mold is wind blown in
to growing fields, and frequently
the farmer winds up with a plant
shortage and must import plants.
This, he says, frequently brings new
diseases into the community on the
roots of the imported plants.
Fermate spray, the specialist said,
is the cheapest control for blue mold.
Fermate is mixed at the rate of 12
ounces to 25 gallons of water—or
four level teaspoonfuls per gallon.
Garris cautions that the dry fermate
powder should never be added to the
required water. It should be added
to a slight amount of water and
shaken vigorously in a tight jar un
til thoroughly dissolved; then added
to the larger quantity of water. He
estimated fermate spraying costs at
$1 to $1.00 per hundred square
yards.
Yellow cuprocide was the first
successful spray treatment develop
ed for blue mold and has been used
sy many growers with good results.
\ wetting agent is needed in prepar
ng cuprocide, where it is not neces
sary for fermate.
Bismuth subsalicylate is a success
ul spray, Garris said, but costs more
ind is more trouble than fermate
pray.
* Spraying Benefits Show in Beds
These two tobacco plant beds, each 100 square yards, were located side by side.
When blue mold attacked, the top one was not sprayed, the bottom one was. The un
sprayed bed developed late and provided plants for only 1.7 acres. The sprayed bed
developed earlv and planted 7.3 acres. Proper spraying reduces plant bed space re
quired and adds the value of an early crop.
You Can Get Fermate Spray From W Local
Feed, Seed or Farm Supply Store
&
W.H
Inc.
Phones 122 ami 123
Ahoskie, N. C.