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‘New’ Peanut Sections Show Greater Decline in Acreage Than Old, Established Areas Rejoicing in the first “wetting” rains in many weeks, farmers of this area may be interested to learn that the acreage of pea nuts grown for all purposes this year is estimated at 4,169,000 acres, according to the July re port of the Bureau of Agricul tural Economics. This acreage is about 18 per cent lower than the acreage of peanuts planted in 1943. The acreage inter-planted with other crops is estimated at 925,000 acres—or about 98 per cent of the 1943 inter-planted acreage. In all areas, acreages planted fell below the prospective acre age indicated in March, the de clines being most pronounced in regions that are normally non - commercial areas, the •‘new” peanut sections where the greatest increases took place in 1942 arid 1943. All the “minor” peanut grow ing states show sharp declines; while changes were moderate in these strictly commercial sec tions of the old established pea nut states. Condition Below Normal The July 1 average condition of peanuts was reported as 72 per cent of normal and com pares with 80 per cent on July 1, 1943 and 74 per cent of the “10-year” average. Stands are reported irregular in the Virginia-Carolina area and are said to be especially poor in some sections of North Caro lina. The War Food Administra tion did not mention parts of North Carolina in particular, but farmers in this area will general ly agree that lack of rain is res ponsible for any below average condition. In the Southeastern states, ex cessive rainfall delayed planting, but warm weather with occa sional showers over most of that .section for the last few weeks >nd fairly heavy rains in some localities have been very favor able to the growing crop, with growth continuing satisfactorily inr most areas. In the Southwestern area, stands range from generally good in the south to irregular in North Texas and Oklahoma. Slight nains during the first week of July over much of the area helped the crop, but additional rain is needed there as in this area. Sales in the Virginia-Carolina section, f.o.b. shipping point, per pound, were reported July 11 as follows: Cleaned, Virginians, jumbos 15 1-4 cents, the ceiling; funcys, mostly around 15 cents; .-.helled, Virginias No. 2, occa sional sales mostly around 14 14 1-4 cents, a few offered high er. : Sunbury Mrs. W. iP. Crosland of Col umbia, S. C., has returned home lifter a week’s stay with her mother, Mrs. William Nixon. Mrs. Neborne of Pennsylvania, is guest of Mr. and Mrs. George Morgan. Mrs. O. C. Corbitt- who has •been spending the past two months with her husband, O. C. Corbitt of the Coast Guard of .Philadelphia, has returned home. She was accompanied home by iher husband who will spend a few days here before returning. Rev. and Mrs. Harry Hill and daughter, Jean Caroline of Mol ■den, Mass., arrived Thursday to spend sometime with his father, J. R. Hill, Sr. Mrs. J. W. Nixon left last Wednesday to visit relatives in .Roanoke and New Castle, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Parker are guests of friends at Virginia Peach. Mrs. Henry Brooks of Rocky Mount, will spend this week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Copeland. Miss Margaret Anne White re turned home Sunday after a week’s stay with Miss “Jackie” Pierce. Mrs. William Lassiter is a pat ient at Lakeview Hospital, Suf folk. Miss Ruth Pierce of Elm Col lege spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Pierce. Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Cor bitt, Mrs. R. L. Corbitt, Mrs. J. R. Corbitt, Mrs. J. E. Corbitt, Mrs. Gatlis Gatling, Fletcher and Jimmie Corbitt attended the burial of W. G. Otwell at Wood land Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Copeland and children of Norfolk were guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Copeland Sunday. Mrs. William Cross and two children, Mary Anne and Frank Cross, have returned from sev eral week’s stay with relatives in Grifton and Greensboro. Mr. and Mrs. B. L. White and Frances .Lee White, Archie White of Whiteson, Claude Walker of Burlington, visited Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Corbitt Sun day. Robert P. Jones Helped to Take Motor to Tanker Ensign Robert P. Jones of Sunbury was co-pilot of the Naval Air Transport Service plane which transported the heaviest single item—a 10,000 pound main turbine engine rotor —ever carried by air between the United States and the Panama Canal Zone. The generator rotor was for a tanker loaded with fuel enroute to a rendezvous with the Navy’s famous Task Force 58. The ship’s rotor was damaged be yond repair, with the result that the ship was disabled in the Canal Zone and delivery of vital fuel was held up. That same day, June 15, the Naval Air Transport Service picked up a replacement rotor at the Naval Air Station, Floyd Bennett Field, New York, and in less than 12 hours the rotor was de-r livered at Allbrook Field in the Canal Zone, where a repair crew was standing by. After a test run, engine dif ficulties were still encountered, and it was found that the main turbine rotor also needed re placing. The new rotor was brought to Floyd Bennett by truck from Philadelphia, and an other taken off w'as made, with Ensign Jones the co-pilot on this trip. After reaching Allbrook Field that night, the officers and men supervised the unloaing of the engine, and less than nine hours later, they were in the air again, rushing the damaged rotor back to the United States so it could be repaired and installed in a new tanker. During the round trip, the Naval Air Transport Service flew 5,000 miles in 26 hours and 40 minutes, an average of better than 185 miles an hour, thereby helping to keep important fuel supplies flowing to the Navy’s Task Force, and. at the same time preventing a threatened serious interruption to tanker production. A farmer may use as many pounds of fertilizer per acre a.s is recommended by the Agri cultural Experiment Station in the year beginning July 1, an nounces the WFA. Crops will not be divided into A and B classes. Jap Cave Blasted S/Sgt. Harold Frazier, Twin Falls, Idaho, stands guard against hidden Japs while Lieut. Fred Boyer, Roseburg, Oregon, (right), inspects the ruins of a Jap cave emplacement in the coral reefs of Biak. Negro News By H. L. MITCHELL “A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.”—Joseph Conrad. ‘ Plan Your Work and Work Your Plans During the next few weeks nearly every farmer will have some extra time, as the crops will be laid by. This time can be used to great advantage around the home and on the farm. The following are sugges tions that may save money and material: 1. Make an inventory of all farm machinery. Collect all parts and clean and oil them so as to save from rusting 2. Collect all bags. Wash those that are serviceable and give the paper bags to 4-H Club members for waste paper. 3. Check over the barns and stables. Repair leaks and broken walls. Build and repair hog houses. 4. Clean the poultry house. Check poultry for lice and the roosts for mites. *If mites are found, paint the roosts with burned motor oil. Dust the chickens for lice. Select a place for a poultry yard and sow soy beans and corn for pullets, if this has not been done. 5. Get ready for winter. Dry wood will be needed to make fires and for cooking during the busy months this fall. A great deal of time and worry will be saved if this can be done before the rush comes. A wood house or shed will serve a good pur pose that will be greatly appre ciated when rainy weather comes. •CHOCOLATE •VANILLA • BUTTER. SCOTCH • LEMON 6. Let’s remember that farm ing is a year-around job, and that if each thing is done in the proper time farm life can be lived very happy and profit able. Temporary Pastures Help Feed Stock A number of Gates county farmers who have land that is not being farmed this year have been able to make temporary pastures by fencing in this land with barbed wire. This has made it possible for them to keep the livestock grazing and also save feed which has to be purchased. A good example of this is seen on the farm of Paul Grice of Eure. Mr. Grice started farming late this spring -and was not able to cultivate all of his land. To "CT BETTER — — Dr. Sigmund Myers OFTOMETKIST Eyes Examined and Frames Fitted 164 E. WASHINGTON Phone 548-J Suffolk. Si MADAME CARROLL SCIENTIFIC PALMIST AND ADVISER Will give you true and never failing advise on anything pertaining to your welfare. Tells you just what you want to know without asking any questions, no matter what your hope, fear or trouble may be. This lady can and will help you. She guarantees to do what others CLAIM to do. 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