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r PAGE F?" Crutchfields \ Ready For Mi Crutchfield Brothers Again Will Operate One Of Whiteville's Most Spacious Warehouses EXCELLENT FORCE ON FLOOR, IN OFFICE Operators Of Warehouse. Have Been Unusually Fortunate In Getting Men With Wide Experience For Key Positions "This load? . . . Sure I'm going to sell it at Crutchficld's!" Year after year, when the marketing season rolls around, prominent tobacco growers utter just such statements. This year heralds the opening of another successful season for Cmtchfields, as there has been little | change in the sales force that I has served Crutchfield patrons for the past several years. For many years, the Crutchfield brothers, Raymond and Gaither, have successfully run the Crutchfield warehouse and their long list of farmer friends has lengthened immensely. Today, they are considered two of the greatest tobacconists in the | business. Along with them will be Frank I .drown who possesses a prizi I record of many years of valu- j able experience. Mr. Brown has! been associated with Crutchfield's Warehouse for many years and needs no introduction to the tobacco growers of this county and of surrounding communities. Raymond has been actively en- j gaged in the tobacco business for over 14 years and has chalked I up a neat record, which has readily placed him at the top. Gaitiier, the younger of the two, | is also rated as one o fthe best I warehousemen in the healm of J tobaccoland and has played a; prominent role in the success of j Crutchfield's. Their winning per- j sonality and squarfe dealing has covered the mammoth floor of j their warehouse with golden j weed for many years and prom- j ises to do the same in the current season that opens next week. Very little change has been j made in the warehouse force for the coming year. VV. M. Williams I will begin another year with1 Crutchfields as floor manager. Mr. Williams has been with Crutchfields for a number of i years and has made a good nameI tor himself. Oscar Phelps will assist him as assistant floor J manager. To round out a policy J of excellent 24-hour service, E. B. Coleman will act as night j floor manager. E. L. (Jimmie) Morgan returns' to greet his many farmer friends j with that familiar babble that I the farmer deciphers as "more j money." Jimmie has packed away j over 12 years of practical experience and is considered one of the 1 best experts in the auctioneering business. In the office, a new man toi Crutchficld s but not to the dook- | keeping profession takes over the , book-keeping post while two veteran assistants back him up. The new man is Ed. E. Watts and his two assistants are Miss Inez Harrelson and Lacy Brame. There has been a shake-up in the bookman's position for the past several years at Crutchfield's, but this year brings a man of credited experience to the floor?B. L. Jeffords. John Dunn will be back to take over as clipman again this year. C. E. Williamson, Jr. and B. L. Jeffords, Jr., will be on hand to weigh the many pounds of golden leaf that has already started pouring into Crutchfield's Warehouse?one of the most modern warehouses in Whitevillee that offers many conveniences to the tobacco farmer. Everette | Love will serve as ticket marker. Sanitation Helps Control Mosaic "Don't Carry Tobacco In Your Pockets When You Go Into A Field Or Seed Bed," Dr. Shaw Advises Rigid sanitation will aid farmers in checking the spread of tobacco mosaic, a disease that costs North Carolina farmers millions of dollars every year. The organisms that cause mosaic are often found in tobacco that has been prepared- for smoking or chewing, and they can be transferred easily to young plants in the field or seed bed. "Don't carry any tobacco in your pockets when you go into a field or seed bed," says Dr. Luther Shaw, plant pathologist at State College. "If you are a tobacco user, brush out your pockets and wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water." Dr. Shaw also urged growers not to transplant any plants that show symptoms of mosaic. For the first four to six weeks after transplanting, the field should be Warehouse Is || arket Opening | II Tobacco Growing TryingOccupation Hufham Tries To Depict j II i borne Ot The Headaches ; II Which Confront The Av- j 11 erage Tobacco Grower j II Of Area jll (By Joseph Hufham) Tobacco growing is one of the II most trying occupations on any I plantation. Due to the fact that II it comes off in the hotest part II ] of the summer months and must II (be harvested just at the right II j time, or the grower will suffer j II I I loss. In our travels during this har- II I vesting season, we have seen III I men coming down the tobacco II rows dripping with sweat. Sol- I diers in battle tank9 on the hot II Egyptian sands couldn't possibly I get much hotter. On many oc- I casions tobacco croppers fall out II I overcome by heat, or sunstroke. II I About the only time a farm- || | er is envied is when he goes into III the bank to get his check cash- I ed. From the day he goes to see I about getting a run on fertilizer I until he sells his golden weed I and gets his check, he needs I sympathy, and lots of cash. He I seldom gets much sympathy, I however. And if you think he III gets lots of cash, ask him. He might get a right good wad III of greenbacks the day he sells. I But there are oodles of bills to II De paiu, anu un juuic man vhv nil occasion there are those who get II insufficient funds to meet those I bills. I have been dealing with farm- I ers for several years. I have ob- I served their activities the year II around. They work. But they II know from the day they stick 11 the points of their plows into the j1 dirt, until they go into the bank I with their checks, that.they are I up against stiff problems. And I they are never certain of the I outcome, even after they get I their checks cashed. Certain times of each year I there is a "pay off" along the I Atlantic ocean coast line. Mil- I lions of birds congregate on the I beach to pick up tiny live things Mil washed ashore. And people of I nearly every walk of life congre- II gate on tobacco growers' paydays to see if some easy change II cannot be picked up. Need we go into the pointed I work of enumerating bill collec- I tors, on down through medicine I specialty salesmen, to the pink I lemonade and peanut venders? I Even banjo pickers show up fre- II quently and try their luck, with, I or without merit. However, the tobacco growers I look forward to this somewhat II like youngsters look toward the I coming of a circus. They get I their checks, which they have I worked for, they had brains to I work for it, and they don't have I to ask anyone how they should I dispose of it. Some are very wise, and have I money in the banks the year a- I round. Some seldom try for cred it at any time. Others blow the I whole wad in a single day (Or |||| wnatever portion of the wad they ||| get). But this is America. Amer- I ica lets Americans spend their I earnings as they please (though II a goodly portion must go for I taxes now) but in so going, com- 111 es a guarantee of continued free- I dom, liberty and equal rights to I But in a final analysis we I might sum it all up in these I words: The grower plants a lit- I tie 'backer to get a little money I to buy a little meat to get a II little strength to grow a little I 'backer. And keep this in mind: I many tobacco growers are seri- I ously considering the growing of III wheat as a chief money crop. gone over before each cultivation II and all diseased plants removed I and destroyed, he says. Cultivators, harness, men's II shoes, and other equipment may II spread mosaic over the field. Al- I jways cultivate or top healthy II plants before working with those II that have mosaic symptoms. Dr. Shaw pointed out that ||| black -shank can also be spread III by workstock, equipment, or man II (moving from one field to another, III especially when the soil is wet. II | Black shank can also be spread II by rain water washing from a II diseased field on to another just III below. On farms where black shank II has been found, don't use tobacco II ,trash in fertilizer, and don't use I | manure from the stalls of ani- I imals that have ranged on infes- II j ted ground. j, The National Industrial Confer- II ence board reports that living II costs in hoth the United States II and Great Britain are following I the same course as in World War I Seventy per cent of all chick- III ens examined by the State Col- II lege poultry disease laboratory II are infested with one or more II fowl diseases, says H. C. Gauger, III Extension poultry disease spec- III ialist. THE STATE PORT I ''OfC < ' *'v Mi ... ? \ [ AxiA' i wKWR3E? -.;.^ 1 I / 1 N / I roir V/ilU THEY AH Crutch ? 111 Raymond Crutchficl SALES 1 Floor Manager Assistant Night Floor Mgr Bookkeeper Assistant MI Assistant Bookman Clipman Weighmen C. Ticket Marker k PILOT, SOUTHPORT, N. C. burse Vm No aboi IfAYS GIVE ME i Sell Tobacco \ field's W WHITFV rl * m>v Jimmy morgan FORCE F wFnr W. M. WILLIAMS i?Virk OSCAR PHELPS rKlD, E. B. COLEMAN TUES ED. E. WATTS THIJF SS INEZ HARRELSON ..^T, LACY BROME MONI B. L. JEFFORDS WP^DF JOHN DUNN PR ID; E. WILLIAMSON, JR. B. L. JEFFORDS, JR. 1 cJES EVERETT LOVE THUF WEDNESDAY, AUGUST > Kj 11 Worried I at my Crop. I 1 sell it at I same old I [ELD'S \ GOOD PRICE" Vlth 4g^Warehouse amm h ? ' 1LLE j? i , <*3~ \F?. I ^Sr m flfc Gaither Crutchfield 9 IRST SALES I ^ESDAY, AUGUST 13 8 \Y, AUGUST 15 I DAY, AUGUST 19 S tSDAY, AUGUST 21 fl )AY, AUGUST 25 fl 4ESDAY, AUGUST 27 B \Y, AUGUST 29 fl DAY, SEPTEMBER 2 fl tSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 fl
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