TOBACCO GOES IN THE PACK BARN AFTER CURING —Mainly because there i< no'time to
stop harvesting to grade tobacco after it is cured in' firing in' a barn five to seven days, is stored
in the. pack barn. As soon as it :s stored-in the pack barn, as this mrl and tier brat hi r arc doing,
all hands get busy priming. looping and putting a new batchm ih** barn. In betwei :i 'in t ng
and grading is done on a catch-can basis so that sonic of the crop vvtii be ready tor market mg on
opening day.
Give Back ^ hat \ ou Take From Land
And You'll Nev er Have, to Go Hungry
By L. E. PETTYJOHN
Manager American Bank and
Trust Co. Agricultural and
and Livestock Department
In a recent issue of the Agricul
tural News Utter, published by
the Du Pont Company is a gnu'.,
tion from Paul Johnson. ' Econom
ies is a haid taskmaker. In pood
times we are"tempted to mine th
land to improve our standard- of
living and keep up v. n t.o-.
Jones. In bad times w> f-ei ' we
can't afford to give back '.to'thy
land what we .took away, in good
times . . . the soil builder seldom
goes hungry, nor do his children
lack for shoes and education. The
land has a wav of taking good
care of it." You have a taskmaker
whether you are married or not
Economics whether you rca it
or not. A few of you have and are
doing something about it.
Quoting again from the same
news letter, "Farmers produce
so abundantly that 85 per cent
of the population can now
choose other kind of jobs. If
farmers were not so efficient,
a lot more people could have
to go to work farming. This is
an efficieny that since before
the war has increased farm
output by about 40 per cent,
does it with 17 per cent less
labor." In the last 25 years the
cost of farm production has
dropped about 30 per cent the
average yield per acre since
1935 has increased about 50
per cent."
What is your farm doing? Ev
ery time you drive along any road
in this section you can see. Has
the drought ruined vour corn crop
or did you ruin itl’ I realize cer
tain areas have been dry and
other sections, near by. had still
less water but I yet have not
found an area so small but what
there can be seen glaring differ
ences in the results from the
drought.
AS STATED IN the 1st para
graph, “the soil builder seldom
goes hungry.” Just a few days ago
I observed two fields of corn on
the same farm, possibly a quar
ter of a mile apart. The first field
is a field with considerable slope
and to try to control erosion the
owner plants a cover crop each
fall. The other field is a much
more productive soil but is almost
flat so the owner does not need
cover crops to prevent the top soil
from washing away.
Where cover crops have been
planted each winter and plowed
under each spring, the corn
suffered but in the few days
since the rains came the field
is beautiful. The field where no
cover crops were planted, ap
parently 10 per cent of the
•talks had blasted white from
lop lo bottom and wil! never
recover. Where this man plants
cover crops regularly he will
get his corn to fatten his fine
crop of shotes. Where he plant
ed no cover crops he won't get
back the cost of his seed and
fertilizer. A very plain proof
that "the Soil builder seldom
goes hungry."
J
Ms.-d it p
Whih cm
you have
when w.<
bon."' .
Tim of
-ub >:.! •,
trie d it :
and
Thu
d of earn lip in tif- Ivr v
bore the m r had iv
t’nrs farm .two. neighbor
•rs cpnie in Their open
k wa-i. "What, good'corn
then . Bob I never -aw
had good voar to'-av
; a dry. Vfar'likr tins had
hep; o : r d, "Yon
iy proof of li
vable. of sub-oiling I notice. A
.number of vou tried it this past
spring and I Have had praise from
a‘'.during the wet May we had
as wed as the dry June. When
that. hardpliti ■' Was "broken, tip it
permitted, excess water to go
di'-w r. and when the drought came
ft. permitted the. corn roots to go
down and find the moisture.
' Soil Builder- seldom go hungry. '
EARLY IN JUNE I was called
on the telephone and asked my
opinion of the ammonia, gas fe r
tilizer for sidi dressing corn. I re
plied that the ammonia would
have to be placed deep in the
ground or it would be lost and if ,
the applicator placed the gas as
much as six inshes below the i
surface, because it was then dry.
the results would be most satis
factory. as the ammonia would
change to nitrogen from the
activity of the soil micro- organ
isms, ready for the plants to take
up. down where the roots were
and where moisture would most
likely be found.
Plants only take up plant
food that is in solution. I talk
ed with this farmer this past
Saturday. I noticed his chest
sticking out a little further
than usual so I stopped him and
asked about the results of the
ammonia gas. "Why," he said,
"you can fell to the very row
where the stuff was put" I
used Cal-nitrale on the other
corn but the ammonia is beat
ing the cal-nitrale all to pieces.
Had the cal-nitrate been placed
as deep in the ground I doubt this
farmer would have seen any dif
ference. I also warned him to
apply a little more lime on that
i:a tends
.u :d than ,th.
planting
tin am
tase care
' down
t.-.v roots
i Iniiidme
prot.
Cites Facts On
The Mosquito
C rev.,-: Cii : > Aden
Ye J:A ta.ii . r's »i
A,
re.in. With.
e: irge at. lea
Generations, U
weaken ate; d
Rankin’* arti
La Re tie Mod.
toa.sfh.skih, i
take off before
•he sudden ten
‘•felegraphs'* th
mosquito, the
rippling beneath her :> like an
earthq'.uiike.
The pests seem to bite most ;
often at bight. probably because |
the species that is the biggest nui- !
s •nice happens to Be a night
feeder. The female finds her way
to tlte target in the dark., by means
of a ' ehemoreceptor" a combi
nation sense of smell and radar
like sense of ••feel" beamed to !
heat waves and odors given off by j
the human body.
The common house mosquito ;
seldom flies mere than 1.000 feet1
from its birthplace. Some of the
big salt-water marsh breeders,
however, can raid towns 50 miles
distant.
The male mosquito lives only
eight or nine days, the female ;
about 30. In her life span, how- I I
ever, the female of the common |
species lays about 100 eggs, and |
in temperate climates 15 genera
tions are born in a season. The re
sulting progeny, if unmolested,
! would reach astronomical figures, j
Mosquitoes are actually good for
| something, from the human view
point. Without mosquitoes as food,
I many insect-eating birds and ani
i mals might perish, allowing even
j worse pests than mosquitoes to
' plague us.
• • den-ed from
through the
•e. of. your skin
blow. To the
TARHEEL BANK
and TRUST COMPANY
Lewiston, N. C.
ICA
Gatesville, N.C.
Winton, N. C.
INI
Officers
L. C. HAND, SR.
President
A. P. GODWIN, JR.
Vice President
R. E. Miller
Vice President
J. K. WYATT
Vice President
PAUL F. EDMOND
Executive Vice President
BEN P. WEAVER, JR.
Cashier at Winton
R. L. LOWE
Cashier at Lewiston
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Directors
L. C. HAND, SR.
Chairman
PAUL F. EDMOND
A. P. GODWIN, JR.
FRED JONES
C. B. GRIFFIN, JR.
A. L. LILLEY
R. E. MILLER
W. M. SPIVEY
E. P. STORY
J. K. WYATT
MISTER
TOBACCO
FARMER
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