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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
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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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Administration 19
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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
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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
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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.
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.
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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
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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-
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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.
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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,
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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-
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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
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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
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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-
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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-
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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.
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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
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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
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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-
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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.
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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-
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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.
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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-
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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
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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 $67,430,389.80
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NORTH CAROLINA CREDIT UNIONS
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET
Assets
June 30, 196^ June 30, 1966
Cash on Hand and in Banks __$ 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