Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1927-02-17

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connecting its broadcasting station
WSB with the leading super-power
stations of the country.
The Turner County Plan," as fol-
lowed in South Georgia and has at
tracted national attention, is worked
out on a basis of zone Horse Farm
of At Acres" according to Joe Law
renee, editor of the Ashburn Wire
grass Farmer, whose newspaper, it is
claimed was the first publication in
Georgia to advocate this plan of crop
diversification. On farm of At
acres the following schedule is recon-
mended:
10 acres of corn, velvet beans or
peanuts.
S acres of oats, followed by peas or
other hay crop.
a acres of wheat, followed by Span
ish peanuts.
5 to 8 acres of cotton.
acres of Spanish peanuts or wa
termelons or tobacco.
8 acres of sweet potatoes and sugar
cane.
IL acres of permanent pasture,
planted to carpet grass, Dallas grass
and Lespedeza clover.
A good garden for vegetables and
fruit.
2 to 5 milk cows.
2 good brood sows.
20 to 40 hens.
1t is stated that this plan will have
to be changed slightly to meet local
conditions, such as substituting a pro-
duce for tobacco, which largely is
grown in South Georgia. But the
plan as a whole, if adopted generally
throughout the country, will aid N
solving the problem of the farmer OF
today, agricultural leaders claim.
Hunters are warned by the biologi'
cal survey, according to government
agents in Atlanta, that the possession
of the carcasses of wild ducks, geese
or other migratory game birds, II
cold storage plants or elsewhere al
ter February 10th will subject then
to prosecution in federal courts.
1t is now unlawful, under the reg
ulations of the migratory bird treat.
act, to hunt wild ducks and geets
coots, gallinules and Wilson snipe o
jacksnipe in Georgia, Alabama, Flor
ida. North Carolina, South Carolina
Louisiana, Tennessee and Mississippi
in fact the season closed in thes
state at the end of December.
| The Federal bird law protecting
birds migrating between the Unite
States and Canada is administered b
the biological survey of the Unite
States department Of agriculture. ]
provides that birds killed during tn
open season may be possessed for a
additional period of ten days only
following the end of the season wher
killed.
| William Cole Jones, editorial write
on the Atlanta Journal, wakes elo
louent in his comment on Atlanta
approaching grand opera season
April. Writing under the highly com
mandatory caption of "The Creates
Opera Season." Mr.. Jones says:
"The story of Atlanta's next seaso'
of Metropolitan grand opera, told Il
lour news columns today, is enough t
make the ear of music lover lea
star high. Surely. SO enchanting
range of the drama of melody an
the genius of song was never befor
brought within the compass of sin
gle week and single stage, not eve
in the course of Atlanta's siXteel
Aprils of opera"
Mr.. Jones then, in his inimitabl
| and brilliant way-which has place
him among the star editorial writer
of the analyzes the forthcom
ing operas and the stars who will sin
them.
Advance announcements unques
tionably point to the most brillian
season of opera that Atlanta has ha
in several years. H, NJ. Atkinson
long identified with the opera move
ment, has been elected president o
the Atlanta Music Festival associatio
to succeed Col. William Lawson Pee
who died suddenly several days ago.
Announcement has been made tha
definite portion of the seating ca
pacity of the city auditorium, inclut
ing choice seats throughout the Ell