PAGE 6 * i- 1 T* L. 1 '?;if in China, Japan and ManUriental 1 ODclCCO jchuria during tho current (193Gfy * 1 37) season will amount, on a reLrOD Increased (lrlea basis, to approximately 300,000,000 pounds compared with Figures Received From 267,000,000 pounds in 1935-36 and China, Manchuria And with the average of 236.000,000 Japanese Empire Indi- pounds annually for the 5 years cate Some Increase In ended with 1934-35. Only a modAcreage This Year crate increase in consumption is expected in 1937-38, the total Washington, D. C.?The com- reaching perhaps 310,000,000 nined 1937 acreage of flue-cured pounds of redricd leaf and stems, tobacco*in' China, Manchuria and Carryover stock of flue-cured, the Japanese Empire is estimat- leaf in these three countries at cd by the Shanghai office of the the end of the current marketing Bureau of Agricultural Econom- year i September 30th l are not ics at 2-15,000 acres compared i expected to exceed 151,000,000 with a 1936 harvested area of pounds compared with 165.000.000 211,000 acres and with the 1931- pounds on September 30, 1936. 35 average of 141.000 acres an- and with the preceding 5-year avnually. erage of aproximately 188,000,000 Should growing conditions re- pounds. The report points out, suit in near average yields, the,however, that during those years ?,vas materially low 1937 crop will amount to approx imately 300,000,000 pounds com- cr than during the past 2 years, pared ' with 243.000,000 pounds Lower prices for American last year and with the 1931-351 flue-cured leaf during 1937 might, average of 180.000.000 pounds. be an incentive for manufacturers | Increased planting of flue-cur- to increase their purchases of ed leaf this season were large- American leaf. Purchases of ly the result of high prices paid i American leaf will tend to be refer the 1936 crop which gave1 stricted, however, by increased more satisfactory returns per cigarette production costs and cere than other competing crops, particularly increased cigarette Encouragement ami assistance on j taxes in China, which is the largthe part of Government and pri- est producer, consumer and im-1 vate agencies, however, also were porter of the three countries unfactors of considerable import-1 ber consideration. ance. j ? Should the 1937 crop in these YES, ISN'T IT? three areas reach the 300.000,000 pounds now estimated, the 1937-1 Husband (reading from news38 (October-September) import paper): "Three thousand, four requirements of American flue- hundred ami twenty-six elephants cured leaf would probably be ma- were needed last year to make, terially below the 1936-37 imports i billiard balls." which are now expected to total Wife: "Isn't it wonderful that proximately 65,000,000 pounds. such great beasts can be taught Total consumption of flue-cured to do such delicate work?" |cU^rarajHrarajgiararejajHiEfHJHiHi2JBJgjaraj?i5igiafPJaJHJHi5i5JgJHJHii WELCO I nr_ II O VVIHICV Farmers and Fr When in town we invite yoi Schulken B I YOUR HEADQUART! We have for your inspection a co ALADDIN LAMPS SENTINEL and ZENITH R (Both Electric and Battery ( IGUNS AND AMMUNI1 (All Leading Brand: w KEEN KUTTER POCKET.. TABLE and K1TC1 COOKING WARE (All I PAINTS .. VARNISH and i In fact we have what you war RIGHT PRICES! Schulken E WHITEVILLE, NORTH O I V Dual Planning Helps The Farm Joint Plans Of Man And Wife Used As Basis For Making Improvements On The Farm Home And Grounds Eighty pei- cent of all the home demonstration work planned in the South is done in the farm home. With the assistance the farm family of the South is getting from home and farm agents, there is an excellent opportunity to develop plans for the whole farmstead, including the home grounds front and back as well as the field crops, pastures and other farm operations. If women as partners with their husbands in all plans for a better farmstead, could roughly sketch the house, its base plantings, other shrubs, walks and trees could also show where the poultry yard, cow lot, pig pen and bam are now placed in regard to sanitary procedure; the garden for convenience to the hell so wile, and wfiat cnangos should be made, they would help give a picture of what the farm really is. This picture might speak very satisfactory and also very loudly of what that farmstead lacks in its provisions for satisfactory living. Two spinisters were discussing men "Which would you desire most in a husband brains, wealth or appearance ?" asked one. "Appearance," snapped the other, " and the sooner the better." irgrererejaiBiHfjajEfarHJHrarefH^rg ME | rille | iends j i to make ? ros. :rs i mplete line of | :adios ! )perated) 1 rioN I 1 iEN KNIVES Cinds) | ENAMELS I it and at the | iros. MOLINA j iS rsrzrejgjajajarerejararejarerejEjaia THE STATE PORT PILOT, SC ASSISTANT |f SPECIALIST : I l ^y. ^ ^ I New Assistant Knows Tobacco Lloyd T. Weeks, Assistant j Tobacco Specialist At IN. C. State College, Grew Up On Tobacco Farm In Wake County Lloyd T. Weeks, who grew up on a tobacco farm near Varina in Wake county, has been assistant tobacco specialist for the State College extension service. On his father's 165-acre farm where tobacco was the main cash crop, he early became familiar with the problems of the tobacco grower, said Dean, I. O. Schaub, diiector of the extension service. Then ho studied agriculture at Slate College, from which he was graduated in 1934. After teaching vocational agriculture for 18 months, he returned to the farm for a year. In January of this year he was appointed assistant farm agent in Martin county, where he j did outstanding work, the dean1 continued. Since E. Y. Floyd, extension to-i bacco specialist, has been placed in charge <? the State's agricultural conservation program, he has been unable to give full time to his tobacco work, and the ser- j vices of an assistant specialist were found imperative. So Weeks was secured to take over the work, the dean said, as \ lie is particularly well qualified to ssisl growers with their big- ! gest cash crop which is also the > most difficult to raise and har- ' . vet. ' Tobacco Suffers j From Sunblister 1 t This Condition Has Prevail- j ed In Some Sections Of " North Carolina This Sea- * son; Little In This Reg- ~ ion : Sun blister damage to North Carolina tobacco fields this sum- : J mer is "the worst in some sec- i tions I've ever seen", Dr. R. F. J Poole, of Slate College, said recently. r ( This trouble, sometimes called ? sun scald, is usually the result of } hot sunshine on young plants that have been affected with various ? root rot diseases, he added. In some fields, five to six per- ! cent, of the leaves will be lost as a result of blistering, it is seli- t mated. i Young leaves sometimes droop ) and lake on a blackened appear- 1 ance. Other leaves may develop t blistered, irregular spots near the i mid rib and between the veins. } These spots, tan to brown in ' color, are composed of dead tis- T sue. Sometimes the dead tissue i ir blown out, Dr. Poole said, and ' deformed. IT. However, he continued, he has | not seen any case where sun i l scald has been responsible for the i death of a whole plant. This trouble occurs every year, v he said, but heretofore it has J been of a minor nature, as was J the case when first reported dur- Ti ing a hot spell about the middle ~ of June. 4 But during the past ten days or j so Dr. Poole has received reports ' from over the State that indicate "S the disease is worse than ever i before. While there is no cure known 1 for sun blister, early planting i and crop rotation to avoid di- i seases in infected soil will reduce .1 the amount of sun injury. | Dr. Poole expressed belief that the serious extent of sun blister i this summer is due largely to the j fact that a good part of the crop ; was planted later than usual. i. TESTIMONIALS } "To what do you attribute your great age?" asked the city visi toi of Grandpa Ebon Hoskins. I "I can't say yit," answered ) Giandpa cautiously. "There's sev- * oral o" them testimonial fellers a-dickerin' with me." I i TAX Prices of cigarettes in France ; were raised twenty percent. July ; 13lh by decree as Finance Min- , ister Georges Bonnet sought to 1 replenish the national treasury. >UTHPORTt N. C. J 150-W a I J Farmei I 1?j Have you seen the 1 V;; can buy a guaranteed, imp If j|> at the same price as you J| out these additional impn | rig and look over the Slidderaxle at the same old price || -f>;j Piedmont-Hickory ai -fig one and two horse?wago # that are guaranteed hot] | S.L. FULLER II I) CO Mb: IN NOW AND I $ NEW WAGON ANI II m OF THIS GI $ " -x I carry at all tims t Collars, Bridles, Traces, i| any firm in Columbus Co I I -MULES 1 If Terms: C< 1 S. L. 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