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THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS-AUGUST 17, 1972 -
Local Soil Conservation Ser
' vice technicians and Joe Booth,
’ coordinator of the Chestatee-
Chattahoochee RC&D Project,
■ have planned a tour of farms
in Dawson and Forsyth Counties
• this week. Those making the
tour will be district supervisors
of the Upper Chattahoochee
River Soil and Water Conser
vation District and others in
terested in soil and water con
servation. One highlight of the
tour will be observations of
"growing corn by the no-till me
thod by Roy G. Holtzclaw and
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WAYNE HEARD, CUMMING, GA.
“Hi, Y’all Come to Our
HOT WEATHER
HOE-DOWN
ENVIRONS MOBILE HOME SALES
bos browns bridge road Gainesville, ©a.
Sat. & San. Aug. 19 &20
IN PERSON—
“LittIe Richard & The
Tempos” Saturday 2to 4 p.m.
Hear And See
DAVE HOLBROOK QUARTET
GOSPEL SINGERS
SUNDAY AUG. 20 FROM 2 TO 4 P.M.
—And—
“Neighbor Ned” Lukens
WNRS BROADCASTING LIVE
from 2 to 4 p.m. SAT. & SUN.
Prices Slashed
To Rock Bottoml
FACTORY REPRESENTATIVE WILL BE PRESENT TO ANSWER ALL YOUR QUESTIONS-
All ’72 Mobile Homes
Must Be Soldi
“( OMI AND Mi l l* A IIOMi: TOWN HOY MAKI (iOOl) "
IIIANk YOU. WAYNI 111 AKD
SCS News
Bv J.T. Coots
Ben Overstreet.
Millard Seabolt in the High
tower community is estab
lishing midland bermudagrass
on four acres of Appling sandy
loam. Runners are beginning
to form and it all looks good
at this time.
Local SCS technicians visited
the Stiner farm last week and
made some observations of land
to be planted to midland ber
mudagrass next year. The St
iners live adjacent to the Sea
bolts in the Hightower comm
unity.
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T. Kenneth Orr of the Bethel
community of Forsyth County
has been elected as a director
of the North Georgia Blueberry
Growers Association. The
headquarters of the associa
tion is Cleveland, Georgia. Th
ose in Forsyth County in
terested in securing blueberry
plants should get in touch with
T. Kenneth Orr at his home or
at the local SCS Office in Cu
mming. Your orders with the
money for the plants must be
in the hands of Orr by August
31, 1972.
BY WALTER RUCKER
County Agent
THE SOYBEAN STORY
No doubt about it—Georgia
has come a long way In soybean
production. Indications are that
growers of the state planted
approximately 750,000 acres of
“beans this year. This is up
14 percent from the record 660,-
000 acres in 1971. It hasn't been
too many years—less than ten,
In fact—when Georgia had fewer
than 100,000 acres of soybeans.
We’ve come a way in yield per
acre, too; last year it was
25.5 bushels per acre.
But would you believe we still
need more soybeans? In spite
of the 14 percent acreage in
crease in Georgia, and a 5.4
percent Increase in the na
tion as a whole, the industry
is concerned that production
will not meet market demand
this year. One thing this does
is indicate favorable prices
again for 1972, and that’s good
news for our growers.
WE USE A LOT
In 1971 Georgia produced 16,-
193,000 bushels of soybeans,
and that’s a lot of 'beans. But
Farm Population
Keeps Declining ,
WASHINGTON, D.C.... “How
are you going to keep 'em down
on the farm...” may bie an old
refrain that's playing to a new
beat today. While more food and
raw materials are now required
than ever for America’s stead
ily increasing population, there
is an apparent downward trend
in farm population. In 1971 (of
the total U.S. population) about
1 person in 22 had a farm re
sidence, reports FINANCE FA
CTS, a monthly newsletter on
consumer financial behavior p
ublished by the National Con
sumer Finance Association.
Farm population has declined
on an average of about 4.6 per
cent since 1960, says FINANCE
FACTS. From 1970 to 1071 the
re was a decrease in farm pop
ulation of 287,000.
During the 1960-1971 period,
the loss in number of farm re
sidents was significantly great
er among persons of Negro and
other races than among whites.
The average annual rate of de
cline for Negro and other races
on farms was 9.7 per cent,
compared with 3.9 per cent for
whites.
“Keeping 'em down on the fa
rm” apparently is not easy ta
sk.
(NOTE: Additional Information
may lie obtained in a copy of
"Farm Population,” May 1972,
Series P-27, No. 43, which Is
Hospital
Holds Diet
Clinics
Forsyth County Hospital Is s
ponsorlng a Free Modified Diet
Clinic that Is to be offered by
Its Dietary Consultants, Mrs. j
Judy Ford Stokes, R.D. and M- j
Iss Susan Hunter, R.D.
The clinic will be offered each 1
month on the third Monday at j
130 p.in. at the hospital. The 1 !
next clinic will be held on Aug. 1 !
21. |!
The clinic Is to provide ass-.:
Istance on the following diets:!|
I)ial>etlc, Ulcer, Salt Re-;
stricted, Cardiovascular, Wei
ght Reduction, etc. Mrs. Stokes
and Miss Hunter have Initiated
tliese clinics In other counties,
and the clinics have l*en of
great l>eneflt to the citizens of
Its communities.
we use a lot of them, too—
just for chicken feed. In fact,
you might be surprised at how
many it does take to feed Geor
gia chickens, along with our
turkeys and other poultry. I
was, when I looked at some fi
gures one of our Extension
poultry scientists, Milton Den
dy, dug up.
According to him, it takes
over 30 million bushels to pro
vide the soybean meal needed
to feed Georgia poultry for one
year. That is nearly twice the
entire soybean production in
our state.
Dendy figures that Georgia
broilers eat 18 1/2 million bu
shels of soybeans a year. Lay
ing hens consume nearly 9 mi
llion bushels, and replacement
pullets use close to 2 million.
Turkeys require about three
fourths million bushels a year.
Of course, soybeans are one
of the most important ingredie
nts in a poultry ration. Only
corn is used more. A typical
broiler ration, for example,
is approximately 25 percent
soybean meal. For laying hens,
soybeans make up about 15 per
cent of the ration, and for
turkeys, about 20 percent.
available for 15? by writing the
Superintendent of Documents,
U.S. Government Printing Off
ice, Washington, D.C. 20402.)
FOR BACK TO SCHOOL
We're pulling out all the
stops to bring you a
not-to-be-missed opportunity
to purchase the latest in
clothes and appliances.
Store
Hours
Monday
Friday 9 to 6
OWNKI) \NI> OPERATED BY NEIL CLACK
P.O. BOX 060 048 Atlanta Rd. Gumming, oa. R.Q; .*
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Monday night, Aug. 7, Boy
Scout Troop 39 held a Court
of Honor in the Fellowship H
all of the Cumming United M
ethodlst Church.
A Court of Honor is a cere
mony in which an individual
Scout’s advancement is recog
nized.
The Scout Is called up to
be presented with a patch or
emblem of whatever rank, me
rit badge or special award he
has earned.
In charge of the ceremony
was the Rev. Bob Bowling, C
hairman of the Scout Com
mittee.
Also present from the Scout
Committee were Dr. Bob Du
nn, Joe Brooks and Adrian F
owler.
Scoutmaster, Dick DeWitt,
and Assistant Scoutmaster, J
im Songer, were there, too.
The first rank a boy earns
as a Scout is Tenderfoot. The
boys receiving the rank of T
enderfoot were Benny Knight,
Scott Thorton, David Garner,
Mike Waters, Phillip Hamby
and Mike Nichols.
Second Class is the next rank
a boy earns - In the Scouting
program. Scouts receiving this
rank were Steve Turner, Joe T
horton and Johnny Amos.
First Class is the third rung
in the ladder of advancement
to Eagle Scout. Those receiving
First Class were Matthew So
nger and Tommy Parrish.
When called up to receive
their rank, the boys were told
to bring their mothers with
them. The Mother pinned a pin
of the rank her son had earned,
and in turn the Scout pinned his
Mother with a miniature of his
pin.
Next comes a different kind
of advancement, merit badges.
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Troop 39 Holds
Court Of Honor
By Matthew Songer
To earn a mein uauge a boy
must be proficient in the sub
ject in which he is seeking a
merit badge. Instead of working
with his Scoutmaster or Assi
stant Scoutmaster to earn a m
erit badge, a Scout works with
a Merit Badge Counselor. The
counselor is a person who is
usually involved in the field in
which the Scout is working. To
get his merit badge the Scout
must present satisfactory evi
dence to his counselor that he
has met all the requirements
for that particular merit badge.
The boys receiving merit b
adges were Tommy Parrish,
swimming; Lendon Gunter, swi
mming; Jeffery ScuUy, fishing;
Steve Mays, reading; Mark De-
Witt, reading; Indian lore, A
rchitecture and coin collecting;
and Matthew Songer, camping,
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“ Lamar Orr
"The most important thing we'H
do today is fill your prescription!"
Lanierland Drugs
108 NORTH MAIN ST. CUMMING, GA.
887-7771
FOR REASONABLE RATES IN ADVERTISING,
CALL THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS 887-3127
You can shop
Sears Catalogs
from the 887-2390
first aid, music, reading and
gardening.
Some of the people working
with the Scouts as Merit Ba
dge Counselors are; Steve B
ennett, swimming and life
saving; Mrs. Gladys Barrett,
Indian lore; Quincy Holton, f
iremanship; Dr. Bob Dunn, F
irst aid and personal fitness;
Joe Brooks, gardening; Adrian
Fowler, fishing; Jim Scully, fi
shing; Mrs. Jean Potts, reading;
Jim Songer, electronics and el
ectricity; Tony Maddox, Journa
lism; Lon Turner, music; Ed
Otwell, camping; Mrs. Betty B
enson, citizenship in the comm
unity, citizenship in the nation,
citizenship in the home and w
orld brotherhood; Dick DeWitt,
aviation; Sam Martin and Ed
Wright, forestry; ana Richard
Runge, architecture.
Saturday
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