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THURSDAY. OCTOBER 7. 1948
THE JACKSON HERALD
$1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Entered at The Jefferson Post Office
As Second-Class Mail Matter
Al.OAtii THE WA If
The Georgia Extension Service
has sent us a publication entitled,
“Farming for Freedom" from which
we gather some enlightening data
and information. We congratulate
W. S. Brown, the director, for facts
contained in this splendid booklet.
In 1947 Georgia farm people at
tained the greatest annual income
per farm family and per farm per
son in history.
This high income was not an acci
dent. Nor was it due entirely to
high prices for most farm products.
It was due in a large part to higher
yields, to a better balance between
crops and livestock and to better
use of forest lands. Also contribut
ing to this increased income was
more complete land use, more me
chanical equipment, improved fer
tilization and cultural practices, the
use of better varieties of crops and
quality of livestock and improved
marketing conditions.
Georgia farmers realize that the
present situation is not without its
danger points. There is general rec
ognition of the fact that high prices
and high incomes may not last in
definitely.
Georgia’s agriculture continued
to move forward in 1947. Total farm
income was the highest in history
with the exception of 1919. While
farm income and prices have risen,
prices of things farmers buy rose
also and the net farm income did
not increase as much as the gross
income.
Receipts from the sale of crops
amounted to $342,627,000 as com
pared with $288,345,000 in 1946, an
increase of 19 per cent. Receipts
from the sale of livestock and live
stock products amounted to $149,-
454,000 as compared with $119,761,-
000 in 1946, an increase of 25 per
cent. All told, this represented an
increase of over 20 per cent in total
cash receipts.
More Labor Available
Shortages of farm labor contin
ued to be a handicap in some areas,
but was less severe in 1947 than in
1946. The trend towards mechani
zation continued as more machinery
and supplies became available.
The farm mortgage debt load de
clined steadily from 1942 to 1946.
However, it rose 6.3 per cent during
1946 and continued to rise during
1947.
It is a matter of regret that farm
ers have increased in the last year
or two their debts by borrowing.
When a farmer, whether land own
er or tenant, has a bank account
and can draw a check at any time
to meet his needs and obligations
the situation gives him a feeling of
independence and sceurity. It has
been demonstrated that it is good
for a farmer to have if possible,
revenue come into his coffers all
along through the year. This can be
done by having grain, cattle, dairy
products and chickens for sale.
Chicken feeders tell us that they
can feed and market four bunches
of chickens each year. It requires
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Jefferson,
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CONFIDENTIAL SHORT TIME LOANS—SS,OO TO $50.00
Opposite Court House, South Side Phone No. 30
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Official Organ of Jackson County
John N. Holder Editor
Mrs. John N. Holder Asso. Editor
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA.
eleven week’s time to feed and pre
-1 pare chickens for market. Whatever
1 is produced on the farm, the party
! who operates it should have some
| cash all along without borrowing.
! “Pay as you go,” is a good slogan.
Something of tremendous benefit
to agriculture is Soil Conservation,
which conserves timber, drains
land, prevents erosion by drainage
and otherwise, and plants perman
ent pastures. On the question of
pastures, this publication of the
Extension Service says:
It is estimated that 125,000 acres
were planted to permanent pastures
in 1947 and 231,000 acres of estab
lished pasture were improved by
applying fertilizer, liming, re-seed
ng, clearing, or drainng. Special
emphasis was given again to winter
temporary pastures. Approximately
87,000 acres were planted to small
grain, rye grass and winter legumes
mixture. Also, 9,000 acres were
planted to ladino clover-grass mix
tures which were used for winter
and summer grazing. This type of
grazing is giving excellent results
in the mountain sections of the
state. Demonstrations on pastures
were conducted by 1,036 farmers.
The small grain acreage contin
ued. to increase. The yields per acre
were much higher than for the av
erage of the last five years.
Farms showed that the per acre
yield of cotton had risen from 236
pounds in 1935 to 412 pounds in
1946. In the same period, corn in
creased from 18.8 to 36.8 bushels
per acre, wheat from 9.4 to 20.5
bushels and oats from 11.3 to 42.9.
Farmers are now growing long cot
ton. Eighty-three per cent of the
cotton crop now has a staple length
of 1 inch.
Tractors on farms had increased
to 42,904 by July. Georgia has more
tractors than any of the adjoining
states except North Carolina, and
is one of the two leading southern
states east of the Mississippi River.
At the present time there are more
laborers available for farm work
than in several years.
Livestock production continued to
develop on a sound basis in 1947.
Twenty-nine per cent of the Geor
gia cash farm income now comes
from the sale of livestock and live
stock products. The production of
feed and grazing crops has increas
ed more rapidly than livestock
numbers, and the Georgia livestock
producer is in a relatively good po
sition to meet the present national
grain crisis.
Improvement in quality of ani
mals is progressing rapidly. There
were about 4,500 dairy’ cows on
milk and butterfat production tests.
I The one thing that has contributed
much towards the dairy and chick
en business and that is rural elec
trification. Bob Kelly, with the
Jackson Electric Membership Cor
poration have helped to produce
many pounds of butter and many
chickens and eggs by furnishing
electricity to those engaged in dairy -
The Jackson Herald, Jefferson, Georgia
ing and chicken production. It is
impossible to evaluate rural elec
trification to agriculture.
Soil conservation, rural electrifi
cation, radio, telephone, improved
hghways, farm machinery and
equipment, comfortable houses and
new farm methods, modern school
houses and well-paid teachers, to
gether with beautiful churches
which are the social as well as the
religious center of a community,
will have a tremendous influence in
keeping thousands of young people
satisfied with rural life. When the
Jackson Electric Membership Cor
poration was organized, J. C. Head,
who served this corporation as pres
ident until his death, said, “Give
us these things (named above) and
we would much rather live in Dry
Pond than Fifth Avenue, New
York.”
While we were writing this col
umn S. J. Suddath, 9th District
Committeeman of Farm Bureau,
came by and said, “Well, sir, I have
just made a little canvass in Jeffer
son for new members of the Farm
Bureau, and thirty-one of the thirty
three men approached, joined the
organization. Jackson County is be
coming well organized and will be
one of the Georgia counties with a
large membership when we have
concluded our drive.”
The Farm Bureau is rendering to
the farmers effective service, not
only locally, but in the State and
National capitols, in opposing laws
hostile to the interest of agriculture
and in framing legislation that is
fair, just and beneficial to those
engaged in agricultural activities.
The state, this district and this
county are officered with patriotic
and unselfish men and women.
Our good friend, Clyde B. Boggs,
vice-president of Jefferson Civic
Improvement Club, came by our of
fice Friday afternoon and said,
“What about eating some barbecue
about 6:00 at the Recreation Ground
of the Jefferson Mills? We extend
you and Mrs. Holder an invitation
to be with us at that time. Some
one will carry you out there.” Just
before 6 o’clock Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Early came for us and it was a
great pleasure to go with them and
partake of the prepared feast—con
sisting of barbecue and Brunswick
stew prepared by that inimitable
culinary artist, J. A. O’Dillon. Then
Southworth Bryan, president of the
Jefferson Civic Club, was the gra
cious host to visitors. He made a
speech in which he told of Jeffer
son’s campaign for a cleaner and
greater town. He said Jefferson has
an excellent chance to win in this
Home Town Contest, or at least
make a good showing in this con
test if all the improvements that
have been made are accurately re
ported. We all know that Jefferson
is a good town. With your active
cooperation we will be able to show
the NATION that Jefferson is truly
Georgia’s Champion Home Town.”
The officers of the Jefferson Civic
Improvement Club are: S. F. Bryan,
president; Clyde B. Boggs, vice
president; G. A. Spratlin, treasurer,
and J. W. Early, secretary. Mayor
R. S. Johnson made a brief talk.
G. T. Kesler, chairman of the Social
Committee, saw that all members
and visitors were well supplied
with food and drinks. He was on the
job every minute of the occasion.
We enjoyed the hospitality of the
club, also hearing the report of the
splendid work that is being accom
plished.
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DR. C. B. LORD
DISCOVERS
A NEW DIET
“Samanthy,” writing in the Com
merce News, says:
“Speaking of fun, we heard this
so funny one on Dr. C. B. Lord, of
Jefferson, sometime ago and had
forgotten it until we heard it again
recently. The story is that a certain
family on yon side of the county
sent for the good doctor, there be
ing several members in it that were
ailing. On his visit he prescribed a
‘liquid diet’ for the ailing ones and
went his way. Later neighbors call
ed Dr. Lord and told him that those
people were acting so queer that
something must be wrong and sug
gested that he see them again. Dr.
Lord paid a return visit and found
the old man and old woman and all
the children in a hilarious state,
even the baby was reeling about
with a jolly air. He inquired of the
head of the house as to what ailed
them. She replied, ‘Nothing, noth
ing at all, doctor. We been doing
just what you said. Every one of us
is on that ‘liquor diet’ you told us to
take.’ ”
EDWARD H. SHANNON
OPTOMETRIST
212 South Main Street
GAINESVILLE, GA.
STOP AND THINK!
Mr. Cotton Farmer:
It requires seven months of your time, careful planning and labor,
together with the work and cooperation of your entire family, from the little
fellow who toddles along between the cotton rows, chasing grasshoppers
and fighting ants, on up to the good wife who plans and prepares the meals
and often helps with the field work between meals, to produce and harvest
a crop of cotton. Your wife and children are depending on you to plan the
handling of this crop in such a way as to receive the most for it when it is
marketed. You owe it to them, and yourself to do just this, so do not let them
down. Think and figure what it would mean on your entire crop if you re
ceive a premium of from SIO.OO to $25.00 per bale for your cotton.
Bring your cotton to the ALL NEW and MODERN CONTINENTAL
ginning system at Homer, where you can get it properly dried, cleaned and
ginned, and then the lint recleaned at no extra cost to you. This process of
cleaning the lint by actual test is raising the grade of our customers’ cotton
to the amount of from two to five cents per pound. This is the only gin of its
kind in this part of the cotton producing belt. Bring us your next bale and
experience something new in ginning.
We Buy
SEED AND EXCHANGE MEAL AND HULLS FOR SEED
CALL HOMER 730 DAY
OR
720 AT NIGHT
FOR HAULING OR JUST DROP US A CARD AND WE WILL COME
FOR YOUR COTTON. WE HAUL FROM ANYWHERE IN THE STATE!
Respectfully,
O. S. Garrison
HOMER, GEORGIA
ANNOUNCEMENT
I hereby announce my candidacy
for bailiff of Jefferson District, elec
tion to be held on December 4th.
I promise faithful and courteous
service. Your vote and influence
will be appreciated.
J. C. (JO BO) CRAIG.
ANNOUNCEMENT FOR BAILIFF
I announce myself a candidate for
Bailiff (L. C.), Jefferson (245). Dis
trict, G. M. Jackson County, in the
election to be held on the first Sat
urday (4th day) of December, 1948.
W. H. DUNCAN
Backache
For aulek comforting help for Backache,
Rheumatic Pains, Getting tJp Nights, strong
cloudy urine, Irritating passages. Leg Pains,
circles under eyes, and swollen ankles, due
to non-organic and non-systemlc Kidney and
Bladder troubles, try Cytex. Quick, complete
satisfaction or money back guaranteed. Ask
your druggist for Cystex today.
DON’T PUT IT OFF!
Don’t put off until tomorrow what you should
do today .... Better to be safe than sorry . . . .
Tomorrow may be too late.
Our job is to INSURE all property values—
and this means your value to your family, your
earning capacity, and ability to work.
General H.T, MOBLEY l nsurance
JEFFERSON. GEORGIA
More and more farmers are find
ing that selective cutting of wood
land means better quality timber
and more income from the farm.
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(Old Reliable Concern)
VIRGINIA SUPPLY &
WELL COMPANY
ATHENS, GA.
Lexington Road
Phone 2923