The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-07

nay out, ne told Farm Agent
Abner Knowles the other day thai
the crop he has put into his barns
THIS season is one OF his best, The
other afternoon. before the recent
rains, he baled and hauled to his
barn $40 bales of fine lespedezs
nay between one and six o'clock
he mad n man raking hay, one
operating a pickup baler. and fou,
men on each of two trucks-one
OF them was driving, two were
putting the bales onto the truck,
and a fourth man placed the bales
Mr. McGougan said he saved inst
about twenty tons of hay that aft.
ernoon.
The production of hay and grain
IN North Carolina this season
shows a need for more rural in
dustries in the state. We cannot
go far in developing a live stock
business without an improved feed
manufacturing industry: and. il
we a n in this section, it could
utllze all the surplus leeume hay
that we could produce. This feed.
ing of livestock is a tremendou :
thing. and could become lust as
important to this part of the coun
try as the fertilizer business OF
the cotton ginning and seed crush
ing business.
This production of fine hay, this
season, is not confined to any
one county. From up in Davie,
comes word that those good farm
r In that section are happy over
their feed supply. We've got the
most hay in u barns now that
we have ever had at this time of
the year." said Lonnie Miller. of
Mocksville. route 2. And. at that
time, Davie farmers had even not
started or their lespedeza harvest.
Since Davie produces some excel
lent lespedeza. it il easy to guess
that barns will be bullying in that
county come frost. Perhaps a de-
hydrator and a feed mill would
paw in that section. also.
Mr.. Miller planted eight acres OF
alfalfa last September and is so
well pleased with the hay crop har-
We ted from that eight acres this
sumner that he told George Hob
son. farm agent. he would seed
about five acres each year for the
next six years, so that he might
have 20 acres or more on his farm.
Mr.. Miller and his two sons, Ver-
non and Gene. operate a dairy
f9r~'. milking from IS to DO cows
1T This time. They have always
I'D difficulty in growing enough
how until they started on this al
falfa-planting program.
Speaking of small rural indust-
RES. however, W. Glenn Scott of
creenville and Jack Lewis of
Farmville of Pitt County have
houeht and established a sweet
potato dehydrator which they will
o0erate in Greenville to take care
OF all the big jumbos and strings
that will be produced in that Sec
ton. Now that the dehvdrator has
been installed, S. C. Winchester,
farm agent, says local growers
Will be asked to plant a few extra
acres of the sweets on each farm
SO as to provide food and feed. 1t
is easy, Mr.. Winchester suggests,
to grow $500 worth of No. 1 mark
etable potatoes per acre for the
regular truck crop market and,
then at the same time. have the
equivalent of 50 bushels of corn
from that same acre in the same
season. In other words, there
will be enough top. class sweets to
sell for 5000 on the market, and
enough extra jumbos and strings
to be dehydrated that will be the
equivalent of so bushels of corn.
AS long as the average yield oil
corn per acre is not above 20 tc
Is bushels an acre, this should
give u folks something to think
about.
Pitt County farmers, along with
others in Eastern Carolina. have
been doing some pioneer drainage
work with dynamite this past
summer. Don Langston of Win
terville, blew a ditch 1875 yards
long at a cost of onlv $40 90 fo-
the blasting material. l.. M.
Johnson of Farmvile blew two
hundred yards of ditch with only
SAT worth of dynamite. Mr.. Win
chester says that 210 neighboring
farmers saw these two bitches
blown, and it was estimated that
the cost would have exceeded four
to five times the figure given hao
each ditch been dug by hand. The
dynamite blew a good ditch mea +
uring three feet wide at the bot
tom, 10 feet at the top, and five
feet deep. .
Wilkes County apple growers are
packing and selling their crops
this season according to grade
The Carolina Freezer Cooperative
at North Wilkesboro secured two
federal graders and these mel
are in speeting the grade and pack