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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1950
Page
11
Surry County farm agents warn that Black Shank diseases may devastate tobacco crops this season. They urge growers to identify the disease, bring samples to the county office daily 8:30 to 9:30 a.m., and visit 14 disease resistant variety demonstrations across the county to plan effective control.
Farmers host demonstrations on several Mount Airy and Dobson area farms to study disease resistance in Black Shank and Granville Wilt varieties. Signs designate the varieties while a government bulletin foresees shifts to mechanical power, soil building, pest control, and irrigation expansion over the next decade.
The text notes irrigation expansion in humid areas and urbanization affecting farm use. It predicts shifts to farming or rural homes, improved roads and electricity drawing nonfarm workers, fewer full-time farm workers due to mechanization, larger family farms, potential rise of large-scale farms, and growing complexity in commercial farming as technology advances.
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