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County Agricultural Agent's
Column
Boy* 4-H Club
I m very anxious to yet a good
4-H Club organized in the different
communities of Jackaon county. I
will appreciate having a card or let
ter from any boy in the county be
tween the age of 10 and 20 that
would like to become a member of a
4-H agricultural club.
Clubs we are especially interested
In boys becoming members of in
1985 are field crop clubs, such as
corn, hay, lespedeza for seed, soy
beans for seed, cotton, sweet pota
toes, Irish potatoes, lima or butter
beans, etc. The live stock clubs:
dairy and beef calf, pig club, sheep
club, and poultry club.
I am very anxious to get in touch
with the boys who would like to sow
one or two acres in lespedeza on
good land for seed. This crop should
be sown at once, and I think this is
an opportunity for boys to make
some good money from this crop.
Would also like to get in touch with
boys who would like to plant one or
two acres in soy beans, and there is
a good opportunity for boys to make
some good money from this crop.
Boys who wish to plant Irish pota
toes should join club at once, as po
tatoes should bo planted within the
next two weeks if soil is in condi
tion. Please give your name and ad
dess on card or letter when you
write.
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Lespedeza
I am very happy to state that a
large number of farmers in Jackson
eounty have already sown a very
good acreage in lespedeza. We sug
gest that the farmers who plan to
•ow any lespedeza this spring to se
cure seed and sow same within the
next week or 10 days.
Most of the seed that we had de
livered here for benefit of Jackson
county farmers has already been de
livered to farmers; however, we have
a few hundred pounds of both Ko
rean and Kobe variety. We urge
farmers that are interested in sow
ing any lespedeza to their seed
at an early date, because they will
soon all be gone, and we doubt if
we can get any more of as good
quality seed at same price. The price
of Beed is $8.50 per hundred for
Korean lespedeza, and $10.50 per
hundred for Kobe.
We suggest preparing seed
by leveling top soil with harrow;
nd where there is already a small
grain crop growing, use spike tooth
harrow, dragging it across little fur
rughs. Seed immediately after be
ing harrowed at rate of 25 to 30
pounds per acre. Do not harrow
after crop is seeded unless very,
very lightly.
We hope a large number of Jack
•on county farmers will sow a few
acres of their good land in lespedeza
and save their* own seed crop, as it
can be harvested with little expense
and labor.
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A.A.A. Advise* Cotton Producers To
Rent 35% in 1935.
Quoting from a letter received
February 18, 1936, from Mr. C. A.
Cobb, Chief, Cotton Production Sec
tion, A.A.A., Washington, D. C.
“It will be to the advantage of
individuail cotton producers to re
move 35 per cent of their base acre
age from cotton production and re
ceive the maximum rental payments
permitted under their contracts in
1985.
“It will be to the further advant
age of individual producers to plant
in 1935 only 65 per cent of their
base acreage, because in no case
will the bases used in making allot
ments of tax-exemption certificates
be more than 65 per cent of a pro
ducer’s base production. Producers
should therefore be cautioned against
planting more than 65 per cent of
their base acreage with the antici
pation of buying surplus exemption
certificates at reduced prices in
1935. It will' be our recommenda
tion that provisions be made which
will prevent surplus exemption cer
tificates being sold much below the
full amount of the tax. We will also
recommend that the tax be kept ad
justed at 50 per cent of the price.
Neither of these things were done
in 1934.
“Due partly to the drought, food
•nd * feed will be somewhat less
plentiful, and prices will be higher
in 1935, than they were in 1934.
For this reason, cotton producers
fehould plant only 65 per cent of
their base acreage to cotton, thus
making available additional land on
which to produce food and feed for
borne consumption.”
We suggest that Jackson county
eotton producers adhere to the sug
festion of Mr. Cobb when preparing
their cotton land for year 1935.
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Cotton Acroag* Reduction Program,
Volynltrjr Contract*
A number of cotton producers
have asked about assigning their
rental payments for year 1936 to a
trustee.
This is to advise that the assign
ments made on 1934-35 cotton acre
age reduction contracts will not be
in effect for year 1935, but was only
effective for year 1934. Producers
who wish to assign their rental pay
ments to a trustee should insert the
name of proper pledgee on Form No.
101, 102, or 104, which ever form is
necessary to complete contract for
year 1935. This should be done
when the producer signs necessary
forms to maku contract effective for
year 1936.
Reference where parts of farms
are sold or rented that are covered
by 1934-36 contracts. Where the
farm covered by 1934-35 contract
has a part sold or rented for the
year 1936 the division of the cotton
production and acreage base shall be
divided according to cultivated area
of the farm according to administra
tive ruling No. 8, items (a) and (b).
Where additional land is purchas
ed rented for the year 1935, the
1934-35 contract ‘will Stand as it is,
and anew contract prepared for ad
ditional rented or purchased land
for 1935.
As was the case in 1934, all pro
ducers who have avoluntary cotton
acreage reduction contract will have*
to cover all farms owned or operat
ed with a rental contract and or a
non-participating contract.
W. Hill Hosch, County Agent.
POSTAL BUSINESS UP
RAPIDLY IN 64 YEARS
The nation’s postoffice business is
growing. Figures released by the
postoffice department at Washington
recently shofck, that enormous strides
have been made in the last 64 years.
At present there are more than
48,000 postoffices in the country,
and the mileage in postal routes is
550,000. The gross revenue from
this business is approximately $600,-
000,000 annually, and gross expendi
tures are $800,000,000.00.
Comparing these figures with
those of 1870, the business seems to
have grown faster than any other
government enterprise. Sixty-four
years ago there were just 903
postoffices scattered over the nation,
and the total mileage of postal routes
was not more than 21,000, A gross
revenue of $281,000 was reported,
and gross expenditures were $214,-
000.
Wjf TRADE MARK
registered If
FERTILIZER
MAKES BETTER CROPS BECAUSE
Ilt’s NON-ACID Forming— made right! It
• does not leave harmful acid residues in the
soil nor change the pH in the root zone.
2 Contains added Calcium, Magnesium and
• other important elements not included in
the usual plant food guarantee, but proved bene
ficial to crops.
3 Made from Best Materials, selected for
• their crop productiveness.
4 DOUBLE MIXED so that each teaspoon
• full contains a proportionate share of all
the elements in the analysis, permitting even
distribution of plant food.
C TRIPLE TESTED to assure uniform high
quality in every bag.
For large crop yields look for the Certificate of
Quality which guarantees these plus values in
every bag.
Swift’s Red Steer Fetilizers
NON-ACID
FORMING
(Physiologicaly Neutral) with added Calcium
and Magnesium
J. L. BAILEY, Jefferson.
Braselton Improvement Cos., Braselton.
M. T. MASSEY, Commerce.
A. J. MURPHY, Talmo.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
LINDER FOR WOODS BURNING
' (From Savannah Press)
If the Cuthbert Leader has Tom
Linder, Georgia’s new commissioner
of agriculture, quoted correctly we
must confess to registering surprise
at one of his utterances. The Cuth
bert papqr tells us Mr. Linder is
still advocating woods burning in
Georgia. i
The Leader prints the foll<*vinm
extract from the Georgia Mafftet
Bulletin as voicing the sentiments
of Commissioner Linder:
“The woods should be burned at
least every two years and should be
burned when there is plenty of water
in the ground and should be burned
against the wind so 'as to prevent
damage to the timber.”
If all the educational work of
county agents, fire prevention asso
ciations and organizations whose
purpose largely is to keep down
woods fires has not gone far enough
to convert the commissioner or ag
riculture to other views, it would
seem their campaign of education
has been started at the wrong end.
' Mo-dern woodsmen and farmers
and cattle growers, we believe, have
decided there is no virtue in burn
ing the woffds; no good service is
performed by it and there is great
harm done because of it. Much
time, money and talent is being ex
pended now in Georgia and else
where teaching the doctrine of the
field and forest being flame free.
Fires in the woods do damage in
many directions. First the land is
not helped any but the young pine
and other tree growth is seriously
retarded. There is danger that such
fires will spread to fences and homes
and even be the cause of human
lives being taken. Auto collisions
on the highway with fatal results
have been traced to the dense smoke
caused by fires in wooded areas. To
have an authority such as Commis
sioner Linder advocating biennial
wood fires irf interesting if not sur
prising.
THE MORAL BEING—
A man in a neighboring state, on
returning from a hunting trip, the
other day, found his neighbor just
leaving the house, and being of a
jealous nature, drew his gun and
filled the man’s legs with fine shot.
A lawsuit followed, and it was learn
ed that the man was there to borrow
the local paper. The lawsuit cost
$75, and the doctor bill was $25;
$1.50, the price of the local paper
for a whole year, would have
the trouble* —Hopkins (Mo.) Journ
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BUILDING FOR OTHERS
What if I build for others,
And the walls of the buiiding stand
Long after I am forgotten
By the dwellers in the land,
Long after the buildings have crum
bled
That were founded upon the sand?
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What if I bouild for others,
And the building shelters me not,
And within the home I have builded
I shall have no part or lot,
And the dwellers who have their
homes there
Through all time shall know me
not?
Yet when the years shall have faded,
And beneath the roof tree’s shade,
The children of generations
In their childish days have played,
And have passed from under the roof
tree,
And vanished into the shade.
Some dweller beneath the roof tree,
Thinking of whom it was new,
May say, as his thoughts turn back
ward,
Keeping its age in view,
“The builder who built this building
Builded better than he knew.”
And I, though I have passed onward,
Hearing the Master’s call,
May know, though it may not matter
To me what the building befall,
It is better to have builded for others
Than not to have built at all.
The Madisonian doesn’t know
enough about the matter to see any
more in the proposed highway patrol
measure than just another scheme to
take care of a number of political
camp followers and add that many
more political henchmen to a grow
ing political machine, and all at the
expense of the tax payers. Some
ninety per cent of all auto accidents
are the result of carelessness and
there’s no law against carelessness
or against a man acting the fool.
We have enough laws in the case
and we see no good to ,corae from
the highway patrol.—Madison Madi
sonian.
J. FOSTER ECKLES
AGENT
FIRE AND TORNADO INSULANC
JEFFERSON, GEORGIA.
WOODS IN WINTER
I love to walk among the trees
When leaves are on the ground,
My feet go crunching Tong—and oh!
There’s music in the sound.
I love to see the trees all bare —
They stand so strong and still—
And well I know when storms are
passed
I’ll find them on this hill.
I love to look right through the
boughs,
Up to the wintry sky;
I’m glad that trees can have such
height—
A goal to measure by.
I love tb stop along this path
And hear the silence speak;
An hour of meditation here
Inspires me when I’m weak.
Indeed, I love the trees all year,
But now when they, seem dead,
I, too, gain rest and strength anew
For tasks of Spring ahead.
—Exchange.
9-Weck-Old Pullet Begins Laying
Egg*
Augusta, Ga. —J. C. Randall, own
er of a 9-week-old pullet, .says the
young hen has set some sort of a
record. She’s laying eggs.
CREOMULSION
THURSDAY. MAI"
“I suppose when I’m gone you j
marry a young flappe-,” a
City woman said to her hnsb4j
week. “Well, no,” he said,
this ...Townsend plan co’wng a P
believe I will marry an old won
with a S2OO a month pension.
Exchange.
Doctors Fjow!
• . . and they use
Biqtsid laxatives
You’d use a liquid. ,c '° ll ! k f nC J
how much better it ma^eS . i „,,„
A liquid laxative can alway- _
taken in the right amount, i.
gradually reduce the cose .
dosage is the secret of real and salt
relief from constipation t
Just ask your own nU i a r
this. Ask your druggist how ,
liquid laxatives have 1)ec0 ? ' rifi bt
right liquid laxative g' ves . , l “ e m Z,t
kind of help—and the right amo UE
of help. When the dose is
instead of more each tune, 5 1 n g
less. Until the bowels are mo^
regularly and thoroughly w ' , th jj
People who have experienced ta
comfort, never return to any ,
help that can’t be regulated!
liquid laxative generally uv onta jtf
Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin 1 ‘ont
senna and cascara. and babit
natural laxatives that form - P *#
It relieves a condition ol o
or sluggishness without upset.
To relieve your occasion..' W*
safely and comforta._ -*j
Pepsin. The druggist has it.
SYRUP PEPSIN.
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