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THE BUTLER HERALD. BUTLER, GEORGIA. JUNE 2, 1949.
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Columbus, Ga.
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Monday through Saturday
All Summer Long
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BUTLER, GEORGIA
Taylor County Farmers Co-op.
Want to Buy
EGGS
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foiTsale
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Hardware
Sweeps
Nails
Hoes
Wornout, Washed Away
Farm Land Converted
Into Beautiful Pasture
By Susan My rick
In The Macon Telegraph
Some 500 acres of eroded land,
worn out with long years of row
cropping, with no rotation, and
with furrows running up and down
hill so that gullies grew and top
soil washed away; those acres, now
are green with growing fescue,
Bermuda, clovers and small grain.
Underbrush that had crept forward
onto the patches of cultivated land
has been cleared, for the most part
bulldozers have filled gullies, re
moved small trees; white-faced
cattle, pure-bred, wander over the
luxurious grasses.
“The grass was taking the place
bo I fertilized it and fenced it in,”
said R. L. Swearingen, who bought
the farm little more than a year
ago. The land lies near Reynolds,
where Swearingen has his automo
bile business, and where he lives
with his wife and two children.
Some people think he is spend
ing money “mighty fast” on his
land, said Swearingen, but “I’ll get
it back; if I don’t, my boy will.”
Robert Lee Jr. loves the land as
does his father, follows him around
the farm, has joined a 4-H Club
group, has his own Polled Here-
fords, can point to the visitor “my I
own cattle.” |
Soil Conservation Technician M. (
P. Dean made a plan for the farm,
had soil samples taken, and made
recommendations about land use.
Through the valleys that lie be
tween hills on the farm Kentucky
31 fescue is lush and fine. It was
planted last fall, seeded at the rate I
of 10 pounds of fescue and three I
pounds of Ladino clover to the |
acre.
One field of 10 acres is growing
Bermuda and rye grass and Kobe
lespbdeza. Last week, Swearingen
was applying a top dressing, 300
pounds per acre, of a mixture of
100 pounds soda, 100 pounds 50
per cent potash and 100 pounds
acid.
“I spent all my life trying to
kill grass,” said one of Swearim
gen’s neighbors, “and here you are
putting goood old soda on it. Beats
me!”
But Swearingen is convinced that
plenty of fertilizer on pastures
makes the pastures pay off in ex
tra pounds on fat cattle.
“No use to plant fescue if you
are not going to fertilize it,” he
said.
All the pastures have been limed
a ton to the acre, and phosphate
at the rate of 800 pounds to the
acre has been applied.
Swearingen has 100 acres in oats
crimson clover and vetch, but dur
ing the wet spring days has not
grazed it; the fescue, with its thick
turf is not cut by the hooves of the
animals, he said.
Last week, the bulldozer was
clearing an additional 35 acres oi
land, which is hilly and rough.
Swearingen plans to plant the steep
places in kudzu or sericea; SCS
Technician Dean is advising kudzu
to hold the water and provide graz
ing when hot, dry August and Sep
tember days make grazing almost
impossible.
Swearingen is building a house
for the farm machinery and re
working the old feed shed on the
place. He has equipped the tenant
house with electricity and put on a
coat of white paint. Electric
pumps and wells provide water for
the 225 head of cattle, in such
MADE-IN-GEORGIA EXPOSITION" TO
BE FEATURE OF 1949 FAIR
GEORGIA INDUSTRY WILL VIE WITH AGRICULTURE AND LIVESTOCK FOR HIGH HONORS AT THE
1919 SOUTHEASTERN FAIR and M ADE-IN-GEOKGIA EXPOSITION Septembei 30th, through Oct. 9th--
all types of leading manufacturers in Georgia will be invited to participate exhibiting their products at the
Exposition. Attending a luncheon in Atlanta were,, left to right—Chas. S. Dudley, Executive Vice President
of Associated Industries of Georgia; Lambdin Kay, Secretary A.I.G.; Michael Weidl, Director Exhibits
MADE-IN-GEORGIA exposition; Mike Benton, President S.E.F., and Col. Richard C. Job, member Fair Board
and Supervisor of exhibits at the Fair.
velopments have been effected
here within the past few years.
The “Made-in-Georgia Exposi
tion” is designed to encourage and
give impetus to the development of
industry in the State, as well as
' ATLANTA, Ga.—The “Made-in-
Georgia Exposition” will be held
in connection with the 1948 Great
Southeastern Fair in Atlanta, Sep
tember 30 through October 8. This
announcement was made by Mr.
Benton, President of the to lend assi. tr.nee in the advance-
Mike
Southeastern Fair, following a
meeting of Fair officials and busi
ness leaders last week in Atlanta.
The Associated Industries of
Georgia will sponsor the “Made-in
ment of already established manu-
staged at night, featuring county-
officials and county school bands.
The night parade has been sched
uled to accommodate worktug
people who have previously been
unable to witness the daytime
spectacle. The double-barrel pa
rade will set the stage for the 10-
facturing plants; to acquaint the day program which opens Septem-
trade and the people of Georgia her 30.
with the industrial progress and Many of the agricultural and
developments within their own livestock exhibits, including the
Georgia Exposition,” and hold its! state. Further, the "Made-in-Geor- National Livestock and Poultry
Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Octo- 1 gia Exposition” will assist Georgia shows will return during the 1949
he- f] and 7 during the time of the ! manufacturers in marketing theii j show, and the 4-H, FFA and FHA
F ur with the Ansley Hotel as goods and help to develop interest , exhibits will retain their priority
theil ’ headquarters i in Georgia-Made products. j on the list of exhibits also.
\ number of AIG members have! In addition to the “Made-in-1 Plans are now being formulated
already indicated that their com-! Georgia Exposition”, the' Great j for staging the Southern States
panies will have outstanding ex-1 Southeastern Fair will be com- Dahlia Show at the opening of the
liibits of food products, marble,! prised of numerous other features,
stone and brick; textile and che- 1 according to Mr. Mike Benton. The
nille items paper products, metal Fair’s name Is going to be differ-
goods and a cross-section of Geor-1 ent, and the format of the entire j meeting included; Ivan Allen,
gin's diversified manufactured 1 Fair is going to be different. The . Chairman of the Board of the Fair
"redacts I name “Great Southeastern Fair” Association; Allen Clapp, members
Michael F Weidl has been lias been adopted to replaeg the, of the Board of Directors, Atlanta
amed ' to direct the “Made-in- title Southeastern World’s Fair, j Chamber of Commerce; Charles S.
which has been used for a number Dudley, Executive Vice-President
of years. And, as an added attrac- of the AIG; T. M. Forbes, Execu
tion, there will be not one—but
TWO — Giant Balloon Parades on
S. E. Fair, Sept. 39 Oct. 2. ' ’
In addition to Mr. Benton, others
attending the Fair Association
named
Georgia Exposition”.
This Exposition will feature
Georgia-Made products, giving a
closc-up view of the diversified
manufacturing which now thrives Thursday, Sept. 29. One will be
in the State. It will show Geor- j staged in the afternoon, featuring
gians, as well as the rest of the officials of the City and bands from
country, what manufacturing de-]City schools. Another will be i Lambdin Kay, of AIG.
tive Vice-President of tho Cotton
Manufacturers Assn, of Georgia:
Michael F. Wiedl, director of tho
exposition; Richard C. Job, direc
tor of exhibits for the Fair, ani ,
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fenced-in areas as are not near the
farm pond of five acres.
Swearingen expects to sell off
some 90 head of cattle this spring
“Trying to get a start, a fellow has
to sort of swap around, buy cattle
here and ther sell off some, get a
good herd,” he said.
Veterans farm training classes of
Taylor county have visited the
Swearingen farm to observe pas
ture management. Supervisors of
this district consider the farm a
fine example of erosion control and
proper land use.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our sincere
appreciation to the many friends
for their many kind words of sym
pathy and beautiful floral offerings
in our recent sorrow caused by the
loss of our dearly beloved mother,
Mrs. Minnie Glover Seay, who was
always kind and affectionate among
us and whose kindly instruction
and advice will never be forgot
ten. May richest blessings abide
with each of you forever.
THE SEAY CHILDREN.
James Johnson, Manchester
Youth, Named Outstanding
Young Man of Year 1948
' Manchester, Ga.—Dr. James John-
i son Jr., of Manchester, whose in
defatigable efforts for two years
were climaxed by the passage this
January of a Georgia pre-marital
health law, was named “Georgia’s
Outstanding Young Man of 1948”
as the climax Saturday of the 1949
convention of the Georgia Junior
Chamber of Commerce at Augusta*
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