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ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM OFFICE OF
-:- THE COUNTY AGENT -:-
FAIR—
I wish to call to the attention of
the fanners the fair that is to be
held at Blakely from October 12
through the 16th. It is the intention
of those who are sponsoring this fair
to display a variety of educational
exhibits which will be worth your
time to see. Fairs can and should
be educational. The present out
look is for an excellent display. In
the behalf of the American Legion,
I wish to invite each and every
farmer to select their choice produce
and place them on exhibit.
Excellent entertainment has been
arranged for. A series of free acts
together with band will furnish
amusement in addition to the educa
tional value of the agricultural ex
hibits.
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COTTON—
Farmers who have not brought in
their cotton sales slips to the county
agents office should do so at once
if they have any idea of qualifying
for the Cotton Price Adjustment
Payment.
The Banks are now making loans
on cotton.
AUSTRIAN WINTER PEAS—
Now is an ideal time to sow Aus
trian winter peas. Don’t forget that
there is an opportunity to increase
your payment in the planting of
Austrian peas. There is also an op
portunity to earn an additional pay
ment by applying acid phosphate to
Austrian peas.
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A report on cotton prices, cloth j
prices, and mill margins covering 17 |
constructions of cloth over a period
of years has just been issued by the
U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Eco
nomics, and contains data showing
prices and margins by months since
the 1925-26 season. Mill margins,
or the difference between raw cot
ton prices and cotton cloth prices,
are significant from the standpoint
of both cotton producers and con- [
sumers. They have an important
bearing upon the quality of cotton
consumed and the prices which con
sumers pay for cotton textiles.
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PEANUTS—
I have just received a letter from
the manager of the Georgia, Ala
bama, Florida Peanut Association
stating that they expect to be in
full operation within the next few
days. Many of the warehouses are !
storing peanuts free of charge until,
the Association starts buying pea-|
nuts. I have also been informed that
this association will pay for the pea
nuts bought with a draft that can
be cashed at full face value at any
bank.
The price scale for peanuts is as
follows:
No. 1. Spanish peanuts $65.00.
No. 2. Spanish peanuts $61.00.
No. 1. Runner peanuts $57.00,
' No. 2. Runner peanuts $53.00,
Farmers are urged to sort out any |
damaged peanuts while thrashing and |
do all they can to market the highest
grades of peanuts. There is a wide
difference between the oil stock and
the higher grade of peanuts. Some-I
times the damaged stack or a portion
of the stack will lower the quality
of an entire load and result in a
tremendous loss to the farmer.
HEROES OF AMERICAN HISTORY
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/Abraham
Lincoln WWj®
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*V* > . 1 Lincoln, who wo* bora
'XJ p in a log cabin, kept a
country store, floated
Lincoln, the master poli- NW down the Mississippi
hc.an. who became Presi- on a flaf b o ® l - studied
dent treed the slaves. t law to his spare time,
i made the Gettysburg Ad- ‘[U' SK<l ™ famous as a
dress, led the nation lAtaSaMKW gfR tri ol lawyer, loved Ann
through a great civil war Rutledge, mourned her
and preserved the Union! * passing, and traveled
» And in his moment of vic- JASES’J over ,he countryside
’ lory died at the hands of : debating the slavery
a crazed assassin a . question with his politi-
f homely backwoodsman cal opponent Stephen
who will forever be re- w" Douglas.
vered as one of the qrand
est men of all time!
C Grosset A Dunlap.—WNU Service.
The Bureau of Agricultural Eco
: nomics informs us that although the
' increase in farm income from July
I to August was less than seasonal, the
1 August income from farm market
ings was $131,000,006 higher than
a year earlier. The increased in-
■ come in August, as compared with a
year earlier, was due entirely to the
larger receipts from the sale of
crops, as income from livestock and
livestock products was slightly lower
than in August of 1936. The princi
pal crops contributing to the increas
ed income were cotton, cottonseed,
wheat, fruit, and tobacco. Total in
come from farm marketings in
August amounted to $763,000,000,
compared with $740,000,000 in July
and $635,000,000 in August, 1936.
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People from all sections of the
state are now planning their annual
pilgrimage to the Southeastern Fair,
which this year extends from October
7-16 and features the Atlanta Cen
tenial celebration. Fair-goers al
ways see some top-notch agricultural
exhibits and this year should he no
exception. Georgia farmers and their
families never fail to get some new
ideas and some added inspiration
from their visit to the Southeastern
Fair.
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SURPLUS PEANUTS
TO BE BOUGHT TO
AID GROWER’S PRICE—
The Georgia-Florida-Alabama Pea
nut Association, of Camilla, Georgia,
will buy farmers’ stock peanuts
grown by Georgia producers in 1937
at prices authorized in an offer by
the Agricultural Adjustment Admin
istration, according to E. B. Beasley,
president of the association. The
AAA’s offer puts into effect a pro
gram to divert a portion of the 1937
peanut crop to oil and by-products
and increase returns to growers for
their 1937 crop.
Under this program the Associa
tion will pay $65 per ton for U. S.
■ No. 1 Southeastern Spanish, s6l par
I ton for U. S. No. 2 Southeastern
Spanish, $57 per ton for U. S. No.
1 Runners, and $53 per ton for U. S.
No. 2 Runners. AU prices are for
peanuts delivered to the Association’s
warehouse. The Association is also
permitted to purchase South Carolina
and Tennessee peanuts on the same
price scale.
The diversion program was pre
pared in cooperation with growers at
meetings held in Virginia, North
Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
Texas and Washington, D. C.
Through offers to the Georgia-1
Florida, Alabama Association and
three other regional peanut pro
ducers’ cooperatives for diversion of
peanuts, the Agricultural Adjust
ment Administration aims to prevent
prices to growers from falling be
low the authorized prices.
The cooperatives will buy directly
from producers, divert the peanuts
from edible uses, and sell them under
Contract to crushing mills for pro
duction of oil and by-products.
If demand for edible consumption
develops, the associations will sell
part of their supplies back into the
edible trade. Under the terms of the
program, the Agricultural Adjust
ment Administration authorizes the
purchases and offers to reimburse
the associations for losses from diver
ion purchases.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
ECONOMIC
HIGHLIGHTS
Happenings That Affect the Din
ner Pails, Dividend Checks and
Tax Bills of Every Individual.—
National and International Prob
lems Inseparable from Local
Welfare.
To put it mildly, the business out
look today is extremely confused.
On the other hand, it is predicted
that this winter’s domestic commerce
will be best since 1929, with retail
sales in some lines perhaps exceeding
the boom-time figure. On the other,
business leaders are seriously disturb
ed—and many of them are plainly
pessimistic as to the trend of future
events.
This anomaly is easily explained.
For in the view of executives, the
short-term out look is favorable, and
the long-term outlook is bad. Pur
chasing power is up, farm income is
at a six-year high, consumer goods
are moving rapidly. Yet the unrest
in Europe, the tangled political situa
tion at home, including the threat of
more government in business, the ap
parent certainty of higher taxes, the
prospect of still more serious labor
disturbances, and the nervousness of
security investors and speculators are
retarding factors.
As everyone knows, the stock
market took its biggest drop in years
a few weeks ago. Values are far be
low their spring and early summer
levels. And while the stock market
is not necessarily an accurate barome
ter of actual business conditions, it
doe pretty closely reflect the views
of finance on both big and small
levels, and represents credit, capital
and reserve spending power. Expla
nations of the drop varied, and dis
closed the opposed schools of thought
now in existence. Stock market of
ficials ascrobed the collapse as being
due mainly to excessively strict regu
lating by the SEC, which has largely
eliminated speculative operators who
in the past could be trusted to take
up much of the slack in thin markets.
Government officials, such as SEC
head James Landis, who has recently
resigned to become Dean of Law at
Harvard, defended the regulatory
policy, intimated that still more
stringent regulation may be neces
sary. Whether the Landis’ point of
view is right or wrong, such a policy
evidently has a dampening effect on
large industry.
So far as the political situation
is concerned, all is chaos. President
Roosevelt’s sweep around the coun
try, in the view of most commenta
tors, is designed to give him a chance
to meet and see people, to use his
personality, and to enlist public sup
port in his campaign against the con
servative wing of his party. The
President, as he has said in almost
so many words, is now envisioning
a “second New Deal” which involves
still further enlarging Federal au
thority, new and restrictive legisla
tion dealing with business practices,'
notably in the field of wages and
hours, and a lessening of power of I
the Federal judiciary. There is still |
talk that a special session may be j
called late this fall. And it is known
that the Administration will present;
an ambitious and inclusice “must”
program before the second session of
the 75th Congress, which convenes
in January, including re-introduction
of a Supreme Court “packing” bill.
Evidence is not lacking that Mr.l
Roosevelt’s popular following has
diminished—the Black Klu Klux Klan
disclosures are perhaps the most seri
ous blow he has received. But it
cannot yet be aid with accuracy that
a majority of the voters are no long
er willing to follow his lead.
In some quarters it appears that
war scares have been exaggerated—
and in others they have been too
much minimized. A major war could
not help but tremendously affect
American industry, whether we be
come involved as belligerents or not.
General expert view is that there will
be no war next year—but that there
will be one in 1939, when Europe’s
vast rearmament program is more or
less completed. American foreign
i policy has so far been careful, even
j timid—as it must. We are in the
delicate position of attempting to
I keep clear of war—yet having to
maintain our prestige in the interest
of American citizens and residents
abroad. Hot-heads criticize Secre
tary Hull for what they think is
vacillation. Cooler heads generally
approve his policy, think that he is
right in seeking to feel our way gent
ly and carefully.
There is talk of an entirely new
' gross earnings tax on business. This,
1 coming on top of the preent corpora
; tion tax, the profits and loss levy,
the surplus tax and other taxes,
might make it impossible for busi
ness to maintain expected dividends,
i even n a time of heavy orders. There
UNCLE NED AND HIS
TEXAS WRANGLERS
AT JAKIN SCHOOL
Uncle Ned and his Texas Wrang
: lers, recently added attraction on [
the famous WSB and WAGA Cross'
Roads Follies radio broadcast, will!
stage their rollicking, uproarious'
radio rodeo at the Jakin High
School, Oct. 13, at 7:30 o’clock, un
der the auspices of the Jakin basket
ball team.
Uncle Ned and his Texas Wrang
lers, picturesquely costumed in their
ten-gallon somber and colorful
cow-puncher regalia, offer a light
running, fast-moving and refreshing
round-up of fun, foolishness, fine
music and fine entertainment. Sing
ly and as a troupe their entire per
formance is keyed on a wholesome,
good-humored, human-interest theme
that appeals to every member of the
family.
is no organized movement behind
such a tax, however. Business is
worried about the general tax policy,
and about the continued government
deficits which will require heavy new
taxes of some kind—unless an un
looked-for retrenchment in govern
ment spending occurs.
In conclusion, it should be pointed
out that some experts feel that the
present business recession is less im
portant than it seems, that the politi
cal and tax situation will work out
without doing too much damage. Best
guess is: The short-term and tax situ
ation will work out without doing too
much damage. Best guess is: The
short-term outlook for commerce is
favorable, and the long-term outlook
is in the laps of the gods.
According to Business Week of
September 18, a dollar of earning
power could be bought for $11.49 at
that time, as against $18.17 a year
before.
Stop! Look! Listen!
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BEAUTY SELECTS WINNER? FOR
CENTENNIAL
L—■* *F WHS.
Miy W
Miss Lorraine Mayfield (Miss Atlanta, 1937) helping select winners for
the outstanding Poultry Show under the direction of Jno. P. Frasch.
This is the outstanding show of
the South. Having been set aside by
breeders of national reputation as
the proving ground of quality.
Arthur O. Schilling, of Rochester,
New York, artist and Illustrator, will
judge poultry. We have an up-to
the minute building, well ventilated
and lighted; premiums the best to
be found. Atlanta merchants and
others have generously donated sil
ver trophies and various other kinds
of merchandise through the Greater
Atlanta Poultry Breeders Associa
tion. We have already received in
quiries from several states for en
try blanks and have sold three times
as many booths for displaying
chicks, feeds, and equipment as we
did last year.
Our bantams and turkeys have
grown in numbers unbelievable.
Classes in Plymouth Rocks, Leg
horns, etc., are unsurpassed. Be
on hand when the judging is fin
ished and see who has the handker
chief passed to them. We are ex
pecting a great show.
The poultry business is one of the
four largest farming industries, and
is in the billion dollar class. The
World’s Poultry Congress will be
held in the United States in 1939.
The Atlanta Pigeon Club Is put
ting on its ninth annual show and
it is recognized as one of the best
in the country. Nearly every state
in the Union is represented here.
They will have eight judges. Art
Seelbinder, Memphis; Harry C.
Read the Advertisements
in this Issue o£ The News
Weber, Hagerstown; Ralph Nolting,
Little Rock; W. A. Meyers, Cincin
nati; C. R. Humber, Columbus; W.
Kenneth Stringer, Turner Collins
and Irving DeGaris, Atlanta Na
tional Pigeon Association and any
other banding organization of spe
cialty club bands will be recognized.
In this show you will find some
of the finest racing birds in the
world. The best of the breeds in
fancy and utility birds.
The Atlanta Rabbit Breeders’ Club
is doing a fine job on the rabbit
show. Premiums have been raised
and they have selected James Blythe,
of Pittsburgh, Penna., to do the
judging. They always have a good
rabbit show. These most interesting
little animals at one time were
kept for pets only. Today, it is
a big business, as well as a hobby.
There is one rabbit breeding center
in Los Angeles County, California,
where the market handles 50,000
fryers per week, which runs more
than 2,000 tons of rabbit meat per
year. The fur brings hundreds of
thousands of dollars per year. When
you buy your fall hat, ask your
haberdasher what it is made of,
and more than likely, he will tell
you rabbit fur. When made up in
garments, rabbit fur is sold under
many names, such as Arctic Fox,
Baltic Tiger, Squirrellette, Coney,
Lopan, etc.
All in all, we have one of the
greatest shows to be found. Have
visitors from far and near, and al!
have a good time.