Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-12-26
BY J. M. ELEAZER
Information Specialist

That's a new and rather de-
struc,!ve insect that has gained
n footing at several places in the
satc in recent years.
The first / saw of it was while
riding with County Agent john
son two years ago at Dale, down
In Beaufort county. This insect
gets IN the soil and eats the roots
off of plants. There they put
insecticidc in their fertilizer and
controlled it in cultivated crops.
But il also lives on lot Of weeds.
So field roads and hcdgcrows
have TO be treated too in fight
NJ il. That was done there. Re-
suits 50 far are very encourag-
Ing. to o. NJ. White, USDA man
in charge. Treatment of an area
is supposed to last for five years.
Ju, Bcrlcy of our State Crop
Pc. Commission tells me that
otucr outbreaks of this pest in
Sou'u Carolina located so far are
al Columbia, Irmo, Holly Hill,
Mccormick county, Ritter, and
oiwccn Florence and Darling
ton These are being SyStcmat-
ically fought. The past summer
over 3 tons of 10 percent gran
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fighting the pest on 4 427 acre
area in the city of Columbia. And
through the cooperation of fed
erul. state, and county agencies
poison was applied 10 all infcsi-
Ell areas found.
Some years ago the use of in
4CtLcIde in fertilizer against
VIE worms was suggested by
Carl Ncttlcs, extension entom-
ologist of Clemson. to County
Agent Hubbard of Bamberg. He
had a few farmers try it out and
It worked we'll. Since then the
practice has spread over a wide
area where this pest bothers
Fortunately it worked too against
this new pest, the White Fringed
r3eetlc. Science is constantly
Soming to the aid Of agriculture
resulting in better and more food
and raimcnt for all.
Electricity Is being harnessed
10 do more and more chores
around the farm. But d. NJ
Causcy, Cleveland, S. c., is the
first one I've heard Of who
makes it bring his mail!
Mr.. Causey lives on a small
mountain in Greenville county
right up from the highway. The
winding uath to the mail box is
q right long steep walk. So hi
rugged up a little device on
wires that takes the mail up tc
him. The motor pulls it up anc
!: returns by gravity.
Now we have hybrid onions
Last season in tests at Glenn
sons Truck Station near Charl-
Nston Dr. EppS got increased
yields as high as so percent with
them. He used the Granex Hy-
brid and the regular variety
used in comparison was the
Grano. Two and a half to three
pounds of seed we're used per
acre on well prepared land and
little thinning was needed.
agricultural Leaders Diges'
says; "All of the hybrid onions
that have been bred and re-
leased to growers yield high
percentage of u. S. No. and
very few culls. Besides they are
bred for resistance TO field and
storage diseases and to thrips in
sect"
Our certified seed man. Bot
Garrison, tells me limited
amount of seed of that new Wi
ley sorghum will be available
Or planting the coming year. II
is sweet sorghum. bred by the
USDA specially for syrup pro-
duction. And, of course, it Is
good for silage too. In exhaus-
tive tests 1t has made consider
ably more syrup than the two
other leading varieties, Sart and
Tracey. Wiley is strongly re-
sistant TO red rot and leaf an
thracnose, leading diseases Of
Prghum.
Food is the biggest business in
this country. We farm folks are
in the business Of producing it.
Then il takes just that many
more folks, understand, to
get il out to the consumers.
The markets require quality
produce. That calls for growing
things where they are best suit
cd to soil and climate, the right
Darieties, and harvested. grad
ed and packed right. All of those
things are the farmers job. Ex-
pertinent stations find out a lot
of the answers and are constant
ly working on the problems. The
county agents and marketing
specialists work with the grow
ers in getting foods produced
right and put up in best market
able shape. Then the other group
takes over. Processing, transpor-
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