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FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1923
Jackson Progress - Arps
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J. DOYLE JONES
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IN ADVANCE
Ocilla has organized a Kiwinis
club. It was a good day’s work.
Are you doing any permanent
pasture work? You couldnt do a
better thing.
Come on, fellows, let’s have 1,000
dairy cows in Butts county by the
end of 1923.
Are you using Georgia products?
This is a good test of your loyalty
and patriotism.
Give Jackson a cold storage and
meat 'curing plant and watch the
live stock business grow.
Every' day in every way the far
mers of Georgia are going to stage
a great come back this year.
Butts county will soon be on the
map as a peach center. The first
peaches will be shipped this season.
If you are a victim of propagan
da blame nobody but yourself. Bet
ter use some hog and hominy sense.
Hoyt’s cologne may next be tried
as a boll weevil desroyer. One smell
ought to kill the most stubborn
weevil.
The strawberry growers of Butts
county have organized. This crop
promises to bring in a good deal of
money this spring.
’ Success or failure in the 'future
will depend on the man who grows
the best product. Quality produc
tion is more important than quan
tity production.
Butts county, it seems, is going
to raise a bumber crop of pepper
this year. The soil and climate here
tire suited to any and all crops,
fruits and berries.
The bankers of the world have it
in their power to prevent war. No
nation can war against another na
tion without money and credit.
That is fundamental.
Business in 1923 is coming: to
the individual or firm with the'long
est advertising pole. The fruit is
on the tree but you must go afte
it in the light way .t
Asafetida is a sure boll weevil
knock-out. Why haven't the ex
perts thought of it? The common
onion is also pood. No self-respect
ing boll weevil can stand the smell.
Old Man Snider predicted snow
at Christinas and said this winter
would be a humdinper. He is prob
ably ashamed of his “long mope'
predictions and pone into retire
ment
The farmers have been, handed
quires and reams and tons cf ad
vice and told to adjust themselves
to dumped conditions. The business
man must also do some adjusting.
It is as important for the business
man to change his methods as it is
for the farmer. Still, a pood many
seem to never have thaught of that.
THE SOUTH AS A DUMPING
GROUND
For sixty years the South has been the greatest market for
the corn, wheat, oats, hay, meat, lard, etc., produced by the west
ern farmer, and the greatest chicken and egg market for the Ten
nessee growers, and the greatest butter and cheese market for the
northern farmer. By common consent the South has been a dump
ing ground for these products, paid for out of the cotton grown on
southern farms. While the South was a slave to cotton, these pro
ducts, inferior to those produced at home, have been dumped on
the people in the cotton belt.
The presence of the boll weevil has changed the situation
somewhat. Southern farmers are beginning to build creameries,
grow poultry and hogs and produce food and feed crops at home.
While we have hardly scratched the surface, still we have made a
start and in the course of time, it' let alone, the South wi ll be the
great live stock and dairy center of the nation.
Diversified farming and live stock growing in the South is caus
ing grave concern to the people who have been dumping their pro
ducts on us. They see their greatest market disappearing. Small
wonder, then, that the people of the North and West are concerned
about the progress the South is making in growing live stock, poul
try, dairy fanning and the production of food crops.
Accordingly—and get this point—the propaganda that is be
ing broadcast for a larger cotton rop this season is coming out of
the West. There it is that a majority of the boll weevil machines,
sprayers, vaporizers, dusters, etc., are manufactured, from there
eminates. the propaganda that cotton can be grown under weevil
conditions by the use of calcium arsenate. The people of the West,
their markets at stake, are playing a shrewd game. They want the
South to go on raising cotton so that we can buy their meat and
lard, corn, hay and grain.
Georgia creameries are making better butter than any we
have been able to buy outside the state. Nev; York an
vania have been* dumping their off-grades of butter on the South.
In a recent test Georgia btuter won over all competition. Natur
ally the North does not want to see the South succeed in daily
farming, for will not a great market be removed for the sale
of their product?
Any farmer in the cotton belt ought to be able to see through
the entire scheme. Our business men ought to size up the situation
at a glance. But too here’s the pity of it all—the busi
ness men have been content to sell the farmers all their supplies
and really and truly have done fcut little to encourage the breed
ing of live stock, dairy farming, the production of poultry and
food and feed crops. The farmer who has broken away from the
old system has had to go it pretty well alone. The banks, in a
large measure, have it in their power to change the entire sys
tem, but many bankers who call themselves shrewd will still ad
vance money to grow a cotton crop while withholding support
from the man who wants to buy good live stock and dairy cattle.
This boll weevil problem is not going to be settled this year
nor next. It will never be settled until it is settled right. You
cun put this in your pipe and smoke it. Nature intended the
South to be the great live stock, poultry, dairy and food center of
the nation. When that day comes you will not hear any complaint
about the boll weevil
FARM, DON’T GAMBLE
In the first article in our 1923 series on “SSOO More a Year
for the Average Southern Farmer,” published in ou irssue of Jan
uary 6, we pointed out some of the weak points in Southern agri
culture. All recognize and'grant that the weakest points must be
built up first. In this article special stress was laid on the gTeat
weakness of failing to produce the living at home. One of the
South’s foremost business men, a man v.ho comes in direct con
tact with farmers, is so thoroughly convinced that the South
should redouble its efforts to live at home, that he has written as
follows:
“As I see it, there is dynamite in the present cotton situa
tion unless our people will keep a level head and not plant cot
ton all over God’s creation this spring, with consequent neglect 6f
the other crops that they have been diversifying with
“My observation and experience is that every time cotton gets
around the level of 20 cents and upwards, the generality of farmers
lose their head and go hell-bent to sticking in every possible acre
they can in cotton. In other words, ‘2O-cent cotton and upwards
is a reasonably sure forerunner of 10 or 12-cent cotton.
“The acreage in cotton the last two years has been sufffficient
under normal conditions to give us as much American cotton as we
have any business to put on the market. Both years have been un
favorable for the crop, due to unseasonable vueather and insects,
and once let a season come around that is favorable to the produc
tion of cotton, there is an overload on the market that will take
the profit out of production.”
We shall not undertake to tell any man how much cotton he
should grow in 1923. However in the light of our knowledge of
the experience of hundreds of successful Southern farmers, we
feel fully Justified in urging with all our might that whatever cot
ton we plant in 1923, let it be protected by as nearly a complete
living at home as we can devise.
Plant cotton for cash if you think best, but build up around
it a great protecting wall. Let this wja’.l be composed of the hens
to furnish meat and eggs, cows to ‘furnish milk and butter, hegs
for meat and lard, a good garden for the needed vegetables, the
sweet potato patch, and all the corn, oats, and hay needed to run
the farm. Reinforce whatever cash the cotton brings in with that
received from the sale of whatever surplus you can spare from
these other crops. If failure to grow your own living is your weak
est point, see that it is strengthened to the best of your abilitv
in 1923.—Progressive Farmer.
This sound advice is commended to the thoughtful considera
tion of the farmers of Georgia. The man who stakes his all on cot
ton this year is a gambler, nothing more nor less. It is better to
be safe than sorry, and only e. system of safe farming will save
the farmers of the South from a great disaster this year.
Play the game safe. You can’t afford to gamble. There is
too much at stake.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-A RGUS, JACKSON. GEORGIA
SCIENTIFIC MARKETING
Co-operative marketing will prove
the financial salvation of the South.
The cotton growars have been or
ganized and cotton is being sold in
an orderly way. Better prices are
being realized and the bulk of the
crop is not dumped on the market
in a few weeks’ time. All farm
products and live stock should be
marketed in the same manner. Or
ganization cannot proceed too fast.
If ever, the farmers need a helping
hand just now. The old system has
been weighed in the balance and
found wanting. The farmer has
been exploited far too long for his.
own good and for the good of the
country.
Proper markets for all products
grown on the farm must go hand
in hand with production. When
marketing' fails, production is stop
ped. Assure’ the farmer's adequate
markets for fruits and vegetables,
poultry, dairy products, hogs and
cattle and food crops and then
these things will be grown.
Great progress has been made
but there is much yet to do. The
example of the cotton association
should be an incentive for all lines
of farming to organize and sell co
operatively.
And in the meantime the success
of the California and Florida fruit
grov.ars and truckers afford an ex
ample in co-operative marketing
the rest of the country can well
afford to emulate.
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
The report sent out from Atlan
ta that bootleg whiskey men were
uving alcohol which was used to
pickle dead bodies in a medical col
lege in Atlanta, for making whiskey,
has shocked a lot of folks. It was
a very interesting article, of course,
involving the theft of the alcohol,
but few people believe that even a
bottlegger would use it for that
purpose.
The recent display of worm-wrig
gling mash on the streets o>f Thom
asville cured a lot of folks of
drinking shine. The frequency of
blindness developing among those
who use it, and many other com
plaints that are developing from it,
have brought sane men to their
senses. There are fifty per cent
fevier drinkers of shine now than
there were a year ago, and if these
horrible perpetrations continue,
there will be thirty per cent c*f the
remaining fifty per cent dead be
fore the next new year rolls around.
The death rate is threatened with
an increase because of diseases that
can be traced directly to this stuff.
This is as true in Georgia as any
where else, ami there is as much
poison in Georgia whiskey as there
is in New York or Kansas. It is all
bad, and the best stuff they are
supposed to have now is nothing
but colored water and grain alcohol.
You are lucky if it is grain and not
wood.
Will Upshaw wants to make the
booze consumer as guilty as the
seller. He has introduced a federal
law to that effect, that it be made
a crime to buy % whiskey, as it is a
crime to sell it. The. measure fur
ther provides that any person ac
cepting a drink would be in the
same category as the person buying
or selling it. Wouldn’t that make
some of these “personal liberty”
fellows, rave and rant and tear their
hair, and wouldn’t a lot of our
juries have a conniption fit before
they would bring in a verdict
against a man who had merely tak
en a drink? We can see all sorts of
complication if the law is passed,
but itwon’t be. It is a point that
could not be, for in spirit, as well
as in every other way, the man that
buys is equally guilty with the one
that sells, and ought unquestionably
to be held jointly responsible for
any crime committed.—Thomasville
Times-Enterprise.
At the present time Georgia lacks
a great daily newspaper of outstand
ing devotion to the common people.
We have many dailies that are the
mouthpieces of big business. The
state needs at least one great daily
newspaper that will devote itself to
the upbuilding of the entire state.
THE CREAMERY BLESSING
“Creameries established in this
section during the last few years
have had th.eir troubles, but there
is no reason why their promoters
should be greatly discouraged. The
Moultrie creamery ran into financial
difficulties, but the parties who
bought it in are to continue its op
eration, and it will have ample cap
ital behind it. The creameries at
Ashbum and Cordele are reported
to be doing v.all. Their supplies of
cream are increasing, and they are
proving blessings to the surrounding
territory, where farmers with small
herds of daily cattle are able to
sell their cream for cash every
month in the year.”—Albany Her
ald.
Not too much creamery—more
dairy cattle on the farm! There is
the seci’et of it all. The creamery
is a very minor part of all the pro
gram. The gospel of more cattle on
the farm is the thing to preach.
Cordele has comparatively small in
vestment in the creamery when we
come to measure that new and
added wealth that is represented in
the 25,000 or more dairy cattle in
Crisp county. This small county is
not all represented in the cream
that comes to Cordele. There is yet
a whole dairy association member
ship in the county delivering to
Ashburn —and nobody here is wor
rying over it. Let that take care of
itself. Where there is a farm with
out cattle on it—wherever the own
er and operator of that farm has
failed to see his way out, we want
to point the way with dairy cattle.
Our pay roll is now more than
four thousand dollars a week. That’s
the result of business organization
an industry at the local creamery.
In money it becomes large at once
—but it is entirely safe so long>,as
the farmers put real dairy cattle
on the farms and attend to them.
Men who are on the Cordele Cream
ery payrolls—who get their cream
checks every two weeks, receive the
Chicago butter market price on the
day o*f delivery—and the payroll
mounts on up in importance. We
want enough cattle o nthe farms in
Crisp county so that we can say
there is a paying milk cow for ev
ery man, vwman and child in the
county. And we will have but just
made a scratch then. There can
never be too many.
Our butter goes to market in the
fall when the larger ‘•upplying states
have been cut off by the cold win
ters—and we get the highest prices
for it. There are thousands of ad
vantages for the man with the dairy
cattle. Our future wealth is in the
dairy cow, not in the negro and the
mule and the cotton program.—
Cordele Dispatch.
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to checkup Cow Chow^j
—and he will be sure to put
down the same answers as these.
Cow Testers, County Agents, and
Practical Dairymen all come to one con
clusion —that PuriM Cow Chow (sold
in checkerboard bags only) makes more
milk at less cost per gallon. This is be
cause it is a ration that checks up right
in every point. Further more —
THE PAIL TELLS THE TALE
The cows like COW ChOW and it keep3
them in good condition. Give your cows
a chance to make a test. Absolute milk
record proof may be obtained. We will
furnish milk-record sheets. Telephone
us now. i
ETHERIDGE, SMITH & CO.
JACKSON, GEORGIA
GEORGIA IS LACKING IN MEAT I
Do you know Georgia lacks 300
000,000 pounds of producing all th fc
meat she needs? These are aston
ishing figures. At five cents
pound even that is $15,000,000 an
nually that go out of Georgia f (> .
meat alone. The figure is more than
that, however, because this 3oo,„
000,000 pounds represent dressej
meats and dressed meats sell f Ol .
an average of at least 10 cents n
pound, which would be $30,000,000,
or a per capita of $lO for every
man, woman and child in the state
That’s an average of SSO to everv
home in the state. Berrien county,
part of that huge sum is $150,000.
—Nashville Herald.
COWS MAKE FARMERS RICH
When Steele county, Minnesota,
held its agricultural fair at Chvato
na a few weeks ago, says an agri
cultural paper, it became known
that this little county claims to be
the richest farming community in
this country, and that its wealth is
founded on the dairy business.
There is one cow for every inhabi
tant of the county. The butter
manufacture of the year is placet
at five million pounds and valued
at two and one-half million dollars.
The county has twenty-three co-op
erative creameries. It also produces
its due quota of grain, hay, pota
toes and hogs. And most convincing,
proof of all, it has bank deposits
amounting to S4OO for every man,
woman and child in the county. Ev
idently it pays to keep dairy cows.
It is not necessary to recite the
oft-repeated story here of how these
Minnesota farmers have to feed
their cows most of the year. They
even have to house them and warm
them part of the year. Here we
have none of this expense. We can
raise all our feed, and have year
round pastures. And what are we
doing?
There is only one excuse for us
not doing what the Steele county,
Minnesota, people are doing, and
that is a lack of energy. You can’t
offe’’ any other excuse for it.—Vi
dalia Advance.
The mild winter has been favor
able to farm work and plowing is
well under way in many sections of
the state. The farmers have start
ed out with a steadfast determina
tion to recoup their losses. The
man behind the plow is going to
put the South on its feet.
The Ashburn creamery is now
the largest in the South, more than
60,000 pounds of butter having been
made, during December. All this
has been accomplished in a little
over twelve months. Turner county
is setting the pace for the rest of
the state.
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