Butts County Farmers Hear District Meeting Campaign
Several hundred citizens attended eight district meetings Monday night to discuss diversified farming, the cow sow and hen idea, and soil building to combat boll weevil impacts. State experts from the Southern Railway Georgia College of Agriculture and local leaders spoke, leading to stronger farmer business ties and a pledge to support the Permanent Prosperity Program and form a county agricultural committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sting
Theouthern Railway System
Statellegg of Agriculture
Georgia Ssociation
Therincipal
A. M
Ork
Agricultural Body to Meet on Tuesday
Butts County Agricultural Committee members from the education board Kiwanis Club and eight district reps will meet the Board of Education on Tuesday May 1. President I L Etheridge and secretary Van Fletcher lead the committee. The item notes dairy cow sow and hen as foundations of farm prosperity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiwanis Club
Board of Education Isetter
Butts County
Board of Education
Etheridge
van Fletcher
Pasture trip by Butts county crowd to Lunsford pasture
A large party led by County Farm Agent H. G. Wiley visited Evans Lunsford pasture in Covington. About sixty explored the pasture methods praised as a model for permanent year round grazing. Lunsford reports 128 acres sustaining 40 to 60 cattle year round with no dry feed, and income 35 to 40 dollars per acre yearly from pasture.
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Henry G. Wiley
Butts County
Evans
Covington
Bermuda
Lunsford
Lufisford
Warren Furlow
J. D. Jones
Doyle and
Vincent Jones
Messrs
J. D. Brownlee
Charles Brownlee
G. H. Ridgeway
W. C. Smith
R. E. Evans
E. L.barnes
J. R. Biles
Ss. W. Hencely
J. R. Conner
A. C. Finley
T. W. Ham
J. J. McKibben
J. C. Jones
Dr. H. R. Slaton
Henry Slaton
T. W. Moore
Pliny Weaver
J. M. Bankston
C. W. Fletcher
T. B. Fletcher
W. D. Fletcher
J. H. McKibben
A. H. Pope
C. A. Towles
Sam J. Smith
N. K. Vickers
J. H. Pope and Son
H. G. Asbury
W. H. Mills
W. B. Compton, Jr
R. N. Etheridge
W. E. Foster
B. F. Watkins
R. C. Thomas
A. M. Pace and Son
R. A. Franklin
Ed Carmichael
S. K. Smith
Kiwanis Club Plans Forsyth Visit Friday April 27
Kiwanis members meeting in Jackson finalize plans for a trip to Forsyth on Friday April 27 leaving Jackson at 5 PM Central time. Luncheon program in Forsyth features courtesy observance and district meeting reports show near full attendance. May 1 guest program includes Butts County Agricultural Committee and Southern Railway agent Roland Turner address. Cow Sow Hew Farmers in Missouri note reports pure bred herd replacement to USDA.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forsyth
Kiwanis Club
Jackson
Butts County Agricultural Committee
The
Club
Roland Turner
Large enrollment in county Boys and Girls club work
The article notes a bright outlook for the year with about one hundred youth enrolled in Pig Calf Poultry and Corn clubs across multiple county schools. It lists participants by school including Union Ridge Worthville Gak Grove Grady Jackson Cedar Rock and more with many students joining Pig Poultry and Calf clubs and several in Corn clubs and others.
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Butts County
Henry G. Wiley
Union Ridge
Larue Dodson
Evelyn Dodson
Worthville
Cleo Swint
Robert Smith
Frances White
Julian Stodghill
Aldine Bunn
Linton Lofton
Beulah—Powell Colwell
Olin McElhenney
James Wallace
Fred Cleveland
Sandy Plains
Willie Brooks
Amos Treadwell
Chalmers Ridgeway
Johnny Kinard
James Spencer
Tommie Spencer
Julian Evans
Sarah Weaver
Bernard Ridgeway
Gladys Weaver
Jim Tom Ridgeway
Marshal Evans
Nannie Mae _ Treadwell
Rosa Lee Ridgeway
Ethel McClendon
Helen Thaxton
Mildred Ridgeway
Ophelia Flynt
Sarah Flynt
Emma Joe Spencer
Gak Grove
Lillian Martin
Edwin Sims
Robert Fletcher
Pig
Aubrey Britton
George Pelt
Clifford Stroud
Corn
Sarah Collins
Jenette Collins
Poultry
Cedar Rock
Charlie Long
Lane Cook
Taylor Foster
Iron Springs
Marie Hardy
McKibben White
Etheleen Strawn
Alonzo Thomas
J. C. McClure
Grady
Sarah Brooks
Strawberry Association to Demonstrate Packing and Distribution
Members of the Butts County Strawberry Association will meet Friday at 2 PM for a packing and grading demonstration. Crates will be distributed to attendees as the shipping season approaches and a large yield is expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butts County
Memorial Day Honors for Confederate Veterans in Jackson
The Larkin D. Watson chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy hosted a Memorial Day program in Jackson honoring Confederate veterans from 1860 to 1865. Major Joel B. Mallet delivered the address, praised traditions, and Crosses of Honor were awarded. Veterans and families attended, with cemetery tributes by Confederate descendants and a luncheon at the Woman's Club. The John L. Barnett camp No 1114 UCV held its annual meeting in the courthouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erate Gray
Jackson
Larkin D. Watson
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Joel B. Mallet
Jackson High School
Emory University
Law Department
University of Georgia
Yale University
Mallet
Georgia
Maj. Mallet
Atlanta
South
Court House
Henry H. Jones
H. M. Fletcher
Robert VanDeventer
Woman’s Club
Confederacy
John L. Barnett
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Lwives
Coody
Southern Ilway
H.C. Bates
Sovern Railway
Indian Springs
G. W. Humphrey
Theouthern Railway
Mr. J. Maston
Armers’ Union Warehouse
Pany
Dublin—Press
Huddleston
L. W. Rogers Hy
Frank W. Fitch
Georgiatate College of Agriculture
Bugrin
Y. G. Liddell
State College of Agriculture
H. M. Fletter
J. G. Oliver
T. O. Galloway
Barnesville
Towaliga
B. O. Childs
Monroe County
H. C. Appleton
Tion
Kiwanis Club of
Gether
Lunsford Pasture
Washington
Iowa
Mr. Lunsford
Cheon
Asset
Southern Railway System
Missouri
United States Department of
Agriculture
Warren McMichael
Don Thompson
Elgin
Fred Flynt
Cork
Sarah Moore
Virginia Smith
Rufus Smith
Stark
Max Redman
L. D. Singley
John Robert Pulliam
Corn Club
Emma Morgan
Miller Hodges
Pig Club
Oak Hill
Dorris Laverder
Lucile Lavender
Ernest Lavender
Robert Thomas
Fincherville
Ernest Allen
Homer Rutledge
Bernard Knowles
Delta Grove
Orestus Haimmock
Phillips Henley
Henderson Wall
Flovilla
Annie Lou Vickers
Janet Biles
Henry Higgins
Fleetwood Polk
Sam Linch
Grace Thomas
Herschel McClellan
Lamar Biles
Lowell Preston
West Butts
George Kinard
Russell Cochran
van Kinard
Strawberry Association
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