Niswonger says the best type of
aoH for growing sweet potatoes is
sandy or spady loem.^ "Heavy^afla
en soils- and places where manure
has been used heavily—produce poor
quality potatoes," the horciculturist
advised. "Also, soils where legumes
* have bean turned under have a tend*
ency to produce ortraise, discolored
and cracked potaotes, Such land
should be planted to corn or cotton
for a year or two, and the nitrogen
in the fertiliser reduced."
* It is very important to use seed
that are free from disease, Niswooger
declared. It is always tneat to
use certified Seed, or certified slips
that have been produced preferably
by a grower who has been practicing
hill seed selection. Only medium-sized
seed should be bedded. The Es.
tension specialist says information
about the scarce of certified seed or
certified sprouts can be obtained
from county agents, or by writing
direct to the N. C. Crop Improvement
Association, N. C. State College,
Raleigh.
Other recommendations by the
horticulturist include; Treat the
seed before bedding. It requires
five to six bushels of seed to set
one acre. Use plants from vine
cuttings.
New Demand Created
For MUk Supplies
Arftiy camps and increased civilian
population in North Carolina have
accounted for a new demand of aj>proximately
10,000 gallons of fluid
milk daily, according to W. L Clevenger,
dairy manufacturing specialist
of N. C. State College.
The requirement is still on the increase,
since new camps are now being
established in the State. In
addition, the normal demand is increasing
as more money is placed in
circulation.
This situation, Clevenger said,
maans that North Caroline is now
doing its biggest dairy business aid
will be expected to do an even tagger
job before the war is over.
Indications are, he continued, that
the State will be able to meet this
new demand without a great deal of
trouble, since it is well-balanced from
most standpoints.
However, the dairyman said, this
added l<?ad has required much ex pan
to w.fiWMrt wnite, tasweii rarnwr
and a member of the State AAA
Committee. s^lra
Quotas were proclaimed by Secretary
of Agricultufl Claude R. Wickard
on the 1942 wheat crop last July
when it became apparent that 194243
supplies would exceed graatly themarketing'
quota level set by law.
The supply of wheat in 1942-48 fa
estimated at 1,428,060,000 bushels on
the basis of a Julj» 1, 1942, carryovar
of 635,000,000 bushels and a
1942 crop of 793,000,000 bushels.
This fa the greatest supply on record,
nearly 100,000,000 bushels more than
a year ago.
North Carolina growers approved
marketing quotas on the 1942 crop
last May 31 by a vote of 1,919 to
871, a majority of 88.8 percent To
be in effect, quotas must be approved
by s two thirds majority of growers
in a national referendum. .
Mr. White said file quota program
this year fa substantially the same
as that in operation for 1941. Quotas
do not apply en farms on which not
more thai*. 15 acres is planted to
.wheat for harvest, nor on those
where the normal production of the
acreage planted is less than 200
bushels.
Farmers may market free of penalty
the normal or actual production
of t&dr alio ted acreage. ^ Excess
wheat, unless stored under bond, fa
subject to a penalty of 60 per cent
of the basic tarn Tate.
' It also has been announced by the
AAA that volunteer wheat may be
substituted for seeded wheat destroyed
by a cause beyond control of the
grower upon approval «f the County.
AAA Committee, White declared. If
a grower for soome reason fa unable
to seed wheat, v a volunteer crop
again will be classed s* seeded foe
program purposes. Te be in full
compliance with the ,AAA program,
however, the total wheat acreage Mi
a farm cannot be more than the acreage
allotment.
losses inflicted on the
American forces Aram
to April 11 included
Hie Navy said it will train 40,000
men annually in time types of privately
operated sCfweta: Elementary
electricity and radio malerftt, visual
signaling1, and radio operators.
Twenty-one such schools are scheduled
to start classes by June 1, and IS
have already begun to turn out trained
men. Secretary Knox said the
Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard
will recruit negro volunteers for
general service in reserve components
as aoon as a suitable training
Station is established. The Navy asked
the public to use only one of twodesignated
poet office addresses in
writing the naval personnel outside
this country—cA> Postmaster, New
York, and c/o Postmaster, ban Francisco,
whichever is nearer the addressee.
.
-- Army and Selective Service.
Army Chief of Staff Marshall and
Special Advisor to the President Hopkins
arrived to London to discuss
military with British leadess. Army
Ground Forces Commander HcNair
reported troops overseas are better
trained and better led than in 1917.
The Senate passed a $19 billion war
appropriation bill carrying funds for
equipment for an amy of 3,600,000
men. The army said it-plans to commission
600 physicians' a month for
v In answer to a paid advertisement appearing in the Elizabeth ,
City Advance under date of March 81st, 1942, and circularized
throughout the district, attacking the war record of Marvin
Blount, we desire to state the facts in this connection. \ a;.;J
Marvin Blount volunteered twice for active service and for
UgM * * * V^'\ ^ V*' ^ 4 ' 18^ ^ ft? * ^. '' :
physical reasons was rejected by the Army and the Navy, but because
of his desire to serve his country, he went to Fort Sill,
Oklahoma, where he was agent in charge for the Federal Bureau
of Investigation, worthing in connection with the military author- S
ities at that Army post
When
the votersvknow the truth, they are more able to judge.
JUNEBL ROSE
Commander American Legion
:/ T. W. HOUSE
rfSSffi D. J. WHICHARD, Jr.
p. l; GOODSON ;.. ^"£rVvt^^^WARLIE
70NSS !?'*>''
J. W. ROOK
T
r. Overseas Veteran! of Last World War.
And Public Life
»>. .War
In the Elisabeth City Advance there
appeared reoeatly a paid political advesjf:
tisement containing an editorial which had
previously appeared in the same paper.
The advertisement concerned itself mainly
with the war record of Marvin Blount
• and Herbert Bonner and contained a number
of misleading: as well as some utterly Ld
false statements. ;
Following the example of the lowly
squid (fish) which throws out a cloud of
inky liquid when pressed too hard by an
^adversary, Mr. Blount's assistants must
Siting mightily tfraid of Blount's
chances in^the coming Primary to use the
squid method of beclouding the waters.
The true facts, which by the way
of Pitt Cotnty