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Newton F. F. A. Chapter
Kneeling: Janies Duncan, Buford Hatcher, Janies Atkinson, Reid Rog
ers, Elward Matthews.
Standing: E. H. Cheek, Agriculture Teacher; Chas. McConnell, Dock
Price, Hopson Flournoy and Leon Vickers.
Swine Sanitation
Very Important
By JAMES ATKINSON
Sanitation is one of the most im
portant things in swine raising. By
raising swine under sanitary condi
tions one can avoid combating many
diseases and parasites. Parasites
such as Nodular worms, round worms,
kidney worms, and lung worms can
be controlled by sanitation. Nodular
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worms enter the animal as larva and
leave the intestines less useful, or
useless for human use. Swine in
fested with kidney worms lose 95%
of their kidneys. Lung worms enter
as larva from eating earth worms.
These and other harmful parasites
can be easily controlled in sanitary
quarters. The cost of sanitation is
very small considering increase of
gains, .better quality meat, better price
for it and greater net returns. .The
necessary equipment for a sanitary
set-up is a water barrel or trough,
pig creep, farrowing pen, sow pen
feeding trough, or self feeder and
grazing quarters. A floored pen
(concrete floor) is advisable for fat
tening hogs. The set up should be
fixed when most time and labor is
available if possible, or a week or
two before the sow farrows. The set
up should be placed on a 2% slope
where no hogs have been, where there
is no rubbish, good convenient spot
and on a sandy loam. The ground
should be plowed thoroughly to turn
up the eggs of worms.
The equipment in the set-up should
be placed in position so as to drain
water away from equipment. The set
up should be put as close to the barn
or crib as possible without being on
unclean ground. The sow should be
placed in farrowing pen about 7 to
10 days before farrowing. She should
be washed, disinfected and oiled be
fore placing in pen.
She should be fed on some light
food and cut down on grains and corn.
Tankage, shorts and corn is recom
mended by Georgia Experiment Sta
tion for sow and pigs after 24 hours
after farrowing. After weaning, sow
should be placed in pasture in sepa
rate pasture to pigs. A good stock
of hogs should be grown, pure breds if
possible. Try raising hogs sanitary
and you will find it profitable and
also interesting.
Protecting Forests
From Fire
By RUFUS DEAN
Protecting forests from fire is a
very important practice and should
be managed carefully. First in pro
tecting forest fires you should know
what kind of fire-breaks to build.
You should build a primary fire
break twenty feet wide about two
miles apart. Run secondary at right
angles to primary to serve as bases
for back firing. Next you should
know how to build a fire break and
what equipment you need. First in
building a fire break you decide on
a place to build the fire break. Then
cut bushes and throw them out. Pick
up limbs and knots and throw out.
Rake off the leaves and plow up and
clean land.
The best time to build fire breaks
is in the early winter as most fires
occur in February. More labor is
available in fall than any other time
and you should consider labor before
you start. You will need an axe, a
plow, rake, mule, and shovel to build
a fire break. You should have these
before you start.
Fires destroy young trees, wild
life, scars large trees, and insects en
ter, hardens ground, increases erosion
and causes surface run-off and great
er flood damage, therefore you see
why you should protect your forests
from fire at all times the best way
possible.
Bells in Churchyard ‘Steeple’
We usually expect to And church
bells in their proper place in the
tower. To see them hanging in a
special “steeple” in a churchyard
is a sight not to be forgotten. This
strange arrangement is at Quear
ley, Hampshire, says London An
swers Magazine. The bells are rung
from the vestry by means of wires
running over pulleys.
This Week In Review
Continued from Page 6.
You know this column likes that man Edwards—legislatively at least.
Ever since Representative Edwards made his radio speech last week,
saying several things of an enlightening nature, yours truly has been in favor
of nominating Mrs. L. W. Robert’s horse as a candidate for the Hall of
Horses—or the Hall of Horse Laughs or wherever good tea-party horses go,
perhaps the Valhalla where reposes “Mrs. Astor’s Horse.”
Mr. Edwards recalled that while L. W. Robert’s architectural firm was
receiving $260,000 of the money allocated for building units of the State
Insane Asylum, Mrs. Robert “was giving a party for a horse and feeding the
horse doughnuts and carrots.”
If a horse really laughs, this one must be laughing at the tax payers of
Georgia.
NATIONAL
Senator Key Pittman, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee,
keeps plugging away for his “cash and carry” plain of selling munitions to
any nation. He urged this plan again last week.
This column has said before that it considers this a sound plan—one
which might well keep any nation from pointing an accusing finger toward
us and at the same time leave no “war debt” to provoke ill feeling in years
to come.
At week’s end Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, with the Presi
dent’s approval, suggested radical changes in the Social Security Act in a
plan to relieve Industry of heavy payroll taxes.
Employers will applaud, of course. But Labor probably will ask many
questions about the plan even if there is no out-right howl.
Farm Boy Explains
Purpose of F. F. A.
By RALEIGH JOHNSON
The purpose of the FFA is to help
the farm boys help themselves. By
participating in the activities in the
local, state, and national organiza
tions, the boys are helped to develop
their own capacities and to become
more interested in their community
and to better understand the business
of farming.
Future Farmers are taught to make
money, to save and invest money, to
take an unselfish part in community
life, and to believe that farming is a
worthy occupation.
The FFA organization was founded
in 1926 by a Virginian, Henry Grose
close, who was, and is yet, helping the
Vocational Agriculture Teachers.
There are four levels in the degrees
of the organization of the FFA. The
first degree is known as the Green
Hand, the second is the Junior
Farmer, the third is the Georgia
Planter, and the fourth and highest
is the American Farmer.
There are 47 states out of the 48
states that have state organizations.
Hawaii and Puerto Rico also have or
ganizations. There are over 100,000
active members of the FFA, and over
4,000 local chapters. At first, every
state had a separate organization and
in 1928 they met and formed a na
tional organization. The number of
local chapters has and is steadily in
creasing. The FFA organization is
one that everybody should be proud
to be a member of.
Indians Expert Tanners
Few animals have escaped the ex
perimenting itch of the tanner.
North American Indians are report
ed to have preserved the skins of
150 different species of animals.
Even the skins of the seal, walrus,
ostrich, alligator, snake, frog and
shark have been tanned commer
cially. Bird and rodent skins are
usually too small and fragile for
wear. A morbid historical refer
ence also excludes human skin from
commercial tanning, although there
is evidence that the weird ritu
al has been performed. In 1838
the skin of the murderer William
Burke was preserved after his exe
cution in Scotland.
May Regulate Growth of Hair
Nessler, whose book, “The Story
of Hair,” is used as a reference
and textbook, says: “In future gen
erations men will look back with
amusement upon the benighted
years when premature baldness was
a scourge. The time will come,
too, when mothers will be able to
regulate the development of their
children’s hair, even to develop
curly hair, just as they now develop
sturdy and robust children with
proper living and diet habits.”
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Seeds Sent by Air
The milkweed, like the thistle and
some of Nature’s other adventurers,
sends its seed tufts out on aerial
voyages of discovery. Slung be
neath each downy tuft, like a bal
loonist’s basket, is a brown seed.
When the pod frees the tufts, the
va ^ rant Puff °f wind carries
these tiny balloons with their col
onizing seeds high and far. Later
they drop to earth to found a new
colony, or, if the winds will, they
even may float into a window, high
above the earth, their logical des
tiny unfulfilled.
Use of Bullet Money
Bullet-shaped pieces of gold and
silver were used as money in Siam
the reign of King Mongkut,
1851-1868, according to a Detroit
Coin club authority. They are almost
spherical in shape and have ap
parently been made by bending to
gether the ends of short, round in
gots, and stamping small incuse fig
ures on the back and sides. Tradi
tion tells us that bullet money was
designed for the convenience of Si
amese gamblers who used to squat
on the floor and roll it back and
forth as their luck changed.
The Dingo’s Origin
re never ha s been any definite
settlement of the question of the
dingo’s origin. The fact that fossil
dingo bones have been found in
Pleistocene deposits has caused one
group of scientists to insist that the
dingo is indigenous and, mayhap,
«n older inhabitant of Australia than
man. Others insist that the dingo is
a cousin of the pariah dog of India
and the Malay peninsula and must,
at some remote date, have been an
importation.
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lonated drinks, such as ginger
and sarsaparilla. They are ef
ive in quenching thirst and
r appetizing flavors encourage
drinking of generous amounts
water. They also contribute
•gy values to the diet in pro
ion to the amount of sweeten
used in their preparation.
ruit juices are most frequently
'ed as an appetizer at break
, lunch or dinner. Fruitades
useful as between-meal drinks
when entertaining. Children
i to display their hospitality to
>nds and this type of beverage,
•ved with a few crackers or
nple cookies, makes an attrac
e snack.
Mothers will find it convenient
d economical to utilize for this
rpose beverage crystals which
Tie in a variety of fruit flavors,
ese make wholesome, refresh
i beverages at a minimum cost;
5 amount of sweetening may be
termined by individual prefer
ce; and they are so easily pre
red that children may do the
ixing themselves.
How To Fertilize
Cotton, Corn, Peanuts
By DEWAINE PHILLIPS
In procuring l fertilizer for any crop
you should furnish most important
elements necessary for plant growth.
They are: Calcium, Carbon, Hydro
gen, Oxygen, Phosphrous, Potassium,
lodine, Nitrogen, Sulphur, Iron and
Magnesium. The three elements
needed in soil are: Nitrogen, potas-
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, sium and phosphorus. Nitrogen is
found in nitrates, potassium is found
in potash, and phosphorus is found in
phosphoric acid.
Due to the change in the state law
the arrangement of the formula of
fertilizer has been changed. What
used to be a 9-3-5 is now 3-9-5. Ni
trogen is first, phosphorus second and
potash last. The three best ferti
lizers found best at Tifton for cotton
are: 3-9-5, 5-9-5 and 3-9-8. For this
section 400 pounds per acre for cotton
is best.
The best fertilizer found, best for
corn and peanuts at Tifton was 2-10-4.
i Two hundred to four hundred pounds
was recommended at Tifton for com,
with 75 pounds of soda when the com
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