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1 7SDAY, JULY 18, 1950,
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(ottonAcreage Steady Here;
(lassing Service Explained
Marketing News
By ALVA MAYES, JR.
E. C. Westbrook, Georgia Ex
tension Service cotton specialist,
said today that nearly 9,500 cotton
tarmers in the state wh_o have the
harvesting and marketing season
in view have already assured
themselves of federal cotton class
ing and market news services
when that time arrives.
According to D. L. Branyon,
Clarke county agent, as yet there
have been no applications for this
service reported in Clarke county
due to the fact that the cotton
tarmers in this area are mostly
one-variety producers. .However,
Branyon said, the service is avail
ghle to the farmers of this area
it they desire to use it. Some took
advantage of it last year.
At the end of June, Westbrook
said, 67 Georgia cotton improve
ment groups, with a combined
farmer-membership of 9,487 had
filed application-for 1950 classing
and market news services with the
Cotton Branch of the Produciion
and Marketing Administration. He
said that these groups represent
an ageregate of 301,364 acres of
cotton.
Deadline Set
The deadline for the filing of
applications under provisions of
the Smith-Doxey Act is August 1,
and cotton improvement groups
who have failed to file should do
s 0 as far in advance of the closing
date as possible,
According to Westbrook, the
Smith-Doxey services provide for
thefree classing of cotton for the
grower-members of cotton im
provement groups. Samples are
pulled as each bale is ginned and
these are sent to a federal cotton
clagsing office. In return, the
grower receives a card showing
the official grade and staple length
of each bale sampled.
The grower also receives regu
lar reports on prevailing cotton
prices together with knowledge of
the grade of each bale of his cotton
thus enabling him to market it to
the best advantage.
New Member On
LH Commitfee
An additional member has been
named to the Georgia 4-H Club
Advisory Commrittee, according to
IW.dA. Sutton, State 4-H - Club
eaqaer,
He is Colonel Earle Norman,
outstanding Wilkes county civie
leader and attorney.
His appointment brings the
number of members to a total of
26. The outstanding Georgians on
the committee work with the Ag
ricultural Extension Service offi
cials in planning programs and
activities for Georgia's 115,000 4-H
club boys and girls. :
Sutton announced that the next
meeting of the State 4-H Club
Advisory Committee.is scheduled
0 be held on the Georgia State
College for Women campus at
Milledgeville, during the Annual
State 4-H Club Council nreeting,
August 21-25.
Beef Cattle |
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Course At Tifton
TIFTON — “How far can we
safely go in a beef ecattle pro
gram?” Georgia farmers will hear
that and many more questions
answered July 21 at the annual
Beef Cattle short course at Abra
;’tm Baldwin Agrieultural College
ere,
More than 275 men, most of
them ecommerieal cattle produc
trs, from 35 countles attended the
meeting last year, Even more will
attend this year, Mr, T. M. Cordell,
dean of ABAC, believes.
The staff for this year’s short
turse will inelude livestock €x
perts from the three sponsoring
Eoups, ABAC, the Georgia Agri
¢ultural Extension Service and
Coastal Plain Experiment Station,
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: PIG CROP :
'€ spring pig erop in Georgia
¥s 16 percent greater than that of
the same period g year ago, ac=-
ording to the Georgia Crop Re
vorting Service, The 'percentage
Micrease in Georgia is more than
five times that of the TUnited
“'"fl‘:?S’ spring pig crops as a
Whole,
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HOME IMPROVEMENT
More than 9,000 Georgia farm
families made improvements in
methods of doing home laundry in
the past year and 8,000 families
Nstalled electric water systems,
%nks, washing machines and elec~
trie stoves, 3
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made by the makers of famous
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© Smokey, a three-month-old
black bear cub, shows how to
fly an airplane at National Air
port, Washington, D. C. Smo
key, who survived a drastic fire
in the Lincoln National Forest,
New Mexico, was presented to
the Washington Zoo by the U. S,
Forest Service as a living re
minder to the children of Am
erica to beware of starting for
est fires,
Veteran County
Agent Refires -
From Service
Georgia’s oldest county agent in
length of service has retired from
active duty. He is C. B. Culpepper
of Tift county.
In making the announcement,
L. W. Eberhardt, jr., Extension
Service district agent, said Mr.
Culpepper has been in county
agent work in the state for 37
years, beginning this work before
the Act of Congress was. passed
providing for such activities, Dur
ing the 37 years Mr. Culpepper
has missed only 11% days of work
because of sickness.
- He was appointed county agent
for Dooley county in 1914 after
graduating from the University of
‘Georgia. He has been county
agent in Tift county since 1927.
Culpepper Honored
Culpepper was recently given
the Distinguished Service Award
by the United States Department
of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.,
for his accomplishments in Geor
fgia agricultural work He was the
only Georgian to receive the award
for the year 1949.
Cylpepper has assisted thous
ands of farmers in developing pro=
grams of soil improvement, live
stock production and marketing
and general farmr improvement,
‘according to Eberhardt. He has
been a leader in developing out
standing 4-H club members. His
4-H club livestock and poultry
judging teams have won state
championships and additional
honors at the International Live
stock Show in Chicago and at
other regional and national meet
ings.
-All county agents in the South
Central Georgia District met re
lcently in Tifton to honor Culpep
per for his leadership and service
and presented a trophy to him,
Pamphlet Cites
Market Potential
ATLANTA, Ga.—Georgia pea
nuts,, cottonseed, and soybeans
will find increased . markets
through .processing in new “sol
vent extraction” plants, according
to E. P. Cofield, jr.; in a survey
on this subject published today by
the Georgia Tech Engineering Ex
periment Station.
Mr. Cofield points out that the
cottonseed extraction plant being
erected at Augusta by the Buck
eye Cotton Oil Company is only a
forerunner of “things to come.”
New solvent extraction plants, be
cause of the high yields of oil ob
tained and because of their ver
satility, may not only supplant old
type oil mills but may even in
duce farmers to grow:crops of oil
seed that are not presently grown
in Georgia. .
The 103-page informational sur
vey on this process was published
by the Georgia Tech Engineering
Experiment Station. Mr. Cofield is
now a research engineer for
Scripto, Inc.
Farm And Home
Meefing Dafes
Tuesday®- Fowlers Home Dem
onstration Club, 2 p. m., home of
Mrs. Guy O. Bowden.
Wednesday — Knox Community
Club, 3 p. m., home of Mrs. C. B.
Guest.
wfi;rsday—Holly Heights Home
Demonstration Club, 3 p. m., home
of Mrs. Mell Kenny.
State, Nafional
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Distinct Decline
By GEORGE ABNEY, JR.
Although Georgia’s cotton acre
age has dropped an estimated 28
per cent from last year’s total, the
cotton acreage in Clarke county
remains the same,
D. L. Branyon, Clarke county
agricultural extension agent, said
about 3,500 acres are in cultiva
tion in cotton here this year.
An estimate by officials ~of
Georgia Crop Reporting Service
placed the amount of cotton acre
age in the state this year at 1,170,-
000 acres. This estimate was
made according to an official re
port of the Crop Reporting Board
of the United States Department
of Agriculture, i :
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This is a 28 per cent .decrease
from the 1,618,000 acres in culti
vation last year, and is 25 per
cent under the ten-year average
(1939-48) of 1,559,000 acres.
United States acreage in culti
vation on July 1 was placed by
agricultural officials at 19,032,000
acres or a decrease of 31 per cent
from the 27,719,000 at this time
last year. This year’'s acreage is
13 per cent below the ten-year
average (1938-48) of 21,859,000
acres.
HANDICRAFT SALES
Georgia rural home demonstra
tion club women sold more than
$27,000 worth- of handicraft items
during the past year, and this was
an increase of $8,500 over the pre
vious 12-manth period, according
to Extension Service home indus
tries specialists. Such things as
alunminum trays, lamp shades and
rugs were among the items made.
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CCC WHEAT
LOAN RATE
IS LISTED
A basic loan rate for 1950-crop
wheat produced in Georgia of
$2.23 per bushel was announced
this week by the Production and
Marketing ‘Administration county
committee, Last year's rate was
$2.19 per bushel,
C. A. Ward, Chairman, Clake
County PMA Committee pointed
out that the basic rate applies to
wheat grading U. S. No. 1. Wheat
produced on farms cooperating in
the 195¢ wheat acreage allotment
program grading No. 3 or better,
or No. 4 or No. 5 because of test
weight or because it contains
wheat of the classes durum and, of
red durum, will be eligible for
Commodity Credit Corporation
loan or purchase agreement. The
chairman says that a scheduled of
premiums and discounts for the
various qualities of 1950-crop
wheat will be issued at an early
date and will be available for in
spection at the county PMA office
in Athens. ;
To be eligible for the loan,
wheat must be placed in approv
ed storage either on the farm or
in a commercial warehouse or ele
vator, accordin‘g to the chairman.
‘He points out further that storage
allowances will be continued for
1950-crop wheat on the same gen
eral basis as last year. '
Loans and purchase agreements
will: be available " from CCC
through the county PMA office, in
accordance with the program pro
visions, from time of harvest
through January 1951. They will
mature on April 30, 1951, or ear
lier on demand.
LIVING ROOM CONTEST
Georgia home demonstration
club women are participating in a
state-wide living room inmrprove
ment contest which began July 1}
and runs for a full year, accord
ing to Extension Service Home Im
provement experts, A similar con
test conducted in 1949 attracted
900 entries in 60 Georgia counties.
Prizes are to be given district and
state winners.
A properly constructed chute,
with neck squeeze and a side gate
to let the cattle out, is indispen
sable on the well managed cattle
farm. .
THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS; GEORGIA
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Ten-Point Livestock Plan
Recommended For State
Georgia livestock owners were given a ten-point program
for increasing income today by Charles E. Bell, jr., Agri
cultural Extension Service livestock specialist.
Bell listed the following ten
points as being highly important
for success with livestock: (1) im
provement in quality of animals;
(2) increased percentage of calf,
pig and lamb crops; (3) efficient
use of pastures; (4) reduced cost
of wintering animals; (5) effi
cient feeding practices; (6) labor
saving practices; (7) disease pre
vention; (8) livestock parasite con
trol; (9) reduction of marketing
losses; (10) adequate home meat
supply.
The livestock specialist pointed
out “The number of cattle on
Georgia farms increased from 1,-
099,000, January 1,°.19049, to 1=
220,000, at the close of the past
year.” The inventory value of the
cattle during this period increased
from $88,000,000 to $101,000,000.
. In citing. reports from county
agricultural agents throughout the
state, Bell . said that control of
livestock pests has been given em
phasis during recent months. He
said that 14 livestock pest control
schools were conducted during the
past year with 2,500 farmers at
tending. More than 3,000 people
attended 4-H club demonstrations
on livestcck pest control.
“There is much interest in hog
production in Georgia,” Bell said,
“as evidenced by a 10 percent in
crease in the number of pigs rais
ed the past year as compared with
1948, This increase is continuing
over into 1950, according to a cur
rent Georgia Crop Reporting Ser
vice survey, which indicates that
the spring pig crop in Georgia this
year, which includes all pigs pro
duced from December 1, 1949, to
June 1, 1950, is 16 percent above
the crop saved during the same
period a year ago. This spring pig
crop is the largest saved since the
spring of 1943.
“A great deal of progress is be
ing made in raising more pigs per
litter,” Bell continued. The 1950
Pest Comtrol
spring pig crop averaged 6.3 pigs
raised per litter which was an all
time high record for the state,
Farm Families
See Pictures
Georgia farm families are
movie-going people—but many of
the moving pictures they see are
shown in their own community
club houses at regular monthly
community meetings.
Theze are educational films that
show the latest developments in
farming . and home economics.
Through them, farm people are
learning - new ways to improve
their homes and farms for better
rural living.
According to reports from Geor
gia county and home demonstra
tion agents, more than 765,000
farm people attended showings of
educational moving pictures in this
state last year. In addition, it is
estimated that one brief 4-H c¢lub
movie trailer, alone, was seen by
approximately 240,000 persons.
Summaries of the showings of
educational moving pictures by
local county and home demonstra
tion agent offices were reported
by J. Aubrey Smith, associate edi
tor of the Agricultural Extension
Service.
Smith said that the pictures were
used in 151 of Georgia’s 159 eoun
ties during the year.
The Agricultural Extension
Service has produced approxi
mately a half dozen educational
movies during the past three
years, showing Georgia farm fam
ilies at work. Also, during the past
several years, two of these movies
produced in Georgia have won top
national awards when shown in
ASMUTETO /5 PO
LHEARMSAFETY %=P
BY GEORGE ABNEY, JR,
Farm Editor
National Farm Safety Week will be observed throughout rural Geor
gia, July 23-29. We feel that now is the time to salute another nation
wide safety activity in progress 365 days a year.
It is the 4-H Farm and Home Safety program carried on by 4-H Club
members between the ages of 10 and 21, We have been told that these
youths—who conduct safety surveys of their home farms and neigh
boring farmsteads—have a well organized safety program in the rural
field.
Perhaps the use of the safety knowledge by the nation’s youths will
help decrease the 17,500 fatal accidents to farm people each year; or
save some of the 35,000 farm buildings destroyed by fire; or put to
constructive use the billion dollars in losses annually represented by
these disasters.
Since the safety project was launched on a national basis eight years
ago, enrollment has increased five times.
General Motors provides SIO,OOO in awards annually for the pro
gram, the National Committee of Boys and Girls Club Work arranges
the programs, and the State Agricultural Extension services direct the
activity.
AGENT HONORED g 4
Congratulations go to C. B. Culpepper, Tift county, Georgia’s oldest
county agent fronr standpoint of years of service. He was recenily
honored when he retired from active duty. He has served for 37 years .
with only 11 days missed because of sickness, ¥y T
RECORD CROP ol
It has been reported by the Georgia Crop Reporting Service that for
the second consecutive year Georgia has set a new all-time high record
for production of lupine seed. Indicated 1950 production of 101,800,070
pounds is 125 percent - above the previous record crop of 45,200,000
pounds harvested in 1949 and 532 percent above 1948 production. Cur
rent estimated acreage saved for seed this year was 105,000 acres, an -
increase of 144 percent over last season,
PRICE RISE H
As of Saturday the all commodity index of prices received by Geor
gia farmers rose for the seventh consecutive month, jumping 13 points
to 248 percent of the August, 1909-July, 1914, average, states tha
Georgia Crop Reporting Service. :
CROP CONDITIONS
Another report released by the Georgia Crop Reporting Servics
states that extremely hot, dry weather during the latter part of June
has caused rapid deterioration of corn, tobacco, hays, pastures and
truck crops, the greatest damage occurring in south central and south
eastern areas of the state.
competition with moving picturc:si
made by similar organizations in
other states. |
POULTRY TIP ‘
To check cannibalism in chick
ens, poultry experts advise giving
salt in the drinking water at the
rate of one level teaspoon to each
gallon of water for a day or two.
This remedy should not be kept up
any longer than the one or two
days, If cannibalism continues, de
beaking may be necessary. |
FARM JOTTINGS
STUDENT HONORED
Hassel L. Parker, University of
Georgia agriculture student from
Ellijay, has been awarded the an
nual Sears, Roebuck Company S2OO
scholarship, according to an. san
nouncement made here by Paul
W. Chapman, associate dean of the
Colle? of Agriculture.
Parker was selected from the
outstanding agricultural sopho
mores for attaining the highest
scholastic average for the year. ..
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