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ursday, April 4, 1940.
00 POULTRY
I | [EES IN ’39 |
Piage production Georgia
instration poultry flockswas
ggs per hen in 1939, with the
income being nearly four
ige hen, reports Arthur
rs pei’ for the State
mn poultryman Extension Service.
lultural flocks of standard
• m home flocks of
,avert to only 14.596
more thickens the year be
■. Gannon paid great progress
made on the National Poultry
ovement Plan, with 30 hatch
meeting the requirement dur
i he 1939-40 season, compared
1 1 v 30 hatcheries the previous
The 39 hatcheries have a to
capacity of 2,089 eggs. To
|y these hatcheries, addition
< sclcs were tested.
i e poultry specialist pointed
i hat nfi poultry meetings were
during 1939, with an attend
of 10,500. A poultry moving
re was shown at 46 of the
ings. Ten poultry and leader
ing schools were held and
poultry shows judged last j
through cooperation of the
nsion poultrymen. and girls
>re than 7,600 boys
•ed 4-H Club poultry projects
year. This represents an in
; P of some 2,000 over the 1938
bets.
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Cow Pays Electric and Grocery
Dills lor rarm ramily m c/a
A Jersey cow tells the story of
why paying the electric bill and
buying the groceries are no long
er problems to a farm family liv
ing in Ben Hill County.
The family is that of W. E.
Fendley, who has been selling
milk and butter from one of two
cows to pay the light bill, which
normally runs from two to three
dollars each month, and buy cof
fee, sugar, and the few other need
ed groceries that cannot be pro
duced on the farm for a family of
seven.
Back in 1938, when rural elec
trification through REA assistance
was first made available in his
section, Fendley was a live-at
home farmer, just as he is today
He wanted electricity but his cash
income was low. So he decided to
use one of his cows “to foot the
bill,” since the family needed on
ly the milk and butter produced
from but one of the animlas.
Fendley cultivates about 60
acres of his 120-acre farm, on
which he grows plenty of food and
feed for home use, in addition to
some cotton and other cash crops.
The home garden supplies the
family with vegetables and the
smokehouse furnishes an adequate
amount of meat throughout the
year.
His two cows are kept in top!
production through providing ade
quate pasturage. In brief, pasture
is the mainstay in the diet of the!
and summer months.
He cooperates fully with County
Agent R. D. Stephens, of Ben Hill
County, in carrying out his farm
activities, and is an active partici
pant in the federal AAA farm pro
gram.
The Georgia Agricultural Ex
tensiol Service is a federal-state 1
cooperative agency, established
over 25 years ago to demonstrate
to farm families the better meth
ods of making a living from the
farm and of improving the home
It is well for the shopper to |
consider the difference in the
many grades of linen before pur
chasing fabrics for warm weather
wear.
High quality should always be
the main objective in tobacco
production.
April is one of the best months
to start Leghorn chicks. Don’t put
off placing orders with some re
liable hatchery.
ments, nourislieg your gr*iw
ing crops anil helps producing to keep
your land in good
condition,
Always use plenty of Natu
ral Chilean Nitrate of Soda —
in mixed fertilizer under your
crop; for side dressing, too. No
price increase all tliis season
and there is plenty for every
body’s needs.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
Feed Inspection
Saves Large Sum
To Georgia Farmers
Through strict enforcement of
laws and regulations governing
the sale of commercial feeds, the
quality of these commodities used
in Georgia has been raised to
new high standards during the
three-year administration of Co
lumbus Roberts, Commissioner of
Agriculture, records of the de
partment reveal.
Last year more than 2,800
brands of feed—the largest num
ber on record—were registered
with the department. During the
same period, the State Chemist,
who makes analyses of feed, food,
fertilizer and drug samples taken
by the department’s inspectors,
checked more than 600 feed sam
ples and made approximately 3000
determinations, and it was found
that only a comparatively small
percentage failed to meet the
manufacturer’s guarantee as to
nutritive value. There has been
a decrease in the tonnage of feeds
ordered withheld from sale or
destroyed because of deficiencies
in nutritive value or misbrand
ing.
It was pointed out that Georgia
no longer may be regarded as
“dumping ground” for all sorts
of commercial feeds which are
not allowed to be sold in other
states. Georgia dairymen, stock
men and poultrymen who buy
large quantities of feeds, may be
assured of the quality of feed in
dicated on the analysis tag. And,
Georgia cows? hogs and poultry
are enjoying a better “diet.”
The legitimate feed manufac
turers, who found it difficult to
meet competition of low grade
feeds and lax regulations,
co-operated with the
0 f Agriculture in raising the
standards in this state.
Four-H Members
To Compete for 16
New Scholarships
Average Income Reported at
Nearly $4.00 Per
Hen.
G. V. Cunningham, state 4-H
club leader, announced from Ath
ens this week that 16 work schol
arships will be given this fall by
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural
College, Tifton, to enable
Four-H clifb boys and girls to
continue their education.
Selection of the four winners—
two boys and two girls—will be
made from each of the four Ex
tension Service districts in the
slate. Scholarships will enable
winners to defray one - third of
their college expenses. *
Contestants for the awards must j
have had at least three years of
4-H Club work including the cur
rent year, and must be a senior or
a high school graduate within the
last two years.
Scolarship, 4-H club record and
recommendation of the county J
farm or home demonstration:
agent will form the basis of selec
tion of winners. Announcement of!
winners will be made by June 15.!
Closing date for submitting rec- j
olds is June 1.
BLUE MOLD
All tobacco growers having
plants that are two weeks old or ]
older would do well to spray them
immediately, in order to protect
plants from blue mold, according
to Huey I. Borders, Extension
plant pathologist. He says farm
ers should use the spray recom
by the Extension Service
and the Coastal Plains Experi
ment Station. This formula may
obatined from the local coun
ty agent or by writing the plant
pathologist at Tifton. The spray
for blue mold is used as a pre
ventive and not as a cure.
mouth The heavy Rocks breeds, and Reds such as require Ply- j
6 to 7 months to reach lay- \
age, therefore heavy breed j
hatched in April should be
to lay in November.
Chicks hatched after April us
grow off slower; they are
susceptible to disease; .they
smaller pullets and are sel
profitable.
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31 Covington, Ga.
4-H Foods Work
Offered Medals ,
Trips and Cash
Club girls enrolled in foods
projects in this locality for 1940
will again have a part in the na
tional 4-H food preparation con
test and may claim the benefits
of experience through participa
tion and a share of the available
awards. This is the sixth annual
contest of its kind, and will be
conducted as usual by the state
extension service.
The accompnishments of girls
in foods work, as revealed in this
contest, are most praiseworthy.
Last year two girls in Tennessee
and Florida employed the knowl
edge of nutrition gained in foods
work to plan meals for young
nieces and nephews with fine re
sults. A Wisconsin girl took over
the care of her father’s home and
several younger sisters and
brothers, feeding them properly,
thanks to her 4-H training. An
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COVINGTON, - - - GEORGIA
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(Largest Coverage Any Weekly In the State)
Oregon participant prepared
more than 3,400 meals and demon
strated her culinary skills on 31
special occasions, A Delaware
foods project winner prepared
8,265 recipes in seven years mem
bership, and an Arkansas girl
baked 345 loaves of bread..
For the outstanding girl in each
county participating, the Home
Service Department of Servel,
Inc., is offering a gold medal, and
for the winner in each state they
will provide an all-expense trip
to the 19th National 4-H Club
Congress in Chicago, November
29 to December 7. There a na
tional blue award group of six
will be selected from state win
ners, each to receive a $200 col
lege scholarship.
Further particulars are avail
able from the county agent.
Extension Service assistance in
terracing and other land-improve
ment, practices carried out by
Georgia farmers in 1939 have been
valued at more than $750,000.
Georgia Retail
Sales to Show
New Increase
Improved Conditions in This
State Indicated by
Banks.
Improved conditions in Georgia,
indicated by bank clearance and
debit figures and department
store indices, are expected to be
evidenced in the figures available
this year from the Bureau of Cen
sus, when the retail trade survey
is completed. Indications from the
trends recorded since the 1935
study, when retail sales were
$484,000,000. lead business experts
to predict that the 1939 volume
reached more than $550,000,000.
This increase in the volume of
Georgia business discloses that re
business, despite a slight re-
cession in 1938, is in a healthy
condition.
Retail sales in Georgia, based
upon the assumption confirmed by
available data on department
stores, approximated the same
level in 1939 that existed in 1937.
Estimated figures follow by types
of stores: Food $122,000,000, cloth
ing $125,300,000, automotive, $84,-
500,000, gasoline and oil, $40,000,
000, furniture $24,000,000, gener
al stores $41,000,000, restaurants
$25,000,000, drug stores $24,200,
000, lumber-hardware $25,200,000,
other retail $37,500,000, whiskey
stores $9,500,000, total $558,200,
000 .
To this total may be added util
ity receipts of $49,250,000, bring
ing the total to $607,450,000.
Whiskey stores were not includ
ed in the Bureau of Census sur
vey in 1935, not being ‘legal at
that time in Georgia; hence the
figures bow> are based on State
tax receipts for the preceding year
and are below the $12,500,000 us
ually estimated as Georgia’s an
nual consumption of whiskey.
PAGE SEVEN
Two One-Act Plays
at Livingston School
“Lonely Lady’ ’and “Dates, Inc.”
two one-act plays, will be pre
sented by the junior class of Liv
ingston High School Friday night,
April 12, at 8:00 o’clock at the
school auditorium.
The casts of the two plays in
clude: Delores Bowden, Dorii
Polk, Doris Hicks, Jemina Stokes,
Bernice Hollingsworth, Kathryn
Fincher, Earl Hampton, George
Ramsey, Jr., Frank Christian,
James Cowan, Edward Treadwell,
Boyce Reynolds.
Hundreds of the homemade
lamp type brooders have been
built in Georgia this year. Plans
are available from local county
agents and home demonstration
agents.
April is a good month to put up
eggs in water glass for home use
next fall when eggs are scarce.