The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-17
Talks About Crops.

1t may not be amiss to state that ac-
| cording to the reports of the ginners
! Edgecombe was the leading cotton coun-
ty in this State, %, 125. 1t also has the
greatest number of ginneries and cotton
seed oil mills. No county in the South
has probably as many cotton seed oil
mills is this
Mr.. r. D. ("Brud") Cheek at Riggs
bee has corn that matured six weeks
ago. He has had some of it ground. 1t
is a new kind of field corn. He planted
it and the common field corn at the same
time and the new corn was up and ready
for the pillow before the other was out OF
the ground good. This is the corn for
this section. Two crops can easily be
made on the same HANDICAPPED Hill
| News. ,Aas IA
Mr.. w. T. Kirby, of near Kenly, was
| IN town last Friday and renewed his sub
| scription to the Herald. He brought a
| load of tobacco-his first primings-and
was very much pleased with the results
obtained. He received a check for $S9O5
| for the load. His best grade sold for II
cents per pound-Smithfield Herald.
Tobacco people are surprised beyond
expression by the magnitude of the
August sales. Yesterdays breaks are
said to have exceeded $4,000 pounds, the
| largest sales made on an August day in
| years and years. Prices are high, too,
some sales yesterday reaching is cents.
Another unusual feature is the fact
! that much of the tobacco sold consists
| of "primings,' stuff heretofore considered
worthless. Col. Webb says farmers will
| realize enough from primings this year
to pay all fertilizer bills, leaving the
crop proper all profit.-Winston Jour
nal.
The cotton crop in this section fore
| casts a larger yield for the farmer per
| acre than was to be expected. The dry
weather in the early summer proved very
| beneficial to its growth. The weed 10
not large. but there are many bolls to
the Whiteville Press.
Mr. James N. Futrell whose farm is
between Rich Square and Woodland,
made the best wheat crop this year we
have heard of in this section. Notwith-
standing the wheat. crop was very
poor one Mr.. Futrell made an average of
eighteen bushels to the acre for his en-
tire crop, surprising the yield on the
Tinfs farm, which is generally ahead of
such good wheat farmers as Mr.. j. T.
Elliott, of Eagletown, and others.-Roa-
noke- Chowan Times.
The wheat crop is threshing out badly.
Many farmers average not more than
two bushels to one sowed. 1t is related
of one farmer that he had to borrow
peck of wheat after his crop was
threshed to make up two bushels, which
the thresher charged.-Chatham Record.
Durham, N. c., August 16.-tL. A.
CARR: l have recently returned from
trip through the Carolinas and Georgia,
and beg TO report that the crop in these
three States is far ahead of anything we
have had in many years. Georgia has
magnificent crop, except in few spots,
where the cotton is short, on account of
drouth This, however, does not affect the
general condition of the crop throughout
the State, as it is confined to very small
territory. The crop in South Carolina
is extra. in North Carolina it is far su-
perior to any crop we have raised in
years. If present prospects continue we
will raise a bumper crop, greater than
ever heretofore seen in this State. The
corn crop in the three States is a little
short. on account of dry weather. it hav-
ing suffered more from the drouth than
the cotton. The tobacco crop is line
Taking the crops of the three States as
a whole, the farming and commercial in
terests viii continue to prosper.
Durham. N. c., Aug. 16.-Dr. R. L.
Holloway of West Durham, who has an
eight-acre tomato farm on Emo River this
wear, says that he is thinking of utilizing
the tomatoes for making wine There is
more money in this than by canning or
selling them. He has several acres in
collards, some of them measuring thirty
inches across, and will be prepared to
keep the market we'll supplied this fall
and winter.
Mr. Walter Creole, the efficient sales
man at Mr.. D. M. Carriers returned yes
terday from an extended visit to Ocra-
coke and his former home, Hyde county,
He saws now that the farmers in Hyde
are having plenty of rain the crops are
most promising. The corn crop is the
finest he has ever seen and all over the
county the prospects are the farmers VIII
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