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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1944
Page
9
Agriculture Commissioner urges an extensive swap work initiative for tobacco growers over the next two months to secure outside help with harvesting and marketing. Counties consider daily wage schedules to curb labor piracy, with city residents asked to assist.
The Baltimore Sunday Pictorial Review debuts a streamlined dress and easier reading size. Readers are urged to look for this bright section each week as it adds more color pictures and features.
Jessie Granville Smith of Roanoke Rapids has been promoted after graduating from the Aviation Radioman School in Jacksonville Florida. He entered the Navy January 24 1943 trained at Jacksonville and the Naval Air Technical Training Center and is now a qualified Aviation Radioman scheduled for Operational Training. He is expected to serve as a Naval Aircrewman.
Farmers in Halifax County may earn 1.50 per acre under the 1945 AAA program for establishing winter cover from fall seedings of wheat oats barley rye or mixes. A white protective cover is required and the crop must not be harvested for grain though it may be pastured cut for hay turned under as green manure or left as a go down crop. Seed should be prepared and sown early to withstand winter freezes. Announcement by the Regional AAA Office in Washington aims to give farmers planning time. The forage adds carbon erosion control and aids livestock producers aligned with wartime meat and dairy demands.
The article stresses keeping farmland productive for war needs and notes seven years of record yields due to conservation under the AAA. With legume seed in short supply this fall, Halifax County farmers are urged to adopt small grain cover crops to prevent erosion under AAA programs.
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