Farm Briefs, Around the State, October 1952

From the October 1952 issue of Extension Farm-News, published by the Agricultural Extension Service, State College of Agriculture and Engineering, Raleigh

Around the State

An average of better than $61 per hundred pounds was paid for the more than 7,000 pounds of tobacco entered in Robeson County’s first Junior Tobacco Show and Sale, according to G.T. Rodgers, assistant county agent. Top honors went to Lamarr Ivey, 14-year-old 4-H Club boy of St. Pauls, whose 2,344 pounds of tobacco produced on 0.97 acre brought $1,528.26

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Some 200 persons turned out to attend the first dairy cattle show held for Negro junior farmers of Duplin County. Twenty animals were exhibited. Taking top honors were Joe L. Carlton, NFA member of Charity High School; Jasper Bizzell, 4-H member of Branch Junior High School; J.W. Mainor andGeorge Mainor, 4-H members of Magnolia Industrial High School. The event was sponsored by merchants and businessmen of the county, according to Riddick E. Wilkins, Negro county agent.

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C.E. Tharpe of Rhonda has installed the first hot air hay drier in Wilkes County, according to G.C. Farthing, county agent. The oil burning drier has been installed in a barn and will be used for drying hay, corn, and small grains. The total outlay for barn and drier was $3,000. The equipment will dry 600 bales of hay in from 24 to 36 hours at a cost of five cents per bale.

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North Carolina won five of the 10 prizes offered for the best country-style cured ham at the National Frozen Food Locker Institute’s National Ham Show in Omaha, Neb. In the lightweight ham class, Johnston County Frozen Foods, Smithfield, placed second; Robeson County Cold Storage placed third; and Colonial Frozen Foods, Roanoke Rapids, placed fourth. In the heavyweight ham class, the Roanoke Rapids firm placed second and Wayco Corporation of Goldsboro placed fourth.

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Two rural Fayetteville farmers, Charlie Brown, owner of Hog Haven Farm, and Jack K. Hubbard are finding good markets for their hogs, according to Jack Kelly, in charge of animal husbandry Extension. Brown is keeping 68 purebred Poland China sows and is raising purebred pigs to be sold at 10 weeks of age to farmers interested in feeding out hogs for market. The pigs are sold vaccinated, treated for cholera, and weighing from 40 to 50 pounds each. His market is among farmers who would rather buy pigs at 10 weeks of age in place of preparing facilities for raising the young porkers. Hubbard keeps 10 brood sows and has a ready market for his purebred hogs.

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Negro youth of Robeson, Cumberland, and Bladen counties held their first Southeaster District Tri-County Dairy Cattle Show at Lumberton with 178 persons present. Twenty-nine animals were exhibited, according to S.T. Brooks, Robeson Negro county agent.

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The Anson County 4-H Clubs selected the Wadesboro town square as the most suitable location for their exhibit on 4-H Club work in the county. The exhibit consisted of one large sign with a map of the county. 4-H clovers were placed in the areas having 4-H Clubs. A total of 28 clovers appeared, representing a membership of 1,987.

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Yadkin County 4-H Club members improved 783 rural mail boxes during a contest which closed recently. The Forbush Junior Club, which gathered the winner’s trophy, is now selling drinks and sandwiches at community events to pay for paint used in proving mailboxes and stands. Forbush improved 322 boxes in the contest, which was the county’s number one community project this year.

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The first of 20 community farm and home tours and picnics in connection with the Haywood Community Development Program for Summer Recreation was held July 12 at Allens Creek with residents of Thickety Community as guests. Young people from Denton County, Texas, in Haywood on the 4-H Exchange Program, were also guests.

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A group of progressive young Edgecombe County farmers has organized a Farm Management Association to study new farm practices that will lead to better farm management, according to J.C. Powell, county agent. Officers are R.R. Brake Jr., Route 1, Battleboro, president; B.P. Manning, Route 1, Tarboro, vice-president; A.H. Bundy, secretary-treasurer.

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A 15-year-old Wake County boy, Curtis Jones of Rhamkatte 4-H Club, represented North Carolina in the regional 4-H Tractor Operators contest at the Atlantic States Rural Exposition at Richmond, Va. Curtis, a member of the ninth grade at Apex High School, won the state contest held at State College late last month. The 4-H’er has been driving a tractor since he was 8 years old. The contest was sponsored by the Extension Service and American Oil Company through the National 4-H Committee.

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The motion picture “Greener Pastures for North Carolina” has attracted attention in far-off Borneo. The agricultural attaché there has written to request information on how much a copy of the film would cost.