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Blakely, Ga., Oct. 7, 1937
HOW GOOD IS “NATIVE”
GEORGIA BEEF?
How good is “native” Georgia
beef? Is it as good as western
beef? What should a housewife
know to be able to select good cuts
of “native” Georgia beef? How
should “native” Georgia beef be
cooked to best bring out its delicious
flavor and palatafoility? What are
some good recipes for cooking “na
tive” Georgia beef?
In view of the increasing im
portance of the livestock industry in
Georgia, the Early Gounty News
started out to find the answers to
these questions. If we are going
to be important producers of live
stock, why shouldn’t we know all
there is to know about selecting and
cooking the fine “native” beef raised
in Georgia?
When Georgia first began pro
ducing livestock on an important
commercial scale, there developed a
prejudice against “native” beef.
Most folks preferred Western meat.
They thought it more tender and
better flavored than “native” meat.
In the beginning, it probably was.
But time moves on. Georgia farm
ers are producing better livestock and
improved livestock means better
beef. Georgia farmers have learned
better feed methods, and better
feed methods have resulted in de
licious, tender cuts of beef.
The old-style, stringy, wire-grass
fed cattle of the earlier days have
disappeared in many sections of
Georgia but the prejudice against
’“native” beef lingers on.
Partly to help remove that preju
dice, partly to help Georgians know
more about the deliciousness of “na
tive" Georgia beef, the Early Coun
ty News sought the answers to the
questions in the first paragraph
above.
They will be answered in two ar
ticles prepared especially for The
News by Miss Katherine Lanier, food
preservation and utilization special
ist of the Agricultural Extension
Service. When you have read the
answers, try one or all of the six
excellent recipes for cooking “na
tive’ Georgia beef. Miss Lanier’s
first article, entitled “Selecting ‘Na
tive’ Georgia Beef,” will appear in!
next week’s paper. Her second on,
"Cooking ‘Native’ Georgia Beef”'
will appear the following week.
Miss Lanier, a native of Savannah J
and a graduate of the University of I
Georgia, has been in Extension |
Service work since 191<j. She was
a District Home Demonstration
Agent in Southeast Georgia for sev
eral years before joining the state
office staff in Athens in 1933. She
has given food utilization and cook
ing demonstrations throughout the
state and is widely recognized as
an outstanding authority in the field
of food preservation and utilization.
Are you still wondering “HOW
GOOD IS ‘NATIVE’ GEORGIA
BEEF?” Watch for the answer in
Miss Lanier’s series of articles and
recipes starting next week in the
Early County News.
Fewer chickens were saised thia
year than in any other year in which j
records are available from 1927 to
1937.
KNOW WOUR TIMBER
By Emily Woodward
Beware of speeding! No, this isn’t
a warning to motorists; it is a warn
ing to the Georgia timber owner, for
there is danger ahead if he is not
cautious about marketing his trees.
Rushing headlong to sell trees for
pulpwood, when those trees can be
turpentined over a period of years
and then sold as profitable for pulp
wood, will bring wreckage to the
owners’ pocket-book.
Believe it or not as you like, Mr.
Timber-owner, but it might be well
for you to do some figuring for your
self with these figures.
Take a ten-inch tree. Leased sot
turpentining at 5c a face per year,
this tree will yield 20c over a 4 year
period. The same tree if soid for
pulpwood about 1-16 of a
cord. Applying optimism to the es
timate of stumpage sold for pulp
wood and placing it at one dollar
a cord, the tree would put 17c in the
owner’s pocket. With stumpage at
50c, this amount would, of course, be
cut in half. Protected from fire
turpentined for four years and then
sold for pulpwood, this same tree
would leave 28c to 37c in the owner’s
pocket. This difference per tree is
too much to disregard.
Long-leaf and slash pines are mul
tiple-use trees. Cultivated properly,
protected carefully, cut wisely, they
will yield a well-balanced income,.
Dense stands often need to be thin
ned to get the best growth. This
thinning results in rapid development
of thrifty crowns in the trees left
standing, and this in turn results in
increased resin yields. With the
thinnings turned to pulpwood, the
selected trees, after turpentining pe
riod Is over, can be turned to pulp
wood, poles and sawlogs.
Under the 1937 Agricultural crop
reduction program, benefits pay
ments have been made for confin
ing turpentine operations to trees
over 9 inches in diameter at 4 1-2
feet above the ground.
The speed mania of motorists is
taking a heavy human toll. Timber
owners, inclined to step on the gas
in marketing their trees will also
exact a heavy toll, a toll not only
from Georgia’s storehouse of natural
resources, but from their own
pockets as well.
Beware of speeding.
THE PRESS
RAMBLER
Georgia’s secretary of agriculture,
Columbus Roberts, is a realist. He
sees clearly the deficiencies and the
defects in the State’s farm economy
—and no one is doing more than he
to remedy them. But he sees also
the rich assets and opportunities. In
his recent talk before the Atlanta
Association of Credit Men he gave
both sides of the ledger. Georgia
now has many idle farms, large
numbers of people in the rural dis
tricts are still on relief, one-half of
the market value of the cotton crop
is spent in buying from distant
regions food necessaries which could
be produced at home. Neverthe
less, Georgia today has “the greatest
opportunity in the South for agricul
tural development.” Three factors
in particular, said Mr. Roberts, are
making for a new and wonderful era
of progress. They are rural electri
fication, the guarantee of a seven
months school term, and the build
ing of farm-to-market roads. No
where in the Union, we venture to
say, is there a more earnest or a
more enlighted agricultural leader
ship than in Georgia, a fact that fills
the years ahead with promise.—At
lanta Journal.
“Show me the man who on leaving
school continues to read for pleasure
and profit and I will show you an
educated man,” declared a well
known educator recently. In this
rapidly-changing state of living, it is
imperative that one reads in order
to keep abreast of what’s taking
place. Business men, employing
youths just graduated from high
school, insist that they keep up with
their reading. An old adage has it
that “reading maketh a full man.”
—Dawson News.
Many of us neglect many things
that would bring happiness to others
—a cheering word to the despondent,
a visit to the sick and afflicted, a
helping hand to the needy and dis
tressed. In our later years we real
ize how we might have been of much
assistance to others and yet have not
taken the time to do so. Time passes
swiftly and what we do ought to be
done quickly. We are entirely too
busy to do the little things that might
bring real joy to some one along
life’s pathway.—Adel News.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
SEE GEORGIA FIRST
(By LEE S. TRIMBLE, Vice-Prei.
& Manager, Chamber Commerce,
Macon, Ga.)
The above is a motto that
every civic club, each P.-T. A.
and all citizens might well
adopt in the interest of State
development as well as per
sonal enjoyment.
It would take weeks to give
reasonable attention to the
many places of scenic and his
toric value, “From Rabun’s
Gap to Tybee light”, across
the State and all about are
most interesting places to be
seen.
Eagle Rock or Mound at
Eatonton, Chehaw Park at Al
bany, Indian Springs near
Jackson, The Rock House on
Blood Mountain near Blairs
ville, Fort Mountain near Dal
ton, old Elizafield Plantation
near Darien, Kings Gap on
Pine Mountain near Chipley
are some of them.
In the center of the State,
according to the National Park
Service in Washington, will be
a center of archaeological in
terest at the Ocmulgee Nation
al Monument in Macon. Six
hundred acres here have yield
ed up more prehistoric evi
dences and data than any spot
of equal area in the United
States according to scientists.
On this tract, which was
once the site of Indian settle
ments, one after another of
generations, will be a museum
for the storage and exhibit of
Indian relics and “finds” of
historic interest. The ancient
Council Houses rebuilt to origi
nal specifications, and from
all these evidences the ways
and habits and customs of
these ancient Georgians are to
be recorded for the use and
instruction of students or
sightseers for all time to come.
There is no need to seek
diversion in distant places un
til our own State has been
explored. At the same time
your presence and interest
can stimulate further develop
ment so these sites can be made
into show places of nation
wide fame.
PLAY AT JAKIN
Stop, Look and Listen! Don’t fail
to see “Miss Blue Bonnet”, Wayne
P. Sewell production, the best show
of the season. Lots of laughs for
young and old at Jakin High School
auditorium, October the eighth at
eight o’clock.
The Cast is as follows:
Dr. Evans—Cooper Fort.
Mrs. Evans—Mrs. John Jackson.
Magnolia—Miss Eloise Baker.
Munerva—Mrs. W. T. Hudson.
Wes—'Mixon Williams.
Thad—Frank Fuller.
Burton Hills—Bradley Bridges.
Hickory Stout—Claude Sanders.
Sally—Lura Lay.
Susie—Jessie Merle Runnels.
Una—Eunice DuParet.
Kate—Leola Goodman.
Janie Bell—Lizzie Mae Stovall.
Blue Bonnet—Carolyn Rich.
Admission 15c and 25c.
Public Interest No. 1
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A HALF CENTURY AGO TODAY
Some Things of Interest That Happened
Fifty Years Ago.
(Excerpts from Early County News
of October 6, 1887.)
MISS Florence Beuchamp, of Seale,
Ala., is the guest of Mrs. W. C. Cook.
♦ * ♦
MIDDLING COTTON is bringing
8 1-2 cents in Blakely this week.
£ s|: 4:
BORN UNTO Mr. and Mrs. W. W.
Fleming, Jr., on October Ist, a baby
girl.
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PRESIDENT CLEVELAND and
wife left Washington on Friday on
their trip through the West and
South.
* * *
DISPLAY ADS this week repre
sent S. Manuel, H. C. Fryer &'Son,
Thos. Henderson, Smith & James,
B. L. Mclntosh.
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EARLY SUPERIOR COURT con
vened last Monday with Judge John
T. Clark on the bench and Solicitor
General John Guerry on hand. The
Grand Jury was organized by elect
ing T. C. Boyd, foreman, and S. W.
McGlamory as bailiff.
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Offhand you might think a
person rather queer eating
bones. Really it is we who are
queer, we North Americans
and our dainty Europeans an
cestors; for most peoples of the
world are bone eaters. They
eat the soft ends and the por
ous insides of the long bones,
they crunch and munch the
small bones of birds and little
animals entire and the Chinese
have even discovered how to
extract the important bone
mineral by the use of vinegar.
The well known Chinese dish
“sweet-sour spare-ribs” is made
by breaking the ribs into small
pieces and cooking them, with
any meat that happens to be
attached, in sweetened vine
gar. The resulting dish is so
rich in available calcium, the
essential bone mineral, that it
will easily supply the body’s
calcium need for a day.
How do these people know
that their bodies must have
calcium, a discovery which
Science has made only in re
cent years? How do the Chi
nese know that nursing and
pregnant mothers must have
an extra supply of calcium?
Yet they have a tradition by
which these mothers must be
provided with a special dish
made from the bones of pigs’
MR. S. E. BIRD and nephew, Mas
ter Gus Lasseter, have returned
from Atlanta.
♦ ♦ ♦
MR. HOWARD SHEFFIELD has
resigned as Solicitor of The County
Court and has gone to Athens to
enter the University of Georgia.
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MR. CHAS. H. SMITH (Bill Arp)
arrived in Blakely last Monday and
on Tuesday night delivered one of
his inimitable lectures to a large
audience. Mr. W. H. McDowell en,
tertained Bill Arp during his stay in
Blakely. }.
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Wade. September, 1887—Rainfall,
Wade. September, 1897 —Rainfall,
2 1-4 inches; mean temperture, 77 1-3
degrees; maximum, 97; minimum, 56.
For 1886—Rainfall, 9-16 inches;
mean temperature, 78 1-2 degrees;
maximum, 92, minimum, 60.
* * *
AMONG THE visiting lawyers at
court this week were: W. D. Kidd,
of Cuthbert; Clarence Wilson, J. D.
Rambo, S. C. Wills, B. R. Blocker,
Fort Gaines; H. C. Sheffield, Arling
ton; and C. C. Bush, Colquitt.
FOR m’li
BETTER HEALTH
Lsr Dr J. ROSS LYN EARP
Director, New Mexico Bureau of Public Health
BONE EATERS
feet cooked in vinegar. Who
told the American Indian to
prepare his tortillas with lime
water? You may answer these
questions. I will simply add
that racial wisdom is such that
we should offer lessons in diet
to other races with a good deal
of humility.
Our own experts seem to
have decided that we should
get our calcium from milk.
We need, says Professor Sher
man, one half to two thirds of
a gramme of calcium daily.
Children and mothers need a
gramme. To supply this we
must give them at least a quart
of milk every day. But if milk
does not agree, or if you can
not get pasteurized milk and
prefer not to take the risk of
drinking raw milk, then you
may take your calcium in the
form of dicalcium phosphate.
Or you may eat bones.
State highway departments surfac
ed 28,913 miles of road in 1936, ac
cording to reports to the Bureau of
Public Roads of the United States
Department of Agriculture.
SINGER SEWING MACHINES
Sales and Service
J. I. SUMNER,
Agents Blakely, Ga.
AN
CHEMURGY
Motoring around West Florida
a little while ago, I encountered doz
ens of farm motor trucks loaded
with pine cordwood. The farmers
were hauling logs to the paper mill
at Panama City, where 600 tons
of paper a day are made from pine
wood. It is a new and permanent
source of income for owners of pine
land, if they are careful not to cut
the trees faster than new ones grow.
The “slash” pine of the South grows
big enough for pulpwood in seven,
years, so the owner who cuts only
one-seventh of his wood every
year has a continuous source of
income. The demand for pulpwood
is growing fast. Four more big
paper mills are being built in
Florida, a dozen more elsewhere in
the South.
The discovery that Southern pine
makes good paper came out of a
chemical laboratory. It is the most
important item, sofar, in the new
movement which is called chemurgy.
That means the use of products of
the soil for industrial purposes.
Farming in the future will not be
centered on growing things to be
eaten, but on growing things to be
converted, by chemical industry, into
the materials of which a thousand
articles of commerce are made.
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COTTON
’Way down upon the Suwannee
River farmers are picking cotton
which sells for 25 cents a pound.
All over the South cotton growers
are in distress. A bumper crop and
the loss of important export markets
have reduced the price of ordinary
upland cotton. But the market for
Sea-Island cotton is growing faster
than the supply. Five thousand bales
of it will go to market from Madi
son county, Florida, in October, the
first important shipment from the
old Sea Island cotton belt since the
boll-weevil got into it in 1917. They
found away to kill the boll-weevil
before he reached the boll, and so
revived a dead industry.
Sea Island cotton has a finer
fiber and a longer staple than any
other cotton. It used to be used for
spinning lisle thread for fine stock
ings and underthings. Now its chief
use is in automobile tires, where the
greatest strength and flexibility are
needed. Tire makers grow much of
their own cotton in Arizona, but not
as good as the Sea-Island cotton.
That is another example of che
murgy. There is more money for
the farmer in growing the things of
which industry stands in need than
in growing things to eat.
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TUNG
One of the most interesting farms
I have ever seen is a 2,000-acre
grove of tung trees near Gainesville,
Florida. The tung tree grows nuts
which yield the most valuable oil
for the manufacture of fine varnish
es, lacquers and paints. This “China
wood oil” sells in the world markets
for 15 cents a pound or more, and
the market never gets all it wants.
A few years ago my friend David
Fairchild, the plant explorer, brought
tung nuts from China to America,
and now Florida, Mississippi and
Louisiana are producing a tenth of
the world’s supply. More chemurgy.
The tung tree gets its name from
the heart-shaped leaf, “tung” be
ing Chinese for “heart.” The leaves
are a glossy dark green and remain
on the trees the year around. The
wide-branching trees grow about 25
feet high, and a great field of them
in blossom is one of the most beauti
ful sights I have ever seen.
For many years to come growing
tungnuts for their oil is going to be
one of the most profitable forms of
agriculture in the South.
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CROPS
Such crops as I have been talking
about can’t be grown by all farm
ers, everywhere, of course. They
require conditions of soil and cli
mate which are to be found only in
limited areas. But chemurgy goes a
lot farther. The Farm Chemurgic
Council is at work all the time en
couraging chemists to find ways to
use the staple farm crops in industry,
or to find new crops, of industrial
value, which can be grown on wheat
land, corn land or potato land.
When we are going to reach the
point, in America, when there will
be a general demand for cheap alco
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