Ventilation Adjustments Help Solve
Prob. Scald, Sponge - Damaged Tobacco
North Carolina tobacco growers
can take a critical look at their cur
ing facilities as they search for
ways to insure against poor quality
leaf.
Improper ventilation in the curing
barn can result in loss of quality
through brown scald and sponge
damage, specialists at North Car
olina State College point out.
Brown scald results when tobacco
dries too slowly (sweats) with tem
perature and humidity too high for
the condition of the tobacco. This
condition can be controlled by sup
plying sufficient ventilation and
properly loading the barn.
Sponge is caused by too high
humidity or too low temperature or
a combination of the two. This can
uv wiiuvueu uy seeping me tem
perature up with the condition of
(he tobacco and by providing venti
lation for rapid drying.
Under ideal conditions in the cur
ing barn, cool, relatively dry air is
taken in through pie bottom ventila
tors and warmed as it passes over
the heating units. The warm air
picks up moisture from the leaf as
It rises through the tobacco and
goes out through the top ventilator.
Holes around the eaves or gable
ends can result in cold spots as
air is drawn down through the to
bacco before it is heated.
Hie specialists recommend the
following steps in guarding against
"sweating" and sponge:
1. Don't overload the barn. Hands
Should be limited to an average of
three leaves. Put 32 to 34 hands on
each stick. Space the sticks eight
to 12 inches apart on th etier. Hers
should be 22 to 36 inches apart ver
tically.
2. Provide sufficient and effective
ventilation during yellowing and
drying. There should be about 12
square feet of ventilation in the
ridge and at least four square feet
at the bottom for 16-foot barns.
3. Do not close bottom vents
while the top vents are open dur
ing yellowing and drying out. Baf
fie bottom vents especially It there
Is considerable wind blowing. Open
top and bottom vents while yellow
ing as well as drying. Sometimes
it may be necessary to close vents
when yellowing tobacco harvested
under extreme dry conditions or
rery thin tobacco. Early ventilation
may dry the leaf too fast and set
{teen color.
These and other more detailed
recommendations are available in
Extension Folder 170 entitled "Does
If our Tobacco Sweat?" It may be
>btained without charge at local
tgricultural extension offices or by
writing Department of Agricultural
information, N. C. State College
Raleigh.
Carolinians Look For Foreign Markets
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Haw can we wll more of our
farm products to Europe?
This is the question that 160 Caro
lina bankers and farmers, who will
Form the 1963 Agribusiness Caravan,
will try to answer on a two-week,
10,000-mile trip to six European
counties later this month.
The 1963 caravan, largest study
{roup of its kind to visit Europe
From the United States, will explore
>rogress in agricultural production,
>rocessing marketing in England,
Denmark, Germany, the Nether
ands, Belgium and Prance.
Sponsors of the caravan are Nor
h Carolina State, Clemaon College,
V. C. Department of Agriculture
ind Wachovia Bank and Trust Co.
Dates for the caravan are June 17
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Dr. H. Brooks James, dean of
agriculture at N. C. State, describes
the forthcoming caravan as "one
of the finest things we have ever
planned."
"The way to increase trade with
other countries is to visit them, and
find out what the peole want and
need." Dean James explained.
Meetings have been arranged
with high officials of the European
Common Market, and with agricul
tural, business and government.lea
ders in each of the nations. One
conference has been arranged with
Dr. Sicco Mansholt, whp is in char
ge of agricultural affairs for -^he
Common Market. jffift ',
Other caravan plans included;
In England, seminars led by &a
iness and government official* ob
market opportunities for tobacc*
poultry .^nd feed rrains, and an ii
spection of modern cattle farm
In DS^iark (the world's secoo
ranking nation' in percentage <
farm products exported), a study c
advances in pork production an
processing.
In Germany, a visit to West Bei
lin and a firsthand look at indui
trial growth along the Rhine Rive
from Frankfurt to Cologne.
In the Netherlands, a study (
bulb growing and other phases ?
Dutch horticulture and the impoi
tance of the port city of Rotterdai
to Holland and the Common Mai
ket.
In Belgium, a tour of the Natioi
al Institute of Agriculture and 3,0(
acres ssf grapes being grown und?
glass plus a comprehensive sem
Aar ckdducted by Common Marki
>. officials.
h In Prance, a study of achieve
j ments in farm production and mar
keting, particularly grain produc
d tion and storage, and a discussion
if by officials of American companies
if doing business in Europen on 'what
d the Common Market Means to My
Company."
The six Common Market coun
tries to be visited import about $16fl
million worth of tobacco, cotton,
poultry and feed grains from the
Carotin as annually.
The first U. S. cows were brought
over to the Jamestown Colony in
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Deaths
MRS. PEARL CARTER RICH
Mrs. Pearl Carter Rich, 68, wife
of L. R. Rich of Richlands, RFD,
died Friday afternoon in the Dup
lin General Hospital gt Kenansville
after a brief illness.
Funeral services were feeld at
the Baysden Chapel Free Will Holi
ness Church at 3:00 O'clock Sunday
afternoon conducted by Rev. B. A.
Daughtry. Interment foilewg^a the
Family Cemetery neaP^MHInl.
In addition to her husband she is
survived by four daughters Mrs.
Pauline Williams and Mrs. Julia
Grace Pickett of Beulaville, Mrs.
Rhoda Pearl Lee of Swansboro and
Mrs. Arlene Sanderson of Jackson
ville, six grand children and five
great grand children. Three sisters
Mrs. Sarah Foster of Richlands,
Mrs. Lina Tyndall of Pink Hill and
Mrs. Mattie Whaley of Beulaville.
Three brothers Kirby, Lewis and
William Whaley all of Beulaville.
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