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Eastern N. Carolina Is Largest Producer Of Peanuts In World Grow* More Virginia Typo Peanut* Than Virginia? -itart Harvest Soon Bjr MA YON PARKBB Virginia type peanuts, they called them ? the big Jumbo and large bunch varieties that fill the air with a mouth -watery aroma when they are roasting at the corner peanut vendor's stand, and the same as serves as a nerve-steadier at tense momenta during baseball games and circus performances. But the largest producing area in the world for this type of peanuts Is Jn North Carolina, In the northeastern tier of counties which In clude Bertie, the laigest peanut growing coun ty In the world, Martin, Halifax, Hertford, Northampton, Gates and Chowan. In a few weeks, beginning during the last ten days of September, in these counties, and a few others along the eastern seaboard to a process of harvesting this crop which, in value and importance, ranks with tobacco and ex ceeds King Cotton. The growing season has been favorable ana the crop should be one of good yield and quality, although wet weather during the dig ging period could do much damage to the goobers. Need* Little KerlUizer The peanut ? a hardy, nitrogenous plant, re quires little or no commercial fertilizer to pioduce and is easy to Cultivate. U&^ng the method of crop rotation, farmers generally plant peanuts in land following cotton or corn, applying no fertilizer but broadcasting a few hundred pounds of lime per acre if the soil Is lime-starved. They are planted, after the land has been flushed, on lists from 2 feet 8 Inches to 3 feet apart, depending on the choice of the particular grower. 8helled nuts are drilled in about an Inch deep, one kernel to the hill, eight to ten Inches apart. Planters specially designed for peanut planting are used. Plant ing time is from the first to the fifteenth of May. When the plants have broken through, us ually in about a week from planting, they are cultivated In practically the same fashion as as ootton, plowing and weeding continuing until around the first of August, when the growth of vines Is approaching the final stage, small yellow blooms of the plant have appeared and the first formation of the nuts below the soil begins. Simultaneous with, or Just following, the final "plowing out" or hilling, an application of crushed limestone, called "land plaster" commercially, is given the tops of the plants, the purpose of the lime being to give the plant and the soil the ingredients for forming firm hulls on the outside of the nuts and well-filled kernels within. Digging Tlie Crop Prom then until digging time, the peanut piant which, if the bunch variety, has at tained a height of about twelve Inches and la beginning to iiide the middle of the rows, or If the runner type to "pin down" along the middles, takes care of lteetf. With approach of October, when the first of the lower leaves be gin to shed from the vines, digging starts and it la a busy time with +he peanut farmer. For then, like the tobacco ^farmer when his crop begins to ripen, when peanuts are' ready he must get them or they will be lost, shedding from the vines and remaining In the soiL n* The plants are ploired out of the soil with a turning plow along each side of the rows, outting th? tap or principal root of the plant. Then follow* back-breaking hand labor of shaking the roots, with the nuts clinging to them, free from the soU la which they grew. The vines and nuts, shaken free of dirt, are ttm piled on oonJeal-shaped stacks, one stack row to every ten rows of peanuts, the stacks about fifteen feet apart, with the nuts toward the center of the stack and vines outward. There the crop remains until the sun has cured the green vines and driven the sap from hulls and kernels. * Machine PlckcW From two or four weeks Is required for the stacked peanuts to be sufficiently cured for the final step In harvesting, picking. Machines are employed for this work, a type specially de signed which cards the nuts from the vines without crushing or threshing them and frees them from trash, dirt and faulty nuts, oalled ?pops.' It Is a dirty, hard Job.- Is picking pea* nuts. Five to ten men. working In the sttf fllng dirt and dust, are required to handle the labor around tlM machine, the usual ca pacity of which Is from 125 to 300 bags per day. As the peanuts are separated by the pea nut picker from the vines, they are placed In jute bags, bag and peanute weighing around 00 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 ply merchant; or they may be stored In the farm barns or commercial storage houses to await better prices. An acre produces from 8 to 25 bags of peanuts, with 15 bags per acre considered a good average crop. Vines Are Baled ?Hie vines are baled for hay for the farm mules and livestock the peanut crop doing double duty as a 'money crop' and a forage crop at once. Finally, the hogs are turned into the bare peanut fields go fatten on the nuts that shed from the vines during the digging. It Is the practice followed by better farm ers to sow a cover crop when the peanuts are dug. This protects the land from winter ero sion and returns some vegetation to the soil to replace the fertility sapped from It by the removal of all cover when the peanuts were harvested. Otherwise, the pesnut fields stand bare and bleached througout the winter. All feed crops are particularly promising, and vegetables and fruits are in abundance. Fcrniers are in excellent spirits, and the ma JyMty of them say that they are in better fiTianclal condition than they have been in six years. ? X. P. Joeey, Anderson, 0. O. TRUCK CROPS % Sweet Potatoes Will Move In Volume From Carolina Next Month Shipments Started From Northeast Section ? Moderate Crop Forecast NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE A moderately heavy crop of sweet potatoes will be harvested this season. Most of the East ern and Southern states have larger crops than last season but yields are not expected to be ex cessive. Some of the states In the Middle West and Southwest will be only fair because of dry weaher. Prom a shipping standpoint the Eastern Shore of Virginia is one of the most important sec tions, particularly during the fall months. Har vesting began on the Eastern Shore immediate ly after the first 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 Shore 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 North Carolina move ment until later In the season. Maryland sweet potatoes have had rather spotted growing conditions and the crop is fine in some places and only fair in ohers. Some digging has already started but most of the crop will move to market after the first of Sep tember. The marketing season usually lasts longer than It does In Virginia. Prospects are that the crop m Maryland will be somewhat larger than it was last season. Delaware conditions are similar to those In Maryland but the Delaware crop has not made quite as good progress. Most of the Delaware crop is harvested during late September and October and is held over for later in the sea son, the movement extending Into late winter. Good Crop la Jersey There Is a good crop In New Jersey ? some what better, perhaps, than the laest Fo ve ru men t estimate would indicate. A few Jersey sweets are being dug but the movement does not become Important until lata: 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 New York market the last week in August along with the first of the new crop. There Is great irregu larity in the pack of Jrsey sweets although some of them are about the finest sweet potato packs that reach market. XMU iy OWtCV-O UBTO UOCU tUUTlUg W UiBIMf from the northeastern part of North Carolina for some time and more than 100 carloads have bee n loaded to date. However, the Important sectlonaround Beaufort will not start to move any quantity of sweets until the first part of October. The crop in this section was held back by dry weaher but recently It has had very good growing conditions and a nice qual ity potato is expected from this section. South Carolina is not important as a sweet potato shipper since most of the crop is used for local consumption. However, In total pro duction It is a fairly Important state. Hie crop this season Is just about average. Most of the early crop in Georgia, Florida been marketed. The late crops in Georgia and and Baldwin County. Alabama, has already Alabama have been helped by recent rains and dried and shipped during the halanoe of the a good, crop of late Porto Rican sweets is an ticipated. Most of the Porto Rloans are kiln MHQB. LoulaUu Coming lk?< Thai* will be only a moderate crop In Ten neaeee this year unless weather oondlttoos ire highly favorable for the balanoe of the grow ing period. Rainfall has been light la Weet Tennessee for the past few week and has cur tailed the crop. However, a tew sections had ahowers recently and la thoee areas the crop has made some Improvement. One of the states that is oomlng to the for* as a sweet uotato shipper In Louisiana. Acre age was Increased this season and the crop has mads good growth. Shipments are moving out steadily by rail and truck and Indications are that there will be a good movement at sweets from Louisiana all fall and winter. One of the reasons why Louisiana has forged ahead Is the fact that packing and grading methods have been Improved lit recent yean. Louisiana sweete are gaining a reputation In many mar kets. Southern Illinois have small but hlbhly oom merciallzed sweet potato dletrlote that are a factor In supplying the Middle West. This year the crops la these deetrlcte are saoellent and will run to bumper yields whereas last year they were largely failures. Other states weet of the IClsslmlppl River have mostly fair to good crops this season. None of them have bumper crops but last seaeoa they were out of the picture because of the drought conditions. One of the peculiarities of sweet potato de mand Is the poor reception given the yams or moist type sweet potatoes In the northeastern markets. New York and New England use the dry meated Big Stem Jersey type of sweets for the most part and thus far have not been thoroughly sold on the merits of such varie ties as the Nancy Hall and Porto Rloo. There la a big field here for someone to develop a demand for this type of sweet potato or yam in the Northeaet. Prices of sweet potatoes have opened about the same as they did laat year and will prob ably work downward as the heavy movement from the Eastern Shore gets 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 market should average a little better than It did last season. rive Klondike bulls have been placed la Henderson County, H. C., this year la the dairy Improvement program. Farmers Are Growing Vegetables For Fall And Winter Contests Planting Should Be Done In Sep tember State Horticulturist 4 Advises In the eastern half of North Carolina most fall and winter vegetables are bet. planted In September, says E. B. Morrow, extension horti culturist at N. C. State College. Rural families who are going to enter the fall and winter garden contest conducted this year by the extension service under the direc tlon of Miss Mary E. Thomas, extension nutri tionist, should start their gardens at once, Mor row added. It is too late to plant tender crops, but the hardier vegetables will produce a good crop if planted during this month. Head lettuce may be grown if planted fairly I early this month. Lettuce requires sunny days, : cool nights, and plenty of moisture. Kale will give a change from collards and | turnip greens if planted at this time. The two most common types are Siberian and green curled Scotch. The Siberian is the most hardy of the two. and will withstand fairly heavy freeaes. Mustard Is an old standby, he continued. Succession plantings should be made every two weeks until the middle of October. Although very tender when coov.ed, spinach Is a hardy plant that will withstand extreme cold. Morrow stated, and more of It should be planted In the home gardens. Turnips, radishes, and brooooii may also be planted this month, he added. Cabbage and onion seed may be sown In outdoor beds the latter part of the month and transplanted In Deoember, January, or February/ S. Carolina Planning Big Cabbage Acreage For The Coming Fall State's Crop Wai Very Successful Last Season ? Prospects Good Cabbage Is moving to market a slower rata than it did last season which may have an effect on the later market. Because of drought oondltlons last year the big oabbage sections In Wisconsin and New York 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 oshbags is better throughout the coun try and thsrs is less call for cariot shipments from the outside. This cabbage crop in New York State has been troubled by worms but otherwise has made good progress and is coming along nioely. II is quite possible that the New York crop will run to almost ss large a tonnage ss it did last season. Snap Bean Crop May Make A Good Gamble > Last season the Carolines 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 s large la tent. Aa early and killing frost in the states farther north make it possible to sell Carolina fan beans at handsome prices. On ths other hand, frosts sometimes hit the Carolina crop before it is all harvested. Just at present the outlook Is fairly hopeful. New York and Michigan will be practically through harvesting snap beans by early Oc tober. New Jersey has a normal acreage which wiH be oomlng into market in heaviest sup ply the last week of September, or just ahsad of ths Carolines. Florida Is a little later In starting which win givs ths Carolines most of ths month of October in which to market their crops. There te a steady demand for snap beans and any shortage In suppllee, even for a tow days, brings a quick upturn In prlos. Questions f 1. Yellowstone National Park is in three states. What are they? ' ^ 2. What city Is used ss ths base of nasal war games and maneuvers in ths Pacific? S. What is the capital of the country whisk lies between Pranoe and Spain? 4. What and where is the world's largest ac tive volcano? 5. Where Is the Riviera? ? fl.Of what country is Reykjavik the capital? 7. Name the Central American Republioe. 8. What Is the name of and where is the Is land on which Napoleon died? 0. To what country ls the name Antipodes sometimes applied? 10. Press reports say that Great Britain fears Japaneee influence on Slam. What is the capital of this monarchy? Mann To Explain How Best To Utilize New 10 Cent Cotton Loan Serie* Of 31 Meeting* Will B? Held In Main Cotton Pro ducing Areas * Just how farmer* can beet take advantage of the government 10-cent loan plan will o? explained by M. C. Mann, genera' manager of the State Cotton Association, at a series of 31 meetings to be held in the State's main cot ton producing counties. The meetings will be opon to the publl* q. nd all cotton farmers are urged to attend. The meetings will be held In the county court houses and the schedule of time and plaoe as follows : Wednesday, September 11 ? Rockingham 11 a. m.; Laurmburg 2:30 p. m.; Thursday, Sep tember 12 ? Raeford 11 a. m.; Fayetteville 2 30 p. m. Friday, September 13 ? Lillington, 11 a. m.; Sanford 2:30 p. m. Saturday, September 14 ? Goldsboro 11 a. m.; Smithfleld 2:30 p. ul Tuesday. September 17 ? Lumber ton 11 a. m^ Wadesboro 2:30 p. m. Wednesday, September 18 ? Monroe 11 a. mM* Charlotte 2:30 p. ui. Thursday. September 19 ? Lincoln ton 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 2:30 p. m. Wednes day, September 25 ? Louisburg 11 a. m.; Naslv ville 2:30 p. m. Thursday, September 26? ? Halifax 11 a. m.; Jackson 2:30 p. m. Friday September 27 ? Tarboro 11 a. m.; Wllllamstoa a. m.; Greenville 2:30 p. m. Wednesday, Oo 2:30 p. m. Saturday, September 28 ? Windsor 11 a. m. Tuesday, October 1 ? Warren ton U tober 2 ? Snow Hill 11 a. m.; Kins ton 2:90 p. m. Thursday. October 3 ? Albemarle 11 a. m ; Con cord 2:30 p. m. Friday, October 4 ? 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