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'Big M' Pasture Program
To Be Launched Here
Boosting Livestock Income Is Aim,
Says County Agent M. H. Purcell
More grass, more beef, more
milk and more money for more
Chattooga County farmers!
This is the overall aim of the
“Big M" pasture program which
County Agent M. H. Purcell has
announced is being launched
throughout the county.
The major objective of this
program, the County Agent said,
is to help and encourage all
farmers in the county to become
more efficient producers of live
stock and livestock products by
establishing and maintaining
the best possible grazing systems
on their farms.
The program will emphasize
four basic steps to good pasture
production: <1) Lime, (2) Fer
tilizer. <3> Grass, and <4) Man
agement.
A major goal of this program,
he continued, is to increase the
carrying capacity of pastures in
the county from the present av
erage capacity of :, .i animal unit
per acre to 1.5 animal units per
acre <an animal unit equals one
mature cow or two calves».
Achievement of this goal will in
crease the county income from
livestock and livestock products
an estimated $600,000, he de
clared.
The county agent pointed out
that the “Big M" pasture pro
gram is a followup of the Soil
Fertility Program begun in the
county in 1958, with major em
phasis on pasture improvement
Emphasis upon the taking of
soil samples to determine lime
and fertilizer needs and then
applying lime and fertilizer ac
cording to soil test recommenda
tions will' be continued.
He added that the “Big M"
pasture program is being
launched in 32 Georgia counties
this fall by the Agricultural Ex
tension Service, University of
Georgia College of Agriculture.
It is being sponsored on the state
level by the Georgia Plant Food
Educational Society. Inc. County
sponsors are: Summerville Gin
Co ; Farm Supply Store: Black
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New Program For
Farmer Demanded
By John Pickell
“An over-all sustained nation
al prosperity is dependent upon
a vigorous agricultural econ
omy," John Pickett, candidate
for Congress, said this week in
attacking the present method of
handling the farm problem.
“I absolutely condemn the de
featist attitude of the present
administration in refusing to
take action to assure the well
being of farm families. I con
demn its fear of abundance; its
lack of Initiative in developing
domestic markets, and Its dis
mal failure to obtain for the
American farmer, his traditional
and deserved share of the world
market. Its extravagant expen
diture of money intended for
agricultural benefit, without
either direction or results, is an
economic calamity.
"We should maintain adequate
reserves of agricultural com
modities, strategically located,
for national security purposes,”
Pickett declared. “Such stock
piles should be handled so that
farmers will not be penalized by
depressed process for their will
ingness to produce crops.
“We should promote interna
tional exchange of commodities
by creating an International
Food Reserve, fostering com
modity agreements, and vigor
ously administering the Foreign
Agricultural Trade Development
and Assistance Act.
“We should develop practical
measures for extending price
supports to feed grains and
other non-basic storables and to
the producers of perishable com
modities such as meat, poultry,
dairy products and the like.
“Generally speaking,” Pickett
concluded, “we should enact a
comprehensive farm program
which, under an intelligent and
sympathetic administration, will
make the rural homes of Amer
ica a better, a healthier and a
more prosperous place in which
to live.”
Fond parents who seek to live
their children's lives usually
manage to mess up everything.
Watermelons Important
Export Product in Georgia
With its sweet, juicy red pulp inside its green and white
rind, the watermelon is a symbol of summertime refresh
ment down South with a unique appeal far beyond the
bounds of Dixieland. This taste appeal of the watermelon
makes it worth four to five million dollars a year to water
melon growers in Georgia alone.
New Yorkers and Philadel
phians particularly like the
Georgia grown watermelons,
making these cities the first and
second most important market
for Georgia melons transported
by both rail and truck.
Georgia watermelons are
highly regarded elsewhere, too.
They averaged 8.8 and 26 per
| cent of June and July unloads
at 11 markets included in a re
cent study by marketing re
search economists, K. E Ford
| and J. C. Elrod of the Georgia
Experiment Station, University
lof Georgia College of Agricul
ture.
Such demand for Georgia
| watermelons gives watermelon
i production an important place
|in the agricultural economy of
। Georgia, especially in Brooks,
Good Quality Seed to Be
Available For Fall Use
Good quality seed will be available to Georgia farmers
for fall planting, Harvey Lowery, seed marketing specialist
for the Georgia Agricultural Extension Service, said this
week.
Official laboratory reports
.show that germination and
other factors that determine
seed quality are considerably
higher than last year, Mr.
Lowery reported.
He said harvesting of small
grains, lupine, clover and fes
cue seed are now in the process
of being dried, cleaned, treated,
fumigated, bagged and tagged.
After the seed is tagged it will
be moved to wholesale and re
tail outlets.
Some of the improvement in
quality is due to favorable
weather dining the harvesting
season, but credit must also be
given to growers and processors
who are continuing to improve
their operations, Mr. Lowery ex
plained.
The majority of certified seed
growers are now selecting clean
land and spraying fields to con
trol noxious weeds where neces
sary. Other reasons he gave for
improved quality are that grow
ers are roguing fields to remove
other crops and varieties and
they are adjusting combines to
recover the seed free from plant
residue with minimum seed loss
and minimum damage to seed.
Processors are drying seed
down to 12 per cent moisture
or below and most are treating
801 l Weevil Real Menace
This Year, Says Purcell
The boll weevil is on the
march in Chattooga County.
Infestation in many fields is
as high as 30 per cent, County
Agent M. H. Purcell said this
week, and the weevils are mi
grating which means there is a
real problem.
The situation is the worst it's I
been in several years, he noted. I
Fanners are urged to poison |
regularly to combat this menace, i
Purcell suggests that a concerted
poisoning program be started
when 10 per cent infestation is I
found. (This is determined by
walking diagonally across a field |
and gathering 100 non-flared'
LIVESTOCK PRODUCERS INVITED
TO SHARE IN COOSA FAIR OFFER
Livestock producers in the
Coosa Valley area will have an
opportunity to share in some
SIO,OOO in premiums at the
Coosa Valley Fair to be held in
Home the week of Sept 19-24
These premiums, offered for
entries in both the Junior and
Open shows, assure that the
many thousands of people who
attend will see some of the
finest livestock ever assembled
in this area.
The Open Livestock Show will,
in addition to being open to the
residents of the 17 counties in
the Coosa Valley area, be open
to the residents of the other
counties in the state of Geor
gia Junior shows are limited to
the counties in the Coosa Valley
area
Livestock to be shown in
cludes beef breeds — Angus and
Hereford, the three major breeds
of dairy cattle in this section.
Holstein, Jersey and Guernsey,
as well as all the major breeds
ot hogs found in this area.
In addition, the Junior Poultry
Show will have entries from
both the 4-H clubs and FFA
members who have poultry as
their projects
The livestock will be on ex
hibit during the entire length of
the fair in the modern, per
manent livestock building lo
cated on the Fair grounds.
Entries will range from single
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS, SUMMERVILLE. GEORGIA
Thomas, Colquitt and Cook
counties where most of the
state's output is grown, say
Ford and Elrod.
Farm value of watermelons in
Georgia was low during the
19305, but a sharp rise in prices
during World War II caused an
increase in value. While prices
have declined somewhat since
the war, value has been rela
tively stable at four to five mil
lion dollars annually since 1947.
More information about the
supply, price, value and dispo
sition of Georgia watermelons
with comparisons to other states
is contained in the report of Ford
and Elrod. Interested readers
should write to; Director, Geor
gia Experiment Station, Experi
ment, Ga., and request Mimeo
Series 98.
seed to control both insects and
; seed-borne diseases.
I Mr. Lowery said that the
■ carryover of seed is small, and
’ although the acreage planted to
. seed crops is less than last year,
supplies will be adequate to
I meet the demand for most crops.
"However, there is never
; enough top quality seed,” he
, declared.
He urged farmers to be selec
-1 tive in buying seed, considering
. the following points:
1. Select a hybrid or variety
i that is recommended and
■ adapted to their area.
; 2. Plant certified seed, if
> available.
s 3. Buy seed that has been pre
> cision graded.
4. Buy seed that has been of
ficially tested as to germination
I and purity.
i 5. Plant treated seed.
6. Be a seed tag reader. All
. seed moving through the seed
r trade must be labeled as re
- quired by federal and state
; laws. Even though not all cer
l tified seed are of the same qual
> ity, all Georgia certified seed
t must meet minimum require
-5 ments of the Georgia Crop Im
. provement Association and they
I are considerably higher than
> those required by state law for
; not-certified seed.
squares, and finding out how
many are infested).
Once the cotton dusting pro
gram is started, it should be
done every five days for four
times.
The recent prolonged rains
I have given incentive to the
I weevil, the county agent noted.
Thus the weather has played
, havoc on Chattooga County’s
| cotton crop both ways this year.
Spring droughts prevented gbod
stands and then slowed growth
of the plants that did rise. And
' now comes the rains which en
' courage the weevil.
animals by Junior members—
being exhibited as their projects
to show strings being offered
by the large, purebred farms in
the Coosa Valley area and Geor
gia.
Judging this year will begin
on Monday when winners in
each class will be selected in the
special area FFA Pig Show.
On Tuesday the Junior and
Open Swine Show will be held
with the Beef Cattle Show fol
lowing in the afternoon.
In addition there will also be
awards for the best fitted ani
mals in the Junior Show and
for the best county groups as
well as the Championship Show
to be held during the week.
All animals shown will be
purebred animals, registered by
the Association breed and will
represent the top breeding live
stock off these farms.
Each annuals shown must
have health papers according to
the rules set forth by the Live
stock Department of the Coosa
Valley Fair.
Livestock exhibitors who in
tend to participate in the shows
are invited to address inquiries
to the "Livestock Division. Coosa
Valley Fair. P.O. Box 486, Rome,
Georgia" or to send in the entry
blanks found in the Fair catalog.
These catalogs may be found
in various places throughout the
Coosa Valley area.
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