To the Wilkes Commercial Club:
Gentlemen:
The year 1924 is now a thing of the past. We as farmers have many things to be thankful for. The season was not as good as we have had some years, but we have learned some valuable lessons. While our corn crop as a whole was not as good as last year, we made some fine yields where we planted on well-prepared clover sod. Last year we made a little more than 20 bushels per acre the county over, but this past year only about 19 bushels on an average. Mr. H.H. Jennings cultivated a 3-acre field of clover sod and made 92 bushels per acre. R.B. Hendren made 93 ½ bushels per acre on a 3-acre field. Walter Stroud made 72 bushels per acre on a 5-acre field. This was done and many others I could mention on clover and grass sod where lime had been used.
We made a splendid crop of wheat but on account of the continued rain just after harvest much of the wheat was damaged in the shock. Mr. H.H. Jennings made an average of 25 ½ bushels per acre on a 10-acre field which eight years ago only made 12 bushels or 3 bushels per acre. This field was limed and sowed in red clover 8 years ago and has been alternated with wheat and clover except one year it was worked in corn. It still has a set of clover but has only been sowed one time. I think these results show conclusively what lime and clover will do if we give them a chance. We sowed last spring more than 900 acres in clover and have a fine stand on most of it. The past season we have bought and distributed about1,000 tons of lime, which means 1,000 acres more next spring. There are 4,981 farms in Wilkes county, and it is the ambition of your committee to see clover and grass growing on every farm.
Some of our farmers and farm boys are making for themselves a record not only at home but in other states as well. Mr. D.V. Nichols and his boys have won some nice prizes at fairs last fall. They won first and second in the boys’ club work for the mountain division of this State and first on 10 ears and first on single ear in the men’s department. They also sent corn to the State Fair in South Carolina and won first on 10 ears and second on a single ear in the men’s department and first on 10 ears in boys’ department.
Our little creamery is moving along nicely. We are selling all the butter we make at a good price and have many orders we cannot fill. The only thing we lack now is more cream. Your Committee thinks that one of the best things the Commercial Club can do for our farmers is to encourage, and if need be, help to buy more cows.
Another thing we are improving rapidly on is that of poultry raising. The little County Fair, which was held on December 5th in North Wilkesboro opened the eyes of those who were not familiar with conditions. There were 97 coops of chickens on exhibition and some of the very best ever shown in this county. The man who judged the poultry, and many others as well, was simply astonished at the very splendid exhibit, not only in number but quality as well.
Now in conclusion let us urge that the Commercial Club lend every effort and do all in its power to have a splendid big County Fair next fall. We feel that the farmers are on the road to success and by close co-operation of town and country the wall that has so long separated us will be torn down and will truly be one people.
Respectfully submitted,
A.G. Hendren, for the Committee
January 8, 1925
From the front page of the North Wilkesboro Hustler, January 14, 1925
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