The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1921-03-30
ACREAGE REDUCTION
is NOT AS MUCH AS
FIRST ESTIMATED
NO EXACT REPORTS YET
North Carolina Leads the
World in Tobacco Sales With
Wilson as One of the Prin-
! cipal Markets of the State.
! Increase in Crop Last Year
About 80 Per Cent.
(By Max Abernethy)

Raleigh, March 3O.-lf reports
reaching the office of Director Frank
Parker of the North Carolina Co
operative Crop Reporting Service are
to be believed the farmers of the
State are not inclined to reduce cot
ton and tobacco acreage for 1921
as much as was at first estimated.
Just how dependable the reports
are cannot be determined but as
double check a second inquiry has
been sent to 5000 of the most re-
liable reporters in North Carolina
from whom Director Parker expects
to obtain data which will permit the
compilation of fairly accurate esti-
mates. The reports also indicate that
the farm labor supply in North Caro-
lima today is much more than one
year ago while at the same time the
wages are way down. The average
is fixed at about thirty percent de-
crease in farm wages since today one
year ago.
This fact may have a wholesome
effect upon the farmers financial con-
dition which has not been the most
rosy during the last twelve months.
With wages down and a surplus of
the farmer to suffer. Come this time
1922 those who till the soil may put
it all over the other money makers,
or at least that is what is being pre-
dicted.
Of the tobacco situation in North
Carolina, Director Parker has this
to say:
with a total of 95,000,OOO
pounds of the farmers sale of to-
bacco reported to March and
enough in evidence to make 42O mil
lion pounds as having been produced
in North Carolina last year, averag-
ing 21 IL cents per pound, the Tar
Heel State does the impossible.
"The February tobacco sales in
North Carolina show a total of 67,-
491,370 pounds reported, of which
59,216,289 pounds were producers
sales. The average price was $3.50
as compared with $31.43 a year ago.
The leading markets were respect
lively, Winston-Salem, 11.Q97,624 at
$17.76; Wilson, 1O,193, at S19.-
As; Greenville 5,9S5,749 at $1S.15;
and Rocky Mount, 695,S96 at $3.50.
There were thirteen times as much
sold as in February a year ago. u
North Carolina has grown in to-
bacco as follows: In 1915, 19S,4OO,-
600 pounds averaging II cents, 1916,
100000 pounds at 20 cents;
1917, 244,0OO,OOO at 81 cents; 1918
310,00O,09O at 35 cents; 1919,
325, 5,24S,OOO pounds at 81 cents;
1920, 42o,9OO,0OO pounds at s21.51.
'The increase of the last crop was
about IA per cent in acreage, 80 per
cent in production and a decrease of
81 per cent of average price per
pound as compared with the previ-
Gus crop. This gives North Carolina
first rank in it's tobacco, total value
of the United States, or any country
of the world"
Guard Makes Progress.
one of the national guard units auth
orized by the War Department for
the year because of the excellent
work of Adjutant General John Van
B. Metts and his Office.
The companies are located at the
following points in the State and
have just been inspected by State
and Federal officers. The companies
represent the first infantry regiment
of the North Carolina National
Guard. The list follows:
Il, Company A, Burlington; B. Win
ston-Salem; C.. Plymouth; D. Dur
ham, machine-gun; E. Concord; F.
Henderson; G. Warrenton; H.
ssWaynesville, machine-gun; I. Char
:1otte: K. Mount Gilead; L. Parkton: !:
IN. Wilson, machine-gSp howitzer
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