The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-17
Carolina Farm, Comment
By F. H. JETER

istered heifer calf. With the II
calves distributed to deserving
club members last week added to
the six which had previously been
bought by farmers for their sons,
Polk County is on its way to have
the Is animals which was set for
goal in 1945.
The boys and girls have already
begun to blanket, brush, feed, train
and prepare their animals so that
they may be entered in the two
junior cattle shows to be held at
Charlotte on September Is and at
Asheville on October 4.
The calves will be formally pre-
sented to the boys and girls at a
public ceremony in Tryon when
the boys and girls start to the
Charlotte show. There will be band
music, a parade. speaking pro-
gram, and other activities so as to
publicize the fact that Polk is
joining in with those other North
Carolina counties which are seeking
to establish dairy industry. Polk
has had to start from scratch but
she is starting in a sound way by
giving the young people the best
foundation stock available in North
Carolina, considering the price that
the foundation can afford to pay.
Each boy and girl given these
heifers will be required to return
one to the foundation and this one
in turn will be handed on to other
deserving farm boys and girls.
Further east in the old time
tobacco growing county Of Person,
f. K. Sanders says that H. c. Cen
try of the Holloway section, who
operates the milk trucks for Person
County, is now delivering 1,200 gal
Ions of fresh milk each day to the
Yanceyville receiving station.
There has been a tremendous
increase in the amount of milk
being delivered each day to the
Oxford receiving station in Gran
vile County. This is largely be-
cause pastures are appearing on
the Granville tobacco farms. w. B.
Jones, assistant farm agent, tells
story of how he visited the farm
Of T. N. Hobgood about three years
ago to talk pastures to the farm
er.
Mr.. Hobgood had five acres
wired in at that time but the graz
ing secured would not have provid-
ed sufficient feed for one COW. To-
day, Mr.. Hobgood has added
another acre to the original five,
has fertilized, and renovated the
whole six acres and the pasture
is taking care of seven cows. They
are unable to keep the sod grazed
as it should be. His pasture, though
SMALL in acres, is proving to be
LARGE demonstration in the way
of promoting the more economical
production of milking in his neigh
borhood.
For instance, A. B. Clement of
Oxford, Route 4, is preparing a
seed bed right now for six-acre
pasture. He is applying IL tons OF
ground limestone per acre, 400
pounds of 2-12-12 fertilizer mix
ture, and is seeding 10 pounds
of orchard grass, pounds Of white
Dutch clover, pounds OF Ladino
clover, and 4 pounds of herds grass
per acre. This makes a total Of 1s
pounds OF seed to the acre.
But Mr.. Clement says he will
not depend solely upon this pasture
and is therefore planting 4 acres o1
alfalfa for a hay crop. He has Sc
cured the seed, fertilizer, and boraz
needed for the alfalfa and, weather
permitting, will have had his pas
ture planted by this date. Claude
Morgan, farm agent in Granville
thinks that the good farmers o1
Granville and other eastern Caro-
tobacco and will depend upon it as
a great cash crop but they also are
looking to the future and will have
some cows and some feed as a
kind Of income insurance should
tobacco growing become so wide.
spread that the price will drop to
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