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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1950.
FARMY NEWS.
Pasture Awards Go
ToFarming Veterans
Eight of Northeast Georgia’s farming veterans have been
doubly rewarded for outstandiiig work in the development
of good pastures on their farms,
Achievement Day
Set For June 21
worth Georgia’s third annual
¥arm Family Achievement Day,
scheduled for June 22 on the Col
lege of Agriculture campus at
Athens will bring together nearly
300 farm men, women and chil
dren who have made excellent re
cords in farming and home im
provement during the past few
years.
* R. L. Vansant, state director for
the Farmers Home Administration,
said this week that his organiza
tion has flven assistance to ap
proximately 9,100 farm families in
Georgia this year. Members of
approximately 100 of these fam
ilies are to be honor guests at the
Athens meeting. Similar meetings
have already been held in Tifton
and Fort Valley.
In citing the services offered
farm families by FHA, Vansant
said that production and subsis
tence loans are made for the pur
chase of livestock, feed, seed,
equipment and other operating
needs. Farm ownership loans are
made for purchasing, developing or
enlarging family-type farms. Farm
housing loans are for building, re
pairing or remodeling houses or
farm buildings.
A fourth type of loan—disaster
crop loan—has been of much value
to Georgia farmers during the past
12 months. Farmers hard hit by
poor cotton crops in 1949 have bor
vowed more than $2, 600,000 thus
far, in order to be able to continue
with eurrent operations where
credit is not available.
Farm ownership loans made
through FHA during the past year
in Georgia have totaled more than
a million and a half dollars. Re
payments during the same period
on real estate loans totaled almost
this same amount.
Farm housing loans have been
made to 214 Georgia farm families
and this record places Georgia sec~
ond only to Texas in the number
of housing loans made under the
:;3“5 farm housing legislation of
49, :
Vansant continued that as bor
rower farmers have increased their
farm incomes, they have been able
to help build better farm com
munities in Georgia. He called
attention to the fact that many of
| the farmers have children who are
| outstanding 4-H and FFA mem
; bers and that some of these young
¢ people are scheduled to attend the
| Athens meeting with their mothers
and fathers.
Melons Protected
With Lime Paste
GAINESVILLE, Fla,, June 14—
(AP) — Lime paste painted on
maturing watermellons wil re
duce the loss from sunburn, which
is increasing in severity with the
current hot weather, Dr. G. K.
Parrish, plant pathologist with the
Florida Agricultural Experiment
Station laboratory at Leesburg re
ported reecently. s
Tests run by Loren Stover, field
assistant at the laboratory, have
shown that sunburning can be re
duced by the use of a solution of
three to five pounds of lime in two
gallons of water. It rubs off with
a moistened rag.
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Their selection to receive cash
awards in the second annual year
round grazing contest sponsored by
the Georgia Power Company for
veteran farm trainees was an
nounced here by J. H. Mitchell,
Athens, supervisor of agricul
tural education for this area.
Top district prize of SSO will
go to Walter Beasley of Lavonia.
Ru{mer-up to him in the order
which they placed are James Sid
well, Morgan county; Rex Lip~
ham, Auburn; Barclay Chastain,
Oakwood; Candler T. Carey, Ila;
‘George Amos, Monticello; Aubrey
Williams, Commerce; and Foy
Woody, Fannin county.
Award Luncheon
These men along with winners |
from the other three sections of |
the state will receive their awards
June 30 at a luncheon at the
power company’s Plant Atkinson
ngar Atlanta, Mr. Mitchell reveal
ed.
He also pointed out that 3,022
veterans representing 180 farm
training classes in the high schools
of this district participated in the
pasture improvement program,
planting 20,290 acres of permanent
pastures and 11,669 for temporary
winter and summer grazing.
“In 1946,” Beasley recalled, “I
used the profits from my cotton
crop to support my pasture work.
Last year the $2,000 which I made
off cattle fattened on pastures just
about paid off what I lost on my
cotton.’
That should be explanation
for the young farmer’s steady
trend away from cotton and his
determination to build better pas
tures and a bigger beef herd.
Ladino Fescue |
His prize pasture right now is
22 acres of bottomland which he
planted in ladino clover and fes
cue last October. He applied 30
tons of lime to the area, using also
800 pounds of 18 per cent phos
phate and 600 pounds of 6-8-6 per
acre,
Dr. C. C. Murray, director of the
Georgia Experiment Station at
‘Griffin, visited the pasture this
spring. Afterward he remarked,
“With decent weather conditions,
it ought to carry two cows an
acre.” That's exceptionally good
grazing, but at that time Beasley
had had 60 cows on the 22 acres
for 30 days and there was still
a lush growth. :
On his pastures that cost him
about S4O an acre to develop,
Beasley raised out baby beeves
that will weigh 600 pounds at nine
months old. He sold 18 of these
young animals last year, grossing
$2,100. s
In addition to his ladino and fes
cue bottomlands, Beasley has sev
en acres of fescue from which }}e
harvested seed last year and again
this summer. Most of his seed
were sold to other members of his
class.
He also had 53 acres seeded to
various mixtures of oats, rye grass,
barley and crimson clover for
temporary winter grazing, most of
this being followed by lespedeza
and some by kudzu.
1,600 In 5-Acre
Cotton Contest
By The Associated Press
More than 1,600 farmers in 80
counties have already entered the
1950 state 5-acre cotton contest.
Several hundred more are ex
pected to enter before the June
15 deadline. These cotton farmers
will be competing for $3,500 in
state and district prizes and mote
than SB,OOO in local prizes, accord
ing to J. R. Pressley, cotton im
provement specialist for the ex
tension service.
These prizes will be awarded to
the farmers making the largest
yields of seed cotton on five acres.
Yields will be determined by boll
counts. Top yield in the state in
1949 was 3.07 bales per acre,
grown by W. A, Meadow, in Bleck
ley county.
“Waves of Green” is the title of
a new educational motion picture
which calls attention to the work
of land-grant colleges throughout
the nation.
600 Farm Women Here
For Four-Day Meeting
100 Home Demonstration Agents
Also Attend State Council Confab
Working on the theme, “Translating Today’s Knowl
edge Into Tomorrow’s Security,” around 600 Georgia farm
women are spending this week here on the campus of the
University of Georgia attending the 25th annual State
Home Demonstration Council meeting. . : ;
Approximately 100 home de-~
monstration agents from as many
counties in the state accompanied
the farm women to the meeting
and are taking part in the ses
sions.
The women delegates to the
meeting are representing the coun
ty home demonsrtation councils
and the 48,000 home demonstra
tion club members throughout the
state, according to Miss Lurline
Collier, state home demonstration
COTTON SPECIALIST ASSERTS:
Georgia Farmers Face Worst
801 l Weevil Threat Since 1920
Georgia cotton formers are now
facing the most serious boll weevil
threat since the early 1920’5, in
the opinion of E. C. Westbrook,
'Ei:tension Service cotton special
ist.
“Numbers of weevils in the
fields now amount to an alarming
figure,” Westbrook finds. “I have
inspected a number of fields in
north Georgia during the past few
days and from one to a half dozen
weevils are on almost every cotton
plant.
In many cotton fields, he says,
weevils are doing serious damage
to the buds of the cotton plants.
Many farmers have.alreaedy pois~
oned their cotton fields and others
are planning to poison soon.
Insecticide Costs
In some areas insecticide dealers
are charging 14 cents a pound for
the 3-5-40 mixture and 12% cents
for calcium arsenate
“I believe these prices are higher
than can be justified,” the cotton
specialist continues. “In such in
Electric Pump |
Saves Labor,
Although some farmers still
pump water by hand, electricity
can do it better, says County
Acgent D. L. Branyon.
Next to lighting, water pumping
is possibly the most valuable farm
use of electricity. On many farms,
five cents worth of electricity, ac
cording to the Rural Electrification
Administration, will pump and
deliver 1,000 gallons of water to
its place of use.
Few families realize how much
time they spend and how much
work they do in pumping and car
rying water, Mr. Branyon advises.
Many families use an average of
about six gallons a day per per=
son. After a family has had run
ning water with a bathroom for
several years, its daily use of water
may increase to 50 gallons a per
son. Each cow, horse, or mule
drinks 10 to 15 gallons a day. Each
hog drinks a couple of gallons, and
each 100 laying hens drink two to
three gallons. Also, water is used
for washing milk utensils, cleaning
vegetables for market, and many
other farm purposes. Families use
more electrically pumped water
than when it is pumped by hand.
Water under pressure has many
advantages other than the saving
in time and labor, the agent points
out. Cows give more milk if water
is always before them. Gardens
produce better if well watered in
dry times. Clothes are washed
cleaner with fresh water for each
batch. Milk utensils are cleaned
better and with less work, if a
plentiful supply of hot water is
available in a convenient milk
house or work room.
RURAL ELECTRICITY
In 1935, only three percent of
Georgia’s farms, or 7,000 of them,
had central station electric service.
Fourteen years later in June,
1949, 86 percent of Georgia’s farm
homes were electrified. At that
time, there were 132000 farms in
Georgia still waiting for electrici
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FREE COTTON CLASSING
The deadline for filing appli
cations for free cotton classing and
market news service for the 1950
season in Georgia is August 1, ac
cording to Production and Mar
keting Administration officials.
More than 28,000 acres of cotton
have already been signed up for
this service.
DUROC CONGRESS
Plans are being completed for
the first Southeastern Duroc Con
gress early in 1951, according to
Charles E. Bell, 'jr., secretary of
Southeastern Duroc Breeder’s As
sociatiog. Among the events to be
included are a ton-litter show,
type demonstration, = barrow show
and a judging contest.
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agent. They represent approxi=-
mately 1,500 ecommunity clubs in
the state’s rural areas.
~ During the first part of the
week the delegates were schedul
ed to study such subjects as laun
dry and housing problems, home
industries, rural electrification,
recreation, health, family life ed
ucation, and food production and
preservation.
Among the speakers who were
to '‘appear on the program were
stances farmers may find it to
their advantage to shop around for
poison at lower prices.”
In the northern half of the state,
according to Westbrook, large
numbers of farmers are mopping
cotton with calcium arsenate,
syrup and water. This method of
poisoning will kill weevils if the
arsenic is put in the buds. The
main thing to keep in mind is to
apply at least one pound of calci
um arsenate to the acre if distri
buted properly. Two pounds to the
acre will give a little quicker kill.
The amount of the mop mix re
quired per acre will vary from 2
to 3% gallons. If farmers can’t
get molasses, and they have no
other method of applying poison,
they can use a mixture of calcium
arsenate and water, Westbrook ad
vises.
Poison Applications
Where poisons are applied with
dusters or with spray outfits, noz~
zles should be adjusted to place
the poison close to the plants.
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Miss Iris Davenport, woman’s ed
itor of the Southern Agriculturist;
Jonathan C. Rogers, president of
the University of Georgia; Harry
L. Brown, dean and director of
the College of Agriculture; Walter
S. Brown, director of the Agricule
tural Extension Service; Miss Stel«
la Mitchell, farm housing special«
ist, Auburn, Alabama; Miss Wil
ann Sheppard, of the American
Cancer Society; Miss Lucile Nix,
director of Georgia's Rural Libra
ry Service; and Miss Eleanor
Aahem, of General Motors Corpor=-
ation,
Thursday night the county win«
ners in dress revue contests held
during the past few weeks will
compete for state honors. Miss Le
onora Anderson, Extension Ser
vice district agent, is in charge of
this phase of the program.
Dust machines should be used only
when the air is calm, If the poison
is applied with a spray, plants
should be dry.
At »ast two pre-square applica
tions of poison should be made, in
Westbrook’s opinion. Old weevils
will continue to come out from
winter quarters until the middle
of June, and one application of
poison won't kill all of them.
Westbrook urges that commit
tees of business men and agricul
tural leaders organize in every
county to see that these early wee
vils are poisoned on every acre of
cotton planted. If this is not done,
only dry weather can prevent al
most complete destruction of crops
not poisoned. 1f proper poisoning
is done, profitable yields should
result.
Cotton growers in this state face
the most serious boll weevil threat
since the early 1920’5, in the opin
ion of Extension Service cotton
specialists.
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The ninth grade agriculture class of
Comer High School along with J. B. Cobb,
Instructor, and L. T. Wansley, Field Rep
resentative of Georgia Power Company,
are shown pulling plants from an artifi
cially heated disease -free sweet potato
bed. The Comer F. F. A. Chapter and
Veterans Farm Trainin% Classes in co
operation with Georgia Power Company
A demonstration through co
operation of International Herves
ter Tractor Company and Athens
Truck and Tractor Company was
given on the University of Geor
gia agricultural campus early yes
terday afternoon.
Dr. H. B. Henderson, dairy de=
partment head, arranged the dey
monstration for the dairy barn.
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lar employees and for dairy stu
dents working on their master’s
degrees.
One highlight was cdemonstra
tion of a mowing attachment to be
used in dairy farming.
A new 580-page Georgia Agri
cultural Handbook may now be
ordered through county agents.
More than 1,000 Georgia cotton
farmers already have applied for
free cotton classing and marketing
news service in 1950.
have constructed the above bed for the '
growing of disease - free sweet potato
plants, Twenty-five bushels of disease
free potatoes were treated and bedded
with an expected yield of 75,000 plants?
These plants will be set by Veteran Farm
Trainees, F. F. A. boys and other farmers
interested in.producing free sweet pota
toes.
Around 90 percent of Georgia’s
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