The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-28
Carolina Farm Comment

| growers have been upset about the
ceiling price for market hogs and
say no profit has been made on
the corn which they sold through
their hogs so far this year. One
man told me that he fed about
$1,500 worth of corn to his hogs
and got just about $1,000 for the
animals, leaving him nothing for
his labor and the protein supple
ment which he had to buy.
Just the other day, the swine
growers formed small coopera-
tive hog marketing association and
will pool their shipments from
small loading installation at Eliza
beth City. Vernon James Of the
Weeksville Community and one of
the unselfish farm leaders of the
county was elected to head this
new organization.
James also is head of the Weeks
vile vegetable Growers Associa-
ton which has Is members among
the landowners of this fertile farm
ing community. This organization
was formed originally to handle
the farm labor situation in Weeks
vile, but its efforts have been so
effective that it is now sort of
community club which tackles any
of the problems affecting its rural
families.
The club has: appointed, from it's
membership, a selling agent to
handle its farm produce and the
growers said that this agent did
one "swell'' job with the fall crop
of cabbage last year. Those, who
did not grow fall cabbage have
seeded an acreage this season.
Jameson is encouraging these
two crops of cabbage and snap
beans following the Irish potatoes,
because, he says, this allows more
land for Writer grazing. He took
me on a trip through the county
to- see how small herds. Of beef
cattle are on. the. increase. =,
Castor Small is one Pasquotank
farmer who is meeting with sue
cess in his beef cattle operations
because, he is using native COWS
crossed with purebred Hereford
slres to build up his herd. At pres
ent, he owns, about 50. high grade
l ~ stock as the market will take
beef animals and sells his surplus
He and his brother Clyde Small,
1.also a beef cattle grower. have
beautiful homes surrounded bv
well7kept fields and pastures, at
testing to the success of their live
stock enterprises. But good homes
are the rule all through the Weeks
Vile section. Farming here is done
i largely with tractors. jameson, es-
Inmates that 80 per cent of the land
preparation and cultivation is done
with tractor power and this has
eased the labor situation greatly.
Not so many PEANUTS are grown
in the county although the acreage
shows some increase due to govern
mental requests for more oil bear
ing crops,
The old standby soybean crop
still occupies about 16, 900 acres OF
Pasquotank land but is being re-
| duced. The acreage last season was
about 1000 acres under 1912 and
there was a further reduction this
year. The reason is thai the aver
age acre yield of around 10 bushels
of beans at the government price
to the grower of between $l.50 to
$l.60 does not allow the crop to be
profitable. The price this year IS
up some but many farmers only
plant soybeans,, they say, because
they cannot find another crop to
\ take its place and because they
feel it their patriotic duty to pro-
duce the oil-bearing seeds.
y Many; growers have asked jane