State Announces
Year's 4-H Events
Theme of North Carolina's more
than 120,000 4-H cli(b members (or
their 1951 program will be -"Work
ing Together for World ? Under
standing," according to I. R. Har
rill, State 4-H leader for the State
College Extension service.
A schedule of outstanding 4-H
events for the year was announced
this week by Harrill.
National 4-H Club week will be
held March 3-11; National 4H
Camp, Washington, June 13 20;
National 4-H Achievement Week,
November 3-11; and National 4-H
Club Congress, Chicago, November
25-29.
Highlight of the State program
will be State 4-H Club Week, to be
held at State College July 23-28.
The State Wildlife Conference will
be held August 20-24; Young Uen
and Women's Club Conference
a^d Rural Youth Talk Meet, Au
gust 27-31; Farm and Home Eleo
trlc Congress, Raleigh, during No
vember.
JOther events include; Tractor
Maintenance Schools, January 22
2^ and January 25-27; 100-Bushel
Cam Club Speaking Contest, Jan
uary 26; 4-H Church Sunday, Ap
P4< I 29; poultry shows, September
aild October; State Fair, October.
Completed applications for Na
tional 4-H Camp delegates and
Slate Honor Club candidates are
dj|e in the State office by April
5^ Summaries of wildlife project
records are due by July 22; county
winning records except crops, by
Qftober 15, and crops records, by
Npvember 10.
Farm production in the United
States has increased 20 per cent
sipce 1941, while the number of
farm workers has dropped by one
Million in the same period.
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round. In the put five years,
ladino clover ? seeded with tall
fescue or orchard grass ? has
been established successfully in
every one of the state's 100 coun
ties.
Sharp impetus wai given the pro
gram in the past year with organiza
tion of a "Green Pastures" cam
paign aimed at the 2,000,000-ac
re goal by the end of 1932. Co
operating are the Governor's of
fice, all agricultural agencies,
seedsmen, f^ftilizer dealers, farm
machinery dealers, and bankers.
Their watchword is ladino.
At Wake Forest, in northern
Wake county, the W.JV. Holding
farm offers a striking example
ol what ladino can do for the pas
ture program. In mid-December,
following the state's coldest fall
in many years, Manager John Rich
had the farm's dairy cows graz
ing contentedly in a pasture of
ladino and fescue.
The pasture is a 20-acre plot
which was seeded two years ago.
That happened after Holding and
Rich gave up on efforts to devel
op it as a natural pasture. In all,
they have 200 acres of improved
pastures, some in ladino-fescue,
and some in ladino-orchard grass.
They seeded 80 acres more this
past fall and plan to seed another
60 acres next fall. The pattern
they follow is to start with alfalfa,
followed by pasture seeding. In
this way. Rich points out, the
land provides income while the
farm's herd is being built up
There are 200 cows and calves ?
mostly dairy ? on the farm. Hold
ing's beef cattle, a sideline, live
entirely on pasture. R$ch plans to
grate the dairy cows regularly
throughout the winter. Up to
mid-Decamber, the cows, hadn't
a day on pasture, and up to the
first of the month had had no
grain at all. Then they began get
ting a supplemental daily ration of
10 pounds of dehydrated alfalfa
and ground corn, cobs and shucks.
Production was running at lour
gallons of milk per day per cow.
In the spring, when the cows go
back on pasture entirely (and
Rich sayrf that then you can't
make them eat anything else), pro
duction will rise to five gallons.
An even more striking recom
mendation for improved pastures.
Rich thinks, is the result he got
with beef calves in 1950.
"We sold seven calves," he says.
'The oldest was seven and a half
months and the youngest was five
and a half. The biggest was 650
pounds live weight. They aver
aged 300 pounds dressed weight ?
not counting the live|rs, which
weighed about six pounds apiece.
"We made that entirely on pas
ture. And we did it in just those
few months."
Su< cusses like these are not is
olated cases in North Carolina. You
can find the same sort of thing go
ing on all across the state as more
farmers join in the "Green Pas
tures" campaign.
But the field isn't crowded by
toy means. Beef is alwajrt in de
Band, and despite Its increasing
milk production. North Carolina
isn't self - sufficient in milk. The
rise in production is not keeping
op with th? rise in consumption.
Each year more farmer* ? not
only North Carolinians but alio
many who are coning in from oth
er states ? are finding North Car
olina to be a land of opportunity
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