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Good Woodland Management — More s’s Per Acre
Soil Conservation Activities
’ By TOM COLE
Soil Conservationist
Many Soil and Water Conser
vation farmers of Clayton
County can now look with pride
at the acres of green cover they
planted last fall when the
weather was hot and soil dry.
Riding through Mount Zion
Boulevard (a recently straight
ened, constructed and paved
country road from Jonesboro to
Rex, Road) Robert Wright has
grain on 12 acres, Clayton
County Baptist Association the
front field in grain, Adamson
Brothers Dairy Farm, Olin and
Hiram Adamson, Dairymen, R.
N. Duffey Dairy and more acre
age he planted on joining:
farms, Lamar L. Adamson Dairy,
GREEN fields and pasture.
Where is erosion on these
fields? These are good examples
of soil and water conservation
some of the farmers are doing
that have a soil and water con
servation plan for their farm in
cooperation with the Upper
Ocmulgee River District Super
visors. Using land according to
its capabilities and applying
treatment according to its needs
is a “KEY” slogan of conserva
tion farming.
Three farm ponds were
stocked with bluegill bream and
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JONESBORO, GEORGIA
Annual Statement
— December 31,1962 —
/ Total Assets _ _ $31,499.34
Collections 12,526.22
Disbursements 5,941.43
ESTELLE C. TURNER
Secretary & Treasurer
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shellcracker fingerlings this
month on the farms of J. L.
Watson, W. H. Bennefield and
H. B. Calender. Two were ponds
constructed according to Soil
Conservation Service specifica
tions during late 1962. Mr.
Bennefield’s was constructed
several years ago, was drained
fish killed by poison due to too
many little and rough fish.
Woodland management is
being practiced on the farms of
R. E. Carmichael, W. T. Camp,
R. N. Gilbert and Adamson
Brothers farms by selective
marking by Georgia Forestry
। Commission Forester. Thinning
of pine stands, by removing
J crooked, diseased and closely
spaced trees retards rate of
growth of the better trees. Re
' moved trees are sold for pulp
wood.
Poultry Products
Cooking Test-1963
The Georgia Poultry Fcdera
। tion is looking for Georgia’s
; Cooking Queen. The annual
i Cook-N-Test is open to Georgia
Homemakers 18 years of age or
older. Eighty-seven wonderful
, prizes ar&offered, ranging from
I a /ttHhig-clock to the grand
prize of a food freezer and a
range. Get an entry blank and
information from your Home
Demonstration Agent or the
Home Service Department of
the Georgia Power Company.
Jot down your favorite recipe
for a poultry dish and egg des
sert and you are on your w.ay.
Enter now. March 1 is the
closing date.
The U. S. Internal Revenue
Service advised that all returns
from individuals must include
appropriate social security num
bers. .
Home Agent’s l ips
By MRS. JOYE H. SPATES
Home Demonstration Agent
RESEARCH SERVES i
CONSUMERS
Advances in agricultural re
search have served the con-I
sumer well. The Agricultural
Research Service of the U. S.
Department made many ad
vances during the Centennial
observance of U.S.D.A. last year.
Much of their research is done
cooperatively with the research [
stations in Georgia.
Research continued to help
cotton and wool compete with
synthetics. Three methods for
manufacturing all-cotton stretch
yarns and fabrics were de-1
veloped to make cotton more
useful. A single treatment was
devised that gave cotton simul
taneously wash-wear properties,
greater dyeability, and water
repellency. New processes were
developed that make wool gar
ments highly resistant to
shrinking and permit perma
nent creasing and pleating.
Results of basic research on
meat flavors indicate that fatty
portions of beef, lamb, and pork
give these meats their distinc
tive flavors, the lean portions
all taste about the same. Scien
tists also found that high fat
content is not essential to good
eating quality of lamb.
Textile bacteriologists found
that certain kinds of disinfect
ants greatly reduce the number
of bacteria that survive home
type laundering. These disin
fectants can be added to the
wash or rinse water of home or
commercial washing machines
to control the spread of disease
producing bacteria.
Food scientists have shown
that the eating quality of fresh
pork roasts is not necessarily
related to the amount of fat
they contain.
More effective methods of:
controlling the cockroach may
come about through the isola
tion of a natural attractant
from female American cock
roach. Chemical identification
could lead to an inexpensive
synthetic attractant that could
be used, for example, with an
insecticide to lure these house
hold pests to their death.
These are excellent examples
of the things agricultural re
search is working on for the
benefit of all. It may be that
1963 will be the year that much
of this research brings conclu
sive results.
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ABOUT PICTURES
Pictures are used in every
room of a house and add char
acter to a room. They also re
flect your background and taste.
They are personal and very
quickly give a clue to the kind
of person who chose them as
well as the mood of the person
who painted them.
In the next few weeks, I want
to talk some about choosing and
hanging pictures but a few
things are basic to this. Today,
let us talk a little about the
basic points.
An artist’s aim in painting a
picture is to help us see more
clearly or sharpen our percep
tion. He tries to , communicate
through the picture he paints.
Mt. Zion. HD Club
The Mt. Zion Home Demon
stration Club met in the Rec
reational Room at the Mt. Zion
Baptist Church, January 10th,
with 15 members present.
The meeting was called to
order by the President Mrs.
Helen Adamson. Mrs. George
Star gave an interesting De-
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। It’s his choice whether or not
he paints a very realistic
I painting or one that is more
[ nearly an impression. You must
also decide which type picture
you want. Study many of them
and then decide.
Some of the basic terms in
talking about pictures are sub
ject matter, content, medium
i and style. Let’s discuss these
one at a time.
Subject matter is the sub
stance presented for considera
tion or the objects or forms the
I picture represents. You may
ithink of subject matter as sea
scapes, landscapes, still lifes,
people, flowers and animals.
But, there are paintings without
a specific subject. They are
abstract or non-objective. They
may be swirls of color, geometric
shapes, or other pictures that
have no subject matter but do
have emotional content.
Content is the feeling, idea or
message the artist wishes to
convey. It can be sad (Picasso’s
clowns), gay (Toulouse Lavtrec’s
dancers), peaceful (Lamar
Dodd’s Sand, Sea and Sky), or
you will find many other emo
tions expressed in pictures you
find.
Medium refers to the ma
terials the painter uses. Oil
paints and water colors are
familiar mediums. Oil paintings
are put on canvas and paint or
pigments mixed with oil. Water I
colors are done on paper and
water is mixed with the pig-|
ment.
Style is the particular and i
distinctive way in which a
painting is planned and painted.
It may be characteristic of an
individual, a locale or a century.
That should give us an idea
of what is involved in talking
'about pictures. Next week, let’s
choose a picture.
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I RESOLVE
Have you made all your New
Year’s resolutions? Add one
more to the list if you forgot.
. । “Resolved, I will be more care
: ful about my eating habits in
[ 1963”.
' To most peope, watching their
: । weight, or how much they eat,
brings on unpleasant memories
1 of starvation diets without any
. sweets or desserts and eating
j large quantities of so-called
■ i “rabbit food.”
Weight-watching need not be
a form of self-torture. Weight
control is no problem if you
■ Start in time. The best time to
watch your weight is when you
■ are watching to see that it
. doesn’t get to be overweight.
■ This is true for men and
I women, even teenagers and
: children.
You notice I am talking about
weight-watching, not weight re-j
' duction which is a much more
difficult problem. Weight
watching simply keeps you at
, your present weight.
Your weight-watching resolu
[tion is made now. Now stick to
[ it. Decide what you should eat
rather than what you can’t eat.
This is the positive way to
watch your weight. Good luck
l on your resolution.
—:
votional on the 19th Psalm.
Business was discussed and it
was suggested that we share
our handicrafts we make with
other clubs. We also decided to
set us a project for this year
and work toward it.
Mrs. Spates, Home Demonstra
tion Agent, gave a helpful dem
onstration on “Housing and
Equipment — specializing on the
Kitchen.”
A covered dish luncheon was
enjoyed by everyone, and in the
afternoon a workshop was held
on making pictures out of hard
ware cloth.
—Mrs. Elsie Mae Adamson,
Stockbridge, Ga., Route 2.
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bull from Arrowhead Farms,
Atlanta, Georgia.
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The U. S. Department of Agri
culture announced that Feb
ruary 1 through March 22 will
be the signup period for
1963-crop corn, grain sorghum,
and barley under the voluntary
1963 feed grain program.
Through this program, farm
ers help bring production into
line with needs through divert
ing feed grain acreage to con
serving uses. By participating,
the farmer earns a diversion
payment and a price-support
payment and he also qualifies
for regular price-support loan
or purchase agreement on his
crop.
Participation in the 1961 and
1962 feed grain programs is
bringing about a one-third re
duction or about 28 million tons
in feed grain stocks by next Oct.
1 from the 84.7 million ton level
of Oct. 1, 1961.
The voluntary diversion pro
gram for 1963-crop feed grains
are administered in the field by I
Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation (ASC) Commit
tees, in whose county offices
the signups will take place.
Under the 1963 feed grain
program, the payment rate for
small farms—with total feed
grain bases of 25 acres or less —,
on which the producer diverts
the entire feed grain base acre- j
age (1959-60 ave. acreage) will
be 50% of the county support
rate on the normal production
of the diverted acres. The coun
ty support rate reflects the re
cently increased national aver
age support prices of $1.25 per
i bushel for corn, $2 per hundred-
I weight for grain sorghum, and
1 96 cents per bushel for barley.
For other feed grain farms,
'payment on the first 20% re
duction from the base acreage
will be at 20% of the county
support rate on the normal pro
duction of the diverted acres, j
On any acreage diversion above
the mini mu m requirements,
payment will be at 50% of the
county support rate. The mini
mum diversion is 40% of the
base acreage or 25 acres, which
ever is larger.
, In addition, participating
farmers will receive appropriate
price-support payments on the
normal production of their 1963
feed grain acreage. These pay
. ments will be 18 cents per bushel
of corn, 14 cents per bushel for
I barley, and 29 cents per hun
' dredweight (16 cents per bushel)
. I for grain sorghum.
I 1 Crops from the participating
i farms also become eligible for
/price-support loans or purchase
.(agreements at the county loan
rate (reflecting national aver
' | ages of $1.07 per bushel for corn,
82 cents per bushel for barley
[ and $1.71 per hundredweight for
grain sorghum.
Price support on 1963-crop
corn, grain sorghum and barley
| will be available only to pro
; ducers taking part in the feed
J grain program. Wheat farmers
| who do not sign up to partici
, I pate in the 1963 wheat stabiliza
tion program may qualify for
price-support loans or purchase
agreements (but not for price
support payments) by complying
with their farm wheat acreage
allotments.
For feed grain producers who
sign up under the 1963 pro
grams, eligibility for diversion
payments and price support in
1963 is contingent upon the
farmer’s diverting an acreage
equal to the total intentions
shown on his agreement.
Advance diversion payments
will again be available at the
time of signup. Final payments
including the price support
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FFA Members Produce
100 Bushels Corn An Acre
The High Profit Trio concept
of modern corn farming has
been proven by good corn
growers as the best way to cut
the cost of producing a bushel.
of corn and T. O. Gurley, Vo-Ag
Teach e r of Jonesboro High
School, certainly won’t argue
that point.
The Jonesboro FFA chapter ]
planted a “304 Bushel Chal
lenge” plot on Don McLeroy and
Harold Gillis farm. This plot
was planted in connection with
a special program called the
“304 Bushel Challenge”, de
veloped especially for Vo-Ag de
partments and sponsored by the
producers of Funk’s G-Hybrids.
The plots produced about four
times the average yield raised
on most Clayton County farms,
j The corn was weighed and
corrected for moisture content
said Mr. Gurley. The corn ran
15 percent moisture. The chap
ter members followed a three
step corn growing plan, .one
which they believe all corn pro
ducers must work toward as a
.hedge against the tight cost
price squeeze that is present
[today. There are three “musts”
in making these high corn
USDA Ready to Help
Develope New Areas
Secretary of Agriculture Or-1
ville L. Freeman said today the
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Iwas “ready to go ahead” with
public recreational develop
ments in watershed projects as
authorized by the Food and
Agriculture Act of 1962.
USDA was authorized to help
create, enlarge, or improve
bodies of water within water
shed projects to provide for a
full range of water-based sports,
, and to assist in developing rec
reational areas bordering the
water.
“These developments will help
meet the growing demand for
. new outdoor recreational fa
cilities, and at the same time
broaden the scope and local
benefits of watershed projects,”
' Secretary Freeman said.
, The recreational fa c ilit ie s
would lure outsiders to the area,
. and would provide the type rec
reation that industrialists seek
for their employees in searching
for new plant sites, Soil Con
servation Service officials ex-
, plained. On nearby land, private
landowners could develop sup
. porting recreational facilities,
such as week-end or summer
; guest cottages, hunting pre
, serves, and ski slopes.
The development would bring
■ town and country interests
closer together, and thereby
. payments will be made after
l compliance has been deter
mined.
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yields possible: “You have to
plant thicker, fertilize heavier,
and plant a high producing
hybrid that can make the best
■ use of this kind of prosperity.
[ The hybrid the members
planted, Funk’s G-745 is recom
mended for thicker planting
| and higher fertility — that’s
1 what it got this year”. Corn
1 scientists call this the High!
Profit Trio.
. | The members plot demonstra-1
tion had a plant population of
: approximately 22,000 plants per,
' acre at harvest. They planted
( about one kernel every nine or
■. ten inches in 36-inch rows to
। get this count. The members be
■ [ Heve that you must have smaller
: ears and lots of them to make
. big, efficient corn yields.
I The members used about 700
; pounds of 4-12-12 fertilizer in
i all and applied 100 pounds of
• nitrogen when corn was about
■ knee high. Like all good corn
i 1 growers members of the Jones
-1 boro FFA chapter have demon
il strated some significant changes
• 1 in corn growing practices and
; [ there’s a lot more coming, they
’ believe.
11 —RONNIE WALLACE
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vation activities which protect
and improve farm and ranch
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"YOUR CONFIDENCE IS A SACRED TRUST"
improved agricultural economy.
“The Department is ready •to
help local watershed sponsors
develop these recreational
areas,” Secretary Freeman
pointed out.
Funds are available under
, USDA’s regular $60.6 million
watershed appropriation for fis
cal year 1963. Construction
could begin on the first of these
projects early in 1963.
USDA was authorized to bear
up to 50 percent of the cost of
(1) land, easements and rights
of-way, (2) construction, and
[ (3) minimum basic facilities
needed for public access to and
| use of the recreational area.
[This cost-sharing and technical
help would be provided through
the Soil Conservation Service,
which has leadership for USDA’s
watershed program.
Land bordering the water
could be developed for pic
nicking, camping, hunting, or
other outdoor uses. SCS would
provide local sponsors with
funds to cover up to half the
land costs, and also would help
local sponsors pay for the land
inundated for recreational pur
poses.
Minimum basic facilities
which could be cost-shared in
clude: (1) boat docks and ramps,
(2) beach development, (3) pic
nic tables and fireplaces, (4)
parking lots, (5) public water
supply, (6) sanitary facilities,
including toilets and garbage
disposal, (7) power facilities,
(8) plantings and other shore
line or area improvements, (9)
roads and trails, and (10) other
simil a r or related facilities
needed for public health, safety,
access to, and use of the recrea
tional area.
Local sponsors could charge
an admission fee to meet their
• annual operating and mainte
;: nance costs. Watershed resi
i [ dents also would derive other
, I benefits from the development.