Present Day Consumers Demand More Service
Raleigh reports that marketing margins are payments for services in the marketing process. Abshier explains margins vary from about 30 percent for poultry to 95 percent for alcoholic beverages, and that rising costs reflect added services like prepackaging grading and processing. Efficient service delivery is key.
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Foreign Visitors Tour North Carolina State College
Fifty visitors from fifteen nations toured North Carolina State College under the foreign visitor program from January to March 1955. The group studied agronomy forestry economics and education, with India Colombia Philippines England and Brazil among the represented countries.
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Coming Events List of May Agriculture Demonstrations
May 24 to 27 features irrigation demonstrations and dairy field days across Cherokee Watauga Jackson Avery Ty Statesville Haywood Mitchell and Buncombe counties. Fat Stock Show and Sale run May 25 and 26 in Statesville with a two day North Carolina Society meeting May 26 and 27 in Statesville. May 27 includes an irrigation section in Buncombe County and a dairy field day in Yancey County.
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Tar Heel Gardener by John H Harris
Iris care basics emphasize drainage and sun with raised beds for rhizome safety. Use a complete fertilizer like 2 12 12 sparingly to avoid rot, and transplant after bloom, keeping rhizomes just below the soil or slightly exposed. Plant shallowly to prevent rot and restart growth as needed.
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Iria
Agricultural Comment Reflects Postfreeze Adaptations in Montgomery and Nearby Counties
North Carolina growers chart a diverse response to the late March freeze. Montgomery plants more truck crops and cotton with new broiler houses under construction in Candor. Hyde County farmers plan corn replanting after fire losses, while Beaufort County expands dairy with Holstein foundation stock. Cabarrus adds sheep. Wake County Hinnant diversifies into vegetables for Raleigh market. No new hyperkeratosis cases reported to USDA in 1954.
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Piney Woods
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Calves Fall Sale Forecast At North Carolina Sales
Raleigh reports more than 5 000 feeder calves expected to be sold this fall according to J S Buchanan extension animal husbandry specialist at State College Last year 4 600 calves were marketed through the feeder calf sales High quality calves need dehorning castration and preparation for sale A schedule lists sales across Laurel Hill Rocky Mount Greensboro Hillsboro Sanford Shelby West Jefferson Statesville and Asheville with two yearling cattle cows also planned in the season
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Hot Weather Woes For Tar Heel Poultrymen
Raleigh reports heat stress hits North Carolina poultry farms. Dearstyne of State College notes reduced appetite and growth in birds, urging doubled drinking and space, roof ventilation, and sprinkling to ease heat. Overcrowding worsens losses. many birds go to the Disease Diagnostic Laboratory for heat prostration. Culling layers reduces stocking density and frees floor space.
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