f AUGUST 2 1939
>elt Weed Growers
paring 87,480,000
id Crop For Season
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. Last year North Carolina growth
qJ'r/v!1" I ers in the border belt planted
Hit 25,5 ? 64,500 acres of tobacco; this year
Over The they plantecl 81 000 acres. In 1938
the average yield per acre was
_ ,c 960 pounds: this year it is tpc^TE
E- pected to be about 1.080 pounds,
1NCREA5 the iargest yioUl per acre of any
. i section of the country. The pvoThat
The ,)ucijon last year was 61,920,000
F?R ?* "ou"ds
d * j South Carolina expects a pro s
r ; duction of 121,875,000 pounds, as
compared with 98,900.000 pounds
inn. Extension last year. In that part of the
North Carolina Border Belt, 125,000 acres were
planted to tobacco this year; last
hsW growers year 104.000 acres were harvested,
anticipate the gouth Carolina yield in 1938
v pounds o? was 950 pounds per acre and this
increase of vear it is ""C"1
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::ids over the pounds per acre.
_ to the July. The 1928-37 average of proITnited
States duction in North Carolina's border
llture. Wash- belt was 47,813.900 pounds of tos
large increase bacco per year. The 1928-37 yield
to more acre- per acre averaged 842 pounds,
ured tobacco. AVERAGE YIEI.D 779 POUNDS
- able increase South Carolina's average annual
production from 1928
tobacco season
AE IS MONEY
on't do this .
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OOD BARBERS
AMI'BKI.I,:?As good as there is. Starting his
iti! Season in Whitevitle. Shop Manager.
iMA\:?second Chair. Starting his 12th season.
ITIIAX:?From Longwood. Has the sharpest
mil.
11.1):?The youngest barber. From Cerro Gordo,
of any barber.
son:?Shine boy extraordinary. He's good!
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IN WHtTEV
The Columbus Farmer h^s
a good crop?we know he
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nize it.
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These views depict tobacc
ty in the field and being prep;
through 1937 was 79,624,000!
pounds, and its average yield per j sti
acre during that period was 7791 of
pounds. IT1
The market opens in the Border pi;
Belt on August 3. Other opening
dates are: New Bright Belt, Aug- th
ust 22; Middle Belt, September 7; ce
and Old Belt, Scptemiier 14. Ol
A billion-pound flue-cured to- pt
baceo crop was forecast in the ^
Nation by the Federal Drop Re- m
porting Board. All belts show a pe
marked increase in acreage and' fh
anticipated yields. The board re-! fa
ported 1,103,000 acres planted to'tv
flue-cured tobacco, and ' an an- to
ticipated production of 1,022,995,- in
000 pounds.
In 1938 the 912,100 acres plant- Ni
cd to flue-cured tobacco in the, m
United States yielded an average; r.u
of 816 pounds. The estimated i Ci
acreage yield for the 1939 crop is wl
927 pounds, as compared to the in
1928-37 average of 760 pounds. po
The 1939 flue-cured crop is ex- pi
pected to exceed consumption by B<
around a quarter of a billion ye
pounds. The present indicated con- of
sumption is between 740 and 750 gi
million pounds. The quotas fixed pi
by the Secretary of Agriculture, ye
which failed to receive the neces- Li
sary two-thirds support of grow- j th
ers in the referendum last Fall. : ye
called for a crop of 754,000.000 pc
|pounds. This would have lined
production with consumption, as Ol
J is the purpose of the Triple-A j pi
acco Fc
idit for building a
LCCO MARKET
ILLE.
built the market by raising
'11 keep this market that is
ame by continuing to patro-to
make his work easier, to
tter his crop.
DEMONSTRATION.
MLOT. SOUTHPORT, N. C
GOLDEN WEED
r
o crops in Columbus counared
for the curing barn.
The April 1 report on tobacco
ocks showed 909,718,000 pounds
flue-cured in the warehouses,
lis is more than a year's supy
at present consumption levels.
Another factor which clouded
e flue-cured tobacco picture rently
was the report fTDLi the
'fice of Foreign Agricultural
Nations in London stating that)
merican exporters of tobacco
ay expect to find market presets
in European countries for
re-cured tobacco "somewhat less
vorable" than during the last
,'o seasons. This was attributed
the larger stock now on hand
Europe
The Eastern North Carolina, or
ew Bright Belt, will contribute
ost of the increase in 19.19 fluered
production, according to the
op Reporting Board's report, j
hich places the indicated yield
that section at .166,000,000
unds. This compares with a
oduction in the New Bright
;lt of 251,980.000 pounds last
ar. and the 1928-37 average
262.540,000 pounds. In 1919 the
owers in the New Bright Belt
anted 293,000 acres and this
ar increased to 366,000 acres,
ist year the average yield in
at belt was 860 pounds; this
ar it is expected to be 1.000
mnds per acre.
North Carolina growers in the
Id and Middle Belts combined
oduced 195,570,000 pounds of j
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flue-cured tobacco last year, and |
the anticipated production this )la
year is 240,550,000 pounds. They j th
planted 246,000 acres in 1938 and | m!
283,000 acres in 1939. The average i pe
yield in 1938 was 795 pounds per
acre; this year they expect 850 ty
pounds per acre. w]
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RESEARCH HELPS !do
TOBACCO FARMER th
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the average tobacco farm. )ja
Perhaps John Smitli feels that
his tobacco yield could be step- Q|
ped up if he were to change his Co:
fertilizer. Or perhaps he would i aii
like to try a rotation, or a new \ 0f
rotation. Without research con- pC
ducted by trained workers, he to
would have to enter blindly upon j
the work, and trust to luck that ' <
he would hit his mark.
Maybe, ? he were lucky, he
would get definite improvement! ce
the first year. Chances are, how-1 jn
ever, that it would require years
to achieve the goal he was seek-1 {(|
ing. d<
Such fumbling and grouping!
have been eliminated largely bf
through test plots set up in var-1
ious tobacco-producing sections of1
the State. At these places, plant b
insects and diseases are studied jg,
closely; rotations are scattered
about to determine which crops (
alternate best with tobacco; fer-1
tilizers and fertilizer placements ?
are probed: cultivation practices:
are experimented with; and doz-1
ens of other details concerned |
with the growing of a crop which I ai
? enm,lina fnrmorc
DI'OUgllL XNUIUl Vyaiuima lunuvu jj(
nearly .$120,000,000 last year are h(
studied.
Tlie work is carried on by spe-1 ?
cialists of N. C. State College, i
the IT. S. Department of Agricul-1j
ture and the State Agricultural :
Department,all of whom are thor- j <
oughly trained in the production ! j j
of tobacco. ) j
Any number of crops are rota- ) (
ted with the golden leaf in two )
and three-year rotations to deter- )!
mine their adaptability to the I
task of making or maintaining j
good tobacco soil. Corn, cotton, | j
peanuts, wheat, and oats, all j j
crops that rob the soil of valu- j j
able plant food, are employed in ) (
the testing. Then, the soil-build- ) (
ing legume crops, such as soy- ) j
beans, crotalaria, vetch, cowpeas, I (
and lespedeza, are alternated with ) i
the tobacco to show their effect jj j
on yield and quality.
On another part of the test I j
farm, fertilizer experiments are )
conducted. Here the scientists )
have watched the effect of time j j
of application and the amount Iff
used. Maybe a rate equivalent to Iff
500 pounds of a 3-8-6 fertilizer | jfj
was applied at transplanting jfj
time, and the same amount ap- J
plied 10 days later. Perhaps the X
last application was made 26 days X
later in the form of a side-dres- X
sing. j X
All of these things the research A
men watch closely. Results are Iff
not always the same, so the same m
test is tried several times in oth- If
er sections of the field. Then the j If
experiments are repeated year! jf
after year to make sure con- J
elusions reached are correct.
Finally, results that have been j X
found feasible are passed along
to the thousands of Tar Heel to-,
bacco farmers. j
The vastness of the work is
clearly reflected in the improved
quality and better yields of North
Carolina tobacco.
TOBACCO CULTURE EMERGES
INTO THE FIELD OF SCIENCE
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ly knows his business knows how
to cope with these problems- j
when it's too dry, he knows how !
to stir up what little moisture
the earth may contain for the
benefit of his tobacco plants.
The wise farmer knows that
suckered tobacco seldom burns
up in the field, and that only f
when the suckers have been al-1
lowed to sap the strength from;
a stalk of tobacco and there is;)
no more for the leaves do they
burn up, in most instances.
It would be hard for a lay- J
man to define the difference be- J
tween a good farmer and one not J
so good, but even a layman can T
see a vast barrier between the 3
farmer who continuously makes i,
money from his crop, and the ) j
unsuccessful farmer who quite as ) i
often reaps a failure from his ) I
efforts?and that barrier can be )l
but one thing, a knowledge of the )1
science to tobacco culture. I
Whiteville Is In Reality j'
"The Town Tobacco Built" j j
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good farming land?of course, J jX
though, we don't have any such IX
farming lands as you have down! if
in Columbus". j M
Columbus tobacco farmers are ) I
blessed with rich, fertile soil eas- j;
ily adaptable to any crop, almost. J j
Agriculture is not the only prin-! J
cipal industry, but comes very: j j
near being the only industry in j j
this vicinity. ) |
Whiteville prides itself that it's j) |
one of the fastest growing towns |)!
in North Carolina?44 dwelling 11
houses were erected here during | j
the year 1938 along, to say noth- ! I
ing of the business houses. I j
Such progress as that would not blocks, ample parking space pr
,ve been possible except through vided for cars and trucks. Gro\
e tobacco market, which puts ers wishing to spend the nig
aney into the pockets of the will find conveniences at re
ople of Columbus county. sonable prices. Those wishing
Every person in Columbus coun- spend a pleasant days vacatio
and in Whiteville, no matter will find Lake Waccamaw,
lether he is a farmer, mer- miles from Whiteville, an ide
ant. lawyer, doctor, preacher place for fishing, boating ai
ntist, newspaperman, barber, or swimming.
ose in other walks of life, he
aks forward to the sale of to- Georgia Resident Was Fir
icco for his principal business To Grow Weed In Count
The tobacco crop furnishes (Continued Front Page 1)
tout 4-5ths of the total in- er was given a copy. Mr. EnVe
me o fthe county, which gives |son a,so had the press give t
i insight to the general reader bacco growing wide publicity ai
the tremondous amount of im- asked the Southern Tobac
irtancc which is attached to the Journal to send experienced t
bacco crop. bacco growei-3 into that territor
Business from year to year an- The result was that within thr
npates the tobacco season with years 30 000 000 pounda of tebac
sense of expectancy which was grown in the Coastal Pla
arks the difference between sue- section over a territory exten
ss and failure. Tobacco is king ing from Weldon, N. C., to SUi
Columbus couniy, ana every- ier, o. a. u was ai me ui;
>cly is ready, willing and anxious i when cotton was selling at abo
concede that honor to the Gol- 5 cents, when the turpentine bu;
n Weed. ness was about played out.
What Columbus county would happened to be one out of t!
> without tobacco is unpredict- hundreds of young men who we
>le, but one and all can be sure1 into the Eastern part of Nor
/One thing?that it's a sight Carolina to instruct the tobac
tter off by reason of the flour- growers. I was located at Whil
hing tobacco markets and the ville and was the first to grc
bacco crops than it would be tobacco in that section. There a
ithout them. now four tobacco markets
that county (Columbus), a
'hiteville Tobacco Market Whiteville is now an imports
Is Anticipating Record tobacco market. At that time t
Breaking Season In 1939 court house was the only bri
(Continued From Page 1) building in the county. There w
e located in the business sec- not a bank in the county a
an. one mile south of the court- there was not a farmer in t
>use, within a radius of three county who had a two hoi
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o- wagon. Flour was cheap but we IB
v- did not get any biscuits except 9H
ht on Sunday mornings when the [H
a- preacher happened to visit us. 9|
to I can remember distinctly when jH
n, it was thought that tobacco could H
12 not be grown profitably east of |H
al Raleigh." ^5
id The combined production of B
bright leaf tobacco last year in jn
I the territory served by the Atlan- B
st, tic Coast Line was approximately B
\ 422.000.0u0 pounds. B
T_ Has this chop been a blessing B
0_ or a curse ? On the whole, I H
, would say it has been a decided B
id i an
c0 blessing to the Caroliuas and to H
the nation. Of course, we still B
i have some Unwise fanners who
5' j plunge in planting tobacco just H
ee, as they may have plunged in H
co j planting cotton. These one crop B
in farmers are hopeless optimists B
j. and there seems to be no cure B
n- for them They always expect to B
ne | make a "killing". On the other B
ut hand, the farmer who supports B
i his tobacco crop with supple- B
I mentary crops and livestock lias 3H
llL, a small gold mine in his main SB
nt money crop under normal condi- 9
th,tions- 9
co If you will permit me to do so B
:e- I desire to call to the attention H
>w of your loaders a series of tobac- B
re c6 articles prepared by an author- fl
in ity on tobacco. E. G. Moss, To- B
nd bacco Experiment Station, Oxford, B
nt N. C., published in the Progres- H
he sive Farmer, commencing in the S
ck January, 1939, issue and still run- B
as ning. These articles by Mr. Moss B
nd contain a wraith of valuable In- B
he formation for Carolina tobacco B
se growers. B
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