The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-30

which destroy tobacco curing barr
.nd mack houses. For instance
farmers in Johnston County repol
that they lost 100 barns, Whlcl
with their contents, were Wort
$500. 600. 90. A report comes ITO
Nash County saying that the grow
ers in that county have lost D
harms this season. OF the 80 Darn
destroyed, Is e fired with OH
40 with wood; two with coal stok
ers, and one 18th a coal CRATE: I'M
Nash county growers reported ina
the principal cause of their Tire
was from dried tobacco leaves ant
sticks falling on the hot flues. I'M:
being true, said M. E. follower
farm agent, a lot of loss could of
avoided each season by the very
simple expedient OF stretching
some poultry wire over the tlues
to catch any leaves or sticks tna'
might fall. There is no sense II
losing the results of so much hare
work when a little wire netting
over the hot flues will save the barr
and its contents.
E. H. Garrison, farm agent, says
that 27 barns we're lost down ir
Moore County this season. Most Of
the losses cannot be accounted for,
but it is very likely that these fires
q, also were caused largely by the
dry tobacco leaves or the sticks
falling on the hot flues.
Mr.. Garrison also reports cor
tinued interest in farm fish ponds
by landowners of Moore County.
He has just finished surveying sites
for M. C. Boyette of Carthage and
H. A. Jackson Of Carthage. The
two ponds will cover about 40 acres,
which is a little large for the best
farm fish. pond. J. H. Rice of Moore
County is installing a water sys-
tenn in his home by bringing in
water through a siphon system
from a well forty-eight feet higher
than the home. Mr.. Rice says II
he can work this out the only ex-
pense to getting the water into
his residence will be the cost OF
the pipe. He will have no pumping
expense whatsoever.
Moore County people also are 60
ing ahead with the alfalfa plant
ings. The total orders for seed &c
date call for loo pounds and a
number of other small orders are
being made which will make the
total amount of seed run to right
around 1000 pounds for this sea
son.. Sandhill growers az lking d
renewed interest in their dewDer'
ries, too. The vines have made
good growth. and they are clear
and free of disease.
Growers of strawberries in Dup
lin County are busy getting the
grass out of their vines. While ev-
eryone is busy with tobacco, very
little work can be done with other
crops in that section, sothe straw
berry fields grow up in grass and
weeds. All of this is being cleared
out now since most of the border
tobacco has been placed on the
market.
Speaking of fires in tobacco
barns, L. F. Weeks, farm agent IN
Duplin, says that many of these
fires are caused by plain, old-fash-
toned carelessness. One man went
into his barn down there the other
day lighted a cigarette and Tipped
the match up into the. dry cured
leaf. He then had to get out quickly
and to watch in dismay while his
barn and all of its contents went
up in flames. The cotton growers
down there say it is almost impos-
sible to get labor to pick cotton,
especially from among those who
grew any tobtcco at all this year.
Mr.. Weeks says that C. H. Hol-
land of ~Kenansville, has not fed a
bale OF hay to either his workstock
or his cattle in twelve years. The
animals harvest all of their own
roughage in the form of grazing,
because as Mr.. Holland puts It, Il
learned IL years ago that it is
cheaper to provide twelve months
grazing, let the cattle do their own
work gathering it, than it is for
me to try to harvest and cure
roughage for them"
Since Mr.. Holland has been fol
lowing this plan, his cattle stay in
much better condition than before.
He keeps about IL head Of COWS
and three work animals. For these,
he maintains a good three-acre per.
manent pasture, several acres of
lespedeza and grows additional
small grain for grazing. He has
another field of 26 acres which is
planted to lespedeza and from
which he harvests and sells the hay
produced each summer.
Some discouraging reports come
from the Northeastern peanut belt.
Martin growers Say their crop is
at least two OF three weeks late
and that the set of nuts is light.
ChoWan growers who busted their
peanuts with sulphur, however, are
reporting fine results. In some
places, where the peanuts we're
busted three times to control leaf
spot, as compared with nj dustings.
about 70 per cent of the busted
leaves showed no leafspot what.
soever. However, where the plants
were not busted, there was leaf
spot on 81 per cent of all the