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BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE
Published weekly on Thursday at Nahunta, Georgia
Carl broome .
Entered at the Post Office at Nahunta, Georgia as second
class matter under the act of March 3, 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
Inside Brantley County, one yeai* $2.50
Six Months $1.50
, Outside Brantley County, one year $3.00
Six Months $2.00
If a homicidal maniac were loose in your neigborhood,
the policeman who caught him would be a local hero. But
what about the policeman who gives a traffic ticket to
the man who drives through your neighborhood like a
maniac? You know what many people say about that
policeman: “He’s too tough. He wouldn’t give his grand
mother a break.”
True, the reckless driver isn’t by nature a homicidal
maniac. But he can do fully as much harm. Anyone can
be his victim —the cute girl next door, the hard-working
family breadwinner, the devoted mother of five children.
Next time you hear a policeman unfairly criticized
remember this: He and his traffic tickets are the only real
protection you have against people who act like maniacs
whenever they get their hands on a wheel.
—Exchange.
FIRST ANS SECOND GRADERS
IN STATE MAY GET POLIO SHOTS
Salk Vaccine
Effectiveness
Being Studied
All of Georgia’s first and se
cond grade school children, num
bering about 175,00, will be given
the Salk polio vaccine in 1955,
according to plans announced by
the National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis. The definite
decision to go. ahead with the in
aculations will await a final de
termination t<> whether the
vaccine is effective. This deter
mination will be made in April,,
when analysis of last year’s vac-'
cine field trials k completed.
Nationally, the vaccine will be
given to all children in 217 areas,
who participated in the experi
ments last summer but who ser
ved as “controls” and did not
receive the vaccine, as well as to
7,895,000 first and second graders
ot whom 175,00 are in Georgia.
The National Foundation is
purchasing sufficient vaccine for
9,000,000 persons on the tentative
assumption that it will prove ef
fective. There will be no charge
for the product. The decision to
give the vaccine to first and se
cond grade children was made in
the interest of using the limited
supply most effectively and fol
lowed a recommendation of na
tional health officers.
The purchase and d' tribuhnn
of the Salk vaccine by the Na
• tional Foundation a well as its
other activity . ■ ■ pny nlc
by the voluntary conti' l utio-’.s o r
American citizen The annua 1
March of Dimes polio campaign
for 1955 will begin January 3
and continue through January 31. :
C. B. McManus, Georgia chair
man for the drive, pointed out
that the need for funds is great
er this year than ever b* fore. The
national goal is 3C4.000.000 of
which G» ""Pia’s quota is $1,000.-
000. Mr. McManus said chairmen
have been appointed for all
Georgia counties and are now
oe«*fAet’np th^r 1n"al organize-1
tions. H;df f f ■ ’ c I
butod is ret d
groups for vs- in treatment of |
patients afflicted by polio.
STRAWBERRY PLANTING
Research special l * at the
Georgia Experiment Station say
that in the Ph-d-! ! t •• d Moun
tain areas f 1 u ; r-.
to plant sti ’ ’ ;■ n i• .
February or early March be
cause of the danger of cold in
jury to the newly established 1
plants. South Georgia plantings,
on the other hand, should be
made in November.
Georgia leads the nation in the
number of acres of slate and pri
vate forestland tmd?- organized
protection from ” Id ।e.
SOIL TESTING PROGRAM
Georgia’s free soil testing pro
gram is becoming more and more
popular every year. Tlv service,
which began about ten years
ago, has been expanded so that
now, approximately 40,000 samp
les are handled annually. Soil
testing facilities are available at
Ojcperiment station^ at Blairs
ville, Athens, Experiment, and
Tifton. I
Georgia produces 122 million I
broilers each year and supplies
broilers to pratically ’every state 1
tn the nation.
Official Organ of Brantley County
THE MAM AC
. EDITOR and OWNER
LEGAL
ADVERTISING
Georgia, Brantley County.
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned,’filed his petition on the
14 day of Dec. to the Superior Court
of said County to change his name
to Lynn Donald Rowell, and, notice
is hereby given that to any inter
ested or affected party to be and
appear in said matter in said Court
on or before Jan. 17th, 1955 at whicb
time all objections to the granting
of the relief prayed for must be
filed in said Court.
This the 14 day of Dec. 1954. ■
Jasper Donald Rowell
C. Winton Adams,
Attorney at law. I’6
Helen R. Knight versus William C.
Knight.
In Brantley Superior Court
Libel for Divorce
January Term, 1954.
To William C. Knight, defendant in
said matter:
You are hereby commanded to be
and appear at the next term of the
Superior Court of Brantley County,
Georgia, to answer the compliant of
the plaintiff, mentioned in the cap
tion in her suit against you for di
vorce.
Witness the Honorable Walter
Thomas, Judge of said Court.
This 21st day of December, 1954.
Mrs. Ruby Lee Herrin
Dep. Clerk of Brantley
Superior Court I’l3
Georgia, Brantley County.
To All Whom It May Concern:
Mrs. Beulah Lee Melton having
filed her petition seeking leave to
convey and or encumber all real
estate set aside to herself and her
minor children out of the estate of
D. M. Melton, deceased, as a year’s
support, this is to cite all and sin
gular the persons who may be in
terested therein, to be and appear
before me at the Courthouse in Na
hunta. Georgia, on the 18th day of
January, 1955 at 10 o'clock, A.M.,
and show cause, if any they can,
why the prayers of said petition
should not be granted.
Witness my official signature, this
4th day of January, 1955.
James N. Stewart
Ordinary, Brantley County,
Georgia. 16.
GEORGIA, BRANTLEY COUNTY.
To All Whom It May Concern:
Mrs, S. V. Dixon (Petitioner 1 ) hav
ing filed her application seeking
leave to sell the real estate set aside
to herself and her minor children
out of the estate of S. V. Dixon de
ceased, as a year's support, thia is
to cite all and singular the persons
who may be interested therein, to
be and appear before me on the 18th
day of January, 1955, at 10 o’clock.
A.M., and show cause, if any they
can, why prayers of said petition
should not be granted.
Witness my officiaT signature this
3rd day of Jan. 1955.
James N. Stewart
Ordinary 16.
THE BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE
111. Cutting practices.
LJ^tablishing a Stand of Trees
In the Service’s program of
..insisting landowners in establish
ing a stand of trees in open
.fjelds, a spacing of B’xß’ is gene
jally used. If the usual 20 per
cent is allowed for losses, about
680 trees per acre are indicated.
On wider spacing, say 15’xl5’,
the farmers stands to lose one or
two pulpwood and fence post
cuttings that can be taken from
trees on a closer spacing at the
time the trees need thinning.
'■“D plus 10” is a practical rule
to use in determining whether
or not planting is needed in a
scattered stand of trees. D is the
average diameter of the larger
trees, 10 is a constant and the
answer is in feet. Example: Trees
are about 6” in diameter. We
step off six feet facing a vacant
area, and then step off 10 more
feet in the same direction. We
now are 16 feet away from our
starting point. We stop and look
around for small trees, and if
none are discovered nearer than
16 feet from the large trees, the
vacant area needs planting.
In underplanting scrub oak
these cull or undesirable trees
need to be removed. This can be
done by girdling and poisoning
where there is no danger of
cattle licking the girdled part of
the tree. Here is a good tree
killer that costs about 16 cents
THE DISTRICT METHOD OF
WOODLAND CONSERVATION
la its work with farmers and
other land operators through the
Satilla River Soil Conservation
District, the woodland conserva
tion program of the U.S. Soil
Conservation Service consists
mainly of three phases:
I. Establishing a stand of
trees.
11. Protection.
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a gallon—2 pounds sal soda, 2
pounds white arsenite, 2 cans
lye, 5 gallons water. This should
be mixed slowly. The cull trees
are girdled about 2’^’ from the
ground. The solution can be ap
plied to the exposed wood by
pouring through a scout mounted
in the opening of a gallon glass
jug.
It will pay we mers to re
lease young pine struggling for
existence under the shade of cull
hardwoods. For every foot of in
creased growth on the released
pine the per acre benefit amounts
to about 2 dollars.
Windbreak tree plantings af
ford protection to open fields
Three to seven row’s of trees
planted 8’ apart serve as good
barriers against damaging winds.
One perfect row of planted trees
is all right for some fields. The
idea behind a break is to slow
down the wind, a 30-40 mile wind
can be cut to 5 miles per hour
after the planted trees reach
about 8”-10” in diameter. An
understory of planted red cedar
or wax myrtle will help to fill
in the openings created by natu
ral pruning of the pine limbs.
IL Protection —
Is grazing injuring a wood
land? Quite often the farmer
does not notice any damage from
cattle when actually the stand
is severely undestocked with
trees because of openings main
tained in grass by grazing ani
mals. Os course, continued under
stocking of trees may be due to
frequent fires as well as grazing,
but the cause is always evident.
Cattle graze young pine trees be
cause of the salt content in the
needles. By the same token hogs
destroy longleaf pine to eat the
root inner bark which is about
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as goo as corn in nutri .it value.
111. Cutting Practices
Farm woodland cutting prac
tice consists of thinning, harvest
ing crop trees, release cutting,
and salvage. How should a den
se stand of trees be thinned? As
good answer as any is to thin to
a D-6 spacing. Again, D is the
diameter of the tree in inches,
6 is an added constant and the
answer is in feet. Example; The
average diameter if trees we
want to favor in a stand for con
tinued thrifty growth is about
6”. 6 plus 6 equals 12 feet, or the
space needed between the favored
trees. All trees between these are
removed. After the trees grow 2
inches in diameter we return and
make another thinning. This
simple procedure is repeated over
and over with the view in mind
of erowins a good size sawlog or
pole tree, say ] 8”-22” in diamete"
In addition to the repeated thi •
ning, we cut an average of one
“crop” tree per acre per yocr
starting when these bonus tre
are 10” in diameter. If the favor
ed trees grow from 8” to 10” in
6 years, we cut the equivalent of
six “crop” trees in addition to
the thinnings. These crop or
bonus trees are cut so as to create
openings for nature to start new
trees growing.
In thinning the principal of
“taking the worst first” is ap
plied: Diseased, crooked, and
damaged are removed. When
should I thin my planted trees?
As good system as any is the one
employed by TV A—begin at
one edge of the planting: start
walking in the middle of the
planted row; stop in the center
of each square of planted trees.
If the trees haven’t reached
pulpwood size, say 6”, take two
and leave two. Count skips as
as takes and follow the “take the
worst first” principal. If the trees
are pulpwood size, take three and
leave one, and count skips as
taken as before.
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Trail Ridge came about like
thi Ocean currents flowing
not thvv nd past these four is
lands in Florida, together with
wm <■ action, built up a narrow
sand bar more than 100 miles
long. Time passed and this coast
al region emerged as the ocean
receded and the shore line as it
is today was established. The
long narrow sand bar became
Trail Ridge.
Behind Trail Ridge, a body of
shallow water was caught in
what had been a depression in
the ocean bottom. Rains soon
washed out the salt water and
it became a fresh water lake
Sand bars now became islands
in the lake. Okefenokee Swamp
was in the making. The main
drainage from the lake was to
ward the southwest, and the
Suwannee River resulted. Also
coming into its own was the now
famous St. Marys River, which
flowed from the southeast cor
ner through a gap in Trail
Ridge.
Vep. d Ton began to grow in
the shallow waters of the lake;
in the growing and dying of
plants, vegetable matter accumu
lated. Masses of vegative matter
came to the surface and other
plants took roots in them and
grew. Little plants then, but they
grew and later cypress, gum and
all the other trees and shrubs
came.
Animal Life Adapts
Animal life came in, each
kind and species seeking out its
preferred environment, and e
ventually adapting its ways to
the ways of the swamp.
Nature itself is the landscaper
in this Garden of Eden. Okefe
nokee, with its shallow expanses
of water known as “praries”
bloom with color in spring and
summer. Here exists stands of
virgin cypress, among the best
in North America. Here under
the supervision of the Fish and
Wildlife Service is a trust for all
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