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Poor Seed At Any Price Is Always Too Costly to Planter

Progressive farmers recognize that the kind and quality of seed they sow largely determine the value and quality of their crop. They have learned they cannot save money by" buying uncleaned or Superficially cleaned seed from I a neighbor or cheap seed from an unknown truck peddler with- ; out documented tests of its pur- | ity and germination. Experience has shown such "cheap seed" is really the most costly seed they can buy. Yet a large part of the seed grain used for sowing is only farm cleaned. Much of it is sown as it comes from the com bine or thresher, a practice that should be discouraged. Where the fields have been kept relatively free from weeds and the farmer maintains a seed in crease plot for each variety grown, so that the seed is kept pure and as free as possible from weeds and disease, the use of farm-cleaned seed grain for iarge acreages may be defended, but this advice does not apply to small - seeded legumes and grass seeds. It is out of the question for every farmer who wishes to sow' alfalfa, red clover. Ladino. clov er, hairy vetch, bromegrass, orchardgrass or any one of many other legumes and grasses to produce his own seed, or if he does produce it. *o obtain the high quality, disease - free and weed-free seed he desires for sowing. The seed industry has millions of dollars invested in regular and special seed cleaning machinery. I 11 1 — ■ —i n . ' ■ i"» ■■■■ .

Wha* Makes Good Seed 1. Adapted variety 11 High yield records 3 High quality of crop 4 High seed purity 5 Small total weec. seeds (1. Freedom from noxious weeds 7 High germination it Freedom from diseases

The L>.” id.mts operate their o. i: i seed-testing laboratories, employ skilled workmen and technicians, to process, refine and control the quality of farm seed from its . original country-run or rough cleaned state into the high quality standards required by present day agriculture Considered on price alone, the

difference between high-quality recleaned and farm-cleaned seed is very little. Take red clover, at 50 cents per pound for high quality, tested seed against say 35 cents for the unknown qual ity. the so-called “baigain" seed. At 10 pounds per acre, the differ ence is only $1.50 pci acre. The seed cost is small com pared with the expense of pre paring the land and doing the seeding. It is certainly folly to risk a poor stand or invite an m fectation of weeds or disease when for so little more these un necessary risks can be avoided. Recleaned, refined, tested and tagged seed is the most econ omical seed to use. It gives you the kind of crop insurance you Want at low cost. PERSONAL DEBTS The Federal Reserve Board has reported that the personal debts of Americans totaled $23,975,000. 000. at the end of 1952.

Rotation Helps Control Tobacco Plant Diseases Plan to follow a definite rota tion in the tobacco field. S. B. Fenne, plant pathologist at VPI, says blackshank. rootknot. and in fact, all soil borne diseases are always much more severe if tobacco is grown in me same soil year after year. He cites some results of tests at the Chatham branch of VPI Agricultural Experiment Station, which point up the value of rota tions. There, researchers have found that a two-yeai rotation of tobacco wheat, and led top the first year, followed the second year by W'heat and red top, re sulted in a good yield of high quality tobacco. Rotations including a legume such as vetch or clovei usually in crease the pounds of tobacco and also the yield of coin which may follow, but unless caie is taken there is danger of producing Heavy, rough tobacco. If corn fol lows the legume it will remove I much of the nitrogeh in the soil and should result in high quality tobacco.

Production Tests Bring Recognition To Prince Edward Guernsey Cows, Bull J

Some of the herds of members of the Dairy Herd Improvement Association of Prince Edward have been making valuable re cords which have been recognized by the American Guernsey Cattle Club and by the Bureau of Dairy Industry of the United States De partment of Agriculture Announcements have been re ceived recently that two Guernsey cows in the herd of W. B Gates Sons of Rice have made excellent records of production. Evergreen's Golden I.ady. a ten year old Guernsey has just produced a re cord of 11 009 ixiund.s of milk and 537 pounds of butterfat and was milked 596 times while on test. She is the daughter of the famous ■sire. Midvicw's Golden, that has 46 daughters and one son in the Performance Register of The American Guernsey Cattle Club. Top Jnn'or Cow Another re corn made by Cherio >f Molly Brook belonging to W. B Gates Sons, Rice, has pro duced 8.439 pounds of milk and 460 pounds of butterfat. This re eord has also just been released by the American Guernsey Cattle Club from official records of Herd

Imorovement Registry. Cherlo was a junior four-year-old and was milked 594 times while on test She is the daughter of the outstanding Guernsey sire. Mid view Majesty's Independent, that has 22 daughters in the Perform ance Register of the American Guernsey Cattle Club. Proven Bull Also just received is informa tion that Guernsey bull, Midview Charmer’s Prank, belonging to F . H Johns of Parmville. has just ' completed a record which places | him in the proven sire class, since ! six or more daughters of this bull ! have produced an average differ ence of 1.791 pounds of rnilk more than their dams and average but - ; ter fat production of 103 pounds more than their dams. These records are gathered by the D H I A Supervisor and indicate the progress being made by these dairymen having the production of their herds check ed monthly. Gus Hammond, of Roanoke, has recently been em ployed by the Prince Edward D H I A and is responsible for gathering such records as those indicated above.

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SEED TREATMENT OF SMALL GRAINS ADVISED AT VPI Seed treatment of spring oats is 1 particularly important this year to control loose and covered smuts . —diseases which have caused! widespread losses in recent years. S. B. Fenne. plant disease special- I 1st at VPI. says theie was much I more smut on oats than usual in 1952, and this means more seed will be contaminated. Second blights also can be largely controlled by chemical seed treatment. Fenne's advice: Be sure all small grain seeds are thoroughly cleaned Defore treat ing. A cleaning Job will remove all undersized, shriveled, diseased grains, and will leave a more uni form lot of seeds to be treated. Proper cleaning also will remove weed seeds that may be present. Treat at least 24 hours before I planting with one-half ounce of 1 ceresan dust per bushel of seed. Treatment may be done several i weeks before planting if the seed , is stored in a dry place. A mixing machine, such as a barrel, a cement mixer, or an old churn, will be needed. A chute ar i rangement called the Minnesota Seed Grain Treater is easy to use. It saves time and does a thorough ; job. It is easily built on the farm, : and plans are available from county agents.

Treat the seed out-of-doors, or in a well-ventilated room, and store out of reach of animals. Treated seed is poisonous, and therefore should not t>e fed to livestock. Fenne points out that seed treatment of spring oats pays for itself many times in increased crop returns. KEEPS VOW Cleveland, O.—A pioinise made 37 years ago was recently made good when Morris Clark, of Edin ourg. Scotland, visited his broth er Hyman, 57, who was seriously ill at the Crile Veterans Admin istration Hospital. The last time they met was in a hospital at Glasgow, where Hyman was re covering from being gassed in World War 1

Farm Bureau Members Plan Member i Drive At Recent Richmond Session

County Farm Bureau groups in , this area were represented at the state-wide conference at Hotel! Richmond, February 11. Among those attending were Edward T, Janney, Harold Henry. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Boch, of Pow hatan county, Mr and Mrs. Charles Brisentine, J. Nat Wilker son. A. E. Dunkley and Charles W. Rice, of Prince Edward coun ty, Mr. and Mrs. I. G. Jones, W. L. Hamersley, Mrs. Robert Jenks and A. H. Driggs. of Charlotte county, Mr. and Mrs. John Put ney and Mr. and Mrs. W. P. San derson. of Cumberland county. E T. Janney. of Powhatan, served as toastmaster for the Tuesday night banquet. O. R Long, AFBF Regional Feld Re presentative spoke on "Bee Hive Behavior" and "It's Up to Me in ’53.” R. Flake Shaw, executive vice president of the North Caro lina FB Federation presented in ! formative facts concerning the FB's past, present and future

needs. Virginia .eaders, if. G Blalock, Cullen Johnson, John R. Batts.; Pick Butl< r. Hugh Dailey, M. A. Hubbard ind A1 Plory presented a challen :e to all on the forth coming r lembership campaign. They s lid the March 3 mem- , bership ilitz’ must be successful because >f the individual aware ness in the South of the benefit for local group activites, and be cause this region has lagged be hind other areas of the nation in members. They pointed out that although Virginia was one of two Southern states falling short of 1952 mem bership goals, her increase in per cent of members was among the highest. They declared more good, thinking members are needed to make each local organization function more efficiently in local affairs and for the promotion of better producer-consumer rela tions. Virginia’s Mrs. DeShazo, of Es

West Coast Trip Fascinating Tour To T. Dayton Dillon T. Dayton Dillon, ol Darlington Heights, has returned after at tending a Rural Electrification Administration convention in San Francisco. Calif., for five days. He traveled with other dele gates by train taking a southern route through Mississippi. Louisi ana. Texas, Mexico and Arizona. There were many stops at the principal cities, witn numerous sight-seeing opportunities. Mr. Dillon was much impress ed with rice fields in Louisiana, the beautiful jewelry in Old Mexico. In Southern California, he visited Ghost Town and Knott’s Berry Farm, where a restaurant features the pies made from berries grown on the famed 800-acre berry farm. sex county, was one of the Farm Bureau leaders from over the na tion, meeting with President Eisenhower in the Cabinet Room of the White House recently, to discuss agricultural affairs.

The Darlington Heights travel er was delighted with the beauti ful orange and lemon groves in California, and the variety of temperature and landscape amazed him. At the foot of the mountains the temperature was 85 degrees, while atop the lofty peaks, skiers wen gliding over snowbound slopes. In Nevada, he visited Reno and Carson City, the smallest capital in the U. S. He also toured Vir ginia City where he saw old gold mines. Returning. Mr. Dillon traveled through Chicago and the West. He returned to Darlington Heights. February 3. FACTORY PAY The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the hourly earn ings of factory workers have risen an average of 12 pei cent in the past two years. Gross hously earn ings. which include overtime and other premium ,<ay. were $1.73 in mid - December. 1952, compared with $1.54 two years earlier. Aver age weekly earnings of factory production workers reached a neu high of $72.36 last December.

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