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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1954
Page
7
North Carolina growers are urged to use Feeder Calf Sales in fall as the best market. Extension Service advisor Jack Kelley outlines requirements and practices including calf treatments, fly control, and parasite management to maximize returns from heavier calves.
North Carolina 4 H club members planted 1 533 650 young trees across 77 counties this planting season led by Montgomery Rutherford Caldwell Alleghany Ashe Wilkes Union and Rowan counties. Haywood had the most participants with 112 club members and 47 100 seedlings. Trees planted include loblolly white short leaf longleaf pines and red cedars. This marks the fifth straight year NC 4 H members surpassed one million trees.
Suffer no more with BC Headache Tablets and Powders for head pains neuralgic aches and minor muscle pains The ad touts BC as the fastest selling headache powder in America and promotes tablets and powders at 10c 20c 25c and bottle quantities including 100 tablets Testimony emphasizes quick relief and popularity across buyers.
The Greene brothers of Elizabethtown North Carolina expanded from a large lumber operation into Greene Pastures a 4000 acre cattle and crop enterprise.Polled Hereford cattle numbering about 600 head are managed by Sidney Thornton and Jim Lawrence who oversee grazing units 50 to 100 acres each. The farm grows oats wheat barley and corn and maintains four silos while using coastal Bermuda grass to supplement late summer grazing. They sell 60 to 100 breeding stock annually and support 4‑H and FFA with baby beef steers.
Raleigh report by F R Keith of the state ASC Committee explains erosion begins with breakdown of soil structure. Tilling reduces organic matter, causing splash erosion, particle breakup, and runoff advancing to gullies. Prevention relies on organic matter balance, humus, and cooperative conservation funding.
In Tunisia two-day clashes between Tunisian nationalists and French forces left eight dead and five wounded. The French reported capturing a nationalist stronghold near Bizerte after a two-day battle ending yesterday. Five rebels were killed and one wounded. French losses totaled two killed and three wounded. Two automobile attacks caused the remaining deaths and injuries.
A minor temblor yesterday sent residents reaching for phones and rattled few dishes with no reported damage. Berkeley seismograph station traced the quake to a center near the Tehachapi Mountains.
A two hour meeting of the State Cotton Promotion Committee will follow the Farm and Home Week talks at State College June 7 10. Five North Carolina agricultural leaders will address topics from an overall cotton program to late cotton research developments and the boll weevil outlook. Tommy Upchurch Raeford will preside over the second hour for business matters.
North Carolina fruit trees and ornamental shrubs suffer injury from pine mice. L. C. Whitehead of the Fish and Wildlife Service says county Rodent Control Fund agents can provide poisoned baits priced at 3 per 10 pound bag and 35 cents per 1 ounce can.
Harvey Spencer, a Negro farmer from Harrells Route 1, reports strong hog profits from pasture grazing. Agricultural Extension Agent Frank Faison notes Spencer sold 13 hogs from two litters for 914 dollars gross, with 136 dollars in feed costs, netting 778 dollars. Spencer credits five acres of improved pasture for the high income and notes 19 pigs plus two brood sows are on pasture awaiting market.
In Los Angeles Troop 666 members organized a surprise paint job for their scoutmaster. They lured him to Fresno for a visit and, with parental oversight, refreshed his house which he had planned to repaint. Warren Smith, 15, said the gesture honored his mentor.
The Leopards family of Haywood County grew net farm income from 189.97 in 1936 to 7 220 by 195? through a coordinated plan with TVA and NC Extension. They expanded labor efficient enterprises, added electricity and a Grade A dairy, poultry houses, alfalfa, and pine trees while boosting fertilizer use and diversifying to truck crops and dairy sales.
May events include Lamb Pool competitions in Lamb Pool Plymouth Swan Quarter Haw River Lexington and Clyde. Forage Field Day in Laurel Springs Hamlet Statesville and Tri County 4H Lamb Show in Boone. Purebred Ram Sales occur in Plymouth Clyde and West Jefferson on various dates.
Mrs Harriet Crain died at 106 in Louisville Kentucky attributing her long life to eating heartily. She defied health experts by consuming meat eggs cereal milk and coffee and avoiding vegetables throughout her life.
RALEIGH The tractor drawn transplanter is highlighted as a key labor saving device for aromatic tobacco. Agronomy specialist R H Crouse notes three firm made models that transplant five to six inch plants in rows about 20 inches apart. Grower M H Belk reports 180 000 plants on three acres with a one row trans planter that feeds two helpers and a driver, enabling 30 000 to 40 000 plants per day.
CROSSVILLE Tenn Afraid people might laugh rural mail carrier Mark Dunbar waited three days to report a pond incident. He saw a huge bull wading in the shallows tugging a line and then haul a two pound bass onto dry land, the line tangled on the animal’s foot as the fisherman watched in disbelief.
In Beverly Hills Bruce Kawin, a persistent youth, found an egg two weeks ago and persuaded his baby sitter to rig an incubator. Mary Ann Varga, 27, placed the egg and a small light globe in a cookie tin. A chirp emerged recently. She feeds the young bird egg yolk and mashed potatoes every eight minutes, believing it is a meadowlark.
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