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I PAGE 8 $90,000.00 Payroll Weekly In Count) In Weed Harvesl I It Is Estimated That The Harvesting Of The Columbus Tobacco Crop Costs Farmers Around $180,000 A weekly payroll of $90,000 isn't to be sneezed at in any county. "Yeah, but who the heck's got such a payroll" the T perennial skeptic immediately injK quires. (Experienced observers can forthwith reply that Columbus county has such a payroll during the tobacco harvesting season of about six weeks. Actual records show that there arc somewhere in the neighborhood of 6.000 barns for curing of ? tobacco in Columbus county. No one of these barns has been idle this year. It costs $15 labor to fill a barn of tobacco, which by a little elementary deduction, reveals that to fill the 6,000 barns in Columbus county each week (some of them are filled twice a week) requires a payroll in farm labor of about $90,000 weekly. Merchants of the county are able to notice the difference as soon as this farm labor money begins coming in, because the regular channels of commerce flow more freely. Unofficial estimates are that it costs something like $180,000 to i harvest the Columbus county to, bacco crop. Washington State now leads in | production of lumber, outdistancing Michigan. Scientists are puzzled over the source of nitrogen?essential to plant life?obtained by the few plants that grow on the gypsum dunes of White Sands National | Mounment in New Mexico. : 'ssss Toba< I = I ROB w [I] : i ai OUR FLOOR aver; LAST SEASON [f] ! It's The HIG1 tob; , ' FAIRN MARKET SERVICE . .. C robeso: A. E. GARRE' Sales Manager m < i > i"i' i ?'i' i? 'ii i?I* i mlSt i > iii i i i ' 1 This Month On the Farm gAPGUST^ | ! Sez Bolivar Pigg, h? $21, teihc: flT" "' SUfe ^? '0VC 3 tf0f' , '* 9lve$ u* everything that's set. . { '" ' An' nothin' bad as I can see." j I ? Sez Bolivar P., sez he. j, ' ftrwiM nw >?rr j-.'* *.??? *?. t'?? J August is a busy month on the ,be made of 10 pounds ground average North Carolina farm, so 1 limestone, 5 pounds steamed bone ! meal, and 2 pounds salt. Don't here are a few suggestions from State College specialists on var-' mix the minerals with the feed, ious summer tasks: but keep them in a separate comSWINE j partment where they will stay H. W. Taylor, extension swine dry. Good pasture is necessary j specialist, says hogs should have an(' shou.c be furnished, access to cool, shady places and a VETERINARY constant supply of fresh clean Livestock losses due to the con- j sumption of certain plants under [ water during the hot sultry days, of August. If natural shade is not conditions favorable to the form- j available, an artificial shade can ation of hydrocyanic acid are I be made of boards, brush, or large during drouth periods, says! straw. A good mineral mixture Dr. C. D. Grinnells, veterinarian j should be available to every hog of the State College Experiment I in the herd. A good mixture can Station. Chokebcrry, black cherry, ] :co ?Fai ESON COll AREHOU .WAYS A LEADER IN PRI ^GE $2 i AVERAGE That Puts Money In You - WE WANT TO SELL YOUR vCCO - YOUR MQ] > ? IN? 10N T Your Most Depends OPENS THURSDAY ~Al OURTESY . . . EXPERIENCE . . . HIGH N COUNTY WAR TT FAIRMONT , > e ' . t * THE STATE PORT PI and Johnson grass produce the si poisonous acid when their normal pi growth is stopped or retarded by sr adverse conditions such as drouth, pi druising, trampling, or cutting. To lo prevent livestock from becoming sj poisoned, eliminate these danger- j ous plants from your pastures and paddocks. Hydrocyanic acid pois-1 ol oning produces death quickly, al-' al though antidotes have been de- j ti veloped which give good results, j pi CATTLE j ti John A. Arey, extension dairy- j si man, advises farmers to prepare I pi their land now for winter grazing crops. Growers in the Upper Piedmont and Mountain section OI should seed these crops the lat- w ter part of August so that they a' may make sufficient growth be- rc fore cold weather sets in. st< AGRONOMY .. v< P< Enos Blair, extension agronom- rc 1st, has several suggestions for ,q farmers for the month of August. If crimson clover seed are to be sown in the hull, they should be in the ground before August ui 15. These seed should be scattered w between rows of corn, cotton, or tobacco, and covered lightly? m about a half-inch deep. Use 30 cli .J- ??* ota Votrh , K, puunua Ul ami av.v. ? .. , j w, Austrian winter peas, and cleaned m crimson clover seed may be sown re during the latter half of August Ti in growing crops such as corn, cotton, and tobacco. The best time ? to sow alfalfa is during the last week of August. Other suggestions are: begin filling silo as soon as the corn is well blazed; watch small grain in storage and j treat for moths and weevils when | necessary; and make plans for reorganizing farm with a good crop rotation system, to begin with your fall sown crops. DANDELIONS R. L. Lovvorn, agronomist in forage crop investigations, offers this suggestion: A 2 per cent solution by weight of copper nitrate, applied at the rate of 200 gallons of water per acre, is one of the best chemical mixtures known for the control of dandelions in the lawn or pasture. The spraying ?SS1 rmont INI I |i| SE 1 li ! ce !i' 370 r Pocket NEY CROP ^ | IM J : ! ; ible Market : JGUST 3rd i EST PRICES EHOUSE i I ; LEO LOFTIS Auctioneer. i?iiu ?iii i*i> i > I.' i < iii u iii i > I' i ?ii' i * h' i > iii i i i ??.? 1 i LOT. SO'JTHPORT, N. C. lould be done on a clear day, n referable in the morning-. For ir nail acreas, 1% pounds of cop- p ;r nitrate dissolved in 7 % gal- ei na of water is sufficient to | a >ray 1,000 square feet one time, fl PLANT DISEASES n Dr. R. Frank Poole, plant path- d ogist of the Experiment Station t< t State College, comes forth with lese suggestions on common ^ ant diseases: Spray your apple ees with two pounds of copper! p Uphate, plus two pounds of lime, j P lus 50 gallons of water to con- j ol common summer rot; spread j lions on wire or latticed boards vv ell above the floor in a dry 0 id well-aired place to prevent j0i >ts; give air to the tobacco in | tl orage when necessary to pre- J p mt moldy condition; knock j lach mummies caused by brown1 it from the trees to prevent serus blighting of the limbs; and ^ ck cowpeas when mature to event blackening and decay that ol mally follow periods of wet 111 eathcr. MILK SHAKES Here's a bit of advice from iss Ruth Current, State home u imrnst ration agent, on how to ;at the heat: Drink plenty of j ilk shakes, for they are not only freshing but nourishing as well, hey offer the food value of r< C( Pm f | Annou HO I j. I Thiir a m s. m FA] [ [ I i i DRIVE ! Mr. Farmer we cordi-1 t your tobacco crop with us [ warehouse, the latest ad fast-growing Fairmont 1* warehouse will be operate bacco men with long yea ed by one of the best w money could hire. Wheth load with us or not (we want you to come in and the good light and the [' ment of the scales, office) selling tobacco with us that each one of you ge | service and courteous tre FOR GOi i Hollii | C. A. BLANKEI t f t; t ? ii 6w>a>) aim ii a/ ? ' '.t ' T, lilk ar.d contribute more calories 1 the chocolate, caramel, fruit C ulp or syrup, and other ingredi- " nts that, may be added. Vanilla nd almond fxtracts make good avorers. Nutmeg and cinnamon lay be sprinkled on top of the rink. Always add a dash of salt j milk shakes and ether summer a links. Ecsides improving the A avor. salt also is needed to re- g' lace the large quantities lost in w respiration during hot weather, w re North Carolina's loss from boll is 'eevil in 1938 was the heaviest 0f f any cotton state, 26 per cent p, f the crop being destroyed by ra lis pest, reports the State De- da artment of Agriculture. Only ten states in the Nation [ ? iceived more in 1938 in govern-1 lent payments than North Car- [ 19 ina, reports the State Depact- M lent of Agriculture. Pl lir North Carolina ranked 11th last R' sar in the production of cot>n among the 16 major cotton reducing states, reports the' tate Department of Agriculture, j m 1 1926, when the state pro- j iced its largest cotton crop, it j zl( inked seventh among the major j be itton producing states. th n /*i n rr 1 II ^ 111 g * ?OF THE acco ?= s..Au IRM01 IN!! ' lly invite you to sell i in our new, modern Idition to the large, d?rket. This new :d by experienced tors of training, assistc.rehouse forces that er you sell your first i hope vou will) we 1 see our new house, convenient arranges, etc. You will enjoy because we will see ts good prices, good atment. OD SERVICE AND TheNt day W CSHIP Prop V t * WEDNESD Veed Farmers i Reason To E Columbus tobacco farmers have | se natural antipathy for Germany's J m riolf Hitler and all that his re-1 to me represents, but perhaps J re hat they are not acquainted | ^ ith is the fact that they have J al reason to dislike the fuehrer.! jj. For the Nazi leader not only I w a total abstainer from the use I of tobacco and its various by oducts, but has recently inaugu- 171 .ted a "state bureau against the m ingers of tobacco". All of which doesn't help the Hi >lumbus county tobacco farmer J uf Farmers desiring copy of the i 38 bulletin on "Analyses of ]ir ixed Feeds" should write the ISr iblication Division, North Caro-1 gp la Department of Agriculture, | ileigh. Pr re ? tis Sammy: Why do you call that of utt your baseball dog? Freddy: 'Cause ne wears a muzi, catches flies, chases fowls and ats it for home when he sees ce e catcher coming. w< rhe 0p< iiu f V Oil =? Ware} g.3,9i / WELCC \Ve want to take this m the tobacco farmers of th bacco with us in our new \ been very busy trying to completed for the opening have not been able to call of this section -s we had h ly we are sorry that we < personally and invite you it was impossible, howev? know that if you will sell 1 work just as hard to get your tobacco as if we had of meeting each of you p TOP PRICES TR1 !W foreht irietors I I *- ' v i / ; 'AY, AUGUST 2 eft! Have DoJ )islike HiJ 11 his tobacco on the r I arket, decreasing the air^M bacco exported, and /*' !? suiting in a large sUrplJj? With Hitler as the jnsff W^' azis recently opened a:.~;^B ide temperance sgainst ^^^B tobacco and aicohoi. H onths Nazis have ?*.. B oderation in smoking. in appeals to the Hit^'C^B itler who doesn't smoke , fl| > as the nation's model H Crop conditions in \or^7^H la on June 1 were K owers as "unusually ^Hjjr ite of the general dry evailing in the <date ir ports W. H. Rhodes, clne*Bj|i itician o fthc State Dcp^Js Agriculture. Applications for nses in England arc :jBp ;ek above a year ago. pUf1 9 wf h i n /v K z it l II g louse I ? .4. fiBK or. ml c. I >MEH I ethod of inviting a" ^Hv is section to sell to> warehouse. We have If1 get our warehouse of the market and 1 on all the farmers oped to do, natura - B couldn't see you al to sell with us, hu Ba sr wc want you J? ^Bo with us the.t we you best prices ??r had the opportunity ersonally. m. * H'1 t * US! I - msel E. H. FRfll: I H 61 s
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