Pretty Barbara Davis Leads Mecklenburg 4-H Garden Honors
Barbara Davis of Mecklenburg County wins county 4-H garden contest and places high in national Junior Vegetable Growers Association Marketing Contest. She serves as 4-H County Council president and showcases a diverse home garden with fruits and vegetables, and a dinner featuring garden produce. Mr. Davis, a Cornelius High School agricultural teacher, urges farmers to grow food at home in 1934.
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Raleigh
Barbara Davis
Mecklenburg County
Junior Vegetable Growers Association
Dairy Fooda Demonia
Davises
Mr. Davis
Cornelius High School
To Buy Or Not To Buy? Appliance Decision Guide
A consumer guidance piece advises evaluating manufacturer and dealer reputation, warranty terms, and service. Check that appliances are listed by the National Board of Fire Underwriters, consider size, construction, and features, and test operation and maintenance needs before purchase.
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Couny
Miss Whisnant
National Board of Fire Underwriters
Whisnant
Perennials For Home Garden How To Grow Them
Raleigh guide explains perennial gardening basics including soil fertility with humus and drainage, seed starting, division, budding, and staking. It covers full bed prep, pot growing, seedbeds, heat treatment to prevent damping off, stem cuttings, division rules for peonies chrysanthemums irises and lilies, bulb handling, and careful transplanting strategies for a durable year after year garden.
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Raleigh
Experiment Station
State College
N. C
Pepper Growers Face Problems in North Carolina
North Carolina pepper production grows with new plantings yet faces disease risks. Farmers must use disease-free seed and sterilized soil, rotate crops, and apply specific fungicides and fumigation. Key diseases include bacterial and Cercospora leaf spots, damping off, downy mildew, mosaic, Phytophthora blight, root knot, and stem and root rot with varying control measures and cautions.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Samanta
Rutgers
Sane
Grange and Lions Sponsor Community Supper and Essay Contest
The Oak View Grange and Oak View Lions Club host a community supper at Oak View Cafeteria r 5 to 9 pm on Wednesday February 17 proceeds fund a fire truck purchase. An essay contest for children under 18 on Building Fertility to Cut Farm Costs is offered with prizes. Officers for the new year are installed including Master Orvie Hayworth and several list positions. National farm export data and tobacco tax receipts for 1953 are noted.
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Oak View Grange
Oak View Lions Club
Oak View 1
Ao Oaked Eee Grange
National Grange
American Plant Food Council
Luana Brock
Hines St
High Point
Grange
Orvie Hayworth
Colvin Freeman
Judson Ruth
Howard Payne
Vance Proctor
Samuels
Vance
Better Check Pine Forests This Winter
Wake and Chatham counties report serious Ips Engraver Beetle damage to pines this winter. Extension forester John Ford says infestations are already found and likely widespread. Infested trees should be harvested and burned, with salvage timber sent to mills.
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Raleigh
John Ford
State College Extension Service
Wake
Chatham
Ford
Ips
Videotown 6 survey teased by Cunningham & Walsh firm
A promotional note cites Videotown 6 survey by Cunningham and Walsh of New York for clients, describing the newspaper as the channel to tell all news from any source from around the world.
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Cunningham & Walsh Independent “Videotown
Mexico
Australia
Cunningham & Walsh
York, N. Y
Just Keeping In Practice In Baltimore Seaman Cleared
Walter Hallett, 43 year old seaman, faced a charge for tiege in the streets but was dismissed after yielding visible support. He was advised to stay in the habit of resilience amid a context where political figures dismissed anxiety. Separately, North Carolina cotton acreage fell from 1,800,000 in 1925 26 to 600,000 by 1950.
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Baltimore
Walter Hallett
William F. Laukaitis
Laukaitis
Hallett
North Carolina
North Carolina Agriculture Events Summary
Coming events list shows Farm Industry Short Course at State College Raleigh February 9 and 10 meetings of Bankers Livestock and Farm Managers Society at State College. Pest control Operators Conference February 9-12 and Northwestern Counties Marketing Short Course February 15-19 plus Western Counties Farmers Meetings February 9-12.
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Raleigh
Bankers’ Livestock Raleigh
N. C. Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers
State College
Northwestern Coun
State
Western Counties
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Glenn D. Randall
N. C. State College
Lions
United States
EB. Green
Industrial Supply CO
Bureau OF Advertising
American Newspaper Publishers Association
High Point Enterprise
Grace Flower Shop
Wrenn
Sts
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