High Quality
Leaf Production
Key to Future
Raleigh.—Problems of patho
logy, entomology, engineering,
management, marketing, and the
like must be considered not only
on general farm crops but in
connection with the home and
the welfare of the farm family.
Tobacco is North Carolina’s
most important crop. Problems
of plant production involve con
trol of weeds, insects and dis
eases, as well as fertilization
and other factors. Plans were
worked out in 1945 that call for
permanent plant bed sites.
Granville wilt and the black
root rot disease have caused un
told damage in the field to the
tobacco crop in the past. Identi
fication of the diseases. in the
growing crop is absolutely nec
essary because no one strain
has yet been developed that is
resistant to all diseases.
After testing 1,034 different
strains of tobacco, many from
foreign countries, the Tobacco
Branch Experiment Station at
Oxford finally developed the Ox
ford 26 strain, which is resistant
to Granville wilt. Extension aid
ed growers in determining which
fields should be planted to the
new strain and in obtaining seed.
At>out 50,000 acres were planted
to' the Oxford 26 tobacco and
conservative estimates place the
worth of' the new strain at
$»,000,000 in a single year.
Growers with black shank in- ;
fested soils continued to use Ox
ford strains 1, 2 and 3. The dis- \
ease was reported for the first
time in Wayne, Beaufort, and
Onslow counties. Root knoti
nematodes have been responsible
for serious damage in the Coast
al Plain area, and the disease is
on the increase in the lighter
sdils of the Piedmont section.;
Proper rotation is the best meth
od of fighting this problem.
Agronomy and marketing spe
cialists have warned growers
that they must pay more atten
tibn to the production of high
quality tobacco in the future as
total supplies of the crop become
larger and world competition in
tobacco production becomes
keener.
Costs of producing cotton have
risen to an exceptionally high
point because so much of the
work in connection with the
crop is hand labor. Farm man
agement, engineering, and agro
nomy are together working on
plans for reducing unit costs of
production as outlined in the
seven-point cotton program.
Cotton presents not a state or
regional problem, but a world
economic problem. Its future
may also present a serious social
problem of displaced workers
for North Carolina and the
South, if the crop acreage is seri
ously reduced because of in
creased world production. Re
duction of cotton costs with pro
duction of better grade staple
and new uses for the staple seem
to present the best answers to
the problem.
The one-variety cotton im
provement program is now en
tering its -sixth year with 39 or
ganizations arid 25,637 members
cooperating. In 1945 302,301;
acres of a single strain of cotton,
a part of the seed wilt resistant
and ethers non-wilt depending
on the soils, were planted by
these organizations. Each year a
special trophy is awarded the
county showing the greatest im
provement in all improved prac
tices relating to cotton.
A state-wide, five-acre cot
ton contest, emphasizing the im
portance o: high production and
high staple quality, was begun
in 1945 in cooperation with all
agencies interested in the future
of cotton. In spite of the low
average yield of cotton in the
state, the prize winner produced
more than 14 bales on 5 acres at
a remarkably low cost of 8 cents
per pound.
The Seventh Armyt now oc
cupying the Third Army Area,
including the states of Alabama,
Florida, Georgia, Mississippi,
North Carolina, South Carolina,
and Tennessee was reactivated
on June 11. 1946, under the com
mand of Lieut. General Oscar
W. Griswold, with headquarters
in Atlanta.
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THE 3EVEN:UP CO. of Littleton and Ahoskie
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Peanut Growers
Need Better Seed
There is need for a national
peanut seed industry says James
H. Beattie of the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture. Mr. Beat
tie. who is senior horticulturist
of the Bureau of Plant Industry,
Soils, and Agricultural Engin
eering. states the case in this
; way:
"Due in some measure to the
stimulus of war conditions, the
annual farm, value of the pea
nut crop in a dozen Southern
States now exceeds S200.000.000
and it is credited with being the
tnird most valuable southern
cash crop. Yet, surprisingly,
there is no organized, large-scale
peanut seed industry. Although
more than 100 million pounds of
peanut seed valued at several
million dollars are required ^or
planting each year, the peanut
industry is a half century be
hind many other important crops
in this respect.
“Every wholesale and retail
catalogue devoted to vegetable
seed gives attention to garden
and field bean seed, but the pea
nut gets scant attention. In
quantities used — approximately
80 million pounds of garden bean
seed and 100 million pounds of
field bean seed—beans rank with
peanuts.
Carefully conducted experi
ments in Georgia, Virginia, and
elsewhere, have shown increases
of 250 to 300 pounds of peanuts
per acre through the use of good
seed. It is high time that farm
ers and the industry in general
enjoy the profits to be had from
the use of good seed. A well-or
ganized, well-conducted seed in
dustry is needed to supply it.”
♦
At noon on May 6, 1945, ene
my resistance to the Seventh
Army ceased. Field Marshal
Gerd von Rundstedt and King
Leopold of the Belgians were
picked up in the Seventh Army
Area.
As the battle of the Bulge
came to a close, the Germans
launched a major offensive to
recover Alsace and it was ele
ments of the Seventh Army that
stopped the thrust after a con- *
fused four-day battle.
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THANK YOU
for waiting for delivery of your
NEW CHEVROLET
We are doing our best to see that you
get your new car as quickly as possible
Remember—Our CAR-SERVICE is your best CAR-SAVER. Keep your present
car "alive" until you get delivery of your new Chevrolet by bringing it to
us for skilled service now and at regular intervals.
We want to thank our customers and pro- *
spective customers for your friendly
patience while awaiting your new
Chevrolets.
We know it is a hardship to wait for
needed transportation; but we believe
you will understand that we, and
Chevrolet, are as eager to deliver cars as
you are to. obtain them. Unfortunately,
production so far this year is far under
expectations. Chevrolet Motor Division
sums up the situation thus:
“Even though our rate of production
normally exceeds that of any other
manufacturer, we have been able to
build, up to July 1, only 12.4 per cent
as many cars as we had built up to
that date in 1941. Production is still
far below normal, because of fre
* quent shortages of essential mate
rials and parts. Strike after strike at the
plants of our suppliers has seriously
impeded our progress toward full
production, and the. cumulative
effect severely hampers every manu
facturing and assembly plant. In
June we were able to build only
29.2 per cent as many cars as we
produced in the same month in
1941.”
While production is restricted, so—in
proportion—are shipments of cars to us.
As production increases, we are assured
of getting our proportionate share of the
total—and as quickly as cars are received,
we will speed deliveries to our customers.
Hollowed Chevrolet Company, Inc.
Hertford, North Carolina
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