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|e Farmers Lead Nation
For 3 Years In Tree
for am, pZ |i» Have led the
^nners
; .0 last three consecu
’ P lant,ng of aban
and understock
the. hni ii Extension Ser
rru . points out that
an H)0,000 forest tree
k, ■ 'll' planted on some
kcres of Georgia farmland
i bringing the total refor
| acreage in this state since
e a g to around 80,000 on
jver 64 million tfees are
>1 |».009 reforested
afi-es were
^■compared S increase with of 40,000 over acres 1,300
an
■ in five years.
“OWmzed ■eTires Ntorts to control
were started about
}0.’»e " and b y the be-
1841. there were 5,000,-
mwell That Ends
mil — in Elherton
rM PT.rIrTOK lime —“Buddy, have ya
t a for a bottle of castor
r
rhisl' as the approach of a pan
pjdlei n Elberton until Council
Coogled gave the culprit a
ose f his own medicine.”
r led the poor man to a
rner If llruggist and bought him a
ttle the liquid. The customer
1 ^Btore t) wanted dime a know what
t< the he had just
Hint to the tramp for medi
■irposes? Hily The “ailing” man
Apparently paid for the dose.
revised his ap
Bsfter this, for he was pick
■oUxers inter, “well-oiled”
■ with the medicine, which
■opened in his pocket.
rd of Thanks
rd of thanks from Mr. and
(9 P' j . tv, in S. city. to Oakley, the And 402 many, also E. the Marie many kind
■ who waited
£ on us dur
ir sickness. We appreciate
M ire than these few lines can
a love and God bless all of
Yours truly,'
H. S. Oakley.
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0000 acres of forests under
ganized or
protection from fires. This
compares with 3,000.000 acres ,n in
1935.
• “Last year nearly 36,000 farm
„„ ers cooperated in fire
and similar interest protection,
fested in was mani
wood preservation and
timber estimating,” the Extension
forester continued. “Some 2,100
farmers cooperated in treating
fence posts, and a large number of
farmers received assistance in
measuring and marketing their
timber.”
Four-H club boys and girls, car
'ying out forestry projects were
also responsible for a great deal
of progress, Mr. Carruth asserted
Through their work, he said near
ly 12,000 acres of forest seedling
were planted ,over 8,1000 acres
were improved, 135.000 acres were
protected .and 240 transplant beds
were constructed.
Farmers of the
State Records
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It would require a train 20 miles
long to deliver the limestone. 20
percent superphosphate, and win
ter legume seed secured by Georgia
farmers under the AAA grant-of
aid plan in 1940, T. R, Breedlove,
administrative officer of the Agri_
cultural Adjustment Administra
tion, estimates.
Mr. Breedlove points out that
70,000 tons of liming material were
distributed to some 10.000 state
farmers last year, compared to on
l.v 10.000 tons the year before. Also
17,500 tons of superphosphate
were obtained by farmers, in con
trast to 200 tons in 1939.
Much of the land receiving lime
and superphosphate was planted
to winter legumes, and this prac
tice resulted in the planting of over
10.000.000 pounds of Austrian win
ter pea seed under the AAA grant
of-aid plan, the AAA official said.
Farmers throughout the country
planted 38,000.000 pounds of Aus
trian peas under the same plan.
“Under the conservation mater
ials program, Georgia farmers may
obtain from the AAA such mater
ials as phosphate, ground lime
stone, winter legume seed, and in
some counties, terracing is offer
ed.” Mr. Breedlove explained.
“These materials are used in car
rying out certain conservation
practices. The cost of such mater
ials is deducted from payments
which farmers would otherwise
receive.”
Distribution of conservation ma
terials aids in carrying out the reg
ular practice provisions of the
AAA program, through which
farmers receive cash payments for
approved soil-building practices,
the Georgia AAA officer added.
Kudzu will yield around 1 1-2
to tons of hay per acre.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA,
Infant Daughter of
Mr., Mrs. Wilkerson
Dies at Porterdale
Deloris Diane Wilkerson, Infant
i daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
Wilkerson, died at the residence of
her parents, Tuesday, March 4th,
at Porterdale, The infant’s parents
are well known residents of Por
terdale and have many friends who
mourn their loss.
Funeral services were held at
Sardis Church Wednesday, March
5th, with interment in the Sardis
cemetery. Services were conducted
by Rev, L. M. Lyda. ,
Surviving, besides the parents,
are the grandparents and several
aunts and uncles. The News ex
tends sympathy to the bereaved
i family.
| Stauffacher and White service.
I Athletic
Program at
EMOTy-at-Oxford i S\ £ »
A feature of the Intra-mural |
Oxford athletic program of the Emory at j
system, under the direc
tion of Professor E. J. Brown, is
the All-Campus Boxing Tourna
ment that got under way yester- ,
day afternoon in the college gym- j
nasium. Quite a number of match- j J
es are scheduled for this after
noon beginnning at four o’clock,
Those interested in this type of ’
sport may afford themselves
some real pasttime by driving out
to the campus of the Junior Col
lege. All weights will be seen in
action, .
Dan Weigel, of Covington, is act
j n g as referee.
F. S. A. Woman
BUMS IJ • income I
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“A stitch in time saves nine” but
the skilled needle of Mrs. Hines
B. Whitfield, wife of a Jackson
county tenant purchase borrower
of the Farm Security Administra
tion, does more than that. It saves
the women of Jefferson and Jack
son county needless work and
worry with their sewing arc’
bring* her an average yearly in
come of $300.
“Take it to Mrs. Whitfield, she’ll
fix it for you” ace often-heard
word* in her community. Women
inadept at sewing or without the
time or patience keep Mrs. Whit
field flooded with requests for
work. Her bedroom with its multi
tude of dresses gowns, etc., resem
bles a fashion shop and the women
keep the road hot driving to and
from her home for fittings.
over Last $330 year at Mrs. her sewing Whitfield and made still j j
found time for her ever numerous I
farm duties. “That’s the trouble,”
she said, “I could double my work
and income, too, off my sewing if
it were possible for me to devote
my entire time to it, but that is
out of the question. I put my duties
to the home first and am glad in :
my spare time to make the little
extra money by sewing. Often I
work late at night and Mr. Whit
field worries about my eyes but
with our new electric lights I make I
out fine.”
The Whitfields recently moved
to their new 120-acre tenant pur
chase farm two miles south of Jef
ferson. There are four children.
three in the Jefferson high school
and one in a CCC camp. The eld
er daughter, Elizabeth, 16. inherits
her mother's talent with the needle
and has already won several 4-H
club prizes in sewing and clothing
The family has been on the FSA
program two years and according
^eeless perwsor Hie' best eSate ecords in "hat co ,nty
Wheeless estimates their their rash casn in- in
$3M Sw nr MrsWhiHieWearned boul malehed bi her
that made
bv by her her husband ‘ on his cotton
.
C hicken Slipper at (
ClllhhnilSP on
I hlirSday .
ravening
A chicken supper will be given
at the Salem clubhouse Thursday.
March 6th, from 7:00 to 9:00
o’clock. under the auspices of the
Women's Society-of Christian Ser
vice.
i FdlVard _ _ . PeaeheS _ . ,,
Smith, All-Emory
Star, Honored
, Edward Smith better known as
“Peaches” to his friends in this
community, was one of ... eight
payers selected for the Alt Em-
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d a' rector w at the Junior College.
" Peaohes ” Seated at Coving
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ll 18 ^membered that he was a
star player on the basketball team,
This year he played a regular po
Sition at forward on the B Com
pany team in the Intra - mural
program and showed up well.
Those selected for the letter E
by companies are: A company: P.
K. Dixion, Robert Bradley, and
Waite Horch; B. Company: Joe ,
Loadholtes and “Peaches” Smith;
C Company: Alfred Eide, Bill Giles
and Jack Hightower.
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Leaflet
Is Issued
Georgia farmers, realizing that
even the best of terraces must be
properly maintained if they are to
continue to function, will be inter
ested in a new U. S. Department
of Agriculture leaflet entitled,
“Plowing for Terrace Maintenance
in the South.”
Announcement that the leaflet is
available was made this week by
T. L. Asbury, state coordinator for
the Soil Conservation Service.
Copies may be obtained without
cost from local Soil Conservation
Service representatives or by writ
ing the Regional Office, Soil Con
servation Service, Spartanburg, S.
C., he said.
The new leaflet, which is pro
N>selv illustrated with photograph^
: and diagrams, discusses the subject
of terrace maintenance in a concise
[ ar) d simple manner, which will en
able farmers quickly to grasp the
fundamental principles of main
taining terraces by proper plowing. ,
“Many farmers think of terrace
maintenance as extra work,” the
leaflet points out. “Repairing
breaks and washes caused by over
topping of unconditioned terraces
is, of course, extra work, but or
dinary terrace plowing should be
considered a regular farm opera
tion similar to seedbed preparation
or the harvesting of crops.”
Both the one-land and the two
land method of terrace plowing are
described and brief discussion is
gj ven the use of one-way disk
tillers in terrace maintenance, with
accompanying illustrations.
The entire subject is covered in
less than 10 pages of reading mat
ter and illustrations, which can be
carefully studied in a few minutes’
time.
"Spring fnes are par ic
harmful in that tie> occur a
the time Dees are prepann
the growing season. ie con ini .
“If .he young tenriei u s ate
ed > growth is materia y a e
f or the entire year.”
ln ad d,t,on to being a menace
to timbered. E. D. Alexander. Ex
tensi ° n a * ron « n31st ’ ass f tS
harmful l ^ ,
fir6S ar< * ° results
Hg and burning of stubble u
in loss of organic matter and mtro
an d potash and. although are not lost, ^ph^d their bene
fits are concentrated on the area
where burned, he explained.
“When cotton stalks on one acre
are burned, nitrogen eqdivalent to
225 pounds of nitrate of soda is
lost,' Mr. Alexander stated n
the case of burning corn
about 100 pounds of nitrate of soda
is wasted, while burning of crab
grass results in the loss of nitrogen
equivalent to 75 pounds on each
acre burned.”
THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1941,
4 Mansfield Girls
Win Tournament
For the second year in succes
sion the Mansfield girls clinched
the Fifth District Basketball title
winning a thrilling game from
Farmer Stone Friday night, March
1, at Lithonia, The M. H. S. girls
were ahead 13 to 9 at the half.
The girls had won from Living
ston Friday night. 26 to 20.
Anne Patrick and Mae Harwell
each collected 9 points, while
Ewing for Palmer rang up 10
10 points. Emily Curtis fouled out
F P F “T3
Patrick 4 9 F Ewing CO ^
Gassaway 1 4 F Butler CO ”
Harwell 1 9 F Polk CD ‘
E. Curtis 4 ^ Summer’r 3
B. Curtis G Dial 3 1
Thomas 4 G
was 22 to 21.
| Mansfield 22 -Girls- Pal. Stone 21
ell;; Palmer Stone: Dobbs.
I Fire Prevention
Urged to Curb
Loss in Forests
•
In view of the spring fire season,
farmers and agricultural workers
were this week called upon by the
Agricultural Extension Service to
tighten up their efforts to curb
woods and field fires which are in
flicting great damage to timber and
crop land throughout the state.
Herbert Carruth forester for the
Agricultural Extension Service, de
claied that at this time of ,
the majority o s 1 ' .
nate from the burning of crop a
weed stubble m fields Preparatory
to spring Plowing. Fires set to burn
off broom sedge, cia gias»,
and corn stalks, hedge rows, and
terraces, often spread into adjoin
ing woods-where untold damage is
he said.
"Because a war-time demand
must make us e of every possible
source q{ supp has'purchased ; y the United States
Government 300,000
^ of Chi)ean nitrate, through
^ Defense Supplies Corporation,
as a strategic emergency material.
STUDENTS SEEK “LONGER
HOURS” AT VVHITEBURG
CARROLLTON. — School offi
cials at Whiteburg were flabber
gasted but pleased recently when j
a group of students insisted on
attending school on Saturday! Stu
dents finally were permitted to
remain at their intributing new
course in photography six days a
week, but instructors had to put
their foot ddwn when a number
began begging for Sunday after
noon classes!
The photography study is a part
of the Occupational Guidance
course in the eighth grade, wherein
students study possible occupa
tions open to future workers. The
scholars chipped in nickels and
dimes to buy developing and print
ing equipment and are spending 1
all their spare time in taking pic
tures of each other.
surance that he is not wholly for
gotten . . . The work has borne
down upon us very heavily this
week and I have been alone most
of the time with Miss D in the af
ternoon, and it’s been long after
five before I could leave . . The
.
other night, five of us, all Ameri
can girls, went down to the Gave
j die Nord to help give*out bags to
the French soldiers, both coming
in and going out. It is a sort of
j place kept by Madam C and the
: soldiers can sleep there and have
something to eat before they leave!
. . Often there is someone there:
j to greet and look after their com
I fort and even to sing to them. We
vve,a made useful at once, and
soon were serving the sandwiches,
and offering whatever was pro
vided for their refreshment. It
was wonderful to do it, one’s heart
swelled. Those poor men some
Home Orchard for
All FSA Families
A home orchard for every FSA
family in Georgia is one of the
current objectives of the Farm
Security Administration, it was an
nounced this week by R. F. Whel
chel. state farm management spe
cialist. «
“There has been a statewide neg
lect of home orchards since 1900,”
Mr. Whelchel said, “and to me the
situation is deplorable for I con
sider a good orchard the equal
in importance to garden and truck
patches. Too many Georgia families
are buying canned fruits and vege
tables which aren't as nutritious
and are expensive when they have
to be bought.
“Every farmer in this state, both
FSA and others, who attempts to
live at home would profit from a
home orchard, well cared for, and
it should be the aim of every
Georgia agricultural agency to see
that this is brought about.”
Greene county was the first to
get under way with the “orchard
per family program, where 2.880
trees have been set on 320 FSA
farms. The trees, nine to the or
chard, were . bought cooperatively
from a large Georgia nursery and
consists of one apple, one pear,
and seven peach trees. All the trees
nave been planted and were from
two to three years old and from
four to five feet high.
j overdid the thing completely. How
could it be the right way to grab
the mens caps to try them on,
caper around, and to hug a sol
dier, as if such forwardness could
be really welcome to anyone, or
prove to the soldiers true appre
ciation and interest? So many
have come over here, on the last
boats, ostensibly to see how the
Red Cross money is being spent,
declaring that “They are going
back to tell the people and to
raise more.” We don't approve of
such men. Certainly there are a
number of them far from
World Sales of
“Chilean Nitrate ”
World sales of Chilean nitrate
of soda for the year ended June
1940 am0 unted to 1.984,833
^ whjch js the largest
- reeent according t0
^ n year ,
the annual review published today
^ Cor _
tjon Shipmentg to L ,iited
whjch js the iarg _
est single market, amounted to
720,709 tons after deducing trans
shipments to other countries. The
bulk of all these shipments was
^ agricultural purposes.
“World sales can hardly stay at
t bis level in the currel year, how
_„er» the Review states “because
w.r the sreater
p {hp European market. On
the other hand, commerical sales
to the United States and other
. exDec ted to increase.
no difficuUy is anticipated in
for supplies to meet any
from American farmers.
sive, and we do not think that sort
are suitable for an “investigating”
committee. We think they had far
better enlist, stop all such papers,
and F1GHT1 It is th army that
needs them, not the Red ross. True
Blue Americans, with fighting
blood in them, could not come ov
er, see what we see, hear what we
hear and not GRAB GUNS instead
of men’s hats and SHOOT instead
of hugging and dancing with *
view to amuse the brave boys of
France “on leave for a few days
only. Such heaps of men too, seem
to have come to amuse themselves
over here in ways one does not
admire. I have seen them on the
Champs Elyces sitting on benches 1
with their arms around some of
the little French girls, and it does
not look like what we expect, and
ca care to witness in any of our
Americans, who are here appar
ently to aid and further the splen
did work so many of our country-
Georgia Enterprise, Est, 1864
The Covington Star, Est. 1874
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it is an Infirmary now, very lone
some and with no one to write
him. As no one else seemed in
clined to take him, I promptly of
fered. Miss D at the Alcazar is
awfully kind and she gave me a
comfort bag to send to him. I
mailed it yesterday and hope it
will reach him, and be some as-
were still muddy and so weary,
having just come in, and others
were bravely going out. They were
so bashful, even backward at first
in faking from us what we of
fered. But always so pleased and
grateful and they never failed to
thank us. It was noticeable that,
! f one was skipped in a single
thing he felt badly, and if we saw
it. I assure you we hastened to
modify that disappointment. There
j were about a dozen Red Cross
there, and I did not feel at all
proud of them, or pleased with the
lack of tact some of our
riots showed. They tried to be un
duly familiar and act on a level,
as they evidently but
could not have space to name . , .
This is the spirit we do not find
often . . . God has given them the
ability to lead ... to work . , . and
oh well ... to give all the credil
to others . . . but we are scared to
death about giving them this cred
it . . , for we will hear from them
about it before the ink is cold on
this paper . . . and just remembei
you have not joined this^knit
ting-sewing and crocheting group
... you must do just that . . . in
order that you may have a part in
making garments for weary sol
diers ... and homeless people aj
well as those in the hospital .
but my new broom sez . . . YOU
BETTER BE
SWEEPIN’ UP.
Yield of crops have been doub
led and tripled due to the use of
crimson clover as a green manure.
Kudzu is a perennial and has
to be planted only once.
Tax Return Notice!
Tax books are open from February
1st to May 1st for receiving State and
County Tax Returns. All who desire ex
emption must make return each year and
sign affidavit by April 1st or they will be
considered as having waived their right
of exemption.
Please make your returns promptly.
EVA STEPHENSON
Tax Receiver.
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SECOND SECTION OF
YOUR COUNTY
NEWSPAPER
Number 10
No. IS Is Important
To Douglas Man
DOUGLAS.—County Commis
sioner Noah E. Holton isn’t super
stitious about the number 13, Only
good things happen to him on
the thirteenth of the month.
To begin with, Mr. Holton's
birthday is September 13. The
date of his wedding anniversary
is the thirteenth of the follow
ing month.
He has a son whose birth date is
also September 13. He qualified
to enter the race for county com
missioner on December 13. On last
February 13, he signed the con
tract for the state convict camp
in Coffee County; and recently,
under Mr. Holton's authority, work
was begun on a 13-mile stretch of
road between Douglas and Axson.
men and women are doing. I JUST
DON’T THINK THEY FIT IN. To
night we are going over to some
place by the river to help with
the blind soldiers. I don’t know
what we are going to do yet, but
we have been asked to come, and
I love doing these things. hTe men
do appreciate it so. I wish you
could have seen these French soD
diers the other night with the
notes from the comfort bags. We
had to translate the notes, and
spell out the addresses. It was a
wonderful experience ... In fact
they eall are, and I have you to
thank for them, which I do with
all my heart.”
Next week we hope to give you
news in this column from Mrs.
Gray that came in today. She has
given of herself for the Master
and all her friends in Newton
County are praying that she will
be safe and the Heavenly Father
will be very near her . . and that
,
little family of hers . . . and I am
sure that sister . . . Mrs. Boiton,
will give the Office Boy a “catt
ing down” for saying this ... but
we have to out with it . . Mrs.
Bolton is doing in Newton County
as much as her Foster Sister did
abroad . . . she inspired the knit
ting and sewing here for British
... she has given of herself, for' tier
money, her time, her all this
j work . . . we love her all the iron
for it . yet she calls the Office
Boy as we go to press and says
she gave Mrs. Hay a little notice
about the wonderful work the
people of Newton County have
done (you will see the article else
where in the paper) but she wants
Mrs. C. C. King, Mrs. Hnry Dur
den and Mrs. J. E. Hutchins tc
have much credit for this. Tney
deserve much credit . . . they alsc
have given of .hemselves unstint
ingly . . , each one of them knows
how other women of the County
have knit, crocheted, and made
garments and not one of these
three want to be mentioned a hav
ing done anything . . . and Oh,
no, Mrs. Bolton takes no credil
. . . they, the four of them want all
the credit to go to the J