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I ^ The Pilot Covers M}runs\vick County Mumenine NO. 27 macco Acreage I United States mwing Decline Government Stepped f Vith Attempt To Reg-j ate Acreages, Steady! cllne Has Been Noted Weed Acreage ore then, it CLIMBED STEADILY In 1918 Brought A ,' Of $517,000,000, 'est Return U. . Tamrrs Yet Re chived nv fiORDOX LEWIS) ' -on in the Uni the last year ' tiona were availI . mers of this :9000, and repre largest cadi reI ' '.rs1 in the U. U\y cifically 1.045.660. 0 were grown Hi of land. V . . of tobacco in ' ,hown definiteH",st two decades, fc ?uv taking ita PlaceI . principal industries fc decades ago. American K devoted 1-046.000 acres K to the cultivation of to rhat was at the turn of rjn. in 1900. When 814| pounds netted the grow-1 v 661.000. E far. however, tobacco groHi the United States reali heir greatest profits from En of the Bright Golden V in" the year 1918. when gl pounds sold for $5.0, Le devoted to the growth Kacco was on a constant from the beginning of the entury till 1931. after which I Hovem'ment stepped in and t to regulate and control! creages. That year Uncle | had 2.112,000 acres planted | Ht same year, however, the cost of the crop was much an half that in 1918, bring n:y 6211.102,000 for 1,647, o pounds. Ileal Addresses Imers' Meeting I Low Income Of CotHi And Tobacco Plant Is Shame Of South | lijh?Edward A. O'Neal, of the Farm Bureau tion. in an address here to said. "The low income of Hotton farmer and of many Hacco farmer is the shame south", and asserted, "if get equality for agricul-o Hur.der the constitution, we : r.'.er.d the constitution." |1 Hal was speaking before a Hi of delegates to the Farm . Home week at N. C. State H uctieve in ine soil uunactprogram." he said, "and - - to string along with college and the federal govlt. We are going to try are for agriculture a place sun without running afoul 1 supreme court. if we cannot get our ues in that way, then we met we will change the con1 Farm Bureau Federation,' id. "is solidly against a that hi-jacks everybody *sn't do the farmer a bit id," afternoon the farmers and vomen heard J. B. Hutson, r for the east central re-r f the soil conservation proexplain the workings of' ?gram in detail. J- Bennett, director o# the soil conservation service, I ' out the advantages of '? soil erosion and rebuild"n lands. j btte production in SHOW'S BIG INCREASES! "ngton, D. C., July 23?' apartment of Commerce, in - with its biennial cen-l manufacturers, reported to production in the Unites in 19M5 at 138,656,000.aif-ttes. an increase of 23 t over production in 1933, st preceding census year, j Whiteville THE 12 PAGES ? Steps InCultu: 1 ... i ' i .. .: : % >'iftSt ? ' '"' : "?%, S| VARIOUS STEPS?The rious steps which are necess keting of tobacco, including ing, and sale on the wareho Traces Growt Tobacco At \ Persons Who Believe That _ - 1 n _ f Cultivation ana curing or Tobacco Is Easy Job Just Ignorant of True Facts REQUIRES MAXIMUM IN LONG HARD WORK Hardly Are Christmas Holidays Over Before Preparations Begin With Continuation For Ten Months The author of this interesting and appealing story of the growth, cultivation and harvesting of tobacco, James M. Harper, Jr., is editor of the Southport State Port Pilot. He contributed this article especially for this tobacco edition of The News Reporter, upon special request. Thoroughly familiar with his subject, he learned the story of tobacco first hand on his father's farm, where he himself was for a number of years closely associated with the growth and cultivation of the weed. By JAMES 31. HARPER, JR. Tobacco markets of the South Carolina Belt, which includes several border towns in North Carolina, will open next week and during the next two months several millions of dollars will be paid farmers of this state for their 1936 crop. To many who are unfamiliar with the problems of producing the .prop, the tobacco grower becomes an object of envy. Pay-1 ments made to him at the warehouse look to them like easy j money. But these ideas are born af ignorance. It has been stated that it requires thirteen months a year to nroduce a good tobacco crop.; Granting- that there is a possiuie; exaggeration, it is a fact that the production of tobacco requires the hardest kind of work it the worst possible hours and I with the greatest risk of complete failure. Hardly are the Chirstmas holilays over before the tobacco farmer begins to look around for a food place for his tobacco plant aed. He wants to get away from the place he had his plants last pear, because the blue mold appeared before he had finished setling out and he was barely able( to finish. He also prefers a rough; ait of new ground, in a spot pro-j tected from the north, well drain-j ;d, yet with a supply of water; sear at hand. * Once the spot is located, brush ind stumps are piled all over the proposed area so that the bed nay be burned off, a process vhich is supposed to have a sterlizing effect upon the soil and I till all grass seed. Then begins the work of digging out the j stumps and roots, so that the plot may be as smooth and even j is the dirt in a flower pot. Fertilizer is added in large quanti-1 ties, and the tobacco seed are j sown. Since it takes only a tablespoonfull cf seed to sow a hunIred yard*-, they are mixed with (Continued on Page Seven) I I : Tobacconist STAl A Good News sec, hi Southport, re Of Tobacco pictures above show the va;ary in the culture and mar the cropping, dreying, curuse floor. h, Culture Of Various Stages * Hutson Predicts Tobacco Prices Says They'll Be Half-Way Between Ony Program Level And Those Under AAA | Raleigh,?J. B. Hutson, soil ! conservation program director for the east-central region, predicted to North Carolina tobacco growers today they would get a price this year "about half-way between what you would get without any program and what you i would have gotten under the ! strict AAA and Kerr-Smith act regulations." Hutson was head of the tobacco section of the old AAA. The tobacco growers held their special Vneeting in connection j with farm and home week and I were to elect an advisory group to work on future plans to protect their interests, i Hutson said his information inidicated the stock of tobacco now I held by manufacturing companies J was "not quite as much as at this season in previous years". He estimated the stock on hand would provide a fupply for 34 months. E. Y. Floyd, extension specialist of N. C. State college, presided. J. E. Ramsey of Marshall. Madison county, says the homemixed poultry ration prepared after a formula supplied him by his county age"t has given equally as good results as feed purchased from commercial mixers. Afraid OfHar Don't Try Ra If you're afraid of hard work, there's no use trying to raise tobacco. Cultivation , of this product entails more work perhaps to the farmer than any other crop, or perhaps all the others combined. Raising tobacco remains no ;<>i> for lilly fingers. From J"" the time the seed first finds its way into the tobacco bed, until the last pound has been sold on the auction floor, the whole business spells untiring labor for the farmer. There are weeks of sleep- J less nights at the tobacco barn, where a constant vigil is necessary in order that the heat on the product remains even?that there are no violent fluctuations in the temperature, because such many times spells disaster for a barn of tobacco. Work . . work . . work, that's the story of tobacco cultivation. When the seeds are planted in the be Is during the latter days of December, or the early days of ts and Busin rEPO paper In A Go< N. G., Wednesday, Ai Sold 19,123,000 Pounds On Local Mart Last Year Fell Only A Little Short Of Selling As Much Tobacco As Was Sold During The 1933 Season TWENTY MILLION HAD BEEN SET AS GOAL Tobacconists Had Estimated That The Whiteville Mart Would Sell Around Twenty Million Last Year The 'Whiteville tobacco market succeeded last year in fulfilling the predictions of veteran tobacconists here that total sales would reach twenty million, selling a total of 19,123,145 pounds, missing the prediction only by a matter of "inches." Before the season opened last year, veteran warehousemen of Whiteville ventured the prediction that the Whiteville market would sell twenty million pounds of tobacco during the year, and set that as their goal. How far the actual sales missed their preoon ho Qppn from the I Ultliuiig vuii uv. figures. Of the 19,123,145 pound total, some 17,002,730 pounds wereprojducers sales, and 1,227,063 dealers' resales. Whiteville's average of $20.11 per hundred pounds, remained i among the highest averages in the South. Carolina belt, and com{pared very favorably with the | prices paid throughout the entire tobacco growing area. The figures last year missed by a hair reaching the total obtained j during the 1933 season, and was j chalked up as the second biggest Iseasogn in the market's history. | Figures obtained from the Crop Reporting Service at Raleigh j show that during the 1933 seaI son Whiteville sold a total of 19,326,139 pounds, exactly 202,994 . pounds more than were sold last lyear. The total eclipsed entirely, however, the figures for the preceding year, when 12,144,473 pounds were sold. TOBACCONISTS END COAST CONVENTION j Morehead City?Completing a i four-day session at Edgewater I Club ( members of the tobacco industry from three states have departed for their respective hopies declaring they had had the best ; time in summer convention history. The final day was highlighted iby breakfast and goodbye after which the 100 odd visitors turned their faces toward their home:' in North Carolina, South Carojlina and Virginia. ! They came here last Tuesday as representatives of Dibrell Brothers, tobacco dealers of Danville, Va. j No business sessions marked the convention, the entire time being given over to boating, fishing, bathing and scores of other forms of recreation offered by the coast.?Twin City Herald. dlbork? Then ising Tobacco January, extensive preparations having been made for ?i? nrenaration of the bed. i r ? they are watched carefully through the two to three months period before they are transplanted in the open field. A watchful vigil must be maintained for the dreaded Blue Mold disease, which this year took a terrible toll among the plant beds of this area. Sunshine has been determined the most effective remedy for this disease, and plants which do not get enough of it, have to suffer the consequences oftentimes. After the transplanting, there has to be constant plowing of the fields to give the tobacco plants the proper cultivation ? the plants themselves have to be sprayed and otherwise protected against worms and insects. Even following the curing period the most tedious of all I the tasks comes?the grad- j ing and tying of the tobac1 CO. ess Men Wei ad Community Jgust 5th, 1936 PUBList Rendered Invat TolobaccoGri *Service Which Columbus County Man Has Rendered To Weed Farmers Of Three Counties Proves Invaluable HELPED IN WORKING OUT WEED PROGRAM Chadbourn Man Was On Tobacco Committee Which 1 Helped Administration Arrive A.t Proper Solution Hon. J. A. Brown, of Chad-. bourn, has been the steadfast friend of the tobacco farmer. His services on the tobacco commit- j tee which rendered invaluable service to the farmers of this; area were notable, and in the years which have been the most trying for the weed grower, he has stood by them and done all I in his power, and used all his j efforts and influence in behalf of t the tobacco grower. c Serving on the Tobacco Advisory Committee which included | the four principal tobacco grow- j ing states of the Union, Mr.' 1 Brown's services in this capacity j have become generally known i throughout th; county and state, i It remains a matter of official \ record that he stood before the \ I leaders of the present adminis-1 tration and presented in an ef- f jfective manner the cause of thet t j Southern Tobacco Farmer, and' Whiteville Ma\ Over Three fo * iTobacco Growers' Endorse Control 500 N. C. Planters Approve Compact Method, Name Committees ? I Raleigh?Five hundred North I Carolina tobacco growers unanimously endorsed the state compact method of control of tobacco production here this after-1 noon and appointed a committee of nine men to work out plans for such a program for the state.11 The meeting was held in con- 1 nection with farm and home c week. t The state was divided into five t districts, with four of them to c have two committeemen and two alternates and the other a single f committeeman and alternate. ( Member? of the committe elec- i, ted were: First district, the border belt: . Dr. G. M. Pate, of Robeson county, with T. J. Harris, of Cumber- j land as alternate. Second district, part of the | new belt: F. Brock, of Jones, and, G. T. Scott, of Johnston, with Lionel Well, of Wayne, and J. Y. ; Joyner, of LaGrange, as alter- ] nates. Third district, the rest of the new belt: J. E. Winslow, of Pitt, and W. W. Eagles, of Edgecombe, with B. B. Everett, of u?ikov and p IT. Roarers. of ' JI milium, u..u Martin, as alternates. The fourth district, the middle | belt, W. VV. White of Vance and j D. H. Senter of Harnett with { W. A. Turner of Warren and I. j M. Wilcox of Lee as alternates. (Continued on page 12) I New Cigarette Stamps In Use Washington, D, C.?The majority of corporations in the I country dealing in tobacco pro- g ducts filed corporation income $ tax returns showing no net income for 1934, Commissioner Guy T. Heverling of the bureau of in- ol ternal revenue reveals in a report fe made public recently. tc Of the total 405 such returns ki filed for 1934, 131 reported an C? aggregate net income of $96,- el 296,000, while the 245 operating 1! in the red had an aggregate de- tc ficit totaling $2,086,000. Twenty- cl nine tobacco products corpora- a: tions showed no income data, be- lo ing inactive. 'fs Taxes paid by the firms mak- ir ing a profit totaled $13,246,000, oi of which $13,241,000 represented corporation income tax and $5,- C 000 excess profits tax. b I / ICOiiijuc; YOU! IED EVERY WEDNESDAY luable Service iwersOf Area WKw v 4HHH Jill -J. A. BROWN low he was largely active in iresenting to the administration he tobacco farmer's side of the [uestion. The people know now pretty generally this side of Mr. Brown's ecord, but what they do not enow is that he was directly res>onsible for the farmers of this ?? ? ii:?? sorn A/\A mmeaiate area gelling ^^.ju.uuu nore for their tobacco recently vhich they otherwise wouldn't lave gotten. Mr. Brown has long been a riend of the farmer. He senses he need for their group organiz(Continued on Page 12.) rket Paid Out fillion In 1935 'atrons Of Whiteville Tobacco Market Last Year Were Paid $3,419,449 For The Crop -ARGEST AMOUNT IN HISTORY OF MARKET Steady Climb Made In The Total Money Paid Out In The Local Market During Past Three Years Tobacco grower patrons of the Vhiteville market last year were laid more than three million dolars for their part of the 1935 irop, figures just obtained from he Crop Reporting Service of he N. C. Department of Agriulture in Raleigh reveals. The statistics show that the armers who sold their tobacco Jver Three Million In 1935 iically last year, during the 1935 (Continued on page 12) Announces New Parking Rules Chief of Police W. B. Coleman, ! this city, in an effort to afird the farmers who sell their ibacco on the Whiteville mar;t every facility in getting their irs parked, has announced that 'fective next Thursday, August :th, with the opening of the ibacco market, that all merlants and townspeople will be 3ked to park their cars on side its and streets in order that the irmers may have no difficulty i getting their vehicles parked a front street. The plaza along the Atlantic oast Line Railroad tracks has eer. designated as a 10-minute I Most Of The News All The Time $1.50 PER YEAR Constant Climb In Production Of Cigarettes Constant Increase Seen In The Production Of Cigarettes In Past TwentyThree Years DECLINE NOTED IN CIGARS, SNUFF, ETC. Almost Steady Decline No ted In The Consumption And Production Of Cigars, Chewing Tobacco, Snuff And Smoking Tobacco (BY GORDON' LEWIS) Few people realize, when they see their Uncle Silas bite off a ,chew of his favorite brand of to1 bacco, and settle back to enjoy it, that last year 61,361,000 pounds of plug tobacco, 5,042,000 pounds of twist, and 3,120,000 pounds of fine cut tobacco went into the mouths and was mangled between the teeth of American citizens. In addition, when they see I their Aunt Mirandy drop her lower lip long enough to allow a dash of snuff therein, they perhaps do not realize that 36,098,000 pounds of this fine powdered tobacco was consumed by people who swear their oath of allegiance to Uncle Sam, during the past twelve months. Figures gleaned by The News Reporter from the World Almanac reveal that there has been considerable decrease in recent years in the U. S. production of cigars, cigarettes, chewing and smoking tobacco. Last year, the World Almanac reveals, 191,766,000 pounds of granulated tobacco went into the pipes of American citizens, or into home-made cigarettes. These figures show that those who choose to "roll their own" in ] America are sadly in the minorSi ty. The data compiled by the United States Commissioner of Internal Revenue at Washington, shows that the American production of cigars, cigarettes, chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff reached a peak for all-time records in 1917, when 179,413,000 pounds of tobacco went into the manufacture of plug tobacco, 15,998,000 pounds went into tv ist, 11,286,000 went into the manufacture of fine cut tobacco. The same year, smoking tobacco was responsible for the use of 243,586,000 pounds, 33,517,000 pounds went into ihe manufacture of snuff, making the total consumption of all tobaccos for that year 482,977,000 pounds. Cigars, large and small, coming under the same head as the chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff, had reached a high in 1917 when the production totaled 7,599,188,000 large cigars, and 965,135,000 small cigars. Cigarette consumption and production, has, however, been on a steady climb since the early days when tobacco culture was in its infancy. In recent years, production pumped from 15,555,693,000 small cigarettes in 1913, to a total of 114,874,217,000 in 1933. In 1935 the figures totaled 138,656,000,000 cigarettes. Java Native Tobacco Crop Internationally Important The native tobacco crop of Java is of more local than international importance; however, some of it enters the oversea trade, going to countries where low-grade tobaccos are in demand. The area of native tobacco standing in the fields at the end of the first quarter of 1936 aggregated about 22,000 bouws. At that time, preparation of seedbed3 was being made in various tobacco centers, and in some regions transplanting had commenced. Some damage has been done in the Besoeki district by heavy rains, but in most of the others districts the condition was quite favorable.?Consul Joel C. Hudson, Surabaya. PANAMA TOBACCO IMPORTS TOTAL AMOUNTS TO $451,311 The value of the tobacco import trade of aPnama in 1935 was $451,311; the value of all tobacco imported from U. S. was $396,799, approximately 88 percent of the' total. In 1935, all tobacco imported into Panama was valued at $425,186. i * I
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