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.Volume 36.
The 1945 Farm Census
Is Important To You
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The 1945 Census of Agriculture
will provide the first complete stat
istical picture of the changes in U.
S. Agriculture brought about by the
war. It will produce information
that will help guide the individual
fanner, farm cooperatives, or the
businessman who will want infor
mation to help him place the right
product in the right place for the
farm market.
Enumerators trained in advance
by the Bureau of the Census of the
U. S. Department of Commerce will
set out on January 15th to visit all
farm and ranches in the country.
The Bureau of the Census hopes to
complete most of the enumeration
in January, February and March.
Farmers who may feel hesitant
about answering some of the census
questions can be assured that the
information they give will be used
for no other purpose than the cen
sus compilations. Only sworn cen
sus employees will see the records
for your individual farm, and these
employees will be liable to fine or
imprisonment if they tell your
neighbor or anyone else about your
operations. The record for your
farm cannot be used to tax you, to
regulate you, or to investigate you.
The law forbids it.
When the census taker calls at
your farm within the ;ne\t few
weeks the information he obtains
will help you eventually. You may
never study any of the statistical
tables that will be made up from
the answers to the census questions
but they will be the basis for a lot
of the agricultural information you
will read or hear on the radio or get
from your county agricultural agent
or from sneakers at farm meetings.
Additional questions will be asked
of about 300.000 farmers to obtain
more detailed information. These
300 000 farmers will be a specially
selected cross-section of all farmers.
In each county small areas have
been scientifically selected, and all
farmers in these areas will be in
eluded in the sample. This cross
section is called the “Master Sample
for Agriculture.”
Developed by the Bureau of Agri
cultural Economics in the Depart
ment of Agriculture in cooperation
with the Bureau of the Census and
lowa State College after months of
preparation and testing, the Master
Sample is expected to have two
chief merits. First, it will permit
earlier tabulation and publication
of preliminary results of the census
on the basi sof the cross section.
Second, the Master Sample will pro
vide the basis for special surveys
on any important agricultural topic
in the “off vears” between census
taking, which comes onlv once
every five years. For statistical per
fection it would be ideal to count
noses everv time an estimate is re
qu'red. but it would be expensive
to do so annually and imoossible to
do so monthlv. One reason the esti
mates based on the returns from the
volunteer c-oo renorters. described
iin t*ie issue of the Coun
try Gentleman, are so reliable is
that thev arp keved to the full cen
sus everv five years.
This com'ns census is expected to
reveal that the number of farms
and the number of farmers are the
smallest in the last three decades,
and that farming units have been
getting larger in the last five years.
Detailed information by states and
counties will not be available until
some time nast mdsummer, altho
the Master Samnle may permit ten
tative summarization before that
time.
At!an f a Hofei
Gives sl-000 To
Hoke Smith Fund
The camnaign fo rthe Hoke Smith
Memorial Foundation to nrowde
scholarslrns or loans fo club
members and students in vocational
educa t; on "a ; ned adde d’rnnetus
th ; s the Board of Regent
of th° TTVwcstv Svstem of
an „ ri „r~>~-> ‘V- n-ift of $ 1 000 from
a ]a ,- ' T e a hotel.
phe °!nator Sm ,f b co
author of * h<? of Congmss minting
the A erfe”i f nral Extpns'on Service,
of wh*ch 4-H work is a nad. and
providing for vocational education.
The drive for funds to memorial
The Forsyth County News
(City Population 1,200)
ize the senator was launched in Dec
ember when the Board of Regents
agreed to serve as trustees of the
fund and Georgia 4-H members and
FFA bovs each contributed a SSOO
War Bond to the fund.
More than 100,000 Georgia boys
and girls are enrolled in 4-H clubs
throughout Georgia and are actively
engaged in carrying out programs
to speed the war effort and to pre
pare for peace, W. A. Sutton, State
4-H club leader for the Georgia Agri
cultural Extension Service, pointed
out.
“The Hoke Smith Memorial Foun
dation is destined to become one of
the greatest forces for higher edu
cation for Georgia boys and girls,”
Mr. Sutton continued. "It is plan
ned so scholarships, loans or fellow
ships may be awarded to young peo
nle to further their education. The
foundation will promote the develop
ment of the Agricultural Extension
Service and vocationa leducation
urogram for Georgia.”
The Extension Service is a coop
—oev undertaking of the Board of
n the U. S .Department of
a rrrnniture. and the various coun
f‘es of the State.
v-nm 1940 to 1943 the number of
planted to crons expanded
about four percent and fertilizer
~r>*'<ui*nriHon Jnmpac*d anomic 4 mate
ir pa ment. according to th® Geor
Ha Agricultural Extension Service
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY & CITY OF CUM MING
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CHERO KEE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
Extension Service
Plans Campaign On
1945 Farm Program
Eight district meetings are being
held throughout Georgia during Jan
uary by the State Agricultural Ex
tension Service to train county agri
cultural and home demonstration
agents in presenting the 1945 farm
situation, problems and production
goals to farm families, Director
Walter S. Brown, announced this
week.
These meetings are the first step
in an educational campaign to ac
quaint every Georgia farm family
with the 1945 agricultural outlook
and the livestock and crop produc
tion goals assigned to the State.
Director Brown pointed out that
the War Food Administration and
the Department of Agriculture have
given the Extension Service the re
sDonsibility of acquainting farmers
with the 1945 farm program and
Extension Service agents through
out Georgia will lead the education
al campaign in their counties.
After these district meetings,
county and community meetings
will be held in each county in Geor
'gia. Inuformation to be carried to
farmers includes the 1945 war goals
the supply situation for labor, ferti
lizer, machinery and insecticides;
nrice supports, market prosDectss.
and the production* conservation
and wise utilization of food. The dis
trict meetings are being held to
train county workers in presenting
the outlook to farm families.
The drive was planned at a meet
ing of representatives of all agricul
tural agencies in the State. “Georgia
farm families did a magnificent job
in 1944 despite many handicaps,”
Director Brown declared. “Indicat
ions are that they will again give
the war effort their man attention
and patriotic work and the agricul
tural agencies stand ready to help
them should any problems arise.”
The Extension Director predicted
that the Georgia farm situation in
1945 will continue to be dominated
entirely by the war but that many
Georgia farmers will be making de
finite plans for peacetime product
ion. Georgia farmers are being call
ed upon for a large production of
food, fibers and oils.
“The needs are so great that every
crop acre and every farming facility
should be put to its most productive
use during 1945,” he continued.
Production goals for Georgia for
1945 call for a small increase in cot
ton acreage with a four percent re
duction in the production of peanuts
Livestock goals for 1945 are the
same.as for 1944 with a two percent
increase in the average number of
cows to be milked. Broiler product
ion goals are the same as for last
vear while a ten percent decrease
has been set for the number of hens
and pullets on farms. Farmers have
been asked to make a four percent
reduction from the 1944 indicated
hog production.
Cumming Georgia, Thursday, Jan., 11th, 1945.
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State Leaders Hear
Plan For Polio Appeal
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District campaign chairmen from
Georgia’s ten congressional subdiv
isions and newspaper men from the
state’s leading cities are primed and
ready for the 1945 appeal for funds
to support the National Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis.
The district leaders and editors
spent a full day in Atlanta Thurs
day, in a round of events which was
designed to set the pattern for state
wide activities which begin January
14 and continue through the rest of
the month.
Official hosts to the visitors were
Governor Ellis Arnall, honorary
state chairman of the foundation,
who spent the day with the party;
Robert F. Maddox, chairman of the
Georgia chapter ,and William K.
Jenkins, state director of this year’s
polio appeal.
The day began with a demonstra
tion of iron lung equipment at Five
Points, where the governor made
the principal address; a luncheon at
the Capital City Club, where the
leaders heard an exposition of the
cause by Basil O’Connor, or New
York, former law partner of Presi
dent Roosevelt and president of the
national foundation; a tour of in
spection through the Bell Bomber
Plant, whose employes have pledged
full support to the effort, and the
final event of the day, elaborate
ceremonies at the Fox theater focus
ed on the fight against infantile
paralysis.
The ten district chairmen of the
campaign are: First, Roy Freeman,
Savannah; Second, Fred Scott, Tho
masviHe; Third, Jack Key, Colum
bus; Fourt Tom Glover, Newnan,
Fifth, Rutherford L. Ellis, Atlanta;
Sixth, Will Overstreet, Wadley; Sev
enth, Jack J. McDonough, Rome;
Eighth, George Bazemore, Waycross
Ninth, Joe McCuthen, Ellijay, and
Tenth, W. Ray Ringson, Augusta.
Robert H. Scott, of Atlanta, heads
the state press and radio bureau for
the campaign and J. N. McEarchern
also of Atlanta is chairman of the
state advisory committee, other
members of which are yet to be nam
ed.
With record food crops in 1944
and increased production of the pro
tective foods- milk, eggs, fruits nad
vegetables—and with higher incom
es, Americans have been eating bet
ter, on the average, in wartime than
in pre-war vears. Despite food com
mitments to U. S. armed forces and
to allied nations, the supply of nutn
ents for 1945 promises to be almost
as high as for 1944. Estimates of the
nutritive value of the nations food
supply made by the Bureau of Hu
man Nutrition and Ho ™
indicate that quality oftheAmri
can det. especially as to vitarrins
and minerals, has shown an upward
trend 1 nthe last 25 years.
Two University
4—H Members Now
On Farm Program
Two University of Georgia 4-H
club members are acting as masters
o feeremonies on the 4-H club por
tion of the Dixie Farm and Home
Hour, a broadcast each week-day
morning at 7:30 EWT by a large
(WSB) Atlanta radio station, the
Georgia Agricultural Extension Ser
vice announced this week.
The students, Ethel Martin, Jef
ferson, and Gene Ragan, Albany,
take part in the Saturday programs
which are devoted to 4-H club work
in Georgia. They interview 4-H club
members who come to Athens from
throughout Georgia to tell about
their 4-H club projects and accom
plishments. Mrs. Margaret Orndorff
radio specialists for the Extension
Service supervises the programs.
Ethel, a junior in the School of
Home Economics, transferred to the
University from North Georgia Col
lege at Dahlonega. She is a member
of the University 4-H club. Before
entering college, Ethel carried on
4-H projects in sewing, home im
orovement, gardening, poultry and
food preparation. She was a first
place winner in a 4-H cooking con
test in her county.
Gone, a senior maloring in animal
husbandry, attended Abraham Bald
win Agricultural College at Tifton
before transferring to the Univer
sity. He plans to “get into some
phase of livestock work” when he
finishes school.
Gene won a free trip to the Inter
national Livestock Exposition in
Chicago and has won several prizes
with his hogs and calves. During
his seven years in 4-H club work he
concentrated on livestock projects.
A SCHOLARSHIP
Awaits your daughter in the U. S.
CADET NURSE CORPS patriotic
and forsighted young women have
answered their country’s call to be
come nurses, through the Cadeit
Nurse Corps program of the U. S.
Public Health Service. A iimited
nnmher of Cadet Nurse Scholarship
still are available for young women
between the ages of 17 (or 18) and
35. Minimum requisites are good
health, o-aduation from high school
with satisfactory grades and ability
to meet vour nursing school require
merits. For further information, call
or write todav:
Dordon S. Carrigan, Jr.
Recruitment Officer
U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps
875 West Peachtree Street, N. E.
Atlanta, Georgia.
Tf the school of nursing to which
you apply is full or if you wish to
rrn oiite'de vour state, write U. S.
Public Health Service, Box 88. New
York 8, N. Y.
(County Population 12,000)
WFA Announces
1945 Support
Price On Eggs
The minimum producer price for
candled eggs in 1945 will be 27 cents
per dozen, T .Walter Hughes, dis
trict representative of the WFA said
this week. This price will be sup
ported by purchases from dealers
upon certification that they in turn
have paid no less than the support
price to producers.
For "straight-run” eggs, in areas
where marketing facilities for pur
chasing candled eggs from produc
ers cannot be made available, the
support price will be 24 cents per
dozen. Purchasing agents will be
designated in all areas prior to the
beginning of the heavy egg season,
and WFA will stand ready to pur
chase eggs from farmers at all
times. It is hoped, however 4 , Mr.
Hughes said, that facilities for cand
ling can be provided n all sections.
To avoid storage and rtansporta
tion difficulties encountered in 1944
due to the poor condition of shippng
cases and packing materials, WFA
will buy only eggs packed in good
used cases, complete with tops, or
in new fiber cases.
Purchases of dried and frozen
eggs will be correlated with the pur
chase of shell eggs for price support
nurposes. In this way all sections
of the country can be covered.
As to the demand for eggs in 1945
Mr. Hughes said WFA will have
need for substantial quantities of
high grade eggs to meet export re
quirements. The Armed Forces wil'
also be purchasing eggs of a high
quality. Altogether, domestic de
mand for graded eggs, and demand
for governmental agencies can be
expected to maintain usual grade
differentials in price, Mr. Hughes
concluded.
TO MY FRIENDS & CUSTOMERS
I take this method of thanking
you for your past favors and kind
ness and business you have given
me, and for the kindness and loyalty
vou have shown me since I lost my
entire stock of goods by fire on the
4th day of January.
On the journey towards Heaven,
let us be careful of our change to
day and each day and not hesitate
to take the wrong road at everv
crossing. Keep up your old trail to
Old Drew, I will be back in business
in 10 davs to serve you as always.
Life is always in the Process of
Opening up to the man or woman
who keeps the Spirit of Reverence
Alive.
I still have the Spirit and Will
Power, so come on back boys and
see me.
O.P. BENNETT
Number 2.
OPA Sues In Poultry
Mart Crack-Down
Ask Treble Damages Against Three
Dealers In Gainesville Area
In a move toward stemming allcg
ed flagrant black market operations
in poultry In the Gainesville area,
the District Office of Price Adminis
tration Saturday filed in Federal
District Court here injunctions and
treble damage suits totaling $8,325.-
53 against three poultry deales ir
the area.
The action came on the eve of the
effective date of the War Food Ad
ministration’s much-discussed order
119 which at 12:01 a. m. Monday
freezes for Army use all poultry in
Cherokee, Dawson, Forsyth, Lump
kin, Hall, White and Habersham
Counties.
The suits, which carry various al
legations of overcharges and short
weights, were filed against C. B.
Gazaway, of Cumming, with $1,905-
45 treble damages asked; E. H.
Braselton, doing business as the
Gainesville Feed and Poultry Cam
pany, $3,516.47 damages, and Ray
Whitmire, doing business as the
Queen City Poultry Company, Gain
esville, $3,403.11 damages.
Suits Come to Atlanta
Filed in the name of OPA Admin
istrator Chester Bowles, the suits
will be sent from Atlanta to the
Gainesville division of the district
court. Representing OPA n the cas
es are James M. Roberts, district
enforcement attorney, and Joel B.
Mallet, litigation attorney.
OPA officials said “every effort
will be made to stamp out the black
market in chicekns in and around
Gainesville,’” and declared that “all
powers vested in the agency will be
brought to bear in the future to
1 prevent a continuation of price and
other violations among poultry deal
ers” OPA also disclosed that other
cases, involving similar violations in
the area, are being processed.
Attenton was focused on reports
of widespread black market aettvi
ties following the furore which
arose last week when the WFA first
announced its freeze order. The poul
try producers contended that if they
sold their chickens at ceiling prices
to the processor who would channel
the finished products to the Army,
then the processors would make all
the profit while the producers bare
ly got cost for their fowls.
The producers declared further
that high labor and feed costs made
It impossible for them to get a fair
profit under ceiling prices.
At a meeting Thursday, with some
600 farmers gathered in the Hall
County Courthouse, WFA officials
explained the need for the order,
nointing out that the Army needs
110.000.000 pounds of poultry for
shipment to me overseas.
The growers were also told that
"tons would be taken to safeguard
♦heir interests should it occur that
*bov broueht noultrv to sell to a
-"'ooess'ne nlant which had a capa
">tv suonlv. In such case, WFA said
♦heir chicekns would be released for
snip elsewhere without deay.
After the meeting the majority of
->v.nHiio/>rs anneared resigned t.O ac
oootanee of the order, and the Of
fife of Defense Transoortation,
which can wield the club of gasoline
ration revokation over truckers, as
well as OPA, announced they would
work closelv with WFA in carrying
out the provisions of Order 119 and
to head off possible excursions into
black marketing.
LAND USE SOCIAL ISSUE
Qf all the social issues from wars
and revolutions spring, few are
more universal and explosive than
those arising out of the use and con
trolof land comments John F. Tim
mons, of the Bureau of Agricultural
Economics, in an article in the win
issue of Land Policy Review.
“Contrary to Marxian teaching,” he
oontinims “tho world’s revolutions
have been bred and bom in rural
countries, not in highly in
dustrialized nations. The first revo
i„on n Pussia. the Mexican revolu
tion, and the struggle of the Irish
peasants are a few examples that
substantiate this viewpoint.”
Miss Bobbie Holbrook visited Miss
es Betty and Janelle Guthrie Sun
day night
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