The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-01-07
News of Columbia & Tyrrell Co.
For Subscriptions Mrs Blanche W. Cohoon,
Phone 317-1 Columbia N. C. She will welcome Of
Columbia and Tyrrel County
FARM AGENTS REPORT
FOR 1854 RELEASED

| Yearly report of outstanding
projects of the office of the Coun-
ty Agent, made by H. H. Harris,
County Agent to the Board OF
County Commissioners.
1878 farm visits; 1854 office
calls; 100 news articles; TIA meet
ings with 4057 attending; IA corn
production demonstrations, gave
out summaries and discussed cost
in return.
The official corn variety test
was conducted in county at farm
of j. H. Daniels.
Alfred Hollis made a COMPARE
son of anhydrous ammonia and
calnitro as top dressing for corn.
He applied 50 pounds of N. per
acre on four rows with anhydrous
ammonia and 108 pounds of N.
per acre on four rows with cal
nitro. The calnitro was greener at
the beginning, but the yield was
about the same. The calnitro
! yielded 92.3 blu. per acre; the an
hydrous ammonia yielded 94.2 per
acre. This test indicated that
cheaper sources of nitrogen will
produce just as high yield at less
cost.
Three farmers conducted boil
weevil control demonstrations,
which were used as guide for other
farmers as to time to dust, etc. A
good busting program, (dusting 4
times) averaged 1919 pounds of
seed cotton per acre.
Six wheat productions demon
strations, summaries and yields,
were held.
w. A. Mayo and Shelborn Will
liams conducted soybean demon
strations, making comparison of
Lee variety with Ogden. The Lee
outyielded the Ogden by 1.S bu.
per acre. With good disease resis-
lance, high quality, the Lee va
riety looks promising.
The Weed control started with
1/16 of the corn land sprayed
1886 acres. 10 weed sprayers in
county this year and more re-
quests for building additional
ones.
% farmers sold ASP lambs CO.
operatively for S7,676.35. The
lambs graded as follows: Choice
-157; Good-125; Medium-64;
Common-52; Culls-54.
Tyrrell County sold 500 of
Choice and 500 of good lambs
sold at Plymouth-there were or
6 counties selling lambs at this
point.
A. M. Reynolds along with a
number of farmers in the state
conducted a swine feeding demon
stration to determine how cheap
pork can be produced when ladino
clover is used. There were "a pigs
in the test that weighed an aver
age of AZ pounds each; were fed
10 days; gained y pounds per
days, and the cost of production
was $1O.68 per hundred. Corn was
full fed and it took about 6 bushels
per hundred pounds to gain; CT
lbs. fish meal per hundred lbs. to
gain. Mr.. Reynolds fed a little fish
meal about every two days; pigs
grazed on ladino clover along with
several cattle.
Harvey and Edward Davis con-
Quoted an Irish Potato demonstra-
ton to determine if less fertilizer
could be used. The field in which
the test was conducted was plant
ed with Irish Potatoes for years
out of the past eight. 220O lbs. of
5-10-10 per acre was compared to
5000 lbs. of 5-10-10 per acres.
The high-fertilized produced POT
bags of U. S. No. potatoes per
acre, whereas the low-fertilized
plot produced 219 bags of U. S.
No. l potatoes per acre.
This demonstration indicates
that less fertilizer gives more eco
nomical production on fields that
have been highly fertilized for a
number of years.
Mr.. Harris brought out that in
order to make money on corn, 81
bushels average would have to be
produced, then at a minor profit;
that if an average of IA blu. per
acre could be reached it would
mean 100000 to the farmers of
Tyrrell County, if sold, and more
if fed to livestock.