Questions and Answers About Farm Programs Q What is the flue-eured tobacco marketing quota (or 1939? A. A 1939 quota of 754 million pounds has been proclaimed as pro vided in the act since the total sup ply of bright tobacco was in excess of the reserve supply level. Q. Will the 1939 allotments and quotas be furnished to farmers prior to the referendum? A. Every effort is being made to complete the 1939 quotas and allot ments in order that they can be furnished to farmers prior to the referendum. Q. Are the marketing quotas and allotments likely to be satisfactory to all farmers? A. In view of the favorable prices for tobacco in recent years which causes farnters to want to grow more tobacco, it is unlikely that the quotas and allotments can be entirely satisfactory to all farmers. Q Why do the quotas and allot ments seem to be necessary? A. Without them farmers would market so much tobacco that disas trouily low prices inevitably would follow. The allotments and quotas represent the most eouitah)f eh-mi. that it has been possiblle to develop up to the present time under which all farmers can take part in effect ively adjusting supplies in line with demand. Q. Why are the marketing quotas kept separate from the acreage al lotments? A. Chiefly because of the decision of the Supreme Court on the uld AAA as to regulation of production on farms. The marketing quotas pro vide for regulation of tobacco mar keted in interstate and foreign com merce in line with market demands. The acreage allotments are volun tary and provide the basis for pay ments to farmers under the Agn cultural Conservation Program Thus, the two parts of the tobacco program operate without regulating the production on any farm. While the quotas may influence action by farmers in producing and marketing tobacco, they operate in the final analysis to regulate marketings in interstate and foreign commerce. This is plain when it is recognized that quotas may be transferred among farms so that a total quan tity of tobacco may be marketed equal to the national quota even though some farmers produce more than their farm quota while others produce less. Q. What is the most important difference between the present pro gram and the programs in effect in 1934 and 1935 under the old AAA and Kerr-Smith Tobacco Act? A. The 1934 and 1935 programs provided specific acreage and pro-1 duction allotments for Individual farms and were intended to regulate production. The present program provides regulation only in the case Current Tobacco Facts The price of flue-cured tobacco since 1933 has been more than six cents per pound higher than it could have been if the AAA farm program had not been in effect. Farmers can sell as much tobacco over a period of years with a pro gram as they can without a pro gram Without a program, prices paid for tobacco must be low enough from year to year to discourage excessive marketings in future years. With a program, prices for to bacco can be kept at favorable lev els because farmers can keep their marketings in line with demand from year to year. Within reasonable price limits, there is little relation between the farm price of flue-cured tobacco and the amount of this tobacco consum ed. The price received by farmers for tobacco?represents a relatively small part of the price paid by con sumers for tobacco products. of marketings in interstate and for eign commerce. Q. Are the marketing quotas any more likely to be constitutional than the regulation of production under the Agricultural Adjustment Act in 1934 and 1935? A. The tobacco marketing quotas have been held to be valid by a dis trict court in Georgia It is expected that this case will be carried to the Supreme Court of the United States. Q. What recommendations, design ed to improve the 1939 program hava been made? A. The principal recommendations made by farmer representatives are as follows: 1. That the discrepancies between quotas and acreage allotments which existed on individual farms in 1938 be eliminated. 2. That only one per cent of the 1939 national marketing quota should be used for new tobacco farms in 1939 This recommendation1 recognizes that farmers already are in a position to grow about one third more flue-cured tobacco than the present annual world consump tion of this tobacco. 3 That transfer of additional quo ta to any farm having excess tobac co should be limited to not more than 10 per cent of the original quo to for the farm. ! 4. That regulations for issuance of quotas and for transfer of quotas among farms should be corrected so as to eliminate some irregularities that have developed under the meth od used in 1938. Q. How are the 1939 quotas for AAA Officer Tell Why Quotas Needed In the referendum on cotton and flue-cured tobacco quotas for 1939, scheduled for December 10, produc ers of North Carolina will have a chance to decide for themselves whether or not they want to keep the supply of cotton and tobacco at a more reasonable level and then to keep excessive supplies that ruin prices from piling up in the future, says E. Y. Floyd, AAA executive of ficer at State Cullege. H "Quotas also protect the farmers who plant within their acreage al lotments from having their efforts defeated by those who overplant," Floyd said. In this connection the AAA offi cer pointed out that with quotas in effect this year, the national cotton allotment was not overplanted. The National allotment was about 27,500, 000 acres and producers actually grew about 26,450,000 acres. This in dicates, he said, that quotas were one factor in keeping the adjust ment efforts of cooperating farmers from being defeated or made less effective by those who otherwise might have stayed out of the pro gram. himself to learn all he can about the 1939 AAA program, and then vote his convictions in the December 10 referenda. Meetings to explain the I program are being held throughout the cotton and flue-cured tobacco sections, to be climaxed by a mass meeting of farmers at the Kaleigh Memorial Auditorium on Thursday, December 1, to hear Henry A. Wal lace, secretary of agriculture. Separate ballot boxes for cotton and tobacco quota votes will be pro vided at community pulling places for the December 10 referenda. Any farmer who produced flue-cured to bacco in 1936 and cotton producers of a staple of 1 1-2 inches or less are eligible to vote. Ilealtli In South Is Nation's Biji; Worry The South presents the nation's No. 1 health problem, Dr. Thomas Parian, surgeon-general of the U. S. Public Health Service, recently declined in testimony before the join Congressional Committee in vestigating the Tennessee Valley Authority development in Dixie. While lauding the TVA's measures for safeguarding the health of its employees, Dr. Parran reeled off statistics which he said show that the Soutli is the nation's No 1 health problem. individual farms likely to compan with quotas established in 1938? A. County and local committee men of the AAA will make adjust ments in 1938 quotas so as to elim inate as far as possible inequalities which eiwsted in 1938 among the quotas for individual farms. AAA Boosts Income Of Tobacco Fanners During the five years, 1994-38, un der AAA programs, flue-cured to bacco farmers have received one fourth more money for the leaf crop than in any other five-year period in history, says E. Y. Floyd. AAA executive officer at State Col lege. The average annual income from 1934 to 1938 for flue-cured tobacco was >187.000,000, and It la estimated that 'the 1938 crop will bring farm ers around >175,000,000, the third highest income on record, Floyd stated. "Over a period of years, with the program in effect, flue-cured tobac co growers can market about as much tobacco as they could without the program, and they can market it at a higher price level," the Tri ple-A official says. "Without the program, years of heavy production would be followed by years of small crops because growing tobacco would not be profitable to the producers J "The marketing quota plan, a ref erendum on which will be held De cember 10, is an important part of the AAA program. Acreage allot ments and soil-building practices are in the program every year, and if tobacco farmers plant within their acreage allotmenTs, marketing quo tas will not be necessary in most years. But whenever excess plant ings or heavy yields cause the sup ply to reach a certain high level stal ed in the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the Secretary of Agriculture is required to announce a marketing quota for the next year," Floyd con cluded. Any person who grew flue cured tobacco in 1938 can vote in the De cember 10 referendum In order to become effective, flue-cured tobac co quotas must be approved by two thirds of those voting Run-oif Of Water Will (rinse Krosion Farmers in North Carolina are be ginning to realize (arm terracing is only a part of the fundamental ero sion-control problem involved in a complete water disposal system for the entire farm, according to W D Lee, of the Slate College 'Extension Service and E. B Garrett, state co ordinator of the Soil Conservation. In the past, they point out, the general practice has been to dis charge water from the ends of ter races or hillside ditches on to any accessible area not in cultivation, such as abandoned fields, roads and line ditches. Concentration of water on these unprotected ureas speeds up erosion and often develops gul liefc which work back into the fields destroying the measures which were intended to protect the field. In many instances protected woodlands or well-sodded pasture lands are accessible upon which the concentrated flow from terraces may be discharged and spread without inducing erosion. Natural draining ways or broad field depressions, when properly sta bilized with vegetation, provide the finest type of outlet Such areas may be converted into meadow strips wpich will not only serve as outlets but will also supply the farmer with ~an_ ahnndance of hay ? In erosion control demonstration areas it has been found desirable in some cases, where natural outlets are not available, to establish dispo sal areas along the edge of the field by retiring a triangular-shaped srtip to perennial hay crops, shrubs or trees. When adequate cover has been established, water may be dis charged safely on such areas NOTICE OF SALE UNDER EXECUTION North Carolina, Martin County W. H. Carstarphen and C. D. Car starphen, Administrators of the estate of C. D. Carstarphen vs. Whit Ruffin. Under and by virtue of a certain execution issued by the Clerk of the Superior Court and directed to me in the above entitled action, said ex ecution having been served on the defendant and payment, refused, I will on Friday. Dec. 9. 1938. at 12 o'clock M., in front of the court house door in the town of William stn, N. C , offer for sale and sell to .the highest bidder for cash to satis id fy said judgment the following de scribed parcel or lot of land, to wit: That certain lot or parcel of land situate in the town of Williamston, N. C., adjoining the lands of Jennie Ruffin and others, and being a lot in the town of Williamston on Elm Street, beginning at a point on Elm Street 42 feet from Mary Carroll's corner; thence a line parallel with Mary Carroll's line a distance of 90 feet to Jennie Ruffm's line; thence along Jennie Ruffin's line and the line of the S. S. Hadley estate a dis-1 tance of 40 feet; thence a line par allel with Mary Carroll's line to Elm Street; thence along Elm Street to the beginning, same being a 40 i font front lot lying 42-feat from Mary Carroll's line on Elfn Street, and be ing the identical lot deeded by said Whit Ruffin by deed dated Oct. 5th., 1938 to Mary Davis and husband and the same land prescribed in a cer tain deed of trust to Hugh G. Hor ton, Trustee, dated Oct. 5th , 1938, executed by said Mary Davis and husband recorded in Book X-3, page 1 to which reference is made. This the 11th day of November, 1938 C. B. ROEBUCK, nll-4t Sheriff Martin County Census Bureau Faces Heavy Task For 1940 Under the supervision of Direc tor William L. Austin, the. Bureau of the Census is completing plans for carrying out the biggest assign ment in its history, the decennial census of 1940. Because of the many changes that have taken place 111 the industrial, social and economic life of the American people since 1930, the next census, the sixteenth, is regarded as the must important ever undertaken To take the coun ty, and tabulate and analyze the .returns, will require the services of approximately 150.000 persons. The Census Bureau has a present per sonnel of about 700. To recruit, train and direct the large army of enum erators is a big job in itself. Secretary Roper this month will appoint four advisory committees to recommend questions for inclusion in the 1940 shcedules. Each commit tee will include four persons repre senting interested groups outside the government, and one member from the Central Statistical Board as spokesman for Federal statistical ag?uicies. The advisory committees w.ll submit recommendations on the population, manufacturing, business and agriculture schedules. Each committee will hold informal hear ings to get the views of those inter ested; No Profit In Soybeans Due To The Low Price Eastern Carolina farmers say there is no profit in soybeans sold as beans this fall?the price is only tH) cents a bushel. NOTICE OF SALE North Carolina, Martin County. Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain deed of trust executed to the undersign ed trustee by Sam Hopkins and wife, Florine Hopkins, on the 4th day of January, 1928, and of record in the public registry of Martin County in Book P-2 at,page 274, said deed of trust having been given for the purpose of securing certain notes of even date and tenor therewith. default navmg been made m the payment of the Said liotes. and the stipulations contained in the said died of trust not having been com plied with, and at the request of the owner of the said notes, the under signed trustee will, on Wednesday, the 7th day of December, 1938, at twelve o'clock noon, in front of the courthouse door in the town of Wil liamston, offer for sale to the high est bidder for cash the following de scribed real estate, to wit: Lying along the old Jamesville and Plymouth Hoad, bounded on the West by the said public road, bounded on the North by T. H Gur kin land, bounded on the South by said T. 11 Gurkin land, bounded on | the- East by the Davis land, contain ing SO acre*, more orless, and being the same land that Is known ssrtSS Corine Gurkin place, and thai was sold to u*. This the 6th day of November, 1938 R G HARRISON. Trustee, n 15-41 ELBERT S. FEEL. Atty. NOTICE OF SALE Notice is hereby given that by virtue of an order of re sale made by the Clerk of Martin County Su perior Court and by the authority, contained in judgment of the Super ior Court of Martin County, in an action entitled "Guaranty Bank and Trust Company vs. P L. Salsbury et als" the undersigned commissioner will on Monday. November 28. 1938. at 12 o'clock Noon in front of the Courthouse door of Martin County, offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash the Blowing described tract of land: A house and lot in trie Town of Oak City and vm the West side of the A. C L. Railroad and bounded on the Smith-by the-street, on the i North by the lands of Conoho Bap tist church and S. W. and W. W. Cas per, on the East by Railroad Street, containing one-fourth (14) acre, more or less. This the loth dav of November. 1938 W H COBURN. nll-4t Commissioner. NOTICE OK SAI E North Carolina. Martin Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain deed of trust executed to the undersign od trustee by Sam 11. Hopkins and : wife, Florine llopkmsv-on the 4th day of January, 1928, and of record1 m the public registry ol Marl in1 County in Book Y 2 at page 3G2. said! deed of trust having been giveh for the purpose of securing certain notes ] of even date and tenor therewith, default having been made in the j payment of the said notes, and the stipulations contained in the said] deed of trust not having been com-1 plied with, and at the request of the i owner of the said notes, the under- ] signal trustee-will, on Wednesday, | the 7th day of hccemher. 1938, tit ? twelve o'clock noon, In front of the r court house door in the town of Wtf hunislon, offei for sale to the high est bidder for cash, the following described real estate to wit: Beginning at a white oak stump in the Pollock line, thence down the Deep Bottom Branch 159 poles to the mouth of Craft Branch, thence up Craft Branch 127 poles to the head of said branch, and thence South 41 East 16 poles to a red oak in the Pollock line, thence South 45 West to the beginning.X'ontaining 64 acres, more or less. This the 6th day of November, 1938 R. G. HARRISON. Trustee, n 15-41 ELBERT S. PEEL, Atty. S \LK North Carolina, Martin County. Under and by virtue of the power -xil sale contained in a certain deed of trust executed to the undersign ed trustee by George Butler on the 3rd day of December, 1930, and of record in the public registry of Mar tin County in Book C 3 at page 374, said deed of trust having been giv en for the purpose of securing cer tain note of even date and tenor therewith, default having been made in the payment of the said note, and the stipulations contained in the said deed of trust not having been complied with, and at the re quest of the owner of the said note, the undersigned trustee will, on,,-. ..Wed net.doy, 44tu a Wonderful Opportunity to Save Money ON YOUR Christmas Gifts Our sale is store-wide, embracing all that is new and appropriate for gifts. Make your selec tions now while stocks are complete and^prices lower. OUR SALE ENDS Saturday, Dec. 3rd