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The Pilot Covers I Brunswick County SIXTEEN no" iHorticult I Con Br,-ll> Of Truck Output In V Lount> And Points Way I for rarger Oeveiopment yr jrucK industry MtaDS !N SWEET viAlO fKuuUCTION Bt-a? b> i les .Sweet Potato, ?J . _ _ ^ _ in.-n ?taio, rc?US) I oeans And Other t | ruck brown In County 1 n\ V. LASSITER ?\tfiioi?n Horticulturist N. t. Slate College County?blessed witl soils, fine growing . .. i people who believe 'XV.:*. :g high-quality pro . ? potential possibilities H limited expansion ir H-:-?luhu: U crops. Be r- '1 already made with 11,000 acres of truck and I, :rTg pecan tree shows B. expansion is justiB t increasing cooperation tus'ness men, oiganizaB/\ ar..i farmers in building H ; ting conditions points K u bright future. The chiei B-.:j a:e sweet potatoes, strawB p beans, Irish potaBe, eucmi.oeis, ar.a pecans. B?rl 1 I'OlAlOl.S LtAlUMi Or-".', progress has been made B g;owing, harvesting, and g of sweet potatoes, the Bs;:i; hack crop. Farmers, B and extension workB a:c incoming "quality con11.-. 11-4J Columbus County proB teres of sweet poB::-. which was the laigest Bitj.-c >: this crop in North Be:.. The growers, realizing Bi: r.a.i for better seed stock, B. bushels of certiB .-".lain Porto Ricos B 1 Louisiana through B itxvi of the State DeBe" Vgnculture and the B- Extension Service. B Be ed stock were disB - '.he sweet potato B :gh the business Be.", cr Columbus County, who Bere also interested in better Bag"" : - lucts. MARKETING B bounty has the largB '- '.ato storage capacity i ar.y tvjruy in i\orui uaivun? :a markets more bushels of prosly g:a led, packed, and labeled I'r.i potatoes than any other fcrpirg point in the world with la exception of Sunset, LouisGrow.: . are learning, that tc Hie rr.vr.cy on their potatoes, Ely the No I grade or bettei tot-i be placed on the market, bk they do not wish to disci t. many off-gtade potaEit tit-:y are producing a larger trttstage of the No. X grade by ;-'-'tr.g the practices reccmKded bv their local county ma agents, ft practices are as follows; "t use of certified Louisiana Per to Rico seed because ' consumer preference for this Ma:;, 21 bedding potatoes that been hill selected and ret'-t'.-t'l for size, shape, and color 'toth skin and flesh; (3) treat ? see-el tocks to control seed'"e tsetses; (4) selecting well,-ndy loam soils for the using 800 to 1.00C per acre of a 3-9-9 fertiK;. stared well into the soil-beSt ridging; (6) spacing rows '. feet wide, with plant: J 1? 13 :r.che3 in the row on a ~ t0 U tr.ch ridge; (7) by reSiting to a full stand by fre ?-t i..2 shallow cultivation: h'-d the vines cover the row " -7 hrrvesting before frost " averting bruising the pota-toring in warm, dry tiled houses, or in con -co warehouses anc ;-N fee; HO) proper grading a:.-! labeling, and, ir ~;t - ashing and waxing friers "ho do not foiled :i practices find it -? - their potatoes w ----tp ylrnts for canning <ledreerir.g at much Prices, 0r feed the potatoes ^ festerk. Ttlere i3 no cont-ylV" <l rr-1"11 for poor quality j..","" g Columbus County j." -ished certified Ictiisi Porto Rices to othei " ' - -i ceuntiee at J4 p? c" at the shipping points 'Continued on page 2) ] TH . 20 urist j mty Ideal 1 ? New Brick W; Chadbourn h Conservation Of Soil Service Is Making Progress Operations Were Begun In toiumous County Unit i Ot Cape Fear uistrict in ; July Ot Last Year ! TILSY TELLS OF J FAKivitiCS INTEREST lj Columbus Farmers are Well Fleased With Service Kendered; lype Of W ork Outlined > ? ? BY JOHN W. TILSY li Soil Conservation Service ?j Operations were begun in the ; Columbus County Work Unit of i the Lower Cape Fear Soil Con! servation District in July, 1944. In the past year conservation surt'aiiD haira WQflo t\n SS has teen done without regard for , the future. The best trees have been cut out, the poorer species left to take over the land. Too often nothing ha3 been left to | grow or furnish seed for a new crop. Too many immature stands , have beer, cut when they were ir. ; their fastest growth, fur tbc ; many tires have swept away the' j (Continued on Page 31 ' ESL A Good ires I ror Truck arehouse Led Market In " I Par^ H'ghest Average Price On Market; Expects To Repeat Record 1 his Year pkoprietors~have 50 YEARS EXPERIENCE Warehouse Has 42,000 Square Feet Of Floor Space; Warehouse force Ready For Sales CHADBOURN, July 30.?Dil- f lard McMichael speaking for him|self and his partner, Falk Carter, proprietors of the New Brick j warehouse, wasn't bashful when ;ne proudly stated that his ware| house led the market in paying [the highest average to farmers | last season. Neither was he boasting when he said that they expected to do the same this season. Both these experienced tobacco warehousemen are returning to the New Brick this season with an experienced staff of assistants who are equally de[ termined to "lead the market ana [that the market will lead the i belt." | Both Mr. Carter and Mr. McMichael are natives of Reidsvilit and operate warehouses there however, their experience. has been gamed on other markets in the bright and middle belts too. , these men know bright leaf tobacco and are rated excellent [judges of it in any belt. They [have a combined experience of ,50 years in tobacco with Mr. Carter taking the lead with 30f j years and Mr. McMichael follow-! j Jhg with 20 years to his credit. The New Brick is a modem I ioannn0use with approximately 42,000 square feet of floor space. I Working with the proprietors this) year will be Jim Long of Nakina, floor manager; George Finch, auctioneer, Charlie and Stick Rabon, weighmen; Sim Frink, floor man; Charlie Phipps, night floor manager; Willie Dutton, Will Fiver, Shady Ward and Spurgeon Nobles working on the ^ floor m various capacities. Conservation Of ; forests Will Be Great Imperative After War Timberland Owners Must Choose One Of Two Courses, Conser-1 vation Or Devastation . I At war's end, 'the South's forest | resource will be at a dangerous i new low. Timberland owners will be at the crossroads of widely divergent ( courses. One road lead3 to conservation and increased timber growth. The other way heads toward continued devastation and final ruin. I Along tile conservation route, there lie prosperity, jobs and ample wood resource. Inadequate I timber supplies, unemployment! : and poverty stalk the other path, i For generations timber products have held a foremost place , in the South's economy, providing a livelihood for hundreds of thousands of our citizens. When warj came, the forests of the South provided a substantial part of the materia! required for national defense. ! Never before has the average citizen been so fully aware of the vita! importance of our forest resource. ! With nearly 200 million acres ,'of potentially productive forest land, the South has a resource ; capable of supporting Its present timber industries. But these industries cannot be maintained unless our forest lands are kept growing timber at something like tneir full growing capacity. Even ! fast-growing Southern forests ' will cease to produce if cut too 'heavily, turned too often. Too much cutting in the past "J ?*??V l/Wlt iliuuv W1. vw faims and plans have been written on 40 of these farms. The first part of the year most of the work was done north of i I 11 Whitevillc. Since January 1, we ; have planned farms in the Iron Hill, Sandy Plain, Guideway, Fair i Bluff, Cci ro Gordo, Delco, and i Tabor City sections of the coun' Iy" In spite of the late start ter; races were laid out for VV. J. Fisher, H. G. Walters, C. E. Kvans, L. L. Byrd, B. L. Martin, | J. E. Bright, Roland Creech, Clarence Benton, V. C. Arnctte, I Jud Hooks, and J. H. White. In checking most of these terraces after the unusual rains the past | mouth, I find the farmers well ! pleased with the terraces and | vast amount of soil that has been II saved. Some of them have asked how soon I can lay out more ter1 races for them. ' I Mr. Baldwin is well pleased with ! the 5 acies of pasture that the Lower Cape Fear Soil Conservation District helped him with. 1' Mr. Baldwin applied 500 lbs. of . superphosphate, 100 lbs. muriate of potash, and 1 ton of agriculI tural limestone per acre before he ' disked up an old Carpet grass [ pasture. Then he sowed 10 lbs. | of Red Top or Herds grass, 15 tlbs. of Kobe Lespedeza and 2 >!lbs. of white Dutch clover seed , per acre. On one acre of sandy soil he sowed 25 lbs. of Bahia , grass seed. The Soil Conservation Service furnished the Bahia grass seed for demonstration purposes to help determine its i value in this section. Baldwin wanted to sow 10 lbs. of Dallis 1; grass seed per acre in addition | but the seed w-as not available, j The dry weather after sowing .' was hard on the lespedeza but t J Mr. Baldwin is grazing 13 sheep, i several cows, and a few hogs on ; j the pasture. I W. J. Fislier, C. M. Fisher, J. j H. White, and H. G. Walters ap 1 plied some lime and fertilizer to | their pasture. | Bill Hooks thoroughly disked up : j one acre of a Carpet grass pasI j ture, applied 600 lbs. of super phosphate and 100 lbs. of muriate . of potash per acre, double disk, Jed the land again, ran a peanut rweeder over it and sowed 30 lbs. 1! cf Lespedeza Sericea seed this .' spring. On July 21 the good . stand of sericea was 10 to 14 ' v,i~v, M,. Tfookis figured ] , iiivucs mfr*.. w-w ; | it would cut around a ton oi t hay per acre. Just as soon ac .1 Mr. Hooks finishes with gather, ing his tobacco, he plans on . turning the mules on the sericea. I M. L. Inman and Dan High also , sowed some lespedeza sericea on i some badly eroded land. Each of ! them report a good stand. They r[ didn't fertilise or lime the soil be; j fore the seed was sown, but they ?'plan on applying fertiliser and .; lime later thio fall. , V. C. Arr.stte ahd J. C. Hocks, .Jr., each sowed a seed patch oi . i lespedeza bi-co!or. Lespedeza bir \ color furnishes cover and feed i for quail and the flowers make r 1 excellent honey. It is a shrub . I perennial and after it is eststb. liihed it will choke out briar; : and weeds. I Bill kooks ordebed a trucklcic (Continued on Page 8) \TE I News paper I Southport, N. C., Wed Golden Wee , . riccuieu top above is Columbus county treated lor of Hill HooKs. Since tlie ti marited success has-been act ty in the control of this drea Below is a field of tooac relson. The men in the picti tenant larmer. Carter's Housi by 5am beasie Bolton Farmer ; Makes Progress \Vith PSA Loan Elbert L. Smith Increase Both Net Worth And Standard Of Living Beginning With Loan Assistance Elbert L. Smith who lives at Bolton has made a lot of progress since applying to the Farm Security Administration for assistance. When he accepted hi3 first Rural Rehabilitation loan in 1936, his net worth was negligible and by the fall of 1938 his net worth had increased to approximately ?1000. So the Smith family was during this time improving their standard of living and gradually but surely working toward a better future as farmer citizens. Ill the fall of 1938 Mr. Smith, having already made considerable progress since getting RR assistance, made application to FSA to purchase a farm through our tenant purchase program and the application was approved by the I FSA Committee. ! Mr. Smith located a farm that, he was interested in purchasing and was made a 100 percent loan1 at 3 percent interest to pay for1 the land, construct buildings and for land development. Mr. Smith now has title to a farm consisting of 256 acres with 10 acres under cultivation. His net worth at pi-esent is approximately 33,000.00. He is current with his FSA obligation. Mr. Smith is following temporary pasture recommendations for hogs and cows, and plans to seed one of his 3 plots to Crimson clover and rye grass this fall. One plot is now planted to! corn, another in early soybeans,, and the other in late soybeans to) be followed with cats this winter. He has a permanent pasture seeded to uespedeia, red top grass, and alsike clover however he plans to improve the stand byl seeding alsike clover this fall andj T-\oiisie ca in ITfthniajv or) ?? ^ -- , March of 1916. Mr. Smith is growing 102 tohlcco and using 1000 ibs of fertiliser and 100 ibs potath per acre. He has 7 acres cf hybrid corr.. It wiM be interesting for fibers in this section to note the (Continued on Page 8) I P0R1 n A Good Coi nesday, August 1st, If d Culture the first bed of tobacco in blue mold. It is on the farm eatment of this first bed, lieved throughout the cound enemy of looacco plants, co on tne tarm of J. L>. fiarure are his two sons and a a Trv Ro Run L? XV/ jl/U Avm* :y This Season Has Had Fifteen Years Experience In Selling Tobacco In Bright And BurIcy Belts MAKES IMPROVEMENTS IN WARtHUUSE FLOOR Captain George Finch Will Be Auctioneer; Warehouse horce Are Able Tobacconists CHADBOURN, July 30.?Alchough this is his first year as proprietor of the Carter warehouse, Sam Beasley is 110 stranger to farmers selling tobacco in Chadbourn. He was with the New Brick warehouse last season and will go from Chadbourn to Sanford at the close of the season to operate a warehouse there. He has a total of 15 years experience in tobacco selling in both the bright belt and tne burley belt. Since taking over the Carter warehouse Mr. rieasley has been busy working on improvements in tne house to lead to more efficient handling I of the farmers' tobacco. He has | given the matter much thought land believes his ideas will prove loencficial to the faimers pationizl.ng his house this season. L,ikc all the other houses on the Chadbourn market the Carter warehouse will get a sale every sale day. Under this system of selling each warehouseman can tell his customers exactly when each warehouse will get a sale and when hi3 tobacco will be sold. Assisting Mr. Eeasley on sales at the Carter warehouse will be V. \V. Lea of Sanford, who will follow the sale as Mr. Eeaslc-y leads it. Capt. George Finch wiil chant the auctioneer's song and G. T. Bullard will serve in the capacity of floor manager with A'vin Tyner as his assistant. Joe Edmunds will be a floorman as Will Z. V. Williamson and George Nance. George McDaniel, Wilbur Rabon and Bob Meare: be weighmen. LABOR DAT HOLID.Vi CHALECURN, July ?0.?According to a letter from J. L Parker, secy-treat, of tie Tobacco Association of the United States to D. M. Carter, sales supervisor here, Labor Day, Monday Sent 3, will be observed as a holiday Ir. all tobacco sales warei houses in the South Carolina ar.c other tobacco belts in ocefatior | on that date. Mr. Cirter ^aic that no sales will be held in Chadbourn on that date. r pil mmunity 3s ~ Chadbour Ready 0? Sold More Than Eight Mil- lion Pounds Of Tobacco || Last Year; Looking Forj| Greater Sales In 1945 CHADBOURN PROUD OF ITS MARKET Three Warehouses Are Operated By Experienced Warehousemen And Competent Salesmen And Warehouse Forces CHADBOURN, July 30.?The I cry of the tobacco auctioneer will be heard here Wednesday, August 1st, when the 1945 tobacco sales season starts in the Myers warehouse, but before the day is done the other two warehouses, the Carter and New Brick, will also have sold some of the "Golden Weed" for their hundreds of customers who will be on hand to "try out" the prices for this years offerings. s Chadbourn is proud of its mar- ( ket, the second oldest market in | the county, and one of the oldest i markets in the Border Belt, and justly so. It has a splendid re- ( cord of service to the farmer and Jiis year is catering especially . -o its "home-folks" farmers, according to D. M. Carter, market j ' sales supervisor, who extends a most cordial welcome to farmers [ , j and tobacco growers to the Chad-1 ' I bourn market. Mr. Carter is an I . experienced tobacco man himself I and has been connected with tobacco sales markets for many years, and although he has lived in Chadbourn many years this is his second season as supervisor i I of the local market. With sales of over eight million!, | pounds this past season, warehousemen and market officials are looking forward to handling even more pounds this season, made! possible through the new selling] {system adopted by warehousemen t and the buying companies. The | 'market has set its sights on ten). ! million pounds this year, j Chadbourn's three modern!c (warehouses are operated by ex-|C (perienced warehousemen with j * ] competent sules and warehouse j ? {forces. At the New Brick ware-] house again this year is Falk:s j Carter and Dillon McMichael, at' r [ the Carter's is Sam Beasley and j t ;at the Myers is T. O. Wilkinson,} ^ who returns for another year. These men arc not strangers to'? farmers selling tobacco in Chad-,L bourn; they have proven to their I customers that "grade by grade, U1 they're better paid" in Chadbourn.'v To make selling tobacco inj* cnadboum even more attractive n are the many fine merchants andjji other business liouse3 who do a!I]c in tlieir power to make their j p customers and farmer friends en-'t joy their visit to thi3 fast grow-'s ing market. Chadbourn's stores | \ arc stocked with splendid nier- e cliandise values and the local ia bank stands ready to lend the '| market's patrons every assistance. The bank will remain open t until after sales end each day to j cash the farmers' tobacco checks, c jThe tobacco market has the com- t pletc backing and cooperation of t the town's merchants and busi- i t ncss people and join the tobac- c Iconists in extending a cordial wel-ia come to sell tobacco in Chad-'I boum. JJ All the big buying companies , are represented on the Chad-! boum market, including both in-jV dependent and domestic com-ic panie3. Each has ampl6 prize [ h and packing houses to take care t of each day's sale, a fact which Iv added to many other reasons fori8 Chadbourn's poundage of tobacco [J sold more than doubling in the:' past two years. The buyers,1 j , warehousemen and businessmen j . in Chadbourn are all especially' t ; interested in the market's serviced to the farmers all ct which con- t tributes to its remarkable growth, j s Chadbourn's tobacco market is: n all rcadinets for the reception' !ci tobaceo and all people con-; _ Icerned with the town's market'j . i exienu a mosi coraiai welcome , . i to all far mora and their families.: j i] . | Australian money follows the1 j i English system of pounds, ihill- i < i ing and pence. [1 , I i Auitraha has about 2.000,000 ( L square miles of land, and about ,1 17*000,000 people. 1! I ,0T $1.50 PER YtA> fUBLli nWareh For Ope Chadbourn Str? " . ... Pictured above is a fai strawberry Market with tr telicious fruit waiting theii >uyers under the strawbe ivas once the largest stra and still holds an enviabh ,he famous Klondykes. IVTvprs \X7nrpli k J %-r T ? . One On Cha< Vlany Of Present Custom ers Of Warehouse One Came With Their Par ents To Sell Tobacco \GAIN OPERATED BY T. O. WILK1NSOI Staff Of Competent Helper Assembled By Mr. Wilkinson; Garland Griffin Auctioneer CHADBOURN, July 30.?Myei obaeco warehouse, the olde: rarehousc on the Chadbourn mai :et, which is said to be the si ond oldest market in Columbu ounty, will be operated agai his year by T. O. Wilkinson c +1- \7o K'U III OUOIUII, ro. The Myers warehouse is n tranger to tobacco growers a ivany of its customers of toUa ised to come there with thei larents to sell their tobacco whe 'cy were children. Mr. VVilkil on is no newcomer to this to iac"o section. He operated th ilyers warehouse in Chadboui isc season and has cpeiated tw i'dfrhouses in South Boston, Va or several years. Prior to hi ntrance into the warehouse bus; ess, he bought tobacco on Boi !er belt markets for Export an '.her large tco.vcco buying coir lanies. To say that he know obacco is putting it mildly?it i econd nature with him. M Vilkinson and his long years c xpcrience, plus the many env ble years of service to tobacc growers of the Myers warehousi orm a team that assures toba< ;o growers of the "best in th msiness." Mr. Wilkinson has assembled ompetent staff of warehouse hel 0 assist him in the sale of t< mcco this season. He will lea he sale at his house and wi ipen the season Wednesday wit 1 first sale. Bill Piver is floe nanager and J. E. McLennon < Danville, Va., with 14 years i he business will be floor mao 3ar!and Griffin will auction ti ;o!der. leaf while Cliff Thorns will follow the sale in the rc if clipman. J. R. Eubanlcs wi lave charge of the qffice i lookkeeper and Bronnie Bulla! :?? S _?_ i-1- _ i-U ...iil, 4-t VI'I weigll uie touaeeo hiul u. isslstancc of Bud Stevens lenry Blair will perform mar lutieu as a floor man. All in all the famous ol dyers warehouse with Mr. Wi cir.son at the helm looks forwai o even bettering its past fir ecord of service and top prici ,o those who patronize it th ;c-aso:i. iOO.SX &OEL 10 FAIR FLFT J. D. (Jack! Scene has r :er.tly purchased the plant cf tl fair Bluff Dry Cleaning Oor ?any and has taken over 1 ictive management. Mr. Boo: mows the business from tl pencil to the presses he fcavk iper.t more than 20 years in t) Dry cleaning business in vario :ownz and cities. Operations he Fair Fluff plant will co unue at the old location on Ma street. SECTION IV 1 >HED EVERY WEDNESDAY ouses ning Sales ivvberry Market 1 * 'iWSt iji&i*.-' niliar scene on the Chadbourn ucks and cars laden with the turn with the auctioneer and rry market shed. Chadhourn wberry market in the world j record in the marketing of 1 louse Is Oldest ibourn Market i Chad bourn Once * Had Leaf Stemmery CHADBOURN, July 30.?Not many people know it today and even fewer remember it but, ac,i cording to D. M. Carter, sales supervisor of the Chadbourn tos bacco market, the Imperial Tobacco Co. once operated a tobacco slcnimery in Chadbourn for u ! period of two years in the early s |history of the local market. j it I Mr. Carter states that the l! i stemmery worked about 400 peo- ,! pic and very probably would have been in operation in Chadbourn 18 today except for a bad turn i n events took. The plant, a huge ,f affair, was later built in Fair: mont, where it is in operation i now. y Cape Fear Soil I Conservationists . In Summer Meet i ili Make Tour Through Coasg ta! Plain Soil Conservation District; Business > Session Held dj BY M. L. IN.MAN, Secretary 3! Board of District Supervisors 13| Tlie district supervisors of tho Lower Cape Fear Soil Conserva1 tion District held their summer i i meeting on June 0 and 6 in the 0 form of a tour through the Coasle |al Plain Soil Conservation Dis'.iriM mho fnllnuinp' suDervisora were present: V. C. Arnette arid c | M. L. Inman of Columbus County, A. B. Herring of Pender county, a and Gilbert T. Held of Brunswick '' | county. The chairman, D. C Harrclso'n d J of Bladen county was unable ' to " take the trip due to Illness. j h: The county agents in the diair tiict were invited to take the >? trip. C. D. Raper, from ColupT- : 11 bus County, and R. R. Rich, frtftn Jender County, accepted the Jfilfc vitation. The group was 4c13 companied by H. M. Scott, Dls 'e trlct Conservationist of WhlteU vlile. 13 The group was met in Rocky d Mount at noon on June 5 by 3. L. ie Dauglitridge. District Conserva tionist of Greenville. During the iy afternoon several farms were visited in Edgecombe County lil where a variety of conservation 1- i practices and crops were studied, j 'd including terracing, contour tillle age, tile drainage, pasture im:a provement, black locust for fence is1 post kudru serictu, and alfalfa. The group spent Tuesday night in Greenville Wednesday was F; spent in Pitt County. Moat oE e- the day was devoted to a study :e of the tile drainage which has a- proven very beneficial and poputs lar in this county. A study was B re also made of a community drainre age project where a drag-line is ig now cutting a canal. lie j While in Edgeoom.be County on us Tuesday the group visited G. tier Gcff and W. W. Eaglet, District 1 r.- Supervisors Cr. Wednesday in morning Mr. Speight, District (Continued on Page 2; i
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