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NEWS OF AGRICULTURE, FAMILY LIVING AND
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES IN NEWTON COUNTY
New ASC Community
Committees Elected
Results of the September 23
election of ASC community com
mitteemen for the com munities of
A, B, C, D, E, F, and G were
announced today by H. G. Jones,
chairman, Newton County Agri
cultural Stabilization and Con
servation committee. The elect
ions were held by mail and bal
lots were tabulated publicly by
the incumbent ASC county Com
mittee, Sept. 26, at 9:30 A. M.
in the ASCS County Office.
Farmers elected to the com
mittee (s) Include: Community A:
Jack Cason, Chairman, Oscar El
lis, Vice-Chairman, Hershel
Curtis, Member, Edward Cowan,
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Ist. alternate, Floyd Byrd, 2nd
alternate. Community B: Leo
nard Standard, Chairman, Samuel
R. Hollingsworth, Vice-Chair
man, J. T. Polk, Jr., Member,
Roy A. Fuss, Ist alternate, Ted
Neely, 2nd alternate.
Community C: W. E. Blan
ton, Chairman, R. L. Elling
ton, Vice-Chairman, C. W. El
lis, Member, Sam Capes, Ist
alternate, Alton Jolley, 2nd al
ternate. Community D: W. D.
Mann, Chairman, Tom Stanton,
Vice-Chairman, W. T. Greer,
Sr., Member, J. C. Turner, Ist
alternate, Edward L. Butler, 2nd
alternate.
Community E: Thomas Stubbs,
Chairman, E. M. McCart, Vice-
Chairman, Charles Parr, Mem
ber, Troy Stubbs, Ist alternate,
John Fuller, 2nd alternate. Com
munity F: Dixon Hays, Chair
man, A. C. Ewing, Vice-Chair
man, J. H. Anderson, Member,
Dewey H. Kenerly, Ist alternate,
George Brooks, 2nd alternate.
Community G: Jack Chandler,
Chairman, Lewis Whisnante,
Vice Chairman, L. D. Hodges,
Member, Harold Ozburn Ist al
ternate, Roy Hitchcock, 2nd al
ternate.
The ASC community committee
chairman, Vice-chairman, and
third regular member automati
cally become delegates to the
county convention where farmers
are elected to fill vacancies on
the ASC county committee. The
alternate committeemen become
alternate delegates to the con
vention.
The County Convention will be
held at the Newton ASCS County
Office September 29, 1966 at
9:30 A. M. After the county
committeemen are elected the
delegates determine which of the
regular committeemen will serve
as the committee chairman, and
vice chairman for the coming
year.
ASC county and community far
mer-committees are in charge of
local administration of such na
tional programs as the Agricul
tural Conservation Program, the
feed grain program, the volun
tary wheat program, the upland
cotton diversion program, the na
tional wool program, acreage al
lotments and marketing quotas,
commodity loans, and storage
facility loans. Each year, local
farmers earn thousands of dol
lars through participation in
these farm action programs.
Last year 375 Newton County
farmers took part in one or more
of the programs administred by
the ASC committees. Funds dis
bursed under the committees’
supervision amounted to
$373,070. Os this amount,
$81,271. was for cotton price
support loans aimed at increasing
market returns above what far
mers would receive on an un
supported market. Last year,
also, 5427 acres of farmland in
the County were improved under
the Agricultural Conservation
Program cost-sharing arrange
ment. This cost $112,000. with
about half coming from the par
ticipating farmer, and the ba
lance from ACP.
You don’t have to own thou
sands of acres of forest land to
be In the lumber or pulpwood
business — and to be able to
certify them in the American
Tree Farm System. Small acre
age or large, the Important thing
for the businessman Is to agree
to protect his woodlands from
destructive elements, and to har
vest his land for repeated tim
ber crops.
The Georgia 4-H Center near Eatonton proudly states that the 4-H
Club work was started by Prof. G. C. Adams. The center serves
4-H boys and girls from all parts of Georgia.
What Is 4-H?
By Helen Aiken
The 4-H Club started in New
ton County. I have been in the
4-H Club for over six years and
during that time I have been try
ing to make the best better. The
four H’s stand for a member’s
pledge to develop head, heart,
hands, and health.
The pledge is symbolized by a
green four leaf clover with a
white H on each leaf. The 4-H
motto is “To Make The Best
Better.” The organization str
esses “learning by doing.”
In the 4-H Club each indiv
idual keeps records of each pro
ject including money spent, the
method used, money received,
and practices learned. Girls
usually specialize in homemaking
projects. They may refurnish
a room, make clothes, baby
sitting, plan and cook meals,
plus canning or freezing fruits
and vegetables.
Many boys install and repair
electrical appliances or service
and maintain automobiles and
tractors.
And both boys and girls share
projects such as photography,
leather craft, gardening, elect
ronics, wood working and model
making, to name a few.
Largest private support of 4-H
award programs comes from
business and industry through the
National 4-H Service Committee.
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MEMBERS Celebrating
National 4-H CLUB WEEK
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THE COVINGTON NEWS
Milk Prices To
Increase Oct. 1
ATLANTA—The price of milk
in Georgia will increase one cent
(IV) per quart effective October
1, the Georgia Milk Commission
announced today.
An additional increase of one
cent is scheduled for the first of
December, Clifton A. Ward,
chairman, announced.
The milk pricing formula
which, under the regulations of
the Georgia Milk Commission
establishes the price of milk in
Georgia, provides for a two cent
increase per quart.
However, as there has been a
recent revision in the formula
which will take 40 days of ad
ministrative procedure to be
come effective, the penny in
crease effective October 1 is be
ing put into effect through the
emergency clause of the milk
law.
Changes in the formula were
made necessary due to changes
in the dairy industry itself, such
as the cost of farm equipment,
fertilization, feed and other
items.
An increase in the price of
milk was orginally scheduled for
September 12. However, objec
tions filed to the increase order
postponed the price hike.
“As the conditions described
in the September order still
exist,” Ward said, “the Georgia
Milk Commission, meeting Tues
day, made a subsequent decision
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4-H Club Had Its
Origin In Newton
In The Covington NEWS of October 28, 1954, the late J. O. Mar
tin wrote an interesting and thorough article on the origin and early
history of the original Corn Club in Newton County from its be
ginning in late 1904 under Prof. G. C. Adams.
Most of the 1954 article is
reprinted herewith:
On October 30, Georgia will
dedicate her 4-H Club Center
at Rock Eagle Park in Putnam
County. This project has been
under construction for several
months and has cost two and a
half million dollars. It will ac
commodate twelve hundred club
members at any one time. The
4-H Clubs in the United States
has a membership of approxi
mately three million, the largest
youth membership in the world.
It succeeded the Boys Corn Club,
which had its origin in the New
ton County Boys Corn Club or
ganized in 1904. The history of
this club, written in 1911, al
though never published, is print
ed below.
THE ORIGINAL BOY’S CORN
CLUB OF THE SOUTH
Practically every County in the
Southern States has had a “Boy’s
Corn Club”, and now have a
4-H Club, and the question is
often asked, “How did it all come
about? ”
It happened in this way: In
the issue of the Covington En
terprise, published December 23,
1904, there appeared the follow
ing notice, headed, “A Corn Con
test”. “It gives me pleasure to
announce that during the com
ing spring there will be a con
test among the school boys of
Newton County as to who can
make the best showing in corn
culture. This will be a contest to
interest the farmer boys and
have them show their fathers
how we can succeed on the farm,
even when cotton is seven cents
per pound. Several handsome
prizes will be offered.” Signed:
G. C. Adams, County School
Commissioner, Newton County.
RULES
On February 3, 1905,thereap
peared in the Covington Enter
prise this item, under the cap
tion “Rules of the Corn Club”.
1. The contest is open to all
Newton County boys between
the ages of six and eighteen
who shall have been enrolled
in one of the County’s public
schools during the present term.
2. Notice of entering the con
test must be given to G. C. Adams,
County School Commissioner, by
March 15th.
3. All work of raising the corn,
such as preparing the soil, fer
to invoke the emergency clause
of the Milk Control Act for the
October 1 increase until Decem
ber 1 when the pricing formula
calling for a two cent increase
can be activated.”
The recent order, as well as
the preceding order, states in
part: “...an imminent peril to
the public health exists for the
reason that the economic con
ditions in the production of milk
within the State of Georgia
threaten the continued wholesome
supply thereof and the mainten
ance of required standards of
sanitation unless relief ... is
immediately forthcoming.”
The cause of the emergency
is primarily due to the increase
in the price of feed and other
items”, Ward said. “In addi
tion, the dairy farmer is today
receiving less money for his
milk than he did in 1958.”
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There is a slight spacing be
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More Efficient Farming, And In Citizens Who Are
Alert To The Interests Os Their Community,
County, State, And Nation.
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tilizing, planting, and cultivat
ing must be done by the con
testant himself.
4. There are no limitations as
to the variety of corn planted,
kind of land, or extent of field.
It may be grown on upland or
bottom, on one row or ten acres.
5. The corn must be pulled
and weighed by disinterested
committees, when thoroughly
dry”.
COMMENT BY COMMIS
SIONER MERRITT
When the above plans were
discussed with W. B. Merritt,
State School Commissioner, he
said: “I think it an excellent
plan. I had hoped to introduce
more of an agricultural feature
in many of the schools in the
State, and this is a good way to
begin. We will see how it suc
ceeds in Newton, and if it suc
ceeds there it will be introduced
all over the State.”
INTEREST CREATED
ELSEWHERE
On March 31, 'TheEnterprise’
said; ‘No contest ever inaugurat
ed in the County has aroused the
interest and enthusiasm that the
Corn Contest has among the
boys of the public schools of
Newton County. There are 101
boys enrolled at the office of
Commissioner Adams. Beyond
the borders of Newton a live
interest is being taken in the
contest, and every mail brings
letters asking for particulars
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and details of the contest. These
letters come from many states.
The two great agricultural pa
pers of the North, ‘The Country
Gentleman’ and the ‘American
Agriculturist’ have requested de
tails for publication”.
The Houston (Tex) Daily Post
of April 5, said: “Many good
things come from Georgia and
not the least meritorious is that
of the corn growing contest in
Newton County, inaugurated
the County School Commissioner,
G. C. Adams. The plan is to give
a suitable prize to the farmer
boy who raises the best crop of
corn. The Southern farmers have
devoted so much time, area and
attention to cotton that corn pro
duction has been very much
neglected. Even Texas with an
nual production of 150,000,000
bushels is frequently compelled
to import corn from the North.
A yield of 200,000,000 bushels in
Texas would not be too much.
The Post would like a number
of contests similar to this one
in Georgia. They would tend
to stimulate interest in corn
production and eventually in the
up-building of our stock indus
try”.
Among the State papers that
commented editorially was the
Atlanta Journal which said:
“This is an excellent idea. As
a means for stimulating the ac
tivity of the farmers in raising
other things besides cotton the
Newton County scheme appears
to be an excellent one. It should
be tried in every county in the
Cotton States and not only corn
contest should be inaugurated
but several farm product con
tests, as well”. The Atlanta Con
stitution gave a long editorial
under the heading: “The Germ
of a Great Idea”.