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PAGE SIXTEEN
County HD Agent's Column
By ED HUNT
(County Agent)
Eggs, Trees and Money
A medium-sized egg is worth
roughly five cents delivered.
A 12-inch pine tree is worth
about $2.40 as it stands in the
woods. Although we carefully
eount our five-cent eggs before
selling them, many of us sell
two-dollar trees without hav
ing any idea of how many we
have to sell. A timber buyer
makes a point of knowing what i
he is buying, and as any good
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business man does, he buys for
as little as possible.
It i up to you, as grower and
seller, to bargain for the top
i price your timber will bring.
I In order to bargain effectively,
i you must know the amount of
[ timber you have to sell and its
| approximate value.
i Don’t save nickels and throw
’ away dollars. Have your tim
i ber measured before you sell.
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Jack of All Trades
To succeed a dairyman has
ito be skilled at many things.
’ He must be a good “cow man,”
sure, but he also must oe a good
agronomist and manager. What
the dairyman does, actually, is
use his cows to market a large
part of the crops — pasture,
hay, silage, and grain — pro
duced on his land. Milk produc
tion involves crop production
and farm management as well
as developing and properly
feeding and caring for milk
cows.
As our Extension dairymen
often point out, milk production
is most efficient when the yields
and quality of both the feed
crops produced from the land
I and the milk produced from
the cows are high. This most
generally results in a lower cost
of milk production.
For the future, greater effi
ciency will be the Georgia
dairyman's watchword. Obtain
ing records of production of the
crops and of each cow and us
ing this information as a guide
to improving practices are the
keys to greater efficiency.
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Mastitis Control
Healthy cows, naturally are
the most efficient producers. A
recent report of research from
the National Institute of Re
search in Dairying at Reading,
England, shows that the early
part of a cow’s dry period is
the most critical time in regard
to mastitis infection. F. H.
Dodd, after working with near
ly 100 cows, reported that more
cows become infected with mas
titis in the first 21 days of the
dry period than in the whole
of the preceding lactation.
His work indicated that it
does not seem important wheth
er the cow is dried off quickly
or slowly so far as mastitis
i infections are concerned. How
ever, the more milk the cow
is giving when she is dried off,
j the greater are the chances for
। infection. Dodd said it appears
' that reducing feed intake of
cows in heavy production at
drying-off time is important
in helping to reduce the amount
of milk the cow gives before
she is dried off.
Dodd also suggested that dip
ping the ends of the teats in a
5 percent tincture of iodine so
lution twice in a 24-hour period
just after the last milking might
be effective. He reported even
better results when the iodine
dipping was combined with the
infusion of 100,000 units of pen-
I icillin after the last milking.
Dodd emphasized that treat
ing animals during the dry per
iod will not completely cure
mastitis in dairy herds, but
should help to reduce some in
fections.
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Attention, all poultry grow
ers and feed mixers! University
of Georgia Scientists Warn of
Crotalaria Seed Poisoning in
Poultry.
During the past few weeks a
new disease threat has been
determined by the staff of the
Poultry Disease Research Cen
ter of the College Experiment
Station and the Poultry Diag
nostic Laboratory of the School
of Veterinary Medicine at Ath
ens. In laying flocks the birds
stop laying and die at a rapid
THE COVINGTON NEWS
Farm Acres May
Be Measured In
Advance Planting
Any farmer who wants to be
entirely sure of compliance
with allotments on his 1959
crops may have the acreage
measured in advance of plant
ing, according to John F. Brad
ley, Administrative Officer of
State Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation Committee.
This service, which is offered to
all producers of allotment crops,
is called “premeasurement.”
Every year, Mr. Bradley said,
there are some farmers who
either exceed or underplant
their allotments through inac
curate measurement on their
own part or because of incor
rect information about the size
of permanent fields. In the case
of overplanting, this can often
cause unnecessary expense for
fertilizer, seed, and soil treat
ment. Underplanting could
cause loss of farm income.
A farmer who uses premea
surement service on his farm
pays to have the work done by
regular ASC performance re
porters. The premeasured acre
age will be accepted as the offi
cial measured acreage for all
ASC purposes provided the
farmer plants the measured
acreage and provided no obvi
ous error is made. A later trip
will be made to the farm to de
termine that these requirements
have been met, but in most
cases an additional survey will
not be required.
Premeasurement may be re
quested by application to the
County ASC Office by not lat
er than March 20, 1959. The
farmer will be asked at the
time of application to deposit
sufficient funds to cover the
cost of the work.
Foresters at the Agricultural
Extension Service cite getting
good forest management on 60
percent of the forest land in
small ownerships as one of the
I pressing problems.
rate. In growing birds fluid ac
cumulates in the abdominal
cavity and death losses and
stunting are serious.
Examination of the possible
factors associated with affected
flocks has demonstrated this
condition to be due to the pres
ence of crotalaria seed in the
feed, say Drs. S. C. Schmittle
and J. T. Tumlin. They are
small — slightly less than 3/16
of an inch — flat, hard, mitten
shaped seed and vary in color
from green to black.
The source of the seed re
sults from the use of crotalaria
plants in corn. Corn harvested
in the ear will not be mixed
with the crotalaria seeds. How
ever, when the corn is COM
BINED, crotalaria seed are in
cluded.
Since crotalaria seed are high
ly toxic to many types of live
stock, including poultry, Drs.
Schmittle and Tumlin strongly
urge that all lots of corn be
carefully examined for the pres
ence of these seed. If crotalaria
seed are found, they should be
separated from the shelled corn
with a No. 14 (14/64 round
hole) cleaning screen before it
is used in livestock feed.
In corn fields containing cro
talaria plants, the corn should
be picked in the ear rather than
combined to avoid including
the seed in the harvest.
Growing Grass
On Coastal Bermuda grass,
good management requires
early application of basic fertil
izer. Take soil samples now, if
you haven’t already, to see if
land needs 4-12-12, 5-10-15, or
0-10-20. Also, the soil may need
an application of lime. The soil
test will determine this.
General fertilizer recom
mendations for Coastal are 500
pounds of 4-12-12, 5-10-15 or
0-10-20. Nitrogen fertilizer
should be applied at the rate
of 100 to 200 pounds of actual
nitrogen per acre in split appli
cations. The 200 pounds of ac
tual nitrogen is for both graz
ing and hay, or for hay produc
tion alone.
The basic fertilizer should be
applied at once for early, vig
orous growth of Coastal Ber
muda. Early applications of ni
trogen will stimulate spring
growth of Coastal Bermuda.
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Ag College Alumni
Members of the College of
Agriculture Alumni Association
[are holding district meetings
throughout the state in Janu
ary and February. The meeting
for this Congressional district
will be held January 26 at
Stuckey Auditorium, Ga. Ex
; periment Stations in Griffin,
I Ga.
The meeting will begin at
7:00 p.m. All person who have
attended the University of
Georgia College of Agriculture,
whether they are members of
the Association or not, are urg
ed to attend. The Association
needs the support of every
alumnus in order to build a
better College of Agriculture.
Bishop Moore
Appointed To
Asia Ch. Post
Bishop Arthur J. Moore, epis
copal head of Georgia Metho
dism, has been appointed by
the Council of Bishops of The
Methodist Churc h to the super
vision of thv Taiwan-Hong-
Kong Area to succeed Bishop
Ralph A. Ward, who died in
Hong Kong December 11.
These duties will be in addi
tion to Bishop Moore’s continu
ing service in the Atlanta Area.
The assignment is effective un
til the General Conference
meets in May, 1960.
When questioned concerning
this new assignment, Bishop
Moore said: “This appointment
confers a great privilege, but
it also imposes an overwhelm
ing responsibility. The privilege
grows out of the fact that for
nearly eight years, I served as
Bishop in China with head
quarters in Shanghai.
“Many of the leaders whom
I knew and labored with fled
to Formosa with Generalissimo
Chiang Kai Shek and are now
conspicuous leaders both in gov
ernment and The Methodist
Church there. Many others are
in Hong Kong. I shall therefore
renew old friendships and work
with Chinese Methodists and
American missionaries with
whom I am acquainted.”
Os the Area in which he will
be working to keep churches
and schools operating, Bishop
Moore said, “It is not easy to
describe what is taking place
either on the mainland of China
or in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Titantic forces are locked in a
frightful struggle and the im
plications of the present situa
tion both for Christianity and
for Democracy are beyond easy
description.
“The Christian constituency
on Taiwan are struggling, not
only to keep the church vigor
ous, but for the preservation of
the magnificent spiritual culture
which characterized the old
China. It would be a nerveless
Christianity that had no under
standing or help in such a
crises.
“Some of us do not believe
atheistic communism will last
forever on the mainland; and
we are laboring to keep the
church united, strong and ready
for whatever the future brings.
It is a time of turbulence and
revolution in much of Asia, and
a faint hearted Christianity will
not suffice. Certainly there can
be no faltering in the face of
these black forces. Whatever
the cost the church must be
kept creative and redemptive.
“I am no longer a young man,
but whatever I can do to keep
the church in the vanguard of
true enlightenment and prog
ress, I shall do willingly. Con
sistent then with my many con
tinuing responsibilities here in
Georgia, I shall go and do my
very best.”
He said it is too early to know
his plans for the discharge of
these new duties but he will
probably make a hurried trip
early in the New Year and re
turn for a more extended stay
in July and August.
8,000 Grant To
Aid Pastures &
Corn Growers
Atlanta, Ga. — A grant of
$2,000 has been made by the
National Plant Food Institute to
the Agronomy Department of
Georgia Agricultural Exten
sion Service. University of
Georgia, at Athens, for the dem
onstration of the value of using
recommended rates of mixed
fertilizer and nitrogen on pas
tures and corn, Dr. Samuel L.
Tisdale, Southeastern Regional
Director of the Institute, an
nounced today.
Under the cooperative pro
ject, Dr. Tisdale explained that
approximately twenty-six fer
tility demonstrations will be
established in Georgia on two
crops—pastures and corn, with
the size of individual demon
strations being limited to a
maximum of ten acres.
“Cooperating farmers in the
; project will be reimbursed for
fertilizer used on the demon
strations based on soil test re
commendations, over and above
the fertilizer that normally,
would be applied.” he said.
Dr. Russell Coleman, Execu- I
five Vice President of the In
stitute, said he was confident
that the project would result in
a “practical demonstration of
how fertilizer can be used un
der soil test recommendations to
increase the net income of Geor
gia iarmets.”
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