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The County Agent’s Corner
EDITED BY N. D. McRAINEY
STRIP-CROPPING IS l
KEY TO CONSERVING |
SOIL, FARMER SAYS 5 1
Through an effort to produce a
larger acreage of feed and ‘forage
crops to supply his dairy herd, a Sum
ter county dairyman has discovered
that crops planted in strips across
cultivated fields are much more ef
fective in controlling erosion than
solid fields of clean-tilled crops.
He is W. H. Emmett, a cooperator
in the erosion-control demonstration
area near Americus.
Mr. Emmett started strip-cropping
when an erosion-control plan was
first worked out for his farm by Spil
Conservation Service technicians. At
that time, he agreed to try lespedeza
instead of cowpeas and velvet beans,
which he had previously been using
for summer feed crops. Starting with
a three-acre strip, he now has 18
acres in common and Kobe lespedeza.
“The lespedeza has resulted in a
higher milk production than I have
ever had,” Mr. Emmett reports. “One
field that was a series of gullies eight
years ago, has been changed into pro
ductive land by diverting the water
and concentrating on gZreen manure
and other cover crops.
“l believe that any field which
slopes over two or three feet in a hun
dred should have strips of close-grow
ing. soil-conserving crops planted be-
We have just received shipment of nice young vm‘ares
suitable for farm work and breeding. Some with colts
and some in foal. We also have some nice young mules.
See us at once if you want to buy or trade.
J ® C. & WO C. HOLMAN
MULE COMPANY
ALBANY, GEORGIA
BLAKELY, GA. L ede MOULTRIE, GA.
We Are In The Market For Peanut Hay. Get Our Price
Delivered Our Warehouse--Or Get Truckers Price In
Your Field. ' .
TRUCKERS
We Invite Truckers To Contact Us In Reference To
Hauling Hay From The Field To Our Warehouse.
CAMILLA COTTON OIL COMPANY
Camilla, - - - Georgia
tween areas devoted to cotton, pea
nuts, pepper, and other clean-tilied
crops that we grow in this section, he
adds. :
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BELL ADVISES FULL
USE OF FEED CROPS
IN HOG PRODUCTION
Full use of a wide variety of feeds
and growing crops suitable for swine
provides farmers with an opportunity
to produce pork at low cost, which
necessarily makes for a successful hog
enterprise.
This is the opinion of Charles E.
Bell, Jr.,, of Tifton, swine specialist
for the Georgia Agricultural Exten
sion Service, who says that the hog
is the most efficient of all farm ani
‘mals, since it requires only four to
five pounds of dry matter to produce
a pound of gain.
Mr. Bell pointed out that, since the
digestive tract of the hog is very
short, it is not capable of handling
large quantities of low-grade rough
age and, therefore, must have feed
that is relatively : high in nutritive
value.
“Hogs normally go through two
definite periods—the growirg period
and the fattening period,” Mr. Bell
declared. ‘“Green grazing crops with
supplementary feeding of grain, pro
‘tein' and minerals have proved to be
‘the cheapest method of handling grow-
ing pigs. Georgia crops best suited
for this purpose are oats, rys, rape,
soybeans, cowpeas, millet, lespedeza,
alfalfa, and permanent pasture.”
Oats, rye, and rape are best for
grazing from January to May, accord
ing to the swine specialist. For sum
mer grazing he recommends cattail
millet, early sorghum, cowpeas and
velvet beans. Alfalfa and crimson
clover, he said, are valuable early
spring and summer crops for north
Georgia, and permanent pastures may
be used to advantage to fill in gaps
between temporary crops for brood
sows and boars. 2
* “The fattening period begins after
the pig has attained sufficient size
for market demands,” Mr. Bell said.
“Principal crops used for fattening
hogs are corn, peanuts, soybeans,
grain sorghum, and ‘sweet potatoes
with the farmer choosing the crops
that best fit his local conditions. Corn
is the universal fattening crop; how
ever, our low yields of Georgia will
have to be materially increased before
gains can be made as cheaply with it
as with peanuts.”
" The swine specialist said that oats
are excellent as part of the ration
for young pigs but are too bulky to
serve as the chief fattening feed. He
said wheat bran is also too bulky to
be fed fattening hogs, but that a lim
ited amount is excellent for its laxa
tive effect on brood sows.
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AAA ANNOUNCES ‘ 8
PROVISIONS FOR
1940 PROGRAM
Provisions of the 1940 AAA Farm
Program have been approved and will
be made known to Georgia farmers in
plenty of time for them to plan crop
ping operations before planting time,
County Agent J. C. Scarborough an
nounced this week.
The county agent explained that, ac
cording to a statement made by Sec
retary of Agriculture Henry A, Wal
lace, *“thorough consideration was
given to the present European situa
tion and its possible effect on Ameri
can agriculture when the 1940 pro
gram was drafted. The aim of this
program is to maintain a production
of farm commodities in this country
‘which will balance with the demand,
‘whatever that demand may prove to
be, and to maintain and improve the
fertility of our farm land. Farmers’
interests are carefully safeguarded in
this program, which also serves the
‘public interest.” ;
~ The provisions of the program deal
ling with the agricultural conservation
‘measures closely follow those in ef
fect this year and are based on former
.recommendations, the county agent
said. The wheat allotment of 62 mil-|
lion acres—7 million acres larger
than the 1939 allotment—has already
been announced, as have tentative
wheat conservation and price adjust
ment payments which will total _fi;o*
18 to 22 cents per bushel next :year.
Acreage goals for other major crops
together with rates of payment will
be established later in view of the de
veloping conditions. % :
The county agent explained that
changes in the 1940 program recog
nize special conditions in certain areas
and emphasize soil conservation on
all farms the country over.
An important provision which will
encourage further soil conservation
measures on small farms insures that
as much as S2O may be earned on
every farm participating in the pro
gram. Another important conserva
tion provision will encourage the
planting of forest trees on farms by
allowing farmers to earn up to S3O
for tree planting, in addition to the
regular soil-building allowance for the
farm. |
Soil-building practices have b’een[
provided to meet more adequately the !
needs for soil conservation, the countyl
See the New 1939 Model
SELF-FEEDER
PEANUT PICKERS
’ —and— :
POWER HAY BALERS
A Better Product Made By A Georgia industry Employing
Georgia Labor And Us'ing Georgia Materials. Why Cer
tainly It Is Better But Costs The Buyer Less.
i
Lilliston Implement Co.
Phone 813 - - = Gillonville Road
ALBANY, - - - - - GEORGIA
agent said, and special emphasis will
be given to conservation of wildlife.
In areas where food for the farm fam-|
ily is generally inadequate, a home
garden provision will be available.
The new provisions also extend the
commercial peanut and commercial
vegetable programs to more counties
than in 1939, :
Lady Elizabeth Nightingals
‘The Lady Elizabeth Nightingale,
referred to in Washington Irving's
writings, was the eldest daughten
and co-heir of Washington, Second
Earl Ferrers by Mary, eldest sur
viving daughter of Sir Richard Le
ringe, lord chief justice of common
pleas in Ireland. She was born in
1704 and married in 1725 Joseph
Gascoigne Nightingale, Esq. She
died in 1731. Her well-known monu
ment in Westminster abbey is by
she sculptor Ronbiliac. The Ferrers
family intermarried with the Wash
ingtons of Sulgrave—hence her fa
ther’s Christian name—and Florence
Nightingale was of the same fam
ily as Lady Elizabeth’s husband.
; Smiles and Backbones :
The man with ‘a smile doesn’t get
along as fast as the man with a
backbone. '
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