Despite low price cotton, Joe Best, colored, who farms for J. E. Pippin near Fremont, will clear about $2,000 on his farm this year.
Best planted 5 acres of tobacco and 13 acres of cotton. The 13 acres have netted 10 bales and there is another in the field, and have brought enough money to pay all the cropper’s debts.
That will leave him his tobacco—which will bring from $1,300 to $1,800—as clear profit,” said Mr. Pippin in talking about his tenant yesterday.
But what Best is attracting the attention of the neighbors with, is his hogs. He has three and by hog killing time they will be heavy enough to net a solid ton of meat. One fellow, not yet two years old, now weighs 800 pounds, and two others—all of them are Berkshires—each about a year old, weigh 600 pounds apiece.
Mr. Pippin estimates that Best will clear eight cents a pound on the hogs, which will give him another $160.
From page 6 of the Goldsboro News, Sunday morning, Oct. 17, 1926
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