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Agriculture J ? Tips for reviving plants ive houseplants a good shower -of water to clean off winter dust wood smoke. in bird baths periodically to dirt and remove leaves bird lings and feathers. Use a solu of one part household bleach to parts soapy water. Scrub with a brush and rinse thoroughly, er put glycerine in birdbath to prevent freezing. Glycerine ery harmful to the bird's diges tract apple, peach, an<J plum >ly dormant sprays to fruit Use oil sprays or the time lime-sulfur sprays. y soak trees and plants water to prevent freeze damage, ially if hard frosts are pre dicted. Make sure shallow rooted tMnts such as azaleas are well mulched. People do not grow their own vege tables just to save money, says the National Gardening Association. The respondents in a survey of 3000 households in 1985-86 could choose more than one answer to the question of why they had a garden. Thirty per cent answered that their main reason was to have fresh vegetables. Twenty-five percent said they gar dened to have better-quality food. Twenty-two percent said they gar dened for enjoyment. Nineteen per cent gardened to have produce for canning or freezing. Only 4 percent answered that they gardened to save money. Speaking of saving money, Larry Bass at NCSU says don't worry about the cost of vegetable seeds, which is a relative small part of the total cost of gardening when compared to ferti lizer, insect control, labor and equip ment. He says one of your best in vestments is clean, disease-free seeds of selected varieties. He also reminds us that saving seeds often does not work, because some vegeta ble varieties are hybrids, and plants BEmiD THE WEEDS , e>y J IAN WILLOW grown from the seeds of hybrids can be quite different from their parents. So order your new vegetable seeds now. With a nice break in the weather you may plant, per person: Onion seed, Va packet, Yellow Dan vers, San Joaquin; peas, edible podded, Vi pound, Sugar Snap, Mam moth Melting Sugar; peas, garden, Vi pound, Wando, Green Arrow, Twiggy; Salsify, packet, Sandwich Island, Mammoth. Sapsucker Injury Neatly drilled holes on a tree truck or limb indicates the presence of a sapsucker. Sapsuckers' feathers are mottled black and white. The male has a red crown and throat, while the female has only the red crown. Both sexes have a conspicious white wing stripe which is visible both at rest and in flight. Unlike its cousin, the insect-eating woodpecker, a sapsucker prefers a diet of tree sap, with an occasional lunch of whatever insects are lured to the tree. It drills holes deep into the trunk and extracts sap with a tongue equipped with hairs on the end that pick up the liquid. Usually trees are not damaged enough to worry about them, but if tree limbs are beginning to die, it may be time to take precautionary steps. Flower and Garden Magazine suggests wrapping burlap or sheet metal around the injured limb, or smear a sticky bird repellent on the area. This should encourage this striking-looking bird to divide his mealtimes with several tree hosts in stead of just one. Financial management Series scheduled By STANLEY J. WINSLOW CO. EXT. DIRECTOR The Young farmers committee and I have planned an important and edu cational series of meetings for you daring the next several weeks. Our Pis this year will be entirely on al Management and Market 3 re will be five sessions and ill be.taught4>y J^ek-Ward, [*F?rm Management Agent, now serv nag Gates, Chowan and Perquimans Counties. > ?The first meeting will be entitled "An In-Depth Look at Government ? Programs". It will be held at the Ag ricultural Extension Office on Thurs ?day, January 29th. It will begin at p.m. There will be a sponsored 1 for this meeting, so please call office by noon on Tuesday, Jan . nary 27th to let us know if you can ?ftfend "? Bring your ASCS worksheets with you and after the meeting, Jack and I can work individual examples for you using Jack's portable computer and our office computer. Your other meetings will be as fol lows: February 3rd? "Managing Your Farm Business as an Investment, Part I"? 7:00 p.m.? Extension Of fice. Feburary 10th? Family Financial Planning"? 7:00 p.m.? Extension. reDruary 1 /in? managing tour Farm Business as an Investment, Part II"? 7:00 p.m.? Extension. March 3rd? "Developing a Mar keting Plan"? 7:00 p.m.? Extension Office. The February 5th, 10th and 17th meetings will not have a meal with them. We will use extra time to go into depth with the subject matter. These meetings were planned by the Young Farmers Committee, but they are open to anyone. With the current financial situation you need to be the best manager you can possibly be. Take advantage of these opportuni ties to learn. The 1967 Perquimans County Agri cultural Extension Winter Meeting Series is as follows: January 22nd? Cotton Production Meeting? 7:00 p.m. at the Perqui mans County Ext. Office. January 29th? Young Farmers Meeting? 7:00 p.m. at the Perqui mans County Ext. Office. February 3rd? Young Farmers Meeting; "Managing Your Farm business as an Investment, Part I"? 7:00 p.m.? Perquimans County Ext. Office. February 5th? Soybean Produc tion Meeting? 7:00 p.m.? Hertford Volunteer Fire Dept. February 10th? Family Financial Planning? 7:00 p.m.? Perquimans County Ext. Office. February 11th? Peanut Production Meeting? 7:00 p.m.? Albemarle Commission Bldg. February 12th? Regional Pork Conference ? 10:00-2:00 p.m. a.m.? American Legion Building, Eden ton, MC. February 17th? Young Farmers Meeting, "Managing Your Farm as an Investment, Part II"? 7:00 p.m.? Perquimans Co. C*L Office. March 8rd? Young Farmers Meet ing, "Developing a Marketing Plan"? 7:00 p.m.? Perquimans County Ext. Office. The Feb. 5 and Feb. 11 meetings will provide credit towards recertifi cation of your commercial applica tion or dealers license. If you plan to attend any of these meetings, please call our office 3 days prior to the meeting date. (426 5428). All extension programs are open to any person regardless of race, color, age, national origin, handicap, sex or religion. Left to right - Bert Eure, Stan Winslow, Karl Eui e. The Eu res, owners of White Hat Seed Farms and Stan Winslow, County Extension Director, are shown accepting first place awards for both the district and state level in the 1986 Wheat yield contest. The Eure's award winning yield was 97.6 bush els acre from the variety Florida 302. The awards were pre sented at the annual meeting of the N.C. Plant Food Associa tion on January 6th in Raleigh. In the 17th Century. Emperor Jahsngir owned a total of 2.235.60C carats of pearls, 931.500 carats of emeralds. 376.600 carats of rubies and 279.450 carat* nf Checking out fabric By PAIGE UNDERWOOD HOME ECONOMICS EXT. AGENT If you have a sofa that's beginning to look very tattered, you're probably thinking about reupholstering or re placing it. Either way you'll be looking at upholstery fabric. So here are some upholstery shopping suggestions: Ask to see a swatch of the fabrics. And then put that swatch through several tests. For example hold the swatch of fabric to a light. You shouldn't be able to see any of the light, or at most, only tiny pin-points of light. And you shouldn't see any backing material between the threads. If you can see the latex backing from the front side, select another fabric. Next, grip the two edges of the swatch, holding your thumbs about one or two inches apart. Press down on the fabric as hard as you can. If you see the yarns slipping or separat ing, the construction is weak. Then scratch the fabric with your nails to see if the threads stretch or pull easily. And take 8 pencil eraser and rub briskly. If bits of fabric come off, the fabric will pill or form tiny fiber balls. Check to see if the design is printed or woven. Look at the back. If the back is a solid color and the design isn't evident, it's printed. You can also test the design's stayability by rubbing it with a white handkerchief. If the color rubs off, don't consider the fabric. Cooking by crockpot By JUANITA T. BAILEY HOME ECONOMICS EXT. AGENT You have some shopping to do. It makes good sense to run by the store on your way home from work. But what about dinner? The answer might be crockpot cooking. With a crockpot, you'll find the main course ready to serve when you get home. And the crockpot of fers some o ther benefits. It tender izes those less tender cuts of meat. And it does it without a lot of shrink age. But the crockpot isn't Utopia. There can be a slight risk of food poisoning, if you're not careful about how you handle the ingredients you put into that pot. The reason: crockpot cooking is slow cooking. This means the food is cooked at a relatively low tempera ture for a long period of time. As a result, it may be two hours before the pot gets hot enough to kill most com mon food bacteria. This is especially true for meat and poultry. The best solution is to make sure no bacteria are allowed to grow in the food before it goes into the pot. So if you plan to save time by pre paring raw ingredients the night be fore, put those that call for refrigera tion back into the fridge until you're ready to start the crockpot. City: Hertford. N.C. Ass'n Name: Hertford Savings & Loan Street Address: 121 N. Church Street Charter Date 1923 County: Perquimans Zip: 27944 No. Operating Branches: 0 Officers: Henry C. stokes, Pres. C.D. White, Jr., V. Pres. *H. Gene Boyce, Sec.-Treas. (Managing Officer designated by asterisk) STATE OF CONDITION ? DECEMBER 31 , 1 986 ASSETS 1 . Mortgage loans & contracts 2. Nonmortgage loans $5020,000 143,000 4. Cash & Investments 2,748,000 5. Fixed assets (net) 21,000 8. Other assets TOTAL ASSETS 63,000 $7,995,000 LIABILITIES A NET WORTH 9. Deposits $7,296,000 12. Other liabilities 31,000 16. Unappropriated retained earnings Broughton T. Pail C.D. White, Jr. 668,000 TOTAL LIABILITIES A NET WORTH $7,995,000 Board of Directors (Chairman designated by asterisk). H. Gene Boyce Clifford P. To we Walter G. Edwards, Jr. Wayne R. Winslow Fenton T. Eure, Jr. Benjamin C. Hobbs Henry C. Stokes, Jr.* CwtIM to fet trut ind comct by PUBLIC NOTICE Perquimans County Water Department . ' i The following tap-on fees for water meters will become effective February 1, 1987: 3/4" Service $300 1" Service $375 2" Service $750 VW' and V/z" services will no long# be available. ? H&.R Block's trained tax preparers understand the new tax laws. We'll answer your questions and find you the biggest refund you're entitled to. This year get back everything you've got coming. H&R BLOCK THE INCOME TAX PEOPLE WHERE MORE AMERICANS FIND A BIGGER REFUND. Harris Shopping Center, Hertford Open 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Week Days. 9-5 Saturday Phone 426-7370 MasterCard, Visa, Choice accepted at most area locations. no nrnms NO FINANCl CHARGES FOR 90 DAYS! *For qualified applicants financing a General Elec tric major appliance on a GECC Revoling Charge Plan. After this period, 18% Annual percentage . Rate Finance Charge accrues with $0 Minumum Finance Charge. Model GSD6000 Temperoture Sensor System. 10-yeor full worronty of PermoTuf* tub and door liner (ask for details). 2-level wash action. En ergy saver drying option. Mod* I JBF24G Two 8", two 6' plug-in Colrod* surfoce un fit. Porcelain enomel finish drip pons. Au tomatic oven timer, clock. Block gloss oven door with towel bar handle. Model WWA7050G 3 cycles including permonent press Three wash/rinse temperature combinations. 3 water level selections. Soak cycle. Model JE 1 445 Dual Wave IP microwove system. Word' Prompting Display provides programming instructions Time Cook 1 & 2. Temp Cook Hold maintains temperature until CLEA R/OFF is touched. Model JHP69G *** 1.4 cu. ft. microwove upper oven with Dual Wave1* microwave system ond sophis ticated sensor. Procelain enamel finish drip pans. Block gloss doors. 2-level venting. 3 cycles including automatic permanent press and knits. 4 drying selections includ ing no-heat air-fluH. Smooth porcelain enamel drum. Model JMT20 Cooks five woys-microwove toost, broil, boke and microboke Sit it on the counter or hong it up under your kitchen cobinets. .5 cu. ft. oven cavity. Five microwave power levels HERTFORD MOTOR CO., INC. US 17 SOUTH HERTFORD 428-5688
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