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A GRISLY WARNING TO SPEEDERS
.fcnagiuative members of the committee in charge of a safety drive at
Marlin, Tex., paraded this actual skeleton around dangerons crossings in
the commnnity with tremendous effect on reckless drivers.
Farm Agent And Assistant
Are Now Very Busy Terracing
TERRACING
The Farm Agent and the Assis
tant Agent have been busy every
day that the weather permits an
swering calls for assistance with ter
racing. The terracing unit has mov
ed into the Hurdle Mills section and
is going on down in Flat River
Township.
Following the heavy rains last
weeks the fields were too heavy for
constructing terraces, but the trac
tor was busy two and a half days
building roads. 25,820 ft. of roads
Were built. These roads mean a
great deal to families living off the
main highway or other roads work
ed by the county. Road work is
done for the farmers at the same
rate that terraces are built—s3.oo
per hour for actual running time.
There has been greater interest
in terracing than ever before in the
county. For the past six weeks
there has been enough wbrtc for
three terracing outfits. Farmers
everywhere are begging for lines to
be staked. Some of them who want
the terracing unit to do their work,
but realize that they cannot bz
reached this spring, are going ahead
and building their own terraces as
best they can, and getting their
fields in shape so the tractor can
get in them after the crops are har
vested. in the fall.
Farmers who havje grain fields
that they wish to have terraced after
harvest should make applications as
soon as possible, so that plans may
be made to take the tractor to as
many farms as can be reached. For
several weeks we have received
an average of six calls a day for
terracing work. The interest of
the farmers in this phase of their
work is highly gratifying, and we
are making every effort possible to
serve just as many as can be reach
ed.
One of the farms recently staked
by the County Agent is that of Mr.
S. J. Parker, near Orange County
line. Mr. Parker has terraced 27
acres with a V-drag, and has done
a mighty good job. He has under
taken to put sod strips across some
the terraces that have steep out
lets, to prevent the channel wash
ing out. This is the first work of
this kind in the county, so far as
we know, that has been done by
anyone except the CCC boys. Mr.
Parker’s terraces are a credit Kj
any farm, and anyone interested in
terracing will find it well worth
while to see the good work he has
done.
9LUE MOLD ON TOBACCO
PLANT BEDS
For weeks we have been hearing
that blue mold has attacked plant
beds in the southern and eastern
part of the state, so the farmers of
Person County were not surprised
to find this disease on their plants.
Reports from all sections of the
county indicate that blue mold is
pretty generally scattered over the
county. Farmers should not be un
duly alarmed by the prevalence of
blue mold. It has attacked our plants
for a number of years, and most
farmers have succeeded from year
to year in at least partially over
coming the damage done to the
plants. While many experiments
have been tried, and are still being
carried on, the Department of Agri
culture is not yet ready to recom
mend any particular remedy for
blue mold. So far as is known at
present, sunshine during the farm
hours of the day is the most bene
ficial treatment. The plant bed co
vers should be kept on at night
as long as the nights are as cold
as they are at present, but the co
vers should be removed during the
warm hours of the day in order
that the air and sunshine may get
to the plants. Treating with Nitrate
of Soda is generally recognized as
bring the most beneficial practice
known at present. DO NOT SET
OUT PLANTS THAT SHOW
SIGNS OF BLUE MOLD. Wait un
til new leaves have grown on the
plants before transplanting to the
field.
FLEA - BEETLES IN TOBACCO
PLANT BEDS
Reports continue to come to the
office that flea - beetles are damag
ing tobacco plants. By all means
get a supply of ROTENONE and
dust your tobacco plants if any in
sects are eating the leaves. Rotenone
does not hurt the tender young
plants, is easy to apply, and is not
expensive. If the plants are dusted
before being drawn from the beds,
it will save much loss in the fields
as flea-beetles are frequently car
ried on the plants from the beds to
the fields. These beetles then des
troy the young plants before they
have time to develop new roots, and
thus cause the loss of much time
and labor of replanting.
Get ROTENONE and keep a sup
ply on hand.
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GARDEN NOTES •
Late frosts and cool weather have
retarded the growth of vegetables
this spring. However, we can now
make a planting of all the vege
tables we wish to grow, includ n;
the tender ones which will not stand
much cool weather, such as lima
beans, okra, corn, etc. In many gar
dens snap beans, beets, carrot 1 , ani
Crqwder and Blackens peas aße
already growing.
As soon as warm weather comes,
insects will begin their work in
earnest. Those pretty little butter
flies that are flying around your
cabbage plants are not on a mission
of good will. The male is almos:
white, the female has blackspots on
her wings, she lays the eggs on the
outer leaves of the cabbage a-’d in
3 to 10 days the worms are busy,
you should get busy when you firs:
see the butterfly. In the early mo n
ing when the plants are moist, das
with 75 per cent ROTENONE. Thi,
will also control the little green
plant lice which suck the leaves
causing them to curl.
For the bean beetles, dust with
a prepared dust containing 75 per
cent ROTENONE. Be sure to ge.
this on the under side of the leaves.
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BAR ROOM MANNERS
New York City—Now that women
are admitted freely to bar-rooms,
men expected to show them pro
per difference by removing their
hats at the bar when women are
present. So ruled Magistrate Ford
in settling a brawl over the matter.
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“Not only is it bad manners and
bad taste,” he said, “but it is such
a provocative act to bring about a
breach of peace.”
BOMBERS S' J K BATTLES AIP
London, Eng.—The first sinking
of a warship by aircraft - that of
the old Spanish battleship, Espana
by three Loyalist planes off Bilbao,
Spain - has added fresh fuel to the
arguments in naval circles that air
craft threatens little danger to mo
dern warships. Big navy partisans
point cut that the 24-year-old Es
pana had only 1-inch deck a mor,
nc anti-aircraft guns and only 20
knots speed. AircrsJt :Si ,'pp.cr.ters,
however, claim that at last a batt’e
ship has been sunk in actual war
fare and that it can be done again.
NEUTRALITY ACT SIGNED
Galveston, Texas—The President
interrupted his Gulof Mexico fishing
long enough to sign a neutrality act
which provides for greater isolation
of the U. S. than ever before in the
case of foreign war. Among its pro-
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visions hre the requirement that
any commodity furnished to a bel
ligerant must be paid for before
loading and carried in ships of for
eigh registry. The President may
close American ports to belligeran'
ships seeking supply bases; Ameri
cans are forbidden to travel in bclli
gerant vessels, and the solicitation
of funds for belligerant nations L
forbidden.
the capital week
Washington, D. C.—An undercur
rent of feeling presists that the fight
to reconstruct the Supreme Court
may be dropped, on the chance that
two or more Associate Justices may
resign this summer, opening the way
for the appointment of successors
more sympathetic to the New Deal..
! ....The Navy is keeping mum about
I the report that the main propul
sion gear of the $20,000,000 aircraf.
! carrier Yorktown broke dawn on
her first trial run .... The Senate
; is expected to pass the Doughton
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Bill, repealing the provisions of the
Revenue act requiring publication
of all corporation salaries over $15,-
000 per year Department of
Commerce reported an adverse
trade balance in March of $50,309,-
000, against an excess of imports
over exports of only $3,588,000 in
March, 1936.
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