Border Belts
To Open Soon;
Large Poundage
With the largest acreage of to
bacco since 1939 warehousemen
on the South Carolina and North
Carolina Border markets are
again expecting a successful
marketing season. The United
States Department of Agricul
ture Crop Reporting Board has
estimated this year’s crop as of
July 1 for the Type 13 area to be
227,450,000 pounds as compared
with 221,950,000 pounds produc
ed last year, an increase of about
2V2 per cent.
According to the United States
and North Carolina Departments
of Agriculture, this year’s crop
was raised under very unusual
.weather conditions. Because of
an early spring, growers began
transplanting two to three weeks
earlier than usual and obtained
almost perfect stands. Later,
cool weather in May retarded
.normal-growth. Dry weather and
high temperatures in June caus
ed considerable “buttoning out”
and some of the earlier planted
fields were topped four to five
leaves lower than for the past
feur years. Weight per leaf is ex
pected to be heavier, largely off
setting the lesser number of
leaves per stalk. Favora b 1 e
weather during the latter part
of June and early resulted in
good quality lugs and cutters,
but excessive rains during the
remainder of the harvesting sea
son adversely affected the quali
ty of the leaf. Due to these
climatic conditions, the crop is
expected to have a smaller per
centage of smoking tobacco and
a much larger percentage of leaf.
Harvesting this year is about
twro weeks more ahead of last
year. At the present time, about
90% has been harvested and by
opening day, August 1, very
little tobacco will be left in
fields. Because of the earlier
curing season, growers are well
advanced in preparing their to
bacco for market. In some sec
tions, however, labor problems
have come up, but war prisoners>
were used to aid in relieving the
situation. A noticeable amount
of tobaco has been lost in some
fields, due to labor shortage and
insufficient housing room caused
by the large acreage; also it has
required from one to two days
longer to cure a barn this year.
me selling time win oe tne
same as last year, three and one
half hours "per set of buyers ex
cept on markets which lost a set
last year. These markets are
compensated by being allowed
additional selling time. The
speed of sales has been increased
from 360 to 400 baskets per hour
with a tolerance of not more
than fifteen baskets to prevent
stopping in the middle of a crop.
Maximum weight of each basket
will be limited to 2550 pounds.
The 1400 pile limit does not in
clude purchases made by ware
housemen and specu 1 a t o r s.
Several warehouses are already
booked up for the entire opening
week and block sales are ex
pected over most of the belt.
Office of Price Administration
has established this year on over
all weighted season’s average
purchase price of $40.00 per hun
dred for both tied and untied
flue-cured tobacco. A provision
is included, however, permitting
.each purchaser a deduction of
4Va cents per pound on all' tied
flue-cured tobacco purchased be
fore computing his season’s
.weighted average purchase price.
The season average producers’
sale for Type 13 flue-cured to
bacco for 1944 was $43.25 per
hundred pounds.
Federal Tobacco Inspection
and Market News Service is be
ing extended to the Fairmont,
N. C„ tobacco market this year.
This is the first market in the
.North Carolina Border markets
to be included under the Feder
al Tobacco Inspection Act.
THE ‘BIG THREE’ IN BERLIN—Shown, left to right, are
Marshal Joseph Stalin, USSR; President Harry S. Truman,
USA, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Great Britain,
pictured together for the first time just before the opening of
the Big Three conference in the Potsdam, Germany, area.
Exchange Labor
Is Expected To
Save Tobacco
Winton. — “By the exchange
labor method set up in the coun
ty now for priming tobacco, the
farmers will save all their tobac
co unless it begins to ripen too
fast,” H. L. Harrell, farm labor
assistant declared this week.
The plan used in the county
is for about three medium-sized
families or two large families to
help each other. The members of
all families work in one man’s
field until the work is his field
has been done and then they
move on to the other fields, said
Mr. Harrell.
Most farmers are cooperating
in exchanging labor but there
are a few stubborn ones that
will not use this method, said
Harrell, adding that those farm
ers are just hurting themselves.
“There is very little labor for
hire and what there is I’d say is
no good,” Harrell explained.
The German prisoner labor is
used for priming tobacco only
where the need is critical.
Peanut Digging Has
Started in Texas
Ahoskie. — Peanut digging in
south Texas has started and be
gan fairly general the latter part
of last week. Some runners have
been dug in north Florida and
southern Alabama, and an oc
casional small lot has already
been picked, according to the
United States Department of
Agriculture marketing services
report.
! Where the digging is general
in Texas the sections are not
especially adapted to peanut
production with the result that
quality yield on this very early
digging will be poor, the report
States.
It is still too early to deter
mine whether excessive rains in
Virginia-Carolina areas have
resulted in any permanent in
jury to the crop, but indication?
are that if. these rains continue
much longer some damage will
be suffered.
TO RENEW RAYON
Rayon dresses will have a crisp
new look if they are soaked in a
solution of water and gelatin,
according to Iva Byrd Johnson,
clothing specialist.
To achieve the best results in
using this gelatin bath to give
new life to old rayons, Miss
Johnson suggests' the following
procedure. Soak two tablespoons
of gelatin in one-half cup of
water for five minutes, then dis
solve this mixture in a pan of
boiling water. When it is cool dip
the freshly washed garment in
to the gelatin mixture, sqeeze
it gently and then roll in a thick
towel. When the garment is dry
and ready to press be sure to
iron it on the wron side.
RATIONED
NOTES
PROCESSED FOODS (Blue
Stamps): Y2, Z2, Al, Bl, Cl,
expire August 31, D1 through
LI, Ml, N1 expire October 31.
PI, Ql, Rl, SI, T1 expire Nov
ember 30.
* * *
MEATS AND FATS (Red
Stamps): Q2, R2, S2, T2, U2, ex
pire August 31, V2 through Y2
expire September 30. Al, Bl, Cl,
Dl, El expire October 31. FI, Gl,
HI, Jl, Kl, expire November 30.
* • • •
SUGAR: Sugar Stamp No. 36,
good for five pounds, expires Au
gust 31.
• * •
SHOES: Airplane Stamps No
1, No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4 now
good.
* • •
FUEL OIL: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
coupons from this season, all
valid for 10 gallons each. Period
1 coupon (new season) valid for
10 gallons.
* * *
GASOLINE: A-16 coupons
valid June 22 through Septem
ber 21.
Rationing rules now require
that every car owner write his
license number and State on all
gasoline coupons in his possession
New Food Stamps
Are Validated
Raleigh. — Five more red
stamps and five more blue
stamps, all in War Ration Book
Four, were to be made good for
the purchase of rationed foods
on Wednesday, August 1, OP A
District Director Theodore $>.
Johnson has announced.
Each of the stamps will be
worth 10 points, making a total
of 50 red points, which will be
good for the purchase of ration
ed meats, butter, margarine,
cheeses, lard, shortening and
salad and cooking oils, and 50
blue points good for the pur
chase of rationed processed
foods.
The new stamps, all good
through November 30, are:
Red, for meats-fats: FI, Gl,
HI, J1 and Kl.
Blue, for processed foods: PI,
Ql, Rl, SI and Tl.
The following stamps, pre
viously validated, also may be
used in the purchase of rationed
foods during August: Red Stamps
—Q2, R2, S2, T2, U2, V2, X2,
Y2, Al, Bl, Cl, D1 and El; Blue
Stamps—Y2, Z2, Al, Bl, Cl, Dl,
El, FI, Gl, HI, Jl, LI, Ml and
Nl.
Sugar stamp 36, in War Ration
Book Four, will continue to be
good for five pounds of sugar
through the end of August.
SAFETY
Last week was National Farm
Safety week but the dangers
still remain unless the hazards
to health and safety have been
removed or corrected.
Outlook for More
Lard Next Year
Raleigh.—Housewives will be
able to purchase more lard next
year, for lard production will be
about 100,000,000 pounds larger
in the spring and summer of 1946
than this year.
Basing his prediction on re
ports of the Bureau of Agricul
tural Economics, D. S. Coltrane,
Assistant Commissioner of Agri
culture, * pointed out, however,
that lard production will be less
this winter than last winter. He
said the national fall pig crop' is
expected to be about 13 psr cent
more than a year earlier. Mark
etings of 1945 fall-crop pigs will
begin in late April, 1946.
Hogs now being marketed are
from the 1944 fall pig crop,
which was 34 per c>Hnt smaller
than the record fall crop in 1943
Hogs to be marketed from Octo
ber to April will be from the
1945 spring pig crop, estimated
to be seven per cent less than
that of the spring crop of last
year.
.. . TOPS FOR QUALITY
PepvirCola Compa Island, City, N "
Franchised Bottler: Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Littleton
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