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Lowest Price in its History!
Farm Demonstration Column
By B. M. DRAKE, County Agent
Home Phone 81; Office Phone 205
Note* on the Loan Application*
I have taken some time to con
solidate the figures from the loan
applications. They interest me very
much and I think probably others
will also be interested in the facts
they reveal.
There were up to the 15th of
April 515 applications received in
the office of the county agent, and
a record was taken of their crops,
etc. for 1032 as well as pieir inten
tions in regard to planting in 1933.
The 515 applications represent a
total of 927 plows, and the loans ap
plied for aggregate $65,770. Some
of these have been turned down for
one cause or another, especially
where it appeared that a sufficient
effort had not been made to par
the last year’s loan or the plans and
equipment for making the crop this
year did not offer sufficient prom
ise of enabling the applicant to pay
WILD ONIONS
cannot taint your milk if you
give your cows a little Cluritone
twice each day. 5 lbs. costs $ 1 .25
prepaid. It will last one cow
forty days. Try it—be convin
ced. We guarantee it.
Claritone Dairy Products Cos.
MARIKTTA, UA.
CULL YOUR
Planting Seed
Avoid skips and barren stalks.
\V e are cleaning them every
day and the culls will pay the
charges.
Then don’t fail to let us figure
with you on your Fertilizer re
quirements.
THE QUALITY OF OUR FERTILIZER IS
ALWAYS HIGH AND OUR PRICES ARE
RIGHT
NUTT & BOND
PHONE 67
the loan. Other applications were
cut down below the estimated needs
of the borrower. So that the total
loans approved will not equal the
figures above. The loans applied for
average almost exactly S6O per plow.
The total cotton acreage reported
for these 927 plows in 1932 was
15,408 acres or a little over 9 acres
to the plow. The number of bales
produced by these farmers amounteu
according to their reports to 3,546.
This figures out an average yield
per acre of forty-two one hundredths
of a bale, or three and eight tenths
bales per plow. This would mean a
gross income from our main money
crop of not more than $l3O per plow.
The low yields were no doubt
partly due to dry weather and in
sufficient fertilizer and to the rav
ages of the boll weevil. But even so
they could not have happened excepi
for the distressing' depletion of the
fertility of our fields. We can never
be prosperous until we find some
way of maintaining soil fertility and
getting it put in practice.
Even more astonishing and dis
tressing are the figures from the re
ports on the corn crop. Farmers
planted twice as much land in corn
as in cotton or 18 acres per plow
and produced only 86 bushels per
plow or only about 8% bushels per
acre. This yield could have been
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
more than doubled by the use of a
winter legume crop before the corn.
The crop would barely feed the mule
that worked it. And as a matter of
fact the yield averages much less
than this on the upland farms.
The average yield of the wheat
reported on the other hand is ltP/fc
bushels per acre and 20 bu. per plow,
or 630 pounds of grain per acre
against 482 for corn. In spite of thie
i much better production of wheat,
that is 30 per cent more grain pe.-
acre only 238 of the 515 applicants
had any wheat at all on their farms.
EIGHT SCHOOLS IN UNIVERSITY
SYSTEM ABOLISHED BY BOARD
(Continued from Front Page)
Chairman Spalding emphasized that
the complete personnel set-up was
such a tremendous job that it would
require much further time. The
board is to meet again on May 12.
Presidents of a number of schools
were chosen today. In addition to
Dr. Sanford, they were:
Dr. M. <L. Brittain, Georgia School
of Technoogy (Georgia Tech) At
lanta.
L. H. Browning, Middle Georgia
college, Cochran.
J. M. Prance, State Agricultural
and Normal college, Americus.
P. G. Branch, now president of
the Georgia State College for Men at
Tifton, as new president of North
Georgia college, Dahlonega, succeed
ing John West.
J. M. Thrash, South Georgia State
college, Douglas.
J. L. Beeson, Georgia State Col
lege for Women, Milledgeville.
H. P. Stuckey, Experiment Sta
tion, Griffin.
G. H. Wells, South Georgia Teach
ers college, Statesboro.
W. M. Hubbard, State Teachers
and Agricultural College for Negroes,
Forsyth.
B. F. Hubert, Georgia State In
dustrial college for Negroes, Savan
nah.
No salaries were fixed for institu
tion heads or personnel. Most of the
positions not filled today likely will
be filled at the board’s next meeting.
I. S. Ingram, president of the A.
and M. School at Carrollton, was
named president of the new West
Georgia college at Carrollton.
The name of the State Agricul
tural and Normal College at Ameri
cus was changed to the Georgia
Southwestern college.
The radio service at the university
proper was discontinued. The re
gents said “this radio service is cost
ing approximately SIO,OOO per an
num, and after a year’s trial has not
given satisfactory results.”
The entire university system was
put on what is known as the “quar
ter system,” except the law school
and Georgia Tech. The quarter sys
tem divides the work into quarters,
so as to provide three quarters in a
nine months’ term. All members of
facuties will work on a 12-months'
basis.
Members of the Board of Regents
are: Mr. Spalding, chairman; Mr.
Smith, Mr. Callaway, W. Elliott
Dunwody, Jr., of Macon; A. Pratt
Adams, of Savannah; W. J. Vereen.
of Moultrie; George C. Woodruff, of
Columbus; E. S. Ault, of Cedartown;
Judge M. D. Dickerson, of Douglas;
Chief Justice Richard B. Russell, Sr.,
Paul Burson, of Monroe, and Govet
nor Talmadge, ex-officio member.
The secretary of the board, Erie
Cocke, 'was ordered to take such
steps as necessary to protect the
properties of abandoned institutions.
The chairman was authorized to
name a committee to lease or other
wise dispose of the unused proper
ties for the “best interests of the
state and for the communities.”
FIVE ANNOUNCE FOR TAX
COMMISSIONER IN LAMAR
In the special election called for
May 1 to fill the office of tax com
missioner in Lamar county, five can
didates have announced as follows:
Emmett Langford, Jos. D. Smith, O.
W. Holland, W. R. Darden and H.
J. Moye. The election is called to
fill the vacancy caused by the resig
nation of Gus Smith, former tax
commissioner.
HOME MARKETS WAIT
ON STORAGE PLANTS
AUTHORITY SAYS MORE RE
FRIGE RATION WILL BOOST
BEEF INDUSTRY. PERMANENT
PASTURES BUiLT
Athens, Ga.—Greater and more
widely distributed refrigeration fa
cilities in the state of Georgia, in
order that the marekts may more sat
isfactorily use the increasing supply
of Georgia grown beef, were urged
here today by W. T. Bennett of the
Georgia Agricultural Extension Ser
vice.
Three fundamental necessities for
the profitable production of beef cat
tle were stressed by Mr. Bennett,
namely: good permanent pastures
and an abundance of other necessary
feeds; cattle of more good blood,
which would come from established
beef breeds; and the refrigeration
facilities.
“It has been definitely demon
strated that permanent pastures can
be successfully built in Georgia,”
Mr. Bennett declared, giving as an
illustration the plan followed for a
number of years by the Central of
Georgia railroad in cooperation with
the Extension Service of conducting
demonstration. “The result is begin
ning to show in better beef cattle
and in the economic production of
these cattle to market conditions.
The judges at the recent Savannah
stock show reported that the cattle
are 100 per cent better than at the
first show in November, 1932.”
Mr. Bennett pointed to the use
of pure bred beef bulls in order to
improve the quality of beef, and said
this also was shown at the Savannah
show. The grand champion steer
there was practically a pure bred,
but the reserve grand champion waS
a first cross steer and repoi-ted to be
an unusually good animal.
Sugar was made from sugar cane
as far back as the third century B.
C.
DAY-OUT Customer
Mrs. Housewife, the real purchasing agent for virtually every
home in Butts County, finds it a great advantage to be “up” on
prices of all commodities at all times. She gets these prices
through the ads she reads in her favorite newspaper, the Prog
know of your store, then, Mr. Merchant, use the advertising col
umns of the Progress-Argus. Phone 166 and we will call.
The Progress-Argus
PHONE 168
FOR SALE
Several good Jersey milk cows, fresh
in, with second and third calves.
Apply to J. D. Jones at Progress-Ar
gus office.
Five Forestry
Camps Located
North Georgia
Atlanta, Ga.—Announcement that
Georgia will be given at least five
unemployment relief reforestation
camps, instead of two as at first in
dicated, emphases the benefit which
Georgia because of its extensive
mountain section, will receive from
this relief act.
The camps already decided upon
will be located in Rabun, Towns,
White, Lumpkin and Fannin coun
ties, and all work done will be in
the government forest reserves in
those counties.
From the work of the unemployed
who will be assigned to these five
camps these forests, covering a large
territory in north Georgia, will be
restored to their natural condition.
The hundreds of thousands of
young trees that will be planted by
the occupants of these camps, it is
stated, will be well on their way to
SHOP THROUGH THE ADS
Shop through the ads, Mrs.
Housewife. It is the easy and
the economical manner of keep
ing “up” on prices, the new
styles, new offerings and oppor
tunities to save. Read the ads,
check off the interested and
needed items. Note the prices
and go directly to the store of
the progressive merchant who
brings his sale messages to you
through the advertising columns
of the Progress-Argus. You will
find it a most satisfactory way
to shop.
SAVE TIME—SAVE MONEY
FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1933
maturity in a few years, and the
whole state will benefit from the
restoration, at points vital to the life
of the streams, of the forests which
once covered the domain of Georgia.
SMALL RECEIPTS AT THE
MONTHLY CHICKEN SALE
Busy Season and Prices Kept Down
April Tonnage
The receipts at the April co-opera
tive poultry sale April 13 were the
smallest ever reecived here. A total
of about $15.00 worth of poultry
was sold, County Agent Drake re
ports.
The low prices and the busy work
season probably had something to uc
with the light offerings.
Only 1,703 pounds were received
at Hawkinsville and Cochran showed
a similar falling off.
It is* not likely another sale will
be attempted before fall.
The latest official census figures
reveal that China’s population is ap
proximately 475,000,000.