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PAGE TWO THE YANCEY RECORD ESTABLISHED JULY, 1936 Editor Mrs. C. HLHaipripk Managing Ed. ... Lee.E. Edwards Published Every Thursday By „ YANCEY PUBLISHING CO. A Partnership < Entered u second-class matter November 11th, 1936, at the Post Office, at Burnsville, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE FUCKER The flicker or Yellow whammer, a member of the family of Woodpeck ers, is said to have as many as 124 names. } It, is about twelve inched in length; there is a black crescent on the breast and a. rSd band on the back of the head; the upper parts are golden brown barred with black; the wings are yellow-lined; the rump is white (c onspi cuo u s in flight); the breast is white with black spots, The fe male is like the male ex cept it lacks the black cheek spots noticeable on the male. The Flicker, unlike other Woodpeckers, spends mbch of its time on the ground. With its saliva-c oat e d tongue, which it extends two or three inches from the tip of the beak, it takes in great quantities of ants (as many as 5,000 being v found in the stomach of one bird). It also devours a great variety of other very noxious insects. It builds its nest in a hole carved in a tree or a build ing and, as a rule, lays five or six eggs. By keeping all one egg removed from * nest it nas been known to lay as many as 71 eggs iff 73 days (my authority, Charles L. Phillips in Bird- Lore). The Flicker keeps up perhaps more fuss than any other bird, uttering in all as many, as forty differ ent notes. The Flicker is a great asset. —(James Hutchins i. SINGING CONVENTION AT DOUBLE ISLAND X i, The Singing Convention for the Eastern District was held at the Double Is land church on last Sunday vHth a large attendance. The singing was very good. A quartet from Marion was especially fine. The next convention will be held at Upper Shoal Creek Baptist church on, the fourth Sunday after-: noon in June beginning at 1:30. Everyone is invited to attend, and to bring singers from all communi ties in the county. - BADLY WARPED , » ' • rg-., i_,i . M i ,z:. „-■- .‘jl i. "*? » * o> C * <•- ■ . . - ’ ’ * -... r. RECENT BIRTHS Born to Mr. and Mrs. Vilous McPeters of Win dom a son, May 5. ' Born to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hughes of Micaville a son, May 7. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Bernie Pittman of Burns ville a son, May 7. " Born to Mr. and Mrs. Earl King of Cane River a daughter, May 9. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Bealer Young of Newdale ; a son, May 10. 3 Born to Mr. and Mrs. : Lewis Bartlett of Newdale < a son, May 13. Born to Mr. and Mrs. 1 Frank Tallent of Ramsey town a daughter, May 15. Born to Mr. and Mrs. James Marsh, Jr. of Mica ville a son, May 16. BornTAo Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Fox of Bald Creek a son, May 17. _____ Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Issac Whitson of Ramsey town a daughter, May 18. Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Ballew of Celo a son, May 19. - Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Lee Hensley of Bald Creek a son, May 19. Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Bill Penland of Pensacola a daughter, May 20. Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Young of Burns ville a son, May 24. Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Anglin of Banks Creek a daughter, May 24. Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Brinkley of Burns ville a daughter, May 25. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Renfro of Estatoe a daughter, May 27. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Rex Hughes of Burnsville a daughter, May 27. Born to Mr. and Mrs. i Frank Robinson of Day Book a daughter, May 2S. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Bill Miller of Bolens Creek a daughter, May 30. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Roland Hensley o Vixen a daughter, May 31. There ' are now 51 pulp : mills in the South, consum ing 14,000 cords 0 f wood a day in making kraft and other types of paper pro ducts, a recent check-up revealed. ■■ . —1 " —■ , < Farmers are urged to make preparations to save their own Crimson Clover seed. It is expected that the European war will reduce our supply df Crimson Clo ver seed for next fall, since we have been importing more than half our re quirements of this seed from Europe. The demand soy Crimson Clover seed in North Carolina has more than doubled during the past two years—Yancey County has about tripled the Crimson Clover acre age since the beginning of the Soil Conservation Pro gram. The prospects are for a still greater demand for winter cover crop seed this fall. For this reason it would be wise for Yancey County farmers to plan to harvest part of their Crimson Clover crop for seed. Due to the increase in demand, it would be profitable for our farmers, both from the standpoint of a cash crop and to biuld up the soil, to save thpb* own seed. Re turns per acre will vary' from about 200 to 600 or more pounds of cleaned seed per acre, depending both on the actual seed production and the condi tions under whLh the crop is harvested. The largest yields of Crimson Clover seed are obtained on soils of medium fertility, where the crop does not grow very rank, according to re sults obtained by E. C. Blair, .Extension Agrono mist. In large fields~therei are often areas of this sort that can be left for seed production, the more ferti le acres being turned under at the usual time.- A harvester suitable for harvesting Crimson Clover seed can be made by any good workman. A comb type stripper is the most commonly used. This harv ester is a wooden comb, which is drawn through the crop after the heads are dead ripe. It strips the seeds from the stalks, cat ching them in a box. A stripper for hand use may be made by. removing the top and one side from a wooden box and attaching teeth along the edge of the bottom. It should be fitted with convenient handles. A horse-drawn model may be made by swinging the box beneath an axle mounted with any kind of wheels that are convenient and high enough to allow the teeth to run just below the heads. Long shafts are attached to the axle, and a handle to the rear of the box. The latter is for rais ing lowering the teeth to suit variations in the height of the clover. The Seed Pan. The ordi nary lespedeza seed pan can easily be converted into a Crimson Clover har vester. To do this a lid made of hardware cloth, with three or four meshes to tne inch, is substituted for the regular sheet iron lid. The County Agents will gladly assist any farmer plans towards harvesting Crimson and other clover seed. This can mean hun dreds of saved and an increase in soil conser vation for Yancey County by having an abundance of good locally grown seed, THE YANCEY RECORD (g) 77 f '. i which unquestionably gives best, results. . \- —-■ ■ A SILO IS GOOD KILLER OF NOXIOUS WEEDS 1 An increasing number of Yancey County farmers are planning t<? put up sil age this fall. Corn is most commonly used as a silage crop; however, many other crops are being .successful ly used as you will note in the following results ob tained through experi ments carried out in coop eration with the United States Department of Ag riculture. Put weedy hay crops in the silo instead of the stack or mow, to stop the spread of weeds. This is the sub stance of advice to farmers which T. E. Woodward, of the Bureau of Dairy In dussry, offers on the basis of experiments with seeds of noxious weeds buried in ensilage when silos were filled at the Beltsville Re search Center. Os 26 varie ties of weed crop seeds that went into the silo, 23 were , killed outright, and the germination of the other 3—bindweed, Lespe deza serieea, and American dragonhead mint were greatly reduced. Many farmers have , burned clippings from %'eedy pastures hay from weedy meadows be cause they were unwilling to take a chance on foul ing cultivated fields with the weeds hr the manure ’ hauled from the feed lot. When weedy material goes through the fermentation in the silo and then ’ through the digestive pro cess of animals there is no likelihood that weed seeds will be troublesome. The silo and the livestock will safeguard the cultivated * fields, and the farmer can : safely get out of the weedy ’ material any' feed values > that exist. 1 Johnson grass seed was 5 one of the varieties killed ! completely in the silo, and ' this suggests that making L silage instead of hay may provide a new and safe way of making use of the 1 good feed values of John > son grass without the dan : ger of spreading the seed * to cultivated fields through I manure. DOUBLE ISLAND A revival meeting start : ed at the church’ Monday night, conducted by" Rev. Wm. Turbyfill. Mrs. Carter Thomas and 1 baby Shirley Jean were * brought home from the ■ Marion hospital Saturday. Emory Robinson visited ; relatives in Mars Hill over the week end. The Harris Clay Plant ‘ has started work, it is re ' ported by Jobe Thomas, * superintendent. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hugh ’ es and children of Bandana i visited friends and rela -1 tives during the past week 1 end. | JACKS CREEK \ Rev. A. Z. 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