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4-H CAMP
Fifty-six outstanding Georgia 4-H
club members will be given free
trips to the annual State 4-H club
wildlife camp this year, according to
"W. A. Sutton Jr., 4-H club leader
for the Georgia Agricultural Exten
sion Service. Only members doing
outstanding wildlife conservation
work and who are keeping 4-H club
records will attend. The camp will
will be held at Camp Wausega in
Lumpkin county the last ‘Week in
August. To be eligible for a free
trip 4-H’ers must turn in record
books and a scrap book by July 15.
FRANCES FREEMAN
WINS AWARD FIFTY
PEDIGREED CHICKS
Frances Freeman, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. A. C. Freeman, and a
fourth year club member of Indian
Springs school, was announced North
west Georgia district winner in the
poultry contest sponsored by the
Poultry Science Club of the Univer
sity of Georgia College of Agricul
ture. Frances won this award by
keeping the best record on her poul
try flock. Her prize is 50 extra fine
Rhode Island Red baby chicks. This
is the second award that Frances has
won from the Poultry Science Club,
her other prize having been 50 chicks
and 100 pounds of starting mash
won in 1941.
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GRIFFIN,. GA.
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IM O W!
In view of the congested transportation prob
lem, which is expected to grow steadily worse, the
Government is advising and urging consumers to
stock up coal supplies now. There is no assurance
the railroads will be able to haul coal by winter and
the family who buys now will not have to worry.
We have on hand adequate stocks of
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value in giving maximum heat at low cost.
We are not trying to frighten anybody, but do
believe it is a safe policy to buy the winter coal
supply now.
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Phone 2711 Jackson, Ga.
4H Club News
Negro FSA Farmer
Makes Money From
Cow, Sow and Hens
Lexington, Ga., April 30.—Janie
and Goliath Mumford are one Negro
couple who know their farming
ABC’s. Janie says it means “Al
ways Beware Cotton.” They don’t
like it.
They do like the farm they live
on, and it would be hard to pry
them off their Oglethorpe county
farm after 26 years. They’ve been
able to get the best from their small
acres and advancing age finds them
able to finance themselves.
Janie’s face beams when she men
tions the 500 chickens she raises
each year, and raises the old way.
She’s a little wary of such a “new
fangled” contraption as a brooder
and wouldn’t swap one of her best
setting hens for a dozen. Goliath is
just as proud of his four brood sows
and their 23 pigs. Eggs, chickens,
calves and pigs bring them in a nice
monthly income, and plus two milk
cows, a good orchard which they set
themselves, and a year round gar
den, they are able to manage nicely.
Few people have as odd way of
supplementing their income as does
Goliath. He has 30 or 40 rabbit
boxes placed in strategic spots about
his farm and the cold weather com
bined with a savory odor of cabbage
and carrots, has lured many a hare
to his doom, and placed many an ex
tra halfdollar in Goliath’s pocket.
The family was given a loan by
the Farm Security Administration in
1937, and they have trigd so hard
and fared so well, that they are now
current with their repayments and
are able to finance themselves.
The story goes that one of the
FSA supervisors approached Goliath
on the subject of joining the Ogle
thorpe County Medical Co-op. Go
liath assured him that doctors and
medicines were unnecessary since as
he said, “I feeds my family three
times a day and greases ’em once a
year.”
In 1941 more than 27 percent of
Georgia farms were electrified.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
FARMERS’
PAGE
State’s Labor
Supply On Farms
Now Off 38 P. C.
LOWEST ON RECORD, GEORGIA
CROP REPORTING SERVICE
SAYS. FARM HOURS MUST BE
LONGER. WAGES HIGHER
On April 1, correspondents report
ing to the Georgia Crop Reporting
Service of the U. S. Department of
Agriculture indicated that the state
supply of /arm labor was only 62
percent of the demand. This 62
percent of demand is the lowest on
record and compares with 76 per
cent reported one year ago, 93 per
cent in 1940, 99 percent in 1939 and
105 percent for the year 1938.
It means that farmers are begin
ning one of the most important crop
producing seasons in their history
with a serious labor problem on their
hands and one which must be met
in the soundest possible manner. Re
ports indicate that in order to meet
1942 prdouction goals it will be
necessary to work longer hours and
use more farmers’ wives and children
for farm work.
The farm w r age rate level was the
highest April 1 average since 1930.
Reported average rates were about
26-28 percent above the correspond
ing figure of one year ago and 35-
40 percent higher than in 1940.
I LOVE MY STATE OF GEORGIA
I love the state of Georgia,
I love her valleys and old red hills,
1 love her broad-rolling rivers
And her tiny rippling little rills.
I love my state of Georgia,
It has always been my home,
I will always love her
If the world over I roam.
No other place in the world but
Georgia
Has the Stone Mountain tall and blue,
No other the famous Indian Springs
And the old home of famous astron
omer Grier.
Georgia, one of original thirteen
colonies,
Is famous o’er hill and dale,
First steamship to span the ocean
from Savannah
And world’s largest twine mill at
Porterdale.
Georgia has her inventors and au
thors too
And Nature made images, “Tallulah
Falls with Face;”
In Dalton stands DeSoto’s fort of
1541,
In making of tuck towels of the
world Griffin holds her place.
Of wars Georgia bore her part,
Atlanta, the world’s city with pic
tures of war;
Upon Georgia soil many battles were
fought
And home of Nancy Hart, heroine
of Revolutionary War.
With her sunny climate and healing
\
waters.
Comes the first anesthesia by Craw
ford W. Long;
Her schools and colleges among the
best,
I believe in Georgia is where I be
long.
; Then let me stay in Georgia
j Where there are plenty good things
to eat,
Watermelons and peaches
And her hospitality can’t be beat.
A salate to you, dear old state.
Like your grand mountains you’ll
ever stand.
Our sons of liberty fight for you
! That you’ll be our own free Dixie
Land.
I love the dear old state
■ With tall whispering pines that po
litely nod,
Where birds sing melodies and
breezes go whispering by.
In death I want to rest beneath
Georgia soil.
—Mrs. J. A. Townsend.
Banks County FSA Farmers Pledge Land
And Energy Produce Record Food Crop
By DOYLE JONES JR.
Farm Security Administration
Homer, Ga., April 30.—Banks
county is several thousand miles re
moved from the nearest fighting
front, yet this spring will see farm
ers of that county waging a war as
grim and earnest as the defenders
of Corregidor, with only the setting
changed. Their foe will be the fam
ed red clay of Georgia, their battle
field the farm, and their goal, the
production of more food and feed
to strengthen and nourish the men
in the coutry’s armed services, and
to keep the morale of the home front
unshaken, come what may.
This is a story of how 214 little
farmers, until a few years ago the
forgotten men of agriculture, have
helped in the past, and what they
propose to do this year as their part
in insuring our country’s ultimate
victory. They are borrowers of the
Fam Security Administration; men
with few acres, but with a burning
desire and unquenchable determina
tion to help their country in its hour
of greatest need in the only way
they know—to become better farm
ers and raise more food NOW. The
need is urgent, the hour short. They
are already at work today to do
this for 1942:
(a) Each farmer is to plant
three acres of soybeans (980 acres);
(b) Each farmer to plant two acres
in peanuts (520 acres); (c) acre
age in lespedeza to total 1,200;
acres, or double the 600 in 1941;
(and) Acreage in sericea to total 400
acres (174 acres seeded in 1941);
(e) In 1941 FSA farmers averaged
one acre in garden and truck patch
es. This year the goal has been
tripled; (f) Sweet and Irish potato
acreage will be hiked from average
of one-half acre per family to acre
and onehalf; (g) Over 500 acres of
permanent pasture will be developed
this year; and (h) Special emphasis
will be placed on boll weevil con
trol.
The 214 families in the county
now have a total of 13,000 chickens
(average 60 layers per family), 450
cows (two per family), 500 heifers
(two per famliy), and 700 hogs
(average three to family). Most of
these expansions in livestock and
poultry were made under the “Food
for Defense” campaign launched by
the Department of Agriculture last
May, and in which the Farm Securi
ty Administration played an active
part in the nationwide drive for in
creased food and feed production.
Now under the “Food for Free-
dom” campaign plans and money
have already been set up for the
purchasing of 14,200 chickens, 49
cows and 720 hogs in addition to
those already on hand.
Neither has the homemaker been
neglected. Home plans call for 365
dozens of fruit jars to be purchased,
114 rolls of garden wire, 41 stoves,
12 sewing machines, 35 hand mills,
74 sausage mills, 32 Georgia-manu
factured beds, 31 oil brooders, and
60 pressure cookers.
Also on tlje home management
front the families last year averaged
300 quarts of canned foodstuffs.
Additional proof that the families
know how to feed themselves was
the 800 pounds of pork per family
on hand at the end of the year. Gar
dens alone, patches not included,
will average between three-quarters
to one acre, with 150 packages of
garden seed having been bought co
operatively through the local FSA
Purchasing and Marketing Associa
tion at the saving of S3OO.
So the year 1942 finds the lines
tightly drawn. America is at war
and must have food. There are 214
farmers in one Georgia county who
are determined that she gets it. It
fell their lot to do battle with the
soil and not the common enemy. The
acres they repossess, the land they
make more fertile, the pastures they
develop, the gardens they expand,
all these spell defeat for the Axis
nations as surely as their comrades
in arms who soon will be dive-bomb
ing Tokyo and straffing the streets
of Berlin. An Army moves on its
stomach and American farmers in
tend keeping ours moving at all
costs.
Scrapings From
Hard Scrabble
dear editer,
Evertime I jines a club they
makes me the seccertery. They say
I kin keep the names straiter then
anybody else. If I ever gits to Heav
ven I know Saint Peter will tell me
to git a pensil and take down the
names of them whut gits in and them
whut is late. And I guess I’ll do it.
I alius has.
If anybody knows whut is good
fer cut worms please let me know.
They is bout to cut down all the
plants we done set out. We’ve tried
everthign we knows uf. I rote my
congressman but aint had no hear
ing from ’im yet. Please direct your
communercashuns to Mistress Susie
Stuckey, Hard Scrabble, Ga., and I’ll
be shore to git it. We’re on a mail
root and our box No. is 43.
SUSIE STUCKEY.
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Attention Readers
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next issue will be dated—
Thursday,
May 7
If your subscription is out between now and
that date, be sure to send in your renewal. If we
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continued.
THE PROGRESS-ARGUS
A Family Newspaper Since 1873
JACKSON, GA.
THURSDAY, APRIL 30, \942
HOURS TO VOTE ON
WHEAT QUOTAS 9 TO
5, AGENT EXPLAINS
Saturday, May 2, is the date for
voting on wheat quotas and polling
places will be open from 9 a. m. to
5 p. m., it is explained at the county
AAA office.
Farmers who plant 15 or more
acres to wheat and whose acreage
normally produces 200 or more bush
els, will be eligible to vote.
Complete and detailed informa
tion about the wheat, referendum
may be obtained at the AAA office
in the federal building.
WINGATE BE HEARD
THURSDAY EVENING
IN THE COURTHOUSE
Farmers and business men of Butts
county are invited to attend the
Farm Bureau meeting in the court
house Thursday night, April 30, at
8:30 when H. L. Wingate, president
of the Georgia Farm Bureau
eration, will be heard on the farm
situation.
A successful farmer himself, Mr.
Wingate is active in promoting in
terests of Georgia farmers and in
his talk will probably tell of recent,
trips to Washington in the interest
of farm legislation.
A large crowd is expected for the
meeting.
A CARD OF THANKS
We appreciate sincerely the kind
ness shown us by friends and neigh
bors in our recent bereavement. Ev
ery kind word and act made our
sorrow easier to bear. Also we ex
press appreciation for the floral of
ferings.
M. S. Maddox and family.