Speed Contacts
With Our Navy
Man in Pacific
Got a boy in the Pacific ?
If you have> here's som« news of
interest to you about getting mail to
him. The Navy mail service sug
gests:
1. Since newspcpers will be months
old before they arrive (Okinawa is
5,280 miles from Fleet Post Office,
San Francisco), families eiwaki dip
items of news interest and , enclose
them in letter mail, rather than send
the whole newspaper.
2. If a man is "guessed" to be in
an invasion area, his family and
friends should wait for sometime be
fore sending any parcel post pack
ages. And, if he is known to be in
the far Pacific, packages with food or
perishables should not be sent at all.
3. Send photographs, snapshots and
newspaper items to your Bluejacket
over seas, and send them in first
class mail. Enclosures cannot be
sent in V-Mail' letters.
4. Use .V-Mail as often as possible.
Write short, frequent letters. Re
member V-Mail has air priority over
all other classes of mail in an effort
to increase the volume.
One Penny Returns
$2.77 With Peanuts
Since it costs only about 10 cento
an acre to tiaat peanut seed before
planting to obtain better stands, no
farmer can afford to overtook treat
ing his seed with one of the several
materials now available, says Howard
Garriss, Extension plant pathologist
at State College.
While the returns from seed treat
ment will vary from field to field and
farm to farm, this practice has prov
en itself to be an excellent insurance
leading to larger yields.
One of the largest grains reported
to Garriss last year came from the
farm of J. J. Matthews in Gates
County. Hie per-acre yield without
the seed treatment was 14 bags, while
the acre with treatment gave a yield
of 17 2/3 bags. The ten cents in
visted in seed treatment gave a re
turn of 330 pounds of peanuts, worth
$27.70.
Another good method for increas
ing peanut yields is the dusting of
the crop with copper-sulpbur or sul
phur dust to control tea/spot diseases.
Not only does this practice give in
creased yields of nuts but it also in
creases the amount of hay and gives
hay of better quality. Under average
conditions the extra hay pays for the
cost of the dusting and the extra
nuts 'are clear profit.
Garriss suggests that growers im
mediately order their dusting equip
ment and not wa$ until it is needed
this summer. Some growers had their
crops dusted by airplane last year but
it is not known whether this service
will be available during the coining
season.
"Release Cutting"
For Farm Woodland
"Release cutting" is important in
many instances to get the best growth
of timber, says H. E. Blanchaid, farm
forester of the State College Exten
sion Service at Whiteville. On most
of the cutover* land there is a resi
due of undesirable trees. These trees
are usually badly diseased or of such
poor form thaa the sawmill could not
poor form that the sawmill could not
of some species that are not in de
mand for lumber. These worthless
trees have furnished the seed for the
present stand of trees with the better
trees coming in gradually and usual
ly underneath the undesirable trees.
"The only way to release the good
trees is to kill those you don't want
for crop time," Blanchard says.
This killing can be done by cutting
the smaller and girdling the larger
trees. Of course, any of these that
are to be removed should be utilised
sb Are wood or in some otfcer way.
Lazge bushy topped trees often take
up enough land for 10 good trees. If
WAMTTONBURG
NEWS
Mn. C. T. Hick* Mrs. I. J. Room
and Betty Sue Hicks were Goldsboro
visitors, Monday.
Pvt. Ed- Shirley, of Camp Meade,
Md., spent the weak end hare with
his family. ..
Mimes Ola Grace Gardner^ Fiances
Moon Dixon and Prances Shirley
visited relatives in Raleigh dating
the week end.
Mim Evelyn Cobb spent the week
end with friends at Chkod.
Miss Eunice Parked of the local
school faculty, spent the weak end at
her home in Woodland.
Miss Virginia Page ' Davis spent
the week end at her home in Mil
waukee.
Mr. and Mrs. GT W. Bailey and]
Misses Marjorie Dean Garris, Lucille
White and Grace Draughan attended
the May Day exercises at E.C.T.C.,
Saturday.
Hairy Dempsey, of Raleigh, visited
friends at the teocherage Sunday.
Miss Hilda Corwin was the guest
of her sister, Misb Dorothy Corwin in
Winterville during the week end.
Carl T. Hicks left Mojriay night to
attend a Farm Bureau meeting hi
Washington, D. C., this week.
Mis&ej Evelyn Cobb and Annie Sue
Hunsucker were Kenly visitors, Sat
urday.
Mr. and Mis. Jason Shirley and
children visited relatives hear Wil
son, Sunday.
Mrs. Herbert Garris has returned
to her home in Phoebus, Va., after a
few weeks visit with her father, R.
D. H. Gay.
Mrs. Edward Hardy spent the week
end here with relatives.
Misses Evelyn Cobb and Page Davis
were Elm City visitors, Monday.
Miss Mary Louise Ott spent the
week end at her home in Raleigh.
Miss Sara Griffin spent the week
end at her home in Lynchburg, S. C.
Members of the Men's Club erter
ained their wives and the school
faculty at a barbecue supper Tuesday
night. B. L. Davis, as program lead
er, conducted a musical contest.
these big trees are deadened, they
will soon die and good trees will take
their places.
Another form of release cutting is
the destruction of vines that may de»,
a troy an otherwise valuable tree. This
can usually be done by cutting the
vines near the roots.
"One farmer keeps his woods vine
free by merely carrying a bush axe
every timQ he goes into his wood
land," Blanchard explains. "If he
sees a vine climbing a tree, he cuts
it. The result; wajOhat in the hoar
I spent in his woods, I saw no vines
that were damaging trees although
an adjoining ana was almoat a jun
gle. TVia farmer is growing a crop
of valuable trees. The adjoining own
er was growing a crop of rattle
snakes and brush."
You hire a secretary expecting her
to do most of your work but too often
she turns out to be just another
duster, picker-upper, and arranger.
Producers' selling prices have been
advanced about IK cents a pound to
encourage farmers to produce more
young chickens this summer. The
increase will be effective from July
1 through December.
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• HEAR BIBLE LECTURE® •
F. A. JULIAN
Representative of Watchfower Society
SUMY, MAY ifiM P.
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Farm Oean-Up Week
Win Pay Dividends
Livestock (mm in North Caro
line can do ao better job at thia time
than .declare a apring claan-up week,
«aya Dr. C. D. Grinaella, Agricultural
Experiment Station peterinarian at
State College.
A thorough cleaning of the barn
yard* and livestock^quarters to elimi
one of the beat met} ode o€ <ln nwi
ing production tm& and increasing
tbe meat supply at a time when it is
ao vitally needed in the war effort.
Grinneflg suggests that all .build
ings when young animals are to be
bom or boueSd be thoroughly disin
fected. Clean up yards or lota that
may harbor parasites and disease
germs. Drain yaxds where water
stands and fence off thoae areas that
can not be properly drained. Such
places are ideal breeding spots fur
germs.
Old staw stacks may harbor
worms, parasites, and disease. Ma
nure is a prolific source of parasites.
Pick up nails, glass, and other sharp
objects that animals may fwallow
with fatal result.
One at the best methods of keeping
animals healthy and thrifty is to put
them on a clean pasture or a good
tempoiary grazing crop.
"As you drive down the road, pick
every grazing crop that you see, you
wiB find hundred^ ctf fields that
«hr«nU4 now rurtuahing graetag.
G& jw cfaUdwti to iota with you ia
picking: out |ust the right spots for
gTaring crop* between home and
town, and mate * fame of It Don't
forget to seat sack * plot this awm
mer and another this fall."
W. v . ...I, , "4 ■
Twelve to fifteen tomato plants
per peraon are needed to furnish
fresh tomatoes and some etrtra tor
canning, t r*T j-^. <g.
Farmville Retail
lumber Yard
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Windows, Doors, Roofing,
Gypsum Products, Cdotex
Wall Board and Ceiling.
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Depot — Fararille. N. C.
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