J. E M.IKTIRB
Properly Graded
Leaf Brings The
Highest Price
A little time spent in sorting to
bacco carefully has been known to
earn a farmer more money than all
the work he spent in the field grow
ing and harvesting it.
In the warehouses its a common
sight to see a “pin-hooker” buy a
few baskets of mixed leaf from
growers, grade it carefully, and
sell it to buyers for considerably
more than he paid the farmer for
the same tobacco.
The farmer who grows the weed
could get just as much for it as
the “pin-hooker’ - if he brings it to
the warehouse carefully sorted and
packed attractively on the baskets.
Buyers don’t like baskets of mix
ed leaf, and they won’t bid very
much for them. But after it has
been re-sorted and packed in lots
according to body, quality, color,
and size of leaves, they will bid the
top price for the particular leaf in
each basket.
Adequate light is needed in the
sorting rooms so the leaf can be
seen clearly and graded accurately.
Tie the same kind of leaves into
bundles or hands, and have enough
different lots to cover the full range
of quality, length, and color of the
crop.
Tobacco of low grade will often
bring a fair price when it is prop
erly prepared, but even the best
grade on the market won’t bring
top pices if it is mixed with in
ferior leaf.
Growers who have more leaf than
they can sell tax-free will find it
pays to sell their best leaf first,
and pay tax only on the lower pric
ed tobacco, as the higher the price,
the higher the tax will be. However
some growers with excess tobacco
are planning to buy extra market
ing quota cards from growers who
do not have enough tobacco to use
up the full amount of their cards.
Water Farming
The possibilities of growing veg
etables and flowers without soil is
attracting much attention from
scientists. While there is no prob
agility that dirt farming may ever
be displaced by water, there is a
strong possibility of its being large
ly supplemented. Vats of water
have above them wire frames on
which shavings or other substance
supports seed or bulbs. The roots
go down into the water, which has
certain chemicals dissolved in it,
according to the needs of the plant
as determined by analysis. Toma
toes grown by this method are said
to be more solid and meaty than
when raised by the ordinary meth
od. The amount that may be grown
in a vat depends only upon how
many plants can have sunshine.
The chemicals used cost only a few
cents, and there is none of the
labor of hoeing and weeding. How
ever, the construction of the vats
is too costly to be used commercial
ly to any great extent. The plan is
said to be in highest favor where
soil is scanty and of low fertility.
Exports Gain
The U. S. Department of Agri
culture reports that American
farmers sold $155,000,00 more ag
ricultural products abroad during
the fiscal year 1937-38 than during
the previous twelve months.
THE ZEBULON RECORD, ZEBULON. NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY, AUGUST 19th, 1938.
Davis Gets Co-op.
Essay Scholarship
Haywood Boy is Winner Over Four
Other Contestants in State Finals
Raleigh—Jim Davis, 19-year-old
student of Clyde High School in
Haywood county has been awarded
the first prize of a one-year college
tuition scholarship and SIOO in
cash in the eleventh annual Co
operative Essay contest.
This finals of the essay contest,
held in Raleigh last wek, brought to
a close a series of school, county
and district contests which began
early in May and in which thous
ands of rural boys and girls in all
sections of the State participated.
The contest is sponsored each year
by the North Carolina Cotton
Growers Cooperative Association,
the Farmers Cooperative Exchange
and the Carolina Co-operator Pub
lishing Company as an educational
project.
Second prize of $25 in cash went
to Edmund W. Harris, Jr., 16-year
old student of Dunn High School in
Harnett county, while third prize
of sls went to Mary Patricia Mc-
Cleney, IG-year-old student of
Chadburn High School in Columbus
County, the lone girl contestant.
Horace Edward Moore, 15-year-old
student of Red Oak High School in
Nash county won fourth prize of
$lO.
The three rural boys all spoke on
“The Kind of Farmer I Intend To
Be”, while Miss McCleney spoke on
“The Kind of Farm Woman I In
tend To Be.”
Taxation Will
Increase
The expenses of the government
have raised the national debt to
its highest peak. Under such con
ditions it is idle folly to expect any
forthcoming Congress to revise tax
ation downward and “furnish
business relief’' in that way. Gov
ernment business is like that of
private business—when expenses
go up provision has to be made to
get in enough money so that the
government will eventually get out
•f the red. There is no hope that
budgets will be balanced for many
years nor is there hope that taxes
will be lightened.
Because that is so, the govern
ment has gone into ‘lending money’
on a tremendous scale. That kind
of book-keeping makes the national
debt look smaller.
Selling Cotton
More than two-thirds of the cot
ton sold by American farmers dur
ing the crop year is marketed be
fore December 1, and most of it is
sold in October and November, says
J. A. Shanklin, of State College.
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Old Age Funds
Are Safe
About 700 million dollars has
been paid into the Government’s
old-age pension account. From this
fund about 6 million dollars has
been paid out to pensioners.
The government put all the in
come from this source into the gen
eral fund and gives 3% notes pay
able to the ‘‘Old Age Reserve Ac
count.” This runs up the blood-pres
sure of a lot of people who seem to
think that the old-age pension
money is being misappropriated.
Likely any one of those uneasy
would like to own some-or-more
3% government bonds. And they
would consider them as good as
money. They would be protected in
exactly the same way that the old
age fund is safeguarded.
As long as the U. S. Treasury re
mains solvent —and it will be as
long as you are alive—the “old
age reserve account” will not be
endangered under the present Fed
eral system. So don’t get wrinkles
in the forehead worrying about
that.
The Dove Os Peace
There are no war clouds on the
American horizon and unless s°me
; foolishness develops in our inter
national affairs the United States
will likely be able to hold aloof
from the troubles of the old World.
If some group of politicians should
break away from the American
way and begin to talk seriously a
bout the United States mixing up
in foreign troubles the answer of
the public should be the repudia
tion of all such political dema
gogues, regardless of what party,
or faction, they train with.
Four-H corn and livestock pro
jects in Wayne county are report
ed as good, but cotton and tobacco
are not up to standard due to in
clement weather.
10,000 HOMICIDES
There were 10,232 homicides in
the United States in 1935, ac ord
ing ing to the U. S. Census Bureau.
HILLIARD’S POND FISHING
CLUB
One of the best and most con
venient fishing ponds in Eastern
Carolina.
Shares Now Offered for SIOO.
JOHNNIE HILLIARD,
Middlesex, N. C., R. 1
0. K. WELLS
WELDS O. K.
EXPERT WELDING
Genera] Repair Work
Horse-Shoeing
Wendell N. C.
FARM BOY GIVEN AWARD FOR ESSAY
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L. Bruce Gunter, of Fuquay Springs, Vice-President of the
State Cotton Association, is shown here presenting Jim Davis, of
W aynesville, with a one-year tuition scholarship and SIOO in cash as
first prize in the Eleventh Annual Co-operative Essay Contest. Other
winers, left to right are: Edmund W. Harris, Jr., of Dunn, second
prize of $25; Mary Patricia McCleney of Chadburn, third prize of sls
and Horace Edward Moore of Rocky Mount, fourth prize of $lO.
1 housands of boys and girls from all sections of the Stat e participat
ed in the Essay Contest this year.
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