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Perquimans Gardening ?y Jean Wins low Flower seeds from unopened packages labeled for 1?79 be used in the sQuner of 1980 if you store them property. Do not open the packet, and keep it in a jar where it is cool. HORTICULTURE MAGAZINE suggests this test for viability: put 10 seeds between moistened paper towels, a ad keep warm, about 70 degrees and moist After a tmt days, check for ger imnation. If signs of seedlings show in about two weeks, the seed is viable. Figure on your percentage of germination after this period. If, say, 5 of the 10 seeds germinated, double your thickness of sowing. This is a good time to root cuttings of plants for bedding tlfcspring. I have had a great dni of success this February with begonias and geraniums. Anyway, they look as if they are still alive. I use a rooting compound like Rootone, and make a hole in a flat of sand with a pencil, thrusting the stem in about one-half an inch and carefully packing the und around the base, trying not to dislodge the rooting compound. Wait a couple of weeks, then check for rooting by gently appling an upward pressure. If roots are evident, wait another week at least before taking all the way out Lift the cutting gently with an old tablespoon or something about that size and transfer to a soil mixture of leaf mold or peat moss and potting soil. Place in the sun. Keep plants pinched back and rotate so they will grow evenly on all sides. One of the great favorites in the area for base planting outside is the juniper family. Chinese junipers grow in a tall, conical shape and creeping junipers are of horizontal growth and are great as ground covers. Junipers like full sun and a less-than-rich soil, but cannot handle "wet feet." They are fast growers. Phitzer junipers always frow larger than the five feet the book says, so allow plenty of space. Hetzi, that big bluish one you see. can get out of bounds, so count on a spread of about 12 feet for each plant. Horiiontal junipers have a spread of four or five feet, and range in height from the Blue Pacific and Creeping Blue Bug of maybe < inches 'to ap proximately 12 inches for the reliable Shore juniper. Ask your nurseryman if you are not sure. Beware of bagworms. in junipers as you would all evergreens. The deodara cedar on the courthouse lawn in Hertford was lulled by bagworms, and they are now working on the other. On a large tree like that, a professional sprayer would apply some insecticide such as diazinon, malathion, or lead arsenate as the larvae emerge in spring, and then would spray again 10 days later to get anything crawling around the branches. In a home planting, the bugs are easily picked off by hand and destroyed. But do try to be observant and cbeck before the plant gets tick. Tip prune junipers every year to keep in bounds, as they do not like to be heavily pruned but every four or five years. As we leave February, the month of purification, con fession of sin, error and shortcoming in the old pagan rites, we notice the "thaws" have more authority now since the sun's angle is beginning to give more heat So, as the soil warms just a little bit more, search and ye shall find crocuses, snowdrops, and winter aconites looking up at you. The squirrels will ignore you, as they are busy mating, and will scurry around your feet before they know you are there. Blue jays will change their tune to a more melodic two-note call (a blue jay melodic?), sparrows start to twitter after the winter's silence, and the nuthatches sound downright happy. Come on March, I'm ready for you! Fertilizer monitored for safety RALEIGH? The North Carolina fertilizer supply is the most closely monitored of any state in the nation. The result is that purchases of 8-8-8 fertilizer are assured of getting eight percent nitrogen, eight percent phosphate and efcfct percent potash, the three pffine plant food ingredients by the Seed and Fertilizer Division of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture. Headed by James Stevens, the fertilizer section has 12 inspectors across the state, taking spot samples from all forms of plant food from about lOnercent of the tonnage sold, liftse samples are tested by the department's analytical laboratory under the Food and Drug Division. If they do not meet minimum ingredient standards, the manufacturing company is penalized. ? ? According to Stevens, North Carolina consumes two million tons of fertilizer an nually. The state is the 10th 1 Aest user in the nation. Obviously, the vast majority is used by farmers, but homeowners, businesses and recreational facilities buy mueh of this tonnage. "We wish we never found deficiencies," Stevens said. "We are not out to get anyone, but if the product is short, we want to find it. If a company cffsistently has a high per centage of deficient product and takes no steps to correct the problem, it is possible we would rescind their registration. Fortunately, most fertilizer firms want to sell good material." Stevens cited an example: "Several years ago a firm njved into the state and set uPsix plants. During their first year in business 70 percent of their samples were deficient. We had to warn them that if they did not im prove the next year, we would lift their registration. They called me in for advice. I visited all six plants and saw some problems immediately. They made the manufacturing corrections and the following year penalties dropped to 20 percent. The third year it was down to 13 percent. The point is, we don't want to hurt, we want to help." Stevens noted that the Smith-Douglass situation in 1979 was one of the most bazaar of his career. This involved fertilizer con taminated with a weed killer which injured some 9,000 acres of tabacco with millions of dollars in damage. Following settlements to affected farmers and an in vestigation which showed no negligence on the part of Smith-Douglass, charges against them were dropped. "We still don't know how the fertilizer became con taminated," Stevens ad mitted. "This is the first time there has ever been major contamination of fertilizer in America." "Unfortunately, it could happen again and there is no real good way to guard against it," he declared. "Still we are exploring every method to reduce the possibility." Some have suggested ad ditional sampling but North Carolina consistently takes more samples that any state in the Union. Moreover, sampling is done to test for plant food content. To look for some substance that would injure plants, it would be necessary to know what to look for. Stevens explined that hundreds of teste for all sorts of chemicals could be run but unless there was some clue as to the exact foreign material, it would not show up. Samples are pulled in ac cordance with methods developed by the Association of Official Analytical REAL ESTATE TO BUY OR SELL HOMES. LOTS, ACRES CAU HENRY C. SULLIVAN ? BROKER 421-7341 FORBES MOBILE HOMES SALES H LARGEST SELECTION OF PARTS AND ACCESSORIES IN |p| ELIZABETH CITY umntrm. lyWHIC: 33M7M Chemists. With bag goods, a probe is inserted at a specified point at the corner of the bag. The bag must be lying flat so there is no separation of large and small pellets. The probe is closed and inserted back down, then opened so that it fills uniformly. Then it is closed and removed. Twenty bags, in each 25 ton lot, are sampled. This yields about a gallon of fertilizer which is placed in a rifle, a device to aid in the uniformity of the combined samples. From this a pint is extracted and sent to the lab in Raleigh. Here the analysis is run. Bulk fertilizer is sampled similarly but as it is in a pile. The four corners of the pile are probed; four in the center and two more midway from the center to the edges? a total of ten. Hie material is then handled in the same was as bagged material. "The reason for probing at the various locations is that with both bagged and bulk fertilizer, the larger pellets tend to move to the outside with the finer remaining in the center," Stevens explained. "If we didn't sample in this way the analysis would not be accurate." Liquid fertilizer is equally scrutinized. The best sam pling comes directly from the mixing vats. Two samples are pulled, an original and a duplicate. This is done primarily as a backup in case the original is damaged. Also, if the analysis is peculiar, the second is tested. The second best method is to DON'T MISS THE FANTASTIC BUYS AT DIVERS & SON'S JEWELERS (SALE ENDS MARCH 1) EMPLOYERS HEEDED IN THESE TRADES: ? Fhthitil I Retaliation Qualified iratartM fitn t lZHMNtk training Mfran at Mha tf TIm wwmli M SMURf pltCMMRt is apprtaticMkip pttittMt with im ticipatmg lipufirs vyi take the sample as the fer tilizer is being pumped from one vat to another. If this is impractical, samples may be drawn from storage tanks. "By and large, fertilizer manufactured and sold in North Carolina is a very good product," Stevens said. "This is evidenced by the excellence of our crops. Yet, errors are made. It is the responsibility of the fertilizer section to keep them to a minimum by doing all that is legally within our power to insure the best quality. Our job is to provide service to the industry and protect the interest of con sumers of their product." F armer's newsline Hear the latest crop, livestock, and farm economic information from Washington. FARMER'S NEWSLINE reports change each weekday at 4 p.m. Washington, D. C. time. The service is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Call toll free 1-800-424-7964. Feb. 21-Red Meat Production Feb. 22, 23, 24-Farm Labor Feb. 25-Eggs, Chickens, & Turkeys Feb. 26-Wool Situation Feb. 27-Farm News Special Market summary A toUl of 10.089 feeder pigs were sold on 14 state graded tales during week of Feb.lt, according to the Market News Service of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture. Prices were mostly $1.25 to 16.50 higher per hundred. U. S. 1-2 pigs weighing 40-50 pounds averaged 162.44 per hundred pounds with No. 3s $50.06; 50 G0 pound l-2s averaged $56.75, No. 3s $46.45; 60-70 pound l-2s $47.86, No. 3s $41.84; 70-80 pound l-2s $42.84 per hundred pounds with No. 3s $37.16. At weekly livestock auctions held within the state the week of Feb.18, prices for slaughter cows were $1 to $5 lower per hundred weight and feeder calves $2 to $5 weaker. Utility and Commercial co\ 5 brought $47 to $54.50; Few Good slaughter steers above 800 pounds $63 to $65.50. Medium trame Number One muscle steers 400-500 pounds brought 587 to $99 per hundred pounds and same grade heifers 400 500 pounds sold $72 to $84. Thick muscle feeder cows sold from $48.50 to $60.50. Baby calves under 3 weeks of age brought $55 to $132.50 per head. Market hogs 200-240 pounds brought mostly $33 to $37.60 per hundred weight and 300-600 pound sows $29.50 to $35.60. Corn prices were 3 to 6 cents lower and soybeans 21-25 cents lower through Thrusday, February 21, as compared to the same period of the previous week. No. 2 yellow shelled corn ranged mostly $2.77 to $2.90 in the Eastern part of the state and $2.88 to $2.91 in the Piedmont. No. 1 yellow soybeans ranged mostly $6.24 to $6.45 in the East and $6.10 to $6.19 in the Piedmont Sweet potato prices were steady this week with demand moderate. Fifty pound cartons of cured US No. Is on February 21 were quoted at $5.75 to $6.50, some $7 and a few $5.50. C 7 a ss ifi eds a n d L ega Is 1 tlividtea tm *-* IrfPIMPV iH Ml B? FURNITURE OUTLET StiHtaf Ini AII new furniture 5,000 square loot showroom FiMflcJiif eveltoble Badham Road, E demon Pnoo* m Ht7 Open 9:00 a.m. to 9:01 p.m. Mon.mrv Fii. Open Saturday 900 a.m. to 6:? p.m. 27-MttctlliimiH For Salt FOR SALE: Brownie uniform, site I, like new. Jumper, blouse, pants, tie. belt, purse, beanie, all tor 120. Polaroid Super Color pack Land Camera, in structkm book included. $30, Call 426 5045 after 5:30 p.m 31-Smincss Opportunities DIRECT SELLING-S12.000 $20,000 income 1st year Ambitious, sports minded, want rapid advancement? Send resume with telephone number to Mr Dale, Rt. 2, Box 694, Elizabeth City, N.C. 27909. LEGALS NOTICE OF RESALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER AND BY VIRTUE of an Order of the Superior Court of Perquimans County, made in a special proceeding entitled, "Patricia An derson, petitioner vs. J. W. Proctor, respondent", the undersigned com missionerswillonthe 12th day of March. 1980, at 12:00 o'clock noon, at the Courthouse door in Perquimans County, North Carolina, offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, but subject to the confirmation by the Court, a certain tract or parcel of land in Bethel Town ship, Perquimans County, North Carolina, and more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at an iron pipe in the Northwest margin of Harvey Neck Road at a point 50 feet, measured Nor theastwardly along said margin from an iron pipe in the Skinner Estate line; and running thence North 10? 00' West 236.5 feet to an iron pipe, thence North 66? 30' East 144.1 feet to an iron pipe, thence South 29? 00' West 153 feet to an iron pipe in the said Northwest margin of Harvey Neck Road, thence South 80? 00' West 150 feet to the BEGINNING, as shown by survey and map thereof made by David Co*, Jr., Surveyor, March 7, 1967. The opening bid shall be $15,800 00, said amount being the amount of the upset bid filed with the Clerk of Superior Court on the 14th day of January. 1980 A deposit of ten per cent (101 of the highest bid will be required of the highest bidder at the time of resale, remainder payable, if the bid is not raised in ten (10) days, at the expiration of said ten days and upon the delivery of the deed. This sale is made subject to all taxes and other encumbrances of record. This 25th day of February, 1980 Jack H. Derrick, Commissioner Russell E. Twiford, Commissioner John V. Matthews, Jr., Commissioners Feb. 28, March 6 NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION Having qualified as Executrix of the estate of William Forrest Cale, deceased, late of Perquimans County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate LIQUID VELVET LATEX WALL PAINT ? Premium quality ? Over 1000 colors ? Dries quickly ? High hiding, washable finish ? Soapy water cleanup LANDING SUPPLY CO. HERTFORD COME IN NOW. LET US PROVE TO YOU . . Ford puts its money where the mileage is. MAKE >OUR BEST DEAL ON ONE OF OUR POPULAR HIGH MILEAGE 1980S AND FORD \ a>" ' \m I A CVfrv e the* lor ?00 whwi you bur ? new ItaMMM. BaauMuty rxMgnad lor WO. And pomM by ? n?* ollSnU 2 Mr angtw. Aacafcaa chacfc tor S300 whan you buy a naw 1980 Fairmont Room tor llva. hy nWaqi and a practical pnca hawa hat?d mafca Farmont ona of Amartea% baal-aaling RM-afen cart We<WMrybW*wiF?b.ni?.*<.M*h 22. ?eO.?ndrw*?e ?****??? torn Fort your oowi peynw* onv good at rota wwi only on now 1079 and 1900 ThundvtoMi and OffEREXPRES MARCH 22 Offer Expires March 22. SEE US NOW DURING FORD'S FUEL ECONOMY CELEBRATION WINSLOW-BLANCHARD MOTOR CO. ILS. 17 WIVCFAUU NX. ? ; LEOALS of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned at Route I. Box SC. Tyner, NC on or before ttie Itti day of August. I to or this notice will be pleaded in bar of theft* recovery All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. This 4th day of February, 1980. Eunice C. Cai*. Executrix William Forrest Cale, Dee d Feb. H 21. 28. March ? NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF PARSONS ENTERPRISES. INC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Articles of Dissolution of Parsons En terprises, Inc., a North Carolina Cor poration. were filed in the office of Secretary of State of Norm Carolina on the 14th oay of February, 1979, and that all creditors of and claimants againsi the corporation are required to present their respective claims and demands immediately in writing to the cor poration so mat it can proceed to collect its assets, convey and dispose of its property, pay. satisfy and discharge its liabilities and obligations and do all other acts required to liquidate its business and affairs. This 22nd day of January, 1980 PARSONS ENTERPRISES. INC Earnhardt & Busby, P. A P. 0. Box 445 Edenton, NC 27932 Telephone (9191 482 4441 Feb. 21, 28, March 6. 13 NOTICE OF RESALE Under and by virtue of an order ol resale upon an advance bid made by the Superior Court of Perquimans County in the special proceedings entitled, W Corbin Dozier, et al, vs. Martha Dozier Lindley, et al, the undersigned comissioner will, on the 13th day of March 1980, at 12:00 a.m., at the cour thouse door in Hertford, North Carolina, offer for sale to the highest bidder for ? LEGALS cash upon an opening bid of 15.100 00 that certain tract or parcel of land situateD in Perquimans County. North Carolina, described as follows Designated at No 21] South Church Street and further described at follows BEGINNING at the corner of William Mar dre lot (now Robert A. White) on Church Street and. running an easterly course along said Mardre (now White) lot 125 feet, thence a southerly course SO feet to a street aldi off running at right angle with Church Street, thence along said street to said Church Street 125 feet; thence along said Church Street 50 feet to the place of BEGINNING, and being the lot conveyed by deed dated May 20. 1908, from, E V Perry and wife, Susie S. Perry to J. L. Dozier and recorded in Book 8. page 97. Public Registry. Perquimans County. This sale will be made subject to all outstanding and unpaid taxes, if any. and any encumbrances, lieus and matters of record, if any A deposit of 10 percent of his bid will be required of the successful bidder This 21st day of February, 1980 Walter G. Edwards, Commissioner Harriette L. Oail Asst Clerk Superior Court Feb. 28, March 6 NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION Having qualified as Executrix of the estate of Asa Talmage Lewis , deceased, late of Perquimans County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the un dersigned at P.O. Box 515, Hertford, N.C. on or before the 28th day of August, 1980 or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. This 19th day of February, 1980. Jacqueline R. Lewis Executrix of Asa Talkmage Lewis, Dec'd. Feb. 28, March 6, 13,20 We've hadone built for you! NOW IN STOCK! DIESELS DUE TO A SPECIAL SHIPMENT HOKE MOTOR CORP. 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