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Co. Extension Home Economists
Recently our state special
ists in the Housing and Home
Furnishings areas of Extens
ion Home Economics programs
have provided us with some
excellent materials in helping
homemakers make important
decisions.
These materials Involve
arrangement of furniture, pl
anning sleeping areas, utility
rooms, doors and windows, li
ving areas, a sewing center
NEXT WEEK
Southeast Pecan Meeting
Has Georgians on Program
BILOXI, MISS. - Georgia
will be in the spotlight here
next week when the 66th
annual convention of the
Southeastern Pecan Growers
Association is held at the
Broadwater Beach Hotel.
The No. 1 pecan state in the
nation is providing more than a
dozen program participants,
including the president of the
Association, Felix Marbury of
Albany.
In addition, seven of the 12
SEPGA directors are from
Georgia. They include C. M.
Pippin Jr., Albany; Fred W.
Voigt, Waycross; Ben T.
Whelchei, Rochelle; Pope
Williams, Cordele; Jim Bonser,
Baconton; J. W. Cannon Jr.,
Cordele, and Joseph S. Hall,
Cairo.
R. L. Livingston, head of the
Cooperative Extension Service
horticulture department at the
University of Georgia, is a
member of the program
committee for the meeting
LET'S TALK TIMBER
MR v .TIMBER OWNER, are you inte
rested in getting the highest dollars
for your poles, logs and pulpwood.
Having a supervised cutting operation
that will protect your young trees for
later income? Then wait no longer!
Allied Timber Company, Inc. would
like to quote you a price before you
sell. PLEASE CONTACT
ALLIED TIMBER COMPANY, Inc
Phone 912-285-8282
Box 1259
Waycross, Ga. 31501
JOHN CONGER EDISON PEEPLES
Office 912-576-5834 Office 912-576-5834
Home 912-638-4508 Home 912-576-5996
Box 606 Box 606
Woodbine, Ga, 31569 Woodbine, Ga. 31569
The little bug
thats Putting
the Bite on the
FUEL CRISIS!
Boyer
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Volkswagen, Inc.
103 Lee Ave. Waycross, Ga.
Virginia Raulerson
and remodeling helps •
These materials are design
ed for you to make decisions
with pencil and paper without
backbreaking moving of furni
ture, and building or remodel
ing, then finding you have made
a serious mistake.
Tliese materials are free to
you, and one of the helps wh
ich the county home economist
can give you.
here.
Livingston named the fol
lowing Georgians who will
present educational papers
March 5 and 6:
Plant Pathologists Jack
Taylor, W. M. Powell and F. F.
Hendrix of the University of
Georgia College of Agriculture,
Athens; Plant Pathologist R. H.
Littrell, Entomologist Sam G.
Polles and Horticulturist Ray
Worley of the Coastal Plain
Experiment Station, Tifton;
Entomologists Jerry Payne and
Walker L. Tedders, Plant
Pathologist John W. Wells, and
Agricultural Engineer John
Smith of the Southeastern
Fruit and Tree Nut Research
Station, Byron; and Ento
mologist Emmett Harris,
Cooperative Extension Service,
Athens.
Registration for the up
coming meeting will begin at 10
a.m. Sunday, March 4. Presi
dent Marbury will be master of
Around home & down on the farm
ATTENTION FARMERS
Do you need more money?
Brantley County farmers are
continually on the look out for
ways to increase their income
and make their land more pro
ductive.
Recently an inquiry was made
to my office about the possi
bility and interest of Brant
ley farmers in producing ve-
ceremonies at a luau Sunday
evening and will open the
educational phase of the
meeting at 8:30 a.m. Monday.
A panel discussion featuring
pecan growers from five states
will be the last thing on the
program at 10:50 a.m. Tuesday,
and a noon luncheon for old
and new officers of SEPGA
will conclude the 1973 meeting.
LESS FARMERS
The population’s “down on
the farm.” Farm dwellers
dwindled from 9.7 million in
April 1970 to 9.4 million in
April 1971, continuing a long
time downward trend. Since
1960, the farm population has
declined by about two
fifths-an average annual de
cline of 4.6 percent. In 1920
about one person in three lived
on farms. In 1971 only one
person in 22, or 4.6 percent of
the total population resided on
farms.
Irvin Push Initiates New
USDA Poultry Research
ATLANTA (PRN) - The U.
S. Department of Agriculture
has responded favorably to
Georgia recommendations for
stepped up research on Asiatic
Newcastle disease which has
ravaged poultry flocks in
California and threatened
Georgia’s multi-million dollar
poultry indus- <
try.
The recom-|
mendations]
o r i g i nated^
with Commis
sioner of|
Agriculture!
Tommy Irvin!
and the Geor- IRVIN
gia poultry industry and
forwarded to the USDA as a
resolution through the
National Association of State
Departments of Agriculture.
Irvin, who a few weeks ago
transferred $55,000 from his
Department’s operating fund
to initiate similar research at
the University of Georgia, said
he was “greatly encouraged”
by the new approach the
USDA is taking to help solve
the problem.
“I am advised that the
WHAT'S AFOOT
Modern carpeting is very
much in step with the times
and even greater advances are
looming for the future, ac
cording to lan McMeekin, de
signer for Burlington House,
the largest textile manufac
turer in the world.
“The textured nylon plush
is catching on like gangbust
ers,” Mr. McMeekin said, “be
cause it combines esthetics
and function. It’s a shorter,
more easily cared for texture
than the long, loose shag of
a couple of years ago. It has
proved to be durable as well
as visually exciting. And it’s
not expensive. Sophisticated
textile engineering makes it
possible.”
Yarn technology has ad
vanced. Companies like Burl
ington House Carpets twist
and ply nylon carpet yarns
to give them added strength
and resilience. Both the twist
and the ply are set under
conditions of high heat and
great pressure in a giant auto
clave, which most resembles
Science shows that the blue color of the sea is due only tc
reflection of the sky.
getable crops for the market.
A Mr. curry, from Jackson
ville, Fla., who made the in
quiry and who is interested
in establishing a business
handling vegetables produced
has agreed to explain his ideas
to all interested farmers.
I have arranged a meetlngfor
AT WINTER MEETING
Georgia Fertilizer Industry
TIFTON—The fertilizer busi
ness is looking up in Georgia.
That was the consensus of
some 200 manufacturers and
dealers attending the recent
winter meeting of the Georgia
Plant Food Educational Soci
ety.
“Better Business for Me in
’73” was the theme of the
sessions at the Rural Develop
ment Center here.
Bob Farrow, manager of
market research for Kaiser
Agricultural Chemicals, Savan
nah, explained that fertilizer
consumption in the state has
reached almost two million
tons annually. He predicted
that increased use of plant
food will continue, and said he
based this on the growing live
stock industry in Georgia and
the Southeast.
“Cattle and calves require a
tremendous amount of for
age,” Farrow stated, “and
forage is a big user of fer
tilizer.”
Much of the industry’s
growth was credited to the
Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service has
requested the Agricultural
Research Service to initiate
and conduct research in at
least four different areas of
study,” Irvin said, “and I am
confident such research will
aid considerably in combatting
this problem.”
The Commissioner said the
four areas of study would be
directed toward development
of a rapid diagnostic test for
Asiatic Newcastle; a study of
the vaccine immunity response
in chickens and turkeys; a
determination of the
susceptibility of exotic birds
to the disease and safer
importation methods and a
study of the carrier status of
vaccinated birds after
exposure to Asiatic Newcastle.
Irvin pointed out that the
research would involve the
carrier status not only of
poultry and turkeys but other
species of birds as well and
emphasized that there has
been much concern over the
role wild bird species may play
in the spread of Asiatic
Newcastle.
IN DECORATING
a huge pressure cooker. Tem
peratures inside the autoclave
often approach 400 degrees F.
Another factor is that fiber
blends have become much
more sophisticated. Mr. Mc-
Meekin selects nylon fibers
of different staple lengths,
different deniers, different de
grees of luster and brightness,
and often fibers made by dif
ferent chemical companies to
be spun into a single yarn.
There have also been changes
for the better in dyeing, and
the fiber is brighter and has
greater luster.
“Carpet engineering is be
ing made to serve the con
sumer as never before,” the
designer said. “The nylon tex
tured plush is a result of this
marriage of design and science.
This kind of carpet is enjoy
ing a tremendous surge in
popularity now. I’d expect
the textured plush to con
tinue to grow in acceptance
for at least another three
1 years.”
Tuesdat, March 6, at the Br
antley County High School at
7:00 p.m.
Tell your neighbor, invite
someone to come with you,
and come yourself to hear Mr.
Curry explain vegetable crops,
the labor involved and how to
Picks Leaders, Looks Ahead
Cooperative Extension Service
agronomy department, and the
head of that department— J. R.
Johnson—received the Soci
ety’s “Outstanding Service
Award” for 1972.
GPFES President James D.
Gordon of Gold Kist Inc.,
Atlanta, presented the award at
a banquet climaxing the 1973
meeting.
Under Johnson’s leadership,
the Extension Service in 1957
initiated the intensified soil
fertility program in six pilot
counties. This program has
been carried out statewide
since that time, and many
other educational under
takings—in forage production;
corn, cotton, peanut, soybean
and tobacco practices; weed
control; soil testing and plant
analysis; farm chemical work
shops; field tours, and others—
have been added to the list of
intensive programs.
The certificate which John
son received pointed out that
he “has presented information
that has aided farmers in in-
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Paul Thompson,Jr.
County Extension Chairman .
creasing yields and made busi
ness better for the plant food
industry.”
In addition to Farrow’s
presentation on fertilizer in
dustry outlook, members were
also brought up to date on
Extension’s soil testing and
plant analysis program, fer
tilizer and pesticide laws, use
of minor elements in Georgia
agriculture, fish pond fertiliza
tion, and business management
for the industry.
John L. Cope of Kaiser
Agricultural Chemicals was
elected president for 1973-74
and will succeed Gold Kist’s
Gordon. J. Fielding Reed of
the Potash Institute of North
America was elected vice presi
dent.
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The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Georgia, March 1, 1973
Corn disease wide
spread in state
Corn growers were advised
this week to check with their
county Extension agents before
selecting the hybrids they will
plant this year.
The reason, according to
Norman E. McGlohon, plant
pathologist with the University
of Georgia Extension Service,
is to be sure about resistance
to maize dwarf mosaic and
corn stunt.
Dr. McGlohon explained that
these two diseases have been
major problems in Northwest
Georgia since 1965. A year
ago he predicted that they would
show up in all corn growing
counties of the state, and this
is what happened lastyear. The
viruses hit the 1972 crop in
South Georgia and caused con
siderable damage.
” Mosaic and stunt now occur
in practically every county wb
ere johnsongrass is a prob-
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leno”, Dr, McGlohon stated.
” Johnsongrass and leafhopp
ers are the only two things
necessary for the viruses to
become a real threat.
” In some cases,” he con
tinued, ” aphids can spread
the viruses from johnsongrass
to corn.”
The plant pathologist pointed
out that Central and North Ge
orgia farmers have been able
to control the diseases by us
ing resistant varieties. »
An Extension Service circu
lar, ” Corn Stunt and Maize
Dwarf Mosaic Diseases in
Corn”, was revised in January
to include the latest informa
tion on resistant varieties. The
publication is available at coun
ty Extension offices, and grow
ers are urged to take advant
age of the information before
purchasing 1973 seed corn.