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FARM CHATS
By M. K. JACKSON
Lame and Fertilize For Soybeans
Soybeans are like most crops
in that they grow best on fertile
soils.
Most of our soils in Wheeler
County have to be limed and fer
tilized if we are going to step
up our yields of soybeans. And
we can step up our yields and
make soybeans a good cash crop.
Lime is important. The best
way to find out your lime needs
is to have your soil tested. If
this is not possible, a general
rule is to apply a ton of lime
to fields that have not been
limed in the last few years. Put
this lime on at least a month
ahead of planting. But if it is
too late, still put it on.
The soil test will, also, help
vyith fertilizer recommendations.
Al least 500 lbs. of a 0-10-20 or
a 5-10-15 is usually needed for
good yields.
Careful placement of fertiliz
m! is important. To assure a
good stand, don’t place soybean
seed in direct contact with fer
tilizer. It is best to apply it in
bands 2 to 3 inches to the side
and 1 to 2 inches below the
seed.
If you don’t have equipment
to apply it in bands, then put
out all but 100 lbs. of the fer
■ tilizer b< radcast and plow it
down. Then put 100 lbs. in the
row and mix in or bed on at
lime of planting.
Stop by at my office for addi
tional information on soybeans.
Fertilizer On Shrubs
Sudden leaf drop or dying of.
shrubs during the gr owing sea-!
eon is often due to excessive ap
plications of chemical fertilizer.
Ekhessive fertilizer can kill
many of the small roots which
normally would absorb water, ।
thus often causing the foliage to
turn brown and injuring the root
system’ Injury can occur three
to four days after a heavy ap
plication of fertilizer.
When moderate root injury oc
<curs, the results are stunted
plaint growth and poor leaf color
for several months due to inac
tivity of the root system. Heavy
applications of fresh chicken lit
ter, either in the soil or as top
dressing, can cause sudden dy
ing of shrubs.
Heavily injured plants should
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One-fifth
of your electric bill
goes for taxes
THAT’S RIGHT. Nearly 20 cents out of every
dollar the Georgia Power Company receives
from you in payment for electric service goes
to pay our federal, state and local taxes.
In 1960 our tax bills totaled more than
$29,875,000 — nearly $82,000 for each day of
the year! This averages more than s4l for
every customer we serve.
In fact, tax payments are the company’s
largest item of expense, exceeding operating
payroll by 30 per cent.
Since taxes help to meet the cost of govern
ment, they benefit every citizen of Georgia.
Among other things, they help pay for schools
for your children, police protection for your
family and fire protection for your home.
Yes, like you, the Georgia Power Company
pays taxes —in full measure. It’s part of
being a good citizen.
TAX-PAYING • INVESTOR-OWNED
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
A CITI Zt N WHEREVER WE SERVE
be pruned back at least one-half
to three-fourths of the limb sys
tem. Plants should be mulched
and then watered frequently.
. Fertilizer injury to plants can
. be prevented by making light but
a frequent applications of fertili
zer. The possibility of injury can
. be lessened by applying chemical
fertilizer to moist soil and then
( soaking it thoroughly.
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। New Corn Club
The Georgia 1,000 Bushel Com
■ Club is being replaced this year;
; with a new club—the Georgia!
• Money Maker Club.
I The new Money Maker Club
. will honor those corn producers |
, who produce an average of 85 or[
more bushels of corn per acre
on the entire farm acreage. The
; Club is to be sponsored by the;
Cotton Producers Association and:
conducted by the Cooperative
Extension Service.
Georgia has a tremendous mar
ket for corn to meet needs of <
feed mixers and a growing live-1
stock and poultry industry.
I
Sweet Potatoes
The value of the Georgia sweet,
potato crop ranks quite high I
among the vegetable crops in the
state, second only to watermel
ons.
Practically all of Georgia is
well-adapted to production of
sweet potatoes, and acreage of
this crop can be increased to good
advantage.
While several varieties of I
sweet potatoes are on the recom
i mended planting list, two have
greater importance than the oth
ers. These are the Georgia Red
and the Redskin Early Sweet.
Some of the more recent in
! troductiorts constantly gaining
! favor are the Canbake, Centen
nial, and Garogold. However,
these have not yet been placed
on the recommended list.
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Livestock Value Up
The total value of livestock on
Georgia farms showed an in
crease in 1960, according to eco
nomic reports.
As of January Ist, the value
of liyestock and poultry was a
little over $lB7 million —a 4-
percent increase in total value
over 1959. This increased value
is attributed to larger numbers j
of cattle and poultry, and higher
value per head for hogs.
Cattle accounted for 73 per
cent of the 1960 total. They had
WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE. ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA
FISH POND
MANAGEMENT
By H. L. DAVIS
Twenty years ago there was
hardly a real farm pond in Geor
gia. Now they number over 30,-
000. Wheeler County has about
160 properly constructed ponds
with another 100 that will pro
duce fish — if proper manage
ment is followed.
Fertilizatian Pays. A proper
pond fertilization program will
serve two important purposes. It
will help produce large fish in
a short length of time and assist
in controlling pond weeds.
Microscopic plant and animal
life, a link in the fish food chain,
is greatly increased by fertiliza
tion. When this food is plentiful,
the small fish flourish, they in
turn, furnish food for the larger
fish.
When the pond is properly fer
tilized, the water has a “soupy
a $137 million value. Hogs
ranked second with a value of
$34 million and 18 percent of
the total. Poultry accounted for
9 percent of the total.
In Retrospect... Keeping Our Guard Up!
The late summer and early
autumn of the fateful year 1940
■was, for most Americans, a
time of great anxiety and un
certainty. Even now, twenty
years later, the mood of those
days is fresh in the minds of
many of us. Veterans Day,
1960, seems to provide an ap
propriate occasion to reflect
upon this aspect of the passing
parade of U. S. history.
This was the
situation twenty
years ago:
across the At
lantic, France
had fallen. The
Battle of Brit
ain was raging.
In the Pacific
Japan was on
the march.
Here at home
the U. S. mili
tary establish-
ment, long neglected and over
looked, fell considerably short
of adequate standards of oper
ational readiness.
Then in the early fall of 1940
came the greatest mass mobili
zation in the peacetime history
of the U. S. President Franklin
D. Roosevelt ordered out the
National Guard — and many of
us can remember the local units
leaving the armories and start
ing down the long road that
would lead, ultimately, to the
field of battle. This memory
serves to point up the special
significance that Veterans Day,
1960, holds for some 472,000
National Guardsmen of the cur
rent-day force.
Over a period of eight months
during 1940-41, the Guard
brought 300,000 men to active
duty, at once doubling the
strength of the Active Army.
Guardsmen overcame equipment
deficiencies to attain the desired
degree of combat-readiness.
Highest Prices Paid For Gum
Ai Filtered Rosin Products Co.
Naval Stores Supplies
Orin Towns -Alamo, Ga.
LONG TERM FIRM LOANS
Plans may be adjusted to meet your
individual needs. Moderate interest.
Prompt closing. Courteous and confiden
tial service.
For full details, see or write
J. C. BIVINS
Mount Vernon, Georgia
NOTICE
I AM EQUIPPED TO SPREAD
FERTILIZER OR LIME
ON YOUR LAND
Give Me A Chance To Serve You
J. F. HATTAWAY
Alamo, Georgia Phone Logan 8 3881
brown cr greenish color. This
color cuts out the sunlight; there
fore, making it hard for weeds
and grass to grow.
Many pond owners say* I can’t
afford to fertilize my pond”. A
well fertilized pond will yield
around four times as many
pounds of fish per acre as one
that is unfertilized.
Some pond owners fertilize the
lazy way. They dump several
hundred pounds of fertilizer in
at the time, then forget it the
rest of the year. This method is
of no value except to do more
harm than good. Instead, add fer
tilizer in the pond in required
amounts at regular intervals.
Most ponds need only about one
sack of an 8-8-2 analysis per acre
per 7-10 days interval. After you
get desirable color, then the only
method is to check to see. when
to add additional fertilizer.
A pond that fails to color un
der this treatment try adding
Agricultural limestone or hydrat
ed lime at rate of 50 pounds per
acre. Additional applications may
be necessary if the water is too
acid. This also should be in stages
instead of putting in too much
They played an important part
I in the expanding citizen army
i which went into the field after
Pearl Harbor and won the
global battles of World War II
i just as the citizen-soldiers of
the Guard had played a similar
, role in 1917-18.
Os the WW II Guardsmen, the
; then Under Secretary of War,
Robert Patterson remarked,
“Their presence . . . gave the
country a sense that it had
passed the lowest ebb.”
There was, of course, a per
iod of intensive training be
i tween mobilization and the bat
tlefield. And if there is any
single and essential lesson to
be derived from this experience
it is that there is no substitute
for a trained and equipped mil
itary force in being.
Numerous veterans — actual
ly, 80% of the officers and non
coms — form the backbone of
the Guard today. The lessons
of the past are
not lost upon
them and the
fact that they
continue to re
tain their asso
ciation with the
military is tes
timony to their
d e t e r m i
nation to put
these lessons to
good use.
Thanks to
these veterans, to the young
men who have entered the
ranks, thanks to the unstinting
support of the U. S. Army
and U. S. Air Force and of
State governments the National
Guard in 1960 stands at the
very pinnacle of its 300-year
history. It is, indeed, “Keeping
our Guard Up!” in the true,
sense of these words for it has
grasped the full meaning of
the lesson of twenty years ago.
at one time.
Guard against mistakes. Over
stocking various kinds of fish,
non-fertilization and non-fishing
are the most common causes of
pond failures.
Don’t stock anything except the
fish furnished by the hatchery.
These fish and amounts are
enough.
Fertilize at regular intervals.
Using only the required amounts
throughout the spring and sum
mer months. The growing season
is from March to killing frost.
Too little or too soon fishing
can cause failure. Don’t fish a
pond for one year from the time
the bass or trout were stocked.'
Then go easy on the bass. After’
you are sure you have had a good
bass hatch then fish hard and i
regularly. Never return any,
bream to the pond. If too little;
to eat destroy them.
If any problems arise contact ;
your local Soil Conservation |
technician, The Georgia Game l
and Fish Commission or the U.
S. Fish and Wildlife service.
STAR Students
Guests Os Honor
On State Tour
Tomorrow will be a big day
in the lives of sixteen Georgia j
high school students and eleven |
teachers. This group of 27;
STARS will be guests of honor j
at a banquet sponsored by the'
Georgia State Chamber of Com-;
merce as a climax to the search i
for Georgia’s 1961 STAR stu- >
dent. The word STAR was coined ■
to identify the Chamber’s Stu- 1
op°O® a 9[b9 Q ffii]3[a[l]t}Q Sibil
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A HARD-DRIVING WORKHORSE & 'JIC
OF THE AEF IN WWI WAS THE 42ND ' Ii ‘ W ■ I
(RAINBOW) DIVISION COMPOSED OF \ M J
NATIONAL GUARDSMEN FROM NEARLY \ 00-J&s, '' IB /
EVERY STATE. GEN. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR A nMf 4-WB I
GAVE THE DIVISION ITS COLORFUL NAME r V BWj
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\ PRIVATE
RODGER
V L / YOUNG IMMORTAL INFANTRY HERO
i 11 of the Bougainville campaign, was
Y —A GUARDSMAN FROM OHIO. HE WON
X X?/ THE MEDAL OF HONOR IN WW n
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VETERANS... ano :
FORMER SERVICEMEN WITH Iw I 1 f\
A RESERVE OBLIGATION CAN Wl j </ . Lar* k< I
SERVE COUNTRY AND COM- ’
MUNITY IN A LOCAL UNIT OF kT
the HAnONAI
PRUNE BEAUTY SALAD
Hearty Enough to Be Main Course
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A molded salad forthright and satisfying . . . that's this salad.
A salad boasting the tart, winey zest of prunes mated to the
meekness of cottage cheese . . . that’s this salad, too.
Fork into it and you find prune bits through the cheese.
You meet the crunchiness of celery and green pepper. And on
top you discover plump prune halves, each one wrapped
around a walnut. There’s plenty of heartiness here . . . even
more flavor . . . and with it all a look light and tempting.
This could be a main course salad—for luncheon, for supper,
after bridge. With it pass hot rolls, or Melba toast buttered,
sprinkled with sesame seeds and heated.
And note that this is a salad you can make ahead of time to
keep in the refrigerator until you are ready to unmold it at
serving time.
Prune Beauty Salad
2 packages unflavored gelatin
1 cup orange juice
Halved plumped prunes
(about 18 halves)
18 Walnuts
2 cups (1 pound) cottage
cheese
Soften gelatin in orange juice five minutes. Then dissolve gela
tin over boiling water. Arrange prune halves, cut side up in
bottom of loaf mold; fill with walnuts. Combine cottage cheese,
salt, celery, green pepper and chopped prunes. Add gelatin
mixture; mix well. Carefully spoon cottage cheese mixture
over prunes. Chill until firm. Unmold. Serve on iettuce with
salad dressing. Makes 8-10 servings.
Note—Use 5-cup mold or loaf pan.
1 dent Teacher Achievement Rec
•Jognition program which is now
,! in its third year.
< It is expected that some 800
:; students, teachers, businessmen,
1 and friends of education will at
■ ■ tend the dinner at the Atlanta
; Biltmore Hotel. The state’s STAR
■ Student will be announced at the
! conclusion of this event. As a
; grand prize, the top STAR Stu
dents and Teachers from each of
i the state’s eleven school districts,
j plus five runner’s-up STAR Stu
dents, will that day begin a
week-long educational tour of
Georgia by seeing Atlanta.
On Saturday, the group will
! see the Indian Mounds at Car
tersville and then go to Rome
i where they will visit Berry Col
| lege, Shorter College and Georgia
। Pow'er Company’s Plant Ham
j mond. Dinner and lodging at
I Ncrth Georgia College in Dah
i lonega will conclude the day.
; Sunday morning the STARS
i will travel to Young Harris Col
lege for church services and
lunch. A reception will be held
during the afternoon at Clarkes
ville Trade School. Dinner is set
at the Center of Continuing Ed
ucation in Athens where the
night will be spent at the Uni
versity Hotel Court.
On Monday morning the group
I will tour the Science Center and
’ the University President’s home
j at Athens. After lunch in Wash
ington they will visit museums
' and homes in that city and then
‘ move on to Augusta for dinner
i and a night’s stay at the Bon Air.
। Tuesday morning will be spent
; touring the college at Statesboro.
1 The afternoon and evening will
12 teaspoon salt
1 cup diced celery
2 tablespoons chopped green
pepper
% cup chopped plumped
prunes
Lettuce
Salad dressing
FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1961
I be devoted to fun and recreation
j at Savannah Beach.
j On the fifth day, the group
will travel to St. Simon’s and
have lunch at The Cloister on
’ Sea Island. During the after
noon, a tour will be made of
; Dixie Paint & Varnish Company
at Brunswick. Dinner, entertain
ment and lodging will be enjoyed.
|on Jekyll Island.
Okefenokee Swamp Park will
i be visited on Thursday morning.
; A “fish and hush puppy” lunch
; eon will be served at Waycross.
' During the afternoon, a tour of
I plantations in Thomasville is
, scheduled. The night will be
I spent at Radium Springs near
I Albany.
A tour of Tom Huston Com
pany in Columbus and the mili
■ tary establishment at Fort Ben
; ning will consume most of Fri
[ day. After a stop at the Little
; White House in Warm Springs,
; the group will settle down to
। its final stop at Ida Cason Cal
laway Gardens. After lunch on
Saturday the STAR Students and
I Teachers will be returned to At
i lanta.
Mrs. Mozelle Christian, coor
dinator of the STAR Program for
: the State Chamber and Larry
Lloyd, manager of the Chamber’s
; Travel Council will accompany
the group on the tour.
1 Always remove oily stains be
1 fore washing resin-finished fab
; rics, advises Miss Leonora Ander
son, head, Extension clothing de
j partment.
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BEST ONE-MAN BUSINESS
Own and operate your Watkins
business. Many dealers now
exceeding SIOO.OO per week
profits. We will train you, pro
vided, you qualify for this
route. Write Watkins 659 West
Peachtree St., N. E„ Atlanta 8,
Ga. 49-3 t
Thousands of women are adding
as much as $30.00 a week to
the family income as Avon
Represenntative. We train you
to sart earning at once and
provide an established terri
tory, Write to Mrs. Rountree,,
Box 22, Wadley, Ga. 50-2 t
FOR SALE—Several crops good
used turpentine cups. Glass
Turpentine Co., Eastman, Ga„
Phone 374-3044 or 374-3405.
NEW WATKINS MAN
I'll be calling on you soon. Wait
for me and learn why it pays
to wait.
W. A. STEVENS
207 Marcus St.
Ph. BR 2-4317—Dublin, Ga.
FOR SALE
PIANOS
GRINDLE ELECTRIC COM.
PANY is having a giant sale on
all pianos. Just received a truck
ioad of Factory Rebuilt Pianos
going at rock bottom prices.
New Pianos at a big saving also
used pianos cheap. See us be
fore you buy. Phone 228 L
FEDERAL LAND BANK LOANS
for farmers in Toombs, Tatt
nall, Montgomery, and Wheel
er Counties are available
through the Federal Land Bank
Association of Vidalia. Loans
run vp to 40 years. Can be paid
any lime without penalty. Pro
ceeds can be used io buy land,
pay debts, make improvements,
or to finance almost any need
of the farm or family. For de
iails, see or write, E. O. Mc-
Kinney, Manager, P. O. Box
510, 309 East First Street, Vi
dalia, Georgia, or at the Court
House in Alamo, Ga. each Tues
day morning.
GEORGIA, WHEELER COUNTY.
To All Whom It May Concern:
Whereas, Bluma C. Pearson,
Temporary Administratrix of Av
ery R. Pearson, represents to the
Court in her petition, duly filed
and entered on record, that she
has fully administered Avery R.
Pearson’s estate:
This is, therefore, to cite all
persons concerned, kindred and
creditors, to show cause, if any
they can, why said Temporary
Administratrix should not be dis
charged from her administration,
and receive Letters of Dismis
sion on the first Monday in Mav,
1961.
D. N. ACHORD. Ordinary-
GEORGIA, WHEELER COUNTY.
By virtue of an order of the
court of Ordinary of Wheeler
County granted on the applica
tion of. G. C. Barnhill, as admin
istrator of the estate of M. H.
Keen, deceased, late of the said
county, to sell lands of the said
M. H. Keen, deceased, for the
purpose of paying debts and dis
tribution, there will be sold be
fore the court house door at pub
lic outcry, to the highest bidder,
in the city of Alamo, Georgia,
between the legal hours of sale,
the first Tuesday in May, 1961,
the property of "the said M. H.
Keen, deceased, the following de
scribed lands to->wit, 112.3 acres
of lot land No. 234, also 16.2
acres of lot No. 235. Said tracts
joined making total of 128.5 acres
same being in the Sixth Land
District of Wheeler County, Geor
gia. Known as the Hillary Keen
home place.
The terms of the sale cash.
This the sth day of March, 1961
G. C. BARNHILL
Administrator of M. H.
Keen, deceased.