Jones County Farm Agent Jimmy Franck says this week, “I believe this’ll be the biggest tobacco crop—acre-for-acre—ever harvested in Jones County.” Even the water damage that came with heavy July and early August rains has not materially damaged either the poundage or quality of the Jones County crop, in Francks’s opinion.
Franck says with the exception of a narrow streak in the Statesville area crops are beautiful all the way to the mountains. He recently returned from a trip to the mountains and got a chance to see tobacco from the coast to the mountains.
Other farmers who have taken loads of tobacco down to the border markets saw there is a strip of sorry tobacco in the lower part of the state which was badly hit by dry weather.
This year Jones County farmers are expected to fare much better than last year when drownings of field after field of tobacco made it impossible for many to “pay out”.
Tenant farmers were badly hit last year, and landlords also felt the loss from excessive rains. This year with price supports fixed at the same levels as last year the only Jones County farmers who stand to lose money on their tobacco crop are those who might suffer loss by fire in a packbarn before they get it to the warehouse floor.
From the Pink Hill section on the west to the Stella section in the east, heavy crops of tobacco that have, on the whole, cured well were grown. Big Corn Crop
Bolstering the good tobacco news is what everybody is calling the biggest corn crop in the history of the county. More acres, and more bushels of corn to the acre are expected this year than ever before in the county.
Every farmer who possibly can is urged NOT to sell his corn on a crash early fall market, but to hold it in storage or sell it through hogs, poultry or beef cattle.
This year in particular many farmers are studying the possibility of buying some feeder steers in September to consume some of their grain during the fall and winter for another “cash crop” in the spring.
From the front page of the Jones County Journal, Trenton, N.C., Thursday, Aug. 18, 1960
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