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4 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. ACCURATE OPTICAL SERVICE Eyes Examined —Glasses Fitted 107 S. Hill St. Griffin, Ga. Dr. Edward H. Shannon Mr. David L. Patrick, Jr. Oculist*’ Prescription* Filled H. R. PERKINS, M. D. Announces Offices At 127 E. Solomon St. GRIFFIN,. GA. Practice Limited to EYE, EAR, NOSE, THROAT Office Hours 10-1 and 3-6 Office Telephone 3178 Buy Your Coal 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 GENUINE MONTEVALLO CREECH—EVER-GLO EGG And can fill your orders on short notice. These brands are time-tested and recognized for their 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. Nutt & Bond, Inc. 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. nirn^i ii mum ii iwir' , See us for markers, memorials or mausoleums. We repre sent the famous McNeel Company of Marietta, largest man ufacturers of granite and marble memorials in the world. You pay no more for McNeel superiority. Prices begin as low as $25.00. Suggested designs furnished gladly, with out charge. 3. H. THORNTON PHONE 4311 JACKSON, GA. Attention Readers Look at the label on your paper this week. Our 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 do not hear from you, your subscription will be dis 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.