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fffffffffffffff iVolume 38 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 Cuba's magnificent $20,000,000 Capitol Building 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 come. | m i mil tifp RED CROSS