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ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM OFFICE OF
THE COUNTY AGENT
4-H MEMBERS GO TO TIFTON—
The Early County Rifle Champions
who went to the District Contest at
Tifton this week were Howard Nix,
boy champion, McLen
don, girl champion. The runners-up
were Lester Busby, of the Damascus
Club, and Betty Hayes, of New Hope.
Howard Nix is president of the Ja
kin club and Vaudine is a member
of the Hilton club.
The county Livestock Judging
champion was Donnell Jackson, of
the Damascus club, and runner-up
Harold McLendon, of the New Hope
club.
Others making the trip were Ruth
Ann Clyburn, president of the
Blakely club, and Mary Nell Davis,
of the Damascus club.
WAYS TO KEEP UP
MILK PRODUCTION—
Summer grass, especially as it ap
proaches seed production, contains
far less protein than spring grass.
Any protein is pretty important in
milk production. If grass in the
dairy pasture is getting tough and
putting out seed heads, it is a good
time to run the mowing machine
over it. This will get rid of weeds
in addition to making grass more
tender and nourishing.
So, for more summer milk, we
need to get rid of flies by cleaning
up breeding places .and spraying or
poisoning; keep cows comfortable as
possible and give them plenty of
cool water, and perhaps, most im
portant of all, to feed them well.
Good grazing near the barn where
cows can be turned for an hour or
so after milking at night may do
wonders in holding up summer milk
production.
USE GOOD BULLS FOR
BETTER BEEF—
Any time is a good time to buy a
better bull, but it is more important
now than ever before.
Our country’s need is not merely
for an increase in beef tonnage for
war emergency purposes; good beef
is needed because men of the Army,
Navy and Marine Corps, and those
who are employed in war production
plants deserve, and should have, the
best beef cattlemen can produce.
To produce this high-grade beef
and at the same time meet the record
production goals set up for 1942,
Early county farmers might well con
sider the importance of good bulls.
Calves sired by a good beef bull
will make greater gains, sell higher,
and require less feed per unit of
gain than those sired by a scrub bull.
In selecting a beef bull to head
the herd, we advise farmers to obtain
one with a straight back, well
sprung ribs, good form behind hip
bones and shoulders, straight legs,
low to the ground, thick through the
heart, low in the flank, and thick
quartered. In addition, he should
have a good head, and be out of a
cow that is a good milker.
BOLL WEEVILS —
In a few counts the past week,
we found from 0 per cent up to 53
per cent infestation. So they are
still in local areas, and if they are
controlled in these spots, less damage
will be done.
4-H CLUB MEMBERS NOTICE—
In mailing in cards telling the
County Agent that they were going
to Camp next week, at least two
Club members did not their
eards. One of these was mailed at
SPECIALS
Friday and Saturday, July 10-11
Heinz Baby Food 2 for 15c
1 pkg. Grape Nut Flakes and 1 pkg. Raisin Bran— 15c
Jelly Glasses --—1 <l oz - SOc
Seven-Day Coffee (we grind it) —Lb. 22c
Fancy Fig Preserves —1-lb. jar 25c
Gulf Spray—l quart 45c
Clowhite—l pint tOc
5c Salt 3 for 10c
Cherrioats—Package 15c
Pasteurized Milk—Quart 12 J /^ C
IWaiT-
CRISCO 3 lbs. 80c
Northern Tissue Linenized 2 for 15c
.... MEATS ....
Dressed Hens—Lb. 35c
Steak, choice cuts—Lb. ——3 s c
Wieners, skinless —Lb. 25c
Rib and Chuck Roast—Lb -25 c
Kraft Cheese 2 lbs, 59c
Wisconsin Cheese —Lb. No. 127 c
SEVOLA JONES MARKET AND GROCERY
Phone 111 Blakely, Ga.
Arlington and one at Blakely. If
your name does riot appear below,
please advise the County Agent at
once if you are going. Those who
up to Monday morning, July 6, have
said they are going, are: Molly Nix,
Christine Bowen, Sarajo Miller, Bill
Smith, Lamar Cannon, Evelyn Mar
tin, Ambrose Martin, Carey Henry,
Peggy A. Haddock, Mary Nell and
Billy Davis, Lester Busby, Benjamin
Holley, Ferrell Taliaferro, William
Stanley, Eddie B. Hudspeth, Harold
McLendon, Joe A. Cannon, C. W.
Bruner, Hilda Bowman, Caroline
Whatley, Malcolm Freeman, Maud
Grier, Myrtice Grimsley, Martha
Murkerson, Marshaline Giles, Peggy
Jo Farris, Carol Beckham, Annette
Granger, Mary Belisle, Joyce Hoot
en, Max Houston, Alyce Ramona La
nier, Edmund Gay, Winston Bynum,
Rudolph Riley, Rufus McKinnon, Bu
ford Reese, Jessie Hodges, Lanelie
Plymail, Leila Hodges, Annette Rob
erts.
EARLY COUNTY GROUP GOES
TO ALABAMA—
On Monday, June 29, a group con
sisting of John Hudson, Soil Conser
vationist, R. C. Singletary, Jr., farm
er, and J. F. Reid, County Agent,
made a trip to Alabama to study a !
new method of planting and culti
vating peanuts.
Upon reaching Dothan we went to!
the CCC Camp, where we met T. D.
A mason, District Conservationist, and
Camp Superintendent Wood, who ■
conducted us on a tour of several
farms around Headland, Ala.
• The first farm visited was that of
Mr. Hutto, whose farm lay adjoin
ing the Alabama Experiment Station
farm near Headland. According to
Mr. Wilson, Director of the Experi
ment Station, Mr. Hutto is an unus
ual farmer, and very efficient.
“Why,” said Mr. Wilson, “Hutto’s
farm hands are the only ones around
here who get to the field before we
do. He knows all the Negroes in
the country, he pays them, and he
can get labor when nobody else can,”
said Mr. Wilson. On the farm of
Mr. Hutto we inspected a field that
had been planted to peanuts before
the oats were cut. Afer the oats
were harvested the peanuts had been
worked out. These peanuts were
clean and well advanced, though
there was not a perfect stand. “I
had rather have these peanuts as
they are than to have those I plant
ed after oats 3 or 4 weeks ago,”
said Mr. Singletary. “You see,” said
Mr. Amason, “the principle involved
here is to cultivate under the stubble
rather than to turn the subble in.”
After a visit to several other farms
where this practice of planting pea
nuts in oats, before the oats were
harvested, and finding all conditions
from clean to very grassy, we came
to the farm of Mr. Parrish, who
seemed to be the originator of the
plan. Mr. Parrish said that he had
been following this practice some
15 years. “In my opinion,” said Mr.
Parrish, “if you want to produce ex
tra high yields of oats, say from 50
ito 75 bushels or more per acre, then
this practice of planting peanuts
won’t work. The oats will sap the
young peanuts to death. My plan is
to plant more acres of oats and de
pend upon a. yield of 25 to 30 bush
els of oats per acre and plant my pea
nuts in the oats. In this way I can
make about 1-2 ton of peanuts per
acre in addition to my 25 to 30 bush
els of oats. This protects more acres
of my land during the winter,” he
said. “Another practice that I would
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
like for you gentlemen to see,” said
Mr. Parrish, “is my peanuts that I
planted between rows of Blue Lu
pine.” “I have shown them that al
ready,” spoke up Mr. Amason. “If
we are called upon to grow a lot of
peanuts every year during this emer
gency, and it lasts for several years,
I believe that this is how we are go
going to have to hold our land up,”
said Mr. Parrish.- “Fertilize the Lu
pine with phosphate,” said Mr. Hud
son. “Yes, and it responds -to potash
in these sandier soils, too,” said Mr.
Amason. “In this way we can grow
our nitrogen with the lupine, to keep
the land built up,” Mr. Reid volun
teered.
“Another thing, you have a pretty
good crop in your blue lupine seed,”
said Mr. Singletary. “How much do
you consider that your lupine seed
cost you to produce them, Mr. Par
rish?” he asked. “Let's see,” said
Mr. Parrish, as he reached into his
khaki pants pocket and brought out
a short, stubby pencil. “I put 30
pounds of seed per acre, they cost
me $3.00, planting cost me sl.lO an
acre; combining, which is the most
expensive pant, $5.00 an acre. I got
700 pounds of seed per acre.” “700
pounds, $9.10 —about 1 1-3 cents a
pound—that it cost you to produce
your seed,” said Mr. Amason, quick
ly figuring in his head.
On a visit to the farm of a Mr.
Ward, we found another peanut field
planted in lupine middles. “I have
these a little-' close for this rainy
year,” said Mr. Ward. “They are
about 20 to 22, and they should be
at least 30 inches.” “Is this a com
mon practice around here?” asked
Mr. Singletary. “Yes, it is becom
ing quite a common practice,” said
Mr. Ward. “In this district, com
posed of six southeast Alabama coun
ties, we have grown this winter
about 1-2 million pounds of lupine
seed,” said Mr. Amason.
On the Ward farm, we also visited
a 19-acre kudzu pasture, which had
been planted 3 years ago. On this
pasture Mr. Ward was grazing 19
cows. “These have been in kudzu
6 weeks, and you should have seen
how thin they were when I put them
in here,” said Mr. Ward in answer
to a question by Mr. Reid. “And this
is mostly washed away, red hill land,”
observed Mr. Singletary. “A cow to
the acre is mighty good grazing,” he
continued. “Yes, I have 4 fields,
surrounding my little branch pasture,
planted to kudzu,” said Mr. Ward.
“When the fall dry weather comes I
will have temporary grazing, and at
the same time, I am reclaiming these
steep eroded slopes,” he continued.
“I believe that they are ahead of us
on. the use of kudzu,” remarked Mr.
Hudson, a little sadly, as we left the
Ward farm.
“I think that I’ll try some peanuts
this way next year, and I like that
method of growing peanuts in blue
lupine,” observed Mr. Singletary, as
we bade the gentlemen goodbye to
come back to Georgia, after a very
pleasant trip to southeast Alabama.
STILL TIME FOR PLANTING
OF SUMMER LEGUMES—
On many farms lespedeza, cow
peas, soybeans, velvet beans, crota
laria, peanuts for hogging, or other
legumes which have been planted
and are now at work gathering nitro
gen which if added to the soil either
directly by turning under or indi
rectly through manure and con
served will help a great deal in ov
ercoming the nitrogen shortage in
1943.
However, in order for these crops
to be most effective in adding nitro
gen, they must make all the growth
possible as the amount of nitrogen is
largely determined by the amount of
growth per acre. Farmers should
therefore give these crops the best
attention possible.
In some cases at least one or more
of these crops can be planted with
the possibility of a fair growth. This
is true of cowpeas, soybeans, velvet
beans and possibly Spanish peanuts
for hogging. Due to the late date
they are planted, the growth will be
greatly reduced but should be
enough, in face of the shortage and
importance of nitrogen, to justify
planting.
For best results with these crops
the soil should be well prepared. This
can be done in plowing in the seed
and harrowing or rolling the land.
The rolling will assist, in getting a
better stand from the altogether too
scarce seed supply.
Speaking of the seed supply, this
is a good time to plan for those need
ed in 1943.
EX-NAVY MEN WANTED
FOR RE-ENLISTMENT
In an effort to regain the services
of trained ex-Navy men, the Navy
Department has sent out a call for
the re-enlistment in Class V-6, U. S.
Naval Reserve, of all men honorably
discharged and recommended for re
enlistment, whose last discharge from
the Navy occurred between July 1,
1932, and December 6, 1941.
As an inducement to re-enlistment,
all such broken-service men, pro
vided they are less than 50 1-2 years
old and are physically, morally and
mentally acceptable, may be re-en
listed without regard to their pro
fessional qualifications in ratings
above those held when discharged,
tabulated as follows:
If paid off as a petty officer, they
will be shipped over in a rating one
grade higher than that held at dis
charge, not to exceed chief petty
officer (AA); if discharged as a non
rated man—messman branch except
ed—they will be re-enlisted as a
petty officer, third class; if in the
messman branch, they will be re
enlisted at one grade higher than
that held at discharge, not to exceed
officers’ chief steward (AA) or of
ficers’ chief cook (AA).
REVIVAL TO BEGIN SUNDAY
PINE VIEW BAPTIST CHURCH
A revival meeting will start at
Pine View Baptist church next Sun
day, July 12, it was announced this
week. Everyone is invited to at
tend all the services, which will be
held at 12:30 in the morning and
8:30 in the evening. Pastor Dean
will do the preaching.
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He has trained mechanics. for years, Chevrolet dealers
... He uses quality mate- have had the largest num
rials. ... He performs all her of trade-ins and, there
service operations at reason- fore, the widest experience
able rates. ... It pays to see in servicing all makes and
your Chevrolet dealer for models. .• . Better have a
car-saving service because, check-up today.
McKINNEY CHEVROLET CO.
South Main Street Slakely, Ga.
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the electric power we had in -m I y i
the last war. More power than 1 R > «
all the Axis nations combined.
Here in Georgia, growth of-■
electrical power resources has
kept pace. More than one-third served by the Georgia Power
of all the power put on our Company produced back in
lines today comes from gen- the last war. When electric
erating plants built since the power was demanded in
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IN MEMORIAM
In memory of our daughter, Ouida
Wood, who died July 6th, 1931.
MR. AND MRS. R. W. WOOLF.
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