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March 4-12 4-H Club Week
SEMINOLE
! A SMALL BUT
i PROGRESSIVE
COUNTY
$2.00 a Year in Advance
VOLUME XXXIII
NATIONAL
( CLUB WEEK
BETTER LIVING FOR A BETTER WORLD
A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS: Georgia’s 115,028 members of 4-H Clubs
are observing National 4-H Club Week March 4-12, 1950, and
WHEREAS: The 4-H Clubs compose Georgia’s largest
> youth organization, and its purpose is to give equal training
to the head, heart, hands and health. It is conducted by the
Georgia Agricultural Extension Service through the County
Agricultural Agents and Home Demonstration Agents, along
With the help of 8,948 volunteer advisors, who are leading
men and women in the local community, and
WHEREAS: One of the best ways this country has to
keep our Democratic way of life is the sound and valuable
training that is 'being given to 4-H Club members, now
THEREFORE, I, Herman E. Talmadge, Governor of the
State of Georgia, do hereby proclaim March 4th to the 12th,
1950 as National 4-H Club Week and urge all our people to
support and encourage the work of this organization, that we
may have “Better Living for a Better World.”
IN WITNESS Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
caused the seal of the Executive Department to be affixed,
this the 20th day of February, 1950.
♦
HERMAN E. TALMADGE, Governor.
4-H President Believes
Sweet Potatoes Payoff
By Rex Trawick, President
Seminole High 4-H Club
;Sweet potatoes are a good crop
and not meaning to exaggerate, I
cannot think of any other crop
planted on two acres of land that
could have equaled the yield and
profit I received from bunch Por
to Rico potatoes last year.
Thanks to our 4-H Club Advisor!
It was through his help that I
■worked into this project and was
successful with my first crop of
potatoes.
I Ibegan with a thirty-foot hot
bed, using certified bunch Porto
Rico seed potatoes, which were
furnished by the Extension Ser
vice. These were disease free, high
quality seed potatoes. However, it
was also necessary to dip them in
a solution of Semesan Bel.
An elec ric bed is very efficient
and dependable. Eighty to eighty
five degrees is the desirable temp
erature. However, after slips ap
pear a slight ventilation is neces
sary,
Fertilizer is important in pro
ducing the slips. I watered the
• potatoes generously when I first
bedded them. Then, I made sure
the soil was kept moist at all times.
Before transplanting the slips to
the field, I turned off the heat and
gradually increased the ventila
tion. I began pulling the first slips
in about 25 days.
I gave several local demonstra
tions, showing the use and ad
vantages of a hotbed. Also, I may
add, I received a blue award of
excellence and second place at our
District meeting last year.
Seed for this year’s hotbeds,
plus sales made amounted to about
S6OO. from last year’s crop. This
was from two acres of land.
This year I have increased from
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BoitalaonttUr ews
4-H Club State
Council Meet
(By Peggy Bush, 1949 Delegate)
Each year four delegates from
each county in Georgia are se
lected to attend the State Council
Meeting held on the Campus of
G. S. C. W. at Milledgeville.
The delegates from Seminole
county selected to attend the last
council meeting held in August of
1949 were—Beth Tolar; Lena Avi
rett; Bobby Hornsby; Rex Tra
wick; and myself, Peggy Bush.
Mrs. George Odom attended as our
advisor.
At ihese meetings our most im
portant procedure is the election
of officers for the ensuing term.
This year we had a candidate for
n ice-president, Bobby Hornsby.
Among 4he other activities are
worship programs, a number of
speakers, hours of recreation and
study groups.
Among the most important peo
ple there were: Governor Herman
Talmadge, Mr. “Pete” Donalson,
President of Abraham Baldwin
Agricultural College in Tifton, and
President of G. S. C. W., Mr. Guy
H. Wells.
This entire program is super
vised by the 4-H clulb council offi
cers.
I would like to encourage each
4-H Club to work hard and maybe
next year YOU will be selected to
attend this meeting.
The 4-H Program provides in
spiration, training in' cooperation,
leadership, community service, and
good citizenship. The four leaf
clover means more than good luck,
it is the symbol of the 4-H clubs.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF COUNT Y OF SEMINOLE AND CITY OF DONALSONVILLE, GEORGIA.
DONALSONVILLE, (GA.) NEWS FRIDAY, MARCH 10TH, 1950,
Pres Truman Writes Open
Letter To 4-H Members
What Is 4-H
Club Work?
By Beth Tolar, District Public
Speaking Winner - 1949
4-H Club work is a part of the
Agricultural Extension Service of
the University System of Georgia
and the United States Department
of Agriculture.
It is a nation wide youth organi
zation, chiefly educational in na
ture. It is designed to teach rural
boys and girls • he latest and test
agricultural and home economics
practices in a practical way. It’s
aim is to help young people keep
in touch with the finer things of
rural life, and to develop whole
some, industrious and public spirit
ed leaders and citizens of tomor
row.
Membership into the 4-H club is
voluntary. You are required to at
tend the 4-H meetings and carry
projects, and keep a record book.
4-H work is work. Lots of it
can be done together. But don’t
"get idea there is all work and
no play. 4-H’ers work together and
4-H’ers play together. This tea
ches cooperation and gives a sense
of fellowship.
When a boy or girl has been
trained in 4-H work it just natur
ally makes them want to be a bet
ter person and as kind and help
ful to others as possible.
This club work gives a person
something which no high school
or any other organization can.
4-H Club boys and girls are
doers. They learn and teach others
better methods of doing things in
the home, on the farm, and in the
communi.y. 4-H boys and girls
work, earn money, and acquire
property. They do needful, help
ful and wholesome things. The 4-H
boys and girls are tomorrow’s citi
zens.
4-H’ers are also trained in rifle,
demonstrations, reading, public
speaking, and other activities.
These mean much to a person
when he or she steps out into the
world on their own.
In 4-H work the hoys and girls
learn, work, play, and plan to
gether.
4-H’ers are your future leaders
of tomorrow. 4-H work has train
ed them to be fair, cooperative,
loyal, and to be the best leaders
yet.
The 4-H club motto is: “To make
the Best—'Better.” This is what 4-
H work is and what it teaches the
boys and girls of our country.
4-H Club Meetings
And Socials
Jane Spooner, Secretary
Seminole High 4-H Club
The meetings are held once each
month, after school in the High
School auditorium. Glub members
themselves conduct the meetings.
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In recognition cf National 4-H
Club Week, March 4-12, President
Truman has written the following
letter to all 4-H boys and girls:
THE WHITE HOUS#
WASHINGTON
January 19, 1950
TO THE BOYS AND 1 GIRLS
IN 4-H CLUBS:
You two million boys and girls
and local leaders now in 4-H Clubs
are living symbols of the better
ment in American farm living dur
ing the first half of the eentuary.
You are also a promise for the
future.
Today, we are a free and pros
perous Nation with greater possi
bilities for 'he future than any
people have ever had before. You
in 4-H Clubs can have a special
part in making these possibilities
come true.
I trust thalt every one of you,
during National 4-H Week, March
4-12, and throughout the year,
Will set high goals and do your
best to reach them.
Harry S. Truman
What Is National
4-H Club Week?
(By H. E. Ragan, Co. Agent)
You have a great opportunity
this week. By reading the news
paper and listening to the radio
you can learn about the greatest
rural youth program in the na
tion, the 4-H Club; the organiza
tion that seeks to develop char
acter through the head, heart,
hand>s and health program.
To 117,000 4-H’ers in the State
of Georgia and the many others
throughout the nation, this is the
week when they can call atten
tion to themselves. They are talk
ing and writing about their pro
jects, activities, contests, local,
county, state and national meet
ings, and campus, and other phases
of the program. It is a “check-up”
and “get-set” week. A chance to
check up on their achievements
and an opportunity to get set for
more accomplishments.
4-H Advisors, agricultural work
ers, other interested persons, and
even the Governors and the Presi
dent are telling the story. All of
these people, including local 4-H’-
ers, have articles printed in this
week’s issue of your newspaper.
Read what they have to say.
You will discovei- that this orga- I
nization does more than teach boys
and girls to do a better job of!
farming and home making. You
will find that the program includes
many other activities and contests,
such as, district, state and Nation
al trips, college scholarships, and
summer camps. It is a far reaching
movement with one ultimate goal
—‘to build character. “Character is
the by-product of what we do—
planning, checking, executing our
everyday tasks, out of which are
forged the ideas and ideals that
make possible the great achieve
ments of life.”
DONALSONVILLE
1 HOME OF THE
r BEST PEOPLE IN
[ THE WORLD
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The 4-H Club
Poultry Chain
(By Yvonne Clarke)
In this article I shall try to tell
you of the reasons, the advantages,
and importance of the Seminole
County Poultry Chain.
This program is sponsored by
Sears, Roebuck and Company, and
the chickens are distributed to the
4-H’ers by the Georgia Extension
Service. Ten members of the 4-H
club are selected and each is given
one hundred chickens to care for
and raise. There are one hundred
and eighty-seven hatcheries in the
state of Georgia and poultry chains
are now located in one hundred and
ten Georgia counties.
I am a member of the 4-H club
and also a member of the Poultry
Chain for the first time. Each,
participant learns to care for
poultry in the most successful and
scientific manner, to produce eggs
at a profit, and to keep records
and manage business. One import
ant fact that heightens interest in
this program is the fact that the
chickens are entirely your own and
that you must assume the respon
sibility that rests upon you. Nat
urally you are more interested in
raising and caring for your own
things than you would be in car
ing for someone else’s.
One of the highlights of this
program is the poultry show in tne
fall. At this show each owner ex
hibits six pullets and money priz
es are awarded by Sears, Roebuck
and Company. You then pay for
your chickens and this money is
used to buy one hundred chicks for
another club member next year.
This allows the program to be ex
panded and the object of this move
ment is to distribute pure-bred,
high egg producing chickens
throughout the county.
The members of the poultry
chain from several counties attend
ed a one day poultry school Feb.
16th, at Bainbridge. H. W. Bennett,
Extension Poultryman, conducted
the school and gave a clear out
line of the project to be followed
by the members of the poultry
chain.
ISeminole county members of the
chain are: Ina Trawick; Marilyn
Ajvirett; Dorothy Harrell; Yvonne
Clarke; Martha Brackin; Jack Mc-
Cracken; Fate Bush; Raydell In
gram; Royce Hayes; and Benny
McDonald.
The 4-H Club
District Meet
(By David Davis. District Public
Speaking Winner Os 1949)
The 4-H District Meet was held
in Americus at the Georgia South
western College for twenty six
southwest Georgia counties last
June. Clulb members competed in
demonstrations, public speaking,
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