'Around the State' November 1937

“Around the State” from the November, 1937, issue of Carolina Co-operator

A new home demonstration club house for the Bevenue community of Nash County is now being constructed, reports Mrs. Effie Vines Gordon, home agent. The finished club house will be used as a community center as well as a meeting place for the home demonstration club. It is being constructed on a wooded lot donated by the city of Rocky Mount.

Farm Income Up

For the first eight months of 1937 the income for farmers in this state was $8,671,000 more than for a corresponding period in 1936, said Dean. I.O. Schaub of State College.

This figure is based on income from the sale of principal farm products and the AAA payments to cooperating farmers in North Carolina. The total income for these eight months of 1937 amounts to $68,375,000.

10 Acres Back in Use

A 10-acre field which had been abandoned a few years ago by George R. Hughes of Jones County due to a heavy growth of Bermuda and nut grass has been entirely reclaimed and improved by a two-year growth of crotalaria, reports County Agent F.F. Hendrix.

The legume was seeded in 1936 and again this season, and Mr. Hughes estimates that more than 90 percent of the Bermuda and nut grass has been destroyed.

News From Around the State

At a cost of less than $50, Mrs. Josie Wright of the Broadway Community in Harnett County has installed a hydraulic ram that is pumping 300 gallons of water into her home every 24 hours.

In Surry County to date, orders for more than 10,000 black locust seedlings have been made by cooperating farmers.

L.M. Bollinger, Catawba County farmer, grew two giant pumpkins this year, one weighing 45 pounds and the other 55.

Wiley J. Long of Longview Dairy, Garysburg, enjoys the second highest rating of any dairy in the state. Mr. Long also markets several hundred bales of cotton through the association.

Twenty-one Beaufort County farmers sold 42,819 pounds of hogs for $4,811.08 at the last cooperative sale held in Washington.

More than 1,200 Johnston County farmers have signed up to begin strip-cropping this fall.

From materials salvaged from old farm machinery, E.H. Wilson of Wilson, Route 1, has built a soybean harvester at a total cost of $21.50, reports County Agent J.S. Sugg of Nash County.

P.G. Herman, 84-year-old farmer of Catawba County, claims the distinction of building the first silo in North Carolina, over 50 years ago.

Mitchell County farmers have begun the thinning of their hardwood forests as a beginning in timber stand improvement work.

B.G. Crumpton of Person County bailed 200 bales of lespedeza, red clover, and oat hay from 12 acres of land.