It's Dairy Month Use More Milk Across Homes
June designated Dairy Month encourages homemakers to boost milk in diets. Nutritionist Virginia Wilson notes many skip milk due to misperceptions and cost, compares calcium and riboflavin intake to other foods, and offers low fat milk and milk-based recipes like Lemon and Buttermilk Sherbet to increase daily intake. Also mentions April 1954 poultry hatch and cotton textile consumption trends.
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Raleigh
Virginia Wilson
State College Extension
Wilson
Miss Wilson
North Carolina Meat Trade Highlights Beef and Pork Barbecue
Agricultural note surveys beef cattle tours in Alamance and Graham counties, beef cattle feeding in Maryland, and rising demand for Yorkshire hogs. It covers 75 farmers touring Frank Mitchell, duty of pasture irrigation, and results from feeder calf sales to Maryland buyers. Hog breeding spurs activity in Buncombe Gates and Hertford counties with 4H litter contests and local sales plans. Planting alfalfa and Sudan grass supports pastures while Ladino pasture benefits profit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Haislip
Alamance County
Frank Mitchell
Burlington
Mr. Mitchell
Graham
Max Wood
Mr. Wood
Luther Nash
A. V. Allen
North Carolina
Edmund Aycock
Pate
Laurel Hill
J. C. Powell
Edgecombe County
H. D. Quessenberry
State Division of Markets
Sam Buchanan
State College
Maryland
Virginia
R. S. Leonard
Black Mountain
Buncombe
Leonard
Highland
Gates County
George Barclay
Hobbsville
Clyde E. Riddick
Sidney R. Mitchell
Orlando Hampshires
L. W
Durocs
Snipes
H. C. Cook
Woodland
C. D. Howell
Como
Nowell
Wheat production efficiency improves since 1940
In 1940 it required 47 man hours to produce 100 bushels of wheat. Current data show it now takes 31 hours to produce the same quantity.
North Carolina Welcomes Six IFYE Delegates This Summer
Six International Farm Youth Exchange delegates from six countries will visit North Carolina this summer. Finland Ireland England New Zealand Sweden Japan will engage with state families and farms under the National 4-H Foundation program. Two North Carolina delegates will travel overseas later, including Raphael Cuthbertson and Julia Maxine Young.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
North Carolina
L. R. Harrill
IFYE
Raija Nihtila
Finland
Tar Heel
C. R. Rogers
Rocky Point
Pender County
North
United States
Raphael Cuthbertson
Mecklenburg County
Julia Maxine Young
Franklin County
England
Margaret Lee Stevens
Goldsboro
Japan
Farmer’s 2000 Bushels Wheat Spoiled By PCB Chemical
James Carter of Ruffin, North Carolina treated 2000 bushels of wheat with PCB per an insecticide dealer’s advice. Entomologist H E Scott notes the grain failed to control weevils and caused off flavors in eggs as fumes passed into hens. Carter aired the wheat to remove odor but eggs remained tainted.
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Raleigh
Rockingham County
H. E. Scott
The
State College Extension Service
James Carter
Ruffin
Rouge
Carter
A. Frank Wood
Scott
Upcoming North Carolina farm events and field days listed
A schedule of agricultural events across North Carolina from June 28 to July 2 includes Wool Pool Pick-Up in Asheville, District and Club Contests in Asheville Statesville Winston Salem Raleigh and more, plus Dairy Farm Fly Control Demonstrations in multiple counties and Tobacco Field Day in several towns. By May 15 1954 farmers had loaned 406 257 614 bushels of 1953 crop corn under the federal price support loan, up from 344 599 677 bushels a year earlier.
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Asheville
Dairy Farm
Surry County
Whiteville
Southwestern
Statesville
Randolph
Lincoln
Davidson
Mecklenburg
Winston-Sae
Greenville
Salisbury
Raleigh
Rocky Mount
United States
Grain storage concerns and protective chemicals noted
The report notes uncertainty about germination of planted grain and absence of buyers for feed. An entomologist lists Methoxychlor, DDT or TDE as the safest materials to protect stored grain, explicitly excluding PDB as an option.
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Scott
Forewarned Is Forearmed Applies To Care Of Soil
North Carolina soil conservation urged as forethought by F R Keith. Farmers should sample soil now to size up fertilizer lime needs and arrange contractor work early for drainage and land improvement. Early orders aid efficiency in materials handling and ensure supplies when later scarce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
North Carolina
F. R. Keith
ASC
Keith
Ise
Government offers garlic wheat stock for domestic cattle feed
The government plans to sell between two and three million bushels of garlicy and light garlicky wheat stored on farms and in warehouses across 16 Southern states. Price set at 15 cents a bushel, intended for use as domestic animal feed.
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Agricultural Comment
Nash
Edgecombe
Wayne
Pitt
Ralph Kelley
State Department of Agriculture
Lry
North Rolina State College
Zemo
Neeson
Boone Upholstering CO
English St
TAR Heel Paving CO
Roland Cecil
H. F. Moore
DIZE
Montlieu
Guilford
Lee and Cabarrus Coures
Pasterth
Goody's
Pete Oi Ht
Fi Ak
Crownzol
Crown
Com Prem Gasoline
Crown Central Petroleum Corporation
Baltimore
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