District Winner
Electric Contest
Miss Lynette Haislip, daughter
of "Mr and Mrs. R. A Haislip of
Oak City and a member of the
eleventh grade class in the Oak
City High School, won a $100 col
lege scholarship in the recent
Farm and Home Electric Congress
contest, sponsored by the Virginia
Electric and Power Company and
other utilities in this State.
Writing about her trip to Ral
eigh, Miss Haislip said:
“October 30 and 31. I had the
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privilege fit attending the Farm
Home Electric Congress, held in
Hotel Carolina at Raleigh. I was
given the expense free trip as a
result of winning first place in
the girls division of the Farm
Home Electric contest in the
county. The boy who represented
Martin County was Carrone
Bryant Williamston.N. C.. RFD.
We were accompanied to Raleigh
by (he assistant home agent Miss
Agnes Beal.
“This contest is sponsored an
nually by the Virginia Electric
and Power Co.: Carolina Power
and Light Co and The Nantahala
Power and Light Co., in coopera
tion with 4-H Clubs and the West
inghouse Educational Foundation.
The purpose is to bring about the
more effective use of electricity
on farms and farm homes.
In my project I made a compari
son of cleaning with a vacuum
cleaner and cleaning without a
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| Planning. Home
Water Systems
W. R. Gaylord, Jr.
Sanitarian
Perhaps nothing is more shock
ing when taking a shower than
the sudden change from warm
water to cold just because mother
turned the hot water on at the
i kitchen sink or little brother de
' cided to wash his ears at the lava
tory. Or. suppose someone flushed
the toilet and the water in the
shower suddenly got too hot. This
I can be dangerous for a small
child placed in the bathtub while
it is filling. And, another thing
the new automatic clothes washer
; and the dishwasher that mother
j plans to get will not operate sat
isfactorily on a system with hot
! and cold water pipes that are not
large enough.
All of these hazards can be
(eliminated by carefully planning
your entire piping system. Begin
your detail planning months be
fore you start your installation.
And what size pipe will you
need? An easy way to figure pipe
size is to begin at the well and as
'sume you have plenty of water
and that your pump and pressure
tank are large enough to supply
! water to every faucet you may
have open at the same time. Pipe
! size should be large enough to de
liver water from the storage tank
to every faucet with more than 5
j pounds pressure drop between
tank and faucet.
It is almost impossible to do too
• much planning. After people live
with an installation a while they
I nearly always find roorh for im
provment. So plan your system
thoroughly now to get the maxi
imum benefits from it throughout
| the years to come.
sketch of our kitchen showing
i how we have rearranged the elec
trical equipment for better usage
“A very interesting program
was carried out during the con
| gross. Some of the events were;
Ian address by Dr. Clifton Tanus,
I Jr. of Hillsboro, Texas, as his top
ie was “Our American Heritage,”
there was a ver(v interesting dis
! eussion on "How to Improve the
Farm and Home Electric Projects
i in the Counties,” and the “Use of
j Electricity on the Farm'and in
the Farm Home."
"Monday night we attended a
barbeque supper at the Tar Heel
Club. The territorial awards were
made at this time. I won the first
place in the girl’s division in the
j V. E. P. Co district and received
la $100 scholarship to anv college
in N. C.
“I would like to thank Miss Beal
for the assistance and the V E. P
Co. for the wonderful trip and the
scholarship."
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Ninety-Two Ears
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A farmer who produces 92 ears
of corn on’ 20 stalks really has
something to crow about. That’s
exactly what a Hertford County
Negro farmer, Alpheus Gatling of
Route 1, Murfreesboro, did Ibis
year.
Gatling, who has qualified sev
oral times for the Stair- Bushel
Corn Club, came up recently w ith
10 single hills (suchers included)
that produced 51 full ears of corn
from eight to 12 inches in length
and filled to the tip. Then, to
prove this wasn't a freak, he
found another 10 of the host hills
from all corners of Ins 2 1-2 acre
field and discovered they had -11
ears the same size.
M. L. Johnson, Negro farm
agent in Hertford fot (lie State
College Extension Service, asked
Gatling how he dal it.
"Just, like I've been doing for
the past five years, except 1 didn't
use quite as much fertilizer," Gat
ling replied. "1 always plant eve
ry inch of my cropland in a cover
crop each full, and I cover m>
corn land with stable manure in
the early spring. On this piece of
land I planted Austrian winter
peas. This combination was disced
and turned under. I applied 200
pounds of 5-10-10 fertilizer per
acre at planting and 200 pounds
per acre at the second cultivation
"I plowed that piece of corn
three times as shallow as possible
At the last cultivation I applied
400 pounds of nitrate of soda per
acre. That’s all, "lie said with a
grin.
"Hut wait a minute," he went
on. "You know, 1 believe I have
one of the best crops of corn I’ve
ever made, and I believe the spac
ing is the differcence. This year
1 planted all mv corn Hi inches
in the drill in 2 1-2 - foot rows.
I notice it stood up better m the
field and the overall yield is even
better.”
No Affiliation
Oi* Stale Group
Raleigh Thompson Greenwood
reports that “the organization
known as the American Indepen
dent Merchants’ Association of
North Carolina is not affiliated or
connected in any way with the
N. C. Merchants Association."
Greenwood, Executive Secretly
of the N. C. Merchants Assoiation,
asserted he lias received within
I the past few days complaints
i from merchants and secretaries of
merchants associations on activi
ties of the American Independent
Merchants' Association of North
Carolina.
He said these complaints had
cyme from Raleigh, Fuquav
Springs, Candor, Wake Forest,
Greenville, Dunn, Robersonville,
Chapel Hill, Williamston. Roanoke
Rapids, Salisbury, and from sev
oral rural communities
“We have made an investiga
tion, and to our knowledge there
is no organization by this name
having offices in North Carolina.
We are informed that funds for
this association are being solicted
! by a representative by the name
of R F. Tillis and that in return
he is promising advertising on be
half of retail merchants in var
ious newspapers, and legislative
assistance," said Greenwood.
"Officials of the State Welfare
Department inform us that rep
resentatives of American Inde
pendent Merchants of North Car
olina are soliciting funds without
a license and they are very eager
to get m touch with the head of
that organization No association
by that name is corporated to do
| business in North Carolina"
Greenwood reported that R
Maync Albright, local attorney,
told him Monday that he does
not have now, and has not had,
any connection whatever with
American Independent Merchants
Association of North Carolina
despite sales talk to the contrary
reportedly being used bv Tillis
and Ins associates
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Interesting Bits 01
Business in U. S.
Predictions tire bring made by
economists and retailers that the
public will be in a more cautious
buying frame of mind for the next
few months Some sign ol taper
ing off in war scare Inlying lias
already been detected Some o!
the biggest price gains recently
have been in textiles, while food
i prices conversely, aided by lug
crops, have been tapering a little.
Manpower shortages for the
months ahead are expected lo be
come more acute.
Many a man is forced lo turn
over a new leaf because his wife
can read him like a book.
Consumption Of
Milk In Country
Cow ownership is by far the
most influential factor in encour
aging fluid milk consumption
among rural people, according to
a survey recently completed by
Walter' V’. Cotton, associate pro
fessor of agricultural economics at
North Carolina State College and
the Experiment Station.
Cow -owning families, he re
veals, drink three times as much
whole milk as those who own no
cows, and five times as much skim
and buttermilk. On the other
hand, consumption of evaporated
milk among cow-owners is one
tenth as much as that of non-cow
owners
These facts are reported in a
new bulletin, "Consumption of
| Dairy Products in Rural North
Carolina,” issued this week by the]
Experiment Station. Copies are,
now available either from county
agents or from the Agricultural
Editor State College Station, Ral
eigh. The publication is issued as
Bulletin No. 372 of the Experi
ment Station.
Cotton, author of the bulletin,
discusses the percentage of cow
ownership by rural families, com
pares rural and urban consump- I
tion, and explains the effects of
factors influencing use of dairy
products in rural homes. Included
in the 30-page bulletin are explan
atory charts and tables detailing
results of the special study eom
[pleted early this year.
The author prepared the report
after interviewing nearly 400
I North Carolina rural families. His
] latest booklet is a companion to
an earlier one, “Consumption of
Dairy Products in Urban North
Carolina.”
Cigarette Tax
Is $31 Million
, —'«> —
“Smokers in North Carolina last
year paid the federal government
more than $31 million in cigarette
taxes”, according to F. M Parkin
son of Richmond, Executive Di
rector of the National Tobacco
Tax Research Council.
“There is a movement on foot
to asses a state tax on cigarettes
in North Carolina at the forthcom
ing session of the legislature and
thus increase the cost of cigarettes
3 cents per package. This tax, if
enacted, will saddle North Caro
lina smokers with another $12
million tax bill, making a total tax
of $43 million annually.
Motorists who try to burn up
the road often land in the cooler.
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Farm contains 10 acres more or loss: (i acres Tobacco; I. I ams Peanuts;
10 aeres Permanent Pasture, fenced: One 1-room house; One 5-room
house, holh with running water ami in good eouililion; I new Tobacco
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Personal Proper! , usisls of It very line 4»ucrnsey and Jers \ Milk i.ows:
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