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DONALSONVILLE (GA.) NEWS
A Community Calendar...
FRIDAY:
Nazarene Maidens with Mrs. Dukes at 4:00 p.m.
MONDAY:
Lonie Shingler Prayer Circle at church at 4:00 p.m.
General Meeting of WSCS at church at 8:00 p.m.
Presbyterian Circle No. 1 with Mrs. R. E. Wheeler at 4:00
Presbyterian Circle No. 2 with Mrs. Robert Miller at 8:00
Margaret Aiken Circle will meet with Mrs. Eddie C.
Durham at 8 p.m.
Sadie Dunn Circle with Mrs. Frank Ratifies at 8:0O p.m.
TUESDAY:
Lions Club, Moseley Hall at noon
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WEDNESDAY:
Prayer Meeting at 8:00 p.m.
Baptist Church Conference after prayer meeting
THURSDAY:
Eastern Star at Masonic Lodge at 8:00 p.m.
Baptist Brotherhood covered dish supper at 8:00 p.m.
Seminole Library is open to the public on Tuesdays and Fri
days from 1 to 5, and Saturdays 10 to 5.
COMING EVENTS:
Baptist Revival July 15-22
Baptist Youth Camp—July 30-August 3
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ONE GENUINE goose feather bed
mattress for sale. See or call Miss
Ella Spooner. Phone 103.
fcof* FOR SALE—my house and 2.2 acres
Bgff of land on S- Tennille Ave. in Don- M
/jjji alsonville. Mrs. Florence Danley, Rt. jjßjb
. 3, Box 230, D’ville.
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BfJj WILL BUY good bateaux, or will
yaffil trade good lake boats for them. See
KIL or call B- L. Davis.
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Efjll FOR SALE —One good boat trailer.
Krjll See Buck Miller. Mw
FOR SALE —Brown horse saddle. See
IXpf Jake Whittaker, phone Iron City sjTI
Bill
wfjj FOR SALE —Trailer in good cpndi- gJjT
a&x tion- See Jasper R. Brown, 714 E.
g’ as Baldwin Street, D'ville.
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Eli FOR SALE —1 Case combine in good
condition. Cheap. W. P. Mann, Iron
City. r-i’M®
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FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1956
LOCAL FARM BUREAU
HEAD DISCUSSES SOIL
BANK CONDITION
(by Luther Spooner, president
Seminole Farm Bureau)
Secretary Benson has an
nounced requirements and
payment rates for participa
tion in the 1956 Acreage Re
serve Program under the Soil
Bank Act, Public Law 540.
Farmers wffll want to avail
themselves of ’the details of
the program operation. This
is necessary that farmers
may analyze the program as
related to his operation.
Farmers are cautioned that
the announced requirements
and payments for participa
tion are for 1956 only.
As one goes behind the
scenes by region, it is readily
seen that the program has
been designed for the west
and midiwest. The south, and
especially Georgia, is likely to
see little immediate gains.
Any economic advantage will
be largely secondary.
This analysis is borne out
by establishment of reserve
payments on wheat at $1.20
per bushel. This is a rate of
approximately 58 percent of
the current effective support
price for wheat. Had not Ben
son arbitrarily set the support
rate for the midwest 1956
wheat would have been SI.BO
per bushel. The former figure,
$1.20, is exactly 66 2-3 per
cent of SI.BO.
The reserve payment for
corn has been set at 90 cents
per bushel in the commercial
corn area. This rate is 57 per
cent of the current effective
support for commercial area
corn. For the commercial corn
growers not intending to a
bide by their allotments the
reserve payment is above 70
percent of the effective sup
port price of $1.25. This is a
significant level.
By contrast, Georgia pea
nut producers would be paid
3 cents per pound for banking
peanut acreage. Note that
this level reflects 25 percent
of the current effective sup
port price.
Very few tobacco growers
will bank S6OO to SI,OOO to
bacco acreage for reserve pay
ments ranging from SIOO to
$221 per acre. Georgia cotton
producers would receive a
round S4O per acre for bank
ing cotton. This figure may be
lower or higher based upon
average yield. Western grow
ers in the irrigated section
would receive nearer $l5O to
$250 per acre.
Some observations may be
drawn from the Soil Bank
according to announced oper
ations. Southern farmers have
resented highly the assertion
that farmers have been fed
from a silver spoon and at
the expense of taxpayers.
Even Secretary Benson is
inadvertedly admitting aIH
that has been said of farmers
is not true. Now Benson isn’t
saying this openingly. But his
announced operation of the
soil bank does pinpoint the
fact that southern agriculture
is not gui'ty of the charges.
The tobacco program has
never cost the taxpayer a
dime. Southern tobacco pro
ducers have done an excellent
job of balancing production
with demand. Peanut pro
ducers have done a credible
job of balancing supply with
demand. The cost to the
government has been insign
ificant over the entire period.
Cotton has been relatively
free of difficulty until in
volvement of foreign markets
of US cotton became involved
in international power politics.
The Administration may be,
Farm Roundup
(As prepared by the Office of the Seminole County Agent)
Federal Gas Tax Refund
Under a 'law enacted on
April 2, 1956, farmers are en
titled to claim refunds each
year for the Federal excise
tax on gasoline used on a farm
for the purpose of farming.
To get a refund of Federal
gasoline tax a farmer must
file a claim on Form 2240
which is available here in the
Extension office. The amount
to be refunded is two cents
per gallon on all gas which is
purchased and used on the
farm.
AU claims must be filed
after June 30, but not later
than October 1,1956. Farmers
who file claims should keep
sufficient records to enable
the Internal Revenue Service
to verify the accuracy of the
amount claimed.
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Soil Bank Act
What is the Soil Bank and
how may a Seminole farmer
get something out of it ?
The acreage reserve, the
part of the program that’s in
effect this year, provides for
Georgia farmers “taking out”
part of their allotted acreage
of cotton and peanuts and
putting it into a reserve. A
cototn or peanut farmer can
participate in the reserve plan
(1) if he fails to plant part
of his allotment in anticipat
ion of putting it into the acre
age reserve.
(2.) if his allotment is
underplanted because ofad
clearly concerned about the
surplus of corn and wheat.
The corn and wheat belts is
not in the south, but rather
specifically defined to certain
other areas. The purpose of
the Soil Bank is to reduce
surpluses. Payments are tied
to the need 1 and desire to re
duce surpluses according to
commodities. The bulk of pay
ments may go largely to the
midwest and perhaps West.
Southern agriculture may
receive some advantages und
er the Conservation Reserve
Section of the Soil Bank Act.
Provisions of the Conservat
ion Reserve are yet to be
announced.
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Telephone 374
DONALSONVILLE, GEORGIA
ATKINS CHAMFER CHAIN
Take this ad to your McCulloch dealer and ask him to show
you the ATKINS CHAMFER CHAIN.
With each Atkins Chain you purchase you will receive at no
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more accurate. This offer expires July 31
verse weather conditions or -
if his acreage was destroyed *
by weather or other natural
causes.
(3.) By plowing up or other
wise destroying acreage al
ready planted.
There are maximums the
farmer can put in the reserve •
program. They are as follows
Cotton and peanuts half the
allotment or 10 acres, which
ever is the greater. Minimum
amounts are: ten percent of
the allotment or one acre,
whichever is the larger.
The following pay ments -
have been set for payments if
a farmer wishes to place*part
of his alloted crops in the re
serve: 15 cents a pound for
cotton and 3 cents per pound
for peanuts.
For underplanting cotton
and peanuts payments will be
based on normal yield of acre
age put in the reserve. For
destruction due to natural
causes or by plowing up, pay
ments will be based on the
appraised yield or the normal
yield, whichever is smaller.
However, payment will not be
less than $6 peracre.
Position For Factory Manager
Open: Position is in South
eastern factory working few
hundred employees. Experi
ence in food and allied lines of
manufacturing desired, tho
not required. Comparatively
young man considering ex
perience preferred. Good sal
ary. Answers kept confidin
tial. If interested write “Man
ager Open” care this news
paper. 3e
HOUSE FOR SALE— On No. .
Wiley Avenue. Contact C- L.
“Windy” Bivings.
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