Agriculture -
Farm-City activities set
Hertford Mayor Bill Cox has
proclaimed Nov Z14T as
Para-City Week in
Among activites slated for
the week-long observance are
a tour of industsry and farms,
as veil u a contest for local
scdcxn CDiiorrn
Aceordiag to R. L.
Stevenson, Farm-City Week
Chairman, and W. R. Jester,
County Extension Chairman.
a tour of Dsa Juan
Ooifujf iwl
the Hairell Farm will be held
on Tuesday, Not. 25. Persons
interested in participating in
the tour should meet at the
Perqaimaas Couaty Ex
tefisioo Office at 2 p.m.
According to Jester, the
purpose of the tour is to give
people on the farm and in the
town an opportunity to share
experiences and develop a
better understanding of each
other's way of life
A potter contest is also
being sponsored by the Farm
City Week Committee, the
Perquimans Agricultural
Extension Serviee and
Perquimans County
Elementary Schools. Jester
said the object of the poster
contest is to develop the
child's concept of the inter
dependence of farm and city.
Trophies will be awarded to
the winners.
Market summary
A total of 11,671 feeder pigs
were sold on 13 state graded
sales during week of
November 10. according to the
Market News Service of the
North Carolina Department of
Agriculture. Prices were
mostly |3 to $5 higher per
hundred pounds.
US 1-2 pigs weighing 40-50
pounds averaged $76.46 per
hundred pounds with No. 3s
$56.15; 50-60 pound l-2s
averaged $72.47, No. 3s $53.61;
60-70 pound l-2s $65.02, No. 3s
$41.39; 70-60 pound l-2s $57.67
per hundred pounds with No 3s
$45.34.
At weekly livestock auctions
held within the state, prices
for slaughter cows were
steady to $2 higher and feeder
calves $1 to $4 lower. Utility
and Commercial cows brought
$42.25 to $51; Choice Veal 150
250 pounds $61 to $70. Medium
frame No. 1 muscle steers 400
500 pounds brought $64 to
$76.50 per hundred pounds and
same grade heifers 400-500
pounds sold $51 to $50.50. No. 1
muscle feeder cows sold from
$40 to $46.50. Baby Calves
under 3 weeks of age brought
$40 to $100 per head. Market
hogs brought mostly $44 to
$47.60 per hundred weight and
300-600 pound sows $37.75 to
$42.
Corn prices were steady to 3
cents lower per bushel and
soybeans 7 to 36 cents lower
through Thursday, Nov. 13
compared to the same period
of the previous week. No. 2
yellow shelled corn ranged
mostly $3.52 to $3.76 in the
Eastern part of the state and
$3.63 to $3.70 in the Piedmont.
No. 1 yellow soybeans ranged
mostly $6.51 to $6.74 in the
East and $8.30 to $6.51 in the
Piedmont; No. 2 red winter
wheat $4.30 to $4.60.
Sweet Potato prices were
steady this week. Supplies are
moderate to short Demand
seasonally good. Fifty pound
cartons of cured US No. Is on
Nov. 13 were quoted at $9.75 to
$10, some $9.50, occasional
preferred brand $10.50 to $11.
Jumbo $600 to $1.50. Prices
paid to growers for No. Is
packed out at end of belt $7 to
$8 per carton.
The broiler-fryer market is
higher for next week's
trading. Supplies are
moderate with some plants
short. Demand is good. The
North Carolina dock weighted
average price is 47.98 cents
per pound for less than
truckloads picked up at
processing plants during the
week of November 17. This
week $.4 million birds were
processed in North Carolina
with an average live bird
weight of 101 pounds per bird
on Nov. 12.
Heavy type hens were
higher this past week. Sup
plies were fully adequate and
demand good. Heavy type hen
prices were mostly 26 cents
per pound at the farm with
buyers loading.
Egg prices were 2 to 3 cents
per dosen higher to those of
the previous week. Supplies
were moderate, instances of
shortage. Demand was very
good. The North Carolina
weighted average price
quoted on Nov. 13 for small lot
sales of cartoned grade A eggs
delivered to stores was 90.51
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If rte Estimates
JOHN MAUCR
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cents per dozen for large,
Medium 78.58 and smalls
<8.18.
For the period Nov. 10 to 14,
gross tobacco sales on
Eastern Belt totaled 8.8
million pounds and averaged
$126.25 per hundred, down
$11.*; Old and Middle Belt
$1.5 million pounds were sold
for an average of 8117.19 per
hundred, down $12,88. For this
period the Stabilisation
Corporation received 30.3
percent on the Eastern Belt
and 38.3 percent on the Old
and Middle Belt.
Market hogs at daily cash
buying stations about the state
sold SI to $1.25 lower during
the week of Nov. 10 and
ranged mostly $46.75 to $48.
per hundred pounds. Sows 300
600 pounds ranged $33 to $44.
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Perquimans
Gardening
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Jean Wlnslow
Check your sprayers for any
solution left in them. Throw it
away, as it will be ineffective
by next growing season, and
will possibly corrode the
container.
Prepare rote beds now. The
soil needs to settle before
planting during the end of
December and into January.
It is still too warm to move
trees. Wait until they are
totally dormant. I've found
that a wet January is ideal
planting time for seedlings,
especially.
Susanquas, of the camellia
family, are in bloom now, and
must be kept watered.
Keep leaves raked. They
mat, and will kill even the best
stands of grass if left to settle.
Use them for compost.
Check evergreens for iron
deficiency. State hor
ticulturists suggest checking
with our extension office for
testing of soil. In this area, soil
naturally runs acid, which is
what evergreens like, but if,
for some reason, the soil
becomes too "sweet,"
correction is in order.
TO ADJUST pH
?Use sulphur or ?)?"" famm
sulphate to lower pH (make
more add);
?Use lime to raise it (make
more alkaline).
While iron makes up a
minor part of the composition
o# MO. It to mW to make
chlorophyll. B there to too
mack calcium or lime, toe
This may be ascertained by
the green color of tot plant
Yellow leaves ipell bad newt
One thing to watch tor to the
color of plants etoot to hrtek,
stuccOj op blocks*
Lime to mortar can bo death
on plants if tt teaches out over
a period of time.
"Coastwateh" la a
periodical published by the
North Carolina Sea Grant
College Program, and a good
source of information. (I
signed op tor It white riaiting
the Marine Resources
Museum between Manteo and
Mann's Harbor.)
In the last issue was a report
on the progress at the gypsy
moth. The larvae of these
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lndrp?rxf?nH y Owrfd
insects kire killed whole
hardwood forests in the North,
?ad bow. signs are, they are
The department sat out
traps halted with a synthetic
sax hormone wMeh attracts
?alt moths. No need for
hysteria fat: even though
traps In Currituck, Camden,
Dare, Perquimans and
Paaqwotank yielded over 49M
suspected they literally
"blew-tn" on strong winds
from the north, mainly from
the heavily infested Cape
May, N.J. area.
Since, at that time of the
year, females are hopefully
too heavy with eggs to be
transported by winds, It is
ii^i^ llM
yet been picked by the gypsy
moth for its first major
assault oo the South.
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Forest land care, -
management urged*
toy TONY R SHORT
DISTRICT
conservationist
private hnliHngs the
will double by the year
What does this meaa?
It mean that the fatne
looks food for you, the forest
landowner. Bat many a t our
forests are la poor shape.
They need upgrading as a
remit at yean of overeutting.
Forestland is like any other
asset it must be managed to
produce good yields.
Assistance is available to
help provide management.
The N.C. Forest Service can
help provide a management
pi?n This Iw hides detailed
recommendations for work.
The Soil Conservation can
provide basic planning. The
paper companies offer
assistance also.
Tktrt art coat-shi
bWpitt
tract This caa
carried oat with technical I
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pro viae joos 1
it North Carotin*. It to\?
Aar business,
9* million tu
the state annually. ?T
9i
forest land will provide profito
to later years, but to the
meaatime, It offera a
recreation potential
habitat for wildlife. Tfcaeelfe
have a value.
Consider atarting; a
management program m
your woodland. The N.C.
Forest Service, the Soil
Conservation Service and ths
N.C. Bxtenahm Service oan
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