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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1955
Page
5
Raleigh report credits John C. Rice with noting an 11 percent acreage increase in hybrid seed corn last year. Tar Heel farmers planted 59.5 percent of the corn crop in hybrids in 1955, the highest on record.
An advertisement touts FASTEETH as a pleasant alkaline powder to hold false teeth more firmly. Sprinkle on plates to improve eating and talking comfort with no gummy taste, claiming it reduces denture odor and can be found at drug counters.
Raleigh report notes homemakers should change old routines to match modern appliances. Mamie Whisnant of State College extension cautions improper use harms machines and wastes time, effort, and money, urging reading instruction booklets with new purchases.
Tradition holds St Patrick used a shamrock to teach the Trinity to Irish chieftains and druids, plucking the single stem and triple leaf as a symbol of Christian belief.
North Carolina poultry figures show shifts in breeds and enterprise focus. New Hampshire dominates hatchery supply with 72.4 percent in 1952 53 while Barred Rocks plummet to 1 percent. White Plymouth Rocks surge. Rhode Island Reds remain steady as egg birds. Leghorns decline. Chatham County pivots from large broiler production to a million dollar hatching egg industry.
H D Godfrey of the state ASC warns farmers control fire dangers with careful practices. He notes farm fire losses rose 12 percent from 1953 to 1954 based on 1954 data from 274 Mutual Fire Insurance companies totaling 157 million dollars. National Fire Prevention Week proclaimed by President Eisenhower highlights preventable farm fire deaths averaging about 3,000 annually, with North Carolina seeing higher tobacco curing season losses. He urges daily farm conservation measures though no current program requires on farm fire prevention.
North Carolina cotton growers can now have official bale classification through a government office in Raleigh under the Smith Doxey Act. Farmers mail a ginned sample to the classing lab, receive a free grade and staple length card in 3–4 days, and use market data to compare bids and government prices. The system aims to help farmers secure better prices and optional government loan if advantageous.
The first transcontinental railroad in the United States was completed on May 10 1869 with the driving of a golden spike at Ogden Utah.
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