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Cattleman invited to attend
a mini-tour Tuesday
By H. JEFF COPELAND
? Area Livestock Agent
C&ttlemen are invited to attend a
mijfi-tour on Tuesday, August 25.
Please call by Friday, August 21, to
let us know if you will be attend the
tour. (426-5428)
H-.OQ A.M.? Depart ? From County
Extension Office In Hertford
8:3* A.M.? Stop I - Glenn, Rogerson
- To maximize production per animal
unit, wise use of pasture is impor
tant Glenn has set up a controlled
grazing system for his sheep that
may work on your farm with cattle.
For many of you it will be the first
time you will have the opportunity to
see controlled grazing, or this partic
ular breed of sheep - Cheviot.
Drink Break?
9:30 A.M.? Stop 2 - Ralph Webber,
G.A. Keeter, Herdsman - Purebred
Chgrolais cattle including a Waynes
ville Test Station Bull; handling fa
cilities; and silage are features at
this stop.
A working demonstration of several
cattle products (implants and de
wormers) and their usage should be
of interest to any cattle producer.
Feeder Calf Sale and 4-H Steer Se
lection: The state graded feeder calf
sales will begin soon. Compared to
local auctions in 1986. they paid $6.00
more per hundred weight for me
dium framed steers, and $5.00 more
per hundred weight for medium
framed heifers. Consider marketing
your calves through graded sale* for
best prices. Enclosed are rules and
regulations for the first sale in Rocky
Mount.
Producers selling calves should
read the rules carefully. Consign
ment sheets are due in Tarboro by
August 24 to avoid the $1.00 late pen
alty. All calves must be vaccinated
for Blackleg and Malignant Edema
before August 20.
Parents desiring to purchase
calves for the 4-H Show should make
plans now! ! There will be a club calf
pen in Rocky Mount (at the first sale
and maybe the second) and also at
the Clinton sale.
The club calf pen is three 10 or is
calves selected out of the entire sale
(800-1200 head) for people like you to
bid on individually for 4-H and FFA
projects. If you want a calf, by all
means try to attend. If you cannot go
yourself but still want to buy a calf,
contact me by Friday, August 21.
There will be a trailer available at
the Rocky Mount Sale to bring 4-H
calves back home. Richard Licthen
walner, Area Cattle Specialist, and
myself will do whatever we can to
help. Plan to get your calf now while
the selectiqn is good.
SCHEDULE OF SALES? Rocky
Mount-Thursday, September 3 - 10:00
A.M.; Clinton-Wednesday, Septem
ber 9 - 10:00 A.M.; Rocky Mount -
Thursday, October 29 - 10:00 A.M.
1st Farmers' Market
Festival scheduled
ASHEV ILLE? The first annual
Farmers' Market Festival at the
Western North Carolina Farmers'
Market in Asheville has been sched
uled for September X, 2, and 3, 1987.
The three-day celebration will spot
light the bountiful supplies of fresh
fruits and vegetables available of the
market.
Tuesday, September 1 will be Can
ning and Freezing Day, with home
economists from the NCDA and the
Agricultural Extension Service on
hand to distribute recipes and offer
advice on canning and freezing fruits
and vegetables. Door prizes will be
given throughout the 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
activities, with seminars on canning
and freezing at 10, 2 and 4.
The second day of the festival will
be Sefiior Citizens' Day with vendors
at themarket offering special pricing
for the older visitors to the market.
Senior Citizens' Day will run from 9
a.m. to 6 p.m., with seminars on nu
trition and microwave cooking and
free blood pressure checks by the
Red Cross available throughout the
day. Retirement villages as well as
individual seniors are encouraged to
attend these activities and qualify for
the door prizes to be given away dur
ing the day.
To draw the festival to a close on
Thursdy evening, September 3, the
staff of the market will host Family
Night at the Market from 4 p.m. to 8
p.m. A gala evening with bluegrass
music, doggers, hot air balloons,
door prizes, free watermelon slices,
helium balloons and apple juice will
await shoppers that day, in addition
to the plentiful supplies of late-sum
mer produce like melons, apples,
grapes, cabbages, peas, beans and
tomatoes.
The Western North Carolina Farm
ers' Market is located on Brevard
Road just outside the city limits. For
additional information on the festival
or other market information on the or
other market information, contact
the market at 253-1691.
Farmers are tough
even in rough times
Farmers have been through some
rough times during the past several
years. A less courageous and ded
icated people would probably have
given up long ago, but farmers are
not prone to quit, even during bad
times.
Farmers' rich religious heritage
builds a firm foundation for strong
family ties. It may be that being
close to nature and having to live
with unbending and irrefutable laws
of nature cause our farm families to
have a more caring and cooperative
spirit. The family working together
helps bind their bonds of devotin and
support to each other.
The farm family's spirit of cooper
ation helps them to remain objective
and reasonable in these troubled
times. They realize that one cannot
survive alone today.
The last days of summer!
Staff photo
by Anzie Wood
EIC Center
to hold meeting
Economic Resource Center will
hold their monthly County Council
Meeting August 25th at 7:00 p.m. at
the EIC Center.
The community is urged to attend.
Heat, lack of rain creates
problems for area gardens
Excessive beat and lack of rain
have created problems for area vege
table gardens. But a fall vegetable
garden could have better luck, say
experts at the N.C. Botanical Garden
at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
Some gardeners are satisfied with
vegetables that mature before No
vember and December. Under
ground root crops, such as carrots,
radishes and parsnips, will not be
hurt by light frost. They can be
nulched heavily as the weather
grows colder and left in the ground to
be eaten when they are wanted.
Salad greens and other leafy vege
tables prefer cooler temperatures
and will tolerate the cold well. The 45
day maturity types of lettuce, such as
salad bowl and black-seeded Simp
son, are especially good for the fall
garden.
All cabbage family members do
better in cool weather. Broccoli, cab
bage, cauliflower, Brussel sprouts
and kale are included into this group.
Also onions and their relative? if
well-mulched, survive cold wem?er
and begin to grow again when the
ground begins to warm in the spring.
If these plants are close to matu
rity by the first frost, usually around
Oct. 20, then they will be hardened
and more resistant to cold as the tem
peratures drop from the 60s to 30s.
A fall garden usually is a second
planting. More fertilizer will be
needed, since the spring crops proba
bly will have used the nutrients
added previously. A scattering of or
ganic fertilizer will be necessary
when the soil is prepared, and again
when the plants or seeds are planted.
The planting process should allow for
ample growth time before frost.
All seed packets list the time
needed for growth until maturity.
Gardeners should count back from
Oct. 20 and plant the seeds and small
plants accordingly.
The result can be a garden more
successful that those found during
the summer.
Southern Pine Beatle nears epidemic
RALEIGH? The spread of the
Southern Pine Beetle - the most de
structive insect to pine trees in the
southern United States - has reached
epidemic proportions in the piedmont
section of North Carolina, according
to recent surveys by the N.C. Divi
sion of Forest Resources.
The surveys show that Cabarrus,
Davidson and Randolph counties are
the areas with the most beetle-re
lated damage. Other areas hard hit
by the Southern Pine Beetle include
counties in the northern coastal
plain.
Thinning timber stands is the most
effective way to reduce attacks by
the Southern Pine Beetle.
NOTICE
TOWN OF WINFALL
Filing time has been extended one (1) ad
ditional week for persons interested in fil
ing for Town Council for the Town of
Winfall. The filing time will be open from 12
noon, August 24, 1987, and close at 12
noon, August 28, 1987. This will be a Non
partisan Municipal Election to be held No
vember 3, 1987.
William L Tillej, Chairman
Perquimans County Board of Elections
1987 FALL
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Agriculture commissioner honored
GREENVILLE? State Agriculture
Commissioner Jim Graham was hon
ored hare Wednesday for his lead
ership in agricultural development
by the Greenville Tobacco Board of
Trade and the Pitt-Greenvilk Cham
ber of Commerce.
At a breakfast held at the Holiday
hm making the opening of the East
ern Tobacco Belt, the commissioner
was presented a plague by Ed
Walker, president of the chamber,; "
which read: "In Appreciation For , "
Your Outstanding Leadership In Ag- rv
ricultural Development in North Car
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Graham responded pledging to
continue to work for an ever ' "
strengthening agriculture economy
in Pitt County and throughout the en
tirety of North Carolina.
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