Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-05-09

order to be healthy itself over
a long haul 10 insure a high
volumn of business and high
standard Of living throughout
the county, farming. the baSicl
industry. must bc profitable and
solvent.
Whatever is developed by in
duStry agriculture must bring
the farmer more profit and
greater satisfaction. In two de-
cadcS we have seen our agrl-
culture make much progress.
What is in store for our aGri-
culture in the next 10 or 20
years. That's a good question to
ask anyone. Businessmen and
farmers alike should be inter-.
.eSted.
a d. Stuart. Extension Pea
nut Specialist. told group of
80 peanut growers last Tuesday.
night how they could Increase
their peanut Yields from the
1916 pound county average at
the present time to double that
or $4,000 pounds up to 1000
pounds pr acre.
It's a relatively simple matter
to produce double or triple the
peanut yield n Columbus Coun-
,ty The first thing f,rmerS
should do is TO get their soil
Tested and apply the necessary
lime and potash before peanut
planting time. Get quality seed
that have been developed to
produce heavy yields. The best
seed for this area would be
probably NC which are some
what resistant 10 Southern Stem
and Root Rot or NC-l, or Vir-
ginia Bunch. Plant in 81 inch
rows, 6 inches in the drill. 1t
has been proven that unless you
put tn peanut seed down you
cannot get a stand, enough TO
produce good yields. Handle
seed carefully because rough
handling Will reduce germina-
Ition.
Treat seed with AraSan, Ger
.aSan, or Yellow Cuprocide. Use
400 TO 600 pounds of landplaster,
put on the plants when they
start blooming. Cover the plant
SO that the landplaster will fall
on the ground under the plant
where the pegs go in the ground.
Use level cultivation in order to-
control weeds early with shall
low cultivation. Control Root
Worms and other insects in the
ground by applying Aldrin. Di-'
.eldrin, or Heptachlor before
planting and you can CONTROL
LeafSpot beginning in July by
.dusting with Copper SulfurI
Dust. 4 busting of ., DOT will
control LcafhopperS and other
insects eating plants.
Remember that II costs ap-I
proNimatcly ll2c a pound to-
grow 800 pounds of peanuts to.
an acre. The cost per pound of
producing those peanuts Will be.
reduced when the yields are.
doubled and even less when the
yields are tripplcd.
Thanks to the recent rains.
Columbus County soil has stop
ped moving on. The r,ccn. high.
"l"dS have caused much sheet.
erosion in Columbus County.
The winds has blown mu h oil
our soil from the field. P.acti-I
c,larly hard hit was the Fair,
Bluff area where plowcd fields
were lcVCled. The wind b'ownI
fields closed many plOWcd FUR.
rows, covered many acres of
corn already planted. partially
filled roadside bitches. Where
tobacco plant had been set the
whd cut and up-rootcd some of
them and whipped others to theI
point of complete rc-sctting.
Coastal Bermuda grass is
Farm and Art Pitzer, Farm
spreading on the Honey Hill
Manager is helping il along. Last
year ore acre OF registered
Coastal Bermuda stolens were
planted on the farm. The stolens
came direct from the Georgia
Experiment Station where Coas-
tai Bermuda was developed.
During April enough stolens
have been harvested from this