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Agriculture Tips and information on planting springtime vegtables in the garden ? I Time to plant spring vegetables! Here is a list of veggies, suggested amounts and varieties, plus some in formation on important sources of nutrition. Plant, per person: Cabbage plants, 25? new varieties . include 'Prime Choice,' a large, long storer; 'Charmont,' the best for home gardens, ready to eat 69 days from transplanting. Look this one up in the Twilley catalog. Cabbage plants get off to a better start if they are cloched the first two weeks. Cabbage contains vitamin K, an : aid to blood coagulation. Also present is a mysterious agent that may com bat cancer. Cabbage is a good source of sulfur, cobalt, and magnesium. Broccoli rabb, V? ounce? variety 'Seven Top.' You will no doubt recog nize 'Seven Top' as a turnip seed, and BEMWD THE WEEDS , N you are right. Raab is the unopened turnip flower, which is harvested like broccoli? delicious . Carrots, V? packet? ' Dan vers half Long,' 'Lindoro.' Young carrots can be thoroughly scrubbed and left un peeled, making them far more nutri tious. A fine source of potassium, vi tamin H, biotin, orotic acid, and C, carrots are second only to beets in natural sugar. One pound contains 4>% times the minimum RDA of beta carotene, a substance which is con verted by the body to vitamin A. Onion sets, SO ? 'Ebenerer,' Frano,' 'Sweet Sandwich Hybrid.' Onions contain selenium, a fighter of heart disease and cancer. The yellow varieties contain more vitamin D than the white. Most gardeners plant onion sets two to three inches apart, planning to out every other plant for use as scal lions. Organic Gardening magazine says pulling plants disturbs the growth pattern of onions on either side. When growth is checked, onions may mature before reaching maxi mum size. Avoid this problem by planting an area solely for scallions, and place other onion sets Ave inches apart. Water regularly. Irish potatoes, 10 pounds? 'Kenne bec,' 'Pungo,' 'Superior.' Plant pota toes thick Remember when you peel potatoes, you are throwing away valuable potassium. Eat them skin and all, when passible, and help yourself to a goodly amount of linoleic add (vitamin F) which aids in proper teeth formation and helps burn unsaturateded fats. Pota toes contain six times more protein than any other vegetables. Radishes, V* packet? 'Early Scar let Globe,' 'Cherry Belle,' 'Crystal White.' Radishes are a good source of cooper, manganese, selenium, and vitamin C. Turnuips, V? ounce? 'Purple Top', 'Just Right,' 'Gilfeatber.' Turnips provide fiber, calcium, cooper, mag anese, selenium, and vitamin A. Turnip (irwot, y? ounce? All TQp.' Crawford,' Shogin,' 'Seven Top.' Turnip tope are rich in vitamin A and calcium. Rutabaga, % packet? 'American Purple Top,' 'Altasweet.' Contain* copper, iron, manganese, B6, vita min C, and folacin. Salsify, >4 packet? 'Sandwich Is land Mammoth.' Salsify is good food for dieters because the carbohydrate content is mostly inuslin, which is not metabolized by the body. You get full, not fat. Shallots, 15 sets? 'Giant Red,' 'Dutch Yellow,' Shallots have little nutritional value? a little potassium, maybe, but they certainly perk up any dish in which you need a dash of mild, buttery, onion taste. Spinach, v* packet? new variety nu 'Olympia,' from Earl May, a bimot leaf type, and highly disease rsate tant. Another new one is Henry Field's 'medania,' which not only will winter over, but Is heat-resistant and has non-bolting characteristics. Raw spinach supplies 15 percent more foladn and 40 percent mote vi tamin C than when it is cooked. *> you should put it in salads as much as. , possible. Or shred it and subs ti tut! for lettuce on a cold meat sandwich. One nutritional warning, however. Spinach is surely good for you, but it is not s good source of calcium be cause it contains oxalic acid, which combines with the calcium and pre vents the absorption of that nutrient by the body. Food costs breakdown For those curious about who actu . ally gets the dollar the consumer spends for food, they will find some interesting figures in the latest infor mation from the U.S. Department of < Agriculture. USDA breaks down each average dollar consumers spend for food into three major parts: 25 cents to the fanner who produced it; 34 cents to workers who process, handle, and * distribute the food after it leaves the farm; and 41 cents to those who are paid for other marketing services. The share going to "other market ing services' has remained fairly steady for the last 10 years ; the share - going to labor has gone steadily up; and the farmer's share has gone steadily down. But that analysis doesn't truly por tray the share of the food dollar going ACCENT DIM AGRICULTURE NC f ARM OJRVAU federation to labor. About 10 percent of the farmers share goes to farmworkers; and an even larger percentage of the "other marketing cost" goes for sala ries, wages and employee benefits. The truth is that the total share of the food dollar going for the cost of labor is twice as much as the amount received and retained by those who produce our food. Exchange benefits waterfowl RALEIGH? A state government agency and an international private wetlands conservation group ex changed gifts this week. But the real benefactors are waterfowl? from Canada to North Carolina. During a meeting Jan. 19 of the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commis sion, Chairman Jerry W. Wright pre sented a check totaling $8,010 to Ducks Unlimited Inc., state Chair man Pete Hulsey of Matthews, i . About 20 minutes later, the Com ; mission accepted a donation of 82 ? acres of marshland bordering the 1 ? Currituck County from Ducks Unlim 'l ited Inc. The land, originally a gift to Ducks Unlimited from W.B. Mere dith II, will be processed through the Council of State. This tract of wet land is highly valuable for waterfowl ; and it will be protected and managed for that purpose under state own ership. Under its own policy, Ducks Unlim ited prefers not to own wetland envi ; ronments but rather acquires them and then transfers them to other con . servation organizations, primarily governmental. Each year, the Commission gives to Ducks Unlimited a collection of one dollar from the sale of each non resident state hunting license and each non-resident six -day hunting li cense. State law requries the Com mission to set these funds aside for contribution to an agency in the United States that spends money for waterfowl management and control in Canada. North Carolina wildlife officials and private organizations such as Ducks Unlimited often work together in managing habitats for waterfowl and other wildlife resources. Ducks Unlimited, which is cele brating its 50th anniversity this year, has more than 3.7 million acres of land under reserve in Canada, 280,000 under its management in Mexico and more than 138,000 that it's helping to manage in the United States. The or ganization currently has agreements with conservation agencies in all 50 states to help fund water fowl conser vation projects. An example of the use of such funds in North Carolina is the recent acqui sition of Conine Island, a high-quality forested wetland tract of about 3,500 acres on the Roanoke River. Ducks Unlimited contributed $215,000 to help purchase this land. Early orders benefit farmers ROCKY MOUNT.N.C.? Although it comes at a time when many people don't think about spring, early seed orders can benefit farmers. One benefit is to preserve quanti ties of a popular hybrid or variety to help ensure supply is available at planting time, says Dennis McCoy, field agronomy manager for Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. "In areas where few varieties or hybrids are in big demand, purchas ing seed early helps ensure a grower gets the seed he wants, "McCoy says. If a dealer doesn't have that vari ety of hybrid available right then, early ordering gives him the time to make contacts within the sales net work to locate the requested seed be fore planting time. "Having the right seed is crucial to successful crop production. Early seed purchases can help relieve some of the worry and risk? while getting growers the seed they want at the same time, "McCoy says. Awards meeting sei By STANLEY J. WINSLOW Co. Ext. Director Our 1M7 Peanut Production And Awards Meeting will be held on Wednesday, February nth at the Al bemarle Commission Building. It ; will begin promptly at 7:00 p.m. . Dr. Gene Sullivan, Extension Pea nut Specialist, will update us on va rieties and cultural practices; Dr. Jack Bailey, Extension Plant Patho logist, will discuss disease and nema ; tode control. ? 1 will give an update on herbicides and Mr. Fleet Sugg will present tne County Peanut Yield winners with their awards and update us on the ac tivities of the Peanut Growers Asso ciation. There will be a sponsored supper with this meeting. Please call oar of fice by 5:M p.m. on Friday, Feb ruary (tb to let us know if you plan to attend. This meeting will qualify you for one hour credit towards the recertifi es tion of your dealers or commercial pesticide applicators license. Valentine Buys To Warm The Heart Ite ^wuUtA N. Poindexter St. 333-2487 Irene's Fashions, Inc. Southern Shores Shopping Center 261-80331 White's Dress Shoppe 426-5651 Hertford, N.C. ALL SALES CASH ft FMAL ALTERATIONS EXTRA OH SALE HEMS Above Wayne Winslow Is sworn in as Chief of the Winfall Fire Department by MayorMorgan. Interest rates bottom out CHARLOTTE? The preciptous de cline of the U.S. dollar, investor un certainty about the mounting trade and federal deficits, and the specter of renewed inflation may mean that mortgage interest rates have reached bottom. "There are growing indications that we have seen the bottom in the decline of mortgage loan interests," says James A. Abbott, president of Cameron-Brown Company, the na tion's ninth largest mortgage bank ing firm. "There are several specific indications that bring about this pre diction. First, there is still a fear that federal deficits have not been brought under control. Congress has increased its efforts in this area evi denced by Gram-Rudman-Hollings, but much of the recent improvement has resulted from the government's ability to finance its debt at reduced interest rates." Abbott says that investors have concern over renewed inflation, which will certainly be on the in crease by 1968. "Then, there is the plunge in the value of the U.S. dollar," he says. "This will ultimately impact infla tion through increased prices of goods to consumers and, also, de crease the desire of foreign investors to purchase U.S. private and public debt instruments." Finally, Abbott says, political un certainties do not promote interest rate stability. "All these concerns impact the willingness of investors to accept yields less than those we are cur rently seeing," says Abbott. "For ex ample, we're seeing 7.25 percent to 7.50 percent yields on 30-year Trea sury bonds, and 8 percent to 8.25 per cent ongovernment guaranteed mortgage-backed securities." Karl Mendenhall, senior vice presi dent of residential marketing for Cameron-Brown, says that he ex pects no further easing of monetary policy by the Federal Reserve Board. "In fact, monetary policy may have to become slightly more restric tive to stop the deterioration of the dollar," Mendenhall says. "Given such an environment, we would ex pect the yeUd on 30-year Treasury se curities to increase by 50 to 75 basis points over the next three to six months." Mendenhall says this translates to mortgage loan interest rates of up to one full percentage point higher. "The increase would be due to a fi nal surge of refinance activity by those people who have been holding out for the bottom of the interest rate cycle, he says. "This surge in the supply of mort gage-backed securities would tend to widen the spread relationship be tween mortgage-backed securities and Treasury securities, thus magni fying the increase in mortgage rates." Cameron-Brown Company, which changes its name to First Union Mortgage Corporation effective Feb ruary 9, is headquartered in Char lotte, NC. As a full-service mortgage banker, Cameron-Brown arranges and services long-term conventional, FHA and VA mortgage loans, and also finances income-producing property and construction projects. Cameron-Brown Company oper ates 134 offices in 32 states and serv ices a loan portfolio of $10 billion. Cameron-Brown is a subsidiary of the Charlotte-based First Union Cor poration, a bank holding company with assets of $26.8 billion on Decem ber 31, 1966. FARM _ BUREAU Insurance ? ? fm Fan* kma Mwhn Lewis B. Evans AGENCY MANAGER Pat Ward Jeff L Smith AGENT AGENT 426-5636 426-7401 Church Street Ext. Hertford, N.C. AARP provides medicare information hot-line WASHINGTON, DC. -One woman called the new AARP Medicare Info Line when the hospital wanted to re lease her 81-year-old father too soon. Another called to find out if Medicare would pay her elderly mother's nurs ing home costs. Those were just two of the hun dreds of calls received by the Ameri can Assoc ia ton of Retired Persons (AARP) through the new toll-free Info-Line it started recently. The service is being offered on a test ba sis in North Carolina and Ohio for four-months. AARP, the largest asso ciation of older Americans, will de cide whether to expand the project after the test period. "We started Info-Line to help peo ple understand Medicare's confusing new Prospective Payment System," said AARP President John Denning. "Many patients find they are dis charged from the hospital sooner and treated on an outpatient basis more often under the new system for pay ing hospitals." He said AARP staffed Info-Line with older Americans trained as par alegals by the association to answer questions about patients' rights un der the new Medicare system. During the first month, AARP op erators answered general questions about hospital discharges, admis sions, and Medicare's coverage of outpatient treatment. In some cases, AARP's operators referred callers to local agencies, such as legal-cerv ices, medical bureau, Social Sec$ity offices and insurance companies. Operators cannot refer calleas to specific hospitals or doctors, .they provide medical or legal advice and, answer general questions abodfc Medicare and AARP. "More than ISO hospitals support this service and distribute informa tion about the program. "That's close to half of the hospitals in the two test states," Denning said. "It also has the support of state medical societies and peer review organiza tions, which over see the health care of Medicare patients." Info-Line is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. It is part of AARP's ongoing national health campaign, which is designed to reduce health co6ts and maintain quality care for all Americans. With more than 24 million mem bers, AARP is the nation's largest and oldest organization of retired and employed Americans age 50 and older. 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