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DANNY BOSS of Covington Mills killed this deer in the northern
section of Newton County. It dressed out at 103 pounds. This was
Boss’s first deer kil
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the old ““Georgia 10=4 Dairy Club”’
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HERBERT DENNY, Jr. of Doraville, killed this 6-point buck on his
brother~in-law’s farm in Newton County Saturday afternoon, Field=-
dressed it weighed 124 pounds, ¢ Junior” isthe son of Mr, and Mrs,
H. J, Denny, Sr, of Porterdale,
said the changes in programs
indicate progress dairy farmers
have made during the past ten
years.
Only 70 producers had herd
averages of 10,000 pounds of milk
or 400 pounds of butterfat per
cow to qualify for membership
in the 10-4 Club in 1960. The
DHIA average that year was 8,372
pounds of milk and 333 pounds
of fat.
In 1964, first year of the 120
Club, 89 cairymen produced 120
percent of the state DHIA average
to become members of the new
organization. Five years ago the
state average was 10,075 pounds
of milk and 389 pounds of but=-
terfat.
The new Cream of the Crop
program sets a definite goal--
15,000 pounds of milk and/or
550 pounds of fat per cow.
McKinney who is a former
Newton County Agent, said the
award will be based on a herd’s
yearly average as of September
each year. This year’s awards
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4-H Jr. Council
Elects Officers
The 4-H Junior Council met at
E. L. Ficquett Cafetorium on
October 29th to elect 1969 - 1970
council officers. Mr, Ed Hunt
presided until the president was
elected.
The new officers are:
President, Becky Ison; Boys
Vice-President, Ren Anderson;
Girls Vice-Presidnet, Julianne
Ozburn; Secretary-Treasurer,
Mary Heard; Reporter, Andy
Davis; Parliamentarian, Jimmy
Hill.
After the officers were elected,
we were divided into groups
according to offices for an
officer’s training program.
The next council meeting is
scheduled for Wednesday,
December 3rd.
will be presented at an awards
breakfast during the annual
meeting of the Georgia Milk Pro=-
ducers Association in Atlanta,
January 20-21, 1970,
THE COVINGTON NEWS
FB Membership
Climbs Toward
Goal Os 60,000
Farm Bureau members for
1970 in county chapters totaled
42,000 family members toward
a statewide goal of 60,000 fam
ilies this week inthe federation’s
current membership campaign,
Wayne Dollar, Director of Field
Services for the Georgia Farm
Bureau Federation reported.
Twenty-nine county chapters
report already having reached or
exceeded quota, The 1970 mem=
bership campaign will end Nov=-
ember 30, but Farm Bureau in
Georgia is shooting to reach quota
of 56,154 by time of the 31st
Annual Georgia Farm Bureau
Federation Convention sched
uled for Jekyll Island Nov, 9-12,
The twenty-nine counties al
ready having exceeded quota in
clude; Morgan, Madison, Elbert,
White, Habersham, Gwinnett,
Dawson, Cherokee, Barrow, Pie
rce, Glynn, Echols, Charlton,
Polk, Gordon, Cobb, Wilkinson,
Twiggs, Glascock, Bleckley, and
Bibb, Upson, Henry, Harris, Fay
ette, Pulaski, Liberty, Evansand
Candler,
Seventy-seven County Farm
Bureau chapters have already
made Bell Ringer Quota by ex
ceeding their quota for new far=-
mer members for *7O.
Six of the seven top member=
ship counties in the state are in
North Georgia, The seven top
membership counties and number
of 70 members already report
ed are: Carroll, 1,636; Gilmer,
958; Henry, 850; Barrow, 815;
Bulloch, 769; Walker, 724; and
Elbert 649,
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C&MS Buys Chicken
For Lunch Program
ATLANTA — Nearly 1.5 mil
lion pounds of U, S, Grade A
young chickens was bought last
week by the U, S, Department
of Agriculture’s Consumer and
Marketing Service for use in the
National School Lunch Program.
The USDA agency said that the
fresh - frozen, cut = up young
chickens cost $502,000, bought
with funds provided under Section
6 of the National Schocl Lunch
Act,
HOUSE FLY CONTROL
Several egg producers have
asked me about insecticide sugar
baits.
When used properly, insecti
cide sugar baits are highly ef=
fective in controlling adult house
flies in caged layer houses, How=
ever, sugar bait programs work
only when the moisture content
of the layer droppings is kept
very low, Thisis sothe droppings
will dry out and cone up, and
thus reduce house fly breeding,
The most effective insecticide
baits contain DDVP (Vapona or
dichlorvos) or Dibrom (naled).
Commercial ready-to-use in
secticide baits can be purchased
that give good control of adult
house flies,
But remember, insecticide
sugar baits are poisonous
and must be handled with extreme
care, People and animals should
not be allowed to come in contact
with the bait,” All label pre=-
cautions should be followed to the
letter,
BEEF CATTLE
High employment rates and in=-
creased incomes have accounted
for a constant rise in per capita
consumption of beef, This has
been the situation over the past
two decades, This continued in
creased demand for beef has
held retail and wholesale prices
considerably above last year’s
levels.
However, the cattleman is not
receiving the excessive profits
that most people think, The
cattleman gets only 19 to 38 per
cent of the consumer’s dollar,
But the current situation has to
be summed up as being favorable
for him. And isn’t it about time
our beef producers enjoy
a favorable year--after all those
lean years of the past?
What about the long-range
market outlook for beef? Thomas
B, Walkup, our Extension out
look and market analysis
specialist, says the situation
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ATLANTA — No one wants to
buy soggy poultry. And plants
that operate as part of the Con=
sumer and Marketing Service’s
poultry inspection program are
not permitted to produce poultry
with excess moisture.
«This means more meat and
less water for the food shopper’s
dollar,”” says Dr. M. J. Hatter,
Southeast regional director of
C&MS’ consumer protection pro
grams.
The main reason for allowing
any moisture absorption comes
from the temperature require=-
ments placed on federally in=
spected poultry. U. S. Depart=-
ment of Agriculture require
ments state that all poultry and
poultry parts must be chilledtoa
deep internal temperature of 40
degrees Fahrenheit or less with=-
in a specified time.
Most food - poisoning bacteria
aren’t capable of growth at tem=-
peratures below 40 degrees. The
chilling requirements are de=-
signed to prevent bacterial gr
owth, Dr. Hatter said.
To quickly reduce the internal
temperature, clean ice and water
must come in direct contact with
the carcass. This is necessary,
the regional consumer protection
official said, to produce a sound
and wholesome product for the
consumers,
Good sanitation requires that
birds be thoroughly washed at
various stages of processing,
making some water absorp
tion inevitable, Further water
pickup is also unavoidable during
the chilling process.
There are several methods now
being used to accomplish the ne=
cessary chilling.
The ¢‘standard chill tank’’ was
the most common method used in
the early years of poultry pro=-
cessing. Birds were placed in a
large tank and covered with ice
and cold water. This type of chill=
ing did an adequate job and gave
the least amount of absorption
but took a long time to accom
plish.
Since some plants inthe South=
east region are now producing
well over 100,000 birds every
day, the tank chill method had to
be improved.
The trend to ‘‘continuous chill=
ing”? equipment has been on the
upswing over the past few years.
This equipment operates like a
conveyor, using large amounts of
ice and water under pressure to
rapidly lower the temperature of
the poultry.
such mechanical chilling offers
many advantages for the consu=-
mer and poultry processor, ac=
cording to Dr. Hatter. He says
it provides a better means of
preserving wholesomeness and
shelf life, At the same time, it
allows for continuous processing
techniques that were never before
possible.
with continuous chilling, live
birds can be unloaded at the dock,
slaughtered, and cooled to 40 de
grees in less than one hour.
The tank chill alone takes much
longer to accomplish and requir=-
es more space for holding pur=-
poses. Some processors still use
County Agents
Column
By Ed Hunt
COUNTY AGENT
looks favorable even for the long
haul, However, he warned pro
ducers not to try to takeadvantage
of short-term gains by holding
cattle to heavier weights. ¢ln
order to maintain the improved
market and price situation that
they enjoy today, beef producers
should resort to sound marketing
practices,”’ :
HOGS, TOO
Higher prices with increased
demand seem to be the prevailing
picture for Georgia’s swine
industry also,
Walkup points out that
this situation isn’t something that
just happened. ¢“Georgia
producers, as well as those in
other producing areas, have done
a commendable job in curbing
expansion and increases in their
spring farrowings,” he says,
¢«¢With a decrease in the spring
pig crop, we can expect strong
prices for the last of 1969 and
into 1970.
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the tank method and contend that
the aging process makes the
birds more tender.
Before the large - scale use
of continuous chillers, absorp
tion tolerances were determined
by USDA’s Consumer and Mar=-
keting Service on what was con
sidered good, sanitary commer=
cial operating procedures. Sin=-
ce the tank chill gave the least
moisture absorption possible, the
tolerances were based on data
from that method. Water ab
sorbed is to be limited to only
the amount necessary for pro=-
cessing.
Tolerances were not changed
because of continuous chilling
equipment. Handling procedures
such as dripping and draining had
to be used to keep the moisture
within the prescribed limits.
The tolerances established at
the plant before shipping vary
from 4.3 per cent to 8 per cent
depending on the type of bird,
method of packing, and whether
they are fresh, frozen, or cool
ed. This variation of percent=-
ages is due to the differences
among species of poultry.
Moisture absorption is direct
ly related to the weight of the
bird. The heavier the bird,
the less moisture it will ab
sorb, Lighter birds are gene
rally younger and more tender
and will naturally absorb agrea=
ter percentage of moisture.
Some poultry, such as ‘ice=
packed? chicken, is allowed to
be shipped with up to a 12 per
cent moisture content. These
birds must be shipped and pack=
ed in boxes with adequate drain
holes and must ‘“weep’’ or lose
moisture to bring the birds back
to within the required tolerance
level before consumption.
The job of controlling the moi=
sture content of poultry lies with
C&MS moisture control inspec=
tors who establish systems with
the plani management, Dr. Hate
ter says these systems must re=-
sult in wholesome poultry with
proper moisture levels.
The systems are based on
statistically sound random same=
ples of from 200 to 1,000 birds.
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For Agri-Industry
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In Georgia
Nominations for the 1970 Agr.
Industry of the Year Awards are
now being solicited across the
state by the Industrial Develop
ment Council of the Georgia Ch
amber of Commerce, Agri-In
dustry Chairman J, W, Fanning
of Athens announced today.
¢«The aim of these awards is
to honor firms in Georgia which
have excelled in processing the
products of Georgia’s fields and
forests,” Fanning said.
To be eligible a firm must
have been started by Georgians
with Georgia capital, must ach
ieve maximum processing of its
raw material and make a signi
ficant contribution to the area’s
economy,
An award will be given in each
of the five major regions of the
state =-- northwest, northeast,
east, south and southwest, Nom=-
ination forms are available from
the Georgia Chamber of Com=-
merce offices in Atlanta, Dead
line for receiving nominations
is Dec. 1, 1969,
last year’s winners were
Pomona Products Company,
Griffin; Sunnyland Packing Com
pany, Thomasville; Tolleson Lu
mber Company, Perry; The Jef
ferson Mills, Inc,, Jefferson;and
Fine Products Company, Aug
usta,
Awards will be presented at
the Georgia Chamber’s annual
meeting April 24, 1970, at the
Marriott Motor Hotel, Atlanta,