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ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM OFFICE OF
-:- THE COUNTY AGENT
1937 FARM PROGRAM
NOT VERY DIFFERENT
FROM PRESENT PLAN—
The 1937 agricultural conserva
-tion program is not very different
from the program in effect this year,
Harry L. Brown, director of the State
Agricultural Extension Sendee, said
this week after studying an outline
of the program from the Agricultural
Aldjustment Administration. Soil
conservation is still the main theme
and provision has been made for con
tinued adjustment in major crop
acreage.
The payment for diverting land
from cotton to soil conserving crops
will be 5 cents a pound, the same
as last year, and the maximum acre
age that can be diverted will be 35
per cent. Farmers will get 5 cents
a pound for the estimated yield on
land they divert from flue-cured to
bacco, and they can divert 25 per
cent of their acreage instead of 30
per cent this year. The payment
for diverting land from peanuts will
be 1 1-4 cents a pound, and a farmer
can get paid for diverting 15 per
cent of his crop instead of 20 per
cent in this year’s program.
One of the major changes in the
program involves the soil building
allowance, or the $1 an acre that
was allowed this year for the total
acreage a farmer had in soil conserv
ing crops. The $1 an acre will still
be paid, but instead of being paid
on an unlimited acreage it will be
paid only on the normal acreage
planted to soil conserving crops plus
the maximum acreage the farmer
could be paid for diverting from soil
depleting crops. That change, Brown
said, will allow a farmer to know in
advance this spring exactly how many
dollars he will be permitted to qualify
for.
The allowance which growers of
fruits and vegetables can earn
through soil building practices will
be increased for the 1937 program.
For each acre in commercial orch
ards, vineyards and bush fruits on
the farm January 1, 1937, and on
each acre of crop land on which one
crop of commercial vegetables was
grown in 1936, $1 will be allowed in
addition to the regular $1 allowance.
If two crops of commercial vege
tables were grown on the same acre-
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Friday Night, Dec. 18
All musicians invited—Prizes given: First
prize, $5.00; second, $3.00; third, $2.00.
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age the additional allowance will be
$2 for each acre instead of sl. After
getting an approved soil building al
lowance, a farmer has to adopt ap
proved soil building practices to
qualify for his allowance. Brown
said that the additional payments
allowed on commercial fruits and
vegetables will allow fruit and vege
table growers to more fully partici
pate in the program.
The program provides that in no
event will the minimum soil building
payment a farmer will be eligible
to earn be less than S2O.
The minimum acreage of soil con
serving crops on a farm will be the
normal acreage planted to soil con
serving crops plus the acreage from
depleting crops in 1937. If the 1937
acreage in soil conserving crops is
less than the minimum acreage of
such crops a deduction will be made
at the rate of $3 each acre below the
minimun.
The regional set-up for administer
ing the program will be about the
same as in 1936. In each county, a
County Agricultural Conservation
Association will be formed with local
and county committees elected by
the members as they were this year.
The new program also includes
plans for paying farmers for divert
ing land from soil depleting crops
other than cotton, tobacco and pea
nuts, and a plan by which farmers
who are not eligible for any diver
sion payment can draw soil building
payments. The general provisions of
the program are also modified in
their application to farmers operat
ing under agreements with the Soil
Conservation Service and Rural Re
settlement Administration.
Other details of the program are
being worked out by regions and
states, and will be furnished county
agricultural agents as soon as pos
sible, Brown told.
The buying power of the net in
come of farmers as a group is the
highest in seventeen years, C. W.
Kitchen, Assistant Chief, Bureau of
Agricultural Ecnomics, said Tuesday
in addressing a fruit growers and
farmers convention.
There have been years during that
time when farm income was higher
than now, the speaker said, but he
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
SUNDAY SCHOOL
... LESSON...
THE SUPREME GIFT OF LOVE
Lesson for Dec. 20. IJohn 4:7-19.
Golden Text: Luke 2:14.
By REV. CHAS. E. DUNN
■"
The word from the first letter of
John chosen for our lesson, and
especially the glorious angelic song
set aside as the Golden Text, have
a serene quality reminding one of
that striking phrase of the prophet
Isaiah, “Your strength is quiet faith.”
But some one asks, “How can we
be calm and steadfast this Christmas
when the world is in such a dreadful
condition?” First of all, let us act
serenely. We pay too much attention
to our feelings, and not nearly
enough to action. As Prof. James
reminds us, we must “sit up cheer
fully, look round cheerfully, and
i act and speak as if cheerfulness were
already there.”
In the second place, we need to
get close to nature, to look often
at the stars and the hills. The
Christmas narrative breathes the
spirit of God’s out-of-doors. And
we must never forget that Jesus was
a country boy and man. He knew
intimately, as his teachings make so
clear, the birds, beasts and flowers.
I would also recommend listening
to music, and making music our
selves. Christmas is of immense
help here, for it is the season of
hearty and triumphant song. Some
one has said, “There is no great art
without serenity.” Well, one finds
a tranquil composure in the familiar
strains of “Holy Night” and other
Christmas carols.
Then again we can find peace of
mind if we learn to walk in the
quiet path of patience. Consider
the extremely critical issue of peace.
Because peace comes so slowly we
say it is never going to come. How
absurd! It took two centuries to
establish the King’s peace in medi
aeval England, but it was done! It
will take many decades of the hard
est kind of work to achieve world
peace, but it, too, will cometopass!
And let us ever remember that the
final decision is in God’s hands.
“Rest in the Lord, and wait pa
tiently for Him.”
CATCH that fat ’possum. A guar
anteed ’possum dog for SSO. WAR
REN CHANDLER.
I explained that things farmers buy
! also were higher so that the buying
j power of farm income was less than
it is now.
Approximately 90,000 gullies have
been formed by erosion in the Can
nonville demonstration areas of the
Soil Conservation Service in Troup
County, Georgia, according to esti
mates made from careful studies of
erosion maps of the 30,000-acre area.
Engineers on the project by actual
measurements of representative gul
lies have calculated that, loaded into
standard freight cars, 2,427,000 such
cars would be required to haul the
soil washed from these gullies.
More than 8,000,000 tree seed
lings have been allotted to Soil Con
servation Service demonstration areas
and CCC camps doing erosion con
trol w’ork in Georgia by the Soil Con
servation Service nursery section for
planting in these areas this winter.
Approximately the same number of
trees was planted in the project and
I camp areas last winter.
In addition, more than 400,000
plants and shrubs have been allotted
for wildlife development. Wildlife
plantings are made on small areas
such as the margins of woodlands,
i field borders, and in gullies where
I they serve the double purpose of
j controlling erosion and at the same
time providing food and cover for
■ quail and other desirable species.
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CHEVROLET NOVEMBER
RETAIL SALES SET A
NEW ALL-TIME RECORD
Chevrolet dealers’ retail sales
during the month of November to
taled 108,093 units, setting a new
all-time record both for the month
of November and for the 30-day
period following any new model
introduction, it was announced this
week at the company’s offices in
Detroit.
The previous record of 92,065
units was set in November, 1935,
following introduction of the 1936
Chevrolet. This year’s November
sales were 17.4 per cent greater,
although the new 1937 models were
brought out five days later in the
month, concentrating the heavy
selling within a considerably shorter
period.
“Chevrolet plants throughout the
country are operating at full ca
pacity of approximately 6,000 units
a day in an effort to keep up with
the dealers’ orders,” said the an
nouncement. “Even with the rec
ord-breaking sales, there are 96,-
328 unfilled orders on hand at the
present time.”
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Women from the ’teen age to the
change of life have found Cardui
genuinely helpful for the relief of
functional monthly' pains due to lack
of just the right strength from the
food they eat. Mrs. Crit Haynes, of
Essex, Mo., writes: “I used Cardui
when a girl for cramps and found It very
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\KJ STA ®S9 SKED SANDWICH BREAD, 22 oz._ 10c
TEA ROLLS, Dozen 5c
Sunmaid Seedless or Seeded
RRAISINS 2 19c
N. B. C. 5® VARIETIES 3 Pkg,. 13c
CHRISTMAS TREES
3 ft. to 4 ft. 5 ft. to 6 ft.
29c 55c
DROMEDARY
CRANBERRY SAUCE 2 11“ 29c
DROMEDARY
DATES UNPITTED 2 pkgs. 27c
RECIPE
MARSHMALLOWS 15c
MORTON HOUSE
DATE PUDDING 6 T.„ 10c
BUTTER KETCHUP
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CANDIES AND NUTS
CREAM DROTS 10c Lb.
GUM DROPS 110 c Lb.
MIXED CANDY 10c Lb.
COCOANUT BON BONS 15c Lb.
BRAZIL NUTS _ 19 c Lb.
ENGLISH WALNUTS 19 c Lb.
MIXED NUTS 17c Lb.
CIGARETTES—2 pkgs. 28c
CARTON $1.35