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totul crcj? was produced in the
!Fiadmcnt as compared to 28 per
(cent a 19r,9 and about 15 per
cent in 19G2.
Robeson with 55,000 allotted
acres was . the biggest cotton
producing county in 1961 Bali
tax, Northampton, Cleveland and
Sampson produced more than
t -L.
..IT. .
is known
l ... its
nJjcts. has
' r portion of
r over two cen-
i
T? .. A ik.
..iijd..ni.j ZQfi00 pj feachv other top
j cash crop, andjcountieg were Scotland, Johns-
basis it
o. Income fromcombe
-.; was estimated
i
shc-t t i ;
ser i t : i
totton resc '-, '
mer.'ul and e , 1 3 I
stewed tip -ac. t a--1 is
ben'3 carried out ' '1 a t )
ord.:uited pruc" 1 1 1 Z
North Carolina I j C ?,- t,
the United States I t cf
Agriculture, the I" .1 Csrcl-?a
Department of --"'. an)
the li. C K.vter; 1 . rvice.
The North CXrc' a Cotton-
Promotion Association organized
in the 1950's and financed pri-
drug b..
1 i::xr.::.ZY
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ArHHit the
v except for the fact that it
I 'anted , by early English
is as soon ; as they were
-ii,hed. at Jamestown.
any historians believe the
1 cotton grown commercially
1 1n the - Tidewater area of
'eastern North Carolina. It
1 is grown quite extensively
e .today. , '. . k , .
om the Tidewater area cot-
moved westward across the
s with the early settlers.
id seekers from the seaport
v-1 of Wilmington and
ston, S. C, also moved
t-t and north to establish cot
farms and plantations in the
I. ver CoastaJ Plain and Pled..
; jnt regions. -
f Vy the mid-1700s, cotton was
Leing produced from the Atlanta
toast, to the Blue Ridge Moun
tjins. j' .
u maae its petua nrst s e
f mily enterprise but soon, jrcw
into slave-labor plantation di
mensions, especially in the flat
hnis of the Coastal - Plain and
J"me sections of the Piedmont,!
Iv the latter, however, it re
r.i! :'-ed primarily a family typo
( :stioa
t 1,1 the early days practically
ell commercially grown cotton
v -s shipped to England. . But
f ' the erection of Slaters
C )n Mill in Rhode Island in
1 ), the bulk of North. Caro
1 cotton has remained in this
( try- for', processing.
..'.is important facti reinforce
t y the invention of the cotton
r iJ in J78I, helped North Car,o4
3--?3 grow from ra, few hupdretf
seres in 1800. to over a .half ir.i
I on in years immediately fol
lowing the Civjl Wwr 5 ,,m
Vy 1881 the - acreage had
climbed to over a million and
rose to 1,802,000 in 1926. 1 In that
year a record crop of l,208,fH)Qi
l:Jes t were , produced r 'the'
s3te. , ' '.
Since 1933 the trend has beei
c'jw.nward.!. In 1961 cotton allot-'
merits in North Carolina totaled
C -.614, tinging ' in size from
t:.ree-tenths of an acre to 80Q
acres. 4 - 1 - . . ;
v; The 263,000. seres , harvested
m. 1958 was the smallest acre-n-je
on record according to es
f nates dating back to 1866.
"' The trend since 1958 has been
al'jhtry upward, ranging from
2 3,0()0 acres harvested in 1959 1
to approximately ": 408,000 in
12, ' S . y..
-Average yields, have fluctuat
e considerably since .' 1950 when
iUense boll weevil activity re
duced yields to an all-time low
ole 149 pounds per acre. The
year of lowest acreage, 1958, had
t? highest record average of 46?
pounds. . . , .
Pstimate for 1962 Indicate an
average of 359 - pounds. Some
counties,., such . as. Scotland and
1. rthampton, have consistently!
p lied their average yiel-i
a'.ove a bale per acre (5Q0
p - indsd ef lint) with the adop
tma of intensive production
P; grams. Many individual pro
. d jeers have grown two bales
fr acre, , and a . few ' have
re-"hed three bale.
1 he movement of cotton acre
r -e within the state has been
ri her inteise In recent years,
c wiallv since the release and
r "rportionment program went
3. '7 effect in I960. , .
. , J-x 1928, 41 per, cent of the
r-xrr. .-
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;'!?3iAia V Transeau .
!J t ' vxviiid titmii Biattm
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jrtor, North Orollnn un
irt of March. 1879. Sennd
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Si Carolina. ' '
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' mwa "6t- iiiaiuy ujr Krocrs comriDUuons
;. -;- is doing much to promote cot-
'Hechanieaticm has made , wide ton's . welfare in the state and
inroads in recent years. .' Many 'nation. ,
r,ii.tory of cotton in Am- Cr.mnletlv mechaniw.. whwoas1. - , i..- :
4 J '"a-- r " voyvv.4 . vw , VlLi.IMXC 1I1VVU1H
nana laoor ana muies prooucea mto the Coastal Plain. Produc
tne crops a . lew -years , ago, . in tian , units . will become larger,
tao omy e'igni mecnanicai picK- mechanization will - increase,
ers were operating in the entire yields and income will climb.
state, in ib2 some 400 pickers Cotton may ; never , become
harvested 20-30" per- cent of the king again, but it will : be one
crop. , - , , ,of the ruling princes of North
.. Chemical weed .'control has Carolina agriculture as far as
taken over ' entirely, in 1 some we can see into the future,
locales Intensified boll weevil r . n -
programs are earned on by ' 10, what a tangled web we
many communities involving al) ! weave, when first we practice to
producers. The all recommend (deceive, . . V
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Lawoa Text: Mark :1 ilru 3 2
Today we learn why the work
f Jesus Christ arous- 1 c;-osir
tion in his day pnd cor ! ues to
iy so in ours and to CIscover
ways of meeting such or position,
we apply ourselves to" the lesson
at hand.'. .
' Wo ao not find Jt d:"icult to'
jnuerstand why the Jewish lead
ers were opposed to Jesus. ' Their .
idea of God , had become; rigid.
ney naa aeveiopea , uieones
about God and . the .way he does j
and must act: ' But when any ,
theological system becomes this
ightly knit, it always seems to
iive men control - of , Cod, Iqt
Jiem God must act ,in the way
.heir system prescribes, r Excel
ent examples .0! this conflict are
ontained, iii the Biblical, pass
ages we are studying today:
What was the Jewish system?
.t was the system of the Old
festament law. God has given
aws, and uioda who obey these
-bws can expect God's reward.
ital: JadaishV jejnkea -Ver the
w , that ;hag ; beeni given. . ' And
his, in itself, is commendable.
3ut When the law is regarded as
he foundation upon which the
elation between God and man is
to be established, this is a mis
conception of the true nature of
this relationship.1, Jesus . iaught
that God's love is not given to
men because they deserve it or
aave earned it by obeoienc to
the law. Rather, God loves all
jive aven, the. frflrst ,and' accept
.hem into hi fellowship Jesua
iforgavepeop re jardleps( of! thei
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v4nh tt'Jwil tils' IdisiilM
.Herd
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f break ennlicit lawstf jr an .exi
ample, those Concerning Sabbat
b(ryarrce. r , And this , sat ill
vith, r , Juda$;sm.'s. conception , of
10W God Works.1 It- did: no fi
ntov their mojda v ,As ! a consej
luenceAney TCjlcfed -fher persoft
vhS kaiiid fht dod orksiby jovi
ather thqnby law, t,The Jewish
eaders 'were irying ' to ' fit Do
nto their ideas or him-he VaS
10 . longer" free' to he "soverelgrj.
3ut the ,trua Gad, cannot, be, sp
?onf inad. ' No wonder the new
'message, (he new revelation
jnjtild po longer fit Into' the old
rigid framework. - -
The appalling fact Is "that hot
inly did the Jewish leaders of
Jesus' - day reject' him, but we 1
ontinue to reject his revelation
,4 Go4 and often fqr the same
eason. We want Gad to serve
iur needs: We Wnt him to fit
atO'Our conception of how and
1 vhen he can work.!- 'We set our
f selves as ju-s of God. " Bu
1 o make the reality of God preS'
1 nt this is J jg" missloni And.
his signifies a radical change in
( he world.' 'This was why," the
, harisees and scribes "rebelled;-
bey saw' Jesus as teachiara
-evolutionary attack on-their, law
Y'C traction, .' (
The s)n fit taose, wno oppose
Tesus js idolatry, idolatry is the
ttempt to treat something as
!, rod, whch is nojt Cod. : Tt is the
. lttempt , to make somcthinjf ab-
-nlntA final .;n. iiV'.t,.i. M u:ail
s not absolute, final, or ultimate.'
dolatry is, in short, the won;:.'?
4 a false god. And hc-v cftri
ve worsh'a falre gorl '""sncj
y enough, . It was by rejtyious
dolatry that the or: Wimts of
I caua lejoii. 'a 111:11. ... 7 v e
eligious pec. 'e; th "? f rrri
lot be denied.' X. t t: t 1
!iing religion to e a c " ont
"g the God who U r-n'.Iy God.
vey u ,-d their morality ta 1
iu-l. T7 'th 'r ful
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tronf Church, neither democrary
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