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PAQE TWO . 148 POUNDS OF TOBACCO FARMER) V ^ ' ' 21-YEARS-OLD?Columbus county's most diminutive tobacco grower, 21-year-old Rossie McPherson, oi the Beaverdam area, is shown here (right) with his father, Colie McPherson, busily engaged in gathering the rapidly ripening leaf. Rossie helps his father in the operation of their farm in the Beaverdam area?(Stafi Photo, County's Smallest Grower Balances Scales, 48 Pounds His Smallness Of Stature Doesn't' Hinder 21-Year-Old Rossie McPherson From Working In Golden Weed Columbus County's smallest tobacco grower is 21vear-old Rossie McPherson, of the Beaverdam area, who in It J nrt? cmH tine tt?P qpqIps at. illCllOUi VC T ' U1V11WO HJ"J v??v ->-? pounds. But his diminutiveness doesn't hinder Rossie from helping weigh the tobacco harvesting. The young man, who will be a* 3 Oth grade student in the Wil-1 liams township high school this Market Supervisor year, helps his father, Colle Mc- Begins 3rd Season pherson, in the cultivation and . . . . . : C. B. Townsend, sales superharvesting of his tobacco crop. __ f t . , ... .v. risor of the Fair Bluff tobacNot only does he help with the, . , .... - .. 1 :o market, beginning his third harvesting and cultivation of the < . ,. . _ ? ? .. . . . season, savs that the Fair McPherson tobacco, but when _ . Bluff market will put forth its neighbors put in a barn, Rossie , ., , ? ,, _. I oest effort to attract patrons and the rest of the McPhersons ,. .. . _ . ... rhis year. He said that Fair go over and help. I . . ? .... , . . Bluff businessmen and ware"We have to swap about, one t . . . , , , .. .. ... to use men were showing the family helping the other?it's I ir . ... , 'inest spirit of cooperation in about the only way we can work! _ ? .. , , . ... , , , _ . . promoting the market and are it, with farm hands so hard to *, . . , * ., ... _ , . determined to continue its get . Rossie explained to a news- , ... , J record as leader In paying the paper reporter who interviewed ., . . ... ' . , ' , highest average price for tohim last Monday. . .. . ,, TOO SMALL TO PLOW ^C? ** b?*r *'? Mr" _ ,. ., Townsend is a tobacco farmer "No, Rossie can't plow the to- , . . ... ,, . ... from near Fair Bluff and is bacco?he s too small for that , t , . . , , ? . In position to know the busibut he does all most anything , .. ... .. . ..? ness of selling tobacco from else toward the cultivation of it ... , T. . , . ..... ,, ... 1 the farmer's standpoint, his father- proudly explained. | When it's time to set out the | ' tobacco in the early spring, the diminutive !ad may be seen in IT JL?Mo the thick of the activity, doing L? AXlCllCtlS his share toward making the crop p j m Which is to help feed the Mc jflOW lUlDTOVC t Pherson family for the coming ^. year. Even before that, he has F-. D0ri>nf f/>/?rC had his part in the making and JUJICVCIH. J CHI o the sewing of the tobacco beds 1 1 in midwinter. J By MISS RUTH CURRENT HELPS AROUND BARN | N. C. State Home Agent Rossie can't crop tobacco either, were , 287 kitchens imbecause he could hardly reach the d ^ homemal<era in top leaves of a good s.zed stalk atoUnl during 1938. if S? W^"e hlS'athe/More and more the farm home and the other male members of workshop ^ kit<;heni l8 receiv. the fam.ly are out m the f.eld flMt con8ideratlon when mo. cropping, Rossie is doing his bit . _ . . " , ' . 6 , ney is available for home imaround the barn. He can hand tobacco to the stringers if the knows the quality of the wefed, occasion demands, he can handle and grading comes almost naturthe tobacco dray, or can handle | ally to him. He knows how to the sticks as they are being car- tie a neat hand of tobacco, so ried into the barn to be hung that when the weed gets to the up. market, it will bring the top KNOWS HOW TO CURE pries. "Rossie knows how to cure to- WILL STAY A FARMER bacco, and he does a lot of it", In the Williams township high his father announced. school, where Rossie will be a With the curing done, the rest junior next year, he is majoring is pie for the young man who in ag;1culture, and much of the has resolved tha this Lillipution information he gains at school statute shall not be an obstacle ho is putting into practice on the in his way?rather he has never farm of his father. With that let it be a handicap to him. His knowledge, coupled with the father avows that he is as use- wealth of knowledge he has gainful a hand around the barn as ed from his father, and the exhe wants. perience he has gained on their Grading and tying tobacco are farm, Rossie should develop into both right up Rossie's alley? he an A-l farmer. THE S j Harrelson Says j Research Helps Life In Country Says Farming Has Moved Forward On The Basis Established By The Facts Found In Research (By John W. Harrelson, Dean of Administration North Carolina State College.) Agricultural research is the endless probing and searching in laboratories and on field plots for new facts and improved knowledge about the mysteries of plant and animal life, the soil, insects, diseases and related subjects affecting life on the farm. Farming has moved forward on ! the basis established by the facts found. Oftentimes one is prone j to ridicule the scientists who [ spends his life among his pots, in his greenhouse, or on his field I plots, making notes, studying con-1 ditions, observing differences; but' it is such men and women who supply fundamental information j I which may be adopted by the | i practical farmer to make improve- j merits in his methods. For instance if the life history of the cattle fever tick had not been discovered and made public, it } would have been impossible | to have a livestock industry I in eastern Carolina or other parts of the lower South. In a similar way have < facts been discovered about how j plants feed and the feed they | need, how to breed improved var-1 ieties of plants and other facts necessary to meet new conditions of a changing rural life. Every cent put into research j has been returned a thousand j fold and it is this force which j is constantly allowing agriculture to move forward enriching the lives of North Carolina farm families because it shows them how to do the job a little better j ! than it has been done before. Frye Located On Fairmont Market Former Chadbourn Tobacco Warehouseman Is Nov/ Located At The Holliday ; Warehouse In Fairmont I - i | ' A former Chadbourn tobacco warehouseman is now located at the Holliday warehouse in aFir mont. E. H. Frye served on the 1 Chadbourn morket from 1928 ' through the 1933 season. He 1 joined C. A. Blankenship in Fairmont last season when they leased the newly built Holliday warehouse and operated it most successfully last year. They are looking forward to another year when they will serve the farmers of Columbus and Brunswick counties in an even larger capacity. The Holliday warehouse was built new last season and is one of the largest, best lighted and most modern warehouses on the border belt. It Jfe well located on the Fairmont market affording each entrance and exit for cars, trucks or wagons. The Holliday warehouse force is a good one, being carefully selected and each man chosen for a specified service to the warehouse's customers. provements as the above figure reveals. I have seen many women with joyous faces as thev "show off" ' their kitchens to friends and club members, kitchens that have j been made beautiful to look at. j Eest of all stress was placed on good arrangement of work units. Sephie Lee Clark, home agent in Pamlico County, says of the kitchen improvement work there: "A kitchen contest was sponsored in the county which apparently has brought about more results and more interest than any other one project of work i 1 that I have attempted to carry out during the two years I have ! been in the county. The men and [ ' children were as interested as j the women competing. Twenty-! four women completed their kitchens before the contest closed, i Several, due to finances and i sickness, are still working on j | theirs. "Even though the contest has t ended interest is still manifested. Those who were unable to do material things to their kitchens j have cleaned and rearranged them for' convenience. Threej hundred and sixty-one kitchens [ in Pamlico have had some imI provement during 1938. 1 It takes the average motorist : about 13.7 seconds to pass a car i from th; time he starts to ac. celerate until he is back in line ; . ahead of the passed Can "Travel is a wonderful stimul1 ant of thought and promoter of j' readjustments." ? TATE PORT PILOT. SOUTHPORT, N. C. ______ \vork^; thus, relieving them of this ' pr ^ farm homes in Columbus County ^ C< farmers are rightfully entitled to m' j^oxin^ately^60 more miles of lines ^ ?? ? Tlie annual meeting of the orCok. v- IV. -qtlRREkSo*/ ganization is held prior to the ? j opening of the market each year 200 Fj?vm Fami!;p? in ortiC1' that aS many members jO\J ? (Js Lli L cmilleMCai as possible can attend. There are | 5'j IT IDF* A "0W forty-six meml>ers in good! llSHSfil From K)uA stand'nS and practically all havel returned for the 1940 season. Sev-| m i r\ t r- . t . eral m?re are expected to apply I ?d , ' " njty, mg lghts, for mcmbership when the mar-! But Have Benefit Of ket w?u- m u"gerati?nj Untle!- the authority granted Washing Machines, And by cel.tain laws of North CaroAjPfvtancss . ,ina the Boan, of Tradc attempt3 A nnrnvimnfelv ROO farm f?m-! l?. enf"rC? Provisions ?f the sta" i | ? > tute w.iicn proniDiis sucn neianilies in Columbus-County are now. ous practlcea as "nesting" toenjoying electricity through tlic bacco "shingling" it, or otherrural electrification lines built in vvjse packing the weed for sale Columbus County in the last 12 jn SUCh a manner as to cheat months. ] or defraud or mislead the pur-1 These farm families are not, cv,aser 1 only enjoying the lights, but they ' Such practiCes. under the proare also having the benefit of visjons of the statute a,.e pun. electric refrigeration, washing jshable by fine or sentence. machines, electric irons, radio, and farm water systems. A large Tobacco Growing Begun number of our farmers in Co- jn Virginia w 3 Years Ago lumbus county are planning to (Continued from page one) put in water systems this fall, dustry has been the development their water including running j of better methods of controlling water to the kitchen, bathroom j the moisture content of tobacco and also running water to their products. barns for the purpose of water- This has been dene in the "first ing their livestock. They have place b> more scientific and betfound that they can pump as ter methods of putting moisture much water with electricity for into the freshly manufactured five cents as they can draw in i products, and secondly by devisa bucket in ten hours of hard inn new types of wrappers. The | ! Put Your' Into A -*+? == When your tobacco cr carry the money around on That is too risky. Cash is t it with no record to show a By keeping your harve every cent of it ready for u check any time anywhere payment. A checking account ah bank service. It elps to e WE GIVE LOA S PREI FOR YOUR CONV] BY ANY OF OUR BRAT BRANCH OF YOUR CI C? 7 / ^ _ 7_ , lit11 your looacco on r vest money in a checking a you expect to pay out most I Your Fund ffo Federal D( <J|| Waccama chadbourn clarkton I \ WEDNESDAY. _ I oblem is a difficult one be- j ducts, including- cigars, cigarettes,' the r. use if the moisture content is chewing tobacco, smoking tobacco dUpi;Cat ? low, the tobacco will reach I and snuff are sold now at a low- loses his r**'1 to * .?n?. er mice than in 1P26. should take^ 80 " extferr> e consumer too ary iw ?? , ctory smoking-, but if the mois- '""pmcing or i0cre content is too high, high j Thousands Of Farmers aiding may occur. i Have Received Mart Cards T?. r,'a'h In addition to the development I (Continued from page one) ombia, from the ' sntioned, the efficiency of the County Office and receive a sec- ^ ?>.i iustry in recent years has re- ond card without cost to him to mjio.-j Ited in an increased use of finish selling his crop. m tV-'? and a ant conveyor systems, a re- All producers are warned to be |7.~~ sign of plant layout, improve- careful in the use of their tobac- Mr. i M I ;nt in cutters, the latter ap- co marketing cards and not lose are spH1' ''' F oximately doubling the output them. To date we have not re. i hill, wh \ SOaietil!>e r minute in the last decade. ceived any procedure that will temp,>u" , Ai; Consequently, all tobacco pro-(allow the County Committee or .there. I ^RM I A new and modern store that is serving a wite I trading area in Brunswick and Columbus Counties. I If you haven't visited our store, we cordially invite I you to come in and see how convenient, how complete I a rural mercantile business can be. H Name over the needs of the average farm family I and you'll discover that you're listing the very things I we have in stock 4... I Groceries.... Hardware I Seed .... Feed .... Fertilizer I Reliable Merchandise At Reasonable Prices | ^ - Jul Tobacco Money I uieuKiny nuuuuiii op is turned into cash, you cannot afford to your person, or hide it away in the house, rasily lost and easily stolen. You may spend vhat became of it. st money in a checking account you have se with no danger of loss. Yon can write a and have a record and a receipt to show w gives you the protection and benefits of stablish your credit?-AND, OF COURSE, TERENCE TO CUSTOMERS. ENIENCE, DEPOSITS ARE ACCEPTED ^CHES FOR YOUR CREDIT IN THE 9 EiOICE. he Whiteville Market and deposit your har 1 ccount?for safety and convenience?even if H of the money in a short time. 11 s Up To $5,000.00 Insured By I ;posit Insurance Corporation 9 iw Bank & Trust Co. I?S|| II WHITEVILLE 1 FAIRMONT ROSEHILL ^22^^ I TABOR CITY SOUTHPORT 1 NORTH CAROLINA H I
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