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THE DANBURY REPORTER. Established 1872 Volume 66 Danbury, N. C., Thursday, January 12, 1939. Approved Practices For Growing Tobacco Plants By L. T. Weeks, Assistant Exten sion Tobacco Specialist. Farmers have realized that everything they can do to make a cigarette type of tobacco will mean more money when the crop 1b sold. Naturally at this season of the year they are beginning to think how they can manage their tobacco plant beds so that this step in the production of a crop will be an aim toward producing cigarette tobacco. First of all, to have a success ful crop it is essential to have thrifty, healthy plants when the proper time for transplanting arises. There are a number of conditions which may cause plant bed failures which are as follows: (1) Poor plant bed sites, (2) poor preparation of the soil, (3) im proper fertilization of the beds, (4) planting on old beds that are diseased, (5) use of diseased seed Md (6) improper handling of the bsda during the growth period of plants. t tfl *)-* VARIETIES The varieties that are planted should be considered very serious ly because different varieties are adapted to different soils and cli matic conditions. The variety se lected should be capable of pro ducing a quantity of high quality | cigarette tobacco. Some of the, leading varieties that may be used | in the flue-cured belts of North | I Carolina are White Stem Orinoca, I Virginia Bright Leaf, Jamaica i Wrapper, Gold Dollar, Cash and i Bonanzo. i If the grower saves his own j seed, he should be careful in sel- j ecting a broad leaf plant with small fibres alternating along I j with the midrib and with the i leaves properly spaced on the j stalk. Tobacco of this descrip- i tion usually produces a better j cigarette type than plants with' narrow leaves or a plant with I 4>roact leaves, large stems and I fibres. It is also necessary that the seed be cleaned. This will eliminate a lot of light and faulty seed that would cause a very low germination. Farmers may have their seed cleaned at the county agent's office or by the Vocational Agriculture Department. When seed are purchased it is advisable to get certified seed be cause they are absolutely safe in every respect. PLANT BED SITE Where possible and pratical select a new site each year for the tobacco plant b'd or use at i least a four-year rotation for the bed. This will help to eliminate the damage done by diseases that ' attack the snail p'mts in the bad. The loaation of the bed should be well-drained x Ith a a—thera or scfctbwestern ex- posure, selecting a site of a loamy type of soil and, if possible, near a water supply. If it is neces sary to use an old bed site, it is advisable to burn or sterilize by steam. SIZE AND PREPARATION OF THE BED One hundred square yards of bed will normally produce from 10,000 to 15,000 plants. An ex cess of bed space should be seed ed in an effort to insure and ad equate supply of plants. It is al so advisable to have several small beds, widely separated, on the farm rather than to have one large bed. By doing this is gives a chance for some of the beds to escape some disease or other con dition that might be detrimental to the plants. All of the debris such as stumps and roots, should be removed from the bed where the site is selected in a wooded area. The soil should be pulver ized finely by use of implements ♦Mti are practical for the farm use, taking precaution not to break the soil too deeply. Three to four inches is usually suffic ient. FERTILIZATION OF THE BED It has been proven that under normal conditions where 200 pounds of a 4-8-3 mixture for 'each 100 square yards is used will Jgive satisfactory results. How iever, if a low grade of fertilizer is used, it is advisable to supple ment with 50 to 100 pounds of cottonseed meal mixing the meal ! thoroughly with the soil. The j fertilizer should be broadcast on the bed and mixed with the upper 3 or 4 inches of soil. A light 'sprinkle of hog pen manure may |be used to an advantage by ap plying it on the soil in the i manner of the fertilizer. How ever, avoid the use of any manure | that might contain tobacco i leaves, stalks, or trash because there is a possibility of infesting the new bed with a disease that might live over on the old tobac co. After the plants germinate and start to growing if they do not appear to be growing as thrifty! as they should, a light applica-1 tion of nitrate of soda may be ' used. Apply this on the bed on a j wet day or late in the afternoon.' Use about 4 ' a 6 pounds per 100 square yards "■.id be sure that not any of the - da is left on the leaves of the plai s. If t! ~ -.lanto are so laithat i? rei on them, it may be removed ♦n't- ( ing a small limb or bush v!i" grown leaves on it and bir lightly over the plants wiiho injury to tliem. SEEDING THE BED (Continued on Psg«3.) ( New Gym Opens At Sandy Ridge Other News Sandy Ridge, Jan. 10—The I opening of the new gymnasium at Sandy Ridge high school Fri- j day night was a great success, j j Brunswick and oyster slew, j drinks and pies were sold to a ' | large crowd. String music was I furnished by Carter - White i 11 string band of Mayodan. An olu i time square dance was given with | local people participating.' The first ' ' ball game ever played in the new gymnasium was a very interest ing one, between Pine Hall and j i Sandy Ridge. The score for the ; . girls being 37 and 16 in favor of . Pine Hall; boys 31 and 19 in . favor of Sandy Ridge. PERSONALS 1 Misses Olive Joyce and Bertha Venable spent Saturday night' ■ with Miss Esther Dodson. i Mr. and Mrs. Luther Wall and 1 daughter, Emrogene spent the week-end with relatives in Liber -1 ty. Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Hawkins ! and family were the dinner guests 1 of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Priddy of Danbury Sunday. Mr. Wilbert Wood is confined to his bed with tonsilitis his friends • will regret to learn. Mr. and Mrs. Lovis Joyce of Madison spent Friday night with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Joyce. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Maxey were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. j \ Hilary Chapman Saturday night. I Mr. and Mrs. Lovis Joyce were ! the week-end guest 3of Mr. and! Mrs. Clint Dodson. J. M. Hawkins attended a meet ing for fertilizer salesmen in Mt. j Airy Thursday night. Mrs. J. M. Hawkins and Mrs. I | | Hilary chapman visited Mrs. Jen nie Ward, who is ill, Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Dodson have moved into their new home near Prestonville. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Duncan visited Mr. and Mrs: J. M. Haw-' kins Sunday night. Mrs. Bill Ward has returned to! High Point after having spent some time with Mrs. Sam Ward. 1 High Point To Be Restrained By Yadkin County Yadkin county commissioners I have announced that they will jsue for a restraining order this i week to prevent High Point from | erecting a power dam in Yadkin I county which will cost the tax payers of the county many thou sands of dollars fry destroyng tax- ' able property. It has been ruled by the courts that a municipal 1 corporation can seize proj.ei ty in ' another county or city without ' i"?ving any taxes on the conflsca- 1 i area. " * 1 G. H. Alford visited Raleigh this week. l!r. Alford is head of the federal crop and feed loan ' agency cSf the county. ] Tobacco Control And Where ■ Editor Reporter: Since the tobacco farmers spoke !in no uncertain terms on Decem i ber 10 on the question of the so ! called tobacco control act, it is up to someone, and preforably the grower, to figure out some | way that will be beneficial to thai great army of farmers who grow tobacco. It seems there are many ways of looking at the results of j this election. One view that is j held by no small group is that the farmer does not know what he ; wants and therefore changes his mind from one year to another. Another view is that the farmers resented the method of adminis tration of the control law, rather than the principle of reduction. Another group, and a rather sizeable group it is, that did not object to the principle of the law, and neither did they object to the administration of the act but opposed it on the ground that the actual results in the law and its administration did not actually control and therefore did not help up the price when the tobac co was put on the market. Each of these groups have their argu ments and they are not timid in presenting them. Many good points are being brought out from the contentions of all these groups and here is hoping that much good will finally be derived i from this exchange of ideas. With : tliis in view I wish to present a j few facts that will have to be j taken into consideration before any new system can be devised to i actually help the faimer. j In the first place it is a fact that when the farmers voted to control the 1938 crop they did not know much about what they were voting for, much less any thing about the manner of its ad ■ ministration. They were voting with a hope and that was about i all most of us knew about it. Then ; when the 1938 crop was harvest ed and nrepared for the market, i he was not hoping then for he j knew he had one of the finest j crops of tobacco that had ever been grown in these parts. How ever, when he put his crop on the | market he finally observed, ac ' cording to government reports, the price did not average as well as in 1937, with no control. He also discovered that the man who totally disregarded the act in hif. planting was able to sell his crop | by merely purchasing of cards at 1 a price of from one to 4 cents a lb. i Moreover there was little difficul ty in finding surplus cards on the market. This item of the system could'nt mestics and foreign production tobacco. This on the fase of it be approved or justified by ever, those who had received a surplus of poundage, and it doubtless con tributed small amount to the defeat of the act. Another phano of the whole set up that seems to bothering '.ho minds of some of our agriculture 'MEAT CANNING ? | DEMONSTRATIONS LADY EXPERT COMING lO : j WALNUT COVE ANl> KIM. | JANUARY 16-17—PUBLIC IX- I VITED. ; 1 j Mis. Chas, Cloaninger, repre sentative of the Ball Jar Co., will give two meat canning demonstra tions in Stokes county, as follows: At Walnut Cove high scliou! economics laboratory on Monday January 10, 1939. at 1:30 p. m. At King woman's club house on Tuesday, January 17, 1939, at 1:30 p. m. i ! These meetings have been ar ranged by Miss Ellen Jenkin >, Stokes home demonstration agent, and the public is cordially invited 'to attend them. | Mrs. Cloaninger is a graduate of Winthrop College. She taught j home economics for several , years, supervised a school can | ning kitchen, and has given can ning demonstrations in coopera tion with the Farm Security Ad ! ministration in South Carolina. Will Thomasville Invoke The Dam? _____ It is reported that the city of Thomasville is interested in the 1 huge hydro-electric possibilities |of the Dan here, and may at an , | early date take over the project, ito furnish lights and power to j Thomasville. j Recently High Point selectej the Yadkin instead of the Dan , i J for its power, and has already started work on the project to insure the proponed loan or grant from the federal govern ment. H. M. Joyce has been quite iii recently ai his home here, lie i'i | suffering with a deep cold. leaders whose views were posi tively expressed and widely J quoted was the question of do mestic and (??????) production i .and its influence on price. In 193:: the United States was producing all but 16 per cent, of the flu cured tobacco in the world. In 1937 other countries were produc ing 47 per cent, of the flu cured tobacco. This on the pace of it looks as if the time is rapidly ap l proaching when we will have to | consume in the United States practically all the tobacco that we grow. When this time arrives: we will be trying to lift ourselves with our own boot straps. There fore, according to the State Col-' ! lege economists, we need some of- j ficial that is sufficiently interest-' ed in the tobacco farmer to ar-' range trade agreements with p few nations by which we could i trade a few million pounds of to- j bacco for a few million yards of j silk and pounds of rubb r. Itr. a I big qur.it: m for the farmer to have to pay tf'c price •'lone. So lets have have yov 'let.. It ma'- be just the thin, ieed. I -fully, N. S UJCAK. Number 3,354 COLUMBUS BOYLES JI DIES AT KING > KIV« FAKMKKS MAKING . j FKUFA RATION S FOK 1939 | ( HOP—AUSTIN GARNFK TO 111 ILD—OTIIIK NKWS OF ! KING. 1 , King, Jan. 11 Tie wiutlur wa.3 " fine here last week. People going ' in shirt sleeves on the streels 1 made it look like good old sum i mer time. : Joseph E. Huffman of Thomas . 1 ' , ville has accepted a position us manager of the Cut Rate Furni ture Company on Depot Street. ' Mr. Huffman has moved his fami -1 ly here. Garfield Dose has leased a farm near High Point and will move 'his family there. Albert Boles of Monroe, Va., is | spending a fortnight with his brother, Rill Boles, in Five Forks, l just south of town. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Shore of Tobaccoville are on a trip to Florida. They expect to be gone about six weeks. There is some improvement in the condition of Mrs. John Mc ! Gee, Who has been quite sick at her home here for several days. Austin Garner is preparing to erect a new home on Dan River ' i street. Acf.ua! construction will be commenced within a few days. Edwin Jessup, who sold his farm just north of town a few days since, has gone to Alabama to look for a location. | Holbin Johnson, poultry fancier of Mizpnh, v.r.s a business visitor , here Saturday. i Farmers in tin's section are be ginning to r—v. plant beds in preparation f>n another tobacco crop. Odensei Ki.ight of Newark, New Jersey is visiting relatives here. Mr. Height was t eared here. The stork had another light week's work, only two births be ing recorded. Tiiev were: To an,j Mrs. T. G. New. Jr., a ,liter and to Mr. and Mrs. P.oscoe Thomas, a daughter. Worth Kiger of the United State Army, stationed at. Fort Bragg, is spending a furlough !with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. jPiercesoa Kiser. i Columbus Boylos, aged G7, died at his home near the Val Boylcs .store Tuesday from a heart at tack. He had been in bad health for some time. The deceased, I who was i tobacco grower, is | survived by several sons and | daughters. The funeral service, j which was in charge >' Rev. E. jT. Sims and Rev. L. i ')urrus, [was conducted at Mor OHvi j Church Wednesday nft'rn'-. i r.t [two o'clock and buri Mlowed in j the cliureh cemetery. Marjorle Pepjx , v ho has t en i >ll at th-» Baptjaf hospital, Wins 'on-Salem, since i, „ ot per eptibly improved, tl «ugh she is resting well.
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