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ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM OFFICE OF
-:- THE COUNTY AGENT
People having hogs for sale should
list them with the County Agent at
once. As soon as a sufficient num
ber is listed a cooperative hog sale
will be arranged. The agent will help
those who wish to sell, before the
regular hog sale date, find a satis
factory market for their hogs.
Farmers are urged to sow more
small grain for stock grazing. This
not only furnishes a cheap palatable
supply of feed, but also helps to
central erosion. Small grain should
occupy a larger place in our farm
ing system than it now does.
AMPLE SUPPLIES OF
FFED GRAINS WILL
AID POULTRYMEN—
County Agent J. E. Leger today
called attention to the October poul
try and egg situation report of the
United States Bureau of Agricultural
Economics which indicated a more
favorable outlook for poultrymen
after the first of the year.
Abundant supplies of feed grains,
especially wheat, are expected to
bring feed prices down, he said. On
the other hand, egg prices are ex
pected to be somewhat higher next
year than they were during 1937.
“While the favorable feed situa
tion will probably result in a larger
hatch in 1938, indications point to a
smaller supply of poultry in the first
half of next year, as compared with
the corresponding period of this year.
“Increased production of fall and
■winter broilers is likewise indicated,”
he continued, “but prices are not ex
pected to be depressed to a cor
responding extent, in view of the gen
erally reduced meat supply.”
The county agent pointed out that
the consumption of poultry in the
first half of 1937 was much larger
than for the same period last year.
This situation is indicated by the
large out-of-storage movement, and
by the big reduction in laying flocks
from January 1 to July 1 of this year.
In the last six months of 1937,
however, reduced consumption is like
ly because of smaller marketings, he
declared. For the same reason, con
sumption in the first half of 1938 is
expected to continue low.
The agent quoted the report as in
dicating that this winter will mark
a low point in the size of farm lay
ing flocks, but that they will again
be larger by next fall.
PINELAND PROFITS
MAY BE AIDED BY
GOOD MANAGEMENT—
Declaring that “money is growing
in trees over thousand of acres of
Georgia pineland”, County Agent J.
E. Leger this week urged all Early
county farmers to give more atten
tion to the management of their
timber tracts.
He cited results of tests which
show that it is possible to increase
the annual growth rate of pine tim
ber up to four times the rate of un
managed woods by treating the tim- I
ber as a crop. He said the crop, if i
properly handled, can be harvested;
at sto 10 year intervals for genera-1
tions to come.
On the other hand, the agent said,!
if indiscriminate and clear cutting is I
practiced and burning of woodlands,
is allowed, then income from our'
Georgia pine woods is likely to •
dwindle, and there may even be an
actual shortage of merchantable tim
ber in some localities.
A recent survey by the United
States Forest Service reveals that
pine growth amounts to 8 million
cords a year in an area of 42 mil
lion acres, extending from North
Carolina along the Atlantic coasts to
Texas and inland approximately 150
miles.
“Wood-using industries already es
tablished, and not including the new
pulp mills, are using more than 7
million cords a year, while the 12
big pulp mills now under construc
tion or completed in this area, are
expected to use more than 2 million
cords. Thus, this use will exceed
the present growth by a million cords
a year, and, in some areas, it is
probable that nearly twice the pres
ent growth will be consumed.”
The new pulp mills, the agent
pointed out, provide a market for
trees that are above 5 inches in
diameter and below pole or sawlog
size, but such trees are capable of
rapid and increasing growth in
volume. He urged that t mrafhez
volume. He urged that farmers cut
only the poorer trees, so that the bet
ter ones will grow faster. Then,
they can be sold later for better
prices as sawlongs, poles, piling, and
the like, and will even produce a
heavier yield of pulpwood.
NATURE’S METHOD OF
CONTROLLING EROSION
IS USED BY SERVICE-
HOW nature’s method of controll
ing erosion with vegetation is being
employed by the Soil Conservation
Service in virtually every phase of
its program is the theme of the
attractively illustrated September is
sue of SOIL CONSERVATION, of
ficial publication of the Service.
“Even erosion engineering leans
more heavily on vegetative materials
than on the more spectacular ma
sonry,” Dr. H. H. Bennett, chief of
the Service, points out in a foreword
to this Issue, in which he comments
that “As I travel agricultural Ameri
ca, I am gratified at the compara
tive absence of grandiose ideas on
how to conserve soil and water.”
“On projects, on cooperating
farms, on adjacent farms,” he ex
plains, “the trend is toward grass,
toward soil building crops, toward
contour cultivation, toward a scheme
of soil defense that may be embrac
ed readily by the average producer
and at the same time permit him to
live off the land.”
The part that vegetation is play
ing in erosion control—through the
ecological cycle from tiny pioneer
grasses and legumes to trees, the
giants of the vegetable kingdom—is
elaborated upon in articles on slope
usage, propagation, grass seed, wild
life management, flood control, eco
logical principles, the engineering
phase, and farm planning.
A brief article from the South
eastern Region showing how “Vegeta
tion Cuts Costs,” a feature story en
titled, “New Life for the Old Farm,”
book reviews, and a section giving
references to bulletins on the general
subject of vegetation used in erosion
control, make up the contributions to
this issue.
SOIL CONSERVATION has a very
limited free distribution. Private in
dividuals and others who may wish
to obtain the magazine regularly can
do so by sending their subscriptions
to the Superintendent of Documents,
Washington, D. C. The subscription
price is $1 per year.
FARM BRIEFS—
By Whitney Tharin,
Extension Editor
Extension Economist C. G. Garner
informs us that Georgia farmers who
have corn in excess of their needs
this year will be given help in dis
posing of their surplus. The market
ing specialist says he has already had
some inquiries from prospective buy
ers and has asked county agents to
inform him whether they will have
an available supply. So, if you will
have some corn to sell, tell your
county agent about it at once.
♦ * *
Under the terms of the Bankhead-
Jones Farm Tenant Act, 635,003 has
been made available for loans to
competent Georgia tenants, farm
laborers, and share-croppers for the
purchase of family-sized farms. Only
Texas and Mississippi receiving larg
er sums than Georgia. The distri
bution of the $9,500,000 provided
by Congress for the fiscal year end
ing June 30, 1938, was based on
farm population and the prevalence
of tendency in each state and terri
tory. The program will be admin
istered by the Farm Security Ad
ministration.
* * *
Highest October farm wages in
7 years are reported by the U. S.
Bureau of Agricultural Economics.
The October 1 index of farm wage
rates was 126 per cent of pre-war,
compared with 110 on October 1 last
year. In mid-summer this year, the
index was 123 per cent of pre-war.
While farm wages have increased
about 50 per cent in the last five
years, they are still about 20 per
cent less than in the pre-depression
years, as related to farm prices, farm
income, and city wage earnings. In
cidentally, the buying power of the
farmers’ income this year will be
virtually back at the 1929 level.
♦ * *
This year’s crop production—
largest since 1929—is only 6 per
cent less than the all-time peak,
reached in the year 1920. And al
though crop production per capita
of the population is much less than
during the 1920’5, it is 5 to 10 per
cent above the downtrend of pro
duction per capita since 1905. This
latest analysis was made by special
ists with the Bureau of Agricultural
Economics.
♦ • ♦
Cotton farmers are receiving less
for their cottonseed this year than
in any year since 1915, with the ex
ception of the depression years 1931
to 1933, but something is going to
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
be done about it. The Agricultural
Adjustment Administration has an
nounced that the Federal Surplus
Commodities Corporation will buy
cottonseed oil in a program designed
to strengthen cottonseed prices to
cotton farmers by diverting cotton
seed oil from normal commercial
channels. Both crude and refined
oil will be purchased and manufac
tured into shortening for distribu
tion by state relief agencies to per
sons on relief.
* * *
A report showing the volume of
trading in cotton for future delivery
from 1925 down to last year, has
just been issued by the Bureau of
Agricultural Economics. It is the
first publication given these data by
months and by markets. The bulle
tin is entitled “Sales of Cotton for
Future Delivery, 1925-26 to 1935-
36.”
If you have the several recently
announced government programs all
mixed up in your mind, write to the
Agricultural Extension Editor, Uni
versity of Georgia, Athens, Ga., for
a copy of Questions and Answers,
which will help to set you straight
on such matters as Cotton Price Ad
justment payments, Commodity Cred
it Corporation loans, 1938 Agricul
tural Conservation Program, and so
on.
CEDAR SPRINGS NEWS
Rev. W. P. Axson was a dinner
guest of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
■Smith last Sunday.
Misses Laverne and Bobbie Pyle
called on Misses Reba and Abbie
Lay Sunday afternoon.
The delegates from the Beulah
Baptist church to the Bethel Asso
ciation are: Mr. Delmar Napier, Mr.
Charles Smith, Mr. J. D. Hoover,
Mr. Wilk Lay, Mrs. J. H. Crozier and
Miss Della Mae Plymail.
Miss Mayme Martin and Miss
Merle Reed, who are teachers at
Hilton, were home for the week end.
Miss Ruby Herring had as her
guest Sunday afternoon her sister.
Mrs. J. H. Crozier, Jr., has re
turned home, after visiting relatives
in Valdosta and other points in
Georgia.
Mr. Rutherford Napier is visiting
relatives in Valdosta.
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Baughman mo
tored over to Dothan Sunday after
noon.
Mr. W. M. Philmon and family
visited Mr. D. E. Martin and fam
ily Sunday afternoon.
Folks, don’t forget the Halloween
Carnival Friday night at the school
house.
ARMY NEEDS MEN
The Dothan Recruiting Office has
a number of vacancies in the Pana
ma Canal Zone, Hawaiian Island and
Fort Benning Georgia, for men de
siring to enlist in the United States
Army.
Regular vacancies are available in
the Infantry, Field Artillery and
Engineers, while a number of special
ly qualified men are needed in the
Coast Artillery, Air Corps, Quarter
master Corps, Ordance Department
and Medical Department.
Persons interested in enlistment
should apply to Sergeant Herbert
Gustofson, Post Office Building.
Dothan, Alabama.
The famous Aladdin and General
Electric floor, table, bridge and
boudoir lamps at BECKHAM’S.
FOR RENT— The old Charlie
Stuckey house on Church street.
See DR. W. A. FUQUA.
A $5.00 framed velvet painting or
$5.00 table free with every $50.00
cash purchase at BECKHAM'S.
LOST— Small white billy goat,
with rope on. Strayed last Wednes
day. 25c reward. WILLIS CAIN.
Dining Room, Bed Room, and Liv
ing Room Suites that will please you
at BECKHAM’S.
Meadow strips provide a broad
highway in the erosion control sys
tem along which surplus water can
safely travel from terraces to sta
bilized areas such as pasture or
woodland.
Up in the Morning
Feeling Fine!
The refreshing relief so many folks
say they get by taking Black-
Draught for constipation makes
them enthusiastic about this famous, pure
ly vegetable laxative.
Blaek-Draught puts the digestive tract
in better condition to act regularly, every
day, without your continually having to
take medicine to move the bowels.
Next time, be sure to try
A COOD LAXATIVS
SUNDAY SCHOOL
... LESSON...
THE DRINK PROBLEM
Lesson for October 31st. Galatians
5:16-24.
Golden Text Galatians 5:16.
By REV. CHAS. E. DUNN
The liquor interests, with the aid
of the best talent in the advertising
profession, are investing large sums
of money with the expectation of
popularizing the use of alcoholic
beverages. To this end our popu
lar magazines are filled with seduc
tive advertisements proclaiming the
virtues of strong drink. But every
well informed person knows that
these broadsides are a subtle fraud,
a specious, deceitful effort to give
the impression that alcohol is a bene
ficial food instead of a deadly pois
on.
What are the actual facts? All
competent authorities agree that
while alcohol is usually taken as a
stimulant, it is actually a narcotic
whose main effect is to depress,
weaken and slow up man’s faculties.
To be sure, its immediate conse
quence is to cheer and exhilarate,
but this temporary elation soon
gives way to prolonged dullness, ill
temper and misery. Then, too, while
alcohol has some value as a medi
cine, its significance as a healer of
disease has been greatly exag
gerated. Indeed staff physicians of
leading hospitals are now abandon
ing it entirely.
Every organ of the body is likely
to experience the baneful effects of
alcohol. But its most significant vic
tim is the brain. The drinking man
is less keenly aware of his surround- :
ings, and his judgment is less acute
that that of his sober brother. Al
cohol is second only to heredity as a
cause of insanity.
Here we have one explanation of
the appalling rise in the number of
automobile casualties. Over 7 per
cent of all drivers involved in fatal
accidents, and 11 per cent of all
pedestrians killed are under the in
fluence of liquor. And the worst
offender is the driver with only one
or two drinks in him who believes
himself to be in full possession of
all his faculties.
PIANOS FOR SALE
We have in your vicinity onel
small grand, one spinet, and one
small upright piano. Will sell at a
greatly reduced price. If you are
going to buy a piano in next two
years, will pay you well to investi- i
gate the prices of these pianos.
Write factory representative, Dept. |
W, 2305 No. 14th Ave., Birming
ham, Ala. 28-3 t
i IT’S COMING....
i BARNETT BROS. RI^G :
ICIRCUSI
i Blakely Wednesday, Nov. Q 1
: —ONE DAY ONLY— Jj
j Huge Menagerie j
• Low Prices: Z-SHOWS-Z •
• Children 25 c 2 P. M. and 8 P. M. •
• Adults . . . . 35c Doors Open 1 and 7P. M. •
• •
• Herds of Elephants, Host of Clowns, Acres of Tents—
• Worth Going Miles to See. •
• ALL NEW. ALL DIFFERENT, I
• ~~ ~ •
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to take. Creomulsion is a medicinal
combination designed to aid nature in
soothing and healing infected mucous
membranes by allaying irritation and in
flammation and by aiding in loosening
and expelling the germ-laden phlegm.
The Medical Profession has for many
years recognized the beneficial effect of
Beechwood Creosote in the treatment
c^es t colds, and bronchial
irritations. A special process was worked
°ut by a chemist, for blending Creosote
with other ingredients and now in
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for Increased Power
You’ll find more than 20 per cent more power in the
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meet today’s exacting, ever-increasing tractor require
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The new Farmall 20 has ample power on the draw
bar, on the belt, and through the power take-off. It
develops that power efficiently on distillate, kero
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efficiency.
Come in and find out more about this tractor and its
dependable, economical performance. Or, you may
be interested in the other Farmalls—the smaller F-12
and the larger F-30. We’ll be glad to point out their
advantages.
Middleton Hdw. Co.
Blakely, : Georgia
READ THE ADS IN THIS ISSUE OF THE NEWS
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Creomulsion is one preparation that
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help loosen and expel the germ-laden
phlegm. When coughs, chest colds and
bronchial troubles—due to common colds
—hang on, get a bottle of Creomulsion
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and if you are not satisfied with the re
lief obtained, the druggist is authorized
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Creomulsion is one word—not two, and
it has no hyphen in it. Ask for it plain
ly, see that the name on the bottle is
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