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County Agents Column
By Ed Hunt
Fight Rats Now
Get set to fight rats now be
cause as cold weather approaches,
rats move from the outdoors into ;
houses and farm buildings.
One way to cut down on rat
damage is to destroy the rats'
food and shelter. Keep all storage
areas neat and clean and store
sacked grain at least one foot off ,
the floor. Too. clean up old trash
piles and other places where rats
might live.
You may help rat-proof your
buildings by building the founda
tions and basement floors and
walls with concrete.
The best way to kill the rats is
with poison, and when you put out
rat poison make sure you take all
the precautions called for on the
label of the poison.
Hog Cholera
The incidence of hog cholera has
been on a steady decline since the
beginning of the Georgia Hog
Cholera Eradication Program.
This program started in May of
1962. and it has made great pro
gress.
You know that an outbreak of
cholera on your place can mean a
loss of money as well as time. In
fact, you will feel the results for
some time to come. Just remov
ing the infested hogs is not the
end. Sometimes an entire breeding
flock will be destroyed.
May I urge you to find out all
you can about the Georgia Hog
Cholera Eradication Program and
participate, if you are not now do
ing so.
Mor Information is available at
my office, your veterinarian, or the
State Department of Agriculture.
Digging Sweet Potatoes
Dig those sweet potatoes before
kills the vines.
"ch has shown that sweet
dug five days after a
k ost had as much as 70
percent increase in storage losses
over those dug before frost.
Even a light frost will cause
damage though it may not show up
until late in the period of storage.
If a frost does hit your sweet
potatoes before you dig them. !
then dig them at once and plan on
using them soon. If you sell your
sweet potatoes, then quickly place
them on the market. They will be
consumed before the damage de- :
velops because the damage will
only show up after the sweet po
tatoes have been stored for some
time.
4-H'er Hargrove
Is Kept Busy in
District Work
Art Hargrove. District 4-H Lead
er, elected at the 1963 District
Project Achievement Meeting at
Rock Eagle in June, has been kept
busy fulfilling his new duties for
the Northwest District 4-H Clubs.
On October Ist., Mr. Hargrove
took five Senior 4-H Council mem
bers to the District Rally held
in Henry County, McDonough. He
had a part on the program, pre
senting a fifteen minute talk and
visual demonstration on "So
You're Going To Preside". Mr.
Hargrove had designed a clever
set of posters and used flashcards
on a magnetic board to illustrate
his talk. After the program, Mr.
Hargrove played his ukulele and
led the more than 70 4-H’ers in a
“sing-along” session. Square danc
ing and recreation followed this
phase of the evening’s activities.
Members of the Senior 4-H Coun
cil attending the Rally with Mr.
Hargrove were: Edna Fisher. Bill
Wood. Arlene Hargrove. Virginia
Thomas and Arthur Hargrove.
These young 4-H'ers are the 1963-
64 4-H Council Officers and will
b? installed at the October Coun
cil Meeting to be held Monday
night, October 21st at 7:00 p. m.
at the Legion Hall.
Mr. Hargrove then attended two
more District Rallies, one in Fair
burn. Georgia and the third one
being held in LaGrange. Georgia.
He will sene for a period of two
years and is required to attend all
District 4-H Club activities and
events during the time he is in
office.
This is Newton County's first
District Officer and we are indeed
proud and happy to have Mr Har
grove serving in this capacity.
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Rural and Urban Page
News Covering Agriculture, Family Living & Community Activities in Newton County.
Try to dig those sweet potatoes
before frost hits the vines. It will
pay you.
Buying Landscape Plants
Should I buy a small plant and
let it grow, or should I buy a large
plant at the start?
That's a question that is pro
bably running through your mind
about now if you are thinking
about buying landscape plants for
your yard.
The answer is that it is better,
in most cases, to buy a few larger
plants than it is to spend money
on numerous sprigs that are lost
in the landscape plan.
If you buy the smaller plants,
then there is a tendency for you to
over plant. Over planting is just
as bad as under planting.
Too. if you buy the smaller
plants you will probably place
them too near the house or other
plants. If the plants have some
size on them you will notice the
nearness to the house or other
plants much better.
In buying these plants, make
sure you buy from an established
nursery, and trade with a local
concern as much as possible in
order to get your money's worth.
Fall Cabbage
If you grow your own cabbage
this fall you want to make sure
your plants have cold resistance.
Cold resistant cabbage plants
mean the plants are resistant to
damage by cold weather as well as
resistant to bolding. Bolding
means that the plant produces seed
stalks.
The Round Dutch cabbage va
riety has cold resistance and is
particularly good for fall plant
ings.
No cabbage plant can survive
the weather that we had last win
ter, however, the Round Dutch
will survive better than most other
varieties.
If you need more information
on cabbage plants, contact my of
fice.
Extension Agent’s Column
By Mrs. Sara Groves, HD Agent
SCHOOL LUNCH WEEK
National School Lunch Week
is being observed this week.
It's fitting that we take some
time this week to learn some
thing about this program that
has meant so much to our
school children.
The National School Lunch
Program is administered na
tionally by the Agricultural
Marketing Service of the U. S.
Department of Agriculture. It's
in its 17th year of operation.
The School Lunch Program
is one of the world’s most ex
tensive plans of applied nu
trition. It now provides almost
three billion lunches to school
youngsters throughout our land.
It operates in 68.000 public
and private schools, feeding
balanced, nutritious lunches to
some 16.000,000 children.
The Program has many
points in its favor. It teaches
children to develop sound food
habits, eat a variety of foods,
and practice good table man
ners.
One state superintendent of
education commented on the
worth of the National School
Lunch Program in his state. He
said, "As an uninvited guest
at the education banquet,
school food service has success
fully run the gamut of neg
lect, of scorn, of fear, of anger,
and has now entered the ap
proved portals which entitle
it to a chair at the educational
board."
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APPLE FLAVOR
COMBINATIONS
Get in swing with the apple
season. Make a hit with the
family by serving delicious
apple dishes.
Be sure to try flavor combi
nations. Some spices and flav
orings have a natural affinity
for apples. Cinnamon, nutmeg,
orange juice and rind, and
lemon juice and rind will in
crease the natural apple fla
vor.
Purina's SPF Chow
Plant Now Ready
New facilities have been
completed at the Ralston Pu
rina plant in Davenport, lowa,
for the manufacture of speci
fic pathogen free rations for la
boratory animals. Production
will commence this fall.
The new facilities will serve
the nationwide demand from
hospitals, medical research la
boratories. colleges and other
research stations for laboratory
animal foods which are more
pure even than human food.
The Purina plant is one of the
first commercial installations
of its kind in the world. It was
built as an addition to the ex
isting Ralston Purina plant in
Davenport.
“Specific pathogen free” ra
tions. in laymen's terms, mean
that the rations will be free of
certain specific pathogens, or
germs, which could disturb the
laboratory animals’ normal
physical condition. Labora
tory animals include mice rats,
guinea pigs, hamsters, mon
keys, rabbits, and even dogs
and cats used in medical re
search.
Medical research has moved
to the point that researchers
are requiring specific pathogen
free food for laboratory ani
mals so that the possibility of
disrupting the research tests
by disease is reduced. This has
required the developing of new
techniques to formulate, pro
cess, and package these ra
tions.
Ralston Purina has for many
years been the world's largest
manufacturer of rations for la
boratory animals. This is the
Company’s first facility for
the manufacture of specific
pathogen free rations.
The law requires that a label
be placed on all seed moving
through normal trade channels.
Agronomist Harvey C. Lowery
of the Extension Service says
seed are labeled as to kind,
variety, germination, pure seed,
inert matter, other crops, com
mon weed seed, noxious weed
seed, and the name and address
of the grower.
For an exotic flavor, add a
drop or two of vanilla to each
apple pie.
Try a combination of two
or three spices or flavorings to
give an apple dish your own
special flair.
Add small amounts of spices
and flavorings. Remember that
too much will mask the natur
al apple flavor.
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NAPPED FABRICS
What are napped fabrics
and what is the best guide to
follow in buying them?
A napped fabric is one with
short, fuzzy fibers, on the sur
face of the fabric. One way to
get texture.- of course, is a
napped fabric. However, in
sewing, a napped fabric is con
sidered any with the type sur
face that requires special han
dling so that it will reflect the
light the same. This means
placing all pieces to be cut go
ing the same direction. This
would include pile fabrics such
as corduroy and fur cloth,
velours, satins, suede cloth,
wool broadcloth, and prints and
plaids with designs that move
in one direction.
When buying napped fabric,
be sure to get enough to allow
the tops of all pieces to be
placed in the same direction.
Many patterns give the extra
yardage needed for napped fab
rics. If the pattern does not
give the yardage, the safest
way to determine the amount
of fabric to buy is to place your
pattern pieces on a table just as
though you were putting them
on a length of cloth. Then
measure the amount needed.
Sometimes, however, you want
to know while you are still in
the store.
To estimate amount needed,
check the pattern layout given
for pattern size and width of
the material you have chosen.
Look to see how many pattern
pieces must be relocated so
; they will all lay in the same
School Lunch Program Aids
The American Farm Economy
The National School Lunch
Program, which serves one out
of every three children in
United States schools, has be
come the largest single food
service in the nation, according
to the U. S. Department of Ag
riculture.
In order to increase public
understanding and awareness
of the significance of the school
lunch program to the child, to
the home, to the farm, to indus
try, and to the nation. Presi
dent John F. Kennedy recently
issued a proclamation designat
ing October 13 through 19 as
National School Lunch Week.
Since the passage of the
National School Lunch Act in
1946, each Congress for 18
years has supported assistance
to school feeding “as a measure
of national security, to safe
guard the health and well
being of the nation's children,
and to encourage the domestic
consumption of nutritious agri
cultural commodities and other
food.’’
The National School Lunch
Program is an amazing net
work of thousands of small en
terprises. operated by local
citizens for the benefit of their
children. Essentially it is a
community effort — administ
ered by USDA’s Agricultural
Marketing Service in coopera
tion with state and local school
officials.
Cumulatively the thousands
of small enterprises total a
Horse, Pony Care
To Be Shown
On Channel 8 TV
To want a horse or pony is
■ : one thing. To be willing to care
; for the animal properly is an
, other.
Those who have an animal
• ! or those who aspire to have one
I i will be able to get some step
; by step procedures for the care
iof it from WGTV's Growing
South program next week
| The program is scheduled
i for Tuesday. October 22, at
7:00 p.m. Guests for the pro
i gram, in addition ’to the horses
; and ponies, will be M. K. Cook,
' livestock specialist, and Tom
Davis, a 4-H Club leader, both
I with the University of Georgia
I Cooperative Extension Service.
“Designing the Garden or
Private Area’’ will be the top
ic discussed next week by T.
G. Williams, Extension land
scape architect, in his continu
ing series of programs on land
scape design. This program
can be seen Monday, October
21.
Dr. John Owen, head of the
University’s plant pathology
and plant breeding department,
I will present the program for
Wednesday, October 23. “Com
mon Mushroom Fungi’’ is his
j subject for the program.
As a prelude to the upcom
। ing pecan harvesting season,
' Dr. J. G. Woodroof, food tech
i nologist at the Georg'a Ex
periment Station near Griffin,
will show some interesting
ways of using the expected
plentiful supply of pecans this
; year. This program is set for
Thursday. October 24.
On Friday. October 25.
I homemakers will get the latest
i recommendations on freezing
pork.
Growing South is televised
each weekdav at 7:00 p.m. on
WGTV. Channel 8. The Uni
versity of Georgia s education
al television station. The pro
gram is produced by the Geor
gia Center for Continuing Ed
ucation in cooperation with the
College of Agriculture. Ronny
Stephens is host.
। direction. Then, figure how
much more fabric you will
i need. Usually one-half yard to
three-fourths yard is a suffi
cient amount of extra yard
age.
THIS WEEK’S TIP
In writing the grocery list,
group like foods together ac
cording to the floor plan of
your grocery store. Back-track
ing and forgotten items will
be omitted. It will also be
omitted. It will also be easier
easier to make food substitu
: tions in the original menu.
1 1/4 billion dollar food indus
try, serving nearly 2 3/4 billion
lunches a year. To the nation,
it means a strong well-fed
youth, an effective use of the
country's agricultural abund
ance, and expanded markets for
farmers, food industries, and
local businesses.
In the National School Lunch
Week proclamation, President
Kennedy says “the serving of
nutritious lunches to 16 million
children daily, in 68.000 schools,
entails the consumption of
foods from the entire range and
variety of items that are so
abundantly and efficiently pro
duced by our farmers, and the
employment of the unexcelled
skills and techniques o." our
highly developed food-market
ing system.”
The Agricultural Marketing
Service contributes some cash
and food to schools participat
ing in the National School
Lunch Program. This contribu
tion accounts for only about 20
percent of the total program
cost. More than 75 percent of
the food used in the program is
purchased locally by the parti
cipating schools, thereby pro
viding an expanding market for
U. S. farm products.
Food used in the national
lunch program has now reached
a value of well over SBOO mill
ion annually. These foods re
present a train of 137,000 cars—
reaching a length of over 1,000
miles. This represents over 10
percent of the total U. S. food
sold through food service out
lets.
Nearly 2.6 billion half-pints
of milk were consumed in the
national lunch program last
year. This represents 1.4 billion
pounds.
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Better Marketing Holds Costs
Down, Says Ag Official
Improvements in marketing
have played a significant part
in holding down food costs. As
sistant Secretary of Agriculture
George L. Mehren said recent
ly.
“These same improvements
in marketing — in wholesale
markets, transport, handling
methods, containers, process
ing. and retailing—have help
ed to make the people of this
country the best fed at the
least cost anywhere, at any
time,” Assistant Secretary
Mehren said.
Addressing the San Francis
co Commercial Club to cele
brate the opening of the new
San Francisco Produce Termi
nal. Mr. Mehren cited the new
: market as one of thousands of
I like improvements that have
been made in the marketing
I system in recent years — and
; one of the reasons the average ’
American worker today spends I
j only 19 percent of his take
| home pay for food.
“Credit for this accomplish
; ment,” he said, “goes in the
' main to our private commer
j cial marketing industry. But, it
’ would be a mistake to com
; pletely overlook the services
j of government—Federal, state,
I and local—which have helped
; to make the marketing system
। efficient, orderly, and econo
mical.”
Noting that 1963 marks the
50th year of an organized mar
|keting service in the U. S.
I Department of Agriculture, he
pointed to the Agricultural
Marketing Act of 1946 as a.
milestone in progress. “In this
I Act,” he said, “Congress wrote’
out a goal of bringing the same 11
scientific approach to solving i :
marketing problems that had
been so successfully employed
since 1862 in solving problems
of production. The act further i
called for continuous research,'
Federal - state cooperation in
marketing programs, and an ।
integrated administration of ,
marketing research, services, .
and regulatory activities.
“These government services ' i
that extend a helping hand to t
private industry, to farmers. ’
and to consumers — including ।
the research and design for' t
, new produce markets by I i
USDA's Agricultural Market- :
ing Service—are services to
make our free economy work ’ ।
better. ,:
“This,” Assistant Secretary' l
Mehren said, “is basic to all of
our operations. Wherever Fed- |
j eral or State governments step
in — whether in production,
marketing, or distribution—it
is our goal to enhance the
working of the commercial
system in our farm and food
economy.
“We operate under a charter
that has always charged us to
serve the interest of the pub- 1
lie. We are proud of the tradi- '
tion that has prevailed and the ;
record of public service that j
has been set.
“I think that the people of ’
this country benefit immensely
from this policy of public ser
vice, information, regulation,
and research. USDA is not and
never has been a department
) only for farmers. It is and has
j always been a department to I
1 serve those who produce and I
use foods and fibers. And that
is everybody.”
Extension Agents
At Rock Eagle
Mrs. Sara D. Groves. Home
Demonstration Agent, and Ed
ward H Hunt. County Agent, are
attending Annual Conference at
Rock Eagle this week. Mrs. Gro
ves and Mr. Hunt will be back in
the office on Monday. October 21st.
They would like to take this op
portunity to extend sincere thanks
to all who assisted them in mak
ing the Newton County Fair such
a tremendous success this year.
The agents would also like to
convey to the Covington News
staff, warmest regards and deep
est appreciation for the marve
lous news coverage of the entire
Extension Service activities, not
only for this year, but for the pre
vious years.
Market Report
Tri-County Livestock Auc
tion Company sold 580 head of
cattle and 21 hogs Monday for
a total of $50,876.28. Milk cows
and springers topped at $272.50,
baby calves at $26.00 and
stockers at $185.00.
Price ranges were: calves,
$17.50 to $26.50; heifers, $16.50
to $22.00; steers, $14.00 to
$25.00; light bulls, $12.50 to
$20.00; heavy bulls, $16.00 to
$17.80; canners, $9.00 to $12.50;
cutters, $13.00 to $14.50; fat
cows, $15.00 to $16.30; and
hogs, $14.50 to $19.25.
There were 194 shippers and
I 72 buyers, including 11 packers.