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Tobacco Situation For Year Favorable » Bureau Report Says Market This Year to Be Consider ably Better than Last A tobacco market this season much improved over last is cited by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics in its report on the tobacco situation. Supplies are smaller than a year ago, con sumption is heavier and prices to the growers are higher. Ex ^ ports, however, were somewhat lower during the first few months of the marketing season. The higher prices reflect both reduced supplies and increased demand, according to the Bur eau. The improvement in con sumer purchasing power and the addition of new consumers of tobacco products explain the in creased consumption without a lowering of retail prices. The most marked increase in domes tic consumption has taken place in cigarettes. . The effects of the increased de mand on prices of the two most Important types of cigarette to bacco have been considerably different. In the case of flue cured, prices have been only slightly higher than last year, the increase in domestic con sumption having been largely off set by a relatively large supply and a slightly lower foreign de mand. I On the other hand, there has been a marked increase in the price of Burley, because sup plies have been materially re duced and foreign demand is of relatively small importance. Stocks at the beginning of the 1937-38 marketing year will prob ably be further reduced since consumption during 1936-37 will exceed production for most ! types. —Come to Wallace June 7-/2— BULB GROWING (Continued from Page One) on daffodils alone this year” and other commercially-grown flowers will bring approximate ly $600,000, a total of nearly a WELCOME TO THE FESTIVAL Treat Yourself To Beauty Attained the Modern, Comfortable way, and done by Experts in the Art. SPECIALS for FESTIVAL WEEK PERMANENTS $2.00 up SMAMPOO and FINGER WAVE 35c Machineless Permanents (Without Electricity) $5.00 DONE BY THE NEW RAY . . . THE NEW WAY. We Appreciate Your Patronage and Aim to Please You. VVe Guarantee all Our Work —Give Us a Trial. Look your best at the Festival; Come to See Us Now! Maries Beauty Shoppe LICENSED OPERATOR Located East End of Main Street—Next to Motor Inn . WALLACE, N. C. Welcome to the Strawberry Festival GOOD FERTILIZERS , ^ MAKE GOOD CROPS 3' PERUVIAN IS THE ANSWER PERUVIAN—SEABIRD FERTILIZERS . . . “That Good Guano with the Red Bird on the Bag” . . . Have for Years, been “Making Friends by Making Good Crops.” Ask the Hundreds of Users of this Section . . . Their Bountiful Crops of Strawberries, Tobacco, Cotton, Corn and General Truck is the Answer. 15,000 Bags Sold by Us in 1936 and 12,000 sold already this year. Surely It Must be Good to Get Where It is, in use, and enjoy such Genuine Populari ty of the Wise Farmer! P. RIVENBARK Fertilizers PERUVIAN Nitrates Wallace, North Carolina The Harvest Is On, Above is shown a section of a I well spaced and cultivated straw berry patch on the farm of one of Duplin’s largest growers. Note the large number of pic kers engaged in harvesting the fruit. It is not uncommon for grower to engage as many as 100 pickers to harvest his crop, which must he moved as quick ly as the fruit ripens. million dollars for the crop. Specialists of the division of entomology have just complet ed inspection of 5,000,000 daffo dil plantings for evidences of the dreaded nematode and bulb fly in the interest of protect ing the industry. Brunswick, New Hanover, Beaufort, Lee, Durham, Edge combe and Buncombe Counties are the homes of the commer cially-grown bulbs that have found acceptable markets in the north and south. In fact, North Carolina grown daffodils may be found in demand as far west as Chicago. “The industry is continually grqiwing,” the associate ento mologist said, “and the only threat to prosperity for the grower is the destructive worms and flies.” Relatively small as a crop, relatively unknown as a farm! product, North Carolina flow-| ers have been established on markets outside the state al though less than 700 acres have been adopted for their growth as a money crop. Of the 700 acres, 302 acres have' been planted to daffodils, 220 acres to iris and 170 acres have been planted to gladiolus, tu lips and other flowers. More than 24 million daffo dil bulbs were planted this year, Harris said. However, the cost of new bulbs is a large item. For in stance it takes approximately 75,000 bulbs to plant an acre of gladiolus and the new stock | costs about $8 per 1,000 bulbs. “A few growers receive as high as $4000 gross per year and many others average from $2,000 to $20,000,” the associ-, ate entomologist pointed out. | “Comparatively small growers j employ from 15 to 20 hands at | work the year round and while1 the gross income is rather high, j the net incomes of the growers reveal they make only comfort able incomes.” A constant threat to the bulb industry is the nematode (eel worm) and bulb fly. In fact, in view that both pests have dam aged bulbs growing sections, the Department of Agriculture still maintains a quarantine for the protection of the pur chaser as well as the grower and the division of entomology is charged with the duty of in specting the bulbs before ship ing is authorized. Meanwhile, Commissioner of Agriculture W. Kerr Scott plans to hald several confer ences with the growers in or der to plan the inspectional program for the present ad ministration. Daffodil inspection work was begun in 1926 when the fed eral government established foreign and domestic quaran tines governing the moveemnt of bulbs and at the time im ported bulbs were required to be treated before being releas d for planting. Domestic daf fodils were given two inspec tions and where infestation of nematode or biulb fly were found, treatment was required before teh bulb could be sold. Federal quarantines applied to I inter-state movements of bulbs ! an dthe Department of Agricul ture adopted the same regula i tions for intra-state movement. A tew years later the lederai quarantine was lifted, but the State Department of Agricul ture continued its quarantine for the protection of the grow^ ers. Meanwhile, the inspection service of the entomology divi sion is offered to growers who do not sell, as an aid in keep ing their stock free from pests. Completing the spring in- j New Hanover farmers grew good lettuce for which they re ceived poor prices this spring. Carrots and beets are now sell ing well, i owever. Welcome to Wallace N. G. I and to the j Central Service Station | J. D. Turner, Proprietor \ We are Located Right in the Heart of Town, at t Main and Railroad Streets . , . Wallace’s Most Con- | venient Station, Featuring that Famous Gasoline j —C-0-N-0-C-0— I —also— Washing • Polishing • Greasing NATIONAL TIRES fully guaranteed against all Hazards apection of daffodil plantings, the assistant entomologist re ported that on 16 properties containing 88 acres or appro ximately 3,000,000 bulbs, the nematode Vas found on six properties and the bulb fiy on one. “The infested bulbs will be treated during the 'Jate sum mer,” he said. "Bulbs containing nrinitsi es should be immersed in wat er at a temperature of 110 to 111 1-2 degrees farenheit for four hours,” he explained. "This treatment will also kill any larvae of the ‘bulb fly’ that may be in the bulbs. Where bulbs are infested with only fly, they, they may be fumigat ed with calcium cyanide.” Welcome to the Strawberry Festival WALLACE’S PURE FOOD HEADQUARTERS_ Thirty-One Years Serving this Community in the Best of Choice Meats and all Market Products and Ice. We Join in with Wallace and It's Citizenry in Pay ing Tribute and Respects to Our First Lady, Our Governor and other Not able Guests, and a Warm Welcome to All to Attend Our Big 1937 Strawberry Festival. WE INVITE YOU TO VISIT OUR STOKE WHILE HERE, AND IF THERE’S ANYTHING WE CAN DO TO ADD TO YOUR ENJOYMENT OF THE OCCASION, WE ARE READY AND ANXIOUS TO SERVE YOU! POWERS’ MARKET R. JV. Powers, Prop. Wallace North Carolina Greetings to our Welcome to the DISTINGUISHED GUESTS STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL Again We approach another Sea son when The “King” Strawberry reigns Supreme, and when We will celebrate the Phenomenal Growth and Development of this Crop, in a Spirit of Genuine Fest ivity; to Pay Homage to It and its own great contribution to this Town’s and This Section’s own Progress and Development, This Institution, thus, happily joins in the Spirit of the Occasion, and in Extending to Our First Lady, Our Governor and the many other Notables and Thous ands of Visitors, a Warm Wel come, and Pledge our Efforts of Cooperation to Make Your Visit a Most Pleasant One. The Wallace Wholesale Co. Oscar Rivenbark \ / GROCERIES AND FEEDS » WALLACE, “The Strawberry Capital Of The Nation” N. C.
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