Agriculture
Pork producers
meet at Cove
Some 60 pork producers
gathered at Anglers Cove
Restaurant in Bethel Thur
sday night for a swine health
supper meeting sponsored by
companies marketing swine
health products in the area.
Dr. Robert Behlow, the
North Carolina Extension
Service Veterenerian, was
guest speaker at the meeting
and spoke on swine
respiratory problems, as well
as measures that can be taken
by the farmer to prevent such
problems.
Respiratory problems are
often the result of subjecting
pigs to unfavorable en
vironmental conditions,
Behlow said.
He emphasized the value of
reducing dust in the hog house
through sanitation and
maintaining proper tem
peratures for young pigs.
The young pig needs a clean,
dry, draft-free environment
with plenty of clean air and
temperatures of between 85
and 90 degrees during its first
three days of life, Behlow said.
Sanitation reduces the
number of disease tran
smitting organisms the young
pig is subjected to during its
first week of growth. Behlow
also advocated a vaccination
progrm for preventing the
respiratory ailment, Atrophic
Rhinitis.
The disease destroys tur
binates (the filtering appartus
of the pig) and renders the pig
more susceptible to the stress
of unfavorable conditions.
The sow should be vac
cinated four to five weeks and
again two to three weeks
before farrowing, in order to
increase the number of an
tibodies in her milk and
protect her litter. The young
pig should then be vaccinated
at 7 days of age and again at 28
days of age.
Behlow emphasized the
importance of timing and
stressed that short cutting
procedures result in less that
satisfactory results.
Ron Goddard, a commercial
representative, also ad
dressed the group and spoke
on the intestinal disorder TGE
and the effectiveness of
vaccines available to treat it.
TGE dehydrates young pigs
and can cause as much as 90
percent herd loss.
Perquimans County Ex
tension chairman Bill Jester
said that disease control is
particularly important at
present because of depressed
market prices.
"Hog prices are low and
efficiency is at a premium,"
Jester said. "One of the
limiting factors in efficient
hog production is disease."
Peanut meet set
The 1980 winter peanut
meeting will be held today
(Jan. 31) at 2 p.m. at the
Albemarle Regional Planning
and Development Commission
building on South Church
Street in Hertford.
Astor Perry will speak on
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Bankers of North Carolina
have been awarding
scholarships to the Modern
Farming Short Course at N.C.
State for the past 28 years.
County Key Banker and
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Stevenson, and Bank of North
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Belvidere, with a check for
expenses last week.
Perquimans County
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Grain embargo
Retaliation deemed a mistake
RALEIGH? The recent
Russian grain embargo was,
in the long-run, a mistake said
Chicago Mercantile President
Clayton Yeutter in an address
to some 400 soybean farmers
and guests attending the
thirteenth annual mem
bership meeting of the North
Carolina Soybean Producers
Association last week.
Yeutter, formerly an
Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture, said that the
Carter Administration had
used the wrong cost-benefit
analysis in stopping sales of
seventeen million metric tons
of grains and soybeans in
retaliation for the Soviet in
vasion of Afghanistan.
Yeutter stressed that the
embargo probably won't hurt
the Russians much, but had
been highly distruptive to the
grain markets, which have in
turn subjected farmers to
heavy losses in income. He
said that embargoes were
very difficult to enforce, and
estimated that the Russians
could possibly obtain at least
half the embargoed grains
through trans-shipments and
sales by Third World Nations
that won't honor the embargo.
North Carolina Agriculture
Commissioner Jim Graham
stated he too was concerned
about the economic impact of
the embargo on grain and
soybean farmers; however, he
stated that President Carter
had only three possible
choices. "These choices were
military, economic, and
political," Graham said, " and
he chose the economic and
political route". Graham also
commended the soybean
farmers of this state, along
with those from other states,
in their positive program to
sell soybeans in foreign
markets, thus relieving the
nation's critical balance of
trade probelms. He further
urged North Carolina farmers
to employ good farming
practices that would minimize
soil erosion and conserve this
vital resource.
North Carolina Soybean
Producers Association of
ficers elected 'or 1980 were:
President - Thurman Burleson
of Stanly County; Vice
President - Ray M. Spencer of
Hyde County
Among the ten new direc
tors elected to fill positions of
outgoing members of the 30
man Board was Fenton T.
Eure, Jr. of Perquimans
County.
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questions.
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Gardening
By
Jean Wins low
There are about u many
types of begooiai a* there are
words to describe them.
Begonias are certainly one of
the most important and
popular types of houseplants
we have. Begonias are
classified by kind of root and
by leaf form.
Probably the most familiar
is the wax begonia, which is
fibrous rooted. They bloom
almost constantly, have
glossy foliage and are easily
rooted. Night temperature for
wax begonias should be 65 to
60 degrees, day temperature 5
to 10 degrees higher. This is
the one begoina that requires
bright light
Also popular is the hairy
leafed, low growing "Iron
Cross." Another great pot
plant is the angel-wing
cultivar, which is not as
graceful as its' cousins, but
possesses the most vibrant
colored flowers.
The popular Rex begonia
are grown from rhizomes.
These rhizomes creep along
the soil surface, and therefore
demand shallow planting, in a
relatively low and wide
planter. Tuberous begoinai
are more of a challenge in our
county, as they require cool,
moist conditions, and our
summers are hot and moist
Begonias require a potting
medium that is porous,
moisture retentive to a
degree, well drained, and
slightly acid. Every four to six
weeks thoroughly drench
plants to rid them of ac
cumulated salts. Pinch tall
growers to keep them in ;
within bonds, pinch the .
shorter ones to get a more "
bush like growth. Keep low
growing ones like "Beef
steak" in a pot just large
enough to contain it for con- !
tinual blooming. ;
There's even a perenial '
begonia that survives well in *
our climate. I have grown the
evansiana, which starts from <
a bulb, under azaleas in the :
back yard. They just keep on >
coming back every year. They
are tall, dark green, with long
lasting pink flowers that add a <
touch of color to an area where
spring flowers have faded, 1
They will bloom until frost.
Wayside Gardens in Hodges', f
S. C. offer first rate bulbs.
Iron Cross leaf
Wax leaf
and flower
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