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THE ZEBULON RECORD Volume XXVII. Number 92. Bright Tobacco Markets to Open on August 21 Uncle Ferd Tries Time with Odd Uncle Ferd returns to the jour nalistic wars with this issue of the Record, after an absence of some five weeks, during which he miss ed his readers more, apparently, than they missed him. At any rate, we didn’t have anybody threaten ing to cancel their subscriptions because Uncle Ferd’s column didn’t appear—nobody but me, that is, and I don’t pay for my paper any how. I am a fairly busy man. During the pdfct 32 years I have acquir ed one habit, eating, which I should like to continue. That means that I have to work like a little Trojan in the modern printing plant of Theo Davis Sons. (I have found that my feet hurt just as bad in a modern plant as in an antiquated plant; it’s just a high er class pain in our shop! Forgotten Chore In addition, I have a position (really just a job) on the special staff of the 30th Infantry Divi sion, and have some few duties with the Board of Conservation & Development. Finally, I am working toward a law degree at Wake Forest College, a goal I somehow overlooked in the excite ment of 1) World War II and 2) raising a family. Finally, when the boys marched off to Fort McClellan this summer, I stayed here and tried to get the work out. Consequently I got be hind on everything, including my Wilson Market Ready for Leaf Season with Five Sets of Buyers By A. B. Boswell The Wilson tobacco market will begin its 63rd season as an auc tion tobacco market Thursday, August 21, at 9 o’clock. The 1951 season closed Novem ber 30, ending the best season the market has ever witnessed, both J in pounds sold and money paid out. During the 1951 season there was sold 93,341,002 pounds for $52,011,565.92, averager $55.74. On Thursday morning, August 21, at 9 o’clock, the auctioneer’s chant will begin Wilson’s 63rd sea son. Everything is in readiness for a great opening. There will be 10 firms operating the 19 warehouses this season, and all have made arrangements to give their cus tomers the best service ever. Each PARK WORK CONTINUES The shelter at the community park site will be completed Wed nesday night if sufficient workers volunteer to help with the project, according to Ed Hales, president of the Zebulon Chamber of Com merce. All that remains to be done is putting on the asphalt shingles and finishing the gables. On Friday night the sheeting and roll roofing was put on under lights strung by the Town of Zebu lon. The work on the shelter will be gin Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock and continue until supper. It will be resumed at 7:30 Wed- It Again, This Facts on Tobacco fishing. But now school is over, my piscatorial affairs are in or der, and there is no political cam paign in the immediate future; so Uncle Ferd is back with his verit able storehouse of useless facts, this week about that elegant weed variously described as God’s boon to man and a depraver of human ity, known to botanists as nicotina and to us plain folks as tobacco! Deadly Poison Tobacco contains nicotine, a stimulant and a deadly poison, if taken in sufficient quantities (so is salt, for that matter!). In an or ganic chemistry experiment I once distilled some nicotine sulfate from cigarettes, sprinkled it on beef liver, and fed it to a cat. The cat immediately became deader than the Republican party in Little Riv er Township. Thereafter I smoked twice as many cigarettes so I could get all the enjoyment possible from them before they killed me. The white man adopted the use of tobacco in whatever form he found the Indians using it. Thus the Spanish who settled in the West Indies and Cuba picked up the use of cigars, the English learned pipe smoking from the Indians of Virginia and North Carolina, and the Mexican settlers learned the use of cigarettes from the Aztecs, who wrapped corn husks around tobacco and made a passable cigarette therefrom. In (Continued on Page 2) of the 10 firms will have a sale every day, as shown on the master sales card; the first five up with a first sale starting at 9 o’clock, all sales alternating with a first one day and a second the following day. There will be 10 companies lo cated in Wilson this season, as fol lows: American Suppliers, Inc., Imperial Tobacco Co., Ltd., R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Liggett and Meyers Tobacco Co., Export Leaf Tobacco Co., Jas I. Miller Tobacco Co., R. P. Watson Co., Wilson To bacco Co., Standard Redryers, Inc., and Whitehead and Anderson, Inc. All these companies except White head and Anderson will have buy ers following the five sets of buy ers on the market. nesday evening and will continue until the shelter is completed. Plans for the shelter call for a large fireplace at the west end, to be built by the Zebulon Rotary Club. The stones for the fireplace are at the park site and construc tion is being held up until the shel ter is finished. Another fireplace will be built , by the Zebulon Lions Club near the east end of the shelter. Final clearing of the park site will be continued on Wednesday afternoon, according to Wilbur Debnam, chairman of the Finer | Zebulon Steering Committee. Zebulon, N. C., Tuesday, August 19, 1952 THURSDAY IS THE BIG DAY LEAF MARKET OPENS AUCUST 21 Tobacco Demonstration Held for Wake Farmers G. L. Winchester S. W. Hollema Each year the Extension Ser vice conducts variety demonstra tions of tobacco in the state. Two such demonstrations are being conducted this year in Wake Coun ty on the farms of Willie Lee Ed wards in the Morrisville section and Willard Faison of the Knight dale community. Last spring Grady Miller, County Agent, and the Soil Conservation Service per sonnel assisted the above farmers in laying off tobacco rows on the contour following the string meth od of laying them off. Tour Is Made A tour of these farms was con ducted on Thursday observing particularly how the varieties were standing up against “black shank.” The rows worked prac tically perfect on both farms. Mr. Edwards stated that it was the only way to run the rows. Mr. Faison, who planned to cultivate Nine Warehouse Firms to Serve Wendell Patrons for 1952 Season By J. Bourke Bilisoly When the Wendell Market opens August 21, nine warehouses will be ready to handle the millions of pounds of tobacco which will move into the Town of Wendell to be of fered to the highest bidder dur ing the selling season. Farmers Warehouses The Farmers Warehouses No. 1 and No. 2, one located on the cor ner of Third and Cypress Streets, and the other located on the cor ner of Third Street and Holly brook Road, will be operated again by L. R. Clark, Sr., L. R. Clark, Jr., and Mrs. L. R. Clark. The Clarks are experienced warehouse people who have con tributed a great deal to the growth iof the local market. These houses his tobacco, stated that he was doubtful that it would work. In ac tual practice he said the cultiva nion was easy and entirely satis factory. In the five acres he stated he possibly had two dozen rows and that he damaged very few plants in turning. He further stat ed that this disadvantage was more than offset by easier manup ulation of the tractor on the level land rather than hard 'pulls up steep grades and greater pene tration of water into the soil since it moved more slowly in the row middles with the result that he was producing a more uniform to bacco. Mr. Edwards follows a two year rotation of (1) tobacco, and (2) small grain followed by weeds. Consideratble organic matter was seen on the land. No doubt this helped in holding moisture to be used by the plant. Next year Mr. Edwards may sow tall fescue on some other areas with his small grain. j are popular with farmers and the familiar sight of truck after truck of golden tobacco driving up to the doors of these houses will be seen again on August 21 Liberty Warehouses The Liberty Warehouse, patron ized heavily last year by farmers from far and near, will once more be operated by two of the most competent warehousemen on the entire belt in the personages of Fred Harris and Isaac Medlin. This warehouse operated for the first time on the local market last year under its present management will be in full readiness to sell more tobacco in 1952 than it did in 1951 which was a very good year for a new warehouse. (Continued on Page 3) Theo. Davis Sons, Publishers. Farmers Prepare To Sell Hardwon '52 Money Crop Despite one of the longest droughts in years, which reduc ed portions of the tobacco grow ; ing section of America to disaster areas, Zebulon farmers will be gin moving their 1952 tobacco to market in earnest on Thursday, August 21, with current expecta tions of a fair to good return for their labors. With the opening of the bright belt markets Thursday, local far mers start the serious business of realizing the most for their chief money crop. Some farmers have already sold a small amount of leaf on border markets, mostly for mohey to finish harvesting, and at least one local farmer carried a load of tobacco to the Georgia markets; but many Zebulon grow ers still have more leaf in the field than they have harvested. Many Perils Dogged by severe attacks of black snank and wilt and plagued by voracious insect attacks, the farmers have nonetheless appar ently won their battle to pf-oauce America’s number one luxury raised by most Americans to the status of a necessity. Now they ! depend upon warehousemen to get them a fair return for tneir in vestment. In addition to insects and di seases, the local leaf crop has been hard hit by hail. Warehousemen in neighboring market towns have spared no ef-< fort to provide ample Loor space is well-lighted buildings for best marketing of the 1952 crop. Wen dell, Rocky Mount and Wilson warehousemen have all expended large sums of money in new con struction, and now are actively so liciting patronage from Zebulon growers, most of whom sell on more than one market. Nine Warehouses Nine warehouses will open in , Wendell Thursday for the sale of leaf tobacco, with two Wendell firms buying on the market, Monk- Henderson and Renfro, for resale and foreign shipment. Wilson and Rocky Mount offer their usual facilities, with Smith and Wainright Warehouses in Wil son engaging Zebulon representa tives this year. Oxford warehouses, which open later in the fall, will also have local representatives to assist in moving the crop to mar | ket. Prices Doubtful Few Zebulon growers have ven -1 tured to predict what the current crop will bring. Most of them, thankful for the recent break in inclement weather, have content ed themselves with estimating ac reage yields, merely expressing i hope as to the market price of their : crops. But after Thursday and Friday 1 of this week, most of the farmers ' will have a good idea of wheth : er they will pay out or not this • year, as, indeed, many already • know. Generally their prospects 1 are not so good as in banner years, ! but compared to local prospects of i three weeks ago conditions have • reached a stage where they can • be described as “fair for any year, good for 1952.”
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