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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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Thursday, March 27, 1952
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Notes From The
County Agent's Office
By C. B. CANNON, County Agent
Olin Helms; Lancaster county, pro
ducing 185.4 bushel^ of Dixie 17
variety of corn per acre. Gene Da
vis of York county, second state
winner with the same variety of
corn, producing 153.4 bushels per
acre
The first place winner of the
Piedmont district was W. K. Sharp,
producing
Sffcte 100-Bushel Corn Club Mem
bers Honored at Luncheon
Robert A. Harris, Gray Court, | IV,. AodersofT county
Rt 0 attended the State 100-bushel; 149 bushels of N. C. 27 corn per
corn club luncheon at the Jeferson■ acre, and second Piedmont district,
hotel. Columbia, March 19. J. F. winner was Y. L. Addy Newberry;
Wise asssitant county agent, at-;%mty, producing 128.2 bushels of (
tended the luncheon with Mr. Har- Dixie 17 variety of corn per acre. I
ris j The Plant Food Education So-
Mr Harris produced 108.5 bush-iciety of which Herbert B. Davis,
els of Dixie 17 variety of corn per Columbia, is president, is a non
acre in 1951 and 126.5 Bushels per, profit organization dedicated to the/ 1
acre of the same variety in 1950.
Mr. Harris planted his contest
improvement of agriculture i n
South Carolina, provided the cash!
acre of corn in bottomland, fertil- 1 prizes, the gold key, and the lunch-
ized' with 400 pounds of 3-9-9 at | eon. The society has announced |
planting time and top-dressed with'that it will agam sponsor the con-,
600 pounds of Nitrate of Soda per test in 1952 with the same prizes]
acre In-addition to the fertilizer! to be awarded. The first state prize
mentioned above, a-mixture of su-!will be $600; second state prize will
perphosphate and Muriate of Pot
ash approximately 0-13-14 at the
rate of 700 pounds -per acre broad
cast and disked into the soil proir
to planting The land was well pre
pared and the com planted by trac
tor in 43-inch rows, 11 inches in
drill. The corn land was irrigated
three times during the growing
season. A wind storm near the
state of maturity blew the corn j South
down considerably.
Mr. Harris was awarded a medal
key in 1950 for producing at least
100 bushels per acre and received
be $250; Piedmont district first
prize $200, and second place $100.
Application forms for entering
the contest .are available at the
county agent's office. M. B. Coch
ran, Gray Court, Rt. 2, has signed
blank entering the 1952 contest.
The corn contest, started in
1949, has, by encouraging growers
to follow the practices listed in the
Carolina Five Point pro-
Michigan Fanner
Named 'Wheat King'
First U.S. Grower
To Win in 23 Years
Harold A. Metcalf, 31-year-old
Fairgrove, Michigan, farmer
brought the world’s wheat growing
championship back to the United
States for the first time in 23 years
when his sample of Yorkwin, a soft
winter wheat variety, was adjudged
the best at the recent International
Live Stock Exposition at Chicago.
At the> seme show Willard C. Kirk,
53, of Jeffersonville, O., won the title
of com king, the first Ohioan in
history to win.
The new wheat king reports "good
seed, good fertilizer and plenty of
elbow grease" were the recipe for
his success. His wheat weighed 60.9
pounds to the bushel. This was the
gram, helped to increase the aver
age per acre corn yield in the
state. The five points in the pro
gram briefly summarized are: (1)
a certificate this year. The 100; Thorough soil preparation; (2)
bushel state corn Cojotait-os spon- < Planting recommended* certified
sored by the South Carolina Plant hybrids and varieties; (3) Liberal
Food Education Society and con
ducted by the South Carolina Ex
tension Service.
The state first place winner "was
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fertilization, especially nitrogen;
(4) More plants per acre; and (5)
Only early, shallow cultivation.
4-H Trad or Operaiors'
Sammie Gambrell, son of Mr. and
Mrs. S. C. Gambrell, Owings, was
first place winner in the 4-H Trac
tor Operators’ contest held at the
Laurens county fairgrounds March
20. Curtis Wallace, son of Mr. and
Mrs. C. E. Wallace., Shiloh com
munity, placed second; and Carl
Stoddard, son-of Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Stoddard, Owings, placed third.
There were 26 4-H club boys taking
part in the contest.
The five top scoring boys scored
higher than the first place winner;
! last year, which shows progress of;
j 4-H club boys in the tractor opera-
j tion of tractors.
The following machinery dealers
furnished tractors for the boys t n
drive in the contest: J. Herman
Power, Oliver dealer, Narnie com-
munity; Mansel Senm - farroall
dealer, and John W. Girffin. John
Deere dealer, of Laurens: H. J. and.
D. T. Pitts, Case-Avery dealer, and
Gary Dillard, Ford tractor dealer,
of Clinton. Each boy was allowed
to select the tractor he wanted to
drive. The contest consised of
written tests and of driving a trac
tor with manure spreader attach
ed through certain driveways with
stakes erected to represent gates,
shelters, trees, etc., on a farm. Al
so each person was to line his trac
tor up to a hammer mill for belt
drive. The winners were picked
based on the top scores in the Writ
ten tests and the driving event.
4-H Beef Calf Show a Success
Fourteen 4-H club boys and girls
showed animals in the 4-H Beef
Calf club show at the Laurens
county fair grounds last Friday,
March 21. Although it rained dur
ing the entire afternoon, the show
was held with good attendance.
The show was in two divisions—
showmanship and the placing of
the animals in Blue Award group,
Red Award group and White
Award gfroup. In Showmanship
Herschel Gibbs won first place, fol
lowed Jay Jiis sister. Miss Jo Anne
Gibbs, second place; Cain Thoma
son with third place, and Maxine
Thomason with fourth place. All
showmanship winners are from the
Trinity Ridge community
Placing in the Blue Award group
were Jo Anne Gibbs, Cain Thoma
son, Herschel Gibbs and Maxine
Thomason, Trinity Ridge;_in the
Red Award group were Dan Sulli
van, Wallace Burnet and Sammy
Brissie, Mt Gallagher; George Was
son, and Douglas Wasson, Hickory
Tavern; and Jimmy Holliday,
Barksdale; in the White Award
group were Marshall Holliday
Edwin Langston, and Henry Mitch
ell, Barksdale; and Wyatt George
Trinity Ridge.
Contractor Arrives on Rural
Telephone
The contractor, for the building
of the Piedmont Cooperative Tele
phone system arrived last week in
the county and is now cutting
rights-of-way for the erection of
the lines, as weather permits. With
in a few days poles should be ready
to set and the work pushed as
rapidly as posible toward comple
tion. The REA office in Washing
ton allocated $341,000 for the build
ing of approximately 370 miles of
new lines and the rebuilding of 26
miles of the Gray Court telephona
system to serve approximately
1165 subscribers. The project will
have the dial type telephone ser
vice.
Harold A. Metcalf
first time he had even exhibited at
the show.
Another Michigan farmer, Lee D.
Ferden of Chesaning, near Saginaw,
won the reserve championship.
Metcalf was the first U.S. farm
er to be crowned wheat king since
1928. In all the years since, the
championship has gone to Canadian
wheat growers.
The com king had been exhibiting
at the show since 1922, but this
was his first major prize. His prize
winning com was an Indiana 944-D
Hybrid.
Kirk, limed his. com land at the
rate of three tons per acre and add
ed 300 pounds of 3-12-12 fertilizer per
acre to the com in the row at
planting time. ^
Competing with entries from hun
dreds of growers in the United
States and Canada, Kirk’s com had
superior finish and luster.
The champion farms 335 acres,
about 90 acres planted to, com. His
Willard C. Kirk
4-year-rotation includes com, wheat
or oats and two years of red clover
and alfalfa. He feeds all the com,
wheat, oats and forage to hogs,
sheep and beef cattle and returns all
the manure to the land.
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Harold Barber, shepherd from
the University of Kentucky,
holds Kentucky Colonel, grand
champion wether at the lntena
tional Live Stock Exposition.
This is the third consecutive
wether title captured by the uni
versity.
Hardware Can Kill a Cow,
Veterinarian R4>orti
A tiny piece of wire or a broken
nail thrown in the wrong place can
cost you a cow, Dr. R. D. Hatch,
veterinarian at the University of
Illinois, warns farmers. "Cattle
often swallow nails, screws, pieces
of wire, pins or other bits of metal
that went into their feed," he says.
Often these pieces of hardwfri
cause death. Sometimes the anfaul
can be saved by surgical operation,
ho reports.
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