The Brantley enterprise. (Nahunta, Brantley County, Ga.) 1927-2014, August 11, 1955, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextDecrease in Home Fires Sign of Hope For the second year in suc cession the National Board of Fire Underwriters reports fewer fires in urban United States! In communities of 2,500 and ■over, residential fires decreased 2 percent in 1953 and again in 1954. However, since 90 percent of all fires are caused by carelessness, neglect and lack of understand ing, this is only a small percent age of what can be done in cut ting down the toll. Here is what you can do to help prevent a fire in your home. The combination matches smoking and misuse of electricity account for 40 percent of all fires of known origin; therefore, home fire prevention should start at these danger spots. The following precautions will reduce the haz ards of matches and smoking: 1. Keep plenty of ash-trays handy — and use them! 2. Never toss a lighted match away. Blow it out, hold it a sec ond, then put it in an ash-tray. 3. Before emptying an ash-tray, be sure every match and butt is dead out. 4. Never use a match to light NeSMITH FUNERAL HOME 111 WEST ORANGE STREET JESUP, GA. 24 HOUR AMBULANCE SERVICE WE HONOR AND ACCEPT ALL FAMILY FUND LIFE INSURANCE POLICIES W. H. “DINK” NeSMITH LICENSED EMBALMER AND FUNERAL DIRECTOR THE HORTENSE CAMP MEETING ASSOCIATION Sht ANNUAL MEETING To Convene August 18—28, 1955 HORTENSE CAMP GROUNDS TAMPA, FLA. REV E A HARVEY REV WILLIAM WARD RE «T kenova ’ w va ORDER OF SERVICES Sunrise Prayer Meeting Preaching (Evangelist) 11:30 A. M. Children’s Service 9:30 A. M. Preaching (Local Pastors) 3:00 PM Song and Prayer 10:30 A. M. Young People’s Service 7:00 P. M. Preaching (Evangelist) 8:00 P. M. For rooms write Mrs. F. A. Lewis, Hortense, Ga. All Campers expected to fur nish bed linen. Pray much for the Camp Meeting. CAMP MEETING COMMITTEE: w u snellgrov^ Charan Come and enjoy the good singing and preaching. Location of Camp 18 miles south of Jesup, 9 miles north of Nahunta, at junction of highways 301 and 32. Look for the sign. YOU ARE INVITED! your way into a dark closet or similar space where clothing or other combustibles are kept. 5. Before going to bed, espe cially after entertaining, see that no butts are smoldering on tables or upholstery. 6. Keep matches and cigarette lighters where children cannot reach them. 7. Never smoke in bed! Electrical fires are less apt to occur if you follow these rules: 1. 15 ampere fuses are the safe size for most household circuits. Never tamper with them; never use oversize fuses. 2. Don’t plug too many appli ances into one outlet; you will overload the circuit. If fuses blow often, call an electrician. He will inspect the wiring and put in more outlets and circuits if he thinks you need them. 3. Look for the UL label on all electric cords and appliances you buy. It means they have passed Underwriters’ Laboratories tests for fire and shock safety. 4. Don’t let a “home handy man” tinker with electric cords, wiring or appliances. Such work should be done only by an elec trician. 5. Don’t string wires over hooks or around nails, or run them un der rugs where they may be walked on. Insulation will break or wear out, and a short circuit may result. HORTENSE, GA. EVANGELIST REV. WILLIAM WARD KENOVA, W. VA. SONG LEADER REV. E. A. HARVEY CHICAGO, ILL. PIANIST, MRS. E. A. HARVEY CHILDREN AND YOUNG FOLK WORKERS, REV. MRS. RUTH ROGERS AND OTHERS. Belt Average Now $49.36 Grade averages on the Georgia- Florida flue-cured tobacco mar kets Tuesday were about in line with the previous day according to the U. S. Department of Agri culture. A few leaf grades which were sold in heavy volume were slightly lower. However, some lugs and nondescript offerings showed similar gains. General quality was not as good as Monday. The proportion of poorer leaf increased. Grow ers marketed mostly leaf and lugs. Low and fair quality offer ings predominated. Some markets in the area reported a larger per centage of the tobacco in unsafe keeping order as warehouses are filled two and three days ahead of the sale. Practically all auc tion points are blocked. Gross sales Monday totaled 7,- 459,958 pounds and averaged $49.36 per hundred — up 5 cents from Friday. Season gross sales were brought to 129,139,383 pounds for an average of $49.28. County Extension Agents as sisted 349,934 people with insect control problems in 1954. Extension agents, in 1954, help ed 3,412 farm families install electrical water systems. Wells, Ponds Are Increased By Irrigation The rapid increase of interest in irrigation during recent months throughout Georgia has resulted in significant changes in the State’s irrigation water sup ply, Willis E. Huston, irrigation specialist for the Agricultural Extension Service, College of Ag riculture, said this week. A statewide survey of county agents shows that 264 deep wells are now being used for irrigation. Huston said that at least 200 of these wells have been drilled within the past year. Also, the number of farm ponds, another important source of water for irrigation, has in creased sharply. In the past ten years Georgians have built 18,- 076 farm ponds. Huston pointed out that of this number 11,662 have been built within the past five years and that 3,793 of these have been constructed within the past three years. Georgia now has a total of 22,- 595 farm ponds according to the county agent survey made by Huston. The average size of these ponds is three and a half acres and their average maximum depth is eight feet. Huston said that 1,736 of these ponds are now being used for irrigation and that 488 of these were reworked for irrigation last year. “This does not mean that irri gation at present is using any thing like the full water supply now available,” Huston explain ed?" lie pointed out that an Ad ditional 7,916 existing farm ponds could be used for irrigation at present. If all available sources of wa ter were used for irrigation, 735,- 058 additional acres could be ir rigated, said Huston. In January, 1955 Huston reported that the number of acres under irrigation was 27,701. Farmers Urged To 'Push' Pigs For Marketing Urging farmers to “push” spring-farrowed pigs for early market, R. O. Williams, livestock marketing specialist for the Ag ricultural Extension Service, Col lege of Agriculture, said prices of market hogs are expected to drop considerably lower this fall than last. He pointed out that August and early September usually pro vide the highest seasonal hog market of the year in Georgia. “These are the two months that pigs farrowed in March and April should be marketed. Pushing hogs to reach market even a few days earlier than usual can often mean as much as $5 more return per hog,’’ the specialist said. He recommended that hogs be marketed when they reach 200 pounds, explaining that consum er demand is for meatier hogs or hogs with less fat. Carrying out details of good management and supplying hogs a full supply of balanced protein supplement while hogging-off corn will “push” them to market quicker, Williams stated. Another reason for early mar keting which the livestockman cited was that winter-farrowed litters in the U. S. are up 22 percent. “This sharp boost in win ter litters will result in heavier market runs than usual this sum mer and the price break may come earlier than usual. The U. S'. 1955 spring pig crop showed an increase of nine percent over last spring’s pig crop. This, plus the fact that the spring pig crop is usually about one-third larger than the fall pig crop, accounts for the usual sharp break in pri ces in the fall,” Williams said. “In Georgia the 1955 spring pig crop was about the same as spring, 1954,” Williams said. “This, however, is not too im portant in trying to predict the price cycle for market hogs here. It is the volume of market hogs in the com belt that largely de termines the prices in our area.” Hog farmers whose swine pro gram has not been managed so that they can take advantage of the usual seasonal high price in late summer should modify their base spring farrowing date and more adequately plan the feed supply so that they can take ad vantage of it next summer, Wil liams concluded. Agricultural Extension Service entomologists estimate that insect damage costs Georgians one hun dred million dollars a year. EXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXEXXX33EKXXXXX33QDQDEXX33 8 DOUIB IL E FEATURE ! | M A JUMPER AND DRESS IN Q B 1 |] pattern — Q FOR BACK-TO-CLASS Q x ■■ u * ■ n •— • • BUTTERICK PRINTED | PATTERN / I 7427 j : I. Sew the Scoop-Top Jumper in Flannel or Indian Head H The Flare-Skirted Dress in Q Fruit-of-the-Loom Print - H For the Newest Fall Fabrics, Come to J. W. BROOKER Hardware, Dry Goods, Building Material PHONE 2-2385 NAHUNTA, GA. g Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, August 11, 1955 Leaflet Tells Os Losses from Insect Damage Insects cost Georgians one hun dred million dollars annually in damage to crops, livestock, for ests, buildings, stored products, and health, according to Ento mologist Dr. C. R. Jordan, Agri cultural Extension Service, Col lege of Agriculture. In his recently written leaflet. Lost: One Hundred Million Dol lars, Jordan says insects are man’s greatest competitors. In an attempt to reduce the tremendous damage the insects do, Jordan points out that the Extension Service, through it county and home demonstration agents car ries on an extensive program aimed at more effective and eco nomical insect control. “Agents assisted one out of ev ery ten persons in the state in 1954 — an increase in the past three years of 66 percent,” Jor dan states. “Forty or more of the major cotton counties are sur veyed each week and findings distributed so that farmers are stimulated to examine their own fields for insects.” In 1953 Georgia farmers used GEORGIA COUNTIES Coweta County THRIVING INDUSTRIAL- rs AGRICULTURAL AREA Newnan, Coweta County Seat, is one of the richest cities, per capita, in the United States and has one of the highest rated school systems. It is a showplace of fine homes painstakingly cared so antebellum and modem. The center of a rich agricultural section, Coweta County has 37 industrial plants including 6 giant cotton mills, and rayon, latex and metalworking plants. Newnan has given Georgia two distinguished governors, William Atkinson and Ellis Amall. In Coweta County and throughout Georgia, the U. S. Brewers Foundation works constantly to assure the sale of beer and ale under pleasant, orderly condi tions. Believing that strict law enforcement serves the best interest of the people of Georgia, the Foundation stresses close cooperation with the Armed Forces, law enforcement and governing officials in its continuing "self-regulation” program. United States Breuers 1 DBMOMRa9SB^^H Foundation ZMH 9 Georgia Division Suus 219. 7/0 Peachtree St.. N. & I EnnTrl^^M ^OU" 0 Atlanta, Georgia 75,000,000 pounds of finished dust on cotton at a cost of over $7,- 000,000. In the past, Jordan says, an average annual loss of cotton to insect damage amounted to a bout $33,000,000. Four-H Club boys are being trained to make insect infesta tion counts on cotton, Jordan points, out. “One of these boys, hired by a farmer to inspect 700 acres of cotton each week, saved his SI,BOO. Another found that his father’s 200-acre cotton crop needed no insecticide during the season and the father saved the $2,000 he ordinarily would have spent.” “Because of constant efforts be ing made to increase the assist ance being given by Extension Service, the future for insect pests'in Georgia is not bright,” Jordan says. “But don’t turn your back on the insect pest — he may pick your pocket,” he warns. The leaflet, Lost: One Hundred Million Dollars, is being distrib uted by county and home dem onstration agents. In 1954, county and home dem onstration agents helped 23,362 Georgia families select electrical appliances and lighting equip ment.