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Soil Fertility Program For Wheeler Co.
An ample supply of plant nutrients in the proper balance
is the key to maximum production at the lowest cost, says
M. K. Jackson, County Agent for Wheeler County.
Since the growing crop will draw its total plant nutrients
from the soii and from added fertilizer, these two sources must
be combined or matched so as to give the plant just what it
needs, he points out.
Soils vary in the amount of plant nutrients they will fur
nish, and only a soil test will tell how much. With this infor
mation, the amount of fertilizer needed can be determined.
Proper fertilization of all crops is being given special em
phasis in this county now, the county agent stated, as a step
in increasing farm income next year.
It is important that every possible effort be made to pro
duce higher yields, the county agent said, and farmers can
increase their incomes by following a program of soil testing
and improved fertilization.
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Soil Testing Gives Answer To Soil Needs i
How To Take A Soil Sample
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1. Divide farm for sampling i 2. Use a spade, trowel, soil
purposes into areas of similar I tube or other suitable instru
soil types. I meat to take sample.
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8. Take a thin, vertical slice 4. Break up cores or slices
or core of soil to plow depth I and mix well In bucket. Take a
from at least 12 different places , sample from bucket and place
Within the field. in a soil sample bag.
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S. Fill out Information sheet. . e. Take samples to County
Give past cropping and fertili- > Agent's office. Samples will be
nation practices and crops to be | analyzed and recommendations
grown on fields sampled. . returned to you.
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See Your County Agent For Soil Test
Bags And Information Sheets
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THE FIRMS AND INDIVIDUALS LISTED BELOW ARE HELPING TO SPONSOR SOIL FERTILITY IN WHEELER COUNTY:
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Hyman Gowan Grocery—Glenwood
G. M. Joiner Furniture & Appliance—Glenwood
Harry Grill—Glenwood
J. P. Morrison Jr., Frigidaire Dealer—Glenwood
Yawn's Barber Shop—Glenwood
Colon Clark Grocery—Glenwood
Glenwood Drug Company—Glenwood
Tipton Grocery—Glenwood
Atchison's Grocery—Glenwood
L. W. Kent Warehouse—Glenwood
WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE, ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA
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Take Your Soil Samples Now
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SOIL TEST — Fertility
gauge for your farm
Rush to Your County Agent
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Wheeler County is one of the 29 Georgia counties to par
ticipate in the 1961-62 Soil Fertility Program, Director W. A.
Sutton of the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension
Service has announced.
This program is designed to increase farm income through
a sound fertility program based on soil testing.
The program has been highly successful in counties that
have previously participated, the Extension director reported.
For example, he continued, county agents in five of the
six original Soil Fertility Counties estimated that total gross
farm income for these five counties was at least S2O million
more in 1960 than in 1957, the year previous to inauguration
of the program in these counties.
Little Qcmulgee E.M.C.—Alamo
Hinson Furniture & Appliance Co.—Alamo
Economy Store—Alamo
Simmon's Market—Alamo
Purvis Dry Goods Store—Alamo
Tanner's Garage—Alamo
Allen's Variety Store—Alamo
Alamo Case—Alamo
Coleman's Grocery—Alamo
Webster's Department Store —Alamo
The Georgia Experiment Stations, located in the principal
soil areas of the state, have established general fertilizer ratio
grade recommendations for all our crops according to County
Agent M. K. Jackson.
Since Wheeler County soils vary considerably as to sand,
silt, and clav content and from past fertility treatment and
management, it is logical to assume that different soils need
varying treatment for maximum response of our principal
crops.
For Wheeler County the recommendation calls for three
basic phosphate-potash ratios. These are high phosphate-low
potash ratios like 6-12-6, low phosphate-high potash ratios like
5-10-15 or 0-10-20, and even phosphate-potash ratios like 4-12-12,
0-14-14 or 6-12-12.
Every farmer, says the county agent, can be assured that
one of these ratio-grades will fit each of his fields. But the
question is: Which one? Only a soil test can give the answer.
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Hartley's Service Station—Alamo
Adams & Futral—Alamo
Wallace Adams, Comm.—Roads & Revenue
W. H. Kent, Supt.—Wheeler County Schools
T. A. Morrison, Tax Comm. (Wheeler County)
L. R. Clark, Clerk—Wheeler Superior Court
Mackie Simpson, Wheeler Representative
M. K. Jackson, Wheeler County Agent |
L. B. Chambers, Pres.—Little Ocmulgee EMC. [
J. M. Johnson, Sheriff Wheeler County [
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1961