Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-05-22

Mrs Hattie T. Plummer, Home
Demonstration Agent.
Ploughing Song Benjamin, Doris
/ and Grady Harrington of the Zeb
Vance Club.
What All Club Work Has Meant to
me-Eula Mae Adcock of the Aycock
Club
Discussion of the song, dreaming"
| Mrs. Hattie F. Plummer, Home Dem
onstration Agent.
Dreaming-Luna Jackson, Blanche
and Shirley Watkins of the Middle
burg Club.
June IL Is Last Day to Sign
Work Sheets
June IL is the last day on which
North Carolina farmers will be al
lowed to sign work sheets for the
1887 soil conservation program said
E. Y. Floyd, of State College.
The county offices have been in
structed from Washington not to &C
cept work sheets after that date,
Floyd pointed out.
However, growers who sign work
sheets in time will be eligible to earn
soil-building and diversions payments
by complying with the terms of the
program this year.
Those who signed work sheets for
1896 are not required to sign again
for 1887, Floyd continued, but if they
have bought more land or otherwise
made changes in their farms, they
should notify their county agents at
once
Work sheets are used in preparing
information that will help farmers
plan their farming operations so as to
take part in the program and get all
the benefits possible.
The work sheet is not contract,
, , Floyd added, and when a grower
signs one he does not place himself
under any obligation whatever. But
work sheet must be filed with the
county office if a grower is to receive
any payments.
He pointed out that there are two
reasons why work sheets must be
signed on or before June IL. First
information prepared from work
sheets signed after June II would be
too late to be of use to growers this
year. Second, the task of checking
up on growers compliance with the
program will start in June in some
counties.
Sanitation Aids in Controlling MOcaIs
Rigid sanitation will aid farmers IN
checking the spread of tobacco mos
aic, a disease that costs North Caro-
lima farmers millions of dollars every
year.
The organisms that cause mosaic
are often found in tobacco that has
been prepared for smoking or chew
ing, and they can be transferred Us
,lv to Young plants in the field or seed
bed.
Don't carry any tobacco in your
| pockets when you go into field or
seed bed" said DR.. Luther Shaw, ex-
tension plant pathologist at State Col
lege.
IF you are a tobacco user, brush
| out your pockets and wash your
| hands thoroughly with soap and wa
] ter"
DR.. Shaw also urged growers not to
transplant any tobacco plants that
| show symptoms of mosaic. For the
| first four to six weeks after trans
planting, the field should be gone over
before each cultivation and all dis
| eased plants removed and destroyed
he says.
| Cultivators, harness, mems shoes,
| and other equipment may spread mo-
| sale over the field Always cultivate
| or top healthy plants before working
with those that have mosaic symp-
| toms.
DR.. Shaw pointed out that black
shank can also be spread by work
stock, equipment, or men moving from
one field to another, especially When
| the soil is wet Black shank can also
\ be spread by rain water washing from
| diseased field to another just below.
On farms where black shank has
| been found don't use tobacco trash
! in fertilizer, and don't use manure
| from the stalls of animals that have
anged on infested ground.
Neglected Rivulets Make Large
Gullies
Great gullies from little rivulets
grow, but according to w. H. Cato OF
the Soil Conservation Service, a few
coughs from the pine or cedar tree
when properly placed at intervals in
small gullies, will prevent small gull
lies from becoming large.
Cato advised that the brush dams
| be spaced at vertical intervals oI IL
inches in small gullies three or four
feet deep and less than six feet wide
For instance, if the gully has fall OF
eight feet to the hundred, the brush
dams would be spaced every II feet
or eight dams in 100 feet.
The boughs should be placed with
the butts upstream and covered lightly
with soil. Where considerable
amount of water flows down the gully
it is good plan to stabilize the brush
by driving into the ground to depth
of II to 10 inches a cedar stake, at
tached with wire or nails to a cross
bar.
Brush check dams have been built
on more than so percent of the farm:
in the Huntersville erosion contro
project Cato said, and they have prov
ed very effective in retaining quilted
areas.
Where the farmers has plenty O.
hay-bailing wire or old barbed wire
and a convenient supply of pine OF
cedar boughs, he can place the brush
in the gullies and stabilize them with
the wire staked down at each end.
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