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l^pNFSPAY, AUGUST County Growers I Plant 15,950 I Acres Of Weed Hfjptcting To Harvest Bet >ween Fourteen And FifI teen Million Pounds Of Tobar-'o lain GROSS GROWERS j AROUND $2,500,000 Irjfures May Run As H'gh ?As $3,000,000 For The |940 Crop Of Tobacco y, |n Columbus County H unty farmers have iximately 15.950' ' for 1940 from I B.i.oh they f,ftect to harvest be-1 and fifteen mil-1' ; tobacco that will 1 ... . :: S2.000.000 and $3,K. Tilt' tobacco crop has 1 H lei ably due to ex- j H . hot diy weather during j part of July and first a dition to the S2.500.000 ex- 1 m.',.: .r our tobacco crop, the I ol Columbus County will as of today's prices, ap- 1 BE $1,050,000 from their i B $24,000 from wheat. I |: i oats. $350,000 fromj! vr; potatoes. 740.000 from 1 jswber: ies. $125,000 from hogs, i in n cotton, and $255,000 I , .itutal Conservation Pay- 1 : which will give the farmers :: County a gross in- < :wcen $5,500,000 and i ' 000. 1 > small grain crop for Co- I . i unty was exceptionallj' 1 th-> year. We planted ap- t , i ;> 200'r more acres of t stain than we have planted 1 v rear for the last several i . . our corn crop, general- t e ak .. is above the aver- 1 f There has been some dam- s i Jor.e to our corn crop due < ::kage caused by the hot t season the latter part of < ?-.! the first of August, i ifVr:-. in spite of the dry spell 1 expect to produce in Colum? c antv 1.500.000 bushels of f :!:> year. We grew this year ' 2500 acres of oats for < -vest with approximately 1000 j of these being fulgrain var-1 M st of them are one or two 1 f: r the breeder. The other { aens of oats have been wm several years from the -!er a:.<l could not be classi- j as -.v particular variety. We ( tease l our wheat production j ( For A Pleasar m tttwf I UU1IVJ1 I Sandwic if. For a light lu s middle of the da || toasted sandwit p the noon-day r p.. store. I "WE FILL AL I, 1940 | TILE WEI ||lp ' ' . - -y ': . -A. FEW IN~COUNTY?Th struction for tobacco barns i is one of the newer types of W. G. Prevatte near Whitev for harvest from approximately) 100 acres in 1939 to 1,000 acres' in 1940. with a yield of approx- j mately 30 bushels per acre. Practically all of this wheat is }f Redhart variety and grown from one to three years from the jreeder. Our sweet potato crop in Coumbus County was _ut materally due primarily to the fact :hat growers were unable to ob-1 lain plants to set the crop that :hey expected to set. However, | n spite of this, we have one. of1 :he largest crops of sweet pota:oes that we have had in years.1 Cotton growers of Columbus j bounty have planted, in most in- [ stances, their full acreage allot- J nent of cotton and between 80 ier cent and 90 per cent have joisoned for toll weevil this year, ising the mopping method. This; :reatment for boll weevil and the lot dry season has been exceed- ] ngly favorable for control of loll weevill this year and we lave had no complaints whatsoever this year of this insect1 iestroying any part of this cot- j :on crop. We are expecting one >f the largest crops of cotton n this section that we have ever iroduced per acre. Columbus County generally has i good crop and we are lookng forward to a bountiful harv st. Temperatures within the Carls-1 iad Caverns of New Mexico re-! nains at 56 degrees throughout i he year. Americans in 1939 smoked .72,000,000,000 cirgarettes, 5,311,100,000 cigars and used 38,000,>00 pounds of snuff. it Pause In The Da Stop At NT'S DRUG (The Rexall Store) S Refrc fm Our Foui fck unexcelled. W for you wh tired and th hes nch in the y?try our ;hes. Join ush to our JJljj? Beauty aids A hundred iiy that you'll up-to-date 1 ,L DOCTORS' PRES iD BARN | ? ! -.. as 1 . 1. -V , | la .. *r J t ere are many types of con- " n Columbus county, but this r construction on the farm of i ille. i f J Generations ; Of Pharmacists 5 h Father, Son And Grandson In Whiteville Have Been r Pharmacists; McNeill Celebrating 40th Anni- ^ versary This year marks the fortieth 1 in the father-son-grandson man- [ ^ agers'.iip of J. A. McNeill and 1 Sons, druggists. The firm was established in 1900 in Shallotte ? by J. A. McNeill, was later mov- ^ Q ed to Whiteville by his son, George R. McNeill and now j h grandson. J. A. McNeill is again pharmacist for the firm following g his graduation from the Univers-1 ity of North Carolina last spring.' In recognition of these two' score years of service, Miss Alice [ Nobles makes the following com-j ment in the Carolina Journal of Pharmacy: "The Third Generation "Dr. John A. McNeill owned a drug store in Shallotte many years ago which was operated | under the name of J. A. McNeill and Son?the son was Pharmacist George R. McNeill, who later moved the store to Whiteville. It has been operated in recent years as McNeills Drug Store. This June the son of Mr. McNeill, II, graduated in pharmacy at the State University and a few days later passed the examination of the State Board of Pharmacy. This young man bears j the name of his grandfather, ' John Albert McNeill. We had the I pleasure of talking to the gradu- j ate's father during the Commence ment season and we don't know j ty's Activity, STORE * ishments itain Service is It's the place en you're hot, irsty? iletries ; for the Ladies, and one articles find only in an Drug Store. ICRIPTIONS" THE STATE PORT PILOT, SOUTHPORT, N. C. CANNING CLUBS MAKE A j world in 1912-13. In fact, they PROFIT I had worse than none for a girl's ' canned tomatoes must shoulder When the farm and home agent ^ , , legan to bring new ideas <?f reputation that was made by arming and home-making to carelessly packed products which ;roups of interested people they housewives had tried to sell to ame hard against the question; grocers through all the years beWhere will we get the money; fore, and both merchant and vith which to do it", and there I housewife were chary of purchased to be an answer. ing. It was the canning clubs in The State home demonstration 912-13 which brought women office called the 14 home agents md girls from the farm their to Raleigh and made plans to sell irst big marketing experience, each county's cans at home. The Tie news went swiftly from method was left to the ingenulome to home that farm girls did not disappoint, lad canned vegetables they had A ONCE A WEEK MARKET iroduced, sold them and had1 Very generally the farm wonade a profit. Every little girl I man's market is held on Saturlegan the story of her work with day mornings and then for only I joined the canning club to 2\'z to 3 hours, but some of the nake some money for myself and larger markets are open on Tueswant to seel my cans right day or Wednesday mornings also iow", and seventy thousand cans where customers demand it. iyi tVio 14 n/Mintioa fVion nvo-an. ,4Tt wn.Q -hist too hftrrl and ton zed in home demonstration work uncertain to peddle what I had re re dumped on the office of to sell from door to door", said lome demonstration in the month one satisfied marketer, "now selif October 1912 and not a mar- ling on the woman's market is :et in sight. just swapping the things I raise Home canned products had no j in my garden and poultry house eputation in the commercial j and the cakes I can make at 1 home for money to buy the Aether the son or the father thjngs j have wanted all my life ,-as prouder of the fact that an- and djdn't. have the means of ther McNeill was ready to begin getting ? And that is just what he practice of pharmacy. Hie farm woman's market seems oungest McNeill pharmacist is to be doing_tuming the small ow associated with his father ; surp]uses fr0m the farm and a nd brother in the Whiteville woman's skills in cookery into harmacy which proudly bears a modest income and in consehe name of J, A. McNeill and j qUence bringing more satisfaction ;ons. We wonder how many|to the home on the farm ther drug stores in the state ave pharmacists of the third j Manilla and Honolulu are 4:700 eneration connected with them." j miles apart. and Com 4 Wholesa of Reliab COLUMBUS, BLA We are proud to hav counties we serve. We ar u... We feel we've helped I our retail customers. Visit Our IS 1 j The first U. S. President who'ed to erect a large building i was born an American rather a hotel school in Johannesbu . I than a British subject was Mar- South Africa, they found tl ' tin Van Buren. youths of the country did i The Australian "black fellow" want to become hotel men. is not black but brown. Most of the 4,600,000 people Australia has the lowest ave- . ,, .. *.?_. nViilr* nrp of Snnmsh blood. rage eievauon or an uie conn-1 ??- ? ? nents. More than 25 per cent of When hotel proprietors propos-! machine tools produced for i WELCOME TO TAB( MR. TOBACCO FARMER-To f We Cordially Invii pany, Incorporate* le Distribu le Merchar -IN DEN and BRUNSWICK COUNTIES e had some part in the development of e proud of our many tobacco grower custor produce their crop, by supplying them thro -tssssa ? - .'u:"!' rStore In White X PAGE SEVEN 9 for mestic use are delivered to planerg, makers or their suppliers. |H lat The last king of France was lot Louis Philippe, who ended an 18year reign in 1848. of The Mor.a Lisa was painted by Leonardo da Vincia in Florence a,) in 150'). H Jo- ^9 )R CITY... I ?ell Your Tobacco I te You To See Us I s At Best Prices. 1 o Wagons, .... I rness, Etc.... I : Want To Serve! I iOLAND I ALDWIN 1 abor City, N. C. I LI tors idise I l the ners sUSb I . 1 I ville J
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