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Walnut Nut* Available For Planting By Forest Service Stratified black walnut nuts for planting will be available for the first time by the North Carolina Div ision of Forestry this spring to interested landowners For lanaowners with even a small amount of lich, nuist but well-drained land, this may prove quite profitable. According to the American Walnut Manufacturers’ As sociation, phces for walnut sawlogs vary from SIOO to s2io par thousand board feet, while veneer quality sawlogs may reach $360 to S4OO per thousand With price incen tives such as these, land owners can well afford to five the intensive treatments including pruning as the trees get older, to produce high quality walnut logs. Researchers are even experi menting with irrigating walnut plantations. By plant ing walnuts in rows 20 feet apart and 14 feet between trees in the row, ample space is provided for navigating farm machinery. Soy beans cr other plants for wildlife may be grown between the trees. A terrific shortage of good quality walnut exists In this country This is partially due to the heavy domestic de mand for this beautiful wood, especially over the past ten years, but it Is also due to the fact that large quantities of walnut are being exported. During 1954 alone, under former Secre tary of Commerce Hodges’ export quota program, 11,- 088 000 board feet were ship ped out of the United States. However, during the first ten months of 1965, 18,100- 000 board feet were exported. The wood of walnut Is h'srhly prized for use in fur niture and p’ywood panels. ‘ It is historically famous for u c e as guostocks. and the GARDEN TIME by M. E. GARDNER The gladioms Is a very popu.ar and satisfactory cut flower and is not too diffi cult to giow in the home flower garden. They come in a great variety cf colors and are most satisfactory after cutting because they last so l<.g when cut a .d placed in the home, church, school or g.ven to friends. They are tot too choosy about soil t\pes either as long as they are reasonably good and well drained The plants slv u!d have full sunshine all cay for best results. Another very fine feature about this crop is that you can have flowers practically all Him ugh the growing sea so i by succession p anting—■ a new planting every two or ill're week?. Select corms (“bulbs”) of c, (d s.ze which have been ti a‘ c d for diseases and in sets the corms about four inches deep in rows about three feet apart. The corms should be spaced a tcut lour inches in the rows. The larger corms have good reserve food storage making heavy applications of fertilizer unnecessary. I would su gest the use of one pint of an 8-8-8 mixture (granular form, rot pellets) for each 50 feet of row. The fertilizer should be applied n wepk or so before plantirg the corms and should be THE YANCEY RECORD nut from the walnut is en joyed as food by both man and wildlife. The strat’f'ed ruts will be available February 1 at the North Carolina Division of Forestry’s Clayton nursary. They will be packed in p’as tlc ba«rs, 25 to the package, and postpaid anywhere in North Carolina at 75c per package of 25. Interested landowners should order at cnce by letter from the State Foresters Office, Raleigh, submitting check or money order with the letter. Encouragement for the walnut Planting program within the state has been received from the American Walnut Manufacturers’ As sociation, who furnished part of the nuts for distribution, and the Hardwood Research Council, who have agreed to match any interested land oner nut-for-nut up to a limit of 5,000 free nuts to ary Individual. Landowners should specify in their letter to the State Forester that they wish to avail themsel ves of this offer. The Council continues to sponsor a simi lar program with yellow poplar seedlings which was started ten years ago. Walnuts must have a good growing site rich, moist, well-drained, for they will not grow well on the poorer, drier sites. Also, in order to obtain maximum growth, it is important that all com petition from grass, weeds and trees be eliminated for the first few years and fer tilizers be applied. This may be accomplished by clean cultivating the soil and fer tilizing as for 100 bushels of com per acre. Researchers at the Central States Forest Experiment Station obtain ed 2 to 4 feet of helerht grow th per year for the three years they have used these practices. well incorporated with the soil. Close contact with fer tilizer may result in damage to tender roots so thorough miring with the soil is im portant. The time of p’anting will vary considerably, depend ing upon where you are lo cated. In eastern Carolina t>e commercial growers plant In late January or early February depending upon soli conditions In the unper and lower Piedmont, p’aotl~g mav be do-ng from the middle to the latter part o f March: ar'd In the moun tains. from the mMdle to the latter part of April. There are ma-y pood var ieties of glads from which you mavy choose. You may purchase mixtures, which mav be cheaper, but most gardeners get mo r e satisfac tion from varieties by name and purchase on 'th ic - b^s’s. Here are a few good varie ties, rrouped In color dhss cc; wh'fe or cream June Bells, Margaret Beaton, Snow Princess and Mother Fisch er; pink Picardy, Spic and Span, Citation and Fay; red Beacon, Sans Coucl, Val eria and New York; laven der Minuet, Tyrone and Elizabeth the Queen; yel low Gold, Van Meegren, Nugget and Yellow Herald; orange Aranjuez. Vttcroß’s Officer To Bo Horo The N. C. Veterans Com mission will have Jack C. Winchester, District Officer In the Courthouse with the County Service Officer at Burnsville, N. C. on Thurs day. February 24, 1966 from 11:00 a. m. to 4:30 p. m and with the County Service Of ficer at Fakersville, N. C. in the Courthouse from 8:30 a. ni. to 2:30 p. m. on Friday, February 25, 1966 to assist with veterans and their de pendents. Mn Winchester stated, children es veterans who be lieve to qualify for educa tional benefits or N C. Col lege scholarships should ap ply for these benefits during the early part of their sen ior year in hieh school. The children who may have com pleted high school or will graduate next spring should file now. » ~~i b ■ r*' .* give... so more wiH HEART FUND FORD TRUCKS 1 New line of farm-tough Fords for ’66 g u I lFT I *!* C ] "" uul,,nr " s > over the takes ' you thare new c °mfort. 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Other purposes includes purchase of feed and seed, financing essential farm and household operating expen ses, development of farm woodlands and income-pro ducing recreation enterpri ses on farms. “The operating loan pro gram of Farmers Home Ad ministration now Is being administered with the spe cific aim of meeting three critical problems facing fam ily farmers in North Caro lina" he reported. The problems are “(1) Narrowing margins between what a farmer must pay out In production and living costs and what he is able to take in for his crops and livestock. “(2) A continuing increase In the total indebtedness of farmers. Many farm ooera concentrating on farm and financial management aa the key to successful opera tion,” Mr. Seshler commen ted. FHA has local offices ser ving every farming county in North Carolina, and for Yancey County the office is located in Burnsville. Farm operating loans are available only to farmers un able to obtain credit from conventional lenders. Inter est rate is 5 percent and re payment is scheduled for a period up to 7 years, tors row are indebted to several lenders. These debts present serious problems tc operators of small units. “(3) The difficulties fac ing qualified young farmers who need large amounts of canTtal to take over the on er aHons of retiring farmers. “FHA’s c^m K lnat,lon of operating credit combined w’th su*'ervMo-' centrating on those critical imnrovemen+s a-’d changes on borrower’s farms that will enable them to solve these problems. The atm is not Just survival of family farms hut. continued progress to a level where a borrower can meet future credit needs (through conventional lend ers ” “’The baste Issue In form ing t/'dav Is not. o”»lv where to find the canital to mod ernize eouimuent and im prove farming operations. Fv«n more Irnportent is the quality of farm management. Under the guHoncp of pha personnel, borrowers are •
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