Reports from various parts of the Albemarle district indicate that the cotton crop has been delayed by the late summer and frequent cool nights. This condition makes it especially advisable that frequent shallow cultivation be practiced, according to cotton men.
N.T. Adylett, who made a visit to lower Currituck County this week, reports that cotton in that section is more backward than he has ever seen it.
Frequent cultivation allows air to reach the roots of growing plants and warms up the soi, inspiring the young cotton to exert itself more.
County Agent Falls recommends that cotton be chopped out that a good heavy stand is left in the field. Too drastic measures in chopping out cotton prove injurious, he says. The width of a hoe blade should be the maximum width as experiments have proven that close spacing is better under weevil conditions.
While cotton has been hampered by the cold weather, it seems to have had less influence on corn. Crops in Pasquotank County are in fine shape, especially those patches in the vicinity of Weeksville.
From the front page of the Elizabeth City Daily Advance, Saturday, June 7, 1924
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