ORANGE COUNTY
FARM AGENTS
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aoM 782 feeder calves at the ,
Hillsboro sales on September 24, '
tor an average of $12* each. The
average weight was 471 lbs. for 1
which they received 27 Vi cents a
pound. There were 182 more
feeder calves sold this year than
last.
DAIRV NEWS
Seven of the larger grade A j
dairies in Durham County are
joining with Orange County dairy
men in their production testing
program. These dairies will be |
represented by three directors: j
Isaac Terry, Milton Thompson,1
and Albert Ray. Clarence Symes
has been employed as technician
and will visit each farm once a
month and compute the milk and
butteyfat production on each cow
in th« herd.
Dop Collins It Brothers and the
Arrowhead Farm were among the
high 1* herds in the state during
the month of August. Far Septem
ber the 10 high herds in the coun
ty association were: Snipes Broth
«rs 38.9 pounds butterfat, Arrow
head; Farm 37 3, Hi Hope 36.9, L
R Cheek A Sons 36 2, J. E. Latta
36.1, Glenn Caruthers 35.5, Ber
ry’s Mill 34.6, Dr. Joe Beard 34.6,
Teer Brothers 34.5, and Joe Dick
ey 3p.7. ' .
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0$e of the biggest problems
confronting Orange County wood
lantfrwnere it how to get loblol
y pines growing in cutover areas,
is a rule these cutover areas are
{rowing up in lowgrade hard
voods. The ASC offers some as
sistance in converting these
vorthless areas to productive for
ssU. They will pay $8 per acre
'or poisoning weed trees, and $10
per acre for the use of a bull
dozer in mechanical preparation
of land for planting pines. Land
owners interested in this work
can make application through the
local ASC office.
MAKES PROGRESS
Mr. R. C. Compton, of the Ced
ar Grove Community, has made
rapid progress in improving ‘ his
herd of Angus beef catUe. Proof
of this is shown by the average
price received for his calyes at
the annual Hillsboro Feeder Calf
Sales. In 1957 Mr. Compton’s
calves averaged $119 per head, in
1949 $150 per head, and in 1969
his calves averaged $186.51 per
head, for the highest average of
any farm selling in the Hillsboro
Feeder Calf Sale.
This progress has been made
possible by following an approved
breeding program, providing good
pastures, using a top quality bull
and providing creep feed for his
calves.
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[Hu/on to talk before PTA at junior high
The organization, program and
curriculum of the junior high
school will be discussed by the
new school principal, Harold Hu
lon, at the first meeting of the
junior high school PTA next
Thursday in the auditorium of the
Franklin Street elementary school
at 8 p.m.
Although not new to Chapel
Hill, this will be Hulon’s first op
portunity to get acquainted with
the parents. A graduate of the
University, he was for the past
six years principal of the Orrum
High School in Robeson County.
I During his last year at Orrum
I the school underwent evaluation
[for accrediation for the Southern
Association of College and Secon
dary. Schools and was recommend
ed for membership in the South
ern Association.
Prior to going to Orrum, Hu
lon was principal of the Hoffman
High School in Richmond Coun
ty and taught science for two
years at the Oak Grove High
School in Durham County.
He was recently honored by
the State Department of Public
Instruction in being asked to
| serve as consultant for a regional
conference of beginning princi
j pals to be held in Burlington on
Oct. 19. Hulon is married and.
has one child, an eight-year-old
daughter.
Other items of business to- be
taken up at the meeting will be
the introduction of new teachers
and the current officers. The pres
ident, Walter Spearman, is ex
pected to announce membership,
of his committees. Following the
meeting a social hour will be
held.
Rural Activities
S. N. SHELTON
Negro County Agent
(MRS.) BONNIE B. DAVIS
Negro Home Agent
A meeting on rural housing will
be held at Cedar Grove Elemen
tary School, Friday, Oct. 31, at
7:30 p.m. Mr. W. C. Warrick,
Housing Specialist from State
College in Raleigh, will be in
charge of the meeting.
All persons in the county who
are planning to build or remodel
a home should plan to attend the
meeting. -
The final date for having Rural
Progress Score Sheets returned
to the Agriculture Agents’ office
is Nov. 2, 1959.
All persons who are interested
in participating in the drawing
{during Rural Progress Night must
complete at least one practice on
the score sheet.
If a person has lost his score
sheet, he will have an opportuni
ty to get a new one.
Score sheets will be mailed to
every, family on Oct 15.
A total of 353 pigs were sold
at the Feeder Pig Show and Sale,
held Oct. 1, at the Livestock Mar
ket in Hillsboro. The pigs aver
aged sixty-two pounds, and sold
for $9.43 each.
Farmers who plan to partici
j pate in the spring feeder pig sale
I should bred their ..bogs in No
vember. 'j
Louis Parker, a Central High 4
II Club member, Route 3, Mebane,
recently harvested 65 bushels of
Gold Rush sweet potatoes from
one-eighth; of an acre.
The potatoes were practically
all number ones, and of very high
quality.
Louis plans to exhibit three
bushels in the Western District
Street Potato show scheduled to
be held in Reidsville, N. C., some
time in Febrary, I960.
Have you ever seen a sweet po
tato digger?
[ Alonzo Parker, Rt. 3, Mebane,
recently purchased a Howard Ro
tary type digger from a company
down east.
The digger is tractor drawn
and does a very good job “dig
ging out potatoes.” This type of.
digger is practical to use on any
farm growing at least one acre
of potatoes and not more than
six acres.
H. D. Schedule:
Monday, Oct. 19, 7:30 p.m.—
Mars Hill, hostess, Mrs. Madell
Richmond.
Wednesday,, Oct. 21, 7 p.m.—
Ridge Road, hdstess, Mrs. Inez
Gattis. *
Friday, Oct. 23, 7:30 p.m.—Sar
tin, hostess, Miss Mae Fannie
Jcnes.
Hints for Lighting your Home:
(1) When the inside of a bulb
become blackened, relegate it for
duty in a closet, storage room or
attic where it will be used oc
casionally. Put new bulbs in
your important reading lamps and
fixtures. There may be plenty of
life in the blackened bulb, but if
can waste as much as 25 per cent
of the light,
(2) Remove cellophane wrap
ping from shade when lamp is
put to use. Heat from the bulb
and climatic conditions affect the
cellophane and cause it to shrink,
bending the frame and wrinkling
the silk. To keep shades clean
use shade covers which are made,
for the purpose and will not dis:
tort the shape of the shade.
(3) Lamp bases last longer if
they are waxed. Wood bases and
all types of metal bases other
than chrome, should first be
dusted with a soft cloth, then
covered with a thin coat of wax
and polished when dry. Glass,
pottery, marble and onyz bases
can be washed.
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