Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1947-08-22
p Land Brings Eighty Per Cent Of Columbus Farm Income

Forest Service in the following
order:
Lumber A per cent. Pulpwooc
9 pc recent. Fence Posts, etc II
per cent. Fuel wood l8 per cent
Cross Ties 5 per cent. Destructive
mortality per cent.
This means that $3.50 of the
forestry resources are used anc
farmers who own your wood lane
get cash returns for their trees
The l4% of our trees listed un
der destructive mortality are
destroyed by fire, insects, dis
eases and wind but in Columbus
| County the chief cause of thi!
destruction is fire. Thousands O
dollars of forest products change
hands every year on lump sum
or horse trading basis timber
BUYERS cannot be blamed for ;
good Job of bargaining nor car
| It be counted against them tina
they know their timber, If Co.
Ilumbus County farmers don't ge'
full value for their lumber OF
pulpwood they can't blame the
buyer because they have had {
chance to refuse a sale.
Any Columbus County farmer
who is in doubt as to what they
have or acreage timber they have
OF sale should contact the County
Agents office or Mr.. Barnes, Farm
Forester, who will be glad to as
sist them with their timber prob
lens.
Sweet Potatoes is the next
largest crop, representing about
SO of the total income for Co.
lumbus County farmers which is
estimated this year at 81 ESQ, 1000
Columbus County farmers this
year should have one of the best
sweet potato crops that has ever
been grown in the county. Even
though Columbus County is one
of the Is counties in the United
States that produced over mil,
lion dollars worth of sweet pota.
toes annually there is still much
room for improvement, and il
we continue to product sweet po-
tatoes for market it is necessary
that we product better quality
sweet potato than we have beer
producing. The house wife who
buys potatoes is the key to oul
continued rank in the production
of potatoes since they purchase
about 800 of the sweet potatoes
that are sold in retail stores
Purchases are being made on the
best quality that they could see
on the markets and in general
they buy number potatoes. II
is necessary for the producers to
produce good potatoes if we ex-
pect the consumer to continue
buying and to increase their pur-
chases of sweet potatoes.
Columbus County made an
excellent start this year on
producing better quality po-
tatoes when the sweet pota-
toe buyers and dealers of the
county went all out in ask
ing farmers to produce a bet
ter quality of potato. More
sweet potatoes were treated
this year before bedding than
has ever been treated before.
Now that potatoes are almost
ready for digging it is necessary
that the farmers grade their pc,
tatoes in the field and put only
good quality number rs on the
market.
Columbus County has one OF
the best livestock producing pos
sibilities and this year will re-
ceive approximately million
dollars from live stock and live
stock products Hogs and chick
ems rank on the top of live stock
income with approximately 4,50C
brood sows in the county and
10000 pigs and chickens. APP
proximately $4,000 of those hogs
will be sold as top hogs on foot
and about $4,000 will be slaught-
cred at home for home use with
some pork sold directly to the
consumer in the forms of hams
and other pork products.
Peanuts, Irish Potatoes and cot
ton represent about 40 of our
income or around $900,000.0O
while Strawberries and other
truck and vegetables represent
about 80 of our income, or $780,
100000 making a total gross in
come of approximately $22,600,-
100000.
The 5,76l farms consisting 28O
acres of land along with the
buildings of over l6 million dol
lars.
Value of machinery and equip
ment on Columbus County farms
is $1,124,52l.O0 and the value of
livestock $2,9O4,000.00 making 4
total valuation of 20 million dol