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Remedy For Bine Mold Probably Be Ready For Use Next Season A. — W —— ■' -—H— E. G. Moss, State Tobacco Spec ialist, Says Experiments With An Improved Copper Oxide Spray Shows Promise. Raleigh, May 22.—Blue mold —deadly fungus eating at the heart of the tobacco-growing in dustry in North Carolina—will probably find the department of agriculture ready with a prac tical and economic spray with which to war upon the disease next season. It has been a battle with the elements this season with blue mold the victor so far, but sprays are being studied in an effort to find control measures and next season the "ammuni tion” is expected to be ready for use by the tobacco grower. Blue mold sickens in sunny weather, takes on new life in wet, cool, damp weather. But sunshiny weather is not depend able and the growers are suffer ing from the plant-bed disease So the department of agricul ture, in cooperation with the go vernment and other extension specialists, went to work to find a remedy for the disease threat ening the state's 106 million dol lar tobacco crop. And results have been obtained by using copper oxide oil sprays. “The copper oxide oil sprays are not perfect by any mans but have given fairly siitisiac tory control and it seems this spray is worthwhile,” E. G. Moss, tobacco specialist of the department of agriculture, an nounced today. “It is very pro bable this spray will be general ly recommended by another sea son. The results were not com pleted in time to recommend for this season's crop.” Moss, who is assistant director in charge of the department's tobacco test farm at Oxford, add ed that ‘there is no reason, how ever, to expect the tobacco in dustry to be crippled on account of this disease as all indications point to a means of control which are practical and can be economically used.” Meanwhile, farmers are guard ing their plant beds with shot guns at night and fear is ex pressed for the crop, but depart ment of agriculture specialists declare “it is too early to make any accurate estimate” of the damage expected from blue mold. Blue mold or downy mildew which first occurred in the flue cured belt in 1931 has become a serious menace in the produc tion of tobacco plants. In March, 1921, the disease made its ap pearance in Gadsden county, Florida, and Decatur county, Georgia, on seedlings of shade grown tobacco. However, for the next ten years the disease was not reported. “In 1932, blue mold spread rapidly and did serious damage 'to the seedlings over the entire ! flue-cured belt,” the tobacco specialists pointed out. ‘But during the next four years while this disease was present each year, it did not seriously affect the stand of plants. Then begin ning in the Georgia-Florida belt early this year, it was evident that the disease was more viru dent and would cause more dam age to the seedlings than at any time since 1932.” Moss said the results of blue mold so far have been that the Georgia crop will be smaller than was anticipated by 25 to 30 per cent “and there will pro bably be some slight reduction in the acreage planted in the re mainder of the belt.” “Another important factor as a result of this disease has been that growers plant from two to three times as much area in seed beds as would be necessary for the same acreage if the blue mold was not present,” he said, adding that this alone adds ma terially to the cost of growing the tobacco crop.” Since the first outbreak of blue mold, a large amount of work has been done at the de partment of agriculture’s tobac co test farm by plant patholo gists and others in an effort to work out control measures. ‘It was soon recognized that temperature and sunshine were important factors in controlling this fungus,” Moss announced. “On the other hand, fungicides that had been used on other plants could not be used on the tender tobacco plants; conse quently, new treatments had to be developed.” And the new department officials and tobacco growers for the control in 1938. —Come to Wallace June 7-12— j Attend the Strawberry Festi val here all Next Week. ; ************** I 4. * ■ * * -I* * , + ' I *1* * *!* *5* * * * **** ■!* 4* * 1905 T hirty Two Years %************* |1937| SERVING THIS SECTION WITH INSURANCE SERVICE Proper Insurance Investment and \ Protection is a vital contributing Fac tor in the growth and Progress of any Community. In this respect We are glad to have had a Part in this Sec ; tion’s Best Interests. > > » > ► * ► ► * i > ► > f » '• » > t * > * t > > t > ► i > ► ► * Accident Fire-Casualty Wind Storm—Hail—Tornado Now is the time to Protect your Crops with Wind-storm and Hail In surance. I represent the Country's Largest and Strongest Companies. j J. D. CARR j • GENERAL INSURANCE • I Wallace . . . North Carolina i A-—----- -- — ODDEST PLANT IS NATIVE OF THIS SECTION Venus Fly Trap Is Found Only In Southeastern Section of North Carolina. Growing along the coast in a narrow strip of low, bay-filled land in the southeastern part of North Carolina, in which Wal lace is situated, and approxi mately forty miles wide by a hundred miles long, is found one of nature’s most unusual plant specimens—the Venus fly trap. Wherever one finds plant lov ers—or lovers of the unusual —whether it be in the Old North State or on the other side of the world, mention of this strange animal-plant brings for th an interested discussion of its peculiar habits and appear ance. Scientists have studied it and horticulturists have delved into its mysterous past for some hint as to its origin. Expedi tions to the far corners of the world in search of rare plants have combed the regions visit ed for it, but all to no avail. Apparently, it stands alone as one of Mother Nature's most unique contributions to the flora of the earth, and was meant to grow in no other known spot in the world save a restricted section in southeastern North Carolina. The Venus fly trap was said by Charles Darwin to be the most unusual plant ever to come under his observation, and it comes closer to being both plant and animal than any other growth known. It is a low plant, hugging the moist, damp earth, and rarely grows more than a few inches in height. What dis tinguishes it from other mem bers of the plant world and saves it from utter mediocrity, is its peculiar habit of catching and digesting insects and bugs in its trap perched in the tips of its lefy arms. These traps are nothing more than narrow jaws equipped on each rim with a number of tooth-like fibres with which it imprisons insects and devours them. Each jaw is lined with five sensitive hairs, three on one side and two on the other, which, once touched, cause the two sides of the hinge-like jaws to close tightly, imprisoning the subject within. If edible, the trap stays closed until the con tents are digested, which takes about eight days; if, on the other hand, the object is not digesti ble, the jaws re-open in about twenty-four hours, ready for business again. Strangely enough, the diges tive process is carried forward by means of a secretion which exudes from the pores In the jaws of the trap portion of the plant when it is closed. This secretion has been analyzed and found similiar in certain res pects to the juices found in the human stomach. Each trap be comes, in effect, after the jaws have closed firmly upon the un wary insect, a minature stom ach, which furnishes nourish ment to the plant during the period of digestion. Seemingly, it would appear that the plant would be unable to distinguish an edible from an inedible object, but such is not the case. It will close upon an inedible object, but, as before stated, will soon discover its mistake, opening in a compara tively short period and expell ing the unwanted object. But place bits of sugar, or other di gestible objects in the trap and it will not re-open until the last I particle of it has been digested. Flies, spiders, locusts, bumble bees, and even small frogs have been found in the jaws of this wicked little plant. To one who might care to ramble about the woods and sav annahs near Wallace, many of these plants may be observed. While very partial to moist ground, found on the edges of sand hills where they come down and merge with a bay or swamp, they will never be found in a bay or swamp proper. Ap parently they require a well drained soil. The plants begin to show up about the first of April, al though they may sprout earlier in sheltered places, and blooms along in May, sending up its cluster of white flowers on a single stem from the exact mid dle of the plant. The seed ap pear in June, and, after drying, fall to the earth from which the plants are re-seeded the next season. The Venus fly trap is mature within three months af ter springing up, and the traps on some good-sized, vigorous specimens reach a size large enough to hold a young spring frog. Just why this strange plant should be confined to the small strip of land along the Carolina coast has never been explained. For this reason, and its own peculiar characteristics, it has long been an object of curiosity; to botanists. It has drawn In terested people from many parts of the country, who have ob served it and expressed amaze ment and wonder at it. And well they might, for there is nothing else like it in the whole world, nothing that even re motely resembles it. —Come to Wallace June 7-12—. Try Different Com Eight dairymen of Yadkin County recently ordered nine bushels of Eureka ensilage corn seed and seven other dairymen later ordered 10 bushels for de monstration purposes. —Come to Wallace June 7-12— Improve Flocks Two pure bred Hampshire rams have been ordered recent ly by Pasquotank sheep growers. 1904 • 1937 Compliments of OSBORN CARR • FANCY GROCERIES# One of Wallace’s oldest Business Institutions Joins in Cooperation to Boost and Build. Welcome Festival Visitors! “Growth Through Service” Keeping Pace... ...And Keeping Faith • It is with a gratifying sense of appreciation that we review the history and growth and development of Wallace and this Coastal Section, with due recognition and appreciation of the major contribution the Strawberry, and its development as a marketable crop, has made to the commercial and civic progress of our Town and our Community in general. • Closely entwined with the history of progress of our Community is the eviable record of growth and progress of this “Old Reliable” Institution ... a record made possible through Service rendered, as a con tributing factor in the progress of the Section and people we serve. For 42 Years we have kept pace with the needs of this section, in our lines, and have kept Faith with the people through execution of the policy that “We, Ourselves are Better Served by Serving Others Best.” • We are glad to join in extending to Our First Lady, Our Governor and other nota ble guests and to our Festival Queen, a most hearty Welcome.... And to Wallace and the Festival Committee we proffer our felicitations for their efforts to make this year’s Festival the Biggest and Best ever. And to the thousands of visitors to the oc casion, we extend an Invitation to Visit Our Store during their stay here. The Home... ...The Bulwark of the Nation li Wallace is truly “The Home of Homes”, and that this is true we feel a sense of pride ... by reason of the fact that we, ourselves, have been instrumental in making it so .. . through the selling of Complete Home Furnishings for the Inside, and Materials and Supplies with which to Build the Home. See Us for Your every Need in COMPLETE FURNITURE AND HOME FURNISHINGS - PAINTS - SCREENS ROOFING - STOVES - WIRE FENCING - BUILDERS SUPPLIES . FERTILIZERS HORSES AND MULES - FARM IMPLEMENTS Z. J. CARTER & SON WALLACE, N. C. “The Strawberry Capital” WALLACE, N. C.
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