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In line with Georgia’s march toward grassland farming,
4-11 club members are competing among themselves to see
who can make two blades of grass grow where only one
grew before, according to J. R. Johnson, Extension Service
acronomist, and L. R. Dunson, assistant state 4-H club
leader, S
“Also,” Johnton added, “they
are seeing how much beef, milk
and pork can be produced per
acre in 1851."
rour-H boys sarrying out this
activity are participating in a pas
ture improvement contest. The
obiect of the program, Johnson
«id, is to expand Georgia’s 300,-
000 acres of improved Landino clo
ver fescue pastures and 60,000
acres of improved Coastal Ber
muda.
Rules for this state-wide con
test, which is being sponsored by
gtandard Oil Company, call for at
least one acre of Landino-fescue
mixture or an acre of Coastal Ber
muda-crimson clover mixture.
Johnson pointed out that the
pastures are to be established ac
cording to Agricultural Extension
Gervice recommendations. These
call for good soil selection, proper
soil preparation, liming according
to needs of the soil, heavy fertili
gation, good management and
proper plant combinations.
On the spot judging will take
place in June and July, the agro
nomist said. District winners will
be chosen the last week in June,
and a state committee of agrono
mists will select state champions
the first week in July.
Three state prizes will be of
fered, $250, $l5O, and SBO for first,
second and third respectively.
Prizes for top winners in each of
six Extension Service districts
will be $50,, S4O and $25. Six dis
trict champions will glso receive
exnense-paid trips to the State
4-H Club Congress in Atlanta this
fall.
The county agent who super
vices the 4-H boy with the best
pacture project in each district
will get SSO, Johnson said.
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Fres MAY 13
The state’s oldest active breed
accociation, the Georgia Jersey
C-ttle Club, will hold its twenty
third annual public auction of reg
ictered Jersey cattle May 21 at the
Athens fair grounds, according to
Frank W. Fitch, Extension Service
dairyman and secretary of the Jer
sev oragnization,
Representing some of the best
blood lines of the breed, 17 cows,
14 bred heifers,: 12 open heifers
and four bulls have been consigned
to the sale.
Fitch pointed out that some of
the nation’s outstanding dairy ani
mals have been sold at previous
Georsia Jersey Cattle Club sales.
Te called attention to Marks Farm
Onhelia, ‘a three-time Medal of
Merit winner with three produc
tion records of over 800 pounds of
t itterfat, and Sparkling Sir's
Pambno, winner of the President’s
Cup, which is the highest butterfat
production record a Jersey cow
con get in the United States in
anv one year.
Animals consigned to the sale
this vear will be ready for inspec
tion Sunday, May 20, it was an
nounced.
A meeting of the board of direc
tors of the Georgia Jersey Cattle
Club will be held Sunday night at
ihe Holman Hotel in Athens. Of
ficers of the organization who will
be in charge of this meeting are
11. Barry Biggers, Blyth, president;
C. F. Russell, Rossville. vice-pres
ident; A. H. Barnett, Washington,
sccond vice-president; Dr. W. H.
;: : b'fimss, Athens, treasurer, and
iteh.
Serving with Fitch on the sale
committee are. Glen Kingsley,
Rossville; Ernest Reese jr., Thom
son; T. R. Breedlove jr., Monroe;
(T?!x Thomas Conner, Atlanta;
seorge Cooper, Thomasville: H.
K. Welch jr., Athens, and J. W.
Davis, Gadsden, Alabama. 5
FORFIGN YOUTH
IEADFRS VISIT
(TATE A-H'ERS
o ae B - E
. Three rural youth leaders from
Oreign countries will spend sev-
J I weeks In Georgia this sum
mer studying 4-H club activities,
W. A. Sutton, state 4-H club lead
er. announced this week.
. Bo Ola Lidstrom, a Swedish boy.
“}"m‘]-" living on a Colquitt
‘ounty farm, having arrived sev
ral ‘dn.vs ago. -Roger Marcellin,
4 France, has already arrived in
" onee county and is living on the
= Ry Fullilove farm. Eigil Han
o of Denmark, is scheduled to
“rrive later in the summer. Han
and Marcellin are in Georgia
Hogas the sponsorship of the Eco
n; ;imc Cooperatipn Administration,
ho “"f:‘ngements were made for
- Aflih by the U. S. Department
3 ‘;]dgl iculture in.cooperation with
i ,Grant Colleges and other
;eencies. Lidstrom is an Interna
-2 ','(’\"‘ Farm Youth Exchange dele
_, In calling attention to the visits.
clate club leader Sutton pointed
fios ;evera! farm boys and girls
this toreign countries visited in
o BS ate last year to study 4-H
~,::b programs, and a Georgia 4-H
- girl, Miss Wilmarose Nichol
i Cobb county, was an ex-'
v},;i?fie student from this state,
slling several European nations.”
w.The shuttle, patented fn 1733,
wird first important step to
t};ge mechanization of the woo'
NEW 4-H PROJECT
To encourage #2-H club mem
bers to understand buying and
marketing farm supplies through
farm cooperatives is the purpose
of a new 4-H project in operation
this year for the first time.
The program is called the 4-H
club cooperative project and is
sponsored by the American Insti
tute of Cooperation and the Cotton
Producers Assoclation.
] Working out plans for the activ
ity were C. B. Funderburk, chair
man of the youth committee of the
Georgia Cooperative Council and
treasurer of the Cotton Producers
Association, C. G. Garner, Exten
sion Service economist in market
ing, and representatives of the
state 4-H staff,
~ Plaques will be awarded to
counties having the highest scoring
_communities in each of six Exten
~sion Service districts. The donor
will be the American Institute of
Cooperation, and the same organi
zation will give plaques to counties
having first, second and third
place communities in the state.
Two boys and two girls will be
chosen as individual state cham
pions. Their awards ‘will be ex
pense-paid trips to Logan, Utah, in
August to attend a meeting of the
American Institute of Cooperation.
There they will get training in
farm cooperative work. The state
champions will also get free trips
to the State 4-H Club Congress in
Atlanta this fall. The trips are be
ing offered by the Cotton Produ
cers Association.
~ Boys and girls from 14 to 20
years of age who are -carrying
some other 4-H production project
‘are eligible. Six members in a
community must be enrolled to
make individuals and the com
munity eligible for awards.
Individual score cards have been
worked out. The community
score will be determined by adding ‘
individual scores of participants in
the community. |
Visiting farm cooperatives and
other businesses, meeting with di
| rectors of cooperatives, turning in
a record book and writing a story
\about activity in the project are
among the things participants will
| do. \
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Tobacco Stand
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Best In Years,
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Says Aoronomist
. Georgia tobacco farmers have
the best stands in years, E. C.
Westbrook, Extension Service
agronomist, reported today. An
abundance of plants at the right
time and weather conditions fav
orable for livability are responsi
ble. he added.
Westbrook warned against over
optimism, however. He urged
farmers to watch closely for green
peach aphids, or tobacco lice, and
use recommended spray of TEPP
or one percent Parathion. De
tailed information on spraying can
be obtained from local county
agents, the agronomist said.
Operating in the buds of plants,
the tobacco budworm is already
active, it was reported. They make
‘ small holes, barely visible at first,
in the bud leaves. “As the leaf
grows,” Westbrook said, “the holes
become larger, and sometimes the
leaf is almost worthless.”
Budworms can be controlled by
dropping a little poison bait in the
}buds of each plant. A good mix
| ture is one pound of arsenate of
i lead to 50 pounds of corn meal
| Arsenate of lead can also be mixed
with sand, the expert asserted.
When plants are small a mixture
of arsenate of lead and corn meal
can be put in'a small tin can with
{ holes punched in it and applied
| somewhat on the principle of a
| salt shaker, Westbrook pointed
! out.
f Talking of cultivation, he said it
lis well to plow tobacca deep and
| close to the plants as soon as the
| plants have taken root. A good
| hand hoeing also helps get the
| plants to growing, Westbrook add
led. Afterwards, cultivate shallow,
'but move dirt to the plants so
ith(‘_,\' will be on a ridge when laid
by.
’ The agronomist stated that it
- will pay to give tobacco good at
‘tention during early stages of
.growth. “Watch closely for signs
of insect damage,” he advised. “If
insects are damaging the plants,
use recommended control measures
immediately.”
TOMATOES IN GARDEN
The tomato probably holds the
No. 1 spot on the long list of ve
getables grown in Georgia when |
considered from the stand-point of;
its many uses and its importance
in a healthy diet, in the opinion
of Elmo Ragsdale, Extension Ser
vice gardening specialist. ‘
Georgia’s annual state Home
Demonstration Council meeting is |
to be held in Athens on the Uni
versity of Georgia, campus, June |
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and increase crop yields, Chile is training her soldiers in the operation, maintenance and use of U.S.
farm machinery. The soldiers above are all set to harvest a grain field.
By .
Jonathan Forman, M. D., Vice President
FRIENDS OF THE LAND
Columbus 1, Ohio
THE WATER QUESTION
In January of 1950 President
Truman set up an emergency
Commission on Water Resources
Policy, and asked it to report with
in a year. The Executive Order
establishing this temporary com
mission and the accompanying let
ter to Morris L. Cooke, as its
chairman, invited attention to a
chaotic lack of unified manage
ment of water resources the coun
try over, and the need of a consis
tent and comprehensive policy.
Those who served on the board
were: Morris L. Cooke, retired en
gineer with a forty-year record in
public service; Gilbert F. White,
President, Haverford College; Le
land Olds, who had worked previ
ously with Cooke and White on
National Planning Board matters;
Samuel B. Morris, engineer and
utility executive now serving as
General Manager and Chief Engi-‘
neer of the Department of Water
and Power for the City of Los An
geles; R. R. Renae, agricultural
economist, President of Montana
State University; Paul S. Burgess, |
President of the University of Ari
zona; and Lewis Webster Jones,
President of University of Arkan
sas.
After sufficient conferences,
trips to hold hearings and inspect
projects and installations, the Re
port was written in committee
along lines of mediation and com
promise, going through six drafts
before the Commissioners finally
believed they had something they
all felt they could sign their names
to as recommended policy.
Russell Lord, Editor, The Land,
published by Friends of the Land,
who acted in the eapacity of part
time consulting editor, dealing
mainly with illustrations and for
mat as the work went to press, be
lieves that this Government Re
port is a considerable feat of civ
ilized give-and-take, and one that
could hard]y have been accom
plished under any other govern
ment in any other land.
To secure a symposium of opin
w.n on the recommendations -of
policy made by this Water Re
sources Commissioni, Russell Lord
submitted Vol. 1 of the Report, en
titled “A Water Policy for the
American People, to a group of
learned persons either in or re
lated to the field of conservation.
The reaction of these persons is
given at length in the Spring issue
of The Land and is excerpted
briefly as follows:
“The Cooke Report is excellent.
1t is undoubtedly wise to ground
the study on known techniques for
cooperating with -the hydrologic
cycle. Two dawning techniques,
however, may suddenly become
very important, modifying many
| water plans. The first is artificial
rainmaking; the second, the con
version of sea water into fresh
water and its delivery to dry re
gions via atomic energy.” Stuart
Chase, economist and writer, one
of the founders of Friends of the
Land.
“The President’'s Water Re
sources Policy Commission is to
be congratulated on the scope and
intensity of the study it was able
to make of a highly complex sub
ject during the comparatively brief
period “of its existence. . . . The
Commission has done an admira
ble iob of summarizing our na
tional experience and present
problems in water resources de
| velopment in a form which can
| well serve as a basis for public
discussion and decision.” Gordon
R. Clapp, Chairman of the Board,
Tennessee Valley Authority.
' “The main recommendation of
' the Commission is that the river
| basins of the United States be de
| veloned under a comprehensive,
' nmified plan which would provide
| for adequate water sunplies for
| farm and city, for irrigation and
| drainage, for navigation, hydro
| electric power. flood and erosion
| control, control of stream nollutin,
| and protection of wild-life and
| fish., With these obiectives every
| informed citizen mwust agree, but
| come fear the political implica
| tions, because it is more of an en
| gineers report- than that of an
‘ecologist . . . a large portion of
| our population i< convinced that
| the term ‘watershed management’
{ is but a cloak to hide the real pur
|Dose, namelv, to further extend
| federal control over the private
| lives and activities of American
l citizens. For the most part, these
| are the peonle on the tand—in the
% vallevs and on the hillsides. These
| people must be brought into a co
| operative understanding, while all
| of the government agencies as well
|as private organizations and in
l dustry are worked into one overall
eplan for the development and
l management of each river basin.”
| Jonathan Forman, M. D., Editor,
! Ohio State Medical Journal.
“Excellently written and well
presented, this Renort may well
be the established ‘bible’ for gov
ernmental apprcach to the water
i resources problem in the near fu
ture, and o will serve a %Yichly
useful purpose. But it mnre gen
erally is a documented argument
THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA
for the development of water re
sources than a report. . . . It al
most neglects the very important
and basic consideration of com
munity initiative in Watershed
Management. . . . Again, the re
port fails to emphasize the impor=~
tance of land use in the develaop
ment of our water resources. It is
relegated to a secondary place.
What the nation actually needs is
a land and water policy. This in it
self is a major task and must be
done if our renewable resources
are to be developed in an orderly
manner.” Walter C. Gumbel, Con
servationist for the Monongahela
Power Company, Editor of The
Journal of Soil and Water Conser
vation, and member of the nation
al board of directors of Friends of
the Land.
“This report is a thoroughly
clear, enlightening and construc
tive review of the sltuation as the
citizens of this country must face
it, I was particularly impressed
by the chapter on the pollution of
our streams, rivers and harbors by
sewage and industrial wastes. To
me, some of the current conditions
are monstrous and the sooner the
recommendations of this commis
sion are put into effect, the better
it will be for all of us.” John Kie
ran, naturalist and commentator.
“The Commission’s ,Report,
which incidentally is also the guid
ing policy of the Mississippi Valley
Association, sums it up as follows:
‘Both water and land transporta
tion are vital to the maintenance
and growth of the nation’s com
merce and defense.-Sound national
transportation policy, as well as
sound national water policy, re
quires that our navigable water
resources be developed and used to
the fullest possible extent.” Lach
lan Macleay, President, The Miss
issippi Valley Association, and
member of the national board of
directors, Friends of the Land.
' “About 40 million Americans, in
various regions and communities,
‘are already facing real trouble
with water supply. This fact more
than justifies all of the labor that
'has gone into the preparation of
the highly valuable Report of the
President’s Water Resources Poli
detention dams of the U. S. agri-l
cultural flood control project in
¢y Commission. . , . This report,
which contains a very large
amount of important factual ma
terial, will prove invaluable for
water resource planning in the
years ahead.” Fairfield Osborn,
President, The Conservation
Foundation. g
“The book issued by the Presi- !
dent’s Water Policy Commission
contains some mighty fine infor
mation and statement of policy ...
(however) There is a great volume |
of official information in govern-:
ment records, especially the U. S.
Department of Agriculture, that
directly contradicts basic theories
and practices of the U. S. Army
Engineers and Reclamation Di
vision. But such information has
been smothered or given the hush
hush. In the book in question it
is largely ignored. . . . It has been
conclusively proved that the small
the Washita (Oklahoma) Valley
impounds from three to six times
more runoff than the huge Deni
son Dam, at less than one-tenth
the cost of the big dam, and that
auxiliary surface treatment ab
sorbs approximately equal water,
preventing runoff. I find no men
tion of this extremely important
fact in this book. Elmer T. Peter
son, Editor, The Daily Oklahoman,
former director, Friends of the
Land.
“This ‘Report is a «ollection of
statesmanlike plans for saving the
U. S. by control and use of re
sources in the public interest. The
fact that it- brings the raindrop
splash to the front at this late date
shows how little we know about
the relation of land and water to
each other and lends double force
to the call for fundamental re
search, such as that started in the
Forest Service and the Soil Con
servation Service by W. C. Low
dermilk and killed by a cut in ap
propriations.” J. Russell Smith,
Geographer and Horticulturist, !
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1951 GARDENING
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Announcement was made this
week that a new publication on
gardening is now available in
Georgia county and home demon
stration agent offices.
Title of the new publicgtion is
“Garden With a Purpose.” It was
prepared by Elmo Ragsdale, Agri
cultural Extension Service horti
culturist. In the four page leaflet
Ragsdale lists plan for small town
garden, plan for a farm garden of
one-fourth to one-half acre, ap
proximate amounts of fertilizer
per 100-feet of row space, impor
tant vegetables for small gardens
and a garden planting chart.
In the planting chart, according
to Ragsdale, are suggested varie=-
ties, number of days from planting
to maturity, suggested planting
dates, seeds needed per 100-feet of
row space, depth to plant, distance
between plants, and distance be
tween rows. This information is
given for 25 of the most common
vegetables grown in Georgia'gar
dens.
In announcing the publication
Ragsdale stated, “Gardening is
one of the easiest and cheapest
ways of producing some of the
most important foods in our diets
and offers a way in which thous
ands of Georgia families can con
tribute to the national defense ef
fort. If the garden is well planned
every member of the family can
enjoy taking part in the project.
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154 W. Hancock Phone 1487
Fourth 'Annual Farm Family
Achievement Day Slated Here
Farm Family Achievement Day, the third annual such
meeting to be held on the University of Georgia College of
Agriculture eampus, is scheduled for May 23, R. L. Van
sant, state director of the Farmers Home Administration,
said today., 4 BN e o
Nearly 200 farmers, farm wo=-
men, and children will be guestal
of the College on this date. Some
of the farmers to be honored have
paid farm loans in full during the
past 12 months . .. loans that were
set up to run over a much longer
period. Many of the home owners
attending were tenants, moving
every year or two, until FHA
loans were made available a few
years ago. Still other have made
exceptional records in repaying
other types of loans.
Among the speakers who have
‘already accepted invitations to ap
pear on the Achievement Day pro
gram are Dillard B. Lassetter, na
tional director of the Farmers
Home Administration, Washing
ton, D. C,, and Alexander Nunn,
| Editor of the Progressive Farmer
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house work easy, nothing has % Ry, A 1
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WELLMAN-STITH (0, (Hae=r s 7‘% i
279 N. Lumpkin St. Phone 2670 &2@2 _ o
Magazine, Birmingham, Alabama.
I Associate Dean Paul W, Chap
man of the College of Agriculture
will preside, and dean and Direc
tor C. C. Murray of the College of
Agriculture will welcome the
group to the campus.
Several outstanding farm men
and women who are to attend will
also appear on the program to dis=
cuss their farming and homemak
in%activities.
ansant emphasized activities of
these borrower families in build
ing better farm communities in
Georgia. He said that many of
the farmers have children who are
outstanding 4-H cluband F. F. A.
members and that some of these
are to attend the meeting here
with their mothers and fathers.
The farm families attending
PAGE FIVE
Achievement Day will have Ignch
at the cafeteria on the College of
Agriculture campus and will tour
the campus in the afternoon. The
women and girls will visit the
School of Home Economics, and
the men and boys will tour the
agricultural college farm. ‘
The high cost of producing farm
products and the present national
defense effort make efficiency on
the farm of great importance, Ex
tension Service workers poiat out.
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