•iday, December 11, 1959
THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
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State's Agriculture Leader
Urges Big Referendum Vote
North Carolina farmers have
more at stake in December refer-
endums than just an affirmative
vote by the required majority, Ag
riculture Commissioner L. Y. Bal
lentine said in a statement releas
ed this week.
December 15 is the date set for
referendums on cotton and peanut
marketing quotas, and on continu
ing an assessment of 10 cents a
bale on North Carolina cotton for
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promoting the use and sale of that
crop.
“A large turnout at the polls is
as important as carrying the ref
erendums,” Ballentine said. “Only
in this way can it be evidenced to
the world that North Carolina
farmers as a whole continue to en
dorse" acreage-control-with-price-
support programs, as well as then-
own self-help assessment pro
grams.
“Attacks on the federal farm
programs continue to be unrelent
ing, and casting a ballot as an ex
pression of interest in them is just
as essential as a big majority in
their favor. Voter apathy will be
taken as evidence of declining in
terest on the part of farmers them
selves, and used as ammunition to
further weaken the support pro
grams.
“North Carolina’s somewhat un
ique self-assessment programs are
not only making a substantial con
tribution to the state’s agricultural
economy, but are attracting nation
wide attention and admiration.
They are admired both for what
they accomplish and for the princi
ple of cooperative self-help which
they embody.
“Already the re-vitalized pro
gram of the North Carolina Cotton
Promotion Association, made pos
sible by the assessment on cotton
in effect since 1957, has brought
major benefits to cotton growers
in this state. With the gains al
ready made, and the projects un
der way on every phase of cotton
problems from the farm to the
consumer, continuation of the as
sessment will mean that cotton can
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move more rapidly toward the
high place it should hold in this
state’s agricultural economy.
“Elvery farmer eligible to vote
in any or all of the three referen
dums on December 15 owes it to
himself and his fellow farmers to
do so.”
Weight Loss
Of Cotton Is
Natural Thing
By FREDERICK J. RIVERS
A number of farmers have been
complaining because of the loss
in weight that they have been get
ting when they have their cotton
ginned.
This is to be expected alter a
season like that of the 1959 sea
son. Part of your first weight loss
is from moist cotton.
Cotton with a high moisture con
tent not only results in loss of
weight but also in a damaged fiber.
Another weight loss is from the ex
treme amount of burrs, grass and
other trash that is being picked
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along with the cotton.
■this, perhaps, accounts for the
greatest logs in weight. The last
weight loss is a minor one but a
significant one. It is from- imma
ture locks that are hard and knot
ty.
These are the reasons that many
farmers get an extreme weight loss
in their cotton. It is not necessari
ly due to the type of ginning equip
ment, but it is because of the poor
quality of cotton itself.
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