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Page 4A - The Lee County Ledger, Thursday, October 11, 2001 "...Roy sure is taking these budget cuts seriously." Free Workshop for Small, Beginning Farmers November 8 at Albany State University A free workshop for small and beginning farmers will be held in the Academic Administration Building at Albany State Univer sity, Thursday, November 8. The one-day workshop features semi nars on: alternative farm enter prises; aquaculture; crop insur ance; financing small farms; fruits; vegetables; goats and small livestock; irrigation and water management; labor; local market ing and community based agricul ture; pond construction and man agement opportunities; and taxes. Ag related groups and agencies will host displays on site. The free workshop includes re source materials and lunch and will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., with registration beginning at 8 a.m. in the Academic Administra tion Building. To register, call Connie McEver at 706-546-2236 or fax her a registration form at 706-546-2416. Pre-registration deadline for the free workshop is October 19, 2001. Registration forms will be printed in upcom ing issues of the Georgia Market Bulletin and can also be obtained from local USDA Service Cen ters, Farm Service Agency County Offices, Cooperative Ex tension Service, and individual TAG members. Although walk- ins are welcome, seats and lunch are limited to about 200 partici pants. "This is our seventh TAG spon sored workshop. These work shops provide timely and relevant information that help agricultural landowners and producers be come or remain financially stable and preserve natural resources," said Donnie Thomas, TAG Chair man. " Limited resource farmers and community leaders gain new farm management, rural develop ment, agricultural, and conserva tion skills." A similar workshop is being planned for the Gainesville, Georgia, area next year. Team Agriculture Georgia's mission is to improve state and federal customer service to all landowners, land users, and lim ited resource and beginning farm ers. The Georgia Forestry Com mission is an active member of TAG. TAG members include ag ricultural agencies and partnering organizations from across the state. Grow Brad Lofton Director of Economic Development 759-2422 The University of Georgia • Cooperative Extension Service ■T - ® m PJR m V Winter Grazing Doug Collins, CEA Putting knowledge toXVork^l ^ Georgia Deer Hunting Laws A grain drill is ideal for planting small grains for forage, but broadcast planting works well also. Winter Grazing Hunting season begins October 27, 2001 and ends January 6, 2002. The number of deer hunt ers in Georgia has declined while the deer population has in creased. Hunting is encouraged by the State of Georgia to man age the population, which di rectly affects the cost of insur ance. The season limit for each hunter is eight deer. Six deer must be doe and only two may be bucks. Either sex deer days are enhanced in most Georgia counties to cover the entire deer season. Hunters may not remove the deer from the place of kill until the deer harvest record at tached to the hunter’s license is completed by hole punch or per manent mark. All residents born after January 1, 1961 must successfully com plete the hunter education course prior to purchasing a season hunt ing license. Anyone who has completed the course and needs a replacement certificate may logon www.gohuntgeogria.com. Hunter education requirements are relaxed for young hunters. Hunters from the age of 12 to 15, hunting on private property and supervised by an adult are no longer required to have com pleted the hunter education course. Hunters sixteen years and older using a short-term li cense (1 day or 7 days) are now exempt from the hunter educa tion course requirement. It is unlawful to hunt or dis- By J.M. Rhodes Member of Chehaw Lodge 701 Leesburg, Georgia "FUNDAMENTALS OF FREEMASONRY" Freemasonry's spiritual values are based on the Laws of Ethics, and morality. Their application in our lives, as Freemasons, are of cardinal importance, if we want to fulfill the meaning and the scope of the Craft. Firstly, let me say a few words about the definition of Ethics. Ethics, from the Greek word "ethos"-character. is the system atic study of the nature of value concepts: good, bad, right, wrong and of the general principles, charge a firearm while un der the influence of drugs or alco hol; from or across a public road; from within 50 yards of a public road and from a vehicle. It is illegal to use electronic com munication equipment to hunt deer; blind deer with lights or kill or cripple deer without reason able efforts to retrieve. The le gal time for hunting is 30 min utes before sunrise until 30 min utes after sunset. Anyone hunt ing deer is required to wear at all times at least 500 square inches of hunter orange as an outer gar ment above the waist. It is unlawful to hunt over or near a baited area, unless the bait has been removed completely for 10 or more days. Baiting is the practice of placing, exposing, de positing, or scattering salt, com wheat, or any other seed that may lure or attract deer to any area where hunters are attempting to hunt them. A person is guilty of hunting over bait if they know or reasonably should know, that the area was baited. However, nor mal agricultural operations are allowed and are often referred to as “legal baiting.” It is legal to hunt over crops that have been mowed, diced, raked or burned. which justify us in applying them to anything. In one of its most fre quent uses, refers to a code or set of principles, by which man live. Ethics is also called "moral phi losophy. " The word "philosophy" is also derived from the Greek, meaning "love of wisdom." Phi losophy is generally regarded as perhaps the most abstract of all subjects, far removed from the affairs of ordinary life. But al though many people think of it as being remote from ordinary inter ests and beyond comprehension, nearly all of us have some philo sophical views, whether we are See Masonry, Page 8A “Here Fishy Fishy” Samuel Johnson wrote in 1859, “Fly fishing may be a very pleas ant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.” This guy obviously has never sunk his teeth into one of Georgia’s famous fried catfish. Could you by chance imagine someone in his or her oxford wad ers delicately fly fishing for chan nel cat? I hope they have made other arrangements for dinner. There is nothing in the world more relaxing than baiting a hook and wasting the day away along a pond or riverbank in South Georgia. Many great Americans have bonded with their sons and daughters, grandsons and grand daughters while fishing for brim. I doubt that many of you snack on Vienna Sausages like I do, though. That’s fine gourmet cooking as far as I’m concerned. Just don’t feed them to the fish. They won’t come back around for Having just returned from an 11 day trip to the mid-west, I felt I would be justified in skipping a column this week, but while the trip is fresh in my mind, I have to share some of the experience. Our trip was primarily the oc casion of Dons 50th High School class re-union. We never knew one another in high school, he being a "west-side" boy, I, an "east-side" girl, but through mu tual friends, we met and married during the Korean war. We have attended 9 of the 10 re-unions held since 1951, and each one has proved that indi vidual character development is truly an ongoing process. I have seen, over these years, people do a 180° in their attitudes and treat ment of former classmates, to the point that after 50 years, there ex ists the most incredible camara derie Eve ever seen! I remember the first several re unions when youthful ambition, and personal achievements took the spotlight, the 'clique' still cliqued, and the "snobs" re mained aloof and stand-offish— but years and experiences later- -it seems they all think as one, and this years re-union was a joy to attend. One of the most meaningful and poignant moments occurred on the second evening. We had a for mal dinner on Friday evening, but Saturday evening was planned as a bit more of an informal get-to gether. A delicious buffet was prepared and served by a commit tee of wives, and then the evening was like a relaxed story telling - -"open mike"- sort of an event. One of Don’s classmates got up to relate a story of how—47 years earlier, while attending the local college, he was assigned a new room-mate, a foreign exchange student, and was to help him be come orientated to campus life. The student spoke very little weeks. The Chamber is partnering with the Lee County Sertoma Club to sponsor our annual “Fishing Fan tasy” at Mossy Dale Plantation. The event will be on October 20, and we are meeting at 7:45 A.M. at the Kinchafoonee Primary School. The “tournament” will be for 14 and under kids, and the proceeds will benefit the Lee County Library. Everyone will walk away with goodies, and tro phies will be awarded for the big gest fish, smallest fish (I’m sure I’ll win that one), and most fish caught. Any catfish caught will be donated, however, to the “Feed the Chamber Director” charity. I do want to encourage you to par ticipate with your sons and daughters. Tickets are $5.00 for fisherman and $1.00 for non-fish ermen. Call the Chamber for more information, and we look forward to seeing you there. Have a great week! To visit us online: www.lee.- ga.us English, and was from an entirely different cultural background then his mid-western classmates, and thus became the butt of good many jokes, some bordering on downright cruel. We all remem ber those days in school when to be, in any way different, was sheer agony! Handles were at tached, nicknames given, to the kid with freckles, the fat kid, or the guy with the goofy hair. Kids can be mean—even in college— that’s just the way it is! After relating a few of the prac tical jokes suffered by his room mate, he explained that because this was the first re-union he had attended, he was unaware till the prior evening that his former col lege roommate had married a high school classmate and was also there for this occasion! This 6'3" giant of a man, now retired from the Los Angeles Po lice Department, publicly, and un abashedly stood at the "mike"- -in front of 180 people, and wept as he apologized to his former room-mate for the wrongs done to him -by so many people-so many years ago. He asked him to join him at the podium, where upon he introduced us all to the Chief Engineer of bridge con struction for the Milwaukee/Soo Line Railroad! He then pinned an American flag on his lapel, and sat down to a standing ovation, and a room so filled with emo tion you couldn’t cut it with a knife—or even a box-cutter! That former room-mate—his friend, the successful bridge en gineer and exchange student, hailed from Iran. He and his wife are parents of four college educated sons, and he had long forgotten the hurt he must have felt all those years ago! This trip was one we will re member for a long time! Talk to ya later. Marty I've received questions about planting winter grazing for both cattle and deer. I talked with Dr. Robert Morgan, University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Service Forage Agronomist. The following information regarding the relative merits of different species of annual winter grasses, their recommended planting dates and seeding rates, as well as rec ommended varieties, is derived from that conversation. Rye provides early season graz ing and is the most winter hardy. It is the first up in the spring-10 to 20 days before oats or wheat and 30 days before ryegrass. Rye will provide forage until May. Rye should be planted around October 15. The recommended seeding rate is two to two and a half bushels per acre. Recom mended varieties include Elbon, Bates, Wintergrazer 70, Wrens Abruzzi, Wrens 96, Early Grazer, Oaklon, Wintermore, and Kelly Grazer II. Oats, on the other hand, provide the most fall growth, but are the least winter hardy. Oats are the most palatable of the small grains. These qualities make it a desir able planting for deer hunters. The recommended planting date for grazing is October 1. The rec ommended seeding rate is four bushels per acre. Recommended LEESBURG AMERICAN LEGION POST 182 SUPPORTS PRESIDENT - TROOPS Today, a diverse America shares a singular sorrow. No words can express our grief. On September 11th we were horrorfied when terrorists hijacked four passenger jet airliners and crashed two into the World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon, and one into the ground in Philadelphia killing all of the passengers and crew as well as still uncounted thousands of innocent American citizens. The following statement was issued on September 11.2001 by American Legion National Com mander Richard J. Santos of Greenbelt. Md.. shortly after the terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington D. C. Mr. Santos was preparing to testify to a joint session of congressional Veterans' Affairs committees on Capitol varieties include Horizon 314, Harrison, and Rodgers. Oats will provide grazing until the end of May. Wheat is similar to oats in its fall growth and lack of winter hardiness. Wheat should be planted around October 15. The recommended planting rate is two to two and a halfbushels per acre. Roberts is a recommended vari ety for grazing. Ryegrass is the best quality win ter grain forage. There is not much difference in varieties. Gulf is the old stand by variety. Jumbo and Marshall are the top variet ies, with Big Daddy and Jackson not far behind. Ryegrass should be planted around October 15. It will provide grazing into June. Normally, the seeding rate will be 20 to 30 pounds per acre. The rec ommended over seeding rate is 20 to 25 pounds per acre. When planting for silage for dairy cattle, the recommended rate: goes up to fifty pounds per acre. Except for ryegrass, better re sults will be achieved by plant ing with a grain drill than broad casting. These recommendations are for grazing only. Different varieties and dates will apply to grain planted for harvesting as grain. For more information, call the Lee County Extension Office at 759-6025. Hill when the attacks caused the session to be cancelled. "The American Legion ex presses its sympathies to the fami lies of all of the innocent people who perished in these cowardly acts. I ask all Legionnaires to keep the families in the forefront of their prayers. "The Legionnaires that I repre sent know terrorism first hand because they have fought on the battlefields of the world, and that is the terror of all terrorism. "We condemn those respon sible. "The American Legion urges the President of the United States to use all means available to iden tify, pursue, and bring to justice those liable. "Today's incidents are proof that we are not immune to such at tacks and we must take all neces See Letter, Page 8A The Le6 County Ledger ‘Estabdsfed ELugust 24,1978 P.O. 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