Poultryroen
Supply Beaufort,
Morehead Markets
Two Carteret poultrymen are
producing broilers on a large scale
and supply Beaufort and Morehead
City markets. They are Robert
Smith, West Beautort road, and
Douglas Lewis, Otway.
Smith, who several years ago
maintained both a rabbit and chick
en (arm, has now turned to pro
duction of chickens for the most
part.
Biddies are raised in individual
brooder houses, and at about two
weeks of age are placed in outside
pens which on each side have feed
ers and waterers.
Lewis, who has been operating
about three months, differs from
Smith in the methods of raisftig
hi:, poultry in that the chickens
are raised from biddie to market
able product in one large concrete
block building.
The building, 100 feet long by
40 feet wide, is divided into four
sections and is of 7,000 to 8,000
capacity. As the chicks grow, they
are moved from one section to the
Other and sold when their weight
teaches 2 to 3 pounds.
Home Agent lists
Plentiful Foods
The U. S. department of agricul
ture's list of plentiful foods for
March features eggs and apples,
Mrs. Carrie Gillikin, Carteret
county home agent for the State
College Extension service, said
this week.
Apple stocks are high for this
time of the year, and March, his
torically, brings increased egg
supplies to market, she said.
Protein foods on the plentiful
list include frozen fish fillets, cot
tage cheese, broilers, fryers, pea
nut butter, dry beans and heavy
turkeys.
Stocks of frozen fish fillets are
about 30 per cent larger than a
year ago, Mrs. Gillikin said. Among
the varieties in particularly good
?upply are haddock, cod, flounder,
cole and rosefish.
Lettuce, Irish potatoes, and
sauerkraut are the vegetables on
the list. There will also be plenty
of processed citrus fruits, along
with liberal supplies of honey for
March shoppers.
Lettuce supplies in March will
come from California, Arizona and
Florida. Improved yields in Ari
zona may more than offset the
heavy freeze loss of acreage in
Texas and lower yield prospects
in Florida, Mrs. Gillikin points
?ut. The forecast on Feb. 1 indi
cated a winter crop of li,553,000
crates, compared with 10,838,000
Crates last season.
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State 4-H Boy Wins Award
Sherley I. Blackburn, 20-year-old Mountain Park, N. C-, boy, wins
national 4-H Club forestry honors.
For outstanding achievements in
(arm forestry. Sherley J. Black
burn, pictured above, won a $300
scholarship plus an all-expense
paid trip to Chicago. The scholar
ship was presented November 30
at the twenty-ninth National 4-H
Club congress in Chicago.
The North Carolina youth ear
ned his award by putting sound for
estry practices to work on his
father's farm. In addition to plant
5,000 shortleaf pine trees on a
steep and eroded hilljide, young
Blackburn spotplanted 500 white
pines in the farm woodlot after
improvement cutting.
He also thinned two separate
one - acre plots on the farm wood
lot and planted a half-acre wild
life border of sericea and bi-color
t^pedeza. In all his farm for
estry work, the Mountain Park
4-H winner strives for standing im
provement by cutting scrubby trees
for firewood and leaving straight
sound trees for more valuable
timber crops.
In the last seven years young
Blackburn has made a profit of
W.525 from his 33 4-H club pro
jects including forestry, dairy, ba
by beef, tobacco, wildlife, garden,
corn, pig. soybeans and pasture
improvement.
Blackburn hopes to use his schol
arship to attend Appalachian Tea
cher's college at Boone, N. C.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Fred A. Blackburn of Mountain
Park.
Each year four national winners
receive scholarships from Ameri
4-H Advisor Releases
March Club Schedule
James AUgood, 4-H advisor, to
day released the schedule of 4-H
meetings for the coming weeks.
They are as follows:
Today, Beaufort school, 10:49 a.
m.; Thursday, March 8, Atlantic,
junior club at 9:35 a.m. and senior
club at 10:15 a.m.; Monday, March
12, Smyrna, junior club at 9:30 a.
m. and senior club at 10:30 a.m.;
Morehead City, 1:47 p.-m.
Tuesday, March 13, Camp Glenn
school, 1 p.m.; Wednesday, March
14, Newport, senior club at 2 p.m.
and junior club at 2:44 p.m.
can Forest Products Industries of
Washington, D. C. This public ser
vice organization, representing the
nation's leading wood-dependent
industries, encourages the Tree
Farm system and Keep Green pro
grams, both active in North Caro
lina.
Purpose of the 4-H forestry
award is to interest American
youth in farm woodlands as a
source of income and to encourage
good forestry practices through
tree farming.
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We Now Have A
New Shipment Of
OAKDALE TWINE
SAM L1PMAN& SONS
NEW BERN, N. C.
Farmers Waal to Kanr
Question: My nearest neighbor
planted a hybrid corn variety last
year on a plot next to my farm.
I noticed that the corn looked
good while it was growing, but he
tells me the yield was very disap
pointing. Can you give any ex
planation?
Answer: Your neighbor evident
ly used non-certified seed of Mid
west hybrid ? in other words, a hy
brid variety not adapted for plant
ing in North Carolina. Simply se
lecting a corn hybrid is not enough
to insure good yields. For best
results, choose certified seed of a
hybrid variety adapted for use in
North Carolina.
Question: Is there any way to
store home-rendered lard so that
it will keep longer than a few
months without becoming rancid?
Answer: Yes. Experiment Sta
tion scientists have found that
home-made lard will keep well
for a year if sealed in glass jars
while hot and stored at room tem
perature or below. You should
cool the jars quickly and store
them in a cool, dark place. Freez
ing is also effective. Place the lard
in a moisture-proof container and
store at 0? F.
Question: When is the best time
for top-dressing small grains?
Answer: Between February 15
and March is the best time for
applying nitrogen top-dressing in
North Carolina. If it's put on be
fore March 15 yields will be high
er than if application is delayed
beyond that date.
Native Materials
Cot Fence Costs
As North Carolina's livestock ex
pands, more and more farmers are
facing the problem of keeping
down fencing costs. Best way to do
this, says N.C. Teter of the North
Carolina Agricultural Experiment .
Station, is to use native materials
whenever possible and build sturdy
fences that will last.
"It costs no more to put up a
good strong fence than to erect a
shoddy, poorly stretched fence that
has to be repaired constantly," says
the State College agricultural en
gineer. "If fences are well planned
and carefully built, they will last
15 to 20 years without too much
attention ? and that's where the "
farmer saves money."
Posts are the limiting factor in
fence-building, since they are us
ually the first part to break down.
However, Teter says the Tar Heel
State is fortunate in having availa
ble plenty of native materials
which can be used for making long- -
lasting posts.
Poles obtained by thinning a pine
stand make excellent, long-life
posts when properly treated, says
the agricultural engineer. Of the
untreated woods used for posts,
black locust has the longest life.
Because of the plentiful supply
and ease of treating, however, pine
poles probably are the most practi
cal for use in North Carolina.
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