t EIGHT AAA To Press Farm Campaign Suits On Processing Tax Move Administration To Reassure Growers Washington, July 23.?Alarmed at possible effects of processing tax suits upon farmers themselves AAA officials today planned an extensive campaign to reassure signers of crop control contracts. They insisted the question of AAA's constitutionality will not affect present adjustment contracts. But, officials nevertheless were said to fear a considerable misunderstanding on the part of lariiusio. It is possible, an official said that many farmers, reading accounts of more than 350 suits contesting the validity of processing taxes and the AAA, may decide that it is not worth while to sign adjustment contracts. Such reaction in widespread form he explained would be considered equally as damaging as the processing tax suits. It is to combat this situation the official said, the new educational campaign is being charted. It was said word has been passed along to Production Control association committeemen throughout the nation to lend assistance in assuring farmers thati the adjustment contracts are valid legal agreements and will be carried out by the government Barely a Chaser A Chelsea pensioner reported | sick one morning, complaining of Indigestion. The M. O. asked him several questions regarding his diet one of them being "How much beer ! do you drink a day?" The pensioner replied, "Six to j eight pints?if I can get it." "Gracious," said the M. O. I "enough to have a bath in." "Enough to have a bath in, sir!" replied the old warrior. "Why when I was soldiering it! wouldn't be enough to wet a good soldier's mustache!" ""Waiter, these are very small "oysters." "Yes, sir." "And they don't appear to be very fresh." "Then it's lucky they're small ain't it, sir?" I ; J i FA i ; !! An g each sale. L and the need l. r. ja< \ Tobacco Marketin Be Made As a result of a meeting which took place at Salisbury, Southjern Rhodesia, in December 1934, I between representatives of the | Tobacco Growers of Southern j Rhodesia and Nyasaland, the ToI bacco Federation of the British j Empire requested the British I Secretary of State for the Col! onies to refer the subject of tobacco marketing in Great Britain to the Imperial Economic j Committe. The Colonial Secretary made this request and it is (now announced that the Imperial Economic Committee has undertaken this enquiry.?Ameri) can Assistant Comemrcial Attache aJmes Somerville, Jr. $535,547,698 IN RENTAL AND BENEFITS PAID FARMERS IN ELEVEN MONTHS OF FISCAL YEAR j Washington, D. C., July 22.? The July 1, 1934 to June 1, 1935 (period of the 1935 fiscal year the I Agricultural Adjustment Administration expended in rental and I benefit payments, removal and conservation of surplus agricultural commodities, drought relief, administrative expenses and other operations, a total of $767,195,306 from funds available to $918,045,135, leaving a balance available of $150,849,829, according to the monthly Comptroller's report issued today. The report, wmcn nas Deen revised and will henceforth report expenditures on a basis of current fiscal year, instead of from date of organization as previously reported, lists expenditures for the period as follows: Rental and benefit payments to farmers cooperating in adjustment program, $535,547,698; removal and conservation of surplus agricultural commodities, $10,043,550; drought relief, food conservation and disease eradication, $145,595,526; trust fund operations, $11,746,526; administrative expenses, $34,491,654; disbursement expense, $737,005; and tax refunds, $29,123,107. Alfalfa produces the highest quality of hay that can be grown in North Carolina, say livestock experts. WHY New RM L. R. ild firm with a new . R. JACKSON wit s of the FARMER. MAKE FARME * m Am GKSON "THE . ... 1 v ' * ' It THE STATE PORT PI1 ig Survey To In Great Britain * New Code For Tobacco Men i Wholesale Distributors Submit Agreement To Trade Commission ? First To1 Sign Up Under New Fed-, eral Group Washington, July IS.?The new, era of code making got under way today at the Federal Trade commission. Wholesale tobacco distributors; submitted for the commission's approval an agreement to esab- j lish minimum wages and maximum hours, to bar child labor, and ban 18 unfair trade practices. | Commission approval of the I voluntary code as submitted was generally expected since the code was written under the supervision of officials of commission's | fair trade practice section. Says County Agents ! Did Great Work Writing in the July-August is-1 _ | sue of the official magazine of | ! the Potash Institute, Better Crops! with Plant Food, Jeff McDermid | reminds the nation that the county farm agents were given an emergency job when the AAA field work was organized and i that the agents came through j in a highly acceptable manner, says Dean I. O. Schaub, director of agricultural extension at State College. The Dean quote3 the magazine as follows: "Thoughtful surveys of the Extension Service in these recent | years of farm credit and crop | adjustment, drought hazards and ( | super-organization in a crisis, convince anyone that the machine ! ran smoothly. In a few days more than 70,000 production con- j trol committeemen were hitched j into the harness and ready to i I drive ahead in the greatest single \ piece of social engineering that American farming has witnessed. County Agents did it. "There were enough delay, le-| gal fog, and contrary orders to; i rEvi Mo< ERS lAfKSf ' home. We will s< h over 30 years wa Try us with your i RS WAREHOUSE m r* ^ t I . ~ I H| m ; BEST SER k. I X)T, SOUTHPORT, NORTH CJ put the average untrained fellow j X' into the filbert class in short order; but somehow, trained as they were in patience and endurance, the majority of the ? agents hung on like firm death off and saw it through. They had ba< to. Soi "Unless they carried on, the ^ whole caboodle of contracts would an< have gone amiss, the radical rooters would have taken the re- for servation and the extension sys- j Ple tem itself might have vanished! . . . My thesis is that the whole jis 1 business, despite the grief and jev* gunplay, has been a good boost for the system. The service de- ' pended primarily on the welfare ?'r of agriculture and it could not me last through a few more years ex* of poverty and dismay. The j00* team-work between county agents j w? and specialists and the farmers | developed in these later years jmo ought to command the mutual! ?Vf - .. i dei first load and be con "YOUR TOBACCO pvlfi VICE AND I respect in most cases . . " " Ed Late Summer Hints w. For Home Gardener rar Because August is usually a P'? dry month, frequent shallow cul- ^ tivation is needed in the vege- j table garden to destroy weeds ap] and to conserve moisture. era "Where a person can install an tui irrigation system without too Wi much expense, he has an added Vii advantage in the production of me late vegetables and usually the orj installation can be paid for in Co - ? J *1 ? ?? one season 01 ury weauici, aayo an Prof. M. E. Gardner, head of i the horticultural department at brj State College. the Many vegetables such as beans, all peppers and others may be dried the for winter use, while good sped- wil mens of tomatoes, sweet corn, ok- fac ra, peppers, cantaloupes, water- for melons and other crops may be ba< selected and allowed to thorough- an< ly mature for seed purposes next be season. Only seed from healthy, of vigorous plants should be saved, the Gardner says. vai He also advises that the fight tioi against insect pests be continued, on Derris dust, containing .75 per- ing cent Rotenone is effective in con- fio< trolling cabbage insects and has thii the added advantage of being i harmless to humans. Dust as of- ~ten as necessary to protect the' an< crop using 15 to 20 pounds of1 lit} the material per acre. This dust hib is effective against the Mexican saj Bean Beetle. it Prof. Gardner further suggests j we! keeping the local fair in mind j she LLE\( dern i WA (N & SOI :e that you get the H rehouse experience, "7 1 1GHEST MARKE has a force of mc vinced. I HOME" * 0 * Sousrii 'RICES TO VROLINA fational Tobacco Fesf Boston, Va., Sep * South Boston, Va.?It is now icial that "The National To- { :co Festival" will be held in ; lth Boston, the definite dates ng set for September 25th 1 i 26th. Yeoman work has been le by South Boston citizens 1 the past two years to com- 1 te arrangements for this event, ' ich is to be an annual one, and , the most ambitious undertaking ir atempted here, rhe festival will be in line h the program of the Virlia State Chamber of Comrce, and the first festival is >ected to draw well over 50,I visitors fsom all over the rid. rhe local Lions Club unani usly decided to sponsor the :nt, and J. S. McRae, presi-1 it has appointed Page H. ughan, chairman, Richard C. , munas, James H. Rowan and j; L. Williams, as an executive [ nmittee, to complete the ar- j lgements for the festival, emy the necessary help, appoint s committees, and arrange the ; ler innumerable details. Dr. W. B. Barbour has been < pointed a member of the genii state committee for the "Aunn Travel Season," by Jay , nston Johns, president of the ginia State Chamber of Comrce, and will act in an advisr capacity to the Executive ; mmittee. Mr. McRae will be ex-officio member. i rhe present plans, though emronic at this stage, call for > presentation of tobacco in ite forms, from the field to i cigarette. The cigarette phase. 1 be emphasized, due to the it that this section is noted its fine quality cigarette to:co. Floats from many towns, j 1 representing many firms will j seen in the parade. A Queen , Tobacco will be appointed, and J i maids will be elected by the dous towns and states. A nanally known orchestra will be hand for two nights of dancover 140,000 square feet of or space being available for a part of the program, leads of nations, states, news i i producing some high qua- 1 r, perfect specimens for ex- ] it this fall. For instance, he I rs, a well planned apple exhib- ' of high quality, and of clean, < ll-graded fruit will "steal the i >w" at most any fair. i m Con lREI N. Prom WE ival At South tember 25th And 26th papers and corporations will be Invited to South Boston for "The National Tobacco Festival" and each of these special invitees will be given a key to the city, and will be shown the intracacies of tobacco, both from the producing and the manufacturing angle. All others attending can make the same study. Flynn Is A Farmer Of Mystery Freeman, July 19.?Beyond all doubt S. E. Flynn, our local J. P., is to many a farmer of mystery. There is a busy-bo<3y reporter who has tried time and again to check up on Mr. Flynn's farming, but to date he has been unsuccessful. Nearly every time he runs up with Mr. Flynn he finds him seated some place beneath a shade comfortably enjoying a large chew of tobacco. Yet, Mr. Flynn goes to the tobacco markets with some of the finest weed offerings to be sure. Then, when the time comes over in the spring for another year, when everyone else seems to be out of corn Br*er Flynn has plen*" lHr?H fn ana r*? ly ui uic a&AAwov jvuiu w for top market price. It has been rumored, also, that somewhere he always has a fine watermelon patch. But so far as that reporter is concerned Br'er Flynn's melon patch simply does not exist. North Carolina Leads In Tobacco Revenue Washington, D. C., July 18.? North Carolina paid the most tobacco revenue taxes of any state for fiscal year, a total of $235,233,795.56, out of a total for the nation of $1,671,409,000 in this class of taxes. V. P. Parker Proves Excellent Farmer Bolton, July 19.?V. P. Parker, who three or four years ago left the A. C. L. Railroad Company's employ to take up farming, is proving his metal behind the plow equally as well as he did hustling a crew of men up and down the railroad putting in cross-ties and lining rails. He Wsi venient HOI rietors T PRICE for youi ;n with him who 1 Ml J| M ipP^P W/Wtt F. W All ? flLiLi .pNESDAY, JULY 31, iMn] purchased the Baker farm/^B-. ed new buildings upon it larged cultivated acreage. ^Bfl he has one of the moat :>S|| i ive farms in Eastern upon which he grows cors|j^B potatoes, beans, tobacco ay^Bt* er crops galore. Largest Tobacco BU Crop OutlooM^ Ruined By ft?01 Wilson, Junly IS.?u it Hi 1 not been for the rains of t^^Bfi , two weeks in this section 1 cording to Wilson County I Agent W. L. Adams in aa ^B view today, the 1935 tobaccch^Bj i of the county would have ^^B I the largest this section haa B Mr. Adams estimated tB that if the rains had not oB for so long a period the to^B^ yield of the county would ^BB been around 5,000,000 poundi^Hj| year, or around ow ? . 1 the acre. Many Pretty FarJ^m On Delco R. Delco, July 24.?On the pj^H | loop here there are some 'pretty farms?tobacco, com* | ton, sweet potatoes, peas, and a large variety of g^^HI ' stuff. Among the leaders are ' tie and Eura Peterson, E. R ter, A. Melvin, Arch Hayes* M. Hufham, A. A. BorcaH, ? French Bordeaux, Jay Bord^H Alton Bordeaux, D. J. Bord^Hot Caldwell Bordeaux, Walter^*86 Bordeaux and Bordeaux and [deaux Company. Algerian Cigarettes Sold 1 In French IndochiH^ Tf ,'o onU ir. ? J- " .^Hll *?. M oaiu Ail U1C LI dUc BH disposal of a large tobacco grown by small farmers ^P? French Indo-China will becon^P? very serious problem if Alg^Hto ' tobacco cannot be excluded 0| is claimed that Algerian ette manufacturers entered^?' French Indochina markets s^BjjJ an inferior cigarette selling 6 piastre cents, and were able^P take advantage of the low ln^P* nal tax which was fixed on di^EI cigarettes to aid the local^? dustry.?American Consul Q. I Roberts. * W UI tit I 1?li'i'l I I'll I I'll 11 V' 1 "V 1 Tdr I t&Kd I r Tobacco on I aiow tobacco I '-U I ' > ft I I P' ri'^Hjr MmM f^^>vx' I :: i . ' I -i

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