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Land Classes Suggest Type Crop To Plant
Ity F. T. Ritchie
Soil Conservation Service
What happens when you
local Soil Conservation
for help on your farm?
Ccnservation technicians come
out and start working up a plan
on your farm.
A farm plan is similar to
building a house. You need a
plan or layout to go by if a
building Is to be constructed.
The same is needed if a good
sound farm plan is to be con¬
structed.
To secure the needed infor¬
mation an inventory is made of
the land by a Soil Scientist. He
walks over every acre and
makes a map called a Soil Sur¬
vey. Usually an aerial photo¬
graph is used as a base on
which to record the informa-
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Trenton, Georgia
Times Contest
Topic For August
The time has come. It will be
only a few years until man will
know whether he can conquer
space o r not. We want your
opinion: I do (or do not) believe
that man will travel through
space in the near future, and
why I believe this.
Whht d. you think? Do you
beiieve that man will travel
through space in the next few
decades? or do you believe that
RULES OF THE CONTEST
1 Open to all readers of The Dade County Times.
2. Topic for the month-^whieh appears in the paper—to
enclosed with each entry.
3. Winning essay or article will be published and winner
receive $5.00 cash or three free subserptions to the paper.
4. Your name and address must be signed to your entry
will be withheld upon request.
5. Essay must not be over 500 words long; must be neat;
or written in ink.
6. No employee of The Dade County Times will be eligible
a prize.
7. No essays will be returned and the staff of The Dade
Times reserves the right to edit all copy.
8. Entries must be received on cr before the last day of
month as each month’s contest closes on the last day
the month.
THE DADE COUNTY TIMES, TRENTON, GEORGIA, THU RSDAY AUGUST 11, 1955
[ tion. Many factors are houses, shown
such as roads, streams,
etc.
The four most important
factors placed cn the map are:
soil" units or soil groups; percent
slope or steepness of the land;
amount of erosion that has
taken place or soil washed off;
and present land use. From
these factors the capability
classes of land are determined.'
By use of the information re-
corded cn the soil conservation
survey and years of study and
research by various agricultu-
ral agencies, land capabilities 1
have been developed. These ca-j
pabilities are divided into eight
classes. one through The first four four are classes, those j
suited to cultivation; ca-
pability classes five through
eight are those lands net suited
to cultivation. It is net the
purpose of land capability
classes to try to set up a scale
of fertility from class one
through eight.
These classes of land do net
represent a scale of fertility el¬
even productivity, but do classify
the land according to increas
ing restrictions if continued f
production is to be expected (
from a given area. The purpose
ojf these restrictions is to main¬
tain moderate to high yields of
adapted farm crops and prevent
erosion over a long period of
years.
We must remember where we
have water running across fields
we have soil erosion and this is :
what we must control in the fu-
Pfc. Claude Cloud Jr., 26,
father lives in Trenton,
is a member of the 7th In¬
fantry Division in Korea.
Continuing its training, the
division is the only
U.S. Army division that has re¬
mained in Korea since the cease
fire.
Cloud, a gunner in Company
D of the division’s 31st Regi¬
ment, arrived overseas last May
from Fort Benning, Ga.
A former employe cf the
Chrysler Corp. in Detroit, he
entered the Army in July 1953
and completed basic training at
Fort Jackson, S. C.
man will fail in his attempts to
conquer space travel?
1 Last month there were no en-
tries, therefore n o winner, so
this month we are offering two
prizes of $5.00 each. One for the
best essay favoring the proba-
bility of space travel in the near
future and the other to the best
essay denying space travel in
the near future,
Just read the rules and
us your written opinion.
ture if we are able to produce
crops for years to come.
On the cultivated classes of
land, classes one through four,
certain special cropping and
management practices must be
allowed They are many, vary-
ing with the soild, slope and ero-
sion. Basically, good practices to
follow include application f
lime, commercial fertilizer, or "
ganic matter, goed seed, good
tillage, weed control, terracing,
water disposal, good retation,
contour cultivation and on some
soils drainage,
The feur classes of land not
su ited for cultivation are five
through eight. These classes of
land are developed due to many
they may be steep
slopes, erosion, undesirable soil
(due to shallow profile, little cr
no development, toe dry,
wet, stony and many other
causes), or a combination cf any
of these factors. These classes of
land are suited to the production
of permanent vegetative cover
such as hay. pasture, woodland,
for wildlife use.
The severity cf erosion, steep¬
ness of slope and soil unit are all
in determining the
ca pa.t>ility of a given area. The
of the practices re¬
quired to control erosion over a
period cf time and main¬
tain a moderate to high yield of
the adapted crops are the deter¬
mining factors in arriving at the
land capability.
(From the April 1955 issue of
DIXIE CO-OP NEWS.)
SEAMAN SIMS WITH
A r 'R TRANSPORT SQDN.
Herbert F. .Sims, seaman, U.
S. N„ son of Mr. and Mrs. W C.
Sims of Trenton, Ga., is serving
with Air Transport Squadron
2, at the Naval Air Station at
Alameda, Calif.
Sims, who reported for duty
at Alameda June 29, entered
Cpl. Orison Hend erson, 19,
son of Floyd H. Henderson, Rte.
1, Long Island, Ala., recently
was graduated from The Infan¬
try School’s a d v a n c ed non¬
commissioned officers course at
Fort Benning, Ga.
The course was designed to
prepare non - commissioned of¬
ficers for duties as platoon ser¬
geants with infantry regiments.
Corporal Henderson e n tered
the Army i n September 1955.
He is a 1953 graduate of Pisgah
iHigh School.
OBITUARY I
Thomas Albert Hallum
Thomas Albert Hallum, 73, of
Wildwood, died July 30 after a
long illness. He is survived by
his w i f e, Mrs. Lena Chastain
Hallum, Wildwood; two daught¬
ers, Mrs. Minnie Weeks, Blue
Ridge, Ga., and Mrs. Gertrude
McBryar, Trenton; two sons,
Bennet Hallum and Sidney Hal¬
lum, Wildwcod; a sister, Mrs.
Gertrude Bundy, High Point.,
N. C.; four brothers. Harvey
Hallum, Evansville, Ind.; Brad¬
ley Hallum, Dayton, Ohio; Fred
Hallum. Oakland, Calif.; and Al¬
ton V. Hallum, Atlanta; an
aunt, Mrs. R. L. Wilson, New
England and 13 grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at
the chapel of the funeral home
with burial in the Mount Maria
Cemetery, Blue Ridge.
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Dade Football
Practice Begins
August 15
Football practice at Dade
; r>!i School will ibegin August
15, Coach Delma.s Freeman has
announced. Uniforms and
equipment were given cut Fri¬
day, August 5. He hopes to have
all suits issued and physicals
completed by the .practice date,
in order that training can -begin
immediately.
The following boys are eli¬
gible to play football this sea-
. n for Dade High;
L. M. Allison, 'Fred Bettis, Ro¬
bert Di:n Bradford, Robert
Leon Crowe, Hershel Harold
Dugan, Jimmy Paul Gilley, Mar¬
vin Earl Hunt, ’Derrell Fletcher
Hughes, Jerry Roger Hughes,
‘Robert Eugene Keith, ‘Samuel
Herbert K e n i m e r, ’Robert
Owens Lee, ‘Johnny Wesley
Lynch, Johnny Lyle Massey,
’Joe Ben MoBryar, ‘Samuel
Clinton McBryar, ’Wendell
Austin McCormitk, ’Newell
Winfred McCormick, * D e z y
Wayne Moore, Wfndall
Lee Paine, ’Willard Wayman
Ryan, ’Harcld Lee Shankles,
’Thomas Dale Sims, Fred Paul
'slack, ♦Carl Eugene Steele,
* David R usse li Steele,, ’Richard
0rland Su tton, ’Charles Donald
V aughn, ’George Ed.ward
yaughn, David Eugene Walker,
Lavoy Wallen, Logan
Edward Watkins, Earl Gene
; Wheeler, ’Frankie Woodfin.
‘Played before.
t Will be eligible to play Oct.
10, 1055. Transfer from Berry,
Georgia.
Baseball
Davis continued to top the
Volunteer league as they wal¬
loped Center Post 22 to 7.
; Claude Ellison had a bases
loaded homer and Dub Patton
got § for 5, to lead the Davis
team. Cedar Grove edged New
Salem 7 to 6 to hold second
place. Vols defeated Wildwood
22 to 5 in the other league con-
test.
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And the cards in this case are the
hundreds of time cards in new indus¬
trial plants all over Georgia.
The industrial payrolls, represented
by these cards, are supplementing the
incomes of many Georgia towns and
helping to insure their future by
maintaining a healthy balance among
their agricultural, commercial and in¬
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If your town isn’t getting its share
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you should start today to organize
an industrial development program
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Area Development Representatives for
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AREA DEVELOPMENT DIVISION
