Bamboo Defeats Elk 7-4 Behind Greene on the Mound
Bamboo remained in league lead with a 7-4 win over Elk. Henry Greene pitched for Bamboo while Coker Triplett and Olin Miller took the mound for Elk. Box score and summary noted.
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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1933
Page
8
Bamboo remained in league lead with a 7-4 win over Elk. Henry Greene pitched for Bamboo while Coker Triplett and Olin Miller took the mound for Elk. Box score and summary noted.
Anson County marketing program boosts farm women income to over 30000 annually for six years. Beginning with 15 families, 301 now participate in selling high quality produce to hotels, cafes and colleges. Rosalind Redfearn notes five standards, including farm visits and buyer education, supervision of orders, packing, and poultry practices.
Bamboo leads with 7 wins and Elk 4, Blowing Rock 12 and Mabel 5, Oak Grove 7 and Vilas 3. Boone forfeited to Bamboo for fielding four college players. Next Saturday Oak Grove visits Mabel, Bamboo hosts Elk, Blowing Rock plays Vilas.
A widow thanks Boone and county residents for kindness during illness death and burial of her wife and mother. She notes three husbands in three years all buried, and mentions an extraordinary story about a nineteen year old widow who lost all her mates to murder or suicide. The American Weekly magazine carries the related article in next Sunday’s Baltimore American.
Mr S C Eggers and family of Boone visited Sunday with the Willowdale Sunday school where Eggers spoke. Rev Wellington Swift of Reese preached at Sugar Grove Sunday afternoon. Ralph Greene and son Jimmie visited. O J Harmon family spent Sunday in Jonesboro Tenn. J H Brinkley family visited daughter Mrs Oscar Chappell in Shoans Tenn. Mrs Charlie Kuhn Blair of Elizabethton visiting Fred Blair. Jennie Jenkins of Bristol visited her parents J C and Mrs Smith. W L Henson learned her sister Mrs Abe Osborne of Tacoma Wash died last week. she was formerly Alta Haltzelaw with many relatives in the county.
The program encourages produce types desired by buyers and visits to farms for sale. Buyers’ visits provide feedback and adjustments. Poultry production rose by 60 to 70 percent. Improved feeding and management boosted profits. Over six years, Anson County farm women marketed $180,133 in surplus produce, averaging $30,022 annually.
The Agricultural Experiment Station of North Carolina State College announces two new bulletins. Bulletin 288 titled A Study of North Carolina Dairies explores profitable dairy practices, economical feeding, labor use, costs, and tables. Bulletin 287 Sanitation as a Method of Controlling Stomach Worms in Lambs, by Hostetler and Foster, reports experiments on state farms and concludes grazing on permanent pasture may influence worm control.
The report notes widespread stomach worm issues in lambs across the Piedmont, stressing regular drenching and strategic grazing. Ewes with winter grazing, Abruzzi rye, and crimson clover kept weight during lambing while permanent pasture or dry lots caused slight losses. From June 1 to November 1 drenching is essential, and temporary pastures mimic drenching every fourteen days. A pasture change as often as possible with drenching when needed is the most practical control. More than one-ninth of Hungary’s 8,604,000 residents live in Budapest.
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