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A home newspaper dedicated || to the service of Washington =| County and its 12,000 people. = jimiiiiimiiniiiiiiiMiiiiimniiiimiiiiiiiiiimiMimiiiiiiiimi? The Roanoke Beacon 4 4 4*^44 and Washington County News ******* anHimiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiimiiMiiiifiiimmiiT .iiiiiihh r j E Advertisers will find Beacon = 5 and News column- a lath-lrcy to “ = 1,100 Washington County homes. rfiiiimiiiiiiimiimmiHiimiiiniimmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMimnii, Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Friday, October 19, 1934 ESTABLISHED 1889 VOLUME XLV—NUMBER 42 MARTIN COUNTY MAN IS HELD ON BIGAMY CHARGE -® Linwood Sawyer Held Un der $1,000 Bond After Hearing Tuesday Bond for 1,000 was asked by Re corder John W. Darden for the re lease from official custory of Linwood Sawyer, of Martin County, who was arraigned Tuesday on a charge of big amy. Evidence in the form of marriage certificates were introduced showing that Linwood Sawyer, of Martin Coun ty, 19 years of age, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Sawyer, was married to Miss Stella Myers, of Creswell, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Felton Myers. This wedding took place in Ply mouth on October 6, 1928, with Rev. J. R. Everett, at that time pastor of the Baptist church, officiating. Wit nesses to this ceremony included An nie E. Sawyer, Dorothy Sawyer, and Mrs. Gladys Watkins. The license was issued in Washington County. A second certificate recorded that Ernest L. Sawyer, of Jamesville, 23 years of age. son of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Sawyer, was married on June 1, 1934, to Addie Hinson, of Dardens, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Hin son. This ceremony was performed by Magistrate J. T. McNair at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Watson on Main Street in Plymouth. Witnesses to the nuptial vows on this occasion were George Watson, Annie M. Wat son and Raymond Heath. No evidence was introduced by the defense but it is understood and was casually mentioned by Judge Darden that reports were to the effect that the young man at the time of his sec ond marriage was under the impres sion that he had a divorce. Unconfirmed but reasonable infor mation has it that the young man turned over to an attorney a fee for the divorce proceedings, and in turn was handed a copy of the complaint or some legal looking document. This he thought was the legal papers for a bill of divorcement. The warrant for the arrest of Saw yer was issued by the father of his j second mate on October fi, 1934, when ■. he learned of the matter. The indict ment was made by Sheriff C. B. Roe- | buck, of Martin County who held him for Washington County authorities. The second wife, Mrs. Addie Hin son Sawyer, was under the impres sion that Judge John W. Darden was the person who married her to Saw yer here on June 1, 1934. But she admitted that she was not positive, j Magistrate Darden (also recorder) j was under the same impression but j the records showed that J. T. McNair J performed the ceremony. i Though he was married the first time under the name of Linwood Saw yer, son of Ernest Sawyer, and the second time as Ernest L. Sawyer, son of A. E. Sawyer, the tw'O wives iden tified him as the same man. Mrs. Mary O. Sawyer, register of deeds, was not sure that he was the same man who applied for license the sec- ' ond time. Neither of the two wives had any i children. Very little emotion was shown by either of the two women. He had been away from his first wife some time before he married his sec ond companion. Mr. Sawyer is a well dressed neat-appearing young man. In his remarks about the bond for the defendant, W. L. Whitley, prose cuting attorney, said "Women will travel to several towns to buy a cheap hat or look among a number of dresses | before purchasing, but they don’t show ! such caution when choosing a hus- ! band. And I can’t understand it.” “Is this the only thing that you don’t understand about women?” asked I Recorder Darden, and the attorney I readily admitted it wasn’t. Local Legionnaires Attend j Funeral at Columbia 14th j -® The following members of the James E. Jethro post, No. 164, American Legion, attended the funeral of Den nis S. Brickhouse at Columbia Sun day, October 14: Dr. W. H. Johnson, W. V. Hayes, Roy L. Litchfield, O. R. Armstrong, R. L. Tetterton, L. R Ausbon, and j B. McNair. The funeral was conducted by the i Scuppernong post of Columbia and was attended by a large crowd of peo ple. Mr. Hayes acted as one of the pall bearers and J. B. McNair and L. R. Ausbon were members of the firing squad. Mr. Brickhouse was formerly a res ident of Columbia and became a Leg ionnaire when the Columbia post was organized a few years ago. He was chief of police of Manteo up to two months ago, at which time he resigned to enter a hospital at Hampton, Va., where l)e died a few days ago. -$ Hog cholera appears to be spread ing in Wilson County with the farm agent aiding to control the disease. . Fall Fashion Frolic to be Staged October 25 and 26 The Junior Woman’s Club in conjunction with the Roanoke Bea con and the New Theatre are lay ing plans for staging Plymouth’s first Fall Fashion Frolic at the theatre Thursday and Friday eve S. C., director of the attraction, nings, October 25 and 26. Local merchants will be request ed to cooperate with the club in making this a successful venture, and each will be represented by a local young lady, who will appear in the celebration as a contestant for the title ‘Miss Fashion Queen” of Plymouth. And in addition to the various numbers in which each model will display new fall fashions for local dress shops, lo cal entertainers will be presented in a number of musical and dance interludes. Kelly Kingman, of Columbia, has recently staged similar observ ances in Williamston and Rober sonville, and stated yesterday that there seems to be quite a great deal of enthusiasm already displayed by local interests in this novel method of ushering in the fall season. The Beacon will carry more in formation in the next week’s is sue, and in the meantime a com mittee of the Woman’s Club will interview local merchants and ar range for the fulfillment of their plans. The Fall Fashion Frolic will be staged in adition to the regular screen attractions on the two days, and at the regular prices of admis sion. Mr. Brinkley, manager of the theatre, is arranging to secure outstanding pictures for the occa I sion. Home and ciub News By Miss Eugenia Patterson Schedule for Next Week Monday afternoon, October 22, County Bridge. Tuesday, Pleasant Grove. Wednesday afternoon, October 24. Wednesday night, Creswell club. Thursday afternoon, October 25, at 10:30, county council .meeting. Thurs day afternoon, October 25, 2 o’clock, county federation at Roper High school building. Friday afternoon, October 26, Alba. Saturday morning, 8:30, curb mar ket. -$ Trophy To Be Presented The trophy cup presented by the Roanoke Beacon will be awarded to the club scoring the highest percent age on the following when totaled at the federation meeting next Thursday: 1. Nnumber members enrolled. 2. Number members enrolled since April 7th. . 3. Number of members lost since April 7th. 4. Number of club members with dues paid. 5. Average club attendance since April 7th. 6. Number present at federation on October 25th. All club secretaries are asked to work out the figures on the score card, bring to federation next Thurs day, with a pencil to add this num ber. District Federation All home demonstration club mem bers are urged to attend the district neeting of federated clubs next Tues day morning at Columbia. We are nearer to Columbia than any other county, and we are anxious to have » large attendance. Get together and several go in each car. We know Creswell club will be yell represented. All the county coun cil officers will attend. We want you to be present to hear the 1934 home demonstration report for our district. It will be inspirational as well as in formational. -® County Council Meeting All presidents and secretaries of dome demonstration clubs are asked to oe present with the four council offi cers for a very important meeting. Ac this time the president and secretary of the council will be elected for the text two years. Think of this very ser ously and be prepared to express your ;e!f at this meeting. -® Canning Contest All club members who can are ask 'd to bring to the federation meeting Friday afternoon two exhibits of can ted products. The Ball Jar company is offering a :ash prize to the three best exhibits nought, which should consist of one ar of fruit or berries and one jar of ion-acid vegetable. The Kerr company is offering a doz :n jars to each of the three best ex tibits consisting of two jars of meats, j :wo jars of fruit, and two jars of veg-' dables. Please be prompt with your exhibit j ind remember that the exhibits can be n any kind of jar. It doesn’t have to re the company’s particular brand. Ev :ry club should have enough pride to re represented. I wonder which club :an conserve the most palatable look ing products This will answer the told a masquerade party October 31 tt 7:30 in the Legion Hall. Adniis juestion. The canning leaders are ex pected to enter each of the contests. No excuse will excuse them. -S> Durham tobacco growers say they ,vi 11 get 40 per cent more money from 50 per cent less tobacco this year than n 1933. PROCEEDINGS IN SUPERIOR COURT —®—• Appeals To Supreme Court Feature of Session Here Last Week -3 Appeals to the higher tribunal !n North Carolina was featured in the cases tried in Washington County Su perior Court last week in a special ses sion for civil matters with Judge Hen ry A. Grady, of Clinton, presiding. An appeal was taken by L. C. Nttr ney from the finding that there was no fraud in the procurement of a note ! for $150 by S. A. Ward. It was fur ! ther decided that Mr. Nurney owed Mr. Ward $140 with interest since Jan uary 1, 1924. Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Dixon were sureties for Mr. Nurney Mr. Nurney was to pay the costs of the court. J. T. Bateman, was ordered to pay $48 on a mortgage and note to Lenora Sitterson under a claim and delivery proceeding with interest from Janu ary 1, 1933. J. Id. Allen was a surety on the undertaking. A consent action was taken in the case of Mildred V. Bateman, who was suing her husband, J. B. Bateman, for an 8-piece bedroom suite, mattress, springs, victrola, porch chairs, and two Axminster rugs. A full settlement was effected when it was agreed to allow Mrs. Bateman the property men tioned above that is now in her pos sesion, which she took under a claim and delivery proceeding. -® Seven Boys From County Attending Wake Forest -3 Seven sons of Washington County citizens are among the 1,000 students enrolled at Wake Forest College this semester. They are: From Plymouth: L. W. Alexander, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Alexander; R. S. Cahoon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Cahoon; and R. B. Campbell, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Campbell. From Roper: F. W. Bateman, son of Mr. and Mrs. N. D. Bateman; G. W. Holton, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Holton; and E. L. Spruill, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Spruill. Front Wenona: N. Holton, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Holton. These students are classified by years as follows: Sophomores: Cahoon and Campbell; freshmen, Alexander, Bateman, D. W. Holton, N. Holton, and Spruill. Bateman, Cahoon, and Campbelfl are taking pre-law work, while Alexander and Spruill are doing pre-medical work. G. W. and N. Hol ton are working for the degree of bachelor of, science. Other students at Wake Forest wdto are well known here include Tex Ed ens, halfback: his brother, Terry Ed ens; Dallas Morris, halfback. Tex and Dallas are listed as probable starters in the football game with Presbyterian College at Wake Forest Saturday. Tex Edens played centerfield for the, Plymouth baseball club in the Albe marle league this summer, while Mor ris held down third base. Tex led the local club in hitting for the sea-! son, his mark hovering around the .360 point. Terry Edens is an end on the foot hall squad and was remembered as having visited his brother here this summer. Job C. Clayton, 72, Dies At Roper Home Funeral services were held today for Job C. Clayton, 7^ years of age, who died Wednesday morning at 3:30 o’clock at his home in Roper. In firmities of age with complications caused his demise. Interment took place in the Methodist church yard in Plymouth. Surviving are four sons, D. V. Clay ton, assistant cashier of the local unit of the Branch Banking and Trust Co.; Clair, Vernon and Herman Clayton, of Baltimore; and one daughter, Mrs. Ethel Eubanks, of Durham. ENROLLMEN FOR COUNTY SHOWS GAIN OVER 1933 Small Loss Shown by Lower Grades Overcome by High School Gain Public .''Cliool enrollment of white [ students in Washington County for ! 1934 exceeds that of 1933 by 47 pupils, | it was learned today from figures com i piled by James W. Norman, snperin ! tendent of public instruction. I Roper: There was a gain of 4 from 197 to 101 in the high school, while in j the elementary department there was i an enrollment this year of 254. which ! is 18 less than the 272 last year. Av erage attendance shows a 22 per cent gain in the high school and 10.02 per cent loss in the lower grades. Plymouth: Enrollment for 1933 was 137 in the high school, while in 1934 there were 147, showing a gain of 10 pupils, while in the elementary depart ment there were 375 enrolled this year a gain of 13 over the 362 for last year. , Average attendance shows a 9.8 gain this year in the high school and 11.3 gain in the lower classes, i Creswell: Enrollment for 1934 is 116 against 103 last year, showing a gain in the high school of 13, while the lower grades showed a loss of 8 by a drop from 336 last year to 328. Av erage attendance was 13.7 gain in the higher grades while there was an 11.8 loss in the lower grades, i Cherry: Nothing but the elementary • grades taught in this school. There ; is a gain of 26 students over last year’s enrollment of 157 to 183. Average attendance shows a gain of 23.2 per cent. ; Wenona: Only the elementary grades are taught in this school. Last year there were 14 enrolled with a loss this year of 1 student, cutting it down to 13. The average attendance shows .9 per cent loss. j 7'lie total high school enrollment for ; 1933 was 330, while in 1934 there is 364, showing a gain of 34 for this year, while the total enrollment for 1933 in the elementary departments of the various schools was 1.141. while this year the total soared to 1,153, making a gain of 12 students for this year. The average daily attendance for 1933 in the high schools was 3,151, while this year there is an increase to 3,408, which shows a 25.7 per cent in crease for 1934. The attendance in the elementary grades for 1934 shows ati increase of 11.6. The total average attendance for the entire white school system is given at 17.3 above last year. 12 Boys From Farm Class At Roper * Attend Fair Roper.—Twelve boys of the Roper Agricultural class attended the N. C. state fair at Raleigh Friday. They arrived at noon and took in the ex hibits. the automobile races, and many other amusements. Friday night was spent at State College. Saturday places of amusement a round Raleigh were visited. At night they say the State-University of South Carolina football game in Raleigh, and Sunday morning the return trip was made. Those on the trip included James Chesson, Leroy Spruill, William Ches son, Eric Spruill, Harold Swain, Don ald Spruill, John Davenport, Grayson Spruill, Bill Davenport, Emmett Spruill, Mack Marrow, Raymond Am brose, Elfant Tarkington. With the boys was C. H. Floyd, instructor of agriculture. -- Special Program at Local Colored Church Sunday -® A special program will be given at the Mount Hebron A. M. E. Zion church in Plymouth on Monday eve ning, October 22, at 8 o'clock. The subject will be “The (lift of the Spir it,” and will be presented by talent of the Church of God in Christ of Ply mouth with the aid ot Rev. A. B. Ma lone, pastor. Included will be the Jubilee Sing ers, string music, the Holy City quar tet, and the Daughters of Zion quar tet. Reservations will be made for the white people who will attend. Rev. H. W. Reid is pastor of this Meth odist church. Number Marriage Licenses j Issued by Register of Deeds j -* Marriage licenses have been issued j to the following by Mrs. Mary O. Sawyer, register of deeds of Wash ington County: White: Horce Hilton Harris, of Co lumbia, to Ina Bell Allen, of Pike j Road; Willie Earl Van Horn, Cres-. well, to Mary Elizabeth Snell, Cres- ; well; Thomas William Tarkenton, Plymouth, to Lillian Louise Hatfield. Creswell; James Hasford Palmer, of Bowling Green, Ya., to Lelah Blanche Chesson, Roper. Colored: Joe Garrett, jr., Plymouth, to Everlener Hudson, Plymouth; Howard Spruill, Plymouth, to Bessie Long, Roper. Greater Roanoke Fair Gets Under Way Monday Week Arrangements for holding the Greater Roanoke Fair, opening in Williamston Monday after next, October 29th, were announced vir tually complete this week by Man ager N. G. Bartlett. In addition to the $1,500 cash prizes offered in the agricultural, livestock, poultry and fancy work departments, the fair operators have already made one of the largest cash outlays ever expended before to make the j fair one of value and real enter tainment for the people of this en tire section. Elaborate displays of fireworks will be seen each night, and some of the most sensational free acts ever seen in the South have been booked. Work Shows will be on the mid way this season with a varied pro gram of entertainment and rides, and Homer F. Lee’s band will be at the fair all the week. The free attractions include: The giant rooster act (one that has never appeared before in this section and the only one of its kind in America), the aerial Blacks the three Kressels, Bee Kyle, America’s premiere lady diver, Taylor’s rodeo, and other features such as Jack Steele and his motor cycle stunts on Tuesday night and automobile races on Saturday. FALL MEETING OF HOME CLUBS TO BE HELD ON 25TH Fifteenth District To Hold Annual Meeting There: Many To Attend -® By Miss Eugenia Patterson The fall federation meeting of the home demonstration clubs of Wash ington County will be held at the high school building in Roper on Thurs day afternoon, October 25, with Mrs. j W. H. Harrison presiding. The ineet ’ ing will begin at 2 o'clock. A wel coming committee has been appointed and ushers also to help the club mem bers find their club corner. We are anxious for every club to be well represented, for there is a beautiful trophy cup to be given to the club that has been wide-awake, j We hope it will not put the club to , sleep, as it has a tendency to do. Mt. i Tabor club, the youngest club in the county, has a mighty good chance to | win if they come. ! We are expecting Mrs. Brooks Tucker, state president of home dem onstration work, as our guest speaker. This will be an unusual treat. -I want every club member in the county to know Mrs. Tucker. I A report of our county work will j be given at this time. Don't miss finding out what your clubs have done. Mr. W. C. Manning will be there to present the trophy cup. We always look forward to his coming. Mrs. A. E. Davenport will explain the “Whys and Wherefores” of the Jane S. McKimmon Loan Fund. Mrs. W. T. Gibson will welcome the women to Roper, and Mrs. H. W. Norman, of the Squppernong club, will respond. We are expecting this to be one of the best meetings yet. Don't miss it. Junior Woman’s Club Committees Are Named -(S) At a called meeting of the Junior Woman’s Club Monday evening, it was decided to donate twenty-five dol lars ($25) toward the oil burner the Legionnaires are buying for the com munity hall. This is part of the pro ceeds from the recent baby contest. The club has already donated money fur books for a high school girl and are contemplating many other chari table expenditures. Fourteen members were present. A motion for a November dance was made and vetoed. Mrs. B. G. Camp bell was unanimously elected sponsor of the group. Mrs. Eugene Still was appointed corresponding secretary. The following committees were ap pointed: Program, Emily Brinkley, chairman, Mildred Martin and Martha Mayo. Constitution: Louise Duvall, chair man, Elizabeth Davidson, Louise Brinkley, Flonnie Davis. Membership: Elizabeth Norman, Thelma Getsinger, Mildred Waters, Nellie F. Beasley. Other committes will be appointed later. The committees are always at work j and will turn in their reports at the next regular meeting, which will be held November 6th. Members arc | urged to remember to attend the dis- j trict meeting in Columbia next Tues-1 day. -® Lexion Auxiliary Is Formed Here Friday An American Legion Auxiliary was organized here last Friday afternoon in the Legion Hall with the follow ing officers: Mrs. W. Y. Hays, pres ident; Mrs. R. A. Duvall, vice presi dent: Mrs. H. A. Williford, secretary; Mrs. D. A. Hurley, treasurer; Mrs. C. McGowan, chaplain; Mrs. Zeno Lyon, sergeant-at-arms; Mrs. \\. R. Hamp ton, historian. Regular meetings \\ ill be held on the second Friday afternoon in each month at .1 o’clock. Dues were fixed at $1.25 per year, payable in October. Dues for 15 members were received. Others who wish to become charter members are urged to see either Mrs. Williford or Mrs. Hurley. Regular Superior Court Term To Begin Monday The regular October term of Wash ington County Superior Court wil convene here Monday, October 22, foi the purpose of trying the famous for est-fire burning cases in which 2( cases have been brought against the Virginia Electric and Power Co. The test case is one of W. W. Robertsor 'against the power firm. CREDIT GROUP IS TO MAKE LOANS ON COTTON CROP —®— Production Credit Associa tion Enters Field of Commodity Loans -<3> The Washington Production Credit association, serving the counties oi Beaufort, Hyde, Martin, Tyrrell and Washington, is now in a position to make commodity loans to grower who desire to market [heir cotton in an orderly manner, according to an , announcement by J. E. Hull, secretary j of the association. The loans will be made on the basis of 12 cents per pound for cotton class , ed low middling or better in gradt l and seven-eights inch or better in j staple and 11 cents per pound for I such cotton classed low middling 01 better in grade and below seven eights inch in staple. The interest rate will be 4 percent per annum and interest is charged only for the time the money is used. As security for each loan the bor rower must furnish a warehouse re ceipt from an approved warehouse. The grower may sell his cotton at any time and in such way as he sees fit. The notes are made to mature July 31, 1935, hut the cotton may be sold at any time prior t<> that date. Each borrower will be required to purchase Class B stock in the produc tion Credit association from which he secures his loan equal to 5 percent of the amount borrowed, the rule in this respect being the same as in an ordi nary production credit loan. A pro duction credit borrower who has re paid his production loan may, of course, use the Class B stock which he already owns in the making of the cotton loan insofar as it will go to ward making up the 5 percent of the total amount borrowed on his cotton. The offices of the Washington Pro duction Credit Association are located in the First National Bank building, Washington, N. C., and farmers of the counties served by the association may apply there for loans. -- Tobacco Farmers To Test Validity of Control Act -$ Winston-Salem., Oct. 8.—Non-sign ing Forsyth and Davidson County to bacco farmers are organized to test the constitutionality of the Kcrr Smith tobacco control act, leaders of the movement announced lure to day. A meeting has been -'ailed for Tues day night at Wallburg and the dissent ing planters will make plans for rais ing a “defense” fund to defray court costs. An organization now forming will be made permanent at this meet ing. The attack will be based upon the grounds that the law violates the guarantee of uniform taxation, that is included in the constitution by di rect statement and by implication. -- Legion Auxiliary To Give Masquerade Party Here -® The American Legion Auxiliary will at 7:30 in the Legion Hall. Admis sion of 5 cents will be charged. Games sion of 5 cents will be charged. Games and dancing will be enjoyed. -$ Pender Hog Growers Get $12,000 Corn-Hog Money -® Hog growers of Pender County re ceived $12,000 last week as the first installment on their corn-hog pay ments. COLUMBIA TO BE , HOSTESS TO CLUB WOMEN TUESDAY Elaborate Program Has Been Arranged for Semi Annual Meeting The annual meeting of the fifteenth district of the North Carolina Federa tion of Women's Clubs will be held in Columbia Tuesday, October 23. begin ning at 10 o clock, it was announced today by Mrs. B. G. Campbell, of Plymouth, district president. The invocation will be by Rev. W. jj Underwood, with Mrs. W. S. Car | a wan, president of the Columbia club, I and ^ast president of jhe district, greeting the visitors. The response to the welcome address will be made by Mrs. J. C. Andrews. Music will be featured on the program. The principal speakers scheduled to take part on the program are Mrs. I R. H. Latham, of W inston-Salem, president of the North Carolina Feder Jation of Women's Clubs; and Mrs. ! Howard G. Etheridge, of Asheville, j second vice president of the state or I ganization. Mrs, J. H, lankard will bring greet ings from the state home demonstra tion clubs, while a picture memory contest will be conducted by Mrs. C. J. Sawyer, of Windsor, chairman of the division of arts. Mrs. C. S. Beas ley. district vice president, will award the attendance prizes. Mrs. Campbell hopes that a large crowd will attend the meeting. Mrs. j. R. Campbell, of Plymouth, is secre tary of the organization in this dis trict. The business session will include recognition of past president, discus sion of projects; federating new clubs, reports from delegates of each club. Delegations are expected from Au lander, Aurora, Ayden, Colerain, Farm ville, Fountain, Greenville, Pantego, Powellsville, Plymouth, Robersonville, Swan Quatrer, Washington, William ston and Windsor. There are 21 chibs in the above mentioned towns. NEW METHOD TO REDUCE COSTS OF FERTILIZERS -1 | “Blended” Fertilizers Are One Answer For A Cheaper Guano -% “Blended fertilizers arc one answer to tlie question for a cheaper source of satisfactory nitrogen for cotton fer tilizers. If enough sodium nitrate is used to balance the acidity of ammonium sul phate, a mixture of these two rela tively inexpensive inorganic sources of nitrogen produces as good yields of cotton as when the more expensive organic sources of nitrogen, such as tankage and cottonseed meal, are used. That is the result of experiments in the southeastern cotton belt, by Os wald Shreiner and J. J. Skinner of the* Division of Soil Fertility, U. S. De partment of Agriculture, reported re jCently before the American Chemical Society, meeting in Cleveland. Blend ing works equally well with the con centrated fertilizers, now coming into more general use. These findings are economically im portant because they place inexpensive i i organic and synthetic nitrogen prod ucts, when properly ‘balanced with basic materials, on a par in crop pro ducing value with more expensive or !ganic compounds from animal and j vegetable wastes. The organic ma jterials cost, on the basis of 1934 prices, i is almost .1 times as much per unit as the inorganic. In the experiments, two thirds sodi um nitrate and one-third ammonium sulphate gave much better results than one-third the nitrate and two-thirds the sulphate. The former mixture also gave as good yields as one part sodi um nitrate, one part ammonium sul phate and two parts of either dried blood, cottonseed meal, fish scrap or tankage. Another /experiment showed that over a period of three years, full ap plications of fertilizer at planting time gave slightly higher yields, and, nat urally. lower labor costs than split or delayed applications. This was true whether the source of the nitrogen "as sodium nitrate, ammonium sul phate, or use. Similar results have previously been reported by the Ala bama and Georgia stations. 1 obacco Stems and Stalks Have Value as Fertilizer I here i- a certain percentage of ni trogen, phosphoric acid and potash con i tained in both stalk- and stems of to I barco that have fertilizing value. The potash content runs from 4 to 8 per cent and the nitrogen runs from 2.5 to 3.5 per cent. The phosphoric acid content runs less than 1-2 of 1 per cent. In addition to the fertilizer val ue the plowing under of stalks and all tobacco refuse will also aid in the con trol of many disease and insect pests.
The Roanoke Beacon and Washington County News (Plymouth, N.C.)
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