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5=? THE STATE PORT PILOT A Good Newspaper In A Good Community ?a SIXTEEN Southport, N. C., Wednesday, July 27th, 1949 fUBUSHED EVERY WEDNESDAY ?1.50 PER YEA? history Of AAA, PMA, And Price Supports What A Difference A Ditch Made! Above is the tobacco field where Idling saved the crop. At top J .jt: is the flooded crop on a ?jarby farm. And at bottom Ep) is the ditch which meant |ttt difference. These photographs taken just after the flood ich struck Bolton a few weeks I od Experience Proves That Drainage Money Is Well-Spent icco Grown Along Dyna ted Canal 1? Saved ife Crop I? Severely i (imaged In Other Areas; Rtaary 1949 Joe Brown, or, ?lied to the County 1 Ctaattee for assistance in | problem on his farm. \ Jrc mu checked by Thomas | I community committeeman. Ion immunity, who had a | touise at State College as j Meal drainage assistant, i a preliminary survey of the I he and the farmer decided ; dynamite canal would be I sita lie for his type of soil | location of drainage area. i canal is 9 feet at the top, to a 3 ft. depth, consisting !!" lirear feet and a total of at yds. The total cost of this' i ?-as $216.00 of which the i ?ill pay ST7.60 through the tr's earned conservation pay- ! June 5, ten inches of rain : the Bolton section of the a wording to this com tan. The tobacco which pwn on the canal was sav fcle approximately 30 other in poorly drained areas arne locality lost a great tobacco. The tobacco on j Ijoinlng farm which is own-) Mr. Brown's brother was. irately one-third loss. j pictures above illustrate an ! size farm with an aver- i taage problem, which cal- , no assistance from other j tor did it involve other; lands. ?on as crops are off the' machinery can be ar J for, farmers will be going with dirt-moving agricult Wjervatlon practices. Far should begin making ar 1nts for carryingg out Practices if they haven't Continued of page four) Need Is Great For More State Forestry Areas Bladen Lakes State Forest Is Only One Under State Control; Now Operated At Profit By F. H. CLARIDGE Assistant Forester The large acreage of forest land in federal ownership in nat- j ural forests mostly in the moun- j tains has unfortunately in North! Carolina overshadowed the urgent' need for well-distributed State1 Forests. These State forests could be of much smaller area than the National Forests and well distributed over the State. They not only will provide ex cellent demonstrations of all ty pes of good forestry practices but will provide a reservoir of raw materials for local industr-! ies. At present the State has one State forest known as the Bladen I Lakes State Forest of 36,000 ac- j res m Bladen county. This has I been under State control for 10 years and was secured under a j 95 year lease from the Federal J Government. The woodland is' typical of that region of -the j State. Much of the forest area prior to its control by the N. C.; Division of Forestry had been | overcut, burned and in general | misused. Despite these handicaps: the management of the area has 1 been an outstanding success. | I Timber has been cut and sold un-, der good forestry practices and it i is one project in the State gov- j ernment which has not cost the j Continued On Page Four Pastures Profitable Practice *e<ir5 ago C. M. Fisher, 11. Whiteville, purchased a sod tract of land which ' have been called a "frog i H? began preparing a por ^ the land for a permanent "? First a canal was dug 1 "he land in order to give '"e'essary drainage for pro-1, l^itivation. Next a rotation PHn?s and grasses were seed 5 'he farm until it was built t'?My-five tons of lime and I l?ns of is per cent super state were used on eleven: I ot this land. After the land pady for seeding Mr. Fisher J DalUs grass, ladino clover, I'wbe lespedeza for his pas lj-wture. Two years ago "a T1 application of materials l*PT>lied to the pasture which 1* of twenty tons of lime I?111 tons of superphosphate. T application of lime and r141*. drainage and pasture are Praotices for which is given under the PMA Mr. Fisher has taken -e of the aid he could ^ugh the local office., | Mr. Fisher is a community committeeman in Whiteville town ship and has expressed his desire to stop his work at any time to show interested farmers some of the improvements on his farm in which PMA practices have aided. | In Columbus County through the efforts of all agricultural agencies farmers have made more progress in the pasture program in 1949 than ever before. If pas tures are successful, each year this program will greatly increase. Continued On Pag* Four Wives Search For Husband's Fags A cigarette famine was caused in an English twon when a con-1 signment of 200,000 cigarettes sent by rail from Player's Not tingham factory vanished on the way. They were intended to re stock wholesale and retail toba conists. The wives of workers in the town spend hours every day dodg ing from shop to sop trying to get a few for their huabamto. - U. S. Has Few Lady Farmers Women More Likely To Be Landlords Than Operators According To Nation wide Survey Women have title to only a small part of the farm land in the TJ. S. held by individuals and those who are owners are more likely to be landlords than oper ators. A nation-wide survey of farm ownership in 1946 showed that only a little more than a tenth of the persons owning land in the U. S. are women. In no re gion did women average more than 12 per cent or less than 9 per cent of all owners though there was considerable differ ences among states. For exam ple, 17.1 per cent of the owners of farm land in Nebraska were women, the highest proportion of any State. But only two per cent of the individual owners in Nevada were women. Other states with a high pro portion of Aromen owners were: Illinois, Connecticut, South Car olina, Colorado, Georgia and Kansas. Lower percentages of i women owners were found in ] Delaware, New Jersey, Wyo ming, Oregon, Wisconsin, Wash ington, New Mexico, Montana, Florida, and Utah. The survey, which is based on information from a sample of 49,000 farm land owners, also shows that women's holdings [usually were smaller than those of men. Over the country, worn- | en owned about 8 per cent of | (Continued on page Two) Not A Sissy A young mother was having great difficulty with her three j year-old son who had locked him self in the bathroom and either could not or would not unlock the door. Finally, In desperation, she called the fire department. After a brief wait, a burly fire I captain ran up the front steps j with an axe in one hand, a fire I extinguisher in the other. She ex I plained "her predicament, but in sted of going back for a ladder, i he asked her the sex of the child. ; When she had told him, he J climbed the stairs and said in his most authoritative voice, J "You come out, little girl!" A roused at being called a little! I girl, the boy unlocked the door ! and marched out to confront the i fireman. "It works just about every time," explained the grin 1 rung captain. 1 Worth Of ACP Committeemen Proved Locally They Are Key Links In Chain Of Agricultural Pro gram Administration In Columbus FURNISH COMMUNITY FARM LEADERSHIP "It's Up tTTjTTo Keep It Working" Say s PMA Spokesman With Re spect To Soil Im , provement The election of community committeemen in PMA each year gives farmers an opportunity to administer their own farm pro grams. It is truly a democratic method of administration. In Columbus County we have 30 farming communities in PMA. Annually farmers in each com munity elect three regular com mitteemen and two alternates to administer their own farm pro grams. They also elect a delegate to a county convention where the three regular county committee men and two alternates are elect ed to coordinate the program from a state and county level to the communities. Community committeemen pro- I vide local leadership in develop ing and supervising farm pro grams adapted to the needs of j their community. In cooperation with the county committee, they fit programs to local condition and recommend improvements and additions suggested by farmers. They explain the objectives and provisions of the farm programs and actively assist in making ef fective use'of them. They conduct community meetings and elect ions, aasist in conducting refer endums and canvass their com munity for needed information. Recently YV. B. Crawley, as sistant PMA administrator, said "The soil of this country is the source of our strength. We've been pushing our land pretty hard the last 6 or 8 years. I think it's time we took a longer view of conservation. We have the Agricultural Conservation Pro gram which is set up to reach every farmer ... to control eros ion and stop wasting our land. The committees are all set up. The program is in operation and (Continued on page four) It Stumped Him Trying to rest after an ex ceedingly hard day, poor father was being bedeviled by an end less stream of unanswerable questions from Little Willie. "Whata you do down at the office?" the youngster finally asked. "Nothing," shouted father. It loked as if the boy had been put off for a while, but not for long. After a thoughtful pause, Willie inquired: "Pop, how do you know when you're through?" , ?Capper's Weekly. County's Ninety Committeemen Seated above are Columbus County's 90 community committeemen who form the link between the Triple A and the other men of the soil. This photograph was taken by Baldwin-Gillespie Studios when the committeemen got together to discuss the tobacco quota referendum. Accomplishments Of 1948 Program In County Cited 3,220 Farmers Carried Out Their Individual Farm Conservation P r a c t i ces During Year BY BRUNO MANGUM Under the 1948 Agricultural Conservation Program, 3220 far mers in Columbus County carried out on their individual farms con servation practices that were ap proved by the County ACA Com mittee. Some of the practices carried out in lieu of payments through the program in 1948 included: LIMESTONE:?4,088 tons of limestone were furnished through the 1948 A CP program. Lime per mits the growing of better legum es and grasses and is a neces sary material in developing a good pasture program. SUPERPHOSPHATE MATER IALS:?11,539 hundred weight of 20 per cent equivalent superpho sphate were furnished to farmers in Columbus County through the program during .1948. The use of this superphosphate was limited to grasses, legumes and perman ent pastures. SEED FURNISHED:? 197,492 pounds of winter cover crop seed was furnished to farmers in Col umbus County through the Agri cultural Conservation . Program. I These legumes are used for win ter cover to prevent leaching and erosion and are used also as a green manure crop to be turned under in the spring as a source of organic matter and nitrogen. Pasture Grasses and Legumes? A total of 55,144 pounds of pas ture grasses and legumes were furnished through the program in lieu of payments in 1948. In addition to the above prac tices 443 acres of cropland in Col umbus County were terraced, tile drainage was installed on 172 acres and construction of open ditch drainage amounted to 145, 063 cu. yds. Aid was given to anyone who requested assistance in laying out a ditch which is one of the most profitable services offered the farmers. Farmers in Columbus County received $63,248.55 from the Agri 'Continued on page 2) Three-Man ACA Committee Clyde Wayne of Wananish, Hubert Norris of Tabor City, and Bill Hooks of Whiteville are shown as they appeared on a busy day as member of the Columbus County Agriculture Conservation Com mittee. Hooks is chairman of the group. (Photo by Baldwin-Gilles pie Studios.) ? 5** Outstanding ACA And PMA Clerk MRS. DOROTHY SPIVEY, chief clerk in the Columbus County Triple A office, who tanks among the best executives in her position in the State. Her official titles are: Chief clerk of PMA and secre tary of ACA.?(Photo by Baldwin-Gillespie Studios.) Down To Earth A city boy and, a country lad were walking down a street, j Coming toward them was a pro ' duct of the beauty parlor?per | manent wave, scarlet finger-nails, i drugstore complexion and gaudy ! lipstick. "Now what do you think of i that ?" asked the city boy. | The farm boy looked carefully and observed: "Speaking as a' farmer, I srfould say that it must have been mighty poor soil to re quire so much topdressing. [Weed Not Luxury But Is Necessity Tobacco Last To Go When Families Lose Money; Fags After Smoking Meas ure One And A Half In ches (Dublin, Ireland, Irish Tobacco Trade Journal) Tobacco in all its forms has become so close an approxima tion to a necessity that its sales can not be used with confidence as a barometer of any country's prosperity or proverty. A family may find it necessary to cut down on certain luxuries, but tobacco usually is the last to come under the axe, for which those in the trade are duly thankful. However, an American tobac co man recently worked out j something approaching a theory j by which the percentage of in dividual cigarettes left un smoked, the butts in other words, could be used as an indication of how the average smoker was progressing generally. Examining the ash trays and other repositories of butts in J Lexington, Illinois, U. S. A., Mor ris Jones found reason for judi lation and he went the length of J announcing that things now are j I as good as in the late Twenties, j The butts he found had attained the average length of one and a half inches, a fact which he broadcast to the tobacco world? with the greatest jubilation. Applied to this country and to Britain, this barometer of pros perity gives another picture, one which it is not so easy to inter-' pret. The discarded sections of j our cigarettes fall far short of! Lexington's inch and a half in! length, in fact the average is so1 short that inspection probably j would bring to light a kind of J epidemic of burnt fingers among our smokers. In the early days of cigarette (Continued on Pag? S) Tobacco Helped To Make U. S. Spaniards Made First Com mercial Shipments To Europe In 1531; Weed Brought $1,000,000,000 To Growers WASHINGTON, D. C.?Tobacco vas the earliest profitable export vas the earliest profitable export :rop from the Americas. Spani irds first shipped it commerclal y to Europe from what Is now :he United States in 1531. The 1946 tobacco crop brought to [7. S. growers more than $1,000, )00,000. These facts are brought out In i new U. S. Department of Agri culture publication by the Bur ?au of Agricultural Economics vhich presents a continuous ser es of tobacco statistics by states jn acreage, yield, production and Jrice from 1866 through 1945 ind by tobacco types and classes (Continued on page 2) Program Emerges Out Of Farmer?' Economic Needs Numerous Method* Of Aid ing Agriculture Were Pro posed Prior To P?mi|> Of AAA In 1933 PMA CONSOLIDATES SEVERAL AGENCIES State Administrative Officer Cites Background Of Pre sent Program To Assist Tillers Of Soil (Prepared By H. A. Patten, Ad ministrative Officer, Production and Marketing; Administration) Let us start back 40 years ago, when there was a period when our farm economy did not seem to be in such urgent need of price supports. Those well balan ced years of 1906 through 1914 merged into the years of World War I when the demand for American agricultural commodi ties had caused the prairies and pasture lands to be plowed up to raise more grain and other com modities, and to place more money in the hands of the farmers. The end of the war brought a stop to all this. Foreign countries be came self-supporting and domestic consumption fell off due to lower earnings. Each year from 1921 to 1933 Congress was flooded with legisla tion designed to aid the farmer. However, very little of it passed. In 1921 an emergency tariff act was passed that placed high duties on Imported agricultural commodities. Later the Smoot Mawley Tariff Act completed building the tariff wall against foreign goods. Other nations re taliated by passing tariff laws o ftheir own to kill what was left of our foreign commerce. Stop gap measures such as loans to farmers to buy seed grain, re gulations grain exchanges, and certain types of credit extended to farmers was tried but nothing accomplished the desired effect; namely, h market for American farm products. One of the most persistent bills placed before the Congress during these years was the McNary Haugen Bill, presented five timet, each year from 1924 throiigji 1928. The aim of the bill was to stabilize the price of ram pro ducts by the purchase, through cooperative associations, of sur pluses and their storage and re sale under favorable conditions. One of the main feautres was to sell farm commodities aboard for Just wha they would bring and the losses be met by an equalization fee levied against the products. Three times the bill failed to pass but did pass both in 1927 and 1928 and was vetoed each time by President Coollge. By 1929 the farm situation was so desperate that President Hoo ver called a special session of Congress to consider some re medial measures. The Farm Board bill was passed. Under this bill seven cooperative agencies, back (Continued on page 2) Several Agricultural Agencies - Were Brought Together In PMA BY BRUNO MANGCM The Production and Marketing Administration was organized in the summer of 1945. It was a consolidation of several agencies within the U- S. Department of Agriculture. TTiis was done to in crease operating efficiency, to obtain over-all coordination of j production and marketing funct- j ions, and to provide for greater i reflection of farmer thinking on j both production and marketing! programs. The consolidation of the i various department of agriculture I agencies makes it possible for the' recommendations of farmers to have a place in the planning and development of marketing pro grams just as in production pro grams:. The importance of farmer in fluence In PMA operations can not be over-emphasized. Through the framer-elected community and county commitees, he farm ers in Columbus Couny can and do voice a grass roos opinion of wha and how hings tcan and should be done. Once a decision is made, these committeemen car ry out programs which reach out to each individual farm in the county. Tlie county committee in Columbus County is made up of ftree fine farmers?Bill Hooks, J. Hubert Norris and Clyde Way ne. There are 90 community committeemen in the county. The Production and Marketing Administration, administers thr ough your elected committee, the Agricultural Conservation Pro gram and all other PMA pro grams which deal directly with farmers. The conservation pro gram is based on voluntary far mer effort to protect the nation'* soli from eroelon, to restore and maintain productivity of the land, and to obtain more efficient use of the nation's supplies of water in areas where "irrigation and drainage are necessary to produc tion. It is the nation's primary and direct effort to assure cur rent and continued food and fib er production. A list of program and functions under the Production and Market ing Administration includes: The agricultural conservation program Price supports - loans and pur chases. Production goals. Marketing quotas. Marketing agreements and tit den. School lunch program. Market news. Inspection and grading. If you have any question in r?> gard to any of the above llstsd programs, you should contact your County PMA ConunitUft* men. i
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