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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1931
Page
11
Southern farmers outsmart boll weevil by dense planting and side dressing with nitrates. Bolls on lower branches mature safely while upper bolls face infestation, but two stalks per hill and quick acting fertilizer speed development. Crop yields improve despite heavy weevil pressure.
In townbound summer fashion cottons offer comfort and ease for women staying home. Two new models are featured: a sheer open weave cotton weed street costume with white pique collar and fabric gloves, and a novelty pique with cotton net blouse plus a woven cotton cord hat with a swagger brim.
National editors educators and statesmen will keynote the North Carolina Farmers Convention at N C State College July 27 31 with a strong program. Dr Mary Martin Sloop will open on training mountain youth followed by U S Senator Josiah W Bailey on agriculture The Elizabeth City Independent editor W C Saunders on game birds Day Sales Tax Bill author on forestry conservation and taxation H H Bennett on soil erosion Wheeler McMillen on Agriculture's Tomorrow James C Farmer National Grange lecturer will speak Thursday evening North Carolina lawmakers Mrs E L McKee and Mrs Lily B Mebane will address sessions loud speakers will be ready at Pullen Hall and Riddick Field Pegram Brothers band will provide entertainment.
An auction note from December 20, 1931, offers Abc togs and hogs with three heaviest hogs to the foe, plus home honey at 20 cents a pound. Includes contact details Box 231 Forest City and Farmers Hardware Co selling water coolers electric ice cream freezers and related hardware.
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