THROUGH IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES
TRENTON,
PMA Secretary Hopes
For Less Trouble
In ’50 Marketing
dieates acceptance on the part of
the violator of the estimated pound
age he has grown.
“This is no guarantee that we
wod*thave trouble this year,” Bar
ber admits, “but it is a lot tighter
than last year.”
County Home List
Following here is a complete
list tf the homes in which
residents, of the Lenoir County
have been placed in compli
ance with an order given the
department of pUblic welfare
by the county board of com
missioners: Adolph PhUpott,
Georgia Potter, Lanie Benton
and Sue Ellen Dovmard at the
Nense Forest Convalescent
Home in Craven County, Char
lie Ward with Luther Wiggins
on Kinston, -route one, Bessie
Gamer with Math Jones on
Seven Springs route one, Odell
Bin in the State Hospital at
Loading a family washing mac
Line to the maximum may save
on a busy day, but clothes and
linens come out cleaner If the
machine is given a lighter load.
Experiments in household equip
ment laboratories point to this
general conclusion.
Nineteen washing machines
have been tested with different
sized work loads. Loads that they1
could handle, according to man
ufacturers’ directions, ranged
“ up to nine pounds max
hut in some eases 10. /Ejge
was scientifically meas
During the last four years the
percentage of brucellosis amcmg
cattle in the United States has
declining until this year
it fi down to 3.5 per cent, accor
ding to the Bureau of Animal
Industry. U. 8. Dept, of Agricul
ture.
Armenia Church Renovation Completed
for some 60 years Armenia
Christian Church has nestled
quietly in the trees that once
looked down on the most bloody
battle fought in thj$ . part of
; -at
it as well as when it was
ted before the turn of the
century.
Armenia, as It is known best,
is- located Just' off US 70 and
just beyond Kelly’s Mill Pond
on the Kinston-New Bern road
four miles from Kinston. Today
It has a membership of 125 and a
Sunday School that has an av
erage attendance of just over
100. Sunday school is held each
Sunday at 10 a. m.
Rev. John M. Waters of Craven
County is pastor of Armenia and
he conducts services there each1
fourth Sunday. Don Outlaw is
superintendent of the Sunday
School.
A. Forrest Waller is chairman
of the Board of Deacons, Carroll
iff. Casey is secretary and Mrs.
Harmon Sutton is treasurer. Oth
er members of the board are:
Joel and Harmon Sutton, Paul
Taylor, Arthur Johnson, E. R.
Waller, W. c. Pate, Mr. and Mrs.
P. W. White, Mr. and Mrs. Her
man King, Rodolph King and
Outlaw.
On the fourth Sunday in Oct
ober, which is the annual Home
coming Day at Armenia,, dedi
cation services will be conducted
for the remodeled and refurnish
ed church.
Oak Grove Revival
A one week revival Is being
held this coming week at Oak
Grove Methodist Church. Serv
ices will be at 8 each evening
and \ will run through Friday
night, September 1st. Rev. C. B.
Long Is conducting the revival
services and the public is urged
to attend any or all of the serv
What 1» The Answer To Tins Puzzler?
A surveyor in a rural county is accustomed to finding odd mark
on for boundary lines, but Rone Burt, Jonas County surveyor, has
eome across one in the middle of a swamp up Little Cypress Creak
that lias him completely mystified. It is a length off railroad track
more than forty yean old and its location marks no boundary and
is far from any railroad line. The water was knee-deep in the
swamp, more than a mile from any road, and one end of the iron
was out of the water, lying across a decayed lag. Burt said his in
spection revealed a three and one-half foot piece of Hie (ran driven
4eam in the water as a stake, and that it had evidently been cut
from the longer piece lying In the water. The Iron, the surveyor
Eight Places Open
$tiU For Tpiir of
Western Carolina
Jones County Agent A. V. Them
es reports that 29 Jones farmers
have already signed up to take the
September 4-8 tour of Southwest
Virginia and Northwest North Car
olina. Special emphasis will be
given the study of livestock and
pasture management on this tour,
Thomas said.
“We have room for a maximum
of eight more men,” Thomas points
out, “and all interested parties are
urged to contact me at once.”
A similar tour was made last
year and tluM who want .along
came back filled with ideas and
- one of the biggest
a arm” that the live
m in Jones County has
ell the farmers about
stock, program in the
rOr* dav to the vnar
What I No Overage?
Lenoir County PMA Secretary
Horace Mewbom says, much to
his surprise, there is not a single
case of cotton overplanting in the
county now. There were several
over when the crop was first
measured, Mewbom admits, but
since then the excess acreage
has been cut down and all cot
ton producers are now 100 per
cen£ in, line. There ate 814 cotton
contracts In the county.
Only Seven Baras
Lost to Fire in *50
By Jones Countians
Jones County Agent A. V. Thom
as this week announced that he
had completed a survey of tobacco
bam losses due to fire and that the
1950 toll is the lowest since records
have been kept with only seven
bams destroyed by fire. In 1949
17 were destroyed in flames and
in 1948 20 were burned.
Thomas said that perhaps the
biggest reason for the drop in bam
lass is the inireasing familiarity
that the average farmer has with
the various types of automatic cur
ing units.
Another factor was the sudden
ripening of the tobacco after all
the rain of July which caused
barns to be watched more care
fully and rushed along faster in
order to make room for the ripen
ed weed that was either waiting in
the fields or hanging outside the
barns.
Millionaire Nqw
J. L. Kallam of Vance Town
ship said that he was a mil
lionaire last week if you count
ed the grasshoppers as worth
a penny a piece. Hordes of
these green knawers moved
into KaJlam’s com and' hay
and began chomping merrily
away in the fashion of the
ed his cattle and hogs in on
turnip termite. Not to be com
pletely out done Kallam tum
the com and hay too. At this
writing no report has been had
on which has eaten the most,
the cattle or the grasshoppers.
Reports from every part of
this area indicate one of the
largest “hopper crops” in re
cent years
Printed SWine Notes
Mailed Jones Farmers
itiWfr'T ih iifr/v ■
_ :am of the special swine com
mittee of the Jones County Live
stock Improvement Association will
be mailed to the farmers of the
county, it has been announced by
County Agent A. V. Thomas. The
programs ’ have been prepared by
the State Extension Service for the
use of Jones County farmers.
The program originated by the
swine committee headed by Chair
man J. C. West, Jr., sets forth a
six point program for the improve
ment of the livestock in Jones
County. These points are: an in
creased average of pigs saved per
litter from five and one-half to
seven, increase the number of sows
in the county from 2,500 to 3,000
in the next five years, every com
mercial hog grower to keep four
to five sows and every farm to have
at least one sow for family food
use, pure-bred boars from proven
herds for breeding, the use of port
able pig houses, and adequate pas
ture grazing-for the swine.
The program is only one of six
sponsored by the Livestock Im
provement Association under the
over-all chairmanship of John
Booth, Thomas said.
A near- record quantity of
nearly 60 million pounds of fro
zen strawberries moved Into sto
rage during June of this year.
This together with large hold
ings of frozen orange juice con
centrate, boosted midyear supp
lies of frozen fruits to new high
records.
v Kinston Market SeU All-Time Records
More pounds of tobacco were sold for more dollars Monday
as thjs Kinston Tobacco Market opened than ever before in the
56 year history of the market. Total sales of 2,285,974 pounds
trot* registered and a total at $1,313,779.23 was paid out to the
thousands of farmers who had tobacco on the 14 warehouse floors
of the market The average price paid, for the golden weed was
|57-S7per hundred pounds. This was also an all-time high figure.
Another full sale was aasored for Tuesday and throughout the
week sales of approximately two million pounds per day up
expected. When the figst week of tho season is ended FrUday
e'ten million poutoAt are expected to be sold, rrieoo for goad
ranged rery eiooe to what they were last year but the
prieeof poor to sorry tskamiu was considerably above hu