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ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM OFFICE OF
THE COUNTY AGENT -:-
PEANUT MARKETING
QUOTA REFERENDUM—
A referendum of farmers who
were engaged in 1940 in the produc
tion of peanuts picked and threshed
by mechanical means will be held
APRIL 26, 1941, pursuant to the
provisions of section 358(b) of the
Agricultural Adjustment Act of
1938, as amended, and in accord
ance with the instructions, PN-501,
prescribed by the Secretary of Ag
riculture, to determine whether
such farmers are in favor of or op
posed to marketing quotas for pea
nuts for the 1941, 1942 and 1943
crops. If two-thirds of the farmers
voting in the referendum favor mar
keting quotas, such quotas will be in
effect for the crops produced in
1941, 1942 and 1943. If more than
one-third of the farmers voting in
the referendum are opposed to mar
keting quotas fCr peanuts, no quota
will be in effect with respect to the
1941 crop.
Registration and Eligibility
to Vote
Any farmer who engaged in 1940
in the production of peanuts picked
and threshed by mechanical means is
eligible to vote. A register showing
the names of such persons will be
prepared by the county office. The
eligibility of any person to vote
will be challenged if his name is
not recorded on the registration list
prior to the date of the referendum.
Any farmer may check the registra
tion list in the county office to de
termine whether his name is listed
thereon.
Places for Balloting
The places for voting in the refer
endum will be as follows:
Rowena: Schoolhouse.
Damascus: Pickron’s Warehouse.
New Hope: Schoolhouse.
Colomokee: Courthouse.
Cedar Springs: Courthouse.
Jakin: Courthouse.
Hilton: Schoolhouse.
Blakely: Courthouse.
Lucile: Courthouse.
Freeman: Courthouse.
Urquhart: Courthouse.
The polls, in accordance with the
official instructions for holding the
referendum, shall be opened prompt
ly at 9:00 o’clock a. m., and closed
promptly at 5:00 o’clock p. m., on
the 26th day of April, 1941, local
standard time.
TO PEANUT PRODUCERS—
Several important changes have
been made in the peanut program.
It is very important that you become
fully acquainted with these changes
at once. There are points of vital
interest to you that cannot be fully
explained in this article. We are,
therefore, calling a series of meet
ings throughout the county. A full
schedule of the meetings are given
below. You should attend one or
more of these meetings and learn
the facts, as it is the only possible
way that you can be sure of securing
the most advantage under this pro
gram.
You will note that we have
planned to hold several meetings at
the same time with different persons
presiding at each meeting.
Meetings will be held in the va
rious communities as listed below :
New Hope: Schoolhouse, Friday,
April 18, 8:00 p. m.
Damascus: Schoolhouse, Friday.
April 18, 8:00 p. m.
Hilton: Schoolhouse, Friday, April
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18, 8:00 p. m.
Springfield: Schoolhouse, Friday,
April 18, 8:00 p. m.
Blakely: Courthouse, Saturday,
April 19, 3:00 p. m.
Special meetings for colored farm
ers will be held as listed below:
Early County Training School:
Monday, April 21, 8:00 p. m.
Blakely Colored School: Monday,
April 21, 8:00 p. m.
Jakin Colored School: Monday,
April 21, 8:00 p. m.
Damascus Colored School: Mon
day, April 21, 8:00 p. m.
Rowena Colored School: Wednes
day, April 23, 8:00 p. m.
In addition to the peanut program,
there will be a discussion on Farm
Organization.
U. S. D. A. ANNOUNCES
PROGRAM TO INCREASE
SUPPLIES OF SOME FOODS—
The Department of Agriculture
announced today an expansion of
the Ever-Normal Granary Program
into a food program designed to as
sure ample supplies for the United
States, Great Britain and other na
tions resisting aggression.
Under the expanded program, the
production of pork, dairy products,
eggs and poultry will be stimulated
through the support of prices over
the period ending June 30, 1943, at
levels remunerative to producers.
Assuring continuation of existing
price relationships and taking sea
sonal price variations into account,
the Department will make purchases
in the open market to support long
term prices (Chicago basis) at lev
els approximately as follows:
Hogs, cwt., $9.00.
Dairy products (basis of butter),
lb., 31c.
Chickens, lb., 15c.
Eggs, doz., 22c.
It was pointed out that these
prices would be subject to the cus
tomary commercial differentials for
market grades and qualities.
The government’s purchases in
the open market will be used to ac
cumulate reserve supplies of food.
These supplies can be used for trans
fer to the British and other coun
tries under the Lend-Lease Act; for
release upon the market in case of
unwarranted speculative price in
creases; to meet requests from the
Red Cross for shipment to war ref
ugee areas and for direct distribu
tion through school lunch programs
or through state welfare departments
to public aid families. Arrange
ments are also being made for a
full and complete coordination of
these purchases with those being
made for our armed forces.
Under the program, farmers will
be urged to: (a) increase pork pro
duction by feeding hogs to heavier
weights and by increasing farrowing
of pigs; (b) increase dairy produc
tion by feeding cows more grain
and by milking more cows; (c) en
courage additional production of
poultry by increasing the size of
flocks.
The Agricultural Adjustment Act
of 1938 provides that the Secretary
of Agriculture may remove opera
tion of marketing quotas in the
case of national emergency, or be
cause of a material increase in ex
port demand.
The Secretary said the plan to
increase the production of food em
phasized that national farm pro-
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
grams- are adjustment programs in
every sense of the word.
“Since these programs began, we
have pointed out that they
could be used to increase produc
tion,” Secretary Wickard said, “and
that farmers would like nothing bet
ter than an opportunity to prove
that fact.
“Furthermore, the soil conserva
tion that has taken place during
the past eight years has put farmers
in a position to produce more and
to produce it without the soil de
struction that took place during the
first World War.
“I do not want this food plan to
be misunderstood. This action does
not mean that we should scrap our
farm programs and rush out to
produce more of every farm com
modity without regard for our soil,
or what this country and the other
democracies will need. To do this
would be to repeat the mistakes of
the first war and would injure
everyone concerned.
“This is not the time to waste soil
fertility and farmers’ efforts by pro
ducing without regard to actual re
quirements. It is only common
sense to produce more of the com
we need and to hold down on pro
duction of the commodities we don’t
need and aren’t likely to need.”
CCC Is Congratulated
By the President On
Its Accomplishments
On the occasion of the eighth an
niversary of the organization of the
Civilian Conservation Corps Presi
dent Roosevelt sent the following
congratulatory message, through Di
rector McEntee, to the members of
the Corps:
The White House, Washington.
Dear Director McEntee:
Please convey to the- officials and
enrolled men of the Civilian Conser
vation Corps my heartiest congratu
lations on the fine record the CCC
has made over the eight years it
has been in operation.
As you well know, the Civilian
Conservation Corps was created on
April 5, 1933 to perform distinctly
civilian tasks of alleviating distress
caused by unemployment and to ad
vance a nationwide program for the
conservation and development of
such vital physical resources as tim
ber and top soil. In these fields, the
Corps has been a notable success.
I am impressed bv official figures
showing that more than 2,500,000
young men and war veterans who
have worked in the CCC camps have
preserved and developed natural re
source assets of untold value. These
impressive official figures show that
enrollees, hundreds of thousands of
whom had their first work exper
ience in the wholesome atmosphere of
the outdoor CCC camps, have plant
ed close to 2,500,000,000 trees for
reforestation and erosion control;
built 118,000 miles of truck trails
and minor roads; constructed 84,000
miles telephone lines; helped to in
troduce soil conservation on 20,000,-
000 acres of farm and range lands
and tremendously increased recre
ational facilities and the effective
ness of our forest fire fighting ma
chinery.
The Corps is a builder of the kind
of men this nation needs. Its pro
gram, based on such tested funda
mentals as good moral character,
hard work, high work performance
standards, thorough training on the
job, physical hardihood, active citi
zenship and love of country, has
benefited and improved the health
and usefulness of a sizable portion of
this country’s youth population. The
young men who profit by the oppor
tunities available in the Corps will
b e well fitted to serve the nation’s
present need for the cooperation of
every citizen.
Very sincerely yours,
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.
Blakely F. F. A. News
The chapter held a meeting last
Thursday, April 10. The meeting
came to order at two o’clock, with
President Herman Collier presiding.
Nearly one hundred per cent of the
members were present. Plans for
our annual Father and Son Banquet
were discussed. The banquet will
be held in the near future.
Two of the freshman girls who
have been studying agriculture late
ly gave very interesting talks on
what they have learned. They were
Ruth Ann George and Audrey Mob
ley. (The freshman boys have been
studying home economics, also.) Aft
er all business matters were dis
cussed, the meeting was adjourned.
The quartet and public speaker
plan to enter the competition at
Newton High School at some time
during this month.
—REPORTER.
BLAKELY CHAPTER NO. 282
ORDER EASTERN STAR
Holds regular meeting nights ev
ery second and fourth Thursday
nights, 7:30 o’clock p. m.
Mrs. Mary Lee Martindale,
Worthy Matron.
Mrs. Nora Scarborough,
Secretary.
NEW COTTON PROGRAM
GIVES SMALL FARMERS
MORE FOOD ACREAGE
The new Supplementary Cotton
Program will bring to all small farm
ers in the Southeastern Cotton States
an opportunity to carry out diversi
fied plans similar to those used suc
cessfully by Early County Farm Se
curity Administration borrowers, ac
cording to William T. Clearman, FSA
supervisor.
Fanners who take part in the new
program are eligbl e to receive a $3
payment for carrying out specified
food production practices. Mr. Clear
man pointed out that this payment
will enable many small farmers to
grow family gardens and set aside
additional acreage which heretofore
they could not afford to spare from
cotton production.
“Small, low-income cotton farmers
badly need that additional acreage
for the production of foods to be
consumed at home,” Mr. Clearman
stated. “A survey in 1937 in eight
Southern States by the Bureau of
Agricultural Economics showed that
if farmers had consumed all the
farm-grown products they needed,
an additional 5,800,000 acres of
cropland and 8,700,000 aCre>s of
pasture would have been required.
They needed an increase of 23 per
cent in cropland for grain, 11 per
cent for roughage, and 30 per cent
in pasture.”
During the crop year 1939, FSA
borrowers all over the country in
creased their net income by about
$60,000,000 largely as a result of
live-at-home crop practices. In that
year the value of food and feed pro
duced for farm and home use
amounted to more than $89,000,000.
In the Southeastern Cotton States,
FSA borrowers increased the value
of home4produced and home-con
sumed goods by more than 50 per
cent.
Under the Supplementary Cotton
Program farmers who voluntarily re
duce cotton acreage below the 1941
allotment, or 1940 measured acreage,
whichever is smaller, will receive
special cotton stamps, within pre
scribed limits, exchangeable in re
tail stores for cotton goods. The
rate of payment is 10 cents a pound
on the normal yield of the acreage
reduced, up to the maximum for each
family. Additional acreage taken
out of cotton may be used to grow
food crops, which have proved so
valuable for FSA borrowers, Mr.
Clearman pointed out.
Answering the call for “Food for
Defense”, an enlarged program for
food production sporsored by the
Farm Security Administration, the
local FSA offices are buzzing with
activity as plans for individual co
operation by each rehabilitation fam
ily in this county are determined.
Supervisor Clearman of the local
office advises that this program in
the Southeastern States calls for
special undertakings to produce ad
ditional food lequirements for “Na
tional Defense” as well as larger
production for home use.
“Each rehabilitation family in this
county will add 50 chickens to his
present flock and in addition will
take on one or more of three opera
tions to produce marketable products
needed in supplying England and her
allies as provided for in the fund allo
cation for food in the Lease-Lend Ap
propriation,” Mr. Clearman said.
Aided by supplemental loans, re
habilitation families will undertake
one or more of the following three
enterprises: (1) One additional brood
sow, to produce 4 hogs for market;
(2) two more milk cows for produc
tion of marketable dairy products;
(3) 50 chickens for meat and egg
production. (These chickens are in
addition to the 50 required for all
families).
In addition to winning for the
Southeastern States a large share of
the Lend-Lease food expenditures,
the “Food for Defense” program of
the FSA will have additional aims as
follows:
1. Increase in normal incomes of
small farm families through perpet
uation of the broadened program.
2. Development in this region, for
better handling of larger production,
of processing plants (creameries,
storage, etc.).
3. Extension and perfection of
marketing facilities, one of the great
est needs of the small farmer, so
. that none will be too remote for this
I service.
4. Better subsistence for the grow
er and the consumer, through an ac
celerated “live-at-home” plan for the
Southeast.
5. Improved land.
6. First and last, a move toward
effective and profitable change in
the agricultural economy of the re
gion, its release from the one crop
system.
“Judging from the contracts .we
have made with some of the families
this ‘Food for Defense’ program will
go over the top in a big way,” con
cluded Mr. Clearman.
“FARM FOLKS” AT
SPRINGFIELD SCHOOL
FRIDAY EVENING
“Farm Folks,” a four-act drama,
will be presented at Springfield
school Friday evening, April 18, at
eight o’clock, with the P.-T. A. as
sponsor, and the following as the
cast of characters:
Mrs. Burleigh: Miss Dorothy Shef
field.
Mr. Philip Burleigh—Ed Hill.
Miss Grace Burleigh—Miss Verne
Wright.
Thompson—Mr. Wilbur Evans.
Sarah Goodwin—Mrs. Trippe.
Amos Goodwin—Mr. Ernest Tolar.
Flora Goodwin—Miss Eula Trippe.
Mrs. Peasley—Mrs. Homer Goss.
Delia Slocum—Miss Othell Martin.
Bijah Slocum—Mr. Byron Bruner.
Dave Weston—Mr. Douglas Gru
ber.
The price of admission is 10c
to all.
Spring Food Specials
TEA—Vk'lb- Orange Pekoe 23c
DILL SPRAY—It kills 100% and also guaranteed to
clean overstuffed furniture, pint 39c
BLACK FLAG SPRAY—Pints2oc; Quarts3sc
SPRAYERS—Good quality 10c and 15c
KRAFT PARKAY
B MAYONNAISE 17c
PINT 25c pound
BALLARD’S OVENREADY BISCUITS 10c
PIMENTOS—4-oz. can, special 5c
PORK & BEANS—I-lb. can 5c
COCOA—Mother’s, 2-lb. can 18c
FLOUR—24-lb. bag69c
RICE—3-lb. bag Water Maid 22c
DRY PEAS—Last call, lb. 5c
25c size DURKEE’S SALAD DRESSING and 15c size
' DURKEE’S WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE, all for.__ 29c
SOUP—Phillips Condensed, No. 2Yi can 10c
Extra Special—4sc Value
200 Paper Napkins, 150 large paper towels, 40 feet Wax
Paper—for32c
CRACKERS—2-lb. pkg. 15c
MONARCH MARSHMALLOW CREAM—Pint2Oc
.... MEATS ....
BACON —Sliced, rind off, lb. 25c
COUNTRY BUTTER—Fresh, lb 30c
BREAKFAST SAUSAGE—Lb2Sc
STEAK from 4-H Club Show Cow, lb. 35c
CHUCK STEAK—Lb. 25c
ARMOUR’S STAR BACON—I-lb. box3sc
-WEAVER'S-
CASH & MARKET &
ARRY GROCERY
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY ONLY
APRIL 18 AND 19
Macaroni or Spaghetti * 3 for 10c
Eel Beck Syrup—Gallon 75c; 1-2 Gal. 40c; Quart 23c
Jello 2 pkgs. 15c
14 Ozs. Catsup 10c
47-oz. Can Grapefruit Juice 15c
No. 2% Size Can Argo Peaches 15c
No. 2 Green Giant Garden Peas 17c
No. 2 Can Field Peas with Snaps 10c
Corn Flakes or Poast Toasties 2 for 15c
Lighthouse Cleanser 3 for 10c
Fresh Country Eggs 2 doz. 35c
.... MEATS ....
Chuck Steak, lb. 25c
Stew Beef, lb. 15c
Mixed Pan Sausage, lb. 15c
Whole Pork Ham, lb. 15c
Pork Chops, lb. 20c
Smoked Sausage or Weiners 2 lbs. 35c
Parkay |r c
Margarine luty.
—CASH TO ALL—
JONES MARKET & GROCERY
LET US SHELL YOUR
PEANUTS and PEAS
We have recently installed a Pea
Sheller to our mill and will greatly
appreciate your patronage.
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J. M. Bryant
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