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THROUGH IMPROVED FARM PRAi 'Jr', £-A' Kinston Over Korea; He’s Fire Department Now ..; . ->7777 Division in Korea. SFC Green, whose wife, Dot Bvee at 414 W. Blount St., was cited for am ice as a cannoneer with Bat tery C of the 189th IteM Ar tUlery Battalion in Wmqg/fy' ; me Diggesi, ugliest ana most dangerous problem to stare the Eastern North Carolina farm economy in the eye in this cen tury Is the current wide public ity being given to the very like, ly possibility that there is a di rect and dlfe connection between smokng and lung cancer. The first trickling of this blow that'can be a death blow to the major part of the Carolina Farm Economy came with announce ment from the government that tobacco stamp sales were show ing a decline In 1953 for the first time In more than 20 years. In short, fewer fags are being smoked and the cause, so many experts say, Is the apparent fact that lung cancer is far more predominant among smokers than among non-smokers. Last week '‘Business Week” made a detailed surrey of the situation and presented as many of the facts as were available along with some of the conjec ture, some of the tobacco indus try comments and reflections on the. advertising and research pol icies of the major tobaco proces sing companies. Calling “The Reader’s Digest" a “long-standing foe” of the (to bacco) industry, “Business •Week” points out that the “Di gest" under an article entitled “Can The Poisons in Cigarettes Be Avoided” has spread before its many million readers the statement that “used to excess tobacco may even shorten life.” Referring to another circula tion and prestige-giant among the nation’s publications “Bus iness Week” mentions “Time” and its articles on cancer re search which “points a finger straight at cigarettes as a major cause of lung cancer, the inci dence of which has quadrupled during the 20 years that cigar ette consumption has shot up from 100-hilllon to about 400 billion per year.” The unveiled “Digest” and “Time” comments, buttressed by what they apparently believed to be sufficient fact ended the vast public silence which has been observed by the tobacco industry on lung cancer and its possible causes. About all the tobacco indus try has been able to say up un til this time is: That the case against cigarettes has not been (Continued on page 8) Lenoir’s On&tCertified Seed, Producer Ready For ’54 This is the time of year when the better tobacco farmers be gin giving serious consideration to the variety and brands of seed they will soon be putting Into livery system, again this *ear Is ready with plenty of his eer tiftedtob&ccoseed of the pre damlnatly favorite types used by Eastern Carolina fanners. Again this year Johnson, as well as all others who hope to sell many seed in this area are supplying their dealers with Dixie Bright 101 seed and in con siderable quantity, since this over the past three years has. proven to be the best possible variety for the disease-infest ed soils of the Coastal Plains; Johnson says there are very few areas left In which “old fileds” lines of tobacco can still be used and even in the few that have not yet shown any AH at Jbhnson”8 foundation *»«da—a*ipith all other certi fied seed dealers—come from the North Carodlina Department of Agriculture. Prom these seed Johnson grows the tobacco from which he selects the seed that he will offer for sale during year, Attar1 th* __ while th*to j|nd selecting those stalks that conform to the type in a particular field Jen son them pays particular atten tion to their future welfare and at just the right time person ally Supervises the removed of the seed from the top of the flowering stalk. Being a few days too late with the remov al may net Johnson nothing but seed hulls since the ' tobacco seed is an exteremely delicate and vagrant type that ha* to be taken at just the right-time. Then after a long drying pe riod the seed are carefully cleaned, largely by Johnson himself with some help'fjtom farm labor, but always under! his meticulous supervision. I • Each batch of seeds ,,te, fM/kgt carefully separate froth &1 6th er fields and varieties and, aft er their cleaning samples from each batch are sent theBtate Department of (Agriculture Where they are given germin ation tests—which Is simply a test to deterine oh an aver age basis how many seed 'Will grow out of each hundred pfcht ed if the weather and plant bed give the tiny seeds a' fair chance. After reports from these germination tests are Jfou tfifen Johnson begins the job of pack aging these seeds iijto one ounce containers, each marked with the variety and‘fcbw per Johnson admits the small operation in p With the "giants” of Hen Norwood B. Johnson of Khstm route di is seen in specting one of the fields from which seed Were harvested Inst summer and have since been dried, cleaned, tested and pack aged and are sow reader for purchase over Easton North Carolina by those fanners who want a seed crown In and adapted to the soil and climatic conditions pf this part of the state. Johnson is Leboir Coun ty’s only producer of Certified Tobacco Seed; and he is'a mem ber of the North Carolina Crop’ Improvement Association which is devoted to the production of better seeds for better farm results. Along with Johnson on his inspection trip above is the boss around his house, his daughter, Linda. in the few years he has been Johnson says the hest adver sing he gets is from the peo * who have used his seed hi old Packard ad whiah said, "Ask the man who owns one.” Only Johnson says, “Ask who uses my seedf” . ' ■ the
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