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March 3-11 4-H Club Week
SEMINOLE
A SMALL BUT
PROGRESSIVE
COUNTY
$2.00 a Year in Advance
VOLUMN XXXIV
Member Tells Os 8 Years
Os Successful 4-H Work
(By Bobby Hornsby, President ,
' County 4-H Council)
I am beginning my eighth year
in the 4-H clulb. Most of my time
has been spent on project work.
During this time I raised 29 acres
of corn, 5 acres of peanuts, 22
hogs and 11 head of beef cattle. 7
head are beef steers that I fatten
ed and 4 are purebred cows and
calves that I am raising. I have
been planting and looking after 26
acres of pine trees, and helped to
clear undesirable trees from a
number of acres. I have also pro
tected about 300 acres from fire
by building fire breaks. I already
have 8 acres of permanent pasture
and have cleaned 22 more acres.
These were the projects that I
have completed.
My projects for 1951 will be, 10
acres of corn, 5 acres .of cotton,
30 acres of pasture, 26 acres of
pine trees, 8 head of beef cattle
and 3 hogs. In addition to my pure
bred beef cows, hogs and pasture,
I also have my own tractor. The
cash Value of my projects up to
1950 is $6,767.00.
For the past two years I have
given a forestry demonstration at
the District Meet. I received a
Blue award both times and last
year I won 2nd place.
I have been to the State Council
meeting twice. One time I attended
as a regular delegate and 2 years
ago I went as a District vice-presi
dent from Southwest Georgia.
While at the Council meeting, I
was a candidate for state vice-pres
ident, I also attended the State
Forestry Carop one year and the
State Conservation camp once.
Prior to this school year I had
What Is 4-H Club Work?
(By Marilyn Avirett, Reporter,
County Council)
Just what is 4-H Club? Is it
simply an organization made up
oif boys and girls who have pro
jects and attend meetings as a
past time? No, wa 4-H’ers find
that our club is quite different
from that. It is a nation-wide
youth organization designed to
teach rural boys and girls, the
laltest and best agriculture and
home economics practices in a
practical way. Its aim is to help
young people appreciate the finer
things of rural life, and to devel
ope wholesome, industrious, and
public spirited leaders and citizens
of tomorrow. To be a 4-H member,
you are required to be active in
your projects, and to keep a record
book of these projects and other
activities in which you participate.
Members learn that when you
work, you should work together,
and when you play, you should
play together. After the regular
business of each meeting, the mem
bers join in games, dances, and
various other forms of recreation
thus becoming more clearly united
as a club and as individuals. We
learn to be fair, to be cooperative,
and to be good leaders.
4-iH boys and girls are doers.
The opportunity to make a selec
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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF COUNTY OF SEMINOLE AND CITY OF DONALSONVILLE, GEORGIA.
been attending school in another
county and have not been able to
do too much to help my local
club. Now, however, I am going to
Seminole High and have been
elected president of that club. I
am also president of 'my county
council. The county council is put
ting on a drive for the 4-H Founda
tion. In addition, we are observing
National 4-H Club Week with
school, civic club, church and radio
programs, and this. Special edition
of the local newspaper. I wrote
two articles for this issue last
year.
I believe my 4-H club work has
meant more to me than any other
club or activity that I have been
in. The camps, meetings, and other
activities have helped me a great
deal in learning how to meet peo
ple and how to talk to them. I
have also learned much about
farming while carrying out my
projects, both from the stand
point of farming and the business
training I have received.
As I said above, I now own my
tractor, livestock and pasture and
am planting my own crops.
I expect to continue to grow in
4-H club work, and I believe that
in addition to being a better farm
er, I will learn to be a much better
citizen. I have already received the
leadership award in my county,
and have been selected as the most
outstanding “4-Square” club mem
ber in the county.
All of this makes me very glad
that I am a 4-H club member, and
I hope that other boys and girls
will take advantage of the oppor
tunities offered to them through
the 4-H clubs.
State Camp of
Conservation
(By Ina Trawick, Delegate, 1950)
Eigiht of us, Marilyn Avirett,
Yvonne Clarke, Beth Tolar, Rex
Trawick, Bobby Hornsby, Rudolph
McDonald, Mary Ollie Ward and
I, completed wildlife projects. The
reward for completing the project
was a trip to Camp Wahsega. This
camp is located in the Blue Ridge
Mountains of Georgia, near Dah
longa, Ga., in the Chattahoochee
National Forests, about 350 miles
from Donalsonville, our home town.
We left Donalsonville about sev
ven o’clock July 31, to spend a
week. We arrived at the camp
about six, had supper, and were
introduced to some of the people
who made the camp possible.
Aiound seven that night, and every
night, we went to the recreation
hall and enjoyed folk dances and
games.
The camp is very beautiful at
night when the moon comes over
the mountain to peek at us. One
can stand for hours and enjoy the
beautiful scenery.
We started the day off with a
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DONALSONVILLE, (GA.) NEWS
Seminole Club Members
Join National 4-H Week
4-H Club State
Council Meeting
(By Ronny,Harrell, Treas. of High
School Club and 1950 Delegate)
Each year four delegates, two
boys and two girls, from each
county in Georgia are selected to
attend the State Council Meeting
held on the campus of GSCW at
Milledgeville. About 1,000 4-H
members, advisors and extension
workers attended the last Council
Meeting held in August of 1950.
The delegates from Seminole
Jbunty wHo attended the 1950
Council Meeting were Beth Tolar,
Marilyn Avirett, David Davis and
myself, Ronny Harrell. Miss Jean
Trawick attended as our advisor.
We were also accompanied by our
county agent, Mr. Ragan, and our
former assistant county agent, Mr.
Royce C. Hall, who has now accept
ed a job as county agent in Cal
houn county.
The' most important procedure
of this meeting is the electing of
the state officers for the ensuing
term. Each member is given a
ballot and votes as he wishes.
Among the other activities are
woi’ship programs, a number of
speakers, recreation and study
groups.
Among the most important peo
ple there were, Mr. “Pete” Donal
son, president of the Abraham
Baldwin College of Agriculture at
Tifton, who served as song leader,
Walter S. Brown, state director of
extension service, W. A. Sutton,
state 4-H club leader, Marvin
Griffin, Lt.-Governor of Georgia,
and President of GSCW, Mr. Guy
H. Wells.
This entire program is supervis
ed by 4-H club council officers.
I would like to encourage each
4-H club member to try “To Make
the Best Better” and maybe you
will be selected to attend the meet
ing.
My 4-H Beef Calf
Project
(By Billy King, Reserve Champion
Winner 1950)
As a second year 4-H club mem
ber, I would like to express my
appreciation to the Donalsonville
Lions Club and ether friends, for
their support in our last years
spring fat cattle show. This event
was of great interest to me because
my my calf was chosen grand
champion of the 4-H club and re
serve champion of the entire show.
I was awarded a silver loving cup
and a gold watch fob. I bought my
calf from Mr. H. 0. Cummings on
October 10, 1949, at a weight of
430 pounds.
This project has given me a
sense of ownership, because I feel
that I have something that belongs
to me which is my responsibility.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1951
Georgia’s 119,8940 4.H dub
members will join over 3,000,000
other members throughout the Na
tion, March 3 - 11, in celebration
of National 4-H Club Week, ac
cording to W. A. Sutton, state 4-H
club leader.
Governor Herman E. Talmadge
has issued a proclamation calling
attention to the week. President
Truman has written to the 4-H
cluibs of the United States stating
that “greetings and congratula
tions are not enough this year for
your 4-H Club Week.” The Presi
dent continued: “I hope you will
make the week memorable by
studying and planning to meet the
challenges of 1951 in keeping with
your well-chosen national 4-H
theme, ‘Working Together for
World Understanding.’ ”
The President’s letter ended: “It
is a source of assurance and pride
that our country can count on the
boys and girls in the 4-H dubs to
do their full part as a true citizen
of this great Nation.”
Miss Erin Turner, from Bibb
county, president of the Georgia
4-H Club Council pointed out in
h letter to all members that they
“have an especially important role
to play. Since our nation is once
more at war we have several things
that we can do to aid mobilization.
One of these is to carry more pro
jects, such as canning, clothing,
child care, poultry, gardening,
field crops and livestock. This will
help insure adequate food for our
country and those we are aiding.”
Governor Talmadge’s proclama
tion pointed out that “the 4-H
dubs compose Georgia’s largest
youth organization, and its pur
pose is to give equal training to
the head, heart, hands and health.”
During the National Week 4-
H’ers all over that state and nation
will review achievements over the
past year and plan for new goals
for the new year. In Georgia 4-H
members have set a membership
goal for 1951 of 1&5,000 boys and
girls. They will strive to have
2,500 community clubs and 12,000
adult advisors this year.
A number of special programs
have been planned for the week.
Four-H members in virtually ev
ery county will hold 4-H Sunday
programs on March 4. Many will
be held on local community levels.
The state 4-H Club Council Offi
cers will participate on a program
at the Druid Hills Baptist Church
in Atlanta.
More than 50 Four-H salutes on
state and national radio and tele
vision programs have been announ
ced.
Georgia 4-H’ers will call atten
tion to the fact during the Week
that in 1950 they completed 313,-
055 projects valued at $14,537,-
915.35. They carried out activity
in 36 farming and homemaking
fields.
County and home demonstration
agents in the various counties are
in charge of the 4-H club boys and
girls.
4-H Members Produce
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Special Programs
Note 4-H Week
(By Mary T. Freeman, Home
Demonstration Agent)
In addition to editing a special
to the News, Semi
nole 4-Jjl’ers are staging a number
of other activities during National
4-H cMib week.
The first of these was a chapel
program at Seminole High School.
Features of the program were
talks by Marilyn Avirett, Bobby
Hornsby, David Davis and Yvonne
Clarke. Marilyn is the Girls vice
president of the local high school
club, Bobby is club president and
Yvonne is secretary. Each of these
young people were dressed in the
4-H club uniform. The girl’s uni
form consists of skirt and jacket
of green and white seersucker,
while the boys wear green ties,
white shirt and khaki pants.
Another outstanding event of
the week was the observance of
4-H Club Sunday at the Metho
dist church Sunday night. The 4-H
club members presented a program
outlining the purposes of the 4-H.
The Rev. Elton Pierce discussed
the importance of the program for
young people. Many club members
and parents attended this meeting.
A special section was reserved for
1 4-H’ers. «• • m . . — *-
The weeks events were complet
ed with a presentation at the Don
alsonville Lions Club. A series of
talks were as follows: What is 4-H
club work, Marilyn Avirett; Ac
tivities during National 4-H Week,,
Yvonne Clarke; My project record,,
Bobby Hornsby; What local clubs
are doing, David Davis. The group
was presented by Bobby Hornsby,
club president. ,
The junior 4-H
Rifle Club
(By Buck Roberts, 1950 District
Winner & 2nd Place State Winner)
The 4-H club of Seminole coun
ty organized a junior rifle club
for Seminole county 4-H club
members interested in marksman
ship. Its purposes are: encouraging
of marksmanship, sportsmanship,
and safety in handling of firearms..
It is open to any Seminole county
4-H’ers 13 years of age or older
who has his parents consent.
This club, sponsored by the VFW
club, as a member of the National
Rifle Association and is using ri
fles and ammunition furnished by
the Department of the Army.
These rifles are Winchester Model
75, 22 calibre target rifles equipped
with slings and peep sights and!
22 long rifle ammunition.
• Each year the county champions,
a boy and a girl, compete in the
District Achievement Meet where
they have a chance to win a trip
to the State Meet.
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