New Building Going Up i<
On Tidewater Test Farm'
By JAMES L. BOND
A new building of cemen
block construction with sheet me
tal roof is going up at the Tide
water Experiment Station on U
S. highway 64 between Plymoutl
and Roper which when complet
ed will be used as an implemen
shed, machine shop and a placi
to do experimental work on po
tatoes.
The work was begun the firs
of December and is expected t<
be completed by the end of Jan
uary. barring any holdups of ma
terials. It is being done unde:
the direction of the North Caro
line Department of Agriculturi
on what is known as a forced ac
count. Personnel of the station ari
authorized to do their own build
ing rather than have it done oi
a contract basis. The work is be
ing done under the supervisior
of J. L. Rea. assistant director ir
charge of the station.
The new construction ties ir
by a rear ramp with the preseni
machinery shed, also of cemen'
block construction, and wher
completed will give the Wash
ington county station the bes1
machinery storage of any experi
ment farm in the state, accordins
to state heads of the experimen'
station program.
The new building will have ap
proximately 8.500 square feet oi
floor space and will include «
wood working shop and two wash
rooms in addition to the machin
ery shed and storage space. The
floors will be of poured concrete
There are 5 white and 2 Negro
families living on the farm which
is one of seven in the state owned
and operated by the North Caro
lina Department of Agriculture
Recent construction on the place
includes a new cattle barn, a silo
and 5 experimental storage barns.
Planned construction in the
near future includes a fertilizer
house and a general crop storage
building.
The present station consists of
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IANUARY 16-31
a tract of 1995 acres and was es
tablished in 1943. Various soil
types are included in the vast
tract. The station supplanted the
: old Blackland Station which was
operated at Wenona by the De
partment of Agriculture from
1912 through 1944. The personnel,
livestock and equipment of the
Blackland Station were moved to
the Tidewater Experiment Sta
tion following the construction of
several new buildings and the
putting up of fences.
There are 350 acres of cleared
land in the tract and Superinten
dent Rea says there are plenty
more acres that can and will be
cleared. Twenty-five acres of new
land were cleared during the past
fiscal year. Mr. Rea stated. Also,
35.000 cubic yards of excavating
on ditches was done during the
year.
There are about 1500 acres of
wasteland in the huge tract, a
few acres of this land having a
fair stand of pine timber. So/ne
of the timber is to be sawed up
into lumber for use on the farm.
Grassing on the farm is being
done as quickly as possible in or
der to afford plenty of good graz
ing for the herds of beef cattle.
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NEW AND USED CARS
NEW AND USED TRACTORS
Service to Both
Cars and Tractors
DISK HARROWS
ROTARY HOES
New Holland Corn Shelters
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THE STRAIGHT WHISKIES IN THIS
PRODUCT ARE 5 YEARS OR MORE
OLD. 35% STRAIGHT WHISKY. 86
PROOF. 65% GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS.
10% STRAIGHT WHISKY 5 YEARS OLD.
10% STRAIGHT WHISKY 6 YEARS OLD.
15% STRAIGHT WHISKY 7 YEARS OLD.
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sheep and swine. Thirty acres
were grassed during the past
year. It is planned to grass 25
acres more during the present fis
cal year, the superintendent stat
ed. "We are trying to get it done
at the rate of at least 25 acres a
year,” Mr. Rea added.
Pasture land is being seeded ty
Ky. 31 Fescue and Ladino clover
with experimental pastures being
seeded to fescue, orchard grass,
red top, white dutch and Ladino
clover.
Range research experiments are
being carried out in grazing na
tive forage and out in the open
as compared with native forage
in timber. There are 20 such pas
tures of one acre each on the farm.
Also, there are 5 acres in fire
lane studies with both narrow
and wide lanes seeded in various
grasses and in clover.
On the farm there are 18 dif
ferent sheep pastures where graz
ing results are being studied us
ing phosphate as compared with
pastures not using phosphate.
This: ic a Inner ranern nrnPram Vip
ing conducted in cooperation with
the regional laboratory at Cornell
University, Ithaca. N. Y.
The front part of the farm is
devoted to agronomy and horti
culture with the back land given
over to drainage experiment work
and animal husbandry. Drainage
work is being conducted on some
60 acres using every type of ditch.
There are 700 water wells hav
ing electric pumps and ditch types
include open, blasted (dynamite)
V-drained and tile-drained ditch
es. Drainage experimental work
is considered of great importance
to this immediate section as the
county has much low, poorly
drained land which must be pro
perly drained in order to increase
productivity to a degree that will
allow crops to be grown with
profit.
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Meeting of Future
Homemakers Held
The regular monthly meeting
of the Future Homemakers of
America was held in the Home
Economics Department of Plym
outh High School Monday night.
The meeting was called to or
der by the president, Jackie Mi
zelle.
Two new officers were elected:
parliarr. ntarian, Anna Mae Peck
ham; and song leader, Faye Smith.
Committees were appointed to
outline tne program oi worK ior
the remainder of the year. The
committees are:
Program of work: Lucille Hook
er. chairman: Alvania Maitland
and Elsie Sawyer.
Finance: Betty Riddle, chair
man: Faye Smith and Peggy Dar
den.
Constitution and By-laws: Peg
gy Mizelle, chairman: Anna Mae
Peckham and Marie Singleton.
Degrees: Paula Swain, chair
man: Jean Turner and Lorraine
Ragland.
Recreation: Joy Harrison, chair
man: Joanne Campbell and Pat
Hammons.
Public Relations: Phyllis Bis
hop, chairman: Virgil Davenport >
and Jean Jackson. |
Membership: Peggy Styons,
chairman, Marlene Painter and
June Bateman.
Projects: Priscilla Ange, chair
man: Virginia Heyne and Rita
Bateman.
The duties of the officers and
the various committees were out
lined and a possible program of
activities for the year was dis
cussed.
The meeting was then adjourn
ed and refreshments were served
by the chapter advisor, Miss Caro
lyn Brinkley.—Phyllis Bishop, re
porter.
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Average Milk Production
Per Cow Higher Than 1948
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North Carolina’s 359,000 milk
cows on farms produced an aver
age of 340 pouds of milk per cow
during November. This compares
with a production of 328 pounds
per cow during November, 1948.
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