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HOG SALE— There will be a hog
sale on Tuesday, January 5. Farm
ers are requested to bring their
hogs in early.
POINTERS FOR BUYERS OF
HYBRID CORN SEED—
Many growers have only a hazy
idea of what is meant by hybrid
seed corn. To help clear away
doubt, G. H. Dungan, of the Illinois
Agricultural Experiment Station, re
cently aided farmers by explaining
some of the things buyers should
look for and others they should avoid
if they wish to get good hybrid seed
corn.
“Corn growers should understand”,
he said, “that good hybrid seed can
not be produced by crossing two
open-pollinated varieties, by detassel
ing rows of an adapted variety, or
by selecting seed in a field grown
from commercial hybrid seed. And 1
not all hybrid are good, not even all 1
hybrids that involve four inbred
lines.”
-Certain hybrid that have given out
standing performance over a period
of years in a certain section of the
State are no better in other sections
than adapted open-pollinated varie
ties, say agronomists of the United
Stated Department of Agriculture
who cooperate in this corn work.
The merit of a given hybrid depends
on its ability to give a satisfactory
yield of sound grain, to stand up
until harvest, and to do these con
sistently year after year. Informa
tion as to these qualities can be es
tablished only by repeated tests in
the general area in question.
FOUR GEORGIA GIRLS GET
SIOO SCHOLARSHIPS IN
4-H CLUB CONTEST—
Four Georgia farm girls will each
get SIOO college scholarships as
winners in a state-wide 4-H club con
test conducted during the last year
involving the use of sugar in can
ning and cooking and the use of
sugar sacks in clothing and home
improvement work, Miss Emmie Nel
son, assistant state club leader, an
nounced this week.
The scholarship, given by the Sa
vannah Sugar Refining Corporation,
will go to one winner in each of
four districts in the state. The
winner and the alternate who will
get the scholarship if the winner is
unable to take it are: Northwest
Georgia—Bonnie Belle White, De
kalb County with Ora Kate Rodgers,
Muscogee County, alternate. North
east Georgia—Martha Beth Laven
der, Jackson County, with Sarah
Eddie Bridges, Madison County, al
ternate. Southeast Georgia—Evelyn
Sykes, Pierce County, with Doris
Stanley, Laurens County, alternate.
Southwest Georgia Willie Dee
Paulk, Irwin County, with Lillian
Greene, Dodge County, alternate.
WINTER LEGUMES ADD
100 DOLI.ARS PER ACRE
TO FARMER’S INCOME—
An increase of more than SIOO
an acre in cash returns on five acres
of cotton as the result of planting
winter legume cover crops on the
land for four years, has proven the
“value” of these crops to J. W. Sut
ton, a cooperator of the Soil Con
servation Service in the demonstra
tion area near Rome.
Sutton began the practice of plant
ing winter legume on his land be
fore he started the present coopera
tive demonstration. In 1932, he
made only a half-bale per acre from
five acres of cotton and since that
time he has been planting winter
legumes on the land each year. This
year he made two bales of cotton
per acre on the five acres.
Figuring both yields at 12 cents
a pound for the lint cotton, and $35
a ton for cotton seed, which were
about average prices for 1936, Sut
ton’s return on the five acres this
year was $740 as compared with a
return of $lB5 in 1932, if he had
gotten 1936 prices for his yield that
year. He figures the difference of
$555, or slll an acre, represents
mainly the value of winter legumes
in increased cotton yields.
Winter legumes are especially
valuable for erosion control on culti
vated areas since they protect the
land from rains during a season when
they would otherwise be bare of vege
tive cover, W. H. Howell, project
manager of the Rome area, points
out. A winter “overcoat” for 2,125
acres has been provided by cover
crops in the Rome area this year, he
said.
FARM BRIEFS
(By Ralph Fulghum)
Georgia farmers this year pro
duced crops valued at $191,123,000,
which is the highest total value of
crops since 1930 and 12 per cent
larger than last year, the Georgia
Crop Reporting Service estimated
near the close of the year. Better
prices accounted largely for the in
creased value. The cotton crop was
valued at $83,975,000, 15 per cent
greater than last year. Higher
prices caused most of the increase
since farmers produced only 2.9 per
cent more cotton. The tobacco crop
was valued at $17,700,000, a gain of
36 per cent over last year for a 22
per cent larger crop. A 22 per cent
larger peanut crop was valued at
$14,774,000, 26 per cent larger than
in 1935. A 2 per cent smaller peach
crop was valued at $6,901,000, which
was 38 per cent higher than last year.
The value of the watermelon crop
was placed at $1,638,000, and the
pecan crop was valued at $1,255,-
000, both much higher than a year
ago.
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While Georgia farmers have been
planting smaller acreage of cotton in
recent years they have been doing
a better job of growing cotton. De
spite a serious drought in the state,
estimated production of cotton this
year was larger than for any year
since 1933, and the average yield
of cotton in the state for the last
four years has been 230 pounds per
acre, compared with an average yield
of 176 pounds for the preceding 10
years. While growing more cotton
on fewer acres farmers have put
more land to soil conserving crops
and have increased livestock produc
tion, Harry L. Brown, director of the
Agricultural Extension Service, re
cently commented.
* * *
In its December hog situation re
port, the Bureau of Agricultural Eco
nomics predicts a strong market for
hogs during the winter months. Due
largely to improved consumer de
mand and to active buying by pack
ers for storage supplies, hog prices
have been advancing in spite of large
slaughter supplies. A larger than
usual proportion of the available
hogs will have been slaughtered by
the end of December.
* * *
The second volume of the Dairy
Herd Improvement Association prov
ed-sire list, containing the records of
700 dairy bulls that have proved out
standing, was issued earlier in the
month by the Bureau of Dairy In
dustry. The first volume issued last
May contained the records of 374
other proven bulls. The records of
these 1074 proven bulls have been
placed in the hands of county agri
cultural agents.
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The income of farmers over the
country as a group at the close of
this year will buy more of what
farmers have to buy than at any time
during the last 17 years, Bureau of
Agricultural Economics figures show.
There have been years during thdt
time when farm income was higher
than now, but the things farmers had
to buy were also higher so that the
buying power of farm income was
less than now.
Bagpipe Old Instrument
The bagpipe Is, next to the flute,
one of the oldest instruments. It is
recognized as having been in use In
the Near East, in a crude form, more
than 2,000 years ago. The bag is ob
viously a sewn up goat skin. Venders
of sweet drinks still use what looks
like an enlarged single-reeded pipe
In most Oriental cities.
Oil From Swordfish
The swordfish, joining the ranks of
the cod and the halibut, produces a
liver oil rich in vitamin A and D.
SAVE ON YOUR—
Fire Insurance
Representing Lumberman’s Mutual In
surance Co., at Mansfield, Ohio, and
Lumberman’s Mutual Casualty Co.,
Chicago. Save 20 to 25 per cent. Let
me explain how this may be done.
Office 114 Liberty street, next to
Robinson’s Service Station.
Curtis L. Middleton
Telephone 100 BLAKELY, GA.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank you for the
business given us in 1936.
With a larger and better stock in
1937, we solicit a share of your
patronage and we will give you the
best price possible.
TARVER HARDWARE &
FURNITURE CO.
The Nazi censorship now extends
to inscriptions on tombstones. An
infraction of its ruling will consti
tute a grave offense.—Atlanta Con
stitution.
Georgia Tech’s Yellow Jackets
defeated the Golden Bears of Cali
fornia in one of the final football
games of the year in Atlanta last
Saturday, the score being 13-7.
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
1 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.
1936 =1937
The Passing of the Old Year
and the Coming of the New
For the liberal patronage
enjoyed by this paper du
ring the year coming to a
close, we are profoundly
grateful. For the coming
year we pledge our efforts
anew to espouse every
cause and movement tend
ing to the benefit and suc
cess of our city and county,
and in this effort earnestly
solicit the co-operation of
our fellow citizens.
May the joys and happi
ness which you have had
during the present Yuletide
season be followed by a
most prosperous and hap
py New Year is the sin
cere wish of-
THE PUBLISHERS OF THE
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