N.C Cotton Growers
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Every year North Carolina mills
consume twice as much cotton as is
grown in the State?but thousands
of bales of North Carolina cotton
must be exported because local
mills don't want it.
Some mills send out to Texas and
California for the kind of cotton
they want, cotton that could be
grown in this State, said P. H. Kime,
agronomist at the N. C. Agricultur
al Experiment Station.
The mills prefer a medium sta
ple cotton from 15-18 to 1 1-16
inches in length and of good quality.
When they buy, they want large,
ever-running lots of these lengths
in order to produce a Uniform grade
of fabric.
North Carolina could supply a
good part of this demand if growers
in the different communities would
"standardize" a good variety, Kime
added.
When all growers in a commun
ity plant the same strain of seed,
they reduce the chances of the seed
becoming mixed with other strains
and they produce fairly large quan
tities of uniform cotton. This is just
what the mills are looking for.
Kime pointed out that if all
strains producing staples shorter
than 15-16 Inch or longer than 1 1-16
inch were discontinued, there would
still be too many varieties grown
in the State. Five or six varieties
should be enough for the entire
State.
Whole counties and groups of
counties would find it profitable to
standardize one variety They could
put on the market huge lots of uni
form cotton that would command
a higher price,
Enterprise Subscription
List Continues To Grow
J. C. Rom, Oak City; Charles A.
Coltrain, Williamston; A. P. Hy
man, Palmyra. A. L. Roberson,
Jamesville; J. D. Lilley, Williams
ton; L. J. Cordon, Jamesville; R. T.
Chambers. Hassell: Bennie Bryant,
Oak City; Celia Bryant, Oak City;
L. J. Manning. Parmele, William T.
Roberson, Robersonville; B. T. La
nier, Oak City; W. M. Boner, Rober
sonville.
J. L. Rodgerson, Raleigh; H. B.
Moore, Williamston; Mrs. M. L.
Cherry, Williamston; D. W Ange,
Jamesville; Clavon Brown, Wil
liamston; John Gurkin, Williamston;
H. L Everett, Robersonville; E. L.
Ward, Robersonville; Blanche
Wynne, Norfolk; S. J. Everett,
Greenville; Mrs. F. C. Bennett, Wil
liamston; Blanche Mizelle, James
ville; M. F. VanNortwick. Rober
sonville; Edward Modlin. James
ville; Maggie Andrews, Roberson
ville; L. C. Nurney, Williamston;
Frank Lilley, Williamston; J. W.
Bellflower, Palmyra; Z. V. Price,
Jamesville; Buck Rogerson. Wil
liamston; Ray's Camp, Jamesville;
Charlotte News, Charlotte; C. H.
Cowen, Plymouth; S. J. Lilley, Wil
liamston: Mrs. W. B. Watts. Alex
andria, Va.; Lendora Gibson. Wil
liamston.
Vocational Teaching In
High Schools Increasing
Teaching young people to use
their hands for gainful employment
is increasing rapidly in America.
Out of 4,000,000 United States high
school students, 700,000 are now tak
ing purely vocational courses and
another 400,000 are studying trade*
along with cultural subjects.
Tobacco Allotments Are Now
In Hands of Martin Farmers
Individual allotments, represent
ing 10,829. acres of tobacco, are
now in the hands of Martin Coun
ty growers, early reports from the
county agricultural office stating
that comparatively few complaints
had been directed, that most of the
farmers commenting on the pro
gram were fairly well pleased with
their assigned quotas.
Most of the complaints received
so far are coming from those far
mers who did not participate in the
soil conservation program last year.
Their bases were carried back to
the old figures and in those cases
the acreage reductions approximat
ed fifty per cent in some instances,
it is understood. The small growers,
as a rule, are well pleased with
their allotments.
Machinery for handling any com
plaints was set up by the farm bill,
and Messrs. J. F. Crisp, chairman,
of Oak City; Clarence Stallings, of
BLUE MOLD I
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Greenville, April 5 Here ia
one (or Ripley's "Believe It or
Not."
While most farmers are do
ing everything in their power
to curb bine mold, dreaded to
bacco plant disease, a group of
Pitt County growers are en
couraging it
Reports brought to the elty
today by Laos Buck of Chicod
Township were to the effect
that a group of farmers in that
section were purposely placing
disease-infected plants in their
beds to stunt the growth since
the plants are growing too fast
to set out.
Cottonseed Meal Is
Good Stock Feed
Manure produced by livestock has
a definite cash value to the farmer
who spreads it on his fields.
Earl H. Hosteller, head of animal
husbandry research at State College,
said that in terms of the fertilizing
elements the annual manure pro
duction of various animals may be
valued as follows:
Horses, six tons worth $16.36;
dairy cows, nine tons worth $18 99;
fattening steers, 7.8 tons worth
$20.59; sheep, .8 of a ton worth
$3.66; and hogs. 17 tons worth $3.21.
Well balanced rations not only in
crease efficiency in livestock feed
ing, they also increase the value of
manure obtained from livestock.
Cottonseed meal, abundant and
comparatively inexpensive ' in the
South, is rich in proteins and other
elements that make it a good stock
feed when properly balanced with
other rations
It is also rich in nitrogen, phos
phoric acid, and potash for fertiliz
ing purposes
When cottonseed meal is placed
directly in the soil as a fertilizer,
farmers miss the opportunity . to
utilize its feed value. This is an
economic waste.
But when the meal is fed, three
fourths of the fertilizer value of the
meal can be returned to the soil in
the manure, if the manure is prop
erly handled.
Livestock men can restore to the
soil 96 pounds of nitrogen, 27 1-2
pounds of phosphoric acid, and 27
pounds of potash from each ton of'
cottonseed meal they feed. Hostet-1
ler says.
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Six-Cylinder Cars
Gain In Popularity
Six-cylinder motor cars were al
most twice as popular with the
driving public in 1937 as any other
type, according to a recent survey
made by E. P. Feely, manager of
the Chevrolet market analysis de
partment. /
Mr. Feely's survey revealed that
2,214,336 six-cylinder cars were Sold
during the year of 1937, or 63.6 per
cent of the total of all cars sold.
Automobiles of the eight-cylinder
type were second in popularity'
since 1934, when 59.3 per cent of
the total cars sold were powered by
that type of engine," said Mr. Feely.
Eight-cylinder cars comprised 19.8
per cent of total sales in 1934, and
34.1 per cent last year.
Jamcsville, and L. A. Clark, oV Ev
eretU, forming the county commit
tee, are scheduled to meet and con
sider appeals from any farmer.
The grower wishing to make a
complaint is directed to file his
grievances with Mr. Crisp direct or
at the office of the county agent.
The complaints must be filed in
writing and within fifteen days af
ter notice of allotment is received
by the farmer. No personal appear
ances before the committee is nec
| essary, the law stating that the
' complaint is to be filed in writing
and that the committee shall re
view each and every case. After re
ceiving the complaint, the commit
tee is directed to consider the facts
and report back to the grower with
in fifteen days.
Farmers, filing complaints, should
make certain to point out specific
claims and facts. The mere request,
"I want more tobacco" will not be
of much value.
Quarter Million
Acres Planted By
U. S. Forest Service
Thousands of acres of the South'*
barren pinelands were planted to
trees during 1937 under the largest
reforestation program ever under
taken by the Uv S. Forest Service.
Joseph C. Kircher, regional forester
of the U. S. Forest service. Atlanta.
George, says that federal forest au
thorities are cooperating with State
and conservation agencies to the
fullest extent possible in an effort
to "bring back" the depleted forests
of the South according to the new
est conceptions of forest economy
for the permanent benefit of future
generations.
Mr. Kircher states that during
1937. according to figures compiled,
by the U. S. Forest Service, Depart
ment of Agriculture, trees were
planted on 214,306 acres and tree
seeds were sown on 8,769 acres ?a
total reforestation of 223,075 acres
of federal forest lands for the entire
United States. To make available
resources meet the most urgent
needs, millions of these trees were
planted in the South, where mu?h
of the national forest area is made
up of land once privately owned
and heavily cut and burned. This
region is again becoming the cen
ter of heavy demand from new
wood-using industries, and it is im
portant that these lands be restored
lo productivity in order to furnish
the necessary supply of raw mater
ials.
The Louisiana National Forest
had the second lajgest planting of'
any state in the nation, with a rec
ord of approximately 22,000 acres,
followed closely by Mississippi with
a planting of 19,000 acres.
Texas' quota was over 12,000
acres. Extensive plantings were al
so made on National Forests in Ala
bama, Arkansas, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Oklahoma and Ten
nessee. The majority of trees plant
ed in the South were slash, short
leaf and longleaf pine, and some
black locust was used in Mississippi
where a serious problem in erosion
control exists.
The general practice of the forest
service is to resort to artificial
planting or sowing only where the
forest has been badly abused by fire
or over-cutting. On lands under for
est management with an adequate
stand 6f timber, reforestation takes
place naturally by proper cutting
and protection methods. The exten
sive plantings in Louisiana and Mis
sissippi were necessary because
large areas of cut-over and aban
doned farm lands recently acquired
by the government were so barren
of trees that even under protection
natural reproduction would not take
j place fast enough to reforest the
lands for a great number of years
Some sections had been so ravaged
by fire that nothing was left but a
desolate expanse of blackened
stumps.
These plantings on National for
ests were made possible largely
through the work of the CCC. The
forest service places great empha
sis on the careful planting of each
' tree and the CCC enrollees were
given intensive draining and close
supervision in order that each
planted tree might have the besi
Uncle Jim Sags |
Many woodlands can be improved
by weeding out the smaller, over,
crowded, crooked and lses valuable
trees. This leaves the straighter and
larger trees to develop into high
grade saw-logs, piling, poles or oth
er valuable tim]>er
Most of the hogs sold on the far
mers cooperative markets of east
ern Carolina graded "hard" during
March. This was not true of those
sold in January and February
when the animals were gleaning the
soybean and peanut fields
Eastern Carolina Hogs
"Hard" During March
possible chance to survive and
grow.
The majority of trees planted on
southern national forest lands were
grow at three federal nurseries ?
the Stuart nursery in Louisiana, the
Ashe nursery in Mississippi, and the
Ozark in Arkansas. The Stuart and
Ashe nurseries each have an annual
capacity of 26.000,000 seddlings
Mr. Kircher states that the na
tional forests are managed under
multiple use plans which provide
for the coordinated development of
all of their resources. The timber
grown on those forests is handled on |
a permanent, sustained-yield basis,
and this assurance of future eco
: nomic stability promotes the estab
lishment of sound communities with
[ wood-product industries in conncc
Itiph with each national forest, thus
making it a vital economic factor to
Ithe surrounding territory. The largo
acreage in tree planting which took
place in the south in 1937 represents
I a potential source of future wealth
in the region when turned into lum
ber, pulpwood, or naval stores.
DR. V. H. NEWBORN
OP-TOM E-TKIST
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every Fri, 9:30 a. m. to 12 m.
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Robersonville office Robersonville
Drug Co , Tuesdav, April 19th.
Eyes Examined - Glauses Fitted
At Tsrhorn Everv Saturday
Ur. and Mrs E. E Pittman and
daughters. Gladys Elizabeth and
Edith- Earl, of Oak City, and Miss
Peggy Gong of Hamilton visited
Mr ' and Mrs. Amazon Turner in
JamecviUe Sunday
Mrs CUir Fleming and Mrs. km
uon Turner. Miss Sadie Fagan and
Mr Guy Fleming motored to Nor
folk yesterday to take Mrs. M. D.
Eskey who has been nursing Mrs.
jPattie O. Wallace (or the past tiro
weeks
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FOR 1938
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"Crop* like* to be fed natchel," My* Uncle NatcheL
"Plenty of de bes' natchel food jes" when dey wants
it de mot*. Not je*' a bite at de beginning, den go
hungry de td o' de time."
That means a good healthy side dressing of Chilean
Soda. Because it is natural plant food, it's got plenty
of nitrate and small amounts of other plant food ele
ments naturally blended with it. They're not added.
They're there, blended by nature.
So give your crops a natchel side dressing. "Oat's
de secrut," says Uncle Natdiel, "plenty of natchal
Chilean soda jes whan dey wants k
demos'."
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