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FREEZER locker
PROSPECT8 GOOD
Mark Davis, manager of the
Farmers Exchange freezer locker
plant in Durham, will talk to the
Lions club in Hillsboro at its regu
lar luncheon meeting Thursday
about the many different services
offered by freezer locker plant. A
meeting has also been arranged
at the New Hope hut Friday, Aug
ust 9 at 8 o’clock. ■
^According to reports, many
_.nro molrincr nlonc
decorums w lcpurts, many
farmers are making plans to rent
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lockers in the new plants and sev
eral have already paid their $15
deposit. The ; Farmers Exchange
has agreed to construct a plant in
Hillsboro and one in Chapel Kill
provided 200 farmers and 100 non
farmers sign up for a year’s rental
m each plant.
TWO MILLION DOLLAR
TOBACCO CROP
• f the prices being paid on
border markets continue, Orange
county farmers should receive
about the same amount of money
for their tobacco crops this year
as they did In 1945. The AAA
reports that about o«€-half of
the tobacco acrpagfe has been
measured and SMlcSfTbns are,
that about 5,000 acres are plant
ed, which will be approximately
500 acres more than last year.
The poundage this year, however,
will be considerably lighter than
last year due to excessive rain
in the early part of the reason.
With this reduced poundage, it
is expected that the crop will
bring tw"o million dollars.
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IS IT WILT,
OR BLACK SHANK?
Two tobacco diseases' causing
thousands of dollars worth of dam
age this year are affecting tobacco
in a very similar manner. It is
extremely important to be able to
identify the disease because wilt
resistant Oxford No. 26 tobacco is
not at all resistant to the Black
Shank disease and vice-versa;
therefore, everyone, having any
amount of tobadco diseases this
year should be sure to know which
one of the diseases is present so
that the right kind of tobacco seed
can be bought for next year.
Oxford No. 26 is the wilt re
sistant variety and Oxford Nos.
1, 2, and 3 are the Black Shank
resistant varieties. The county
agent will be glad to identify the
disease for you. Notify him.
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large acreage of
alfalfa to be seeded
Farmers of Orange county plan
to seed between 200 and 500 acres
of alfalfa this August. Here are a
few rules to follow: (1) Have a
thoroughly pulverized seed bed,
similar to a turnip patch. (2) Be
sure the land has plenty of lime.
Apply a little extra for good meas
ure. Two tons per acre should be
enough. (3) Inoculate seed and
sow at rate of 30 lbs. per acre. (4)
Use 600 to 1,000 lbs. 2-12-12 fer
tilizer with borax mixed. (5) Some
successful growers use from 500
to 1,000 lbs. superphosphate per
acre. (5) Be sure to seed during
the last pfTrt of this month.
DAIRYMEN SHOULD HAVE
WINTER GRAZING CROPS
Seed a mixture of two bushels
of oats, one bushel barley, 29 lbs.
-Italian rye grass and 10 lbs. of
crimson clover per acre if you want
to really save hay this winter. Ibis
mixture should be seeded the lat
ter part of this month and cross
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antique shop
SPECIAL dTspLAY: Lovely
antique silver services; Sheffield
trays; bird and flower prints;
various colored handwoven
knitting and bundle bags; an
tique sofas, corner cupboards,
desks,, chairs, and .tables. ..
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Soil Conservation
News
R. E. Hughes of the Cedar Grove
community has recently completed
the building of a fish pond. The
ponu is located in a pasture and
will serve as a watering place for
the livestock, as a bathing pool, at
least for the children. The pond
will be a source of both pleasure
and profit as a place to fish any
month in the year.
Personnel of the Neuse River
Soil Conservation Service staked
the dam for Mr. Hughes and will
assist him in securing fish for
stocking the pond.
“Lexie” Whitefleld of the White
Cross community has also had a
farm fish pond site staked and
plans to build it in time for stock
ing this fall. -
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Some of our World War II vet
erans are back on the farm and
have plans for doing a good job.
The Riser brothers of the Cald
well community, who were men
tioned in last week’s _ news, have
planned a farm program that will
remove five acres, of steep, eroded
land from row crops and will fol
low a two-year rotation of small
grain and lespedeza instead. Their
•tobacco land will be. seeded to
small grain for a cover crop, Two
acres will be seeded to alfalfa
which will give a greater acreage
of lespedeza to be turned as a soil
improver. The remainder of the
crop-land will have a three-year
rotation of com, small grain, and
lespedeza.
Pastures, by no means the least
important, will conje in for an im
provement program also. Old pas
ture sods will receive lime, fer
tilizer and a reseeding application
and new pasture acreage will be
limed. Fertilized, and seeded with
an approved pasture mixture, the
Riser brothers plan to seed un
productive shaded borders to seri
.cea and bicolor lespedeza for wild
life purposes, and for erosion con
trol. All cultivated land will be
terraced where needed.
* • •
H. C. Johnson of the Schley
community, another veteran, is
back on his own farm now and,
along with other things, he plans
to seed two acres of badly eroded
land to sericea lespedeza. All the
cultivated land will be terraced,
where needed, and three acres of
land too eroded for profitable use
in field crops will be set to lob
lolly pines. The tobacco land will
be. seeded to a cover crop, wild-j
life borders of sericea and bicolor
lespedeza will be established, and
new pasture acreage will be limed,
fertilized and seeded according to
recommended practices.
drilled with abundant amount of
fertilizer so that it will make a
thick enough mat to enable .cows
to graze it during wet weather,......
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STATE GRANGE MASTER
TO BE AT NEW HOPE FRIDAY
According to G. O. Reitzel. the
Orange County Grange deputy,
Mrs. Harry B. Caldwell, master of
the State Grange, will be present
a; an open Grange meeting to be
held at the New Hope hut Friday
night, August 9, 8 o’clock.
County AgentsJ3on S.. Matheson
will talk about the ft-eezer locker
plants to be constructed in Hills
boro and Chapel Hill.
The public is invited:
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Farm, Financial Strength
In N. C. Still On Increase
North Carolina agriculture is
currently a stonger financial
position than it was at the close of
World War I, according to S. A.
Johnson, vice president of Durham
Bank and Trust Company, Hills
aoro, who has been designated by
the North Carolina Bankers Asso
ciation as Orange county key
banker.
Reporting on the results of a
national survey of bank lending in
1945 made by the Agricultural
Commission of the American Bank
ers Association, Mr. Johnson said
that in North Carolina it shows
that farmers used only a tenth of
the bank credit available to them.
The 208 banks in the state which
serve agriculture made 93,185 loans
to 63,398 farmers last year for a
total amount of $37,465,0d0. On
January 1, 1946, these banks had
farm loans outsanding of $18,872,
000. On the same date these banks
had $217,121,000 additional for ag
ricultural loans had the farmers
needed it.
That the credit extended by the
banks to their farm customers is
a useful tool of agriculture is
shown by a breakdown of these
over-all figures, he added. Last
year 55,222 farmers procured farm
production loans in an aggregate
amount of $25,697,000. Farm real
estate loans were made to 7,669
farmers for a total of $11,324,000.
On January 1, 1946, there were
outsanding in the banks $5,821,000
in production loans and $11,186,
000 in long term farm real estate
loans. Loans on crops in storage
insured by the Commodity Credit
Corporation were made by the
banks to only 507 farmers for a to
tal of only $444,000, a considerable
reduction from the amounts loan
ed in previous years when price
Roy H. Thomas
—Agent—
Home Security Life Ins. Co.
Hillsboro, N. C.
RADIATOR
REPAIR
We wish to announce the
f
opening of our radiator repair
shop, the only one of its kind
in Orange county ..Prompt and
efficient radiator service.
Hazzard Motor Co.
Your General Motors Dealer
501 W. Franklin Tel. 4771
Chapel Hill
support levels were higher in re
lation to market values. A total of
$1,865,000 in C.C.C. loans remain
ed outstanding at the beginning of
this year. *
“The tact that North Carolina
farmers have found it necessary
to use only a small part of the bank
| credit available to them indicate*
that they are in a far stronger fi
nancial position today than they
have been for many years,” Mr.
Johnson said. “During the war
years farm incomes have been high
and farmers have wisely used their
earnings to pay down debt and
accumulate savings in War Bonds
and bank accounts.
“The high level of bank assets
and the high degree of liquidity
of the banks assure North Carolina
farmers of ample bank credit in
the future to meet all of their
needs. At the end of last year.
North Carolina country banks had
j an average of cash and United
' States Government bonds equal to
82 per cent of their deposits. By
contrast, in 1929 country banks in
this state had cash and govern
ment securities equal to less than
31 per cent of deposits. The high
ratio of liquidity is one of the most
promising indications for the con
tinued financial well-being of oar
farm community.”
How Long Have Yon
Had “It” on Order?
We’re sorry for the delays in filling
• your orders for scarce merchandise.
We’re waiting for our deliveries just
as impatiently as you, and we’ll waste
no time delivering to your address
once the. manufacturer fills our order
—to fill yours!
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Chapel Hill
ROSENOND APPLIANCE CO.
Hillsboro ’ ^
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Did This Ever Happen To You?
But, Mr. Merchant, I paid this bill in cash the first
of the month following purchase. You gave me a receipt,
but I have no idea where it is.
paid.
Sorry, Mr. Doe, but our records show it has not been
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Had You Paid By Check,
The Conversation Would Be;
But, Mr. Merchant, I gave you a check for this bill
the first of the month following purchase. I don’t know
whether I can find the cancelled check or not.
That’s fine, Mr. Doe, I’m glad you paid by check
because even if you have lost the cancelled check the bank
will have a picture of it. We’ll just step in there and ask
them to run their film.
Thus An Honest Mistake
Is Cleared Up
-We Photograph Our Customers’ Checks Before Sending Them Out
DURHAM BANK &
CO,
Hillsboro