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Volume 46. Meeting For Corn Champs To Be Held In Macon December 13 Forty-eight 4-H Club members from 12 Georgia counties will be honored in Macon Tuesday, Decern ber 13, for their work in the 1955 Four-H hybrid corn program. They are county champions in’ the project, and will be guests of the Georgia Power Company at an awards dinner at the Idle Hour Country Club. The 4-H’ers and their county agents will assemble at Plant Arkwright at 10 a. m. and will make a two-hour tour before attending the dinner rteeeting. W. H. Gurley and J. Frank Mc- Gill, agronomistts for the College of Agriculture Extension Service, said awards of S2O, sls, $lO, and $5 will be presented to the winners in each county by an official of the Georgia Power Company. The top three corn producers in the entire program will be announ ced at the Macon meeting, and awards of SSO for first, S4O for second, and S3O for third presented to them. Gurley and McGill said that the three state winners will be chosen from the 12 first place county champions. The Extension agronomists ex plained that this is the eighth year of the 4-H hybrid com program. Each year 12 counties two in each Extension district are chos en to participate in the work. With Y our County Agent Walter H. Rucker Chilling, overheating and over crowding are pprobably the three most common examples of poor management in poultry manage ment. Good poultry management is im portant the year around. But at this time of the year, when the nights start getting cold and the first frosts appear, there ara>a few simple iymagement practices that become more important than ever. The three most often found are those listed above. Poultrymen should always in spect their birds daily. By doing so, they can notice these conditions vyhen they first appear and thus do something about them. If the birds are chilled, they will huddle together near the source of -heat. If overheated, they will move away from the heat. Overcrowded birds just simply don’t have space to move around in. 4 Take care of these simple things and you perhaps can prevent ex pensive drug bills. You can raise birds more economically and there by make a larger profit in the long run. It just Is not thrifty to try to brood 700 chicks in a brooder that is designed for 500. For one thing, overcrowding can lead to cannibal ism. This overcrowded condition can be brought on simply by not pro viding enough floor space, or enough space around the feeders and waterers. Our weather, for the most part, has been mighty pleasant for us this fall. But it can spell disaster to young chicks. We go out in the morning wearing a coat or jacket, and by dinner time it’s probably so warm that we shed it. However, our baby chicks don’t come equip ped with jackets, so it’s up to us to regulate the temperature for them. • In this changeable weather, it is very important that we avoid chill ing young birds. It’s a good idea to have the brooder house temper ature regulated and sufficiently warm a day or two before the baby chicks arrive. Try to elimi nate drafts, too. On the other hand, it is very easy to overheat the chicks. The brooder temperature can be ideal for these cool nights and early mornings. But the sun shinning in to the house in the middle of the day can raise the temperature and result in overheating. These are simple but extremely important things. Take care to see that your chicks are not chilled, overheated, or overcrowded, and you probably will take home a big ger check from the poultry buyer. The Forsyth County News OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY & CITY OF CUMMING DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON. CHICRO KEE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES. (City Population 2,500) Cumming Georgia, Thursday Dec., 8, 1955. Today & Tomorrow Louie D. Newton 304 BUSHELS , You have probably read about it, ( but it ( will stand telling once more, j I mean this boy down in Mississip pi who grew 304.38 bushels of corn I on one acre. j His name is Lamar Ratliff, and he lives in Prentiss County, Miss ! issippi. He is 16 years old. He join ed the 4-H Club when he was ten, and has been working with the same acre of land since 1950. The first year he broadcast 20 ! loads of manure and used 600 lbs. of 6—B—B and 200 lbs. of nitrate of soda. He made 179 bushels on his acre the first year. (The most his father had ever averaged was 30 bushels per acre). 1 The second year he broadcast 30 loads of manure, and used 800 lbs. of 6 —B—B and 250 lbs. of nitrate of soda, planting Dixie 17 hybrid again that year, and made 187 bushels. The third year he broadcast 1500 j pounds of basic slag, used 34 wag on-loads of manure, 600 pounds of 6—B—B and 400 pounds of nitrate [of soda. He got 214.1 bushels that year. The next year he broadcast 35 loads of manure, used 750 pounds of 6—B—B and 400 pounds of ni trate of soda, and got 21.5 bushels on the acre. This year he broadcast 25 loads of manure, and used 1000 pounds of M4 —14—14, and 200 pounds of ammonium nitrate. He planted the acre on March 23—rows 30 inches apart, and the stalks inches in the row. He sidedressed on the second and last ploughing with 300 addi tional pounds of nitrate. The com was gathered Septem ber 30 under the supervision of the County Agent and several witness es. They seht three bushels to the State College for checking of mois ture content, which showed 13.93 per cent. The yield was 304.38 bush els. The seed planted were Funk’s I G-711 hybrid. So, there you have it—the larg est yield of com on one acre in the history of the United States by a Mississippi farm boy, 16 years old. I certainly would like to shake that boy’s hand. UNUSED TALENT Sometimes we marvel at the tal ent of a young man or a young lady but as we follow some of their lives we find that some of tthose young people do not use their tal ent for God’s glory or for the good of mumanity. They hide their light. What faith they have, they fail to exercise it. What interest they have in people and what love they have for the nobler things of life, they fail to show it. They ac tually hide their talents. Sometimes we find that they are members of the church but never attend, they never contribute to the support of the church. God has given them a wonderful voice but I they do not use their voice for the j glory of God by singing God’s prais es i nithe church. I have actually known people to live in a com munity for twenty-five to fifty j years and never withdraw their ■ membership from a distant church and line up with the church where 1 they live. You are missing the greatest happiness in life. Express your love for people; Express your love for God. Come out with it and your maladjusted life will be ad justed again. Jesus said “Ye (his followers) are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under the bushel (measure),, but on a candlestick and it giveth , light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in heaven. W. R. CALLAWAY IMPORTANT NOTICE | Will those who brought food to | the home of Mrs. Emory Phillips, j please call 2282 so that we may re turn your dishes. Thank you, Mrs. Hoyt Conner Ull mm ...Help Fight TB —- ..Buy Christmas Seals-- Forsyth County Chapter Receives S6OO Polio Check As a stopgap measure to meet this community’s acute need for funds to continue care of polio patients, a check for $600.00 from March of Dimes headquarters in New York was received today by the Forsyth County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. “This mone,” explained Mr. Leon Boling, Chapter Chairman, “is an advance supplied by chapters op erating in the black. When it was realized that more than 1,200 chap-' ters would exhaust the March of Dimes funds available to them, National Foundation headquarters called in funds from chapters which had surpluses.” Recognizing that polio respects no state or county lines, Mr. Bol ing said, chapters with funds have willingly answered the distress signals of those operating in the red to insure the necessary care of polio patients. Encouraging the “haves" to help the “have-nots,” Mr. Boling con tinued, is one way the March of Dimes assures that the lives and usefulness of polio patients every where in the country can be saved. The check received by the For syth County Chapter will help meet long overdue back bills for pro viding treatment and equipment for several polio patients in this area, he said. Mr. Boling predicted that because many of these pat ients will continue to need help, the chapter would be forced to ask for additional funds in the near future. Even with the receipt of this $600.00, the Chapter will lack approximately $500.00 to pay bills on hand. “The financial burden our chap ter has had to assume is unfortu nately shared with others,” Mr. Boling said. “Destitute National Foundation chapters will need an estimated $8,000,000 from Head quarters to meet patient care bills for the remainder of this year. "Our present situation may be the lot of other communities next year,” Mr. Boling went on to say. “It is hope that the money we have received can be returned to National Foundation headquarters from contributions to the next March of Dimes in January of 1956 for assistance to other chap ters in need. "The promise of the Salk vaccine] is bright, but the full realization of that promise is for -the future. As we in Forsyth County know only too well, polio isn’t licked yet. Singing Notice The Big Second Sunday night Singing Convention will be held at Zion Hill Baptist Church in For svth County next Sunday night, December 11th, beginning promptly at 7 o’clock. We have the promise of singers from Marietta, Buford, Gainesville and Winder, including Quartets and all other specials. This will be a good singing, so come on put early in order to get a seat. D. J. Whitmire, President Ezra Orr, Vice President 'GARDEN FEEDS THE FAMILY Cecil Blackwell, garden specialist j for the Agricultural Extension Ser-J vice, has figured that an adequate' annual diet, including all the basic seven foods, for an average family 1 of five will cost $1,440. He also has found that the value of food that could be produced in a home gard en in $1,413, meaning that a gard-i en, if managed correctly could pay all but $27 of an annual food bud get Soil Conservation News Forsyth County Soil Conservation Quotations “When the soil moves, people move. When the soil fails, life fails," —Robert Flaherty, in Scenar io for “THE LAND” "To skin and exhaust the earth is to undermine the days of child ren.”—Theodore Roosevelt. “Since the first crude plow up rooted the first square foot of sod, and since man’s axe first bit into virgin forest, erosion of the soil has been a problem. It is as old as history. Down through the ages it has influenced the lives of men and the destinies of nations and civilizations. In the United States today, no problem is more urgent.” —Dr. Hugh H. Bennett. St. Francis of Assissi: “.. Praised be my Lord for our Mother the Earth, that which doth sustain us and keep us and bringest forth divers fruits and flowers of many colors and grass.” (Translated by Matthew Arnold). ‘The waters wear the stones; thou washest away the things that grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of men.”- -THE BOOK OF JOB Our soil is not just dirt. It is a factory where everything needed to feed plant, animals, and human beings is made. Forsyth County Forestry Unit News Knowing the correct way to put out campfires and warming fires built in the woods may save thou sands of acres of valuable timber being destroyed in Forsyth County. So declared Edward L. Wright, i Ranger, Forsyth County Forestry 'Unit, as he pointed out this week that carelessness with fires in or jear the woods causes nine out of every 10 wildfires in this county. “During these cold December days,” said the Ranger, “many per sons in the woods—harvesting crews, hunters, campers and others will stop to build warming fires. In other cases, schoolchildren wait ing along the highway for busses will also build warming fires.” Ranger Wright said if these fires are not built properly and if they are not properly extinguished when the persons building them leave, (they can very easily escape and ignite surrounding woodlands. ‘The safest way to build a fire,” the County Forestry Unit head de clared, "whether it’s a warming fire or a regular campfire, is to clear pine needles and old leaves off a spot of ground about six feet in diameter. Dig a hole in the mid dle of this spot and build your fire there. Build your fire there, and' keep it small. “Before you leave the fire,” he added, “thoroughly drench it with water. Stir the coals as you pour on the water. The best, way to make sure the last spark is dead out is to feel the embers with your bare hands.” , ' You may get in touch with the Ranger by telephoning: Day 2950- Nights 2493 or 2913. Important Notice To owners of homes with bath rooms. It is getting about time of year for septic tank cleaners to start their rounds through the country before you call one. Some of these fellows are re liable and some are not. if your septic tank needs cleaning you cer tainly will want it done and on the other hand you would hate to pay for a service that you did not need when some unreliable person makes the inspection and would tell you it had to be done. The State Health Department offers a simple inspection method to determine if a tank needs clean ing. One of the end sections of the Septic tank top is removed and a long strip is extended to the bottom of the tank. Notice how far the strip from the bottom, add the length of the scum line on the up per end of the strip to the sludage measurement. If these combined measurements amounts to 1-2 of the liquid depth. This would be a good indication that a tank would need cleaning. The liquid depth starts approximately 12” down from the top of the tank. County Population 15,000. Number 49. YIELD RIGHT OF WAY SIGNS The State Highway Department and some cities in the State, under Traffic Code of 1954, have marked a number of highway and street intersections as "Yield Right-of- Way” intersections. ! ! Since this sign and the legal re quirements signified by it are some what new, the interests of traffic safety and of law observance may be advanced if the public is well informed about them. When an intersection has been 1 designated by proper authority as a “Yield Right-of Way” intersection and signs erected, the driver of a vehicle approaching the “Yield | Right-of Way” sign shall slow to a I speed of not more than tten miles per hour and yield the right-of-way to all vehicles approaching from , the right or left on the intersection j roads or streets, which are so close as to constitute an immediate haz ard. The law states that if a driver is involved in a collision at an inter ' section or interferes with the move ment of other vehicles after driv- I ing past a “Yield Right-of Way” ! sign, such collision or interference shall be deemed to be prima facie . evidence of the driver’s failure to ! yield right-of-way. Experience records show a high frequency of accidents at those in tersections which are controlled by “Stop” signs where the character of the traffic flow on the heavier j 'route is such that drivers on the lesser route develop a disregard of the “Stop” sign. This condition oc- I curs when there are long gaps in I the traffic flow on the heavier road tending to make a full stop seem i ridiculous, yet the laws require ithat all vehicles stop before enter ing that Intersection. Repetition of j actions in disregard of law breeds I contempt for the law, which be ■ comes especially dangerous at traf fic intersections. Enforcement of the "Stop” is very difficult at many intersections because the enforcing officers are generally occupied on the heavier routes, elsewhere. ' Under the “Yield Righ-of-Way" law, licensed drivers are privileged to use their good judgment under existing conditions. Enforcement of the “Yield Right-of-Way” law, al though apparently more indirect, becomes more effective since the responsibility in case of accident is so easily determined. The driver who drives past a “Yield Right-of- Way” sign is responsible for safety of himself and other drivers until he clears the intersection. The ef fectiveness of the “Yield Right-of- I Way" law is, therefore, dependent upon the complete understanding by the driver of the seriousness to him if he becomes involved in an accident just after driving past a “Yield Right-of-Way” sign. Southeastern Dairy Convention Selects Georgia In 1956 The Southeastern Dairy Cooper ative Marketing Clinic has chosen Georgia for its 1956 annual con vention. John S. Conner, dairy marketing specialist for the College of Agri culture Extension Service, announ ced this week that the convention will be held at the Henry Grady hotel in Atlanta on February 16 and 17. The 1956 program will include discussions on such subjects as Public Relations and Legal Prob lems, Fluid Milk Pricing, Problems Facing the Dairy Industry, Plant Operations, Dairying in the South east, and Advertising and Promott jian. Conner said a feature of the con vention will be exhibits in thte en trance-way to the Henry Grady. “These will show the dairy indus try's responsibility and its prposal in feeding the growing poppulation in the expanding industrial South," he stated. To avoid silage flavor in milk, Georgia dairymen are advised to feed after milking or, preferably, to feed silage in bunkers outside the barn. Three Leaflets On Marketing Are Issued By Agents Pointing out that many growers feel that when they have produced a crop and started it on its way to market their responsibility er;ds, W. C. Carter, economist for the College of Agriculture Etenslon Service, says the assumption is not true. "The condition in which the pro duct reaches the market directly affects the volume bought, the price paid, and future purchases. The grower can, by careful har vesting and handling, and proper grading and packaging, greatly in fluence the buyer and largely de termine whether or not the crop will he profitable,” Carter says. Three new leafletes written by the specialist, and available thru county agents, show why these facts are true. Their titles are: "Marketing Georgia Sweet Com,” Marketing Georgia Tomatoes,” and "Marketing Georgia Cantaloupes.” Each of the leaflets deals with such topic as varieties to plant, marketing practices at harvest time how to judge maturity, and ret om mended methods of picking, sort ing, grading, packing, and, finally, selling. “Too many growers make the mistake of waiting until harvest time to make their marketing plan This nearly always will cause un satisfactory results as it leaven the grower in an unfavorable position. Too much emphasis cannot be plac ed on planning for marketing o! the crop when production plans are made if good results are to be ex pected, ’’ Carter states. ASC NEWS DECEMBER IS SET FOR COTTON VOTE Cotton growers have an import ant decision to make on Tuesday, December 13, C. A. Bagwell, Chair man of the. County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Com mittee reminds farmers. jOn that day, growers will vote in a referendum to decide whether marketing quotas will be in effect for their 1956 upland cotton crop. “If at least two-thirds of the growers voting approve the quotas, Mr. Bagwell explains, "marketing quotas will be in effect on all the farms growing upland cotton in 1956, penalties will apply on ‘ex cess’ cotton, and price supports to those growers who comply wifhf their cotton acreage allotments will be available at the full level of ef fective supports. Under current leg islation, this suport will be between 75 and 90 percent of parity, the level depending upon the supply situation at the time the determi nation is made. ::If more than one-third of the growers disapprove quotas, there will be no marketing quotas or penalties, but price supports to ell gible growers <(who comply with their allotments) * will be available at 50 per cent of parity. “In either case, acreage allot ments will continue in effect for for the 1956 cotton crop.” ] The Chairman pointed out that the Secretary of Agriculture is directed to proclaim marketing quotas for the next upland cotton crop when the. cotton supply ex ceeds normal. Quotas are not put into operation, however, unless they are approved by at least two thirds of voting in a national referendum on the quest ion. All farmers who produced cot ton in 1955 are eligible to votte in the referendum. Listed below are the polling places: Bells and Vickory—Ralph Moore’s i Stotre Coal Mt. and Rolands—Grady Mar tin’s Store Chestatee and New Bridgeßl). O. Freeman’s Store Cumming and Chattahoochee—Po*- syth Countty ASC Office Barkers and Hightower—Hurt A Moore’s Store Big Creek—W. D. Buice’s Store Settendown and Ducktown—TJ. M. JGreen’s Store All polls will open promptly at 8:00 A. M. and close at 5:00 P.