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PAGE SIX.
NEWS ARTICLE
(John L. Anderson. County Agent)
NATIONAL SAFETY WEEK FOR
EXPLOSIVES
Each year in the United States,
•seven days are set as prevention
week for childrens’ safety with
blasting caps, explosives, dynamite,
otc. Through the agencies like the
Agricultural Extension Service,
United States Public Health Service,
newspapers, radio, school authori
ties, safety councils, automobile
clubs, and National Society for Pre
vention of Blindness, this campaign
is carried on.
Each year their are many children
who are made cripple for life or
blinded by playing with blasting
caps. In the spring of the year j
these accidents begin to increase
■until the high peak is reached dur-
ing July and August.
Eighty-five per cent of the acci
dents take place in rural areas, that
is the reason why we in Jackson
County are interested in this. You
-know these hazards when children
are injured or blinded and in some
cases killed from playing with blast
ing caps.
The following points should be
brought to the attention of all chil
dren who are likely to be around
where dynamite or blasting caps are
found.
1. Do not touch.
2. Do not handle for these
<hings are loaded with powerful ex
plosives.
3. Do not hit with hammer.
4. Do not throw in a fire.
5. Do not play with them.
Hundreds of children ure injured
each year with blasting caps, some
■are killed. Let’s play safe and keep
these out of childrens’ way and at
the same time warn them against
playing with them.
MATTRESS APPLICATIONS
All mattress applications should
foe signed and must be in the office
by March 31st. April Ist has been
not as the closing date for taking
applications.
Harm families where there are
three in the family and have only
received one matteress should come
by the office and sign on the old ap
plication that they would like to
have another mattress. If this is
not convenient, if you will request,
we will mail them an application
blank. This is where three in the
family are entitled to two and five
in the family entitled to three.
No farm family can receive over
three mattresses according to our
rules and regulations.
OVER SOOO FSA BOYS AND GIRLS
ARE 4-H CLUB MEMBERS
There are 5,275 of Georgia’s Farm
Security Administration boys and
girls who are members of 4-H Clubs,
of the Georgia Agricultural Exten
sion Service according to R. L.
Vansant, State Director of Farm
Security Administration.
A large number of these are in
our county and are doing good work
as a 4-H Club member.
GROWING AND HANDLING
SWEET POTATOES
Treating: Soak all seed potatoes
for 10 minutes in Corrosive Sublim
ate solution, using 3 oz. Corrosive
Sublimate t-o each 22 1-2 gallons of
water. Use a wooden vessel as the
..olution corrodes metal. Bed pota
toes without rinsing. This is a
■deadly poison.
A handy way to treat seed pota
toes is to use a 50 gallon barrel.
This will hold 22 1-2 gallons of
water and 3 oz. of Corrosive Sub
limate. A sack of potatoes may be
treated at a time in this. Use thin
■;arks or baskets as thick heavy sacks
sbsorb too much treating material.
Kaise and lower the sack several
times to make sure of wetting the
potatoes.
Because the solution is weakened
by the potatoes being soaked in it,
add 1-2 oz. of Corrosive Sublimate
after each treatment and bring the
the water level back up to the 22 1-2
gallon mark. After 5 or 6 treat
ments throw the solution away and
make up anew lot.
Or, seed jvotatoes may bo treat
ed with New Improved Semesan
Bel. dipping the seed potatoes for
1 minute in a solution of 1 pound
to 7 1-2 gallons of water. This is
a deadly poison.
Set treated seed in a place where
potatoes have not been grown be"
fore.
Hotbeds and Seed Quantities:
Manure, steam, hot water, hot air,
or electricity may well be used as
sources of heat in sweet potato beds
or in the extreme southern part of
the state unheated open beds or
cold frames are commonly used. In
any event, clean fresh sand on which
potatoes have not previously been
grown is preferred as a bedding!
medium. From 15 to 25 square feet
of bed space is required per bushel!
of . eed stock and about 4 to 6 bush-1
els of seed should be bedded for
each acre to be planted. Unbleach
ed sheeting, such as is commonly
used on pepper beds, when dipped
In a mixture of linseed oil and puraf
fin will serve as a good cover for
the beds. The seed stock should >o
bedded about March 15. depending
on the source of heat and the plants
set in the field by May 15.
Varieties, Soils, and Fertilizers.
Of the present day varieties Porto
Rico and Nancy Hall are the two
most frequently planted in Georgia
for table use. In the sweet potato
itarch-producing area of Mississippi,
Triumph is the principal variety
grown. A sandy loam soil with a
clay subsoil is most ideal for sweet
potatoes. The plants should be
spaced 12 to 16 inches apart in 3 1-2
to 4 foot rows and fertilized with
600 to 800 pounds per acre of a
4-8-6 (N. P. K.) fertiliser applied
under the plants and mixed well
with the soil from 10 days to 2
weeks before planting.
Cultivation: Usually from 3 to 4
shallow cultivations and about 2
hoeings arc required to keep the
weeds and grass under control be
fore the plants begin to run. Mov
ing the vines to permit cultivation
is, in most cases, not profitable.
Harvesting, Curing and Storing:
Best results may be expected if the
crop is harvested a few days before
the first killing frost. The roots
should be carefully graded and pack
ed in the field so as to reduce to a
minimum the number of times they
will have to be handled. They then
should be stacked in the curing
house and left for 6 to 7 days at a
temperature of 85 degrees to 90 de
grees F. and with the air as moist as
possible, in order that the skinned
roots may heal rapidly. After this
period, the temperature should be
reduced to 50 to 55 dekrees F. and
the air kept faily moist to reduce
loss from shringake.
FARMERS MAY OBTAIN GREAT
EST BENEFITS BY USING
PLAN SHEET
Use of individual farm plan
sheets in planning farm operations
will enable farmers to obtain the
greatest benefit from their partici
pation in 1941 AAA farm program.
June 15 Is the final date when
a farmer may fill out the farm plan.
It contains valuable information re
garding the maximum payment for
the farm soil-building practices and
classification of crops.
In working out his farm plan
sheet, each farmer may have the
help of a local AAA committeeman
or representative of the county com
mittee. The farmer and a commit
teeman may discuss how the farmer
can use the maximum assistance
available in order to carry out the
soil-building practices most needed
on the farm. Taking into account
farm allotments, rates of payments,
and other factors, the farmer can
plan his operations in such a way as
to make the greatest use of good
farm-management principles.
Through personal contact with the
committeeman, farmers may also be
come better acquaited with new pro
visions of the 1941 program.
USING TRACTOR FUEL
To use tractor fuel instead of
gasoline means a big saving to trac
tor farmers, as gasoline costs near
ly twice as much. However, by
carelessness, this saving may be off
set by increased repair bills.
On fuel burning tractors, gasoline
is used for starting and warming up
the motor to the point at which the
motor will burn tractor fuel or dis
tillate. In the rush to get on the
job, or perhaps to save a little gaso-
line there is the tendency to switch
! over to tractor fuel before the en
; gine is sufficiently hot to properly
■ burn the fuel. This results in the
unburned fuel slipping past the
: piston rings, thinning the oil on the
I cylinder walls and diluting the
crankcase oil. The result being ex
cessive wear on the cylinder, piston,
rings and bearings, which causes
move frequent overhauls.
The same diluting of oil occurs
when the motor is stopped for sev
oral minutes and started again on
tractor fuel instead of gasoline.
Here again the engine may be top
cool to properly burn the fuel, "£his
latter practice is especially common
on the late model tractors having
self-starters. On a hand cranked
tractor the driver would perhaps
switch to gasoline for easier start
ing.
Tractor owners can well afford to
alow ample time for warming up the
motor, as the repairs will be less
and the cost of extra gasoline would
be very little. They should caution !
their operators about starting both |
a cold motor and a motor that has !
cooled after having stopped a few
minutes.
NEW PROGRAM AIMED TO PRE- 1
VENT SURPLUS COTTON
PRODUCTION
Severe reductions in cotton ex
THE JACKSON HERALD JEFFERSON GEORGIA
ports because of the war and the
necessity of preventing further ac
cumulations of cotton are factors
which led to adopting of the new
supplementary cotton program.
The 1940 crop will add about two
and one-half million hales to the ten
and one-half million bales carried
over into the current season, the
farmers should support the meusures
contained in the supplementary pro
gram for improving the cotton situ
ation. With a 1941 nationul cotton
acreage allotment about equal to
thu't of 1940, this year’s crop might
have been übout as large as last
year’s crop, without the new sup-
plementary program.
This program encourages volun
tary reduction of cotton in 1941,
plus increased consumption of cot
ton goods, by compensating cotton
farmers for their additional acreage
reduction with cotton stamps which
can be used to purchase cotton
goods. Co-operating farm families
also may earn cash payments and
enjoy better living by using the di
verted acreage for gardens or the
production of food for home use.
This voluntary program in no way
changes the operation of the 1941
AAA conservation and parity pro
grams, and underplanting of acreage
allotments in 1941 will not affect al
lotments in 1942 or suosequeni
years, except on farms where no
cotton was planted in 1939 or 1940.
Farmers will receive stamps for
planting less than their 1941 allot
ments or their 1940 planted acreage,
whichever is smaller, at the rate of
10 cents per pound of the normal
yield on the underplanted acreage.
Sharecroppers, tenants, and owner
operators may earn as much as $25
worth of the stamps per family.
Operators of more than one farm or
of a farm with two or more tenants
are limited to SSO worth of stamps.
FARMERS USE RECORD AMOUNT
OF MATERIALS UNDER
GRANT-OF-AID
It would require a train 20 miles
long to deliver the limestone, 20 per
cent superphosphate, and winter le
gume seed secured by Georgia farm
ers under the AAA grant-of-aid
plan in 1940, T. R. Breedlove, Ad
ministrative Officer in charge of
Agricultural Adjustment Adminis
tiation, estimates.
Mr. Breedlove points out that
70,000 tons of liming material were
distributed to some 10,000 state
farmers last year, compared to only
10,000 tons the year before.
Much of the land receiving lime
and superphosphate was planted to
winter legumes, and this practice re
sulted in the planting of over 10,-
000,000 pounds of Austrian winter
pea seed under the AAA grant-of
aid plan, the AAA official said.
Farmers throughout the country
planted 38,000,000 pounds of Aus
trian peas under the same plan.
Under the conservation materials
program, Georgia farmers may ob
tain from the AAA such materials
as phosphate, ground limestone,
winter legumes seed, and in some
counties, terracing is offered. These
materials are used in carrying out
certain conservation practices. The
cost of such materials is deducted
from payments which would other
wise receive.
Distribution of conservation ma
terials aids in carrying out the regu
lar practice provisions of the AAA
program, through which farmers re
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COCOANUT MACAROONS
Since macaroons consist largely
of egg white, they must be bailed
at a low temperature. Improper
baking will result in an inferior
product, so be sure your oven is be
tween 250 and 300. Some recipes
call for a 275 oven and others for
a 300. The important thing is to
keep the temperature low.
1-4 pound shredded cocoanut.
1 teaspoon vanilla.
1-8 teaspoon salt.
Condensed milk.
Chop the cocoanut until it is very
fine. Add the vanilla and salt and
ombine with enough sweetened con
iensed milk to make a thick paste.
Drop from a teaspoon onto buttered
ins, making each cookie about two
inches from the next, to allow for
•'reading. Bake in a slow oven,
250 degrees F, until done. Take
from the oven when they can be re
moved from the tin without break
ing. The macaroons may be rolled
hr powdered sugar if you wish,
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MACAROONS
1-2 pound almonds.
2 egg whites.
1-2 poiAnd powdered sugar.
Blanch the almonds and pound
them to a paste. Add sugar and
stiffly beaten egg whites. Work the
mixture with the back of a spoon
then roll with the hands to form
balls about the size of a nutmeg.
Lay on brown paper at least an inch
apart and bake in a slow oven until
light brown. The oven should foe
about 275 degrees.
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CHEESE ROULETTES
2 cups sifted cake flour.
2 teaspoons baking powder.
1-2 teaspoon salt.
4 tablespoons shortening.
ceive cash payments for approval
soil-building practices.
OLD KUDZU STANDS
There is a considerable acreage of
kudzu in Georgia that has been
planted a number of years. Part of
this acreage at least has become un
productive or never was productive
due to the lack of plant food, ex
cessive weed competition, poor
stands or possibly the soil has be
come so compact and droughty the
plants cannot establish themselves
and grow as they should. These
areas should be reworked if profita
ble production is to be gotten.
The plan for reworking these i
areas is simple but effective. In the i
spring just after danger of hard
freezes have passed and while the
kudzu plants are still dormant, or
before growth begins, broadcast 400
to 600 pounds of 15 percent super
phosphate or its equivalent in other
phosphate fertilizers and six to eight
loads of manure if possible" per acre
and disc the area thoroughly with a
disc harrow sufficiently weighted to
work up a good seed bed, destroy
persistent weeds and loosen the soil
three to four inches deep.
iSet the disc just slanting enough
2-3 cup milk.
Melter butter.
1 cup grated yellow cheese.
Salt and paprika.
Sift flour, measure and sift again
with the baking powder and salt.
Cut in the shortening. Add milk all
at once and stir vigorously until
flour is all dampened. Continue
stirring until mixture forms a soft
dough and follows the spoon around
the bowl. Turn out at once on a
floured board and knead for 30
seconds. Roll into oblong sheets
1-8 inch thick. Brush with melted
butter and spread w’ith the grated
cheese. Sprinkle with salt and pa
prika. Cut in strips about six inch
es by a half-inch. Roll each strip
and place in greased muffin pans.
Or, roll the sheet as for a jelly roll
and. cut in slices. Place on greased
baking sheet. Makes two dozen
roulettes.
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LEMON MERINGUE PUDDING
1-2 cup cold water.
1 1-2 lemons, juice and grated
rind.
1-3 cup butter.
2 eggs, separated.
2 cups soft bread crumbs.
Pour the cold water on grated
lemon rind and let stand. Cream
ithe butter and add 3-4 cup sugar
slowly while continuing to cream.
Beat in egg yolks. Add lemon juice
to the grated rind and water and add
alternately with the bread crumbs
to the butter and sugar mixture.
Turn into a buttered pudding dish
and bake in a moderate oven 25
minutes. Remove from oven and
top with a meringue made of the
two egg whites and remaining sugar.
Return to a slow oven and then hake
for 12 minutes more to brown the
to do the work properly and not so
slanting that the crowns will be ex
cessively injured. If the area is to
be used for hay, it should be left
level.
It may not come tomorrow nor the
day after, but the time is rapidly ap
proaching when the Congress will
enact a law making it a criminal of
fense to declare a strike or order a
lock-out in factories engaged in get
ting out defense orders.—Muncie,
Ind., Evening Press.
THERE IS A DIFFERENCE IN
RED BLOOM Ferti ! izcr
' jpl ' Red Bloom
- L Has the Difference
That Difference Means
MORE COTTON AND
CORN PER ACRE
No other fertilizer made like RED BLOOM. We
use different materials and compound it dif
ferently. That difference makes your cotton
step off faster in the Spring, pull stronger
through the Summer, hold out longer in the Fall
and matures the bolls better—therefore more
cotton.
The farmers who use it vouch for every state
ment we make.
Dacula, February 12, 1941.
My Dear Mr. Woodruff:
Last year I used a fertilizer made in Atlanta. I had one
patch of select land .9 of an acre by government measure and
made 1947 pounds of seed cotton. My son, not 21 years old.
made one and a half bales per acre on his entire crop. He
used your 4-8-4 Red Bloom fertilizer. His cotton had blooms
first and stayed green longer causing the bolls to mature bet
ter.
This was our first year on this farm, we found it washed
and run down but we brought it back the first year for a
good crop. We will want nothing but Red Bloom this year.
J. M. HALL.
Hoschton, February 13, 1941.
My Dear Mr. Woodruff:
I have used your Red Bloom fertilizer for three years.
I find it almost doubles the yield of cotton. It is far ahead
of other fertilizer that I have used in the past. I find Red
Bloom will keep the cotton green without side dressing. I
made more cotton with'y°ur Red Bloom and no side dressing
than Ido with other fertilizers and side dressing. I will want
it again this year.
J. F. ENGLAND.
Please see us, see our representative or write
us telling how much you want. Our trucks will
drive to your door. Put the money on the bar
reil head.
Place your order early to get prompt delivery.
G. W. WOODRUFF
Winder, Georgia.
THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1941.
meringue. Serve cold. Approxi
mate yield: 6 portions.
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WHIPPING EVAPORATED MILK
NO. 1
I- teaspoon plain gelatin.
2 teaspoons cold water.
II- cups evaporated milk.
Soak the gelatin in the cold water.
Scald the evaporated milk in a dou
ble boiler and add the soaked gela
tin. Stir over the hot water until
gelatin is dissolved thoroughly.
‘Chill the milk until it is icy cold.
Whip as any cream. A small amount
of vanilla, caramel or coffee may be
added to the milk for flavoring.
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WHIPPING EVAPORATED MILK
NO. 2
Place the can of evaporated milk
in a pan of cold water. Bring the
water to the boiling point. Remove
the can from the water and when it
is cool, put it into the refrigerator.
The milk will keep for days. When
you are ready to use it, open the
can and whip the milk as any cream.
If you use an electric beater for
whipping the milk, use medium
speed. You can whip the milk with
a rotary beater or with a wire whisk.
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SPONGE CAKE
A quick dessert is this sponge
cake with whipped cream: Sift, be
fore measuring, a cup of bread flour
and resift it into a bowl with a
teaspoon of baking powder and 7-8
cup sugar. Make a hole in the cen
ter and place in it 3 eggs, slightly
beaten, 1 1-2 tablespoons of water
and a teaspoon of vanilla. Beat the
batter until it is smooth. Bake in a
10-inch layer cake pan for about 20
minutes. Spread the cake with cook
ed fruit and whipped cream.
Most observers believe that Stalin
is playing his old game of trying to
prolong the war until both sides are
exhausted. His method, of course,
is to encourage Hitler when the tide
is running against him. and encour
aging Great Britain when the tide
is running the other way, thus bol
stering each side alternately so that
the fight will be continued.
A scientist tells us that being in
love is the same as being crazy, but.
doesn’t say why she turned him
down.—Detroit Free Press.