Proposed Cotton Program
Will Run Next Four Years
MINTON BEACH. JR.
Beach Urges
Large Vote
By MP^TON BEACH, JA.
President, N. C. Peanut
Growers Association
As president of the NorthCar-
olina Peanut Growers Associa
tion and as a producer of peanuts
for many years, I urge every
peanut grower to go to the polls
on November 23 and cast their
vote for a continuation of the
peanut marketing quota program
for the years 1966, 1967 and
1968.
I know of nothing that a peanut
farmer can do that is more im
portant to his personal economy
and the economy of the peanut
producing counties of NorthCar-
olina than for him to do all with
in his power, not only to vote
himself, but to see that all of
his tenants, or anyone else who is
eligible to vote in the peanut
referendum on November 23rdto
vote.
I am confident that with the ex
ceptionally fine crop, both from
the standpoint of quality and pro
duction, that we have produced
this year that without a support
program the price of peanuts in
the market place wouldhavebeen
close to one-half the price which
we are receiving today which
would be about 6 1/2 cents a
pound.
I am sure that under the pres
ent operating and farming condi
tions that the peanut farmers re
ceiving such prices would be
thrown into bankruptcy. We have
not had surplus peanuts produced
in the Virginia - Carolina area
in very many of the years in
which the support program has
been in operation; however, in
those years in which surplus pea
nuts were produced, it has been
strongly evident that without the
price support program disas
trously low prices would have
occurred.
I have heard it said by some
farmers, “the vote will carry,
why should I go vote?” A man
who makes this statement has
really not been doing much think
ing, it takes two-thirds of those
voting to vote favorably in order
that the vote will carry and aper-
son intending to vote yes who
stays home could well be classi
fied as a vote against the pro
gram. Furthermore, our farm
programs have to be supported
by the legislators in Congress
in Washington and one of the
great yardsticks which they use
in measuring farmer interest in
commodity programs is the num
ber of eligible voters who come
out and vote as well as the number
who vote for the program,
I urge and plead with every
peanut grower who enjoys receiv
ing 11 cents to 14 cents per pound
for their peanuts to not only go
to the ASCS polling places on
Nov. 23 and vote for the pro
gram but to make sure that he
carries someone else with him
to the polls who can also vote.
Better still, use his c..r and
haul people to the polls as long
as there is a single eligible
voter within the community that
he knows of who has not voted.
Many Forest
Fires Caused
By Hunters
JACKSON — County Forest
Ranger Leroy Wheeler noted this
week that there has been a sharp
increase in thenumber of hunter-
caused forest fires.
These fires are apparently be
ing caused by both hunters smok
ing cigarettes and hunters trying
to “smoke” game from hollow
trees, he stated.
A new influx of hunters is ex
pected as additional seasons for
most game animals and birds
open within the next few weeks.
Because of the dry, hazardous
conditions of the woods, Wheel
er requests that hunters be par
ticularly careful that all cigar
ettes and matches are dead before
they are thrown away. He also
asks that no warming fires be
started in the woods until a gen-,
eral rain falls in the county.
RALEIGH - Roanoke-Chowan
area farmers will vote on No
vember 23 for a new cotton pro
gram which will run for four
years. A two-thirds favorable
vote will be required in order to
put the new cotton program into
effect next year. If growers fall
to approve the marketing quota
for cotton in 1966, federal price
and Income support will only be
available to those who plant vdth-
in the allotment and only at a lev
el of 50 per cent of parity. If
quotas are approved, the cotton
program as provided in the Food
and Agriculture Act of 1965 will
go into effect.
Choices
A wide range of choices will
be available to cotton producers
under the 1965 act if quotas are
approved. There are several
choices related to planting or not
planting cotton allotments. A
farmer may sell his allotment
without having to sell farmland.
He may lease his allotment for
a period not to exceed four years.
He may release it under the an
nual release and reapportion-
ment provisions of earlier leg
islation. He may replace it in
a cropland adjustment program
for five to 10 years, providing
this opportunity is available in
his county. He may want to plant
all or a portion of his allotment.
General Provisions
1. The 16 - million acre min
imum national allotment remains
in effect.
2. Annual release and resqi-
portlonment remains in effect. If
a farmer releases his allotment
next year, he will receive diver
sion payments on 12 1/2 percent
of the released acreage. The re
maining 87 1/2 per cent of his
released acreage would be avail
able for reapportionment,
3. The support price next year
has been set at 21 cents per
pound at average location, in
North Carolina the support price
on Middling one-inch cotton will
be approximately 21 1/2 cents.
4. For the first time farmers
will be able to sell their allot
ments within their county or
make lease contracts for periods
not to exceed four years. If the
cross-county-line lease or sale
referendum is approved on No
vember 23, producers will then
be able to lease or sell their al
lotment to farmers In other coun
ties within the state. ;lf this as
pect of the referendum Is disap
proved in any county, thenasim-
ilar referendum will be conduct
ed again the following year.
5. The cropland adjustment
program allows farmers to make
five to 10 year contracts with
the government to take out of
production all the acreage of
at least one surplus commodity.
Cotton may be excluded from the
cropland adjustment program in
1966 provided such request is
made by the ASCS county com
mittee.
6. For purposes of partici
pating in the program, farms are
divided Into large and small
farms. Small farms are those
with lo acres or less of effec
tive allotment (after release and
reapportionment) and other
farms where the projected yield
from the effective allotment is
3600 pounds or less. All other
farms are classified as large
farms.
Large Farms
At least 12 1/2 per cent re
duction from the farm acreage
allotment as established after
release and reapportionment is
required in 1966 If price supports
or other program benefits are
desired. Under the minimum di
version situation producers
would receive price supports on
cotton produced, price support
payments on domestic allotment
(which is 65 per cent of their ef
fective allotment), and diversion
payments on the 12 1/2 per cent
of allotment diverted. The price
support payment is computed at
the rate of 9.42 cents per pound
times the projected farm yield
times 65 per cent of their effec
tive allotment. Diversion pay
ments are computed at the rate
of lo 1/2 cents per pound times
the projected yield times the
acreage diverted, which in this
case is 12 1/2 per cent of the ef
fective allotment. Diverted acre
age must be used for conserva
tion purposes and not planted to
other income - producing com
modities.
Additional diversions above the
12 1/2 per cent minimum will
be permitted up to a level where
total diversion will hot exceed
35 per cent of the effective al
lotment. In this case, price sup
port payments will be available
on 65 per cent of the effective
allotment and diversion payments
on acreage diverted.
Small Farms
Small farms will not be re
quired to reduce plantings be
low their effective allotment in
order to qualify for price sup
port payments and diversion pay
ments. Small farmers planting
all of their allotment will receive
price support payments on 65
per cent of their allotment and'
diversion payments on 35 per
cent of their allotment, even
though no acreage Is actually
diverted. If small farmers elect
to reduce their plantings, they
will receive additional diversion
payments on acreage actually
diverted not to exceed 35 per
cent of their effective allotment.
Ncolhamptra COonty
Soil
Conservation
Notes
By JOHN B. LITCHFIELD
Soil ConservatiiMi Service
PRISONERS PAINT MURAL
DEDHAM, Mass. - Eight men
have painted a 30 by lO-foot
reproduction of Da Vinci’s mas
terpiece, The Last Supper. The
mural graces a wall at the Nor
folk County House of Correction
and Jail. Only one of the eight
men Is left, because the others
were parol^ before the painting
was completed.
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Mitchell E. Lewis, of Roanoke
Rapids, has applied to the North
ampton Soil and Water Conserva
tion District for help in working
out a conservation farm plan. He
says control of erosion is one of
the problems he wants to tackle
first. He plans to build parallel
terraces to break the slopes Into
short sections and set a pattern
for contour farming.
Soil Conservation Technicians
H. R. Bryant and J. F. Britton,
of the Soil Conservation Service,
staked 6000 feet of parallel ter
races and two grassed water
ways for J. R. Vaughan last week.
Mr. Vaughan built terraces on the
field several years ago aspartof
his conservation farm plan. The
new parallel terraces will re
place the old ones, which are now
out of date. They will permit a
better row arrangement and use
of larger equipment.
Mrs. Mary L. Joyner, of Lew-
That Nov. 23 Referendum
Needs Vote Of Everyone
Much has been said and much for acreage control and market-
could be said about the need for ing quota program which the
the peanut and cotton farmers to peanut and cotton farmers will
show up at thepollslnlargenum- be allowed to vote upon on that
bars on November 23rd to vote day. Actually the only thing that
should need to be said Is the day
of the referendum is November
23rd. That should be enough to
Inspire all growers and all peo-
iston, has been carrying out her
conservation farm plan by stages
over a period of several years.
TMs has included several prac- p;reUglMe"‘irvrte“;o mair
ttos filled lo Ihe needs of the ^.“eeS^etort lo™S lo lh”?ons
T ‘..t T «« u J cast their vote for the pro-
of O n.f V “'5 “S” 'lieok to make
of parallel terraces were laid a,,.,
equipment. Terraces that were forlmialely, this is hot the case.
h lit a.«E vRnr have nalH nH wolT - ......v/.
The history of the American
people, which includes farmer
attitude, Is that when things are
going smoothly and we are all
built last year have paid off well
in protecting the land in conven
ient field arrangement.
Something to think about - one
inch of topsoil off of one acre generally satined with the way
weighs 162 tons. our program is being conducted,
* * * we take the attitude that the pro-
Eugene W. Brown, of Rich gram is well liked, nobody will
Square, is revising his conserva- vote against it; therefore, those
tion farm plan. The revision cov- who do vote will pass it and
ers additional land he has bought there’s nothing to worry about,
along with some changes in the This actually may be the case
original plan. but there Is no room for this
He says the CutawhiskieCreek attitude when a program that is
Watershed project has made it so vital to the actual livelihood
possible for him to apply conser- of the peanut farmers is at stake,
vation practices more effectively There are two very good rea-
than he could before. Until this sons why every person eligible
project was completed he had no to vote should go and cast their
outlet at all for drainage, ballots on November 23rd: (1) If
PAGE S TIMES-NEWS, Rich Square, N. C.. Nov. 18, 196S
more than two-thirds of those
eligible and voting do not vote
for the program, it will be dis
continued as we now know It;
(2) a small vote indicates to the
law makers in Washington a lack
of Interest on the part of the
farmers In their programs and
dangerously attects farm lead
ers to get legislative support In
Washington on general farm pro
grams. As a matter of fact, it
actually gives the opponents to
farm programs a good arguing
point, indicating that farmers are
not Interested in legislative pro
-ams.
It seems that in order to get
farmers to turn out in large num
bers at the polls it is necessary
to make them mad about some-
^Ing, and I only wish I knew how
to make all the peanut -farmers
mad enough to take out the time
it takes to go and vote. I know
of no farmer who, if he thought
someone was breaking into his
home to rob him of money he had
stored there, but what would pro
tect his belongings with his life
or even go so far as to murder
the intruder; yet, here we stand
as peanut growers facing a ref
erendum which, If not carried by
the necessary two-thirds major
ity, would rob us of one-half erf
our Income from peanuts next
year. Our peanuts under the
present program are supported
this year at 11.7 cents per
pound. If the program failed to
carry In theNovember 23rdelec
tion, the price support under the
present law would drop to 50 per
cent of parity, v*lch is just a
little more than one-half the
price of supports this year, and
this would only be available to
those producers who planted
within their allotment. Those
planting In excess of their allot-
Timber Owners
Con Get Assist
JACKSON - The N. C. Forest
Service again offers assistance
with timber problems to North
ampton County timber owners
this year. Assistance includes
help with insects and diseases of
timber, sales, ad Vice, timber
management, and pulpwood and
sawtimber marking.
The Forest Management spe
cialist for this area is Robert L.
Tyson located in Rocky Mount.
Tyson is a graduate of N. C.
State University in Forest Man
agement.
Anyone d e s iring any forest
management service can contact
Leroy Wheeler, Northampton
County Ranger at phone LE-4-
3131 or can write Mr, Tyson,
direct at P. O. Box 88, Rocky
Mount,
molt would receive no support.
If we can’t get mad enough to
vote, then let us reverse the sit
uation and be h^py about the
price support program - get all
of our eligible voter neighbors
and joyfully go to the polls and
cast all the possible ballots In
favor of continuing the program
for 1966, 1967 and 1968 and thus
show our joyful ^predation of
the program to the Congress In
Washin^on v/ho has made it pos
sible. It Is much easier to retain
the program with full support at •
the polls than It is to try to get
the program restored if, through
our own negligence, we let It get
defeated.
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NOW IS THE TIME TO FAIT FAKrteUlAK. ATTBNTIO^ to
SEED PEANUTS AND SOIL SAMPUN6S
Plan Aheod
(1) Select your peanut fields carefully.
(2) Omit unproductive oreas.
(3) Avoid fields that were in soybeans lost year.
(4) Make sure that you plant your full allotment.
Soil Somplet —
(1) Now is the time to select peanut fields for next year's crop.
(2) Take soil samples as soon os possible and submit to soil testing loborotory.
(3) Bring laboratory report by the office for review and discussion.
(4) Broadcast lime ond fertilizer according to recommendations.
(5) Cut and disc cotton and corn stalks as soon os crop is harvested.
(6) Break land as soon os possible.
Seed Peonufs —■
Check your peanut seed now to ovoid extra expense and stand problem next Spring.
(1) Have TZ test run soon to determine germination and energy value.
(2) Quality seed should hove germination 90% or better; 80% or better energy.
(3) Collect germination sample when seed ore token out of the curing house or from the hopper when
picked by stationary picker. Collect a handful from each bog or 100 pounds to moke sample. Mix
sample thoroughly and shell one pint to be used for test. Each lot of seed should be tested separately.
Remember the test is no better than the sample.
(4) Seed peanuts should never be stored at more than 10% moisture or less than 8% moisture. Excessive
moisture causes seed to deteriorate in storage. On the other hand, a low moisture content (below 7%)
will couse skin slippage and splits when shelled.
(5) Store seed in a cool, dry rodent free storage place.
(6) If your peanuts ore not suitable for seed purposes moke arrangements now for purchasing good seed.
(7) Place your order now for Foundation NC-2's, NC-5's, and Florigiants.
Know Your Vorietioe —
Florigiont—runner—early maturing (skin color pale)
Vo. 56.R— runner—medium early variety
Vo. 61-R—runner—medium early variety
NC-1—bunch—intermediate variety
NC-4X—bunch—intermediote variety
NC-2—semi-bunch—intermediate variety
Go. 119-20—bunch—late variety
NC-5—semi-runner—late variety (skin color blond)
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