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JULY 23, 1937. ( I J - . i w 1 - THE PERQUIMANS WEElkJbi ' Published every Friday at The Perquimans , Weekly efflce 7 in thf Gregory Building,- Church Street Hertford, N. C MATTIE LISTER WHITE Editor , , -88 Day Phone Night Phone ; 100-J SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year 81.25 Six Months 76c Entered as second class matter November 15, 1934, at the post office at Hertford, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates furnished by.re- quest. " ' FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1937. BIBLE THOUGHT FOR WEEK ANCHORED IN GOD: Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a (rood thing that the heart be established with grace. Hebrews 13:9. si .n h-lUi' . .!' .", J IT 51'' v " ;v"-,-''r Stt" LONG STEPS FORWARD (Gates County Index) Sometimes neat movements and forces that change the habits of liv ing of a people are hardly noticed until they have passed on and their full effect is seen. Right at this time, we are going through a period of history-makmg change tor tne farmer and hut people. We are seeing the foundations be ing laid for a program of tne oroaa est and most satisfying rural life for Mr. and Mrs. Average Farmer, that this county has ever seen. This is especially significant to the farm family that owns its own home and farm in this good Roanoke-Chowan section. The great governmen tal interest in farming, plus the act ual benefits made possible by the po licies of the Administration, all of which have positively helped our farmers get on their feet, cannot fail to have results in the future. Electricity is coming into the farm home. The fanner is getting better prices for what he produces. His family lives better. He can pay his fnvM and his bills. Mail service is better than it used to be. Radio brings the world to his home. Good schools and churches and good trade centers are always nearby. News papers tell him and his family what is happening in the world. Good farmers live well. Now is the finest time that ever was for the Average Farmer and his FomiVt, dunlin letters, for he's im portant) to plan for a period of bet ter living than they nave ever mown. It is coming in the future. There mnut ho cultural and spiritual advan cement also along with the better ment of crops and fuller pocKetoooKs and httr table set every day. Betterment of the folks who live in our rural areas, will also come. Ana that will be a long step toward a brighter day. And all this is applicable to our Perquimans fanners. 128 processes.- After hanging the wee 3 maintain a temoerature about ten de grees higher than the outside tempe rature until the leaf is iairiy yeuow. The heat is then' raised 4 to 5 degrees an hour until a temperature of, 120 to 125 degrees is reached. This tem perature is held until the tips of the wmiiTt drv : and then . raised to 140 degrees. This will dry outT the entire1-leaf. , .The temperature is rained to 180 to 190 degrees and held "until all parts of the leaf stem is dry in all parts of the nam, f-wt5rm- Should a dairy cow be given a grain ration, during the dry period 7 , Tf there is nlenty of good pasture available and the animal is in - good flesh no otner ieea wui db necessary', but the animal should have tVAA SCAMS. tO a rood mineral mix- i.m nnlaaa the ffraZUlff v. iS .leg'tlKIC crops w hat; ; wmg ieo. a w r..tn .ii ahnrt or the. cow in poor. flesh enough concentrate should be fed to put theanimal in good flesh wnM .fVoahinino-. However, all Mtrh nmtpin ffrainS and COHl iS US' r . ., ually removed from tne grain rauuu about two weeks before freshening. a tmnA irrnin mixture to feed during this period is composed of equal parts of wheat bean and grouna oaw. SoU Management content of the organic .d to. draw on the air's ine: sup ply of nitrogen. ; To jAe erops effective,: it will be necessary to plow some or tnem unaer msveau of v removing, everything, (but - the stubble.. .The best legumes for this purpose are velvet beans and hairy , iiatoh fni. writ Minrlv Soilsr Soybeans, : cowpeas, crimson clover, vetch, Aus trian winter peas and lespeaeza ior sandy loams; and soybeans, vetch crimson clover, Austrian winter peaB, red clover, .lespedeza and sweet clo ver for clay loam ana nay bu. Where soils are too acid to grow these crops satisfactorily, lime should beJ applied.- - Experimental remuw show that legume' crops, when turned under, have increased the yields of corn and other crops by from 25 to 50 ner cent." even on sous tnav are heavily fertilized. ' f A key to soil " improvement, aiga crop yields and disease control is the use of a well planned crop rotation. Such rotation will give an income from every cultivated acre every ver. either in the form of a money crop or feed rop and will at the same time provide legume, crops to ..... . m . . M plow under. ' When- tne lerxuity ov the' soil has been thus increased, higher yields of crops will be made, and at much less cost per crop unit than is being done at present on most farms. ,; , ,. WHAT A RELIEF k rrot aicrh of relief went up in Perquimans at the announcement that the tax rate was not to be rais ed this year. The relief waa greater because of the Very general impres sion which had prevailed among the tax payers that they would be called upon for more taxes this year. km ovorrhndv knows, nobody likes to pay taxes and through the ages taxes, though they long ago were nl hv a ure the sinews of the nation, men have fought against paying them. Ron lam In Franklin once said: The taxes, are' indeed very heavy, and if those laid bv the government were the only ones we had to pay we miarht more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much sl twice as much by our idle ness, three times as much by our pride, ahd four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the com missioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an abatement. WINFALL NEWS Grasses Or Legumes Make Good Ensilage With molasses as a nreservative, any green crop that will make hay can be stored in a silo without any appreciable loss of feed value. Corn silaee contains substances that act as a preservative, but le gumes and grasses do not have enough sucar to ferment properly, said A. C. Kimrey, extension aairy specialist at State College. Bv addinsr molasses to legumes and grasses," the material can be kept in good condition, he pointed out. The crop can be cut at any stage of maturity and in any kind of weather, he pointed out. However, greater feeding value is obtained if the crop is cut as early in the sea son as possible without injuring the stand. Cereal crops snouia oe cm when the drain is in the milk stage. Start cutting early in the morning. If the crop is wet with dew or rain, n much the better. The crop should be put in the silo within a few hours after cutting. Tf the cron must remain in the field more than a few hours on a dry day, water should be added as it is blown into the silo, as plenty of moisture is necessary to prevent nesting ana fermentation. Around 40 to 50 pounds of molass es should be added to each ton of cereal and grass crops, while 75 to 80 pounds should be added to a ton of legume silage. The molasses can be added from an elevated barrell by allowing the pro mf amount to flow throuch a snicot onto .the green material as it is fed into tne cutier. Tf mm molassea is used. it-Sill in crease the cost but will not harm the silage, Kimrey added. rhousan&s To Attend Farm And Home .Week Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Umphlett Miss Mvra Umph lett are visiting Miss Myrtle Umph V.lhert White, of Muskogee, Okla homa, visited his sister, Miss Dona White, last weefc .. Mr, White -nas just returned from Europe, where he tmont hia vacation. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Bagley, Mr. and Mrs. William Bagley, Mr. and Mrs. itr u nilimnn. and Mrs. Roy Bag- ley and small daughter spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. James Leigh, iMa Wlnfall. ' u, anH Mm. nick Nixon and child ren of Windsor, Va., spent Sunday ith Mr anH Mrs. Harry Barber. Miss Maude White and Joe White, of Norfolk, visited Misses Annie and Eliza White last week. . . : Rev. Mr. Clark, of Farmville, N. C arrived Sunday to assist Rev. W. p. Loir hv. a revival . meeting at H Woodland Church. " ' Mrs. Anna Chalk spent Sunday .tv, hfm VA Oneland. " - - m- Ma a n. Strickland and iJ chfldreUr Phyllis and Sonny, of High r Point, spent) saonoay m am - . G. Lowe. . , - ; Farm and Home Week at State P11ra Anamat S-. will be an edU' cational vacation for thousands ox North Carolina farmers and farm wo- Alnnir with the lectures and de monstrations will be- plenty of enter tainment to provide a good time for all. aaid John W. uooaman. assis tant director. fif jhe State College c- tanaTnn service. 1! ' On the more serious side of tne fiwmM nwv.ial attention Will oe I.V.-u ' iAvm the, anil conservation program, dairying and livestock, farm forestry problems, farm tenancy, farm orgam cations and cooperatives, iarm n nance, poultry production, and other timely subjects. The short course for women, wul cover numerous phases of home-mak ing- on the farm, and eertiiicaie wm be awarded to those who will have completed their fourth consecutive Rural ministers of tne ie nave been invited to meet at the college Va waslr. Snecial vrograms have been arranged for them, and they will also be invited to awenu general meetings for the farm men and women. fh anAakers' for Farm and Home Week are: Harry L. Brown, assistant secretary of r Agriculture; Congressman Harold D. Cootey; Gov- W V a 'wa. ..WW. V T TJ. TTaat-BlAVt ernor Clyde n noey; . assistant director : oi u wu servation program; Perkins Covilla, U. S. Forest Service. ; ," - Dra W Warburtoii,Jd1wctor of the. national agricultural . extension service; Miss Grace Frysinger, senior home economist, U. 8. Department of AMtonifmwt W. Kerr Scott. State Commissioner of Agriculture; Louis H. Bean; economic aovisor, Agnciu - stiMfmwnt Administration: and the .Rev. 'L P. Burnejr, rural minister near Charlotte. - names, contests, tours, dramatic i plays, group singing, and a spirit of fellowship will help maxe tne ween entertaining as well as instructive, Goodman stated. Grazing On Soybeans Produces More Milk A soybean crop on the dairy farm of E. S. Wooten in Lenoir County has increased the milk production of his 31-cow herd by la to 10 ganons a day. Thrnno-h the summer, the croD will be worth $75 to $100 an acre, he told C. M. Brickhouse. Lenior County farm agent of the State College ex tension service. The soybean field is divided into four plots. Wooten turns the cows in to graze on one plot an hour every morning for 11 or 12 days, then he shifts them to another plot. By rotating the grazing periods from one plot to another, he plans to have each plot grazed four different times this summer. j-- At the same time, the bttMar are adding nitrogen to the soil, and when plowed under in the fall they will provide much organic matter. Ma nure from the cows is also helping enrich the soil. The cows get their fill of beans in about an hour's grazing, it let t in tha field hma-er than that, they will tend to walk around, trampling down the bean plants unnecessarily. - Sa after an hour in the bean, the cows are returned to the permanent a .a a f. - at- - pastures where tney can rest in tne shade and continue their grazing later in the day. Wnnton made a teat to determine the value f soybeans 47 4i and found that the JMiwa Ouiif 4h beans every morning j consistently gave half a gallon or mora' njsic. per dav mare than the cows that .didnt In a pasture demonstration, woo ten found he got the biggest yield of rraaa from slots where he annlied stable manure and ground limestone. v M . vu - - The government does not actually realize any profit from paper money which is lost, even though theoreti- .11 It rinaa Tha monev 18 Still held in the treasury vaults against outstanding paper currency ana un- laaa Mmmu naaaed Such S Dill that this money might be taken out of the reserve runa, no bctubi profit would be derived. Niagara Falll The water that flows over Nla ffnrn haa flowed from the four great lakes and the hundreds of rivers that flow into them, more than one half the fresh water of the world, according to one authority. The fact that evaporation and precipitation in tne zorm oi rain ana snow are continually going on in the enor mous area of the neat lakes region renders it unlikely that the Great Lakes will ever be drained in una manner. There are thousands of acres of land in cultivation on the Coastal Plain, which, because of poor drain age, being underlain with hard-pan or the soil being incapable of im provement, will never give prontaoie returns from cropping. ' Where drainage is the only pro blem and when lack of drainage can be corrected at moderate cost duch land should be reclaimed by drainage. but time and money should not te wasted on land unreclaimable at low cost, which could be more profitably turned into pasture or else reforest ed. On farms where there is cleared land now classed as idle, the majori ty of which could be and should oe made to vield rood returns, the land should be prepared for crops or for pastures in order to lift the tax-burden from the cultivated acres on the farm The fundamental need of most Coastal Plain soils is increased fer tilitv. To attain this end, it is first necessary to terrace rolling lands, so that the soils and their plant food resources will not be diminished by and to drain flat , lands W. M. U. MEETS The W. M. S. of the Woodville Bantist Church held its regular meet far at the church Tuesday. Miss Myrtle Ownley presided. The topic of the bromm was "The Negro' Only a few were present due to the weather. Boll Weevils Attack State's Cotton Oop Rennrta of heaw boll weevil infes tations in the cotton fields of pied mont and eastern North Carolina are reaching J. 0, Rowell, extension en tomologist at State College. Recent warm, damp weather has been highly favorable to the propa gation of tnis insect, ne saia, ana u the weather continues thus, serious losses will be suffered. Accordinr to the reports, the de gree of infestation ranges from 10 to u per cent of tne squares ana nous in different counties, while a few counties report but little infestation so far. The heat mornrwl nf control. Rowel) stated, is to keep a close watch and start dusting as soon as ten per cent of the squares on the stalks show signs of weevils. Squares on the ground are not a reliable indicator, he added, as they show the degree of infestation seve ral days before, but not on the day the examination is made. The dusting may be done with either calcium arsenate or a mixture of calcium arsenate with an equal ' Os CasjM tf MetiW A 4Wmw nf nnlnim I ia I wail man and his wife it' often tha result of bar thinking one way wnen m thinks she thinks another. " ' " Timely Questions On Farm Answered r ! " Question: When should the lay- ins- flock be culled? Answer : Since efficient produc tion comes through continuous lection some culling may be needed each month in the rear, but the most rigid culling should be made toward occurs rrom juiy to iwm- every ram, ana to arain uat, muub;0i calcium arsenate witn an equal where needed. There are many .of amount of lime. The latter dust is the latter now dependent on open ' cheaper and adds less arsenic to the alien ea ior arainajro wuiuii cwiuu uvraoii. vastly improved in this respect, and, The dusting sh at the -same time made practicable for modern machinery by the instal lation of tile drains. After nrovidiiur proper drainage, the next step should be to increase the organic matter and plant food of the soils. Under present cropping systems, the original organic matter contained in moat Coastal Plain soils has gradually been depleted, and very little is being done to replace n. Crop residues ordinarily left on the land such as from corn, cotton and tobacco, and the stubble oi smau ber tnAJH &&!te$a3V carefully during July and August ior early molten. . Hens that molt in imi Ji,l or Ana-nat should be taken from the flock and disposed of as soon as molt appears or produc tion everv week or so i cent "of the' stniare faatad Ta iiaariTiif KOWCfl said, UW Oungiim. i .j, continued through August and until the emu has been made, or as long as necessary to eradicate the weevils. NEW YORKERS HERB ' ' No colored couple in Hertford are more highly esteemed than Charles and Mary Davenport, who ar.natives and life-long residents of the Own. Thaw Mard a fine family of four grain and hay crops an inadequate. daughters and a son who f6 Tfae amount of animal manures pro- training given them in the home. The dneed is not, and never will be, great three daughters who for years have anoMch to g -Very. far. toward ,nis i Hveov w.w .w ';.w7-' emL Therefore, farmers must make Odessa aad her husband, Sandy Me greater use of :Hgmninous soil-tm tC Lucy nibtory.' QLta .Ed- proving crops xo now uiwwaaw r- Question: . How long does it take to nmnertv enre a barn of tobacco T "Answer: The time required varies fram M to M hours depending upon the rapidity of the , various caring Lesm to Switn-Now THE SPIRIT OF BUILDING AND REPAIRING IS "IN THE AIR GOtTS TC3E IDE. vil 14 , " t 1 - It's The Best Investment You Cen Me!e- O You will want to be sure concerning the quality of materials you use . . . that's where we can serve you. " .4 And Materials of All Kinds " I Also a Full line of AtheVs 100 Pure i : t - - t ' p?-t find Varnishes - . : ! ', ? 'let us emvE you 1 . - our prices are tztzt ' "Tii.B Cj?o and Hank tr ' , . . . - t - iaatiiosftt ' - - - - . .4 K ( 'ii .'i ! S 'a 1' .-w..
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