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flWtSBS "A BETTER COUNTY H IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES s “first day of school.” Some were amused, by this strange new world away from “mama f$ically all were amused at the Sight they saw when this picture was taken on opening day. last week at Wheat Swamp School. Peculiarly enough only one suffered that strange * “ 4 disease of staring straight at the camera. This was one of the several items that got lost In the Du Pont shuffle last week and had to wait until this week for presentation. The children, look just as good a week later and things are a lot more^ normal around the office this week. (Photo by Bronstei-n-Johnson) agO 14V years ■foeitJones, llHbusjness man MEphat same |ji|fcreating a ence and an mark-up at the n he to the great jrnpany which used as its ! Goldsboro Lumber Com r 51 years the lumber kept the land, not for r .bnt to farm its rich rt year A. C. Boyce and e of Edenton bought the py they released it, jiraaBes. . fej. plliifjn-'sre awe whose life is lived The farm has a 32.5 acre cotton allotment but the boil weevils have harvested most of East Carolina's cotton this year and about the oniy interesting figure to dream about on this is how many boll weevils it takes to eat up 325 acres of cot ton. There are 23 houses on the farm, 34 tobacco barns and 15 packhous es. Jones, who now becomes one of Jones County’s largest landholders, already owning another farm that once belonged to another branch of the Isler Family in the Wyse Fork section, says he intends to expand his livestock farming with the ac quisition of this big tract of land. Already well on the way toward commercial beef production with a Hereford; herd on the Wyse Fork farm, Jones says he’s going to make ail all-out effort to find out if there is as much to this livestock btksiness in East Carolina ^s the ment folks have b*en sayuuMtor the past ten years. ~ -...... Pictured here are, two more first-day-of-school travelers. They are from Jones County and their school opened eight dajs earlier than in Lenoir. The first person sending in the napes of these two young students will receive a six month subscription to this paper. (Photo by Jack Rider) Farm Head Asks All to Join Now! Lenoir County Farm Bureau President John A. Shakelford this week reminded every farmer in the county that it is time to renew membership in the one organization that fights 365 days to the year for the farmer. “Our county goal this year is only 2,400,” Shackelford reminds, “and we ought to be able to get that many without even soliciting.” “Unfortuately it won’t be that way,” Shackelford admitted, “and because of this a thorough campaign has been mapped out for every township in the county. Committees in every township will visit each farmer and give him the opportunity to contrib ute his little bit toward making stronger the strongest organiza tion the farmer has ever had to fight for him.” Quotas for the townships have been set up as folows: Content nea 246, Falling Creek 185, In stitute 140, Kinston 275, Moseley Hall 290, Neuse 175, Pink Hill 110, Southwest 120. Trent No. 1 200. Trent No. 2 150, Vance 220, and Woodington 190. “Every farmer in North Caro lina has benefitted to some de gree from the work of his farm bureau,” Shackelford reminded, “and none has received greater help than the tobacco farmer. With tobacco selling at its high est price in history, there is no acceptable excuse for any tobac co farmer failing to become a member.” highest ever recorded, the Department of Agriculture has reported. A rise in exports added to a slight increase in domestic consumption were responsible for the total disappearance of 1,168 million pounds, which was six per cent higher than the pre ceding year. Domestic use in 1949-50 totalled 723 million pounds against 715 million pounds for 1948-49. foreign de mands continue strong and it is likely that 1950-51 exports may exceed those of the past year, de pending on international mili tary developments, the report ended. Below is pictured a staff-eye view of the opening day assem bly at Wheat Swamp School. Xne camera stuttered a little and there is some repetition, so some of the boys and girls are seen twice. Don’t let this picture fool you into believing that there is an epidemic of twins at Wheat Swamp. (Photo by Bronstein-Johnson.)
Jones County Journal (Trenton, N.C.)
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