Farmers Do Funny Things Sometimes
In Macon County a new farmer J A Hailey purchased a run down property with eroded hillside. He planted rye and Austrian winter peas, limed and phosphate, except two steep spots. Rye and peas grew well overall, but the unlimed areas show poor color and nearly all peas died, illustrating the care needed in soil treatment.
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T. H. Fagg
Macon County
State College Extension Service
Fagg
J. A. Hailey
Macon
Hailey
Weed Chemicals on Corn Mean Shade for Farmers
North Carolina experiments show 2 4 D provides weed control in corn with pre emergence post emergence or a combination. Klingman notes rates and timing, warns about grasses, and advises starting small scale to learn soil response and cost about 2 dollars per acre for pre emergence.
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Glenn c. Klingman
North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station
Klingman
Luck or Not Here s Tip on Stacking Hay
Lawrence Luckow of Sac City Iowa devised field stacked wet silage when June damp weather halted haymaking. He mowed raked and chopped in one pass and used a snow fence cylinder to stack, producing silage with high dry matter and protein comparable to silo feed. Luckow plans to repeat the method when wet weather threatens haymaking.
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James Conr
Iowa State College
Lawrence Luckow
Sac City
Iowa
Luckow
Ladeers Field
Piedmont Club Women Explore Better Living Plans
North Carolina home demonstration groups push planning for daily life and home management. Topics include estate planning in Alamance, farm and home safety in Guilford, meal and garden planning in Wilkes, and community improvement in Forsyth and Surry counties. The piece ends with a note on pigeons' 18 day incubation.
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Piedmont
North Carolina
Anamerle Avant
State College Extension Service
Alamance County Club
D. J. Walker, Jr
Guilford County
Safey
Forsyth
Surry
Surry County Club
Flea Beetle Warning for Tobacco Growers in Tar Heel State
North Carolina tobacco growers are urged to protect seedbeds from flea beetles as warm weather returns. Dr. Henry C. Townes says over wintered beetles may emerge. use tight covers or insecticides. He recommends 5 percent dust at 0.5 to 1.5 pounds per 100 square yards or 50 percent wettable powder in 50 gallons of water to five gallons per 100 square yards.
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Agricultural Engineers
North Carolina
American Society of Agricultural Engineers
N. C. State College
J. M. Wagoner
Turner Manufacturing Company
Statesville
J. D. Traywick
State Department of Agriculture
Raleigh
J. W. Weaver, Jr
State College
E. E. Brackett
Department of Agricultural Engineering
University of Nebraska
J. N. Howard
Duke Power Company
Greensboro
Tar Heel
Henry C. Townes
North Carolina Experiment Station
Townes
Production Records of Holsteins in North Carolina
North Carolina Holstein records detail producers J. K. Glenn Winston Salem Thackers Legis Colantha 664 pounds butterfat 19614 pounds milk 365 days 3 milkings 6 years 11 months. Forsyth County Winston Salem Pauline Lyons Pietje 517 pounds butterfat 14224 pounds milk 362 days 2 milkings 3 years 10 months. Guilford College BONC Jacq line 522 pounds butterfat 140 pounds milk 305 days 2 milkings 10 years 9 months. Cedar Lodge Thomasville Legis Colan Lady Pearl 565 pounds butterfat 16264 pounds milk 365 days 1 milkings 7 years 9 months. Tests supervised by North Carolina State College and Holstein-Friesian Association of America. Other owners and records include Thacker Brothers Winston Salem 12 cows averaged 460 pounds butterfat 12957 pounds milk 313 days 2 milkings. Baptist Wagef of North Carolina Thomasville 39 cows averaged 397 pounds butterfat 11379 pounds milk 310 days 2 milkings. J. K. Glenn Winston Salem 23 cows averaged 430 pounds butterfat 12400 pounds milk 316 days 2 daily. Brawley Ott e Sons Guilford College 37 butterfat 10621 pounds milk 295 days 2 milkings.
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Brattleboro
North Carolina
Holstein-Friesian Association of America
J. K. Glenn
Winston- Salem
Thackers Legis Colantha
Forsyth County
Winston-Salem
Pauline Lyons Pietje
North Rolina
F of
Thomasville
Brawley Otte
Or & Sons
Guilford College
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Piedmont Club
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