Dates Set For Farm and Home Week at State College
Farm and Home Week at North Carolina State College Raleigh runs Monday July 80 through Thursday August 2 with the theme For Better Rural and Family Living. Discussions cover family problems including food shelter clothing savings health and care with emphasis on rural church roles. An expert speaker lineup, farm machinery exhibits, and evening social and musical programs are planned, plus a professional coliseum finale and demonstrations on poultry, live stock, and field crops. A Wake County farm will host a Thursday visit to study irrigation and production practices.
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Raleigh
F.S. Sloan
Farm and Home Week
Wake ‘County
Subtract from 43 Code Message Reveals Hidden Letters
A fragmented note asks to extract a hidden message by subtracting from 43. It hints at a masthead puzzle or cipher using the Orient ate Street motif and a "mouster of name" theme, inviting readers to decode a sequence of letters left to right.
Thompkins Completes Air Force Basic Training at Lackland
Pvt Hugh M Thompkins 18 son of Mrs Ruth Pinkard Kings Mountain has finished his Air Force basic training at Lackland Air Force Base Texas known as Gateway to the Air Force The entry notes Lackland as the world’s largest AF training center and describes the indoctrination station for new airmen and reenlistees and the path to technical training and specialized assignments
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Lackland Air Force Base
Texas
Hugh M. .Tompkins
Ruth “Pinkard
King ‘Street
Kings Mountain
Air Force
Lackland
San Antonio
Hig
Sketches Of Oak Grove News Highlights Local Visits
Ambling Sketches Of Oak Grove news records Sunday visits among residents. Names include Lester Canipe, Mrs. Champion, Goforth, Louis of Blackstock, Riley Allen, Pvt. D. C. Allen, Nancy Plank, Stokes Wright, Bells, Dixons, McMillian, Dixon, Pryor, Grigg, Ware, and Randall families. Also notes on relatives, soldiers at Fort Jackson, and Wake Forest summer session for Hugh.
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Lester Canipe
T. A. Champion
Dixon Goforth
Ae R
B. Louis
Blackstock, Sc
Riley Allen
Bernie
D. C. Alen
Pvt
D. C. Allen
Fort Jackson
Nancy Plank
St.Luke
Stokes Wright
Eugene Bell
Frank Dixon
Bells
Dixons
Alex McMillian
Bessemer City
Howard Champion
C. C. Crow
Shelby
Horace Bell
J. Bun Patterson
Patterson Grove
Franklin Davis
Nelson Dixon
Charlie Pryor
Kings Mountain
Hershel . Davis
Stoney Point
Lawrence Grigg
Gaston
Grigg
Normance
Kings Eee
Sealkar
Gatman
Charles
Bill
R. L. ‘Plonk
St. Juke Section
Erskine Ware
Les
Edward Bell
Swaingville
Tilden Proctor
Gardner Mooore
A. T. Randall, Jr
Barbara Ann
Newton
Hugh
Wake Forest
Mrs. Ranall
Mrs. Brown
Waco
Free USDA cotton classing service offered to growers
The U S Department of Agriculture provides free cotton classing and market news services to cotton improvement group members. North Carolina growers must file applications by August 15, ideally earlier, through their groups. Approved plans let ginner pull bale samples for official classing, with results returned on a green card forming the bale’s official record.
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U. S.department of Agriculture
Howard Clapp
State College Extension Service
North Carolina
USDA
4-H Dairy Judging Contest Scheduled in North Carolina
County 4-H teams from across North Carolina will compete in the State 4-H Club Dairy Judging Contest at State College on July 19. Each team has four members plus an alternate. The eight top individuals advance to an elimination contest around September 1, with four men chosen to represent North Carolina in future events.
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North Carolina
Brown
Dairy Spevléist
Ree
Lost Colony Manager Arrives for Roanoke Island Season
MANTEC William M. Hardy, general manager of Paul Gren's THE LOST COLONY, arrives on Roanoke Island to set up offices and staff for the season beginning June 30 at 8 15 p m. Rehearsals for the 1951 show, first staged in 1937, start this week as part of the national Waterloo Iowa contest. Classes in the state contest will include Jerseys Guernseys Holsteins and Ayrshires with four animals per class and several judging and oral written reasoning tasks. The top county team coach may accompany the state team to the national contest in October.
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Mantec
William M. Hardy
Paul Gren
Roanoke Island
America
Hardy
Jerseys
Farmer Charlie Falls Reports Strawberries Harvest Patch
A Gaston County farmer Charlie Falls earned a gross return of 157 dollars from 0.3 acre of strawberries this year, reflecting modest output and revenue from a small plot.
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Gaston County
Charlie Falls
Small Grain Diseases in North Carolina circular issued
The State College Extension Service publishes a 32 page circular titled Small Grain Diseases in North Carolina to help farmers identify diseases affecting wheat and other grains. Authors J C Wells and T T Hebert note rust losses may reach ten percent. the guide promotes disease resistant varieties seed treatment crop rotation and sanitation for better yields. Copies available as Extension Circular No 347 from the station or extension service.
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State College Extension Service
North Carolina
J. C. Wells
T. T. Hebert
North Carolina Experiment Station
Wells
Hebert
Agricultural Editor At State College Station Raleigh
Local county agent or by writing the Agricultural Editor, State College Station, Raleigh.
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State
Raleigh
Dairying Tops America’s Farm Enterprises
Dairying is identified as the leading farm enterprise in the United States, cited as the most important agricultural activity nationwide. The statement emphasizes its dominant role in American farming economics and production.
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Dairying
America
Gas Trouble: New Medicine Claims Fast Gas Relief
An old notice describes stomach gas causing pressure on the heart and breathlessness. It promotes a medicine taken before meals with herbs and Vitamin B-1 to aid digestion, reduce bloating, and improve mood and energy, claiming blood and nerves are strengthened.
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Gage “Yielling
Kings
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