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PAGE FOUR State Farmers Musi Meet Foreign Leaf Competition tsy l v n.wm ZdiUu t ivm. i’liis is ffle first in a •*•-* o; !wo articles ju the s ii' l a*.tobacco i pU-gfajU bjr UUi tiUiM Os Ult, sciiwo; oi agriculture at State Col-j any director or roe Agri j —it.i Exp .riment Station, i' V'-i; i. ji tii Caroliman should j oe ;viir aware oi Die economic ira* j y. i u >.<•- ui jiie tobacco cron to the! «e.iuxe ol the State. A crop that! •is re:cyii:jbif■ ior eve* 50 per ceiii ; ri lac, tou.l farm income of the! S'-.i. h: addition to a sizeable por-' troi: of the industrial income, mer- j Is . pc-eiai i iisideratioi) If we add ot- .ii.oiiK- from cotton and pea .... > * mat of tobacco, we account : -i '.rnee-fouzths of the. Acini ’nccine of the State. lio-.wver there are ,-t least two! cun clouds to •vhicn we must j gjV'. cui undivided attention .' ttv*.-< I'iO.' h Carolina farmer is to enjoy! '<■ p-aiyeiwile agu-.ulture in the fu-' iuiv The file, cloud has. been with j us a long time. It is the cloud of I pom- tund use, wiih its associated I pi o olti m '1 high COS'S of pt'.uuc-j non and a Jack of supplementary ej.ierpiiu; tsat should go along with tee main each crop. c -x. ample, one acre cut cn. five of North ; Cauilina farm land is now aceoun-! l:ng for nearly three-fourths of i cuj total farm income Four out of j live acre; are contributing only slightly over a fourth oi the in- j come v/bether i< sounds good 1 r! Luo this, is not a .',afc> foundation : for permanent agricultural pros-; pFfcy Inc second cioud is more recentT in origiu Xi is a thunderous cloud 1 uuot threatens the ver y roots cf f r.rc cash income of the to a arc 1 : ikkri.c it is tne cloud of foreign j •" •’ Limn that ic tnrculcnlng cur j export markets - . The cotter, former ; already lias felt the economic im part of the storm. With about 40 ! pet cent of the flue-cured tobacco j *m v. enisling exp rt -channcils,, j the tobacco fanner js in great dan- ; ger Tne answers to the porblecns : taking us cannot be obtained by ' any ebon cat methods. The solu- j lions will not be found in any one simple formula. Reduced to their j simplest form, it means that we | must produce the highest quality | tobacco possible at the lowest pos- j ( table cost and thus make the v•-■■’ld want North Carolina tobacco. That; statement may sound relatively ; simple: oj achievement However, a: best it is quite complex it does sic; mean .that we can a u: “vt- this objective by turning all oui re- j sources ar.d energies on tobacco; alone It does not mean that re search stone will do it. It does mean an extensive research. educational;' and pi .motional program lot to ;, baOCa T: inedilc more laC'k.: Olid more euuCafiOu ta achieve a better : use A laud and la hot resources ’ J ten tobacco farms. The t bacco farmer has always j; faced numerous production and ; ‘ marketing problems. Some ■ f tli-’m ;, he ..as faced seriously. Other;- "be has passed over without, much at- ■ tension. j \ To has. co iuseases First be has been and is con- j 1 fronted with the control 1 l tobac o . \ which mean the difference j be tv ton setting it g 0..? crop and' I,Vi ,uy out- at all. Thou: anils of j ’ Non.: Carolina tanners can testily from ....' -al experience what the complete loss of crops due to . blaex-. bank Granville wilt or other : disease.' hat meant to them. Oxford 2d has meant the dawn of a new 1 uav u many farmers whose land tun be-, ome so infected with Gran- ‘ vilie wilt that they no longer could grow . .-have- Strains of blackshavik resistant tobacco have developed new hopes for the farmers in tile | Forsy th-Bockiugham County area. ' The bat tie against disease is a nev p>. ending one. The success of the battle will depend upon the hard wo tit and ingenuity of the plant ] mteoe: ana the soil mauagornoiit practices of the tobacco grower. Secondly, the tboaceu fanner ’ should be interested in good yield? : of h’giii quality tobacco at lowe.->l \ costs The war years, with its high j prices and small differences be tween the average ana best grades 1 ei tobacco, have resulted in the 4 definite tendency for the farmer to aim at high yields per acre with out too much emphasis on quality of production. ‘This situation must ‘ rapidly change. The farmer who . produces quality tobacco will be \ tne successful grower of the futuie. Also, the high returns per acre have not madp it necessary for the farm- ’ ei to worry to ■ much about costs _ of production. In a market where woila competition is keen, quality and cost of producion will play the major roles The cotton farmer did ; no? worry too much about produe- j tion costs until foreign competition and synthetic fibers forced him t ■ , •a, T g» -f .. . . .. r.,>— fy 1 Z\U"W., Oxitf Ox U» lxicxjo* lUouio., problems in cotton production is , that of lowering production costs. ; For the tobacco farmer, this will not only mean savings in handling ( the tobacc- crop itself, but also , a distribution of lana and labor ’ costs between iobacco and supple mentary enterprises. Third, the tosacco farmer*~'Sh . rolling lands must be eternally vig- , iiar.t to maintain his soil resources -while he is producing tobacco. Loss ; of valuable tobacco iand through ; soil erosion may often lead to loss of tha farm. The history of tobacco production on the rolling lands of!- the Old Belt is full of examples j of the destructive effects of soil * erosion on the farms of that area.' The soil is the basic resource cf the farmer. Once it is gone there car, be no profitable agriculture. Fourth, -.ve must think of to bacco production in a more balanc ed system of fanning. Any pro gram that iust looks at tobacco alone for the solution of the prod- 1 iems of the tobacco farmer would be completely lacking in vision. Wc 1 i would simply be hiding oui u<-nd in ;he sand tu avoid w.ms 'he in - evitable results unit would follow. • *he i .Ig'-cti’, i- us j . t.-oi'g lest-arch j program in tobacco production must be to find out the facts that ! are necessary for the farmer to | produce the best tobacco possible ; 'it tile lowest c< si or. his farm »nd ! toe information that will make pos j sible his growing this tobacco m a., j efficient system of lluming. Wc I must have 'he vision and courage ; < the Vance County funner who ; we, forced to r educe his acreage < f tobacco by about 220 acres when tobacco allotments were put into effect and who ended up with a r.Mni ol ir<:.d use and efficient j farming system that na» turned out ! to be more profitable tiian his urr ! 'nai all-tobacco enterprise. J What ha- jt’t't been said would' |be important t NortT. Carolina t< i i»a«-e«* grrrwpn it there- were nc ; foreign competition However flue- ! | cured tobacco is being grown in | large acreages in a number of for- { eign countries. Labor costs are j low. True, Tie quality at present is | not high. Howver, 'he rt-aserch j programs of these countries' ,nt* increasing by leaps and bounds. I ! IJuaJity will be increased. This in | crease In duality can only be met j oy raising the ceiling on the qual-! ity of North Carolina tobaccos. Along with his increase in quality must go •„ rather marked decrease : in the cost of production. 11 our j tobacco cannot compete successfully j on the world market with respe.t ‘ ■to both quality and costs, our ex i port markets will decrease. 14a sis of Program The problem of organizing a sir ng research program in tobacco j in North Carolina must recognize several rather important factors. First, fine-cured tobacco is grown from the roiling clay soils . f gur • • ry County to the poorly drained ■ -oils of the Lower Coastal Plains. • This fact p res many different problems of soil management as j we go from one area to another. Even within the same area there, are rather la.c: differences. In the second place, there is a wide variety of tobacco diseases h rough out the State. Blackshank is * somewhat centered i; Fo’ v ''»th Comity, but is rapidly spreading to ther areas. Granville wilt is cen 'ered in Granville, but- is spreading east and south Fusarium wilt is . centered in the Ilobeson-Columbus 1 area. Rootkaot is prevalent through- 1 o*!< the Coastal Plain. In the third place, the centers : of tobacco production have been | changing with time. In 1909, tne j center of tobacco pi eduction was! ■he northern tier of counties from ; li’-kfy County to Granville Cour*- IV 7\l tt rnnntu at time uf>ic i ty. No county at that time was pro ducing more than 15.000 acres of tobacco. By 1538, there was a great Tiift in production to the south and east. Pit and Johnson Coun ties were producing in excess of 40,000 acres each, Wake, Robeson and Nash Counties were producing in excess of 30,000 acres each; and Columbus, Harnett, Sampson, Du plin. Lenoir. Wayne, Wilson, Frank lin. Granville and Rockingham Counties were producing in excess of 20.000 acres each. The big 10 countie, that had a total cash in come from tobacco u, 194-* of over Hi million each, ranked in order '•'■ere as follows: Pitt, Johnston, Robeson. Nasi), Wilson, Waite. Co lambus, Wayne, Lenoir and Har nett. In the fourth place, here is an acute shortage of well-trained per sonnel m the field oi tobacco pro duction and marketing. This fact appears to be the major bottleneck ■ii the building up of a strong to oaec.. program This personnel u rtage arises from at least two sautes First, the agricultural in sui.uii.4ins in the flue-eured tobacco; producing stales have not been training men. largely because of the fact, that they have not had research men in tobacco located at the c liege who ould train prom ising young men from tobacco farms who came to college. There has been little training in grad uate research and only incidental courses for undergraduates. Chang ing this situation is vital to the entire research and educational program in tobacco. The second cause for a lack of personnel has been the war. Personnel in all ium now. Needs in Program After taking these factors into consideration, the feut largest needs in a strong research program appear to be: 1. The initiation of a strong training program in both ihe tech nical and applied aspects of tobac co production and marketing that wiii forever break the presen bot tleneck cf a lack of personnel. 3. The initiation of field work in" the- major producing areas on problems of soils and of plant di seases .'mated to those areas. 4. The expansion of existing fa cilities for an enlarged attack on the applied aspects of tobacco pro duction. These needs will be discussed in detail in a later article on the pro posed plan of action for the tobac co research program. —V sfcEK NEGKO STATE GUARDS MEN FOR SOUTH CAROLINA GREENVILLE, 5 C, (ANP> >- e .criiito > • Cjit, ,? ar» t and L have launched a drive for inclusion of Negroes in the South Carolina National Guard. E. D. Nealey, spokesman for he group, himself a veteran of World War I and whose two sons are World War II veterans, said peti tions had been submitted to organi zations and leaders, asking a con certed drive in the state “If a Negro can carry a gun in lime tvf war,” Mr Ntoolev said, “ha i can carry one during peace.” !Si*iiioj J lib! i*i.jo*l ui a Ap pointed f or Organized | Reserved Corps j Initial assignments of stmioi in j structo'r* for the Organized Re j servo Corps m live ol the sfe | Army Areas have been announced iby General Jacob J. pc vers, Com manding Genera], Aimy Ground j Forces. The -enioi instructor for each 1 state, or military district, is a Rcg | ular Army officer but assistant j senior instructors may be from • any component. Instructors named thus far, with i their assignments and stations, are ('as follows; First Ansi > Colonel Willis McDonald Chapin, j CAC, Senior Instructor, Maine, I with headquarters at Fort Preble; Lieutenant Col nel Bernard A. Tor :rey. FA. Assistant Senior Instruc tor, Maine, Fort Preble; Colonel | Arthur L. Lovery. CAC. Senior In structor. New Hampshire. Manches ■ U-r; C Jonel James T Loome. FA, | Senior Instructor Mas ichusetts, ! Boston; Colonel Ira W. Black, In ! fautry. Senior Instructor, Connec ticut. Hartford; Colonel pleas B. Rogers. Infantry Senior Instruc t *■ New York. N w York City; Lieutenant Colonel Clarence M. Olsen. Infantry, Assistant Senior In.structoi. New Yolk. Nev, Joik i City; Lieutenant Colonel Luis F. • Cianchini, Infantry. Senior Instruc t r. New Jersey, Camden. Seventh Army Colonel Joy T. Wren, CAC, Sen ior Instructor. Tenm-sse. Nashville. X'ourth Army Colonel Hurley Fuller. Infantry. ’ Senior lasrtuctcr. Texas, Austin. Fifth Array Lieutenant Colonel Howard W. Brimmer. FA. Assistant Senior In structor. Wyoming, Cheyenne: Lieu tenant Colonel Robert H. McCir,- ; non. Infantry. Assistant Senior In structor, North Dakota. Bismarck Sixth Army Colonel Robert C. Yates. FA Senior Instructor, Nevada, Reno; C lonei Roger R. Hilsman. Infan try. Senior Instructor. California, San Francisco: Colonel George B. Mcßeynolds, FA. Senior Instruc tor M ntsdaa Helena NAACP TOHMSi; SI,OOO PEOPfF’S HOSPITAL CHARLOTTE N C. -- 1 The Chari ate Branch National (Association for the Advancement jof Colored People decided unani mously in a recent meeting to ra’se I St.ooo for the People’s Hospital ; Inc. It was announced by official ; ! of the organization that the N A.- | A C. P. considers adequate hospi ' tal facilities for all people a neees i sity Charlotte is without adequate hospital facilities for approxnnate j]y 4.;, ,000 Negroes Negroes in Meck j lenburg County are need of an j institution to which they can go ; and j-ec-c m proper medical care. LAST RITES FOR MRS. ANNIE JONES HELD RALEIGH - Final rites for Mrs. Annie Jones of 735 Bast Martin . Street were conducted from the ! Jupiter Lev,/! Baptist Church Wed ; nesriay afternoon. Mrs Jones died at (j:3o Sunday ufterno n ai the St I Agnes hospital ARTIS BARBER COLLEGE $37 EAST NASH STREET WILSON. N. C. ATTENTION VETERANS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE PROVISIONS Os THE G. L BILL OF RIGHTS For Information* Write S. P. ARTIS, Manager TO BETTER SERVE YOU i I We have increased our facilities for the selling of tobacco by the erection of a new warehouse. The warehouse will be known as Watson No. 2 and is located on South Tarboro at Norfolk J Southern crossing. We Thank Yon! We wish to sincerely thank our friends arid customers for their loyalty and good will during the past selling season. And we again offer you that same good Watson service tor the sale sf your 194E crop. OUR SALES FORCE • SELBY ANDERSON 0 GEORGE BAHNES * HOBB ANDERSON « ROBERT CREECH • H. B. JOHNSON * ISAAC GURLEY Auctioneer ' Watson Warehouse No. 1 and No. 2 | WILSON, NORTH CAROLINA £ Leaders Since 1904 I "IN WILSON IT'S THE WATSON" 1 SALE EVERY DAY! | Listen To WGTM 7:40 A.M. and 12:15 P M for Programs 1 and Announcements. I THE CAROLINIAN i a*r "■ m - " ■ —•••-- | G,'a" ■ x . l&Ss J $ v> -"v Rev. Robert Moten Williams was the only Negro writer at the Paris Peace Conference. Serving as correspondent for AM’ he re ported the brilliant speech of Akiiou Abte Wolde. head of the Ethiopian delegation to the con ference. Industrial and Commercial Firms Show Increase In ’46 Raleigh, August North Caro lina had a net gain of 1,460 in dustrial and commercial firms anti 14,740 workers during the fircaJ your ended June 30. 1940, roughly, the first reconversion year, as measured by the net in crease of firms covered by the Unemployment, Compensa tion Law, it is revealed by Hen ry E. Kendall, chairman of th State Unemployment Compensa tion Commission During that year 1.216 firms with 53,090 covered workers k ■ tired from UC law coverage, while 2,070 new firms with 67. 836 covered workers w e r ■• brought under coverage. S. F Campbell, director of Research and Statistics, reminds That re tirement may mean that firms LJi VliiCiJ l rzxcx^y consolidated, and that, new cov erage may be old or consolidat ed firms, or firms with fewer than eight workers which may have come under coverage, vo!- • untarily or involuntarily, due to | relationship with other firms. These figures, however, bear | out the known condition that many small firms have started ; business or industry in the State since the war ended and those covered by the UC law as a rule have eight or more workers. The one - year development j Chairman Kendall points out, is in contrast to activities in the three principal war years, fiscal : 3942-45. During those years the State had a net loss of 114 cov ered firms, but a net gain of 18,- 811 protected v.,.,Lct The re cord shows that 2,989 firms with 203,566 workers retired from coverage and that 2,875 firms with 120,377 workers w o v c brought under UC Jaw coverage. A member of a special group touring Europe and studying gov ernment in many countries, his artielts h»ve been illuminating. Rev. Williams, who is now in Stockholm, Sweden, is pastor of Asbury Methodist church in Wash ington, !J. C. (ASP) By combining the figures for the four fiscal years ended June 30. last, i! is found that 4,265 firms with ]04.)i9 workers re tired from coverage, while 5,551 firms with 188,213 workers were b* ought under coverage. This is a net gain ,n the four-year per iod ol 3,346 covered firms and 23,494 workers. While not given to prophecy, C--airman Kendall firmly be lieves that the present fiscal year will show an even greater increase than the past year in the numbers of firms coming under the UC law, particularly small firms with 8 to 50 or more work er.'. as well as numerous firms witn fewer than eight workers, which generally do not come un dej the UC law. Our Fresh Certified j GARDEN and FIELD Secure Your Seeds Now For Winter Vegetables NEW SUPPLY JUST ARRIVED!! VISIT PLANT NOW! TURNiPS - MUSTARD - KALE CARROTS - LETTUCE - BEETS Large Supply Os RYE OATS BARLEY WHEAL CLOVER AND GRASS SEEDS. “y s MEATS (f^ggl New Modern Meat Market THERE IS A SHORTAGE AS YOU KNOW ON SOME MEATS, BUT WE DO GET OUR SHARE . . . COME TO SEE U S—WE’LL BE GLAD TO SERVE YOU. “WILSON COUNTY’S LARGEST FEED STORE” ■ mu i min ii irn 11 ■hmw l___liu—m ■■■—■! i—mw ■■■■■—whitt r—n——ir~mrmnri mrwmr R, C. GRICEj Owner ■a—■■■ifir' 1 nurriijiha mi TTir itiiiiSnnliririiins Merchants 01 hast Nash Street Extend Welcome To Visiting Farmers _— WILSON -The merchant.* of the thriving East Nash mrect section i Wilson extend u hearty welcome i , the farmers of Eastern -North Carolina t. se.l! then tobacco in 'VJi < n and to visit them for any s.. rvices. advice and cooperation i they may oe able to extend In (his busy segment ol the great tobacco metr poii: may be found 4-PIECE MAPLE B& Drawers, Hat Box and hanging space, Mirror door. — _— jS. - , z=EE^EEEEEEEEEE=^ /^^ WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1948 I physicians, dentists, drug stores, churches of all denominations, sho“ shops, grocery stores, furniture; stores, bakeries, Jitiotographers, the-1 otres, cases, and the varrous othc-.-l enterprises which constitute the at- ! mosphere of a businesslike com-1 munily. To all who come are extended a ! warm welcome, and a saddened fi odbye with the fervent hope that (hev will return soon. _ v LEGION MEET URGES OUT LAWING Os KLAN _ I PHILADELPHIA Pa (ANP, --j A yv., 4V « yy, w n/-rA - fwmn , ~.j , J * XltkOltQ UiC UJCUIJ J.UPViUI»\JOd liriif’s Snil Slorc 120 S. TARBORO ST. DIAL 2230 Complete Line Os Feeds For Your Stock 11 Hill UP'i 111 Mil ' i M—BBMilWlfc i" J hy t,hi> t.liou delegates to til* 28th annual American I.egion State convention before ine dose of its four-day session nere last Saturday, was one which branded the Ku Klux Klan as "a cowardly blot" and called for its outlawing by fcd ' ral legislation. A resolution adopt ed on the veterans’ housing situa tion, termed housing conditions a,« u national scandal, blaming he cur rent material shortages on the "in ! i-ffecieney, stupidity or worse’ of responsible officials. |Savi* Vonr Waste Fats!
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