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Cotton Program
Useful to Soil
The new supplementary cotton
program gives Georgia farmers a
timely opportunity to convert
many more thousands of acres of
eroding land from cotton to soil
protecting crops, says T. L. As
bury, state SCS coordinator.
More than 10 per cent of the
cultivated land in the Cotton Belt
has become unfit for row-crop pro- I
duction because of erosion, accord
ing to Mr. Asbury. Much has been
accomplished already; and the sup
plementary cotton plan gives cot
ton farmers a chance to take even
more of this land out of cultivation
And put it into permanent, soil
conserving vegetation, such as
trees, grasses, kudzu, and lesped- ,
deza.
It is estimated the program will
effect a further reduction of some
2.000,000 acres, or about a million
bales, in cotton production this |
year. Some of the land taken out j
»f cotton production will be used
for gardens and some for pas
tures to produce more milk and
butter for home use, he declared.
But thousands of acres now in >
sotton are eroding so rapidly or
nave already lost so much topsoil j
that they should be retired to the
protection of permanent vegeta
tion, he said.
Of the 11-0 million acres of crop- j
end in the 10 leading cotton-pro- !
iucing states of the South, fully
10 million should he retired from
irom now cultivation. About 10
Million acres are relatively safe
from erosion, but 90 million acres
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country's tive service defense. in his v si
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1121 HONOR bound North American Aviation Corp.,
uating class is George S. Brown, of El Paso.
Ill Wearing his shako is Miss Alice with troops guarding returning workers.
Texas.
■i. Calhoun, of Alpine, N. J. o
must from now on be cultivated
under a system of conservation
farming that will safeguard it
from erostion.
The live-at-home feature of the
cotton stamp plan has a direct re
lation to erosion control work, the
state coordinator said.
A husband who stands silently
by while his wife aim misters a
tongue-lashing to a clerk, usually
gets the same thing at home.
One reason for writing an un
signed column is that you won’t
bave salesmen telling you how
well they like your stuff as a sell
ing point for a $13.87 suit.
Overgrazing Will
Ruin Kudzu Fields
Overgrazing and failure to sup- j
P ly necessary fertiIizer can easily
ruin well-established stands of j
kudzu, says T. C. Maurer, assistant
regional agronomist of the Soil
J Conservation Service.
Observations made by Mr.
Maurer in Georgia soil conserva
, tion . districts . . and old erosion con
j trol demonstration show
areas ov
ergrazing and lack of fertilizer as
the principal causes of failure to
maintain good stands of kudzu. He
reports instances of good fields of
kudzu being ruined in a single sea
son by overgrazing.
“Kudzu is a good grazing plant,
I but will not stand as close grazing
as the grasses,” Mr. Maurer says.
“The value of a good stand of
kudzu,” he continues, “is too great
to let it be endangered by over
grazing and lack of fertilizer. In
recent years some farmers have
realized as high as $100 an acre
from the sale of crowns for estab
lishing new fields of kudzu.
“Other farmers with well estab
lished stands that have been prop
•>r!y cared for are cutting around
two tons of hay per acre, which
represents a return of $25 a year,”
he points out. “This return,
equivalent to approximately 8 per
I cent interest on $300, and clearly
j shows that kudzu is an investment
well worth maintaining,”
Milledgeville Negro
Sets Income Record
Money in farming? Yes, of
course, provided you go about it
in the right way. That's the ex
perience of one Baldwin County
Negro farmer \yho realized a net
income of $550 from 56 acres of
| cropland last year.
I Thom Thomas planted 12 acres
| to cotton for a yield of over 10
j bales; and 40 acres of corn, inter
j planted with peas, to produce 800
bushels of corn and 105 bushels
of peas. -The remaining four acres
were devoted to truck crops.
Here's the amount of sales for
the crops produced: Cotton, $485
corn, $227; peas, $125; truck crops,
$70; and poultry products, $37—
a total gross income of $944.
Thomas _ renter . .
Farmer is a
paid $150 for rental of the farm.
He spent $243 for fertilizers,
other farm supplies, and labor,
This left $550 in clear cash—a
THE COVINGTON NEWS
A Letter From Our Congressman
United States Naval Hos
pi tal, Washington, D. C.
June H. 19-41.
My dear Constituents:
i I am am writing wrung vou this letter
.
while propped up n be “
slow rain^l'ail steadily outside,
This rain has been falling inter
mittently for three days and
am b lT?
iia t lor" you'
unless have had
some rain since last week, you
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need it badlv, and this is the
kind that does the most good-a
steady slow “drizzly-drazzly”
,, , , . , 53tX „ rntmr i with
those new ttm.ces we built this
year.
I went down to Newnan when
we adjourned over last weekend
to bring my family up to spend
the summer with me. The schools
there hhd closed and I wanted my
wife and children with me, but I
had been back only three days
j (sician when Dr Calver, the House Phy
for* ordered me to this hospit
| a i treatment. 1 had a big
boil or carbuncle which he said
I was too big for tlax seed poul-
1 ticcs to handle, so 1 am,
j | and they say i will if cr 1 here maintain only
a tew days longer
my present rate of progress.
They are treating me well. j
would be restless and anxious
but tor the kindness of
and the doctors and staff,
seems we never appreciate the
value of a modern hospital until
we or some member of our fami
ly goes there, I have been lying
here thinking of the hundreds ot
thousands of men, women and
children in the hospitals of Eu
rope suffering from wounds in
fl.cted by tile blood-thirsty mur
; derers who are trying to conquer
the world and impose their will
and “kultur” on the peaceful na
tions who want to be tree. If
were not tor Hitler and his
partners, our country could
building hospitals like this in ev
ery community instead of
ships and armament.
Besides visits from
in Washington, other
have been in to visit me. Sena
tor Barkley, who has been
some time, and who is convales-
good record for any farmer his
caliber,
Now Thomas wouldn’t have
known exactly what his etatus
was, had it not been for three of
his children carrying out record
projects in 4-H club work. They
put down all the out-go and in
come op the farm for their father,
and assisted in keeping their local
4 -h club active.
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-Grace Goodhue Coolidge,
widow of ITesiednt Calvin Ccolidge,
vegan her work this week as vice
chairman of the Fight for Freedom
Committee. This group, which has
national headquarters at Cincinnati
and New York, asks for kmnedDte
entry of the United Stales In the
war on Germany.
Sine? the President's death !n
1933, Mrs. Goolidge has lived in
quiet retirement. However, nation
al officers of the Committee, which
include B'shop Henry Wise Hobson
of Cincinnati as chairman and
Senator Carter Glass as honorary
chairman, induced her to join them
in furthering the aims of the Fight
for Fteeitem Committee,
“I joined in the crusade for our
American freedom, "Mrs. Cooiidge
said, at her home here, “because
with ihouoanu.q of other Americans
I have ne convinced that
Hitler is a direct and immediate
threat to our icrie/ edeaee. At a
ttme like the pres« t, cone of us
can afford the luxury of being in
doubt about it.”
Once Teacher of Deaf
Before she met the late Presi- ■
dent, Mrs. Cooiidge, then Grace
Goodhue, attended.and w as gradu
ated . , from the , University of Ver
mont. For three years prior to her
marriage, in 1905, she was a
. ^acher the Deaf at here. the She Clarke is School for
Mercersburg a trustee of
Academy, and has
able J™ aTFHstYldy.TnVanfcharm organizations
People’s and in young
j groups.
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cent now, came in and talked
about his college days at old Em
ory at Oxford, in Newnan Coun
ty, Georgia He is one of our
greatest Statesrmn and i \eiyone
1S g i ad that he will soon be
on the n oor 0 f the Senate to re
some his place as Democratic
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, w ,_ii.
man Michael Edelstein, who fell
dead in the House last week Jiat
a* te r making a speech While he
was here they brought me a big
vas e ot Uoweis aom the Captain
of the company in which I sew
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Dunlap, ot Gainesville Gear
gia, who was m town and learn
ed that I was here. So you see
I will have lo hasten out of this
hospital before I get spoiled with
attention.
1 came here atter ,he close ot
Mondays long session in which
House passed the Military
Establishment Appropriation Bill
for the year ending June 30, 1942.
amendment was offered by
Mr. Pace and was adopted almost
unanimously which provided that
no part of this great appropria
tion could be paid to any person
firm or corporation who “for as
long as ten days—fail to abide by
I the recommendation of the Nat
i° na l Defense Mediation Boat'd,
1 hls amendment will go a long
way toward preventing strikes in
defense industries.
Everyone here is very happy
over the Pi-esident's appointments
,
i to Supreme Court. Senator
Byrnes and Attorney General
Jackson are not only great law
yers, but both are men of wide
,
P ra ctical expeiience and pro
found knowledge of the American
way of life.
j I hope to be back in my seat in
the House next week.
Sincerely,
A Sidney Camp, M. C
DR. T. M. WISE
VETERINARIAN
T. M. Wise. New phone. Office
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Director Walter S. Brown, of the
Agricultural Extension Service,
week predicted F definite ini
provement in the diet and health
0 f Georgia’s rural and city people
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a consciousness for better nutri
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