North Carolina Newspapers

Jones Farm Agent Franck Outimes System for Improving Bean Yields By Jimmy Franck Jonas County Agent Did you make it? Of course you remember how you plan ned to make 80 bushels of soy beans and 200 bushels of corn. ' Well, if you still don’t know, now is the time to find out, a better chance will foe hard to come by. The crops are still in the field and you don’t have to wonder how they grew — you can look. The plants are a perfect blue print of the way soil affected the plants. You don’t have to know the absolute yield to de tect differences in the way the plants grew. And, if differences can be found now, you know your yield would foe higher if the worst plants were as good as the best. This would suggest that you could start out now to improve your lot in life next year. Why not cruise the farm and take note of those had areas mat serve only to separate the good ones. A systematic inventory would include a check on soil fertility. This can 'be gotten simply by submitting , soil samples to the laboratory of the Soil Testing Division of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture. Complete information about this service as well as the necessary supplies can be bad at the Ex tension office or from the lab oratory. -Plant starvation may be quite evident not in soybeans. Some of thesymtoms may be familiar but whether they are symptoms of toxicity or starvation is unim portant. It’s too late to salvage this crop. The important thing is to find out why the whole field doesn’t look alike. Then do something about it. Let’s read those bean fields now. Tar Heel Meat Producers Still Very Cautious About Expansion Cautious seems to oe tne oesx way to describe the response of North Carolina farmers to their slightly improved .poultry and livestock prices. Extension specialists at North Carolina State University see lit tle evidence that farmers plan to greatly increase production as a result of stronger prices. (Here are some of the com Kinston School Board 'Shook1 Badly By White Resistance to Zoning Plan Monday night a very large per cent of the parents of white school aged children in the area east of Queen Street and South of Vernon Avenue descended upon the Kinston School 'Board and shook a 'moratorium out of the surprised board on its geo graphical zoning plan. This plan has caused 13 white students to be enrolled at Ad kin High School where 824-col ored students are enrolled and 34 white students to be enroll ed Adkin Junior High School, which has a colored enrollment of 539. The irate group of parents ILargely supported racial inte gration since it is the law of the land, but they objected loudly, lengthily and bitterly to the system intitated this year by the school board which has both the appearance and the ac tuality of forcing racial integra tion on less well-to-do families while leaving the city’s middle to upper class families remote from this problem. The school board meeting had been originally planned to be held in the administrative of fices on Atlantic Avenue, but the size of the crowd that came to be heard caused the meeting to be transferred to the audi torium of Lewis Elementary School., _ Efforts of school board mem bers and Superintendent Tom Beach to explain their position were largely drowned out as par ent after parent made clear what they were willing to do and what they were not will ing to do. The group refused to name a committee for negotia tions with the school board as one of the protestors pointed) out to the school board: “You are our committee. You know what we want!” And what they wanted they got, at least temporarily, was permission to withdraw their children from these predomi nantly colored schools. Further meetings are scheduled this week and guessing about the possible actions of the school board has become a popular subject for conversation. Most agree that the school board’s choices are extremely limited. Either total racial in tegration of the schools in the system, or Freedom of Choice, which after all is what the Civil Rights Act of 1964 demands, and no more. However, court decisions and HEW interpretations have held that if Freedom of Choice does not force sufficient mixing of the races that other steps must be taken. But the law does not say this no matter what the courts say: Conservation and Development Board Holding Meet This Week in Kinston A three-day meeting of the North Carolina Board of Con -servation and Development is being held this weekend in Kins ton. Lenoir County and the City of Kinston along with Leo Bro dy and1 Bert Martin, members of the board, are hdsts to this first full meeting of the newly appointed board. Highlight of the gathering will be a speech Thursday night by Governor Bob Scott at a ban quet being igiven at the Kinston Country Club. Gil Horton of Wilmington, Chairman of the board, will pre side over the meeting, during -which reports will be heard from the many divisions of the state government that operate under the general supervision of the board. It is the third largest branch of the state government, rank ing only behind schools and and highways. The first full bdsiness session will be heldTriday morning, will continue throughout the day with public hearings for all who wish to appear before the board with a report from Roy Sowers of Sanford who is director and chief executive officer of the de partment. - - S - \ The session will be conclud ed Saturday morning with re ports from assorted department heads and committee reports. All business sessions will be conducted in the meeting room of the Holiday Inn. Renew Your Subscription^ isiikiSMBkMi ments of the specialists on tbe improved prices and! their im pact on the various categories of poultry and livestock: /■ t, , BEEF CATTLE — The price for choice steers is up about $2 per hundredweight over a year ago. The price of older cows is up as much as $4, indi cating a relatively stronger de mand for hamburger-type meat. Farmers are culling their cat tle more closely to take advan tage of the higher prices for older cows, according to A. V. Allen, extension livestock spec ialist. “A cattleman can cpll out a low producer and invest the money id a good heifer and come out ahead,” he explained. Allen said the stronger pric es, plus relatively low feedcosts, will probably cause more farm ers to feed out their cattle this fall and winter rather than to sell them as feeders. Allen also believes that high interest rates will discourage many farmers from borrowing money to expand cattle produc tion. HOGS — Top hogs are up as much as $5 per hundredweight over a year ago, and 40 to 50 feeder pigs are running $3 to $4 per head higher. Hog numbers in the state have been increasing for several years. This trend is expected to continue. More farmers with grain are expected to feed out their pigs this year rather than sell them as feeder pigs. “Over-all livestock expansion is not going to be up as much as you think,” Allen said. DAUGHETY RECOVERING Harry; Daugheiy of Kinston, route 6 who was critically in jured by armed tjueves who stuck up the filling station! where he worked on September 1st is recovering from the loss of his right kidney and other1 serious abdominal, damage done by the two bullets fired into' his body by the bandits. DEATHS Jasper Lewis Phillips / Funeral services were held Tuesday for Jasper Lewis Phil lips, 79, retired highway com mission engineer, former Kins ton postmaster, and World War One veteran, who died early Monday after a brief illness. Willie Wafers Funeral services were held (Friday for Willie Waters, 66, of Kinston, route 4, who died last Wednesday night. “Everything else has gone up in proportion to livestock pric es, and the outlook for labor is not good at all.” BROILERS — Prices hit an 11-year high of 8 cents per pound in July. But the yearly average is running only about 1 cent per pound ahead of last year. Broiler production in the state has 'been increasing at about 5 to 6 per cent annually, and W. C. Mills, extension poultry spec ialist, expects this same growth rate to continue in 1969. “This is a sign of maturity in the poultry industry,” Mills said. “The industry is recovering some of its losses from previous years, but it does not want to overbur den the supply situation.” TURKEYS — Production has been increasing in the state since the mid-’SOs and especially since the early ’60s. And another 17 per cent increase is expected in 1969. Although prices are up some this year, Mills feels that the current , growth is based more on long range factors than on current prices. EGGS— Prices are up slight ly and a 3 to 5 per cent expan sion is likely, especially in hatch ing egg production. But this growth is about in line with that of previous years. ONE HIGH STANDARD The same thoughtful consideration and complete dignified service is accorded aH regardless of the cost of the funeral selected. Gamer's Funeral Home Dial JA 3-2124 or JA 3-2125 Kinston, N. C. Farm and Home Requirements Of Petroleum .■Mi-. __, - . / ® _._ ,:Y_ Wm’MIpSSpT: iste; a >.!' HODGES-BELL OIL CO., INC. Phono JA 3-2338 &WM W* ;£ 7® Jit «• Kinston, H. C. P.O. n -,--— . - ' ■ -----TT-7: TOP QUALITY USED CARS 1968 Chevelle Malibu Convertible Extra, extra clean. Very nice, low mileage 4-door hardtop with automatic 'i ransmission and Power Steering and Air Condition ing. 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