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Moccasin Plays Role
As Fish Thief
Mack Collet who fishes Setting
down creek in Forsyth county re
cently caught a nice string of Cat
fish. He tied them out in the water,
suddenly he heard a splashing in
the water so he investigated. Upon
close observation he saw a mocca
sin lugging away at his string of
fish. The snake bit one of the cats
off the string—True story by Wild
Life Ranger Glenn Bryant
Soil Conservation News
FORSYTH COUNTY
Those reporting Sericea cut for
hay last week were John Rives and
Roy P. Otwell.
Out of county visitors who were
observing the Kentucky 31 fescue
grass last week on the William J.
Orr farm were R. H. Black, farm
manager for the North Georgia
State College, Dahlonega, Ga„ Ver
non H. Smith, prominent dairyman
of Lumpkin county and Roy Beck
farmer near Dahlonega.
Recent rains have caused a reviv
al in the growth of our pasture
grasses and clovers and every farm
er should see that his pasture is
not overstocked during the summer
droughty months. The life of a pas
ture is well extended when not over
grazed.
Copies of the new Farmers’ Bulle
tin 1983, U. S. Department of Agri
culture Farm Fishponds have been
received in our office and those in
terested in fish ponds may get one
by calling at our office in the Little
White House.
Poppy Day
Saturday May 31st.
The Forsyth County Post of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars announ
ces that Saturday May 31st is VFW
Buddy Poppy Day in Georgia.
The great tradition, instituted by
a noble Georgia Lady, Miss Naomi
Michael of Athens, to sell to the
public poppies which have been
made by Disabled Veterans in hos
pitals over the United States offers
the proceeds to the families of the
American boys who gave their lives
for their country.
On Memorial Day, May 30, of
each year the VFW is instrumental
in placing poppies on the graves of
200,000 Americans who paid all for
the freedom of their country and
who now are in National cemeter
ies overseas.
The Buddy Poppies resemble very
much those that blow in Flanders
Field, “Beneath the crosses row on
row ”
The Veterans of Forsyth County
and all over the Nation will thank
you for honoring those boys by
wearing a poppy on “Buddy Poppy
Day”. It is a great tribute to your
friends who fought and died that
America might live free.
Vegetable Harvesting
Harvesting at the right time mean
better vegetables on the dinner tab
le. Summer squash are ready when
about half grown or when the shell
is easily punctured with the thumb
nail. Beets are ready when about
two inches in diameter and sweet
com when the silk is dried almost
back to the husk.
Air Cleaner Care
The oil cup on tractor air clean
ers should be removed, cleaned and
refilled with new oil after every ten
hours of operation, or more fre
quently when operation under dusty
conditions. After 60 hours of oper
ation, the air cleaner should be re
moved, taken apart and washed in
kerosene. Make sure no joints or
hose connections leak air.
Dairy Cow Feeding
Good milking cows should be fed
all the roughage they can eat, and
the amount of concentrates in then
feed should be determined by the
relationship between the price of
feed and the price of milk. The
feed-milk price ratio also determin
es the uneconomical producers—the
cows that should be culled.
The Forsyth County Ne ws
(City Population 1,500)
Fishing Regulations
By Ranger Glenn Bryant
A fishing license is required to
fish in the fresh waters of Georgia
if artificial lures or live bait is used.
However, a person may fish in
his own county with worms, cut
bait, liver etc, without a license. If
you fish out of your legal residence
(County) a license is required.
No person under 16 years of age
is required to have a fishing license
The owner of a private pond, his
tenants may fish in that poind with
out a license.
The restrictions and limitations
upon taking of fresh water fish in
Georgia is as follows:
Ten daily of the following: Strip
ed Bass, Large mouth bass, Rock
Bass, Red Eye Bass or Kentucky
Bass, Brook Trout, Rainbow and
Brown trout. Jack 15, Red Breast
Pearch 25, Bream 25, Pearch 25.
I solicit the cooperation of all
sportsmen. I am here to help bet
ter hunting and fishing conditions
in my territory which includes For
syth, Cherokee and Cobb Counties.
Report game law violation to the
Wild Life Ranger Glenn Bryant,
Phone 6, Cumming, Ga.
The price of a State fishing li
cense is $1.25, when you purchase
a state fishing license you are con
tributing to better fishing in Geor
gia. Good luck on your next fishing
trip.
DRESS REVUE
H. D. AND 4—H CLUBS
Every one is invited to the County
wide dress revue which will be held
in the Cumming High School Gym
Saturday May 31 at 1:30 P. M. Club
members from six Home Demon
stration Clubs and thirteen 4-H
Clubs are expected to model dress
es. The judges will be Miss Floride
Zipperer, Cherokee County Home
Demonstration Agent and Mrs. Mar
vis P. Dilbeck, Pickens County home
demonstration agent. First place
winners in this project will enter
the district contest in Athens.
FLOWER ARRANGEMENT
After the Style Revue, Miss Willie
Vie Dowdy, Extension Economist in
Home Improvement from Athens
will give an interesting demonstra
tion on flower arrangements, which
will be enjoyed by every one. You
do not have to be a club member
to he present so come and bring
your neighbor.
State University
Makes Plans For
4-H Poultry Day
A 4-H Club Poultry Day, sponsor
ed by the University of Georgia
Poultry Science club, will be held
on the College of Agriculture cam
pus June 5, according to Carlton
Carnes, president of the poultry
ga c n ,f members .rom 2 5 northeast
Georgia counties will attend the all
day meeting which is being e
stimulate interest in pou try work
among 4-H boys and girls. Tours,
demonstrations, lectures and edu
cational exhibits are planned, Mr.
Carnes said. . .
The day’s activities will begin
10 o’clock. A morning tour of the
poultry plant on the campus will
include visits to the feed mixing
plant, brooding and incubation, the
national egg laying test, the broiler
breeding and testing project and the
killing and dressing plant. Demon
strations and lectures by student
members of the Poultry Science
club and the poultry department
faculty will also be given.
Free lunch for the 4-H club mem
bers will be served at the poultry
building at one o’clock with several
poultry industry leaders as guests
Mr. Carnes asserted. The 4-H’ers
will visit the disease laboratory af
ter lunch and see the work done
there. The University-owned White
hall farm, with is poultry ranges
and facilities, will also be included
on the tour. Demonstrations in cull
ing and poultry judging are sched
uled after returning from White
hall.
Cotton carry over August 1 will
be the lowest since 1929 if domes
tic mills use the expected 10,000,-
000 bales during the 1046-47 season
and exports reach the expected tot
al of about 3,250,00 bales.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY & CITY OF CUMMING
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CHERO KEE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
Cumming Georgia, Thursday, May 29, 1947.
Forsyth County Post
VFW To Have Fish
Fry & Special Meeting
In connection with a drive for
new members, and to afford pleas
ant past time for the members, the
local post of the Veterans of Fore
ign wars will sponsor a Fish Fry
at Pilgrim Mill on Saturday even
ing June 7, beginning at 6:30
After enjoying the food, a special
meeting of the post w'ill be held.
This meeting will be the most im
portant meeting held by the VFW
since organizing in February. Mat
ters of vital interest to every mem
ber of the post will be discussed and
much depends on the outcome of
the meeting.
A tract of land has been tenta
tively selected to buy for the pur
pose of building a club house. This
site is located about one and one
half miles west of Cumming on the
Canton highway and is certain ideol
for the use of the VFW post. It
will be necessary that a majority of
the members be acquainted with the
transaction before the land can be
bought. This will be done at the
special meeting of June 7.
Eighty six members out of 450
eligible veterans! There is a big job
in bringing those others to the post
to become members.
The VFW is a good Veterans
group, being well and soundly or
ganized. The men of Forsyth who
have been outside the continental
United States in a war of the U. S.
have a right to and should be organ
ized into a group exclusively for
themselves. A strong past of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars will
mean much to our County.
Plans are to increase the interest
of meetings, all officers of the post
and all members are pledged to
work harder to make the organiza
tion worth while. So come on out
and help put the post over in a big
way. We Will soon Mve a home of
our own. Definite plans are made.
This will increase many times the
interest of the post.
All Veterans of Foreign Wars of
Forsyth County, both members and
non members are invited and urged
to meet at Pilgrim Mill at 6:30 on
the evening of Saturday June 7th.
Bartow County
Receives TrorfiV
For Cotton Work
Asa reward for outstanding work
in improving cotton production on
a one-variety basis in 1946, the Bar
tow County One-Variety Cotton Im
provement Association Monday re
ceived a trophy offered by the At
lantic Cotton Association.
Price C. McLemore, Alabama in
ventor and cotton farmer, was the
featured speaker, according to E. C.
Westbrook, cotton specialist for the
Extension Service
The association, Mr. Westbrook
revealed, was organized in 1934 with
40 members cultivating 400 acres of
cotton.. The 1946 membership includ
ed 1,000 farmers who grew 23,000
acres of onelvariety cotton. Bartow
County was selected from 84 Geor
gia counties with one-variety im
provement associations.
During 1946, Mr. Westbrook point
ed out, the income of each member
averaged $606.97 more because of
improved staple, yield and quality
resulting from the one-variety pro
gram. “This is more important
when one considers that five eighths
of the total value of all crops har
vested and livestock and livestock
products sold is derived from cot
ton,” Mr. Westbrook said.
The average cotton yield per acre
increased from 212 to 294 pounds
during the 12 years that the one
variety association operated and the
staple length also improved, the
cotton specialist said. Sixty-six per
cent of the cotton in 1933 was seven
eighths inch or less and only eight
percent over one inch. In 1946 none
was shorter than fifteen-sixteenths
inch and 92.3 percent was one inch
or longer.
H. P. Williams, Athens cotton njer
chant, presented the trophy and P.
Frank Smith, president of the Bar
tow association, accepted it. Al§o
appearing on the program, in addi
tion to Mr. McLemore, were Joe H.
McLure, manager of the southeas
tern cotton and fiber branch of
PMA; Harold A. Boggs, Bartow
county agent, and Mr. Westbrook
GEORGIA EDITORS TO VISIT HAVANA
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Members of the GEORGIA PRESS ASSOCIATION will enjoy "A
TRIP ABROAD” to Gay—-Foreign Romantic HAVANA, CUBA,
leaving Savannah August Bth and sailing from Miami aboard the
P & O’s Palatial S. S. FLORIDA. The Roy Brown Travel Service
has made arrangements for a thrilling vacation to this strange and
charming land.
Wingate Will Speak
To Forsyth Farmers
Saturday at 2 P. M.
Every farmer and business man
should meet at the Court House on
Saturday afternoon May 31st for
an address by Mr. H. L. Wingate,
president of the Georgia Farm Bu
reau Federation. He will have some
thing of interest to the farmers and
business men.
Agriculture people are going to
need better organization if they are
to receive a fair place in the Nation
al economy of our county. Let us
all be present at 2 o’clock at the
Court House Saturday May 31st.
Yields Doubled
On Walker Farm
In Twelve Years
Production has doubled on the
farm of R. T. Goodson, Walker far
mer, since he began cooperating
with the Georgia Agricultural Ex
tension Service and the Tennessee
Valley Authority 12 years ago, ac
cording to J. P. Baker, county agent
“My first farming,” Mr. Goodson
said this week, “was corn and cot
ton with a horse and plow. I existed
from year to year and made only
one-fourth bale of cotton to the
acre. How I raised wheat, oats and
barley followed by milo as my only
row crop. But, if I wanted to, I
could raise a bale of cotton to the
acre.
“Fertilizer i9 the cheapest labor
you can hire,” Mr. Goodson declared
pointing out that “there’s no com
parison between fertilized and un
fertilized pastures. Neighbors who
pasture cattle on my farm say it is
the best they’ve used anywhere as
cattle do better and grow off faster
where they can get to a good limed
and phosphated pasture.”
Mr. Goodson, who has lived on
his farm approximately 32 years,
cultivates 110 acres, pastures 48
acres and has 97 acres in woodland.
“When I row cropped and suffered
along,” the Walker County farmer
declared, “my land washed away
and eroded. After I began sowing
my crops, I could see the soil being
saved. I wind now that I do not need
terraces because vegetation left on
the ground holds the soil and en
riches it at the same time. I’m ex
pecting 25 to 30 bushels of wheat
and 60 bushels of oats from my pres
ent crop. I have no corn on my farm
but grow milo instead because it
requires no hoeing, shucking or
shelling and produces one-third
more per acre.”
The yield of fertilized legumes
and grasses increased almost unbe
lievably after triple superphosphate
and lime were added to the soil, he
says. “My pasture gives me an in
come that I cannot get any other
way with the same amount of work
and effort.”
Quck Freezing
Foods to be preserved by freezing
should be frozen at temperatures of
15 to 20 degrees below zero, then
held just below zero. Owners of
home freezers should not put more
food into the unit at one time than
will freeze in 24 hours, according to
quick-freezmg specialists.
(County Population 15,000) Number 22.
Farmers Urged To
Report Soil Building
It is important that Farmers of
Forsyth County report all soil-build
ing practices completed for 1947 by
June 30, 1947, B. E. Woodall County
Administrative Officer announced
this week.
Some of the most important prac
tices to report at this time Woodall
said, are: (1) Applying acid phos
phate to pasture, lespedeza and sum
mer legumes. (2) Basic slag to pas
ture, lespedeza, or summer legum
es. (3) Potash to eligible crops, (4)
Lime to cropland or pasture. (5)
Winter legumes seeded in fall of
1946, Austrian winter peas, vetches
and clovers. (6) Small grain seeded
in fall of 1946 and not harvested
for grain or hay, (7) Harvesting
clover, vetch and other legumes and
grass seed. (8) Ryegrass seeded on
cropland or in orchards. (9) Con
struction of drainage ditches. (10)
Construction of standard terraces
with suitable outlets (11) Construe
tion of fences for pasture. (12)
Planting forest trees.
Sales receipts or other supporting
evidence is required if seeds or mat
erial was purchased through sour
ces other than the AAA Woodall
said.
McDuffie County
Promotes Pasture
Work With Prizes
In an effort to promote the de
velopment of permanent pastures,
the McDuffie County Youth Dairy
Development Association is offering
poultry and purebred livestock to
4-H and FFA club members who do
the best jobs of developing pastures
County Agent D. M. Hutcherson
said this week.
“Approximately 70 purebred ani
mals placed with 4-H and FFA mem
hers this year only emphasized the
interest among McDuffie farmers i
dairying,” the county agent said.
"Permanent pastures are essential
in any profitable dairy enterprise.”
Approximately one acre of per
manent pasture, with sufficient tern
porary winter and summer grazing
to furnish ample grazing for the ani
ma), must be included, he pointed
out. After the first year, an addition
al contest will be conducted on the
maintenance of second year pas
ture.
Pastures will be judged, Mr. Hut
cherson said, on the adapted pas
ture land, the land preparation, seed
bed preparation, seedling, weed era
diction, grazing system, percent
ground cover or stand, project re
cords and visits by sponsors. Iden
tical prizes will be awarded in the
4-H and FFA divisions. A registered
heifer valued at S2OO is first prize, a
registered gilt valued at $75 is se
cond, 100 breeder chicks will be the
third, 50 breeder chicks fourth and
25 breeder chicks fifth, sixth, sev
enth, eighth and ninth.
Pastures will be Judged the first
week in August and record books
and winter pasture preparation will
be judged in early September.
Farmers should plant pine or
other tree seedlings on land suitable
for neither pastures nor cultivation
for crops.
JUST A MOMENT
WITH 1
LAMAR Q. BALL
WE RENEGE ON OUR PLED
GES.—During the war, Georgians
made all sorts of pious promises to
themselves. Come the peace, we
really were going to get the house
into apple pie order.
We were to grab the first postwar
broom we could find and clear out
all the dirt we had beenhiding un
der the carpets for years.
You couldn’t turn a corner in a
city or at a cross roadswithout col
liding with a crew of thoughtful
men earnestly mapping postwar
programs.
We assured one another solemnly
that no previous tragedy in our his
tory—and, man alive, what a flock
of them there had been! had brough
our defects into such clearly sculp
tured bas relief as had this war.
Yes sir, we certainly owed a debt
to those boys who were overseas
fighting for us. And, by gum, we
were going to see that it was paid,
if it took our last nickel or dime.
Nothing would be too good for them
or for us.
We planned to beautify the cities
and make the outlands so attractive
that no tourist, with a little money
in his pocket, would dare think of
moving on through to Florida after
he had feasted his eyes on the Eden
that would be Georgia.
In Atlanta, we would build a civic
center around the State Capitol, the
City Hall and the county courhouse
with parks here and skyscraper
monuments to veterans there, and
the whole thing would make the
District of Columbia look like a
governmental outhouse.
Our agriculture was to be balan
ced so evenly all over the state that
there wouldn’t be room on the din
ner table for an imported dish of
olives. We would teach all illiter
ates to read and write. Everyone
would be healthy and wealthy and
wise. There 'would be a substantial
new industry in every neighbor
hood's pot, all of them connected ty
four-lane highways, overhead where
ever necessary to avoid crashes of
automobiles and cargo trucks and
streamliner freight trains.
We dreamed and we planned night
and day. We even paid good men
good money to draw maps of the
future Georgia! Best of all, we as
sured ourselves that we had learned
the benefits of unity. Only through
the sort of unity we were exercising
to win the war could there be the
Intelligent effort that would bring
prosperity and the full life to Geor
gia after the war. We would throw
out our chests and forge ahead, all
for one and one for all. Read any,
back file of newspapers.
The war ended almost two years
ago. What have we accomplished?
Nothing but to argue whether the
Negro should be allowed to exer
cise his right to vote!
GOODBYE, Unity.—You just can’t
dismiss all this by saying: "Oh well
human beings are like that."
V-J Day meat nothing more to us
than: “Goodbye unity, and empty
promises!” The abandonment of any
worthwhile effort is not good for
any human being.
Since then we have wasted ail
our effort and our breath on a
phony race issue, which was created
purposely out of thin air to get the
public’s mind off the tougher prob
lems which would have called for
more intelligence, more ingenuity,
and much more effort.
Georgia has many real problems
that need solving. Physical exami
nations given our boys at induction
centers showed alarming weakness
es, all of which could be cured thru
sustained effort. Agriculturally, we
have learned that we are incapable
of feeding ourselves. Industrially,
we have little to offer a world in
which this nation can hold its own
only through superior productive
powers.
Today, after two years of peace,
we ignore the cures for all our basic
troubles while we babble senseless
ly about phony race issues.
Soil Conservation
Soil conservation farming provid
es a practical guide to greater crop
diversification and results in many
benefits. It means increased income
to the farmer and savings in seed,
fertilizer, labor and power. It ac
counts for a high degree of land
protection and, all in all, means an
increase in production and farm in
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