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I The Houston Home Journal
News Os Interest To Houston County Families
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■ 'll Houston County
Agent Says
■ By Emmet Wheldiel
PRUNING PEACHES
If you haven’t pruned your
peach trees yet, there’s still
time. In fact, our Extension
horticulturists say March
and April are the best
months to do this chore.
Once upon a time, most
pruning was done in the fall
and winter October,
November, December and
January Research has now
proven these months to be
the most critical times for
pruning peaches. Pruning in
the late spring is better. It
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makes for better survival of
flower buds after late frost,
and thus a better set of fruit.
FIRST GENERATION
Tests have been conducted
many times over the past
years, and the results are
always the same. That is, an
adapted FI (first
generation) hybrid corn will
outyield an F 2 (second
generation) crib com an
average of 20 to 25 percent.
In 1971, due to a shortage
of FI hybrid seed resistant to
southern com leaf blight.
some of our growers were
forced to use F 2 seed. And
thanks to excellent weather,
many of them made good
yields. However, research
and grower experience
showed they would have
made higher yields - SM) to 25
percent higher - had they
been able to plant first
generation adapted hybrids.
SOYBEANS NEEDED
1 For several years now
we’ve been saying that
Georgia needs more
soybeans. Well, we are
saying it again for 1972. Our
Extension economists tell us
that U.S. soybean output last
year was around 1 to 1.2
billion bushels. This is more
than 100 million bushels
under the amount needed for
domestic consumption and
for exporting. It is the second
year in a row that soybean
use has exceeded output.
The shortages have been
made up from carryover
stocks. However, the 1971
carryover was projected at
about 75 million bushels
This is very close to the
minimum safe level of stocks
that should be maintained.
Os course. Georgia has been
doing its part to increase
soybean production over the
past decade. During the 1960-
63 period, production in this
state averaged 1 to 2 million
bushels a year. But in
dications are that the 1971
crop was well over 16 million
bushels. It was a third larger
than the 1970 crop. A record
yield of 26 bushels per acre
on 639,000 acres helped make
this possible
NETS
Again. Off Again Weather -
May Have Damaged Pecan
Buds
The cold weather in
November and December
was just right for the pecan
trees, but when the 80-degree
weather occurred in January
some pecan buds started
swelling and there may have
been some damage done to
these buds later in February
and March by low tem
peratures. If the first or
second buds on the ends of
the twigs swelled enough to
pop the overwintering black
to brownish cap off, then this
would leave these buds
subject to cold weather
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damage if the temperature
went below 28 degrees later
in the winter months.
The temperature certainly
went much below 28 in
February two or three times,
and there is expected to be
some damage to these ter
minal buds. Lateral buds
farther back up the shoots
will grow but they may not
have the capability of
producing nuts as the buds
have that are located closer
to the terminal. We shall
wait and see.
PECAN DISEASE
CONTROL
A fungus disease called
scab is a most important one
that attacks pecans. The
most critical time for in
fection is early in the spring
when the leaves and the
pecan flowers are young and
tender. Therefore, a spray
program must be started
early and growers should by
all means remain on
schedule. I would guess that
about half the Georgia pecan
growers miss applying the
first pecan spray, and this is
certainly dangerous from
the standpoint of disease
infection. The first ap
plication should be applied
when the leaves have just
begun to unfold and are
about the size of your thumb
nail.
Pecan insects and diseases
can be controlled best by
following a spray guide
which is available from the
local county extension of
fices throughout Georgia.
Growers must prevent scab
from becoming established.
Prevention, rather than
cure, must be the rule.
Soybean
Growers
Encouraged
TlFTON—Soybean growers
who are faced with unusually
low seed germination this
season have at least one
alternative for helping the
situation.
According to Samuel B.
Thompson, area Extension
plant pathologist, application
of fungicides can increase seed
germination.
"Much of this reduced
quality can be traced to fungus
infection of the seed during the
wet 1971 harvest season,”
Thompson said. ‘These fungi
can largely be controlled, and
thereby increase germination,
by treating the seed with
fungicides.”
Thompson said seed treat
ment with the fungicides
“captan” and “thiram” can
increase germination from 10
to 30 percent.
“Growers who produce seed
for certification are required to
have the seed tested for
germination,’’ the plant
pathologist said. “Growers who
are saving seed for their own
u» are strongly urged to have
these seed tested for germina
tion. too. This is the only
accurate way to determine seed
quality.”
Thompson said this can be
accomplished by treating a
bushel of each lot of seed and
by sending a seed sample from
these bushels for the germi
nation test. He said this is
suggested because once the
seed are treated, they cannot
be used for oil, meal or as food
for humans or animals.
“If only a small quantity of
seed is treated and germination
iS still too low for seed.”
Thompson said, “the
remainder of the beans still
could be sold for oil or feed
purposes,
"If germination is high
enough for seed purposes, the
seed could be treated with a
fungicide at a later date.”
Thompson said "captan”
and “thiram" are sold under
several different trade names
and in different formulations.
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AS A MATTER OF FAT
There is a growing trend in
this country - and in this
county - towards obesity.
Why? Who knows? I’d
venture an offhand guess the
burgeoning problem is a
result of more leisure time
for the average person,
coupled with an increasing
abundance of food. Par
ticularly the taste tempting
high calorie variety. Maybe
we would all benefit by
losing surplus pounds, if we
kept some fat-associated
problems on the top of our
minds.
MENACING POUNDS
One of the greatest
problems in preventive
medicine today is obesity.
Excessive weight is closely
related to heart and kidney
diseases, degenerative
arthritis, gout and
gallbladder trouble. It's also
a serious risk for those who
need surgery.
In addition, being fat
constitutes a physical
handicap. Obese people are
uncomfortable during warm
weather because thick
layers of fat serve as an
insulator, keeping in the
heat. And it takes more
effort for an overweight
person to do the same
amount of work as his lighter
counterpart. Because they
are less movable, corpulent
men and women are more
accident prone. Fatigue,
backache and foot troubles
are common complaints.
THIN IS IN
There was a time when
being moderately over
weight was considered a sign
of good health and beauty.
Not anymore. The slim look
is fashionable in today's
society, but few of us trim
down and STAY slim. The
national preoccupation with
slimness is in itself sur
prising. as it adds to existing
problems. Too many people
turn to bad diets, pills and
gadgets which result in
nutritional inadequacy,
economic loss, and some
times serious effects on
health. This is not the way to
lose weight. It takes a
steady, balanced diet to take
weight off and keep it off.
WHICH WEIGHT FOR
YOU?
The best weight for a
person's height, age. bone
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OOWRTOWR
structure and muscular
development is not known
precisely. Height-weight
tables classify people as
having a large, average or
small frame. The person who
is large-boned may weigh
five to ten percent more than
the weight for average build
without being overweight,
while a small-framed person
should weight five to ten
percent less than average.
It is reported that ideal
weight comes around the age
of 25, although it seems
many young people today
are victims of a premature
middle-aged spread. A great
many people tend to gain
weight until late middle life,
but this tendency impairs
physical well-being. Con
trary to popular belief,
putting on pounds is not one
of the necessary evils of
growing old. Probably the
best standard to keep in
mind concerning proper
weight is this: If it's not
muscle, if it’s not bone, that
bouncing surplus of sub
cutaneous tissue is good-old
fashioned fat.
WHAT IS OBESITY?
The term “overweight” is
usually applied to those who
are 10 to 20 percent above
proper weight. “Obesity”
applies to those who exceed
the norm by 20 percent or
more. A person eating 100
calories a day more than his
body needs (one rich cookie
does it) could feasibly gain
nine pounds in a year. Ob
viously, over a period of ten
years obesity is inevitable.
And our unfortunately fat*
cookie-eater didn't really
make a glutton of himself.
Half of all men over 30 are
at least ten percent over
weight and a fourth are
obese. About 40 percent of all
females are obese before age
40.
STARV ATION V ERSUS
MODERATION
You can maintain a slim
figure only through sensible
dieting and exercise. This
doesn’t mean skipping
meals, crash or starvation
diets. It is possible to lose
weight without starving
yourself to death. This
means cutting down on the
amount you eat, but mainly
it entails a change from
immoderate eating patterns
and rich foods.
Georgia Farmers Indicate
What They'll Grow in 72
ATHENS-What are Georgia
farmers planting this year?
More acres of soybeans,
cotton and hay, according to
the Georgia Crop Reporting
Service, and fewer acres of
corn, tobacco, sorghum and
oats.
CRS’s latest planting inten
tions survey also indicates a
slight increase for peanuts.
Frasier T. Galloway, agri
cultural statistician in charge,
said the purpose of the CRS
report is to aid fanners in
making final plans for planting
this year’s crops. He explained
that acreages actually planted
may be more or less than the
report indicates, depending on
weather, economic conditions,
seed supply, labor, farm pro
grams—and how farmers react
to this report.
Acreage figures from last
year show only one crop with
over a million acres. This is
corn, the leader by far. with
1,7 51,000 acres in 1971.
Growers indicate corn acreage
will be reduced six percent in
’72, to 1,645.000 acres.
Galloway said this is even more
of a reduction than they
reported on the January
survey.
Two Georgia crops—
soybeans and peanuts
occupied more than one-half
million acres in ’7l, and
two—cotton and hay—took up
over 400,000 acres of space.
This will be the situation in
’72, too.
1 n fact, soybeans—which
have been growing by leaps and
bounds in recent years—leads
all crops in percent of increase
(14 percent) for this year.
Growers indicate they will
plant 750,000 acres, compared
to 660,000 acres in 1971. Ten
years ago there were less than
100,000 acres of soybeans in
this state.
Georgia’s leading money
crop, peanuts, will be up
slightly this year, according to
planting intentions expressed
by growers. Indications are
that 520.000 acres will be
planted—2,ooo more than last
year.
The Georgia Agricultural
Commodity Commission for
Cotton, and other segments of
the cotton industry, are
pushing for “A Half Million
Bales from A Half Million
Acres” this year, and it looks
like they will almost make it—
at least acreage-wise. CRS
figures indicate 445.000 acres
of cotton will be planted. This
is 19,000 acres more than last
year.
Hay crops are in for a
7,000-acre increase. Grower
intentions are to plant 430,000
acres of these crops, compared
to 423,000 in 1971.
Other information on the
Prospective Plantings report
includes:
Tobacco down three per
cent: Basic tobacco allotments
and poundage quotas, as well
as grower intentions, point to
57,650 acres compared with
59,630 acres last year.
Oats down: The increase in
oat acreage indicated earlier
did not materialize. CRS
officials say the prolonged
period of wet weather may
have prevented some intended
plantings. At any rate, acreage
of oats in Georgia this year is
now indicated at 198,000.
Sorghums off sharply; A
calming of the corn blight scare
and marketing problems last
year have apparently promoted
a 19 percent cutback in
sorghum acreage—to 110,000
acres.
33 Persons
Die Daily
in Fires
ATHENS-Fires, like
automobile accidents, always
happen to someone else—never
to you.
However, if this is a typical
day in the United States, 33
persons—also unsuspect
ing—will be killed by accidental
fires.
And most of the victims,
says Cecil Hammond, engineer
with the University of Georgia
Extension Service, will be
children and elderly persons.
Hammond, studying figures
which show that 12,200 U. S.
citizens die in fires every year,
explains that smoking and
matches consistently rank *s
the No. 1 cause of fires in
buildings.
Electrical fires, usually
caused by faulty or misused
equipment, destroy nearly
150,000 buildings each year.
The average daily toll of
fires in this country is tremen
dous, Hammond points out. In
addition to the 33 lost lives, it
includes: 1,486 homes, 315
apartment buildings, 30
schools, 10 churches, 127 farm
buildings, 215 stores, offices
and restaurants, and 139
industrial plants.
Hammond believes these
figures should be sufficient to
cause all of us to guard against
accidental fires—both at home
and where we work.