First Watermelons Leave Thomasville Market 1952
The Thomasville State Farmers Market shipped the first watermelons of the 1952 season on Monday. A carload of Cannon Ball melons was loaded by C Butler of Metcalfe, containing 760 to 800 melons. Market manager Hudson Norman reports rapid shipments with two carloads leaving Tuesday and five cars loaded Wednesday. He offers to arrange direct buyer visits to farmers who cannot pick and deliver melons, to capitalize on current high prices. Prices for squash and cantaloupes remain strong, with cantaloupes also fetching high sales recently.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Q. Butler
Metcalfe
Thomasville
I. W. Vaughn
Brookville
Fla
Channell Hicks
Leo Butler
John Henry Roan
Richard Jones
Dave Guyton
Hudson Norman
C. Butler
Butler
Norman
J. Neeley Richert
River Creek Plantation Boosts Coastal Bermuda Pastures
Article highlights River Creek Plantation owned by T. T. Scott in Thomas County developing Coastal Bermuda pastures and cattle feeding with support from Commercial Bank of this city. Project aims to provide practical pasture and cattle data over four to five years for regional farmers.
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Lee E. Kelly
United States
Thomas County
River Creek Plantation
T. T. Scott
Scott
Commercial Bank
Truman Holland
Messrs. L. D. Ferguson
Wm. J. Miller
R. E. Stringer
T. 8.Green
Tallahassee
Elmer Horne
Metcalfe
H. M. Moore
Bermuda
J. B. Hartshell
United States Department of Agriculture
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Melon Season In Full Swing At Brooks Mart
Brooks County shipments rise as watermelons move toward peak season. First car from Pavo on June 12 grown by R B Robinson Jr and Wilbur Mundy, with Quitman loading two cars Friday. By Monday 32 cars shipped, 62 cars midweek, drought keeps crop short though rains helped slightly. Quitman hosts the state’s only watermelon loading school run by A C S and Extension Service with local loading firms Hart Son Lester Johnson Walt Moody Hugh Blalock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quitman
Brooks County
Marge Crawford
Americus
Pavo
R. B. Robinson, Jr
Wilbur Manley
South Ga
A. C S
Extension Service
Hart Son
Lester Johnson
Walt Moody
Hugh Blalock
Farm Bureau Seeks to Preserve 1953 ACP Funding in Georgia
Georgia Farm Bureau leads opposition to a $100 million cut in the Agricultural Conservation Payment program for 1953, helping preserves a net reduction of only $1 million from 1952 after administration budget limits. The House advances the Albernathy Bill boosting cotton support parity, with a 344 cent per pound shift if crop estimates meet 16 million bales.
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Georgia Farm Bureau Federation
United States Senate
American Farm Bureau Federation
Georgia
House
USDA
Prades
Sulfur Versus White Worms A Farm Cropping Experiment
A 1952 article explains that sulfur released from decaying cabbage and related crops kills white worms like Heterodera radicicola in soil. It cites a French trial where turning under cabbage residues reduced worm damage and suggests rotating with sulfur-friendly crops to boost profits. It urges small plots for personal observation and notes the value of patient, hands-on farming education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
France
Thomas County Forest Resource Survey Highlights Southwest Georgia Unit
Thomas County is one of 22 counties in Southwest Georgia designated as Survey Unit No. 2. The resurvey shows forest land up about 1.2 percent since 1934–36, private ownership at 98 percent of forest land, and hardwoods expanding while pine volume rises modestly. Slash and longleaf pines for naval stores fell 32 percent. 38 percent of land is overstocked and about one third is poorly stocked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Thomas County
Emanuel County 4-H Members Sweep Tifton Meeting
Emanuel County 4-H Club members won three titles at the district project achievement meeting in Tifton. Mary Rose of Twin City won cotton and its uses, Ray Brown of Stillmore captured cotton production and marketing, Irma Lee Smith of Swainsboro took home improvement honors as about 300 members from 25 southeast Georgia counties attend Abraham Baldwin College for two days and new projects.
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Tifton
Emanuel County
Mary Rose
Twin City
Ray Brown
Stillmore
Irma Lee Smith
Swainsboro
Georgia
Abraham Baldwin College
Kahnrad Hughes
Argyle
Big Auction Sale Of Fine Dairy Herd Planned Near Valdosta
Quitman Ga The Ragsdale Long Commission Co announces a large auction sale of a premier dairy herd at the James Deese farm near Valdosta on Saturday June 21. The herd is renowned as exceptionally clean and seed and dairy men from three southern states have been invited to bid on five of Georgia's best cows as Mr Deese exits the dairy business per his doctor's advice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quitman
Ragsdale- Long Commission Co
James Deese
Valdosta
Deese
Georgia
Second District Talent and Queen Meet Set for June 27
The Second District Talent and Queen Elimination Meet will be held Friday June 27 at Sumner High School Georgia. Cecil Howe Sylvester will be master of ceremonies. Three counties compete in Talent and six counties in Queen Elimination with judges scoring talent 40 showmanship 20 material 20 audience 10 and costume 10. County contestants include Brooks Annette McDonald Colquitt Virginia Norman Decatur Faye Heard Mitchell Deane Palmer Thomas Anne Wade Worth Sondra Horton. District winners advance to the state Farm Bureau Convention scheduled for Savannah in early Fall.
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Georgia
Associated Women of Farm Bureau
Eee
Sumner
Cecil Howe
Sylvester
Kins
Mary
Elizabeth Thompson
Brooks
Annette McDonald
Colquitt
Virginia Norman
Decatur
Faye Heard
Mitchell - Deane Palmer
Thomas
Anne Wade
Worth — Sondra
Horton
Queen
County Agent Reports Good Grass Means Higher Beef Gain
W A Whittle notes dallis grass lespedera and white clover pastures yield 358 pounds beef per acre yearly with 600 pounds fertilizer every three years versus 82 pounds without fertilizer. Bahia grass promises good grazing, adapts to sandy soils, and seeding requires proper seedbed and early packing to ensure stands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. A. Whittle
Tifton
West Florida Experiment Station
Milton
Florida
South America
Texas
Gulf Coast
North Carolina
Bahia
Pensacola
Thomas County
H. H. Williams
Monticello
Frank Forester
Pensacola Bahia
Ochlochnee
Forester
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South Georgia
Brooks Mart
Farm Bureau News
A. P
R Olled
Sid. Quitman
Forest Resource Survey
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