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EARLY COUNTY NEWS, THURSDAY, JAN. 9,1969
The County Agent
BY JUDSON COOPER
Early County Agent
CATTLE AND TREES CAN BE
COMBINED, EXPERIMENT
SHOWS
Beef cattle and pine trees can
be grown together successfully
on the same land, provided cer
tain precautions are taken to pro
tect the young trees, results of
research in the University of
Georgia College of Agriculture
Experiment Stations shows.
Systems of supplementing the
native range growing beneath de
veloping pine stands were test
ed ip a cow and calf operation
at Alapaha, Ga. on the range
grazing project of the Coastal
Plain station. Results are pre
sented in Research Report 14,
"Beef Cattle Management Prac
tices for Burned and Unburned
Pine-Wiregrass Ranges of Geor
gia, ’ ’ written by Byron L. South
well and Ralph H. Hughes.
The trials show that grazing
pressure on areas of young seed
lings can be reduced by provid
ing a wide variety of forage in
cluding a limited amount of
improved pasture. Cattle in the
tests were maintained off the
range on improved forage, most
ly coastal bermudagrass hay,
during fall and winter. The
authors suggest that the opera
tor should provide ample forage
for the cattle, remove cattle
from the range in the fall be
fore grass becomes dry and un
palatable, and start grazing in
the spring when ample forage
is available.
Results of the tests indicate
that cattle can get a good por
tion of their diet from range
plants, even though these plants
are poor in quality. Even when
cows are forced to get a good
part of their feed from range,
they can still produce good calf
crops and wean calves weigh
ing 450 pounds on the average
at seven to eight months of age.
This, of course, is when cows
are wintered off the range and
fed enough good quality hay to
meet minimum nutritional re
quirements.
Test results also show that
burning improves the range and
fire can be introduced as soon as
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height where prescribed burning
is compatible with good timber
management.
REPORT FEATURES EXPECT
ED RETURNS FROM VEGETA
BLES
In making their farming plans
for 1969, North Georgia farmers
may benefit from study of the
booklet, "Selected Horticultural
Crop Budgets for North Geor
gia,” issued by the University
of Georgia Agricultural Experi
ment Stations as Research Re
port 15.
The report features facts and
figures about costs and returns
for a number of vegetable crops
which can be grown for profit
in North Georgia. The booklet
was written by Drs. James 0.
Wise and Thomas A. Carlin of
the department of agricultural
economics of the College Station
at Athens.
The budget presented in this
report are based on results ob
tained from experiments, esti
mates by agricultural workers,
and from other sources. Yields,
inputs and cultural practices em
ployed in constructing these bud
gets reflect good management
practices in North Georgia. Far
mers using these budgets will,
of course, need to adjust them for
prevailing costs and specific phy
sical conditions on their farms.
Crops for which budgets are
given include snap beans (for
fresh market and processing),
pole beans, sweet corn, cabbage,
collards, cucumbers, summer
squash, bell peppers (for fresh
market and processing), straw
berries, both trellis and summer
tomatoes, sorghum for syrup,
and Christmas trees.
A young sixth-grade teacher
made a firm statement of what
kind of work she expected. She
closed her little speech by say
ing it would take far more than
a mere "apple for the teacher”
to earn a passing grade.
Apparently, she made her
point. On the following morning
one of her pupils presented her
with a watermelon.
Conversation from the Garden
of Eden:
"Adam, do you really love
me ?’ ’
' 'Who else ? ’
Ceanty Office Manager
By%AKBKN CLEVELAND
1969 FEED GRAIN PROGRAM
A voluntary 1969 Feed Grain
Program virtually indentical to
that for 1968 was announced to
day by Secretary of Agriculture
Orville L. Freeman.
Signup will be conducted simul
taneously for feed grains, cotton,
and wheat from Feb. 3 through
March 21.
Target for acreage diversion
in 1969 is 37 million acres of
corn, grain sorghum and barley.
This compares to the 196 8 diver
sion of 32.4 million acres when
barley was not included in the
program. The 37 million acres
diversion target for next year
is designed to produce a 1969
crop about 3 to 5 million tons
below estimated requirements.
Utilization is increasing because
of greater domestic livestock
production, and corn exports are
expected to show modest gains.
Price-support loan and pay
ment levels for corn and sorghum
will be the same as in 1968.
Producers may participate in
the 1969 feed grain program by
reducing their total base acre
age by at least 20 percent. Ad
ditional acreage reduction is
being encouraged by acreage di
version payments based on 45
percent of the total county price
support loan and payment (U.S.
average of $1.35 for corn) times
the farm’s projected yield.
"Exceptionally good crop wea
ther and improved cropping prac
tices at home and abroad during
the last two years has led to
world-wide increases in grain
production,” the Secretary ex
plained. “The 1968 feed grain
program put a strong brake on
soaring domestic production.
"Despite the fact that corn
yields in 1967 and in 1968 were
about 13 percent greater than the
preceding 1962-66 average, the
acreage diversion programs for
those two years kept carryover
stocks near needed reserve
levels.
“Based on the Dec. 19, 1968,
crop report, production for 1968
will be about 168 million tons.
Utilization for the 1968-69 mar
keting year currently is estimat
ed at 169 million tons by Octo
ber 1969, resulting in a slight
reduction in stocks — to around
47 million tons. Through active
participation in the 1969 pro
gram, farmers can realize fur
ther reduction of 3 to 5 million
tons by the end of the 1969-70
marketing year.
"Finally, I firmly believe the
price-support loan program if
fully utilized by producers, will
substantially firm up market
prices. If growers continue to
use the price-support loan pro
gram for orderly marketing
throughout the year as they now
are doing, we can look forward
to much progress,” the secre
tary concluded.
Price-support loan levels
under the 1969 program will be
the same as in 1968 for corn,
$1.05 per bushel; sorghum, sl.
61 per bushel; oats, 63 cents per
bushel; and rye, $1.02 per bus
hel. Barley will be 83 cents per
bushel instead of 90 cents as in
1968 because it now is eligible
for price-support payment.
These price-support payments
will be unchanged at 30 cents
per bushel for corn and 53 cents
per hundredweight for sorghum.
Barley payment will be 20 cents
per bushel. All price-support
payments will be based on plant
ed acreage up to one-half the
farm base times projected yield.
Key provisions of the 1969
feed grain program are:
1. Required acreage diver
sion to conserving use to qualify
for price support loans and pay
ments is continued at 20 per
cent of a farmer’s base acreage
of corn, sorghum, and barley.
No diversion payments will be
made for this minimum diver
sion, except for small base farms
— the same as in 1966-68.
2. Additional acreage diver
sion will possible up to a total
of 50 percent of the base or
25 acres, whichever is larger,
the same as in 1968. The a
creage diversion payment rate
will be at 45 percent of the
total price support times the
projected yield.
3. As in 1966-68 a farm with
a base of 25 acres or less will
get payment on the first 20 per
cent acreage diversion at 20
percent of the total support rate
times yield, and at the regular
45 percent payment rate on the
remaining acreage diverted to
a conserving use. Producers
with feed grain base acreages
up to 125 acres will have the
option of temporarily reducing
this base down to 25 acres and
still be eligible for the small
SUNDAY SCHOOL
LESSON
January 12, 1969
MINISTRY ON THE SABBATH
Mark 1:21-45
MEMORY SELECTION: No
man also seweth a piece of cloth
on an old garment: else the new
piece that fulled it taketh away
from the old, and the rent is
made worse. Mark 2:21.
The teaching of the Master
differed greatly from that of
the leaders of the day. The
teaching of the rabbis showed
very little compassion. The
facts presented were hardly
sweetened with the milk of human
kindness. The teachings of the
Master showed the love and com
passion of the Father to the
people.
While in the synagogue, Christ
saw a man with an unclean spirit.
The compassion of the Masterbe
gan to be revealed. There was a
command given for the deliver
ance of this man. The command
was obeyed. This filled the
hearts of the congregation with
astonishment. “. . . What thing
is this ? what new doctrine is this ?
for with authority commande th he
even the unclean spirits, and they
do obey him.” Mark 1:27.
Titis miracle, along with the
other miracles recorded in Mark
one, shows us one of the ways
the Father exhibits compassion
to humanity. As the Master
helped those in need in Galilee
or elsewhere, we see the kind
of love and compassion He still
shows today.
Many would like to picture God
as some great force in the uni
verse desiring to take vengence
on all of humanity. They forget
the love shown by the Father
to the nation of Israel in the Old
Testament, and this same tender
ness being shown through the
ministry of the Saviour. This
“scowling” God of many today
would never consider deliverance
for the oppressed. The modern
picture of God would show Him
smiling as He observed the plight
farm provision on condition that
no corn, grain sorghum, or bar
ley will be planted for harvest
on the farm and the 25 acres
are diverted to conserving use.
Soybeans planted in lieu of feed
grains will not earn price-sup
port payments.
Substitution provisions relat
ing to wheat and feed grain acre
age will be continued. As an
nounced Aug. 11, 1968 barley
is included in the 1969 feed
grain program. Malting barley
will not be exempted from these
diversion requirements.
Determinations such as ad
vance payments, the production
of substitute crops on diverted
acreage, and other details will
be announced prior to signup
time.
Other participation require
ments relating to maintaining
conserving bases, compliance on
other farms, and to complying
with signup intentions remain
unchanged from the 1968 pro
gram.
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car.
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W.L Scarborough
Graduates AF
Training School
Airman William L. Scar
borough, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Edward C. Scarborough, Sr., Rt.
4, Blakely, Ga., has been gradu
ated with honors at Lowry AFB,
Colo., from the training course
for U.S, Air Force material
specialists.
Airman Scarborough, a 1967
graduate of Early County High
School, is being assigned to Naha
AB, Okinawa for duty with the
Pacific Air Forces.
His wife, Betty, is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Radney,
Rt. 4, Blakely.
of the suffering.
We can be thankful that the
"modern” conception of God is
incorrect. Just as He loved the
world enough to send the Son to
show His love and compassion to
the world, God loves us today. His
tender love and mercy can be
experienced in our personal
lives.
The Saviour ministered to a
people who needed something
from God. This need still exists
today. Many people are hungry
for the blessings and power of
God in their lives. This power
and presence is still available
today. The love of God has not
diminished.
How long has it been since you
were able to sense the presence
of God in your life ? How long
has it been since you were able
to know the power of God in
your life? These experiences
can belong to you. Tie goodness
and mercy of God are still a
vailable if we will accept. Why
not ask the Master to touch
your life today? He will gladly
speak to your heart and come
into your life.
Rev. James C. Temples
We will continue to have a war
on poverty under the Nixon ad
ministration right up to and in
cluding April 15.
FARM EQUIPMENT
AUCTION SALE
SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1969
2 P. M. — AT THE FARM OF
MRS. GRAHAM BRACKIN
2 miles west of Donalsonville
on U. S. 84
Terms Os This Sale — CASH
AUCTIONEER, MAX KELLEY
PHONE: 524-2582 OR 524-5438
Ga. Power Pays
County; City
Property Tax
The Georgia Power Company
this week presented to Blakely
and Early County checks totaling
$17,242.38, representing the uti
lity's local property taxes for
1968.
Os the total, Early County re
ceived $17,022.38; the city of
Blakely, $220.20.
In presenting the tax payments,
Oscar Brooks, Local Manager,
said this was part of approxi
mately $12,100,000 in property
taxes that will be paid by the
company for the year 1968 to
state, municipal and county gov
ernments throughout Georgia.
Earlier in the year, munici
pal partnership tax payments to
taling more than S4,SOO,OOOwere
paid by the company to the 400
cities, towns and communities
in which the firm's partnership
franchise agreement was in ef
fect. Under this agreement, the
company pays each municipality
in which it operates as percentage
of its gross revenue derived from
the sale of electricity for resi
dential and commercial use.
These municipal partnership tax
payments are in addition to prop
erty taxes.
The company's total tax bill
for 1968, including federal, state,
county and municipal payments,
will exceed $53,500,000. Taxes
are the largest item in the com
pany’s operating budget.
A hillbilly visiting an obser
vatory was watching a man peer
ing through a telescope. Sudden
ly, a star fell.
"Good shotl” yelled the hill
billy.
There are no fish in the Dead
Sea.
rap
The '69 Ford LTD is the best-selling car in
its class. Because it offers you so much
more than the others.
Take a test drive. Fifteen minuteswill show
you what makes Ford so special. A front
seat area so spacious it’s called the Front
Room. A wheelbase longer than Chevro
let’s for an extra-smooth ride. The
road-holding grip of a track as wide as
Cadillac. All wrapped up in a car that’s
amazingly agile. Ford’s turning circle is
even smaller than Plymouth’s.
The 1969 LTD was designed to ride quieter
than the LTD that was quieter than a Rolls-
Royce. Come in now. Talk it over. Try it
out. Take it home. FQRD
Welcome to the Army Green.
This is the first in a series of
weekly columns aimed at telling
you a little about today’s modern
Army, the opportunities available
for young men and women in the
Army, and about some of the local
residents in service.
First off, I would liketoextend
an invitation to all of you to drop
in and see us anytime you are in
the neighborhood of the Recruit
ing Station. We are located at
315 Broad Avenue, Albany. We
are in Early County one day a
week, located at the Selective
Service Board, every Monday,
between the hours of 10 a.m.
til 3 p.m. If you have any
questions about the Army, drop
us a line or call us at 432-
7622 in Albany or stop by and see
us on Wednesday.
WRITTEN GUARANTEE:
I know veterans of World War
II will laugh at this one but it
is true. A young man can enlist
in the Army and receive a writ
ten guarantee assuring him of the
training he was promised when he
enlisted. There are more than
300 job training courses for which
a man can enlist for including
electronics, automotive me
chanics, aircraft maintenance,
communications repair, missile
system repair and radar opera-
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tions.
In order to qualify for a writ
ten guarantee, a man must pass
aptitude tests in the field
in which he wants his training.
If he passes, his enlistment is
accepted. If he does not pass
the test, he is under no obliga
tion to enlist in the Army.
The Army will go to all lengths
to guarantee this training too.
Not long ago, they discovered
that a man who enlisted for a
specific field of training did not
receive that training and was in
stead serving overseas. The
Army immediately brought him
back to the States for his pro-j
mised training.
Among the local men who en
listed under the guaranteed en
listment program during the past
year are: COCHRAN, Rufus J.,
Infantry, DAUGHTRY, James R.,
Aircraft Maintenance; FLEM
MING. Johnny, Clerical; FOS
TER, Donald L., Service School,
GILBERT. Bobby L., Clerical;
GRACE, Willie T., Infantry;
JOHNSON, Jesse, Jr., Armor;
LINGO, Earnest V., Airborne,
MOSLEY, Raymond L., Service
School; MUKERSON, Jessie M„
Wire Maintenance; SHEPPARD,
Johnny L., Aircraft Maintenance;
SMITH, Jimmy, Infantry; TIN
SON, Gerald J., Infantry;
WRIGHT, Joseph 8., Airborne.
Expo '7O to be held at Osaka,
Japan, will be the first major
world’s fair ever held in Asia.
More than 70 foreign govern
ments are expected to partici
pate.
Then try
to talk
yourself
out of it.