Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-10-04
Farm Program
For Triton Region
Adopted In Meet

IIFTON, Ga,-The large attend
at the conference for the Triton rcgior
OF specialists from the Georgia Coll.
ege of Agriculture, county agents, fal
merS and business men from the nine
counties OF Tiff, Turner, Dooly, jeff
Davis, Telfair. Thomas, Crisp, Irwin
and Ben Hill held at the Coasta
Plain experiment station on Thursday
attested the active interest taken here
in diversified farm program
Senator Walter F. George of vi
emma, was among the attendants and
made splendid talk on the problems
OF the farm, speaking as a farmer and
not as senator. Representatives Of
the Triton Board of Trade, the Kiwan-
is and Lions clubs, bankers and bust
ness men of Triton were present
J. G.. Oliver, assistant state agent
presided and among those taking part
in the discussion were J. Phil Camp
bell, state agent, Georgia College Of
Agriculture; F. c. Westbrook, farm
management and tobacco; w c Nc.
Coy, poultry; w O Collins, soil spec
ialist; w D Firor horticulture, fruit
and truck.
General Plan Adopted
County agents were asked concern
ing general conditions in their coun-
ties and what plans, ii any, had beer
made. These inquiries developed {
wide range OF farm plans, although
the counties represented have prac.
tlcally the same types OF soil and the
same general conditions. This showed
the necessity for concerted action and
one general plan Too many were GO
ing at the matter in a haphazard way
to coordinate the work and adopt one
general plan to- be carried out for the
next five years Discussions and sharp
comparisons occupied the day and it
was until late in the afternoon that a
general plan was arrived at.
All present expressed themselves as
highly pleased at the result of the con
ference and felt assured that a great
work had been done, and the first def
mite, practical plan for a diversified
farm program arrived at This pro-
gram will be put out in each of the
counties represented
The plan follows:
The Program
One family, two mule unit
Live stock, four COWS, two sows,
fifty hens.
Maintenance crops: Twenty acres of
corn, velvet beans and peanuts, two
acres of wheat, followed by peas or
soy beans for hay; fifteen acres of
oats, followed by hay on ten acres
and Spanish peanuts on five.
Grazing crops: Five acres of oats
and rye, two acres of cat-tail millet,
ten acres of permanent pasture, les
pldeza, carpet grass and Dallis grass.
Two acres in a good year-round
garden and home orchard.
Cash crops: Five acres of cotton, 5
acres OF peanuts, after oats; two to
five acres OF tobacco, sweet potatoes,
watermelns or other truck crops
1t was recommended that oats and
vetch be sown after cotton in the fall
as cover crop. A method of building
Our soils so that higher yield per
acre can be obtained was pointed out
as one of the greatest needs of he
Triton region
Some special crops, such as pine
appe pears pecans, peaches were rec
commended ony for the farmers who
are. in position to put these crops in
and handle them successfully
Recognizing the need of trained men
as agricultural leaders, representatives
fro each county present pledged that
next year five young men from each
shall be kept as students in the
State College of Agriculture.