WEEKLY, HERTFORD,; NV' C FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1935.
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By GUY JL, CARDWELL
Agricultural and Industrial Agent
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co. ,
I have written several articles in
tended to encourage farmers in At
lantic Coast Line " territory to treat
game as a farm crop,, for there are
thousands of sportsmen in this coun
try who are constantly seeking new
hunting grounds men who are able
and willing to pay within reason for
their entertainment and sport
In this connection the following
4 ' article by W I McAtee, ; Principal
Biologist, Bureau of Biological sur
1 . vey, United States Department of
Agriculture, advocating the use of
farm land in the South for the pro
duction and protehtico of game, as a
source of income has impressed me
as being worthy of dissemination:
Planting For Wild Life In The
Cotton Belt
"In 1933 more than 10,000,000
acres of cotton land were removed
from production, and the program
for 1934 calls for elimination of an
additional 15,000,000 acres. An enor
mous area, therefore, is available for
use in a variety of ways that are m
X- accordance with the policies of the
Agricultural Adjustment Adminis
tration.
Among uses to which some of this
land may be put is planting for wild
life. Farmers as a class enjoy
hearing the cherry call of the bob
white, seeing the cottontail timor
ously come out to browse at dusk,
or in other ways sensing the pres
ence of the wild things that help to
make farm life attractive. For those
who wish to hunt or to permit hunt-
JT ing on their lands, there are the ad
ditional rewards for good wild-life
management game brought to bag
or revenue derived from the sale of
shooting privileges. In some cases
receipts from this source pay taxes.
- and where due attention is given to
the matter, larger revenues are pos
sible.
Planting for wild life should be
planned with reference to two of the
greatest needs of furred and feath
ered creatures namely, the need for
cover and the need for food. Im
portant and indispensable as food is,
yet cover must receive first atten
tion, for regardless of the presence
of a plenteous food supply, wild life
cannot persist on land without ade
quate shelter from its enemies and
t where there is no cover where the
If young may be safely reared.
Cover for the majority of the small
forms of wild life means low, dense
vegetation, some of which should be
tangled, or stiff and thorny, so that
in time of need, the pursued can dive
i Into it to escape the pursuer. The
common broomsedge, for instance, is
fairly good concealing cover, but
fields of it are much improved for
wild life by the presence of rose or
berry brier patches, plum thickets,
or honeysuckle tangles.
Planting to improve cover can well
be made to serve a double purpose by
4 using food-producing vegetation, and
a triple use by carrying it on where
erdfeion control is needed. If only
gullies and waste corners of the farm
are planted much can be done to in
crease cover for wild life. Cover
. plants for the Cotton Belt that are
useful both as soil binders and food
producers include greenbriers or cat
briers, black-berries, dewberries, the
Cherokee rose, grapevines, Virginia
creeper and Japan hone, suckle.
Fruit-bearing shrubs or small trees
that can be used to provide cover on
any available land include red cedar,
wax myrtle, near the coast, wild
roses, thorn apples, blackberries,
dewberries, wild plums, sumacs, gall
berry or inkberry, wild grapes, dog-
woodB, blueberries, sparkleberry,
beautyberry - or Mexican . mulberry,
elderberry, blackhaws, and honey
suckles.
Plants to be used primarily for
food producers may be selected from
T the preceding lists or may be such
additional things as mulberry, hack
berry or sugarberry, wild ' cherries,
hollies, sour gum, and persimmon,
Good mast yielders are the scrub
oaks in the eastern and Shin oaks in
the western, part of thfe region.
T Trees and shrubs produce more or
less permanent coverts and feed
ing places, but much use is made
also of herbaceous plants, annual or
perennial, for feed patches. .; Land
with alternating , areas devoted to
, feed patches and coverts," or in any
event with plenty of food available
V near good coverts, is ideal for . wild
i life. Given these factors,' With some
attention nerhapS to control of e'ne-
.: mies at times, much land should soon
"' harbor an abundant Wild-life popula
tion, i , l '. i
Feed patches .of a quarter acre to
acres in size are -useo... a no
ones are entirely satisfac-
tnd it should always be borne
A that proximity to good cover
ncvtissary to full utility of a feed
patch. ' Plants suitable for feed
patches are chufa and peanut for
wfld turkeys, and winter pea, vetch
es, cowpeas, beggarweeds, Korean
and common lespedezas, ' Lespedeza
sericea and other species, soybeans,
sorghums of various types, millets,
benne, bullgras, and Sudan grass for
quail. Feed patches are , fertilized
and cultivated just as in agricultural
production of the same plants. Live
stock and poultry must be excluded,
not only for the benefit of the wild
life that may ur.e the feed patches,
but because production of some of
the suggested plants for use or sale
is prohibited under the contracts for
acreage? reduction that have been
signed by the Secretary of Agricul
ture. Expert advice should be ob
tained as to the best methods of cul
tivation and as to tested strains of
the legumes, sorghums, millets etc..
for each locality. This information
can be obtained from the County
Agent or irom the Agricultural Ex
periment Station.
A Farmers' Bulletin treating more
luuy the adaptation of farm prac
tices to wild-life production has been
published by the U. S. Department
of Agriculture. ' The number is
1719-F, and the title, "Improving the
Farm Environment for Wild Life-"
Copies can be obtained at 5 cents
each from' the Superintendent of
Documents, Washington, D. C."
Higher Income From
Better Type Cotton
The AAA loan and adjustment pay
ment policy for the 1935 cotton crop
is designed to provide greater re
turns for the producers of superior
quality cotton.
This is why the adjustment pay
ments to each grower are to be
based on the average price of 7-8
inch middling staple rather than on
the price of his own lint, said J. F.
Criswell, of State College.
In consequence, the grower ,who
can get mpre for his cotton than the
average price of 7-8 inch middling
at a time when the average is 10
cents or more will receive a total of
more than 12 cents a pound.
For example, he pointed out, sup
pose a grower sells his lint for 11.5
cents on a day when the average for
7-8 inch middling is 10.48 cents.
This grower is entitled to an adjust
ment payment of 1.52 cents, which
will give him a total return of 13 02
cents a pound.
But to take advantage of the ar
rangements which have been made
to benefit the producers of superior
cotton, the grower must demand a
higher price for good lint than is be
ing offered for cotton of average
staple length and quality, Criswell
added.
Too often, he went on, growers are
willing to let their cotton sell for
average prices without due consider
ation of the higher value of top
quality cotton.
The North Carolina Agricultural
Experiment Station is now working
on a program for improving the
methods by which cotton is priced,
Criswell continued. More attention
on the quality of the individual bale
is being stressed.
This is another reason why grow
ers should seek to produce a higher
Mqdern Children's Room
Winter Hays Are
Aid To Dairyman
Winter Hays,' grown as a cover
crop, provide a good feed for cattle
during the following spring and
summer.
Moreover, a good supply of winter
grown hay will keep dairymen from
running out of roughage when dry
weather cuts short the summer hay
crops, says John Arey, extension
dairyman at State College.
It has been found in experiments
that when cows are fed liberally on
good roughage and one-half a nor
mal grain ration, milk production is
only about 10 percent lower than
when a full grain allowance is fed,
Arey pointed out
Since roughage is so much cheap
er than grain, he added, the dairy
man can save more on his feed costs
by feeding roughage than he will
lose by the slight decrease in milk
production.
Another advantage in winter hays
is the fact that they can be grown
between October and May, at a time
when the land is not being used for
cotton, tobacco, corn, or other sum
mer crops.
A good hay crop will protect the
land in winter by checking erosion
and leaching, Arey added.
Mixtures of oats, barley. . wheat,
vetch, and winter peas will produce
better hay than either will when
grown aione. ine seeding date in
North Carolina is from October 1 to
October 20.
Arey. recommended the following
seed-r mixtures . for. one acre: . two
bushels of Norton oats, one bushel of
beardless barley, one-half : bushel of
purple straw or red heart wheat, and
20 pounds of Austrian winter neaa
or lo pounds oz hairy vetch. ,
These varieties will - mature -at
about the same time and give .a yield
of two to three tons of hay pj-jr acre
when planted on good soil. , '
The best quality hay will be secur
ed if la is cut while the cereals are
in the milk stage. ' t " -.
r ' DR. LEGGETT VER Y ILL
Dr. J. L.' Leggett, who underwent
an operation at the Protestant Hos
pital in Norfolk, Va., last week, 1s
reported critically ill. ,. k''" -
CLOSE STORE HOUR
The store of J, C. Blanckard & !
company was ciored during the nour
of the funeral ci (J. R. ) Elliott on
Tuesdayafternoon.
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Every consideration has been given to the children who will occupy
this room by those who planned the juvenile apartment. Linoleum
floor covering Is easily cleaned, and the children's fan is not hampered
by fear of spilling anything on the floor. With such an attractive
nursery, brother and sister will be content to play at home, and far
away street corners with their traffic dangers will not beckon. A
room of this type may easily be created from waste attic space or
other rooms under the Modernization Credit Plan of the Federal
Housing Administration.
BRIDGE PARTY FRIDAY
A subscription bridge party will be
given by the ladies of St. Catherine's
Guild of the Episcopal Church on
Friday night of this week. The par
ty will be given at the home of Mrs.
Nathan Tucker on Front Street, and
everybody is invited.
James Roy Elliott
Paralysis Victim
James Roy Elliott, 62, prominent
Hertford resident, died at his home
on Market Street on Monday, follow
ing a paralytic stroke suffered on
the previous Wednesday, from which
he never rallied.
Funeral services were held 'on
Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the
Hertford Baptist Church, with the
pastor, Rev. D. S. Dempsey, officiat
ing. Burial followed in the Beaver
Hill Cemetery, in Edenton, beside his
wife, the late Mrs. Eva Byrum El
liott. A choir of selected voices sang
"The Old Rugged Cross" during the
service at the church, and at the
grave "In the Sweet Bye and Bye."
Active pallbearers were: C. M.
Harrell, Hurley Hoffler, B. G. Koonce
D. J. Pritchard, Albert Byrum and
Captain J. L. Wiggins, both of Eden
ton.
The honorary pallbearers were:
Mayor E. L. Reed, W. G. Newby, C.
B. Parker, V. A. Holdren, W. H.
Hardcastle, T. E. Raper, W. F. C.
Edwards, J. C. Blanchard, Mark Gre
gory, Dr. T. P. Brinn, T. R. Winslow,
and W. M. Divers.
Mr. Elliott was a native of Wapa-
konete, Ohio, the son of the late
William V. and Mrs. Caroline Elliott,
of that place. For more than twen
ty-five years he was in charge of the
municipal electric plant here. He
was a man of splendid character,
honored by all who knew him.
Surviving are two children, Wil
liam Thomas Elliott and Mrs. W. C
Dozier, and three grandchildren,
William Thomas Elliott, Jr., Shirley
Virginia Elliott and William Corbin
Dozier. One sister, Mrs. Mabel
Jewell, of Norfolk, Va., and Wash
ington, D. C, also survives.
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