Trip to Camp Wilkins Highlights 4-H State Conference
Thelma Pope and Thomas Freeman represented Butts County 4-H at the 6th Annual State Conference in Athens August 17 through 12. Registration ran 2 to 5 30 Monday for clubbers in Soule Hall lobby and in Camp Wilkins for boys. Approximately 500 4-H members gathered for opening events in the Physical Education Building. Notable speakers included G V Cunningham Miss Luwie Collier Walter S Brown L E Sullivan Mrs Bernice Brown McCullar and Ralph McGill. Cobb County won the Community Amateur Entertainment Contest with 2 000 spectators watching. The pageant in Hardman Hall Tuesday traced rural Georgia progress since 1914 from the emergency cotton program to modern demonstrations and the war era. The program highlighted forestry poultry and home industries with a grand finale featuring a parade of well dressed women.
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Atlanta Constitution
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Johnson grass as cash crop in Alabama noted by Judge Smith
Judge W A Smith of Demopolis Alabama says Johnson grass, long vilified by Georgians, is a valuable hay crop in Alabama's Black Belt. He cites strong demand from government hay markets and dairy farms, plus thriving livestock auctions in Demopolis, with cattle dominating sales and Alabama risk from recent rains and floods noted.
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Georgia
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Montgomery
Tombigbee
Warrior Rivers
Atlanta Market Prices For Hogs Poultry Produce And Facts
Market listings show corn fed hogs 180-240 lbs at 6.00, 245-300 at 5.80, 145 down 4.50, sows 180-400 at 5.00, 400-500 at 5.50, fat cows 4.28-5.28, calves 5.00-9.00 with variations. Poultry prices include Large white eggs 21-22c, heavy hens 13c, friers 12-15c, roosters 9c. Produce notes list apples 45.75 cents per bushel, green corn 13-18c per dozen ears, beans 60-1.00 per bu, sweet potatoes 80-1.00 per bu, turnips 35-50c per bushel. Also a geological fact cites Georgia forest area at 23,750,000 acres.
Locker meat costs cut farm family meat bills drastically
In the subdinet month discussion on freezer Yockers availability and slaughtering, farm families can have fresh meat by paying about four cents per pound for the total handling costs including chilling cutting wrapping and freezing. Local slaughter houses dress a steer for two dollars and return carcass parts or credit them to the owner, bringing the overall cost to around four cents per pound and providing the locker plant manager with an income of 3 to 4 cents per pound stored.
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County unemployment paid in August reported
The August unemployment compensation report shows 43 workers paid with an average of 5.19 dollars per capita. The announcement comes from the unemployment department.
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