THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18; 1951
PAGE FOUR
THE NEWS-JOURNAL
square feet of leaf pile surface.
A complete fertilizer such as a
6-8-6 or 8-8-8 can be used or
sulphate ammonia or nitrate of
soda will be satisfactory. Along
with the fertilizer each layer of
leaves may be covered with a
bout an inch of garden soil. The
fertilizer and garden soil serve as
rotting agents. When the pile of
leaves has been built up to the
desired height usually about
5 feet it is covered with a thin
layer of soil and allowed to stand
for 8 to 12 months. During this
time it must be kept wet. The
result will be a thoroughly rotted
mass of leaves which wc call
lcafmold.
This is not fertlizer like stable
manure but is an excellent soil
conditioner and a valuable sup
plement to most garden soils.
Lcafmold is usually very acid in
reaction nnd unless you are us
ing it around acid loving plants
such as azaleas, lime should be
added.
On large lawns leaf raking Is
a tedious chore. For- those who
can afford it there is available a
machine which picks up the
leaves, grinds them up into find
particles and spreads them back
over the grass in form that
will be beneficial rather than
harmful. Perhaps that is the best
solution to your problem.
Despite serious drought in
some parts of the country, total
farm output in .1954 is expected
to be only about 2 per cent be
low the highest record.
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Entered as second-class mail matter at the post
office at Raeford, N. C, under the Act of March 3, 1870.
State Highway
Work Report For
Hoke Is Given
The Slate Highway Commis
sion has completed 84.99 miles of
paving and built three bridges
since June, 1954, in the Eighth
Highway Division, Commissioner
Forrest Lockoy of Aberdeen re
ported this week.
The Eighth is composed of
Chatham, Hoke, Lee, Montgom
ery, Moore, Randolph, Richmond,
and Scotland counties. Division
headquarters have recently been
moved from Asheboro to a brand
new office building in Aberdeen.
T. G. Poindexter is division en
gineer; T. C. Johnston is assist
ant division engineer. John G.
Hall is district engineer at Ashe
boro; E. T. Brame will be dis
trict engineer at Rockingham.
In Hoke County, a bridge was
built over NC 211 and Aberdeen
and Rockfish Railroad at Rae
ford. The new bridge is 235.5 feet
in length and'has a 23-foot wide
roadway. The Raeford by-pass
for US 15-A was surfaced with
sand asphalt for 1.66 miles. The
bypass is 24 feet wide. The road,
which is on the secondary high
way system, from the north end
of the Raeford bypass to US 15
A was resurfaced, 24 feet wide,
with sand asphalt. The improve
ment is 3.4 miles in length. US
15-A was resurfaced with sand
asphalt, 22 feet wide, from the
west city limits o' Raeford for
0.8 mile to the junction of NC 211.
US 15-A was widened to 24 feet
and resurfaced with sand asphalt
from tiie Scotl.md-Hoke County
line for 8.33 miles to the west
city limits of Raeford. AU this
work was clone under contract
by the Balk'n;;er Paving Co.
Other work in Hoke included
surfacing, with sand asphalt the
following 13-foot wide secondary
roads, and their lengths: from
Rock fish Creek, north of Raeford
to Ft. Bragg Reservation, 2 4
miles: from Turnpike Road at
Buffalo Creek north to Montrose
Road, 1.5 miles; and from Turn
pike Road north to NC 211, 0.5
mile west of Timberlnnd, 2.8
miles. This work was done under
contract by Blythe Brothers Co.
State highway forces paved the
following 18-foot wide county
roads, and their lengths in Hoke
County: from Five Forks to Camp
McCall Road, 5.4 miles; from
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Camp McCall Road toward Ashley
Heights, 1.7 miles; from Rock-fish-Raeford
Road north to US
15-A, 1.3 miles; and from Rock
fish northeast to Cumberland
County line, 0.7 mile.
Commissioner Lockey commend
ed the State highway and con
tract forces for the fine work
completed in his division since
June.
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FMC Homecoming
Next Saturday
Miss Peggy Shinn, new presi
dent of the Flora Macdonald Col
lege Alumnae Association, has
announced an interesting pro
gram for the annual Homecom
ing Day at the college on Novem
ber 20.
Miss Shinn, a graduate of 1945,
is the dauhter of Mr. and Mrs.
T. P. Shinn of Leaksville-Spray.
and is presently employed by the
Carolina Iron and Steel Company
in Greensboro.
The morning program at Flora
Macdonald next Saturday will be
highlighted by an address by Hal
bcrt M. Jones of Laurinburg,
prominent North Carolina busi
ness man, and Chairman of the
Hoard of Trustees at Flora Mac
donald. An interesting feature of the
program wi'l be Scottish dances
. iu! bagpipe music, by Vivian1
Morrison of Nova Scotia, Can-j
aila, a member of the freshman '
clas at FMC, and champion j
Sword Dancer (with medals to
prove it!) of Nova Scotia. J
At the social hour in the col-i
lege parlors after the luncheon,
two interesting 'firsts' will pour
coffee Mrs. J. W. McLauchlin
of Raeford. who was a member
of the college's first faculty in
1396, and Mrs. S. B. McLean of
Charlotte, a member of the first
student body the same year. The
morning program will begin at
1 1 o'clock.
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State's Cotton Crop
Next To Smallest
In Over 60 Years
Graham's Department Store Inc.
RED SPRINGS, N. C.
Coat, lopper md Suit Sale
CONTINUES
Offering Reduced Prices Usually
Seen Only After Thanksgiving
We Invite You To Take
Advantage of Our EARLY,
EARLY SALE
Cotton production from the
1954 North Carolina crop is fore
cast at 355,000 bales as of Novem
ber 1. Such a crop would be 21
per cent, or 94,000 bales, less than
production last year and 30 per
cent, or 151,000 bales, below the
10-year average crop. With the
exception of the disastrous crop
of 1950, when only 181,000 bales
were harvested, the 1954 crop is
expected to be the smallest for
the State since 1892.
Picking operations are about
over this being one of the ear
liest harvests of record. Except
for the brief interruption caused
by Hurricane "Hazel", the 1954
harvest season has been almost
ideal for picking cotton. Fortun
ately, most of the cotton had been
gathered prior to the hurricane
and for the State as a whole
losses from this storm were not
too serious.
Census report as of November
1 shows that there were 7.1G0
bales of cotton ginned in Hoke
County from the crop of 1954
prior to November 1, as compared
to 10,934 bales ginned from the
crop of 1!)."3. This is a drop in
this county to only 65 per cent
of last year's crop.
Yields were cut sharply in
Piedmont counties by severe
drought conditions, but are turn
ing out above average in most of
the Coastal producing counties
Be alive in ' 55 with a
Roanoke-Holliday
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MILLINERY
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F,!:iE!LL SHOP
Laurinburg, N. C.
Now that coll weather is ap-1
racking the deciduous trees;
(oak, maples, poplars, etc.) are I
beginning to lose their leaves, i
Tiiis oflen presents a problem for
the home owner both in town
and country who wants to have
a neat yard or lawn. The usual
procedure is to rake up the leaves
and burn them. As deficient as
our garden soils are in organic
matter, burning leaves is waste
ful. It is true, of course, that the
leaves must be removed from the
lawn especially newly planted
grass or they w ill smother the
grass out.
The wise thing to do is to rake
the loaves and make a leaf com
post. Pile and rt them so that
th".v can be spread on the gar
i!in and ii. mrporated with the
soil or used as a mulrh around
s! rubs. Leaves are difficult to rot
if they are j'l.t uked up into a
pile. The corr.no't pile should be
built up in layers about a foot
deep. F.'u h laver should be!
thoroughly wet down and a small I
amount of a fertiliser high in I
nitrogen sprinkled over the lea- j
ves about one cup per 10 1
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KM) STICKS FEU HOUR OR BETTER
Ey the' OLD OBSOLETE hand method of harvesting
tobacco tlieie are 7 operations of handling tobacco. From
the ttalk to the barn door.
Ey the UP-TO-DATE method with a ROANOKE
HOLLIDAY HARVESTER THERE ARE ONLY 3 HAND
LING OPERATIONS. Yes, you handle your tobacco 2'i
times less. Each time you touch or handle tobacco, dam
age of quiility or loss of leaves of tobacco will be the re
sults. I
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Willi the Roanokc-Hollitiay Harvester equipped with its unique
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stick count, you will cet 120(1 sticks in pne 8 hour day or 1500 sticks
in one 10 hour day. This will save you approximately 70Tc of your
housing cost over other methods.
Willi this same unloading ELEVATOR you will handle your
tobacco less, theic-by, you do not injure the leaves in any way, nor
do you have any loss of leaves,. and too, you will have more pounds
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your total sales should be approximately 5r'o higher over previous
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