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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1938
Page
5
Patricia McGraw faces a harrowing choice between aiding Larry Kent who killed a woman and child and facing the prosecutor Tom Sweeney. Larry pressures for a favorable deal while Pat grapples with honor and love. Tom offers steady, sincere support as the case unfolds.
Raleigh Sept 26 North Carolina agriculture officials will ask the 1939 assembly for 86000 to match federal funds to support a two year program aimed at eradicating Bangs disease in cattle. The effort covers multiple counties and will match indemnities to owners of cattle condemned and slaughtered under the program.
Tobacco sorting and grading schools will be held in North Carolina between September 25 and October 14. Sessions cover Stokes Wilkes Alexander Davie Guilford counties with Guilford hosting October 10 to 14. Agriculture official warns growers lose thousands by poor sorting and preparation.
College Station Sept 26 The hog market outlook suggests weaker consumer demand for hog products in the first months of the 1938-39 marketing season than a year ago. H W Taylor extension swine specialist at State College notes orders may improve as the year progresses.
College Station report states the 1938 turkey crop will be about 3.7 percent larger than 1937 and roughly 6 percent smaller than 1936, according to C. F. Parrish, State College extension poultryman.
The markets division of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture reports farm product prices, excluding chickens, land eggs, were materially lower than a year ago. The decline spans multiple categories and reflects softer demand and wider supply.
A report from the North Carolina Department of Agriculture indicates hog breeding intentions for fall farrowing in 1934 at 96 000 head, with expectations this will rise about five percent from the 1937 fall farrowing total.
Raleigh September 26 The North Carolina Department of Agriculture restricts wholesale bee shipments to stop foulbrood spread. Chief entomologist C H Brannon says strict bee regulations are needed. About 11 250 colonies inspected 5.4 percent infected across numerous counties with focus in Beaufort Haywood Kyde Martin Roberson and Washington counties.
Twenty seven North Carolina cotton mills will add 712 pounds to each bale priced with the new cotton bagging material. The extra weight covers the difference between the cotton covering and the heavier jute wrapper commonly used.
Nearly 1 090 000 barrels of surplus wheat flour gra ham flour and whole wheat cereal were bought and distributed to relief families by the federal agricultural commodities corporation in June July and August at College Station and Raletta.
North Carolina shipping points and major markets report steady to weak prices for cabbage apples sweet potatoes and beans. Yorkshire and New Jersey listings show varied wholesale ranges with notable regional references and crate and bushel sizes across Philadelphia New York and Washington markets.
Raleigh officials announce prizes totaling $925 for vocational agriculture and home economics displays at the State Fair. Corn project booths will showcase ten car exhibits with $425 in prizes, and the home economics section offers $200. Industrial education and rehabilitation displays receive $200 and $100 respectively.
15 year old Holstein, 618, at Woman's College of UNC Greens boro, records 100,871 pounds milk and 4,227 pounds butterfat in 10 years. Extension dairy specialist Arey notes lifetime if early production matched later averages would exceed 126,500 pounds milk and 6,500 pounds fat. Cow has spent life in UNC herd, calved 13 times, due to freshen again late November.
North Carolina's 1938 wheat crop is estimated at 6,036,000 bushels, about four percent larger than 1937, according to the State Department of Agriculture.
The markets division of the Department of Agriculture operates with nine peach inspectors in the field along with two cantaloupe inspectors, three tomato inspectors, and two potato inspectors.
In the weekly peanut report the U S Bureau of Agricultural Economics notes little farmers stock moving in Virginia and North Carolina. Prices are nominal with jumbo peanuts at 4 to 41-8 cents per pound, bunch 31-2 to 34 cents, and shelling stock 31-4 to 31-2 cents.
About 85 percent of North Carolina peach growers sign an agreement to ship only U.S. No. 1 grade fruit. The plan requires fruit not under two inches in diameter and begins with Georgia Beltes, per the State Department of Agriculture.
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