Friday, June 8, 2012

12 Cleveland County Farmers Compete, 1949


By F. H. Jeter, Editor, Agricultural Extension Service, N.C. State College, as published in the Charlotte Observer, June 13, 1949

One of 12 good farmers in Cleveland County will be wealthier by $1,000 cash this fall. County Agent Ben Jenkins says that the Agricultural Council has set up a score of ideal farm and home practices, adapted to Cleveland farms and homes, and the family which comes more nearly to actually working out the plan as suggested will get $1,000 cash as a prize.

The prize is offered by J.S. Dorton and the Cleveland County Fair. It is another attempt to call attention to good farming and good rural living. Those who are to judge the contest made a trip to the various farms in early May. This fall, the judges will go again and see what has happened. It’s something new in farm and home contests and the results should be of much interest.

The business interests of Shelby and Cleveland County are continually doing something to stimulate better farming practices in that section. The Shelby Rotary Club placed 14 heifer calves with as many selected young folks three years ago, and since that time Joyce Williams, Robert Cabiness, and Charles Cabiness, all of Lattimore; Robert Crotts of Polkville; and John R. Dellinger of Belwood have grown out and passed on to other 4-H Club members heifer calves from these original animals. Anna Mintz of Polkville has a heifer calf now that will be ready to turn in to the club in about five months so that she may discharge her obligation to the Rotary Club. The other seven young people haven’t been so fortunate and cannot yet discharge their obligations.

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