Franklin County GaArchives News.....Seaborn Means, Col., is Cotton Champ April 11, 1957
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Carnesville Herald And Advance April 11, 1957
Planning and Hard Work Pays Off

Seaborn Means, a member of the Carnesville Farm Bureau Chapter and the adult class 
in vocational agriculture at the Union Grove High School was recently named the 
1956 cotton growing champion for the Carnesville and King Branch communities. This 
contest and several others, for the men and women and the high school boys and 
girls of this school patronage area, are sponsored annually by the Negro Farm 
Bureau Chapter of Carnesville.

Means, who owns a 170 acre farm in the King Branch community has impressed his 
fellow farmers by winning second honor in 1955 and top honor in 1956. His winning 
yield of 16 bales on 14 acres was a result of building and conserving soil, using 
certified seed and following the fertilization practices recommended by the Soil 
Testing Laboratory. The cotton champion says, "If I had gotten the moisture 
needed, I would have made that bale and one-half our teacher of agriculture 
mentioned."

Others winning in this contest were: Hubert Morris, second place and Sanford 
Wofford, third place winner.

H.A. Bell, teacher of agriculture who works with the Negro farmers in Franklin 
County also announced these winners in the corn production contest; Howard Payne, 
first place, and Emanuel Austin, a member of the 11th grade class, second place 
honor.

The Farm Bureau Chapter is deeply grateful to the business organization for the 
financial assistance given for these contests.

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