Tobacco Growers Consider Reducing Acreage Next Year, Dec. 24, 1920

Tarboro—Mr. O.F. McCrary, district agent and organizer for North Carolina Tobacco Growers Association, visited Tarboro to address the tobacco growers of this county. Mr. McCrary said that he visited Pitt County last week and more than 200 tobacco growers attended the meeting and the sentiment was strong for the reduction of tobacco acreage next year one-third, and the farmers agreed to sign pledges to that effect. (From the Roanoke Rapids Herald, Dec. 24, 1920)