News of Interest to North Carolina Farmers
SOIL SAVING WORK !
STANDS HARD T I
Many Acres Of Farm Land
Saved During Heavy Rain
storms In The State
Torrential rains conquered thou
nds 0f acres of North Carolina
Larm land during the week of Aug
,11 Millions of tons of fertile
nosoil literally ’washed down the
-reek" in the path of raging wa
,ers.
But out of the week of wide
read destruction came stories of
-oil saved and crop destruction
averted on scores of farms within
5oll Conservation Districts organ
zed bv county agents of the State
allege Extension service and su
'ervised by the U. S. Soil Conser
,ation service. They told how ter
:aces, strip crops and meadow
strips prevented washing; erosion
’vas checked on hillsides by cover
-rops; adequate drainage as the
esuit ot contour furrows:
jr b Garrett of State college,
coordinator of the Soil Conserva
tion service, conducted a survey to
determine the storm damage on
farms in the Soil Conservation Dis
ricts. Almost without exception,
Ihe cooperating farmers reported,
:n substance: ’’The value of soil
-onservation work on my farm is
mmeasurable."
The story ui nuw guuu ouu cuu
servation practices stood the test
I ,j the storms is best told in the
j statements of the individual far
ncrs. In Wilkes County, where 8'
aches of rain fell during a 48-hour
jeriod, G. M. Alexander, one o£
I he cooperating farmers in the soil
;onservation work said: "Very tit
le damage was done to a nine-acre
upland field that was strip-cropped
,vith corn and lespedeza. Without
the strips of lespedeza. the soil
loss would have been very heavy.”
Crop Not Damaged
Other reports selected at ran
dom from the large numbers
reaching Mr. Garrett’s office, fol
low: Ralph Bolick. a tenant on the
J. G. Carpenter farm in Catawba
bounty: "Since my farm is proper
y terraced, my crop was not dam
aged by the recent heavy rains. 1
am satisfied that if it had not
leen done, my crop would have
aeen ruined.” Others in Catawba
County stated: J. J. Ratchford of
Mountain Creek section, "no ero
sion occurred and water running
aut of the lower end of the meadow
at least one loot deep, was as
dear as spring water;” E. C. Can
sler; "I haven’t been hurt by the
rain because land just can’t wash
away with terraces and strip-crop
oing:” W. R. Wilfong, ‘My ter
races have not been broken and
1 think strip-cropping has saved
hem from running over as others
lave done.”
J. L. Coleman of Alamance
Dounty: "My terraces, meadows j
aid cutlet ditches have been a j
■eal soil and life-saver to me. If j
1 couldn't replace my terracing
system, money couldn't buy it.
During the recent unusually heavy
:ains. I can't see that I’ve lost any
soil, while before the SCS helped
me. I would lie awake at night
thinking about the washing in my
fields whenever it rained.”
J H. Wilkins of Alamance: ’’11
it had not been for the soil conser
vation system on my farm, there's
10 telling how much of it would
oe in Stony Creek after these rains -
George R. Garrison of Alamance
says: "A four-year rotation, to
gether with my terraces, have
saved my farm from washing down
the creek. The hard rains have
not hurt my fields that I can tell.”
Lespedeza Strips Support Terraces
R J. Rose of Franklin County:
7 was delightfully surprised to
find that in not a single instance
did a terrace break in my cotton
or corn fields. But then my ter
races are all supported by strips of
lespedeza 15 to 20 fet wide.”
•f H. Brodie of Vance Comity:
To both myself and tenants, re
cent rains have demonstrated the
great value of pi-oper terracing,
"hick cannot be done without the
meadow strips or waterways for
terraces to empty the overflow. 1
mink soil conservation work in,
"orfo Carolina is undoubtedly one
of the finest and most vital under
vakings the Government has spon
sored.”
n. Ariidge of Polk County:
During the entire period I did
not lose a bushel of dirt.”
G HI. York of Rutherford Coun
■ ■ 1 did not have a single ter
■ace to break of the ones staked
>’ you (SCSI boys and built by the
-ounty terracing unit.”
Charles Beck of Davie County:
„ wouldn’t take $1,000 for the soil
conservation system on my farm
or these recent rains. Before the
P sn was worked out for me, 1
■c not have a rotation, no terraces
n«L,*y land was washing away.”
. Coordinator Garrett said he
„.,c.e‘ved dozens of other statement
. were similar in praise for
- 0 soil conservation practices..
frorn whom reports were
gained include: J. O. Hudson of
°Route 2; M. T. Harbi
n “ GIen Alpine; Fred Jobe of
«eai Forest City; A. T. Hart, farm
Alar,aSer for T' W' Chandler in
an" County; C- B- K^er
(,./ r,: tV. Hood of Catawba Coun
kin,r.v0n D' Cude' Harman At
ham C lni Watson, Joseph A, Dur
Gii if,, andr. L' C‘ Huffines, all of
Davf o County; C. H. Groce of
Ua'ie County.
C uJ,' )yalker- J- c. Barber, R.
1 aH, C. A, Brown, jr., and C.
A. Brown, Sr., all of Rowan Coun
ty; W. M. Pressley and A. R. Mor
row of Iredell County; Cleveland
Barrier, John Suther, J. Iyey Cline
and Mrs. W. M. Long, all of Ca
M. Frazier, and R. G. Robertson,
also of Guilford County; Rufus Har
ris and Howard Cooke of Franklin
County; J. E. Wood, Amos Butler,
T. C. Gentry and W. H. Knight of
gerfeldt of Gaston County; Z. V.
Rockingham County; W. M. Lin
Williams of Richmond County; and
G. G. Wilson and Clarence Ever
aart of Davidson County. 2
“Conversational Farmer” WiUkie Looks Over His Land
Telling newspapermen that he is “just a conversational farmer” who hasn’t done a lick of farm work
in Rush county, Ind., and hopes he’ll never have to, Republican Presidential Candidate Wendell Willkie
if , 111 0,1 a, tour of his 1382 acres. Above, center, he inspects a haystack on one of his farms, near
KushviIIe, run by Louis Berkmeier, left. At right is Mary Sleetli, who manages Willkie’s $150,000 agri
cultural properties.
IN ew IN ote In Strawberry
MerchandisingPresented
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Production And Handling Of
Berries Outlined In Mes
senger Article
(Editor’s note: printed be
low is an article from the Au
gust issue of The Express Mes
senger, a publication of the
Railway Express Agency. It
presents, in interesting form,
a new note in strawberry mer
chandising recently introduced
and found helpful to producers
in the Carolinas. It is pub
lished in the hope it will be
of interest to farmers of south
eastern North Carolina.)
BY S. E. COVEY
Going to market strung on a
straw gave them the name of
strawberries, so we are told, but
those days have gone forever. In
stead of hitch-hiking on a broom
straw, strawberries are now rid
ing Railway Express de-luxe ‘roll
ing refrigerators" in trainload lots.
Down in North Carolina, Wal
lace, with a mere population of
1000, proudly labels itself ‘‘The
largest strawberry market in the
world.’’ The annual strawberry
festival held there each year is
attended by the Governor of the
state and more people than the
town contains. Last year the guest
of honor was the First Lady of
the Land, and Wallace, rising to
the occasion, named a newly de
veloped variety of strawberry for
her. This year, on “Big Mon
day,” when the Saturday-Sunday"
growth at the season’s peak
brought the market its greatest
volume, no less than 15,834 crates
containing twenty - four quarts
each, were sold to the highest bid
ders.
North Carolina’s “Strawberry
Basket" is located in the eastern
part of the state. Clustered witnin
fifty miles of Wilmington, N. C..
are the five chief shipping points,
Tabor City to the south, then
Chadbourne. Burgaw, Wallace,
and Rose Hill, all located on the
Atlantic Coast Line Railway.
If your grocer sells North Caro
lina strawberries of the Blackmore
or Missionary variety, the chances
are that they came from Wallace,
or possibly a smaller market in
Burgaw, Rose Hill, or Tabor City,
but if he sells you the Klondike
berry, luscious, firm, deeply col
ored, and recognized for its supe
rior carrying qualities, it came
Erom Chadbourn. Traveling Com
mercial Agent Oscar C. West found
that the Klondike strawberries af
forded him a real “Klondike Gold
Rush” when he handled 17 refrig
erator cars of berries by Express
out of Chadbourn in one day,
which is more than the entire state
shipped last year.
From the entire “Strawberry
Patch” around Wilmington, only
twelve cars of berries were moved
by express last year. General
Manager E. C. Berry, familiar
with the extensive strawberry
movement by express in Louisi
ana, felt that this eastern North
Carolina field afforded great po
tentialities for expansion of refirg
erated express movement. Accord
ingly, the idea was introduced to
the growers and shippers and ex
panded until this year more than
70,550 crates came pouring out and
no less than 170 carloads moved
in express service with an increase
of 1300 per cent over last year's
movement.
Excellent weather, high prices,
an unusual market demand, and
good express service combined to
place the North Carolina strawber
ries on markets that had never
handled them before. Cool and
safe in their “thermos jugs on
wheels.” the berries rolled up the
line to nearly every city from Chi
cago to Portland, Maine, and over
the Canadian border to Toronto
and Montreal. 1
Prices were the highest ever
paid on the Wallace market, both
the average and the individual sale
figures. The top single price was
$7.10 a crate, a record according
to Wallace’s best information. For
days the average price, seldom
higher than $1.50 a crate in previ
ous years, exceeded $4. The sea
son’s average was double that of
the prcceeding year. The wide dis
tribution made possible by ex
press service is credited with the
maintaining of the high price lev
els. Government inspectors graded
the berries with the better grades
consistently luring the highest
prices. Even the juice berries, thal
formerly sold for $1.00 to $1.50 per
crate, to be crushed for ice cream,
extracts, and confectionery, now
brought $2.00 to $2.50 per crate.
The auction market at Wallace
presented a gala air. From 8 a. m.
until 9 p. m. the strawberries then
poured into town in ox-carts, mule
carts, on the back seat of ancient
Fords, in the luggage compart
ments of Packards, in trailers and
piled high in trucks. The strawber
ry brimmed vehicles formed an
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traffic moving slowly through the
auction shed. A loudspeaker car
ried the auctioneer’s voice from
one end of town to the other, and
waiting farmers smiled in anticipa
tion as they waited to hear him
boost their product, dime by dime.
‘Going at $4.50. Who’ll bid $4.60?
Eenie, meenie, minie, mo, no more
bids. I let them go. Going at $4.50,
going, going—All right, Sir, $4.60.
$4.60 I am bid. Who says $4.70?
Going at $4.60. Going, going, go
ing, at $4.60. Sold to Mr. Bryant
for $4.60. Drive, Please.” Then the
line of assorted vehicles would
move up, another truckload would
emerge from the shed and head
toward the refrigerator cars on the
siding, and the bidding would con
tinue, with “Santa Claus” return
ing again at every sale. The auc
tion at Wallace, under electric
lights, remained open until 9:00
or 9:30 and the crates were trans
ferred to the refrigerator cars by
the light of lanterns.
When the first strawberries of
the season ripened, no one would
dare venture a prediction as to
the probable demand for the re
frigerator cars. The growers were
pessimistic, one of them bringing j
out a handful of frozen strawberry
blooms as a sign o£ a poor season.
But the berries began pouring in,
plump and fragrant, and telegrams
from the northern markets began
piling up orders for them. Mean
while refrigerator cars were re
quisitioned from every conceivable
source. Route Agent McPherson s
heavily loaded "Strawberry Spe
cials” from the field to the markets
contributed to the fact that no com
plaint has arisen which can be
charged to express handling. At
Richmond. Virginia, all cars were
re-iced as further insurance agains
"sunstroke” for the traveling of
strawberries. A record perfor
mance at Richmond was the re
icing of thirty-four cars on May
9.
In working the “gold mine” of
the Klondike berry market
at Chadbourn, Traveling Commer
cial Agent West developed a veri
table bonanza and he was success
ful in securing nearly one hun
dred refrigerator cars from that
n.arket alone. So efficient was Mr.
West in his solicitation that the
special strawberry train leaving
Chadbourn was popularly nick
named the “Oscar West.” The
Klondike berry maintained a con
sistently high quality and kept the
"Oscar West” loaded nightly lor
a short period after the crops and
shipments had begun to dwindle at
the other shipping points.
Farmers in the Eastern North
Carolina field, looking at the fu
ture through 'strawberry colored
glasses,” have planted an estimat
ed four million young plants to
augment their present acreage for
the next season. We, too, are look
ing forward to an even better
"Strawberry Year" from the Caro
linas.
TO DELIVER CARDS
All cotton marketing cards are
expected to be delivered to growers
before the opening of the ginning
season, says E. Y. Floyd, Triple-A
executive officer of Slate college.
CELLING
Culling, one Of the most import
ant tasks of the poultryman, should
start with baby chicks and be con
tinued as long as the flock is kept,
says C. F. Parrish, extension poul
tryman of State college.
GRAIN SEED AVAILABLE
One of the best supplies of qual
ity small grain seed in recent years
is available this fall for planting,
says A. D. Stuart, seed specialist of
the N. C. Crop Improvement as
sociation.
PRICES IMPROVE
A gradual improvement in hog
prices is causing- Ellis V. Vestal,
swine specialist of the State College
Extension sevice, to urge farmers
to place renewed interest in this
enterprise.
POU {DEMAND
G f IN STATE
Brown Says Farmers Are Far
From Being Supplied
With Quality Eggs
BY GENE KNIGHT
Assistant Extension Editor
N. C. State College
RALEIGH, Aug. 25.(IP)—Al
th.ugh North Carolina’s $30,000,
003 poultry industry has grown by
leaps and bounds in the past few
years, production has not yet
caught up with demand, T. T.
Brown, extension poultryman of N.
C. State college, said today.
Tar Heel markets are far from
being supplied with quality eggs
on a year-around basis, and the
supply of high-quality fryers is not
steady and ample in many sec
tions of the state.
Even after these home markets
are cared for, Brown explained,
the large consuming centers that
are now drawing on California and
the mid-west for their poultry sup
plies are not far away.
"Other than lower grain prices,”
the State college specialist said,
our conditions are just as favor
able, if not more so, by producing
grain in this state and marketing
it through poultry, a larger in
come will be realized from the
lane, than if cash crops were
grown on it and marketed as
such."
'-ricen ieeas wmca may be
grown the year-around tend to
keep the flocks in better health
and cut the mash consumption con
siderably. Then, too, the fertilizer
from the flock should not be over
looked, as crop production on
many North Carolina farms has
been increased because of poultry
manure applied to the land.
Best poultry and egg prices are
generally paid in sections where
the production is heaviest, because
in these regions both quantity and
quality are available. With the ex
ception of a short season, North
Carolina poultrymen are far from
any overproduction of real quality
poultry eggs.
“Agricultural leaders have told
us for years that a diversity oi
crops, especially food and feed
crops, is necessary for a sound,
balanced program,” Brown said.
“Poultry should be one of these
crops on every farm, as it car
be one of the most practical and
profitable enerprises we can adopt.
“Because poultry and egg mon
ey comes in at all times of the
year,” he continued, “most fami
lies fail to realize how many oi
the family bills are paid with cash
from the farm flock. Also poultry
has an added advantage in that
it helps out in the family diet, thus
preventing doctor bills and poor
health. Eggs and poultry meat are
rich in vitamins and minerals.” 4
LITTLE DAMAGE
Boll weevil damage this year has
been the least since the pest first
became a serious problem nearly 20
years ago. says J. O. Rowell, ento
mologist of the State College Exten
sion service.
EASY MONEY
DETROIT—Buck Newsom, Tiger
pitching star, was given $1500 for
a week’s vaudeville appearance at
a local theatre this year. 2
Closing Date For Wheat
Insurance Is August 31
RALEIGH, Aug. 25. — Closing
date for applications for “all-risk”
insurance on winter wheat through
the Triple-A plan is August 31,
Horace Godfrey, AAA officer of
State college, announced today.
The “all-risk” insurance is avail
able in 12 North Carolina counties
—Cabarrus, Catawba, Davidson,
Davie,Forsyth, Guilford, Iredell,
Lincoln, Randolph, Rowan, Stanly
and Yadkin.
Godfrey said that applications
have already been received from
14 growers. Last year insurance
was carried by 202 North Carolina
wheat farmers. Twenty-five
claims for losses have been filed,
and the payments of these claims
are expected to exceed the amount
of wheat paid in as premiums, the
AAA officer stated.
The Triple-A plan guarantes the
farmer three-fourths of a normal
crop by insuring against all un
avoidable losses, such as hail, ex
cessive rain, freezes, and insect
damage. The average premium
charged in North Carolina is one
half bushel of wheat per acre.
“However.” Godfrey said, "the
premium can be paid by signing
an advance against the farmer’s
agricultural conservation pay
ment, which works similar to the
grant-of-aid plan by which grow
ers receive lime, phosphate and
winter cover crop seed without
any immediate outlay of cash.”
Last year farmers in the 12
North Carolina counties paid in
959 bushels of wheat as premiums
for insurance on about 18,000
acres.
Godfrey said that August 31 is
the deadline for winter wheat
growers everywhere, and no ap
plications or premium payments
will be accepted after that date,
iven if the crop has not been
planted. 1
Tenants Urged To Grow
And Can Food Products
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Landlords Arc Asked To En
courage Help To Improve
Their Situation In Life
GUY A. CARDWELL
General Agricultural Agent
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co.
Unfortunately, all tenants do not
respond in like manner to good
treatment, but in many cases they
do. and the policy of encouraging
tenants to improve thjeir situation
and condition in life is well worth
trying. An illustration of this is
demonstrated in the following
story recently circulated by Clern
son Agricultural College in a News
Letter:
“Through"cooperating with the
Extension Service for three years
in a project under which tenants
were encouraged to produce and
store more food products for home
use, much was done toward mak
ing tenants realize the economic
and health benefits of living at
home,” says J. M. Vann, Trenton
landowner, whose cropper system
is cited by M. C. Rochester, ex
tension farm management special
ist. “Under this program, prizes
were offered for the best gardens
and this helped to stimulate inter
est in growing gardens. Most of
the families are still carrying out
the practices followed during this
period.
“All the 15 families living on
my farm grow corn for food and
feed. Three-fourths of them grow
wheat regularly. Half of them
grow sorghum for syrup. Of course
there are some tenants who will
not produce food products because
they do not realize the need for
these things even when the oppor
tunity for growing them is extend
ed to them
“All food products, except wheat
are produced on an individual ba
sis on land free of rent. An acre
age for wheat is provided in one
body for all families. The wheat
is seeded and harvested cooper
atively with the landlord’s ma
chinery. No rent is charged but
tenants are required to plant this
land to cowpeas for soil building.
“All tenants keep chickens, and
90 per cent of all families have
both cows and hogs. Some ten
ants raise pigs for fattening as
well as for sale. Cows are gen
erally purchased for those families
not owning or raising them.”
Further explaining Mr. Vann’s
successful farm tenancy system,
Mr. Rochester points out that:
Feeds for tenants’ livestosk are
grown by each tenant but pastures
are provided by the landowner.
Tenants are required to plant
legumes in corn for soil building.
While cotton is the main cash
crop, additional income for tenant
families is through their wage la
bor on the landowner’s farming
enterprise.
Cash is advanced monthly to ten
ants for living expenses, but this
is kept at a minimum by home
produced needs and by wage labor
money.
"The 15 families on my farm
have been there an average of 12
years,” says Mr. Vann, “this
stability is the result of other
things besides the opportunity to
make the best possible incomes
and to produce a high percentage
of food and food requirements.
Among these are better housing
conditions and my effort for years
to teach them that the less cash
they need to spend during the crop
production period the better off
they will be in the fall.” 1
BREEDERS TO MEET
The annual “get-together’’ of the
North Carolina Hereford Breeders
association will be held at Dr. R. E.
Earps's farm near Selma, says L.
I. Case, extension animal husband
man of State college.
DEPENDS ON GRAZING
With few exceptions, no livestock
industry has survived permanently
that did no', depend to a great ex
tent upon grazing and bay crops,
says R. L. Lovvorn, State college
agronomist.
Columbus County Tobacco Producers
Are Pleased By First Week’s Prices
BY JOSEPH HUFHAM
(Star Correspondent)
DELCO, Aug. 25.—While visiting
tobacco markets of Columbus
county we have met many of our
acquaintances who are tobacco
growers.
J. B. King said that he had
some of the finest tobacco this
year that he has ever grown.
W. A. Coleman had just made a
fine sale and was wishing that he
had brought a larger offering.
Mrs. Gaston Batten said that all
the weed she had seen sold this
year apparently was bringing sat
isfactory prices. She was amused
at the chant of the auctioneer.
W. J. Moore was not looking a
bit worried over the situation, he
having just received a fine check
for a small portion of his crop.
Lutus Wise put only a small
amount on the warhouse floor that
he usually patronizes, but he was
quite satisfied with the returns.
L. T. Grice and Jimmy Long
were taking time out to help eat
a large watermelon, after giving
the sales activities on the tobaccc
lines a considerable amount ol
their attention. Mr. Grice receivec
very encouraging returns. Mr
Long does not grow tobacco. He
was merely visiting.
John Millinor said that the sell
ing end of the tobacco business
looked pretty good and that com
plaints were few.
C. F. Lee has some of the pret
tiest tobacco that he has ever
grown. He is a resident of the
Hallsboro section. He said tha1
careful work had helped consid
erably, he believed, in the produc
tion of his fine weed. What he
had sold was above the market
average in returns.
D. R. Maultsby, also of the
Hallsboro section, has averaged
above the regular market price
range. He has fine tobacco, he
says; but he contends that be
cause of dry weather in his sec
tion during the growing season,
his tobacco has been curing out
light in yeight.
Since this is a big payroll sea
son to tobacco growers there are
many things arresting their atten
tion so that there is not much be
ing said about the European war,
nor of the war in the far east.
Neither do we hear much said
about the draft business. Lots of
the young men are going away to
join in Uncle Sam's service, but
little is being said. Even the
younger married men seem very
optimistic about whether they will
be drafted.
Of course, tobacco isn't doing all
this, it is merely an interesting 1
interlude and topic of conversa
tion, as to the financial power it
will have here. It just seems that
nearly every man agrees with his
neighbor that, “If we are called. '
we will go,” and “if we are need- '
ed, we are ready.”
The only kick we have heard so
far, and we have been plundering i
around on all the roads in about ■
three counties, and a goodly num- i
ber in about three more counties,
is that so many young men are go
ing into military service that the
farms are running short of plow «
I boys. 1 t
CATTLE MARKETING
SETUP IS PLANNED
Is Expected To Facilitate Ex
pansion Of Livestock In
dustry In State
BY LOUIS H. WILSON, Editor
N. C. Department of Agriculture
RALEIGH, Aug. 25.— M—Grad
ing and marketing facilities for
feeder cattle "that will facilitate
the expansion of the livestock in
dustry in North Carolina” will be
established under the sponsorship
of the state department of agri
culture’s markets division this sea
son.
Paul L. Fletcher, livestock mar
keting specialist of the department
announced today that "plans have
been completed for the launching
of a cattle grading program in
western Carolina that will not only
bolster the incomes of the pro
ducers in the western counties,
but will provide a market source
for animals desired by farmers in
eastern Carolina.”
A terminal grading and trading
point for feeder cattle will be
established at Asheville, "where
a farmer may buy as little as a
truck load from carloads of grad
ed, uniform cattle at one time,”
the livestock marketing specialist
said. The grading program is
scheduled to begin September 1.
"Obviously, the establishment of
a market center where animals
may be purchased on the basis ol
grade will make it possible lor
western and eastern North Caro
lina to derive mutual benefits in
the expanding program in the
state,” Fletcher added. “At the
same time, this program and mar
ket will have economic benefits
that buying farmers have not en
joyed before. For many years, Tar
Heels who desired feeder cattle in
quantity and of definite grade
have been forced to go or trade
on markets as far away as Texas.”
Fletcher said that tentative
plans have been made to establish
a “receiving pount” at Goldsboro
where farmers desiring only a few
animals can purchase their re
quirements.”
“In many sections of eastern
North Carolina, farmers report
that they have an abundance of
feed which cannot be marketed
advanageously,” he added. “A rea
sonable supply of feeder cattle la
one answer to this problem."
"Despite the great advantages
offered in counties for the pro
duction of summer and winter
grazing crops and feed grain, un
less farmers have the necessary
feed supplies they oannot expect
to profit by handling beef
cattle.” 3
N.C. PEANUT CROP
IS HIT BY FLOOD
Dam age During Recent
Heavy Rains Is Estimated
At 15 To 25 Per Cent
/ "
RALEIGH, Aug. 25. — Eastern
North Carolina’s peanut crop suf
fered 15 to 25 percent damage from
the recent heavy rains and flood
waters, B. T. Ferguson, district
farm agent of the State College Ex
tension service, reported today. He
based his report on estimates of
the Agricultural Marketing service
of the U. S. Department of Agricul
ture.
“While nothing definite is known
as yet regarding the full extent of
the damage, it is certain that thou
sands of acits of peanuts was, and
some still is, under water. The
growing crop has been seriously af
Eected,’’ Ferguson declared.
This is expected to have an ap
preciable affect on the price of pea
luts. At present, however, the U.
3. D. A. marketing- service reports
armers' stock is barley steady and
purchases early last week were
nade on a slightly lower level than
previous quotations.
Ferguson also called attention to
the recent announcement by the
Surplus Marketing Administration
if the schedule of prices for use in
lonnection with the program to di
ert surplus 1940 farmers’ stock
leanuts to the manufacture of pea
lut oil. The program will, in gen
ial, follow that of the two preced
ng years.
FOXX ECONOMICAL
BOSTON.—Jimmy F o x x, Ret;
ox first baseman, used only three
ats in 1939, breaking two of them.
BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES
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