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FARM BOYS OF
GEORGIA FORM
‘FUTURE’ ASS’N.
“Future Growers Os Georgia”
Is Incorporated By
Vocational Boys
By PAUL W. CHAPMAN
State Director of Vocational
Education
Business men have trade asso
ciations, employees labor federa
tions, professional men organiza
tions. Then, why shouldn’t the
young men who are to be the farm
ers of tomorrow profit from these
examples of effective cooperation?
This question persisted in the mind
of an auburn-haired Virginia youth
until finally he organized, among
the vocational boys of that state,
an association as the F. F. V.—
Future Farmers of Virginia.
From the beginning the organi
zation was a success. With the ex
perience of Virginia as a guide
‘ other Future Farmers associations
were formed. There were the Tar
Heel Farmers of North Carolina;
the Palmetto Farmers of South
Carolina; the Young Farmers of
New York; and many others.
All these state associations have
been affiliated in one great organi
zation known as The Future Farm
ers of America.
Vocational Students
The boys in this nation-wide or
ganization are all students of vo
cational agriculture in the high
schools and rural consolidated
schools of the country. They are
all farming for themselves. Most
of them ha.e definitely selected
farming as their vocation.
Georgia was the 10th state in
the nation to receive an F. F. A.
charter. The F. F. G. (Future
Farmers of Georgia) association is
incorporated under the laws of the
state. The constitution which was
adopted at a state-wide convention
of chapter representatives sets
forth the following objectives of the
organization:
1. To promote a sound agricul
| tural industry for the State
of Georgia.
2. To create more interest in the
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Peanuts A
Luxury?
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We often hear people speak dis
paringly of peanut vendors as if
the vending of peanuts were the
lowest form of retail merchandis
ing. Yet the average grower of
peaunts might be more inclined to
tip his hat to New York retailers
if he would realize that they are
brave men—no one without a lot
of nerve would dare to charge the
prices they do.
The customary price for shelled,
salted peanuts is 50 cents per
pound at retail, usually for pea
nuts in the bulk. Recently a large
chain drug store put on a special
sale of peanuts in one pound con
tainers at 39 cents per pound which
was considered quite a bargain
Say. Most of the peanuts offered
are the large or Virginian type
nuts although occasionally it is
possible to get the Spanish. How
ever, the Spanish peanuts grown in
Georgia are less easy to get than
they are in many of the interior
markets.
Peaunts are very cheap at pres
ent and there is no kind of peanut
in the shell or out quoted above
9 1-2 cents per pound at New
York. Undoubtedly it costs money
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| OFFICERS OF THE FUTURE FARMERS OF GEORGIA |
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Seated left to right: Billy Bowdoin, Statham, president; M D. Mobley assistant state supervisor of
agricultural education, Athens, state adviser; Paul W. Chapman, state director of vocation education, Ath
ens, acting adviser during 1929-30; Martin McGregor, Girard; secretary; Lawton Bannister, Cumming,
vice-president. Standing left to right; Derrell Alligood, Cadwell; and Cecil Shadburn Macon, executive
committee; Leßoy Stalvey, Hahira, reporter; and Fred Thomas, Epworth, treasurer. Inset, insignia
Future Farmers of America.
Melons Have
Later Season
Less Acreage
By A Staff Writer
A later season and slightly
smaller acreage are the outstand
ing factors in the Southern water
melon deal at this time, Most
parts of Florida and Georgia have
been delayed 10 days or two weeks
by weather conditions and rela
tively few if any melons are ex
pected to arrive in Northern mar
kets before June 1. Last year
Florida watermelons began to
move late in April and by the last
of May the deal was in full swing.
Georgia began shipping early and
a large proportion of cars arrived
before July Fourth.
Watermelon growers had a num
ber of lucky breaks last year, that
the weather was hot at the time
they were shipping heaviest and
the demand was really abnormal
in the big centers of population.
The result was that watermelons
brought high prices even when re
ceipts were exceedingly heavy.
Growers were also fortunate in
that Imperial Valley cantaloupes
were light during a good share of
the Southern watermelon deal.
Last year shipments overran all
early estimates and it was a rela
tively big watermelon year. Geor
gia shipments totaled approxi
mately 22,000 cars or from 3,000
to 4,000 cars more than most ev
eryone estimated. Florida had 10,-
500 cars which was also in excess
of estimates. Total shipments last
year were about 52,500 cars and
was one of the few seasons when
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BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1930
TWENTY CARLOADS OF
ASPARAGUS- TO N. Y.
Twenty carloads of Georgia
asparagus were received in
New York during April. Prices
did not average quite as high
as a year ago mainly because
of the heavy receipts from
California. So much Califor
nia asparagus arrived during
the first half of April that
prices were greatly depressed.
Most of the Georgia stock
sold for $2 to $4 per crate or
about $1 lower than a year
ago. Total receipts of aspar
agus at New York during
April were 586 carloads
against only 405 carloads last
year for the same month.
Farmers Buying
Usual Amount
Os Fertilizer
Georgia farmers are purchasing
the usual amount of fertilizer this
year, as compared with the past
three years, it is indicated by sales
of fertilizer tax tags by the State
Department of Agriculture. In
come from tag tax sales for the
first four months of 1929 was
$251,704 as compared with $264,-
084 for the same period year.
The tax is 30 cents per ton, thus
the comparison in tonnage would
be 839,000 for the first four months
of 1929 as compared with 880,280
tons for four months in 1920, an
increase for 1930 of 41,280 tons.
However, this increase means lit
tle when it is remembered that
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SHWW
Tariff Boost
Causes Heavy
Farm Imports
By a Staff Writer
Imports of agricultural pro
ducts have been speeded up during
the past month on account of the
prospective tariff increase. A
shortage of cabbage and other per
ishables also had its effect.
Several kinds of domestic fruits
and vegetables were so scarce that
April imports of fruits and veg
etables, other than bananas, were
practically tripled as compared
with the same month last year.
Imports via New York for April
alone amounted to 3,482 carloads
of vegetables as compared with
only 1,273 carloads a year ago.
Cabbage imports were by far the
heaviest ever known following a
partial crop shortage in this coun
try while imports of Argentine
grapes, Canadian potatoes, Mexi
can tomatoes and Porto Rican cit
rus fruits and pineapples were
especially heavy. These imports
tended to level down the prices of
competing domestic products, es
pecially with cabbage.
Dry beans and peas were also
in unprecedented supply although
this, too, was largely the result
of domestic market conditions.
Prices at the opening of the new
season last fall were extremely
high and attracted the attention
of bean exporters the world over.
Since September 1 the imports of
beans via New York alone have
been 700,000 bags compared with
only 248,000 bags last year to the
corresponding date. The gain in
dried pea imports have been equ
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COTTON TRADE
IS CRITICAL OF
COOPERATIVES
Brown Says Statements Must
Be Taken With Grain
Os Salt
By COLONEL L. BROWN
New York Correspondent, Georgia
Farmer and Fruit Grower
The chief interest in cotton dur
ing Mid-April centered around the
probable acreage for 1930 and the
action of the cooperative associa-
tions in the May
and July options
on the New York
Cotton Exchange.
The acreage will
to a large extent
affect the price
for spot cotton
next fall and
winter while the
action of the
May and July de
liveries is expect
ed to have a big
C. L. Brown
effect on imme
diate values, on the size of the
carryover, and the amount of cot
ton goods manufactured.
Chairman Legge of the Federal
Farm Board in a recent statement
suggested to growers that they
keep their acreage within reason
able limits and pointed out the ad
vantages of a reduction in acreage
this season. Cotton like most other
farm products fluctuates in prie
according to production with a
heavy production usually resulting
in lower total returns to growers
than a modgrage or light produc
tion.
Roughly speaking, about 46,000,-
000 acres of cotton were grown
last Reason and Chairman Legge
suggested that the acreage be kept
down to 40,000,000 acres this sea
son. This is sound advice and if
producers have cooperated in keep
ing down this acreage there is
every possibility of the market in
1930-31 being better than it was in
1929-30 season. Weather, of course,
will be a factor and drought or
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Peach Crop
Prospects
Peach crops are usually much
heavier in the even years and on
this basis we should have a much
larger crop than last season. It
is unlikely that there will be any
such production this season as in
1926 and 1928 as there has been
more than the usual amount of in
jury to the peach crop in several
parts of the country.
Last season’s peach shipments
were 35,417 cars for the country
as a whole and for Georgia they
were 5,298 cars which was the
lightest crop in several years. In
1928 the total peach shipments
amounted to 56,596 cars of which
Georgia supplied 16,021 carloads.
Georgia shipments will probably
be heavier than last year but be
low the five year average, ac
cording to current reports. The
shipments for the country as a
whole may not exceed 40,000 cars
and will fall short of recent even
years. It is noticeable that peach
shipments have been dropping off
slightly since the big year of 1926
and the danger of overproduction
is diminishing.
It is probable that California
and Georgia between them will
originate at least two-thirds of the
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