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Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, October 3, 195"
Brantley Enterprise
Published weekly on Thursday at Nahunta, Georgia
CARL BROOME EDITOR and PUBLISHER
Entered at the Post Office at Nahunta, Georgia as
second class matter under the act of March 3, 1879.
Official Organ of Brantley County
GAME
and. A
# FISH
By FULTON LOVELL
Director, Georgia Game and Fish Commission
ENJOY YOUR WATER—
AND DRINK IT, TOO
AN adage almost as old as time itself says “you can’t
have your cake and eat it, too.” Add and subtract a
few words and the same theory will apply to water. Ex-
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Fulton Loveii sere with their plans for public drink
ing facilities.
What caused this sudden surge of recreational popu
larity ? Some experts feel a creeping lust for outdoor play
Is sweeping the nation. Pleasure seekers, be they young
or old, are using Georgia’s lakes and impoundments more
than ever before for water skiing, swimming, camping,
boating and fishing. Many urban families have turned to
lake sites to bask in the sun or fish on weekends.
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Big Boost To Economy
The demand for water for recreational use, as well as
industrial and commercial uses, is greater than ever before.
Industries use 60 billion gallons of fresh water every day;
25 trillion gallons are being used by farmers on irrigation
projects; power companies and affiliated groups use a great
deal of our water in providing electricity for homes and
industries. Yet, all of these combined have little effect on
water recreation.
. Water sports have increased demand for new boat
ing equipment, fishing tackle and other equipment re
lated to water to such an extent that many merchants
deal exclusively with goods of this nature.
Addition of new reservoirs in Georgia has been a big
boom to small towns as well as large cities. Jim Woodruff
Reservoir, for example, will draw many tourists to com
munities surrounding the lake. This means additional
tourist coubts, boat docks and resorts which, in turn, means
more business for merchants.
More reservoirs means that more Georgia fishermen will
be enticed to fish. Increasing number of fishermen will
boost fishing tackle sale and the sale of fishing licenses.
Management Needed
No lake will look after itself. This is a theory proven
many times by Game and Fish Departments all over the
country.
. The Georgia Game and Fish Commission is work
ing toward making Georgia lakes the most productive
in the country for fishermen. This long range program
demands the attention of several specialized fish tech
nicians, plus the attention of every fisherman in the
state.
But, aside from managing the fish in our impoundments,
the water must be protected, too.
In 1954, Governor Marvin Griffin appointed a Water
Use and Conservation Committee to study the water prob
lems of the state and how to combat them. Pollution,
utilization of water resources and lake management are
but a thimbleful of the areas the Committee have con
centrated their attention.
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cept, you CAN enjoy your water—and
drink it, too.
Until recently, the idea of using public
water supplies and reservoirs for recrea
tion was grudgingly agreed to by tech
nicians. However, modern trend is to
ward more water recreation, even on im
poundments where drinking water is
taken. Technicians have swapped their
frowns for smiles since they have dis
covered that recreation does not inter-
Blackshear Conservation Edition
(From The Waycross Journal-Herald)
Congratulations to The Blackshear Times on its fine
Conservation Edition of last week.
The 22-page paper was printed on yellow paper and
contained articles written by just about every expert in
the soil conservation field in this area.
A page one editorial noted some interesting things
that have taken place in farming and soil conservation in
Pierce County during the past decade.
At the close of World War 11, The Times said, there
were only 65 tractors in Pierce County. Now, there are
approximately 800.
And the newspaper observed that the changes in
the way farmers use and treat their land since power
machinery has come into its own offer “as sharp a con
trast as the mule and the tractor.”
Ten years ago the farmers of Pierce County, as was
in the case in Ware and elsewhere in Georgia, had done
little except talk about soil and water conservation.
But today most of the farmers and virtually all of
the successful ones have accepted these modern practices
as necessary to good and successful farming.
Irrigation systems are now the rule instead of the
exception, pasture lands have been vastly expanded, and
there is much interest in the forestry conservation pro
gram.
Today more and more farmers throughout Southeast
Georgia have begun to look for agricultural enterprises
to take the place of the income they have lost as a result
of reduced tobacco acreage.
Through conservation and scientific farming prac
tices there is hope that today’s agricultural problems can
be solved.
Again our thanks to The Blackshear Times for an
excellent edition calling attention to the things we are
doing in Southeast Georgia in the field of conservation.
Youth Is A State
Youth is not a time of life; it is not a matter of rosy
cheeks, red lips and athletic bodies; it is a temper of the
will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions.
It is a freshness of the deep inner springs of life.
Nobody ever grows old by merely living a number of
years; people grow old by deserting their ideals. Years
wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the
soul.
Whether seventy or sixteen, there is in every being’s
heart the love of wonder, the sweet amazement of the
stars, the undaunted challenge of events, the childlike
appetite for what comes next, and the joy in the game of
life.
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt;
as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as
young as your hope, as old as your despair.
In the central space of your heart there is a wireless
station. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope,
cheer, courage, grandeur and power from the earth, from
men and from the Infinite, so long are you young.
When the wires are all down and the central place
of your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and
the ice of synicism, then are you grown old indeed . . .
and may God have mercy on your soul!
Georgia has ten pulp mills lo
cated within the boundaries of
the state and several mills out
side the state draw wood from
Georgia, says Dorsey Dyer, for
ester, Agricultural Extension. Ser
vice.
THE CHANGING
DAIRYING PICTURE
While once a deficit dairy state,
dependent upon high-priced milk
imported from distant markets,
Georgia now produces sufficient
quantities of high-quality fresh
milk. This .milk is produced to
retail at only a fraction of a cent
above the national average price
for milk which is below it in
standards of composition aAd
quality, according to John Con
ner, dairy marketing specialist,
Agricultural Extension Service,
University of Georgia College of
Agriculture.
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J. R. Johnson, agronomist, Ag
ricultural Extension Service, an
nounces that 401 farmers repre
senting 72 counties have entered
the Georgia Grazing System and
Feed Production Program this
year.
Economists at the Agricultural
Extension Service report that in
come from livestock and their
products increased from $123
million in 1945 to $312 million
in 1956.
Beef should be aged about a
week at 38 to 40 degrees before
freezing it, advise food preserva
tionists at the University of Geor
gia College of Agriculture Ex
tension Service.
John Conner, dairy marketing
specialist, Agricultural Extension
Service, states that 33 percent of
all families in the United States
use eggnog — almost exclusively
as a beverage, with the heaviest
concentration in the holiday sea
son.
Pediatricians have found a di
rect relation between healing
children’s diseases and the a
mount of protein they take, says
Miss Audrey Morgan, family life
specialist, Agricultural Extension
Service.
Alfalfa hay is a good cash crop
on many Georgia f^rms. With
good management, it produces an
average of four tons of high
quality hay per acre, says W. H.
Gurley, agronomist, Agricultural
Extension Service.
Engineers at 'the Agricultural
Extension Service advise using
irrigation systems to water win
ter grazing to insure a good stand
and to get it established before
cold weather begins.
Agronomist P. J. Bergeaux, Ag
ricultural Extension Service, re
ports that, currently, only 4.5 per
cent of the total cropland and
improved pasture acreage in Ge
orgia is being limed. Soil test in
formation indicates that over 50
percent of Georgia soils are
strongly acid and need lime. Ge
orgia farmers are using only
about one-half the recommended
rates of mixed fertilizer and
about one-third the recommended
rates of nitrogen, Bergeaux says.
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Blackshear
Times
Phone 2601
Blackshear, Georgia
I TAX BOOKS I
NOW OPEN
Dear Friends: \
I The 1957 County Tax Books are now open. If I
anyone wishes to pay their 1957 taxes now, we are
ready to receive the payments.
All delinquent taxpayers will please come in and
see about your back taxes as the County needs the
money. The longer the fifas stay here the more it runs
into extra money and costs to you. So, please come
in and take care of back taxes.
Those of you who have a back tax on your car or
truck will have to have these paid by Jan. 1, 1958, in
order to be able to get a tag.
Please don’t wait until the last minute to pay
these as you will have to have your tax receipt before
you get your tag.
J So, please come in and get these at once. f
Your Friend,
I JOHN M. WILSON I
I TAX COLLECTOR OF BRANTLEY COONTY I
More than enough power lines
to reach around the world!
THAT’S RIGHT— more than enough power lines
to reach around the world at the equator . . .
more than enough to reach across the nation, from
New York to San Francisco, 10 times.
To supply electricity wherever you want it,
we operate and maintain 26,000 miles of trans
mission and distribution lines. Nearly half of
these lines have been built in the past 10 years.
Such construction is important to everyone in
Georgia, for better living follows power lines.
They are highroads of progress.
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Power and progress in
every direction . • •
in Georgia!
