The Virginian-Pilot
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              Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Friday, October 21, 1994               TAG: 9410210643
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B1   EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   19 lines

A BUMPER CROP OF PEANUTS APPEARS LIKELY

ILLUSTRATION: Color photo

DREW C. WILSON/Staff

Gatesville farmers Ralph Roscoe Sr. and his son Terrence Roscoe

drive peanut combines in a 77-acre field of peanuts while a

partially filled bin, foreground, waits for more peanuts to be

added. Peanut growers in Northeastern North Carolina appear to have

a bumper crop this year.

by CNB