County Progress
Again To Be
Exhibited At Fair
Only about six weeks remain
before the 1940 N. C. State Fair
opens in Raleigh on October 8,
and counties are being urged to
begin preparation of their pro
gress exhibits which again will
be one of the features of the fair.
F. H. Jeter, agricultural editor
of N. C. State College, is chair
man of this department of the
fair, and he announces that pre
miums totaling $2,000 are being
offered for the 10 best county
progress exhibits. The first prize
is $650, the second prize SSOO,
third prize S3OO, fourth S2OO,
fifth SIOO, and sixth through
tenth prizes SSO each.
Dare and Alamance Counties
already have signified their in
tention of entering exhibits. Cald
well County had the best exhibit
last year.
Jeter said that, as in the past,
county farm and home agents
will take the lead in arranging
the exhibits. However, he said
it is desired that vocational
teachers, school superintendents
and principals, boards of trade
and chambers of commerce,
manufacturers, civic clubs and
women’s organizations have a
part in planning and preparing
the exhibits displayed.
The exhibit should be prepar
ed to cover 30 running feet of
space. It will be judged, 35 per
cent on the attractiveness of the
exhibit, 30 percent on the bal
ance of the display, 20 percent
on how representative it is of the
county, and 15 percent on the
quality of the materials.
“These exhibits are being en
couraged that the great resources
of North Carolina—agricultural,
industrial and educational —may
be brought to the forefront in a
fitting and comprehensive man
ner,” Jeter said. “The premium
money is divided so that exhi
bitors are assured down to tenth
place of a prize which will hi
part help to defray the expense
of bringing the exhibit to the
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Gardening Year-
Round Project
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No longer is gardening consi
dered exclusively a summer en- ,
terprise. H. R. Niswonger, horti
culturist of the N. C. College Ex
tension Service, points out that
it is possible to have fresh vege
tables from the home garden on
a year-round basis in North Caro
lina.
“During September and Octo
ber, there are many vegetables
which may be planted,” Niswong
er says. “These include winter
spinich of the Longstanding and
Bloomsdale varieties, Siberian
kale, Southern Giant Curled mus
tard, Purple Top Globe turnip
greens.
“Beets and carrots planted the
first of September in Eastern
Carolina should mature before
freezing weather. Cabbage plants
of the Charleston Wakefield vari
ety usually will produce heads
about Christmas time in the East
if planted around September 1.
This variety of cabbage will stand
a lot of cold weather.”
The horticulturist also recom
mends green onions as a winter
delicacy from the home garden.
“Put out sets of the Silver Skin
variety, and for green onions for
next winter and spring set out
the multiplying variety. After
thinning out plants to be used
for green onions, the remaining
plants will develop into mature
onions,” he says.
Niswonger recommends that
strawberry plants be fertilized
in Eastern North Carolina in
early September and in the
mountain and northern Pied
mont area during late September
or early October. “For all reg
ions, apply eight to ten pounds
of a 5-8-6 fertilizer per 100 feet
of row. Put one-third of the
fertilizer on each side of the row
and the other third on top. De
velop a thin matted row of plants
with the plant bed 18 inches wide
and the runner plants spaced 4
New 4 Loan’ Policy for American Art
-rating a new lending policy which will make its collection of
oil paintings available to other institutions in the United States, the Metro
politan Museum of Art in New York city will begin taking applications
for loans on September 1. Typical of the modern American collection is
the painting by Joe Jones entitled “Threshing,” reproduced above.
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Kept Busy
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Colonel Edgar H. Bain (above) of'
Goldsboro, is a busy man these days.
He is commander of Goldsboro’s
American Legion post, commanding
officer of the 321st infantry of the
81st division, treasurer of the N. C.
Legion News, and state director of
the Brewers and North Carolina
Beer Distributors committee. In the
latter office, he supervises the beer
Industry's “dean up or close up”
campaign in North Carolina which
has resulted in the elimination of
many undesirable beer outlets, •
hoe-width apart. After the 18-
inch row is filled with the spaced
plants, remove all surplus runner
plants around October 1 to 15,”
the Extension specialist said.
Next Biennium To
See State’s Rolls
Greatly Boosted
Raleigh, Aug. 28 Approxi
mately 4,000 to 5,000 needy aged
will be added to the old-age as
sistance rolls during the next two
years, the State Board of Chari
ties and Public Welfare decided
today.
One thousand additional fami
lies will be given aid for depend
ent children in the coming bien
nium.
The board also agreed to in
crease the size of the average
grant for dependent children from
sl7 to S2O a family in order to
bring North Carolina nearer the
national average of $32 a family.
An effort will also be made to
increase the size of the grants
for old-age assistance. The con
templated increase in the rolls of
aged needy will raise the num
ber from 35,720 to approximately
40,000 two years from now.
The board was given a ruling
by Attorney General Harry Mc-
Mullan that held a bond need
not be posted for refugee child
ren from abroad. The Attorney
General pointed out that a trust
fund has been set up by the U. S.
Committee for the Care of Euro
pean Children to prevent refugee
youngsters from becoming pub
lic charges.
The committee requires persons
desiring to care for refugee child
ren to furnish SSO for each child
to be placed in the trust fund,
McMullan said. Transportation
charges of $75 and a visa fee of
sl3 will make it necessary for any
North Carolina person wishing to
provide for a refugee to send a to
tal of $l3B to the committee.
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About 200 farm buildings in the
United tSates and Canada burn
every day nearly 75,000 build
ings a year.
PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. C.
Negroes Attend
Short Course At
A. & T. College
Eleven Negro 4-H club mem
bers representing twelve clubs
throughout the county, left Rox
boro Monday morning to attend
the annual 4-H club short course
at A. and T. oollege, Greensboro,
it was learned today from C. J.
Ford, Negro farm agent.
Pauline Tuck, 4-H club lead
er from Lee Jeffers community,
chaperoned the four girls from
Roxboro and Lee Jeffers commu
nities. The following club mem
bers have been assigned to spec
ial groups during the schort cour
se as follows: Recreational leader
ship, Mary Lawson; Song leader
ship, Frances Johnson; Farm Shop
course, Bryce Clay; Panel discus
sion, Acres Clay.
These individuals will do spec
ial work in these departments
and bring such information back
to their local clubs. The group
will return to Roxboro Saturday
morning.
The judging team which will
compete with 32 other teams from
32 counties, is composed of the
following members: Acres Clay,,
Bryce Clay, Albert Lee and Bur
nice L. Baird and alternate.
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FSA Committee
Has New Member
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and at conservation of the soil
and water resources.
“The tenant purchase program
is real democracy at work,” said
Mr. Blanks, County Supervisor.
“At a time when property rights
and human rights are being de
stroyed in other parts of the
world, America is going ahead
with a program for creating more
property owners and giving more
people a real stake in society.
This program means restoring
rural purchasing power and sta
bilizing our rural economy.
Farmers who own farms are tax -
payers. Farmers without farms
are tax burdens.”
Any farm tenants or farm
workers who are anxious to be
come owners should apply at the
FSA office in the basement of
the Post Office, Roxboro.
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The old fashioned woman who
“paid and paid”, now has a dau
ghter who says “charge it?”
Seventy-eight fatal highway ac
cidents in the state the first half
of this year occurred on Sundays.
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CARRYOVER
This year’s cotton carryover or
cotton on hand at the end of the
1939-40 marketing season, which
ended July 31, amounted to 10,-
595,720 bales, reports the U. S.
Census Bureau.
PEACHES
The U. S. Surplus Marketing
administration, has been authoriz
ed to purchase up to 5,000 tons of
dried peaches for distribution to
needy families of the country.
SPREAD
Under present plans of the U.
S. Department of Agriculture, the
food stamp plan will be extend
ed to a total of 175 to 200 cities
or to the members of 5,000,000 re
lief families by the end of the
fiscal year.
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CALVES
Baby beef calves being cared
for by 4-H Club members of
Anson County as a part of pro
ject work are growing and fat
tening rapidly, says Clarence
Early, assistant farm agent.
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Four biycilists were killed in
North Carolina from January to
July, 1940.
Twenty-one persons were killed
in 12 auto-train accidents in this
state ffcr the first six months of
this year. ,
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Private initiative and enterprise
made this country what it is to
day.
There are 101 recognized sub
stances in milk, but no chemist
has ever succeeded in putting
them together and getting milk.
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If all the 1940 O crop plus the supply
in the ||j|j|||| were used for food, it
would provide every ]j\ | and f in
the with TWICE as much
other wheat foods as each ate
in the entire year of 1939.
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