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County Agent’s Column
.. BY ED HUNT
FAST START FOR LAWNS
How would you like to get
▼our lawn off to a fast growing
start this spring? If you do. pro
per fertilization with right fertili
zer should do the pick.
For an established lawn, you
should apply either a 6-12-12 or
5-16-10 commercial fertilizer —-
15 to 20 pounds per thousand
square feet of lawn area — as
soon as the grass begins to grow.
For best results, apply when
grass is dry and water down
thoroughly.
To get a new lawn started, you
should prepare the soil well and
get a soil test to determine the
type- of fertilizer to use. When
establishing a new lawn, the rate
of fertilization should be increas
ed to about 30 to 45 pounds per
thousand square feet of lawn area.
This summer if your lawn be
gins to lose its color, an applica
tion of nitrogen will be helpful.
But, of course, this will depend on
how.much mowing you will wan'
to do. Your county agent can!
give* you more information on car
ing for lawns.
EGG SHORT COURSE . I
A major problem facing poul-.
try men these days is low egg
prices. What solution is there to
this problem?
To discuss just such problems
as low egg prices and others fac
ing the industry, an Egg Produc- 1
tion Short Course for Georgia 1
poultrymen will be held March 16
at the University of Georgia in
the auditorium of the School of 1
Veterinary Medicine.
The program for the short <
course will be divided into two
main areas — disease control and
marketing. Some of the outstand- <
ing speakers on the program will 1
have some definite ideas to be i
proposed as helpful changes in 1
the egg industry. If you’re interest- s
ed in attending this meeting, then [
check with your county agent for f
details. j
ORCHARD DEPRECIATION <
To develop an orchard — one ’
of peach trees, pecan, apples, or 1
some other crop — you must
make a capital investment. And,
as you may know, an orchard will
not last for ever. Do you allow
any depreciation for income tax
purposes on your orchard?
Although the life of an orchard
may be somewhat indefinite, it
can be determined as accurately
as the probable life of other tangi
ble property, such as buildings.
The capital needed for develop-1
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SECOND PRODUCTION SALE
AT
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KELLY, GEORGIA
er Ray Brockinton, Sale Manager, Box 500, Macon Ga.
(Largest Coverage Any Weekly In The State)
I ing an orchard equals the expen
] ditures necessary to bring orchard
trees to a producing stage.
*. The basis for computing the
’ depreciation is your capital expen
*! diture — which is, as just men
' ’ tioned. the cost of bringing the
orchard to an income-producmg
1 stage. R: te of depreciation for
r the orchard is determined by the
' average productive life of t h e
‘ - trees under normal conditions
’ after they have reached this in-
come-producing stage. Are you
1 allowing for depreciation of your
1 1 orchard when making out your in
! come tax. If not, you may find
1 you can save monev by doing so.
1 POULTRY CARCASS REGULA.
’ I TION
Commercial poultrymen In the
j state have just about two weeks
. now to get disposal pits or incine
rators built to comply with the
State Department of Agriculture's
“Poultry Carcasses Regulation”
which goes into effect April Ist.
The regulation will apply to farms
producing turkeys, hatching eggs
and commercial eggs or broilers.
The new regulation was approv
ied recently by Commissioner of
| Agriculture Phil Campbell. The
regulation states that no poultry
processing plant shall purchase
। poultry from any grower unless
the grower can submit proof of
compliance with the regulation.
The Commissioner will issue a
certificate of compliance to each
grower when a disposal pit is pro
vided that meets the requirements.
Anyone wanting a simple plan
for a disposal pit which complies
with the law can contact their
county agent.
ALFALFA WEEVIL CONTROL <
The alfalfa weevil was first found
damaging alfalfa in Georgia in
1958. It has been a pest of alfalfa
in the west for more than 50 years
but did not move into the eastern
states until 1952. According to re
ports from other areas, damage
from this insect can be expected
year after year once a field be
comes infested. This insect caused
considerable trouble in Newton
County during 1959. If you are an
alfalfa producer please check the
new control. j
THE INSECT
The adult alfalfa weevil is a snout,
beetle about % of an inch long.
At first, the adult is light brown
1 with a broad, dark stripe running
t more than halfway down the back
' from the head. As the weevils grow
■ older, they become dark or almost
. black.
•I The eggs are laid in die green
Census Dates
Back to 'William
The Conqueror'
The census taker is getting
more personal all the time.
The ancient Romans simply
counted noses and property,
chiefly for the purpose of tax
ation, according to World Book
Encyclopedia.
William the Conqueror com
piled a little more information
on who - owned - what when
he decided to spread some pay
ola, in the form of land, among
his followers ... at the expense
of the nobility. When his of
ficials finished adding up t h e
English people and their pos
sessions in 1086, they had two
huge volumes, called the Do
mesday Book.
European cities kept to the
bare facts w’hen they began to
count their population in the
1400’s and 1500’s. The first
such count was taken in Nu
remberg, Germany, in 1449.
Three hundred years later
Sweden compiled the first na
tional census, based on parish
records.
In 1790 the fledgling U. S
government sent out 17 mar
shals and a few hundred as
sistants to count the population
in order to provide a basis for
taxing the states and to deter
mine the number of representa
tives they would have in Con
gress.
The first great invasion of
privacy occurred in 1850, when
census takers began to write
down the names of all people
in the country. They also clas
sified the population accord
ing to age, sex. race and place
of birth.
Soon the “enumerators” were
poking their noses into such
matters as occupation, educa- ■
tion, income, marital status and i
the fertility of women. In 1950
they wanted to know about!
your plumbing.
This year they’re going to
find out whether you’re really
keeping up with the Joneses. A
sample of the population will
be asked whether they own a
washing machine, a clothes dry
pr, a good freezer and air con-
I ditioning. . . and the number of
cars in the family garage.
One-third of the U. S. work
force is employed in firms
with fewer than 50 employees.
stems of the alfalfa plants. In
( warm weather the eggs hatch in
one to two weeks into tiny, yellow
larvae with shiny, black heads.
These larvae feed on the leaves
and buds and, as they grow, be
come green with a white stripe'
down the middle of the back. The
larvae feed for three to four weeks I
and are about % of an inch long
when full grown.
Mature larvae spin cocoons on
the plants or on leaves and other;
trash on the ground. New adult
weevils emerge from these cocoons I
in one to two weeks. The young j
adults are Inactive during the
summer and mate in the fall or the
following spring. There is one and
possibly a partial second gener
ation per year.
THE DAMAGE
Most of the damage is caused |
by the feeding of the larvae on the
leaves and buds of alfalfa. The
leaves are skeletonized by this
feeding and take on a grayish
white cast as they dry up. This
gives severely damaged fields a
frosted appearance.
The alfalfa weevil is capable of
destroying the first cutting and
delaying the growth and reducing
the yield of the second cutting
Much of the stand may be killed
in heavily infested fields.
THE CONTROL
Heptachlor can no longer be rec
ommended for alfalfa weevil con
trol due to the Food and Drug Ad
ministration ruling setting a zero
tolerance for this insecticide on
alfalfa. No insecticide can be rec
ommended for soil application at I
this time.
The best suggestion for control
that can be made under the pres
ent restrictions is for the use of
malathion as a foliage treatment.
When most of the plants show some
feeding injury, apply a spray con
taining 14 pints of 57 per cent 1
malathion emulsifiable concentrate
'(containing 5 pounds actual mal-’
athion per gallon) in enough water
to cover one acre. Low-pressure,
low-gallonage sprayers can be used
satisfactorily with wettable pow
I ders.
Dusts can be used if spray equip-'
: ment is not available although
sprays are more effective. Use i
20-25 pounds of a 5 per cent dust
per acre. Be sure that the dust
that you use does not contain DDT. j
More than one application of mal- j
athion may be necessary. Watch |
alfalfa closely for signs of damage.
, If larvae are numerous at the time
of the first cutting, inspect the new
second growth frequently and apply
insecticide if appreciable feeding
, damage is found.
Do not cut or graze within 7 days
of treatment.
IMPORTANT
Be sure to calibrate the equip
ment to be used for the application
should be adjusted so that the des
ired ajpovnt of insecticide will be
applied' to each acre.
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NEWTON COUNTY
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