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BUTLER
2 Great Institutions
Taylor County
And
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MIDWAY
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OCT. 27
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Large Traveling Zoo
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This is postively the largest
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Lets All Come to The
F-A-I-R
Deserved Praise Is
Given Reynolds by
Noted State Writer
By VIOLET MOORE
'Hiss Mit' Widow of
Former Governor, Is a
Busy Woman These Days
By Yolande Gvvin
The small towns over the state The history books will probably
that are to feel “clubbed to death” list Mrs. Eugene Talmadge as a
might profit from a study of the Woman of Distinction
Reynolds system.
Instead of a woman’s club, a
garden club, a music club, a liter
ature club and a
Soil Erosion May Be More
Active Than You Think
By J. W. CALHOUN
Survey Supervisor
Soil Conservation Service
People riding along the highways
.of the Ocmulgee District see evi-
lQa hc ’ s the only "Oman to be first dence of quite a bit of soil erosion.
She ° U s thTonly woman whose alS ° SCC ™ any fields in which
i, om there is very little erosion. Don’t
by what you see along
ic uuiu, a liier- —~ woman wnusc .u ,
PTA, Reynolds husband and son have both been “ '
ne nrtramVatinn governor of Georgia. , hp fooled
governor of Georgia. ,-- —
She was Georgia’s Mother of the the highways,
year in 1951. I c ., c . 4 . .
In addition, the former Mattie' S011 Scientlsts ° f the Soil Con-
Thurmond of Edgefield, S. C„ had Conser ^tion Service, working in, ing rne land covered „ The
the breeding and the training cooperation with the Ocmulgee Soil; that we can arrange to keep
versatil- Conservation District, are required j land covered in our use of it,
I “ —
,, American home, internatonal
(fairs and Americanism.
> cc
„.th i
Improvement. Two years ago, a
fund was required ot provide Rey
nolds high school with an adequate
gym. The clubwomen worked with
the men’s groups and the Taylor 1,1 an interview at her Sugar
I County Board of Education to Cr .e e k Plantation the other day, she 1 1. That there are gullies in the
still had the traditional charm and Ocmulgee District over 75 feet deep
the Dersorm lit V of nthor rinuo onrl ^
by a bulldozier or other implement.
f, 11 ^ ®° me ot Der place has been
robbed” of its topsoil and that no
new topsoil was thereby created.
6. That gully erosion has a dou
ble effect. It hurts the land that it
washed from, and hurts the lancj
where it is deposited?
7. That pine trees over two feet
in diameter have been killed by
extreme siitatiQn resulting from se
vere erosion from,, the hills above?
8. That a drainage litch from a
low pond area with no regard to
erosion, resulted in a gully 75 feet
across and nearly 30 feet deep in
(he Ocmulgee District?
9. That nature provides the finest
example of erosion control—keep
ing the land covered? The more
our
the
womben have just one organization,
the Reynolds Woman’s Club, until
recently known as the Civic Im
provement Club. Included" in this
active 100-member club are de
partments dealing with education, = ..._
the fine arts, conservation, the which endowed her with a versalii- conservation District, are required j land covered in our use of Tt th*
af * !n y r'drawing room Tin t*™ t0 Walk 0Ver ’ observe and classify b ^ ^osion control we will have
The Club co-operates in vigorous house kp <*en or a cotton Held th \ aott Unit ’ slopo and e ^°n of 10 ■» a
fashion with any proposal for civic Sbe can talk the language of the 030,1 aore J? f tb e farm that is being
Improvement. Twn vearc arm farmers, can swap recipes with the ma PP cc '- They have found pmeinn
best of cooks and she can talk
clothes, politics, literature or any
thing else her associates desire.
In an interview at her Sugar' Did you know:
have found erosion
to be very active in places, and
much worse than the average per
son might think.
1 Did
make the plan a reality.
The club owns its own neat, "‘ y d
white-painted, columned meeting
active
and the
the, personality of other days. She and over 100 feet across?
place, a building also usecPfor f "J a ™ sti11 managing the farm ^preated^by 1 erosion Vn^heVast* 100
many community affairs. Children’s J* kn ° w has been years' o r less? °°
parties, showers for brides and my llfe interest. My crops are corn, o Ttrot . . Q .
men’s diner s are routine affairs at peanuts - cane, lupine and ,^ e et erosion is
the well-equipped clubhouse. „ T e ’ . tons
t ! ibrary . a S operat . ed looking P after my ^ome^a^dT^ak- lhin be * orp you realize it?
Miss EldTBuackmon'servin^’ar^ S, g C3re ° f the . farm and forests.' , 4 • That ta} «?s from 100 to 200
brarian two afternoons a week It jV 6 ho h b y J. enjoy most is garden- yoa ^ s to develop one inch of top
is nothing unusual for theHbra* i j, ^ taking care of the flowers l
rian to check out 75 books in a Lean/ hW" orchard : Speak mg of 5. That brush and pine tops
single afternoon. The schools at ? e ’ th ew crop 1S comin g in. [brown in gullies help greatly, but
Potterville and Crowell communi- f 1 f PP ° se ’ as 1S customary, the they do very little toward replacing
1 COmm ^ m favorite item on the menu for fall the soil that washed from the gul
readinp maftpr T . uu Lne menu tor
reading matter and W i nter will be pecan pie
Colored Farmers and
Instructors Attend Short
Course in Fort Valley
ties draw their
from this library.
When it was decided to give the
students at hte Reynolds school the
advntage of comprehensive visual
tests, three clubwomen, Mrs. F. H.
Sams, Mrs. James Ricks and Mrs.
Henry Payne volunteered to be
trained in the technique of the
tests by County Nurse Effie Mae
Arnold - On Oct. 13, the Ft. Valley State
The Reynolds Woman’s Club was Colle gc Department of Agriculture
organized in 1913, when clubs for °ff ere d Taylor County Farmers and
women were still a controversial far meis of other counties a short
subject. At the time, it was the course on “Small Grain and Win-
custom for men to be tolerantly hu- ter Pastures.” The program was as
morous in referring to their wives f9 ,,ows - Mr. Huston Stallworth, As-
ancl sisters new interest. “Clubbing s } stan t Director of Agriculture; pre-
it” was just another female fad, elding, Dr. C V. Troup, President
they insisted, and it was incredible of Ft - VaMe Y State College. In his
(o them that a group of women welcoming address he emphasized
could stay in agreement over any- tb e fact that “the Ft. Valley State
thing long enough to hold a formal College facilities are open to the
meeting. Entering upon its 40th citizens of Georgia, and feel free ,
year, the Reynolds rinh i = »rm.^ to use them.” “Land capability as G
10. That all soils do not erode
alike? Some soils absorb most of
the rain that falls on it, while oth
ers absorb less than half that
falls.
Soil erosion has a "snow-balling”
effect. The more it gnaws into
your fields the stronger and more
destructive it becomes and the
harder it is to stop. It has been said
that erosion takes the cream first—
that is the organic matter, the fer
tilizer and minerals and fine silt
and sand particles that add to the
i me night” and the P r ° duct ivity of the land. It goes
fields often becomes without saying that when erosion
- —I takes the cream it takes away crop
yields and reduces the profits from
the land.
If you don't have Soil Conserva
tion farm plan, see your local work
unit conservationist an dget a land
capability may and a soil conser
vation farm plan on your farm.
Don’t under-estimate erosion. Study
your land capability and see how
active erosion has been.
ly? The answer to gully erosion is
t prevention. We should realize that
j when a gully is filled with topsoil
year, the Reynolds Club is proud — ■-**—**• —uajjciuiiiiy as
to count today’s organization for related to small grain and winter
charter members, Mrs. J. D Beall Pastures” was discnsspit w Mr
Mrs. R. A. Hinton, Mrs. C. B. Mar
shall and Mrs. Z. T. Weaver.
LOOKING AHEAD
By HOUSER DAVIDSON
Director, National Association
Soil Conservation Districts
pastures” was discussed by Mr
1 homas Delton, Soil Conservation
ist. “The Value of Small Grain in
Says Mrs. Q.C. English, president t u heFa rm Program” was discussed
of the club and Reynolds’s first C ' L ’ E1]iston > director of the
woman mayor: Department of Agriculture. “Winter
j “We trv tn rMPh f Pastures for Georgia” was dis-
membership into the entire Rev" CU -‘ 5 f ( L by Mr ' J - C - Crofton - Agrono-
nolds trade area. Instead of having /“ 1St ' Followin S th e discussions the
one program on rural-urban mi-/ farmors were carried on a tour of
lion during the club year we sim thG C< ? 1,ege farm - Interesting sites
ply make membership available to ^ V1< T ° f h ° g P astures
everyone interested and manv of p anted in ° ats - A bnef discussion
our most valued membTw^Uve IT ^7" by i Mr ’. Holmes - Inst ™c-
miles in the country” J tor Pastures of crimson clover and
1 Other officers of‘the club- Mrs K 3S , poi " ted out and dis '
E. H. Joiner, first vice-president h f d , y , Mr ' Cr ° ft0n ' The value
Mrs. L. W. Cook, second vice nresi’ £ 1 ai ^,. legume seed production
dent; Mrs. George Brady secretary- ? y f: 11)ston - A demonstration of,
Mrs. W. D. Saunders, treasurer Mrs’. 1 "^ ulatlon . and Panting alfalfa
B. E. Flowers, press reporter- ’ Mrs wint W3S glven by Mr - Crofton.
Eva B. Griffith and Mrs Herschei ^ inte F. , covei ; ^ r °P (b 'ue lupine)
Breazeale, reporters of ' Reynolds -5® Clted and T dlsc “ssed by Dr, El-
news to the Butler Herald.The club l a ’ Jah " son - State FHA
for years has undertaken the re- A ^ h 1 dlS0USaed farm financing,
sponsibility of seeing that news The actlvltle s of the day were
from the Reynolds area applarsTn s ™ plz ^ >>y the Instructor,
the county’s only weeklynewsna- attending were under the
per, the Butler Herald P guidance of the Taylor County De-
' partment of Agriculture, Butler
School were: Charlie Hicks, Voca-
c-ational Agricultural Instructor; W.
Tarant, Vet Instructor; T. H. Lav
ender, Vet Instructor; Jasper Hill,
Eddie L. Daffin, Eddie L. Holsey,
James Ivery, Coleman Glover, L. B.
Howell, Sammie Ross, Anderson
Wo • Ross, F. M. Coleman Willie C
Son ConLwaUo^w y cil ralefU ! f0r 1 f H ° dgeS ’ Homer Pace - A - C. Mont-’
I conservation Week proclaimed ford, Roy Gipson Arthus Ponp H
State U 'soil OV Conse »y. our W. Boll and B Edwaris “ ' H ’
and all l-™ 1 - Committee, Those attending were highly im-
govern ng bodS^nT' 1011 - DiStdCt prGSSed and insp,red and « i* b ^-
faovermng bodies in Georgia. lieved by the county agricultural
workers ^that good resultfSl be
less San others’’T„ ar . merS SU,,erlng ln ,he " ear from such
less man others. In every instance, a course.
under similar circumstances, this
can be traced to a high organnic " " — — 1
content, brought about by the ap- district boards of supervisors are
plication of sound soil and water trying, by every honorable means, to
conservation practices over a period m ake known to every citizen of our
ot years. This, of course, means the state and nation the necessity of,
use ^ of each acre of agricultural and manner by which, we are try-
land within its capabilities and the in e to do this job.
anceTith °iL *7* in accord ' We supervisors of these soil con-
® d )!! tb lts needs for Protection servation districts are trying to see
PhvsicTX^^H f We Hve in 3 10 il that farmer « of America do
r ysical world and, try as we may, not have to do this job in a totali-
of nature thC physical facts tarian or socialistic way. Let us re-
i Every 14 seconds a new citizen S^lant ^tTLTuman^can
sources of'^hTs^ ^ by the fe ' make theSe seeds grow - Should this
is a ]imit f ‘to h wh g /t natlon - Tb ere ever happen, all of u s will have lost
altho wl ?,« h C£ \ n produ(:e - th e principles for which we have
h ° a PP roved farming fought so many wars—self determi-
^ize son a°nd e wa r t y e ^ We ' reoo °" aation ’ self government and fr^-
-i -c O on and water conservation as dom.
the most important of these meth-' w« • a
°ds. If the land is wisely uS it' ar ° the best fed ’
will supply plenty of fnnri t ’ PSt c,otb ed, best housed people in
protection for many°generaitons° If Z ^ 3nd ' indeod - al!
these acres, be they either aetivelv he . n . story 1 of the world, because we
or potentially productive are ue/ u ess f. d w ‘ th e° od soi i and fa-
mitted to erode the inevitable [°. rab ie climate. If we are to main-
alty is visited upon this generation IV r'® S / aridards of livir ‘g- is
and generations to come imperative that we maintain and
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