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. The Summerville News, Thurs., April 7, 1983
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Rain Delaying Crops
While floodwaters con
sume California vegetable
fields, Georgia farmers have
rain d)roblems of their own.
eavy rains have
saturated south Georgia fields
lust at the time farmers usual
y plant corn and vegetable
crops, delaying field work by
sevenal weeks in some areas.
“I doubt even 10 percent
of our corn crop is in the
ground now,”' said corn
sKecialist Frank Congleton of
the Georgia Extension Ser
vice,
In the Georgia coastal
plain, where 90 percent of the
state’s corn is grown, most of
the corn crop is normally
K}anted by the middle of
arch, Congleton said.
Farmers can delay corn
frlnnting as much as a month
om then and still produce
high yields in most areas.
However, if rain delays plan
ting after April 15 ‘‘you might
as well start looking at plan
ting something ot%\er than
corn,” Congleton said.
In Grady County along the
Florida border, county Exten
sion agent Perry Pope
estimates about 10 percent of
his county’s corn crop is
planted.
"l:r now we usually have
virtually all of our crcép in the
ground,”” Pope said. “We
won't %et alarmed about it un
til the first two weeks in April.
If we get open weather we
could probably catch up in
just a couple of weeks. The
machines we farm with
nowadays can do an awful lot
in a short time.”
Pope is more concerned
about Grady County's
vegetable crops.
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“We're in worse shape
from an economic standpoint
with our vegetables than we
are with anything else,” he
said. ‘‘We can catch up on
corn, but vegetables require a
lot of time and attention.
“We ought to be pickinf
squash down here in April,
but we just won't have it
then.”
Just north of Grady Coun
ty, Mitchell County Exten
sion agent Clifford Lee said
rain has delayed tomato and
tobacco setting.
“Right now the weather
isn't cooperating at all. We
can't %t in the fields,” said
Lee. ‘“‘We have maybe 1 or 2
percent of our corn in, and our
vegetables are way behind
schedule.
“If it continues like this on
top of the moisture we already
have, we stand the chance of
running into crop quality and
market problems.”
Georgia vegetable farmers
try to time their planting so
they can harvest their crops
after Florida vegetables hit
the market and before crops in
the Carolinas come in, Exten
sion Service specialists say.
When several states ff'ood
the market with vegetables at
the same time, prices plum
met.
That concerns Extension
agent Lamar Zipperer of
Screven County in southeast
Georgia.
“We're way behind on our
watermelon crop,”’ Zipperer
said. ‘‘lf our melons come out
after July 4, traditionally our
prices go down.”
In addition to delays in
planting, Zipperer said, geavy
rains have kept many farmers
Erosion Solutions Aid Farmers
Br CLENTIS M. POOL
Soil Conservation Service,
USDA
Erosion of‘cr?land is one
of the major soil and water
conservation problems we
face in Chattooga County.
Helpin% district cooperators
solve their erosion problems
takes sound Elanning and ap
plication of the proper conser
vation practices.
Engineering practices are
major components in the ‘'kit
of tools” that we use. One
good engineering practice that
reduces soil erosion is ter
races. Terraces are designed
channels that are located
roughly on the contour. The‘\;
are spaced just far enoug
apart that water entering the
terrace channel hasn't gained
enough speed to pick up soil
particles and cause erosion as
it runs across the field. They
have just enough slope in the
channel to carry runoff water
slowly around the field to a
‘“‘safe outlet.”
What is a safe outlet?
Either a grassed waterway or
a buried pipe with surface in
lets will carry the runoff safe
ly down the slope without ero
sion.
The grassed waterway is
one of our best engineering
tools. Probably no ot%xler prac
tice is more important or more
needed in Chattooga Counfi'.
Waterways are individually
designed for the size of the
drainage area they serve.
Their width and depth are
carefully determined to carrf'
the runoff water that will
originate from the area. Then
Plan White Cane Day
Lions Club members will
be trading white canes ror con
tributions Saturday, April 9,
in a drive to help Georgians
with vision and Eearing han
dicaps.
Donations given in ex
change for the miniature
white canes —the traditional
symbol of blindness — will go
entirely to the Georgia Lions
Lighthouse Foundation. No
from applying nitrogen fer
tilizers.on wheat, whici will be
harvested in late spring.
“Because of the weather,
some of our farmers had to
delay nitrogen applications
and others still haven’'t been
able to do it,” Zipperer said.
“That’s going to reguce yields
at harvest. We don’t know
how much yet, but you can
bank on some decrease.”
To know exactly where the
center of your sheet is when
you make the bed, fold
freshly-laundered sheets
lengthwise first.
they are ‘paved” with grass,
which prevents the runoff
water from loounin* soil gcr
ticles and transport ng them
downstream. This is the way
gullies form, so waterways are
a big help irr reducing soil ero
sion,
Recent studies show
another benefit, Soil particles
being eroded cmi pesticides
and herbicides that pollute
water. Grass in the waterway
will catch many of these soil
particles and ‘thereby
dramatically reduce the gollu
tion of runoff water, helping
prevent problems
downstream.
There are other enfiineer
ing practices in our ‘‘kit of
tools’ that help solve erosion
problems. They are lumped
together in what we call
‘‘engineering structures.”
These may be steel, plastic or
concrete structures used
where slopes are so steep that
natural earth, or even grass,
can't carry the water without
causing serious erosion.
There are different kinds of
structures. A pipe droiinlet is
a riser or chimney with a pipe
running horizontally under an
earthen fill. They are used in
ponds, gullies, terrace outlets
and for dropping water over
ditch banks.
The straight drop spillwafl
is a structure having a notc
for the water to flow over and
a concrete floor to break its
erosive force. These are used
in gullies and to lower water
into ditches.
The hooded inlet is a
culvert-like pipe with the inlet
administrative expenses are
paid-from ‘‘White Cane Day”’
donations.
Last year, life was made
better for more than 350
Georgians with sight pro
blems because of the Georgia
Lions Lighthouse Foundation.
People can now see again
because of sight restoration
surfiery. Others were provided
with eye glasses. And others
were referred by the Founda
tion to other organizations for
assistance.
The Foundation supports
the Lions Eye Banks in Atlan
ta and Augusta, which provid
ed tissue for 1,023 cornea
transplants last year.
Hearing aids were also pro
vided to 252 persons who lack
ed the money for them.
“With the help of the peo
ple of the community the mis
sion to greserve the gifts of
sight and hearing will go on,”
said President Bob
Throneberry of the Summer
ville Lions Club.
Gov. Joe Frank Harris has
proclaimed April 9, White
Cane Day.
end cut at a 45-degree angle to
improve the rate at which
water enters. It is used in
ponds and to lower water from
one level to another.
These various engineerin%
practices can help solve soi
erosion problems. The solu
tion may be fairly simfile. in
volving only some earth mov
ing and grass planting.
STOCKYARD
REPORT
Receipts totaled 958 at this week's livestock sale at the Fort
I(’:ag'i‘\)e Stockyard. The sale is held every Tuesday at 12:30 p.m,
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Here’s how the prices per hundred weight broke down:
FEEDER CLASSES
BULLS & STEERS (GOOD AND CHOICE)
200-300 pounds — 70.00 to 85.00
300-350 pounds — 68.00 to 81.00
350-400 pounds — 65.00 to 76.50
400-450 pounds — 62.00 to 74.00
450-500 pounds — 61.00 to 73.00
500-600 pounds — 59.00 to 72.50
STEERS
600-800 pounds — 57.00 to 67.00
HEIFERS (GOOD AND CHOICE)
200-300 pounds — 55.00 to 68.50
300-350 pounds — 54.00 to 67.00
350-400 pounds — 54.00 to 66.00
400-500 pounds — 53.00 to 66.00
500-600 pounds — 52.00 to 64.50
SLAUGHTER CLASSES
CALVES (GOOD AND CHOICE)
200-300 pounds — 55.00 to 67.00
300-400 pounds — 54.00 to 66.00
400-500 pounds — 53.00 to 64.50
500-700 pounds — 52.00 to 62.00
COowsS
Utility — 48.50 down
Cutters — 46.00 down
Canner & Culls — 40.00 down
BULLS
Heavy — 55.50 down
HOGS *
U.S.land 2
200-240 pounds — 46.50 to 47.50
* Per hundred weight, as reported by the Federal-State
Market News Service in Thomasville for Wednesday noon sales
in the North Georgia Direct Area.
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Chances are, however, it will
require an eniineering struc
ture of some kind to supple
ment other conservation
work. Properly designed and
installed, engineering struc
tures are a sure-fire solution
for certain erosion problems.
And controllin% erosion helps
everybody in Chattooga Coun
ty.
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