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The County Agent's Corner
EDITED BY N. D. McRAINEY
FARMERS RECEIVE
OVER 90 MILLION
DOLLARS FROM AAA
Georgia farmers have been paid
'■ver Pi; million d< liars by the Agri
cultural Adjustment Administration
'through participation in the Triple-A
farm program since its creation in
1933, eight years ago, Homer S. Dur
den, state administrative officer, said
this week.
With the aid of these payments,
farmers have been able to carry out
soil conservation practices which they
w te unable to undertake before the
program, Mr. Durden pointed out.
"The AAA has not only improved the
farmers’ income, but it has also helped
to increase the value of their land.”
Since 1933, land values in the
United States have increased 16 per
cent, and Mr. Durden said this is proof
of improved conditions. Georgia
farmers, he continued, have confi
dence in the program and have in
creased soil-conserving crops each
year. Only 1,769,000 acres were plant
ed to soil-conserving crops in 1932
in comparison to 2,853,000 in 1938. It
is estimated that the 1939 figure, yet
to be released, will show an additional
increase.
“For the first 10 months of 1939,
AAA benefit payments to Georgia
farmers totaled $24,116,000, which is
more than the $21,062,000 income
derived from livestock, and more
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unusual firelight effect.
T T AVE you ever tried shooting
* J- away a whole roll of film on one
subject, not changing its position in
the least but merely altering the way
the light strikes it?
It may seem foolish and extrava
gant hut it can be one of the most
important photographic lessons yon
ever took.
Try it on this theory: that the ob
jects in a picture have no real in
terest in themselves but that all the
interest is in the way they are
lighted—how the light strikes, how
shadows are cast. Or, in the words
of a great French photographer, that
th© subject is nothing, the lighting
is everything.
Tako a photoflood lamp in a re
flector and arrange a number of
small objects—say some fruit spill
ing from a bowl—on a white table
top. Have enough general room light
to give detail in the shadows.
Now set up your camera firmly
with the light right beside it, for
your first picture. Take another with
the light far to the left and high up.
Taka one with the light directly over
Ae subject. Take one with it behind
the subject, shading the bulb so that
f than one-third of the cash income
from Georgia crops, which totaled
$66,102,000 for the same period,” he
isaid.
* The AAA official stated that the
- total cash income for Georgia farmers
i in 1932 was $64,473,000. In 1933 it
jumped, to $115,055,000, including
i $14,580,000 in benefits, and in 1934
• it was $131,644,000, of which sll,-
I 169,000 were benefit payments. The
cash income continued to rise in 1935,
. reaching $15,581,000, of which $16,-
, 496,000 were benefit payments.
In 1936, cash farm income in G-eor
: gia reached $162,937,000, with benefits
, of $6,787,000, and in 1937 the farmers
: had their best year with $166,061,000,
with $10,377,000 being in benefit
; checks. In 1938 the cash income went
to $154,854,000, of which $20,218,000
I were benefit payments.
“Cotton is the ‘money crop’ upon
I which Georgia farmers depend for
। cash to pay bills and operating ex
। penses,” Mr. Durden said, “and it is
| interesting to see how the AAA farm
program has aided the cotton farmer.”
Mr. Durden pointed out that Geor
gia farmers produced 72 pounds more
cotton per acre in 1939 than they did
in 1932. The farmers made only. 853,-
000 bales on 2,702,000 planted acres
in 1932, while on 1,998,000 planted
acres last year they produced 916,000
j bales. The price on the 1932 crop
I averaged 6.1 cents, bringing total cot
ton lint income to $26,016,000, while
no direct light shines into the cam
era lens.
Try as many positions as the
length of the flint roll allows. When
the pictures are developed and print
ed, the differences will astound you.
Study them and you will learn what
can be done with light when it is
properly used.
If you don’t like still life, try a
series of portraits, using the same
person and the same pose but dif
ferent angles of lighting. From pic
ture to picture, facial expression
will vary astonishingly—dead with
flat front light, sinister with the light
low and directly in front, startled
or even terrified with the light low
and to one side, and so on.
The same is true of landscapes.
With each hour of the day they
change, the deep morning shadows
dwindling into noon and growing
again into the grandeur of evening.
Light is the photographer’s work
ing material, the plastic clay from
which he models his pictures. Study
it. Learn what lighting can do and
apply your knowledge and you will
produce pictures of which you will
be proud.
John van Guilder
last year, with the price at 9.1 cents
and AAA cotton payments more than
$8,000,000, the income has been es
i timated at $50,000,000. .
“The farm program, through acre
age allotments, marketing quotas and
payments, has made it possible for
Georgia farmers to plant in line with
demand for their cash crops, thereby
releasing land, labor, teams, tools and
cash from the production of surplus
amounts of these crops,” he said.
“The program has encouraged the
growing of more food and feed crops
for use on the farms. How well this
phase of the program has been car
ried out is shown in the fact that the
acreage in food and feed crops in
, Georgia has increased about 50 per
cent since the program began.”
The state administrative officer
said Georgia’s agricultural situation
still has its serious problems. “Farm
income is still too low, although it
has risen 140 percent in the last de
cade,” he explained. “The jvhole
question of wise and economic use of
the state’s land resources underlies
the disposition of other adjustments
which We must make.”
He said the main story that agri
cultural historians will write of the
past seven years is one of slow recov
ery in the face of heavy odds—a long,
winning fight upward out of insolv
ency and despair.
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FARM BRIEFS
—
By JACK WOOTEN,
EXTENSION EDITOR
—
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION
Wildlife conservation in Georgia is
being carried on with much enthu
siasm among many 4-H club members ;
of the state. Adults, too, are taking
more interest in this important phase,
of farm life than ever before. And
yet, we still need many more clubbers,;
farmers and sportsmen to pull to
gether in conserving Georgia’s wild
life resources. County agents, in co
operation with the State Fish and
Game Department, are working out a
carefully planned program for 1940, i
whereby wildlife conservation may be :
considerably advanced in the state.
* * *
TIME TO THIN
Now is a good time to thin your
forests—from now until March 1.1
Herbert Carruth, Extension forester,
tells us that, in order to reduce to a
minimum the danger from insects,.
thinning should be done while trees
are in the dormant stage, or, as the
old saying goes, while the sap is
down. Areas which regenerate to a
very thick stand (above 6,000 trees
per acre) should be subjected to a
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his room a half-hour a day for exercise.
; light thinning when the trees are three
to five years old, Mr. Carruth says,
j This will insure the maintenance of
la maximum rate of growth. Although
j the trees removed will be too small
(for sale or for use other than fuel
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I FALL PIG CROP
i The Georgia Crop Reporting Ser-
I vice estimates that the fall pig crop
;in Georgia for 1939 is 974,000 head,
; or 4 percent greater than the 940,000
: estimated for the fall of 1938. Es-
I timated number of sows farrowing’
fall pigs amounted to 177,000, which
is an increase of 9 percent over the
; previous fall farrowing of 162,000
; sows. Average number of pigs saved
per litter is somewhat less than last
fall, thus accounting for the percent
age increase in pigs being less than
! that shows for sows farrowed. Sows
i farrowing in the spring amounted to
212,000 with 1,187,000 pigs. Combin
ing these figures with fall farrowings
makes a total of 389,000 sows and 2,-
161,000 pigs for the entire year. This
means that the current pig crop for
the entire year is 5 percent greater j
than the 2,055,000 pigs for the entire
year of 1938.
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LAND WEARS OUT
Despite progress made in the last
four years under the agricultural ad
justment program, Secretary Henry ।
A. Wallace declares that “America’s '
farm land still is weiring out faster ;
than we are able to restore it.” He i
says the problem calls for a “master'
conservation plan”—one that will con- ’
serve human effort as well as soil fer- |
tility. “We can not even begin to |
breathe easy until we know that the 1
forces of destruction are at least bal- I
anced by the forces of repair,” Wal- i
lace asserts. While notable progress .
has been made under the AAA pro-1
gram, the secretary says “there still|
are millions of farms where conser
vation practices fully adequate to keep
the soil in place do not yet prevail.”
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GOOD OLE SMOKEHOUSE!
I
Next to a substantial house, a well-1
constructed—and well filled—smoke
house is the farm’s best asset, says
Dr. Will Alexander, national director,
Farm Security Administration. “I al
ways like to see a man’s smokehouse,”
Dr. Alexander says, “and particularly
when it is filled with meat and other
products for his own use.”
J. L. Wingate Named
Director Os APCA
At the annual meeting of stock
holders of Albany Production Credit
Association held at offices in Albany
on Thursday of last week, J. L. Win
gate was elected to the board of di
rectors to succeed the late Roy Strip
ling, who has served as Mitchell Coun
ty director for several years.
Brown Heads
Housing Committee
Upon the urgent insistence of the
I Committee on Reorganization of the
: Georgia Farmers Union I have agreed
I to accept the Chairmanship of the Re
i organization Committee.
| The Georgia Farmers Union has set I
<as its goal the awakening Os the in
j terest of the Farmers of Georgia to
the great possibilities under the Fed
ieral Slum Clearance act, which in-!
eludes Rural clearance and housing,
as well as urban. •
The Georgia Farmers Union is un
dertaking the task of informing and'
bringing into active participation
County wide groups of farmers who i
may share the benefits of this great j
program. At least 100 Georgia Coun- ,
ties should avail themselves of these
benefits in the year 1940, with a re- i
suitant bringing into Georgia of at,
least fifty millions of dollars in rural .
housing this year.
It will be the purpose of the Union I
to carry the message to the rural peo- i
pie, secure the active co-operation of ।
farmers with the Georgia and Federal
Housing authorities.
Hon. Geo. B. Hamilton, Chairman of !
।the Georgia Housing Authority has'
secured and brought to successful cul-1
mination for Thomas County, Georgia,:
the first rural housing project which •
provides for the erection of 200 units '
in rural section totaling over four
hundred thousand dollars in that ru
ral section, this was the first such
project approved in America.
It is the purpose of the Georgia
Farmers Union to carry this message
to all rural Georgia. The Legislature
created the Georgia Housing au
thority but made no appropriation for
its work, the Union will do the job.
Mr. Brown, former Commissioner
of Agriculture and former President
of the Georgia State Farmers Union
announced the first executive meeting
would be held in Macon about the
first of February where details of the
plan would be launched, exact date to
be announced later.
He also announced that Fred T.
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tary-Treasurer.
Signed: J. J. BROWN.
ANSWERS
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: “yellow wampum,” gold having been
i discovered there.
2. India. ■
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, land. Australia, from the Latin word
; for southern was suggested by Cap
i tain Matthew Flinders, an English
j navigator.
I 4. It is a state of the Common
! wealth of Australia, occupying the
northeastern part of the continent.
5. At Lynn, Massachusetts, where
a company organized by the son of
Governor Winthrop erected a furnace
lin 1644.
I 6. The first dictionary aiming to
give a complete collection of English
■words was published in 1721 by Na
>than Baily, and was called the “Uni
' versa! Etymological English Diction
iary.”
, 7. The largest is at Philadelphia,
San Francisco, and Denver.
8. Fragrant flowers are the prin
cipal source of the finest perfumes.
I 9. A mixed language used much in
‘the ports of China between foreigners
[and Chinese traders and servants. It
: is madfc up of English words, mostly
■ mono-syllables, and corrupted Chinese,
Portugese, Malay, and other terms ar
ranged accordingly to Chinese idiom.
10. The first in the world was over
i Schuylkill river near Philadelphia,
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Missouri’s ‘Panhandle’
i The peculiar jog or “panhandle’’
at the southeast corner of the state
I of Missouri, between the Mississip
lpi and St. Francis rivers, is said
to be the result of efforts of a prom
inent property owner who lived
| south of the parallel of 36° 30’ to
i Save his plantation included in the
I new state
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that $450,000,000 is spent
in the United States each
year for hosiery, over half I
of this amount (or $225,
000,000) being spent by
the women alone.
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