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All America Marks 29th
Boy Scout Anniversary
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pntirr by Harold N dndrrron
THIS poster, showing how “Scouting Carries On American Ideals”,
theme of Boy Scout Week from Feb. 8 to 14, marks the 29th an
niversary of the incorporation of the Boy Scouts of America. 39,750
Boy Scout Troops, Cub Packs and Sea Scout Ships now include
1,233,950 boys and men, a membership gain of better than 13% tn
the past year. Since the beginning of Scouting in. America 8,400,000
boys and men have been identified with the Movement.
GAME and FISH NOTES
BY RALPH CORN WLLL
THE EEL
We all know that the slippery,
snake like eel is a very odd fish and
this is not surprising that he has
puzzled naturalists for hundreds of
years. For years after most of the
thousands of fish in the world had
been classified and named the com
mon eel remained a mystery. Eels,
of which there are several species,
are found in all warm seas except
the east Pacific. The eel is an im
portant food fish in both Europe and
America and are known over the
world but since the days of Aristotle
naturalists have wondered how the
eel reproduced.
Fishermen knew that the eel did
not reproduce in the waters where
he was caught. No female eels were
caught with eggs and it was impossi
ble to tell male from female. Many
guesses were made as to the eels
origin. Some people believed that
hog hair would turn to eels.
Salmon, shad and many other fish
leave the sea at spawning time and
work their way up the fresh water
streams. There they lay their eggs
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and die. The young fish go back
to the sea and spend their lives. The
eel reverses this procedure. Instead
of going upstream the eel leaves the
fresh water where he has spent his
iffe and goes to sea to spawn. From
October to January the mature eels
migrate to the salt water where they
live for about eight months. Then
they spawn and dio. None ever re
turn to fresh water.
In water mill days the winter mi
grations of eels often would choke
up the water wheel. Each female
lay from 5,000,000 to 20,000,000
eggs and in the early spring the
larvae eel reach fresh water. They
are so small that they are almost
invisible. This was the reason the
eel was so hard to track. He was
so small the seins would not hold
him. When the little eels begin
their immigration up the fresh wa
ter streams they are called elvers
and they are already more than a
year old. Great numbers of elvers
migrate together and this is called
an eelfare. About two years inter
vene between the descent of the
parent eels and the ascent of their
progeny.
Many of you have probably seen
eel fares at Jackson dam on the Oc
mulgee river. The little elvers try
THE JACKSON PROGRESS ARGUS, JACKSON. GEORGIA
nobly to climb the face of the dam
but evidently they never make it
for no eels are caught above the
dam. When the old eels came over
the dam it was the end of eel fish
ing in the streams above Jackson
lake. Herds creek in Jasper county
is the first eel stream on the Ocmul
gee water shed, A fish ladder over
the dam would restock the denuded
area.
It has been proven by a Nation
al Geographic Society expedition
headed by the noted naturalist, Dr.
William Beebe, that all eels, Ameri
can and European, .originate in one
section of the world. Dr. Beebe
spent many months trailing the adult
eel to the spawning ground and trac
ing the tiny elvers back to the fresh
water. It was found that all eels
spawn in one section of the Sar
gossa Sea in the Atlanta. This is
one of the deepest and most desolate
seas in the world. So the eel you
catch on Sandy creek and the eel
caught in a Dutch canal comes from
the same place.
The eel is very voracious and will
eat the most varied sort of food.
They grow to the length of four to
five feet and may weigh ten pounds.
They are an important food fish and
are not poisonous as is sometimes
supposed.
Many things are not understood
about him yet but in many ways
other than his looks the eel is a
strange animal!
JENKINSBURG
Mr. and Mrs. Will Thompson and
Mrs. J. H. Jackson spent last Wed
nesday in Atlanta.
Mr. Palmer Jolly, of Anniston,
Ala., enroute home from a ten-day
business trip to New York City,
drove down from Atlanta Saturday
for a brief visit with his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Dempsey Farrar, of
Atlanta, were Sunday guests of Mr.
and Mrs. C. H. Farrar.
Mr. and Mrs. Crumbley Johnson,
of Atlanta, visited their parents, Mr.
and Mrs. S. L. Johnson, over the
week-end.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Brooks, of
Atlanta, spent the week-end with
the families of Mr. and Mrs. H. C.
Brooks and Mr. and Mrs. N. A.
Leverette.
Mrs. Ida Carter, of McDonough,
spent part of last week with Mr.
and Mrs. J. H. Jackson.
Rev. L. L. Burch, former pastor
here, but now of Atlanta, and his
son, Lovett, were dinner guests of
Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Farrar Saturday.
The former was called here to con
duct the funeral of Mrs. V. H. Mills.
Mrs. R. C. Woodward, of East
Point, spent Saturday with her moth
er, Mrs. W. T. Thurston.
Mr. and Mrs. Parker Brown and
children, Parker, Jr. and Margaret,
spent Saturday night and Sunday
with their mother, Mrs. J. M. Bank
ston.
Mrs. Frank Sowell returned Sun
day to her home in McDonough af
ter a visit of several weeks with her
sister, Mrs. J. M. Bankston.
Mrs. E. K. Huie spent part of last
week with relatives in Atlanta and
East Point.
Among the out-of-town people at
tending the funeral of Mrs. V. H.
Mills here on Saturday were the fol
lowing: Mesdames S. A. Wix, M.
B. Bowen, J. L. Higgins and Mr.
and Mrs. Comer Davis, of Atlanta;
Messrs. Jim and Grady Gray and
Miss Sara Mills, of Atlanta, Mrs. H.
B. Whitaker and Miss Trevalu Whit
aker, of Flovilla, and Mr. and Mrs.
Hay, of McDonough.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank our friends and
neighbors for their many deeds of
kindness during the illness and in
the death of our wife and mother;
also for the floral offerings.
V. H. Mills and family.
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Light Pruning
Recommended For
Trees In Orchard
BETTER RESULTS OBTAINED
BY LIGHT PRUNING OF APPLE
AND PECAN TREES, THE
COUNTY AGENT SAYS
Light pruning of apple and pecan
trees was recommended this week
by County Agent M. L. Powell, who
said the old theory of heavy prun
ing is rapidly being replaced.
Recent experimental work has
shown that young trees cut back too
much are forced to devote their sea
son’s growth to replacing the wood
pruned away, rather than to produc
ing fruit, he declared.
“A common practice is to fertilize
young growing trees rather reavily,”
Mr. Powell said. “After vigorous
growth has been produced, it seems
unwise to destroy most of the work
accomplished by too-heavy pruning.
Light pruning, with as even a distri
bution of fruiting wood as possible,
should be the aim. This will estab
lish trees that will give maximum
production and have longer life.
“Young apples,” h e advised,
“should be pruned enough to train
the trees properly, and to establish
scaffold branches at the proper
height, usually 2 to 3 feet feet from
the ground. Pruning should avoid
sharp angles or weak crotches, es
pecially in the scaffold limbs. Later
pruning should consist mainly of re
moving dead or broken branches and
slightly cutting back vigorous
branches that would tend to throw
the tree out of balance.
“Of course, more pruning is neces
sary in the case of peach trees,” the
county agent said. “Trees should
be held within reasonable bounds for
the harvesting of the fruit from the
ground or from low ladders. It is
customary to head peach trees near
the ground. With the increased use
of tractors and heavier harrows, it
is advisable to head them slightly
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higher than was previously done.
“Pecans require very little prun
ing. They are usually headed high
enough from the ground to allow
tractors and spray machines to be
used under the lower limbs. Spac
ing is more important with pecan
trees than pruning. They should
be spaced 12 or 15 to the acre.
Where trees have been planted
closer than 60 to 70 feet, it will be
necessary to thin them as they reach
maximum size.
Soil Practices
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Agent’s Office
FARMERS MAY EARN PAYMENTS
FOR TERRACING, PASTURE
IMPROVEMENT AND OTHER
NEEDED WORK
Now is the time for Butts county
farmers to decide which practices
they want to use this year for con
serving and improving the soil,
County Agent M. L. Powell said this
week.
In planning the 1939 farming op
erations, he advised, farmers should
take full advantage of the assis
tance offered by the federal farm
program for adoption of soil-build
ing practices.
“There are undoubtedly a num
ber of things that farmei's in this
county have been considering doing
to build up their farms,” Mr. Powell
declared, “but these things have
been put off because of the lack of
funds.
“That’s where the Triple-A farm
progi’am comes in. A sum of money
is set-up for each farm under this
program fo rthe carrying out of ap
proved practices. That money is
there for Geoi'gia farmers, but, in
order to get it, they have to earn
it by adopting pi'actices that will
build and consei-ve the soil.
“For example, a farmer may want
to plant trees to protect a piece of
land from erosion or he may want
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1939
to put a particularly poor field in
trees. Under the soil-building fea
ture of the program, assistance in
planting the trees will be allowed at
the rate of $7.50 an acre, up to the
amount available for the individual
farm.
“Assistance for other practices,
such as terracing, liming, seeding
legumes, green-manure crops turned
under, contour listing, and
ing pastures, is allowted at compara
ble rates,” he added.
Details of the approved practices
and rates of assistance may be ob-*
tained from the county agent’s of
fice.
INDIAN SPRINGS
James Cornell o fthe University
of Georgia was home for the week
end. He had a friend with him from
the University.
Mai - y Henderson and Hattie Bol
ton, of Atlanta, were visitors of Mar
garet McMichael for the week-end.
Among those home from G. S. C.
W. were Lasca Torbett and Ester
McMichael. They had as their guest
Dorothy Stokes.
Preaching sei’vice will be Febru
ai’y 26 at' 3:30 P. M.
Mi-s. M. A. Clay and daughter,
Elizabeth, are at the Arnold House
for a few days. 8
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Ellis and fam
ily were visitors in Griffin Friday.
Mr. Cyrus Maddox was a visitor
of his sistei - , Mrs. O. A.
Friday night. '
Mrs. A. E. Moss spent a few days
in Macon with relatives.
Bob . Watkins was home for the
week-end from Gordon.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Hoard and Eve
lyn Archer motored to Macon Sat
urday.
Miss Agnes Martin spent the week
end with her parents.
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