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WHY WE NEED OUR
COUNTY DEMONSTRATOR
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Ask the farmers of New ton county,
What are your plans for another
yoar? What kind of crops are yon go
ing to raise? Ninety per cent of them
will answer, “I DO NOT KNOW."
We ask then, that the farmers of thi =?
county turn their eyes backward, and
study her history, has there ever been
a more perplexing time? Have circuni
stances ever been quite like they are
today? Do you remember of waiting
until Christmas before you knew what
you were going to plant another year?
Home of our older citizens may well
remember years of hardships, years
w hen crops were failures, but we ask
for information: Can any of you recall
the time when a destroyer, a devour¬
in'. of whatever you wish to call the
curse of the tribe (the boll weevil) when
he had destroyed the first crop of the
land? If so. what did you do? What
crops did you plant? What plans did
you follow the next year? You will
be rendering your county and state a
service that cannot be surpassed, if
you can lead them in the time of need.
Realizing as we do. that our main
*op has been destroyed. Neither
we tell will how long it will be before the j
curse pass over, it behooves us as
•sensible farmers to come together
and to learn how to raise other crops,
and how to market them. Right at
iliis critical point farmers ^
we have
halted, and rightly so. We do not
know how to raise other crops; we !
have had no experience in marketing ^
them. So we cry "as sheep without n
shepherd. , , , and . as soldiers ,, without a
leader in . the thick of the battle.
"U ho will lead us? Who will teach
us how?"
For many years the agriculture
men of our state have realized how im¬
portant it was that the farmers should
know how to raise other crops beside
the one cotton crop. Farmers too have
realized it to a certain extent, and for
years we have been co-operating with
the state in securing a man to teach
us how. This man has been our county
demonstrator.
We believe that we have reached the
place where our demonstrator can do
more for us than he has done in all
the years past. As long as we could
raise cotton, we did not need (we
thought) to learn how to raise other
crops and market them, but now we
KNOW we cannot raise cotton, we
must turn to other crops. The
thought then that flashes into our
minds is: Who will lead us? The first
person we can think of is the Trained
Man, Our Demonstrator.
If it will be of any benefit to any
community, or farmers in this or any
other county, may we print below the
rules of our Community Council,
Hopewell Community, to show you
that it is our plans to follow the in¬
structions of our demonstrator this
coming year.
Hopewell Community,
Newton County, Ga.
Article!—Name
This organization shall be known as
the Community Council. ,
Article II—Object
The object of this organization is to
enable the farmer of the community
to co-operate in producing various
products, and to secure markets for
same.
Article III—Officers
The officers of this organization
shall be a president, vice president and
secretary; who shall serve for one
year.
Article IV—Membership
Persons may become members by
signing their names to the following
rules and pledging their loyalty there
to:
RULES
3. All members shall plant the vari
ety of seed selected by organization,
2. All products raised under in¬
^ struction of organization shall be
marketed through organization,
\ 3. All members shall follow the in
sanctions of the county demonstrator
in planting, cultivating and harvest
ing.
4. All members shall grade all pro¬
ducts and place same in marketable
shape.
5. All products shall be thoroughly
inspected by a committee before being
shipped.
b. Any product failing to measure
up to required standard shall be re¬
jected.
T. There shall lie a committee ap¬
pointed invested with authority to
sell and buy, subject to approval of
Executive Board, and no member
shall be allowed to interfere with sale.
8. Profiteering by any member is
positively forbidden.
9. If, after a thorough investigation,
and member be found violating any
rule his name shall be dropped from
roll, and he shall be barred from fur
dealings with the organization,
Without the leadership of our coun
ty Demontrator our organization as
well as our county will lose many
times the cost of this demonstrator's
salary. L. r. nIELL.
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^ ^ KIND MEAT ON THE FARM
~
Home curing of pork is . an old prac
tice which . . . nearly , went out of style.
but it is rapidly becoming popular
again. Some hogs may he raised and
the meat cured for much less than the
cost of purchased meat every farmer
should produce the pork consumed on
his farm.
Hogs intended for slaughter should
not be kept on full feed up to the time
of killing. It is better to hold them
entirely without feed for 24 hours
prior to that time, but they should
have access to plenty of fresh water.
This treatment promotes the elimina¬
tion of waste products and facilitates
the dressing of the carcass.
After the animal is dressed the car¬
cass should be cooled rapidly, but not
allowed to freeze. The desirable tern
perature for cooling meat is from 34
j to 40 degrees Farenheit. It is usually
best to kill in the afternoon and allow
the carcass to cool over night. When
the carcass is thoroughly cooled it is
ready to cut up and cured.
Two processes of meat curing is
recognized, dry curing and brine cur¬
ing. both of which give satisfactory re
suits. Irrespective of the curing metii
od used, it is advisable before curing
to ruh the surface of the meat with
fine salt and allow it to drain, flesh
side down, for from 6 to 12 hours. The
process of common dry salting is well
understood. Many farmers never use
any other method, but It is widely be¬
lieved that better meat can be made
by curing in brine. A brine solution
which has proved very satisfactory
and is recommended by the U. S. De¬
partment of Agriculture is as follows:
For each 100 pounds of meat use—
10 pounds of salt
2 1-2 pounds of sugar or 4 pounds of
molasses.
2 ounces of salt peter.
4 1-2 gallons of water.
The brine mixture should be made
by boiling all of the ingredients to¬
gether for one hour. This should be
done the day before it is to be used as
it must be perfectly cool when applied
to the meat. Any kind of a tight, clean
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vessel, as an earthen jar or barrel,
may be used for holding the meat and
brine. Place the hams on the ottom of
the container, shoulders next, bacon
sides, and small cuts on top. Cover
with boards weighted with stone or
bricks, as iron rusts and stains the
meat. Pour the brine in and be sure
that it comes an inch or two above the
top pieces of meat.
The small pieces of meat should re¬
main in the brine 30 to 40 days and
the largest pieces 40 to 50 days. To be
sure that meat is curing properly it
should be taken out every seven days,
examined and placed back as at first.
If the brine becomes ropy, take out all
of the meat, wash it and the container
thoroughly, make new brine and
place it as before. When each piece of
meat has received the proper cure,
rmove it from the brine and wash it
in luke warm water. String it and
hang it in the smokehouse. The tem¬
perature of the smokehouse should
not exceed 120 degrees Farenheit. Meat
should be smoked until it has a good
chestnue color. Smoking helps to pre¬
serve meat and gives a desirable fla¬
vor if smoked properly. Hard wood
should be used for smoke instead of
soft wood. Resinous woods should nev¬
er be used, as they give an objection'll
flavor of the meat,
D. G. SULLINS,
Animal Husbandman.
SWEET POTATO CLUB
RESULTS FOR 1921
There were forty boys enrolled in
the Sweet Potato Club this year. Thir¬
ty of these boys had exhibits at the
county fair. Thirty-three completed
the club records and turned in their
records. These thirty-three boys pro¬
duced 990 bushels of potatoes or an
average of 30 bushels on 1-8 of an
acre. This is a rate of 240 bushels per
acre.
The average cost of raising these
potatoes was 28 cents per bushel. At
fifty cents per bushel for potatoes the
club boys could have cleared 22c per
bushel or $52.80 per acre. This is a
good return per acre and lots better
than cotton is now pay us.
Sweet potatoes are already worth
$i.00 per bushel and should be worth
•SI.50 by April.
Me are overlooking a good, sure,
profitable crop when we leave sweet
potatoes out of our cropping plans.
The following boys made the highest
yields;
1. Mixon Smith -. Mansfield, 40.8
bushels. $22.50.
2. B. P. Rocquemore, Mansfield, 38
bushels, $10.00.
3. Artie Ellington, Oxford, 35 bush¬
els, $7,50.
4. Leroy Lawrence, Mansfield, 32
bushels, $5.00.
5. Neil Bohannan, Stewart, 30.5 bush¬
els. $3.00.
Mixon Smith won the Lee Ribbon
Tread Tire, 6,000 miles, 30x3, given by
Weaver & Pittman. He also won $10
given by Adams Bros., of Mansefleld.
B. P. Rocquemore won $10 given by
C. C. Estes.
Artie Ellington won $7.50 given by
L. P. Loyd.
Leroy Lawrence, of Mansfield, won
$5 given by P. J| Rogers.
Neil Bohannan won $3 given by
Fair Association.
J. K LUCK, County Agent.
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The asbestos fibre cannot rot, bum or evaporate. It
acts like hair in plaster.
Fibre Coating is equally effective on old wood, metal,
or composition roofs. Apply it with a brush, just as it
comes from the can or barrel.
Adds years of life to any roof at very small cost.
Taste is a matter of
tobacco quality
We state it as our honest belief
that the tobaccos used in Chester¬
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hence of better taste) than in any
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A well known citizen of Covington
conducted a funeral in the
No preacher available and our
friend equal to any occasion, the ob¬
passed off easily and naturally.
nothing like being equal to any
It takes pep, poise and
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