The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-08
Growth of Farm, Home Services
Aids New Hanover Agriculture

Ter and Brunswick.
In 1926, members of this associ-
alton organized at Castle Hayne un-
Ger the name of the Castle Hayne
Growers and Shippers association
The Castle Hayne organization is
still going strong, doing $3.50, 900 to
5000, 900 business annually.
Organized Marketing
After four or five years of mar
keting individually, the farmers. of
Wrightsboro and vicinity felt the
necessity of organizing again, and
in 1895 they formed the Hanover
Mutual Exchange with At charter
members.
They have paid for an acre of
land, built a packing plant, equip
ped with washing and grading
machinery, and an i crusher.
thies was done during four years of
the worst depression in the history
of trucking industry.
The marketing end of truck grow
ing is the most important, except
the care of the soil, which is on a
par with marketing or any other
farm activity. twenty-five years
ago farmers were using cover
crops very little for soil conserva-
ton. Cowpeas and yer were US
ed in a very limited amount.
Clover eve suited the systems
of farming in New Hanover county
because it was a winter legume and
had to be turned under too late for
early truck crops to be planted.
Later the farmers began to use vel.
vet beans and soybeans in connec-
ton with soil conservation prac-
tees.
Herring has worked in cooper
alton with Robert Schmidt, hort
cultural specialist from Raleigh, in
conducting ria | plots of lettuce
from seed being bred and furnished
from Raleigh, in an effort to de.
vc1op a strain or strains that will
prove more suitable to the climate
and soil conditions of the county
They h been conducting this
work for four years and have soWn
the seed for 1910.
Herring, the first agent, continue
in active service from October IS,
1912, until August, 1884. E. W.
Gather, then district agent, trans
ferred E. R. billiard from assistant
agent in Fender county to county
agent in New Hanover.
Agent-at-large
Herring was made county-agent.
at-large, making it possible for him
to serve in other counties in the
Southeastern district. billiard serv-
ed until November, 1886, when he
was called to the Penderlea project
as farm agent there. In December,
1886, S. R. Poole came to New Han
over county as farm agent, and
served until July 81, 1887, when the
marketing division in Pennsylvania
called him there.
R. w. Galphin, county agent for
Pamlico, was then transferred to
New Hanover a began active
service in August, 1887. Galphin
has been instrumental in helping
the farmers put over some of the
most constructive work ever under
taken by the farmers of the county.
One of these projects was that
of getting the AAA to recognize the
truck growers in the AAA program.
Galphin also aided the efforts of
the committee from the Farmers
club, which he organized after COM
ing to this county, in securing the
soil laboratory and the services of
DR.. L. G. Willis in the soil work
here.
The farmers think, and rightly
SO, that the soil work DR.. Willis is
doing in this laboratory is one Of
the most outstanding projects ever
undertaken in the county, and they
feel that a brighter era is before
the farmers of New Hanover coun-
ty.