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THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA THE COLLECTION OF NORTH CAROLINIANA C630.6 N8a 196U/66 UNIVERSITY OF N.C. AT CHAPEL HILL 00033953758 This book must not be taken from the Library building. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from Ensuring Democracy through Digital Access (NC-LSTA) http://www.archive.org/details/biennialagric19641966 1964 - 1966 BIENNIAL REPORT for 1964-1966 NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE JAMES A. GRAHAM. Commissioner JOHN L. REITZEL. Assistant Commissioner RALEIGH, N. C. IO-66 l^iM TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Board of Agriculture .. 3 Personnel 6 Commissioner's Summary 18 Highlights of Board Meetings 33 Accounting Division 39 Chemistry Division 47 Credit Union Division 64 Dairy Division 67 Entomology Division 72 Farmers Market 83 Food Distribution Division 85 Markets Division 97 Museum Division 130 Publications Division 141 Research Stations Division 146 Seed Testing Division 161 Soil Testing Division 167 State Fair Division .172 Statistics Division 175 Veterinary Division i 178 Warehouse Division 188 Weights and Measures Division 193 Gasoline and Oil Inspection Division 197 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE June 30, 1966 James A. Graham, Commissioner Ex-Officio Chairman J. Atwell Alexander Richard N. Barber, Jr. Thomas 0. Gilmore Stony Point Waynesville Julian Claude T. Hall Roxboro Thomas G. Joyner George P. Kittrell Charles F. Phillips Garysburg Corapeake Thomasville J. Hawley Poole West End Henry Gray Shelton David Townsend, Jr. Speed Rowland Others who served on the Board during a part of this bien-nium were : Hoyle C. Griffin Monroe A. B. Slagle Franklin David Townsend, Sr Rowland John L. Reitzel Assistant Commissioner of Agriculture James A. Graham Commissioner of Agriculture PERSONNEL of the STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE June 30, 1966 James A. Graham, Commissioner Administration John L. Reit/el _. Assistant Commissioner Elizabeth B. Barefoot Stenographer II Hazel I. Horner Stenographer HI Virginia P. Johnson Administrative Secretary Division of Accounts Grace H. Malloy Accountant III Becky E. Adams Stenographer II Betty P. Bunn Accounting Clerk I Roy D. High ___. Accountant II Elsie W. Jordan Accountant I Gertrud H. Lare .Accounting Clerk II Elizabeth W. Mitchiner Accounting Clerk III Geraldine P. Narron Stenographer III Phyllis P. O'Neal... Typist II Beulah B. Pearce Cashier I—Dept. of Agriculture Sarah K. Sanderson Accounting Clerk I Peggy Y. Smith Cashier II—Dept. of Agriculture Lunelle Yeargan Accounting Clerk IV Publicity and Publications M. Pauline DeCosta Public Information Officer III Bettye T. Rogers Clerk II Willie L. Smith Clerk I Louise T. White Stenographer II Custodial Henry L. Hall Stock Clerk I Robert Harris Stock Clerk I Inspection Arthur G. Campbell, Jr Feed, Fertilizer & Insecticide Inspector I E. H. Cooper ...Tax Auditor III Ewell E. Evans Tax Auditor II Harvey C. McPhail Feed, Fertilizer & Insecticide Inspector I Thomas M. Parker Feed, Fertilizer & Insecticide Inspector I James R. Stevens Feed, Fertilizer & Insecticide Inspector II Carl C. Williams Feed, Fertilizer & Insecticide Inspector I Entomology Division George D. Jones State Entomologist Hugh I. Alford, Jr Entomologist II Report For 1964-1966 — Personnel 7 Alfred S. Elder Entomologist II James F. Greene Entomologist III Roy M. Schmarkey Entomologist II Jesse F. Sessions Entomologist II Barbara M. Williams Stenographer II D. L. Wray Entomologist HI Weights and Measures Inspectiox John I. Moore Director Marion L. Kinlaw, Jr Weights & Measures, Gasoline & Oil Inspection Supervisor Cecil C. Abernathy Weights & Measures Inspector James G. Barnes Heavy Duty Scale Inspector I Walter R. Burnette ....Heavy Duty Scale Inspector II Thomas W. Cloninger Weights & Measures Inspector Grady F. Hall Weights & Measures Inspector Lester B. Hardin... Weights & Measures Inspector Grover R. Kiser ....Weights & Measures Inspector Alice S. Long Stenographer II Dianne P. Nichols Stenographer II Randolph F. Peaks Heavy Duty Scale Inspector 11 Donnie G. Perry Weights & Measures Inspector William H. Perry Liquid Fertilizer Specialist Leroy S. Plyler Weights & Measures Inspector Ned A. Powell Heavy Duty Scale Inspector II William D. Taylor Weights & Measures Inspector James M. Vestal, Jr Weights & Measures Inspector Dan Cecil Worley Weights & Measures Inspector State Meat and Poultry Inspection Earl W. Stapp State Supervisor, Meat & Poultry Inspection William L. Abbott Veterinarian III Edward M. Athay Meat & Poultry Inspector I Clarence B. Barker Meat & Poultry Inspector I Walter V. Batchelor .....Meat & Poultry Inspector I Julian C. Beale Meat & Poultry Inspector I Wade W. Beasley Meat & Poultry Inspector I Claude W. Bentley Meat & Poultry Inspector I Wallace E. Birch Veterinarian II Archie C. Bone Meat & Poultry Inspector I Travis B. Bowick. Meat & Poultry Inspector I Van L. Bowman Meat & Poultry Inspector I Billy R. Bradshaw .._. Meat & Poultry Inspector I Jasper F. Brisson, Jr Meat & Poultry Inspector I Wiley G. Broughton Meat & Poultry Inspector I Henry C. Brown ___.. Meat & Poultry Inspector I Alden E. Bryson __ .Meat & Poultry Inspector I Alvin G. Buchanan.... Meat & Poultry Inspector I William C. Buchanan Meat & Poultry Inspector II Frank D. Burns Meat & Poultry Inspector I Eddie W. Cain. Jr Meat & Poultry Inspector I Hugh B. Campbell Veterinarian II James M. Cashwell... Meat & Poultry Inspector II Sadie H. Chase Meat & Poultry Inspector I Sylvester H. Clayton Meat & Poultry Inspector I Algie D. Cobb Meat & Poultry Inspector I William E. Crawford Meat & Poultry Inspector I Charles M. Credle Meat & Poultry Inspector I James E. Creel.. Meat & Poultry Inspector I 8 N. C. Department of Agriculture Lewis J. DeMarcus Meat & Poultry Inspector I Leola D. Drake Stenographer II Norman C. Eason - Meat & Poultry Inspector I Cecil E. Edwards Meat & Poultry Inspector I James B. Edwards Meat & Poultry Inspector I Waitus H. Edwards Meat & Poultry Inspector I William D. Estep Meat & Poultry Inspector I Ruie A. Eubanks, Jr Meat & Poultry Inspector I Lindsay B. Fant Meat & Poultry Inspector I Linwood E. Felts Meat & Poultry Inspector I John F. Ford Meat & Poultry Inspector I Robert L. Foster_____ ____ Meat & Poultry Inspector I William K. Fry _. Meat & Poultry Inspector I Kenneth W. Gardner Meat & Poultry Inspector I Clifford W. Goodwin. _____ Meat & Poultry Inspector I Henry L. Hall Meat & Poultry Inspector I Hubert L. Helms Meat & Poultry Inspector I Henry H. Herman Meat & Poultry Inspector I James F. Holcomb Meat & Poultry Inspector I Kenneth R. Hoover... Meat & Poultry Inspector I Conley G. Isenberg ____ Veterinarian II Dallie B. Jackson Meat & Poultry Inspector I Eugene R. Jackson Meat & Poultry Inspector I James M. Jackson, Jr ___._ Veterinarian II James T. Jackson Meat & Poultry Inspector I Daniel E. V. Johnson Meat & Poultry Inspector I James E. Johnson Meat & Poultry Inspector I Charles E. Jones Meat & Poultry Inspector I Cornelius W. Jonkheer ____ Meat & Poultry Inspector I Arthur B. Kaufman Meat & Poultry Inspector I George M. Kerr Veterinarian II William P. Lassiter Meat & Poultry Inspector I James C. Long, Jr Meat & Poultry Inspector I Edmond G. Massad Meat & Poultry Inspector I Woodrow E. McGimsey Meat & Poultry Inspector II Rommie F. Medlin ____ Meat & Poultry Inspector I William C. Medlin __ Meat & Poultry Inspector I Richard W. Menius Meat d Poultry Inspector II Robert R. Miller _ _ Veterinarian II Ford W. Morris _ Meat & Poultry Inspector I Clare W. Nielsen____ Meat & Poultry Inspector I Thomas 0. Nilsen __. Meat d- Poultry Inspector I Houston Odom __ Veterinarian II Charles R. Oxford Meat & Poultry Inspector I Joseph W. Padgett Meat & Poultry Inspector 1 Herbert R. Palmer, Sr ..Meat & Poultry Inspector 1 Glenn 0. Park _ Meat & Poultry Inspector I Charles M. Parrish Meat & Poultry Inspector I Fred R. Parrish Meat & Poultry Inspector I Ophelia Pickett Meat & Poultry Inspector I Basil W. Pshyk _ Veterinarian II James R. Radford Meat & Poultry Inspector II Joseph V. Randolph Meat & Poultry Inspector 1 Lewis C. Ransom, Jr _ Meat & Poultry Inspector I Harvey G. Roper Meat & Poultry Inspector I Clarence E. Rose ..Meat & Poultry Inspector I Roxie R. Siler Meat & Poultry Inspector I Thomas Lee Sink Meat & Poultry Inspector I Richard W. Spivey, Sr _ Meat & Poultry Inspector I Charles L. Staton, Jr Meat & Poultry Inspector I Walter C. Stone ..Meat & Poultry Inspector I Report For 1964-1966 — Personnel 9 George M. Sullivan .. Meat & Poultry Inspector I William G. Sullivan _ Veterinarian II Arie B Sykes, Jr.—. Meat & Poultry Inspector I James W. Tillman Meat & Poultry Inspector I Peggy R. Upchurch Stenographer II Gilim F. Wade Meat d Poultry Inspector I Don H. Walker _ __ Meat & Poultry Inspector I Elvis C. Wall.. Meat & Poultry Inspector I Harold L. Warlick Meat & Poultry Inspector I Zeno H. Weaver.... _ ..Meat & Poultry Inspector I James C. Wheeler ....Meat & Poultry Inspector I James C. White Meat & Poultry Inspector I Lewis L. Wiseman Meat & Poultry Inspector II Labin T. Woodlief Meat & Poultry Inspector I Richard C. Yarbrough Meat d- Poultry Inspector II Egg Inspection Bobby G. Austell Marketing Specialist II Ann K. Hicks Stenographer II George E. Ingram Marketing Specialist I Wilson T. Leggett.... .__. Marketing Specialist I William H. McCullen Marketing Specialist II Arthur C. McCurry Marketing Specialist II Larry E. Tetterton.... Marketing Specialist III Markets Division John A. Winfield Director of Agriculture Markets Eugene G. Boney, Jr Marketing Specialist II Wilbur S. Brannan. __.. Marketing Specialist III Ruby P. Britt Stenographer III Louise W. Byrum ...Stenographer III Charles L. Campbell, Jr Marketing Specialist IV John H. Cyrus Marketing Specialist IV Charles H. Davis Marketing Specialist II Louise T. Dunn Stenographer III James W. Earp, Jr Marketing Specialist II Charles D. Ed-wards Marketing Specialist II Charles B. Elks Marketing Specialist IV William J. Feimster Marketing Specialist III Billie A. Fuller ...Stenographer II Joe B. Gourlay ..Marketing Specialist III Thomas E. Green, Sr Marketing Specialist III Norwood 0. Hargrove Marketing Specialist II Glen C. Hatcher, Sr Marketing Specialist III James F. Hockaday, Jr — Marketing Specialist III Julius P. Jenrette Marketing Specialist IV Wallace G. Johnson Marketing Specialist III Henry S. Kennett.... Marketing Specialist II Ethel Y. Kiker Marketing Specialist III Katherine B. Koppen _. Stenographer III William E. Lane __. Marketing Specialist IV Bryant C. Langston, Jr Marketing Specialist II Opal M. Liles Laboratory Technician II Staley S. Long, Jr Marketing Specialist III Hugh B. Martin Marketing Specialist IV Neill A. Morrison, Jr Marketing Specialist III Roger L. Mozingo Marketing Specialist III Hobart W. Myrick.__. _ .....Marketing Specialist III Mary L. Norman Stenographer II 10 N. C. Department of Agriculture Linda S. Nunalee Marketing Specialist II Prances L. O'Neal Stenographer II Nichols L. Paul.. Marketing Specialist III Arvid T. Peak.. _ Marketing Specialist II Lois M. Pleasants Laboratory Technician III Joseph A. Powell Marketing Specialist III H. D. Quessenberry Marketing Specialist IT B. S. Rich..... Marketing Specialist IT Larry C. Roberson Marketing Specialist III Ellis B Shands Marketing Specialist III Carson W. Sheffield ___. _. Marketing Specialist IT Beatrice L. Smith Stenographer III Curtis F. Tarleton Marketing Specialist T Elizabeth L. Taylor Stenographer II Carl H. Tower Marketing Specialist III Euris R. Vanderford Marketing Specialist III Grace F. Watkins Laboratory Technician I Pauline M. Watkins Typist I Dewey C. Wayne Marketing Specialist IT Sara P. Wells ...Stenographer III William A. Wilder, Jr..__ Marketing Specialist III Barbara J. Wood Stenographer II Dairy Division Francis Patterson , Director of Dairy Services Garnie E. Anderson Dairy Specialist II Lafayette H. Boykin, Jr .'. ..:__. Dairy Specialist II Charles W. Dunn Laboratory Helper Paul R. Jordan, Jr : Bacteriologist II John R. McGlamery Dairy Specialist II Dolores McG. McLamb _. Stenographer II W. L. McLeod Dairy Specialist III Philip 0. Nichols Dairy Specialist II Robert G. Parrish Dairy Specialist II Marie W. Perry Laboratory Technician III Margaret L. Stubbs Chemist I Giles M. Williams __ Dairy Specialist II Seed Testing George E. Spain Director of Seed Testing William W. Allen Seed Specialist James M. S. Blocker Seed Specialist Magdalene G. Brummitt Seed Analyst III Robert C. Burris ~ Seed Specialist Billie H. Darden Seed Analyst I Virginia B. Griffin ....Seed Analyst II Theodora W. King __ Seed Analyst II Joseph I. Lewis Seed Specialist Fred L. McHan Seed Specialist Murphy G. McKenzie, Jr Seed Specialist Jewell G. Stallings Seed Analyst I Cornelia S. Strickland Seed Analyst II Virginia L. B. Teal ..Seed Analyst II Mildred W. Thomas Seed Analyst II Analytical E. W. Constable _ State Chemist Sidney M. Albritton Chemist II Report For 1964-1966 — Personnel 11 Tiieuo.v Alexander ...Chemist II Henry O. Austin Feed, Fertilizer & Insecticide Inspector I Henry W. Barnes. Jr Chemist III Elizabeth F. Bartholomew Microanalyst Stanley E Berkshire Food, Drug & Costmetic Inspector Calvin E. Brim Laboratory Helper Burnet A. Britt Chemist II David E. Buffaloe ..Chemist III William B. Buffaloe _ _ Chemist III Thomas E. Carriker, Jr Food, Drug & Cosmetic Inspector Margaret B. Carter Food Chemist James A. Chapman Laboratory Helper Frances H. Colvin _ Typist III Dorothy M. Davis Stenographer III Jerry M. Dismukes Chemist II John J. Filicky.. Chemist II Evelyn A. Freeman Stenographer II Robert L. Freeman _._ Food, Drug & Cosmetic Inspector Charles H. Godwin. Jr ...Food, Drug & Cosmetic Inspector Pearl G. Gray Stenographer III Clyde M. Griffin ...Chemist I William M. Harris. ...Chemist II Margie W. Hatcher Stenograph er II Samuel H. Hinton .Laboratory Helper Velva E. Hudson Typist. Ill Jesse G. Jernigan _ Food Chemist Vera C. Johnson Chemist II Frances L. Liles ..Stenographer II Thomas W. Lucas Laboratory Helper H. D. Matheson Chemist II W. P. Matthews _.. Chemist III Vickie E. Mooneyham Stenographer II William A. Morgan Laboratory Helper Fred P. Nooe Food, Drug & Cosmetic Inspector H. F. Pickering Food Chemist J. S. Pittard Chemist III Clyde W. Roberts Food, Drug & Cosmetic Inspector Carolyn W. Robinson ..Chemist I William Sylver, Jr Laboratory Helper Robert T. Teague. Jr Chemist T Robert N. Tulloch _ Chemist IV William T. Vick____ Chemist III James D. Watson ...Chemist I George R. Winstead. Ill Chemist III Soil Testing Preston H. Reid ...Director of Soil Testing John O. Anderson - Laboratory Helper Dorothy T. Beck - Stenographer III Shirley S. Bowling Chemist I Martha G. Chewning Chemist 1 Carolyn O. Copeland Chemist II Zoel W. Daughtry - - Agronomist I Joseph E. Douglas - Laboratory Helper Audrey H. Hayes. Laboratory Technician II Carolyn C. Holt Stenographer II Yvonne L. Hudson. _ Typist I Sandra C. Johnson Stenographer II Sarah P. Johnson .....Laboratory Technician III Gerald D. McCart Agronomist II 12 N. C. Department of Agriculture Juanita U. Matthews Chemist I Julia S. Phillips Stenographer I Carl E. Schauble _ Agronomist I Mary R. Smith Chemist I Peggy J. Swinson Stenographer I Sue P. Williams Chemist I Crop Statistics Raymond R. Alford, Jr Office Machine Operator Supervisor GS IV Mary S. Allen __ Statistical Analyst I Thomas W. Brand Analyst Statistician GS-12 Georgia T. Bynum Statistical Aide Charlie H. Cross, Jr Duplicating Equipment Operator III Martha F. Early Statistical Analyst I Terry M. Edwards Duplicating Equipment Operator II Evelyn L. Finch Yari-Type Operator II William B. Harris Farm Census Supervisor Jewell B. Hussey Statistical Aide Ida L. King... Statistical Aide Minnie H. Langley Yari-Type Operator II Florine C. Leonard Statistical Aide Carrie Mae Mann Statistical Aide Mary D. Matthews ._ Statistical Aide Gwendolyn H. Miller ...Stenographer II Natalie R. Shearin Statistical Aide Olaf Wakefield Supervisor Analytical (Statistician) GS-13 John W. Williams III Statistical Analyst II Harry A. White Analyst Statistician GS-12 Veterinary Thomas F. Zweigart, Jr State Veterinarian Josephine A. Allen Stenographer III Grey P. Baker.. Laboratory Technician II John Dean Baker Veterinarian HI Marvin A. Batchelor Livestock Inspector Gary C. Baucom .....Poultry Specialist I Charles R. Border Veterinarian III Zane G. Bowles Veterinarian II Julius B. Cashion Poultry Specialist I Allie W. Carter Livestock Inspector Ivey P. C. Cashwell Laboratory Technician II Jesse J. Causby Poultry Specialist II Edwin R. Church Poultry Specialist I Kenneth G. Church Poultry Specialist I James H. Clegg Poultry Specialist I William W. Clements Veterinarian III Bobby E. Cooley Laboratory Helper Alton L. Corbett ..-; Livestock Inspector Eugene C. Couch Poultry Specialist I Thomas E. Crumpler Livestock Inspector Lilly F. Daughtry Stenographer II Guy E. Dowd _._ - Poultry Specialist I Robert J. Eckroade Veterinarian III Dewey M. Edwards Livestock Inspector L. J. Fourie Poultry Specialist III James A. Frazier — Poultry Specialist II George D. Fuller — Livestock Inspector William B. Griffin Veterinarian III Julian E. Guyton Poultry Specialist I Report For 1964-1966 — Personnel 13 Ralph Hamilton Veterinarian III Oscar F. Hill ... Livestock Inspector George Hinton Clerk I George L. Hunnicutt ...Veterinarian III Geneva C. Hunt Stenographer II G. W. Ivey... Poultry Specialist II Evelyn M. Jernigan Stenographer II Austin R. Johnson ...Veterinarian III James L. Kearney... Laboratory Helper Kenneth G. Keenu.m Veterinarian III William W. Keever Livestock Inspector James D. Kelley Poultry Specialist I Irene K. Kilpatrick .__. Laboratory Technician II Mary L. Kinsaul ... ...Laboratory Technician II Eunice G. Lipham , Laboratory Technician II Fred D. Long Poultry Specialist I Thomas B. Love Poultry Specialist I Paul C. Marley..... Poultry Specialist I Oren D. Massey, Jr Poultry Specialist I Gary M. Medlin Poultry Specialist I James R. Miller Veterinarian II Oscar L. Mooring... Poultry Specialist I David A. Munro Veterinarian III Corrine K. Murray".... Laboratory Technician II Nadine R. Nesbit __ Laboratory Technician II Walter G. Pearson... Veterinarian III Peter S. Penland Poultry Specialist I Herbert P. Perry.... __ Poultry Specialist I Ollie C. Pickral Livestock Inspector Clifford W. Pittman... .Veterinarian III Lucy D. Ponder Laboratory Technician III Hugh M. Powell Veterinarian III Othell H. Price Stenographer II Verlin E. Reese Poultry Specialist I Lola S. Reinckens Stenographer II Ned M. Ross Veterinarian II Terrell B. Ryan Director of Diagnostic Laboratory Phil R. Sandidge.... Poultry Specialist I George W. Simpson Poultry Specialist I Billy J. Southard Poultry Specialist I Dixie Daniel Southard Poultry Specialist I Ida C. Starling Laboratory Technician II Julian S. Starr Veterinarian II Evelyn C. Tribble.... Laboratory Technician II Mary- G. Van Horn Laboratory Technician II Joana G. Wardell Laboratory Technician II Kenneth C. Wilkins Laboratory Helper Theron S. Williams — Veterinarian III William R. Wilson, Jr Veterinarian III John R. Woody Poultry Specialist I Research Stations Cecil D. Thomas Director of Research Stations El-wood A. Allen ..Maintenance Mechanic I Edward R. Askew. Agriculture Research Assistant III E.mmett K. Atwood Agriculture Research Assistant III Billy N. Ayscue Administrative Officer I Christine H. Baker... Typist II Wallace R. Baker, Jr Farm Superintendent II 14 N. C. Department of Agriculture Robert L. Batts — Farm Worker Elton Bazemore Farm Worker Lixwood Bazemore, Jr Farm Worker George D. Betts Farm Worker Bobby D. Bostic Farm Hand Ralph P. Brabble Farm Worker James H. Braswell Farm Hand Percy L. Braswell ....Farm Hand Gexe Bkitt... Agriculture Research Assistant IV (Tobacco Supervisor) William K. Brock.. Farm Foreman II Theodore R. Burleson, Jr..._. _ Farm Foreman II Normaxt E. Callahan... _ Farm Foreman II J. M. Carr Farm Suuperintendent II Joseph B. Cherry..... Farm Worker Aubrey Chessox Farm Hand Samuel J. Childs Agriculture Research Supervisor II Roger E. Collixs Agriculture Research Supervisor II George E. Cowan Farm Worker Horace R. Cox ____ Farm Superintendent III Rufus Curtis ...._ Livestock Man Wixston W. Davis Farm Worker {Dairy) Wallace J. Dickens Farm Superintendent II Gene Dugger Farm Worker James Roy Edwards.. Farm Superintendent III Ernest W. English Farm Foreman II Roger D. Evans Farm Worker James J. Fletcher Farm Worker James W. George Farm Worker Billy J. Greene Farm Worker Thomas E. Harper Farm Worker Berxice H. Harreii ...Stenographer II Garfield Harris Farm Foreman II Andy L. Hawkins Farm Worker (Dairy) Billy G. Hawkins Agriculture Research Assistant II Hiram Hawkins._ Farm Hand Alice J. Honeycutt Stenographer III Moses Jr. Hornes Farm Hand Horace G. Hudson General Utility Man Richard 0. Jones — Farm. Worker Susan Dew Killebrew Stenographer II James 0. Kilpatrick Farm Worker Ruth O. Lane Typist I Wixstox Lee, Jr Farm Worker Anne Yount Lentz Stenographer II Ted W. Luther Agriculture Research Supervisor II Charles H. Lutox Farm Foreman II Charles W. Lyons Farm Hand Willie L. McCaden Farm Hand Wilson C. McCaden Farm, Worker Hayes L. McClure Farm Foreman II Casper D. McLamb Farm Worker Walker W. McNeill Is Agriculture Research Supervisor II (Dairy Supervisor) Clyde Z. McSwaix, Jr Farm Superintendent III Jacob B. Matthews Livestock Man Lonnie Mosby, Jr Agriculture Research Assistant I Lena Mae Neaves Stenographer 1 David L. Oliver Farm Hand Melvin L. Oliver Farm Worker Bobby J. Padgett Farm Worker James M. Peace Farm Hand Report For 1964-1966 — Personnel 15 George H. Powers Farm Hand Ben D. Rackley _ Farm Worker Charles G. Reagan ...Livestock Man Oliver Rice Livestock Man Leroy Rich .. Farm Worker Theodore R. Rich Farm Worker Melvin G. Richert ... _. Livestock Man Acie C. Rivenbark ____ Farm Hand John D. Roten Agriculture Research Assistant I Claude S. Roupe Farm Worker John Sasser, Jr Farm Foreman II George Severt Farm Worker Julia L. Skinner Typist I Homer G. Smith Livestock Man John W. Smith : Farm Superintendent II Robert M. Smith Farm Foreman II Jean W. Spruill , . Stenographer I Thilbert A. Suggs Agriculture Research Assistant IV Jesse W. Sumner .....Farm Superintendent II Henry M. Tallardy Clerk II Dan Lafayette Taylor Agriculture Research Assistant III James C. Taylor Farm Foreman II Robert B. Teachey. ... Farm Worker John H. Thomas General Utility Man Stanley O. Tillery Farm Foreman II Levy C. Todd Farm Worker Dana F. Tugman Farm Superintendent II Earl E. Vickery Farm Worker Beverly C. Watkins Stenographer II Randolph Whitley Agriculture Rsearch Assistant III B. L. Williams Stenographer II James H. Williams... Farm Hand Floyd W. Yancey Farm Hand State Museum of Natural History William L. Hamnett Acting Director Museum Natural History Ludie Virginia Ashe Maid Owen W. Dunston , Janitor-Messenger Grace R. John Stenographer II Jean duVal Kane .__. Natural Science Curator I Charles H. Leibrandt.... Museum Preparator William M. Palmer .__. Natural Science Museum Curator I Sara Dean Prince Clerk II James F. Vester _ Cabinetmaker Mary M. Weathers Sten ograph er I Food Distribution- Jay P. Davis, Jr _ ...Marketing Specialist IV Samuel T. Avera Food Distribution Supervisor Raymond M. Chadwick Stock Clerk I Raleigh T. Daniel Marketing Specialist III Gladys R. Dudley Sten ograph er III Robert B. Dunn __ Food Distribution Supervisor Robert B. Godwin _ Food Distribution Supervisor Catherine S. Holden— Typist II Don M. Honeycutt Stock Clerk I James M. Hunter, Jr Warehouse Manager I Barbara F. King _ Stenographer II Betty J. Lindley Accounting Clerk I 16 N. C. Department of Agriculture Cecil L. Mokkis Warehouse Manager I Geraldine P. Pearce Accounting Clerk II "Walter M. Sawyer Marketing Specialist II William C. Taylok Food Distribution Supervisor Gasoline and Oil Inspection John I. Moore ....Superintendent of Weights & Measures & Director of Gasoline & Oil Carey M. Ashley ___. Chemist I Milton Barefoot.. _. Gasoline & Oil Inspector Malvern L. Boyette Gasoline & Oil Inspector Laura H. Bryant Stenographer II Robert L. Carter ....Chemist I Glenn R. Cates Chemist I Robert F. Comer Liquid Gas Inspector Jack C. Connolly, II Chemist I Milton C. Converse Liquid Gas Engineer Joseph Denton Gasoline & Oil Inspector Paul H. Etheridge Chemist I Alicegrae F. Ferrell___._ _ Accounting Clerk III Thomas P. Gore Chemist I Roy B. Hallman _ Gasoline & Oil Inspector Elliott Harrison Laboratory Helper Hugh F. Hayes ._.. Chemist II Horace E. Herman Calibrator Judith A. Hicks Stenographer I Connie B. Hines, Sr ._ Calibrator Jewel E. Holden Chemist I Ira G. Holloway Gasoline & Oil Inspector Arthur B. Hutchins ___ Gasoline & Oil Inspector Edwin H. Hutchins Chemist II Herman L. Jones - ...Gasoline & Oil Inspector Harold U. Kinder Gasoline & Oil Inspector Curtis Ray Lindsay _.. Gasoline & Oil Inspector T. Paul Lopp— Gasoline & Oil Inspector Robert H. McArver Gasoline & Oil Inspector John L. McLaughlin .._ Chemist I Robert E. Mullen Chemist I W. T. O'Briant Gasoline & Oil Inspector Thomas F. Oder __ Gasoline & Oil Inspector Dean E. Padgett Calibrator Douglas M. Pait Gasoline & Oil Inspector Marie M. Phelps - Chemist I Edsel H. Privette Calibrator Parley B. Rasmussen, Jr Chemist II Clyde W. Reeves Gasoline & Oil Inspector James R. Rivers Gasoline & Oil Inspector Joseph C. Roebuck Gasoline & Oil Inspector Frank L. Rouse Calibrator Milton H. Rowe, Sr...... Gasoline & Oil Inspector David W. Sanders Gasoline & Oil Inspector Adam D. Scott - Chemist II H. L. Shankle — - ...Chemist IY J. T. Shaw Chemist II Harry W. Shelton Chemist I Ray D. Sigmon Gasoline & Oil Inspector Koy S. Smith ._ Gasoline & Oil Inspector David B. Spivey Calibrator Ralph G. Thornbltwj Chemist II James Edgar Turpin ...__ Gasoline & Oil Inspector James P. Whitfield, Sr. Gasoline & Oil Inspector Report For 1964-1966—Personnel 17 Worth E. Williams Gasoline & Oil Inspector Howard P. Wilson Gasoline & Oil Inspector Gorden S. Young..... Calibrator State Warehouse Fund William G. Parham, Jr. Warehouse System Superintendent Lindbergh L. Brown Warehouse Examiner Judy A. Stacy Stenographer II Martha E. Swindell .....Stenographer II Cooperative Inspection Service James M. Clark... Marketing Specialist II Guy A. Cutler Marketing Specialist II Betty J. Narron.. Stenographer I Helen J. Parrish Accounting Clerk II Eldridge C. Price Marketing Specialist III Samuel G. Rand .__ _ Marketing Specialist II Daniel E. Wester... Marketing Specialist II Structural Pest Control Rudolph E. Howell Entomologist III Faye L. Godwin Stenographer II Norman R. Howell Pest Control Inspector Credit Union Supervision W. V. Didawick Credit Union Administrator Shirley T. Coats Stenographer II Edgar L. Grier, Jr Fiscal Examiner II Joseph M. Jones Fiscal Examiner III Rodney C. Orndorff Fiscal Examiner II Howard Leroy Pijahn Fiscal Examiner III Edwin C. Swartz.... Fiscal Examiner II Richard B. Telfair, Jr Fiscal Examiner II Operation of Farmers Market Charles G. Murray Manager Patricia G. Smith Stenographer III BIENNIAL REPORT OF THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE By James A. Graham Commissioner of Agriculture If the outstanding characteristic of the work of the Depart-ment of Agriculture during this biennium had to be expressed in one brief phrase, it would be three words: "Accent on Marketing." The emphasis on agricultural marketing has permeated nearly every one of the Department's 18 divisions for several reasons. First of all, North Carolina farmers have in recent years learn-ed how to produce (more abundantly) better than they have learned how to market their production. Also, production and marketing become more closely related with each passing year. This means that our control programs dealing with such mate-rials of production as feeds, fertilizers, pesticides, even our soil testing work, must be aimed at production practices which not only increase productivity but also result in farm commodities that are in demand, meet the demand competitively, and are wholesome and safe for human consumption. Efficiency of pro-duction and quality of product are today just as essential to the farmer-producer as they are to the manufacturer-producer. The Department's Division of Markets is, of course, directly and primarily concerned with agricultural marketing. However, even some of the work of this division must begin with what the farmer produces and how it is produced and then carry on through to its handling or processing. The work of that divi-sion is covered in the chapter beginning on page 97. Some examples of the programs of other divisions which relate directly or indirectly to agricultural marketing have been selected somewhat at random for mention here. They have not been chosen because they are necessarily the most important marketing-related work of that division, nor are they anywhere near wholly inclusive for the divisions mentioned or for the department as a whole. They are listed simply to give an indica-tion of the variety of programs which have a bearing on mar-keting. The examples, which represent new or expanded activi- Report For 1964-1 S66 — Administration 19 WW (m Mem Mounta grading bers of the Northwest Tour find much to interest them at the Brushy in Apple Cooperative's, which is equipped with the most modern cleaning, and packaging equipment*. ties for this biennium, are : 1. A concentrated shift of seed inspectors into the peanut area during the short period of time when the peanuts are being shelled, in order to facilitate inspection and movement of the seeds into trade for the benefit of both producers and buyer of the seeds. 2. Sharply increased inspection of meat slaughtered and processed in the state and a growing number of plants requiring this inspection. 3. Cooperation in an intensive educational program to ac-quaint the farmers with the importance of soil testing and how to use the results from such tests. 4. Analyses of feeds, silages and grains and other forages to enable livestock producers to determine the feed value of their own home grown feed products. 5. A thorough study to determine the needs for analytical work not now provided by any State agencies which are essential for competitive production and/or protection of human health. 6. A school of instruction for personnel of our Weights and Measures Division to acquaint them with new weighing and 20 N. C. Department of Agriculture measuring equipment which has been developed to increase pre-cision, reliability and speed in the weighing and packaging of various products. These devices are great in number and are of mechanical, electrical or electronic systems. In addition to all of the continuing and regular work of the Department relating to marketing, we have inaugurated during this biennium some very special programs designed to promote and expand the use of North Carolina produced and processed agricultural commodities. In the spring of 1965 we began a series of tours with a two-fold objective. One was to take division heads and key personnel of the Department of Agriculture to the people in the various areas of the state ; and at the same time to take food buyers into Buyers on the tour of Northwestern North Carolina were delighted with this beautiful Ashe County Christmas tree farm. Report For 1964-1966 — Administration 21 This rack of fresh beef quarters was viewed at the Azalea Meat Company's New Bern plant during the recent Northeastern tour. Commissioner Graham, Dr. E. W. Stapp, state supervisor of meat inspection, and Fred Pepoon, head of the NCDA poultry and egg section, tour the Holly Farms poultry processing plant. 22 N. C. Department of Agriculture these various areas to show them what is available right here in North Carolina. The first tour, in June of 1965, covered a large portion of the Southeastern area. In September of that same year the tour went into the Northwest area. In June of 1966, the series was continued with a tour of the Northeast area. The results of these tours have been most gratifying. Food buyers, from large chains as well as independents were amazed to find such a variety of products close at hand which they had not previously known to be available to them. People in the areas visited showed that they were pleased and inspired by this evidence of the department's interest in their progress and problems at the community or area level. And department personnel were pleased and inspired by seeing first-hand evidence of growth and progress in which they had played a part in their various capacities. The department is deeply indebted to Southern Railway for making available, at no cost, its comfortable Agri-business bus, as well as providing the very able services of its North Carolina Agricultural Agent, Frank Harris, to go along on these tours. Mr. Harris' knowledge and enthusiasm makes him a veritable embodiment of the interest and enthusiasm of the Railway for the agricultural potential of the South. Later we plan to make similar tours of the Southwest and the Piedmont, thus crisscrossing the state with this exciting pro-gram. In 1964, Governor Terry Sanford, appointed a committee known informally as the Retail Promotions Award Committee, for the purpose of establishing criteria for annual awards to the independent retail food dealer and the chain store food dealer for the most effective promotion of North Carolina grown and processed food products. The Commissioner of Agriculture served as chairman of this committee and personnel of the De-partment have participated along with those from other agencies in launching and carrying on this program. In November, 1964, the first awards were presented by the Governor at a banquet sponsored by the North Carolina Merchants Association. Governor Dan Moore has lent his support to this program and for the past two years the committee has functioned under the co-chairmanship of Wayne Corpening, Governor's coordinator for economic development, and the Commissioner of Agricul-ture. Report For 1964-1966 — Administration 23 This program has been received with much enthusiasm by the retail food trade and there is a keen spirit of competition which, of course, does much to expand the sale of North Carolina products and to point out their excellence. Another program of the Department of Agriculture has been the continual promotion of North Carolina products, through articles, speeches, radio and television interviews. In the De-partment's semi-monthly paper, Agricultural Revietv, we carry on the front page of every issue in large letters the slogan ''Help Build North Carolina by Using North Carolina Products." This same slogan appears on every piece of mail going out of the Department. Also during the past year we have worked intensivevly on plans which will culminate in a food festival at the 1966 State Fair. Here will be exhibited a big variety of North Carolina's agricultural versatility. This, we believe, will serve to acquaint both buyers and consumers with the fact that North Carolina has the soils and climate to produce an almost infinite variety of foods, and to inspire farmers with the profit potential in. adding some of these lines of production to their own operatons. Activities of the Administrative Offices North Carolina's progress places great demands on all its State officials to participate in coordinated activities at both the state and federal levels. During the past biennium the North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture was a member of the U. S. Department of Agriculture Advisory Committee on Cooperative Work under the Agricultural Marketing Act with the State Department of Agriculture. In the state, the Commissioner is a member of the Board of Directors of the Agricultural Foundation of North Carolina State College, a member of the Cotton Promotion Committee, the North Carolina Board of Farm Organizations and Agencies, and member of the North Carolina Committee on Migrant Labor. He is also a member of the Governor's Council on Occupational Health, the Governor's Commission on Educational Television, the Governor's Resource Planning Committee, the North Caro-lina Council on Foods and Nutrition, the North Carolina Vet-erinary School Selection Committee, the Board of Directors of North Carolina Rural Rehabilitation Corporation, the Executive Committee of the North Carolina Council of Community and Area Development and the Chairman of the Army Advisory Committee. 24 N. C. Department of Agriculture By legislation the Commissioner of Agriculture is Chairman of the State Board of Agriculture, the State Board of Gasoline and Oil Inspection and the Board of Directors of the North Caro-lina Agricultural Hall of Fame ; a member of the North Carolina Milk Commission, the Crop Seed Improvement Board and the Atomic Energy Advisory Committee. Under provisions of the Structural Pest Control Law he is also responsible for employing inspectors, and supervising the work they perform according to regulations promulgated by the Struc-tural Pest Control Commission. The law also provides for the appointment of a member of the department's Entomology Divi-sion staff and another member representing the department-at-large on that Commission. Since its organization in 1955, As-sistant Commissioner of Agriculture John L. Reitzel has been the appointee representing the department-at-large, and since July, 1959, he has been Secretary to the Commission. J. A. Harris served as the Entomology Division's representative until he retired in January, 1966. Governor Moore appointed George D. Jones head of the Entomology Division, to succeed Harris on the Commission. The Assistant Commissioner of Agriculture also represents the Department on the Animal Nutrition Committee at North Carolina State. State law provides for the licensing and regulation of render-ing plants operating in this state. Unlike most laws administer-ed by this department, authority to adopt regulations is not placed with the Board of Agriculture, but with the Commissioner of Agriculture acting with the advice of a rendering plant in-spection committee. Composition of the committee is specified by law to be "one member who shall be designated by the Com-missioner of Agriculture and who shall be an employee of the Department of Agriculture, one member who shall be designated by the State Health Director and who shall be an employee of the State Board of Health, and one member who shall be desig-nated by the Director of the North Carolina Division of the Southeastern Renderers Association." Dr. H. J. Rollins, State Veterinarian as the Department of Agriculture member desig-nated to serve on this committee from its organization in 1953 until his retirement on March 1, 1966. His successor, Dr. T. F. Zweigart, also replaces him on this committee. There are now 16 rendering plants licensed to operate in the state. All of these are inspected by members of the committee Report For 1964-1966 — Administration 25 at least once, some several times, each year to insure continued compliance with the law and regulations. A law enacted in 1949 providing for supervision of all agri-cultural fairs in the state is administered directly by the Com-missioner of Agriculture. There are no funds appropriated for its enforcement and the inspection work is "farmed out" among qualified department personnel. This arrangement has worked out very well, so far, and the law has done much to eliminate abuse of the name "fair" by undesirable fly-by-night carnivals and tent shows. Under the law, only bona fide agricultural and industrial expositions may use the name "fair" and those classi-fied as commercial (charging admission or operating traveling-shows or games) must be licensed by the Commissioner of Agri-culture. To obtain such license, the fairs must meet minimum standards adopted by the Board of Agriculture. There were 68 fairs licensed in the state in 1964 and 64 in 1965. On inspection, four of the 1964 fairs were found not meeting minimum require-ments and one was deficient in 1965. In the Spring of 1964, the interior of a shrine for the Agri-cultural Hall of Fame was completed. Dedication of the shrine was deferred because of the illness of the late Commissioner L. Y. Baentine. As soon as possible after I began my administration, I called a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Hall of Fame, and it was decided by the Board to consider more nominations for the Hall of Fame, and to draw up some additional guidelines for the selection of members, type of pictures and frames to be used, and similar matters, before holding dedication ceremonies. A major change in the requirements for eligibility of members was to the effect that none be elected that have been deceased less than one year. Previous regulations had merly stipulated that no living person would be eligible for consideration. After a series of meetings, the following persons were elected to the Hall of Fame : Dr. Clarence Poe (1881-1964) noted agricultural leader, editor and author. Dr. Jane S. McKimmon (1867-1957), who introduced and established home demonstration work in North Carolina. She is the first woman to be awarded this honor. L. Y. Ballentine (1899-1964), who was for 15 years commis-sioner of agriculture for North Carolina, after having served for eight years on the Wake County Board of Commissioners. 26 N. C. Department of Agriculture four terms as State Senator and a four-year term as Lieutenant Governor. Dr. Hugh H. Bennett (1881-1960), internationally known as "father of soil conservation." A prime mover in establishing the Soil Conservation Service, he became its first chief in 1935, and served in that post until October, 1951, when he became special assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture. He held the latter position until his retirement in 1952. W. Kerr Scott (1896-1958), who served agriculture as county agent, Master of the State Grange, Commissioner of Agriculture for North Carolina for 12 years, Governor of North Carolina for four years, and had been serving in the United States Senate for four years at the time of his death. R. Flake Shaw (1889-1957), who served for 12 years on Guilford County Board of Commissioners, seven years on the state committee under the Agricultural Adjustment program, and 17 years as executive vice president of the North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation. The 1953 law authorizing the Agricultural Hall of Fame did not appropriate any funds for creating the shrine or for operat-ing expenses. Several years ago the Council of State made money available from the contingency and emergency fund to remodel and furnish a room in the Agriculture Building to serve as a shrine. From then until the summer of 1966 there was no money for suitably decorating the exterior of the shrine, to pur-chase a citation book and uniform picture frames, or similar expenses. An additional $500 for these purposes has now been granted by the Council of State, and the necessary work is ex-pected to be completed in time for dedication of the shrine in the late Fall of 1966 or early Winter of 1967. Personnel Although long acquainted with many of the personnel in the Department of Agriculture, it was nevertheless a source of amazement to me to find, on becoming Commissioner, the high degree of excellence that generally prevailed throughout the department. Among employees in all types of jobs I found ability, dedication and devotion to duty that is certainly unusual in so large a group with such a diversity of responsibilities. Without this fine spirit among employees, it would be impossible for the department effectively to carry on its increasing respon-sibilities. I am grateful for the cooperation I received on coming to office and for the continuation of this fine spirit. Report For 1964-1966 — Administration 27 My first official act on becoming Commissioner of Agriculture on June 30, 1964, was to re-appoint John L. Reitzel as Assistant Commissioner of Agriculture. His wisdom, experience, advice and counsel have been, and continue to be, invaluable to me, to the department and to the State of North Carolina. At the beginning of the biennium, a number of division heads and several other key personnel had reached retirement age and desired to retire. They had given long and effective service in the department but, unfortunately, space does not permit me to list all the important contributions of each. Needless to say, we were sorry to lose so much talent and experience but I am grateful to many of them for staying on at my request until I could have time to closely review the work of the divisions and survey the qualifications needed for replacements. It was also a great source of gratification to me to find that with one exception I could fill the positions of division heads from the ranks of experienced people within the department. The on-the-job training of these replacements and their experi-ence within the department has been an invaluable asset in trans-ferring the administrative reins in these key positions. On January 1, 1965, C. D. Baucom who had been head of the Department's Weights and Measures Division for 38 years, re-tired. Since 1949 he had also directed the Gasoline and Oil Division. These posts have been filled by John I. Moore, who had been with the division for 25 years and assistant to Mr. Baucom for 17 years. He is ably carrying on the work of this Division, which has been for many years regarded nationally as one of outstanding excellence. Marion Kinlaw, who had been with the department since 1952 as a Weights and Measures inspector, was promoted to the post of assistant formerly held by Mr. Moore. C. H. Brannon retired as head of the Entomology Division on July 1, 1965. J. A. Harris who had been senior entomologist for 40 years, also elected to retire as of January 1, 1966. The loss of this combined experience was unfortunate, but we were most fortunate in obtaining the services of George D. Jones who came to the Department from the Entomology Department of the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service. James F. Greene, entomologist with the division since 1949, was promoted to Harris' former post. A. B. Fairley, who had headed the Warehouse Division since 1928, retired on August 1, 1965. William G. Parham, who had 28 N. C. Department of Agriculture been a grain specialist in the Department's Division of Markets for four years was appointed to this post and is ably carrying on this important work. On January 1, 1966, Harry T. Davis, Director of the State Museum, retired after serving 45 years on the museum staff, and 28 years as its director. William L. Hamnett, who had worked under Mr. Davis since 1963, has been appointed director to fill this post. We are fortunate that Mr. Davis has agreed to stay on as director emeritus in a consulting capacity. State Veterinarian, Dr. H. J. Rollins, who labored night and day in the interest of livestock disease control and eradication during his 17 years with the Department, retired on March 1, 1966. Dr. T. F. Zweigart who had headed the Veterinary Divi-sion's Diagnostic Laboratories since 1959, was appointed to suc-ceed him. Dr. T. B. Ryan, who had been Dr. Zweigart's assist-ant for two years, was made laboratory supervisor. The post of State Fair Manager was vacant when I became Commissioner. The Department of Agriculture and the people of North Carolina are deeply indebted to Dr. R. W. Shoffner, for agreeing to put on the 1964 Fair, which was then so close at hand, and to North Carolina State University for lending him to us from his post as Director of Foundations. Dr. Shoffner had served as Assistant Manager under the late Dr. J. S. Dorton for 24 years. Nevertheless, it was an extremely difficult task at such a late date to take hold of the multitude of details which the Fair entails. Dr. Shoffner did a magnificent job and under the most adverse circumstances. Again, it was a source of gratitude to find within the ranks of the Department of Agriculture personnel an able person to take over the permanent job of Fair Manager. Arthur K. Pitzer, who had for eight years served as a livestock marketing specialist with the Department and as head of the State Fair livestock department, was appointed to this position. During this biennium a new division was created. The Com-modity Distribution Section of the Division of Markets was made a full-fledged Division known as the Food Distribution Division. J. P. Davis, Jr., who had been head of the section for 20 years was made head of this new Division. The magnitude and volume of work involved in the distribution of federally donated foods for schools and charitable institutions made this administrative change advisable. Report For 1964-1966 — Administration 29 In January, 1966, the department lost by retirement W. P. Hedrick, who had so ably served as tobacco marketing specialist for nearly 30 years. This position was filled by his former assistant, John H. Cyrus, who had worked under Mr. Hedrick for 17 years. Mr. Cyrus' former position has been filled by Roger L. Mozingo, a native of Greene County, a graduate of N. C. State University, and well qualified by experience and training for the position of tobacco marketing specialist. On July 1, 1965, John T. Richardson, who had been the County Farm Census supervisor for 15 years also retired. His position was filled by William B. Harris, who had been an agricultural statistician with the Department for two years. I was most grateful to Miss Carolyn Harmon for agreeing to stay on in her post as administrative secretary in my office. She was invaluable in assisting me in launching my administration. However, in 1965, she elected to return to teaching and joined the faculty at Gaston College. I am most fortunate in having the experienced services of Mrs. Virginia Johnson as adminis-trative secretary. Mrs. Johnson had served as my secretary when I was manager of the Farmers Market and came to this office after serving under the new manager for a year. On becoming Commissioner, I appointed Charles G. Murray, who had been a marketing specialist in this department since 1957, to succeed me as manager of the State Farmers Market, where he is doing an outstanding job. The market is showing steady gains in growers participation and is absolutely self sus-taining. In June, 1966, we lost the services of William E. Gulley, who resigned to accept a post with the American Forest Products Industries, Inc. Mr. Gulley had served as Assistant Director of the Publications Division and had made important contribu-tions to the work of the department. His position had not been filled by the end of the biennium, but as this report is written we have obtained the services of Garland R. Whitaker, who comes to us from the Greenville Reflector, where he had worked as reporter and farm writer. In May, 1965, I inaugurated a monthly employee recognition award. A person to be designated Employee of The Month is chosen by a committee and their citation presented at the monthly staff meetings. This recognition is to be given to employees in all salary brackets and all levels of responsibility. These awards do more than simpy give individual recognition. 30 N. C. Department of Agriculture They serve to point up the fact that every employee in the de-partment has an important job to do and that the effectiveness of each individual in his or her particular job is vital to an effective team effort. The citations, themselves, help to keep employees of all divisions abreast of the great variety of pro-grams and responsibilities carried on by the department. Needless to say, the monthly choice is not easy to make from such a large number of employees of such general excellence. However, the committee is helped in making its selection by focusing on outstanding work or special accomplishments during the preceding month. This recognition has been well received by employees throughout the department. Recipients of the award during the biennium were: 1965 May—Francis Patterson, director of the Dairy Division ; June—Hugh B. Martin, head of fruit and vegetable section, Division of Markets ; July—Jay P. Davis, head of commodity distribution section, Di-vision of Markets ; August—J. A. Harris, senior entomologist, Entomology Divi-sion; September—Josephine Allen, secretary to State Veterinarian October—E. H. Cooper, tax auditor, inspection service; November—George Spain, director of Seed Testing Division; December—Dr. Preston Reid, director of Soil Testing Division ; 1966 January—Dr. H. J. Rollins, State Veterinarian; February—Harry T. Davis, director of State Museum; March—Robert Harris, stock clerk; April—Robert T. Teague, Jr., assistant state chemist; May—Charles G. Murray, manager of State Farmers Market; June—Mrs. M. Pauline DeCosta, Director of Publications Divi-sion; July—Charles B. Elks, head of engineering section, Division of Markets. State Board of Agriculture The Board of Agriculture is the regulatory and policy making body for the Department of Agriculture. Its membership cur-rently, and by long tradition, represents the finest kind of intelli-gent agricultural leadership and dedicated public servants. Report For 1964-1966 — Administration 31 ^wWfPiM^SM^ Commissioner Graham, Board Members J. H. Poole, Charles Phillips, David Townsend, Jr., and J. Atwell Alexander pause at the Laurel Springs Research Station during their recent tour of the western stations. The Board consists of 10 members appointed by the Governor for six-year terms of office. However, the law provides for staggered terms, so that not all expire at one time, and requires that the members shall be active farmers representing the major sections and types of agriculture in the state. The multiplying problems of progress place commensurately heavier burdens upon this Board. Regulatory provisions on which they must pass increase in complexity and in number. The Board members are all busy farmers and businessmen, active in many civic affairs at community and state level. Except for a nominal pay for days actually in session or traveling on business for the Board, their only compensation is the knowledge that they are serving their state and their nation. Yet they give without stint of their time and talents to the business of the Board not only in formal sessions but in travel and other activities to further the interest of the Department and North Carolina Agriculture. During the summer of 1966, visits to all 16 of the outlying Research Stations were scheduled for Board members. Despite the fact that these tours had necessarilv to be scheduled at the 32 N. C. Department of Agriculture busiest time of the year for these very busy men, seven of the 10 members participated in them. These biennial visits to the stations serve the dual purpose of acquainting the Board members with the budget needs of the stations and keeping them in touch with the agricultural develop-ments in all parts of the state. Beginning on the following page is a summary of matters brought before the Board in session totaling 15 days during this biennium. This gives some idea of the duties and responsibility of this truly "working" board. Report For 1964-1966 — Administration 33 HIGHLIGHTS OF BOARD MEETINGS 1964-1966 Biennium October 12, 1964 J. Atwell Alexander, Claude T. Hall, Charles F. Phillips, Raleigh, Fairgrounds Thomas 0. Gilmore. Thomas G. Joyner, and J. H. Poole. Warehouse Loans Approved Approved loans from the State Warehouse Fund of $10,000 to Farmers Bonded Warehouse of Wagram; $16,000 to the Shelby Bonded Warehouse of Shelby and $32,000 to the Long Cotton Warehouse of Weldon. Assistant Commissioner Reappointed Commissioner Graham informed the Board that his first official decision as Commissioner was to request that Mr. John L. Reitzel stay as Assistant Commissioner. December 7, Raleigh 1964 j. Atwell Alexander, Thomas O. Gilmore, Hoyle C. Griffin, Thomas G. Joyner, George P. Kittrell, Charles F. Phillips, J. H. Poole, and A. B. Slagle. Approve Appoint- Approved the appointment of John I. Moore as director of an^Mealsures* 8 the Weights and Measures Division, succeeding C. D. Bau- Director com, who retired. Removal of Fair- Approved a recommendation to the Department of Admin-grounds Dwellings j stration to remove the unusuable dwellings at the N. C. State Fairgrounds. Adopted Regula- Adopted standards for concentrated commercial feedings tions Defining stuffs labeled as complete dairy feed, following a public Complete Dairy . jajj-jj- t.I*-uji Peed hearing. Also adopted standard weights for bags and pack-ages of feeding stuffs. Endorse Pneumatic Went on record as endorsing a one-type system of sampling Peanut Sampler bulk peanuts and endorsed the pneumatic bulk sampler. Approve Warehouse Approved loans from the State Warehouse Fund of $40,000 Loans to Lincoln Bonded Warehouse and $33,000 to D. D. McCall and Ruth B. Council of St. Pauls. Discuss Oxford Land Sale Heard request from Oxford Industrial Development group to buy land from Oxford Research Station. Voted to request the Division of Property Control to appraise land requested. 34 N. C. Department of Agriculture Discuss Right-of- Discussed, but postponed action, on a request from resi- Way, Mountain <jent s adjacent to the Mountain Research Station for an Research Station , J . , , „ „ , , ,, . easement on right-of-way for an access road to their prop-erty. January 18, 1965 Thomas O. Gilmore, Claude T. Hall, George P. Kittrell, J. H. Rale,9h Poole, Hoyle C. Griffin, Thomas G. Joyner, Charles F. Phil-lips, and David Townsend, Jr. David Townsend, Jr. Commissioner Graham introduced David Townsend, Jr. who Appointed to ]ias been appointed to succeed his father on the Board. Mr. Townsend, Sr. retired because of ill health. Egg Law Committee The Board approved the reappointment of the following \nprove™ enfS persons to the Egg Law Advisory Committee: One year, Reid Roberts of Person and Carter Bridgers of Cleveland; two years, Maurice Pickler of Stanly and V. A. Aschcraft of Mecklenburg; three years, J. Atwell Alexander of Alex-ander, John Hanly of Durham. New appointees approved were: one year, Reginald Barton of Cumberland, and George King of Pitt; two years, Malcolm Lowder of Stanly and Ben Massey of Wake; three years, M. S. Emmant of New Hanover, Tom Johnson of Claveland and James G. Simpson of Buncombe. Approve List of Following a public hearing, approved the list of fertilizer- Pesticide'Mixtures pesticide mixtures permitted to be sold in 1965. Adopt Seed Tags Approved a N. C. Department of Agriculture policy state- Policy statement ment which declared as misleading the practice of selling second-generation seed from outside North Carolina with blue Certified Seed Tags. Made Permanent Adopted measures to continue the regulations permitting miutaK^Coffee 61'" t *ie bottling of coffee creamers and pancake and waffle Creamers and mixes in Grade A dairies on a permanent basis. Pancake Mix to be Processed in Dairy Plants Pitzer Named New Approved the appointment of Arthur K. Pitzer as manager state Fair of the N c state Fair, succeeding the late Dr. J. S. Dorton. Manager ° Grant Rights-of- Voted unanimously to grant a right-of-way across the edge Way Across Edge of the Upper Mountain Research Station at Laurel Springs tain Research 1* 11 " to Emerson E. Mashburn and Marion Jenkins. Station March 18. 1965 J. Atwell Alexander, Thomas O. Gilmore, Hoyle C. Griffin, Ra,e '9 h Claude T. Hall, Thomas G. Joyner, George P. Kittrell, Charles F. Phillips, J. H. Poole, and David Townsend, Jr. Peanut Assessment Voted to accept the official results of the N. C. Peanut Vote Results Growers Association referendum, which carried in favor of Accepted ., the assessment. Additional Request Received a request from Granville Industrial Developers For Oxford Land Inc to purchase 25 to 35 acres of land on the Oxford Research Station. In December the group had asked to purchase 10.62 acres and in view of the additional request the Board appointed a committee to study the proposed sale. Proposed Egg Law Adopted a resolution endorsing the proposed North Carolina Endorsed Egg Law before the N. C. General Assembly. Endorse New Endorsed a budget request of $1,750,000 to erect new build- Pair Buildings ingg on the N q gtate Fairgrounds. Report For 1964-1966 — Administration 35 Endorsed Amend- Approved an amendment to the N. C. Feed Law, reducing raents to N. C. t h e inspection fee from 25 cents to 12 cents per ton. Feed Law June 9-10, 1965 Raleigh Adopt Fertilizer Grade List J. Atwell Alexander, Hoyle C. Griffin, Thomas G. Joyner, J. H. Poole, Thomas O. Gilmore, Claude T. Hall, Charles F. Phillips, A. B. Slagle, and David Townsend, Jr. Went on record as endorsing the fertilizer grade list on a ratio basis with minimum grades in each ratio and adopted the ratios and minimum grades for the year beginning July 1, 1965. Eliminate "Chow" Amended the feed regulations to eliminate the registered From Feed brand name "chow". Regulations Approved Land Appraisal at Oxford Approved the Division of Property Control's appraisal of land at the Oxford Research Station being sought by Gran-ville Industrial Developers, Inc. and agreed to allow the appraisal to stand for a period of 18 months. Appoint Member to Appointed Board Member Charles F. Phillips to negotiate Negotiate for Land wj t j1 f^e Duke Power Company for land for an electric sub- Power Company station on the Piedmont Research Station near Salisbury, at Piedmont Research Station Allow Bottling of Amended the Dairy Law to allow the bottling of water in Water in Dairy Grade A dairy plants. jl 13.HIS study Fruit Punch, Voted to allow the continuance of bottling fruit punch and Fruit Dnnks fruit drinks in Grade A dairies while definitions and stan-dards are studied and drawn up. Decrease Maximum Adopted amendments to the regulations reducing the Size of Bakery maximum size of bakery rolls from a half pound to six ounces. August 9, 1965 Raleigh J. Atwell Alexander, Claude T. Hall, J. H. Poole. A. B. Slagle, Thomas O. Gilmore, Charles F. Phillips, and David Townsend, Jr. Approve Appoint- Approved the appointment of George D. Jones as director ments of Heads OI j^e Entmology Division and William G. Parham as and "warehmfse superintendent of the Warehouse Division, succeeding C. Divisions H. Brannon and A. B. Fairley. respectively. Approve Cotton Referendum Request Approved a request from the N. C. Cotton Producers Asso-ciation to hold a referendum in 1965. Lower Percentage Adopted an amendment to the Rules and Regulations low- Minerals hi Feeds ering tne maximum percentage of minerals and salts that may be added to livestock feed. Approve Warehouse Approved a loan of $8,000 from the State Warehouse Fund Loans to W. J. Long, Jr. Warehouse of Weldon. October ll, 1965 J. Atwell Alexander, Claude T. Hall, J. H. Poole, A. B. Raleigh, Fairgrounds slagle Thomas O. Gilmore, Charles F. Phillips. Henry Gray Shelton, and David Townsend, Jr. New Members Welcomed Commissioner Graham welcomed Henry Gray Shelton of Speed, recently appointed to a six-year term on the Board of Agriculture, and George P. Kittrell and Charles F. Phil-lips reappointed to new terms. 36 N. C. Department of Agriculture Execution of Bond Adopted a resolution authorizing the execution of a bond Gov h ernme e nt al with the United States of America through the U. S. De-partment of Agriculture as required by the U. S. Warehouse Act. Opening Ceremonies Participated in the opening seremonies of the 1965 N. C. 1965 State Fair gtate Fair December 6-7, 1965 J. Atwell Alexander, Thomas G. Joyner, Charles F. Phillips, Ra,eigh A. B. Slagle, Henry Gray Shelton, Thomas O. Gilmore, Claude T. Hall, J. H. Poole, and David Townsend, Jr. Fertilizer-Pesticide Approved the list of fertilizer-pesticide mixtures permitted Mixture List tQ be gold in 1%6 Approved Attend Unveiling of Board Members joined the Department staff for ceremonies To^ommfsTkmer unveiling the Portrait of tne late Commissioner L. Y. Bal-ly. Y. Baiientine lentine, presented by the Department as a memorial to Mr. Ballentine. Foxtail Added To Amended seed regulations by adding Giant Foxtail to the List 10"8 We6dS list of noxious weeds prohibited and restricted in North Carolina seed. Granville Develop- Received a letter from J. P. Harris, Jr. of Oxford commit- Fronf'cfxford 01 t *ng tne Granville Industrial Developers Inc. to purchase Research station several tracts of land on the Oxfod Research Station for $16,750. Approve Long- Authorized the Commissioner to initiate negotiations to Range Planning rctain a long-range planner for the N. C. State Fair, for State Fair D a * Authorize Egg Authorized the N. C. Egg Marketing Association to handle Referendum tne referendum assessment program for the N. C. Poultry Council. Regulations Under Adopted new rules and regulations for the N. C. Egg Law, New Egg Law amended by the 1965 General Assembly, for a period of one year, at which time they will be reviewed. Acting Director Approved the appointment of William L. Hamnett as act- For Museum ing di rector of the N. c. State Museum of Natural Science, replacing the retiring Harry T. Davis. January 24-25, 1966 J. Atwell Alexander, Richard N. Barber, Jr., Thomas O. Ra,eigh Gilmore, J. H. Poole, David Townsend, Jr., Claude T. Hall, George P. Kittrell, Charles F. Phillips, Henry Gray Shelton. Richard N. Barber Richard N. Barber, Jr. of Waynesville was sworn in as a Term o^Boa^d* new Board Member, filling the unexpired term of A. B. Slagle who resigned. Milk Ring Test Adopted a resolution making the brucellosis ring test of Made Official milk the ffj cial test Ior Bang's Disease in North Carolina. Deny Request For Denied a request from Sealtest Foods for permission to Milk Marketing conduct a marketing test of whole milk with one percent non-fat solids added. Approve Non-Dairy Adopted a regulation allowing non-dairy vegetable toppings Toppings l0 jje proceSse(i jn Grade A dairies in North Carolina. Report For 1964-1966 — Administration 37 Ap™prove Referend- Voted to approve a request for a "Nickels For Know-How" s O" w N Hmv" 9 ret'el'endum to be conducted jointly by the Farm Bureau, Cattle and Pork the State Grange and the N. C. Agricultural Foundations Assessments Inc. Also approved a referendum for the N. C. Cattlemens Association and the N. C. Pork Producers Association. New Veterinary Approved the appointment of Dr. T. F. Zweigart as State Division Director Veterinarian, succeeding Dr. H. J. Rollins who retired. Approved Establish Food Voted unanimously to establish the Food Distribution Di-stribution Divi- vis j on under the direction of J. P. Davis, to direct School sion, Approve _ ' . _ ... , . , .. ,. Division Head Lunchroom and Commodity disposal programs in North Carolina. Approve Budget Request Following a review of budget requests from the various divisions of the department, the Board voted unanimously to approve the department's budget request for the 1967-69 Biennium. Urge Continued After receiving information that President Johnson's new tioifin Pest'con- budget contain no appropriations for programs vital to troi Programs North Carolina, the Board drafted a letter to Agricultural Research Services, USDA, urging that the Imported Fire Ant, Soybean Cyst Nematode and Sweet Potato Weevil pro-grams not be dropped. February 22. Raleigh 1966 j. Atwell Alexander, Thomas G. Joyner, Charles F. Phillips, Henry Gray Shelton, George P. Kittrell, J. H. Poole, and David Townsend, Jr Approve Egg Asso- Approved the changing of the assessment proposed by the eiation Change North Carolina Egg Marketing Association from one cent per hen sold for slaughter to two cents per case of table eggs sold to packers. Approve Peach Growers Vote Approved a request by the N. C. Peach Growers Association to conduct a referendum on continuing the assessment on peach trees. April 25. Raleigh • 966 j. Atwell Alexander, Thomas O. Gilmore, Thomas G. Joyner. Charles F. Phillips, Henry Gray Shelton, Richard N. Barber, Jr., Claude T. Hall, J. H. Poole, David Townsend, Jr. Approve Referend- Approved a request from the North Carolina Apple Growers um For Apple Association to hold a referendum in 1966. Growers Cocklebur Added To Noxious Weed List Approve Land Trade, Coastal Plains Research Station Voted to add cocklebur seed to the list of noxious weeds prohibited and restricted in North Carolina. Approved a request to exchange two acres of land on the Coastal Plains Research Station at Willard, to be used to construct an airport runway, in return for the development of an irrigation pond for the station. Approve NCSU- Approved an agreement between the Department and N. C. NCDA Agreement g^a(- e University to use department property as right-of-way for improving roads fn the vicinity of the N. C. State Fair-grounds and Carter Stadium. Define Fruit Punch Amended Rules and Regulations to include definitions and and Fruit Drink standards for fruit punch and fruit drinks bottled in Grade A dairies in North Carolina. 38 N. C. Department of Agriculture Approve Warehouse Approved a loan from the State Warehouse Fund of $41,000 Loan to the House Milling Company of Newton Grove. June 7, 1966 J. Atwell Alexander, Thomas 0. Gilmore, Thomas G. Joyner, Ralei9h Charles F. Phillips, Henry Gray Shelton, Richard N. Bar-ber, Jr., Claude T. Hall, George P. Kittrell, and J. H. Poole. New Fertilizer Approved a list of fertilizer ratios and minimum grades Grade List to be used in 1966-67. Approved Amend Feed Board voted to amend the feed regulations by deleting the Regulations section governing diethylstilbestol mixtures, since other medicated feed regulations are sufficient to regulate these mixtures. Approve Regulation Approved a request from the Secretary of the Board to Sub-Division sub-divide and re-code Chapter IX of the Rules and Regu-lations since the chapter contained so many varied sub-jects. Approve Soybean Approved a request from the newly-organized N. C. Soybean Referendum Producers Association to conduct a referendum in 1966. Investigate Request Instructed Board Member Charles F. Phillips to look into To Sell Land a request rrom H. R. Shulenburger that the Board sell him a tract of land on the Piedmont Research Station. Honor Former Adopted resolutions honoring S. C. Lattimore and Reeves Noland, both passed away. former members of the Board who recently ACCOUNTS Mrs. Grace H. Malloy Controller The Central Division of Ac-counts and Personnel is respon-sible for management and con-trol of the fiscal and personnel affairs for the Department of Agriculture proper and all other General Fund and Special Fund Programs administered by the department. Responsibilities of this division include: procure-ment of operational funds, pro-curement of operational supply requirements, acceptance and ac-counting for receipts, the dis-bursement of funds, budget maintenance and control, the col-lection of a variety of taxes and fees and the collection of assess-ments for nine agricultural pro-motional organizations and foun-dations, and personnel management and control DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Code 28021 Statement of Disbursements July 1, 1964-June 30, 1966 Summary by Purposes 1965-66 1964-65 I. General Administration:... $ 587,222.72 $ 429,421.89 Administration 63,355.80 64,051.24 Accounting 88,115.09 73,888.25 Publications 52,527.61 49,917.18 Custodial 20,472.48 19,570.48 Miscellaneous 362,751.74 221,994.74 II. Inspection and Regulation: 993.501.00 808,050.93 Feed, Fertilizer, Insecticide Inspection..... 91,563.55 82,625.45 Egg Inspection 50,231.17 Entomology Inspection 108,766.09 99.800.73 Weights and Measures Inspection 152,323.07 139,997.14 Meat and Poultry Inspection ___._. 590,617.12 485,627.61 III. Markets Division 523.257.68 456.703.36 40 N. C. Department of Agriculture IV. Analytical and Regulation: 763,853.48 654,780.45 Dairy Services 104,755.04 94,316.50 Seed Testing 117,137.47 108,421.13 Analytical (Chemistry) 376,461.12 320,662.55 Soil Testing ._ _ 165,499.85 131,380.27 V. Crop Statistics Division . 172,851.49 169,175.54 VI. Veterinary Division 738,847.45 652,529.99 VII. Research Stations Operations _ 812,549.44 718,723.42 VIII. State Museum of Natural History __ 77.392.39 53,621.33 IX. Distribution of USDA Donated Commodities: Revolving Fund ..._ . 3,583.08 6,842.53 General Program—Distribution to Needy Families . _ 411,562.00 323,622.44 X. Merit Salary Increments XL Transfer to Capital Improvements Code 66558 Item I—State Fairgrounds Utilities . _. 91,088.63 XII. Settlement, Ramsey Feed Mills vs. N. C. Department of Agriculture 23,406.73 XIII. Imported Fire Ant Control 39.784.55 2,265.00 Deferred Obligations Transferred to 1965-66 49,526.00 Total Disbursements . $5,238,900.64 $4,325,262.88 Summary by Objects 1965-66 1964-65 Salaries and Wages $3,397,389.94 $2,898,848.56 Supplies and Materials .___ 288,468.93 221,370.68 Postage, Telephone, Telegraph and Express 64.718.4S 51,705.57 Travel Expense 303,359.04 288,344.04 Printing and Binding 40,019.34 44,779.47 Motor Vehicle Operation 23,893.84 21,254.26 Lights, Power and Water 13,968.43 11,920.86 Repairs and Alterations .._ 75,405.28 54,171.16 General Expense 414,215.02 389,180.91 Insurance and Bonding 7,019.58 6,863.22 Equipment 173,811.41 107,321.89 Stores for Resale 25,560.99 20,893.11 Contribution to Retirement System 192,830.00 86,822.92 Contribution to Social Security 103,745.00 72,260.23 Merit Salary Increments Transfer to Capital Improvements Code 66558 Item 1 State Fairgrounds Utilities 91,088.63 Settlement, Ramsey Feed Mills vs. N. C. Department of Agriculture 23,406.73 Deferred Obligations Transferred to 1965-66 49,526.00 Total Disbursements __ $5,238,900.64 $4,325,262.88 Report For 1964-1966 — Accounts 41 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Code 28021 Statement of Receipts July 1, 1964-June 30, 1966 1965-66 1964-65 1. Fertilizer Tax $ 419,815.92 $ 405,356.97 2. Peed Tax 184,523.98 422,800.49 3. Research Stations 260,461.44 241,077.85 4. Miscellaneous Receipts: 465,591.51 448,495.00 Federal Funds: Research and Marketing Act 74,561.03 62,639.59 USDA Cooperative Agreements 2,757.82 4,032.66 Miscellaneous Receipts: Sale of Equipment 3,000.76 3,718.85 Transfers from Other Codes 42,013.13 11,176.00 Miscellaneous 94,277.62 49,505.63 Sale of Securities (U. S. Treasury Bonds) 91,088.63 Deferred Obligations Transferred from 1964-65 49,526.00 Transfer Agriculture Fund Code 28721 Cash Balance as of 7/1/65—- 15,708.94 Total Receipts $1,703,326.78 $1,648,803.04 CONDITION OF FUNDS 1965-66 1964-65 Treasurer's Cash—July 1 _.. $ $ 33,751.50 Receipts .. 1,703,326.78 1,648,803.04 General Fund Appropriation 3,535,573.86 2,658,417.28 Disbursements 5,238,900.64 4,325,262.88 Treasurer's Cash—June 30 -0- 15,708.94 Investments in Bends and Premiums on Bonds -0- 103,874.98 Total Credit Balance June 30 -0- $ 119,583.92 GASOLINE AND OIL INSPECTION General Fund—Code 12201 Statement of Receipts and Disbursements July 1, 1964-June 30, 1966 1965-66 1964-65 General Fund Appropriation $ 120,946.00 $ 107,701.00 Receipts: Transfer from Highway Fund 363,134.00 339,411.00 Disbursements _ 461,880.64 418,804.92 Unexpended Balance of Appropriation 22,199.36 28,507.08 42 N. C. Department of Agriculture STATE WAREHOUSE FUND Special Fund—Code 28727 Statement of Receipts and Disbursements July 1, 1964-June 30, 1966 Credit Balance—July 1 $ 59,104.10 $ 53,572.50 Receipts: Revenue Collections 46,999.97 48,701.63 Miscellaneous Collections 23,711.17 Repayment of Loans 89,445.58 108,650.00 Guarantee Fund 127.53 387.54 Sale of State Property 150.00 Disbursements: Expenditures 43,582.28 41,029.31 Miscellaneous Expenditures _.. 23,711.17 Loans to Warehouses _ 72,000.00 97,500.00 Guarantee Fund 13,828.26 Credit Balance—June 30 80,094.90 59,104.10 Loans to Warehouses 524,530.22 541,250.00 Invested in 2y2 % U. S. Gov't. Bonds. 88,000.00 88,000.00 Total Worth—June 30 692,625.12 688.354.10 COOPERATIVE INSPECTION SERVICE Special Fund—Code 28731 Statement of Receipts and Disbursements July 1, 1964-June 30, 1966 1965-66 1964-65 Treasurer's Cash—July 1 $ 409,042.03 $ 418,765.31 Invested in 2% % U. S. Gov't. Bonds 40,000.00 40,000.00 Premiums on Bonds 1,175.00 1,175.00 Credit Balance—July 1 450,217.03 459,940.31 Receipts 713,129.92 630,846.67 Disbursements 635,945.40 640,569.95 Credit Balance—June 30 527,401.55 450,217.03 EGG MARKETING ACT Special Fund—Code 28733 Statement of Receipts and Disbursements July 1, 1964-June 30, 1966 Credit Balance—July 1 $ 11,441.03 $ 13,865.31 Receipts 2,816.40 32,224.74 Disbursements __ 13,603.00 34,649.02 Credit Balance—June 30.... 654.43 11,441.03 STRUCTURAL PEST CONTROL Special Fund—Code 28735 Statement of Receipts and Disbursements July 1, 1964-June 30, 1966 Credit Balance—July 1 _ $ 9,391.61 $ 12,196.68 Receipts 21,647.00 20,449.00 Disbursements _ 24,547.18 23,254.07 Credit Balance—June 30 __ 6,491.43 9,391.61 Report For 1964-1966 — Accounts 43 VOLUNTARY POULTRY INSPECTION Special Fund—Code 28737 Statement of Receipts and Disbursements July 1, 1964-June 30, I960 Credit Balance—July 1 $ 2,161.70 $ 2,161.70 Transferred to Code 28021 2,161.70 Credit Balance—June 30 -0- 2,161.70 CREDIT UNION SUPERVISION Special Fund—Code 28739 Statement of Receipts and Disbursements July 1, 1964-June 30, 1966 1965-66 1964-65 Credit Balance—July 1 $ 59,967.40 $ 45,433.55 Receipts 92,559.75 82,355.87 Disbursements 77,473.24 67,822.02 Credit Balance—June 30 75,053.91 59,967.40 SHEEP AND WOODLAND REVOLVING FUND Special Fund—Code 28745 Statement of Receipts and Disbursements July 1, 1964-June 30, 1966 Credit Balance—July 1 $ 101,913.31 $ 84,666.51 Receipts 63,401.73 42,179.28 Disbursements 68,036.08 24,932.48 Credit Balance—June 30 97,278.96 101,913.31 SPECIAL DEPOSITORY ACCOUNT Special Fund—Code 28751 Statement of Receipts and Disbursements July 1, 1964-June 30, 1966 Credit Balance—July 1 $ 128,389.19 $ 129,008.82 Receipts: Cash Bond Deposits 250.00 232.44 Surplus Commodities Revolving Fund 5,901.67 4,387.52 Research and Marketing Act _. 78,000.00 58,400.00 Hall of Fame 35.00 Disbursements: Refund of Bond Deposits 1,000.00 Reimbursement to Code 28021 Revolving Fund.... 3.440.45 Transfer to Code 28021 RMA 74,561.03 62,639.59 Credit Balance—June 30 134,574.38 128,389.19 VOLUNTARY MEAT INSPECTION Special Fund—Code 28753 Statement of Receipts and Disbursements July 1, 1964-June 30, 1966 Credit Balance—July 1 $ 14,984.60 $ 14,984.60 Receipts Disbursements—Transferred to Code 28021 14,9S4.60 Credit Balance—June 30 '. '. -0- 14.9S4.60 44 N. C. Department of Agriculture OPERATION OF FARMER'S MARKET Special Fund—Code 28755 Statement of Receipts and Disbursements July 1, 1964-June 30, 1966 1965-66 1964-65 Credit Balance—July 1 $ 9,811.85 $ 6,565.51 Receipts 79,590.62 73,233.92 Disbursements 68,567.59 69,987.58 Credit Balance—June 30 „ .___ 20,834.88 9.811.85 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS OF 1957 Code 65777 Statement of Receipts and Disbursements July 1, 1964-June 30, 1966 Appropriation .__ $ $ 72.83 Transfer Balance from Permanent Improvement Fund of 1949 Code 64981 Disbursements Unexpended Balance of Appropriation Reverted to General Fund 6/30/65 72.83 Balance -0- CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS OF 1959 Code 65961 Statement of Receipts and Disbursements July 1, 1964-June 30, 1966 Appropriation $ 367.60 $ 367.60 Receipts Highway Commission Disbursements Unexpended Balance of Appropriation 367.60 367.60 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS OF 1961 Code 66108 Statement of Receipts and Disbursements July 1, 1964-June 30, 1966 Appropriation $ .33 $ .33 Receipts: City & County Property Taxes Raleigh Farmers Market, Inc. Disbursements Unexpended Balance of Appropriation .33 .33 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS OF 1963 Code 66354 Statement of Receipts and Disbursements July 1, 1964-June 30, 1966 1965-66 196/f-65 Appropriation .__ __* 141,323.54 $ 241.149.65 Receipts: Right-of-Way Easement Public Service Co. of N. C. Fire Loss—State Property Fire Insurance Fund Disbursements 36,901.60 99,826.11 Unexpended Balance of Appropriation.... 104,421.94 141,323.54 Report For 1964-1966 — Accounts 45 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS OF 1965 Code 66558 Statement of Receipts and Disbursements July 1, 1064-June 30, 1966 Appropriation $ 67,100.00 $ RCCeitjtS ; Funds on Hand (Sale of Bonds). 91,088.63 Sale of Oxford Tobacco Research Station Land 15,787.50 Sale of Land and Easement, Piedmont Research Station 3,705.40 Disbursements 26,402.49 Unexpended Balance of Appropriation 151,279.04 AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION ASSESSMENT Statement of Receipts and Disbursements July 1, 1964-June 30, 1966 Credit Balance—July 1 $ 59,939.91 $ 59,901.00 Receipts 162,532.41 160,326.18 Disbursements 165,578.11 160,287.27 Credit Balance—June 30 56,894.21 59,939.91 CATTLE ASSESSMENT Statement of Receipts and Disbursements July 1, 1964-June 30, 1966 Credit Balance—July 1 $ 10,028.54 $ 9,446.32 Receipts 27,556.66 28,382.22 Disbursements 28,000.00 27,800.00 Credit Balance—June 30 9,585.20 10,028.54 COTTON ASSESSMENT Statement of Receipts and Disbursements July 1, 1964-June 30, 1966 1965-66 1964-65 Credit Balance—July 1 $ 403.48 $ 596.13 Receipts 21,579.94 35,807.35 Disbursements _ 21,800.00 36.000.00 Credit Balance—June 30 183.42 403. 4S PEACH ASSESSMENT Statement of Receipts and Disbursements July 1, 1964-June 30, 1966 Credit Balance—July 1 __ $ 372.23 $ 127.73 Receipts 3,139.39 244.50 Disbursements 3,000.00 Credit Balance—June 30 511.62 372.23 PEANUT ASSESSMENT Statement of Receipts and Disbursements July 1, 1964-June 30, 1966 Credit Balance—July 1 $ 4,583.37 $ S,S44.9S Receipts ~~~ - 74,401.13 02.13S.39 Disbursements _ 6a.500.00 66,400.00 Credit Balance—June 30 9,484.50 4.583 37 46 N. C. Department of Agriculture POULTRY ASSESSMENT Statement of Receipts and Disbursements July 1, 1964-June 30, 1966 Credit Balance — July 1 $ 15,939.89 $ 17,649.05 Receipt?. 61,930.59 76,290.84 Disbursements __. __ .__ 66,200.00 78,000.00 Credit Balance—June 30 11,670.48 15,939.89 SWEET POTATO ASSESSMENT Statement of Receipts and Disbursements July 1, 1964-June 30, 1966 Credit Balance—July 1 $ 151.15 $ 750.80 Receipts 28.164.77 18,600.35 Disbursements 28,100.00 19,200.00 Credit Balance—June 30 215.92 151.15 SWINE ASSESSMENT Statement of Receipts and Disbursements July 1, 1964-June 30, 1966 1965-66 1964-65 Credit Balance—July 1_ ...$ 454.19 $ 727.27 Receipts 64,180.47 60,726.92 Disbursements 64,000.00 61,000.00 Credit Balance—June 30 634.66 454.19 EGG ASSESSMENT Statement of Receipts and Disbursements July 1, 1964-June 30, 1966 Credit Balance—July 1 - $ -0- Receipts _ 4,150.80 Disbursements _ -0- Credit Balance—June 30 4,150.80 DIVISION OF CHEMISTRY Dr. E. W. Constable State Chemist The Chemistry Division, as the name implies, is concerned large-ly with the administration of those control laws which involve chemistry and its related fields for the evaluation of the products covered by these laws and to de-termine compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. These laws, 14 in number, ap-ply respectively to commercial fertilizers, fertilizer materials, manipulated (processed and packaged) manures and mulches fortified with plant food; agri-cultural liming materials and landplaster ; commercial live-stock, domestic animal and poul-try feeds both medicated and regulated feeds ; canned dog and pet foods ; pesticides, this cov-ering insecticides, rodenticides, herbicides, plant defoliants, re-pellents and similar materials; the application of pesticides by aircraft; internal combustion (automotive) engine antifreezes; human foods, drugs and cosmetics, bakeries, bottling plants, arti-ficially bleached flour; flour, bread and corn meal enrichment; oleomargarine; and linseed oils. The basic purposes of these laws are to safeguard consumer health and welfare, assure sound and safe products which are informatively and truthfully labeled, to safeguard and promote sound businesses, and to curb spurious or misleading claims and representations, fraud and unscrupulous and destructive com-petition. For examples : The quality of, or honesty in the labeling of fertilizers, commercial feeds, pesticides or landplaster cannot be judged alone by look, odor, feel or taste, if one wishes to venture that far. Similarly, the purity of linseed oil or the safety and effectiveness of antifreeze preparations cannot be so judged (spu- 48 N. C. Department of Agriculture rious brands of the latter having caused millions of dollars in damages prior to enactment of the current antifreeze control law). Similarly, the adulteration and misbranding of foods, drugs, cosmetics and devices can seldom be judged alone by the human senses. Among the chief requirements and activities for accomplishing the purposes of these control laws are the registration of products prior to sale, issuing permits and licenses to sell ; meeting specific legal requirements as to guarantees, composition and labeling, including adequate notices of caution and warnings, directions for use, and antidotes in case of accident from products of a highly hazardous nature; prescribing definitions and standards of identity and promulgating rules and regulations where neces-sary in the interest of consumers ; inspecting premises, requiring satisfactory safeguards and sanitation for products for human consumption ; collecting official samples for chemical and other analyses to determine compliance and issuing reports thereon ; checking credentials and qualifications for issuance of aerial crop dusting licenses ; issuing warnings where deviations develop, embargoes on violative products, and cancellations of licenses, permits and registrations where defect or default (uncorrected) later come to light; and instituting court actions as ultimate circumstances may dictate. Activities under these various categories, along with other pertinent information, are given in the following sections. Commercial Fertilizers, Agricultural Liming Materials and Landplaster The determination of compliance with the laws applying to fertilizers, agricultural liming material and landplaster as to registrations, labeling, payment of inspections fees and meeting guarantees, requires that inspections be carried out in all parts of the state and official samples be collected for chemical and other analyses. For fertilizer, the analyses required are for the major plant foods (nitrogen, phosphate, and potash), the secondary plant foods (calcium, magnesium, sulfur and boron), for acid-base forming qualities and chlorine, and for the trace elements (man-ganese, copper, iron, zinc and molybdenum). Analyses on liming materials are for calcium, magnesium, acid-neutralizing value, fineness of particle size, and for potash when that is included; and for landplaster its content of calcium sulphate. Report For 1964-1966—Chemistry 49 Coverage for the biennium was : Official fertilizer samples 20,010 Unofficial samples of fertilizers and materials for farmers 5 Official liming materials, lime-potash mixtures and landplaster 441 Total 20,504 As rapidly as the analytical work was completed, individual analysis reports were forwarded to all concerned. In order to make all of this work available to the public, it was later published collectively in annual issues of the "Fertilizer Report" which are put out by the department for that purpose. Inspections and analyses of liming materials and landplaster for the biennium, in line with the experience of preceding years, showed these products generally to be of standard quality and to satisfactorily measure up to the guarantees made for them. De-ficiencies and defects in these were found to be within the usual range and, where found, were adjusted as provided by the respec-tive laws. Fertilizer analyses showed greater than normal devia-tions, the deficiencies, particularly those below the normal toler-ances which are characteristic of usual good manufacturing prac-tices, indicated the need for further evaluation. The following section gives this in outline. Fertilizer Deficiencies Fertilizers showed a situation of concern, particularly for the last fiscal year of the biennium, 1965-66, in that the number of penalty-deficiency samples, in rounded figures, expanded to 15% of the 10,000 samples worked, whereas, for the preceding year, 1964-65, this figure was 6.97c- The average per year for the preceding four years, 1960-64, was 5%. This situation obviously required additional study and adjustment. The fertilizer industry has been becoming increasingly com-plex in the past decade. Each added development could be ex-pected to create some problems of readjustment, which would be reflected in increased penalties until the new developments were worked smoothly into existing operations. Then the deficiency index would decline to a level characteristic of good manufactur-ing practices. This was the trend during the period 1960-65, 50 N. C. Department of Agriculture which were years of sharply increasing technological develop-ments in the industry. Developments in the 1960-1965 period which contributed to increased deficiencies included more fertilizers guaranteeing secondary plant foods (calcium, magnesium, sulfur and boron) ; the adding and guaranteeing of trace elements (manganese, cop-per, iron, zinc, molybdenum and boron) ; the introduction of new forms, such as pellets and granular, and of new products such as potassium nitrate and ammonium phosphates; the so-called bulk mixing and handling of fertilizers ; and increased use of nitrogen solutions and liquid mixed fertilizers. This period was characterized by rises and declines in numbers of deficiencies as various new developments were first introduced and then worked efficiently into the manufacturing processes. However, the upsurge of deficiencies in the year 1965-66 reflects a new influence, that of major changes in the corporate structure of the fertilizer industry. During this period, many old-line fertilizer firms which initiated, developed and matured in the business of fertilizer manufacture, and whose management personnel were masters of its highly complex technology, were bought up by large corporations whose major interests have heretofore been in other lines of production. The high incidence of deficiencies for 1965-66 can logically be attributed to changes in management or managerial authority as a result of transfers in ownership. However, this has meant a proportionate over-burden in our control work to adjust, clarify and correct for the protection of the state's farmers and its agri-cultural progress. And it is a trend that could become permanent unless we continue to be extremely diligent in our enforcement procedures, and vigilant in developing regulatory measures to provide necessary restrictions. Liquid Commercial Fertilizers The use of fertilizers in liquid form continued to expand mark-edly in the state. Up to 1964 there were 11 plants producing liquid mixed fertilizers (those mixed to contained two or more plant food elements such as nitrogen, phosphate, potash and others) . From that period through 1966, that number expanded to 21 plants, an increase of 91 %. In rounded figures, the tonnage increased from 17.6 to 30.6, an increase of 73% during this pe-riod. The use of nitrogen solutions earlier established in the east- Report For 1964-1966 — Chemistry 51 ern part of the state, continued to expand in that area with addi-tional installations and equipment, and also expanded into the west. The increase in tonnage used from 1964-65 through 1965- 66 was 30% . These figures indicate that liquid commercial ferti-lizers are finding areas of appropriate service and economic ad-vantage in North Carolina agriculture. Commercial Feeds The North Carolina Feed Law and Canned Dog Food Law apply to commercial feeds for livestock, domestic animals and poultry and to canned pet foods for dogs and cats. Registrations, checking of labels and state-wide inspections and collection of official samples are among the requirements for determining compliance both of the products themselves and for the payment of inspections fees. Feed samples are analyzed chemically, micro-scopically and by other means to determine the content of crude protein, crude fat, and crude fiber; the presence, identity and quantity of drugs, growth stimulants and other additives ; the presence and condition of declared ingredients, of substitutions and adulterants ; and the compliance with guarantees and stan-dards. Additionally, analyses were made on feed samples for farmers in connection with the cooperative forage improvement program carried on jointly by the Department of Agriculture and North Carolina State University. Since a large percentage of the feeds now used contain addi-tives, such as hormones and other growth stimulants and drugs in both prophylactic and medicinal quantities, the analytical work required to cover these additives greatly increases the work load. These added analyses are a specialty within themselves and re-quire facilities and applications different and apart from the usual feed analyses. Results of the work for the biennium showed that, in general, feed standards and quality were maintained on a satisfactory level. There was the usual number of deficiencies, deviations from guaranteed composition and other defects. In cases which so qualified, consumers were reimbursed according to the penalty provisions of the law and, in others, the products were removed from the market for reprocessing or other appropriate handling. As rapidly as analyses were completed, individual reports were forwarded to all concerned. The work of each year them was 52 N. C. Department of Agriculture made available to the public collectively in the annual "Feed Report". Coverage for the biennium was : Official feed samples 5,537 Unofficial feed samples 140 Analyses for medication in above feeds (925) Samples run for farmers in forage improvement program—N. C. Department of Agriculture cooperating with N. C. State __1,760 Total ______ 7,437 Amended Feed Law The feed law was amended by the Legislature of 1965, restating its purpose, revising certain definitions, procedures and applica-tions and reducing the inspection fee. The restated purpose reads—"The purpose of this article is to protect a farmer-buyer from the manufacturer-seller of concentrated, commercial feeds who might sell substandard or mislabeled feed stuff, and not to protect from himself a farmer who mixes his own feed." Customer formula feeds were redefined as those feeds which are mixed according to the customer's formula, the formula being supplied in writing over the customer's, or his agent's signature. Such feeds shall not be stocked or displayed in sales areas or resold commercially. The delivery of these feeds, in order to be properly in line, must be directly from manufacturer to customer possession. The labeling for these customer formula feeds is required to accompany the invoices and be supplied to customers at the time of delivery. It is required to show the names and addresses of both the manufacturer and the customer, the date of delivery, the product name and brand, the name and pounds of each regis-tered commercial feed and of each other ingredient in the feed. Further, the labels must declare the name and amount of any content of drugs, prophylactics, growth stimulants or other rem-edial additives, and give directions for use and warnings against misuse. Customer formula feeds classify with those which are mixed by farmers for their own use, the difference being that the cus-tom miller does the mixing and may supply any or all of the in-gredients. Of the ingredients in these feeds, only the concentrates Report For 1964-1966 — Chemistry 53 and mineral feed (these being already manufactured products) are subject to inspection fees. These, however, lose their original identity at the point of mixing with other ingredients. The law neither levies inspection fees on customer formula feeds, nor holds them subject to control measures such as registration, guarantees, inspections, sampling and analyses. Their status as received by the customer, as with farmer-mixed feeds, is his responsibility and requires his attention accordingly. The customer-formula provision adjusts both for the inade-quacy of the earlier law in this area, and provides specific status for this infinitely variable class of feeds. The fact, however, that the Department receives many requests, at times with complaint, for analysis of customer formula feed reflects that the status as above described is not fully understood. Such analyses would be meaningless since they would vary as infinitely as the mixtures themselves, and there are no specific guarantees to check against. It should be understood that customer-formula feeds and farm-er- mixed feeds are in a similar classification, whereas the regis-tered, inspection-fee paid and guaranteed feeds are in another class. The buyer is at liberty to choose either the registered, guar-anteed feeds which are fully subject to control under the law; or the customer-formula feeds on his own responsibility. This is the application of the stated purpose of the amended law—to pro-tect the farmer-buyer from substandard and misbranded feeds, but not to protect him from himself. Further major change was the reduction of the earlier twenty-five cents (25^) per ton feed inspection fee to twelve cents (12(0 • This, in consequence of a decision by the State Supreme Court, does not apply to finished feeds used in the contract feeding of livestock and poultry, but it does apply to all commercial feed-ing stuffs, as defined in the law, which go into these and other feeds. That decision in effect qualified the contract-feed producer as mixing feed for his own livestock and poultry, and the contract grower as his employee ; the feed thus being placed in the category of not being sold and therefore not subject to registration and inspection. In summary, the amended law sets up several areas and appli-cations, namely : registered and guaranteed feeds which are sub-ject to all control measures; the customer-formula and the farm-er- mixed feeds, both of which are matters of user responsibility ; and the contract-grower feeds which are the concern of the con- 54 N. C. Department of Agriculture tracting parties. A fuller understanding of these provisions would in large measure serve to allay current question and con-fusion. Economic Poisons The North Carolina Insecticide Law, similarly as the fertilizer and feed laws, has among its requirements the registration of all pesticides before being offered for sale, the review of labels for compliance with various stipulations such as identity of the product, name and address of the responsible agents, net contents, name and percent of each active ingredient, with total percent of inert ingredients, valid formulations, directions for proper use, cautions against misuse, and first aid or antidotes for highly dangerous chemicals. Statewide inspections are required as ac-cessory in checking labeling, registrations, the payment of inspec-tion fees, and for the collection of official samples for analysis to determine compliance with guarantees. Coverage for this biennium was—Official samples, 2,758. Results of the work showed that standards were maintained and requirements, except for delinquent registrations, were com-plied with on an acceptable level as compared to previous experi-ence over a period of years and that generally satisfactory prod-ucts were delivered to users. A persisting tendency of laxity in applying for registrations prior to putting products on sale, while not appearing to be at-tempts at evasion, is inequitable and results in continuing trouble and much extra and unjustifiable work. Stop-sale orders as pre-scribed by law have not sufficiently curbed this defect. A more effective remedy is needed. One proposal frequently made is that the combination registration-inspection fee per item be increased for the after-sale registration to a figure making prompt attention to this legal requirement economically significant. Correction of the tendency would be an asset to all concerned. The results of each year's work were made available collectively to the public through the annual "Insecticide Report" which is published by the department for that purpose. Application of Pesticides by Aircraft The North Carolina Aerial Crop-Dusting Law in general con-tinues to serve satisfactorily the purposes for which it was insti- Report For 1964-1966 — Chemistry 55 tuted ; namely, to eliminate unethical practices, irresponsible performances and unscrupulous and destructive competition which at one time plagued the industry and consequently resulted in organized legislative moves to outlaw this activity. To have eliminated this very useful agricultural service, par-ticularly at such times when coincident rainy weather and pest depredations made this mode of control the most practical one, would have imposed a handicap on agriculture. Obviously, the constructive course was to preserve this service by legally estab-lishing proper discipline and responsibility—the common basis of all control laws which serve to protect and promote the valid interests both of consumers and of sound businesses. In general, the limited number of complaints that now come to the Department relative to nuisance performances, unethical prac-tices and unsatisfactory work, indicate that the irresponsible operators have found North Carolina to be an unattractive field for them and that this useful agricultural service has evolved into the hands of sound businesses. The few irregularities encounter-ed were mainly in the area of failure to procure licenses and pro-vide the required insurance coverage. These were corrected. This generally satisfactory status, however, should not be per-mitted to engender a false sense of permanent adequacy. The continuing change in agricultural practices and pesticide uses will undoubtedly bring changes in problems such as proper time and application of appropriate pesticides and weed killers, con-trolling drift, avoidance of excessive or untimely application which may endanger harvesters or result in harmful residues in foods and feeds, avoidance of detrimental soil poisoning and others. Continuing foresight and planning in adjusting to these changes are prerequisite in maintaining the safety and welfare intended under this law. The law requires that both contractors and applicators in this field first properly qualify under federal requirements for the operation of aircraft, then in North Carolina, that the contractors and applicators qualify for this type of work and procure licenses accordingly. Further requirements are for sound and ethical business practices and proper use and application of pesticides. Licenses issued for the biennium were to 96 contractors and 196 applicators. 56 N. C. Department of Agriculture Automotive Antifreezes The current automotive antifreeze status in North Carolina continues to demonstrate the effectiveness of the Internal Com-bustion Engine Antifreeze Law and of its administration in assur-ing operators of motor vehicles adequate supplies of high grade products, in relieving ethical manufacturers of unscrupulous competition, in keeping spurious products off the market and in relieving North Carolina merchants of the liability of dealing in spurious and falsely represented products. Effectiveness is fur-ther demonstrated by the fact that complaints of failures and damage to engines and accessories continues to remain at zero; whereas, prior to the enactment of the law, these were at a high and clamorous level and damage costs ran into extremely high figures. This sound position, however, is not maintained free of chal-lenge. There is increasing pressure, at times voicing proposed legal action, to penetrate the North Carolina market with degrad-ed and cheapened products designed for competitive advantage and higher profits. One such practice is to dilute the usual antifreeze concentrates as purchased by motorists, with 20 to 25 percent water. While appearing at first sight to offer a lower price, this meant the unsuspecting motorist either would end up with inadequate pro-tection or be under the necessity of purchasing a larger quantity of this water-antifreeze mixture to get normal protection. The latter, because of additional packaging and handling costs, would penalize him with further excess costs. Another such move was to establish a practice by filling sta-tions, when refueling cars, to sell the idea of replenishing the radiator fill with a 50-50 mixture of anti-freeze and water. Ob-viously, this would be contradictory to the earlier sales claim of "permanence", and with no sounder reason than increase of vol-ume sale, also capitalizing on defective cooling systems, or over-filling the required expansion area of cooling systems with such mixture, only for it to be overflowed on the streets and roads upon reaching normal engine operating temperatures, thus imposing unnecessary costs to motorists. Two other practices which involved added water were to grad-ually increase the required 3.5 to 4 percent of water in concen-trates to hold rust and corrosion inhibitors in solution until mixed Report For 1964-1966 — Chemistry 57 in radiator water; and a 50-50 mixture of antifreeze and demin-erailzed water, stated to be for use in western states where high-eralized water, stated to be for use in western states where high-water in concentrates could be considered only as an adulterant. The 50-50 mixture, if to be put on the North Carolina market, was qualified as requiring clear and specific labeling to unques-tionably inform buyers of the exact nature, composition and pur-post of the product. To date, the 50-50 mixtures has not been put on the North Carolina market. None of the other questioned practices have been qualified as acceptable under the North Caro-lina law. Consequently, the automotive antifreeze status in the state continues on a sound and fair basis. A number of manufacturers and distributors, upon inquiring-regarding these practices and being advised that they would not be acceptable in North Carolina, expressed their approval and appreciation that the trade would be kept above such level. Registrations in North Carolina for the year 1964-65 were 95 brands; for 1965-66, 93 brands, these representing a total of 41 manufacturers. Foods, Drugs and Cosmetics The laws applying to food and drug control are the North Caro-lina Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, the Bottling Plant Law, the Bakery Inspection Law, the Artificially Bleached Flour Law, the Flour, Bread, and Corn Meal Enrichment Act and the Oleomar-garine Law. The first named law is basic and applies generally whereas the others are supplementary and are delineated to specific areas as the respective names indicate. The supplement-ary laws spell out in extensive detail applications to features pecu-liar to the specific products and conditions under which they are made. Collectively, the general purposes of these laws are to safeguard the health and welfare of consumers by assuring them of safe, wholesome, economically sound and clearly and honestly labeled supplies of foods, drugs, cosmetics and therapeutic devices. Among the things which are indispensable to the accomplish-ment of these purposes are that the products themselves be, or be compounded of, sound and wholesome raw materials appropri-ate for the uses intended ; that the handling, processing, packag-ing and storing be carried out in a sanitary manner fully adequate for public safety ; and that the environment, equipment, housing, vehicles and other facilities which in anv way mav contact or 58 N. C. Department of Agriculture affect the products be maintained and used in a manner so as to preclude any exposure that may result in contamination or other harmful effects. Among these procedures stipulated by these laws for determin-ing compliance are regular, systematic state-wide inspections with written inspection reports ; recommendations, written and verbal, for correcting minor deviations ; requiring the correction or discontinuation of operations where there is gross failure in compliance; instructing in the correction of minor defects such as labeling omissions or deviations; placing embargoes on prod-ucts when there is, or appears to be, question regarding public health and welfare and, where fitting cooperative procedures prove inadequate, applying other legal remedies as provided. Summary of these activities for the biennium follow. Food Plant Inspections Bakeries and Doughnut Plants 2,352 Bottling Plants „__1,073 Other types of plants and storages (processing and Packaging meats, pickles, seafood, flour, meal, candy, potato chips, fruits and vegetables, etc.) .2,715 Total 6,140 Plant Operations Suspended Bakeries 18 Bottling Plants 1 Others (as listed in preceding tabulation) 8 Total 27 Analyses of Samples, Embargoes Indispensable in carrying out the requirements of the food law is the state-wide collection of official samples for examination of labels for general complance, and the analysis of samples, by chemical, physical, optical, microscopic and other techniques to determine if there be adulteration or misbranding. The great bulk of foods on the market are generally found to be safe and satisfactory. However, there always are found appre- Report For 1964-1966—Chemistry 59 ciable quantities which are violative as is reflected in the results of work on some 2,300 samples analyzed and the 390 embargoes applied. Th«;se represent all types and classes of food and bev-erages such as flour, meal and numerous other cereal products ; meats, vegetables, canned, bottled and frozen products, fruits (fresh and processed), bakery products, sugar, candies, pickles, condiments, salt, seasonings, butter, eggs, shortenings, and num-erous others. Among the violative features were misbranding, sub-grade products, spoilage; rusty, leaky, and otherwise damaged con-tainers, exposure to insanitation ; contamination with filth, or by insects, rodents, worms, and other vermin ; fire, flood, storm wreck damage, other exposures, and other sources of adulteration, both inadvertent and intentional. Several examples of the intentional are ground hulls in peanut butter and in cocoa, parched cereal in ground coffee, water—the universal adulterant—in oysters, milk, meats and others ; starches, gums, gelatin and cereals as fillers in many foods ; chemical preservatives and artificial colors in and on fresh meats, etc. Catastrophes Catastrophes such as fires, floods, storms and wrecks, along with other destruction and losses, regularly take a toll in food, drugs and cosmetics. The resultant exposure, damage, contami-nation and spoilage involve human health and welfare. Lack of knowledge of the accompanying danger, and the tendency to over-zealous salvaging, can result in epidemic sickness and injury. The Food, Drug and Cosmetic Law being involved brings this division into prompt action. Health authorities, police, insurance companies and businesses usually give the division prompt notice of these occurrences and request help. However, inspectors, following long esablished policy and regardless of hours, usually are already on the job. All exposed foods, drugs and cosmetics are paced under blanket em-bargo. Then follows the process of segregation and classification —the safely salvageable being released, the questionable ones sampled and analyzed, and the obviously unfit being destroyed : and all under inspector supervision and direction. In total, 37 such fires were covered in various towns and cities — Newton, Mt. Airy, Raleigh, Morehead City, Tabor City, Lenoir. 60 N. C. Department of Agriculture Hudson, Taylorsville, Rockingham, Salisbury, Boone, Charlotte, Ahoskie, Thomasville, Dunn, Wilson, Durham, Boiling Springs, Whiteville, Smithfied, Sanford, Trinity, Jacksonville, Concord, and Chapel Hill. Total losses in vaue was $1,191,000. Floods, storms and wrecks for the period, fortunately were very few and accounted for unusualy limited damage. Food Poisoning Regrettably, there always are a number of food poisoning cases, but fortunately they are most always of the milder form, result-ing from bacteria such as the staphylococcus group. These cause mild to severe illness, and at times, hospitalization, but seldom death. Much more grave is the type caused by the toxin from the organism Clostridium botulinum. The appearance or threat of botulism from the latter organism is a "three-alarm" call to bring all health and food control people into immediate action without concern for hours. This division was concerned in two such instances involving vacuum packed, smoked whitefish and canned tuna fish. The trouble appeared in a number of states. Public agencies generally cooperated as a team. Four deaths and five illnesses were report-ed, none in North Carolina. The suspect products in this state were rounded up promptly and detained under food embargoes pending further action. The questionable brands and lots were then permanently removed. The seriousness and alarm from these occurrences is reflected in the fact that, as a result of public alarm, the smoked whitefish business of the Great Lakes area folded, and big tuna fish can-neries on the Pacific coast closed. An extremely insidious and dangerous feature of botulinas spoilage is that, unlike other types of spoilage, it creates no readily detectable appearance or odor of spoilage and no gas, therefore no warning pressure or swelling of containers. Few people would be likely to notice it. An anti-toxin is available and effective when promptly utilized. Hazardous Food Accessories Hazards to food can show up at times from the least anticipated sources. This was demonstrated in the appearance on the novelty market, of so-called "iceballs" and "pink elephants". These, im- Report For 1964-1966—Chemistry 61 ported largely from the Orient, particularly Hong Kong, China, were plastic shells in spherical and other shapes, approximately one to 1.5 inches in size, filled with water and intended for freez-ing and use in cooling beverages and food. The fragility of the shells, many of which leaked and ruptured both before and after freezing, and the consequent release into beverages and food of the highly contaminated water contained in them, constituted a threat to consumers. Reports, collectively, from official agencies of this and various states showed the water from many of these iceballs to contain filth such as lint, nondescript dirt, hair, feather and insect frag-ments, plant fibers resembling cotton, paper pulp and others. Living forms, predominantly bacteria, included mold, algae, dia-toms, protozoa, nematode worms and others (microscopic forms found in raw untreated water of high organic content such as sewage). Examples of bacteria found were coagulase-positive staphylo-coccus (a drug resistent species associated with boils, hospital infections, etc.) ; pseudomonas (a green-pus forming organism of wounds and associated with blindness) ; proteus species (asso-ciated with raw, untreated, sewage polluted waters) ; strepto-coccus species (universally causes infections of eye, ear, nose and throat, etc.) ; E. coli (regularly associated with fecal mat-ter) ; and others. Some counts were reported above one million per ml.—a situation fittingly expressed by one news item. "Cold water (drinking) from Hong Kong harbor." Publicity and activities by this department and many other official agencies, by merchants and other distributors quickly blocked use of these products and cleared them from the market. Drugs Activities on drugs included the handling of those exposed to fires and water damage, the handling of salvaged drugs which are always stispect and destroyed, cooperating with the U. S. Fooo. and Drug Administration in surveys and recall of drugs on the market which were found to be unfit for use or dangerous or fraudulent. One product on the market, broadly advertised and claimed to be a cure for asthma and allergies, was embargoed generally, resulting in the cessation of the promoter's activities in this state. 62 N. C. Department of Agriculture A federal injunction stood against the manufacturers in Florida. Following the injunction, the firm then altered the spelling of the name using one "1" in place of the former "11" and renewed interstate selling, but by personal transportation, avoiding all records of interstate shipment. The product also had not cleared the "new drug" provisions of either the federal or state laws. The promoters gave the usual story—the medical profession was against the product since it would curtail their business, federal and state control agencies were in league with the doctors and big drug firms, etc. Obviously, a proven cure for asthma would meet the same welcome and worldwide acceptance as did such drugs as sulfanilamide, peni-cillin and polio vaccine. The manufacturers currently are under federal trial for failure to obey the injunction. Another situation of concern was a survey of dated veterinary drugs on open sale in farm supply stores. In 22 locations in various parts of the state, 382 over-age and out-of-date items were on display for sale. The holders voluntarily agreed to dis-posal otherwise than for medical use and assured that adequate future attention woud be given to the situation to avoid reoccur-rence. 'Odorous' Cosmetics "Fake perfume", opined one reporter, "causes smelly situa-tion." Thus was heralded as brazen a case of premeditated fraud as has triggered legal scurryings from state to national capitals and back to North Carolina's city dumps. Quantities of perfume, in imitation of Chanel No. 5, with coun-terfeit labels and containers, appeared on the North Carolina market, mainly in the Raleigh and Charlotte areas ; and, accord-ing to reports, were distributed by drivers of Cadillac cars with New York licenses. The product, being represented as distress merchandise, was sold for cash, with no bills of sale, one mer-chant paying $1,600 for 400 bottles, another buying at $4.00 per bottle and selling at $12.00, with some repeat lot orders. But no descriptions, identifications or record of car numbers were pro-cured. Among the targets of the scheme were drug stores, marts, wholesalers, filling stations, homes, individual peddlers and ulti-mate consumers. Proceeding under both state and federal food, drug and cos- Report For 1964-1966—Chemistry 63 metic laws, some 1,200 ounces of the bogus product, located in various places, were embargoed, and, upon the written concur-rence by holders as to its illegal status, was destroyed by crushing with bulldozers and burying in city dumps. Police and civic organizations cooperated. Merchants repossessed lots sold by them and returned the purchase price. The culprits, doubtless in line with their original plan, have not been apprehended. The amount of money known to have been lost, though hurtful to the individual losers, was relatively small. The critical thing, however, as in the cases of the "bonded egg" and the "watered (water and gelatin injected) dressed chicken" frauds, is that these schemes be promptly broken up. CREDIT UNION DIVISION fgfW* % : i-"' ? if 1 «M i W. V. DlDAWICK Adm2ms£ra£or This division administers the laws and regulations governing credit unions throughout the state. Subchapter III of Chapter •54 of the General Statute places the responsibility of chartering, examining, and supervision on this division, which operates en-tirely on fees paid by the various credit unions, based on their as-sets. Credit unions serve specific groups of people with a conven-ient place to accumulate their savings as well as a source of credit at a reasonable interest rate. Only about four percent of the adult population of North Carolina has access to credit union service and we know that the majority of these people deal with other financial institutions regularly. Yet credit unions have been able to do better than hold their own during this biennium, although there has been tremendous pressure by other financial institutions, especially banks, to attract individual savings. Interest rates paid on large amounts of savings by these institutions rose to the highest levels in 30 years, while credit unions averaged paying a five percent dividend on all accounts during this period. Financial publica-tions list credit unions in the top five institutions as a place for a high return on investments. It would be a mistake to say that this report represents the economic condition for the state as a whole for the years 1965 and 1966. On the other hand, we do believe that it portrays the economy in certain areas and industries. It is an economy that was almost fully employed and further boosted by increased United States Government expenditures. There has been a tre-mendous incentive to borrow now and pay later. This trend was encouraged by the continued rise in prices. It has been an econ-omy of people willing to borrow and obligate themselves in install- Report For 1964-1966—Credit Unions 65 ment credit for consumer goods, appliances, and automobies. This has been a period in which people consumed more and saved less of their earnings. Credit union membership is made up of individuals in the high income bracket as well as those in the low bracket. They are the heads of households or main support of families and are employed full time with a steady income. About 50 percent have incomes of over $7,500, yet more than half of these families do not have as much as $500 in credit union savings. One apparent reason for this is that the majority are purchasing their homes and are faced with regular mortgage payments. Another reason is that many have children in college and are faced with the ris-ing cost of education. While credit unions in North Carolina have shown a 34 percent net gains in assets, we have fewer credit unions now than we had in the previous biennium. Each year there are liquidations due to better supervision and stricter enforcement of the law. Al-though credit unions have decreased, the membership has increas-ed by 15 percent. The over-all operation and financial condition of credit unions in North Carolina remains good. However, a few improperly operated credit unions continue to cause problems, not only for themselves but for the overwhelming majority which are operat-ing properly. We continue to try to overcome these improper practices by working in close cooperation with the treasurer and other officers of the credit union. This practice has proved to be reasonably effective, but when all efforts fail, the law is enforced and the credit union closed up. Credit unions file financial and statistical reports semi-annually with this division. The consolidated statistical report was com-piled from the June 30, 1966, reports. NUMBER, MEMBERSHIP, AND ASSETS OF STATE-CHARTERED CREDIT UNIONS June 30, 1964 June 30, 1966 Active Credit Unions 203 201 Total Members 113,333 128,686 Total Assets $50,527,935.33 $67,430,389.80 66 N. C. Department of Agriculture NORTH CAROLINA CREDIT UNIONS CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET Assets June 30, 196^ June 30, 1966 Cash on Hand and in Banks __$ 2,535,572.97 $ 2,813,461.00 Loans to Members . 39,111,610.64 54,207,113.54 Investments and Bonds - 7,520,522.34 9,577,548.08 Other Assets 1,360,229.38 832,267.18 Totals—. $50,527,935.33 $67,430,389.80 Liabilities Shares .....$41,516,046.88 $55,898,916.04 Deposits .... 1,481,817.00 2,181,172.40 Reserves .... 2,857,456.96 3,539,816.07 Undivided Earnings & Surplus 2,055,988.43 3,184,204.84 Other Liabilities 2,616,626.06 2,626,280.45 Totals $50,527,935.33 $67,430,389.80 DAIRY DIVISION Francis Patterson Director Dairying contributed more than $159 million in value to the economy of North Carolina Agri-culture during 1965. The state's farmers, alone, received nearly $76 million for the dairy prod-ucts they sold. North Carolina distributors purchased from producers 1,- 161,889,000 pounds of Grade A milk. This exceeded record pur-chases in 1964 by 2.4 percent. Fluid milk and cream sains to consumers during 1965 shewed 4.6 percent above 1964. Even though the number of Grade A producers decreased 12.3 percent from 1963 to 1965, the amount of milk per producer increased 18.3 percent. During this same period sales of milk from manufacturing producers decreased 14 percent. Manufactured dairy products in 1965 continued to have the fine quality flavor which is the key to their popularity. Improve-ments made by the industry have had a tremendous effect on the quality of the finished product. Flavor control devices are used to remove weedy and other off-flavors. More efficient cleaning of equipment is attained by the adoption of cleaning methods which allow the cleaning without having to disassemble the equip-ment during washing and sterilizing. This is true both in the manufacturing and bottling plants and on the producing farms. Milk products, processed in a numb
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Title | Biennial report North Carolina Department of Agriculture |
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Date | 1964; 1965; 1966 |
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THE LIBRARY OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF
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1964 - 1966
BIENNIAL REPORT
for 1964-1966
NORTH CAROLINA
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
JAMES A. GRAHAM. Commissioner
JOHN L. REITZEL. Assistant Commissioner
RALEIGH, N. C.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
Board of Agriculture .. 3
Personnel 6
Commissioner's Summary 18
Highlights of Board Meetings 33
Accounting Division 39
Chemistry Division 47
Credit Union Division 64
Dairy Division 67
Entomology Division 72
Farmers Market 83
Food Distribution Division 85
Markets Division 97
Museum Division 130
Publications Division 141
Research Stations Division 146
Seed Testing Division 161
Soil Testing Division 167
State Fair Division .172
Statistics Division 175
Veterinary Division i 178
Warehouse Division 188
Weights and Measures Division 193
Gasoline and Oil Inspection Division 197
STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE
June 30, 1966
James A. Graham, Commissioner
Ex-Officio Chairman
J. Atwell Alexander Richard N. Barber, Jr. Thomas 0. Gilmore
Stony Point Waynesville Julian
Claude T. Hall
Roxboro
Thomas G. Joyner George P. Kittrell Charles F. Phillips
Garysburg Corapeake Thomasville
J. Hawley Poole
West End
Henry Gray Shelton David Townsend, Jr.
Speed Rowland
Others who served on the Board during a part of this bien-nium
were
:
Hoyle C. Griffin Monroe
A. B. Slagle Franklin
David Townsend, Sr Rowland
John L. Reitzel
Assistant Commissioner of Agriculture
James A. Graham
Commissioner of Agriculture
PERSONNEL
of the
STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
June 30, 1966
James A. Graham, Commissioner
Administration
John L. Reit/el _. Assistant Commissioner
Elizabeth B. Barefoot Stenographer II
Hazel I. Horner Stenographer HI
Virginia P. Johnson Administrative Secretary
Division of Accounts
Grace H. Malloy Accountant III
Becky E. Adams Stenographer II
Betty P. Bunn Accounting Clerk I
Roy D. High ___. Accountant II
Elsie W. Jordan Accountant I
Gertrud H. Lare .Accounting Clerk II
Elizabeth W. Mitchiner Accounting Clerk III
Geraldine P. Narron Stenographer III
Phyllis P. O'Neal... Typist II
Beulah B. Pearce Cashier I—Dept. of Agriculture
Sarah K. Sanderson Accounting Clerk I
Peggy Y. Smith Cashier II—Dept. of Agriculture
Lunelle Yeargan Accounting Clerk IV
Publicity and Publications
M. Pauline DeCosta Public Information Officer III
Bettye T. Rogers Clerk II
Willie L. Smith Clerk I
Louise T. White Stenographer II
Custodial
Henry L. Hall Stock Clerk I
Robert Harris Stock Clerk I
Inspection
Arthur G. Campbell, Jr Feed, Fertilizer & Insecticide Inspector I
E. H. Cooper ...Tax Auditor III
Ewell E. Evans Tax Auditor II
Harvey C. McPhail Feed, Fertilizer & Insecticide Inspector I
Thomas M. Parker Feed, Fertilizer & Insecticide Inspector I
James R. Stevens Feed, Fertilizer & Insecticide Inspector II
Carl C. Williams Feed, Fertilizer & Insecticide Inspector I
Entomology Division
George D. Jones State Entomologist
Hugh I. Alford, Jr Entomologist II
Report For 1964-1966
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Personnel 7
Alfred S. Elder Entomologist II
James F. Greene Entomologist III
Roy M. Schmarkey Entomologist II
Jesse F. Sessions Entomologist II
Barbara M. Williams Stenographer II
D. L. Wray Entomologist HI
Weights and Measures Inspectiox
John I. Moore Director
Marion L. Kinlaw, Jr Weights & Measures, Gasoline & Oil
Inspection Supervisor
Cecil C. Abernathy Weights & Measures Inspector
James G. Barnes Heavy Duty Scale Inspector I
Walter R. Burnette ....Heavy Duty Scale Inspector II
Thomas W. Cloninger Weights & Measures Inspector
Grady F. Hall Weights & Measures Inspector
Lester B. Hardin... Weights & Measures Inspector
Grover R. Kiser ....Weights & Measures Inspector
Alice S. Long Stenographer II
Dianne P. Nichols Stenographer II
Randolph F. Peaks Heavy Duty Scale Inspector 11
Donnie G. Perry Weights & Measures Inspector
William H. Perry Liquid Fertilizer Specialist
Leroy S. Plyler Weights & Measures Inspector
Ned A. Powell Heavy Duty Scale Inspector II
William D. Taylor Weights & Measures Inspector
James M. Vestal, Jr Weights & Measures Inspector
Dan Cecil Worley Weights & Measures Inspector
State Meat and Poultry Inspection
Earl W. Stapp State Supervisor, Meat & Poultry Inspection
William L. Abbott Veterinarian III
Edward M. Athay Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Clarence B. Barker Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Walter V. Batchelor .....Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Julian C. Beale Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Wade W. Beasley Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Claude W. Bentley Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Wallace E. Birch Veterinarian II
Archie C. Bone Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Travis B. Bowick. Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Van L. Bowman Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Billy R. Bradshaw .._. Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Jasper F. Brisson, Jr Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Wiley G. Broughton Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Henry C. Brown ___.. Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Alden E. Bryson __ .Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Alvin G. Buchanan.... Meat & Poultry Inspector I
William C. Buchanan Meat & Poultry Inspector II
Frank D. Burns Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Eddie W. Cain. Jr Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Hugh B. Campbell Veterinarian II
James M. Cashwell... Meat & Poultry Inspector II
Sadie H. Chase Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Sylvester H. Clayton Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Algie D. Cobb Meat & Poultry Inspector I
William E. Crawford Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Charles M. Credle Meat & Poultry Inspector I
James E. Creel.. Meat & Poultry Inspector I
8 N. C. Department of Agriculture
Lewis J. DeMarcus Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Leola D. Drake Stenographer II
Norman C. Eason - Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Cecil E. Edwards Meat & Poultry Inspector I
James B. Edwards Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Waitus H. Edwards Meat & Poultry Inspector I
William D. Estep Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Ruie A. Eubanks, Jr Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Lindsay B. Fant Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Linwood E. Felts Meat & Poultry Inspector I
John F. Ford Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Robert L. Foster_____ ____ Meat & Poultry Inspector I
William K. Fry _. Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Kenneth W. Gardner Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Clifford W. Goodwin. _____ Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Henry L. Hall Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Hubert L. Helms Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Henry H. Herman Meat & Poultry Inspector I
James F. Holcomb Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Kenneth R. Hoover... Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Conley G. Isenberg ____ Veterinarian II
Dallie B. Jackson Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Eugene R. Jackson Meat & Poultry Inspector I
James M. Jackson, Jr ___._ Veterinarian II
James T. Jackson Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Daniel E. V. Johnson Meat & Poultry Inspector I
James E. Johnson Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Charles E. Jones Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Cornelius W. Jonkheer ____ Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Arthur B. Kaufman Meat & Poultry Inspector I
George M. Kerr Veterinarian II
William P. Lassiter Meat & Poultry Inspector I
James C. Long, Jr Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Edmond G. Massad Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Woodrow E. McGimsey Meat & Poultry Inspector II
Rommie F. Medlin ____ Meat & Poultry Inspector I
William C. Medlin __ Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Richard W. Menius Meat d Poultry Inspector II
Robert R. Miller _ _ Veterinarian II
Ford W. Morris _ Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Clare W. Nielsen____ Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Thomas 0. Nilsen __. Meat d- Poultry Inspector I
Houston Odom __ Veterinarian II
Charles R. Oxford Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Joseph W. Padgett Meat & Poultry Inspector 1
Herbert R. Palmer, Sr ..Meat & Poultry Inspector 1
Glenn 0. Park _ Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Charles M. Parrish Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Fred R. Parrish Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Ophelia Pickett Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Basil W. Pshyk _ Veterinarian II
James R. Radford Meat & Poultry Inspector II
Joseph V. Randolph Meat & Poultry Inspector 1
Lewis C. Ransom, Jr _ Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Harvey G. Roper Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Clarence E. Rose ..Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Roxie R. Siler Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Thomas Lee Sink Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Richard W. Spivey, Sr _ Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Charles L. Staton, Jr Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Walter C. Stone ..Meat & Poultry Inspector I
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George M. Sullivan .. Meat & Poultry Inspector I
William G. Sullivan _ Veterinarian II
Arie B Sykes, Jr.—. Meat & Poultry Inspector I
James W. Tillman Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Peggy R. Upchurch Stenographer II
Gilim F. Wade Meat d Poultry Inspector I
Don H. Walker _ __ Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Elvis C. Wall.. Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Harold L. Warlick Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Zeno H. Weaver.... _ ..Meat & Poultry Inspector I
James C. Wheeler ....Meat & Poultry Inspector I
James C. White Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Lewis L. Wiseman Meat & Poultry Inspector II
Labin T. Woodlief Meat & Poultry Inspector I
Richard C. Yarbrough Meat d- Poultry Inspector II
Egg Inspection
Bobby G. Austell Marketing Specialist II
Ann K. Hicks Stenographer II
George E. Ingram Marketing Specialist I
Wilson T. Leggett.... .__. Marketing Specialist I
William H. McCullen Marketing Specialist II
Arthur C. McCurry Marketing Specialist II
Larry E. Tetterton.... Marketing Specialist III
Markets Division
John A. Winfield Director of Agriculture Markets
Eugene G. Boney, Jr Marketing Specialist II
Wilbur S. Brannan. __.. Marketing Specialist III
Ruby P. Britt Stenographer III
Louise W. Byrum ...Stenographer III
Charles L. Campbell, Jr Marketing Specialist IV
John H. Cyrus Marketing Specialist IV
Charles H. Davis Marketing Specialist II
Louise T. Dunn Stenographer III
James W. Earp, Jr Marketing Specialist II
Charles D. Ed-wards Marketing Specialist II
Charles B. Elks Marketing Specialist IV
William J. Feimster Marketing Specialist III
Billie A. Fuller ...Stenographer II
Joe B. Gourlay ..Marketing Specialist III
Thomas E. Green, Sr Marketing Specialist III
Norwood 0. Hargrove Marketing Specialist II
Glen C. Hatcher, Sr Marketing Specialist III
James F. Hockaday, Jr — Marketing Specialist III
Julius P. Jenrette Marketing Specialist IV
Wallace G. Johnson Marketing Specialist III
Henry S. Kennett.... Marketing Specialist II
Ethel Y. Kiker Marketing Specialist III
Katherine B. Koppen _. Stenographer III
William E. Lane __. Marketing Specialist IV
Bryant C. Langston, Jr Marketing Specialist II
Opal M. Liles Laboratory Technician II
Staley S. Long, Jr Marketing Specialist III
Hugh B. Martin Marketing Specialist IV
Neill A. Morrison, Jr Marketing Specialist III
Roger L. Mozingo Marketing Specialist III
Hobart W. Myrick.__. _ .....Marketing Specialist III
Mary L. Norman Stenographer II
10 N. C. Department of Agriculture
Linda S. Nunalee Marketing Specialist II
Prances L. O'Neal Stenographer II
Nichols L. Paul.. Marketing Specialist III
Arvid T. Peak.. _ Marketing Specialist II
Lois M. Pleasants Laboratory Technician III
Joseph A. Powell Marketing Specialist III
H. D. Quessenberry Marketing Specialist IT
B. S. Rich..... Marketing Specialist IT
Larry C. Roberson Marketing Specialist III
Ellis B Shands Marketing Specialist III
Carson W. Sheffield ___. _. Marketing Specialist IT
Beatrice L. Smith Stenographer III
Curtis F. Tarleton Marketing Specialist T
Elizabeth L. Taylor Stenographer II
Carl H. Tower Marketing Specialist III
Euris R. Vanderford Marketing Specialist III
Grace F. Watkins Laboratory Technician I
Pauline M. Watkins Typist I
Dewey C. Wayne Marketing Specialist IT
Sara P. Wells ...Stenographer III
William A. Wilder, Jr..__ Marketing Specialist III
Barbara J. Wood Stenographer II
Dairy Division
Francis Patterson , Director of Dairy Services
Garnie E. Anderson Dairy Specialist II
Lafayette H. Boykin, Jr .'. ..:__. Dairy Specialist II
Charles W. Dunn Laboratory Helper
Paul R. Jordan, Jr : Bacteriologist II
John R. McGlamery Dairy Specialist II
Dolores McG. McLamb _. Stenographer II
W. L. McLeod Dairy Specialist III
Philip 0. Nichols Dairy Specialist II
Robert G. Parrish Dairy Specialist II
Marie W. Perry Laboratory Technician III
Margaret L. Stubbs Chemist I
Giles M. Williams __ Dairy Specialist II
Seed Testing
George E. Spain Director of Seed Testing
William W. Allen Seed Specialist
James M. S. Blocker Seed Specialist
Magdalene G. Brummitt Seed Analyst III
Robert C. Burris ~ Seed Specialist
Billie H. Darden Seed Analyst I
Virginia B. Griffin ....Seed Analyst II
Theodora W. King __ Seed Analyst II
Joseph I. Lewis Seed Specialist
Fred L. McHan Seed Specialist
Murphy G. McKenzie, Jr Seed Specialist
Jewell G. Stallings Seed Analyst I
Cornelia S. Strickland Seed Analyst II
Virginia L. B. Teal ..Seed Analyst II
Mildred W. Thomas Seed Analyst II
Analytical
E. W. Constable _ State Chemist
Sidney M. Albritton Chemist II
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Tiieuo.v Alexander ...Chemist II
Henry O. Austin Feed, Fertilizer & Insecticide Inspector I
Henry W. Barnes. Jr Chemist III
Elizabeth F. Bartholomew Microanalyst
Stanley E Berkshire Food, Drug & Costmetic Inspector
Calvin E. Brim Laboratory Helper
Burnet A. Britt Chemist II
David E. Buffaloe ..Chemist III
William B. Buffaloe _ _ Chemist III
Thomas E. Carriker, Jr Food, Drug & Cosmetic Inspector
Margaret B. Carter Food Chemist
James A. Chapman Laboratory Helper
Frances H. Colvin _ Typist III
Dorothy M. Davis Stenographer III
Jerry M. Dismukes Chemist II
John J. Filicky.. Chemist II
Evelyn A. Freeman Stenographer II
Robert L. Freeman _._ Food, Drug & Cosmetic Inspector
Charles H. Godwin. Jr ...Food, Drug & Cosmetic Inspector
Pearl G. Gray Stenographer III
Clyde M. Griffin ...Chemist I
William M. Harris. ...Chemist II
Margie W. Hatcher Stenograph er II
Samuel H. Hinton .Laboratory Helper
Velva E. Hudson Typist. Ill
Jesse G. Jernigan _ Food Chemist
Vera C. Johnson Chemist II
Frances L. Liles ..Stenographer II
Thomas W. Lucas Laboratory Helper
H. D. Matheson Chemist II
W. P. Matthews _.. Chemist III
Vickie E. Mooneyham Stenographer II
William A. Morgan Laboratory Helper
Fred P. Nooe Food, Drug & Cosmetic Inspector
H. F. Pickering Food Chemist
J. S. Pittard Chemist III
Clyde W. Roberts Food, Drug & Cosmetic Inspector
Carolyn W. Robinson ..Chemist I
William Sylver, Jr Laboratory Helper
Robert T. Teague. Jr Chemist T
Robert N. Tulloch _ Chemist IV
William T. Vick____ Chemist III
James D. Watson ...Chemist I
George R. Winstead. Ill Chemist III
Soil Testing
Preston H. Reid ...Director of Soil Testing
John O. Anderson - Laboratory Helper
Dorothy T. Beck - Stenographer III
Shirley S. Bowling Chemist I
Martha G. Chewning Chemist 1
Carolyn O. Copeland Chemist II
Zoel W. Daughtry - - Agronomist I
Joseph E. Douglas - Laboratory Helper
Audrey H. Hayes. Laboratory Technician II
Carolyn C. Holt Stenographer II
Yvonne L. Hudson. _ Typist I
Sandra C. Johnson Stenographer II
Sarah P. Johnson .....Laboratory Technician III
Gerald D. McCart Agronomist II
12 N. C. Department of Agriculture
Juanita U. Matthews Chemist I
Julia S. Phillips Stenographer I
Carl E. Schauble _ Agronomist I
Mary R. Smith Chemist I
Peggy J. Swinson Stenographer I
Sue P. Williams Chemist I
Crop Statistics
Raymond R. Alford, Jr Office Machine Operator Supervisor GS IV
Mary S. Allen __ Statistical Analyst I
Thomas W. Brand Analyst Statistician GS-12
Georgia T. Bynum Statistical Aide
Charlie H. Cross, Jr Duplicating Equipment Operator III
Martha F. Early Statistical Analyst I
Terry M. Edwards Duplicating Equipment Operator II
Evelyn L. Finch Yari-Type Operator II
William B. Harris Farm Census Supervisor
Jewell B. Hussey Statistical Aide
Ida L. King... Statistical Aide
Minnie H. Langley Yari-Type Operator II
Florine C. Leonard Statistical Aide
Carrie Mae Mann Statistical Aide
Mary D. Matthews ._ Statistical Aide
Gwendolyn H. Miller ...Stenographer II
Natalie R. Shearin Statistical Aide
Olaf Wakefield Supervisor Analytical (Statistician) GS-13
John W. Williams III Statistical Analyst II
Harry A. White Analyst Statistician GS-12
Veterinary
Thomas F. Zweigart, Jr State Veterinarian
Josephine A. Allen Stenographer III
Grey P. Baker.. Laboratory Technician II
John Dean Baker Veterinarian HI
Marvin A. Batchelor Livestock Inspector
Gary C. Baucom .....Poultry Specialist I
Charles R. Border Veterinarian III
Zane G. Bowles Veterinarian II
Julius B. Cashion Poultry Specialist I
Allie W. Carter Livestock Inspector
Ivey P. C. Cashwell Laboratory Technician II
Jesse J. Causby Poultry Specialist II
Edwin R. Church Poultry Specialist I
Kenneth G. Church Poultry Specialist I
James H. Clegg Poultry Specialist I
William W. Clements Veterinarian III
Bobby E. Cooley Laboratory Helper
Alton L. Corbett ..-; Livestock Inspector
Eugene C. Couch Poultry Specialist I
Thomas E. Crumpler Livestock Inspector
Lilly F. Daughtry Stenographer II
Guy E. Dowd _._ - Poultry Specialist I
Robert J. Eckroade Veterinarian III
Dewey M. Edwards Livestock Inspector
L. J. Fourie Poultry Specialist III
James A. Frazier — Poultry Specialist II
George D. Fuller — Livestock Inspector
William B. Griffin Veterinarian III
Julian E. Guyton Poultry Specialist I
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Ralph Hamilton Veterinarian III
Oscar F. Hill ... Livestock Inspector
George Hinton Clerk I
George L. Hunnicutt ...Veterinarian III
Geneva C. Hunt Stenographer II
G. W. Ivey... Poultry Specialist II
Evelyn M. Jernigan Stenographer II
Austin R. Johnson ...Veterinarian III
James L. Kearney... Laboratory Helper
Kenneth G. Keenu.m Veterinarian III
William W. Keever Livestock Inspector
James D. Kelley Poultry Specialist I
Irene K. Kilpatrick .__. Laboratory Technician II
Mary L. Kinsaul ... ...Laboratory Technician II
Eunice G. Lipham , Laboratory Technician II
Fred D. Long Poultry Specialist I
Thomas B. Love Poultry Specialist I
Paul C. Marley..... Poultry Specialist I
Oren D. Massey, Jr Poultry Specialist I
Gary M. Medlin Poultry Specialist I
James R. Miller Veterinarian II
Oscar L. Mooring... Poultry Specialist I
David A. Munro Veterinarian III
Corrine K. Murray".... Laboratory Technician II
Nadine R. Nesbit __ Laboratory Technician II
Walter G. Pearson... Veterinarian III
Peter S. Penland Poultry Specialist I
Herbert P. Perry.... __ Poultry Specialist I
Ollie C. Pickral Livestock Inspector
Clifford W. Pittman... .Veterinarian III
Lucy D. Ponder Laboratory Technician III
Hugh M. Powell Veterinarian III
Othell H. Price Stenographer II
Verlin E. Reese Poultry Specialist I
Lola S. Reinckens Stenographer II
Ned M. Ross Veterinarian II
Terrell B. Ryan Director of Diagnostic Laboratory
Phil R. Sandidge.... Poultry Specialist I
George W. Simpson Poultry Specialist I
Billy J. Southard Poultry Specialist I
Dixie Daniel Southard Poultry Specialist I
Ida C. Starling Laboratory Technician II
Julian S. Starr Veterinarian II
Evelyn C. Tribble.... Laboratory Technician II
Mary- G. Van Horn Laboratory Technician II
Joana G. Wardell Laboratory Technician II
Kenneth C. Wilkins Laboratory Helper
Theron S. Williams — Veterinarian III
William R. Wilson, Jr Veterinarian III
John R. Woody Poultry Specialist I
Research Stations
Cecil D. Thomas Director of Research Stations
El-wood A. Allen ..Maintenance Mechanic I
Edward R. Askew. Agriculture Research Assistant III
E.mmett K. Atwood Agriculture Research Assistant III
Billy N. Ayscue Administrative Officer I
Christine H. Baker... Typist II
Wallace R. Baker, Jr Farm Superintendent II
14 N. C. Department of Agriculture
Robert L. Batts — Farm Worker
Elton Bazemore Farm Worker
Lixwood Bazemore, Jr Farm Worker
George D. Betts Farm Worker
Bobby D. Bostic Farm Hand
Ralph P. Brabble Farm Worker
James H. Braswell Farm Hand
Percy L. Braswell ....Farm Hand
Gexe Bkitt... Agriculture Research Assistant IV (Tobacco Supervisor)
William K. Brock.. Farm Foreman II
Theodore R. Burleson, Jr..._. _ Farm Foreman II
Normaxt E. Callahan... _ Farm Foreman II
J. M. Carr Farm Suuperintendent II
Joseph B. Cherry..... Farm Worker
Aubrey Chessox Farm Hand
Samuel J. Childs Agriculture Research Supervisor II
Roger E. Collixs Agriculture Research Supervisor II
George E. Cowan Farm Worker
Horace R. Cox ____ Farm Superintendent III
Rufus Curtis ...._ Livestock Man
Wixston W. Davis Farm Worker {Dairy)
Wallace J. Dickens Farm Superintendent II
Gene Dugger Farm Worker
James Roy Edwards.. Farm Superintendent III
Ernest W. English Farm Foreman II
Roger D. Evans Farm Worker
James J. Fletcher Farm Worker
James W. George Farm Worker
Billy J. Greene Farm Worker
Thomas E. Harper Farm Worker
Berxice H. Harreii ...Stenographer II
Garfield Harris Farm Foreman II
Andy L. Hawkins Farm Worker (Dairy)
Billy G. Hawkins Agriculture Research Assistant II
Hiram Hawkins._ Farm Hand
Alice J. Honeycutt Stenographer III
Moses Jr. Hornes Farm Hand
Horace G. Hudson General Utility Man
Richard 0. Jones — Farm. Worker
Susan Dew Killebrew Stenographer II
James 0. Kilpatrick Farm Worker
Ruth O. Lane Typist I
Wixstox Lee, Jr Farm Worker
Anne Yount Lentz Stenographer II
Ted W. Luther Agriculture Research Supervisor II
Charles H. Lutox Farm Foreman II
Charles W. Lyons Farm Hand
Willie L. McCaden Farm Hand
Wilson C. McCaden Farm, Worker
Hayes L. McClure Farm Foreman II
Casper D. McLamb Farm Worker
Walker W. McNeill Is Agriculture Research Supervisor II
(Dairy Supervisor)
Clyde Z. McSwaix, Jr Farm Superintendent III
Jacob B. Matthews Livestock Man
Lonnie Mosby, Jr Agriculture Research Assistant I
Lena Mae Neaves Stenographer 1
David L. Oliver Farm Hand
Melvin L. Oliver Farm Worker
Bobby J. Padgett Farm Worker
James M. Peace Farm Hand
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George H. Powers Farm Hand
Ben D. Rackley _ Farm Worker
Charles G. Reagan ...Livestock Man
Oliver Rice Livestock Man
Leroy Rich .. Farm Worker
Theodore R. Rich Farm Worker
Melvin G. Richert ... _. Livestock Man
Acie C. Rivenbark ____ Farm Hand
John D. Roten Agriculture Research Assistant I
Claude S. Roupe Farm Worker
John Sasser, Jr Farm Foreman II
George Severt Farm Worker
Julia L. Skinner Typist I
Homer G. Smith Livestock Man
John W. Smith : Farm Superintendent II
Robert M. Smith Farm Foreman II
Jean W. Spruill , . Stenographer I
Thilbert A. Suggs Agriculture Research Assistant IV
Jesse W. Sumner .....Farm Superintendent II
Henry M. Tallardy Clerk II
Dan Lafayette Taylor Agriculture Research Assistant III
James C. Taylor Farm Foreman II
Robert B. Teachey. ... Farm Worker
John H. Thomas General Utility Man
Stanley O. Tillery Farm Foreman II
Levy C. Todd Farm Worker
Dana F. Tugman Farm Superintendent II
Earl E. Vickery Farm Worker
Beverly C. Watkins Stenographer II
Randolph Whitley Agriculture Rsearch Assistant III
B. L. Williams Stenographer II
James H. Williams... Farm Hand
Floyd W. Yancey Farm Hand
State Museum of Natural History
William L. Hamnett Acting Director Museum Natural History
Ludie Virginia Ashe Maid
Owen W. Dunston , Janitor-Messenger
Grace R. John Stenographer II
Jean duVal Kane .__. Natural Science Curator I
Charles H. Leibrandt.... Museum Preparator
William M. Palmer .__. Natural Science Museum Curator I
Sara Dean Prince Clerk II
James F. Vester _ Cabinetmaker
Mary M. Weathers Sten ograph er I
Food Distribution-
Jay P. Davis, Jr _ ...Marketing Specialist IV
Samuel T. Avera Food Distribution Supervisor
Raymond M. Chadwick Stock Clerk I
Raleigh T. Daniel Marketing Specialist III
Gladys R. Dudley Sten ograph er III
Robert B. Dunn __ Food Distribution Supervisor
Robert B. Godwin _ Food Distribution Supervisor
Catherine S. Holden— Typist II
Don M. Honeycutt Stock Clerk I
James M. Hunter, Jr Warehouse Manager I
Barbara F. King _ Stenographer II
Betty J. Lindley Accounting Clerk I
16 N. C. Department of Agriculture
Cecil L. Mokkis Warehouse Manager I
Geraldine P. Pearce Accounting Clerk II
"Walter M. Sawyer Marketing Specialist II
William C. Taylok Food Distribution Supervisor
Gasoline and Oil Inspection
John I. Moore ....Superintendent of Weights & Measures
& Director of Gasoline & Oil
Carey M. Ashley ___. Chemist I
Milton Barefoot.. _. Gasoline & Oil Inspector
Malvern L. Boyette Gasoline & Oil Inspector
Laura H. Bryant Stenographer II
Robert L. Carter ....Chemist I
Glenn R. Cates Chemist I
Robert F. Comer Liquid Gas Inspector
Jack C. Connolly, II Chemist I
Milton C. Converse Liquid Gas Engineer
Joseph Denton Gasoline & Oil Inspector
Paul H. Etheridge Chemist I
Alicegrae F. Ferrell___._ _ Accounting Clerk III
Thomas P. Gore Chemist I
Roy B. Hallman _ Gasoline & Oil Inspector
Elliott Harrison Laboratory Helper
Hugh F. Hayes ._.. Chemist II
Horace E. Herman Calibrator
Judith A. Hicks Stenographer I
Connie B. Hines, Sr ._ Calibrator
Jewel E. Holden Chemist I
Ira G. Holloway Gasoline & Oil Inspector
Arthur B. Hutchins ___ Gasoline & Oil Inspector
Edwin H. Hutchins Chemist II
Herman L. Jones - ...Gasoline & Oil Inspector
Harold U. Kinder Gasoline & Oil Inspector
Curtis Ray Lindsay _.. Gasoline & Oil Inspector
T. Paul Lopp— Gasoline & Oil Inspector
Robert H. McArver Gasoline & Oil Inspector
John L. McLaughlin .._ Chemist I
Robert E. Mullen Chemist I
W. T. O'Briant Gasoline & Oil Inspector
Thomas F. Oder __ Gasoline & Oil Inspector
Dean E. Padgett Calibrator
Douglas M. Pait Gasoline & Oil Inspector
Marie M. Phelps - Chemist I
Edsel H. Privette Calibrator
Parley B. Rasmussen, Jr Chemist II
Clyde W. Reeves Gasoline & Oil Inspector
James R. Rivers Gasoline & Oil Inspector
Joseph C. Roebuck Gasoline & Oil Inspector
Frank L. Rouse Calibrator
Milton H. Rowe, Sr...... Gasoline & Oil Inspector
David W. Sanders Gasoline & Oil Inspector
Adam D. Scott - Chemist II
H. L. Shankle —
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...Chemist IY
J. T. Shaw Chemist II
Harry W. Shelton Chemist I
Ray D. Sigmon Gasoline & Oil Inspector
Koy S. Smith ._ Gasoline & Oil Inspector
David B. Spivey Calibrator
Ralph G. Thornbltwj Chemist II
James Edgar Turpin ...__ Gasoline & Oil Inspector
James P. Whitfield, Sr. Gasoline & Oil Inspector
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Worth E. Williams Gasoline & Oil Inspector
Howard P. Wilson Gasoline & Oil Inspector
Gorden S. Young..... Calibrator
State Warehouse Fund
William G. Parham, Jr. Warehouse System Superintendent
Lindbergh L. Brown Warehouse Examiner
Judy A. Stacy Stenographer II
Martha E. Swindell .....Stenographer II
Cooperative Inspection Service
James M. Clark... Marketing Specialist II
Guy A. Cutler Marketing Specialist II
Betty J. Narron.. Stenographer I
Helen J. Parrish Accounting Clerk II
Eldridge C. Price Marketing Specialist III
Samuel G. Rand .__ _ Marketing Specialist II
Daniel E. Wester... Marketing Specialist II
Structural Pest Control
Rudolph E. Howell Entomologist III
Faye L. Godwin Stenographer II
Norman R. Howell Pest Control Inspector
Credit Union Supervision
W. V. Didawick Credit Union Administrator
Shirley T. Coats Stenographer II
Edgar L. Grier, Jr Fiscal Examiner II
Joseph M. Jones Fiscal Examiner III
Rodney C. Orndorff Fiscal Examiner II
Howard Leroy Pijahn Fiscal Examiner III
Edwin C. Swartz.... Fiscal Examiner II
Richard B. Telfair, Jr Fiscal Examiner II
Operation of Farmers Market
Charles G. Murray Manager
Patricia G. Smith Stenographer III
BIENNIAL REPORT
OF THE
NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
By James A. Graham
Commissioner of Agriculture
If the outstanding characteristic of the work of the Depart-ment
of Agriculture during this biennium had to be expressed
in one brief phrase, it would be three words: "Accent on
Marketing."
The emphasis on agricultural marketing has permeated nearly
every one of the Department's 18 divisions for several reasons.
First of all, North Carolina farmers have in recent years learn-ed
how to produce (more abundantly) better than they have
learned how to market their production. Also, production and
marketing become more closely related with each passing year.
This means that our control programs dealing with such mate-rials
of production as feeds, fertilizers, pesticides, even our soil
testing work, must be aimed at production practices which not
only increase productivity but also result in farm commodities
that are in demand, meet the demand competitively, and are
wholesome and safe for human consumption. Efficiency of pro-duction
and quality of product are today just as essential to the
farmer-producer as they are to the manufacturer-producer.
The Department's Division of Markets is, of course, directly
and primarily concerned with agricultural marketing. However,
even some of the work of this division must begin with what the
farmer produces and how it is produced and then carry on
through to its handling or processing. The work of that divi-sion
is covered in the chapter beginning on page 97.
Some examples of the programs of other divisions which
relate directly or indirectly to agricultural marketing have been
selected somewhat at random for mention here. They have not
been chosen because they are necessarily the most important
marketing-related work of that division, nor are they anywhere
near wholly inclusive for the divisions mentioned or for the
department as a whole. They are listed simply to give an indica-tion
of the variety of programs which have a bearing on mar-keting.
The examples, which represent new or expanded activi-
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grading
bers of the Northwest Tour find much to interest them at the Brushy
in Apple Cooperative's, which is equipped with the most modern cleaning,
and packaging equipment*.
ties for this biennium, are
:
1. A concentrated shift of seed inspectors into the peanut
area during the short period of time when the peanuts are being
shelled, in order to facilitate inspection and movement of the
seeds into trade for the benefit of both producers and buyer of
the seeds.
2. Sharply increased inspection of meat slaughtered and
processed in the state and a growing number of plants requiring
this inspection.
3. Cooperation in an intensive educational program to ac-quaint
the farmers with the importance of soil testing and how
to use the results from such tests.
4. Analyses of feeds, silages and grains and other forages to
enable livestock producers to determine the feed value of their
own home grown feed products.
5. A thorough study to determine the needs for analytical
work not now provided by any State agencies which are essential
for competitive production and/or protection of human health.
6. A school of instruction for personnel of our Weights and
Measures Division to acquaint them with new weighing and
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measuring equipment which has been developed to increase pre-cision,
reliability and speed in the weighing and packaging of
various products. These devices are great in number and are
of mechanical, electrical or electronic systems.
In addition to all of the continuing and regular work of the
Department relating to marketing, we have inaugurated during
this biennium some very special programs designed to promote
and expand the use of North Carolina produced and processed
agricultural commodities.
In the spring of 1965 we began a series of tours with a two-fold
objective. One was to take division heads and key personnel
of the Department of Agriculture to the people in the various
areas of the state ; and at the same time to take food buyers into
Buyers on the tour of Northwestern North Carolina were delighted with this
beautiful Ashe County Christmas tree farm.
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This rack of fresh beef quarters was viewed at the Azalea Meat Company's
New Bern plant during the recent Northeastern tour.
Commissioner Graham, Dr. E. W. Stapp, state supervisor of meat inspection,
and Fred Pepoon, head of the NCDA poultry and egg section, tour the Holly
Farms poultry processing plant.
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these various areas to show them what is available right here in
North Carolina.
The first tour, in June of 1965, covered a large portion of the
Southeastern area. In September of that same year the tour
went into the Northwest area. In June of 1966, the series was
continued with a tour of the Northeast area. The results of
these tours have been most gratifying. Food buyers, from large
chains as well as independents were amazed to find such a variety
of products close at hand which they had not previously known
to be available to them.
People in the areas visited showed that they were pleased and
inspired by this evidence of the department's interest in their
progress and problems at the community or area level. And
department personnel were pleased and inspired by seeing first-hand
evidence of growth and progress in which they had played
a part in their various capacities.
The department is deeply indebted to Southern Railway for
making available, at no cost, its comfortable Agri-business bus,
as well as providing the very able services of its North Carolina
Agricultural Agent, Frank Harris, to go along on these tours.
Mr. Harris' knowledge and enthusiasm makes him a veritable
embodiment of the interest and enthusiasm of the Railway for
the agricultural potential of the South.
Later we plan to make similar tours of the Southwest and the
Piedmont, thus crisscrossing the state with this exciting pro-gram.
In 1964, Governor Terry Sanford, appointed a committee
known informally as the Retail Promotions Award Committee,
for the purpose of establishing criteria for annual awards to
the independent retail food dealer and the chain store food dealer
for the most effective promotion of North Carolina grown and
processed food products. The Commissioner of Agriculture
served as chairman of this committee and personnel of the De-partment
have participated along with those from other agencies
in launching and carrying on this program. In November, 1964,
the first awards were presented by the Governor at a banquet
sponsored by the North Carolina Merchants Association.
Governor Dan Moore has lent his support to this program and
for the past two years the committee has functioned under the
co-chairmanship of Wayne Corpening, Governor's coordinator
for economic development, and the Commissioner of Agricul-ture.
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This program has been received with much enthusiasm by
the retail food trade and there is a keen spirit of competition
which, of course, does much to expand the sale of North Carolina
products and to point out their excellence.
Another program of the Department of Agriculture has been
the continual promotion of North Carolina products, through
articles, speeches, radio and television interviews. In the De-partment's
semi-monthly paper, Agricultural Revietv, we carry
on the front page of every issue in large letters the slogan
''Help Build North Carolina by Using North Carolina Products."
This same slogan appears on every piece of mail going out of the
Department.
Also during the past year we have worked intensivevly on
plans which will culminate in a food festival at the 1966 State
Fair. Here will be exhibited a big variety of North Carolina's
agricultural versatility. This, we believe, will serve to acquaint
both buyers and consumers with the fact that North Carolina
has the soils and climate to produce an almost infinite variety of
foods, and to inspire farmers with the profit potential in. adding
some of these lines of production to their own operatons.
Activities of the Administrative Offices
North Carolina's progress places great demands on all its
State officials to participate in coordinated activities at both
the state and federal levels. During the past biennium the
North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture was a member of
the U. S. Department of Agriculture Advisory Committee on
Cooperative Work under the Agricultural Marketing Act with
the State Department of Agriculture.
In the state, the Commissioner is a member of the Board of
Directors of the Agricultural Foundation of North Carolina
State College, a member of the Cotton Promotion Committee,
the North Carolina Board of Farm Organizations and Agencies,
and member of the North Carolina Committee on Migrant Labor.
He is also a member of the Governor's Council on Occupational
Health, the Governor's Commission on Educational Television,
the Governor's Resource Planning Committee, the North Caro-lina
Council on Foods and Nutrition, the North Carolina Vet-erinary
School Selection Committee, the Board of Directors of
North Carolina Rural Rehabilitation Corporation, the Executive
Committee of the North Carolina Council of Community and
Area Development and the Chairman of the Army Advisory
Committee.
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By legislation the Commissioner of Agriculture is Chairman
of the State Board of Agriculture, the State Board of Gasoline
and Oil Inspection and the Board of Directors of the North Caro-lina
Agricultural Hall of Fame ; a member of the North Carolina
Milk Commission, the Crop Seed Improvement Board and the
Atomic Energy Advisory Committee.
Under provisions of the Structural Pest Control Law he is also
responsible for employing inspectors, and supervising the work
they perform according to regulations promulgated by the Struc-tural
Pest Control Commission. The law also provides for the
appointment of a member of the department's Entomology Divi-sion
staff and another member representing the department-at-large
on that Commission. Since its organization in 1955, As-sistant
Commissioner of Agriculture John L. Reitzel has been
the appointee representing the department-at-large, and since
July, 1959, he has been Secretary to the Commission. J. A.
Harris served as the Entomology Division's representative until
he retired in January, 1966. Governor Moore appointed George
D. Jones head of the Entomology Division, to succeed Harris on
the Commission.
The Assistant Commissioner of Agriculture also represents
the Department on the Animal Nutrition Committee at North
Carolina State.
State law provides for the licensing and regulation of render-ing
plants operating in this state. Unlike most laws administer-ed
by this department, authority to adopt regulations is not
placed with the Board of Agriculture, but with the Commissioner
of Agriculture acting with the advice of a rendering plant in-spection
committee. Composition of the committee is specified
by law to be "one member who shall be designated by the Com-missioner
of Agriculture and who shall be an employee of the
Department of Agriculture, one member who shall be designated
by the State Health Director and who shall be an employee of
the State Board of Health, and one member who shall be desig-nated
by the Director of the North Carolina Division of the
Southeastern Renderers Association." Dr. H. J. Rollins, State
Veterinarian as the Department of Agriculture member desig-nated
to serve on this committee from its organization in 1953
until his retirement on March 1, 1966. His successor, Dr. T. F.
Zweigart, also replaces him on this committee.
There are now 16 rendering plants licensed to operate in the
state. All of these are inspected by members of the committee
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at least once, some several times, each year to insure continued
compliance with the law and regulations.
A law enacted in 1949 providing for supervision of all agri-cultural
fairs in the state is administered directly by the Com-missioner
of Agriculture. There are no funds appropriated for
its enforcement and the inspection work is "farmed out" among
qualified department personnel. This arrangement has worked
out very well, so far, and the law has done much to eliminate
abuse of the name "fair" by undesirable fly-by-night carnivals
and tent shows. Under the law, only bona fide agricultural and
industrial expositions may use the name "fair" and those classi-fied
as commercial (charging admission or operating traveling-shows
or games) must be licensed by the Commissioner of Agri-culture.
To obtain such license, the fairs must meet minimum
standards adopted by the Board of Agriculture. There were 68
fairs licensed in the state in 1964 and 64 in 1965. On inspection,
four of the 1964 fairs were found not meeting minimum require-ments
and one was deficient in 1965.
In the Spring of 1964, the interior of a shrine for the Agri-cultural
Hall of Fame was completed. Dedication of the shrine
was deferred because of the illness of the late Commissioner L.
Y. Baentine.
As soon as possible after I began my administration, I called
a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Hall of Fame, and it
was decided by the Board to consider more nominations for the
Hall of Fame, and to draw up some additional guidelines for the
selection of members, type of pictures and frames to be used,
and similar matters, before holding dedication ceremonies. A
major change in the requirements for eligibility of members was
to the effect that none be elected that have been deceased less
than one year. Previous regulations had merly stipulated that
no living person would be eligible for consideration.
After a series of meetings, the following persons were elected
to the Hall of Fame
:
Dr. Clarence Poe (1881-1964) noted agricultural leader, editor
and author.
Dr. Jane S. McKimmon (1867-1957), who introduced and
established home demonstration work in North Carolina. She
is the first woman to be awarded this honor.
L. Y. Ballentine (1899-1964), who was for 15 years commis-sioner
of agriculture for North Carolina, after having served
for eight years on the Wake County Board of Commissioners.
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four terms as State Senator and a four-year term as Lieutenant
Governor.
Dr. Hugh H. Bennett (1881-1960), internationally known as
"father of soil conservation." A prime mover in establishing
the Soil Conservation Service, he became its first chief in 1935,
and served in that post until October, 1951, when he became
special assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture. He held the
latter position until his retirement in 1952.
W. Kerr Scott (1896-1958), who served agriculture as county
agent, Master of the State Grange, Commissioner of Agriculture
for North Carolina for 12 years, Governor of North Carolina for
four years, and had been serving in the United States Senate
for four years at the time of his death.
R. Flake Shaw (1889-1957), who served for 12 years on
Guilford County Board of Commissioners, seven years on the
state committee under the Agricultural Adjustment program,
and 17 years as executive vice president of the North Carolina
Farm Bureau Federation.
The 1953 law authorizing the Agricultural Hall of Fame did
not appropriate any funds for creating the shrine or for operat-ing
expenses. Several years ago the Council of State made
money available from the contingency and emergency fund to
remodel and furnish a room in the Agriculture Building to serve
as a shrine. From then until the summer of 1966 there was no
money for suitably decorating the exterior of the shrine, to pur-chase
a citation book and uniform picture frames, or similar
expenses. An additional $500 for these purposes has now been
granted by the Council of State, and the necessary work is ex-pected
to be completed in time for dedication of the shrine in
the late Fall of 1966 or early Winter of 1967.
Personnel
Although long acquainted with many of the personnel in the
Department of Agriculture, it was nevertheless a source of
amazement to me to find, on becoming Commissioner, the high
degree of excellence that generally prevailed throughout the
department. Among employees in all types of jobs I found
ability, dedication and devotion to duty that is certainly unusual
in so large a group with such a diversity of responsibilities.
Without this fine spirit among employees, it would be impossible
for the department effectively to carry on its increasing respon-sibilities.
I am grateful for the cooperation I received on coming
to office and for the continuation of this fine spirit.
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My first official act on becoming Commissioner of Agriculture
on June 30, 1964, was to re-appoint John L. Reitzel as Assistant
Commissioner of Agriculture. His wisdom, experience, advice
and counsel have been, and continue to be, invaluable to me, to
the department and to the State of North Carolina.
At the beginning of the biennium, a number of division heads
and several other key personnel had reached retirement age and
desired to retire. They had given long and effective service in
the department but, unfortunately, space does not permit me to
list all the important contributions of each. Needless to say,
we were sorry to lose so much talent and experience but I am
grateful to many of them for staying on at my request until I
could have time to closely review the work of the divisions and
survey the qualifications needed for replacements.
It was also a great source of gratification to me to find that
with one exception I could fill the positions of division heads
from the ranks of experienced people within the department.
The on-the-job training of these replacements and their experi-ence
within the department has been an invaluable asset in trans-ferring
the administrative reins in these key positions.
On January 1, 1965, C. D. Baucom who had been head of the
Department's Weights and Measures Division for 38 years, re-tired.
Since 1949 he had also directed the Gasoline and Oil
Division. These posts have been filled by John I. Moore, who
had been with the division for 25 years and assistant to Mr.
Baucom for 17 years. He is ably carrying on the work of this
Division, which has been for many years regarded nationally
as one of outstanding excellence.
Marion Kinlaw, who had been with the department since 1952
as a Weights and Measures inspector, was promoted to the post
of assistant formerly held by Mr. Moore.
C. H. Brannon retired as head of the Entomology Division on
July 1, 1965. J. A. Harris who had been senior entomologist for
40 years, also elected to retire as of January 1, 1966. The loss of
this combined experience was unfortunate, but we were most
fortunate in obtaining the services of George D. Jones who came
to the Department from the Entomology Department of the
North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service. James F.
Greene, entomologist with the division since 1949, was promoted
to Harris' former post.
A. B. Fairley, who had headed the Warehouse Division since
1928, retired on August 1, 1965. William G. Parham, who had
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been a grain specialist in the Department's Division of Markets
for four years was appointed to this post and is ably carrying
on this important work.
On January 1, 1966, Harry T. Davis, Director of the State
Museum, retired after serving 45 years on the museum staff, and
28 years as its director. William L. Hamnett, who had worked
under Mr. Davis since 1963, has been appointed director to fill
this post. We are fortunate that Mr. Davis has agreed to stay
on as director emeritus in a consulting capacity.
State Veterinarian, Dr. H. J. Rollins, who labored night and
day in the interest of livestock disease control and eradication
during his 17 years with the Department, retired on March 1,
1966. Dr. T. F. Zweigart who had headed the Veterinary Divi-sion's
Diagnostic Laboratories since 1959, was appointed to suc-ceed
him. Dr. T. B. Ryan, who had been Dr. Zweigart's assist-ant
for two years, was made laboratory supervisor.
The post of State Fair Manager was vacant when I became
Commissioner. The Department of Agriculture and the people
of North Carolina are deeply indebted to Dr. R. W. Shoffner,
for agreeing to put on the 1964 Fair, which was then so close at
hand, and to North Carolina State University for lending him
to us from his post as Director of Foundations. Dr. Shoffner
had served as Assistant Manager under the late Dr. J. S. Dorton
for 24 years. Nevertheless, it was an extremely difficult task
at such a late date to take hold of the multitude of details which
the Fair entails. Dr. Shoffner did a magnificent job and under
the most adverse circumstances.
Again, it was a source of gratitude to find within the ranks of
the Department of Agriculture personnel an able person to take
over the permanent job of Fair Manager. Arthur K. Pitzer,
who had for eight years served as a livestock marketing specialist
with the Department and as head of the State Fair livestock
department, was appointed to this position.
During this biennium a new division was created. The Com-modity
Distribution Section of the Division of Markets was made
a full-fledged Division known as the Food Distribution Division.
J. P. Davis, Jr., who had been head of the section for 20 years
was made head of this new Division. The magnitude and volume
of work involved in the distribution of federally donated foods
for schools and charitable institutions made this administrative
change advisable.
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In January, 1966, the department lost by retirement W. P.
Hedrick, who had so ably served as tobacco marketing specialist
for nearly 30 years. This position was filled by his former
assistant, John H. Cyrus, who had worked under Mr. Hedrick
for 17 years. Mr. Cyrus' former position has been filled by
Roger L. Mozingo, a native of Greene County, a graduate of
N. C. State University, and well qualified by experience and
training for the position of tobacco marketing specialist.
On July 1, 1965, John T. Richardson, who had been the County
Farm Census supervisor for 15 years also retired. His position
was filled by William B. Harris, who had been an agricultural
statistician with the Department for two years.
I was most grateful to Miss Carolyn Harmon for agreeing to
stay on in her post as administrative secretary in my office. She
was invaluable in assisting me in launching my administration.
However, in 1965, she elected to return to teaching and joined
the faculty at Gaston College. I am most fortunate in having
the experienced services of Mrs. Virginia Johnson as adminis-trative
secretary. Mrs. Johnson had served as my secretary
when I was manager of the Farmers Market and came to this
office after serving under the new manager for a year.
On becoming Commissioner, I appointed Charles G. Murray,
who had been a marketing specialist in this department since
1957, to succeed me as manager of the State Farmers Market,
where he is doing an outstanding job. The market is showing
steady gains in growers participation and is absolutely self sus-taining.
In June, 1966, we lost the services of William E. Gulley, who
resigned to accept a post with the American Forest Products
Industries, Inc. Mr. Gulley had served as Assistant Director
of the Publications Division and had made important contribu-tions
to the work of the department. His position had not been
filled by the end of the biennium, but as this report is written
we have obtained the services of Garland R. Whitaker, who
comes to us from the Greenville Reflector, where he had worked
as reporter and farm writer.
In May, 1965, I inaugurated a monthly employee recognition
award. A person to be designated Employee of The Month is
chosen by a committee and their citation presented at the monthly
staff meetings. This recognition is to be given to employees in
all salary brackets and all levels of responsibility.
These awards do more than simpy give individual recognition.
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They serve to point up the fact that every employee in the de-partment
has an important job to do and that the effectiveness
of each individual in his or her particular job is vital to an
effective team effort. The citations, themselves, help to keep
employees of all divisions abreast of the great variety of pro-grams
and responsibilities carried on by the department.
Needless to say, the monthly choice is not easy to make from
such a large number of employees of such general excellence.
However, the committee is helped in making its selection by
focusing on outstanding work or special accomplishments during
the preceding month. This recognition has been well received
by employees throughout the department.
Recipients of the award during the biennium were:
1965
May—Francis Patterson, director of the Dairy Division
;
June—Hugh B. Martin, head of fruit and vegetable section,
Division of Markets
;
July—Jay P. Davis, head of commodity distribution section, Di-vision
of Markets
;
August—J. A. Harris, senior entomologist, Entomology Divi-sion;
September—Josephine Allen, secretary to State Veterinarian
October—E. H. Cooper, tax auditor, inspection service;
November—George Spain, director of Seed Testing Division;
December—Dr. Preston Reid, director of Soil Testing Division
;
1966
January—Dr. H. J. Rollins, State Veterinarian;
February—Harry T. Davis, director of State Museum;
March—Robert Harris, stock clerk;
April—Robert T. Teague, Jr., assistant state chemist;
May—Charles G. Murray, manager of State Farmers Market;
June—Mrs. M. Pauline DeCosta, Director of Publications Divi-sion;
July—Charles B. Elks, head of engineering section, Division of
Markets.
State Board of Agriculture
The Board of Agriculture is the regulatory and policy making
body for the Department of Agriculture. Its membership cur-rently,
and by long tradition, represents the finest kind of intelli-gent
agricultural leadership and dedicated public servants.
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Commissioner Graham, Board Members J. H. Poole, Charles Phillips, David
Townsend, Jr., and J. Atwell Alexander pause at the Laurel Springs Research
Station during their recent tour of the western stations.
The Board consists of 10 members appointed by the Governor
for six-year terms of office. However, the law provides for
staggered terms, so that not all expire at one time, and requires
that the members shall be active farmers representing the major
sections and types of agriculture in the state.
The multiplying problems of progress place commensurately
heavier burdens upon this Board. Regulatory provisions on
which they must pass increase in complexity and in number.
The Board members are all busy farmers and businessmen,
active in many civic affairs at community and state level. Except
for a nominal pay for days actually in session or traveling on
business for the Board, their only compensation is the knowledge
that they are serving their state and their nation. Yet they
give without stint of their time and talents to the business of
the Board not only in formal sessions but in travel and other
activities to further the interest of the Department and North
Carolina Agriculture.
During the summer of 1966, visits to all 16 of the outlying
Research Stations were scheduled for Board members. Despite
the fact that these tours had necessarilv to be scheduled at the
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busiest time of the year for these very busy men, seven of the
10 members participated in them.
These biennial visits to the stations serve the dual purpose of
acquainting the Board members with the budget needs of the
stations and keeping them in touch with the agricultural develop-ments
in all parts of the state.
Beginning on the following page is a summary of matters
brought before the Board in session totaling 15 days during this
biennium. This gives some idea of the duties and responsibility
of this truly "working" board.
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HIGHLIGHTS OF BOARD MEETINGS
1964-1966 Biennium
October 12, 1964 J. Atwell Alexander, Claude T. Hall, Charles F. Phillips,
Raleigh, Fairgrounds Thomas 0. Gilmore. Thomas G. Joyner, and J. H. Poole.
Warehouse Loans
Approved
Approved loans from the State Warehouse Fund of $10,000
to Farmers Bonded Warehouse of Wagram; $16,000 to the
Shelby Bonded Warehouse of Shelby and $32,000 to the
Long Cotton Warehouse of Weldon.
Assistant
Commissioner
Reappointed
Commissioner Graham informed the Board that his first
official decision as Commissioner was to request that Mr.
John L. Reitzel stay as Assistant Commissioner.
December 7,
Raleigh
1964 j. Atwell Alexander, Thomas O. Gilmore, Hoyle C. Griffin,
Thomas G. Joyner, George P. Kittrell, Charles F. Phillips,
J. H. Poole, and A. B. Slagle.
Approve Appoint- Approved the appointment of John I. Moore as director of
an^Mealsures*
8 the Weights and Measures Division, succeeding C. D. Bau-
Director com, who retired.
Removal of Fair- Approved a recommendation to the Department of Admin-grounds
Dwellings
j stration to remove the unusuable dwellings at the N. C.
State Fairgrounds.
Adopted Regula- Adopted standards for concentrated commercial feedings
tions Defining stuffs labeled as complete dairy feed, following a public
Complete Dairy . jajj-jj- t.I*-uji Peed hearing. Also adopted standard weights for bags and pack-ages
of feeding stuffs.
Endorse Pneumatic Went on record as endorsing a one-type system of sampling
Peanut Sampler bulk peanuts and endorsed the pneumatic bulk sampler.
Approve Warehouse Approved loans from the State Warehouse Fund of $40,000
Loans to Lincoln Bonded Warehouse and $33,000 to D. D. McCall
and Ruth B. Council of St. Pauls.
Discuss Oxford
Land Sale
Heard request from Oxford Industrial Development group
to buy land from Oxford Research Station. Voted to request
the Division of Property Control to appraise land requested.
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Discuss Right-of- Discussed, but postponed action, on a request from resi-
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