CARTERET COUNTY NEWS -TIMES
MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1952
Cattle Change Carteret County Farm Scene
Bayside Farms, Crab Point, Produces
Registered Holstein-Friesian Cattle
Like a color picture out of
a farm magazine, Bayside
Farms. Crab Point, sparkles
in white and green grandeur
before the eyes of the visitor.
By the broad waters of New
port river, on level pastures
graze registered Holstein
Friesian cattle.
The largest dairy farm in Car
teret county, Bayside Farms, own
ed and managed by Mr. and Mrs.
W. J. Blair, has attained state-wide
recognition and prominence in the
short period from January 1951
when it was changed over from a
truck farm to a milk-producing en
terprise.
Prizes Won
Three of Blair's black and white
beauties walked off with blue rib
f bons at the state fair a! Raleigh in
October. A two-year-old won first
prize: senior and grand champion
ship went to an age cow, and a
senior yearling won first prize and
junior champion.
For the grand championship two
of the Blair Holsteins were com
peting against each other. Noth
ing like keeping it in the family!
The late Dr. R. H. Ruffner of
State college, Raleigh, obtained
Bavside's first 15 Holsteins from
Pennsylvania. The herd now totals
60. An atmosphere of sadness pre
vailed as the Blairs and their right
hand man, Reuben Willing, man
ager, got the animals ready for
the showing for Dr. Ruffner pessed
away the day before the cattle were
entered. He would have been j
proud of those animals from the
newly-established dairy farm.
Forty-eight of Bayside's 300 acres
are in ladino pasture. As the herd
increases, more land is cleared and
put into pasture, the formula for
I efficient operating being one acre
of pasture for each milk-producing
| cow. Last year approximately 30
acres were cleared by dynamiting.
The herd yields daily 150 gallons
of milk which is sold to White's
dairy in Morehead City. Mechani
cal milkers drink up the milk from
the cows at 5 each morning and
4:30 each evening, yes, Sunday too.
Cows walk up a ramp to the three
stanchion "milking parlor" where
two are milked while the third
munches her daily quota of grain.
At present 32 head are being milk
ed. A certain number always stand
dry. The routine is 10 months of
milk-giving, then two months of
rest in preparation for bearing the
next calf.
For one and a half months after
a calf is born it is kept in the
"nursery" barn in wooden pens
raised off the floor to allow com
plete drainage and comfort. Un
til five months of age it stays in
a box stall, larger quarters, and
from five to 12 months is turned
into the exercise yard. At one
year it goes into the pasture and
is ready for breeding at 18 months.
Charlie Performs
Charlie, the bull, is quite a speci
men of roaring virility. All the
cows know him as Charlie but when
he's on show, the program reads
"Wisconsin Aristocrat Ideal."
Charlie's special pen is of heavy
posts sunk in concrete. Over his
inside stall is an apartment guest
house, designed for housing buy
ers who come to the farm planning
to purchase cattle.
Records Kept
A record is kept of each cow.
Because the marking on every Hol
stein is different, like human finger
prints, a plotting of their markings
is made on each individual record.
Mrs. Blair keeps the "books" and
statistics on each animal make gov
See BAYSIDE, Page I
Symbol of the new Carteret county is the dairy ccw. Producing purebred HolsteinFriesians are Mr.
and Mrs. W. J. Blair, viewing one of their prize milk-producers at Bayside Farms, Crab Point. Equally
proud of the animals is Reuben Willing, herd manager, right. (Photo by Jerry Schumacher)
B. J. May, PMA Secretary 9 Defends
Payment of Agriculture Subsidies
B. J. May. county PMA secre
tary, today released information on
agriculture subsidies. May's state
ment, explaining subsidies, follows:
Recent attacks on farmer subsi
dies* in the form of ACP payments
for part of the cost of carrying out
soil building measures on the farm
and charges that subsidies are un
American. have prompted friends
of the soil to prepare a few facts
on use of subsidies in America and
these are published here for the
benefit of the public. We who
work with the farmers and help to
administer the farm program,
would like the general public to
know the full story of subsidies.
Are "subsidies" un-American? In
searching for an answer to this
question the following facts were
developed:
1. Many of our original thirteen
colonies were planted on land
granted as a subsidy by the king
of England to a company or indi
vidual for real or expected favors
received or for personal friendship.
Examples of this are Maryland and
Pennsylvania.
2. British Parliament gave sub
sidies to American colonial indus
tries to encpurage production of
naval supplies such as tar, pitch
and turpentine. Some colonial as
semblies gave subsidies to encour
age production of hemp, sail-cloth,
indigo and linen.
3. One of the first laws passed
by U. S. Congress was a tariff
which have indirect subsidy to
American manufacturers through
price protection it afforded by
keeping out foreign competition.
4. Postal subsidies were granted
to special types of mail early in
history of U. S. Postal Service.
Much of press crying out against
farm subsidies still enjoys these
benefits. Post Office Department
deficit 1950 fiscal year amounted
to 521 million dollars all represent
ed by subsidies of one type or an
other.
5. Development subsidies were
granted to American railroads in
the form of 158 million acres of
land ? an area almost equal to the
state of Texas.
6. Subsidies have been granted
to states for many years for con
struction of roads and highways.
See SUBSIDIES, Page 4
Artificial Breeding Pays Off
Does artificial breeding give
good results?
A Union county farmer, Bradley
Reid of route 3, Waxhaw, has an
answer to that question.
According to T. C. Blalock, dairy
specialist for the State College
Extension service, Reid owns a
grade Guernsey heifer that result
ed from artificial breeding to the
registered Guernsey bull Beech
wood Ruler.
She was in turn bred artificially
and freshened at exactly two years
of age. In 305 days on twice daily
milking, she produced 8,350 pounds
of milk and 377 pounds of butter
fat.
"This is truly outstanding pro
duction for a first calf heifer and
represents almost twice the total
amount of milk produced by the
average cow in North Carolina,"
comments Blalock.
Another dairyman, Gordon Bak
er of Catawba county, has two
Guernsey heifers from artificial
breeding that recently freshened,
both with heifer calves. The first
heifer to freshen, sired by Elm
crest Peter Grey, is producing
more than 28 pounds of milk a day.
while the other heifer, sired by
Priscilla's Fashion Duke, is aver
aging more than 34 pounds of milk
per day. Both of these animals are
producing as much milk as their
dams, and Baker is sure they'll
soon be outmilking them.
Specialist Blalock points out that
it takes the same amount of time
and money to raise a heifer from
a poor bull as it does from a good
one. He believes artificial breed
ing will do much to raise average
milk production in the state from
its present low level of 4,600
pounds per cow annually.
The number of dairy cows
in Carteret county has dou
bled during the past 10 years
and beef cattle on Carteret
farms comprise a scene that
would amaze a visitor re
turning to these parts after
an absence of just five years.
Agriculture leaders and special
ists attribute the entry of cattle
on the Carteret picture to the
establishment of permanent pas
turelands. At one time the grow
ing of pasture which would with
stand the tugging and constant
chawing of feeding bovines was be
lieved an impossibility on this
loose, sandy loam.
Ladino clover and Kentucky fes
cue grass has changed that, and
thus the county's broad level
reaches of land are being cleared
of scrub pine, tangleweed, and
brush. With the opening of broad
ranges came the picturesque brown
and white Herefords while on
other farms the milk-producing
breeds are bringing in a year
round income to the farmer who
formerly depended solely on sea
sonal crops.
John Smith, near Sea Level, is
clearing land each year to provide
more grazing space for beef cattle.
Thomas Oglesby, Crab Point, Ro
land Salter, Bettie, and Gib Far
rior. have also gone into the beef
cattle business and each purchased
a purebred Hereford bull during
the past year. Cecil Morris, At
lantic. has entered beef producer
ranks also.
Leading the county in the pro
duction of dairy cattle at the mo
ment are tfoe Crab Point and Wild
wood sections. Herds upward of
20 head are producing milk on the
Dennis Turner farm west of More
head City, on the H. L. Joslyn farm,
the Rufus Oglesby, J. T. Oglesby,
and W. J. Blair farms. Crab Point.
Rufus Oglesby and Robert Laugh
ton supervise the dairy herd opera
tions on the Joslyn farm. Joslyn
maintained the farm as a milk pro
ducing enterprise until world war
II when labor became scarce and
the herd had to be sold. The
Oglesby-Laughton cows are Guern
sey.
Last year Rufus Oglesby pur
chased T2 more cows for his herd
which was begun in 1950, and J.
T. Oglesby, who has had dairy cat
tle for quite a few years added six
more to his herd in 1951.
Establishment of a dairy calf
chain in the county has aroused
interest in dairy cattle on the part
of 4-H boys and during the past
two years prizes on the dairy calves
were won at the fall shows at Wil
mington.
Newport FFA Boys Learn
To Grow Trees as Crop ]
Newport FFA boys are learning
to grow trees as a crop by caring
for their own 10-acre plot of long
leaf pine on the Nine-Foot road
about a mile from Newport.
The property was obtained
through the federal government
and the state division of forestry
and parks. Soon a rustic sign will
be erected there reading: "Demon
stration Forest. Managed by New
port Chapter, Future Farmers of
America. Property of Croatan Na
tional Forest."
The project was started just last
year when the FFA chapter was
given a special use permit and is
the first experiment of its type the
Newport FFA boys have ever un
dertaken.
One thousand longleaf pine seed
lings were planted last year and
are now about a foot high. The
boys regularly visit the plot, clear
ing out undesirable trees and car
rying out suggestions and advice
given them by their advisor, C. S.
Long and district forest rangers.
Members of the chapter are Har
lan Carraway, Henry Clement, Jack
Farrior, Spence Garner, Larry
Howard. Sheldon Howard, Floyd
Hardesty, Jimmy Kelly, Ernest Wil
lis, Ronnie Kelly.
Ronnie Garner, Carlton Lewis,
Ralph Simmons, Ronald Chadwick,
Wally Chapman, Gerry Garner,
Howard Garner, Clarence Hardison,
Aubrey Mason, Kay McCain.
Harry Rivers, Larry Smith, Billy
Widgen, John B. Allen, Keith God
win, Albert Murdoch, Billy Rowe,
Gaston Simmons, Gilbert Slaughter,
and William Small.
Princeas Victoria 29th, a heifer
bred by Greene Pastures farmi of
Elizabethtown, is the _ new grand
champion of the Polled Hereford
section of the Southwestern Fat
Stock show, held recently at Fort
Worth, Texas. Princess ia now own
ed by M. P. Moore of Senatobia,
Miss., who bought her at a sale at
Statesville laat spring.