Farm News and Views Urges Boll Weevil Control
County Agent MW L Powell urges Butts farmers to use recommended control measures as boll weevils increase. Dusting with calcium arsenate three times at one week intervals. 5 pounds per acre per application. If spraying, 10 pounds arsenate per 50 gallons water, 25 gallons per acre at 100 to 150 psi. Warning about boll worm and grasshopper outbreaks. bait mix for grasshoppers described. Wildlife seen as a future crop supplement.
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MW. L. Powell
Powell
Butts County Second in Completing Cotton Acreage
Butts was the second county in the state to complete measuring cotton acreage, announced by M. L. Powell, county agent. Figures are being checked and will form the basis for Triple-A payments. Completion is expected before the cotton ginning season. The agent urged soil-building practices and summer legumes like peas, with limestone and phosphate orders for immediate or fall delivery. Materials are grant-funded, with costs deducted from soil-building payments, easing farmers’ cash flow.
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Butts
M. L. Powell
Powell
Toccoa Motorcade Demonstration Joins Board Members
B H Hodges and RE P Colwell members of the county commissioners board and W H Maddox superintendent joined a motorcade in Toccoa on Tuesday to witness a new demonstration in the use of a device or method.
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Toccoa
B. H. Hodges
RE. P. Colwell
Board of County
W. H. Maddox
Cobb County wins district talent contest at DeKalb event
Seventy residents from Butts County attended the District Amateur Entertainment Contest at South West Dekalb near Decatur on July 8. Cobb County won and will represent the district in the state contest in Athens the week of August 7 to 12. The Butts program themed around the New York World’s Fair featured Jenkinsburg 4‑H Glee Club and acts by local families and clubs with strong county support.
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Cobb County
Butts County
South- West
DeKalb School
Decatur
Athens
DeKalb
Carroll, Douglas
W. M. Redman
M. L. Powell
Jenkinsburg
Stark
Worthville
Indian Springs
Towali
Atlanta Markets Report on July 10, 1939 livestock and poultry
Livestock prices list corn fed hogs by weight and price declines noted. Sows and stags show lower values. Sheep and cattle ranges include grass fat steers, heifers, fat cows and canners. Poultry prices cover eggs hens leghorn and col friers, roosters ducks and geese with scattered cents per dozen or pound figures.
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Col. Friers
Legfriers
Social visits and weekend travels around Liberty area
Local residents shared weekend and weekday visits across Liberty and nearby Jenkinsburg. Families including Maddox, Washington, Brooks, Hammond, Perdue, Tin gle and Wise hosted or visited kin and friends, with dinners, barbecues, and Sunday gatherings noted.
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Elizabeth OF England
Farina Ik
Otm
Thelma Todd
South America
Ae Todd
Mr. Haworth
MONE
Minuet
Towaliga Home Demonstration Club
Macree
Danny Boy
Foster Leverett
Jackson
Joe Gilmore
Danube
Benny Jewell Townsend
Mary Frank Smith
Wyolene White
Spencer
W. T. Fletcher
T. A. Sims
Betty Anne Sims
J. T. Harris
James Childs
Mattie Jo Pullin
Marcus Childs
Victor Williams
Sara
Annie Rosa Bond
Emma Jo
Mary
Edna Spencer
Nell Lane
Tennie Brownlee
Dorothy Anne O’neal
Session Weaver
Sara Biles
Miriam Childs
Betty Hammond
Wimpy Perdue
Gene Seymour
Wesley Harris
Key Leverett
Wilton Childs
Lula Bohannon
Nitia Leverett
Mary Emma Farrar
Katherine Childs
Rebecca Minter
Margaret Taylor
Ruth
Bankston
Talitha Minter
Betty Stallworth
Ruby Wea
Ver
Atlanta
Bureau of Markets
State Department of Agriculture
U. S. Navy
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
Liberty
Ray Lowery
Winfred Perdue
Janice Brooks
F. L. Maddox
Ernest Washington
Mrs. James Tingle
James Tingle
Bobby
J. D. Washington
Wade Hammond
Billy
Oscar Weaver
Sara Weaver
Don Thompson
Forest Maddox
Travis Pritchett and Son
J. T. Pritchett
Lizzie Nelms
N. F. Thaxton
C. E. Washington
Little Jean
Bobby Tingle
W. P. Brooks
James Hammond
Obie Butler
Ballard Perdue
Bessie Lou
Carolyn Maddox
J. M. Washington
Mr. Ernest Washington
Lucile Washington
Ida Bethel
G. W. Wise
Ora Bell Brooks
G. W. Brooks
Mrs. Fears Weldon
T. R. Scott
Helen
Ballard
Perdue
W. H. Hammond
M. Smith
Barbara
J. D. Aiken
G. W. .Wise
Bethel
L. H. Aiet
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