From the “Around the
State” column in the May 1956 issue of Extension
Farm-News, published by N.C. State College, Raleigh, NC
Ralph Green, grade A dairyman of the Beaver Dam community,
says he’s heard of “cherry” milk, “strawberry” milk, and various other flavors
of milk. But he’d never run into “cedar” milk until recently. Cleveland County
Assistant Agent Jack G. Krause says that Green cut down a cedar tree and left
the limbs lying in his drylot. The next day he had a can of milk rejected. And
when he smelled the milk, he swears there was a distinct cedar flavor.
ROCKINGHAM
David Sharpe of Reidsville, Route 4, proved that he could
raise 11 orphaned pigs, but at the expense of his waistline. Rockingham County
Assistant Agent A.F. Wood says that Sharpe, in warming milk for the pigs every
four hours, would fix himself a snack at the same time. As the pigs gained
strength and weight, so did Sharpe. He put on seven pounds in six weeks.
NASH
Most people prefer their fried chicken well-done, but T.G.
Avent, Nashville farmer, just wants to singe his. Avent was determined to have
a garden and chickens, too, but he wasn’t having much luck until he put an
electric wire around his garden and connected it to the house current. One trip
to the wire seems to teach the birds a lesson they never forget. The “precooked”
chickens steer clear of the garden from there on out, P.P. Thompson, assistant
Negro farm agent in Nash County, reports.
GASTON
If you keep cows for sentimental reasons rather than milk
production, don’t get into the DHIA testing program. That’s the advice of
Gaston County Assistant Agent Thomas A. Taylor. Paul Howe of Gastonia, Route 3,
has been in the DHIA program for only about three months. Yet, he has culled
two of his favorite cows. “And I thought they were doing pretty well until the
records showed differently,” Howe lamented.
WILSON
Johnnie Parker of Elm City, Route 3, doesn’t take any
chances on getting caught short of vegetables. Wilson County Negro Agent W.G.
Pierce explains that Parker always has two vegetable gardens, one near the
house and one back of the field.
PERSON
Mrs. D.F. Bauert, farm wife of Person County, has a “bear by
the tail,” it seems. Assistant Agent T.N. Hobgood Jr. says that Mrs. Bauert
admits she might have talked too fast when she told her husband that she would
gather, prepare, and sell produce if he would raise it. Bauert is steadily
increasing his vegetable planting and Mrs. Bauert is as busy as that proverbial
one-armed paper hanger.
JONES
A female mule owned by Bruce Foy of Trenton, Route 2, will
never be able to have an offspring of her won but she has a strong maternal
instinct, nevertheless. County Agent J.R. Franck explains that one of Foye’s
prize Hereford cows dropped a fine calf recently, and the mule proceeded to
adopt it. So possessive was the mule that the calf’s mother couldn’t even get
close enough to feed it. Foy finally had to separate the mule from the calf.
ASHE
It pays to let burley tobacco get good and ripe. Ed
Pennington of the Nathans Creek section proved this to his satisfaction last
year. Ashe County Assistant Agent James Z. Daniel says that Pennington was
afraid of a help shortage last year and cut half of his six-tenths allotment
while the tobacco was still green. He kept records and found that the green
tobacco weighed 43 pounds less per tenth. So he figures it cost him $23.37 per
tenth by cutting too green.
GATES
Fred Parker and his mother, Mrs. W.K. Parker, have brought a
new strain of chicks into Gates County, Alvin C. Newsome, assistant county
agent, reports. The chicks are De Kalb 309. The Parkers selected them because
they lay brown-shelled eggs and are white birds. The Portsmouth market, which
the Parkers sell to, prefer brown-shelled eggs. Newsome says the De Kalb
pullets are known as excellent producers.
ASHE
Will Elliott of the Warrensville community believes in
keeping things neat. Ashe County Assistant Agent James Z. Daniel says that
Elliott picks up rocks from his fields and stacks them in neat, rectangular
piles, with a minimum of waste space and no growth of weeds or briars at the
edges. Daniel says this is a reflection of Elliott’s care of his entire farm.
COLUMBUS
W.L. Carter of Chadbourn, Route 2, has taken much of the
work out of feeding his dairy herd. Columbus County Assistant Agent Victor H.
Lytton says that this fall Carter built a trench-type silo from rough lumber
and poles, and the cows have free access to the silage. Carter uses two feed
racks which are moved forward as the cows eat the silage. He doesn’t have touch
the feed.
BLADEN
Seven Bladen County Negro farmers who are cooperating in the
Farm and Home Development program saved a total of $865 on their fertilizer
bill this year. The saving is based on a comparison of last year’s costs with
this year’s costs and came about because of soil tests, according to F.E.
Leathers, assistant Negro county agent in Bladen.
PASQUOTANK
Murphy Sample of Elizabeth City, Route 1, has put together
some pulleys and belts to make a drain cutter. He says the machine works well
except that the wheel isn’t wide enough. “As soon as I get a bigger wheel,
it’ll work fine.”
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