By JULIAN R MANN
Extension Service Economist
N. G. State CWlege.
A flue-cored tobacco crop of 606,430,000
pounds is going to market in
North Carolina this season, according
to the latest estimate* of the
. Bureau of Agricultural Economics of
the United States Department of
Agriculture. If the crop fully materializes,
it will be 53,605,000 pounds
larger than the 1M1 crop of 462,825,000
pounds.
The increase in production is accounted
for by the fact that Tar
Heel farmers planted 540,000 acres
of flue-cured tobacco last spring, as
compared with 488,000 acres harvested
in 1941. The average yield per
acre this year is estimated to be 93S
pounds, as against an average yield
of 1,038 pounds per acre last year.
The 1942 flue-cured crop compares
very favorably in total production
with the crops of the 10-year period
from 1930 through 1939, when North
Carolina farmers sold an average of
523,094,000 pounds of tobacco each
year. However, during the 1930-39
period the average acreage planted
to flue-cured tobacco each' season
was 639,830 acres, and the average
yield per acre was only 817 pounds.
Therefore, it is evident that improved
methods of production, better seed, i
and better-adapted fertilizers have
enabled Tar Heel growers to produce
more tobacco on less acreage.
Generally speaking, the tobaccogrowing
sections of North Carolina
have been favored with almost ideal
weather conditions this summer. In
scattered communities farmers have
complained of too much rain; in other
communities the weather has been too
dry. Hailstorms have severely damaged
the crop in a few small areas.
Reports from comity farm agents
oftie Extension Service in most sections
of - the State quote veteran
growers as saying: "The tobacco
crop is the best I ever grew . . . the
crop is curing out with an excellent
texture and good color . . . the lugs
which I produced are the best I ever
had."
For the flue-cured belt as a whole,
the USD A Crop Reporting Board
said in its latest report: "Production
is indicated at 739,740,000 pounds,
whfch would be 14 percent greater
than the relatively small 1941 crop.
The 10-year (1930-39) average
production over the eiltire flue-cured
belt, including all states, is 751,348.000
pounds annually. This year's
acreage for harvest is estimated to
be 11 percent above 1941, but 14 per
cent under the 10-year (1930-89)
average,"
A summary of floe-cured tobacco
prospect*' in all belts and states, as
contained in the USD A report, is as
follows:
North Carolina Border Beit—Production
of 69,160,000 pounds from
58,000 acres, an average of 1,020
pounds per acre, is indicated. Production
last year totaled 60,880,000
pounds from 63,000 acres, an average
of 960 pounds per acre.
South Carolina Border Belt—Production
of 90,000,000 pounds from
90,000 acres, an average of 1,000
pounds per acre, is indicated. Production
last yoar totaled 69,660,000
pounds from 81,000 acres, an average
of 860 pounds per acre.
Eastern North Carolina (New
Bright) Belt—Production of 269,350,000
pounds from 266,000 acres,
an average of 976 pounds per acre, is
indicated.* Production last year totaled
240,790,000 pounds from 242,000
acres, an average of 996 pounds per
acre.
North Carolina Old and Middle
Belts — Production of 187,920,000
pounds from 216,000 acne, an average
of 870 pounds per acre, is indicated.
Production last year totaled
161,156,000 pounds from 193,000
acres, an average of 836 pounds per
acre.
Virginia—Production of 71,760,000
pounds from 82,000 acres, an average
of 876 pounds per acre, is indicated.
Production last year totaled 64,240,000
pounds, an average of 880 pounds
per acre from 73,000 acres.
Georgiar—Production of 59,500,000
pounds from 70,000 acres, an average
of 850 pounds per acre, is indicated.
Production last year totaled 64,400,000
pounds from 64,000 acres, an
average of 850 pounds per acre.
Florida—Production of 11,900,000
pounds from 14,000 acres, an average
of 850 pounds per acre, is indicated.
Production last year totaled
8,192,000 pounds from 11,300 acres,
an average of 725 pounds per acre.
Alabama — Production of 160,000
pounds from 200 acres, an average
at 800 .pounds per acre, is indicated.
Production last year totaled 226,000
pounds from 300 acres, an average
jf 750 pounds per acre. ■,
At each meal, /the United States
ymsumes, for the meat portion, 14,584,000
pounds of beef, veal, pork,
and lamb. More meat is eaten in October
than in any other month, with
January and May ranking second and
third. However, consumption is alnost
-even throughout the year.
THE OLD SUGAR BOWL
Tom Flowers. _. ,
How d«ar to my heart is that bowl
full of sugar, at fond recollection presents
it to view; the spoon used to
serve it plunged deep in the canter—
if one wouldn't sweeten we could
freely take two. Indeed a sad picture,
that sweet old oontainer, as 'tis
mournfully viewed in these sugarless
times—once filled to the rim with
its glandular goodness, now lacking
because of man's horrible crimes.
The dear old container, like one's
purse or a strainer, remaining quite
empty more'n half of the time.
Though coffee is lacking in goodness
without it, and it's something
I'm missing no little, indeed, I am
willing to drink it black and unsweetened,
to help stem the onslaught of
Hitlerized greed. Twss a bowl that
was cheering, even bulging with gladness,
and scant not a bit in its effort
to please; but now tisnt occupied,
vacant its in'ards, considered as
naught by a very "dry" tease. The
old sugar-holder, the seldom-used,
holder is being displaced by the drafting
of bees.
Soup Mixture Solves
Home Canning Problem
For people who are fortunate
enough to own, or have access to, a
pressure cooker, the canning of corn,
butterbeans, okra and other nonacid
vegetables from their Victory
Garden is no problem at all. But
thousands of North Carolina farm
homes do not have the advantage of
a pressure canner.
Mrs. Cornelia C. Morris, Extension
canning specialist of N. C. State College,
offers a solution to the canning
problem such rural homes. It is:
"Put up a soup mixture, containing
enough tomatoes to supply the acid
necessary for canning in a hot water
canner."
Wash boiler, lard tin, or any vessel
that has a tight cover, and fs
large enough to hold the required
number of jars, may be used as a
hot water canner. It should be fitted
with a wooden rack or a piece of
wire meeh to prevent the jars from
touching the bottom of the vessel,
rhis keeps the jars from breaking.
Mrs. Morris explained that nonacid
vegetables such as tomatoes do
safely without a pressure cooker, but
acid vegetable such as tomatoes do
not require steam under pressure for
safe food conservation.
The soup mixture recommended by
the Extension specialist is: Five
quarts of tomatoes, two quarts, qf
>kra or lima beans (or one quart of
'SLAP THE JAPS WITH SCRAP"
WARNING
Cotton Sweater
Thia mart, abort-sleeved Cardigan
fa made of I very soft roving
cotton yarn, with Batching groagrain
ribbon and painted wooden
buttons. The ribbed waistline la
designed for • snag fit aad the
heavy ribbing atitch ia a a ad
throughout the pattern. According
to the National Cotton Condi,
early demanda among retail buyers
for thia type sweater indicate
that ft will ha a favorite among
the yonnger college aet thia fall.
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