Nine Tar Heels Win 4-H Honors
Nine North Carolina youths earned national 4-H honors at the Club Congress in Chicago last week. Seven receive $300 college scholarships. Joan Penland of Clay County wins a free trip. Livestock team places 10th nationwide. Vance Vines national eighth. Group returns December 3.
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Chicago
Misa Mary Sue Moser
State College Extension Service
Joan Penland
Clay County
Congress
Ralph Brown
Iredell
Miller
Pauline Howe
Gaston Home Improvement
Wesley Manning
Pitt Farm Safety
Nanty Pritchett
Guilford
Poultry
Margaret Lee Stevens
Wayne
Doris Strickland
Halifax
Cacaing
Evelyn Waugh
Surry
National
Committe On Boys and Girls Club Work, Inc
Cooperative Extensions Service
Vance Vines
Glen Reese
Bobby “Ene Norris
Hugh Hageman
Watauga County
C. H. Kirkman
North Carolina
Miss Maser
Fred H. Wagoner
E. L. Norton
Rita Dubois
Pork Tops USDA Plentiful Foods List for December
Miss Una Brashers of the State College Extension Service reports December’s plentiful foods list from the U S Department of Agriculture places pork first. She explains last year’s large corn crop and heavy spring farming led to a nationwide pork bounty, with hog prices easing seasonally amid strong marketing. Turkey, apples, cranberries and three nuts follow pork in the ranking.
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Park
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Una Brashers
State College Extension Service
USDA
Mar
HADACOL Helps All Age Groups Across Texas and More
An excerpt from a promotional notice touts HADACOL as a life changing tonic that restores weight and vitality for Mrs W. M. Thompson of Port Arthur Texas after a period of weakness. It claims the product supplies essential B vitamins and minerals in liquid form aiding absorption and improving gastric distress. The piece urges readers to try HADACOL irrespective of age or location to end suffering and regain health.
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Nava- Col
W. M. "Thompson
Port Arthur
Texas
Thompson
Beenie Hadacol
USDA Forecast Sees Record Crops and Strong December Foods
The USDA projects strong harvests with apples up three to two, total 1949 production at 133,388,000 bushels, a cranberry haul around 35,000 dollars with barrels about 26 percent above ten year average. Nuts including almonds filberts and walnuts may set records. pecan output about 130,000,000 pounds is roughly one fifth above average. Fresh December plan list features Reape winter fruit and oranges with dried raisins prunes. vegetables include spinach snap beans kale and canned corn. protein foods remain abundant with chickens dairy eggs dried beans peas and frozen fish. southern staples include honey fats and sugarcane syrups.
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USDA
Five Duroc sows produce litters weighing 1792 pounds at 56 days
Johnn B Sykes of Route 4 Conway reports five Duroc sows have produced five litters totaling 1792 pounds at 56 days of age.
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Johnn
Sykes
Conway
Hinson Sain Wedding Announced
Mrs V L Hinson announces the marriage of her daughter Nell to Clyde Edwin Sain of Yale North Carolina. They were married in Gaffney November 15. The article notes M Muskmeleons cantaloupes and melons originated in Iran and were known to ancient Persians.
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