Leaf Farmers Prepare For Next Year Tobacco
Raleigh reports North Carolina tobacco farmers near season end focus on seed beds where young plants are kept until transplanting. Pathologists note blue mold and other diseases. paradi chlorobenzene and red capped oxide help control mold and new disease-resistant varieties are sought. Four year bed rotations and new sites reduce mold, with warm sunny, well drained loam beds near water preferred. Old sites should be burned or sterilized.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Weeks
Granville
Merry Christmas Month On The Farm And In The Home
On Christmas Day the Piglets found lovely things under their tree and began to play with a variety of toys. Bolivar made more noise than forty seven girls and boys, celebrating the holiday on the farm and in the home.
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Bolivar
Farm News Focuses on December Hog Curing and Winter Care
The column advises on meat curing on farms with NC State guidance and updated Extension Folder No. 34. It urges late fall plowing in the Piedmont to kill pests and improve soils, recommends plowing red clay areas for next year's crop, and instructs stalks be buried before year end. It also covers December poultry management, ventilation, nesting, and disease prevention, plus tree pruning and sweet potato storage cautions.
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North Carolina
Earl Hostetler
N. C. State College
Extension Service
State College
Raleigh
Enos Blair
Extension Agronomist
Piedmont
Coastal
Blair
Roy
Dearstyne
State College Poultry
H. R. Niswonger
Eldora Honor Roll Pupils Named by Grade
Eldora lists honor roll students who were present daily and averaged 90 to 100 percent. Second grade pupil Lois Marshall. third grade Betty Jean Johnson Almeda Steele Lorene Venable Wayne Mosley Lavern Atkins. fifth grade Norma Watson. sixth grade Eva Ann Simpson Cleo Venable Patty June Simpson. seventh grade Leather Wall Bessie Martin.
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Eldora
Lois Marshall
Betty Jean Johnson
Almeda Steele
Lorene Venable
Wayne Mosley
Lavern Atkins
Norma Watson
Eva Ann Simpson
Cleo Venable
Patty June Simpson
Leather Wall
Bessie Martin
Rare planetary comet conjunction to light Christmas skies
In New York on December 1 astronomers predict a rare sight as Jupiter Saturn and the Cunningham comet align in a visible conjunction by Christmas. Hayden planetarium curator Prof William Barton notes it may echo the Nativity star, pairing with Kepler’s historical observation of planetary closeness. Leland Cunningham of Harvard discovered the comet on September 15.
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New York
Mars
Barton
Bethlehem
Leland E. Cunningham
Harvard College Observatory
Route 4 News Mount Airy Social Roundup
Mrs Cora Haymore and children visited Mr and Mrs Roy Simmons and family. Wellington Dunford of Winston-Salem spent Sunday with Mrs Dunford’s parents L H Blue and family. Sadie Draughn Irene Wilson Virgie Branch and Ollie Hutchins visited Stella and Maud Branch. Mr Gregemo he
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Mount Airy
Route 4
Cora Haymore
Roy Simmons
Wellington Dunford
Winston-Salem
Dunford
L. H. Blue
Sadie Draughn
Irene Wilson
Virgie Branch
Ollie Hutchins
Stella
Maud
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Otmcas
Soren OB
the Mount Airy News
R. C. Llewellyn, Pres
Surry County Loan & Trust CO
Rare Sky Show
Gregemo
Auis
W.L. Sydnor
W. G. Sydnor Agency
Main and
Virginia Streets
Dodge
Lars B. Ore
Detroit
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CBS
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