flue-Cured Stock
Pile Exceeds 1945
By 21 Million Lbs.
Stocks Earmarked For Ex
port At Least 70,000,000
Pounds Less Than Last
Year
RALEIGH, .September 5? Flue
cured stocks of tobacco 011 hand
in the nation total 1.147,000,000
pounds ? an increase of 21.000,000
pounds over a year ago, accord
ing to W. P. Hedrick. tobacco
maiketing specialist with the N.
C. Department of Agriculture.
He pointed out. however, that
stocks of flue-cured tobacco ear
marked for export are at least
70,000,000 pounds less than at
this time in 1945, and consequent
ly holdings available for home
consumption indicate a gain of
much more than the 21.000,000
pounds increase shown by total
stocks. j
Basing: his statement on the
latest information compiled by ?
the Production and Marketing
Administration, he said that ex- 1
ports of flue-cured between July I
I last year and this past July I j
are expected to be at about the
same level as during' the cor
responding period a year earlier,
when exports amounted to ap
proximately 454.000.000 pounds on
a farm sales-weight basis.
Stocks of flue-cured decreased
340 000.000 pounds from April I
to July I this year. Declaring
that this decrease was much
larger than usual. Hedrick at- 1
tributed it to laige exports and
the continued high domestic con
sumption of cigarettes.
"Disappearance of flue-cured
tobacco during the fiscal year
froth July i. 1945. 'to July 1,' 1W6,
moved at an unusually high level, J
totaling 1,152,700,000 pounds,"
said Hedrick.
With regard to burley tobacco,
he asserted that dealers and man- j
ufacturers have around 982,000,- ,
000 pounds on hand, an increase
of 101,000,000 from July 1 last
year, and the highest lev?l on re
cord. surpassing the previous
high midsummer figure set in
1941 by 88,000,000 pounds. Be
tween Apiil and July this year
burley stocks decreased 118,000,
000 pounds as against 104,000,
000 for this peiiod in 1945.
The farm-sales weight of stocks
of all types of leaf tobacco on
hand in this country and Puerto
Rico total 2,850.000,000 pounds.
Stock amounted to 2.766,000,000
a year ago. Total stocks are
lower than April 1 stocks by
492,000,000 as compared with a
decrease of 407,000,000 pounds
for the same period In 1945.
? Holding^ of tile Commodity
! Credit Oil poWtion amount ta
only around 10,400,000 pounds as
compared with 81,800,000 pounds
a year ago. 'Practically all of
these stocks consist of flue-cured
varieties.
Jan de Printere of Antwerp
pi inted on paper with haild-earv- J
jed wood blocks in 141".
Texas in its war for independ
ence from Mexico used -a navy of
| four smaJl vessels.
Rovin' Reporter
(Continued from page 1)
the crop is in order just as soon
'as weather conditions will permit.
There is a great deal of hay be
ing produced in the county this
year and farmers who "have had
to face the cost of buying feed
are fully aware of the need of
saving all hay and grain they
pioduced this year.
I A great many tax notices have
j been sent out during the past
week, and while we were at Le
jland one afternoon a young lady
I friend asked us what an item
j meant. The item in question was
| for "debt service." It is just pos
sible that a great many other
people also wonder what this
debt service item means on their
tax notices. If that is the case it
will do no harm to attempt an
explanation here. A good many
years ago Brunswick county, and
most of the other counties went
heavily in debt. Some of the
money went for the building of
school houses, a very good use.
Still more went for roads and
bridges. It suffices to say that
the county woke up eighteen or
ninteen years ago to find accum
mulated debts of over two million
dollars hanging over it. That
debt had to be paid. It is being
paid gradually year by year. For
a good many years now all cur
rent county expenses have been
taken care of and each year,
thanks to the debt service item,
the county is slowly clearing from
debt.
This year's honey crop is a
good one despite the fact that
rains hindered the little workers
during the summer. The Mintz
boys, of Waccamaw township,
are putting a fine quality of the
product on the market, as is the
Whiskey Creek Apiaries in North
west township. Brunswick with
its great woodland area and
spring and summer flowers and
fruits is admirable for the pro
duction of honey on a commercial
scale. Keeping bees is a regular
procedure on many Brunswick
county farms.
Miss Elba Rave Hawes, of
| Shallotte, can get a free ticket
I to any show at the Shallotte
-NOTICE
Come And Fish
The old Butler Mill Pond at Longwood, N. C.?
Brunswick County, covering 150 acres has not been
drained in several years, is needing repairs and will
be drained and ready for fishing
SATURDAY, SEPT- 14, 1946
AT 11:00 O'Clock A. M.
You Will Be Allowed To Fish In Any Manner
(EXCEPT BY SEIN)
No Bag Limit
GOME EARLY and GET YOUR TICKET
Admission $2.00
J. B. WARD, Owner
His Farm Fields Are Factories
U. S. FARMERS have made our fields
into factories:
We live better than people in other coun
tries because our farmers get more out of the
soil.
The steel industry takes pride in the way
it has helped bring about this improvement in
farm practice. Tools of steel ? from the plow
share to the giant combine ? have multiplied
in number and increased vastly in quality;
^ Fifty years ago the typical farm in America
used about 3 tons of steel. Today the figure
is nearer W/2 tons:
K That is a measure of the modernization of
agriculture and an indication of the inter
dependence of steel and farming;
We no longer have separate "farm produc
tion problems" or "industrial production prob
-??*v nt<> _? ...
lems." We have but one set of problems for
everybody;
If strikes, for instance, restrict the sup?
ply of farm implements and supplies through
work stoppages, or make their coet prohibitive,
America i$ out of gear;
Anything which tends in this direction i9
bad for the farmer ? and fin ally for everybody;
Farmers know it; Everybody else should
know it; -vT
. t * * *
Steel mills need all the scrap iron and steel
they can get. The shortage is serious. Farmers
can get extra dollars and help increase steel
output by sending worn-out machinery, etc., on
its way to the furnaces. American Iron and
Steel Institute, 350 Fifth Avenue, New
York 1, N; Ys
The Institute has printed a booklet STEEL SERVES THE FARMER.
Write for a copy and it tall be tent gladly. t ''
theatre tills \v*M: hy presenting
a copy of this issue of The Pilot
at the ticket office. Miss Hilda
Muller, of Orton Plantation and
Southport, will likewise be given
a courtesy ticket to any shoto
at the Amuzu in Southport by
! presenting a copy of this issue at
the ticket office.
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j At VVoodburn, in Northwest
township, where a paved road
leads to Navassa from Route 74, |
theie are various signs that point
j the way to the biggest little In- '
jdustrial center in Brunswick. The
: signs are those of the F. S. Roy
j ster Guano Co., Swift Fertilizer
; Works, Armour and Company,
I Virginia-Carolina Chemical Com
pany and Gulf States Creosoting
1 Company. All of these plants are
| located at Navassa, along with
the Wilmington Box Company.
I Still another Industry that prob
ably soon will have signs placed
at this turnout from Route 74 is
the Smith-Douglas Fertilizer
Company. This concern, with the
most modern machinery that the
times will permit, Will soon be
mixing fertilizers at Navassa.
Our sympathies are entirely
I with the people in the county
I who want road improvement and
feel they are entitled to such.
Among the many distressing com
\ plaints that has reached us is
| one from the good people living
along the old Fayetteville Road
from above Woodburn to the Sam
I
Corbet store on the LeiHfid-Lin- j
vale road. Some 33 families live
on this road and several trionlhs j
ago they last their rural mail ser
vice " because the carriers simply
could not travel the route.
Through practically all of the
winter school children on this
road have to make long walks to
the nearest point that their buses
can reach.
The effects of the summer rains
were by no means confined to just
doing damage to country roads.
One day. this week we traveled
the paved Bell Swamp highway to
its junction with Route 17 at
Bell SSuramp. Although a fofcf of
state highway employees put thto
road in good condition early in
the spring. Travelers now find
many holes almost completely
through the paving. A pleasing
and Interesting sight along this
road was the nice little herd of
cattle belonging ? to G. K. Lewis.
A little further along the road
was the fine herd of white face
herefords belonging to Gilbert
Reid and Joe Ramsauer, Jr. At
Goley Lewis' the object of in
terest was the beautiful flock of
! turkeys that he and the Misus are
jiaising against Thanksgiving and
Christmas.
At the I ei'.r.d <Thc;i thJ
Piincipai Kinjr cjV.rj
tention to the hallway .J
listing the fovmer pupils uv!
service during the war
a total of 132 of the?? '
this number three, bj" ?
Douglas Potter and
(Hayes, all lost ihc-ir Uvti. \
have not cheeked up on J
schools In the county havu.,
! ques. but if such plaqurt eXu.
would very much appi?^
if some friend would writi I
i telling the number oi nan* J
plaques carry an?i also |1V,1
number and names of tht y
who lofct their lives "
"A STITCH IN TIME"
They weren't talking about automobile tires when that statement
was first made, but they might well have been. . . . With new tires
almost unattainable, it was never more important to keep your present
tires in the best possible condition. That one-inch cut in your tire
may be a four-inch blow-out next week if you don't have it repaired
now !
Join The Brunswick County Farm Bureau
VULCANIZE!
ODELL BLANTON
Expert tire repair
supply, n. c.
NOW IN PROGRESS
Brunswick Farm Bureau
Membeship Drive
Back the organization that backs thefarmer. Lend the support of your mem
bership and loyalty to the Nation's leading farm group. The bigger it grows, the
more powerful will be its influence. <
STRENGTH THROUGH ORGANIZATION
Do you think that it is fair for the farmers, who feed the population of the
United States, to be controled by organized groups that press for their own special
interests? The power of these groups came through organization. The power of
the farmer to stand up in his own defense must come through the same channel.
JOIN YOUR LOCAL FARM BUREAU
The FARM BUREAU is not something you pay money to here to be spent
away from home. One dollar of each membership stays in your local treasury to
help local FARM BUREAU activities. Our county has been assigned a quota of
only 302 members. Do your part to see that we reach that goal this week!
REMEMBER
BRUNSWICK COUNTY TOBACCO FARMERS have already been bene
fitted this year to the extent of over three hundred thousand dollars as a result of
FARM BUREAU efforts in getting the OPA to raise ceilings on Flue Cured I0,
bacco.
An unorganized group is a group that is without a voice in our government.
Help make the powerful influence of the farm population of our country an influ
ence for prosperity and progress.
JOIN THE BRUNSWICK FARM BUREAU THIS WEEK
Brunswick Farm Bureau
J. J. HA WES, Secretary.