FARM PRACTICES
TRENTON, N. C. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1950
NUMBER 22
More Girls Enter
r Contest of Jones
-A
to attend this
nightol Kbit, which is be
ta*year October 23-28th.
Hp jftey will be honored with
H^HfN ff crowning the win
pO>0i beafcty contest
pmSt slap 'announced that ar
HIplK: had been completed
pt* Hgnltght of the Friday
which is to be a
iour' concert by the Cherry
t M»Har Corps Band,
iday frill be school children’s
and all School-age children
i Jones and surrounding coun
will ' be admitted free to the
J«»«»ds. A .special series of
4*H Poultry Show
Friday, Mm 13th, i* called un
*£«£$* aMTglris
___ ■tatow fart in this
'i'imtaar poultry Chain. On
Friday, tha 13th, tha bays and'
girls will display tftf tap 12 ham
(ramdiijr flattw fudging and
Mid «t tha Agriculture Building
in Kinatafi. Proceeds from' this
annual sale are used to buy
chicks next spring for 10 more
4-H clubbers next* yaar. .
Showing 3 Heifers |
Assistant County Agent George
Wiggins announced this week that
three Jonos County 4-H Club boys
were going to show their regis
tered Jeraey heifers on Friday at
the annual Southeastern North
Carolina Junior Dairy show in Wil
mington. Virgil Mallard, Hayes
Koonce and Elton Batts are the
boys who will attempt to brihg:
home some blue ribbons ^ith their I
heifers.
The American Legion main-1
tains the smartest legislative di
rector in Washington that the!
city has ever known. i
£k Lenoir Farmers Get
of New Oat Variety
It is believed that the Arlington
oat will be equally as popular
Whit farmers as Atlas wheat and
that all Arlington oats produced
IP coming season will be in de
mand next fall for seed purposes.
These new varieties of small
grain are just one example to
prove that the plant breeding pro
gram conducted by the N. C. Ex
periment and other Experiment
Stations are proving its worth to
State College chemists say that
ie smart housewife who serves
daily requirements of both vit
amin A and C in one average
serving. —
Open House Sunday
Par more ttaaii three years new
continuous work has been un
derway at the Electric Power
Plant at the City of Kinston.
This tone period of construc
tion and renovation is now at
an end and the city has one of
the finest electric peneratlnf
plants in this area. On Sunday
it will be open to the public
and city officials have extend
ed a cordial invitation to every
citizen and user of this facility
to come and take a look at
the chances that have' been'
made. ' '
Large Farmers Too Slow
About Helping In Drive
For Bureau Subscriptions
arranged to allow a clear passage*
way to doors. S*a that altctrlc te
turee gtVe clear. well-diffused light
throughout too room, with thru-way
switches at doors and wUhta easy
reach at the bed. .. .
' Americans lucky enough to travel about the world are fre
. quently shocked at the sight of beggars in the streets in foreign
lands—particularly in the Orient. But. one does not have to
crass an ocean to come upon that shocking sight. In this, Amer
ica’s most prosperous time, there is hardly- a street in any
^.business district hi the land that does not boast one or two
pft professional beggars. These professionals float from one part
of the country to another, managing to hit the various sec*
tions of the land as harvest time and easy money season comes
around. Here is one on the streets of Kinston with the cus
tc nary pencils and patience. (Photo by Bronstein-Johnson)
“A private school for boys and girls, which
started a considerable number of young men
In the ministry, was that originated by John
W. Tyndall. It is at Dawson in Lenoir County,
about eight miles from Kinston. This was for
mally opened in January 4947- They have
Two large frame buildings used for dormit
ories, classrooms and culinary service, and
two dwellings. They have about seven sens
of ground, hr recant years they have had an
average attendance of about 30 pupils.
The institution has borne a different
pupils. The institution has home a different
name under each of the' three administrations.
Under John W. Tyndall, 1907-1914, it was
Called Industrial Christian College; Under
James H. Perry, 1914-1910, it was known as
Industrial School and Music Academy; Under
Joseph A. Saunders, 1916 to the present time,
it is designated Carolina Institute and Bible
Seminary.”—From a History of the Diciples
of Christ In North Carolina— By C. C. Ware,
published in 1927.
Today the only building remaining from the
group described in the 1927.history is that
pictured above and it is now in use as a pack
house on the farm of Rupert Rouse. This
school died the death of so many small schools
with the advancement of travel methods and
although it was one time a community center
of some little note, you'd have to look twice
to notice the remains of it today out at Daw
son’s Station in Lenoir County’s Vance Town
ship.
At a very poorly attended check
up meeting Monday night, leas
than a dozen farmers found time
to attend and report what prog
ress, if any, they were having
with the annual membership drive
of the Lenoir County Farm Bu
reau. When final, reports for the
evening were in only 798 member
ships were reported, which is two
Jess than- one third of the county’s
2,408 quota. -
President John Shackelford said
there were only two possible rea
sons for this slow work in Lenoir
Countjf. Foremostly, he pointed
out, “The farmers hay'e qot been
contacted.” Shackelford said that
he ’ had found little resistance to
joining the'farm bureau from the
people he had approached.
Shackelford, gave as the num
ber 2 reason for the county’s poor
showing, “The lack of interest on
the part of big landlords, who
have gained as much or more from
the work of the farm bureau as
any group in the farm economy
and still refuse to lift a finger to
help secure members—even among
their own tenants.”
Shackelford said, “Greene Coun
ty with a quota of 2,100 members
wrote 2,400 in one week and this
was done because the biggest farm
ers in the county pitched in and
did everything they could to make
the drive a success.”
That same group of large farm
ers, who refuse to help the farm
bureau now, would be the first
to holler for help if any changes
were about to be made in the all
important tobacco program, Shack
elford reminded. Now they refuse
to contribute even a $3 member
ship to an organization that was
the direct father of the Flue-Cur-,
ed Tobacco Stabilization Corpora
tion and many other improve
ments of tremendous value to the
tobacco farmer.
Tobacco Seed Note
Lenoir County Agent Joe
Koonce and Jones County Agent
A. V. Thomas this week an
nounced that sale of all disease
resistant typfcs of tobacco seed
will be handled through normal
trade channels this year. Farmers
have already been inquiring at
local offices about obtaining
these seeds and the agents stat
ed that plenty are available this
year so there will be no necessi
ty to ration them in the manner
practiced last year. Both agents
reminded, however, that it would
be a good idea for each farmer
to contact his regular seed deal
er in the next week or two and
discuss seed needs for the com
ing planting season.
I
Pine Tree Winners
The crooked pine pictured in
last week’s paper was identified
by a number of people but three
were so near together that we are
going to give a three-months sub
scription to each. Earl Greene and
Sut Davenport of. Jones County
and Franklin Scarborough of Hook
erton route one, son of Mr. and
Mrs. B. F. Scarborough, are the
three winners. The tree is on El
wood McDaniels’ farm between
Kinston and Trenton. According
to young Scarborough’s descrip
tion the tree is one mile from Sas
ser’s mill and three-tenths of a
mile from E. G. Greene’s store.
Recorder’s Court Solicitor Phil
Crawford dropped us a card to in
form us that the tree was “on the
trail of the lonesome pine in the
the Blue Ridge Mountains of Vir
ginia”.
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