From “Carolina Farm Notes” by F.H. Jeter, Extension Editor, N.C. State
College, as published in the Southern Planter, February 1944
Alfalfa Pays Like Tobacco
Alfalfa is about as profitable as tobacco and does not
require nearly so much hard labor, says M.J. Fagg of Walnut Cove, Stokes
County. He was led to believe this because of harvesting 141 bales of hay from
an acre of the legume last season, weighing an estimated seven tons. The hay is
valued at $40 a ton or $280 an acre, and this income approaches closely that
which Mr. Fagg has received from his labor with tobacco.
“Then,” he added, “the hay can be fed to cows, workstock,
hogs, chickens or in any other kind of livestock on the place.
Dusted Peanuts
Produce Better
Speaking from a background of six years of experience, W.L.
Powell of Windsor, Bertie County, says that dusting his peanut vines with
sulphur has paid him well each year.
Despite the dry weather of 1943, Powell reports one of the
best crops that he ever harvested. A part of this, he attributes to dusting the
nuts three times with commercial dusting sulphur. From 90 acres of dusted
peanuts, he harvested 2,018 bags, which is an average of 2,154 pounds of nuts
or 22.4 bags an acre. The hay from the acreage dusted was of better quality in
that it retained its green color better than that from the undusted area.
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