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ditnr’s unto: Hero are the* flues- i tiers asked mast ircflueiilly by \i: l> uia farnin s during the past w eek, as reported by county agricultural agents. Stall members of the VI’l Old Belt May Change Opening Date This Year A resold;.on asking Hint the Vir ginia-North Carolina Old Belt open tobacco sales no later than one week after auctions start on the Middle Belt was adopted at Danville last week at the annual meeting of the Old Belt Warehousemen's Associa tion. The resolution will be placed be fore the Bright Belt sales committee at the time it meets to consider setting opening dates In recent years there has been discontent in the Old Brit with its opening usually being a couple of weeks behind the Middle Belt. In rounding out five years as president of the Old Belt Associa tion. George R Myers, of Danville, voiced a strong plea for a tobacco spacing program rather than the present acreage allocation or the proposed acreage poundage pro gram. Myers declared "Since the tri nd in the past few years has been to heavier tobacco. I think a spacing program is the only wav we can raise this type of tobacco ' lie urged members to work toward this end.
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