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Good News of Cooperating Tobacco
Growers? V'- .
1 , What Kentucky I Doing K
STATING that Kentucky members
of the cooperative marketing. asso
ciation williet JJ5 cents a pound for
their tobacco,; as compared to 17 cents
a pound for the unor nized farmers
who compete with each other on the
outside market, Judge Robert W.
Bingham, leader of the Kentucky Bur
ley Growers Cooperative Association,,
last week thrilled a crowd of tobacco
farmers and business men -from east
ern North Carolina "wnich packed the
Wayne County courthouse to over
flowing. r ' 1
"As a result of the price received by
the Association members, we don't
have to try for signers any more, said
Judge Bingham. "We have to have
special men to . receive the outsiders
who want to join."
II. Hundreds of New Contracts, Com-
'y ing in.
A SCORE of pother meetings, held in
three' states during the. past . 10
days resulted in the arrival of hundreds
of new contracts at the Rafeigh head
quarters of the Association.
From the northern limit of the Vir
ginia tobacco area, where Oliver J.
Sands, general manager of the Asso
ciation, addressed a rousing meeting of
the Cumberland County farmers last
week, to Darlington County, S. G,
where every warehouse in the county
has signed up with tne marketing as
sociation, the campaign has' continued
to swell the Association membership
in three states.
According to the latest reports, 180
warehouses have now offered to sell or
lease at a great majority of marketing
points in North Carolina, Virginia, and
South Carolina. In this number are
included some of the largest tobacco
warehouses n the South. r
III. Strong Men to Manage Associa-
j ' tion Affairs
SINCE the appointment of Messrs. R.
R. Patterson, C B. Cheatham, and
F. D. Williams as managers of the
leaf department of the Association, the
at planting time, soy beans will give a
better stand than .cowpeas.
f 5. There are varieties of soy beans
that will mature seed much earlier
than the earliest varieties of cowpeas;
hence the soy bean can be planted
earlierand later than the cowpea.
. 6. On most soils, the soy bean is a
more certain crop for hay arid for seed
purposes than cowpeas.
7. It will produce much more grain
than will the cowpea.
&V The more fertile the soil, the more
grain the soy beans will produce,
whereas the cowpea under such condi
tions makes more vine and less peas.
9. The seed will remain on the
ground until November or December
offering will consist, of - 46 registered
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, NEW publication, Farmers Bulle- high grade cows. .The. Catawba Jersey -
- uu iuu, emuiea r reparation oi Dreeaers nave oeen pioneers m oreea
Peaches for Market," j ust issued by f ing and testing J ersey cows, i The vfirst
the United States Department of Agri- official testing done in the state was in
culture describes the methods of pre- a Catawba herd. ' The present - state r
paring the peach .crop for. market champion butterfat cow and four of
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der various' conditions. ductibn are owned, by Catawba breed- .
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Effective May 1, shippers of hog
and calves from Georgia, South Caro Jfitrate of Soda Ocr Host Effidect
una, North Carolina and Virginia may t.. - .
be furnished double deck freight cars. nitrogen-COTier
This will reduce the freight charges 'roR sometime I have been pointing out
nearly 50 per cent, as a double deck f that our farmers must pay more at-
car can accommodate as many nogs as tention to the form in which the nitrogen
in their fertilizers comes, because a
two ordinary cars.
The South Carolina Extension Ser
vice has authorized the establishment
of a radio station, the primary, purpose
of which will be to reach the farmers
with agricultural information and in
struction. The offices of the county
receiving sets. It is estimated receiv
ing sets sufficient to receive at any
point in the state may be put in for $25
to $50 according to quality, and these
would be well within" the means of
without rotting, thus giving a longer agents and the three district Extension
grazing period.
10. Since the soy bean is erejef' in
growth, and has no runners, it can be
more easily cut for hay.
11. The soy bean matures all of its'
fruit at once, and can therefore be har
vested by machinery, whereas the
cowpea must be harvested by hand
and later threshed by machinery.
12. Soy beans will collect more nitro
gen from the atmosphere than will the
cowpea, thus being a better soil
improver. 13. Soy beans are not troubled by
weevils and other insect pests which
injure cowpeas.
14. The soy bean is not so. susceoti- Buncombe. Mav 6: Madison. May 8-9:
ble to wilt and other olant diseases as Mitchell. Mav 10 f Averv. Mav 12-17 :
pound of nitrogen in one form may be
more efficient and effective in crop pro
duction than a pound of nitrogen in some
other form. Some recent results with
cotton from the North Carolina Experi
ment Station bring out this point very
clearly.
Jn tfic fpsfa tfi camp rmmrwr nf
headquarters will be equipped with the pounds of phosphorus and potassium, in
the same form, were used in every case,
and the number of pounds of nitrogen
was the same, but the nitrogen was in dif
ferent forms in each test. The average
yield-per acre of seed cotton for a.
many farmers.. But weather, market, period of two years for the different
and crop . reports, sent daily to county treatments-are given below:
agents to be posted by them will serve
the mass of famers who do not see fit
to put in receiving sets.
'
Sheep shearing, wool tying, dock
ing and castrating schools will be held
in the following North Carolina coun
ties on the dates mentioned : Cleve-
" ' Seed Cotton Average
Nitrogen-carrier Used Yield Per Aam
Nitrate of soda. 1.305 pounds
Ammonium altrate 1.320 pounds
Sulphate of ammonia 1.143 pound
Calcium cyanamid 1,067 pounds
Cottonseed meal 1.050 pounds
Stable manure 1,080 pounds
No nitrogen 026 pounds
As will be noted, nitrate of soda led.
followed by ammonium nitrate and sul-
land, April 29; Jackson, May 1-2; phate of ammonia. Rating the efficiency
; " , r ' "7, 7. : "-' " ' ot nitrate oi soaa ai iuu, me cincicucica
the cowpea.
H-Where
Cowpeas Hare
vantage
the Ad-
ON THE other hand, the cowpea has
some advantages over the soy bean.
1. The soy bean may fail to come
through a crust which would offer but
little resistance to cowpeas. The cow
pea is therefore better for ' broadcast-
appointment of another group .of men poisoning a few rows around the sides
whose names are widely known in the of the field.
ing on land that is heavy and liable to . ,B ,A 9nv nrntngin
bake- . ment.
2. Kabbits feast upon the soy bean,
while they will not bother the cowpea
at all. Kabbits may be checked by
Watauga, May 18-23.
There will be general interest in the
announcement that Aaron Sapiro, the
famous California apostle of coopera
tive marketing, -will make the com
mencement address at the North Caro
lina State College of Agriculture and but for nitrate of soda, sulphate of am
Engineering on May 30. We predict monia, and cottonseed meal, they are
that Mr. Sapiro's coming will bring the quite closely in line with results secured
largest attendance of farmers the col-' Dy thewew jersey nxper meni ow-
tion ana oy uerman scientists, i am
of the other carriers of nitrogen in these
tests were as .follows :
Material Efficiency
Nitrate of soda 100
Ammonium nitrate OS
Sulphate of ammonia 88
Calcium cyanamid j2
Cottonseed meal ; 89
Stable manure 70
x If these were isolated results, they
would not have so much significance;
tobacco world has given the organized
growers the advantage of expert man
agement, from the veryrstart.
Charles L. Smith, district manager of
the Universal Leaf ToSacco Company,
has accepted the position of district
supervisor of graders. Says Mr. Pat
terson: "We consider him one of the
best leaf tobacco men in the business
3. At the time of planting, soy beans
require a better seed bed, and usually
give a poor stand if planted deeper
than V2 inches. , . f
4. Cowpeas are , preferable for sow
ing broadcast On weedy land because
they smother weeds much better than
soy beans.
and his reputation among the tobacco ed eed bed than do.
6. Cowpeas are far superior to soy
men in the eastern Carolina section is
unsurpassed."
Another veteran of the tobacco trade
is Mr. W. I. Skinner, for J6 years
branch manager for the Imperial To
bacco Company, at Greenville, N. C.
He and W. M. Fallon, for 18 years
branch manager for the Imperial To
bacco Company of Durham, now join
the leaf department of the growers' cooperative-association.
E. L. Walton, until recently owner of
the Banner Warehouse at Danville,
Va, becomes manager of warehouses
for the bright belt of Virginia, C. O.
Dixon of Mullins, S. C, manager of
warehouses for South Carolina, and P,
E. Chambers, of Blackstone, Va., man
ager of warehouses for the dark belt.
, S. D. FRISSELL.
Tri-State Headquarters, Raleigh.
Cowpeas or Soy Beans rWluch
. SMIGrow? r
I. Fourteen Points in paVor of Soy
Beans ''k-"-;: -;'
AT ANY stage of its growth, the soy
bean will stand a light frost -and
keep on growing. Hence they may
he sowed earlier in fhe pring and will
Krow later in the fall than cowpeas.
2. On pold, ;jiu
beans for a catch crop to make hay
after tobacco.
O. F. McCRARY,
District Demonstration Agent,
Washington, N. C.
The North Carolina State Fair an
nounces an increase in premiums
amounting to 50 per cent over those of
1921.
The North Carolina tax listing law
provides for an annual crop acreage
census to be collected by the tax listers.
Each farmer should prepare a ljlst with
the acreage of each crop he has grow
ing or expects to plant this year, so as
to readily give this information to the
lister. This will not be used for taxa
tion or speculative purposes.
,
A good example of cooperative effort
by breeders is afforded by the Ca
tawba County Jersey Breeders' Asso
ciation, which will hold its first annual
sale in Hickory, N. C, next week. The
BULLETINS THAT WILL HELP YOU NEXT MONTH-ORDER NOW
FOLLOWING is a list of free Farmers' Bulletin issued by the United
States Department of. Agriculture that will help progressire Southern
farmers next month: y
Y
938 Apple Bitter-rot and Its Control.
1220 Insects and Fungous Enemies of the
urape. ,
86ft Increasing the Potato Crop by
Spraying.
999-Sweet Potato Growing. -1211
Home Canning of Fruits and Vege
tables. .
931 Soy Beans, in the Cotton Belt.
962-Velvet Beans.
973 The Soy Bean: Its Culture and Uses.
SS3 Pop Com for the Home.
579 Crimson Clover: Utilization..
610 Wild Onion: Methods of Eradica-
- tion. '"--
846 Tobacco Beetle and How to prevent
.,' Loss.
1074-The Bean Ladybird and Its Control.
1125 Forage for the Cotton Belt.
1126 Sudan Grass. - i
1127 Peanut Growing for Profit.
1137 Grain Sorghums: How to Grow
Them
1148 Cowpeas: Culture and Varieties.
1149 Growing Corn in the Southeastern
States.
949 Dehorning and Castrating Cattle.
954 The Disinfection of Stables.
966 A Simple Hog Breeding Crate.
1085 Hog Lice and Hog Mange. -
961 Transferring Bees to Modern Hives.
947 Care and 'Repair of Mowers, Reapers,
Binders. " .v"--.-.'-...- .
1134 Castrating and Docking Lambs.
In order to get such of Hie above bulletins as you wish, all you have to do is to put
aa X-mark opposite the names of those bulletins you need most (not snore than four
or five, we should say; fill in the following blank, and inafl 1 to jrour Senator or Rep
resentative in Congress or to the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. Write
very plainly. .-".'v'.- .
. . ,t&tt . '. . . .
' I- ny. cv. fttith ike announcement made . The Proares: I
"cuer::tnan : cowoeas as i tnev are not . "u y.:. v:...-' J7 ; .v:. t.m:, r nr. v
convinced that nitrate nitrogen is
the most efficient form in which this ele
ment comes, and this fact must be recog
nized if we are to get the greatest re
turns from the money we invest in fer
tilizers. y B. L. MOSS.
Prizes to Tenants for Good Yields
COR several years now I .have been
giving prizes to the tenants on my
land fof the best yields, and the res
suits have been so satisfactory that I
expect to continue the practice. This
year, for instance, I am offering prizes
as follows : To the three-mule man
making most bales per mule, $75 in
gold; second best, $50; third, $25. To
the one-mule man making most bales ,
per mule, $50; second best, $40; third,
$30; fourth, $20; fifth, $10. It happens
that this year I have no two-mule men.
This expenditure of $300 for prizes
on a 22-mule farm may seem large to
the man who has never tried it, but I
am satisfied that it is one of the. best
investments I can make. At present
prices for cotton, four bales will pay
these prizes, and 1 am sure tnat roe
keen rivalry and competition engend
ered results in increased yields greatly
in excess of four bales of cotton.
I don't believe the average Jand
owner pays enough attention to the '
matter of keeping his tenants in high
and hopeful spirits. -During the war
the word morale was much usedj we
were told that our men were better sol
diers, because their morale was higher
and thev were. Football coaches "call
it "pepf and "keeping them on their
tiptoes. It is in fact a practical appli
cation of the psychological truth that
men work best when they have some
thing to work for ; when 'their minds
we get a more . general understanding
and application of, this principle we are ''.
' going to have a decidedly higher de-
t gtee of labor efficiency.
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