Jolum: Mlost<)f The News 4ii The Time EVER 1,250,000 Pc 1 Seen In N. Represents A Decline K xi Per Cent Over The Bjgure For Last Year A acre yield V SEEN AS LOWER Areas Last Year The Yield Was 990 Aoua^ Per Acre' This year Expected To Jl Be 950 Pounds g. By K- Mann i:i Studies Economist V N ( stale College ^ftrtli Carolina tobacco growers "Border Bolt are harvest ited crop of 52,9, pounds of flue cured tofl . year, a decrease of 44 tB.- :n i he 93.060,000 . prCKiuced in this area in according to crop reports v. ? Department of AgriWashington. This decline ^Bcnar.ted for by a 41 perHdecrease in the planted acrethe remainder due to a cated drop in average per acre. rear North Carolina grow1B the border belt grew fluetobacco on 94.000 acres; $> voa: they planted an esti55.000 acres. In 1939 the yield per acre was 990 thts year it is expected a-v'jt 950 pounds per acre. ^Br.e 'he large decline in ^A.:t : if the anticipated 52,pound crop results, it will than the average profor the 3929-38 period, jHi was 50.295.00 pounds. The ffl| harvested acreage for the period was 57.660, -or B'y above the estimated ^Kca acreage in 1940. ^B proof that North Carolina JB;r belt growers are improvtheir methods of production, .Biterage yield per acre from S through 1938 was 862 as compared with the i^Bpated yield of 950 pounds acre in 1940. PDmilMwinev 4/v UA?1 , ?,wui aping iu iai net* K:: are the preliminary esti^B3 on the South Carolina B: belt crop. That section is ^Bct:d to harvest "7,400,000 of tobacco from 86.000 for an average of only 2B pounds per acre. This comB with 133,200,000 pounds ^B 144.000 acres in 1939, for housands, F Received Th Thousand Farmers lave Called By Farm ^fcltnt's Office And Signal Their Cards Bowers urged to are care of them : Producers Are Warned Be Careful In The sc Of Their Market 'ig Cards And Not Ik. To Lose Them I ?V S. C. OLIVER I County Farm Agent fi r'y 3000 tobacco farmers Bjtilurnbus County have called County Agent's Office and M*1 for their tobacco marketBeards to sell tobacco on when H^bacco market opens on AugfB"'-1 Each operator, when he Pes his card, signs the fol : teceipt: I, the undersignjB'""dor of the farm for which [marketing card is issued, # acknowledge receipt oi ^ n Quota Marketing Card' ^J^tee to deliver the card to KB1-' officer or to a field as when all sales have beer 'aodition to this receipt, each signs the operator's ??ent, which is as follows: ^B">: un'l' 'signed operator, dc i'' declare and agree that earl will be used only tc " fobacco produced on tht P for which the card is is BUS COl ] TH TTl iund Crop Is C. Border Bell * j Auctioneer's Chant Said }00 Years Old The familiar chant of the tobacco auctioneer la about 100 years old. Tobacco before that time was sold almost entirely at private sale, and the necessity of effecting more rapid sales was apparent. The auction method was devised. At first, the auctioneer >rooceded slowly, similar to hose selling land under foreclosure in that day, but as imc went on the auctioneer vas able to speed it up a bit. Today's model Is the streamIned replica of that early auctioneer of 100 years ago. an average of 925 pounds p< acre, in South Carolina. The ' ehmuo fV?Q f NTcvf'K PafrtHno Knrrlf OWUH O UIHt 41 Vt Wi VOIUIIIIU UUIUl belt farmers are ahead of the South Carolina neighbors in avei age yields. The production for the entii border belt?North Carolina ar South Carolina?is expected to t 129,650,000 pounds this year, a | compared with 226,260,000 pounc | in 1939. For North Carolina as a who! a crop of 458,540,000 pounds i expected, a decline of 43 percei from the 1939 crop. The plante acreage in the State this yea is estimated to be 502,000 acre a 41 percent drop from last yea and the average yield in 1940 i North Carolina probably will t ' about 913 pounds per acre, a d< ; cline of 3 percent from the 93 pounds per acre which the 193 crop yielded. The Nation as a whole is grow ing this year an estimated 676 645.000 pounds of tobacco, as con pared with the record crop of 1 159,320,000 pounds in 1939. Th ; is a decrease of 42 percent, ai ' counted for by a drop in plante | acreage. In 1939 the flue-cure growers of the Nation plante 11,287,900 acres; this year the planted an estimated 753,30 | acres. The price received by Nort r'orrtlinn hnrripr hplt OTOWPTS Ifli year was 15.3 cents per pouni as compared with a 15.2 cenl per pound for the State as whole, and a 14.9 cents per pour average for the flue-cured bel armers Have eir Matt Card; , sued. I understand that if tobacc | from any other farm is marke jed under this card: (1) I wi be liable for the amount of tt penalty on such tobacco (th{ is, ten cents per fpound on tt entire amount of such tobacco; . and (2) The allotment for th ! farm and the farm on which tt tobacco was produced will be ri duced in the next year in a amount equivalent to the amout of such tobacco." Therefore, a tobacco growers are warned n< to allow any other tobacco pri ducer to sell tobacco grown c any other farm on his allotmei 1J card. Each tobacco grower who ri : ceived a tobacco marketing cai may sell all of the tobacco thi ; he has produced on his planU acreage. The tobacco card wi) however, carry poundage for tw jpurposes: (1) to show the actui 1 number of pounds sold from tl farm, and (2) to be used as record to locate any grower wi '! would sell tobacco for anoth< grower that was not produced c 1 the farm for which the card allotted. The poundage shown c i the card of the grower who hi j not exceeded his allotment f< i! 1940 will in no way interfere wil i the selling of all the tobacco 1 produces. The tobacco card ca > ries ten sales. When the ten sat have been made and the produo ' still has more tobacco for sal : he may return the card to tl (continued on page two) JNTYHA E STj A Goc Southport, NGRE A Day U * '' ^ ar >^.:' | it | HP ' ir '3 M["::A^'-\':','-: * r- *^ She Reads .... 15 ' DAUGHTER OF TOBAl is Here, Miss Kyard Brown, v in this capacity, demonstrate e, helps her father with his t< ; Plant Diseases I Have Hampered " Growers In 1940 >e ' County Farm Agent Advis!g es Rotation Of Their Tobacco From One Field To r j Another To Combat Diseases l" GRANVILLE WILT ~a BECOMES SERIOUS Disease In County During . The Current Year Increased 100 Per Cent Over Previous Year y 10 By S. C. OLIVER County Farm Agent ^ Tobacco farmers of Columbus it ^ County have been faced with the ts most severe tobacco diseases gena j erally throughout the county that njjthey have ever known since they t. [have been producing tobacco. IThe most severe disease found in our county this year is Granville Wilt. Granville Wilt is highly contagious and most disastrous to the tobacco that it attacks. The two most severe cases found ^ in the county this year were on - the farms of K. M. Simmons, of Old Dock, and John Lennon, of jj Clarkton, Route 2, where nearly 100% loss occurred in the fields of tobacco where this disease ap[e' peared. Approximately 50 farmI. I ers in the county have reported ^' Granville Wilt in their tobacco thus far. This is an increase of e_ over 100% over any previous .n year^ Fusarium Wilt has been reportjj ed by quite a large number of ^ farmers. This disease does not j. cause as rapid and complete dein struction of the crop in the year lt it is found in the crop as Granville Wilt; however, in some in?_ stances, it has proven virtually .,j as fatal as Granville Wilt. A number of our farmers ,d have reported" root knot, II black shank, and Southern root r0 rot. In addition to these tobacco ^ diseases, damage has been reporle ted by a large number of farma ers from tobacco flea beetle and 10 also other insects. ,r The above disease can be con,n trolled on our farms provided our js farmers will rotate their tobacco m from one field to another and not la plant tobacco on the same field 5r more than once in three to five h years. Planting tobacco on the ie same field for a number of conr. secutive years tends to increase es the possibility of the disease er making its appearance. In practically every case where any of ie j the above diseases were found, it j was noted particularly that to/ S SIXTE 4TE >d News paper N. CM Wednesday, A ADYl With Th( h'.Vv Rest 1 :.y.^?iw8w^KW^jllMlBllliliiilf>fnM>iiiiii .:.:as Swims . . . ICO FARMER?How does W irho was crowned tobacco qu es. She likes to read, swim, p >bacco crop.?(All Staff Pho Queen Likes i Dancing, Bi Cooking Not Included Amoi Kyard Brown, Whit A refreshingly pretty, schoolgirl sat down in an e j of her home one afternoon 1 I voice, with all the grace ar representative of the press I a good stenographer. She is Miss Kyard Brown, who for the past year has reigned over Whiteville as tobacco queen. She lives with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Brown, on. the Clarkton road, three miles north of this city. Miss Brown was selected last August from a number of contestants for tobacco queen of Whiteville, and was crowned at the annual tobacco ball held in uie armury nt-i e. Like most young women of 17, the Whiteville tobacco queen is fond of dancing, swimming and playing tennis. She is an avid reader and spends a portion of every day following this instructive pastime. Besides newspapers and magazines, she keeps up with the works of modern fiction. She doesn't like to cook, and spends as little time as necessity will allow out of the kitchen but she likes to sew, and does it well. Life, even for a tobacco queen, Smoking Was Early Da Writing in "Cigarette Papers" in "The People, Mr. Joseph Hatton says it is strange that America, which owes much to the cultivation of tobacco, should have been the most severe persecutor of the smoker. The magistrate in the early days of New England regarded the use of tobacco sis more sinful and degrading than drinking ardent spirits to excess. It was only permitted to be planted in small quantities "for mere necessity" as a medicine and to be taken privately by Jbacco had been planted in these Isame fields for a number of conjsecutive years. Every tobacco grower should consider seriously planting his tobacco in 1941 on land that has not been planted in I tobacco for two to four years preferably and should make a practice of not following tobacco 1 behind tobacco. Several of the growers this year have told us that they have planted tobacco ENBIG T P0R1 In A Good Con Ltigust 14,1940 <0Rl ^ Tobacco jKimra Plays Tennis . . . hiteville's tobacco queen occu] een last summer and has reig lay tennis, dance, and when tos by G. Lewis.) * * I swimming, 1 it Not Cooking ng The Favorite Pastimes Of eville Tobacco Queen S auburn haired, 17-year-old iasy chair in the living room last week, and in a charming id poise of an actress, told a ,hat someday she hopes to be j i isn't one endless round of pleasure, because Kyard helps her1 j mother with the household duties, and when occasion demands, she helps her father in the tobacco grading and tying house. Few girls in the county could more suitably fill the shoes of c tobacco queen than Kyard. Her j ^ father is one of the most sue-1 ( cessful of the county's tobacco! { growers. She has been reared in I an atmosphere where the smell, of tobacco is not an unfamiliar I ^ and certainly not an unwelcome 1 odor. ' c The young lady will be a senior j ' in the Whitcville high school next { year, where she is taking tl\e i general course. l "Some day I hope to be a good J { stenographer" she confided to the | 1 press reporter who was inter- ^ viewing her. To that end, she i , expects to take a commercial' ^ \ course when she goes to col-1 lege, which perhaps will be Peace , in Raleigh. | ^ i A Crime In j! i ys Of America; old men. c The Yankee's New England j ancestors were not permitted | j to use it or buy it in a tavern. 1 No man was allowed to take 1 tobacco publicly nor even in 1 his own house before strangers. Two men might not smoke together. On the Sabbath day it was forbidden to smoke within jl two miles of a meeting house, jt In some townships a medical Is certificate had to be procured {1 before a man might smoke at I all?Canadian Cigar and To- L bacco Journal. i; on the same land that disease was ' t ! found in for as many as seven to i I ten years. However, the possibili- j I ; ties of the diseases spreading t more rapidly now once they are t in our county are a great deal ' r i more than they have been in the ]? last few years that there has c been little disease to combat. i Jt is recommended that every 11 tobacco grower within our coun- js ty cut his tobacco stalks imme- |i OBACCi 1 PI1 lmunity PUBUSHED E m Queen aaMdMMMIl J J T-i' S/ v^' " : ... iiiiiimwi'" ,' &' if *&&& ^ ^ f ^^ Grades Tobacco . . . py the hours of the day', ned now for nearly a yea the occasion demands, sh .ocal Tobacco Board Of Trad( Looking Ahea< Success Of The Organize tion Has Been Largel Attributable To The b'ii Leadership It Has Had ne of its own. He has be resident of the organization sir ts formation. Other officers a VI. O. Nelson, Jr., vice presidei if. S. Smith, secretary-treasur Directors are: J. B. King, Robi [ohnson, L. R. Jackson, Hunl (continued on page two) liately after he has cropped 1 ast tobacco in order that the t >acco stalks might rot and c itroy the breeding place f nany insects that live throu, he winter in these old tobac talks. Many severe outbreaks nsects occur on farms that lea heir tobacco stalks standi] hrough the fall and winter, gi ng a place for the insects reed and live through the wi er. In addition to this, the 1 lacco stalks furnish a great df nore fertilizer value when turn ifter the last cropping than th lo in the late spring. It is sincerely hoped that eve obacco grower will find it pi lible to cut his tobacco stalks ii nediately after his last croppii 0 WAREI .OT |s VERY WEDNESDAY TOPE iWhiteville's I J Warehous Opening < ikThousands Of Farmers Are Looking For The Opportunity To Sell Their Tobacco On Market Here CAPABLE WHSEMEN TO BE FOUND ON MART Veteran Tobacconists Are To Be Found On The Whiteville Market; Buyers Among The Best In Country By M. S. Smith Sales Supervisor One of the greatest events of 1940 will be the opening of the Whiteville Tobacco Market, August 20th. Everything is in readiness for the occasion. The six big warehouses, modern in every | respect, and equipped with the j most modern equipment, are' P? ready to receive the golden weed. | se The warehouses, covering acres 1 th of space, are well built, well- > tii ] lighted, leak-prooi roois, ana | physically perfect. The arrange-! 0f f ment is for the convenience of th the patrons with comfortable ye r rest rooms and water whici will of ? tend to make the time spent fo waiting on a sale pleasant and n comfortable. of The many thousands of patrons or of this famous market, famous of j because it is the one market that of ' fulfills every promise made and L< dthe anticipation of tobacco pro- at ducers who have made it so, are ar looking forward to the opportun- j ce a_ ity of selling their entire crop in I fa |y VVhit'eville this season. They have j < le found that the sale schedule is j very practical and they know I vi where and when they can make! lei a sale. Due to the fact that with J T1 y six warehouses and three sets1 pc of buyers and sales alternating, ke r. daiiy, they are sure of avoiding ti( [ blocks. Sales run the full day in T1 all houses; therefore, block sales th are avoided. th Sale time is not given accord- of rd ing to the size of the house; all fk n. | houses are allowed the full days' ob . time. The six houses have ajev rg 1 capacity of over three million an utT L lobacco Urow t\ In Virginia 3< he O *? ch Now It Has Become One'Pr ty i Of The Major Industries jsil nd Of This Country, And Is :o- Grown on 400,000 Amer- dl ican Farms in t0 FMPl flVMFNT Ith rd "*to"million "farmers kr ii- g? he Eight Hundred Factories In 'y e- America Annually Turn 1 x?-| Out Products Valued IWI ISS At A Billion And A th Quarter Dollars Jda nd f i111 w_ | Tobacco growing, so far as1 to as i Europeans are concerned, began cij en j in the Tidewater section of Vir- ur ]Ce ginia more than 300 years ago. j ire Since then the industry has j et lt. spread into 18 states. j di er It is grown on more than 400,- fi< ,[ t; 000 farms and provides either fa "er | part of or full-time employment th ! to fully one million farmers. The m manufacturing of tobacco pro-1 lis ducts constitute one of the great, b< o- industries in the United States, cc le- Eight hundred American to- la or bacco factories turn out products di J annually valued at about a bil- to co j lion and a quartet dollars. The D of j manufacture of tobacco gives em- p< ve | ployment to 100,000 factory work- b; sg j ers, in addition to which there ci iv- j are many thousands who work in st to tobacco warehouses and in the ti In- distribution of tobacco products, pi :o- Through the development of a :al machinery, the building of mod- ot ed ern massproduction factories and ey j the development of new methods rr, of processing and preparing to- ti ry J bacco products, the industry con- c< )s- j sistently has reduced prices and b< m- I expanded its market; a 10 per si lg. cent, reduction in the average 10USES ECTION II $1.50 PER YEAR NING Six Big es Await j 311 Tuesday M. S. Smith mnds of tobacco and with three ts of buyers going the day, e schedule sales are cleared uq ne. An indication of the efficiency the sales force and buyers it e outstanding record made last ar when over a million pound* tobacco was sold each day r twenty-one days in succession, lis is something to be proud . Words of praise were heard i every hand about the smooth ieration, service and courtesy the Whileviiic lODacco marnei, >cal patrons show their appreciion of the favors they receive id tell their friends of the ex ptional opportunities of this mous market. CAPABLE WAREHOUSEMEN The personnel of the Whitelie Warehouses are outstanding aders of the tobacco industry, ley are men with years of exigence on the flu-cured marits and have established reputa>ns that cannot be equalled, ley are known far and wide for eir ability to operate sales to e most profitable advantages their patrons. Due to the conlence of growers these men feel iligated to make every sale an ent that will mean more money (Continued on page 5) ing Begun X) Years Ago ice of tobacco has occurred ice 1926. , Some types of tobacco proicts have long been manufacturl in this country. Originally, bacco was smoked in pipes and e cigar and cigarette were un- , lown. Cigar manufacturing bcin in America, however, as earas 1800. ? " ? 1 ?-< /if 11 ro mgars 01 naiiu iiiaiiuicfcwv??w ere much more expensive than e machine-made products of toiy. The first general introduc)n of modern machinery able turn the leaf tobacco into gars automatically did not come itil 1917. The development of the cigarte manufacturing industry is te almost entirely to the efeiency of the tobacco manucturers in devising machinery at could be used in cigarette anufacture. Although the cigarette had ;en introduced generally in this luntry after the Civil War, rgely through its appeal to solers, who had been introduced i the flue cured "making" at urham and other North Carolina >ints, it was not generally used / smokers until the present garet'te machine had been conantly improved. Today machines irn out 1,200 to 1,600 cigarettes sr minute, almost as many as skilled hand-roller could turn it in a day. Another outstanding improvelent which the tobacco manufaolring industry has made in re;nt years is in development at Jtter packaging. Among the out;anding advances since 1926 ia (continued on page two)