Farmers Should Consider
Improving Yields of Cotton
Farmers should seriously consid- •
er doing some experimenting on
Cotton this year, Mark Goforth,
Jr., Wayne farm agent, declared
this week, pointing out thh aver
age cotton yield has not increased
in the past 20 years, while other
crop yields have more than dou
bled during the same period.
Other crop yields, the farm agent
said, have increased by using five
simple practices: improved vari
eties and good seed; heavier fertili
zation to suit the crop; more plants
per acre; control of disease, insects
and nematodes; harvesting to suit
the given crop.
Goforth said chances are farmers
have not used enough fertilizer and
is urging them to increase their
top dressing on at least a part of
their crop. The farm agent said he
is unable to give an exact recom
mendation but stated that farmers
can safely increase nitrogen top
dressing.
Goforth also urges farmers to
use from 50 to 75 pounds of 48 to
50 per cent potash, if they did not
use a heavy potash fertilizer. This
additional potash, he said, will keep
the leaves green and help mature
more and heavier bolls.
The farm agent recommends that
farmers have a final stand of three
to four stalks per foot of row. This
is thicker than most farmers leave.
Heavier fertilization and a thick
er stand will increase yields, and
the cotton will not grow too big a
stalk, Goforth asserted.
Another practice Goforth be
lieves will help increase cotton
yields is to use plenty of insecti
cides. “We always know that tot
ton will be attacked by top lice,
boll weevils, boll worms, and red
spiders, and some years they are
worse than others,” the agent de
clared, “but we know they are
coming so let’s not put it off, let’s
put it on.
“So many times we do not have
equipment to poison cotton. Yet at
the same time, we can always find,
buy, or borrow some type of equip
ment to poison tobacco.”
Goforth said it will not cost
very much to follow this practice (
since 100 pounds of dust w ill easily J
dust one acre seven times, using .
14 pounds of dust each application. |
*He also reminds farmers than no j
one dust will control all cotton i
insects.
In the past, Goforth concluded,
Wayne county and Eastern North
Carolina was a real cotton-prduc
ing area, but in the past 10 years
many farmers have stopped or
drastically reduced their cotton ac
reages, even in those years when
there were no allotments.
Honesty is- a good policy, and al
ways commands a high premium.
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PROMOTED — Airman
George L. Pearsall, son of
Ben Pearsall of Mount Ol
ive, has been promoted to
Airman First Class, the U. S.
Air Force has announced.
8th Graders
Go to Beach
For Party
Mount Olive’s Eighth Graders
were entertained by their grade
parents at a beach party Saturday,
•>t Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Summer
lin’s apartment at Surf City.
On arrival, the group enjoyed
a swim in the ocean. Then a fried
chicken dinner was served picnic
ctyle.
After dinner most the group
went to New Topsail for a skating
party. A few of the boys and some
fathers went fishing.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Whitfield
and Mr. and Mrs. Jarvis Carter
furnished trucks for the hay ride
to and from the beach.
Others who accompanied the
group were: Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
Batson, Mr. and Mrs. Preston Sut
ton, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Daughtry,
Mr. and Mrs. Marion Butler, Mr.
and Mrs. L. R. Sutton, Mrs. Rus
sell Parker, Mrs. David Cook, Mrs.
Jack Weatherly and Mrs. Jimmy
Wells.
Two Explorer Scouts, Harry
Cooke and David Gillis, served as
life guards for the swimming
party.
Eighth grade boys attending
were: Vann May, Jackie Faucette,
Billy Overton, Jerry Norris, Jimmy
Batson, Robert Flowers, Carl Ray
Davis, Jr., Billy Bracey.
Billy Daughtry, P. K. Sutton,
Donald Rivenbark, Harold Cook,
Jimmy Best, Bill Outlaw, Reginald
Carter, Bobby Grady, George Hall,
and David Millard.
Eighth grade girls attending
were: Hedy Parker, Betty Ruth
Anderson, Janice Jones, Judy Wil
son, Blonnie Howell, Mavis Sum
merlin, Jo Ann Weaver, Elizabeth
Combs, Ellen Kornegay, Jo Ann
Hollowell, Blanche Casey.
Norma Carol Summerlin, Geral
dine Whitfield, Joyce Grice, Betsy
Sutton, Lovie Mae Hinson, Deloris
Butler, “Snow” Miller, Linda Skip
per, Hilda Smith, Diana Porter,
Kathy Weatherly, and Carolyn
Boone.
David Holliday Is
Now in Puerto Rico
Army Private David J. Holliday;
son of Mrs. Marie Holliday, route
4, Mount Olive, recently arrived at
Camp Losey, Puerto Rico, and is
now a member of the 23rd Infan
try division.
Pvt. Holliday, who was graduat
ed from Douglas high school in
1954, is a wireman in Headquarters
Co., of the division’s 65th Regi
ment.
He entered the Army last No
vember and completed basic train
ing at Camp Gordon, Ga.
Mrs. Tatum
Dies Friday
In Goldsboro
Mrs. Harry W. Tatum of Golds
boro died'in Wayne Memorial hos
pital, Goldsboro, Friday.
She was the former Marie Gos
selin of Mount Olive and Ironton,
Ohio, and was a charter mAnber of
the Mount Olive Galatea club.
Requiem mass was said yester
day morning at St. Mary’s Roman
Catholic church, with the Rt. Rev.
Monsigner Edward T. Gilbert of
ficiating. Burial was in Willow
Dale cemetery.
Surviving in addition to her hus
band are one daughter, Miss Mae
Tatum of the home; one brother,
L. E. Gcsselin of Flatwood, Ky.;
one sister, Pauline Gosselin of
Columbus, Ohio.
Principal of Seven
Springs Is Named
H. E. Rogers has been appoint
ed principal of Seven Springs
school for the 19S5-56 term, Clay
Brown Dale, chairman of the
school board, announced this week.
Rogers, who for the past five
years has served as principal of
Parkton school in Robeson county,
succeeds R. C. Russell, who resign
ed to become principal at Pike
ville.
The new principal is married
and the father of two children. The
Rogers are expected to arrive in
Seven Springs in July, Dale report
ed.
Earl Davis Chosen
For Summer Camp
Earl Davis, 4-H club member at
Brogden, has been selected to at
tend the American Youth Founda
tion camp this summer.
Davis, son of Mr. and Mrs. John
Davis of the Brogden township,
was selected on his over-all 4-H
club work, which ranks him about
the top three in the state in the
boys’ division.
News of the Negro
Population
(By Mr*. Maud* Kam*t*y)
The Wayne County Junior Mis
sionary Union will be held with the
Shady Grove Missionary Baptist
church Sunday, June 5, beginning
at 11 a. m. Mrs. C. A. Boney of
Goldsboro, junior supervisor, will
preside.
Mrs. Luther Peterson has an-'
nounced the marriage of her
daughter, Sadie, to Richard
Emanuel Hunt Saturday, May 21,
in Philadelphia, Pa. They are re
siding at 1730 W. Master street in
Philadelphia.
' Mrs. Lee Ingram and daughter,
Mrs. Anne Lee, and Henry Solice,
Jr., of Durham were among out of
towners attending the funeral of
Sim Jarman.
Mrs. Katie Holloway end Napo
leon Lane of Kinston visited Mrs.
Cora E. Wynn Friday.
Mrs. Chelsie Boney and Mr. and
Mrs. John Carr and son of Golds
boro visited here Saturday.
Mrs. Diana Brooks is ill with
a broken leg in the Wayne Mem
orial hospital.
UNFAIR RACE
Buffalo, N.Y. — Seeing- a 14
year-old boy abandon a stolen car,
Patrolman Edward W. Schultz,
40, tried to stop him. The boy
ran and failed to heed two warn
ing shots. The chase was a breeze
for Schultz, however, who hung
up his track shoes only last year.
He collared the boy after a race
of only two and a half blocks.
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to pay to be courted—tennis courted, that is. Six shillings in the
meter buys light for one hour’s night play at the Queen’s Park
Lawn Tennis Club, Bournemouth, Hampshire, England. The unique
“pay as you play” plan has attracted the interest of some American
tennis clubs.
Need 2 More Teams
For Midget Softball
Dave McClenny, director of the
Mount Olive summer recreation
program, reported this week he
needs at least two more teams if
a midget baseball league is to be
formed.
He said two groups already have
expressed interest in sponsoring
teams but that at least four will be
needed if a midget league is to be
organized. Any church or individ
ual organization, he said, willing to
sponsor clubs for boys, 9, 10, 11,
and 12 years of age should contact
him immediately.
Firemen Called for
Same Shed Twice
The Mount Olive fire depart
ment twice was called to put out
a blaze at a storage shed in the
alley back of Patterson Brothers
Furniture company Friday, but
damage to the building was light,
Fire Chief Edgar Summerlin report
ed.
The building first caught fire
that morning, and in mid-afternoon
the department once again was
called to extinguish a blaze. Sum
merlin said the blazes apparently
started from sparks blowing from
i nearby trash fire.
Early Side Dressing Most
Important on Cotton Crop
By MARK GOFORTH
Wayne Farm Agent
We often get complaints from
farmers that they do not receive
benefits from applying nitrogen as
a side dressing according to recom
mendations. The farmer feels
that he does not either get a re
sponse from nitrogen, or the nitro
gen affects the cotton production
adversely under insect conditions
especially the late boll worm dam
age.
Investigation shows these con
ditions, while true, are often
caused by applying the nitrogen
too late. Results of experiments in
North Carolina show the import
ance of early side dressing at the
time cotton is chopped against late
dressing or split application.
The following information is
summarized from these tests:
When 60 pounds of actual nitro
gen (equivalent of 300 pounds of
20 per cent ANL) was used as a
late side dressing, 1,250 pounds of
seed-cotton per acre was produced.
When 20 pounds of nitrogen (equi
valent of 100 pounds of 20 per cent
ANL) was used as early side dress
ing and 40 pounds of nitrogen (equi
valent of'200 pounds 20 per cent,
ANL) was used as late side dress
ing the yield was increased by 175
pounds of lint to 1,425 pounds of
seed cotton per acre.
The greatest increase came when
60 pounds of actual nitrogen was
used as a early side dressing. This
gave an increase of 375 pounds of
seed cotton over the yield when the
same amount of side dressing was
used as a late side dressing.
Hervey Kornegay Is
Fraternity Officer
Hervey B. Kornegay, Jr., son of
Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Kornegay. of
Calypso, recently was elected vice
president of the Phi Chi Medical
fraternity of the Bowman Gray
School of Medicine, Winston-Salem.
This was the second honor con
ferred upon the Calypso native this
spring, as he also was elected vice
president of the student body earli
er this year. Kornegay, who attend
ed Calypso High school, is a rising
junior at Bowman Gray.
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NEWS
The 68-day-old telephone strike
was settled this week and will end
with the ratification of the contract
which is to be completed not later
than Friday.
' The one-ypar agreement includes
the basic provisions which South
ern Bell has insisted are essential
to assure uninterrupted service to
the public while the contract is i^^
force, according to George Ti^B
lor, manager of the .telephone un^^
A possible further slow down of
the mass anti-polio inoculations of
school children loomed this week
as the government reportedly con
templated further tightening of
safety standards for the Salk vaic
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