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WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE
Published Fridays
Official Organ of Wheeler County
Entered as second class matter at the postoffice in Alamo, Ga., under Act
of March 3, 1879
Published at Alamo, Ga., by
EAGLE PUBLISHING CO.
William H. Sightier ) Editors and Owners
Mackie A. Simpson J
Subscription Rates
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One Year, Outside Wheeler County $2.50
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Poultry Tips
For July
BY ARTHUR GANNON, Poultryman
Georgia Extension Service
Vaccination of day-old chicks with
the live virus intranasal type of
Newcastle vaccine is recommended
for broiler growers, but you can ex
pect only about 80 percent of the
vaccinated chicks to be protected.
Move the feeders and waterers on
the range every week to prevent the
ground from becoming contami
nated.
Mow the range to keep the grass
young and tender. Chickens don’t
like hay.
Don’t give pullets bronchitis, or
vaccinate them for Newcastle after
they have begun to “bloom” —when
their combs turn red before coming
into production.
Crowding does not pay. Give
broilers at least three-fourth square
foot per bird and give hens, in large
laying houses, three square feet per
bird.
Change young pullets from a
growing mash to a laying mash just
as soon as they start to lay. The nu
tritional requirements of laying hens
are different from the requirements
of growing chickens.
Never allow a broody hen to re-'
main on the nest and thus keep
warm the eggs laid by other hens.
An electric fan in the laying
house wil keep the air circulating
and will make the hens more com
fortable on hot days.
Have your power company check
your wiring to see if it is heavy
enough to carry the load when many
lights are used in large laying
houses.
Eggs saved for hatching should be
held at a termperature of 45-65 de
grees and with a relative humidity
of 70-80 percent.
Collect eggs four times a day
in a wire basket and pack in cases
or cartons after they have lost their
body heat. Then keep in a cool
place until marketed.
FOREST INSECTS
BY T. V. LACHER
U. S. Forest Service
Naval Stores Conservation Progrom
In talking with gum farmers in
the course of administering the tur
pentine program there are quite a
number of questions asked about re
ducing the insect damage in their
timber stands.
At certain times and certain lo
calities the insect problem may be
come serious enough to cause the
woodland owner some concern. By
knowing what control measures to
take, the woodland owner can great
ly lessen timber losses from insects.
The two most destructive insects
that get into the pine timber in this
general locality are the southern
pine beetle and the Ips engraver
beetle. The southern pine beetle is
the worse of the two. Each of these
insects will attack a different part
of the tree. The southern pine beetle
attacks at about the middle and up
per part of the trunk. The Ips en
graver comes in three kinds—those
that attack the tops and upper
branches, those that work in the
middle of the tree, and those that
work in the lower part of the trunk.
The southern pine beetle can and
does attack and kill live, healthy,
and vigorous pines—slash, longleaf,
and “black” pines. The Ips beetle
cares more for freshly fallen tops
and for trees weakened by lightning
fire, drought, or other means.
About 10 days after these insects
get into the trees the needles turn
a yellowish-green color. After a
while they become brownish and
finally a reddish brown. About this
time the insects move out of the
tree. Globs of ( pitch mixed with
sawdust on the trunk of a tree in-
dicate the presence of the southern
pine beetle in the tree. The Ips en
gravers do not make these pitch
tubes unless they attack a very
vigorous tree. Their boring dust is
generally free of pitch and their
presence in the tree is shown by
numberous pinholes in the bark.
When attacked the tree dies because
the insect destroys the soft inner
bark or cambium layer, through
which the nourishment is carried up
the tree from the soil.
There are cretain precautions that
can be taken to prevent an insect at
tack from getting out of hand. If
you see insects are starting to move
in on your trees:
1. Salvage your infested trees
first
2. Cut any damaged or weakened
trees—to keep the attack from
spreading. It is good practice to
harvest all worked out turnentine
timber at the earliest possible time.
This is one way to keep a step ahead
of the bugs.
3. Put off cutting your pine tim
ber until fall or winter, if at all
possible. Since these insects stay
pretty well under the bark during
cold weather and are inactive, win
ter is the safest time for cutting.
On the other hand, they are very ac
tive and do some of their worst dam
age during dry spells. At those
times the branch pine will probably
suffer more because the rapid dry
ing out of the soil will make it hard
er for the tree to get enough water
to keep it in a healthy and vigorous
condition.
A large-scale loging operation
where the cutting is continuous is
fairly safe in the summer because
generally there are enough tops and
lopped limbs for the iqsects to feed
on.
Once infection is under way, the
following measures will help kill the
insects in the bark, and prevent their
spread to other trees:
1. Sawmill all logs from infested
trees immediately and burn the slabs'
if practicable.
2. If cutting is done in midsum
mer, a very good way to control the
southern pine beetle is to fell and
limb infected trees in a north-south
direction and in a place exposed to
the sun. In about three days time
the insects will be dead from the'
heat of the sun’s rays. The logs
should be turned over every three
days, until the entire tree has been
exposed.
3. Keep tops away from standing
trees. This is especially important
for Ips infestations. While Ips like
to work best in tops and lopped
limbs, leaving a top or a sawed-off
tree leaning against a live tree is
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just inviting trouble. Ips beetles
generally build up their number and
feed on these tops and fallen trees
then go right into the live tree.
The measures given here appear
to be the cheapest way of dealing
with the insect problem as it exists
here. Chemical means of control
are not generally recommended be
cause the cost is out of reach of
the average woodland owner.
Your area forester at Mcßae will
be glad to advise landowners on
identifying and controlling insect
damage in timber stands.
State 4-H Center
Boosted By
$25,000 Donation
The Georgia 4-H Club Foudation
has received a $25,000 donation—the
largest to date—to be applied on the
building fund for the State 4-H Cen
ter at Rock Eagle Park near Eaton
ton.
The grant was made by the Calla
way Community Foundation, and is
a part of a $55,000 goal in Troup
County. If the goal is reached,
Troup Countians will have raised
enough money to build a 300-capaci
ty dining hall for the 4-H center.
They will have the privilege of nam
ing the building.
Glenn Simpson, secretary-treasur
er of the Callaway Community Foun
dation, presented the $25,000 check
to Betty Bowers, secretary of the
Georgia 4-H Council from Coweta
County. Miss Bowers accepted the
grant on behalf of 126,138 Four-H
members in the state.
The check in reality adds $50,000
to the Rod! Tagle till. Governor
Herman TA ;dge has announced
that the state will match, dollar for
dollar, all funds raised for con
structing the camp.
Troup County became the first to
begin an organized fund-raising
dertaking was launched June 23,
campaign for Rock Eagle. The un
with R. S. Clark, county school su
perintendent, as chairman.
Darden and Elmer Barnette for
Joe Hawkins was name Rock
Eagle campaign manager for the
City of LaGrange, Mrs. Richard
Troup County, Shaeffer Heard for
West Point, and Robert Fort for
Hogansville.
LaGrange is attempting to raise
$40,000 of the goal, with rural areas
responsible for $15,000.
E. T. Evans, Jr., Troup Couhty
agent, and Alvin S. Davis, former
4-H member and now director of
industrial relations for Callaway
Mills Company' are working closely
with the county Rock Eagle com
mittee. Davis is publicity chair
man for the organization.
Jeff Hunter said it, and he spoke
for everyone connected with LURE
OF THE WILDERNESS. “The real
star of this picture is the Okefenokee
and any poor human who thinks dif
ferently is just kidding himself.”
The 400,000 acre Okefenokee,
shown in Technicolor, is indeed an
eye-filling spectacle. The name for
this vast area is a Seminole Indian
word meaing “Land of Trembling
Earth”, because shrubs, trees and
grasses have grown into a firm semi
floating island that will bear the
weight of trespassers. But the tread
of human feet on this water-borne
vegetation stimulates landwaves that
cause the whole island to tremble
and quiver.
Living here in their natural state
are 180 species of birds, 20 of frogs
and toads, 30 of fish 28 of snakes and
45 of mamals. Some of the ones cap
tured on film include panthers black
bears, raccoons, otters, alligators,
muskrats, oppossums and cotton
mouth snakes. Not a repulsive,
slimy place, the Okefenokee' is truly
beautiful with many sections look
ing like lush meadowland. The
tanic acid in the water gives the
marshy areas a dark, mirrow-like
glaze. A major tourist attraction in
southeastern United States, the Oke
fenokee has never before been so ex
tensively photographed.
Some 30 milliom U. S. citizens are
interested in fishing and hunting.
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SNAPS IN THE SWIM. Swim,
ming gets snappy this summer
with the use of snap fasteners on
suits and caps. This trim charmer
wears a one-piece Cole of Cali*
fomia suit with gathered front
panel and zipper held securely by
Dot Snap Fasteners on the bodice
flap. There's a plastic Snap Buckle
on her bathing cap. too, to con
serve her coiffure from the waves.
Snap fasteners are news in swim
fogs this year. They're easy to
work, hold steady as a barnacle,
are sleek and smooth as a mer
maid's scales—all this and rust
proof., too.
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