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Young Tabor
To Help Plan
Ff A Meeting
Allen Tabor, state FFAi secre
tary and past president of Perry
FFA, will leave Sunday to help
plan the 23rd annual convention
of the Georgia Association of
Future Farmers of America, to
be held next week at the State
FFA Camp near Covington, Ga.
As state secretary he, along
with the other officers, will be
responsible for planning and car
rying out this convention. Be
sides the regular duties of sec
retary he will, with the other
officers, serve as a nominating
committee for next year’s offi
cers. The new officers are nom
inated by the retiring officers,
after having been carefully stud
ied and interviewed, and are
voted on by the delegates rep
resenting each chapter in Geor
gia.
Allen is the second boy from
Perry Chapter to serve as state
officer. Richard 'Ogletree was
elected first vice president after
having been elected president of
Perry chapter for two terms.
Richard later went on to win the
award for Star American Farmer
of the Southeast, the only boy
from Georgia ever to win the
award.
Allen has served Perry FFA
as reporter for two years and
president for one year. The chap
ter is losing its most outstanding
member to the University of
Georgia this fall.
ANTI BIOTIC BENEFITS^
Recent gains in feeding live
stock and poultry by adding to
their feed small quantities of
anti-biotic drugs and synthetic
vitamins have been striking.
Phenothiazine is a case in point,
says the U. S. Depatrment of Ag
riculture. It does not stimulate
growth but it does prevent the
stunting effect of parasite activ
ities.
DUROC SALE
Professor R. R. Ritchie, ani
mal husbandry department, of
Clemson College, S. C., has been
named to judge the Georgia
Duroc Show and Sale scheduled
for Valdosta, August 8. Nearly
30 bred gilts, among the Nation’s
best, have been consigned to the
sale.
Though the number of boll
weevils in Georgia fields is small
er this year than in 1950, these
insects are now at work in all
parts of the state, say Extension
cotton specialists.
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FFA Delegates
Attend State
Convention
Delegates from Perry FFA
Chapter will leave Monday to at
tend the 23rd annual convention
of Georgia Future Farmers at the
State FFA Camp near Coving
ton.
These delegates include Larry
Murphy and Billy Stewart, pres
ident and second vice president,
respectively, of the Perry chap
ter.
Highlight of the four-day
meeting will come late Wednes
day afternoon when the farm
boys dedicate an outdoor theater
that has been erected as a memo
rial to Future Farmers and FFA
advisors who served in World
War 11. Lt. Gov. Marvin G. Grif
fin and Dr. M. D. Collins, state
school superintendent, will speak
briefly at the dedication.
Near the end of the ceremony
a large bronze plaque will be un
veiled. It bears the names of 301
FFA members and seven voca
tional agriculture teachers who
were killed in the war, Parents
of this latter group of men are
being invited to the dedication
program.
Boys Built Theater
The theater has been built at a
cost of approximately SB,OOO.
Chapters all over the state helped
raise the money by contributing
85 cents per member.
Speakers at the noonday ses
sions include O. L. Hayden, ad
visor of the Adrian chapter for
thq last 25 years; Dr. O. C. Ader
hold, president of the University
of Georgia; Hal Davis, national
FFA vice president from Quincy,
Florida; and Miss Gwendolyn
Moore of Wadley, president of
the Georgia Future Homemakers
of America.
In addition to regular business
sessions each morning, there wil 1
be leadership training courses for
the 450 delegates and recreation
al programs in the afternoons.
Speaking Contest Monday
The convention will open Mon
day evening with the state pub
lic speaking and quartet contests
which bring together four youth
ful orators and as many quar
tets, who have won previous
bracket and district eliminations
in the states for vocational dis
tricts.
Competing for the SIOO speak
ing award will be Ferrell Dris
kell of Butler; Marvin Cox,
Graymount; Charlie Blackwell,.
Bogart; and Larry Bray, Cham-
Population In
Georgia May
Show Decline
ATHENS, Ga. —Population ex
perts at the University of Geor
gia have indicated that the pop
ulation of Georgia might go into
a decline if the present trend to
ward a high percentage urban
population continues.
In an article in the current
issue of the Georgia Alumni Re
cord, Drs. B. O. Williams and
C. A. McMahan of the Universi
ty’s sociology department cite
figures which they say give
“abundant food for thought’’
about a possible population de
cline.
As people move out of the
county and into-the city, they
say the birth rate declines. In
1950, in spite of an overall ten
per cent rise in population, there
weer fewer Georgians living in
rural areas than there were in
1940.
Fewest Since 1900
Last year’s census for the sec
ond time in history lists fewer
rural people than the census of
a decade earlier. There are now
fewer people living in rural areas
of Georgia than at any time since
the census of 1900.
“This is an important phenom
enon in the light of our knowl
edge of past differentials in rural
and urban fertility rates,” the
article points out. Normally
birth rates in rural areas are
much higher than those for urban
areas.
The article adds, however,
that in recent years there has
been a slight reversal of the low
urban birth rate trend and that
cities are tending to repopulate
themselves to a greater extent
than in the past.
If this trend proves to be mere
ly a “baby boom” and birth rate
statistics revert to normal, then
a small rural population may
mean an overall drop in popula
tion figures.
“Food for Thought
"Since the rural areas have al
ways been the seedbed of the
state and nation, there is abund
ant food for thought in the impli
cations of these trends.”
The article points out that in
a rapidly growing nation which
is becoming rapidly urbanized,
each succeeding census has shown
a larger total population and a
larger urban segment than for
the preceding one. Likewise the
rural portions of the nation have
grown from each census to the
next (except between 1940 and
1950) but such has not always
been true for the rural popula
tion of Georgia.
At the decade ending in 1930,
the rural population of Georgia
was smaller than it was 10 years
earlier. And for the second time
in Georgia’s population history,
the census of 1950 listed fewer
rural people than for a decade
earlier.
Five Old Cities
Dr. Williams and Dr. McMahan
also point out there are only five
“old” Georgia cities, or cities
which were listed in the 1850
U. S. census. With a city being
defined as an incorporated place
of 2,500 or more people, these
include Atlanta, Columbus, Ma
con, Augusta, and Savannah.
There are 26 “medium” aged
cities, or those which appeared in
the 1900 census, and 69 “new”
Georgia cities, or cities which
were listed as such in the 1950
census but not in the 1900 cen
sus.
A little more than 40 per cent
of Georgia’s population is now
urban, an increase of more than
five per cent for the past decade.
In the nation as a whole 59 per
cent of the population is urban.
blee.
Blakely, Mt. Berry, Avera, and
Washington foursomes will vie in
the quartet competition.
The top speaker and quartet go
to Auburn, Alabama, Thursday
night, August 2, to represent
Georgia against Florida and Ala
bama state winners.
State FFA officers who will
direct the convention are James
Moore, Pine Grove School, pres
ident, Grady Johnson, Emanuel
County Institute, Ist vice pres
idbtn; Shurratt Whitworth, La
vonia, 2nd vice president; Eu
gene Pollock, Camilla, 3rd vice
president; Allen Tabor, Perry,
secretary; Eugene Curies, Pel
ham, treasurer; and Malcolm Dil
lard, Rabun Gap, reporter.
During the convention state
and district awards will be pre->
sented for farm mechanics, farm
Farm Loan Co-op
Reports Growth
In Operations
According to announcement by
M. L. Cook, Jr., Secretary-Treas
urer of the Montezuma National
Farm Loan Association, the co
operative ended the fiscal year
July 1 with the most outstanding
record in its history.
New loans of .almost $400,000
were closed during the 12-month
period. The face amount of the
Association’s outstanding ac
counts is now in excess of IV2
million dollars. “In breaking our
own previous record the local
office also out-distanced the oth
er 25 offices in the state in the
field of new business,” Mr. Cook
reported. He emphasized the fact
however that farmers in this
area are no more heavily indebt
ed than in adjoining territories.
The favorable year was the re
sult of a concerted effort on the
part of the Association’s officers
and directors to serve the farm
ers of the area with long term
credit at a low rate of interest.
Farmers- in greater numbers,
Cook said, are patronizing their
own lending institution. The
Association does not lend Gov
ernment funds. The organization
is completely farmer owned and
farmer operated. The Federal
Land Bank of Columbia provides
the loan funds and the individual
notes are endorsed by the Asso
ciation. Though the entire op
eration is supervised by the Fed
eral Government it costs the tax
payers nothing whatever. The
system is entirely self supporting.
In addition to Macon, the Mon
tezuma Association also makes
loans in Peach, Houston, Schley,
Marion, Taylor, Chattahocheee,
Muscogee, Bibb and Crawford
Counties.
Other officers of the Associa
tion are S. A. Nunn, president;
J. H. Neisler, Vice-President;
Mack Ham, J. S. McCoy and
E. D. Hart, Directors; and Miss
Ruth Hicks, Asst. Secretary-
Treasurer.
It is important that farmers
who use powerful poisons, such
as Benzene Hexachloride, Toxa
phene, Aldrin and Parathion in
combating cotton insects, take
every precaution and not inhale
them.
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Evans Receives
Honor For Jaycees
Horace E. Evans, president of
the Georgia Junior Chamber of
Commerce, accepted a plaque in
behalf of the state Jaycees at the
closing session of the Georgia
Jewish War Veterans in Macon
Sunday night.
The plaque was awarded to the
Jaycees for their efforts in ob
taining passage of the anti-mask
bill in the state legislature.
RESEARCH VALUES
Research on the use of ferti
lizer and method of soil manage
ment have revealed facts that aid
farmers in making soils more
productive. Because new tech
niques have been put to use on
many farms, productivity is on
the come-back in areas where
yields were falling off because of
declining soil activities.
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