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Wednesday, July 12, 2023 - Page 5
Paddle Georgia
kayaks through
area
Bv Joe Brady, Editor
for
The Times
Paddle Georgia, sponsored by the Georgia River
Network visited the local area recently on their journey
of kayaking more than 70 miles of the Savannah
River. The trips, after a two-year hiatus began again
this June. The group toured 6 miles of Brier Creek,
6 miles of Ebenezer Creek and 2 miles of Abercom
Creek.
It takes 7 days to complete the journey and the group
stays overnight at local campgrounds. They stayed
overnight at the Black Creek Scout Camp in Screven
County and Magnolia Springs in Jenkins County.
“Hugh and I got involved with this several years
ago. The trip helps raise awareness about our rivers
in Georgia," Emmeline Hunter, a Screven County
resident, explained. The couple paddled with the
group on day 1 from Brannen’s Bridge to the landing
at Poor Robin, over 11 miles. “We combined the
paddles of day 1 and day 2, because there was a
concern the Savannah would reach flood stage on day
2." Emmeline explains.
The group got a history lesson about the Brier
Creek Revolutionary War battle from historian John
Derden and members, dressed in period attire, shot
muskets for the group. They were also treated to a tour
of Magnolia Springs and enjoyed the local lake on the
property.
This event is the largest week-long canoe/kayak
adventure in the country, attracting between 250
and 400 participants annually. “Its like a summer
camp for adults and families,” Hunter says. For more
information, visit www.garivers.org/paddle-georgia
The participants started at Brier Creek and traveled over 70 miles down the Savannah
River and it’s tributaries. Photo by Mills Fitzner.
Corn rust in south Georgia, farmers
should be on lookout
Special
for
The Times
cases of
com mst
The first
southern
(Puccinia polysora) for the
2023 growing season were
discovered on Tuesday,
June 20, and Wednesday,
June 21, in Clinch and
Grady counties along
the Georgia-Florida line.
University of Georgia
Cooperative Extension
experts are encouraging
producers to be diligent
in scouting for the fast
spreading disease among
their com crops.
“June 21 is about two
weeks later than we
typically find it,” said
Bob Kemerait, a professor
of plant pathology with
the University of Georgia
College of Agricultural and
Environmental Sciences.
Citing information
from UGA agricultural
climatologist Pam Knox,
Kemerait indicated that
the direction of prevailing
winds in late spring
and early summer, in
combination with cooler-
than-normal temperatures
this spring, may have
delayed the spread into
Georgia this year.
“Hunting for southern
mst and not finding it
allowed growers to delay
fungicide applications by at
least two weeks, if they so
choose to do so,” Kemerait
said. “Two weeks also
allowed a com crop to inch
closer to the ‘hard dough’
stage where southern
mst becomes much less
important.”
All com producers
should carefully inspect
their crops and spray as
needed to control southern
com mst. Growers with
com at the stage where it
becomes more susceptible
— when the com starts to
tassel — should recognize
the potential for infection.
Without treatment
with antifungal agents,
the disease can cause
significant yield loss.
Kemerait credited
detection to a network
of com sentinel plots
throughout south Georgia
that are sponsored
by the Georgia
Agricultural
Commodity
Commission for
Com and the
efforts of private
agricultural
consultants and
scouts through
the IPM Pest
Information
Platform for Extension
and Education (impPIPE),
a pest mapping and
forecasting system that
was developed by the
U.S. Department of
Agriculture’s National
Institute for Food and
Agriculture (NIFA) and
its land-grant partner
universities, including
UGA.
“In the first finds in
2023, one in Georgia and
one in Florida, it has been
a consultant who has found
southern mst. In each case
the consultant reached out
to Extension at UGA and
the University of Florida
for confirmation of the
disease,” he said. “Now
that we know southern mst
is near Marianna, Florida,
and in Clinch County, all
com growers in Georgia's
southern tier of counties
should pay close attention.
The weather is here, the
crop is at the right stage
and we know where the
pathogen is. Be prepared.”
Com was eighth among
the top 10 commodities
in Georgia in 2021, with
a value of $509.1 million,
according to the 2023
Ag Snapshots produced
by the UGA Center
for Agribusiness and
Economic Development.
Bringing the moon to your living room
Special
to
The Times
How 14-year-old Philo Farnsworth tinkered his way to the technology that broadcast
the moon landing.
14-year-old Philo Farnsworth wasn’t looking up at the sky while plowing the field
at his father’s fami in Rigby, Idaho. He was looking down at the straight furrows that
coursed over the earth.
That’s when he had an epiphany: The same way the plow went back and forth over
the field, an image could be scanned electronically and then transmitted line by line,
much like furrows in a field. It was a vision of the first transmittable TV image.
Philo was a curious boy and was often lost in thought. When he was 12 years old,
he was delighted to find that the farmhouse his family moved into was wired with
electricity. He also discovered other treasures in the house: a cache of electronics
magazines, a bumed-out electric motor, and plenty of bits and pieces to tinker with.
He fixed the motor and converted his mother’s hand-powered washing machine into an electric-powered one. At 14, he
showed his high school teacher a handful of sketches of an electronic television system inspired by the furrows in the field.
Encouraged by his science teacher, Philo covered several blackboards with diagrams.
Then Philo’s father died when he was in high school. Philo went to work supporting his siblings and mother while keeping
up his studies. He started a radio repair business; it failed. He briefly attended college, but his mind was on television, and
so he dropped out and began looking for somebody to fund his ideas. That opportunity came, and he traveled to Berkeley,
California, with his new bride Pern to set up shop together.
The TV tube Philo developed would become the standard in broadcasting. Yet Philo Farnsworth spent years defending his
patent and rebuilding his business after an economic crash.
The years had been turbulent. Like all of us, he had his share of challenges, perhaps more. But he kept pushing forward and
registered hundreds of patents. Finally, on July 21, 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped out of Apollo 11 onto the moon’s surface
in an area called the Sea of Tranquility.
Philo Farnsworth was sitting in his living room with his wife Pern, watching the live feed — the image transmitting
quickly, row by row like the furrows in a field. He turned to her and said: “Pern, this has made it all worthwhile.”
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Come,
Labor on
By Sam Eades, Publisher/Writer
for
The Times
As you all know by now, I am now Episcopal. I have to
say, I love the services of the Episcopal Church with all it's
pomp and circumstance. I especially love the hymns. Of
course we have your normal hymns like. Amazing Grace
and such. But, some of the hymns were written just for the
Episcopal Church.
Recently, we sang the hymn, "Come, Labor on". A
beautiful hymn that speaks of the mission of the Church
(the people), to labor on and never stop. My favorite verse
says, "come labor on, away with the gloomy doubts a
faithlesss fear. No arm so weak but may do service here,
by feeblest agents may our God fulfill, his righteous will."
It tells all of us, don't give into the doubts about what
you are doing for the Lord. Have faith because God will be
there to help you through. The weakest or the feeblest of
workers, can and will be able to do the work of the Lord,
while here on earth.
Now, this verse can hit you in the gut too. He clearly says,
the weakest can do just as much as the others, along with
the feeblest. We all can and should labor for the Lord. Isn't
that what we are called to do?
“Come, labor on” is a hymn
for church workers that was
published in London in 1859.
It is based on John 4:35-37 ,
that says" say not ye, there
are yet four months, and then
cometh harvest? behold, I say
unto you. Lift up your eyes,
and look on the fields; for they
are white already to harvest. 36
And he that reapeth receiveth
wages, and gathereth fruit unto
life eternal: that both he that
soweth and he that reapeth
may rejoice together. 37 And herein is that saying true. One
soweth, and another reapeth."
"Come, labor on", was wrtten by writer, Laurie
Borthwick. Ms. Borthwick was bom in 1813 in Edinburgh,
Scotland as a daughter of James Borthwick, which worked
for the North British Insurance office. Jane had at least one
sister, Sarah. Together with her sister, she worked several
years on translating German hymns and writing hymns that
still live on today. This hymn is often sung in Episcopal and
Anglican churches on the first Sunday of September.
Borthwick was a generous woman. She supported a
homeless shelter, the Edinburgh House of Refuge. She also
supported foreign mission efforts of the Free Church of
Scotland. Actually, the Borthwicks were members of Free
Church of Scotland, which separated from the Church of
Scotland in 1843.
Ms. Jane was never married, she devoted her life to
writing hymns and translating German hymns into english.
After devoting her life to the Lord and giving and helping
others, she died in 1897 at the age of 84 from natural causes.
If you know this hymn, sing along. If you are not sure,
read along.
Jane Laurie Borthwick
1 Come, labor on.
Who dares stand idle on the harvest plain
while all around us waves the golden grain?
And to each servant does the Master say,
"Go work today."
2 Come, labor on.
The enemy is watching night and day,
to sow the tares, to snatch the seed away;
while we in sleep our duty have forgot,
he slumbers not.
3 Come, labor on.
Away with gloomy doubts and faithless fear!
No ami so weak but may do service here:
by feeblest agents may our God fulfill
his righteous will.
4 Come, labor on.
Claim the high calling angels cannot share:
to young and old the gospel gladness bear.
Redeem the time its hours so swiftly fly
the night draws nigh.
5 Come, labor on.
No time for rest, till glows the western sky,
till the long shadows o'er our pathway lie
and a glad sound comes with the setting sun:
"Servants, well done."
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