MYSTERY FARM NO. 36 — Pictured above is
Mystery Farm Tv'o. 36 which readers of this news
paper are asked to Identify. If you think you can
make the identification of the farm, you are in
vited to telephone the Herald office, phones (no.
167 or 283) by the 6 p.m. Friday deadline. Four
tickets to Joy Theatre will be awarded via a Sat
urday morning drawing. The operator or owner
of the farm is asked to come by the newspaper
office, identify his farm, and receive an enlarged
aerial photograph of his properties. (Photo by
Zekan-Robbins, Co., Harlan, Iowa). *
HEADERS HAVE DIFFICULTY
IN IDENTIFYING FARM NO. 35
Only 24 readers made identifi
cation of Mystery Farm No. 35,
the Henry F. Boyd farm on York
road.
Winners of complimentary tic
kets to Joy Theatre are Wayne
Wells, Whitney Wells, and Mrs.
1 Conrad Hughes, all of route two,
and Mrs. H. C. Patton, of route
.one,
■Bill Myers, a member of the
Herald mechanical staff, drew
the winning tickets from a hat.
All readers who enter the contest
have a chance to win the tickets
via a Saturday morning drawing.
Mrs. If. C. Patton, of route one,
was the first reader to identify
the farm. She made the identifi
Dr. Blake M. McWhirter
OPTOMETRIST
Eyes Examined
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Room No. 1 Morrison Bldg.
Battleground Ave.
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cation on Friday. Wayne Wells
was the second reader to make
the identification.
Any reader may identify the
farm in each issue of the Herald
by telephoning the Herald office
(phones no. 167 or 283) by the
6 p. m. Friday deadline. The ope
rator pr owner is requested to
visit the Herald office, identify
the farm, and receive an enlarg
ed aerial photograph of his pro
perties.
Other readers correctly identi
fying the week's mystery farm
were Johnny Barber, Jr., Mrs. J.
B. Barber, John B. Barber, Dud
ley Hughes, Mrs. D. C. Hughes,
D. C. Hughes, Carveth Wells,
John Lewis Hughes. Conrad'
Hughes, Mrs. Wayne Weils, Shir
ley Hughes, Gene Hughes, Mrs.
Faye Hughes, Janice Sipes. Er
win Hughes, Mrs. Whitney Weils,
Mrs. Dathia Sanders, Jeff Wells,
Steve Sanders, and Dathia San
ders, all of route two.
Today, 8Vi million American
farm workers produce more than
13 Vi million did 30 years ago.
Tying wool fleece with paper
twine adds 2 cents a pound more
to its value.
Spartan Quality
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are concentrates to be mixed with ground grain.
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Hawthorne Rd. Phones 124 & 1244
GROVER RESIDENTS
Contact Our Representative
In Your Area:
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Boyd Home Was
Mystery Farm 35
The Henry F. Boyd farm on
York road was Herald Mystery
Farm No. 35. Mr. Boyd made the
identification on Friday.
Mr. Boyd reported that they
purchased their home three years
ago from Tom Huffstetler. Mrs.
Boyd is the former Miss Geneva
Wood, of Gastonia.
The Boyds have two children,
Betty June Boydi a student at Ap
palachian State Teacher’s college,
Boone, and Tommy Lewis Boyd,
a stucfent at Kings Mountain
high school.
Mr. Boyd is concessions man
ager at Firestone Mill, Gastonia.
He has been an employee of the
Gastonia-, textile firm for 19%
years.
The Mystery farm feature is; a
52-week series.
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Fumigation Speeds
Farmers Plants
Herbert Sneed, Raleigh, Route
3i says his methyl bromide-fumi
gated plant. beds furnished him
tobacco transplants two weeks
earlier than beds fumigated with
cyanamid.
Sneed treated 400 yards of
plant bed last fall with cyana
mid; he seeded in January. He
treated another 4(ld yards with
J methyl bromide and. seeded In
[i February.
ji According to C. L. Boone,, as
sistant Negro extension agent in
Wake County, the plants o» the
methyl bromide plot were ready
for transplanting two weeks a
head of the others.
Some farmers are running into
trouble in that their plants are
ready too soon, Boone says. Far
mers who waited too late to fumi
gate their tobacco fields, and now
must wait for the materials to
act before transplanting, are fac
ed with what to do with their
maturing plants.
In most cases, according to
Boone, they are leaving untreat
ed some of the land they had
formerly planned to treat.
The average family in the
1920’s spent about 25 cents of its
wage dollar for food. Today’s
family still spends ab'out the
same proportion of their income
for food, but eats more meat,
milk, eggs, vegetables and fruits
and fewer cereals and othgj- sta
ples.
Dairy products in this country
are expected to be the largest on
record this year, according to
present indications. Poultry com
modities will also be large again.
In 1954, nearly two million cas
ualties were recorded for motor
I vehicle accidents.
PINNACLE FEEDS
• Starter €
9 Growing Mash C
0 Laying Mash 20% 4
$ All Mash Laying
Breeder Ration |
I Broiler Mash
I Big Hog Feed
1 Pig Starter
and Grower
1 16% Dairy Feed
Manufactured By
Ware & Sons
Kings Mountain, N. C.
Disabled should
Contact Security
Office by June 30
Seriously disabled people who
used to work in employment or
self-employment covered by the
social security law should get in
touch with the social security of
fice by June 30, Mr. Joseph P.
Wafeh, social security district
manager, announced today.
Mr. Walsh pointed out that
people who 1) have been totally
disabled for 6 months or longer,
and who 2) worked in employ
ment or self-employment covered
by the social security law for as
many as five years out of the 10
/ears before they were disabled
should get further information
about this provision.
Active military service and em
ployment in the railroad industry
may count toward the needed
amount of work. By applying to
have their social security earn
ings records frozen, disabled peo
ple may prevent loss or reduction
of future benefits.
Some people now receiving old
age insurance payments or who
will become eligible for old age
payments in July were disabled
for long periods before they
reached age 65, and are still dis
abled. They may start getting lar
ger payments as of July and will
get them more promptly ff they
file an application for a “disabili
ty freeze" by June 30. If the dis
abled person dies after June 30,
the disability freeze can protect
his family's rights to survivors
payments but only if he had: ap
plied for it before death. For this
reason, it is important for every
person who meets the require*
merits for the “freeze” to apply
for it by June 30.
• Mr. Walsh emphasized that the
law protects the social security
rights of a worker who is suffer
ing from prolonged total disabilii
ty but does not pay cash benefits
to him before fie Is 65.
The address af the Gastonia soj
cial security office is 212 W. 2nd
Avenue. If a disabled person is
unable to call at the office, he
may telephone* or someone’ else
may sail for ftim, Mr. Walsh said.
The shone number is 5-46111
High quaity and low shrink
make Nortlr. Carolina mountain
wool among tlie most valuable in
the Has*..
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Should daffodils and tulips be
taken up each year and when
should this be done?
This is a perennial question af
ter the blooming season of spring
flowering bulbs is over. Daffodils
need not be taken up each year
but should be taken up, divided,
and replanted every three or four
years in order to give them more
room to grow and reproduce. It
is best to take them up when the
foliage has turned yellow and be
gun to die. While the foliage is
green, the plant is storing food
materials in the bulb for next
year’s bloom. After the foliage
has turned yellow the bulbs may
be dug, divided and replanted at
once, or may be dried and stored
in a cool dry place over summer
and planted in the fall.
Tulips should be taken up and
replanted at least every second
year. In our climate the bulbs de
teriorate quite rapidly and should
be replaced by new ones if large
flowers are desired. As in the
case of daffodils, tulips should
not be taken up until the tops
turn yellow and begin to die.
Bearded iris (German iris) are
blooming now and will be ready
to divide and replant in about a
month after the blooming period
is over. However, they may be
divided any time during the sum
mer or early fall. A good divi
sion consists of a new rhizome
or thickened underground stem
with aculster of fan or leaves.
The true roots originate from the
bottom of this rhizome. In re
planting the division the rhizome
should be planted so that the top
of it will be about even with the
top of the soil. Deep planting is
not desirable. Bearded iris do best
in well-drained soils that dry out
quickly.
FARMERS' HELP SOUGHT BY USDA
IN IDENTIFYING NEW GRAIN BUG
xne u. a. department oi--ag
riculture and state agricultural
officials are asking farmers and
grain handlers to help them lo
cate an insect pest which is cap
able of causing great damage to
; stored grain if it succeeds in es
tabiishing itself In this country.
The khapra beetle, a native of
, India, Ceylon* and Malaya, is
new to North; America. It has
been found in stared grain in Cal
ifornia, Arizona, and New Mexico
but it may have spread unnotice*
ed to other parts of the country,
Agriculture officials hope to find:
it and wipe it out before it be*
comes firmly established throu
ghout grain-producing areas.
The insect can be spread from
place to place ih: grain, feed, seed,
or used sacks. It will probably
be found indoors: (warehouses,
storage bins, feed; mills and rail
way cars or trucks used to trans
port grain).
The khapra beetles are usually
first noticed because of the pre
sence of fuzzy larvae, one-eight
inch loftg, or their cast skins, in
clusters around thw corners of
grain bins or in used sacks. The
beetle itself is only one-sixteenth
ihcfa long, and is1: harder to de
tect, tnougn it can usually be
found In the vicinity of the lar
vae. Like the ric* and granary
weevils, it can attack sound ker
nels of grain.
G. D. Jones, extension entomo
logist, suggest that, if you find
unidentifiable, small fuzzy lar
vae or their skins in your grain,
you may be able to play an im
portant part in locating new in
festations of the khapra beetle so
that they be destroyed before the
pest spreads farther. Take speci
mens of both larvae and beetles
to your cotinty agent. He can
send the information along to
State College’s insect reporting
system — part of a network that
gives timely insect warning to
farmers.
Strawberry Harvest
Estimate Reduced
North Carolina’s 1955 straw
berry crop will be reduced by
about 75,000 crates from last
year's harvest.
T. T. Hatton, horticulture spe
cialist for the State College Ag
ricultural Extension Service, says
the freeze killed almost all small
buds, blooms and small fruit that
had set when the big cold came.
Berries are now being harvest'
ed but the season will be short.
The Crop Reporting Service esti
mates that the prospect is for 40
crates an acre, compared to 85
crates last year. The reduction in
yield is coupled with a slight acre
age decrease. This adds up to a
total estimated production of 60,
000 creates. Last year the state’s
strawberry growers produced
135,000.
NOTICE OF SALE
The undersigned will sell at
public auction at 12 noon on
May 28,1955, at its place of bus
iness the following described ve
hicle for Storage Lien of $30.00
for storage from June, 1953, to
April 28,1955:
One 1941 Pontiac 4-door, Mo
tor No. 8-252326, Serial No.
P8JB 1878, registered in the name
of Robert Costner, Box 171, Kings
Mountain, N. C.
This the 28th day of April, 1955.
Victory Chevrolet Co.
5:5-12
NOTICE OF SALE
The undersigned will sell at
pulblic auction at 12 noon on May
28, 1955, at its place of business
the following described vehicle
for Mechanic’s Lien of $61.92:
One 1940 Plymouth 2-door, Mo
tor No. P10-294341, Serial No.
11049601, registered in the name
of Luther M. Gordon, General
Delivery, Kings Mountain, N. C.
This the 28th day of April, 1955.
Victory Chevrolet Co.
5:5-12
NOTICE OF SALE
The undersigned will sell al
public auction at 12 noon on
May 28, 1955, at its place of bus
iness the following described ve
hicle for Storage Lien of $2G.0C
for storage from April 12, 1954
to April 28, 1955:
One 1940 Chevrolet sedan, Mo
tor No. NC 31765, Serial No
8KA01 9257, registered in the
name of Hazel Florence Carter
309 Linwood St., Gastonia, N. C
This the 28th day of April, 1955.
Victory Chevrolet Co.
5:5-12
NOTICE OF SALE
The undersigned will sell at
public auction at 12 noon cn May
28, 1955, at its place of business
the following described vehicle
for Mechanic’s Lien of $95.56:
One 1949 Ford Tudor, Motor
No. 98HA-104348, registered in
the name of John Gray Oaniels,
Sr„ 3250 Rozzells Ferry Road,
Charlotte. N. C.
This the 28th day of April, 1955.
Victory Chevrolet Co.
5:5-12
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