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Volume 47. Tests Compare Fertilizer Use On Two Bermudas Ability of Coastal Bermuda grass to make significantly better use of fertilizer than common Bermuda in the Piedmont area was emphasized this week in a report of preliminary results of a com parative study of the fertilizer re quirements of the two Bermuda grasses. The study is being con ducted at the U. S. Department of Agriculture’s Southern Piedmont Experiment Station §t Watkinsville. While results of only one year are available, Agronomists W'. E. Adams of the Agricultural Re search Service and Dr. Mathias Stelly of the College Experiment Station said that the response of Coastal and common Bermudas to various rates of fertilizer has prac tical significance to forage and pasture farmers in the Piedmont. Earlier, the agronomists pointed out that Coastal out yielded com mon by about 80 percent in these 1955 tests. When no fertilizer was applied to a Cecil sandy loam, the total yields of Coastal and common Bermuda following Crimson clover were 2.30 and 1.32 tons of dry for age per acre respectively. When 200 pounds of nitrogen and 800 pounds of 0-12-12 fertilizer were ap plied per acre, the respective yields were 5.51 and 331 tons of forage per acre, the agronomist said. When 400 pounds of nitrogen and 1,600 pounds of 0-12-12 were ap plied per acre, the respective yields became 7.14 and 3.81 tons per acre. Adams and Stelly noted that doubl ing the fertilizer to the highest rate increased the forage yield of common Bermuda by only one-half ton, but the Coastal yielded an ad ditional 1.63 tons of forage due to the extra fertilizer. Similar results were obtained when Coastal and common Ber muda were not preceded by Crim son clover, they added. When 50 pounds of nitrogen with 400 pounds of 0-12-12, and 200 pounds of nitrogen with 400 pounds of 0-12-12 were used, an increase of seven-tenths of a ton was ob tained with both Coastal and com mon, they continued. However, when 200 pounds of nitrogen with 800 pounds of 0-12-12 were used, the common gave no increase due to nitrogen above the 200 pound treatment, while the Coastal gave an additional one-half ton increase due to the extra nitrogen. The agronomist said that, on the Piedmont area soil, it appears that in order to obtain the greatest ef ficiency of the nitrogen used, phos phorus and potassium must be ap plied. Generally, the increases in yield due to the addition of a given amount of phosphorus and pot assium was almost twice as great with Coastal as with common at the highest rates of nitrogen fer tilization. When an application of no 0-12-12 with 400 pounds of nitro gen was compared to one of 1,600 pounds of 0-12-12 with 400 pounds of nitrogen, the increase in yields due to the 012-12 were nine-tenths of a ton for the common and 1.90 tons for the Coastal, they ex plained. When only 50 pounds of nitrogen were used, the increase due to 0-12-12 were about the same The agronomist said another ex periment in which Coastal Ber muda only was used with 64 dif ferent fertilizer treatments sup ported these findings. They said that on the basis of these prelimi nary results, Coastal significantly outyields common Bermuda in the Piedmont area and that approxi mately 200 pounds of nitrogen, 50 pounds of phosphorus and 50 pounds of potassium are good treatments for Coastal. They em phasized the need for a soil test to determine accurate fertilization recommendations for a particular farm. CHICKEN SUPPER Pleasant View Sunday School is sponsoring a Chicken Supper in the lunchroom of Cumming Gram mar School on May 26, 1956. Serv ing from 5:30 to 9:00 p. m. Adult Plates sl-00 —Child’s Plate $.50. Tickets may be purchased at the door. Benefits will be used for furnishing new Sunday School Rooms. The Forsyth County News OFFICIAL ORG AN OF FORSYTH COUNTY & CITY OF CUMMING DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CIIEKQ KEE. DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES. (City Population 2,500) Sen. Walter George To Be Honored At Poultry Festival Sat., May 19 The Dean of the American Sen ate, Georgia's Senator Walter Georg, will be honored at the Fourth Annual Georgia Poultry Festival in Gainesville, May 19. National political figures, lead by Georgia’s Junior Senator Richard Russell, will fly to Gainesville on that day to euologize Georgia’s leading statesman. These national figures are expected to ride in the “Poultry Parade Progress,” which will wind its way through down town Gainesville beginning at 10:30. Over forty creatively designed floats will be featured in the pa rade. The floats are being built by A. Wolf Davidson, Art Director of Bureau College, and Charlie Black wood, head of the Art Department of Furman University. In addition, fifteen outstanding bands and marching units along with clowns and other comic characters will al so participate in the honoring of Senator George. The celebration was originally scheduled by the Georgia Poultry Federation as its annual festival affair, with Senator George as honored guest and the late former Vice President Alben Barkley as principal speaker. The event is ex pected to draw thousands. The crowds will pay tribute to the stately Senator for his past service to the state and nation and wish him well in his future service to the world. Entries of floats in the gigantic parade have been made by: Ala bama Flour Mills, Decatur, Ala bama; Anderson Box Company, Indianapolis, Ind.; Athens Milling Company, Athens, Ga.; Automatic Poultry Feeder Company, Zeeland, Michigan; Athens Poultry Com pany, Athens, Ga.; Banks of Gaines ville; Bolton Broiler Company, Commerce, Ga.; Chamber of Com merce, Gainesville; Flowers Bakery, Gainesville. Cotton Producers Association, At lanta, Ga; Dalton Poultry Co., Dal ton, Ga.; Dixieland Hatcheries, Inc., Gainesville; Fair-Acre Feeds, Roa noke, Va.; Georgia Broilers, Inc., Gainesville; M. C. Gainesville; J. D. Jewell, Inc., Gainesville; Jackson R. E. A., Jefferson, Go. Indian River, Lancaster, Pa.; McMillen Feed Mills, Fort Wayne, Ind.; Marell Farms, Inc., Gaines ville; Marshall Laboratories, Inc., Hamden, Conn.; Merck and Com pany, Inc., Rahway, N. J.; Pills bury Mills, Inc., Clinton, Iowa; Poultry Federation of Georgia; Poultry Enterprises, Inc., Gaines ville. Press Radio, Gainesville; The Quaker Oats Co., Chattanooga, Tenn,; Ralston Purina Company, Atlanta; Springle Lumber Co., Gainesville; Allied Mills, Gaines ville, Colonial Stores, Gainesville. The bands and marching units in the parade include: Gainesville High School Band, Fair Street Band, Riverside Military Band, all of Gainesville; North Georgia Col lege Band and North Georgia Col lege Marching Unit, Dahlonega; Shrine Orential Band and Shrine Horse Brigade, Atlanta; Monroe Drum and Bugle Corps, Monroe, Ga.; Canton Band, Canton; Bowden Band, Bowden; Navy Float; Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, Brownie Scouts Girl Scouts, all of Gainesville; Gainesville Fryers, Inc., and Blue Bird Body Truck Company of Ft. Valley. Also an Air Force Jet Fighter plane flyover. REAL ESTATE LICENSE LAW APPLICABLE TO ALL COUNTIES The real estate license law is now applicable to all counties in Georgia effective April 1, 1956. The law provides far the regulation and licensing of real estate brokers and salesmen and seeks to establish a standard of efficiency. The law has had years of testing an dthe stand ards in the profession have advan ced and the law has been helpful in bringing about this advancement The general purpose of the law is that the public and the brokers and salesmen shall be protected. It is now unlawful to operate as a real estate broker or salesman without obtaining a license under Code Section 84-1401. Cumming Georgia, Thursday, May 17, 1956. Soil Conservation District News mm A. Mmm JAMES T. COOTS SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE Crayton J. Lankford Joins Soil Conservation Service in Forsyth County. The Forsyth County Work Unit of the Soil Conservation Service has added Crayton J. Lankford to its staff here. Mr. Lankford comes to Forsyth County from Cendartown, Georgia where he was assistant to D. G. Williams, Work Unit Conservat ionist. Mr. Lankford was raised on a farm in Hart County Georgia and then attended the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia gradu ating in the class of 1950. After spending two years in the United States Army as an instructor in the Quartermaster Corp, he worked with the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission for one year and with the Universal Credit Corporation for one year before he was employed by the Soil Con servation Service in Polk County Georgia in November of 1934. The Soil Conservation Service of Forsyth County and the City of Cumming welcome Mr. and Mrs. Lankford and their two sons, Cray ton, Jr., and Mark Neal. Mrs. Lank ford was the former Virginia Lit tle of Carnesville and Athens. Mr. and Mrs. Lankford are members of the Presbyterian Church. With Y our County Agent Walter H. Rucker If you dislike the job of chop ping cotton —as most folks do— then you will be interested in pre emergence weed control for cotton, a relatively new practie for Geor gia farmers. Chloro IPC has been the most satisfactory material used so far in pre-emergence control of weeds in cotton. If properly used, Chloro IPC will control annual weeds for four to six weeks after planting. In using Chloro IPC, cotton can be planted with a conventional type planted equipped with a roller be hind to break up the clods and leave a smooth bed. The spray is then applied directly behind the planter in the same operation. The material should not reach depths greater than one-half inch. Other wise, damage, to the cotton seed may result. After planting, the middles can be plowed but the tow should not be disturbed nor should fresh dirt be allowed to fall on the- row while plowing the middles. If sprayed in 12-inch bands dir ectly over the seed and in 36-inch rows, a three pound application will be enough to control annual weeds. For complete ground cov erage, requirements will be appro ximately three times that amount. Manufacturers recommendations should be followed in mixing and applying. The use of pre-emergence weed control measures in cotton will ne cessitate that the seed be planted with a dropper, using the correct amount of seed. Since the row can not. be disturbed during the control period, thinning cannot be done satisfactorily. The seed should be dropped six to eight per hill in hills 12 to 14 inches apart and covered one to one and a half inches deep. After the end of the chemical I control period, complete cultivation should be practiced until lay-by time. CUMMING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT The public is cordially invited to i attend the Promotion Exercise of 1 the Cumming Elementary School to be held in the Gymnasium Thurs day night, May 24, 1956 at 8 o'clock Today & Tomorrow Louie D. Newton ENDURING DIVIDENDS Georgia is bound, I fully believe, to collect enduring dividends on one of the most attractive and ag gressive spots in this or any other state. I refer to the State 4-H Cen ter at Rock Eagle, a few miles from Eatonton. The property was held by the Federal Government for sometime, and some five years ago it was turned over to the University of Georgia for its Extension Depart ment, specifically as a state center for 4-H work. A Foundation was established, through which many individuals and organizations and corporations have made contribut ions in the development of a three million dollar installation. Down there last week for three days, I marvelled everywhere I went about the fourteen-hundred acre reservation. The natural set ting is excellent—rolling hills, well timbered with pine and hard woods and a lake covering 110’ acres in the very heart of the tract. The buildings are well designed and constructed. A central kitchen and dining hall provides for 1,200 people, and an auditorium of the same capacity is nearby. Across the road is a charming little Chap el, given by the City of Eatonton,’ its spire serving as symbol of the spiritual overtone of the entire pro gram at Rock Eagle. Some 58 cottages, with accom modations for 18 persons per cot tage, provide comfortable and plea sant living quarters for the thous ands of 4-H boys and girls who annually spend a week at Rock Eagle. Everything is beamed to ward the boys and girls. This State 4H Center at Rock Eagle is something we can be just ly proud of. It is a cooperative effort on the part of the state and of many individuals and organiza tions to build men and women of character and intelligence. It will yield enduring dividends through all the years to come. I am glad to see the announcement that a State 4-H Center for Negro boys and girls will be built near Dublin. Lamb Sales Begin May 28 In Georgia Spring lamb sales will be held in six Georgia cities beginning Monday, May 28, R. O. Williams, Extension animal husbandman at the University of Georgia College of Agriculture, announced this week. The May 28 sale will be in Ca milla at the Mitchell County Live stock Co. It will be followed with one on Tuesday, May 29, in Cor dele at the Cordele Livestock Com mission Co., and another on Wed nesday, May 30, at the Swains boro Stockyard in Swainsboro. Others are scheduled for Friday, June 1, at Ragsdale McClure Com mission Co., Atlanta; Monday, June 4, at the Northeast Georgia Live stock Auction, Inc., Athens, and Friday, June 8, at Coosa Valley Commission Co., Rome. Sheep Specialist Denis C. De loach and Livestock Marketing Specialist Harold V. Clum explain ed that there will be a sale in each Agricultural Extension Service dis trict. They added, however, that sheepmen can sell lambs at the place of their choice. It was pointed out that there will be no other organized lamb sales in Georgia this spring, and farmers were urged to sell their animals at the scheduled events. Each sale will begin at 3 p. m. Upon arrival at the sale barns, lambs will be graded, weighed, and given a three percent shrink Wil liams said they will be cooperat ively pooled in graded lots and sold at auction after they have been processed. COMMUNION SERVICE Sunday, May 20th will be an all ; day service at Cross Roads Church, ;it will be our regular communion \ day. You are invited to enjoy the fellowship service. A cordial invi tation is extended to each and everyone. County Population 15,000. Number 20. ROME STUDIES NEW ORDINANCES ’ ROME, Ga., May 9 The Rome City Commission gave first, reading to separate ordinances prohibiting loitering by persons under 21 and barring persons under 17 from play ing pinball and similar machines. The ordinances were introduced by H. A. Braden who headed a special committee on juvenile de linquency. A recent Floyd County Grand Jury recommended adoption of j such ordinances as an investigation i might justify. The jury specifically suggested a teen-age curfew. While not an outright curlew, the proposed ordinances authorize police to make arrests after warn ing individuals or groups after 11 p. m. College Park and Fulton County also have something similar to the Ordinance passed by the City of Cumming some months ago. HOW IMPORTANT ARE YOU? No one liveth to himself and no one dieth to himself. One wonders why the Almighty does not rely on his own unfailing powers of might or miracles rather than on the frailties of humanity. But he has chosen us as his instruments. He will not work without us, though we are vessels of clay. God is count ing on you! Jesus has something to say about your importance. He said,, "What shall it profit a man if he gained the whole world and lose his own soul or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul.” Your soul is far more important than all the wealth of all the world With # pro per relationship between the crea ture and the Creator you can be come a great power for good. Every follower of Christ has a very definite task of representing him on earth and winning others to the Saviour. If we fail in this, we fail in the purpose for which God gave us life. We are not to crawl up in our little shell and hold ourselves aloof from others. Jesus said, “Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glori fy your Father which is in heaven.’ For what are we living? to glorify our F'ather which is in heaven. How can we glorify our Father which is in heaven? by carrying the reflected light of the Son of God to others. According to The Hightower As sociation Minutes the average gifts through the churches to all pur pose representing the Cause of Christ was $2.00 per member per year. Is that all the Cause of Christ means to the Christians who are members of the churches of the Hightower Association? We are saved to serve not just to sit down and do nothing. When Paul was converted he asked, “What wilt thou have me do?” He spent the remainder of his life in doing what God wanted him to do? “He said, toward the end of life, “For me to live is Christ and to die is gain.” We have inescapable relations with our fel lowman What are you doing about it? The great Commission is for you and me and every other Christian to obey because of our love for Jesus. Every individual is important in the sight of God. W. R. Callaway Singing Notice Everyone has a special invitation to attend the annual Home Coming Singing at Shady Grove Church Sunday, May 20th. A lot of good singers have promised to be with us. All singers and everyone else come and help make this a won derful day. There will be plenty of lunch for everyone. Fay Martin Pres. Broughton Wallace, Vice-Pres. FELLOWSHIP MEETING There will be a Fellowship meet ing at Cross Roads Baptist church Saturday night May 19. Everyone is invited to attend. Water Use Group Recommendations Cited By Murray The Georgia Water Use and Conservation Association, which made its initial report last week, has requested that the data, sug gestions, and recommendations in it be considered by the Georgia Water Law Revision Commission and the General Assembly. The study covered two years and included the historical, physical, and legal aspects of water prob lems in the state. “We have de veloped a broad understanding of the fundamental questions involved, and have brought together for the first time many pertient data,” said R. D. Tisinger, Carrollton, former chairman of the Association. In Athens, Dr. C. C. Murray, chairman of the group’s Informa tion and Education subcommittee, and dean and coordinator of the University of Georgia College of Agriculture, said success in mod ernizing water laws depends very largely on the understanding and confidence of the people generally. For that reason, he continued the Association is making every effort to inform the public of present and potential problems and exist ing conditions before attempts are made to draft and enact new legis lation. Calling attention to some of the conclusions reached by the two year study, Dr. Murray said annual rainfall in the state averages 50 inches or better However, this I often is not adequate in many areas at certain seasons. It was pointed out that droughts and periods of low rainfall occur each year. The Association’s report. "Water in Georgia,” cites 1954, when the rainfall was only 31 inches, farmers lost slrto million in drought damages. 18 Georgia cities lacked water, industries were handi capped, and thousands of individ uals hauled water to keep their families and their stock alive. Similar conditions exist to a lesser extent somewhere in Georgia last year. The Water Use and Conservation Association, which includes repre sentatives of all water-using in terests in Georgia, believe the remedies include: (1) maximum conservation and wise utilization of water throughout the state; (2) balancing supply and demand for water within and between physical areas of the state, insofar as prac ticable, and this may involve in terstate streams, and (3) an ad justment and modernization of ex isting water laws to more ade quately meet present needs and fu ture trends. Dr. Murray said he would dis cuss next week the Association’s six recommendations for getting these remedies applied. —r TO THE PEOPLE OF FORSYTH COUNTY Due to requests from hundreds of my friends in Forsyth County, I am considering very seriously of being a Candidate for State Sena tor in the September Primary. My decision in this matter will appear in the Forsyth County News at a later date. Respectfully, A. R. HOUSLEY. ! IMPORTANT NOTICE Cecil P. Nelson, Field Deputy of the Georgia Department of Labor, ; will be at the Courthouse in Cum ! ming Georgia from 8:30 a. m. to 11:00 a. m. on May 25, 1956 to dis cuss with employers the amend ment to the Employment Security Law, which brings under the law employers who employ four or more workers. The law became ef fective January 1, this year. Commissioner of Labor Ben T. Huiet said the Field Deputy was being sent to Cumming, not only to assist employers of four or more workers in respect to the amended law, but to furnish any other in formation to the Employment Se curity Program. Georgia leads the nation in re forestation with more than 100 mil lion seedings planted each year, j says C. Dorsey Dyer, Agricultural Extension Service forester.