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jft 4H Club News
Nearly 100,000 Members Enrolled In
State 4-H Clubs To Set New Record
Georgia has its biggest force in
history of farm boys and girls en
rolled in 4-H clubs —nearly 100,000,
the Agricultural Extension Service
reported this week.
Asa result of 4-H mobilization
■week, W. A. Sutton Jr., the Exten
sion Service’s 4-H leader, said more
than 7,000 new members have join
ed 4-H clubs in addition to the re
enrollment of over 87,000, to bring
the state totals to above the 95,000
mark.
During the mobilization week just
over, the period in which the record
4-H enrollment was obtained, Mr.
Sutton explained that an all-out ef
fort was made as a means of help
ing win the war through food pro
duction and other patriotic projects.
County-wide rally days attracted
more than 17,000 people and 384
Georgia churches held special 4-H
Sunday programs as part of the
week’s campaign.
Ten Georgia counties boast en
rollment in excess of 1,000 boys and
girls ,those being Emanuel, Cobb,
Carroll, Colquitt, Jackson, Fulton,
Gwinnett, Hall, DeKalb and Appling.
The state 4-H leader said food
production projects will this year
overshadow all other club eater
prises, with the greatest emphasis
being placed on gardening, canning,
and dairy products.
“While our older farm boys and
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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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supply now.
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others are busily engaged on the
fighting front, Georgia’s entire force
of 4-H members —all of whom are
between 10 and 20 years of age—
will do their part toward helping to
feed our soldiers and the rest of the
people here at home,” Mr. Sutton
declared.
“Our 4-H members are already at
work and by the end of 1942 we
believe the number of projects car
ried by boys and girls will approach
one-half million,” he continued. “Al
so, project production this year will
no doubt exceed by far last year’s
record of products grown and valued
at more than $3,500,000.”
4-H’ERS IN COLLEGE
One measuring stick on the ef
fectiveness of 4-H club work is the
extent to which these club members
are given a desire to obtain addi
tional scholastic training. This week
a report on enrollment at the Geor
gia College of Agriculture showed
that of 538 boys attending the col
lege for the 1941-42 session, 210
were former 4-H club members. Of
1 (50 seniors to be graduated soon
90 were former 4-H’crs. In the
College of Agriculture’s school of
home economics 114 of the 371 stu
dents at one time belonged to the
4-H club. Forty-two of the 114
seniors were 4-H members.
VICTORY WORK
In planning their part in the war
effort, Georgia farmers will find it
best to take advantage of all known
methods of profitable crop produc
tion, says the Agricultural Exten
sion Service. This is necessary in
order to get the highest yields from
the effort an dinvestments made and
at the same time conserve the soil.
TOMATO WILT
It is not safe, says the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture, to plant
tomatoes in soil where tomato bac
teria wilt has occurred during the
previous year. The wilt bacterium
apparently lives over in the soil even
during unusually severe winters.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
FARMERS’
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Farm Agent Tells
Poultrymen To Do
Culling This Year
Cull out but don’t sell out is the
advice of County Extension Agent
M. L. Powell to poultrymen who are
wondering whether they should cull
their flocks at a time when the na
tion is asking for more eggs as war
food.
He points out that careful culling
is still essential to conserve feed
stuffs, step up efficiency of produc
tion and insure greater net profits.
“Poor egg layers,” says the coun
ty agent, “ ‘eat up’ the profit of the
high producers and for this reason
such birds must be marketed to get
greatest profit from the farm flock.
This is especially true when feed pri
!ces are high.
“Good poultrymen have learned
that there is nothing seasonable
about culling. Instead of waiting
for a particular season of the year
to go through the hen house looking
for ‘profit stealers,’ they get rid of
nonproducers whenever they are
found.
“Experienced poultrymen can pick
a good egg layer by the brightness
of eye; full, bright-red, waxy comb
and wattles; moist, dilated vent, and
whiteness of shanks and beak on
yellow-skinned varieties.”
Inexperienced poultrymen can get
help in culling from an experienced
neighbor or the county agent, or
from Bulletin No. 451 of the Geor
gia Agricultural Extension Service,
or Farmers’ Bulletin No. 1727 of the
U. S. Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D. C.
Colored School
Plans To Have
Victory Garden
VEGETABLES AND FRUITS TO
BE PROCESSED FOR LUNCH
PROJECT. CHICKENS AISO BE
A SUMMER ENTERPRISE
The Jackson colored school, ac
cording to B. F. Mosely, principal,
will have a victory garden this year.
The vegetables and fruits raised will
be processed for the lunch project.
Mosely also reports that he is
raising chickens as a contribution to
the war effort.
Concerning the work it is explain
ed that lVa acres near the school
has been secured and the plot will
be planted in corn, beans, tomatoes,
tendergreen, beets and squash. The
aim is to can 500 gallons of vegeta
bles and fruits this summer.
“We realize that food will help
to win the war and therefore we are
willing to do our bit,” Mosely said.
The school principal said he is not
able to dedicate an acre to a soldier
but he and his wife are raising chick
ens as their contribution and now
have 60 and plan to raise 200 this
season. In addition they have a good
garden.
“We feel that every citizen should
do his share in hastening the time
when peace will come again to earth
and God will set up a righteous gov
ernment in which all will enjoy free
dom to become the sons of God,”
Mosely explained.
TRANSPLANTING
In transplanting: plants, get the
root system quickly re-established,
says Elmo Ragsdale. Extension Ser
vice horticulturist. First balance the
top or leaf surface with the reduced
root system. This may be done on
most plants by pinching off half or
more of the leaves.
Hair grows about one-half inch
a month.
Letter From Our
Congressman
Capitol Hill, Washington, D. C.,
May 2, 1942.
My dear Constituents: War Sec
retary Stimson told the newspaper
men this week, when asked to com
ment on preliminary plans issued by
Eastern Defense Commander Drum
for establishment of an Eastern
Military Area along the Atlantic
Coast, that control of lighting along
the cosat on a voluntary basis has
failed. He said it has become ur
gently necessary to give the mili
tary authorities power to enforce
lighting regulations. No mass evac
uations of cities or towns are con
templated, he said, but rather a po
licing and control of vital but lim
ited areas to prohibit potentially
dangerous persons, whether alien or
citizens, from entering these areas.
He said such areas would be estab
lished only after consultation with
the Justice Department, with every
desire to avoid hardships to individ
uals as well as economic and social
dislocations.
The War Department has an
nounced plans to establish anew ar
my Divisional Camp, construction to
be completed by the last of October,
in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado,
for the training of mountain troops.
There is a feeling of confidence
slowly but surely gaining ground
here that this war, serious as it is,
may not last as long as some of the
military men predicted. Russia
seems to be holding her own, and if
she keeps the German army tied up
during the summer, it is believed
that Hitler’s goose will be cooked.
Stalin, however, does not seem to
be satisfied with just holding them.
He is asking his armies for a vic
tory in 1942.
Hitler’s 53rd birthday was cele
brated last week. His speech was
not the bold and threatening effort'
he usually makes. He was trying to j
explain the Russian campaign to his ]
people and he said that another win
ter of hardship and denial was prob
able. Hitler, like Napoleon, has dis
covered that it is easier to get into
Russia than it is to get out.
The British Air Corps is beginning
to pay its debt to the Germans. They
are sending over great numbers of
bombing planes each night and are
paying back the work of the Germans
last winter when they bombed Lon
don and other British cities so un
mercifully. It remains to be seen
whether the German people can take
it as the British did. I hope that the
British keep up these raids. The
German people, in more than a hun
dred years, have never had any of
their wars fought on German soil.
They have never experienced the
devastation of battle. I always
thought the last World War should
have continued a short while longer.
Sincerely,
A. SIDNEY CAMP, M. C.
WE MUST WIN!
This war must be won by 7 the Al
lies. Our country is founded upon
democratic principles and the peo
ple themselves are responsible for
the continuance of these principles.
As now is the case, democracy is
often threatened and citizens must
protect this heritage. They will do
so by winning this war.
COTTON GETS LONGER
When the one-variety cotton pro
gram was initiated in 1931, only 2.8
percent of the cotton produced in
Georgia was one inch and longer,
according to E. C. Westbrook, cotton
specialist for the Agricultural Ex-
I tension Service. In 1941, however,
he says over 59 percent of the eot
[,ton grown was one inch and longer.
Get Calves Off
To Good Start,
Agent Suggests
Raising healthy dairy calves is an
important step in improving herds
and a good way to replace milking
cows that drop out of production,
according to County Agent M. L.
Powell.
Butts county farmers who manage
dairy calves properly and give spe
cial care to feeding during the first
few days get them off to a strong
start and reduce calf losses, the
county agent advised this week.
Mr. Powell suggested that the
new-born calf be allowed to remain
with its mother the first 12 to 24
hours. During this time it will get
the first milk of the mother that
it needs. This milk protects the
calf against disease and acts as a
laxative to clean the digestive tract.
“At the end of the 12 to 24-hour
period,” he said, “remove the calf
to a separate pen and withhold milk
for 24 hours. The calf will then be
hungry and can be taught to drink
from a pail. At the end of this pe
riod, feed a pint each of milk and
limewater warmed to body tempera
ture. Limewater can be purchased
or can be mixed on the farm by
adding as much quicklime or hydra
ted lime to a pint of water as will ,
be dissolved.
“About 12 hours later, regular
feeding can begin, with the calf get
ting about six percent df its own
weight in milk per day. At the end
of the first week, and from then
until the calf weighs about 150
pounds, it may be fed at the rate
of one pound of milk a day for each
10 pounds of body weight.
“By the time the calf is about 50
days old it should be eating enough
hay and calf meal so that skimmilk
may be substituted for whole milk.
Calves should receive some milk un
til they are four months old or old
er.”
g§ This is the time that tests the
stamina of man and beast. It
has been proved that workstock
yiipßlll' can do more and better work
" when fed Happy Feeds. A com
m ped ball bag/ plete line of these fine feeds for
poultry. Get the most for your dollar by using
these feeds.
There’s not a slacker in all the flocks fed our
good feeds. ,We buy the eggs from these busy hens.
Plenty of Baby Chicks. Now is the time to start a
flock for fall laying and high prices.
Garden and Field Seeds. 100 Bushels Peas to
be sold cheap.
Come to see us and you’ll save extra dollars to
invest in War Saving Stamps and Bonds.
REDMAN’S FEED STORE
JACKSON. GA.
Attention Readers
Look at the label on your paper this week. Our
next issue will be dated—
Thursday,
Mflr May 14
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, MAY 7, 1942
Scrapings From
Hard Scrabble
dear editer,
We bin goin round considerable
here lately tryin to orbserve some
uf this new-fangled stuff they call
worship in them stylish churches.
We come back home sorter thinkin
we’d make er change in our style
at Hard Scrabble Kerthedral. We
aint got no black shirts with white
collars fer the folks to sing in, but
we kin git up plenty uf white night
shirts to put on ’em. Then we want
’em to do some uf that fancy up
and down, high and low singin like
the city folks do. If dressing up the
quire seems to take then we’ll raise
some money to buy our preacher
one uf them Jim Swinger coats with
the tails reaching down to his knees.
We shore goin to try it. Aint no
use letting everbody git ahead uf
you and dont do nothin bout it.
So long.
SUSIE STUCKEY.
The war has gone far enough to
show that the lords in England will
have to dust off their pants and go
to work. It is hard to see any good
in a monster like Hitler, but the war
he started has resulted in the death
of the caste system. It is well, for
surely “Julia O’Grady and the col
onel’s lady” are sisters under the
skin. Many of the puppet govern
ments of Europe may never be re
stored and lords and ladies will have
to rustle for a living like the rest
of us.
The Homestake mine at Lead, S.
D., is the largest producing gold
mine in the United States.
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