At this time of the year we re
ceive many complaints that Mus
cadine and Scuppernong vines do
not bear. Gardeners want to know
what to do about it. Although not
always the case, the usual cause
for non bearing of Muscadines is
lack of pollination.
Most Muscadine varieties re
quire pollination by a male vine
in order to set fruit. Manyof the
wild Muscadine vines are males.
In the past they have served as
pollinators for the vines planted
in the back yards and gardens.
However, wooded areas and va
cant lots have been put in culti
vation or used for buildings. Thus
thb male Muscadines have been
destroyed, and now the garden
vines are not producing good
crops.
I recently -saw a good illustra
tion of this. A large Scuppernong
vine which formerly produced
heavy crops has had only a scat
tering of graphs on it for the past
four or five years, However, some
young vines propagated from this
one and planted in another gar
den along with some perfect flow
fered pollinators are bearing fine
crops of fruit. This shows how im
portant pollination is for your
Muscadines and. Scuppernongs.
During the past few years, seve
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ral perfect flowered varieties of
Muscadines have been on the mar
ket. These varieties will produce
crops without the presence of
male vines. They will also take
the place of male vines in polli
nating other varieties. Since the
male vines produce no grapfes, it
is a distinct advantage to use one
of these perfect flowered varieties
for pollination.
Why use the old varieties at
all? Because some of them are
of superior quality. Before long
the plant breeders will have for
us perfect flowered varieties that
are of as high quality as Scup
pernong, Hunt, Topsail and oth
ers. At present, the best of the
perfect flowered varieties arte
Burgaw, Wallace, and Tarheel. 1
Corn Planters
Given Wide Choice
For the first time in history,
North Carolina Seed Com Pro
ducers will have available for the
farmer of this state a wide choice
in hybrid seed corn for the next
planting season. John Rice, direc
tor of the North Carolina Crop
Improvement Association, says
that this choice will vary from
very early maturing hybrids
through medium season hybrids
to the regular late maturing
typtes.
Rice reports that the hybrid
seed corn growers of North Caro
lina have planted only 1,000 less
acres of hybrid seed com than
was planted in 1955. He states
that thie excellent growing condi
tions throughout the state give
prospects for a very high quality
seed. This seed will be available
next year for planting through
out the southeast.
In thteir grading operations this
year, all North Carolina produ
cers will be using the same size
screens for designating medium
flats and large flats. Rice believes
that this will grteatly assist dea
lers in selling the same size corn
for bach of the different grades.
It will also aid the farmer in hav
ing the same planter plattes to
plant the medium flat and large
flat hybrids produced by different
growers.
In addition, all North Carolina
certified hybrid seed corn will be
trteated with an approved fungi
cide. Rice says that this will aid
the farmer in securing a good
stand.
Of special interest are the two
new early maturing hybrids. Both
VPI 426 and Ohio C 54 will be
available to growers in thte com
mercial corn areas as well as to
growers throughout the state who
desire a very early maturing corn.
Rice indicates that these varieties
will mature about the middle to
the latter part of August. They
both have good grain quality, he
adds.
North Carolina’s average per
acre volume of live sawtimber
is 2,327 board feet as compared
with 1,835 for the Southern Re
gion and 4,063 for the whole U.
S. These board-foot per-acre ave
rages are divided by the' Timber
Resource Review for softwoods
and hardwoods, respectively, as
follows: U. S. — 3,218 and 845;
Southern Region — 973 and 862;
and North Carolina — 1,184 and
1, 143.
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GOVERNOR EXAMINES ROAD SIGN—Governor Hodges is
asking North Carolinians to study the public school amend
ment to be accepted or rejected in a general election Septem
ber 8. He has fully endorsed the amendment, known as the
Pearsall Plan. Signs such as these have been placed in stra
tegic places in North Catalina. The space was given by an
advertising agency.
Mrs. Elaine Queen
On Committee
Mrs. Elaine Queen, secretary o
the Kings Mountain Merchant:
association, has been appointed £
member of the attendance anc
publicity committee of the South
ern Consumer Credit Clinic. Th(
clinic is holding its eighth annua
meeting Wednesday, Septembei
19.
Moore than 200 credit execu
tives and credit bureau managers
from the South will be in atten
dance.
There will be three speakers ir
addition to 20 panelists. Tht
speakers are Marion M. Hewell
President, Fidelity Federal Sav.
ings and Loan Assn., Greenville
S. C.; John Lander, President
Landers Motors, Atlanta, Ga. anc
Arthur Jones, Vice-President, A
merican Trust Co., Charlotte, N
C.
The panelists arfe from the twc
Carolinas and Virginia. All are
experts in their field.
For the second time the Clinic
has a medical division. Their dis
cussions will cover the medical
problem of credit and collections
Some 200 hospitals clinics and
doctors will be represented.
The Clinic will include a morn
ing and afternoon session. Regis
tration fee is $7.50, which includes
Tuesday evening dinner and
Wednesday luncheon.
Figs For Preserves
Must Be fust Right
trees will be bearing their abun
dant crop of juicy figs, so it’s timt
to begin planning how to use
them.
Figs are delicious fresh or broi
led in syrup for salads, but foi
year round enjoyment, you can’t
beat fig preserves. Rose Ellwood
Bryan, extension food conserva
tion specialist at State College,
says to gather the figs when just
ripe; they must not be soft or
cracked.
After the figs are gathered,
peel carefully, trying not to cut
too near the seed. Miss Bryan
recommends using one pound oi
sugar and the juide of one-hali
lemon to each pound of fruit.
Place the sugar in a preserv
ing kettle with enough water to
keep it from sticking. Stir occa
sionally until it begins to boil.
Add the lemon juice, which will
prevent crystals from forming. To
this, add part of the figs and let
them boil until clear and trans
parent.
Remove the figs from the sy
rup to a platter, which should be
• placed in the sun if possible. Add
more of the figs to the boiling
syrup until all are used. When all
of the figs are removed from the
syrup, boil the syrup down until
thick as honey. Then add the
figs which have been sunning or
standing and boil for two min
utes.
Set the figs and juice aside un
til next morning, when they may
be packed in jars. For packing,
Miss Bryan suggests arranging
the figs in rows in the jars with
stems up, pouring a litle syrup in
as each row is placed. Use a pad
dle to remove bubbles. Process
the filled jars for 15 minutes at
the simmering point.
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Spindle-Center Fair Will Open
September 10, Runs Entire Week
GASTONIA — Everything is
set for the opening of the Spin
dle-Center Agricultural Fair Sept.
10. It will run a full week.
This makes the fifth year for
the fair to be sponsored by the
500-member Gaston County Farm
Bureau. It will be the biggest of
the five fairs.
Bill Haley and his Comets,
world-famed rock and roll band,
are featured in the grandstand
Wednesday, Thursday, and Fri
day nights.
Jack Kockman’s Hell Drivers
run Monday and Tuesday nights.
There will be motorcycle racing
Saturday night.
To meet demands of the Bill
Haley shows, 3,100 new seats have
been added to bring grandstand
capacity to 6,500.
Howard Robbins, fair manager,
said 60,000 free tickets will be
distributed to schools in Gaston
and surrounding counties. Tickets
will be given to thie principals as
soon as school opens.
Tuesday, Sept. 11, is Gastonia
city schools day.
Wednesday, Sept. 12 is Gaston
County schools day.
Thursday, Sept. 13 is reserved
for school children of neighbor
ing cpunties.
Robbins said th'e fair would
have twice a& many exhibits this
year. There will be 43,000 square
feet of exhibits in three flame
proof tents.
Main (exhibit will be the Atomic
Energy Exhibit shipped from Oak
New Sun flay Uses
Sought For Farmers
Hot August temperatures are
pretty hard to take at times. And
the sun’s burning rays can play
havoc with man’s skin if he’s not
careful. But there is a ray of hope
in all this energy, which we often
feel we could do without. That
hope is that, the sun can be put
to work in new ways.
Agricultural scientists have
built a solar energy collector
which has already been used to
supplement electricity in heating
a house. It has also been used suc
cessfully to help raise the tempe
rature of water in an electric wa
ter heater.
Other farm projects of which
solor energy might eventually be
used include: milk cooling, dairy
water heating, hothouse and
poultry house air conditioning,
vegetable storage conditioning,
and grain drying. Used in con
junction with electricity or other
power sources, solar energy could
materially reduce operation costs
While practical application of
these principles may be some
years off, the scientists say they
may nevertheless be counted on
to perform a great variety of
farm tasks in the future.
SUNRISE
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Gastonia, N, C.
Ridge, Teiin., and guarded by a
12-man group of mlitary police
men. It is free.
Another good exhibit is the
Army’s guided missle, the "Nike,”
sent from Washington, D. C.
Each night $1,000 of fireworks
will be exploded in front of the
grandstand. On Tuesday night,
Robbins said, $5,000 worth will
be set off.
Tuesday night is Farm Bureau
Night. Farmers and their families
will be guests at a barbecue on
the grounds.
Farm Population Holding Its Own
Figures recently released show
that the farm population of the
United States has been relatively
stable during the last three years
at about 22 million. According to
D. W. Hennessee, marketing spe
cialist at North Carolina State
College, this has been the result
of the slackening of the move
ment from farms.
Farm population has declined
approximately 2.8 million during
the first three years of the 1950’s.
In April of this year, says Hen
nssee, total farm population was
22,275,000, according to an esti
mate prepared cooperatively by
the Bureau of Census and the Ag.
ricultural Marketing Service. This
report was released on July 31,
In April, 1956, farm residents
made up 13.3 per cent of the total
population of 167,440,000, but in
1950 farm residents made up 16.6
pier -cent of the total population
of 151,132,000.
With the continued growth of
ttie nation’s total population, t*ie
proportion of the farm popula
tion has continued to decline.
Hennessee states that this repre
sents the continuation of a long
time trend.
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and fancy.., but don't count on it for results in every
day life! Best way to make wishes come true is to DO
something about them. Best thing to do is to open an
account here, and keep on saving consistently, persis
tently until the figures in your Kings Mountain Build
ing & Loan Savings book add up to "what it takes."
There is no substitute for saving.
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