FARM
QUESTIONS
ANSWERED
Question: What is the best way
to protect tobacco plant beds from
flea-beetle damage?
Answer: The trap bed has given
excellent results in the control of
this insect. This bed is made by
fitting boards closely around the
margin of the bed and bank-soil a
round these boards so that the beet
iles cannot crawl under them. A
trap is then built at least two feet
around the tight bed. This area
is sown with tobacco seed and as
soon as the plants are up they
should be kept well covered with
poison at all times. Full directions
for building a trap bed for the con
trol of flea-beetles as well as con
trol measures for other tobacco in
sects are given in Extension Cir
cular No. 174 and copies may be
had free upon application to the
Agricultural Editor at Statle Col
lege.
Question: When should lespedeza
be sown on small grain?
Answer: This, of course, depends
upon the variety seeded, but the
usual practice is to sow in Febru
ary or March. The Korean variety
germinates in about two weeks and
the other varieties in from four to
established before the hot-dry wea
ther, but late enough to avoid freez
es. If the seed are broadcast at least
one bushel of seed (25 pounds)
should be sown to the acre. When
drilled in, less seed is required,
but the drill should be set to run
very shallow and the seed mixed
with superphosphate, basic slag, or
ground limestone for better cover
age.
Question: Should eggs be hand
led after they are set for hatching?
Answer; yjes. All eggs Should
be handled on the seventh day and
all dead germs and infertile eggs
removed. Care, however, should be
exercised in the handling. A fertile
egg will appear to contain a spider
—the germ representing the body
of the spider while the blood vessels
represent the legs. An infertile egg
will be clear with the yolk slightly
visible. The handling should be
done in a dark room or at night.
Incubating Eggs
Should Not Be
Handled At All
Handling does more damage to
hatching eggs between the fourth
and fifteenth day of incubation
than at any other time, warns Roy
S. Dearstyne, head of the State Col
lege Poultry Department.
After the first fifteen days in the
incubator, eggs can take a great
deal of punishment and still hatch.
Tests have shown that eggs with
live embryos following this period
may be shaken violently, whirled
rapidly, and jarred sharply with a
minimum damage. Only three per
cent failed to hatch.
When the same rough handling
was given eggs incubated between
four and fifteen days, 34 per cent
of the eggs showed dead embryos,
Dearstyne declared.
Incubating eggs damaged by
rough treatment which was not
severe enough to break the shells
usually showed broken yolk sacs,
or ruptured iblood vessels in tho
growing emhryof. Sometimes tre
mulous air cells developed, but if
the embryo lived, the air cells be
came fixed, the State College poul
tryman explained.
For a long time there has been
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SEED SHOW SET
FOR LEXINGTON
Will Take Place Feb. Bth And
9th; Many Kinds Os Seed
To Be On Display
Complete plans for the fourth an
nual meeting and seed exposition
of the North Carolina Crop Impro
vement Association in Lexington
Feb. 8 and 9 have been announced
by A. D. Stuart of State College.
Both certified amd uncertified
seed of high quality will be on ex
hibit at the show. Seed to be shown
are corn, cotton, tobacco, small
grains, soybeans, cowpeas, lesped
eza, peanuts, and sweet and Irish
potatoes.
Practically thb entire first day
well be devoted to crop judging
contests in which 4-H Club mem
bers and students of vocational ag
riculture will compete.
Highlight of the two-day meeting
will come Feb. 8 when teams win
ning the crop judging contests will
be honored at a banquet. Distin
guished guests of the association
will make brief talks, Stuart said.
L. R. Harrill, 4-H Club leader at
State Cpllege, will award prizes to
members of his organization who
captured first honors in the crops
judging contest. Roy H. Thomas,
state supervisor of vocational ag
riculture, is scheduled to hand out
prizes to winning vocational stu
dents.
On the second day the North
Carolina Crop Improvement Asso
ciation will hold its annual meeting
in Lexington’s Soil Conservation
Building. Included on the program
are John B. Craven, mayor of Lex
ington, S. T. Henry, vice-president
of NCCIA, J. B. Cotner and A. D.
Stuart of State College, and W. H. ]
Byrne of the Virginia Extension 1
Service.
a popular belief that such distur
bances as thunder, rumbling trains,
dynamite explosions, and earth
quakes are likely to prevent eggs
from hatching. One of the objectiv
es of the egg-handling experiment
was to determine the validity of
this belief.
Certain eggs were handled care
fully during the incubation period.
Others were subjected to rough
treatment, such as being placed
near blasting operations which pro
duced a shock so severe as to break
the shells of as many as one-third
of the eggs.
Dearstyne said that of those eggs
that escaped shell damage from the
explosion, 67 per cent hatched,
compared with an 83 per cent hatch
from the carefully incubated eggs.
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With limited exports of farm pro
ducts, it’s not hard to guess what
will happen to prices if we have
many more bumper crop years like
1937.
Soil Program Aids
In Diversification
John Brown: “The 1938 program
will also help you balance your
«farming operations.”
Bill Smith: “I need to balance
my income with my expenses. I’ve
been miming behind for so long
that I’d about given up hope.”
Brown: “It’ll help you do that
too. It’s the best all-around farm
program I’ve ever hear of.
“The committeemen will tell you
how many acres you should plant
to the different cash cropts. And
by limiting your acreage of cash
or soil - depleting crops, you will
have other land available for grow
ing legumes and grasses.
“With this, you can start farm-
ing on a good crop rotation system
instead of keeping a field in the
same crop year after year.
“The program also encourages us
to grow pastures and hay crops to
feed livestock. This cuts down on
the expense of feed. With a well
balanced farming program, many
other expenses will be kept down
too.
“And when you stlart gitowing
nore feed, you can have more live
stock. You know, livestock are
needed to balance out your farm
enterprise.”
Smith: “Yeah. I think most all of
us around here could do better
if we had a few more cows and
hogs.”
Brown: “That’s right, Bill. I think
we could have some more beef cat
tle, sheep, and work stock too.
They’re /good money-mak) rs. And
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it’s a lot cheaper to raise your Work
stock than to buy it.”
Smith: “I could use some manure
on my place. I’ve been wishing I
had enough to. spread on my land
regularly.”
Brown: “Yes. There you have
still another advantage from the
program. More feed, more live
stock, more manure. I tell you, it’s
hard to beat.”
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ten years before the close of the
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