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EARLY COUNTY, GA.,
Garden Spot of
GOD’S COUNTRY
VOLUME LXX > NO. 44
FARMERS URGED
TO USE STANDARD
CALCIUM ARSENATE
SHOULD BEGIN BATTLE IMME
DIATELY IF CROP IS TO
BE SAVED.
ATLANTA, Ga.—Georgia cotton
farmers should begin their 801 l Wee
vil battle immediately, if this year’s
crop is to be saved, mopping plants
in North Georgia where wet weather
with cool nights have prevailed, and
dusting in South Georgia where dry
warm weather have made weevil con
ditions more favorable, M. S. Yeo
mans, state entomologist, said last
week in a warning issued by the board
of Entomology.
“In North Georgia, where squares
have not yet formed, we advise mop
ping immediately,” says Mr. Yeomans,
using a mixture composed of one
pound of calcium, one gallon of syrup
and one gallon of water, all thorough
ly mixed, and applied within 48 hours
after mixing. Not less than one gal
lon should be applied on each acre,
using rag mop and covering all new
tender growth on each plant. Should
it rain immediately after mopping,
the application should be repeated.
“In South Georgia, plants already
fruiting, should be dusted, applying
four to six pounds of standard cal
cium arsenate per acre, starting when
10 per cent of the squares have been
punctured. Repeat every five to seven
days until weevil is under control.
Rain within 24 hours after dusting
necessitates repeating the application
of dust.
“Standard Calcium Arsenate ap
plied as outlined above is recommend
ed by all experiment stations in the
south as well as the State and U. S.
Department of Agriculture. For ten
years experts have experimented, but
have found nothing but standard cal
cium arsenate that can be recom
mended.
“In both dusting and mopping,
stress must be laid on doing the job
thoroughly. If correctly applied, the
cost is not great, averaging around
75 cents an acre.
“Free bulletins on poisoning may
be had by writing the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture at Washington,
State Experiment Station, or the
Delta Laboratory, at Tallulah, Ala.
“The Board of Entomology urges
the use of standard calcium arsenate.
Don’t “experiment” with unknown
or so-called cheaper poisons. It
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BLAKELY, GEORGIA
Ctteljj Ccrnntg Jfews
4-H CLUB GIRLS TO GO
TO CAMP WILKINS
Will Leave on June 30th and Return
On July sth.
The 4-H Club Girls are to leave
for Camp Wilkins on June 30th, re
turning July sth. The first 20 girls
who make reservations with me by
June 24th will be the ones who have
places saved foY them. The Board of
Education asks that new girls be ac
cepted first, but if you went last
year and want to go again, write me
at once and if we can make room,
we will save you a place. We can
carry only 20.
We are going on one of the Hilton
trucks and will have a careful driver.
I am going on the truck with you
and will try to take the best care of
you. It will cost you $7.00 plus a
little spending money. You won’t
need much spending money and you
pay me the $7.00 before we leave
here. We will not stop in Atlanta
as we did last year, though we may
come back that way and see Stone
Mountain.
Your fathers will have to get you
to the court house on the morning
we leave and will have to meet you
here on the afternoon we return.
The Rowena girls meet us at the
depot in Arlington as we did last
year.
You need just wash dresses and
one white or light dress to wear in
the afternoon and for candle light
ing ceremony. Take your bathing
suit if you want to swim and take
tennis shoes or some that don’t hurt
—for we walk lots.
At Camp Wilkins we learn Ipts,
don’t dress up, and have a grand
time. I just hope lots of you can go.
Let me hear from you AT ONCE
because I can carry just 20 and it is
first come, first served. We are
going to have a grand time, I hope,
and I hope we will have you with us.
mrs. McArthur jones,
County School Supt.
seldom pays. Have samples of your
arsenate taken by inspectors of the
State department of Agriculture, for
analysis. The board has tightened
up on its regulations on insecticides
in an effort to protect farmers and
insure that they receive what they
pay for. Off and on for several
years, Georgia farmers have been
sold insecticides that were below
standard and, in many cases, worse
than useless. This practice can be
stopped with the aid of the farmers.
Samples found deficient or fraudulent
will lead to prosecution of the sellers
or manufacturers.
“No fungicides or insecticide may
Success to All Who Pay Their Honest Debts —“Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.”
BLAKELY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 19, 1930.
POLITICAL INTEREST
CENTERS ON RACE
FOR SENATORSHIP
WITH FIVE CANDIDATES IN THE
RACE FOR GOVERNORSHIP,
RUN-OFF IS EXPECTED.
MACON, Ga.—With the state po
litical campaign less than two weeks
old, since the entries closed, chief
interest still centers in the race for
U. S. Senator, in which former
Governor John M. Slaton is oppos
ing Senator William J. Harris.
It is anticipated, however, that as
the campaign progresses greater in-> (
terest will be developed in the field ;
of five candidates for the governor-'
ship, but it appears reasonably cer- 1
tain that a run-off will be necessary
in that race, hence the final round
will bring the thrills.
From Atlanta comes the announce
ment that Mr. Slaton has selected
as his campaign manager, Hewlett
A. Hall, of Newnan, one of the
best known lawyers of that section
of Georgia. Mr. Slaton’s headquar
ters will be opened at the Kimball
House in Atlanta in a short time.
Gordon S. Chapman, former mayor
of Sandersville and editor of the
Sandersville Progress, who threw his
hat into the arena early in the politi
cal campaign, only to jerk it out
again, is to have charge of Mr.
Slaton’s campaign publicity.
The five candidates for the gov
ernorship, R. B. Russell, Jr., George
H. Carswell, John N. Holder, James
A. Perry and E. D. Rivers, are doing
a lot of talking and kicking up the
dust in each other’s eyes.
But when the dust settles it is the
general belief that it’s going to be
a race that will require a run-off.
Some of the leaders think differ
ently:' Interest is attached to the
announcement that G. E. Maddox, of
Rome) Sam A. Nunn, of Perry; and
T. Hicks Fort, of Columbus, all of
whom w r ere actively identified, two
of them managers in the campaign
for L. G. Hardman for governor
two years ago, will throw their sup
port to Mr. Carswell. Such support
as that, the Carswell onlookers say,
may draw other leaders from the
Hardman camp into the Carswell
fold.
But down in South Georgia and in
other sections of the state Ed Riv
ers and his followers are trying to
make a clean sweep for their candi
date. The same may be said for
the other candidates in their re
spective communities, and, of
course, each candidate is trying to
extend his strength beyond the com
munities which he believes he has
“sewed up.”
James A. Perry, member of the
public service commission, and one
of the five candidates for governor
ship, Saturday carried his campaign
into southwest Georgia. He spoke
at Bainbridge before a good-sized
crowd, according to reports. Mr.
Perry made reference to only two
opponents, John N. Holder and Geo.
H. Carswell, and said there were
three issues involved: “Three inter
ests battling for supremacy.”
Certain road construction forces,
certain machinery forces and the
book tructs comprise two of these
interests, and the people represent
the third, said Mr. Perry. He charged
that Mr. Holder and Mr. Carswell
have played the role of parasites in
Georgia political campaigns long
enough. He pleaded that he was
representing the third issue of the
campaign, “the people.”
In all, 43 candidates are seeking
the 17 offices to be filled in the
September primary, and the coming
weeks will see all of these candidates
actively at work.
be sold in the State that has not been
tested and approved, either by the I
State Board of Entomology or a U.
S. Government Agency, and under
the rules of the Board, those selling
or shipping insecticides into the State
must notify the State Commissioner
of Agriculture. These rules, recent
ly adopted by the Board, eventually
will drive out all worthless or in
effective insecticides, if rigidly en
forced,” said Mr. Yeomansi
POPULATION
OF GEORGIA
REACHES 2,799,792
UNOFFICIAL TABULATION OF
154 OF 161 COUNTIES IN
STATE MADE.
ATLANTA, Ga.—The population
of Georgia reached 2,799,792 in an
unofficial tabulation Monday of 154
of the 161 counties of the state.
The population of Savanah, but not
all of Chatham county, was included
in the count.
In 1920 the same counties and
Savannah had a population of 2,-
761,224. The increase of 38,568
came in face of losses of population
of approximately 100 counties in the
state.
Savannah, with its population of
84,714, remained the state’s second
city. x Ten years ago it had a popu
lation of 83,252. The increase was
1,462.
This tabulation is based almost
wholly on preliminary figures. Con
sidering the difference in prelimi
nary figures and the official count,
the state’s population is expected to
be more than 2,900,000 and census
workers still believed it would be
near 3,000,000.
The seven missing counties all are
in the Savannah district. Thus far
no counties from that district have
shown extraordinary growth, and
two of the four to report lost pop
ulation.
While the population figures have
been slightly disappointing to many,
the unemployment situation in Geor
gia has been a source of optimism.
Returns from a majority of the
districts indicated the situation could
scarcely be called a “problem,” as
the percentage of unemployed was.
slightly more than 10 per cent. In
Fulton, DeKalb, Bibb, Muskogee and
Floyd, some of the state’s greatest
industrial counties, the percentage
was surprisingly low.
JUDGE M. J. YEOMANS
ANNOUNCES THIS WEEK
Seeks Renomination to Judgeship of
Pataula Circuit.
i
Judge M. J. Yeomans announces
in the News this week that he is a
candidate for re-election as Judge of
the Superior Courts of the Pataula
circuit. Judge Yeomans is at pmes
i ent confined in an Atlanta hospital
with a broken arm sustained in an
automobile accident several weeks
ago, and states in his announcement
that he will be unable to make an
extensive canvas. The Judge has
many friends throughout the circuit
who are expected to be active in his
behalf during the campaign, and who
are predicting that he will be hard
to beat. He was first appointed to
the bench by Governor Hardwick
and was elected for a four year term
in a spirited race four years ago.
His friends hope that he will soon
be able to leave the hospital in At
lanta and return home to begin
his campaign.
BLOOD HOUNDS USED FOR
FOREST PROTECTION
Atlanta, Ga.—The first instance
of the use of blood hounds in forest
fire prevention is reported to the
Georgia Forest Service from Treutlen
county, where M. H. Newsome, a
member of a timber protective organ
ization, has employed this means.
Besides conforming to the rules and
regulations of the Georgia Forest
Service for forest control, he has
gone one better and decided to use
blood hounds for detection of those
guilty of starting fires.
Report has it that Mr. Newsome
recently found opportunity to use
his hounds following an outbreak of
a forest fire. The dogs took up the
trail and finally treed a negro. The
negro was sentenced to one year in
the chain gang and has provided an
impressive example to all in the
region that starting forest fires is;
a serious business.
HARRIS TO STAY ON JOB
TILL SENATE ADJOURNS
Impotant Matters to Be Attended-
To, Senator Says.
Senator William J. Harris, who is
opposed for renomination by former
Governor John M. Slaton, will re
main at his post in Washington un
til the adjournment of Congress.
The following notice was issued from
his office .Saturday night:.
“The rivers and harbors bill which '
carries millions of dollars for Geor-!
gia rivers and harbors, and which 1
was reported by the commerce com-1
mittee of the senate, of which he is
a member, has not yet passed the i
senate and will be considered next
week. Senator Harris caused a
million dollars to be added to this
bill for Gborgia.
“He is also greatly interested in
the World War veterans’ legislation.
A Veterans bill has already passed
the house and has been favorably
reported by the finance committee of
the senate before congress adjourns,
and he will vote against adjourn
ment until both measures are acted
on in the senate.
“He said there are also other
matters of vital importance to Geor
gia which are coming up daily.”
Masons to Celebrate Silver
Anniversary of Masonic Home
The Masons of Georgia, acting
through the Grand Lodge of Geor
gia F. & A. M., will celebrate the
Silver Anniversary of the founding
of the Masonic Orphans Home in
Macon. Tuesday, June 24th, St.
John the Baptist Day, is the day
fixed for the celebration. The Ma
sonic Home was founded 25 years
ago and now has 209 children in the
institution. With such a large at
tendance, funds for repairs and ad
ditions are urgently needed. This
celebration will be in the nature of
a drive for funds. Locally, the Ma
sonic Lodges of Blakely, Bulffton and
Damascus will meet in the Masonic
Hall at Blakely on next Tuesday for
a joint celebration. Speakers for the
day will be furnished by the Grand
Lodge and at that time funds will be
raised to carry on this truly wonder
ful work.
LEGGE IS CONFIRMED
FOR SECOND TERM
Chas. C. Teague Also Approved As
Fruit and Vegetable Representative.
Washington, D. C.—The nomina
tion for reappointment of Alexander
H. Legge as chairman of the farm
board was approved by the Senate
Tuesday. He was approved by the
senate without a record vote and af
ter brief discussion.
The senate also confirmed the nom
ination of C. C. Teague, of Califor
nia for reappointment on the farm
board as a representative of the
fruit and vegetable industry.
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ANALYSIS BY STATE
LABORATORIES
21,167 SAMPLES PASS INSPEC
TION IN 1929 BY DEPART
MENT OF AGRICULTURE.
ATLANTA, Ga.—During the 12
months of 1929, a total of 21,167
samples of fertilizers, feeds and
foods were analyzed in the chemical
laboratories affiliated with the State
Department pf Agriculture.
Commercial fertilizers lead the
list with 16,862 official samples
analyzed, the greatest number ever
taken and reported on in the history
of the /Department.
Other items passing through the
hands of the State Chemist included
869 samples of food; 844 samples
of milk; 525 of drugs; 451 samples
of animal feeds; 291 samples of in
secticides; 657 samples of oysters
and oyster-bed water, besides a large
number of miscellaneous items.
Impure and often harmful foods
and feeds are driven off the market
and the health and lives of Ceorgia
citizens protected by/the State De
partment of Agriculture through in
formation secured from samples
analyzed, Dr. Frampton King, State
Chemist, points out in his report to
Commissioner Eugene Talmadge. In
like manner, analysis of fertilizers,
insecticides and fungicides, particu
larly those used on cotton, tobacco,
fruits and nuts, make it possible for
the regulatory forces of the Depart
ment to prevent the sale of adult
erated, misbranded and often harm
ful mixtures.
The ‘ actual value of this service
is realized when it is recalled that
last year Georgia farmers purchased
868,911 tons of fertilizer for which
they paid more than $30,000,000.
Approximately one ton of every seven
tons sold was sampled and analyzed,
covering 4,964 brands registered by
249 manufacturers.
The State Chemist analyzes all
official samples taken by the ferti
lizer division, the State Entomologist
and the State Veterinarian.
This, one of the most valuable
Services rendered the farmer, is his
for the asking without cost.
SCOUTS ON CAMP AT
' CORDRAY THIS WEEK
Chaperoned by Scoutmaster Rufus
Jennings, 14 second class Scouts
of the local troop, are enjoying a
five days’ outing over at Cordray’s
mill this week. The boys went off
well prepared for the trip, carrying
bathing suits, fishing tackle and
“plenty of eats.” These youngsters
have anxiously anticipated this event
and will probably report a “big
; time” on their return Friday night
j or Saturday morning.