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Carolina Farmers Glad
As Tobacco Prices Rise
Yellow Weed Brings Golden Stream Into Pockets of
• Growers in Comparison W ith Last Year's Price
Levels; Farmer's Family Shops As He Sells
Raleigh. Sept. 23. (AH) —lt is a
carnival of joy around tobacco mar
kets in the Carolina* this season for
th« (olden weed has assumed a dress
of regal purple.
Farmers, dawdling a pop bottle in
one band and a hot dot: in another for
their midday meal, smile broadly as !
the auctioneer'* chattering: song rises |
wuh price* and the weed * pungent j
aivtna to th-> warehouse rafters.
With sale.- in full swing and prices
mounting, carts, trucks and wagons'
tumble from backwoods li*ts fringed |
by pine and biush and from farms {
laid out in perfect older to the mar- J
Let*. Daily the weed i* dumped on
waiehouse floors in utmost endless i
ios* while the farmers gather to
hear an unintelligible chant but this'
season it is a chant that fiils their}
eouls with music aid their pockets 1
w.th jingling coin.
A holiday atmosphere it is at the 1
n'aikets where families congregate!
with their crop. The cries of soft}
drink and sandwich venders fill the 1
air outside the huge sheds, while in- !
side the auctioneers incessant song
calls for higher prices on this pile
cr that.
Crowds of farmers, and s|<eetators, j
follow the auctioneer and buyers up
and down the fl.*or where baskets of
tobacco are piled so closely there is 1
scaiceiy room to walk. Some are eag-,
cr to hear the ligmes the only part |
of the auctioneer s song one can un-j
derstand—some merely look and lis->
ten like a crowd that gathers about a j
barker ftom the midway at a county [
fair.
The warehouseman opens the bid- j
ding as the day begins and the end- j
less trek between piles over the floors j
is begun.
At a mention of a price from the ’
warehouseman, the auctioneer begins 1
his chatter, buyers for tobacco com-j
pames spurt their bids with the 1
rapidity of a machine gun. the price)
1* taken up. In a quaiter of a minute ‘
the pile is sold and the crowd passes j
on to the next.
Roosevelt And Hoover
Asked To Grange Meet
In Winston Nov. 16-25
Winston-Salem. Sept. 23.—Invita
tions have been extended by the Na- •
tional Grange to both Nominee Frank j
hn D. Roosevelt and President Her
bert Hoover to attend the 66th hn- 1
nual meeting here November 16 to 25. !
Nominee Roosevelt himself is a
member of the Grange and it is un
derstood that should he attend the i
Winston-Salem meeting he will take;
the Seventh Degree of the Order.
President Hoover has kept in close (
touch with the work of the Grange .
and is thoroughly familiar and sym-{
pathetic towards its objectives.
The local program committee an-,
nouneed that there will be many uni
que featutes o? an entertainment na-!
ture. Tlte Grange members, as well
as citizens of North Carolina, Vir
gin.a and South Carolina, will join;
hands in making this the most en-'
joyable convention so any yet held. !
Special entertainment features have
been arranged.
The high spot on the entertainment l
program will be a big barbecue at
which it Ls expected thousands will
attend. Through the generosity of sev- ;
oral of Winston-Salem's leading cit
izens who have livestock show farms
near the city this barbecue is being
tendered to not only Grange delegates
but visiting Granges a.-; well. The bar
becue will take place in the 75 acre
at hfc-tje £eld adjourning tbi? Rey- j
nolds Memorial Auditorium, the place ;
for the Seventh Degree, and is sche-;
duled for Friday, November 18.
Many of the Granges of the three !
States are vieing with one another to i
extend various types of hospitalities* i
to the visitors. The South Carolina !
Granges will stage a Cotton Style '
Show. Expert costumers from New !
York have been engaged and a large i
number of men and women will de- j
monstrate the use and utility of cot- [
Yessir, They’re Some Pumpkins
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Ths Misses Christine McKinnon Ueiu *nd Ureta Wilson, semi*™*.
Boston Market, are almost bidden behind theca giEu*£22s? £
pumpkin and squash. The pumpkin, in case you don
P"£ UC «- *• *™ left and weighs 68 pound/ The VoaX^S^rb^
at 66 pounds. In center is nn ordinary sized eauash. Ths - -
grown on Henry Ford’s farm at Sudbury, Ms«!/but
call it a flivver variety. #
I In the wake of the crowd comet
the farmer who has driven his motor
■ ed truck or wagon team to the mart
' with hi* weed. He looks at the hlgh-
I est bid on the tag: If he likea it, he
1 lea Vi** it untouched; if the price does
I not suit hi'Si. he turns the tag face
1 down. That pile will be actioned again.
I Over the floor* thousands of square
| feet, lie piles of the weed- mottled
I patches In shades from a delicate gold
I to a hardy black-brown. A faint dust
’ rises as the crowd paces swiftly be
■ tween the piles from one to another
| and through the dust the auctioneer’s
I cries dart. Sweat rolls down his face,
the dust begins to cake on his hands
1 and forehead and still he sells, per
haps thousands, perhaps millions of
. pounds.
1 Each tobacco pile contains one
j giade and the pile ranges in weight
! front a few pounds up. Prices come
j low and high some as high as 75
l cents a pound and as the figures
j mount in the fevered bidding, broad
, smiles cover many faces.
Countless skylights letting in the
-un through the roof ntake shafts of
: naze as scuffling feet kick up dust,
j Over there a team of horse* paw rest
lessly while a load of tobacco is being
taken front a wagon; not far away
1 several t lucks cough violently as
, their drivers stop just in ide wide
j doors with h igh loads of tine weed.
Oblivious, apparently, to anything
1 but the immediate selling the crowd
j trails the auctioneer wh >se song
brings an echo now and then from
, the lunch s‘and proprietor outside.
And the farmer brings his family
to town to shop. They arc light-heart
ed as they watch the fluctuating sales
rise higher, then dip, then rise again.
Every season, and especially at the
opening of the market, the carnival
spirit prevails, but this year the holi
days are more sincere, for tobacco is
| going up- it is at once the farmer's
golden talisman that replenishes his
} pocket; it is, for a reason, the king
(f all his crops.
ton. Still more Southern atmosphere
will surround the cottvention as the
various eating places jrill feature well
known'Southern dishea.
Pecans will be furnished for The
desk of each delegate during the en
tire ten days of the Convention, and
there wilt be apples from Virginia and
North Carolina; grapes and chestnuts
of the choicest varieties will be found
waiting the delegates and Forsyth
County Granges have been cultivating
special flowers native to this section
for the embellishment of the desks
and rooms of the delegates.
Outstanding men of Virginia. North
Carolina and South Carolina will come
to the Winston-Salem convention and
every plan is shaping up under the
auspices of the local committee and
National Grange officers to make this
the 66th annual gathering an epoch
in Grange history.
Decatur, Ga.. more than doubled its
population between the last two cen
s uses.
Wife Preservers
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Garments that art.* likely to
stretch may be hung up to dry In
a bag made of cheesecloth. This
allows the breezes to dry the gar
ment without strain on any part.
HENDERSON, (N.C,) DAILY MSPATCH FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, IWT
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INTENSIVE TOBACCO CULTURE
NECESSITY OF PRESENT TIME
Writing in the Southern Cultivator,
Harvie Jordan discusses in a most in
teresting manner. "Tobacco Culture in
Georgia and the Carolinas” and the
necessity for intensive culture and im
proving the value of the leaf. Sir.
Jordan declares:
President George Washington, the
most successful farmer of his day, was
at one time an extensive tobacco
grower. He finally abandoned its
planting because he feared its con
tinued growth would destroy the nat
ural fertility of his land and impov
erish the soil. It is a well-established
fact that tobacco is perhaps the hard
est feeder upon soil plant foods of any
other crop in the South. A realization
of that fact should be made known to
every farmer in the tobacco-growing
sections of the Carolinas and Geor
gia. Tobacco soils should be thor
oughly Impregnated with vegetable
matter to supply humus or heavy ap
plcatons of well-rotted manure should
be appled to the land and turned un
der several months before planting.
Ten to 20 tons of stable manure is
desirable per acre if it can be obtain
ed. Turning under soy or velvet bean
crops, vetch or Austrian or the field
peas and stubble of oats is essential
to provide abundant humus.
Crop rotation is vitally important,
so as to preserve the natural fertility
of the soil in so far as possible, and
to do this, tobacco should only be
planted on the some land once every
three to four years.
Preparation and Fertilization.
It is too late now to discuss meth
ods of seed beds for this season, as
most farmers have transplanted their
tobacco slips. The best growers of to
bacco have learned by experience that
the best leaf and heavy yields per
acre can only be obtained by thorough
preparation of the soil.
This hieans deep plowing broadcast
followed by harrows to thoroughly
pulverize the soil. It requires heavier
applications of commercial fertilizers
to grow profitable yields of tobacco
than any other general field crop
planted.
From 1,000 to 1.200 pounds per acre
of standard grade fertilizers analyzing
8 per cent phosphoric acid, 4 per
cent nitrogen and 6 per cent potash.
This should be applied in the furrows
before the crop is planted, or so di
vided as to make subsequent applica
tions hi side furrows during the
growth of the plants.
The crop must be continuously fed
•by necessary plant food from start to
finish, in order to secure uniform
growth and the best marketable leaf.
Cottonseed meal Is recommended as a
good source of ammonia in the mixed
fertilizers for application before plant
ing.
Shallow, rapid culture is important
from, the time the young plants take
root in the field until the end of the
growing season. This means Inten
sive culture, toy which the croip should
be plowed over every week or ten days,
weather permitting.
Limiting tobacco soils to improve the
burning qualities of the leuf is valu
able where the lands shew excessive
acid Ky. This can be ea3 ! .iy determined
by getting some litmus paper at a drug
store and making the acid test of the
soil. If the soil is not acid the appli
cation of lime may tend to develop cer
tain fungui diseases, .such as "black
root-rot. ”
The rows should be about. 3 1-2 feet
wide and the plants set from 20 to 24
inches apart. During the first two to
three weeks after transplanting in the
field the crop Should be gone over
every few days so as to replace dead
plant* with healthy ones and main
tain a good stand.
Cut worms sometimes do consider
able damage to the young plants, and
this feature must be ctoi?ly watched
and guarded against. Frequent hoe
ing in the early stages of growth to
keep* dawn grass and weeds from In
juring the plants Is as necessary as
plowing.
Toppfcsg and Bunkering
Topping should begin when ont-lhlrd
to one-half the plants In a field have
developed seed heads, and before these
have bloomed. This consists In break
ing off the top of the stalk at about
the third sucker below the seed head,
so as to allow a more vigorous growth
and better development of the lower
leaves.
As suckers develop In the axils of
the gTowin gleaves, they should be re
moved by hand or they will retard the
development of the leaves. This means
frequent work over the field to main
tain uniform growth, and those plants
developing seed heads later should be
topped lower than the earlier ones and
from 12 to 18 leaves left on each plant,
Flue Cured Tobacco
The types of flue-cured tobacco, or
bright leaf, are no wgrown extensively
in the Carolinas and South Georgia.
This tobacea Is langafer uaed in the
manufacture of cigafbttes, smoking
and plug tobacco and for export.
Flue-cured tobacco should be thor
oughly ripened when harvested and
the leaves should show well-developed
patches of a ligh't yellow c<£or. with all
green portions showing a light tint.
If pulled too green it is practically
impossible to cure the leaf pproperly.
The common ppractlce of harvesting ls
to pick the leaves as they ripen, be
ginning at the bottom of the plant and
gradually going to the top just as cot
ton matures.
The picked leaves are taken to the
curing barn and attached in small
bundles by strings or wire to sticks
and hung up for the curing process.
The methods of curing by heat in the
barns are simple and well known to all
tobacco growers.
The work, however, requires con
stant and vigilant attention. Grading
the leaf after curing and tying into
proper bundles or hanks for sale to
the buyers at market points is just as
important as the proper grading of
cotton.
If inferior leaf tobacco is mixed with
the better types and grades the buy
ers are certain to base the price on
the value of the lower grades. A
mixed bale of cotton always sells for
the price of the lowest grade showing
in the staple.
It is, therefore, of the highest im
portance that tobacco growers study
the market requirements as to grad
ing and delivery of the leaf, so as to
secure the best uniform grades and
thereby command the maximum mar
ket prices.
A few pounds of low-grade leaf in
100 pounds of bright leaf will destroy
the superior market value of bet
ter goods. Too much attention can
not be given to the important matter
of curing and grading for market. In
dlfferece or carelease** may result in
a loss instead o a profit to the grower
on his year’s labor and capital invest
ed in the cop.
The tobacco growers tost money In
1931, just as the qptton farmers did,
both suffering from surplus produc
tion and low market prices. A study of
the tobacco situation convinces me
that it is as important to improve
the quality of tobacco grown as it is
to improve the quality of our cotton.
The Southern Cultivator will from
time to time assemble and present to
its subscribers among the tobacco
growers all of the most available prac
tical information that can be had on
tobacco growing.
The industry has in recent years de
veloped extensively among farmers in
the Carolinas and Georgia. The ag
gregate value of the annual crops in
these three states now amounts to
many millions of dollars and should
be so developed as to bring in a prof
itable revenue to those engaged in its
culture. , .
In preparing any raw product for
market consumption, the needs of con
suming manufacturers should be
studied and the product
grown and delivered to naar** “
will secure the best and highest prices
that can be obtained from thoee for
whom the product i* grown.
The most successful growers are
those who realize that important fact.
It is not only true of tobacco, but of
every other product raised on the
farm for market. Anything that is
worth doing should be done well. And
that old truism should apply to every
department of farm life. Times have
changed and we now live in an era
where every man is called upon to do
his best if he expects to succeed in
his chosen avocation.
Humor Is the universal antidote for
cynicism.
Some 1500 American Methodist Epis
copal missionaries are stationed in for
eign lands.'
A sort of nursing of the sick un
mistakably occurs among ants, any
that are ill or dkmlged being treated
and licked.
We Can Supply You With
Building Material
Os Every Kind
§
Lime, Cement, Plaster, Brick, Tapestry Brick
Flooring, Ceiling, Siding, Shingles, Roofing,
Builders Hardware, Sherwin-Williams Paints.
Our Stock Is Complete
With Everything You Need
For Building and Repairs
Vance Coal And
Lumber Co.
“The Main Street Lumber Yard”
Phone 30-We’re on the'Go Henderson, N. C.
..Warehouseman
Lee Gooch used to sine in profes
sional baseball, but In mor© recent
years has been In the warehouse bus
iness* This year he la qf the pro
prietors of the High Price Warehouse.
Australia Will
Begin .Exporting
Tobacco In |yp
Bydney, New South Wale
—Australia, which 10 years , ' ’ '*•
practically no tobacco o, eon **’ '
pects to supply all hei 4nir t ,-T
quirements this year and to b ' t
exportable surplus next year **
Formerly Australia ii ilp( , r .
bulk of h?r cotton and ;.,t ‘, r ‘
the United States. “
So rapidly have the a* cji.p
ed with the federal goveiM,’,.. • : . e ’'
tection that some of -he
given to growers is being ie<i lJ( ‘J, ’- 4
instance, the duty on tobacco h'. /
lowered.
Australian tobacco grower- v i
estimated crop of lougi. M -, . ' ‘
will be guaranteed an , J .
of 55 oents a pound.
Cotton growers wdi t
bounty this year, but h&\e u s! t
anteed 19 cents a pound Thr < •. .
bounty formerly cost the g., vtr , n ,
about $600,000 annually while -h?
dustry was being e.n^b:l^h».i
ALL LARGE BUYERS
REPRESENTED HERt
tContinued from Page One »
McNenny. O. C. Cawley.
Imperial Tobacco Company F H
Dixon and A. W. Boyd.
Liggett and Myers T.»b<,<v c
pany—R. S. Johnson and T. H r,
dec.
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco
L:e Averett and E C. (Duith i,. r
J, P. Taylor Tobacco Co.ii],„ ..
F. Mills, Turner Bright Richau ii„
gie and Ralph Thornp-on.
A number of other compar.ie- .
eluding manufacturei-. will .
represented through some u ;ht—
buyers.
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THE RABBIT Business
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