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F;lea-Beetles Are Doing Much To / Damage Plant Beds Reports received by the Coun ty Agent’s office indicate that damage to tobacco plant beds from flea-beetles has been wide spread throughout the county during the recent cold, damp wea ther. While flea-beetle attack may be prevalent throughout the plant bed period, the young plants are most susceptible to injjury during the first ten days follow ing seed germination. It is ad visable, therefore; not to remove the cover more often than is ab solutely neoessary during this period; for when the plant bed is open there, is 'opportunity for flea beetles to enter and begin egg laying. Toto much emphasis cannot be placed upon the con struction of tight beds as an aid to reducing flea beetle injury. Plant-bed side-walls of boards should be tightly fitted at all joints and well banked with dirt on the outside. The cloth cover should have at least 25 strands per linear inch and fitted so that there is no opening between the cover and the top of the side walls. Every effort should be made to keep the flea beetles out of the bed. However, if flea beetles get in a plant bed, the following control is recommended—Use One Per cent Rotenone Dust: This insecti cide may be applied by means of a hand-operated duster or by a bellows type hand duster, at the rate of one-half pound to 100 sq. yds. of plant bed surface. Repeat applications about every four days until complete Control is ob. tained. If the plant bed cover is dry, and a good dust gun is used With sufficient force the appli. cation may he made through the doth. However, unless the dust gun wiU force the dust through the cloth, the application may. he made while die doth is removed; directly, to the plants. Rotenone dust is not expensive, it is not poisonous to huipan beings nor animals, and is perhaps the most efficient insecticide used for all chewing insects. BbftMbne will control flea beet les, Mexican bean beetles, cab bage worms and similar leaf-eat ing insect*. It may be applied to very tender leaves, without any danger of burning them. It is widely used to destroy insects on flowers, as well as on vegetables and other plants. DAMAGED The past winter did an exten sive amount of damage to such semi-hardy perennials in Lin coln county as roses, crepe myr tels, and crepe jasmines, reports Assistant Farm Agent J. W. Web ster. ■ ■ ■ O'—■■ ADVERTISE IN THB TIMES FOR RESULTS, P h HftAAJjAfl. When Add Indigestion, Gas on i Stomach or Heartburn make you fed uncomfortable or embarrass you, try Alka-Seltzer, which con tains nUrnUriwg buffers and so helps counteract the associated Excess Stomach Acidity. But the relief of these minor stomach upsets Is only a small part of what you can expect Alka-Seltzer to do for you. You will find it effective for Pain Re lief in Headache, Neuralgia, Colds and Muscular Aches and Pains. It contains an analgesic, (sodium acetyl salicylate), made more prompt and effective in its pain relieving action by alkaline buffer salts. When hard work or strenuous exercise make you feel tired and dragged out, enjoy the refresh ing effect of a glam of sparkling, tangy Alka-Seltzer. , At Drag Stoics in patHgm and 1 at drag store soda fountains by the , ■■amHiapw Excellence In Small Homes ■msm hm #] £■ '% ||||i ■ ••• t . . •: Homes of this types are being built in Pennsylvania to sell for $2,500 without land, indicating how the building industry is meeting the vast low-cost housing market with architecturally attractive homes. Without using expensive materials and reducing waste space to a minimum, the builders of this home have achieved a charming effect and provided a dwelling which may well be the envy of those with homes far more expensive. Without a cellar, this home is valued at. $2,650 with land. Addition of a full cellar would add S3OO to the total cost. Financed with a mortgage of $2,500 insured by the Femoral Housing Administration, the. monthly payments over a 15-year period would average less than s2l. - - - - • Animal Diseases Theme Os Clinic Raleigh, April 25. —Seeking to control a newly-recognized, dea th-dealing malady of diary herds, “mastitis,” and arrest serious breeding diseases thej State Department of Agriculture has completed veterinary clinics throughout North Carolina in an I effort to enhance the value of dairy animals and protect farm ers from further losses, Commis sioner of Agriculture W. Kerr Scott reports, Clinics have been conducted at .the State Hospital, Morganton; Jackson Training School, Con cord; N. C. C. W. Dairy, Guilford College; State Hospital, Ralalgh and the Caswell Training School, Kinston. The control program has been conducted under the super vision of Dr. William Moore, chief of the Department’s veterinary division, with two of the state's best known authorities on “mas titis” and breeding diseases in charge. Three-fourths of the practicing veterinarians in the State attended the clinics. “An examination of nearly 400 dairy animals througUoiut (fee State indicates the necessity of controling mastitis and breeding problems if North Carolina is to increase its dairy industry,” Com missioner Scott said. “The princi pal value of prevention and con trol work on these diseases will greatly increase the milk pro duction of the dairy animals and greatly prolong the useful life of the cows.” Dr. Moore reported that “masti tis is a disease that can be con trolled through the proper super vision and management of herds,” adding that “the Department has received full cooperation of the dairy extension office at State College and other 6tate institu tions.” Although mastitis control was emphasized at the clinics, herd managers and veterinarians also devoted a major part of the disease- eradication and control discussions to a study of breeding problems that have cost farmers thousands of dollors in loss of animals each year. o LIME Mitchell county fanners have placed orders for 2,227 tons of ground agricultural lime stone under the grant-of-aid provision of the 1940 Agricultural Conser vation program. HANDICRAFTS » Four-H club boys of Sampson county are being taught to make such useful articles as anvils, ter racing drags, tables, filing boxes, book caes, book ends, work bea ches, mid tool cabinets. PEI/JSON COUNT! TIMES ROXBOFO. N. C. Horton Has Plans For Next Week Over This State Raleigh, N. C., April 25—One es the major developments of the j past week in the campaign of Lieutenant Governor Wilkins P. Horton, of Pittsboro, for the De j mocratic nomination for Govern cr embraced a statewide meeting of the members of his headquart ers staff, from the various sect ions of North Carolina, together with the county managers, at the Sir Walter Hotel in Raleigh, Friday afternoon mid a dinner meeting Friday night At the attend'd by more thsn 100 pplitic'l leaders, Lieutenant Governor Horton de livered an address on a statewide hookup. In this message, his first statewide speech of the campaign, Mr. Horton reviewed his acts and services as a State Senator and as Lieutenant Governor during a greater part of the past twenty Os Quality For Home Builders The home you build will be evidence of your ability to -lo do a job well—only if'it is built of materials that wiD stand up and prove good quality in good service. Watkins & Bullock EVERYTHING TO BUILD WITH ROXBORO NORTH CAROLINA ► < ! Thank You ► • < ► • ► i ► i ; We wish to thank the people of this ! ► ' < ; county for the patronage that you ; • have given us since we opened. ; l You have liked our prices and our • * l furniture and we like the way you ! * < : have received us. J . < . . « . | Visit Us For Bargains ! < ! Pittard Furniture Co. i . < Depot Street > . ! years.H e appealed to the people of North Carolina to determine his qualifications “as a public servant and as a private citizen in the service of the Democratic party.” “I invite you to look at the journal of our State Senate,” said Mr. Horton, “and investigate for yourself the record of my service therp.” He advocated continu ance and improvement of the program of public service in the State, maintaining that this can be done without injury to its fin ancial structure. State Campaign Manager Dan. iel L. Bell, who presided over the dinner meeting and the afternoon conference, declared that submitted from managers in all patte of the State indicated that success of the Horton candidacy is certain. “I x am absolutely con fident teat Wilkins P. Horton is going to be nominated for the Governorship,” he said. Senator H. P. Taylor, of Wades boro, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee in 1939, intro duced Lieutenant Governor Hor- ton, and predicted that he will be the next Governor. Optimistic talks were made by many mem bers of the organization from all parts of the State at the after noon and night meetings. It was announced that Mr. Horton will deliver five more ad dresses on a statewide radio hook up in the remaining Friday nights before the first primary May 25. For this week an active sche dule of speaking engagements for Mr. Horton was arranged as follows: Monday, April 22, at 1:00 P. M, public meeting in Hoke County courthouse in Raeford; Tuesday, April 23, at 8:00 p. m., annual address at Pollotcksville school, Jones County; Wednesday, April 24, at 8:00 P. M., public meeting iri county courthouse in Beaufort, Carteret County; Thursday, April 25, at 6:30 P. M., meeting of En field Lions Club; Friday, April 26, at 7:30 P. M. address (to be broadcast over statewide radio hookup) in Washington, Beaufart County; Saturday, A|pril 27, at 4:00 P. M., address in Ahoskie, and at 8:00 P. M., speech in Hert ford. o GEORGE KANE NAMED TO BUILDING CODE COUNCIL George W. Kane, of this city was appointed to the state build ing code council Friday by Gov. Clyde R. Hoey. Kane will represent general con tractors on the council. Besides Kane, Governor Hoey also named Walter W. Hook of Charlotte to represent the achi tects, Prof. Harry Tucker of Ra leigh to represent structural en gineers, C. A. Fink of Salisbury to represent organized labor and W. H. Sullivan of Greensboro to represent plumbing and heating; contractors. Governor Hoey stated that the old building code council had not functioned for years and the terms of all its members had ex pired. ■- ■ o RECORD A new enrollment peak in 4-H club work was reached last year USE INTERNATIONAL Fertilizer .This Year! y \ut . International Fertilizer is. suited to your crops and will produce the yield that you have a right to expect. Ask those who have used it. SEE S. B. WINSTEAD B. K. BARNETT At Winstead Warehouse ICtf CREAM I W SODA I I Er- m IHr Atour I AVV. Fountan -PjMLT ROXBORO DRUG CO. ::f 3141 - WE DELIVER M ™ 1 i ii Hi with more than 1,381,500 boys and girls belonging to 79,500 clubs in the United States and the terri tories. UNAFFECTED The occpuation of Denmark and Norway by German troops pro- RIDES! RIDES! AH This Week Ferris Wheel Kiddy Ride Merry-Go-Round Located rear of Central Serv ice Station on Main Street. Come on and bring the boys and Girls—A big for all SUNDAT, APRIL 28, 1940 bably will have little immediate efect on the exports of farm pro ducts from the United States, be lieves the U. S. Department of Agriculture. LAND POSTED SIGNS AT THE TIMES OFFICE
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