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Some Straight Talk
About
The $ Dollar Investment
In Your '75 Tobacco
Harvesting System!!!
Comparison Proves Roanoke Harvesting Batter Investment Than The Middle Stalk Stripper
This Example Based on 60,000 lb. Allotment
Roanoke Multi-Harvesting KfSKVnSB
lbs. (or more) per acre
fertilizer
Note: Utilize the excess 7.5 acres needed with
implant only needed acreaoe the once over stripper by planting com Os
' " other crops. Net $l5O per acre. Your gain
is $150x7.5 = $1,125.
6 Week Harvesting Has Produced The World's
Finest Tobacco For Hundreds Os Years
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I=a [J*™ “* 11 = 1 mKsm CE | ED 1 ct mw 1 mm k
$30,000 - Bams*
—18,150 - Harvester
| -L —— $48,150 - Total Investment
‘ ~ Roanoke Less Expensive
wWi the Raanofca Sam's tain air many far mars can
-w&g-- achieve thaaa results wttti) bama. e*vfnf an aMtianal
$7 lit saving.
There Are Two Ways
To Go In Tobacco
Harvesting:
The Safe *
Sure f
Proven if
Under All Conditions
Less Expensive f
Roanoke
Multi-Harvesting
Way
HARRINGTON MFG. CO.
Lewiston, North Carolina 27849 For oddrtkxid information or explanation Albany, Georgia 31705
(91») 397-2531 (912)432-5311
A Report From Clemson University
States That...
tjj. fev Top of stalk
must be cut off
to 24" above
k A the row bed to
' (\&/zK) accommodate
vfl v onceover atrip*
leaves by hand
or multiprimer
or tobacco must
remain in field.
or the:
Unproven v*
Middle Stalk
Stripper Way
_THE CHOWAN HRRAi n
Middle Stalk Stripper
p*1,600 lbs. per acre *
Hacausa at pessfcliloaaot loner laavaa plus lha loss of
“T^ranara'fArtili7Ar Note: Based on 1974 costs, the extra production
r prepare Teraiizer casts on the excess acreage needed to
make the allotment is approximately 7.5
r plant 20% every year acres @ $589 per acre = $4,417.50 extra
additional acreage 0061
* lonost two primings must ba pulled by hand or Mntp' c
* ««h an somatic muW primw (Why buy two IVOTO. The extra 7.5 acres of land could be
.nachinetl PLUS: top portion ot atefc must ba cut otheiw.se productive rs once-over stripper
off to accommodate once over stripomg not üßed ' therefore losing approximately
♦1125 of opportunity coat.
Once-Over Harvest Cycle May Endanger
Quality—What Will The Buyers Do:
'**j~ "yj n j p -j^ r * <^ i *|* 2 w ** k Harv ** tin ° p#riod **
ml | Bama P-LJ kI.J LI J I Extra
|- 1-- - • I ■ WaadaJ ___ Bama
[=^4
® arn * . SII2SOO- Bams
«Tji 4,495 - Harvester
64.495 - To“'ln«jj.mant SmSS-ToMI lnve.tm.nt
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■ Savad With Roanoke
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Once-Over Pitfalls
May work only 30% of the time
A spread of 6 weeks or more irt dates of harvest is approximate
and necessary for the opce-over system to use only the same
amoant of bam space as the multiprimer system. The spread
may very with the amount of tobacco cured in each bam. How
ever, most university agronomists agree that getting a spread of
6 weeks of harvest by spreading the dates of transplanting over
a 6 week period may only work 30% of the time and is usually
dictated by the weather during that particular crop year. What
might happen the other 70% of the time?
companies don't like mixed
grades
Tobacco companies don't like to buy mixed grades of tobacco
in the same pile. In tests by universities and tobacco com
panies, it was found that low profile, once over tobacco Vas
undesirable. The usability was low (5-15%); the amount of
green tobacco was high (up to 38%); the chemical com
position (nicotine, sugar, nitrogen, etc.) was different from
normally harvested flue-cured tobacco; and smoking tests
revested that this type of tobacco has less flue-cured flavor
with a greenish, immature taste.
conditions tremendous hazard
Apply chemical-it rains-it's lost. You won't normally be able to
harvest with a 35-45 H.P. range tractor pulling 3,100 pounds of
green tobacco on small trailer in a new row, plus weight of har
vester and box, when in wet conditions. The Roanoke
multipnmer has proven in the past it will go in wet places when a
tractor towing tobacco harvester won't go.
natural ripening
Eliminates tobacco blending
chemicals unproven
crop...only one cure
You lose it, you've lost everything.
Hmraday, January 33,1117