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Weed Grower
Thought, Ne>
While Mistakes of The Current
Year Are Fresh In
Minds Of Farmer Is Time
To Begin Planning Crop
NUMBER CONDITIONS
ENTER INTO PLANS
Poor Sites, Poor Preparation
And Fertilizer, Planting
On Diseased Beds
Some Of Common
Mistakes
BY I.I.OYD T. WEEKS
Extension Tobacco Specialist
N. C. State College
The current tobacco season J
seems hardly the time for tobacco
growers to be thinking about
next year's crop. However, the
mistakes of this year are fresh j
in the minds or mosr farmers1
and they are already planning!
ahead.
Whether they were successful
in producing a high yield of good j
quality tobacco or not, growers!
know now that first of all, to
have a successful crop it is essential
to have thrifty plants
when the proper time for transplanting
arises. There are a number
of conditions which may
cause plant bed failures which
(1 \ T>rx/~??* nlant.
are as iuuuw o. <.
bed sites; (2> Poor preparation
of the soil; (3? Improper ferti-1
lization of the beds; (4) Plant- !
ing on old beds that are diseased;
(5) Use of diseased seed, and
(6) Improper handling of the
beds during the growth period j
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DEARBORN, Mich.?In the days
in photography, the gentleman wa<
when they faced the camera. That':
Studio in Greenfield Village, Dear!
visitors have called since the Villa
by Henry Ford. The "5-year-old tinl
trade over a half century ago.
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A TOOL-UP program now under
way at the Plymouth factory
for new defense work, just announced,
will be speeded by
Chrysler Corporation's time-saving
practice of taking machines?
where they can be adapted?out
of regular car-production work.
Plymouth will make more than
200 structural parts for Martin
medium bombers, and vital parts
for the new Bofors 40-millimeter
rapid-fire anti-aircraft guns?first
of these weapons to be made in
the U. S.
Among present machines ear;
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ft Year's Crop
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^of the plants.
Varieties Are Suggested
i The varieties that are planted
should be considered very seriousI
ly because different varieties are
[adapted to different soils and
! climatic conditions. The variety;
selected should be capable of!
{producing a quantity of high
'quality cigarette tobacco. Some
J of the leading varieties that may |
| be used in the flue-cured belts of
North Carolina are White Stem
Orinoco, Virginia Bright Leaf,
Jamaica Wrapper, Gold Dollar, I
Bell's Improved Gold Dollar, Cash
and Bonanza.
If the- grower saves his own
seed, he should be careful in selecting
a broad leaf plant with
small fibers alternating along
with the mid-rib and with the
leaves properly spaced on the
stalk. Tobacco of this description
usually produces a better cigarette
type than plants with narrow
leaves or a plant with, broad
leaves, large stems and fibers. It
is also necessary that the seed
be cleaned. This will eliminate a |
lot of light and faulty seed that [
jvould cauuse a very low germination.
Farmers may have their
seed cleaned at the Couunty Agent's
office or by the Vocational
Agricuulture Department. When
seed , are purchased it is advisable
,j Unaonen thov 1
lo get cerillieu seen "ivj
are absolutely safe in every respect.
riant Bed Site Important
Where possible and practical
select a new site each year for
the tobacco plant bed or use at
least a four-year rotation for the
bed. This will help to eliminate
'shes at Greenfield
when the tintype was the last word ;
s always seated and his lady stood
5 still the procedure at the Tintype
>orn, Michigan, where thousands of
ge was founded a dozen years ago
lypist, Charles Tremear, learned {jis
for Bombers, I
marked for transfer to gun production
is this giant milling machine,
which would require 6 to 8
months and many thousands of
dollars to duplicate. Throughout
Chrysler Corporation factories,
400 of the 900 machine tools needed
for this war work are being
taken from production lines.
Shown here explaining this valuable
defense speed-up to Army
officials are (L to R): H. L. Weckler,
Chrysler Corporation vicepresident
and general manager;
D. S. Eddins, Plymouth president;
Lt. Col. R. Z. Crane, Army chief
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the damage done by diseases that
attack the small plants in the
bed. The location of the bed
should be well-drained with a
southern or southwestern exposure,
selecting a site of a loamy
type of soil and, if possible, near
a water supply. If it is necessary
to use an old bed site, it is advisable
to burn or sterilize by
steam.
One-hundred square yards of
bed will normally produce from
10,000 to 15,000 plants. An excess
of bed space anould be seeded in
an effort to insure an adequate
supply of plants. It is also advisable
to have several small beds,
widely separated, on the farm
rather than to have one large
bed. By doing this it gives a
chance for some of the beds to
escape some disease or other
condition that might be detrimental
to the plants.
All of the debris, such as
stumps and roots, should be removed
from the bed where the
site is selected in a wooded area.
The soil should be pulverized
finely by use of implements that
arc practical for the farm to
use, taking precaution not to
break the soil too deeply. Three
to four inches is usually sufficient.
Fertilization Of The Bed
It has been proven that under
normal conditions where 200 lbs.
of a 1-S-u mixture for each 100
square yards is used will give
satisfactory results. Fifty per
cent of the nitrogen used in this
mixture should come from a wat
ei' soluble source; such as nitrate
of soda and sulphate of amnionc
la, and 50 per cent from an organic
source; such as cottonseed
meal and dried blood or other
reliable sources of organic nitrogen.
The phosphate should all
come from superphosphate and
the potash should all come from
sulphate of potash magnesia.
If a low grade of fertilizer is
used, it is advisable to supplement
with 50 to 100 pounds of
cottonseed meal, mixing the meal
thoroughly with the soil. The fertilizer
should be broadcast on the
beds and mixed with the upper
three or four inches of the soil.
A light sprinkle of hog-pen manure
may be used to an advantage
by applying it on the soil
in the same manner as the fertilizer.
It is necessary to avoid the
use of any manure that mighl
contain tobacco leaves, stalks, oi
trash because there is a possibility
of infesting the new bed with
the diseases that might live ovei
on the old tobacco.
Seeding The Bed
Usually one tablespoonful of recleaned
seed to each 100 square
i yards of bed space is sufficient
to give a uniform stand. The
[seed should be mixed with cottonseed
meal, dry sand, ashes, oi
I fertilizer for sowing. An ever
| stand is more likely to be secur;
ed if one-half of the seed is sowr
in one direction first and the re'maining
seed sown across the bed
at right angles to the first sowing.
After the seed is sown, the bed
should be packed by running a
light roller over it, tamping . it
with a board attached to the
end of a short pole or by tamping
with the feet. Rolling or
tamping is not advised on stiff
heavy soils. A better stand will
Bofors Guns
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of ordnance production in Detroit
area; Lt. Col. H. W. Rehm, commanding
officer; Chrysler Tank
Arsenal.
Plymouth already has given priority
on all assembly tracks to
more than 2,000 special Army sedans,
designed for use by Army
officers in the field. The factory
also is producing hundreds of industrial
and tractor engines per
month?many of these for Army
service in towing aircraft to and
from hangars, movement of bombtrains
in loading "eggs" aboard
heavy bombers, and similar duty.
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TATE PORT PILOT, SOUTHPORT, N. C.
Ibe secured on this type of soil if n if |J| ,
the seeds, are whipped in lightly ' f OWCll"! IftHtCrS
'with a brush broom made from
'some plant, such as dogwood. . finornto Imntlv
J It Is essential to keep the bed UpCI dlC JUUlllj
las warm as possible. In order to ______
do this it will be necessary to ? ,,, , w;? ni
construct the cover for the bed Tw? Warehouses W.1I Give
| tightly. Usually boxing the bed Customers ihe Benefit
iwith planks allowing them to ex-1 Of A Sale Every Day;
tend approximately 6 inches! Experienced Force
above the surface of the soil is ?
.. . . _ , .. , Combimng forces, experience
! very satisfactory. Before attach- anc, noor space the proprietors
;ing the canvas to these boards, 0f the Powell and Planters warejit
is advisable to stretch wire house on the Fair Bluff tobacco
I across the bed at 12 or 15 feet market expect to be able to renI
intervals, or place small forked der their customers greater sersticks
at intervals over the bed vice by giving them a sale every
j to pi-event the canvas from sag- day at one or the other of thonging.
Place the cover over the warehouses when the Fair Bluff
'bed and anchor it tightly around market opens Tuesday, August
'the edges. 12th.
The canvas should either be At Planters, a most modern
new; or if it is old canvas, boil'and well-lighted warehouse, will
jfor thirty minutes to kill diseases j be the same well known tobacthat
might remain on it. A fewico men who operated the house
days before transplanting, the j last season. These men are Fred
covers should be removed from IVV. Brown, C. H. McDaniel and
' the bed so that the plants will Norman Love. At the Powell
become hardened to existing con-! warehouse is A. Hix Powell and
I ditions. If the plants seem tojj. M. Guthrie. All five of these
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and Mr. Brown will be on sale t and have been ir
at each house, Mr. Love will business there u]
be auctioneer at both houses. years. All thrf
The combined warehouse floor judges of tobaccc
space amounts to approximately is widely known
65,000 square feet, assuring pa- 'most outstanding
Itrons of either warehouse ample'.. ,
....... the business.
space for their tobacco. / ? ? _ ,,
In addition to the proprietors Mr" c ?na
the following men, among others,; ?Pera^in? with (
have been employed for the sea- sPeak'ng' ?f P
r "we can give the
son, Sidney W. Beck, bookkeeper, service and get ,
Dewey Waddell, floor manager; J price for his tobf
John Shaw, night floor manager!
at Planters and Charlie Wad-jl Jlrocf
dell at Powell's. Roger and Hu- LilVCo LOCK.
bert Bullock, weighmen; Lewis . ..
Rogers, clipman; Sterling Bates,1 f _|ype |\|pr
bookman; B. W. Tyler and Les-j^"*^" livf
lie Lawson, assistant floor man- j
agers. Whiteville Lii
A. Hix Powell has been asso- |s Qivin
ciated with the tobacco ware- er Qf T|,;s
house business most all of his I N Snnrc
I life in one capacity or another.
A native of Fair Bluff, he is A new enterp
known far and wide. Each Dec- ,n a sma], w
ember since 1910 he has been has n t
going to Lexington. Ky? where mQst an
he is connected with a ware- . ... ,
house, said to be the greatest in a ca '
the world. Mr. Guthrie is a ware-' duc(;ra a fif8t?
housemon of several years experi-,markct' convlen ':
ence on the Fair Bluff and other center of a sect'
j markets. For the past few years j stock-conscious,
i he has been a warehouseman on That is what
| the Sanford market as well as at' Livestock Marke
'Fair Bluff. jfew brief words;
' Messrs. Brown, McDonald and credit should be |
Love are natives of Danville, Va.,' ton for launchin
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WEDNESDAY, AU&kt Jjjj
l the warehouse | in Whiteville, ,r t
pwards of 25' not hesitate to show * Iws
>e are splendid | ciation of the , xM!(Z'r
> and Mr. Love! ing conditions. n..1v1,.'"VPS
as one of the prices that t!. > K'^mSs
"avo
auctioneers >n at the Whiteviil. ^KSS
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stated, "By co- In looking <)V,.r ,h |||jl
:ach other," in orc[s y,e fjrst X|) s >4^H|j
artnership, said, a total of $1500 mm ...*HhB
farnr stock handled. ?v,""?''H
him the highest u> - froo^B^j
icco." inghouses were on haniig'^KSj
. numbers. K SpS
Mart
_ market and sal s hav
v Income rapidly usu:i;,y' .
" 57,000.00 per Jajpi
Mr. Feltoi liga
restock Mar- with the results . f
g The Farm- that Colund
Section A stack up b 8f *
Of Revenue and buyers ;i TWf'J
I top prices. Mr. F.-ltor. s ,^81
rise, which be- tion are expo's jn ^ ,!'^R>5
ay about a year livestock markets jH5
o be one of the, their efforts i, '"Hr*
outlet for hogs iiy increasing. H '!
giving the pro-' jgjjl
class livestock Farmers in n, ! .:
y located in the \ record cash ii , frot.; g
on that is live- j of turkeys in J!?10, r,
I State Department of *>
the Whitevillc |
t means in a i Nit: "I dread to think
however, more 30th birthday." H
jiven E. B. Fel-| Wit: "Why. ?!-.? > .:u..;;!r Hjj
g this business pleasant happen. ..n it." '
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