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Meat Curing
WE ARE OPEN FOR THE
MEAT CURING SEASON
Rate This Season 2c per Pound.
DON’T TAKE CHANCES ON
THE WEATHER.
Bring your meat to the curing
house and be sure it is safe.
JACKSON ICE CORPORATION
JACKSON, GA.
Farm Demonstration Column
By B. M. DRAKE, County Agent
Home Phone 81; Office Phone 205
FAIR WARNING
From the reports of the cotton
committeemen it appears that most
of the cotton growers of the county
intend to co-operate in the 1934-35
cotton reduction campaign. I think
this is an indication of good judg
ment as well as proper public spirit
on the part of our growers.
However, I am afraid that some
of them do not realize the importance
of prompt attention to getting up the
figures on their production and acre
age so that the contracts can be
promptly made. Delay in this mat
ter may wreck the entire campaign.
The Adjustment Administration ha?
just reminded us that the sign up
must be finished by the 31st day
of January. If many people defer
making their contracts till the last
minute the committeemen will be un
able to get around to them and the
acreage actually signed up will be
insufficent to justify the Secretary
BILIOUSNESS
Sour stomach,
gas and headache
*■ due jto
CONSTIPATION
falotabs
TRADE MARK REO
10* 35*
New Shipment
i
TENNESSEE MULES
AND HORSES
Well broken, and ready to pull a plow or
hitch to a wagon. All young and select
animals. Give us a trial-sell or trade.
OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT
Carter & Cole
JACKSON. GEORGIA
We furnish the salt.
Meat lhandied with
the best of care.
of Agriculture in accepting the of
fers. Thus your delay would con
tribute to the failure of the entire
plan. Which would be a disaster to
cotton prices.
Also, delay in getting in the con
tracts, even if it should not wreck
the whole plan, would cause delay in
the investigation and approval of
contracts and therefore in the mak
ing out of the checks. Getting checks
frofn Washington, as we all know is
a slow enough business at the best,
so let’s not do anything to make it
slower.
Let us not take any chances. Go
ing. Going. Fair Warning.
INDIAN SPRINGS
Miss Elizabeth Clay, of Atlanta, is
visiting her grandmother, Mrs. W.
H. Arnold.
Mr. and Mrs. A. F. LeGost, of Mt.
Vernon, New York, are guests of
Misses Collier and Cleveland. Mrs.
LeGost will be remembered as Miss
Adriene Collier.
Many visitors are walking ’round
enjoying the season, beautiful sun
shine and admiring the wonderful
picturesque work of the C. C. C.
boys.
Mr. and Mrs. Powell left Tuesday
for a trip, Mr. Powell going to Sel
ma, Ala., for a business engagement
and Mrs. Powell visiting her sister
in Oklahoma City.
In the days of the Roman Caesars
the Emperor Augustus set a limit of
68 feet for the height of buildings.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS- ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
Grow More Lespedeza This Year
Pieters Urges Southern Farmers
Reduction of cotton and tobacco
! acreage affords a ready-made oppor
tunity for making a large-scale dem
onstration of lespedeza as a valuable
crop in the Cotton Belt and in the
southern part of the Corn Belt. This
i:i the opinion of Dr. A. J. Pieters
of the U. S. Department of Agricul
ture, in charge of forage crop investi
gations.
With millions of acres of cotton
land withdrawn from production, Dr.
Pieters is recommending strongly
the seeding of lespedeza on many of
these acres, and the use of their crop
in accordanc with the provisions of
the cotton contract. The contract
permits the growing of crops on rent
ed acres for soil improvement and
erosion prevention, and in feeding
livestock producing products for fam
ily use only. “Take this opportunity,”
Dr. Pieters advises southern farmers,
“to find out for yourself what les
pedeza can do for your fields. Les
pedeza is a soil building crop that
will grow on poor acid soil. It will
grow better on good soil. On either
it will improve the soil and make the
fields more profitable in following
years.”
“This year, or any year,” he con
tinues, “lespedeza would be worth
while if it did no more than prevent
erosion, the loss of the top soil by
washing. But lespedeza will do much
more than that. We have 'been get
ting reports from hundreds of prac
tical farmers who give us before-and
after records of fields seeded to les
pedeza. It is on the basis of this kind
of records that we are urging far
mers to plant lespedeza this spring.”
On a North Carolina farm, Dr.
Pieters says, lespedeza was seeded
on oats in the sprirtg of 1929. It re
seeded and came again when oats
were seeded in 1930 and 1931. The
oat yields reported by this farmer
were: in 1929, 23 bushels; in 1930,
43 bushels; and in 1931, 77 bushels
per acre. Another farmer followed
the same system for four years,
from 1928 to 1931. The yields were,
28, 48, 69, and 81 bushels of oats.
These records are not the result of
carefully controlled tests. Dr. Pieters
concedes that favorable seasons may
have caused some of the differences
in yield. But the Department has re
ceived so many reports of great ben
efit from introducing lespedeza into
the rotation in the regions where it
grows well, that the forage special
ists are confident that many other
farmers would profit by seeding
more lespedeza than they do.
Lespedeza is good for pasture,
good for hay, good as a soil improv
ing crop, and good to check erosion.
Asa crop it has one unusual feature
in that it will reseed itself from year
to year without 'becoming a trouble
some weed. When planted as a soil
improving crop it can remain on the
land for one, two, three, or more
years, producing a crop each year
from a single sowing, and when it is
turned under it will cause a substan
tial increase in the yields of corn,
cotton, or small grains, says Dr.
Pieters.
What the practical man wants to
know, the forage experts realize, is
whether it will pay to use lespedeza
for soil improvement. Dr. Pieters i
r.ot trying to offer exact figures, be
cause these vary from year to year.
“But suppose,*’ he says, “a farmer
pays 10 cents a pound for lespedeza
seed and sows 25 pounds per acre on
winter oats this spring. Suppose, fur
ther, he leaves the field for two years
without other return than the first
grain crop, and then puts it into
cotton and harvests a half bale per
acre more than he would have if
he had not grown lespedeza.
Even with a low price for cotton this
extra half bale will be worth from
sls to S2O, a substantial profit on
the investment of $2.50 two years
before. Asa matter of fact, we have
had many reports of increases of
more than a half bale per acre in
cotton following lespedeza. ‘For the
land’s sake*, plant lespedeza.’’
There are several varieties of an
I nual lespedeza. The county agent, the
State experiment station, or the U.
jS- Department of Agriculture will
recommend seed for any specific
farm. Korean lespedeza matures ear
ly and is best north of northern
[ Tennessee and in western North
Carolina. It is not the kind for the
far South. Kobe and Tennessee 76
varieties of common and are best
from Kentucky southward.
Lespedeza serecia is a perennial,
and a promising crop. But the seed is
still expensive and the Department
is not raedy to recommend it is vig
orously as it does the planting of
the older varieties of lespedeza on
acres withdrawn from production of
other crops this year.
SPREAD SYSTEM TO
AID CWA WORKERS
HOURS OF WORK WILL BE
SHORTENED TO GIVE MORE
PEOPLE EMPLOYMENT, CWA
ADMINISTRATOR ANNOUNCES
Washington, D. C.—A work
spreading move that will approxi
mately double civil works employ
ment in many rural areas in eight
southern and southwestern states was
announced Friday by Harry L. Hop
kins, civil works administrator.
He authorized civil works admin
istrators in Georgia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Alabama, Mississip
pi, Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma
to reduce the hours of labor for men
now on civil works projects in areas
under 2,500 population to 15 hours
a week.
Hopkins said additional persons
would be hired as far as practical to
make up the total number of hours
allotted in the specified areas. These
average 30 hours per person employ
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ed. The hourly wage scale was not
disturbed, meaning the cutting of
hours in half would trim the weekly
pay to half.
The civil works administrator act
ed after reports from employment
offices in smaller communities of the
eight states reported registrations
totaling four or five times the num
ber of men they were authorzed to
employ.
People in the United States own
19,690,000 telephones, which is 50
per cent of all telephones in the
world.
FRIDAY. JANUARY 19, 1934
NEGRO MAN FOUND DEAD
PAST THURSDAY NIGHT
Wylie George Barlow, 28-year-olct
negro man, was found dead in a
house on West Third, street Thurs
day night of the past week. An in
puest was held Friday morning by
Coroner A. A. White and the jury
fcund that he died of natural causes.
Barlow, who was employed at the
D. W. Ham barber shop as bootblack,
had been missing since Wednesday.
He was a son of Annie Barlow.
Funeral services for the deceased
were held Sunday.