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Fire Ants Invading North Carolina Described as Vicious and Destructive FIRE ANT MOUNDS — Along with having many other bad characterise*, fire ant* can out do other ants in mound building. Some of their mounds are up to three feet in height. Thi* picture was taken in the Lower Sduth where fire ants have been a problem for many years. Just what kind of critter is the imported fire ant ? This question might be in the minds of many pepole reading or hearing about the imported fire ant — subject of an intensive erad ication campaign about to get un derway in North Carolina. C. H. Brannon, state entomolog ist of the North Carolina Depart ment of Agriculture, gives this thumbnail sketch of the imported fire ant. The imported fire ant is a native of South America. It entered this country around 1918, but because it closely resembled native fire ants (in looks) it was not identified as a separate species until 1930. Imported fire ants are small in size. Worker ants vary from one eighth to one-fourth inch long, but they make up for their lack of size by their aggressiveness and num bers. As fighters, they have few equals. They will bite and sting anything that goes near their mounds. On the attack they sink their jaws into the flesh, bring their abdomen for ward and drive their stinger into the skin injecting a poison. The Stings are painful and cause ^ fes tering sore susceptible to infection. The stings are dangerous to young children or persons .allergic to the poison. One mound may contain 100,000 ants — all ready apd will ing to fight any intruder. The ants’ moumi building habits are perhaps even.imore disconcert ing than their stinging habits. Other ants build mounds but they are pikers compared to the import 7 ed fire aftt In' hfea^ily infested areas, 40 mounds per acre are com mon. TheSe mounds vary 'in size up to about three feet in diameter and height, but most mounds meas ure about 18 inches. Since these mounds are crusty and hard, they pose a real problem during seed ing, fertilizing and harvesting. Although the ants will build mounds in almost any kind of ter-1 rain, they prefer land exposed to the sun. Therefore, some of the most valuable farming and pasture land is usually hardest hit. When ever land is cultivated only inter mittently, as in improved pastures, imported fire ants increase rapidly. This is especially important in improved pastures, imported fire ants increase rapidly. This is es pecially important in North Caro lina where livestock production and dairying represent the agriculutral , Another fire ants is their adaptability. They can live on a great variety of food Including cabbage, corn, collards, eggplant, and potatoes, and they can tolerate a wide range of cli matic conditions. For example, at the Gulfport, Miss., Imported Fire Ant Laboratory, the ants h av e been quick-frozen and kept at below zero temperature for two hours, thawed out and returned to below-zero temperatures for another two hours. After being thawed out again, the ants were as frisky as ever. As practical evidence of their adaptability, it might be worth noting that the ants have already spready east-to-west from More head City, N. C., to San Antonio, Texas, a distance of about 1,250 air miles, and they’ve moved all the way south to Miami, Florida. The ability to spread quickly and widely is the reason State and Fed eral plant pest control officials are anxious to clear up the state’s only large infestation in Carteret and Craven Counties. The eradication program in this area is scheduled to start this month. Like most insects, imported fire ants are well organized. Divided into three forms: (1) winiged, fer tile females (queens); (2) winged, fertile, males; and (3) worker ants (sterile females), each group car ries out its own clearly defined du ties. At mating- time, usually in the spring, queens fake to the air and mate with fertile males. The queen returns to earth, sheds her now worthless wings, digs a brood chamber and goes to work laying eggs. She also takes- care of the first brood. Worker ants take care-of later broods, handle the fighting, and move the colony whenever neces sary. The winged males die soon after fulfilling their one function---, mating. USDA Plan* Pest Control scien tists, who have been fighting these ants since 1957, are using thrf im ported fire ants’ penchant for or ganization against them. Only re cently these scientists devised a new bait which has proved unus ually effective. The bait is com posed of ground' corncobs, soybean oil, and a small amount of slow acting insecticide. Because of its delayed action, foraging workef ants can carry the bait into colony and feet the soybean to the queen and larvae before I. and leave the area before getting a fatal, dose of the insecticide. After the soybean oil, (and insec ticide) is removed from the corn cob grits, the worker ants dutiful ly remove the grits from the mount} and stack them in a neat pile. This enables pest control workers to see how well the ants are taking the bait. And, as one final ironic note, plant pest control workers use the ants good housekeeping practices to detenjjiine the effectiveness of the bait. As the ants die off, other ants remove the bodies and place them in an ant “bone-yard” outside the mound. LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE OP FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA JONES COUNTY Under and by virtue of power of sale contained in that certain deed of trust executed on the 30th day of January, ,1962 by Earlie Wil liam Hicks et ux, Willie Augustine Hicks, to Julius C. Smith, III, Trustee,-and recorded in Book 139, Page 206, Jones County Registry, default having been made in the indebtedness thereDy secured ana said deed of trust being by the terms thereof subject to foreclos ure, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the Courthouse door in Trenton, N. C., at 3:00 on the 19th day of May, 1964, the property conveyed in said' deed of trust, the same lying and being in Jones County, N-. C., and more particular ly described as. follows: A certain lot or parcel ol land in Belgrade Township, Jones County North Carotins, bounded on the north by Rubin Avenue, a dirt road leading ' westwardly f ro m County Road No. 1457, bounded on the west and south by the Mat ch's lends, and on the out by tb. land, of Viola Page; BEGIN N1NG .t a* irop stak. in the the southern edge of Rubin Avenue at the northwest corner.of the SOUP AND SANDWICH! QUICK SPRlNC LUNCH jiaviSri on tcdevMqD* to the delightful days bails, and gardening first baseball games Whatever the activities, you’ll want lunch to be a quick and easy affair but good and nourishing, too* Tate best bet lies in all the wonderful vegetable soups available. The children love them ... and they go so well with sandwiches. Canned condensed vegetable bean soup is a good choice for springl Hearty but hot too robust, it’s chock full of nutritious vegetables ana tender, tasty beans. For extra color and flavor, add chopped cooked toastoea. So good served with roast beef sandwiches on sesame seed rolls, crisp coleslaw, and fresh fruit. n carry spring- soap 1 can (16ft ounces) condensed vegetable bean soup 1 cup water, % cup cooked tomatoes In saucepan, combine all ingredient* Heat, stirring now and then. Hakes 2 to 8 servings. parallel to the firrt line hereof, 200 feet to the southern edge of said avenue; thence in an easterly di rection along the southern edge of said avenue, 73 feet to die poiqt of BEGINNING. The., highest bidder will be re-, quired to deposit in rash at the sale,an amount equal to ten per cent of the amount of his bid up to one thousand dollars plus five percent of the excess of his bid over one thousand dollars. This sale will be made subject to all outstanding and unpaid taxes and assessments. This the 7th day of April, 1964. (s) MARTIN L. CROMARTIE TRUSTEE Martin L. Cromartie, Jr. Attorney at Law Tarboro, N. C. Apr. 19, 26, May 2, 9 NOTICE TO CREDITORS The undersigned, having quali fied as Executor of the Estate of Edwin E. McDaniel, deceased, late of Jones County, this is to notify all person having claims against said Estate to present them to the undersigned before the 10th day of April, 1965, otherwise, this notice will be pleaded' in bar of their re covery. All persons indebted to said Es tate will please make immediate settlement. This 10th day of April, 1964. Wilmer F. McDaniel, Executro of the Estate of Edwin E. McDaniel BROCK and HOOD Attorneys at Law Box 55 Trenton, N. C. Apr. 13, 30 May 7, 14 NOTICE TO CREDITORS le undersigned, having qualified Administratrix of,the Estate of of the Estate of Nash Thomas BROCK & HOOD Attorneys at Law Box 55 Trenton, N. C Apr. 9, 16, 23, 30 ;■ JOHNSTONIAN HELD Robert S. Creech of Smithfield route 2 was jailed in Kinston Tues day. night in a drugged condition and charged with violation 6f state narcotics laws. ( <OOHK>oQ Sinn™! «^‘21K;>r5Si
Jones County Journal (Trenton, N.C.)
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