jPoole’s Medley
BT D. SCOTT POOLE
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Old people believed that snow
fertilized the land an^ snows do
improve the land becatise they
cause the grass and weeds on it
to decay n^iich furnishes humus
in the soil.
Ihe first big snow I recall was
iu Much 1864. A number of
fanners had planted tiieir com
crops,' so it must have been late
in the month when the snow came.
It was a zeal blizzard accompan
ied by high winds.
the insects that prey upon tbe
crops and in not having much
snow for the past 22 years, in
sects are more plentifuL .
The boll weevil makes news in
the paper while he remains in the
South. In 1921, they arrived in
North Carolina. In 1924, they did
lots of damage and then again
this year, 1949.
The next big snow came in
1876, on Saturday, night before
Christmas on Sunday and snow
ed hntil late Monday. It reached
the depth of two feet or a little
over. 'Hie ground was frozen and
except on the roads where ve
hicles stimed it, it covered the
ground imtil the middle of March.
. On Ihe 11th day of February,
1899, the next big snow feU. A
very cold northwest wind drifted
the snow considerably but it aver
aged a little more than two feet.
It began falling on Saturday and
continued until ^ Monday and on
Tuesday morning, the thermom
eter registered 14 degrees below
zero.
The next two-foot snow came
on March 2, 1927, 22 years ago.
When the snow began falling, the
weather wasn’t cold enough for
ice. It must have fallen very fast.
I was up until 11 o’clock and it
had not started. The next morning
there was 18 inches and it final
ly reached the depth of two feet.
The first snow of tiie winter
of 1894 came on Sunday night
after Christmas on Thursday be
fore. It was a five inch snow.
There was no more snow until
the first of February but between
February and the latter part of
March there were eleven more
snows, anywhere from six to
twelve indies deep.
North Carolina public schools
did not get started right. A lot
of money was actually wasted in
cheap houses imfit for the purpose
for which they were used.
We have cotton, com and tobac
co allotments. The government is
controlling us in how much we
must produce. Oiir freedom and
democratic form of government
are endangered. A few years of
prosperity will be poor pay for
the loss of our political freedom.
Consolidation of schools cost
almost all the school houses built
following Aycock’s school admin
istration.
One thing the people of this
country should do - they should
build fish ponds and grow their
own fish and furnish themselves
entertainment and fish - It’s a
great pleasure as well as good
business.
Governor Aycock became fam
ous as the “educational governor’’
about the turn of the century. He
declared “we must have a school
within the reach of every boy and
In 1912, it snowed every two
weeks in February and March
until there were 10 snows that
winter. The heaviest snow was
near the middle of March.
Several times in my life I re
member seeing clouds come up,
looking like rain clouds. It would
snow for a couple of'houts, two
to four inches. One of the pret
tiest I ever saw was since I came
to Raeford. The sun was shining,
and the air was full of snow. The
clouds had moved to the East a
little.
When there are severe cold
spells in winter and deep snows,
it does much toward destroying
The tobacco barn package
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yielding seed.
Grown on McNair Farms
By
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Company
LAURINBURG, N. C.
Sold By
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Raeford, N. C.
Dundarrach Trading Co.
> Rrl, Shannon, N. C.
Scotland Hardware Co.
Wagram, N. C.'
Z. V. Pate, Inc.
Laurel Hill, N. C.
W. G. Buie Co.
Wag|:am, N. C.
Plentiful Foods
For Month Listed
Apples, winter pears, and dried
beans and peas are first on the
U. S. Department of Agriculture’s
plentiful foods list for January,
the home agent for the State Col
lege Extension Service, reported
this week.
Winter pears are at their prime
in January she said, and the apple
crop, according to latest figures,!
is 50 percent larger than in 1948 |
and 20 percent bigger than the
average for the past 10 years.
Dried beans, USDA estimates,
will set a record this year. Both
dried beans and peas, classed as
excellent protein foods by USDA
nutritionists, are in ample supply
on Southern retail markets, the
home agent said.
Pick of the fruits from the
standpoint of quantity will be
cranberries, \ oranges, and dried
prunes and raisins. For specialty
foods, she,suggests the plentiful
tree nuts—walnuts, almonds, pe
cans, and filberts—as well as
honey, sugercane sirup, and mo
lasses.
Turkeys remain in the plentiful
class for January, and broilers
and fryers are also recommended
buys for January shoppers. For
stiU another choice in meats, she
ciiirctpotpH nnrk and Dork nroducts.
plentiful at reasonable supplies
of eggs are other protein foods
to be fotmd on January markets
in ample supply.
Good buys in green and canned
vegetables for January, she re
ported, will include cabbage,
spinach, cel«T^, lettuce and can
ned com.
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Over 20,000 Cows
Bred Artificially
More than a 70 per cent in
crease was made this year over
1948 in the number of North
Carolina cows bred under the
artificial Insemination program,
reports John F. Brown, extension
dairy specialist at State College.
An estimated 21,000 were bred
in 1949 as compared with only
12,600 last year. Brown says.
Anson and Jackson are the lat
est counties to organize artificial
breeding associations. With these
two units. Brown says, the State
now has 50 associations serving
farmers in 56 counties.
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Vacuum cooling offers an ex-|
tremely promising method for
conditioning certain vegetables
for shipment, recent tests by plant
scientists of the U. S. Department
of Agrictoture show.
As of last June 30. about 78.2
of the nation’s farms were elec
trified.
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