held at the otarrchas in town. > HIm Virginia Lancaster, the Home Demonstration Agent, waa in the community Wednesday. Mimaan Study Om The Woman's Minbiutry Society of the Christian Church held their AbmuI All-Day Study Glass Tuesday, June let, at the home of Mrs. Irey Smith. Mra, H. H. Settle of Greenville taught,,a wry interesting and inspiring book, of the "Lat» Americas." ITiere wen fuuileeu members pnaeut for the npeedng. : Gurnets Back Cotton Improvement Program North Cartlina cotton gixnera, who are tabinng an active put in the onevariety of cotton improvement program and the free classing service under the Smith-Doxey Act, are not paly making a fine contribution to the war demand for superior cottons but the£ are alee helping put extra cash hs the pockets of Tar Beat growers, says Dan P. Hotter, Extension Cotton Markethig Specialist si ;JH. C. State College. - ~ l - T He cites the work of W. D. Wpstbrook of the Green's Creek communis ty in Pofk County as a good example of the cooperation between the gianer and the grower. Five years ago the farmers decided on QoloeP 100 as the best variety'for them to grow, ant each year Westbrook has brought in pure seed lor his cuatatnersfc This spring he placed more than ten tons of special aaed of this variety with than, to pnovidk aaed plots for next year's crop. He has also equipped his gfe so (ioi'jpiieaae* can be gine&^a^l' - —la V_ii ,i i , v'' lkoa wkmrh mixing. * ^ .• ~r\*t Weetbrook has encouraged growers to put their cotton in the proper condition for ginning, since it is impossible to do a good Job at ginning on green ~eetto» or wet cotton. In apfte oi a had harvesting seaeon last • year, only 59 bales out of 1,603 bales' of cotton at the Westbrook gin were reduced as much as one grade, and my alfalfa hay? ' ANSWER; Experiments show that alfalfa hay -nit in the. early bloom stage produced 23 percent mora pounds of field cured hay pe# acre than when eot at the full bloom Btage. The early bloom hay yielded M*7 pound, at erode protein per acre as compared with 877 pounds at the fall bloom stage. A have percentage of the h»y in North Carolina is cut at too late a sta&fr^f growth to makfr the beet hay.-.- V!-"4'; : r • -4 y QUESTION: How can 4 oowti*l leafspot on peanuts? ANSWER: Teats have shown that a mixture of copper and sulphur *r» better than either copper or sulphur used alone in controlling leafspots on f—THf mixture recommended contins 8 "to 6 percent of metallic DOpper, by weight, "derived from either basic copper sulphate or cuprous ovide, and the balance should be 826 mesh sulphur. QUESTION: How m I cure my chickens ofsowfcead,or pox? ANSWER: Dr. R. & Dearatyne, head of the Poultry Department at N. C. State College, says that there is- no satisfactory treatment for this disease. Pox i* caused by a filterable virus and in very contagious in flocks under one year of age. Young stock should be vaccinated agate* the disease and this can be done by you at small cost. Mortality in the flock , is usually not high, but egg production is lowered. Survivors are immune to further attacks of this dtoeMa 2 this was due to the cotton being either -or when ginned, Holler Weet brook collected samples of eaefa bale of coton ginned for ftee government classification under the Smith-Doocey Act and thus giwwen were able to determine the grade of each bale of eotton and its staple length. They were not only able to cotton on a better basis hot they could check it from a aeed standpoint- Forty-three bales wen found to pull less taut one inch staple ami the growers who delivered them avra mTiinWfl J . *XI- —.. —. J, Miraj-j nave been support, wit* purewea fe-.. z£% ■ . ■ . n'^ .<»■ sp.il I.I ■ hp Vii£l&jAjEgg£a£--Tift yltfi 5»aSK£ Sweet Potato Good Wartime Food Crop Th*^«weat potato » one of the \mmmmmm i ,» m— 11M« '■""Wm jXjptSi 7NM I n—m—, J 'mediate payment. HSj, jocbv ^oye ' ■ ——

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