Successful fat
stock shows at Rocky Mount, Lumberton and Kinston in Eastern North Carolina,
together with increased interest in the annual show and sale held by the North
Carolina Hereford Breeders’ Association at Statesville attest to the genuine
progress which North Carolina farm folks are making in their efforts to build a
lasting livestock industry. More than 900 persons attended the showing of 100
head of purebred Herefords at Statesville. Twelve bulls and 38 females were
sold for an average price of $573 per head with a yearling heifer bred on
Morrocroft Farm in Mecklenburg County bringing the top price of $1,600.
Among the three
eastern fat stock shows, the one at Kinston was probably the best. Joe C.
Johnson, 18-year-old 4-H club member, son of Calbert Johnson of Four Oaks,
Route 3, Johnson County, won the grand champion ribbon for showing the best of
the 73 steers at halter. Joe was completing his “boot” training at a Navy Trade
School at Sampson, New York, when it became time for the Kinston Show. He told
his commanding officer about the Hereford calf that he had fed and fattened and
then showed the officer a picture of the prize winning animal which he had
entered two years ago. His pleas were so successful that he was granted a
furlough to attend the show. Instead of going home, Joe got to Kinston just as
the judging started and was overjoyed to see his animal win the purple ribbon.
At the auction on the following day, buyers paid 56 cents a pound for the
steer. Blanche Johnson, Joe’s sister, exhibited the reserve champion, and a
cousin, Ivan Lassiter, of the same community, won third place with his
Shorthorn steer. Johnston County won first prize in the county contest.
There also were
seven pens of three steers each in the open classes and 119 head of fat hogs in
the Kinston Show. W.D. Cobb of LaGrange, Greene County, won first place in the
open contest with a pen of three Durocs. The reserve grand champion and the 4-H
champion, also a Duroc, were shown by Josie Galloway, a 16-year-old 4-H Club
girl of Waltonburg, Greene County. The showmanship contest was a walk-a-way for
Sullivan Fisher of Red Oak.
War Bonds To Boost Cotton
When it became
evident that farmers of Johnston County intended to reduce drastically their
acreage of cotton to where total plantings in the county would not exceed 60
percent of that grown in 1943, leading growers, buyers, oil mill operators,
fertilizer manufacturers, merchants and others held a meeting to see what
should be done. As a result, a contest was begin in which a $100 Warm Bond was
offered in each township of the county for the person making the highest yield
on five acres and a $500 Bond was offered as a county prize. Each prize is to
go to the actual grower of the staple, whether he be share cropper or
landowner.
Good Timber Is Old Age Insurance
A good growth of
timber in the farm woodland cannot be surpassed as a source of old age
insurance, believes C.H. Sykes of Chapel Hill, Route 1, Orange County. Mr.
Sykes is now over 70 years of age. He can no longer work hard in the fields nor
can he hire adequate labor for his farm because of the manpower shortage. But
he has learned that timber can be made to pay and it requires very little labor
except an eternal watchfulness for forest fires. Some time ago, Mr. Sykes
divided his woodland into three lots and sold the timber from the first of
these about five years ago. He plans to sell the marketable trees from the
second block within the next few weeks, and will market those from the third
block at some future date. He told Extension Farm Forester F.J. Cook that the
income from these trees should take care of his needs in excellent fashion.
Water Sketch Comes To Life
One snowy day in
the winter of 1939, H.M. Ellis, assistant agricultural engineer, used a child’s
school pad in the home of L.D. Herring of Sampson County to sketch a water
supply system from a flowing well providing 3 gallons of water a minute. Mr.
Herring did not have the well at the time but said he could dig one exactly
where he wanted it. Ellis realized that this does not always happen but he
provided the sketch and continued on his way. Mr. Herring drilled a well that
provided 4 gallons of water a minute and used the sketch to install a water
system. The other day Mr. Ellis was again in that territory and heard that Mr.
Herring’s neighbor, H.S. Gavin of Magnolia, Route 1, had a well flowing 10
gallons a minute and wanted to install running water in the home. The engineer
visited the Gavin home where he found a system already installed and working
well. It was based on the same sketch Mr. Ellis had planned for Neighbor
Herring on that snowy day in late 1939.
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