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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1920
Page
5
An article from May 14, 1920 analyzes North Carolina's farm wealth, noting NC leads in per acre crop values with cotton and tobacco driving totals. It compares state figures, discusses livestock, and urges prudent change in farm policy and cautious budgeting amid inflation and postwar adjustments.
North Carolina 1919 crop value averaged 86.60 dollars per acre. Only five states ahead New Jersey Rhode Island Arizona Massachusetts and Connecticut. Arizona excepted these are industrial northeast states with high per acre crop values from specialty farm products. Arizona has irrigated farms with less land in cultivation than Johnston Wayne Wake counties.
An investigation into the South African disease lamzlekte or tame sickness points to a plant poison produced in grasses under abnormal weather and soil conditions. Wilting from summer drought favors poison formation, which can occur after eating affected forage.
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