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The landscaped mall at Lenox Square Shopping Center in Atlanta resembles a Japanese
garden. The South's largest shopping center, designed to serve the whole region, was opened
officially on August 3.
FARM CHATS
By M. K. JACKSON
Fatening Pigs In Confinement
In recent years, interest in
growing pigs in pens with con
crete floors has increased tre
mendously in Georgia. Recently,
research was undertaken at the
Georgia Coastal Plain Experiment
Station, Tifton, to compare the
economy of growing pigs in con
crete floored pens with growing
them in pasture plots. The com
parison was done from the stand
point of both the performances of
pigs and labor requirements.
For this study 520 pigs were
used, 260 were grown in concrete
floored pens and 260 in small
pasture plots.
The investigators found good
rates of gain were made by pigs
on both concrete pens and small
pasture lots. However, the pigs on
pasture gained significantly faster
than did those on concrete.
There was essentially no dif
ference in average amount of feed
required to produce 100 pounds of
gain between the two groups of
pigs.
Carcass data obtained from 72
of the pigs weighing between 200
to 230 pounds indicated that those
grown on concrete floored pens
had a slightly higher dressing
percentage than comparable pigs 1
in pasture plots. Howevr, there
were no significant differences in
carcass length, area of loin eye
muscle, and thickness of backfat
between groups.
Time required to feed both
groups of pigs was about the same
since both were located nearly
equal distance from the feed barn.■
Also, there was no significant
difference in the incident of in
ternal parasites' between pigs I
grown in concrete floored pens'
and those grown on pasture plots. i
Costs not common to both meth-'
ods were slightly greater for the ]
concrete floored pens. These costs
were $356 for growing three'
groups of pigs in concrete floored I
pens and $297.50 for three groups
in pasture plots.
Buying Lumber
If you walk into a lumber yard
and say “I'd like to buy some
boards just so gib . . the sales
man may want to hit you over
the head with a 2” x 4”.
You can’s know all there is to
know about lumber, but it would
help to know enough to ask intel
ligent questions.
Lumber is divided into soft
woods and hardwoods. This has
little to do with hardness or
softness. Lumbermen use the term
“softwood” to designate wood
from trees with needles and cones
such as pine, fir, cedar, cypress,
and redwood. “Hardwood” per
tains to trees such as oak, beech,
poplar, birch, cherry, walnut, and
mahogany.
Most lumber used in building
homes and odd jobs is softwood.
Hardwoods usually go into furn
iture, flooring, and panels. Gen
erally, hardwood isn’t cut into
standard shapes and sizes, except
for flooring and paneling.
Dimension lumber, usually the
softwood, comes in pieces two or
more inches thick. They are called
2 x 4’s, 2 x 6’s and so on.
A 2 x 4 is neither two inches
thick nor four inches wide. It was,
but dressing, seasoning and other
factors have reduced it to slightly
less than 2x4.
A 1 x 12 board also is slightly
Wheeler County Eagle
less than 1 x 12. If you want a
board exactly 11 inches wide, you
need to buy a 12 inch board and
have it planed to size.
Dimension lumber is sold by
the board foot. A board foot is a
board one inch thick, 12 inches
wide and one foot long, or its
equivalent.
Grades of dimension lumber
may be hard to understand. How
ever, most reputable lumber yards
will assist you in choosing the
grade and size to suit your needs.
Additional information may also
be obtained at your county agent’s
office.
Beef Cattle Short Course
| Pelleting of forages and con
i centrates for beef cattle feeding
[will be the feature topic this Fri- .
:day during the Annual Beef Cat-
I tie Short Course at the University
lof Georgia, Athens. Since this
j subject presently is of extreme ।
(importance to many Georgia beef ■
| owners, you may wish to go. The ;
[Short Course will be held in ■
| Hardman Ftall on the Ag Campus,
i Dr. O. B. Ross, Head of the
Department of Animal Science,
University of Illinois, will be one
of the guest speakers to talk on ■
this topic. He will be assisted by (
Georgia Experiment Station per-•
sonnel.
Concluding the program will be
a tour of the new Animal Hus-;
bandry building and beef cattle
' herd.
Beef Cattle Trends
Just counting the number of
head of cattle on farms doesn’t
[ give the whole story about beef
I production. The number of cattle
has just kept pace with our in
creasing population. But accord
ing to agricultural economist^ beef
! output has outrun population '
enough for each of us to have 25
per cent more beef to eat. Econ-:
I omists explain that this is due to
six trends: (1) More of all our cat-.
I tie are beef cattle; (2/More of all
I our beef cattle are cows—steers
| and heifers are raised faster now I
than formerly; (3) More cows now
: have a calf; (4)Morg calves are
I raised to maturity—this trend is
speeded up by more feedlot feed-
I ing and better feeding; (5) Death
I loss has been reduced one-fifth;
(6) Finally, average dressed out
' weight of cattle slaughter have
| increased. Or, in other words,
( we’re getting more beef per cow.
Revival to Begin at
Sardis Baptist Church
Sunday, August 9
Rev. J. W. Grooms of States
boro will conduct the revival serv
ices and Rev. Jimmy Smith will
lead the song services during the
. week beginning on August 9 at (
the Sardis Baptist Church.
Services will be held daily at
11:00 A. M. and 8:00 P. M. Sun-!
day through Friday.
Everyone is invited to attend.
NOTICE
Through negotiations with
Dixie Telephone Company and
Wheeler County State Bank, Ala
mo, it was requested that another
collection agency be named in
order that the bank may better
serve it’s customers. Telephone
bills are no longer payable at the
bank and it ‘ is hoped that this
will not inconvenience any of our
customers.
WHEELER COUNTY
STATE BANK
"Keep Wheeler County Green' j
ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1959
Peace Officers
Set For Biggest
Convention Yet
Plans have been completed for
what promises to be the biggest,
most important convention ever
held by the Peace Officers’ Assn,
of Georgia. It’s the 59th annual
state convention to be held in At
lanta, August 18 and 19.
“We’re expecting between 1,500
and 2,000 registrations,” said
State Patrol Capt. E. D. Mink,
secretary-treasurer of POA G.
“Based on an advanced registra
tion, every county in Georgia
and virtually every city and town
will be represented.’'
One big reason perhaps for the
pre-convention enthusiasm is the
array of talented speakers lined
up for the two-day program. It
[resembles a “Who’s Who” in
(Georgia politics.
j For example, Gov. Ernest Van
(diver will be the convention’s key.
note speaker. To be introduced by
Col. William P. Trotter, director
:of the Georgia Department of
Public Safety, the Governor will
speak at 1:55 p.m. Wednesday,
August 19.
U. S. Sen. Herman E. Talmadge
will be principal speaker that
evening at the closing banquet,
the highlight of the convention.
The banquet will begin at 7 p.m.,
:with the senator speaking at 8:30
[ p.m. following an introduction
by Peter Zach Geer, executive
secretary to Gov. Vandiver.
The opening convention ad
dress,, scheduled for 2:40 p.m.,
August 18, will be delivered by
Lieut. Governor Garland T. Byrd. [
He will be introduced by James
<L. Bentley Jr., director of the;
Railroad Assn, of Georgia and ex-|
[ecutive secretary to Herman Tal
madge when the senator was Gov
ernor.
In between there will be other
speeches, reports on such matters
;as legislation, training program,
youth program, pension fund; a
■ doption of resolutions, the elec
; tion of officers, and motions and
i actions on POAG’s four-year, [
‘ $5,000 Memorial College Scholar- j
ship.
POAG’s method of electing of
ficers is unique among trade and
professional associations. There is
no nominating committee. All •
nominations are made from the [
floor and a “free election” fol-•
1 lows. Things get pretty hot at (
times and on occasions it’s not •
unlike a politicial party conven-1
• tion, according to observers.
Current POAG president is
Laurens County Sheriff Carlus
Gay, of Dublin, who will preside j
over the upcoming session.
Letters to the Editor
DEAR MR. EDITOR:
I hear there was a pretty good i
• bunch took the test for them two
[ mail routes in Glenwood the other’
day.
Well, between the Republican;
party, the congressman, and three:
or four politicians all promising
different ones a route it looks (
(like at least four lucky men will
get a route. Provided, that is, if
they can just manage to divide up
the routes and make them shorter
and more of ’em.
Yours truly,
LITTLE CREEK LUKE
For the important events oi
Wheeler County be sure to keep •
I The Eagle coming to your door.
(Mrs. Amanda Clark
Dies Monday In 1
[Vidalia Hospital
Funeral services were held
•Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 •
। o’clock in the Glenwood Metho
dist Church for Mrs. Amanda Gil- )
lis Clark, 80, of Glenwood, who ,
died in a Vidalia hospital Monday
after an extended illness. The ;
(Rev. Walter McCleskey and the
। Rev. Edward Carruth officiated. I;
Mrs. Clark was the daughter of I
the late Neil and Flora Galbraith [
i Gillis, of Montgomery County and i!
• had lived in Glenwood all of her I
I life. She was a member of the
(Landsburg Methodist Church. i
Survivors include a son, Jacob
(A. Clark, and one daughter, Mrs.
■ Lena Edenfield, of Alamo; ten
(grandchildren; two great-grand
| children; a sister, Mrs. Mack But
| ler, of Glenwood; a step-son, C. F.
( (Jack) Clark, of Vidalia; three
[ step-daughters, Mrs. Willie Gillis,
iMrs. C. M. Anderson, of Glen
> I wood, and Mrs. G. H. Sumner, of
J Tampa, Fla.; and 15 step-grand
children.
Burial was in the Glenwood
City Cemetery with Murchison
Funeral Home of Vidalia in
charge or arrangements.
Plowing Helped
Salvage Tobacco
Os Coffee Farmer
Wilbur Mullis, a young farm
-1 er in the Broxton community of
. Coffee County is thankful he was
able to break even on three acres
) of "drowned” tobacco, but he
I says he sure could have used the
, income he expected the crop to
. produce.
Mr. Mullis had just “laid by”
i the field in early May when it
i started raining and rained more
than 20 inches in the next three
: weeks. “After the tobacco flopped,
: I wouldn’t have given $2 for the
11 entire field,” he said.
tj He started plowing the tobacco
11 with a mule and plowed four
[more times with a mule and
■ once with a tractor and the to
■ bacco began to respond. He ap
' plied an additional side dressing
’ of 650 pounds of complete ferti
lizer per acre.
“If we hadn’t had so much
■ rain,” Mr. Mullis said, “the field
would have made more than a
; ton per acre. I’m mighty pleased
■ with the 1,200-pound per acre
1 yield, though, for at least I’m not
■ going to loose money on the crop.”
In addition to the drowned out
1 area, Mr. Mullis had about five i
other acres in tobacco and carries j
' on a number of other farm enter- :
prises. Last year he was named ■
young farmer of the year in
’ Coffee county.
NOTICE OF ELECTION
[ • The city of Glenwood, Georgia,
I proposes to install water system
i in the City of Glenwood, by sel-
■ ling water certificates. This mat
■ ter has been agreed upon by the
Mayor and Council, but before
they act further on th^ matter
' they would like to know just how
• the people of the City feel about
the matter.
The Mayor and Council, before
taking any further steps toward
this project wish to hold an elec-
I tion on the matter just for the
, purpose of finding out the senti
. j ment of the people of Glenwood,
| this election will serve no purpose
• whatever in determining the ques
tion other than finding out how
I the people feel about the matter,
and will let the Mayor and Coun
’ cil know if the people agree with
1 1 them on this project or not.
■ The total proposed cost of this
.[project is $35,000.00, which will
.(include six inch mains and fire
(• hydrants where necessary, the six
(inch mains will be all over the
I City. ...
। The object of this project is of
.[course, to increase the water fa
. cilities which will give better
’• service to the people in the City,
Hand at the same time will reduce
j insurance rates.
The Mayor and Council have
(set the 26th., day of August,
(1959 for this election, which will
I be held at the City Hall, the poles
• will open at 8:00 A. M., and close
at 6:00 o’clock P. M., on said date.
H All residents of the City of
। Glenwood are qualified to vote
■ • on this issue.
G. M. JOINER
, Mayor, City of Glenwood, Georgia
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! WHITEWASH
For a mild disinfectant white
■ wash, Extension agricultural engi
, neers suggest adding one quart of
• crude carbolic acid to the white
wash obtained by slaking half a
bushel (25 pounds) of quicklime or
by mixing a sack (50 pounds) of
good hydrated lime with water.
Please do not ask for credit
! We don’t have enough money,
He's Undecided
On Future Plans,
Talmadge Says
Will Herman Talmadge seek re
election to the U. S. Senate when
his term expires or will he bid for
his old office of Governor of Geor
gia? At the present writing, he’s J
made no decision as to his future
political plans.
A t least that’s what the junior
senator told a recent Alpharetta
town meeting via a direct-dial
long-distance call provided by
Souther Bell Telephone Co.
He said he probably won’t make
up his mind on seeking re-election
until 1962, but added that he prob
ably would seek his U. S. Senate
seat for a second six-year term.
Sen. Talmadge spoke to Alpha
retta Mayor William E. Spense,
who placed the direct distance
dialing call to Washington as a
demonstration of the new system,
which will be installed in Atlanta
and about 24 other Georgia com
munities in October, 1960.
Commenting on 9th District
Rep. Phil M. Landrum’s proposed
labor bill, which President Eisen
hower has endorsed, Talmadge
said he felt major opposition to
the bill would come from
congressmen in the heavily popu
lated cities—New York, Chicago,
Detroit and Los Angeles, among
others—who were “more amen
able” to the “so-called labor
leaders.
He said that it was too early
to tell what the outcome of the
Landrum bill would be, but said
he feels that Congress will pass a
management-labor bill this ses
sion which would be a long step
forward” in the protection of un
ion members.
Asked how he felt about Vice
President Nixon’s trip to the
Soviet Union, Sen Talmadge said
he feels Nixon has been “an able
and efficient representative of our
government in very trying cir
cumrftdmces” and tha.t he had
handled himself very well, par
ticularly in the widely publi
cized debate at the U. S. exhibi
tion in Moscow.
HEIFERS
The raising of heifers for sale,
as bred heifers or springers, is a
practice followed on many Geor
gia dairy farms. Extension dairy
men say that where land, feed,
labor and other essentials are
available this has proved to be a
good way to add to farm income.
Extension economists report
that the most prevalent farm size
in the Coastal Plain of Georgia is
100 to 140 acres.
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DETROIT— A new, “four-in-one” vaccine de
signed to simultaneously protect children against
paralytic polio, diphtheria, pertussis (whoop
ing cough) and tetanus (lockjaw), is being dis
tributed this week throughout the United States.
The vaccine, Quadrigen,, reduces the number
of injections required to immunize children
against the four diseases. The result of three
years of intensive research by Parke, Davis &
Company at its laboratories in Detroit, Mich.,
Quadrigen combines polio vaccine with a three
in-one injection—diphtheria and tetanus toxoids
and pertussis vaccine—now in general use by
physicians.
Production of the vaccine is an intricate pro
cedure conducted under the most rigid aseptic
iconditions and requires a minimum of six months
to coniplete one lot.
Each of the four components of Quadrigen—
polio and pertussis vaccines and diphtheria and
tetanus toxoids —is produced separately. After
each is run through a complicated process that
Involves the addition of aluminum phosphate,
it undergoes rigid testing to insure potency,
SINGLE COPY 5c
Conservation
By H. L. DAVIS
Cooperators of the Ohoopee
River Soil Conservation District
are stepping up their interest in '
soil and water conservation.
We have 10 farmers in July that
[requested a soil capability and
farm plan map. These two maps
are a nice rcord of a farmers
individual farm with the Soil
types delineated and colored.
This makes a nice picture of your
farm. Something to have and to
show with pride. It is a blue
p^-int of what you wish to build
your farm into.
The rise in real estate values
makes for more pride in what you
own as land owners all of you that
don’t have a new home would be
proud of a plan or a new home.
The Soil Capability and plan map
gives you a plan for your farm.
A ready reference in case your are
anticipating a change in farm op
erations.
Most of the farmers know if
their farms have sandy or wet or
just plain good soils. Most of you
know what to do with what you
have.
Yet to realize maximum yields
from each acre of land you may
need to talk it over with your
local Soil Conservation technician
He is the man to explain your
soil and help you with any prob
lems you may have. He has 25
years of experience of thousands
of other people and millions of
dollars 1 of research to help you
correct and build your soil up
to a high producing unit.
Jack Cartwright, M. C. Guin,
D. M. Morrison of Shiloh, Wallace
Adams Herman McDaniel, J. E.
Brown of Landsburg, G. M.
Bishop, O. H. Joiner of Glen-1
wood, Mrs. W. E. Currie, D. L.
Purvis of Alamo, Guy Cox, J. B.
Clements of Union-Springhill
communities are the most resent
cooperators to get help from the
Soil Conservation Districts.
Horace L. Davis' Wheeler Coun
ty Technician urges any and all
farmers that would like to have
a new plan of their farm to get
in touch at your earliest conven
ience and have your maps order
ed. To get one your request is
all the cost. The other is free-This
is a valuable item that in this day
of high cost is free.
Miss Lucile Higginbotham,
health education specialist, Agri
cultural Extension Service, ad
vises persons who must walk
along the highway after dark to
wear light colored clothing or
I carry a light.
safety and sterility. Using a complex formula,
measured quantities (1) of the four components
are pooled in a large stainless steel vat' Th«
pooled material —three months have elapsed uy
to this point —is blended and drained into glass
containers. Samples from each container under
go further tests, both by the company and by the
U. S. National Institutes of Health Laboratories.
Upon receipt of government approval of each
lot—there are approximately 300,000 doses in &
single lot—the packaging operation begins. Vials
containing enough vaccine for nine injections,
are automatically filled (2).
Parke-Davis' constant vigil to assure the qual
ity and potency of Quadrigen continues through
out this process. One such phase is the inspector
(3) who uses a mirror to double check each vial
of i he "four-in-one” vaccine before it is packaged.
The vials are then hand-packed into individual
cartons, placed into larger cartons (4) which are
then weighed, inspected, and packaged in still
larger containers for swift air-shipment to.
physicians, hospitals and pharmacists through
[out the United States.
New Farmers Home
Administration
Committmen Named
Tommy H. Harden, Jr. of Glen
wood R-l is the new member of
the, Wheeler County committee
for the Farmers Home Adminis
tration. He will succeed Walter C.
Brown of Alamo R-2 whose three
year term expired on June 30.
Mr. Harden is a successful
Wheeler County farmer who owns
and operates his farm. He has de
voted his life to farming in this'
area. Mr. Harden has two broth
ers who have been employed by
the Farmers Home Administration
for several years. He also has two
other brothers who are now em
ployed by the Georgia Extension
Service as County Agents.
Herman T. Langley, local coun
ty supervisor for FHA says that
Mr. Harden’s practical experience
will enable him to make a real
Contribution to the county com
mittee’s actions when they re
view loan applications.
Serving with Mr. Harden dur*
ing the coming year will be J. BL
Mitchell of Lumber City R-l and
Colan C. Clark of Glenwood, both
of whom are Wheeler County
farm owners and operators.
There is a Farmers Home Ad
ministration county committee
serving every agricultural county
in the country. All loan applica
tions must be approved by the
committee before funds can be ad
vanced. The committee also helps
the county supervisor adapt the
agency’s loan policies and serv
ices to local conditions.
The Farmers Home Adminis
tration makes loans to farmers to
buy livestock and machinery, to
finance annual operating costs, to
improve buildings and fences, and
to purchase land.
The Agency also lends money
to farmers or their non-profit as
sociations to establish and carry
out approved soil and water con
servation practices, as well as for
installing and improving irriga
tion and farmstead water supply
facilities.
First Cotton
Ginned In Alamo
The first reported bale of cotton
for Wheeler County for the 1959
season was ginned Monday at
Hattaway’s gin in Alamo.
The bale, weighing 390 pounds,
was grown on O. B. Adams’ farm.
The market price for this' cotton
was $35.63, but premiums paid by
the merchants and county officers
made this bale bring $45.63. This
cotton was labeled O. B. Adams:
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