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NUMRKR 13 SEAT OK TUB WACrON . .jifeMen ill Jeep read sign that tells Ha am grins Btiry a# they drive through street la SeeoL Small Grains Do Weill On Manley Foscue Farm _ ' -—_ By WAYLAND J. REAMS Jones County Agent Who said that Jones County soils were not adapted to pro duction of wheat and oats? Here is evidence that shows that that Jones County soils are well adapted to all types of small grain production. J. Manley Foscue, Jr., of the Pollocksville Community har vested 10 acres of fUlgrain oats and three acres of Arlington oats early in June of this year and produced an estimated average yield of 70 bushels er acre, or a total yield of just over 010 bu shels on the 13 acres. Of Hoi 4727 wheat and five acre# of Atlas 66 wheat and he esti mates that his average yield was approximately 30 bushels per acre f<fr both varieties, wi^h a total yield of 450 bushels for the 15 acres of wheat. All of this wheat and oats pro duced by Poscue has been in spected and approved for certi fication by the North Caroliha Crop Improvement Association. . Foscue used exactly the same fertilization for both wheat and oats. He applied 400 pounds of 2-12-12 at seeding time per acre and top dressed with 200 pounds of Calnitro and 50 pounds of muriate of potash in the latter part of February. That is producing small grain for anyjpart of the county, ahd at a profit too. This Ain’t Good ' Jones County PMA Secre tary, Nelson Barber Tuesday said that he had totalled up the first 28 tickets that had been returned to his office for Jones County tobacco that had been sold oh the Georgia Florida Markets. The total figures ain’t good. There, were 20,961 pounds of tobacco that sold for $74*7, an average of exactly 34 cents per pound. Barker, of course, has no way of knowing what kind of to bacco went for this extremely low average. He Just took the ” ‘ ilt- tickets returned *nd . Visiting Wisconsin * County Agent and Mrs. Way land J. Reams are vacationing at present with relatives of Mrs. Reams In Wisconsin. Holding the local Ag. Building business down in his absence are ‘Assistant County Agent Henry Swiggett, Home Agent Mrs. Madge Jarvis and Secretary Macy Mallard. About 95 per cent of the home demonstration club women of Clay county already have start ed fall gardens, ‘ according to Mrs. Velma Beam Moore, home agent. Most of the members have- planned gardens according to the needs set forth in a food conservation plan prepared by specialists of the State College Extension Service. . After 18 years of delay due to one reason dr another the tax listed valuations of Lenoir Coun ty real estate are due a consid erable overhauling. The board of county commissioners Monday vpted to give Tax Collector and Supervisor Milton Williams au thority to negotiate with pro fessional tax evaluators for the huge job of revaluing every'pfece of property in the county. The only stipulation) made by the commissioners In granting Wil liams this authority was that the men who do the job be from “outside Lenoir County.” ' Williams had explained prior to this action by the board that there are three possible methods for doing this much-needed and long-delayed job. To employ lo cal experts to do the job. This notion was quickly vetoed by the board which has had plenty of time to study every aspect of the situation and agrees unanimous ly that no In-the-county group could do the job as fairly or im partially as an outside group. Secondly, Williams said there are groups of professional tax evaluators who do this work all the time. They are expensive but they do a very thorough job, Williams said. Thirdly, Williams said there Is the possibility that the county may be able to “bor row” a team of evaluators from the State of Virginia^ This latter method Is favored by Williams, but he .pointed out that he didn’t know if it would be pos sible to get a team fr&m Vir ginia. He Indicated that If It were possible that would be his recommendation. In a revaluation every home, every farm, every business, ev ery plant In the entire county Is visited and a detailed survey of the property is made. The basic purpose of a revaluation is not to boost valuations but to establish a greater equity be tween all types and parcels of property. It is readily agreed by everyone who has any knowledge of the present situation that a great many gross Inequities ex ist. The fundamental purpose of this revaluation Is to clear up as many of these Inequities as Is humanly possible. Williams says that It will not be possible to use these new values earlier than the 1953 list taking. The rest of this year and all of 1952 will be needed to complete the huge and compli cated Job. No action was taken on Wil liams’ suggestion that a panel of farmers, home owners and business men be named as a board of review for the work done by what ever evaluators are finally employed. ‘Water-Conditioning’ Is Attest Innovation Tried Locally; Grocery is Sold Recently a lot of attention, has been paid in the local public print on the new businesses that are popping up about town but not too much attention has been given to the new things that are happening around the edge of town. Jake West is beginning to be lieve now that he will get into the handsome new home of his Iiiternational Harvester business before Jake, Jr., is old enough to vote. There was a time when it looked as if scarcity of steel and and other gadgets needed for this swanky tractor sales house would delay construction until Jake The Senior was drawing his 'Ulcer Season at Its Height Now As Everyone Adds Up and Sees How Much is Invested in Crop This is the “crying season.’’ Farmers begin to faint and fal ter every time they think abbut the kind of money they have tied up in their tobacco crop and business people begin tct baby their ulcers when they look at their J>ooks and see how much they have tied up directly or in directly in the tobacco crop. The crop is all but made and be tween now and the time that the checks are cashed and the bills are paid a lot of sweating, gray hairs and wrinkles will be Culti vated. Some people will loose hairr as well as money, this season is nothing new est In the pit again next August when the-“crying season" comes ground again. Tobacco is perhaps the world’s number one gamble for the pro ducer. The manufacturers of the nicotlnlsh weed get their mar gin of profit come hail, come wind or taxes and the taxes seem to grow and grow. The big gest profit, by far, from tobacco goes to the government, which in this land is still you and you andyou. To add to the palpitations of' that favorite Ulcer there are re ports of lower and lower; prices coming from the order Markets, from Georgia and Tlorlda and bad news is piled on pile that is fore lunch time five of the six were stretched out in the sun from the "heat.” Fertilizer is exorbitantly ex pensive, fuel oil is higher, tobac co sticks are scarce and also ex pensive, but in spite of it all if the farmer—rowner ,or tenant— manages to break even he is ready to start fighting the same battle again as soon as October rolls around and it' is time to sta#t “deweeding” the plant bed sites. , * Somebody has to 'grow tobacco to help keep the government running. The billion dollars a year that the government is getting from tobacco is a huge . MpM’.'tSese atthis concerned, however, - growing can be left •dy else. He’d rath social security. Jake’s building in addition to being the nicest tractor peddling and tractor repairing joint in this section of the woods will have another distinction that is worth a word or two. Instead of being an air-conditioned build ing, it will be a water-condition ed building. On the roof of this large structure there will be a four-inch layer of water. This layer of water is supposed to keep the building inside consid erably cooler. At anyrate one ob server has advised Jake that if the tractor business blows up he can always go Into the live-bait business, with such a big pond for producing minnows and up where the cats can't eat ’em too. This stretch of the highway between the city limits of Kin ston and the prison camp is rapidly becoming “tractor row.” With the completion of the West Machinery Company building there’ll be three tractor peddlers in something like a mile. Turner Tractor and Implement Com pany with Allis-Chalmers gad gets is just across the river and down the road a short distance Keith Williams is busy trying to persuade his friends to buy Fer guson Tractors and the gear that gates along with them. In town another business change that has nothing to do with building or tearing down is the sale of the Fairfield Gro cery on West Washington Street by Julian F. Everett to Popular Louis K. Wilson who has for nwny years been manager in Kinston of the Colonial outlet. Wilson is scheduled to take over the management of this popular neighborhood gro cery as soon as his replacement can be found at the Colonial Store. As Wilson is marking time be fore leaving his bosses for such a long time work is being rushed on the second Colonial Store In Jones Board Has Routine Session In August Meet The Jones County Board Of Commissioners meeting Monday in its regular August session pas sed on a number of routine mat ters, including the passage of a resolution approving the sale of $130,000 in school bonds as au thorizen in a special election held in May. Other matters acted on in cluded the naming of W. B. Yates, Roy P. Mallard and Cyrus Griffin as delinquent tax col lector until January 1052. The three collectors will receive the same salary paid to previous de linquent tax collectors and each will be bonded for $500. The board also voted to pay the $5 per month telephone bill of Deputy Sheriff Yates. On recommendation of the Jones County Bar Association and Clerk of Superior Court Murray Whitaker the August term of Jones County Superior Court was'cancelled. The next term of court will be held during the week of September 17th. Clerk Whitaker announced. The board approved expen diture qf $300 for office furniture and equipment for the welfare department on request of Acting Superintendent, Mrs. J. R. Burt. The board voted to grant the usual discounts for prepaid taxes for 1951 and voted to amend the minutes of the June 4th meeting which had stated that insurance for the court house and agri culture building would be pur chased from J. H. Poscue and Murry Whitaker. The amended minutes delete the name of Fos cue. • At Raleigh Meeting Home Agent Mrs. Madge Jar vis and Mrs. Annie Hay of Mays ville were Jones County’s only representatives at the annual Farm and Home week meeting which was held last week in Ral eigh on the campus of State Col lege. Both report an interesting week. Don’t Forget Tour Jones Couny farmers were this week reminded of the five day, four state tour that is to be conducted for their enter tainment and education, Sept ember 3-7 under the supervis ion of the county agent’s of fice. The tour which will in clude trips to the Norfolk area and the huge shipyard at New port News, the government’s experimental farm at Belts - ville, Md., a trip through Washington, D. C., a trip down the Skyline Drive, a visit to the Luray Caverns, a tour of the Fieldcrest Mills rug plant In Leaksville Spray and a trip through the Chesterfield cig arette plant in Durham is one of the best yet planned for Jones farmers. A $5 deposit is asked now of those who plan to make the September trip. Full details can be obtained by calling at the county a gent’s office. t ; ■-: town which is to open soon be side Paul Baker’s Wayside Fur niture Store on West Vernon Avenue. This grocery business is the thing, to be in, that's where 60 per cent of everyone’s income la being spent.
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