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ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM OFFICE OF
THE COUNTY AGENT -:-
DEVELOP HOME ORCHARDS—
The home orchard is one of the
most neglected items in our farm
set up. During the past three years
I have been observing the home
orchard condition in Early County.
I find that practically nothing has
been done along this line. The home
orchard is one of the most impor
tant parts of the live at home pro
gram. It is important from an eco
nomical stand point because it will
reduce the cost of living to a con
siderable extent. The usual high
price of food makes this doubly im
portant this year. The home orchard
is important from a health stand
point as it furnishes food that is
needed in the daily ration.
The home orchard should add
much to the home life on the farm.
Ripe juicy fruits and berries, fruit
juices, ice cream flavored with
fruits, together with jams, jellies and
marmalades add much to the farm
life.
This is the season to plan for the [
home orchard. Fruit trees and ber- .
ries live best when set out during
the dormant season. Let me urge ]
that every farm home be supplied
with the proper fruits and berries.
Following is a list of varieties that [
are adapted to this section together ,
with planting instructions:
Peaches: Uneeda, Beauty, Carmen,
Taber, Georgia Belle, Elberta, and
late Elberta. These trees should be
set twenty feet apart. Two of each
of the varieties listed above could
furnish peaches over a long period
and in sufficient amount for the
ordinary farm.
Figs: Celeste, Mission, and Kadota,
are the recommended varieties. They
should be set twenty feet apart.
Apples: Red June, Delicious, Car
ter, Transcondant are the varieties
best adapted. They should be set
twenty feet apart. Two or three
persimmon trees would prove profit
able. The Triumph is perhaps the
best variety. Os the pears there
are the Keifer, Pineapple, Sowega,
and Harper. Every farmer should
have a few pear trees. They are
planted twenty feet apart.
Muscadine variety of grapes seem
to be more satisfactory than the
bunch varieties of grapes. The scup
pernong, Stuckey, and Hicks are good
varieties. They should be set twenty
feet apart. Os the bunch grapes
the Lutie, Ivves, and Delaware are
good. Bunch grapes should be set
ten feet apart.
Berries: Berries are especially
adapted to this section. We have
the Young berry, Loganberry and a
new berry known as the Boysen
berry. These berries are all heavy
fruiters, producing a very fine quali
ty of fruit and should form a part
of every home orchard. Os the
strawberries the Missionary is per
haps the best variety for this sec
tion.
I would suggest that you keep this
list of varieties for further reference
and begin to plan for a home orch
ard. If I can be of any assistance
to you in establishing a home orch
ard I shall be glad to do so.
I am looking forward to the estab
lishment of a one-variety cotton
community. I have arranged to have
two thousand bushels of Cokers
Cleave Wilt cotton seed brought to
Blakely for distribution among the
farmers. These seed are one year
removed from the breeder and were
ginned on a one variety gin. They
have been recleaned and sacked in
new sacks in even weight bags.
I have asked several seedmen to
stock these seed and feel sure that
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Office 114 Liberty street, next to
Robinson’s Service Station.
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Telephone 100 BLAKELY, GA.
they will be available at different
places in town. At present S. G.
Maddox has a very good supply that
he is offering for $1.40 per bushel.
I feel that it is much safer for the
farmers to buy these seed of a known
variety than to buy seed from seed
peddlers coming through the country
and for which they often pay much
higher prices. I am not trying to
advertise for any one dealer, but
rather trying to assist the fanners
in securing good seed from a re
liable source. These seed have been
imported at my own request.
STOLEN HORSE PARABLE
APPLIES TO OAT YIELD—
The parable of the farmer who
waited until his horse was stolen
before locking the barn applies to
day in the loss of soil through ero
sion.
At the Guthrie, Okla., experiment
station of the Soil Conservation
Service two equal-sized fields, one
eroded and the other virgin grass
land, were sown to oats. The vir
gin land yielded more than 40
bushels to the acre while the soil
wasted field produced 11 bushels.
Losing oats, a prime horse feed, is
in away equivalent to losing horses.
The difference of 29 bushels is
enough for the usual work horse
ration for more than 100 days.
The eroded land has been in cul
tivation about 30 years, and con
tinued cropping accounts for some
of the difference in yield. But ero
sion was largely to blame for the
wasting of the fertility of the field, j
If oats were selling at 40 cents a
bushel, the difference in return from
the two 1-acre fields would amount
to $11.60. Furthermore, the cost
of terracing badly eroded land on
the Guthrie project was more than
three times as great as on newly
broken land. These facts, according
to the Soil Conservation Service,
show it pays to start saving soil
on newly cleared land rather than
wait until washing waters have car
ried away most of the good soil which
had developed through the years.
FARM BRIEFS—
(By Ralph Fulghum)
Six leading dairymen around Co
lumbus, Ga., went together recently
1 and organized a dairy cooperative
! to handle and market their milk.
' Incorporated as the Wells Dairy Co
operative, the plant is now handling
800 gallons of milk a day and has
a capacity for handling 3,000 gal
-1 lons. That makes the seventh dairy
cooperative operating in the state,
others being located at Washington,
Athens, Savannah, Eatonton, At
' lanta and Augusta. The dairy co
‘ operatives designate persons to look
after the farmer’s interest in
handling his milk, which allows the
milk to be handled in larger quanti
-1 ties and gives the farmer more time
■ to devote to production problems at
home.
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The proportion of farms in the
United States operated by tenants
has increased from 35 per cent in
• 1900, 37 per cent in 1910, and 38
1 per cent in 1920 to 42 per cent in
1 1930 and in 1935, a recent report
’ by the Bureau of Agriculture Eco
-1 nomics to the President’s farm
1 tenancy commission shows.
■ Typical of the growing importance
■ of community canning plants in the
i state, County Agent E. J. Huff re
ports that farmers in White County
i this year have canned over 15,000
. containers of fruits, vegetables and
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
meats at a community plant in the
County.
The general level of prices of farm
products rose substantially during the
last month, the Bureau of Agricul
tural Economics said today in its
mid-December review of the price
situation. Marked advance in wheat
prices and moderate increases in po
tatoes, hogs, cattle, wool and cotton
much more than offset the slight
decline in lambs, corn and butter.
Weather forecasters have no re
liable rule for forecasting the
weather for months ahead, but the
records at the Weather Bureau in
Washington show that this winter has
started out with weather conditions
almost identical with those of last
year at this time.
“Conservation Farming Practices
and Flood Control” is the title of a
new bulletin by the Soil Conserva
tion Service of the United States
Department of Agriculture. The
bulletin tells the farmers’ part in
flood control, showing that conserva
tion practices that stop soil erosion
and improve the soil also prevents
soil from washing down into our
rivers and clogging them. Copy of
the bulletin can be obtained from the
state office of the Soil Conservation
Service or through the Agricultural
Extension Service, both at Athens.
Ask for miscellaneous publication
number 253.
PUBLIC LAND SALE
GEORGIA, Early County:
By virtue of a power of sale con
tained in a deed to secure debt ex
ecuted by H. C. Haddock and J. O.
Bridges to Dan H. Davis, which deed
is recorded in Book 42 pages 356-7
in the office of the clerk of the
superior court of said county, and
which deed has been transferred to
A. H. Gray, the undersigned will sell
at public outcry at the court house
[in Blakely, Ga., on Jan. 2nd, 1937,
between the legal hours of sale, to
the highest bidder for cash, the fol
lowing property, being the property
described in said security deed:
The two-thirds undivided interest
of H. C. Haddock and J. O. Bridges
in and to that part of lot of land
No. 240 bounded as follows: Begin
ning at the southwest corner of said
lot and running thence east along
the south line thereof 25 chains 15
links to the Fort Gaines and Blakely
public road, thence along said road
in a northwesterly direction to a
point, then west four chains to the
west line of said lot, then south along
the west line thereof 30 chains 20
links to the point of beginning, con
taining 48 acres. Also that part of
lot of land No. 239 described as be
ginning at the southwest corner of
said lot and running thence east
along the south line thereof 50 chains
to the southeast corner of said lot,
thence north along the east line
there-of 35 chains 52 links to the
Fort Gaines and Blakely public road,
thence in a northwesterly direction
along said road to the north line of
said lot, thence west along the north
line thereof 36 chains 17 links to the
northwest corner of said lot, thence
south along the west line thereof 50
chains to the point of beginning, con
taining 240 acres. Also all that part
of lot of land No. 238 described as
beginning at the southwest corner of
said lot, running thence east along
the south line thereof 21 chains 88
links to a point, thence north 25
chains to a point, thence east
three chains to a point, thence
north 25 chains to the north
line of said lot, thence west along
the north line thereof 25 chains to
the northwest corner of said lot,
thence south along the west line
thereof 50 chains to the starting
point, containing 117 acres. Also
[ that part of lot of land No. 202
bounded as follows: Beginning at the
southwest corner of said lot, running
thence east along the south line
thereof 28 chains to the Fort Gaines
and Blakely public road, thence in
a northwesterly direction along said
road to the west line of said lot,
thence south along the west line
thereof 35 chains 52 links to the
starting point, containing 49.72
acres. All of said above described
land being in the 28th district of
Early County, Ga., and known as the
J. W. Strickland place.
Said property is advertised and will
be sold by reason of default in the
payment of the indebtedness which
said deed was given to secure, and
for the purpose of collecting said
debt.
Said property will be sold subject
to a security deed thereon executed
by J. W. Strickland to Atlanta Trust
Company, which deed is recorded in
Book 34 pages 363-67 in the office
of the clerk of the superior court of
said county, and only the equity of
the said H. C. Haddock and J. O.
Bridges therein will be sold.
The undesigned will execute a
deed to the purchaser at said sale as
provided for by the terms of said
security deed under which this sale
is had.
This December 24th, 1936.
A. H. GRAY.
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SEASON’S GREETINGS |
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on the eve of the great ||
gS eventful day—
s “MERRY CHRISTMAS” |
May it be a season of brightness and
g laughter in our homes, of joy of living
and joy of giving, of friendly and neigh- o
S body greeting---indeed, may it be such J|
g as to give the phrase, “On earth peace,
good will to men,” a real meaning—
g is the sincere wish of
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