Agriculture
Perquimans farmers
endorse assessment
Perquimans County far
mers gave the nod to a one
half cent per bushel increase
in the soybean assessment last
week, but by a narrow 56
percent margin.
The assessment, which
passed by an 88.5 percent
margin across the state, will
now total one cent per bushel.
Collected by the N.C.
Soybean Association, the
money is used for "developing
Help fall
quail
by TONY SHORT
DISTRICT
CONSERVATIONIST
Quail need food and cover.
And although they really don't
ask for much, with today's
farming methods, they quite
often get nothing. Clean
farming leads to zero quail.
If true quail hunters aren't
hunting, they're recalling the
days that they were hunting.
Each year more hunters are
discovering this "noble
southern gentleman" as
Robert Ruark calls him. But
the little fellow can stand only
so much pressure. He needs
food and a place to escape in
order to be productive.
There will soon be a goodly
amount of planting going on
and at this same time, why not
plant something for quail?
Annual mixtures are avilable
for food this fall; perennial
mixtures will provide yearly
food and cover. Applications
for this food are available at
the Perquimans County SCS
Office.
If you don't plant, leave the
birds something in the fall like
some old soybean corners, or
corn crop stubble on the
ground. It not only helps quail
but helps other small game as
well.
Sportsmen know how much
pleasure quail can give. You
can give them something in
return by doing some of these
simple wildlife management
practices.
and promoting all phases of
the soybean industry, in
cluding more efficient and
effective varieties," ac
cording to Perquimans County
Agricultural Extension
Chairman Bill Jester.
With 66 farmers casting
ballots, Perquimans County
had the highest voter turnout
in the Albemarle region.
Six polling places were set
up across the county, at farm
supply centers and country
stores.
Largest turnout was at R.B.
Turner's Store, where 22
farmers voted, sixteen for the
increase and six against.
At Hertford Supply, seven
farmers favored the increase
while four opposed it. Only two
voters cast ballots at the
county extension office, both
in favor.
The vote at Belvidere
Farmer's Exchange went
against the assessment, six to
five. Chapanoke farmers
drubbed the assessment fee by
a resounding seven to nothing
margin.
At W.S. Winslow, fanners
favored the assessment by a
seven to six margin.
With some 40,000 acres of
soybeans in Perquimans
County producing an average
of some 30 bushels each,
Perquimans farmers will now
be contributing ap
proximately $12,000 per year
to the soybean association,
Jester said.
But for those farmers who
find such contributions un
pallatable, the assessment is
not mandatory. Those far
mers who wish to get their
assessment fee refunded may
do so by writing the
association within 30 days
following a sale and ask that
the money be returned.
Market summary
Sweet potato prices are firm
following a good Easter
movement. Supplies are
moderate and demand good.
Fifty pound cartons of cured
U.S. No. Is on April 10 were
quoted at $6 to $6.50, some
$6.75 to $7, few lower.
Corn prices were 7 to 13
cents higher and soybeans 10
to 14 cents per bushel higher
through Thursday, April 10,
compared to the same period
of the previous week. No. 2
yellow shelled corn ranged
mostly $2.70 to $2.91 in the
eastern part of the state and
$2.72 to $2 90 in the Piedmont.
No. 1 yellow soybeans ranged
mostly $5.70 to $5.92 in the
East and $5.50 to $5.80 in the
Piedmont. New crop prices
quoted for harvest delivery
corn $2.77 to $2.88, soybeans
$6.16 to $6.30, wheat $3.59 to
$3.88, oats $1.25 to $1.28.
Market hogs at daily cash
buying stations about the state
sold steady to $1.50 lower
during week of April 76 and
ranged mostly $28 to $30.50 per
hundred pounds and 300-600
pounds sows $20 to $30.
A total of 11,869 feeder pigs
were sold on 13 state graded
sales during week of April 7.
Prices were 50 cents to $2.75
on 40-60 pound pigs. US 1-2
pigs weighing 40-50 pounds
averaged $44.03 per hundred
pounds with No. 3s $37.27; 50
60 pound l-2s averaged $41.32,
No. 3s $32.89; 60-70 pound 1-2 s
$36.83, No. 3s $31.37; 70-80
pound l-2s $35.25 per hundred
pounds with No. 3s $30.31.
At weekly livestock auctions
held within the state the week
of April 7, prices for slaughter
cows and feeder calves were
irregular. Utility and com
mercial cows brought $42. to
$52.50; Choice veal calves 150
250 pounds brought $80 to $85;
Medium frame No. 1 muscle
steers 400-500 pounds brought
$68 to $76.50 per hundred
pounds and same grade
heifers 400-500 pounds sold at
$54 to $63. No. 1 muscle feeder
cows sold from mostly $40 to
$47. Baby calves under 3
weeks of age brought $48 to
$107 per head.
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Field rows
This field border along side a travel lane, wildlife habitat, and filter for field effluents,
ditch provides a turn row, stablization for the ditch bank (Photo SCS)
Field borders beneficial
by ROGER HANSARD
Conservationist
According to the Soil Con
servation Service, now is the
time to get field borders on the
edges of your land.
Shade, crumbling ditch
banks, eroded slopes, and
compacted soil are conditions
that can rob you of your
profits. '
A better alternative to
planting a crop to the very
edge of the field (where you
ususally don't receive a yield
that pays for the investment)
is to plant a perennial
vegetation such as fescue
grass or shrub lespedeza in a
strip at least 10 feet wide.
This vegetation will help
keep expensive land, fer
tilizer, and pesticides in the
field by filter action.
A good investment in your
land is the one time planting of
a perennial plant that needs
only periodic maintenance
and can benefit you as a
turarow, row drainage outlet,
erosion control, a travel lane,
wildlife food and cover,
natural beauty or any com
bination of these features.
The field border is a multi
purpose practice that is ex
tremely flexible in both ap
plication and benefits
received. It can be used as a
turnrow or travel lane at
established field edges, such
as ditches or wood borders, for
equipment where traffic does
not require a special roadway.
This will keep you from
trying to farm soil compacted
by traffic. As a stabilizer
outlet for row water in the
field, it filters the water
passing through so that
everything you have paid for
is in the field, not in your
streams. This is especially
true in such watershed
projects as Bear Swamp.
As areas of natural beauty
and wildlife cover, the field
border excells because of
enhanced esthetic value and
increased wildlife for hunting
and general appreciation.
The Soil Conservation
Service in Perquimans County
is willing to help identify
where field borders would
benefit. For further in
formation concerning in
stallation and maintainence of
borders, contact the USDA
Soil Conservation in Hertford.
Farmers' newsline
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information from Washington.
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Call this number 1-80(M24
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April 10 - U.S. Crop Prospects
April 11, 12, 13, - World Crop
Prospects
April 14 - Supply & Demand
Analysis
April 15 - Potato Stocks
April 16 - Farm News Special
35th annual [I
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4-H show, sale set
Hie 35th annual Albemarle
4-H livestock Show and Sale is
expected to draw a large
contigent of Perquimans
county residents, both par
ticipant* and spectators.
"I encourage you to support
our young people in the area
by attending the 35th Annual 4
H Livestock Show and Sale to
be held at the 4-H Livestock
Show and Sale Building in
Elizabeth City, on Tuesday
and Wednesday April 28th and
30th," stated Bill Jester,
Perquimans County Ex
tension Chairman.
Among the participants
from Perquimans County this
year are: Mark and Jimmy
Twine, Sandy Lane, Scott and
11m Phthisic, Tobey, Conrad,
Staley, and Wendy Colson,
Derrick Goodman, Frank
Chappell, Jr., Martha Ann
Baker, Tanya, Marlow, and
Ruston Howell, Kathy and
Yvonne Byrum. Charity
Cartwright, Glenn Twine,
Daryl Perry, William and'
Eddie Fowler, Edward
Winslow, Cheryl and C. F.
Stallings, Phillip Winslow, and
Donna and Lynn Elliott.
Tuesday's schedule is as
follows:
8 a.m. ? 10 a.m. Weighing and (
Entering of all hogs and
steers;
10 a.m. Son-aray testing of ;
steers begins;
1 p.m. Youth Livestock
Judging Contest;
7 p.m. Adult Livestock 1
Judging Contest.
Wednesday's schedule is as
follows:
9 a.m. Official Judging of. {
Hogs;
11 a.m. Fitting and
Showmanship of hogs;
1 p.m. Official Judging of
Steers;
3 p.m. Fitting and
Showmanship of Steers ;
6:30 p.m. Sale of all animals.
The public is invited to at
tend. * j
Workshop slated:
The Perquimans County
Agricultural Extension Ser
vice is sponsoring a fitting and
showmanship workshop for
young people interestied in
entering swine or steers in the
annual livestock show and
sell, April 29 in Elizabeth City.
The workshop will begin at
4:15 p.m. on Friday
(tomarrow) on the Rudolph
Perry farm in Beech Springs
The objective is to give
youngsters tips on how to
prepare an animal for the
show, then demonstrate how
to show the animal in the
showroom," said Bill Jester,
extension chairman.
Jack Parker, area swine
specialist, will be on hand to
offer tips and suggestions, as *
well as livestock specialist
Richard Lichtenwalner.
Lichtenwalner will also set
up a time for clipping steers.
For directions and further
information, contact Jester at
426-5428.
Farmers say yes
RALEIGH - North
Carolina farmers have given
overwhelming approval to
continue the self-help soybean
assessment program ac
cording to Thurman Burleson,
President of the North
Carolina Soybean Producers
Association. "The new
assessment rate will be one
cent per bushel on all ;
soybeans marketed in the
state for a six year period
beginning with the harvest of .
the 1981 soybean crop and '
continuing through the 1986'
crop," Burleson said.
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