The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-05

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wisely. Mr.. Morgan says it pay,
to do so. The eastern Carolina
farmer will also find this to be
true, he believes.
Another good farmer who found
out something new this year is
Wayne K. Moore of Bushy Fork,
Person County. Mr.. Moore had
heard that tobacco flies like pc
tunias. So he planted a bed OF
these flowers about his farm home.
He took care Of the petunias, and
they grew luxuriantly. Each eve
ming just before shutdown the moths
which lay the eggs Matching into
tobacco horn worms would swarm
over the petunias and from three
TO six times a week, and ne and
the children would eaten the flies
or moths as they gathered the nee
tar from the flowers. By follow
ing this plan, he said he had few
horn worms on his tobacco this
season, and he believes that if all
growers in a community were to
follow the plan, it would not be
necessary to S so much ~arsenate
Of lead and ohter chemicals in
protecting the tobacco crop from
worms.
Growers Of the famous Bogue
Sound watermelons. along the
shores of eastern Carolina, figure
they will not be able to maket
over so per CEN of a crop this sea
son. Alvin Taylor, n Of the lar
gest growers along the Sound in
Carteret County, said the vines
could not set a normal crop of
melons due to the continual rains.
But the quality of the melons pro-
duced is satisfactory and prices
have been good. There are no
better watermelons than those
grown along Bogue Sound.
Final information about those new
varieties of early cabbage, the
Round Head Nos. l and 2. has been
handed in to Firm Agent R. M. Will
liams by Roland Salter, one of the
farmers testing the new cabbage
varieties this season. Mr.. Salter
found that while the new varieties
) produced about Is greater tonnage
per acre than did the old ~favor,te,
the early Jersey Wakefield, the two
J varieties were 100 brittle for ex-
tended use as a commercial crop.
/ Round Head No. 2 made a slightly
) larger head than Round Head No.
/, but was a little more brittle. Both
kinds did not bolt as much as the
Jersey Wakefield and they we're
about one week earlier in maturity
Mr.. Salter also found that his owr
Round Dutch variety compared
favorably with the two new va.
%rieties as regards boiling, but his
variety was about IS days later
in maturing for market.
A movement is on foot in Carteret
to install n Of the sweet potato
dehydrator. Ronker Stanfield OF q
local fertilizer company has a
number of Well-constructed build
ings with concrete foundations
which are not in use at the time OF
the sweet potato harvest. Johnny
Lassiter was down there the other
day and found Mr.. Stanfield inter
ested in installing a deAydrator to
process the off-size and cul sweets
for use as a cattle feed.
Far Agent Williams says that
most of the sweet potatoes in that
section are grown III dark soils
and often do not have the eye ap-
peal as do those grown IN other
parts of the State. There is also
a great need for an additional
feed supply in that seton. and since
thee bushels of the sweets properly
p%rocessed are equal in value as
a stock feed to one bushel of corn.
and because Carteret growers pro-
duce about 100 bushels of the
sweets per acre, it is felt that
local growers could more than
double their present yield of fead
by charging the acreage to sweet
potatoes.
Farm machinery has come to
North Carolina to stay. Up in that
fine old cotton and peanut country
OF Halifax County, the folks are
definitely turning to machinery and
livestock. A. l.. Garner Of Roanoke
Rapids, route l. is conducting a
demonstration of the value of mech
anized farming this year. He and
ais three sons have used three
tractors to cultivate 81 acres of
cropland this season. There is not
a mule on the place and the four
men are growing Is acres of corn.
"A acres of cotton, 100 acres Of pea
nuts, and 80 acres Of soybeans. In
spite OF the frequent rains and the
late start of this spring, their crops
are n perfect condition. The entire
acreage was planted and cultivated
with tractors and the cultivation
mas been SO very good that very
little hoe work was needed. This
is their third season with tractors.
and they say that they are thor
oughly sold. Perhaps when they
get a sizz-weeder to kill the grass.
they will need no hoe work at all.
W. o. Davis. farm agent in Hall
TAX, announces that he has lust
secured a new assistant. Walter P.