Source: Reggie Ponder, DAILY ADVANCE, 7/4/21

 The Smith Brothers farm reported the first cotton bloom in Chowan County on June 30. Daniel Smith reported the bloom in a telephone call to the Chowan Herald. The bloom was on a plant in a large field of cotton along N.C. Highway 32 just north of Cofield Road. Smith said the last time his family planted cotton before this year was in 2003. He was in high school at the time, he said, and this is really the first time in his adult life he was worked with a cotton crop.

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