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' :' fcuplmiikTim.* 1 * tl*. 3 M?~* ?f D-j*~ wiiVvimj jfcMiiiifcfc VOL. XXXI NO. 32 KENANSVILLE, N. C. THURSDAY. AUGUST 6.1904 PRICE 10* PLUS TAX taffa's first Farmer-Of-Tift-Moftth Selected " ' %r . ? '* : y ? ?,, w ??' : /'. >? i ? Tha "nn fflj tw*& aaaM to IMr *a at a* taaaM wt |f^ ( (, to ft > HUlaa Maraady. Mrs. Lata Marcadjr. 5-^tok. '?to?i' .. , a.UHm.aanam ? | ? " My Farmall Tractor Really Does The Job" ?.? ?win Mall Dail, An Employee On The Maready Farm Says The Farmall Makes His Job Easier. We congratulate Mr. Hilton Maready on his selection as Duplin County Farmer of die Month. A good farmer needs good farm equipmnt to do his work; and we are pleased that Mr. Maready chose Farmall! Need we say more? Try and buy Farmall Tractors - brought to you by the people who make the machines that work! WALLACE BIATAD ft IMH EH1EMT iviuiUK ot imncmcni i 220 W. Railroad Phone AT5-2104 The mainstay of Duplin's ec- Is lomy is the fanner. He offers w ? tobacco at one of five ware- h (uses in the county. He P ?tags his cattle and swine to T 'allace, one of the larger live- a ocfc markets in the southeast, a r to one of several hog-buying h ations in the county. He U raws upon the facilities of the o uge Talson and Wallace pro- n uce markets handling a mil- tl on and a half packages of sans, corn, squash, pepper, 5 iimumbers and eggplants 1) ach "green season." And, he b {tends his money in the grow- i ig variety of retail stores and r ?rm supply outlets. r The agricultural income in e kiplin last year was a whop- < tag 155,372.285, up seven mil- ? on over 1962. This regained t or Duplin her rank as the ( umber 1 agricultural county 1; s North Carolina. < Tobacco was the leading \ arm enterprise in Duplin, 32 < nillion pounds to sell for $19,- t 49,323. Poultry rated a close ( econd. bringing in $19,057,500, I argely from broilers, twenty I ive million head. The third I or crop was corn, 5Vi million rnshels, worth $6,000,000. Hilton Maready, Duplin's i armer-of-the-month, specie- ' izes in these three major sou- 11 ?ces of farm income in Dup in. He is growing 18 acres of obacco this year, raises out 10,000 broilers a year and >lants a limited amount of corn. He is cautious about truck crops, cotton, livestock, and grains . Duplin occupies 822 square miles of rich farm land, the seventh largest county in the state. The Northeast Cape Fear River bisects the county and Mr. Maready lives "over the river" in that fertile southeas tern section of Duplin, only three sdore miles from the At otic Ocean, low and rich ere folks live close to the ind, 3 miles south of Chinqua in Just off of Highway SO. here Mr. and Mrs. Maready nd their two daughters enjoy modern, comfortable brick ome and lend their support > a thriving and harmonious immunity and to a well Dunded spiritual and recrea onal life. Mr. Maready is the son of Irs. Epsy Maready and the *e George Maready. He was orn and has Uved all his life n this same community. His nother Uvea just across the oad from his home. Mrs. Mar ady is the former Lois Me aling. the daughter of Mrs. lallie Cavenaugh McClung and he late William Drew Me shing. Her mother has recent - y purchased the Robert Cav ?naugh grocery store on High vay 41, between Wallace and Chinquapin, and is now opera ing this large store as Sallie's Grocery. Mrs. Maready is an tairdresser and operates a >eauty shop in tlie yard of heir home. The Mareadys were married in IMS and have two lovely and charming daughters. Lois Mc Clung Maready, 15, a sopho more at East Duplin High Sch ool, and Jo, 11. in the 6th grade at Chinquapin Elemen tary School. Jo is studying music and can already make the piano in their living room "talk." Mr. Maready is a dea con in the Salem Presbyterian Church, and he and his family are faithful and regular in their church attendance and interests. Mr. Maready remark ed that he believes that he has attended every service at the church, without missing a time, for the last II months. The family is interested in cHtnffi wdft arrtf it seems to give them much contentment. i ssutainment and comfort. Mr. Maready say# that he lives in < a good community of helpful I and encouraging neighbors, al ways willing to bear one an other's burdens and help in times of misfortune and dis couragement. All the folks are busy this week with their tobacco. They put tobacco in five of their eight barns the first two days of the week. The 18 acres of tobacco is tended about half by Mr. Maready and half rent ed to tenants, so that about 14 persons are involved in its culture, giving nearly enough labor to bouse the crop without help. One man is employed to help care for the 18,000 broil ers in two houses, so that there are some IS helpers on the farm. air. Mareaay teases pan <u his tobacco acreage from oth ers, and he is raising some 30 plots under contract to State College. The purpose of these test plots is to determine the effect various chemicals have on controlling black shank. Speight G-5, with moderate black shank resistance, and N C-2326, a high resistance varie ty of .Hicks type tobacco, are used in the tests. The plots are treated with different chemi cals such as Manzate, Dithane, Dow M-2633. Vorlex, Poly ram, etc. Some plots are untreated to show the difference between the untreated tobacco and treatment with various chemi cals. The untreated, plots are showing some 23 per cent loss from black shank where Spei ght G-S was set and only 13 per cent loss where NC-232S was set. Chebicals applied to the soil have reduced the dam age from black shank to some 3 per cent in the case of Spei ght G-3 and to Vss ttwm T* with NC-2326. Mr. Maready's farm was chosen for these teats because black shank infestation is hea vy in his soil. He lost about a fourth of his tobacco last year from black shank and some 29% of his '<2 crop was de stroyed by excessive water. But, this year, Mr. Maready says, "I have the best tobacco crop I have ever raised. Its culture has been strictly ac cording to State College recom mendations. Some of my fr iends laughed at me about farming by the "book" at first, but it has certainly paid off." He had been using hereto fore some 2500 to 3000 pounds of fertilizer to the acre, but has a far better crop this year and used only 1600 to 1900 pounds to the acre, according to recommendations, saving some $30 per acre. Fertilizer dealers, fanners, chemical representatives, to bacco warehousemen and farm extension workers have trooped back and forth through Mr. Maready's yard and the teat plots, even coming by the bus load, until he is becoming so well known over the state that he joinkingly said that he might run for something come next election time. "But, somebody has to do it. so we can cut our producton cost," Mr. Maready said "and I just as well he the fall guy this time." State College will pay the money cost of the plots, but the Ma readys have put in a lot of labor and spent hours talk with various interested per sons concerning the research project. Mr. Maready knows now that the growing of to bacco will have to be more scientific and that chemicals Dupli n's Fanner-Of-The-Month Chooses Gastobac m Continued To Page 1 For cleaner, heavier, better quality tobacco that brings more money at the market 1????Pl Mr. Maready With His Gastobac Gas Curer In A Barn 0 f Tobacco. Vm get Ike extra mnty your crop is really worth whea you cur* with Cast oh ac. Gastohac la the original gas-fired tobac co carer ... the safer, mare accurate, dependable tobacco carer. Only Gastobac's scientific heat patterns give maxi mum uniform beat distribution throughout each bam. Ah pulled la through bottom vents is heated to a low tempera ture. then lines through the tobacco. This warm, even flaw of air picks up moisture from the leaves, carries It out Ike tap veal. Gastobaco leave* a* film or soot oa leaves . . . never dries oat valuable sums and oils . . . cares cleaner, heavier, better quality tobacco with the rick golden color and aroma that brings la* dollar at the market. Make every minute of this year's tobacco curing season pro fitable with Gastobae curing systems la your barns. a H ? . ,?4 CMPAHT LP GAS DISTRIBUTORS FURNHURE APPLIANCES FARM SUPPLIES DAY PHONE AT 8-1211 ? ni?mt pnonk atmwt P. O. BOX 488 WALLACE. N. C. .1
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