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Walter Parks went to feed his
cows on the Ina Lentz farm Tues
day and found his bull in a well
in the bam lot about to drown.
Getting him out was a sight to
see, but it was done and the ball
was able to walk away. The lift
ing was done by wrecker from
Hoke Auto Co. ~
PAUL DICKSON
Editor and Publisher
Entered as second-class mail matter at the post
office at Rafeford, N. C., under the Act of March 3, 1870.
SO See All-Day
Demonstration On
Landscaping Wed.
MlttB ABOUT
County Corn Growing
year. This covers some 18,000
acres and a substantial increase in
yield per acre would mean con
siderable increase in the monetary
value of the crop. With the use
of better production practices this
increase in yield can be made.
Too. the increase in livestock in
the county is dependent . on an
abundant .supply of home grown
feed and corn is the basic grain
of all livestock feed, therefore es
sential to livestock development.
The county agent recommends
that the practices listed below be
used to bring about this increase
in yield. (11 Use an adapted cer
tified corn-hybrid. Yellow-N. C.
27; White-Dixie 17.
(2) Fertilize with 200-500 lbs.
5-10-10 or 6-8-6 per acre on well
prepared seed bed.
(3) Provide adequate stand.
(a) Use seed of high germina
tion
(b) Use correct size planting
plate (use file to adjust cell sizes
if necessary)
(c) Plant 14 to 16 inches a-
part in 3 to 3 foot rows.
4) Control weeds and grass
early by use of weeder and avoid
late or deep cultivation. Cultivate
shallow {Vi' to 2”) until corn is
2% to 3 ft. high, then stop culti
vation.
(5) Sidedress at time of last cul
tivation with 2 lbs. actual nitrogen
for each additional bushel of corn
desired above normal acre yield
of the field. Under average con
ditions. use 64 to 96 lbs. of nitro
gen per acre. That is—
200 to 300 lbs. of ammonium
nitrate.
320 to 470 ibs. of Calnitre or
other 20.5% material.
400 to 600 lbs. Nitrate of Soda.
(Also use 50 to 100 lbs. Muriate
of Potash per acre on most of our
soils.)
The sponsoring and financing of
this contest is being done by the
follow'ing business concerns:
An all-day Landscaping Dem
onstration was held at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Shockley
of Pittman Grove Community on
Wednesday, March 28. John H.
Harris, Extension Horticulturist,
was present and superivsed the
demonstration. Sixty men and wo
men of the county attended the
meeting and helped with the
Upchurch Milling Company, The
Bank of Raeford, The Johnson
Company, McLauchlin Company,
T. B. Upchurch, Inc. (Seed Dept.),
Dundafrach Trading Company,
Johnson Cotton Company.
^Awards offered are: First Prize,
$75.00; Second Prize, $50.00; Third
Prize, $45.00; Fourth Prize, $15.00.
All farmers in Hoke County are
encouraged to enter the contest by
filing the following entry blank
at the local County Agent’s office
by May 15.
Shrubbery was planted both as
foundation planting near the
house, as screen planting in the
back and also a side border of
azaleas was planted along one
side the lawn. Mr. Harris showed
the proper method of planting the
different shrubs, with the use of
leaf mold, sawdust and fertilizer
as well as use of mulches.
A Ford tractor and equipment
was furnished by the Hoke-Scot-
land Tractor Company for use in
grading, discing and leveling the
lawn. Manure was disced in, the
lawn leveled and smoothed with
a weeder and the fertilizer applied.
The lawn was again worked with
a weeder, the grass sown and then
raked with hand rakes.
The drive-way was laid out,
bedded and packed forming a
circle on one side of the house,
and walkways were prepared by
using brick sides filled with pine
straw.
c&lbcm^ MANT DUS
WIU Harrington, .d9-year-oid
colored man, died suddenly at his
home in Blue Springs township
last Thursday. He had spent his
entire life in this county and was
well regarded by white and color
ed alike in his community. He was
buried at Mt. Grove, his boyhood
church, on Sunday afternoon. He
leaves a wife and eight children.
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-Hiivi i^nith, Mr. and Mrs.
Henty Maxwell, Mr. and lihrs.
Graham Clark, Sgt and Mrs. Al
britton and guests, and Sgt. and
Mrs. Melvin Bouse.
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visiting Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dick
son and family, left Thursday fbr
Troy, Pennsylvania, where she wai^
called on account of ^e serious
illness' of an u^lcle.
FFA BOYS WIN CAGE MEET
The Hoke County High School
FFA basketball team won in the
district tournament at Ellerbe last
Thursday and Friday.
Teams other than Hoke High
participating were Ellerbe, Rock-
ingham, Laurinburg. Hoffman,
and Laurel Hill.
Capt and Mrs. Joe Hoffman of
Fort Bragg were here Sunday and
Monday • with Mrs. Hoffman’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Blue.
Miss Gwen Gore of UNC and a
classmate, Miss Nancy Nunez of
Baltimore, Maryland, Miss Anne
Gore of. Duke University and a
classmate, Harry Keziah of High
Point, were week end visitors in
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
D. Gore.
Mr. and Mrs. Zane Grey Norton,
who came here last Thursday to
visit -Mrs.' J. M. Norton, spent Sat
urday night and Sunday in Wil
mington. They came back by here
before leaving for Ringgold, Va.,
where Mrs. Norton will remain
with her parents -while Mr. Nor
ton yx>ntinues his studies at Duke
University. Mrs. Norton is em
ployed at the First National Bank
in Danville.
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Hall have
both been sick this week. Both had
influenza.
Carole Teal, daughter of Mr.
and' Mrs. Raymond Teal, under
went an appendectomy at Moore-
County hospital last week.^ She
returned home the latter part of
the -week and is recuperating
nicely. '
THE BANK OF RAEFORD
PRESENTS
INTERESTING FAaS ABOUT NORTH CAROUNA
Mr. and Mrs., Graham Clark
have moved into an apartment in
the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. R.
Hampton.
ENTRY BLANK
I hereby make application to enter the 1951 Hoke Coun
ty Corn Growing Contest.
NAME
ADDRESS
COMMUNITY
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Mr. and Mrs. Zane Gre^ Norton
and Mrs. J. M. Norton visited Mr.
andxMrs. J. W. Smith in Vass last
Friday and attended the funeral
of Mrs. W. J. Cameron that after
noon. .
Earl Wilfong of Gastonia, for
merly with The News-Journal,
was a week end visitor in Raeford.
Mrs. Crawford Thomas visited
her mother in Aberdeen Sunday.
Mrs. Freeman has not been well
for 'several weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Haywood Fair-
cloth, Miss Doris Bradley and her
father, and Mr. and Mrs. Neil
Sen ter attended the Azalea Festi
val in Wilmington Saturday, visit
ed Orton plantation and then went
to see friends in Jacksonville, N.
C.
Mrs. A. K. Currie, who was a
patient at Moore County hospital
last week, has returned home and
is feeling much better.
Many people from this vicinity
went to Wilmington Sunday to
see the azaleas. Among those go
ing were Miss Annie McKelthan,
s^Ate flag
The first legislation on the subject of establishing and recog
nizing a State Flag was in the year 1861. The present model
of the Flag was adopted in 1885. It consists of a blue field
with a white star in the center. The letter N, in gilt, is on the
left of the star and the letter C on the right The fly of the
Flag consists of^two equally proportioned bars, the upper
red, and the lower white. The two dates symbolize the sig^iing
of Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence and the date
North Carolina concurred with the other delegates in (declar
ing independence.
THE BANK OF RAEFORD
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’"-'member Rosie the Riveter in the last
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Well, all over our busy country, defense
plants will soon be asking women by the
thousands to come back to work on war jobs.
This time, it will be easier for these house-
wivn to take a job AND run their homes,
tool IN THE LAST TEN YEARS, AMER
ICAS HOMES HAVE BECOME HIGHLY
MECHANIZED WITH MILLIONS OF
AUTOMATIC TIME AND LABOR-SAV
ING APPLIANCES LIKE STOVES AND
REFRIGERATORS THAT TURN THEM
SELVES ON AND OFF. Now, more than
ever, homemakers leave household jobs to
Reddy Kilowatt, their automatic electric ser
vant, while they^help Uncle Sami
Reddy will be ready, too! THERE’S
plenty 6f ELECTRIC POWER TO
TAKE CARE OF OUR DEFENSE NEEDS
AND OUR HOMES, thanks to the business
men who run our electric industry, i
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early spriilS ndts
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