Poultry Owners
Offered $2,160
In Prize Money
Raleigh, Sept. 18 Prizes to
taling $2,160 will be offered the
“fine feathered friends” of the
poultry world at the'State Fair
at Raleigh this year, J. Wade
Hendricks of Statesville, director
of the Deportment and assistant
director in charge of the Pied
mont (Statesville) Test Farm,
announced today.
“Mere than 2,000 of the choic
est birds in North Carolina will
be in display at the Fair and in
dications point to an increase of
25 per cent in the number of ex
hibitors and 20 per cent in the
number of birds,” he said. Seven
ty-five breeds will be shown.
Entries in the poultry depart
ment will not be accepted after
October 2 at 6 p. m. Prof. N- W
Williams of State college and B
F. Ricketts of Zanesville, Ohio
will be judges.
Dr. J. S. Dorton, Fair manager,
said that “as usual, premiums will
be limited to North Carolina ex
hibitors,” adding that “again we
exp>ect to boost the amount of
premiums in all agricultural de
partments of the 1940 exposi
tion.
Meanwhile, Dorton has announ
ced that “an elaborate amusement
and entertainment program” has
been booked for the Fair this
year, including nine Broadway
acts and a Revue under the dir
ection of George Hamid of Radio
City, New York; the World of
Mirth Shows with “a mile-long
midway”; AAA auto races; A M.
A. Motorcycle races; Lucy Teter
and His Hell Drivers; harness
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Opening Day—Sept. 24th
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horse racing sanctioned by the
U. S. Trotting association.
The State College Extension
Service, State Department of
Public Instruction, Vocational Ag
riculture and Education divisions;
the N. C. Experiment Station; N.
C. State College; N. C. and U. S.
Department of Agriculture and
other state and federal agencies
are cooperating in presenting the
agricultural, industrial and edu
cational exhibits.
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FARM
QUESTIONS
ANSWERED
Question: What is the closing
date for carrying out soil-build
ing practices under this year’s
farm program?
Answer: North Carolina fann
ers have until Octiber 31 to car
ry out soil-building practices un
der the 1940 AAA farm program.
This means that growers partici
pating in the program must com
plete their soil-building practices
by the end of October if they
expect to receive credit on this
year’s program.
Question: How should apples
be graded?
Answer: The first step comes at,
harvest time. It has been estim
ated that one-sixth of the apples
discarded as culls were disposed
of because of rough handling at
picking time, or rough treatment
' on their way to and in the grad
ing and packing shed. A thorough
knowledge of U. S. Standard
grades is also necessary in classi
fying apples. Then, too, the fruit
PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C.
must be free from spray residue,
dirt or any defects that will ser
iously detract from the appear
ance or keeping quality of the
fruit.
Question: What preparations
should be made before pullets
are placed in the laying house?
Answer: Before the pullets are
moved to the laying house, the
structure should be cleaned and
disinfected • thoroughly. If the
house is not cleaned carefully be
fore the disinfectant is applied,
maximum disinfection cannot be I
secured. One pound of lye placed'
in five gallons of water makes a*
very satisfactory disinfectant. The
house should have a good wood
or preferably a waterproof con
crete floor. Dirt floors are a po
tential menace since they cannot
be cleaned thoroughly.
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CROWD EXPECTED
FOR FARM EVENT
Field Day Expected To
Draw Large Crowds Over
State.
Raleigh, Sept. 17 More than
8,000 farmers, their wives and
other are expected to attend the
24th annual field day at the
Coastal Plain Station at Willard
Thursday, September 12, to hear
outstanding speakers and view
agricultural research progress on
field trips.
Speakers will be J. M. Brough
ton, Democratic nominee for
Governor; Lt. Col. G. W. Gillette
of Wilmington, U. S. Army dis
trict engineer; Col. J. W. Harrel
son, Dean of Administration,
State college and James H. Clark
■of Elizabethtown. Commissioner
of Agriculture W. Kerr Scott will
introduce Broughton.
State Senator Roy Rowe will
preside as chairman for the day
and D. S. Coltrane, assistant to
the Commissioner of Agriculture,
will be chairman of the demon
stration program.
M. G. Mann of Raleigh, Man
ager of the N. C. Cotton Growers’
Cooperative Association and Jack
Fisler of Ivanhoe, Sampson coun
ty, will be speakers on the wo
man’s program with Mrs. Estelle
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T. Smith, State College district
agent, presiding.
Exhibits by State College Ex
tension Service and U. S. and N.
C. Departments of Agriculture
specialists will 'include tobacco
grading, egg grading, dairying,
poultry, horticulture, zooligy,
small fruit and truck crop dis
eases and nursery. A farm mach
inery and railway express exhi
bit will also be included.
D. H. Boney of Teachey will
be superintendent of contests.
Field trips will be made under
the supervision of Dr. Charles
Dearing, asistant director in char
ge of the farm.
The event is sponsored by the
U. S. and N. C. Departments of
Agriculture and N. C. Experiment
Station.
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BETTER
Where he used lime and phos
phate on lespedeza, the stand ofj
the legume is 50 percent better j
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1940
than where the two materials
1 were not used, reports Fred Floyd,
a Swain county demonstration far
mer.
INCOME
Cash income from the sals of
American farm products in Sep
tember and October is expected
to total close to $2,000,000,0000,
predicts the U. S. Bureau of Ag
ricultural Economics.
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