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Camming, Georgia
THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS
ESTABLISHED 1908
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Hall and Qwinnett Counties
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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY
AND CITY OF CUMMING
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A CRASH CANCER PROGRAM
Arthur Godfrey and Senator Richard L. Neu
herger recently appealed for a “crash”' pro
gram in the fight against cancer, before a Sen
ate subcommittee. Both suggested that the crash
program be inaugurated in honor of the late
John Foster Dulles, who was a victim of that
disease.
A rash program on cancer, as suggested,
would be in order, and it is interesting to note
that the chairman of the sub-committee, Sena
io Lister Hill, Democrat-Alabama welcomed the
idea when it was suggested before his committee
Cancer, of course, is not the greatest scourge
on Lhe health scene. However, it strikes with
such rapidity, and so often among those who
have just attained a high degree of value and
training, that it robs the nation of many highly
gifted and needed men and women. The same
is true about heart disease.
Mental disease, which exacts the biggest toll
of all in the United States, is certainly worthy of
everyone’s attention, although readjustment and
cure of this widespread disease has registered
more progress in recent years than efforts to
control or cure cancer.
Ih-esident Eisenhower has asked for some
$75,000,000 during the next fiscal year for the
Cancer Institute, which is operated by the Nat
ional Institute of Health. The House of Repre
sentatives increased this amount by some SB,-
000,000 and the suggestions mentioned above,
in this editorial, would add many millions in
addition io ra “crash’ 1 ’ program on cancer.
Even considering the fact that the budget is
tight, that there are other diseases which are
equally as costly, or more, than cancer, and ad
mitting the fact that progress cannot be ‘bought’
by money, we think the crash program on can
cer is a good idea, and should be adopted.
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The Forsyth County News
WITH YOUR
COUNTY AGENT
Waller 11. Rucker
F A R M CENSUS
The U. S. Bureau of the Census,
Department of Commerce, urges
farm operators to maintain accu
rate records of farm operations
throughout this year.
In October and Novembber the
1959 Census, of Agriculture will be
conducted nationwide. It is from
the farmcensus, conducted every
five years, that data is taken to
form the basis for programs of the
U. S. Department of Agriculture,
Congressional farm legislation,
farm organization policies, farm
programs established an dadminis
tered b State Departments of Agri
culture, and man other services
provided by colleges, business
firms, manufacturers, publishers
and broadcasters.
Two weeks before the farm cen
sus begins, questionnaires will be
mailed put to farmers by the Cen
sus Bureau. Farm operators wilt
be asked to complete the forms ac
curately and promptly. By main
taining farm records on all phases
of farm operations throughout the
year, farmers and their families
will be prepared to provide ac
curate and complete information in
minimum time, enabling Census
Bureau Dersonnel to process and
publish this up to date farm data
without delay.
NUTRIENTS FOR VEGETABLES
Rainfall takes away plant nu
trients that have .been placed in
the soil as fertilizer. Vegetable
crops require more fertilizer than
many other field crops. Vegetables
need the nutrients the entire time
the plants are growing and fruiting
An extra application of fertilizer
will insure an adequate supply to
carry the vegetables to maturity
and a yield of high quality fruit.
With the excess rainfall in many
parts of Georgia, it would be well
to fertilize the vegetable crops that
are fruiting or soon will be.
A. S. C. NEWS
Payments under the 1958 wool
incentive payments program will
be made this summer, according to
C. A. Bagwell, Chairman, Forsyth
County Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation Committee.
Under the incentive payment pro
gram, payments on shorn wool are
made at a percentage rate which
will bring the national averge price
received by all growers for wool
sold during the 1958-59 markkting
year up to the announced 62 cent
per pound incentive level. The 1958
program percentage payment rate
is expected to be announced some
time this month, when the 1958
average price can be determined.
Average prices for shorn wool
for the first 10 months of the sea
son were about one-third below the
1957 season average of 53.7 cents.
Since the program's incentive level
of 62 cents per pound was the
same for both seasons, total pay
ments under the 1958 program mav
exceed $75 million compared with
sl6 million in 1957.
On the basis of sales already
made, indications are that prices
received for wool sold during the
1959 marketing season will be sub
stantially above 1958.
JERSEY FIELD DAY
SET FOR JULY Ist AT
EWING’S FARM
A Jersey Picmc-Fie'd Day, spon
sored bv the Ge~ngi> Cattle
Club, wilt be he’d at th farm of
A. C. Ewine ar 1 Sons in Newton
county on July 1 .
Wi'lis L. Jono * *’’''"■3 president
of the Georgia Jersev Cattle Club,
announced this week that the Field
Day program will bosun at 10:30
a. m. and adiourn at 2 p. m. It
will he conducted bv dairvmon of
the University of Georgia College
of Agriculture Extension Service.
All interested dairymen are in
vited to attend with their frm i l’ r, s
and friends. Jones said that tru'it
' and ice cream will be nrov'd’d
but each family should bring its
own picnic lunch.
The Ewing farm is located off a
dirt road about eight miles south
east of Covington. * -'-ess from Cov
ington is bv wav of the intersection
of Highwavs 12 —> ’ '42. (Take
highway 12 toward Hub Junction,
go three miles and turn right on
142. go three miles and turn rigb 1 -
at Russell Store, then go one and
a half miles on dirt road to Ewing
farm.)
Fifteen percent of the families
in the U. S. receive an annual in
come of less than 52.000 a year,
reports Miss Hilda Dailey, home
management specialist. Agricultur
al Extension Service.
NOTESJ^
Ranger, Edward 1.. W'riglit
Clear cutting of land destroys
the homes of wildlife and the pro
tection of watersheds, which keep
lakes clear and offer shade not on
ly for the fish, but the fishman as
well. In the past, when timbber
was cut from land, few people
gave thought to rehabilitation of
wildlife —where they would go, or
what they might eat or use for
cover. After the Cutting was com
pleted, wildfires were permitted to
run rampant through what was
left of the forest, burning the new
growth up. When this occured. the
animals left their homes and they
sought greener pastures. Instead of
one loser, there are two when we
have fires, the landowner and the
wildlife.
Two things are essential if wild
life is to be kept in the woods.
First, woods that are well man
aged, where there is plenty of food
and shelter for the animals, must
be provided. Replanting barren
, acres, and improving poorly stock
ed areas will help. And second, the
woods must be kept free of fires.
Malicious burning of the woods
"must be stopped and every precau
tion against careless burning must
he taken. Fish, like wildlife, are
[ particular about where they live,
i Woods fires affect fish in the
streams. Burned materials are
, washed into streams by rains, con
taminating the water, killing many
fish.
CLAYTON COUNTY FARMERS
FIND PLANNING PAY'S
The grazing system and feed pro
duction program of the Adamson
Brothers in Clayton county is a
good example of the importance of
basic planning, according to J, R.
Johnson, Extension Service agro
nomy project leader of the Univer
sity of Georgia College of Agricul
ture.
The Adamson farm, which has
about 100 dairy animals, was recent
ly selected by judges in the Geor
gia Grazing System and Feed Pro
duction program as having one of
the best programs in the North
west Extension district.
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For summer permanent pasture,
the Adamsons have 74 acres of
well-fertilized common Bermuda
and Dallis grass along with five
acres of Coastal Bermuda. Twenty
five acres ech of Starr and Brown
top millet provide supplemental
summer grazing. The millet, Mr.
Johnson said, is fertilized with 400
pounds of 4—12—12 and 50 pounds
of actual nitrogen per acre.
For winter grazing, these broth
ers plant 100 acres of oats, rye
grass and crimson clover, applying
400 pounds of 4—l2 —12 and 65
pounds of nitrogen per acre. All
land has received at least one ton
of lime per acre. The Adamsons
provide one acre of summer pas
ture and one acre of winter pas
ture for each mature cow or equi
valent.
According to Mr. Johnson, Geor
gia needs an abundance of forage
JEWELRY
CLEARANCE
SALE
SAVE
60 %
GEM JEWELED CO.
Cumming, Ga.
Thursday, June 25, 1959.
production. “This,’ he said, “is tho
avenue open for expansion in the
state’s agriculture.” More idle land,
according to Mr. Johnson, should
be devoted to pasture. Hepointed
out that pasture give economical
production when well limed and
fertilized and efficient plants are
used.
WAFFLE TOAST
Mrs. Mana Taylor, nutritionist,
Agricultural Extension Service, of
fers this suggestion for making un
usual and delicious toast. Remove
crusts from slices of bread, butter
slices lightly on both sides, and
toast in hot waffle iron. The “waf
fle” toast is good served with
creamed dishes such as chicken,
peas or salmon poured over it.
May traffic sets record for Pana
ma Canal.