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Miss Sara Veal visited Misses Mil
dred and Conelia Tomlin a short
while Saturday evening.
Mrs. G. R Mize and children, Lois
and Thomas spent Saturday in Con
yers with Mrs. W. S Freeman and
children, Mildred and Juanita.
Mrs. L. P. Fincher visited
at Stewart this week-end.
Misses Mildred and Conelia Tom
lin spent Monday with Mrs. C B
Bunn.
Mr Hardeman Fincher visitor
friends here this week-end. !
daughter, Mrs. Rozie Pierce and and little ]
Betty Mrs. Myrtle
Stubb and daughter, June, of
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! art, spent the week-end with
C. B. Bunn.
Miss Mildred Tomlin spent
i nesday night with Mrs. L. P.
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! Mr. and Mrs. George Mason, of
Porterdale called on Mrs. Luthor
Smith a short while Sunday eve
ning.
Mrs. G. R. Mize and children.
Lois and Thomas, visited Mr. and
Mrs. T. H. Mansion of Conyers.
Sunday evening,
Mr. and Mrs Conrad Reynolds
and little son, Gerald, of Stewart,
visl , ed Mr anrt Mrs. L P. Fincher
a short wh.le Saturday night.
Mrs. C. B Bunn, Mrs. Ernest
Simmons visited Mrs. O. C Tom
tin Friday evening.
Mrs. Caswell Ellington spent
Thursday evening with Mrs- J. P.
Hampton,
Mr. Preston Reynolds and daugh
ter, Lottie and Christine Berry, of
Stewart, spent Tuesday with Mr
Mrs- L. P. Fincher
THE COVINGTON NEWS
EXTfNDFD WAGE
690,000 Workers All Over
Country Will Have Pay
Raised.
The second year’s provisions of
the Wage and Hour law went into
effect on Monday, October 23, and
as a result it is calculated that 690,
000 workers throughout the country
will have their pay raised. The basic
wages of $11 a week are raised to
$12.50. In addition to this increase
in pay for the nearly three-quarters!
of a million persons. 2,380,000 work
ers will be benefltted by a shorter
work week at the same pay or bet
ter, by reason of the provision low
ering the basic work week from 44
hours to 42 hours. J
While these are the basic wages set
by the law there axe some special
industries in which the Wage and
Hour bureau has fixed rates higher
than the minimum.
In commenting on this stage of
the operation of the law the Phila
delphia Record says:
"If the New Deal had done noth
else, the Federal wage-hour law !
would entitle it to a prominent ;
in American history. For the
time there is a "floor under
a ceiling over hours.’
“There have been flaws in ad
rigid enforcement
some places, not enough funds for
investigation of complaint.*
the gigantic task of setting up
enforcement machinery will
some time.
"That indicates a very strong de
on the part of business men to
in carrying out this pro
legislation which will ulti
benefit all business by pro-,
more customers and better
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GEORGIA FARMERS RESTORE
KING COTTON TO THRONE
Experts’ Method Told by Cliff Flagg, Sunday American
Correspondent, How Farmers Near Comer, Ga.,
Made Production Profitable.
The will to do and the courage to
take the initiative against adversity
have dispersed the clouds of de
spair and hopelessness and have
brought forth a promise of prosper
ity and security for the farmers of
of Comer, Ga., section.
King Cotton, toppled from his
throne 15 years ago when the boll
weevils laid waste land which had
been high in cotton productivity is
back on the throne here, ruling with
a lenient and generous hand.
Idle, wasted and deeply-gullied
acres sprawled across the rolling
hills of this section for years as
"spoils of war" are again in produc
tion, growing more cotton to the
acre than in the era before the tra
gic and costly boll wevil onslaught.
Leaders in this dramatic come
back are the Gholston brothers, J.
Knox Gholston and J W. Gholston,
who this year on 335 acres, produced
a wage crop of 445 bales of cotton
weighing 500 pounds each.
The banner crop this year repre
sents the culmination of a well
planned and carefully-executed ef
fort launched several years ago by
the Gholston brothers when V
tually all farmers in the section
had all but given up hope.
J Knox Gholston. a conservative
man with large holdings in this sec
tion of Georgia, says his 1939 crop
is not the production of a “brag
patch,” for each bale represents a
good profit.
“We grew that cotton to show
the farmers in this section it can
be done, cotton must be our prin
cipal money crop. We have tried
other crops and know that if this
section is to reap the real harvest
potentially ours it must be from
cotton," Mr. Gholston said.
Back of that statement is a story
which recalls the lean years when
only a fraction of a bale could be
salvaged from each acre after the
boll weevil had gotton in his de
vastating work.
Knox Gholston said:
“Our cotton production had
dropped to nothing. On every hand
were idle acres that were being de
stroyed by erosion. It appeared that
soon this entire section would be
barren and deserted The farmers
said they couldn't long continue to
fight the weevil. I knew the farmers
in South Georgia were winning their
fight against the pest, so I went
down there and spent two months
studying their methods.
“That was 12 years ago, I came
back here and put 58 acres into cot
ton. I put poison on 25 acres and
gathere 24 bales. We didn’t poison
the other 32 acres and got only
eight bales from that patch. In that
experiment we had definitely proven
th evaiue of poison."
By 1933, the Gholston brothel’s
had 1.860 acres in cotton and then
the federal farm program cut that
allotment to 1 200 acres, and then to
800, and this year to 335 acres. The
remain! - acres not devoted to cot
ton were put in grain crops or in
legumes which put the needed fer
tility back into the soil.
“This federal farm program has
been a ’ oon to the Georgia farmer.
It has made him grow crops which
will build up the soil,” he said.
Knox Gholston does not attribute
his banner crop this year entirely to
fertilizer or poison, but to the fact
his land was prepared for banner
production.
The fundamental “first" of farm
ing in Georgia, he said, is to save
the soil- The soil must be terraced
to prevent erosion and the crops
diversified to put back as much or
more into the soil as was taken out
by the previous cotton crop.
Five tractors were roaring across
a well terraced field. Cotton stalks
were being shredded by the discs
behind the tractors. They were be-
(Largest Coverage Any Weekly in the State)
lng turned under in the harrowing
process. Mr. Gholston said, to elim
inate a great number of the weevils
that remained on the stalks.
He waved his hand across the field
and in describing the history of the
rolling acres recited a lesson in
farming and economics.
In 1934. he said, he purchased the
247 acres in tfye field for $1,000.
about $4 an acre. It was, he said,
Practically all marginal land at that
time. Gullies crossed and cris-crossed
the field. Some of if was swampy.
In all not more than 40 acres were
tillable
Hfe put tractors into the fields, cut-|
ting and building the terraces that
this year kept “all erosion back. Not
a ton of the valuable top soil 1
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washed off those fields this year
He had drain ditches dug to drain!
the marsh lands. Then he planted
lespedeza and followed that with a
crop of crimson clover. He
these two crops under back into the
soil to make it richer.
More than 2,000 loads of rock
were Sphered off the fields. Many
more wa S on Ioads wil1 be takpn off
thls fal1 -
It cost approximately $35 per acre
to prepare that tract for the type of :
Productivity . ... which ... this
year pro
duced an avera e p of 1778 P ound * of
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seed cotton per acre, 635 pounds of
lint cotton and 1,143 pounds of cot
tonseed per acre. That brought the
price of the land in that tract to
approximately $39, which Mr. Ghol
ston said has come back to him
through three good crops.
Mr. Gholston drove by his "home
place," a farm located a short dis
tance off ihe Comer-Danielsville
road, where he and his brother were
born. A few years ago the farm was
leased to a tenant. Last year,
acres on that farm which Knox
Gholston supervised, produced 110
bales as a wage crop.
"We can show them and tell them
how to do it, but we can't make
them do it our way,’’ Knox Ghol
ston said of tenants.
Simply (the Gholston method of
producing the maximum crop from
every cultivated acre is this: (
Prepare the and by protecting it.
Terrace it well and plant the ter
races in lespedeza. Then plant les
pedeza which is a good three-year
crop. Then follow with grain or
cotton. Two years is all that any acre
of the Gholston wage crop acres
will be planted, in cotton and then
legumes are planted.
On the 335 acres that this year
produced a wage crop of 495 bales
of cotton, Knox Gholston saiit they
used 825 pounds of fertilizer per acre
at a net cost per acre of $9.90;
$1,626.98 worth of poison on all
acres, for a net cost per acre of $4.85.
making a net cost per acre for fer
tilizer of $14 75.
The seed from the 335 acres at oil
mill prices will pay for all fertilizer
and poison and will leave an excess
of seed valued at current prices at
$550 to pay other farm expenses.
In addition to the cotton, the
Gholston brothers have harvested
from this wage crop from a little |
over 800 acres not devoted to cot
ton 17,121 bushels of oats, wheat, rye,
barley and corn and have threshed
4 000 pounds of crimson clover seed.
have sowed all grain land to les
pedeza which was turned under
green in September and which is
now being reseeded to grain.
Next week the seed on 140 acres
of crimson clover, already seeded to
lespedeza, will be harvested and will
provide enough seed to sow all grain
lands next spring,
The acres which this year pro-;
duced the banner cotton crop last
year were in the following crops:
Two hundred and forty acres in
lespedeza; 50 acres in soy beans; 35 j
acres in Austrian peas and 10 acres
in cotton,
Knox Gholston said:
“Ye consider fertilizing and pois
oning of equal importance, and one
just as vital to the production of
yields as the other. We believe
that by practice and from observa
tion that poisoning in August is
just as important, if not more im
portant, than in May and June,
There have been few years since
the arrival of the boll weevil that
we would not, and have not made a
bottom crop of cotton without thor—
ugh poisoning. We have poisoned
t ™ 8 crop eight different times, and
two more times would have paid
well. Much time and money can be
saved in the early stages of cotton
by watching and poisoning the in
fected areas, but after the 16th of
July, or the migrating period, each
and every stalk of cotton needs
poisoning to get a top crop and
maximum yields.
“We prefer the liquid poison as
long as it can be put on satisfac
torily.
“After the crops are gathered,
seed all lands to winter cover crops,
turning them under green in the
spring on all lands that are to be
planted in soil-depleting crops.
"Use pure planting seed, treated
with Ceresan,„high-analysis fertiliz
er.
“Prepare the land thoroughly be
fore planting in order to have a
good seed bed. and then cultivate
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ten heavy mats have been used iar
wfjgr million pounds of the last few years.
cotton is used annually by Concrete road construed iit
the cement industry for sack- offers a vast market for yol it t
ing cement. Heavy cotton cotton and besides concre It;
mats are used now for“curing” is the real low cost roa It!
freshly placed concrete, pro- superior in durability, safe
tecting it from the summer and economy*
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State Route 12 through Covington 1
needs to be modernized and
paved with concrete
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hauling your cotton to market
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