Agricultural Engineers Study if
Cheaper Weed Production Plans
Agricultural engineers at North
Carol ma State have veeo scien
tifically analyzing tob.ceo pro
duction since 1950. Their goal is
to help farmers produce tobacco
faster, easier and cheaper.
Fetr characteristics of the to
bacco plant or the practices used
in growing it have escaped the
engineers' attention. In their me
chanioad harvesting experiments
alone, the engineers have studied
32 different characteristics of to
bacco stalks and leaves.
How much force is required to
Cfcr (fcT "bru 3e " a tooaoeo leal?
Hew a trong is a tobacco stalk;
haw strong is ? leaf? What is Che
shape of a leaf, its thickness,
midrib sj^ength and braising
tolerance? Hew much force is
Deeded to remove a leaf from the
sbafc? Will suckers or sucker
Dubs effect a mechanical! harvest
er? How much friction results
when tobacco leaves iare placed
? ? ' ' I
egaimst steel? wood? belt ma
terial?
These are some of the basic
questions that the engineers have
had to answer before they could
get far building a mechanical
harvester.
Efforts to develop new curing
methods have likewise required
answers to many basic questions
efcout tohaoco. What, for example,
are the best times and temper
atures needed to cure quality
tobacco?
What effect does curing have on
the many chemicals found in a
tobacco leaf? What gases does a
tobacco leaf consume or release
during curing? How does air
flow, heat and spacing affect
curing? How does leaf shedding
effect quality?
Questions such as these could
go on and on. Their answers are
all nscessary in any scientific
attempt to mechanize the harvest
ires and curiae of totoaooo.
With tbfa type of information,
counted with their engineer^
know-how, the State College
scientists have made considerable
progress in mechanical harvest
ing.
Both self-prcpeiled and tractor
mounted harvester! have been
field tested. By 1*61. fMd losses
with both types of harvesters bad
been reduced to about 5 per cent.
This s per cent figure comperes
favorably with harvesting tones
in almost every other medumixed
crop. Yet. the kns in considered
excessive, cr phohMtive, in to
bacco under the present acreage
control system.
State engineers have tested 26
different "defoliators" or picker
heads in ian effort to reduce the
field losses from mechanical har
vesting. Two new defoliators were
tested during the past summer.
The engineers are also expior
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tag the poaribiHUea of removing
more teav* from the stalk at
each priming than is currently
done. If suooessful, ^ <v^V|
greatly reduce the Dumber of
primings needed to harvest the
crop.
Fruits of bulk curing research
are not only In the hands of grow
ers, but ore getting considerable
praise from users. Ninety -nine
owners of bulk curers who re
sponded to a recent queattancofoe
were overwhelmingly ta favor of
the new labor -saving method.
Research workers believe that
bulk curers will show an even
ffvatar advantage ta 1983, due to
new varieties being grown end
the increased experience at bulk
curer owners.
Broyhill
Will Not Run
For Governor
Ninth District Congressman
James T. Broyhill, whose dis
trict includes Watauga County,
said this week that he is not a
candidate for governor of North
Carolina.
Broyhill, now ? freshman
congressman, said: "I have no
aspirations for governor, and
have made that clear before."
He expressed surprise at pub
lished rumors to the contrary,
triggered in recent days by the
announcement by Eighth Dis
trict Congressmen Charles Ra
per Jonas that he would not be
the GOP candidate for gover
nor in 1964.
Broyhill has his plans well
laid.
He is interested in coming
back to Congress for a second
term from the Ninth Congres
sional District. His supporters
there are expecting him to be
the candidate, and the Repub
lican National Committee is
counting on him to hold onto
the seat.
Reflecting the welcome he
was given by the Republican
party when he became the sec
ond GOP member of the North
Carolina delegation in the
House, Broyhill was named, as
a freshman, to the Republican
Policy Committee in the House.
That group is the inner circle
of leadership advisers and
strategists backstopping minor
ity leader Charles Halleck.
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ON RUSSIA MOON SHOT
President Kennedy hat qua*
tioaed whether the Soviet Up
ion it abandoning the moon
race.
Kennedy uid that be "would
not make any beta at all upon
Soviet intentlona" despite Prem
ier Khruchchev's statement
that his country would not race
to the moon but, rather, would
profit from American exper
ience la that field. ts -J|
Expressing his skeptical at
titude on Soviet intentions, he
said the United States would
stay on target
Brief Newg Notes
Bishop Sheen U preparing
new TV aeriaa.
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alumina ii patented.
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