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Thursday, March 2, 1961
County Agents Column
By Ed Hunt
Soybean—A Good Carop
On most Newton County
farms, soybeans can be an ex
cellent means of boosting cash
income.
They can be planted after
corn, cotton, tobacco, and pea
nuts, so they won’t interfere
with these crops. They can be
harvested with equipment used
for small grain and corn. Very
little labor is required.
Furthermore, they cm be
substituted for other cash crops
now under acreage restrictions.
Soybeans have climatic and
soil adaptations similar to corn.
Poor soils and eroded clay or
badly drained areas should be
avoided.
Soybeans should not be
planted too early. Usually, mid
May is a good planting time in
Newton County. Drop by my
office for an instruction sheet
giving recommendations for
best varieties, fertilizer and
lime practices, and planting
instructions.
Determining Lime Needs
Determining the lime needs
of the soil is one of the rea
sons soil tests are taken on the
farm.
Lime is needed in the soil
for various reasons. It supplies
calcium and sometimes magne
sium. This is essential for plant
growth. It unlocks soil ferti
li'y, especially phosphate. It
stirs up microbes—those tiny
organisms that give life to the
soil. Lime also sweetens the
soil by reducing soil acidity.
Georgia’s expanding live
stock program makes liming of
the soil most important. Cat
tle grown on lime-rich soils
are healthy and have strong
bones.
Cattle And Hog Prices
Cattle and hog prices are ex
pected to be fairly steady and
favorable for the next months
but cattle and hog producers
should watch market prices
and outlook very carefully.
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There are some factors which
■ will affect the markets during
• the last half of the year. In
i creased number of cattle on
feed and a larger pig farrow
• ing at this time will cause the
change. Any sizeable increase
; in slaughter will definitely push
■ prices down.
Buying Seed
The supply of seed for spring
' planting will be adequate for
most crops, but farmers buy
ing seed should first decide on
a recommended variety and
then read the seed tag to de
termine the quality of seed be
ing bought.
Reading the seed tag is the
only way to know what’s in
the bag. When buying seed you
also should request a bill of
sale, showing lot number, kind
of seed and amount purchased.
This information is required in
case there is some question
about the seed at a later date.
DHIA Cows
Research figures show that
the average cow on Dairy Herd
Improvement Association test
ing has increased 42 percent in
milk produced per year.
While the DHIA cow increased
42 Percent in production, all
cows increased only 20 percent
in milk produced per year.
New Seedling Harvester
A new multi-row pine seed
ling harvester is now being
perfected at the University of
Georgia’s College Experiment
Station —a development which
should speed up the reforesta
tion program in the state.
The new harvester was de
veloped by Dr. C. E. Rice, an
Agricultural Engineer at the
University. The machine has
met all standards for such a
seedling harvester prescribed
by the Georgia Forestry Com
mission.
Reports indicate that it is
quite a labor-saving device.
Assured Os Results)
Nursery tests show the machine
harvested a bed of eight rows
of pine seedlings at a rate of
one-half mile per hour. The
labor requirement was eight
man hours per acre compared
with the 200 manhours neces
sary for manual lifting of seed
lings.
Dr. Rice also sees the possi
bilities for the adaption of the
machine’s principles to the
harvesting of commercial crops
of certain vegetable plants and
vegetables.
Poultry Added To
School Lunches;
Russell Pleased
Senator Russell has hailed
the addition of poultry to the
National School Lunch Pro
gram as a “significant ad
vance” in the effort to expand
consumption of broiler chick
ens.
The Georgia Senator com
mended Agriculture Secretary
Orville Freeman on the deci
sion to purchase about five mil
lion pounds of cut-up young
Chickens for distribution
throughout the nation under
the School Lunch Act.
“While the initial amount
the Department plans to pur
chase is very small, it still
in the campaign to expand pre
sent markets and develop new
ones for the growing broiler
industry,” Russell said.
Russell had strongly urged
that poultry meat be included
in the School Lunch Program.
This was the first time that the
Department of Agriculture had
done so.
Georgia is the nation’s lead
ing broiler producer, account
ing for one-sixth of the total
national production last year.
Broilers are also the state’s
major source of farm income,
amounting to more than $l7O
million in 1960.
Forty percent of employed
wives whose husbands were in
professional, clerical, and ser
vice jobs were working in the
same occupation group as their
spouses in March of last year,
the U. S. Labor Department’s
Bureau of Labor Statistics re
ports.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
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BUY GIRL SCOUT COOKIES
NOW ON SALE
Girl Scout Cookie Sale Is
Underway In Newton County
Girl Scouts in Newton Coun
ty are currently selling cook
ies in their annual drive to
raise funds for their program
in Covington and the county.
Members of the Senior Girl
Scout Troop are: Ann Patrick,
Miriam Gardner, Jane Rich
ardson, Day Morcock, Lauree
Cook and Bede Campbell. The
leaders are: Mrs. James Gard
ner Jr. and Mrs. S. R. Camp
bell.
All Girl Scouts will be sell
ing. Your support will be ap
preciated.
Say “Girl Scouts” and im
mediately a picture of weli
scrubbed young faces, tidy uni
forms, and the words Camping
and Cookies come to mind.
Right now the word Cookies
is probably uppermost, because
the Greater Atlanta Girl Scout
annual cookie sale, which open
ed Tuesday, and runs through
Friday, March 8, will bring
these young ladies calling on
practically every home in Ful
ton, DeKalb, Clayton, Douglas,
Newton, Paulding and Rock
dale Counties.
Camping is intimately asso
ciated with it too for the cook
ie sale raises money to help
establish, maintain, equip and
improve the Girl Scout Camps
at Timber Ridge, Allatoona and
Lovejoy as well as day camps
throughout the seven county
area. Right now the Girl Scouts
are planning a far reaching
10-year program of improve
ment to facilities and equip
ment.
But there is another word
that starts with “C” that is of
day-in and day-out importance
to Girl Scouts and the com
munity. That word is “Coun-
County Dress
Revue Winners
Are Announced
The County Dress Revue
featuring Home Demonstration
Clubs and 4-H Club members
was held at the Legion Home,
Friday, February 24th, 2:30
PM.
First and second place win
ners in the Adult Group were
as follows:
House Dress Group — Mrs.
J. M. Aiken. Ist; Mrs. J. T.
Owens, Sr., 2nd.
Tailored. Street or Church
Group—Mrs. E. M. McCart,
Ist: Mrs. C. H. Berry, Jr.. 2nd;
Coats, Suits and Party Dress
Group— Mrs. J. S. Piper, Ist:
Mrs. H. A. Casey. 2nd.
The County Winner was
Mrs. J. M. Aiken. Hays District
Club, who will attend Rock
Eagle. Mrs. E. M. McCart,
Heard Mixon Club was the al
ternate winner.
In the 4-H Group, the fol
lowing place First and second:
Senior, Mary Della Robert
son, Ist; Gail Duncan, 2nd.
Junior, Brenda L. Marable.
Ist.
Cloverleaf. Linda Standard,
Ist: Sara Beth Cooper, 2nd.
The following won Red and
Blue Awards:
Senior — Betty Kent. Red;
Mary D Robertson. Blue; Lau
ra Lee Evans. Red; Gail Dun
can, Blue: Carol Hitchcock,
Red.
Junior —Brenda Lou Mara
ble. Blue.
Cloverleaf — Bonnie Knight.
Blue; Becky Banks, Red: Dot
tie McKay, Blue: Sandra
Brown, Red Susan Stubbs,
Blue: Linda Standard, Blue.
Sara Beth Cooper. Blue:
Joyce White. Red: Marguerite
Allgood. Red; Kathy Edwards.
Red: E'eanor Am Klimasze
wski, Blue.
I cil” for all the 12,000 Girl
Scouts and Brownies and thei. -
' 4.000 leaders and affiliated
adults are members of the
Greater Atlanta Girl Scout
Council. Through the Council,
, leaders are trained and Girl
Scouting skills taught to many
■ thousands of girls in the seven
> county area.
This year only the Interme
. diate and Senior Girl Scouts
which total some 5.000 girls
will be selling cookies but the
money raised will also help the
Brownies (the 7-10 year age
group of Scouts). A percentage
of the profits from the sale
goes to the girl’s troop as well,
, for 5c from each box sold goes
directly to the individual troop
j treasury of the Girl Scout mak
, ing the sale, to be used for
troop projects.
The cookie fanciers will have
( the choice of several flavors of
, cookies including the favorite
' chocolate mint delicacies. You
can be sure of a good buy be
cause the Girl Scouts, before
’ offering them for sale, have
“comparison shopped” to make
sure the Girl Scout cookies are
equal or better in quantity and
I
Foresters Attend
3-Day Cull Tree
Control Meeting
A two-day cull tree control
program was concluded at
Newnan Feb. 10 with sessions
on the use of chemicals in for
est management and a field
trip. Analyzing of forest stands,
to determine the best methods
for controlling undesirable
trees and releasing pines, gave
the Fourth district foresters
and management personnel
first hand experience in t h e
work they will be doing this
spring and summer.
W. H. McComb, Georgia For
estry Commission management
chief, stated that the school
was designed to set up guide
lines for the 1961 cull specie
control program. McComb said
the Commission will use three
control methods — mist blow
ing, aerial spraying and hand
control.
The method to be used will
be determined by site, timber
size and density and location.
McComb pointed out that the
area to be treated by mist
blower must have trees not
more than 20 feet tall, a clear
ence of 660 feet between the
area to be sprayed and crops,
and the area must be penter
able by tractor. Areas where
the trees are below and above
20 feet a combination of a n y
two of three methods is re
commended. Aerial spraying,
girdling or tree injection
method is recommended for
trees above 20 feet.
McComb emphasized that the
Commission is not trying to
get rid of hardwoods but to re
place low grade species of
hardwood with pine or better
species of hardwood, which
ever is best suited for the par
ticular site. During an 18 year
period, 1933 - 1951, Georgia
gained some 2,500,00 acres in
forest land but lost 800,000
i acres of pine to low grade hard
wood.
The Commission manage
ment chief stated that high
cost, improper machinery and
chemicals and lack of know
how have hampered efforts in
the past to deviate the scrub
specie problem. However, the
invention of new machines and
the development of better
chemicals are making it pos
sible to attack the problem at
’ a feasible cost with experienc
ed personnel.
1 Since the spraying season is
• during the early summer
months it is urgent that wood-
I land owners get their request
‘ in as soon as possible. Requests
■ should be dir "ted to the local
'■nunty ranger or district for-
(Largest Coverage Any Weekly In The State)
quality to any cookies avail
able in the stores. And if you
can’t resist the urge to buy and
buy, then by some more, re
member the cookies will keep
for months (if you haven’t;
small boys around) in the re- ■
frigerator or freezer. The Girl
Scouts are aiming to sell 200,- '
000 boxes or more so sharpen I
up your sweet tooth.
Cousins N. H. A. i
Chapter News <
<
The R. L. Cousins Chapter ।
of the New Homemakers of
America held its regular meet- i
ing February 21. Some of the ।
highlights of this meeting in- !
eluded a panel discussion pre- ;
sented by, Mary Goss, Patricia t
Wright, and Laquita Jackson.
The panel was entitled, “Your
Personality”.
Another interesting feature
of our meeting was the read
ing of a letter from Miss Daisy
Lewis, our state adviser con
cerning our annual State NHA
convention to be held at Al
bany State College Albany,
Georgia March 31-April 1. The
theme for this meeting is to be
centered around our national
theme, “Family Relations”.
Equalla C. Blue was chosen as |
delegate from this chapter to I
attend the meeting.
One of our major projects |
for this school term is a fund
raising campaign in order that
we may be able to make our
contribution towards the build
ing of a Guest Cottage at Camp
John Hope Fort Valley, Geor
gia. Other plans for our year
ly activities are well under
way and we’re as busy as bees '
making preparations for them. I
Reporter,
Equalla C. Blue
—
Pictureless TV Sets Used
By Blind
Custom - designed nine-tube
television sets, complete in all
respects except picture facili- I
ties are on the market. Accord
ing to the American Foundation
for the Blind, such pictureless
television sets enjoy consider- i
able popularity with some blind j
television fans because of their
great mability. They weigh
i about 12 pounds, measure less
’ than a dozen Inches wide and
| 6 inches high.
Away to help trees grow
bigger and thus produce more
high grade lumber, is to thin
them, says Harold O. Baxter,
Extension forestry marketing
specialist.
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Heard-Mixon
IH Club Met
At The School
Our recent 4-H meeting was
held at the Heard-Mixon Au
ditorium. The meeting was
called to order, the roll was
called and we repeated the 4-H
pledge and a prayer.
Our main topic of discussion
was on events which will be
taking place.
On March 18, there will be
a 4-H hour program. Some of
the people that go to the Heard-
Mixon School will get to be in
the 4-H hour on television. On
March 15, there will be a muf
fin contest.
In July, the 4-H'ers will go
to the “Fulton Camp” south of
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Atlanta for the summer camp
for this year.
We talked about our record
books —how to keep them neat
and clean and how to fill in.
the record books. This is very
important because when the
people of the community or the
parents look at them, they
should be neat and clean and
up to date so we urge to try to
keep the record books clean
, ana up to date. This will save
time and give us tne satisfac
tion of knowing that we are
doing the best we can. No oth
er new business came up before
the meeting.
The president, Ronnie Aiken
adjourned the meeting.
Caroline Anne Johnston,
Reporter
Employment in professional
technical, and related occupa
। tions has risen during each
decade since 1870 — from less
than half a million workers to
about 5 million in 80 years, tha
। U. S. Labor Department’s Bu
'! reau of Labor Statistics reports.