Reasons for Tobacco
Vote December 10th
Flue-cured tobacco growers in
this country are in a position to
product more than one billion
pounds of bright tobacco a year.
The consumption level of this tobac
co is between 725 and 750 million
pounds a year.
That is the reason a referendum
on marketing quotas for 1938 has
been called for December 1Q. ex
plained E. Y. Floyd, AAA executive
officer at State College. Any farm
er who grew flue-cured tobacco in
1938 can vote. Polling places will be
established in each county and the
cotton referendum on marketing
quotas will be held at the same time.
The 1937 flue-cured tobacco crop
added about 70 million pounds to
the stocks, Floyd said. The 1938
crop was about 70 million pounds
less than the 1937 crop, but not
enough smaller to bring the supply
below the quota level. If there had
been no marketing quota in 1938,
the total supply of tobacco would
have been materially larger at the
present time.
"It looks as if the 1938 crop is
gning to being the flue-cured tobac
co around 5175,000,000, the third
highest income on record." Floyd
stated. "The average price per pound
for the season will be about 22 1-2
centa. From present indications, we
need to keep the 1939 crop about the
same as this year to keep price and
income up as well or better than
this year."
In explaining the set-up for the
December 10 referenda, Floyd said
the voting will be secret and each
farmer will mark his ballot private
ly and cast it in the customary way,
just as in any regular election.
Where cotton and flue-cured tobac
co are grown in the same commun
ity, the election for both commodi
ties will be held in the same place
but separate ballot boxes will be
used.
Everyone Can Have
Good Water System
That low-cost water systems are
practical for farmers in moderate
circumstances has been excellently
demonstrated in the case of Willie
Morton, Sr., a Negro farmer living
in the Jeffries Grove community of
Wake County. He installed running
water from a well into his home at
a cost of $19.10.
L. T. Brown, Negro vocational
teacher of Method, N. C., obtained
plans for simple water systems from
David S. Weaver, Extension Agricul
tural Engineer at State College. By
using extension folders Nos. 37 and
38, he interested Morton and others
in constructing systems of low-cost
type.
A Myers set-length pump was
bought for $10. Inch-and-a-quarter
pipe was used from the well to the
pump costing 16 cents a foot. For
the pipe from the pump to an over
head tank, three-quarter inch was
used, costing 8 cents a foot. Pipe
from the tank to the house was pur
chased for seven cents a foot.
An overhead tank was made from
a syrup barrel. He can increase the
capacity by Joining other barrels
with short lengths of pipe near the
bottom.
Weaver points out that it is pos
sible to reduce even this small cost
by $S where a shallow well instead
of a set-length pump is used. Care
should be taken, however, to see
that a force pump, and not a lift
pump, is purchased where it is de
sired to force the water higher than
the standard of the pump, Weaver
said.
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The corn plan helps us to sta
bilise supplies and prices of hogs
and other livestock.
State Cotton Crop Is
Smallest In 37 Years
North Carolina's 1938 cotton crop,
-estimated at 425,000 bait's, is the
smallest in 37 years, the state-fed
eral crop report released by the
State Department of Agriculture, re
vealed recently.
Based on the November 1 esti
mate, it was reported that growers
are 25,000 bales below last month's
indicated production. However the
indicated 225 pounds per acre aver
age yield is five pounds above the
national average.
"The state's per acre average is
nearer to the national average than
it has been for more than 50 years,
while farmers have reported one of
the lowest yields on record," W. H
Rhodes, chief statistician for the de
partment said. "North Carolina us
ually has a yield considerably high
er than the average for the belt
"Conditions throughout the cotton
growing states have generally been
favorable for both harvesting and
ginnings, resulting in a larger pro
portion of the crop having been
picked to date than usual."
Ginnings in North Carolina to No
vember 1, reported at 253,000 bales,
were 61 per cent of the estimated
crop, while the total bales ginned in
all cotton states reported at 10,125.
000 was 83 per cent of the total es
timated crop.
There are 902,000 acres of cotton
for harvest in North Carolina this
year?the smallest acreage since
1892.
The estimated yield of the state
federal crop reporting service for
North Carolina is 49 pounds below
the past ten-year average yield and
113 pounds below the average yield
harvested last year, Rhodes said.
"Weevil damage has been quite
heavy and seriously shortened the
yield," he added.
Grinding Feeds Does Not
Increase Nutritive Value
Grinding feeds does not increase
the nutritive value nor does it in
crease digestibility, but corn and
cob meal is a safer feed in the hands
of an inexperienced feeder than is
shelled corn. The small hard-coated
grains such as rye, wheat and bar
ley should be ground or rolled. Corn
stover and other low grade rough
ages may well be shredded so that I
the inedible parts may be used for
bedding If feed is ground be sure
that it is coarse as fine grinding
causes digestive disturbances and
the fine ground feed is also more li
able to heat and spoil in the bin .
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ENGINEERING STUDENTS HONORED
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Raleigh ?One of the highest hon-.
ors that can come to an engineering I
student is membership in Tau Beta
Pi Association, national honorary
fraternity dedicated to scholarship,
character and leadership. Tau Beta
Pi is the engineering equivalent to
Phi Beta Kappa, which accepts schol
ars excelling in literary courses.
Pictured here aie new members
of the North Carolina chapter of
Tau Beta Pi Stat* Pnllnfln Th?v
were initiated in ceremonies which
also saw Dean Blake R. Van Lee, of
State College School of Engineer
ing taken into the chapter. Ernest J
Angelo. of Winston-Salem, is presi
dent of the State College chapter.
The new members are Frank Thom
as Abbott, Jr., of Raleigh, son of F.
T. Abbott, Mallie Curtis Todd, of j
Wendell, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. C.;
Todd; Everett Foy Smith, of Lexing- ,
tun, sun of Mr. ana Mrs. J L Smith;
Charlton Henry Storey, Jr., of Wilm
ington. son of Dr. C. H. Storey; Hen
ry Deitsch Means of Concord, whose
guardian is Miss Belle Means; Thur
man Ralston Jones. Jr., of Fayette
ville, son of T. R. Jones; Wilbur
Newton Taylor of Route 2, Jones
boro, son of Owen Lee Taylor, and
Millard Samuel Hayworth, of Ashe
boro, son of C. M Hayworth
World's Fair at Home and Abroad
?Oue of the New York World's
Fair's greatest attractions will be
the spectacular Illumination of the
Perlsphere, one of the two build
ings comprising the Theme Center
lighting effects never before at
tempted are now being devised by
Fair engineers. Batteries of i*>wer
fui projectors mounted on distant
buildings will spot the globe with
color, while other projectors will
superimpose on this color, moving
patterns of light which may take
the form of clouds, geometric pat
terns and moving panoramas, ere
atlng the optical illusion that the
Perisphere itself is slowly rotating
Inside, the visitor will seem to be
suspended In space on revolving
platforms, gazing down on a vast
panorama dramatising the all Im
portant role of cooperation In mod
ern civilization, showing all the
elements of society Coordinated In
a better World of Tomorrow.
One phase of aucti cooperation
will take definite form with the
tour through the South starting In
January of the World's Fair ITe
View on Wheels and Southern
Motorcade of "The Arcadian Grow
er," sponsored by the distributors
of Arcadian Nitrate, the American
soda, and officially approved by the
New York World's Fair 1939. The
Motorcade, consisting of a large
scale diorama of the Fair, animated
with light, color and movement,
will show the famous theme sym
bols, the Trylon and the 1'erisphere,
together with state, national and
international buildings. It will gi
a dramatic and vivid impression m
how the Fair will appear to those
who visit IL
Sulphur Dust Helps
Boost Peanut Yield
Peanuts dusted with sulphur in
creased yields 187 pounds an acre on
the farm of S. P. Jessup, of Hertford,
reports L. W. Anderson, Perquimans
County farm agent of the State Col
lege Extension Service. There was
also a difference of 885 pounds of
hay per acre in favor of dusting with
sulphur, Anderson said
The hay was of much better qual
ity when dusted since it retained
practically all of its leaves after
passing through the picker, the agent
reported.
There were indications that the
peanuts were dug too early, since
dusted peanuts weighed less per bag,
showing a lack of maturity. Howev
er, the following results were ob
tained from the test:
Twenty-five bags of dusted pea
nuts weighed 1,845 pounds and 51
bales of hay from the dusted plot
weighed 2,367 pounds.
The undusted peanuts made 22
bags of nuts, weighing 1,678 pounds
and only 37 bales of hay weighing
1,702 pounds.
Dr. Luther Shaw, plant pathologist
at State College, who directed sul
phur-dusting demonstrations in the
peanut area, says many other favor
able reports are being made where
leafspot diseases were controlled.
Although results of all demonstra
tions have not been obtained, Dr.
Shaw said the plants in tha field
showed definite signs of control In
every case, some results being more
striking than others.
Prices Oi Cattle In October
And November Maintained
e
Prices of the better grades of
slaughter cattle in October and early
November were maintained near the
seasonally high levels reached in
the early fall, and prices of lower
grades showed a tendency to
strengthen, says L. I. Case, of State
College.
Grading Of Eggs Is Both
Practical and Profitable
Egg grading is not only practical
and profitable, but it soon will bo
an absolute necessity if the egg in
dustry is to go ahead. The purchas
ing public is beginning to demand a
quality graded egg and the produc
er must, sooner or later, familiarize
himself with standard egg grades
and qualify as a producer of such a
product. Not only do eggs of known
grade command the high price on
all markets, but the grading gives
the producer an opportunity to cull
his flock to better advantage and
save only those hens that arc pro
ducing the best eggs
Nitrate Of Soda /4s Side
Dressing Improves Corn
A two hundred pound application
per acre of nitrate of soda as a side
dressing to corn gave the best re
sults in a demonstration conducted
by Herbert Woo lard, of Beaufort
County. The corn was first fertiliz
ed with 400 pounds of a 3-8-5 mix
ture and-4hen vfrrymg^-aTirounts of
the nitrate were applied as a side,
dressing
Cotton Is Used As
( -over for Beehives
ie icy
blasts of winter, apd the Agricultur
al Adjustment Administration pro
poses to give it to them, and at the
same time develop new uses for cot
ton.
C. L. Sams, apiarist of the State
College Extension Service, has an
nounced that the AAA will distri
bute a limited number of newly de
signed cotton covers for beehives.
They will be made available free to
beckeeprs who will agree to use
Them mm Therr-rntoTnes and
report on results
Sams says the covers are designed
for both winter and spring protec
tion of bees in one and two-story
standard ten-frame houses. The cov
er consists of two cotton quilts and
a water-proofed canvas cover. It
can be easily and quickly applied.
The beehive covers will be distri
buted through either Sams at State
College or E. S. Sloan, western dis
tirct farm agent of the extension ser
vice at Franklin The user will be
expected to pay transportation from
one of these places to his home.
Applications for use of the covers
: should be made to ^county farm
agents of the extension service, and
information should be supplied as to
whether the hives are one or two
story affairs, the apiarist stated
Improvement
J. A. Shanklin, exttoiion cotton
-specialist at State- College, says" that
upland cotton ginned to November
1 was -longer mstaplcr~cnT ilie aver-""
age, than cotton ginned to the same
date last year. The grade remained
about the same.
CORN
Wanted!
We want to buy several
hundred bushels of
Corn.
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High er Industrial
Wage Being Urged
Higher industrial wages to enable
consumers to purchase necessary
foodstuffs, and thereby increase
farm income was urged recently by
Jesse W Tapp, Associate AAA Ad
ministrator.
One of the biggest problems con
fronting the Nation today is that of
getting the productivity of the farm
through the consumers in the city,"
Tapp said
"It is at this point liiat the coop
erative spirit must spread to indus
try. It takes employment at fair
wages to make real customers out
of millions who today are without
buying power."
Speaking before the convention of
the National Co-operative Milk Pro
ducers Federation, Tapp urged that
Congress enact laws to coordinate
the Federal marketing agreement,
program, which he predicted "here
to stay."
A constructive and "sincere atti
tude" on the part of the States and
the Federal Government, he said,
fective industry?wide cooperation
and result in a program which rec '
ognized true facts and operate with
fairness 10 producers and handlers
alike.'
Tapp said there are several
"healthful" indications that the 1938
marketing agreement act will be
judged constitutional by the Su
preme Court.
Approximately 1,600,000 producers
of milk, and various kinds of fruits
and vegetables, are selling their
products through handlers wlti/ op
erate under the market agreement
i?iogidm. he said. The value uf prod-~
ucts sold under marketing agree
ments approximate $400,000,000 per
year he added.
Reports On Use
01 Cotton" Crop
The Census bureau reported re
cently that cotton consumed during
October totaled 542,778 bales of lint
and 72,109 bales of linters, compar
ed with 534,037 and 70,991 during
September this year and 524,188 and
73,193 during October last year
Cotton on hand October 31 was
reported held as follows in cottsurn
ing establishments, 1,507.245 bales
of lint and 279,145 of linters, com
pared with 1,107,388 and 263,389 on
September 30 this year and 1.419,
039 and 194,043 on October 31, 1937.
In public storage and at com
presses 15,312,719 bales of lint and
101.424 of lmters compared with 13,
013,410 and 97,189 on September 30
this year and 9,769,861 and 54,135 on
September 30 last year
Imports during October totaled
10,933 bales compared with 10,631
during September this year and 8,
744 during September last year
Exports for October totaled 464,
590 bales of lint and 21.406 of lint
ers, compared with 388,758 and 15,
323 during September this year and
798,921 and 24,303 during October
last year.
Control Of Weevils
In Corn Explained
For treating weevil-infested corn
on the farm, nothing is cheaper,
more effective, or more readily
available than carbon disulphide,
advises J. O. Rodwell, extension en
tomologist at State College. Bat this
chemical is very inflammable and
explosive and should be used with
care Fire of any kind, excessive heat
or frictional or static electricity
should not he allowed near the con
tainers being fumigated with this
chemical.
Rowell explained that weevils are
by far -the most destructive insect
pests of stored corn, annually taking
a toll of about 14 per cent of North
Carolina's crop. They begin their at
Tack m the field. but when the corn
is harvested and stored in the barn,
conditions are very favorable for the
rapid increase of the pests.
Storage bins and cribs of all kinds
should be thoroughly cleaned, ac
cumulations of old gram removed
and the woodwork treated before
the new corn is stored. Any odorless.
tasteless,? watcrwtntcr petroleum
similar to that contained in commer
cial fly sprays is suitable to treat
the walls and floors of empty bins,
the entomologist says:
Accumulations ??f nlH grain?and
floor .sweepings from the previous
crop should be burned, or. if it is to
be used as feed, fumigated with car
bon disulphide Sweepings may be
placed in a tight bin or barrel and
the chemical poured directly over it,
.using the fluid at the rate of about
three-fourths of a pint to a barrel of
sweepings. The container should be
covered immediately with a double
thickness of wrapping paper and
tied tightly around the top. leaving
sealed for 24 hours to allow the
fumes to penetrate all portions of the
sweepings.
Higher
Household operation coats war?
than tn similar cities in other parts
of the Unted States, a survey just
completed by the U. S Bureau of
Home Economics reveals Gastoma
was thefNorth Carolina city studied.
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