County Farm Agent's Column . . .
Area development four June 20
will include tomato greenhouses
By Don S. Matheson
County Agent
Ed P. Barnes A Cyrus A. Greene
Assistants
The Agricultural Committee of
the North Central Area Develop
ment Association has planned- a
farm tour for Wednesday, June
20, beginning at the Northern
High School o® Highway 501,
eight miles North of Durham,
at two p. m.
The first visit will be the
farm of Paul and- Blayne Rur
•. mahl of Durham County. A cen
tral farrowing house ' and good
feeder pig operation plus 8,000
laying hens housed in two Cali
fornia style laying houses war
ranted a writeup last year la
the ‘‘Progressive Farmer.”
The second stop will be on the
farm of Ira J. Wolfe of the Bushy
Fork Community in Person
County. Ira has recently con
structed a 1 tobacco bulk curing
unit with the capacity of 950
sticks of tobacco. His production
is 17.4 acres of tobacco this
year, all of which is irrigated.
The third stop will be in Or
ange County on the farms of
Munn Allen and Wilfred Phelps
in Aycock Community. Munn and
Wilfred are growing vine-ripen
ed tomatoes in seven plastic
greenhouses. They also have 10
- acres of tomatoes growing in the
field. Other points of interest
will be a packing, grading, and
cooling house and a specially
constructed high-pressure spray
ing outfit.
The tour will end at 6 o’clock
at Aycoek School Cafeteria for
supper. Reservations for supper
should be made at the County
Agent’s - office in each of the
three counties. The price of the
supper will be $1.50. Farmers,
business and professional men,
and women, of the three coun
ties trre invited.
JUNE DAIRY MONTH
CHAIRMAN NAMED
Mrs. Henrietta Auman, ener
getic teacher of Home Econom
ics at Hillsboro High School, will
head the June (Dairy Month se
lection of princesses for Orange
County. SHfe has announced that
the county princess will be se
lected from contestants from all
over the county at a meeting
Wednesday, June 6, in the Home
Agent’s - office In the county
Courthouse, at 4 o’clock. The
comity Princess will be crowned
at the June 12 dinner meeting
of the Chapel HillKiwanis Club.
4-H Demonstration Day
The Orange County 4-H’ers will
give their demonstrations June
14 at the Cameron Park School
between 9:30 a. m. and 3 p. m.
All community leaders and Four
H’ers should have their dem
onstrations prepared by this
time. The Orange County win
ners will meet district compe
tition at Winston-Salem on June
29.
Compliment to Dairymen
The current issue of “Hoard’s
Dairyman,” national dairy publi
cation, contained an editorial
praising Long Meadow Farms
for its progressive "action iri en
couraging its dairy producers to
keep accurate production rec
ords on their herds. They said
“cooperative dairy plants are de
pendent on the strong, efficient,
economically sound membership.
Herd testing is the first require
ment for a well - managed,prof
itable herd. ”
Officers of one of the large
national artificial breeding asso
ciations sent their photographer
YOU!
I want to express my sh
eerest appreciation to all
those citizens of Orange
County who supported
me in last Saturday's pri
mary election and to as
■ ■ V ...
sure all citizens of the
County that I will con
tinue to work for and
with the Democratic Par
ty and its program for
progress. ,
..... ...
Lee Kennedy
to the dairy farms of John W.
Cates and Sons, Hillsboro, Route
Three, and the dairy farm of
•Robert Nichols, Jr. and William
Ray, to take pictures of some
of their outstanding dairy cows
for national advertising purpos
es.
LAND
OF
ORANGE
By QUENTIN PATTERSON
FRANK McBANE
Soil Conservation Service
Orange County Supervisors,
Neuse River Soil and Water Con
servation District, approved ap
plications for assistance to John
Jordan, White Cross, and Finley
Parker, Carr recently.
Mapping the farms will be the
next step—inventorying-the soils,
slopes, and erosion conditions.
After that, soil and water con
servation plans will be develop
ed as soon as they can be sched
uled.
Raising tobacco yields in Or
ange County to the State aver
age would moan approximately
$300,000 increase in annual in
come in the county.
E. N. Mangum, Mt. Carmel,
thinks better rotations is one
way to do it.
This is without irrigation.
Rainfall is more effective, how
ever. He reports that the fescue
residue seems to soak up the rain
and holds it for the crop.
“I’ve been using fescue in ro
tation with tobacco seven years,”
Mangum says. “I use a three
year rotation — tobacco, small
grain with fescue, and second
year fescue.”
This is on Capability Class III
land, which needs cover two years
out of three to keep annual soil
losses to less than two tons per
acre.
~ He starts getting the two' year
old sod ready for tobacco three
weeks or so before planting
time. .
Earl Bradsher, Wildlife Re
sources Commission, says multi
flora rose plants are still avail
able for wildlife cover and “liv
ing fescues.”
There is a sweet joy that
comes to us through sorrow.
■*—Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Now We Pay More
for Old Paperbacks!
Because we have not been able
to buy in enough paper-backs to
meet the demand, we are raising
our buying price for ordinary
news-stand titles to six cents
each, starting at once.
Beginning June first, the selling
price Will go. up from three for
a quarter to two for a quarter.
Now will you sell those old news
stand beauties that you no long
er read? Please!
The intimate
Bookshop
lt9 East1 Franklin Street
Open Till 9 PM.
Summer recreation plans are Announced
ROLLER SKATING
Beginning (Friday, June 1 and
continuing each Monday and
Friday, through June 11 there
will be supervised roller skating
on the asphalt area behind the
junior high school from 3:‘30 un
til 5 p. m. Participants should
bring their own skates. This por
grsm will resume on Monday,
Juiy 30 at 3:30 and will contin
, ue each Monday and Friday,
I through Monday, Aug. 1.
...GAMES FOR CHILDREN
Beginning Tuesday, June 5, and
continuing each Tuesday, Wed
nesday, and Thursday, through
Thursday, June 14 there will be
activities for children in grdaes
1-3 on the unpaved play area be
hind the Chapel Hill High
School. This program will re
sume on Tuesday, July 31 at 3
p. m. and will continue each
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thurs
day an will continue through
PAUL GREENE IN GREECE
Paul Green, author of “The
Lost Colony” and other plays,
novels and stories, left for Ath
ens, Greece to attend an inter
national conference dealing with
the theater and the performing
arts in the modem world.
Thursay, August 30.
SLIMNASTICS FOR ADULTS
Slimnastics for adult women
will continue through the sum
mer. Beginning Monday, June 4,
the gruop Will meet on Monday
evenings from 8-9:30 rather than
on Thursday evenings. Classes
will still be held at the Chapel
Hill High Schoo Gym.
SUMMER SCHEDULE SOON
The Chape 'Hill Recreation De
partment will soon have for dis
tribution a brochure containing
the complete summer schedule.
This will supplement the sched
ules, and items which appear in
the local papers and which are
broadcast over WCHL. Be on the
lookout for the brochure and be
sure to get a copy for you and
your family.
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