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EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
items Of Interest
From Office Of
The County Agent
By JUDSON COOPER
County Agent
Fire Prevention
Wildlife and forest management
don’'t mix!
In my last article on forest manage
ment, I mentioned that the next
would be on the first step in any for
est management program. This step
is the prevention and control of fires.
Fire in a short time can easily destroy
the ®ruits and many years of hard ef
fort and money spent. For this reason.
it §s placed first.
Local units of the Georgia Forestry
Commission are doing an excellent job
of spotting and controlling woods
fiers, is evidenced by the fact that the
acreage burned per fire is lower in
Georgia than in any neighboring state.
Even so, we should all do our part in
controlling all fires on or near our
farm.
Fire prevention is our real problem.
Even if fires are put out quickly, the
large number of fires we have each
year do considerable damage. Georgia
led the nation in 1961 with over 8,800
wild -fires. Early County had 30 fires
during 1961. Georgia had more than
56,000 acres burned. We suffered loss
es on 349 acres. These are some fig
ures we shouldn’'t have to live with.
What causes all these fires? Is it
lightning, “fire bugs”, trains, hunters?
These are some of the causes, but our
number one cause is debris burning.
This is one cause we can all do
something about. Debris burning is
nothing more than burning brush
piles, trash, or other discarded mater
ials. Quite often this is done near the
house with the idea in mind that itl
can be easily watched. This is a good
idea, but too often we become oc
cupied with other activities and the
fire blows or spreads into nearby
fields or woods. Debris burning cases
more than twice as many fires as our
number two cause, smokers.
Let us all be a little more fire con
scious. The next time you burn de
bris, plow around the area or at least
rake any combustible material such
as leaves or grass away from the burn
ing area. Watch the fire, you can
never tell when a puff of wind may
blow a burning ember away from the
fire. Smokers, use care discarding
matches and “smokes.”
After we become fire conscious, we
should be ready to improve our wood
lands for increased forest income. In
a recent Georgia survey 16% of the
farmers interviewed said that timber
is their main source of farm income.
Many of the others lean heavily on
their woods as a source of additional
income and as a savings account.
My next article will be on reforesta
tion which still has an important
place on almost every farm.
Feeding Winter Brood Cows
If you have been in the cattle busi
ness for awhile you know that it pays
to properly winter feed your brood
COWS.
One of the considerations you
should take is to start your feeding
program before the animals begin
losing weight. |
If you follow good feeding practices
this winter you should certainly ac-
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complish some outstanding results,
Some of these results of good winter
feeding of brood cows are a reduction
in death losses, raising of calf crop
percent, improving of the general
health of catile and resistance to para
sites and diseases, weaning of heavier
calves, increasing of reproduction ef
ficiency, and making or more profit.
For detailed plans on winter feed
ing contact my office.
Plants Use of Calcium
Today, let's discuss another element
that is necessary for a plant to pro
perly function.
Let's limit our discussion to the
element, calcium., Research tells us
that this element is necessary for a
variety of plant functions. '
If we had to pick out the most
“important function of this element we
iwould pick the part it plays in plant
| structure,
Calcium is used by the plant to pro
duce a substance called calcium pec
’tate. This substance is a cement-like‘
product, and it is found between the
‘walls of plant cells. Its purpose is to‘
help give the plant a rigid structure.
So you can see that calcium is most
important if you are to grow healthy
plants.
There is one sure way to determine
if your soil needs calcium as well as
other elements, and that is by taking
a soil test. My office has information
on testing so call me if you need
help.
| Overgrown Plants
. Plants sometimes become too large
to serve their purpose. If this is the
'case with your plants you need to
prune them.
You will probably need to prune
Ligustrum and Pyracantha every
three or four years. This will keep
them in bounds.
If the trunks become too large for
your purpose it may be necessary for
you to remove them and plant other
plants which will better satisfy the
size needed.
One word of advice on pruning. If
you are severely pruning broadleav
ed evergrens, do it in the winter be
fore that spring growth begins.
When pruning or doing other work
around your home, always keep in
mind your master landscape plan. |
Better Eating for Better Health |
Humans are benefiting from better}
plants and animals. ‘
Sounds odd, but it is true.
Agricultural scientists found that
similar foods may not always give the
same nutrients to the people consum
ing them.
This being the case, today, farmers
are growing “higher class” crops of
plants and livestock. These are often
bred especially so that the foods have
more nutritional value,
To put it simpler, we are getting
more dividends in health from the‘
food we eat, thanks to work being
carried on by agricultural scientists.
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Lime Governs
' Other Chemicals
} Present In Soil
Farmers who want to establish good
pastures through Early County’s Big
M Pasture Program, must lay the
foundation for pasture success with
lime, says County Agent Judson
Cooper.
Liming is a basic step in pasture
production because lime governs other
chemical elements contained the soil,
he explains.
“The acid soils in this county gen
erally contain larze amounts of avail
able aluminum and iron. This alumi
num and iron combine chemically
with the phosphorous in the soil and
tie it up in. chemical compounds
which pasture plants can’t break into.
“But when you lime acid soil, the
calcium in the lime steps in and ties
up much of the iron and aluminum.
This action leaves more phosphorous
in a form available to the pasture
plants. In fact. some of the phos
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“Lime works another way too, in
that it cuts down excess amounts of
certain elements. As a soil becomes
‘more acid, aluminum and manganese
‘become more available. These ele
ments generally are injurious to pas
ture plants, but lime ties up these
elements so that they are no longer
toxic to the plants.
“When pasture plants can't get
enough calcium they take up potas
sium instead. But when there is plen
ty of calcium available, the plants will
use some calcium in preference to
potassium.”
How much lime does a pasture
need? The amount varies according to
condition of the soil, explains the
county agent. The only way to answer
this ques.ion for any pasture is to
take a soil test and lime according to
soil test recommendations. :
Research Shows
Valve Of Using
Lime On Soils
The practice of Step I—applying
lime according to soil test recommen
dations in Early County’s Big M Pas
lure Program by farmers will pay
them big dividends. according to
County Agent Judson Cooper.
Judson said that experiment sta
tion tests show that, in a three-year
rotation, lime incrseased the yield of
legume hay by 2,334 pounds per year,
or the value of the hay produced by
$34.01 per acre per year.
He pointed out that lime is essen
tial for production of legumes “in
grassland farming. It decreases soil
acidity, increases activity of soil bac
teria, supplies plant nutrients such
as calcium, and makes other plant
nutrienis more available to pasture
plants.
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Liming pasture land will make le
gumes grow where none grew before,
the county agent asserted. It will sti
mulate grass growth and give the ex
tra pasture production which will put
more pasture profits in the farmer's
pocket,
“Lime and continue to lime as need
ed is the keynote in the Big M Pas
ture Program. First use lime to con
vert idle fields into pastures of lush,
healthy grass. Then other pasture pro
duction factors such as applying
recommended rates of fertilizer and
using more efficient pasture plants
can be brought into your pasture sys
tem."”
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