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PAGGTIV:3 M..J.i t 3 ' "7 .b M M Z -.iiO 12 1GV7 m r 1 10; CcXci.Lcdh Serie Of 31 Meeting. Will. Bo . Held In Main Cotton Pro- it 1 3 C, Vc23ihll3S :Fc;;:, Fall ducingr Areas 1 1 4'r p f. . . : ; r t -.v : r :-,'-'" . '-.,r.!a tra p oa j'-i, t: ey cCJ them the j ' 3 tnl 3 f th v rleVcs that fill . ; v a r : .i-val ry s...su v 1 . a they i ::.rz at tha ccnr pcuut vendor 6tand; i the Bams as carves as a nerve-steadier at i r-.o:,-ii dvirj tascfcrll games, and t cu$ pcrlcr..-.?r.c's. . , 1 - ' 1 r.i.t U 9 .--t r reducing area to the world r.r this tyre cf r.r.u".3 la Jn. North Carolina, li the northeastern tier of coiintlea: which in clude Eertie, the laaest peanut mowing coun ty in the world, Martin HaMax' Hertford,'. I.'orthamptbn, . Gates "and Chowan,, j .v- v-- ,'. ; la a- lew weeks, beginning durteg the : last ton days cf September, to these "counties,., and a few others along the eastern, seaboard to a process of harvesting this crop which, to Value - and importance, ranks with tobacco and . ex ceeds. King Cotton. The growing season has been favorable and the .crop should be one of good : yield -" and quality., although wet weather during the dig-' glEg period could do much . damage to the goobers. Vyt Ci:)v-Needi iittle Feriilizer "?x..-" . The!peanut-- hardy, wtrogenous plant; re ' quires little 'or' no . commercial "fertilizer to " produce and la easy ;to .cultivate; ; Using the method of crop. rotatlov farmers generally plant peanuts to land following cotton or com, f 71 lying .-'no.- fertilizer but. broadcasting a-few tun-Ired pounds , of lime per acre If the soil la Ume-starved.;, k-if:y;rvs-- $ They ate planted, after toe; land has been Cached,'- on lists from t feet" , Inches to 3 f:et apart, depending on . the choice of the particular: grower. Ehelled nuts are drilled In i ' out an Inch: deep,: one" kernel to the hill, r' t to ten inches r apart, panters specially C jaed for peanut '.anting, are used. Plant-1 : i time is from the first to .the fifteenth of vkeri the' plant nave broken through,; ua- kJLIj to about a week from planting, they are T cv'tlvated In practically the same fashion: a is cotton, plowing and weeding continuing t-cta- around the -first, of . AugusVwhen; the Z --th of Tines is approaching, the final stage, r U yellow blooms of the plant have appeared i J lie llrst 'formation . of : the nuts i below V.j soil begins. Simultaneous, with, or Just t."3-Klz?., the final "plowing out" or billing;' r -i replication of crushed Umestone. called : -1 floater?, commercially, la: given, the tops : t'.e j:ants, the rrrpose the Urne being i ' n the plant and .the, sollf the ingredients - ir"fonalng. firm hulls on, the , putside of tb - - nuts and well-filled kernels within,. ,,. : ; rv;C:"VDlgtag:The Crop -: - rroro; then untU digging: time, the peanut riant which;; if the hunch variety- has at tained a height of about twelve 'inches, and is beginning to . 5ilde the ?mlddle of the . rows, or a the runner type to Vpln down": along the middles, takes care of itself.. With Approach of October, when the first of the lower leaves be Vpn to shed from the vines, digging starts and ; it ts a busy time with, the peanut farmer. IW tl.cn, liken the tobacco- farmer . when - his crop . begins to ripen, when peanuts are ready he must ce 1a or - they, wiU he .lost, shedding from ' tie Tlaes and remalnlr'x.ui th solL 3 .The f isats are plowed out of the son with '. a turning plow along each side of the rows, cutting t tap or prlaclpai root of t plant. Then Icows liack-trealrlng band labor ' of ' v shaking the roots, with the nutaellnglng t them, free from the soil in which, they grew. The vines and nuts,' shaken free of dirt, are , then piled on conical-shaped stacks, one stack ' row to every ten rows of peanuts, the stacks about firteen feet rpart. with the nuts toward the center of the stack and Tines , outwardV ' There the crop remains until the sua has ; cured the green vines and driven the sep trom : littllslsiad.lBernels. t , :V( 1 j-QKx&ta rfckew'; i 1 From two or "our weeks is required for the stacked peanuts to t sufficiently cured for the ' final step la harvectirT, flctlrg. trachlnes are - employed far this wax, a type jecially tts 'slgnel , T.hlch Cxi3 tte nuts from the Tines' without crushing or threshing Kiea and frees ' them from trash,- Cxt and f atity nuts, c&ned ' Tpopa? It la a dirty, hard JoS, Is picking pea ; '' nuts, Fits to tea men, working In: the stlf Xllng dirt and dust, are required to handle . ' the labor around tL machine,' the usual ca-. paclty of which Is from 123 to SCO tsess per day. . " - V ' : - '' J ' ' As the peanuts are separated by the pea nut picker from the Tines, they are placed In jcte bar, beg and peanuts weighing around 3 pounds on an average The peanuts are then ready to be sold to the cleaners and millers. If the price suits the farmer or-he- is forced to sell because of debts to the banker or sup r'y. merchant; or they may be stared in the irm -tarns or eommerclal storar bouses tar twait better prices. An acre, produces from 8 to 25 bags of peanuts, with W bags per acre considered a good average crop. - , , ' ; V:: Vises Are. Baled ' Tl-S Tines are baled for hay for the . farm j it - j and live&tock. the peanut crop doing i out !e duty as a 'money crop"; and a "forage c-p? tt once. Ilnally, the hoes are turned into f 9 tars peanut fields to fatten on the nuts t; t Bhei from the vines C-orlng the digging. It U tie practice followed by better farm-, c j to bow a cover crop when the peanuts are C rr:..?3 protects the land from, winter ero i f "id returns some ' vegetation , to the soil t . i '-'.ca the .futility ArrI- from It by the' o 1 cf all cover -when the peanuts were ,1:1. OlhTwko. te peanut flelds' stand 3 .n I tleached througout the wlnter.: j ' r A:i ,f J 'crops we particularly", provnlslng,' ! .v ' " ' s t- l frvi'j ere to abundance, iniu 1. t .' it3, a"4 t'-9 ma ' ( i . f. t ti- y are to better I ' "' i Vi t'7 have tsca.la ; J. l T- -7, A-iwrsoa, D. O, v. m 'c m y Zzxz Frcri Northeast .! zzi 1 1 zlzr&ts JCrop ' . ' i;ZX7 YC C CCHZjrCXBENCB f ' A moderate: t ,Ty crop of sweet potatoes wIU be I ' rv L M a sr" 5011. Moj,t of the East ern ad c - .1 t'-4tc tve larger crops than last season but yt-lH are not expected to be ex ce?;ive. - tosae Li the states to the Middle West and Couth vrest be only fair because of dry, weaher 1 , ' ' from a shipping standpoint the Eastern Bhore of Virginia is one of the most important sec tions, particularly during the faU months. Har-i vesting Lp Tin on the Eastern Shore Immediate ly after the flrst of the month and for the next two or three months will supply a large part of the sweets moving to market. Acreage is slightly below normal on the Eastern Chore but the crop has made a good growth and it, will be a greater competitive factor than it was last season. The tendency will be for. the Eastern Shore to hold back the ITorth Carolina move ment until liter to the easoi;?: v"f'::"-'' fri Maryland sweet- potatoes have :.had father spotted crovic conditions and the crop Is fine to some place j and only fair In ohers. Some digging has already started but most of the crop wUl more tn market after the first of Sep tember. The marketing season usually- lasts longer than It does In Virginia, Prospects are that- the crop to llaryland wUl be somewhat larger than It was last season. - ' ',' Delaware conditions are similar to those in llaryland but the Delaware crop bas not made quits as good progress; JUost of the Delaware ercp-is Larveated during-late September and October and Is held over for later to the sea son, the movement extending into late winter. 4,.-,:i.v-;.:V-:'-'iCHKkl.Cro In-etiey -" 1 There la a good crop to Hew Jerseysome what better, perhaps, than the laest Povern-, ment estimate would, indicate. A few Jersey: sweets, are being dug but the movement does not become Important until later, in Septem ber. The Jersey season lasts Into the following summer as a good share of the crop' Is carefully stored and kiln dried for late use. In fact, some oldcrop sweets, were coming into the Mew York market the last week to August along with the , first of the 'new crop. There is great Irregu , laxity to the; ,pack of ' Jrsey sweets although some of them are about the fines sweet potato packs that reach market. , - , . , v Early sweets have i been moving : to "market from the northeastern part of Korth Carolina tor some time and more than 100 carloads havei beenloaded-to da te-. However, the Important sectlonaround Beaufort .will not start to move . any quantity of sweets until the, first, part of ; Octoberf The crop In thJa, section was held back by dry weaher but recently it has had veiy good growtog conditions and a nice qua!- . . . South Carolina Is not important as a sweet Dotato. shipper since -most of the crop Is used for local consumption. 1 Uowever, to total pro-. auction nt: js? a lairiy imponani; svace, ine crop this season la Just about average....---'.'. '. Host of the; early crop in Georgia, Tloiida" been marketed. Tha late crops in Georgia and and -Baldwin County. ', Alabama, has already, Alabama have been helped by recent rains and ' dried and shipped during, the balance of the good crop of late Porto Bican sweets Is an ticipated. . Most of . the- Porto Bleang areklln season.- " .-'-....' ' ' lionlslaha, Coming Abes f, ? ' There will be only a moaerate crop la Ten nessee this year unless weather conditions are highly favorable for the balance of the grow tog period. : Rainfall has been light to West Tennessee for- the past few week and has, cur tailed the crop. . However, a few sections bad showers recently and la those areas the crop bas made some Improvement. --.L''i: - One of the states that IS coming to the fore as a sweet uotato shipper to Iioulslana.. Aore age was increased this season and the crop, bas mads good growth. Lhipments are moving out etea&uy by rail and truck and indications are that there wl be a good movement of sweets trom Louisiana all tall and winter. One of the reasons why Louisiana bas forged ahead is the fact; that packing and grading methods have been Improved La , recent years. Louisiana sweets are gaining, a reputation la many mar kets. --'" . : -'"-:,: , Southern XSinoia have small but bibhly com mercialized sweet potato districts -that are a factor to supplying the Uiddle West. This year the crops la these destrlcts are excellent and will run to bumper yields whereas last year they were largely .. failures. 7 ir t ' .;: Other states west of the Mlaslaslppl Biver have mostly fair to good crops this season. Hone of them have bumper crops ' but last season they were out of the. picture because of the; drought conditions. ' '.''-.-:.'!-' -- ' . ' " : , tOne of the peculiarities of sweet potato de mand is the poor reception given the yams or moist type sweet potatoes to the northeastern markets. Hew Tork and f Jew England use the dry created E-'g Stem Jersey type of sweets for. the most part and thus far have not been thoroughly on the merits of such, varie ties as the ITancy Call and Porto, Rico. There is a b!g flU 'here for someone to develop a demand for this type of sweet potato or yaa, to- the , Kortheast.;.,, : ;. :-. ' Prices of sweet potatoes have opened about the same as they , did last year and will prob ably wor'r downward as the heavy movement, from the Eastern Shore get under., way., Later , in the season the market usually works back , to slightly better devels. Just what It will do tlons. If they continue to improve the- sweet this season depends largely on business, condl potato msaket should average a little better; than it did last season. J 1 . t '' . 11 ' - ' ' 11 "s -n" "v.. - riv rriondlke bulls have.- beem placed in Henderson- County, N. C, this .year la the dairy improvement , program. -. , , - Planting. Should Da Dcna In Sep tember State IlorticulturisU , Advises i tn the. eastern half of North Carolina most fall and winder vegetables are bes .- planted in September, says E. B. Morrow, extension hortl-f culturlst at. C.' State CoUegBmj':Ki - Sural, families who are 'going- to enter the fall and- winter garden contest conducted this year by the- extension service, under the direo tion of Miss Mary S. Thomas, extension nutri tionist, shoxud start their gardens, at once, Mor" iow".aaded.:i'v i't-irf 11 is too iate to plant tender crops but the hardier ; vegetables will produce a good crop if planted: during this-month,' ' ';- i'Sft- - Head lettuce may be grown If planted fairly; eariy uus montn. Lettuce requires sunny days, cool nlghtai'and plenty of moisture. : J a Kale. wUl 'give a change from uoUards. and turnip greens if planted at this tlme i The two most common types are Siberian and green ( curled Scotch. The Siberian is the most hardy of the two, and wIU withstand fairly heavy troexesr-i - Mustard- is an. oldi standby,-be continued. Succession plantings should be mads every two weeks until the middle of October. ' - Although Tery tender when cooked, spinach Is a bardy plant that will' withstand extreme cold, Morrow stated, and more of It should bo planted In the borne gardens. " Turnrps, radishes, and broccoli may also be planted this month, be added, Cabbage and onion, seed may be sown to outdoor beds the latter part, of the month and transplanted In December, January, or February. S. -Gcrclina Pldhinij C:j jCcijage Acreage Fcr Ji12 Ccniiiin FaD State Crop Wai Very Succeisful JJ.y t Season--ProspecU . iu t io 'j 4 Good ''Fli ' " v"l J' -rt; 7. Cabbage Is' moving to market at a slower rate than it did lastseason Which may nave an effect on the later market. Because of drought conditions last year the big cabbage sections in . Wisconsin and- New Tork were able during late- August to ship a great many cars Into drought sections and : relieve their own; sur plus conditions.. This season the homegrown crop of cabbage Is better throughout the coun try and there is lees call lot carlot shipments from the joutsadec;-'' -' 1 .The cabbage crop In New York Bute has beeaf troubled by worm but otherwise has made good progress and Is coming along nicely. It , is quite possible that the New York crop wm run to almost as large a tonnage as it did last season. - t ; N, ; - . Snap Dcqn Crop Llay :' y Llche A Good Gamble , Last season the Carolina produced a mod erate acreage of snap' beans for fall shipment. This crop- Is always-subject to some risk be cause prices depend on frost to a large ea tent., Aa early, and killing frost in the state farther north make it possible to sen Carolina fall bean at. handsome prices. On the other hand, frosts, sometimes Alt the Carolina crop before it s all harvested. ; just at present the outlook Is fairly hopeful, new York and Michigan will be practically through harvesting snap bean by early - Oc tober. ZTew Jersey has a normal acreage which will be coming into market in heaviest sup ply the last week of September, or Just ahead of .the Carolina. Florida is a little later In starting whkb wUI give the CaroUns most of the month of October in which to market their crops. v-,- M'' ' - There Is. steady demand for snap bean and any. shortage in supplies, even tor a few day,' brings 'a quick upturn to price. ,v ' Just bow farmers can beat' take advantage ; of the government 10-cent loan plan will oe -explained by M. O. .Mann, genera' .manager of the State Cotton Association, at a series of 31 neettogs to be held la the State's main cot ton producing counties.. - - : k . The meetings wuf be open to the publl and all cotton farmers are urged to attend. The meetings will be held la the county court houses ; and ; the ; schedule of . time and place as 'follows:-' , " ' Wednesday, - September 11-r-Bocklngham 11 a. m! Lsortoburg 20 p. m.; Thursday,: Sep tember' 12-Raeford II a. m.; Fayettevllle 2:80 p. m. ' Friday, September 13 LUllngton, 11 a, m.; SaCnford 2:30 p. m. Saturday, September 14 Qoldsborb li a, m.t Smlthfleld 3:30 p. m, Tuesday; September. 17 Lumber ton 11 a. Wadesbord 30 p; m. Wednesday, September 18 Monroe li - a. m4 'Charlotte 20 p. . ra, Thursday; September 19 Llncolnton 11 a. m; Newton 2:30. p. m.: - Friday, September 20- Statesville 11 a. m.; Salisbury 2:30 p. m. Tues day, September 24 Clinton a p. m. Wednes day, September 23 Loulsburg 11 a. m4 Nash ville 2:30 ' p. m. Thursday, September 26 Halifax 11- ar m.; ' Jackson 2 50 p. m. Friday September 27 Tarboro it a. m.; . Winiamston aimj. Greenville, 230 p. m. Wednesday, Oo 2 30 p. Saturday, September 26 Windsor Tlr av m. . Tuesday, October 1Warrenton 11 tober 2 Snow Hill 11 a. m.; Kinston 20 p. m, Thursday, .October 3 Albemarle 11 a. oil: Con cord 20 p. ' m.' Friday, October 4 Shelby 11 a. m. - 1 AtOlt Uw. TRACTOR LVGS new. 8 Inch Spade '..Lugs for. John Deere, . 23c; McCormlck-Deerlng, 10-20 an 15-30, SSc - FarmaU F-0 F-30. , Tractor Lag Co, B04 Malberry St. Oalesburg, 111. A ASTHMA and SUMMER GOLDS are un necessary: Complete relief only. LO0 Postpaid. ? Nothing etoe te buy. Over 40,000 iHOLTOEO'8 WONDER INHAL ERS sold last year alone, V Mall $1 .00 - today: for - f 11 season's reUef to THE DANDER "CO, 252 HENNEPIN . AVENUE, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, or write for Free Booklet. - - , ... ;, "Jacksonville's Leading Hotd" a A " i; Yellowstone' : NaUonal Park Is to Wuee sUtes. What' are theyf;' , ' ' J 2. 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