The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-03
Carolina Farm Comment
By F. H. JETER

Shelby, Vlce-preSldent from that
section.
There will be visiting ginners
from both South Carolina and Vir.
ginia, along with representatives
from the U. S. Department of Agri-
culture. This likely will be one
of the most important and crucial
meetings ever held by the ginners
and the Association urges full at
tendance of all members. It is ex.
pected that President George Ash.
ford will make a rather compre-
hensive report about the operation
OF the mechanical picker pur.
chased by the Liberty Manufacture
ing Company this fall. Reports in
dictate that the picker has been
doing excellent work for nearby
cotton growers.
1t is to be hoped that the ginners
will take a determined stand on
the continued production of cotton
in the future. Cotton is a valuable
crop and it should always be grown
in this state. Few people realize
its value in providing cottonseed
meal for livestock feed and cot
tonseed oil for food. There are those
who claim that the crop might
well be grown for those two pro-
ducts alone without considering the
great value of the lint.
The Farm Bureau Federation is
growing steadily in North Caro-
lima. Lloyd Weeks, Wake farm
agent, says the Federation at Flu
quay-Varina, for instance, has
boosted its membership to more
than 600 persons. This group re.
Gently had big barbecue supper
to which the entire membership
was invited and which was ad.
dressed by Congressman Harold
D. Cooley. Mr.. Cooley stressed
maximum food production during
the next few years, pointing Out
the Importance Of farmers in this
country doing their full share in
meeting the food crisis which now
exists in the liberated countries
of the world. He said that the Anne
merican farmer has a definite re
sponsibility in this phase of the
worldwide effort to establish anc
maintain peace.
Apparently peanuts are adapted
to the sandy soils of central Caro-
lima. J. Hawley Poole, who own
an extensive farm in the Hoffman
Community of Richmond County
grew 100 acres Of the nuts this sea
son and reports that some part
of the field have been thrashiny
out up to ton of peanuts pc
acre. The average, however. will
be around 1000 pounds Of nuts Pc
acre and about 1,500 to ZOO
pounds of good hay. Mr.. Poole die
not dig his peanuts until after tn,
September rains, and consequent,
little time elapsed between digging
and thra shing.
| N. L. Hendrix, farm agent il
Richmond County, says othe1
growers in the Sandhin section are
finding peanuts to be a profitable
crop. The peanuts fit in well with
the peach trees and seem adapted
to the light sandy soils of tha-
area. Mr.. Hendrix is of the opin
ion that production of the nuts wi!
be greatly expanded in the neg
few years throughout the entire
Sandhill country.
The production of lespedeza seee
also is steadily expanding. Tn il
Franklin County, o. T. Moses O
Spring Hope, Route 2, reports tina
he has harvested 1900 pounds O
unclaimed lespedeza seed from ;
three-acre field. This is an excep
tionally good yield and one of tn,
best that l have heard about so ia
this season. Mr.. Moses believe
he has a profitable combination
in seeding small grain in the, fa1
I followed by lespedeza planted OF
the grain in February or March
The small grain will pay the who'll
cost OF preparing the land. fer
, tlllzer and seed. When the SINAI
gram has been harvested in June
. the lespedeza remains on the land
grows well; and, at very little ex