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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1923
Jackson Progress - Argus
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J. DOYLE JONES
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IN ADVANCE
Every day in every way smile at
your work.
The baseball fever will soon be
breaking out.
Now is a good time to begin us
ing Georgia products.
*
At last accounts no substitute
has been found for hard work.
Georgia farm lands are coming
back. Pin your faith to the land.
Jackson has one of the best vol
unteer fire departments in the
country. The department should be
properly equipped. This is good
business.
The Georgia Department of Ag
riculture and the State College of
Agriculture pulling together, backed
up by the club women of the state,
will accomplish great things for
Georgia.
The first month of the year has
come and gone and most people are
firmly convinced that 1923 will
bring the country better business.
The right feeling is more evident
than it has been in a long time.
In casting about for something to
bo thankful for, thank God that you
■do not live in a county where the
bankruptcy mania has taken firm
hold. This is rather a serious mat
ter in some counties that might be
mentioned.
The best protection that any com
munity can have is a well trained,
well equipped fire department. Mon
ey spent in this viy is wisely in
vested. Many bad fires have been
prevented by prompt work of the
fire department.
But for the timber supply the
people in a number of Georgia
counties would have faced a serious
situation during the past few
months. Our natural resources and
particularly our forests should be
protected for the future.
Dr. Soule says Georgia ought to
grow 1,200,000 bales of cotton this
year. This can be done, possibly,
vs'th the light sort of effort. Dr.
Soule also says the largest part of
this cotton will be grown without
the use of calcium arsenate.
The club women of Georgia, fifty
thousand strong, are behind the
movement for a greater college of
agriculture. The women always get
results. When the good women of
Georgia get interestel in agricul
ture the men will have to move—
or move out.
Make Georgia farms self-sustain
ing and self supporting. This ought
to be the slogan for 1923 and for
the future. We must stop importing
Bullions of dollars worth of pro
ducts from other states and pro'.uce
these things at home. It is a big
undertaking but it is worth all the
effort required.
THE OLD ORDER CHANGES
One of the largest merchants in Jackson recently informed
the writer that his firm is building up a nice business in the sale
of poultry feed, dairy and hog feeds. “These feeds,” he said,
“are being used to make money for the ‘farmers. Fed to poultry,
swine anti dairy cows these feeds will return a handsome profit
to the owners.”
Surely xie are making progress in the right direction, slow
though it seems at time?. It has not been so long since this same
merchant was selling com, oats and hay to the farmeis to grow
cotton. The dairy industry was unthought of in this section and
chickens were looked upon as only incidental. The South rode the
cotton hobby hard—rode it to 'ts downfall. Now that we are
down to bedrock principles we are building an enduring form of
prosperity—a prosperity that no bug or inject can destroy.
Elsewhere in this issue The Progress-Argus is reprinting an
article to the effect that the sale of milk and dairy products in 1922
amounted to more than the output of the steel industry, and wis
greater than the aggregate value of the cotton, oat and tobacco
crop. The consumption of milk is increasing at a rapid rate.* Peo
ple are coming to realize that as fool milk has no equal. Itwiil
tax the dairy industry to the limit to take care of the growing
demand for milk and milk pioducts.
Cotton may always be depended upon to bring to the farmers
of the South a vast volume of ready cash. But there are other
things that count. Cotton will never rule the South again with an
iron hand. Thanks to the boll weevil thousands of farmers have
had the scales knocked from their eyes. They have come to know
that at its best the all cotton system, interwoven with time prices
and credit, was bad. They know, too, that they can get as much or
more money from chickens and egg.*., hogs and dairy farming. A
single crop system, be that crop cotton, v.heat or corn, is bad for a
section. It takes a diversity of interests to make a country real'y
great and prosperous.
Two great blessings that have come to the South in the last
hundred years. The first was the emancipation of the slaves. The
other was the boll weevil that forced upon this section a wise sys
tem of crop diversification and live stock growing.
The South is now, today, engaged in building a civilization
and prosperity better than we have ever known. It is a slow pro
cess—we will slip backwards occasionally, just as we are likely to
to do this year, but we are on tile road to better business. The
South has found itself. Let the world know the good news.
WHAT OF THIS WASTE?
During the last forty-four years, information collected in a
reliable way shows that the fire losses in the United States and
Canada, exceeded the sum cf eight billion dollars. That is a stag
gering sum. It sounds like the war debt of a first rate power in
the recent world conflict. During the year 1922 fire losses in the
United States and Canada aggregated more than four hundrel
and ten million dollars.
These are figures calculated to make a deep impression upon
the mind of any citizen.
What about this huge waste? Fire means destruction, burning
up, complete annihilation. The material and natural resources de
stroyed in these fires can never more be called into being. It is
wealth wasted forever. It is not something that can be replaced
tomorrow or next day’. Wealth representing the labor of a vast
army of men over a long period of time was the price we paid to
the Hie pod in twelve months.
Fires are often due to carelessness. Fire prevention should
be more generally studied. A large number of our fires can be
prevented by taking proper precautions. It does seem that it is
about time serious thought was given to this matter.
Who pays for all these fires? The people, of course. Primari
ly the insurance companies pay for the larger number of fires, but
the insurance companies receive their money from the- people in the
form of premiums. You, Mr. Average Citizen, are paying your
share of fire losses whether the fi*e be in Butts lounty or New
York.
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People grumble and complain anl haggle about taxes to sup
port the government. They want good roads and good schools
and free text books and this and that good thing, all of which costs
money and a lot of it. Yet the amount paid for taxes is insignifi
cant compared to the amounts paid 'for fire insurance. For in
stance, there is a wide difference in the amount of merchandise re
turned for taxation and the same merchandise covered by insur
- ante. The general tendency is to give in as little as possible to
the tax man and stretch the amount as much as possible under
the blanket of a fire insurance policy.
The people are paying all these huge losses. There need be
no mistake about that. This being true it is the duty of every
good citizen to do all possible to aid in fire prevention.
The State Board of Health stirred
up a regular hornet’s nest in the
report recently sent out on the wa
ter supply. There has evidently
been a mistake made. Evrey town
and city is jealous of its water sup
ply and stands ready to tell the
world that it has the best water on
earth.
The progressive educational and
agricultural interests of Georgia
gathered in Athens last week at the
sixteenth Farmer’s Week and Mar
ket Conference. One hundred and
forty-seven counties were repre
sented. These men and women are
working for better conditions in
Georgia. No progressive, forward
looking county can afford to be
without a good county agent.
Governor Hardwick, it is announ
ced, has abandoned the idea of pub-
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-A RGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
lishing a weekly paper oft state
wide circulation. Friends of the
Governor, who is a forceful and
vigorous writer and speaker, be
lieve he acted wisely in this connec
tion. It takes a lot of money to
run even a county newspaper, and
much more, of course, to conduct
a paper such as Governor Hardwick
had in mind. Such a publication
that is clean and above board, and
does not pander to preudice and
passion, usually has rough sailing.
The city banks are bu’ging- with
money. Construction news tells of
skyscrapers here and there. The
cities seem to be fairly prosperous.
But the heart of Georgia—the ag
ricultural sections—have been hard
hit. Before Georgia gets back on
its feet agriculture must prosper.
The wealth must come out cf the
soil. The farmers have set to work
with a determination to bring Geor
gia back. The biggest news that
will come out of Georgia for the
next several months v.ill be the
news of success with fai*m crops
and live stock.
ONE CROP FARMER HEDED FOR
ROCKS
“If a farmer r.ticks to one crop
long enough, whether it be cotton,
or corn, or wheat, or potatoes, or
tobacco, or some other crop, with
out grov.ng other things it wiil
put him out o fbusiness.”
That is a pretty strong statement
but it is the conclusion of experts
who have long made a { study of
the question. The soil will get sicK
weeds, will get bad-bugs and pests
and diseases will eat and destroy
the crop and the farmer will be
out much money and much time
and will only be able to save him
self from ruin by changing his
method of farming.
“It is all right to have, a cash
crop maybe two or three of them,
but it’s all wrong for the farmer,
to have to pay the money he gets
for it for something he should grow
himself.”
The farm is a factory and the
fatory that pays the largest divi
dends is kept running the year
’round.
If the fanner grows only one
crop he is rushed v.iith work part
of the time and has nothing to do
the rest of the year. His selling
times are too far apart—he has to
go in debt and get hard up between
sales. He has to rush the crop to
market for whatever it will bring
as soon as it is harvested to pav
his debts, whether he wants to or
not.
If the farmer grows only one crop
and the price is low he doesn’t get
much—if the crop fails, he gets
nothing. If he grows only one crop
he spends only about 100 days pro
ducing it but he has to eat 365
days.—Farming.
UNDULY ALARMED OVER NE
GROES LEAVING THE SOUTH
Many Southern people write us
to say that the exodus of negro la
borers is becoming an acute prob
lem. The negroes, they say, are be
ing enticed North, by offers of high
wages for common labor in the•big
industrial centers. Elsewhere in
this issue will be found a compre
hensive discussion of the growth of
negro population in the United
States, and the trend of negro mi
gration since 1860, which shows
that negroes have been moving out
of the South in increasing numbers
over a long period of years, though
this migration is not as great as is
generally supposed. Neither is this
migration of negroes wholly one
sided, for some Northern-bcm ne
groes move into the South, and af
ter a period of over sixty years
there is a net difference in negro
migration in favor of the North and
West of only 725,000 out of a total
negro population of 10,500,000.
Negro population is increasing very
slowly in the entire country. The
gain between 1910 and 1920 was
Only 6.5 per cent in the United
States.
It might be worth while to study
the other side of the picture. We
believe that many conditions in the
North and West, including the
presence of too many foreigners
for the comfort of native Ameri
cans, too much bitter cold weather
and other adverse conditions in
contrast with the better climate of
the South, the better opportunities
there and few foreigners are caus
ing many thousands of white peo
ple to move from the North to the
South. The population trend is to
ward the South, just as is the in
vestment trend of the day. All over
the South there is evident anew
vigor and a more enthusiastic vie\u
as to the outlook.
Cotton, when marketed under old
methods, was a curse to the South.
It is impoverished rather than en
riched that section. Loss of farm
labor would be bad, of course, but
a wider distribution of the negroes
throughout the country would have
its good side, worth considering.
Moreover, previous phenomena of
Dairying Is The Largest Indus
try in United States ✓
The following extracts from an
article by F. J. Arend, President of
the De Laval Separator; Company,
published in the January issue of
the De Laval Monthly, contain some
interesting facts about the dairy' in
dustry. He says:
“The development of the dairy
industry has been one of the bright
spots in the field of agriculture. It
is today far the largest branch of
agriculture as well as the most prof
itable. The annual milk crop is
close to one hundred billion pounds,
the value of which in 1922 was
greater than the output of the steel
industry, more valuable than the
combined wheat, oats, cotton and
tobacco crops of that year and
worth more than all the beef cattle,
hogs and sheep put togther. This
gives one an idea of the magnitude
of this business, which has 'further
‘advantages in that after producing
so much vjsalth the original animals
are still left ready to do it over
and over agian, less fertility is re
moved from the soil than by any
other crop or stock, and the income
is steady—every month in the year.
“Much of the gain .in dairy devel
opment ha: been made during the
past two years. In the fa l of 1920
after the drastic deflation in all
farm products, butter was still sell
ing at a fair price. In fact, the
cost of producing a pound of butter
was so low that there was relatively
more profit in it than ever before.
With enormous crops of cheap
feed, more cows were fed better
than ever before. Asa result there
was a gain in milk production in
1921 of about ten billion pounds
of milk over 1920, and during the
same time there was an increase of
300,000 dairy cows.
“This would have resulted in
over-production, lovu prices and
stagnation, as occurred in many
other lines, had there not 'fortunate
ly during the same time been an in
crease of 15 per cent in consump
tion of milk and a 10 per cent in
crease in consumption of butter.
“While no figures are yet avail
able we know" there has *been a still
further increase in production dur
ing 1922 and a corresponding in
crease in consumption. At present
butter is considerably higher than
at the corresponding time a year
ago, and there is much less in stor
age. There is also reported to be a
shortage of market milk, condensed
milk and milk powder.
“Thus it can be seen that the in
crease in consumption has taken up
the slack of constantly increasing
production, has kept prices at. a fair
level, which, in view of low feed
prices, has permittedd c'f unusually
good profits, and has kept the in
dustry as a whole in a much better
condition than any other blanch of
agriculture.
“Another factor which has helped
the dairy industry is that we are
not dependent upon foreign de
mands to any great extent in mar
keting dairy products. Imports and
expoits almost balance egch other.
During the past two years there has
been considerable butter imported,
but the 8c per pound import duty
recently put into effect has almost
checked this. During the war a
rather large export business was
built up in condensed milk. Much
of this has since been lost, although
we still have a larger export busi
ness in this line than during the
pre-war years. However, the tempo
rary loss of export demand in con
densed milk, even though it was but
a small percentage of the whole,
served to demoralize the industry,
this sort have generally ended with
the negro getting back to his own
“home folks,” sooner or later. He
likes high wages and short hours,
but he does not like the kind o>f
work he has to do in the North to
get them, nor the conditions under
vihich he has to work outside of the
South.
And the sun is warm in Dixie.—
Manufacturers Record.
especially in the fall of 1920 and'
during 1921, in the condensed milk
sections. That business is now v e .
viving steadily, and as, before state,!
there now seems to be a shortage
of condensed milk.
“There are several reasons for
the increase in consumption of
daily products, most important 0 f
which are the scientific researches
which demonstrate the absolute ne
cessity of dairy products for growth
and,maintenance of health in old as
well as young, and that there is na
substitute for them. This informa
tion has been disseminated to the
public through many channels, such
as the National Dairy Council, the
U. S. Department of Agriculture,
various organizations of dairymen,
the health authorities, schools, etc.,
and has created tremendous inter
est in the use of dairy products.
Prohibition is another factor which
has tended to increase the use of
dairy products, and the increase in
•ice cream consumption is another.
“Obviously, as long as consump
tion keeps ahead of production, as
it has done thus far, no one need
fear overdoing the business and it
[ will continue in a healthy and pros
perous condition. How far this
consumption per capita can be in
creased no one knows, but the best
authorities hold that only about
half as much dairy products are
! now being consumed as there should
ibe for maximum health and living
1 economy. This means that there is
a possibility of doubling the dairy
production. The prospect staggers
the imag-ination. This natural in
* crease in consumption which is
.bound to occur together with the
improvement in production per
cow, more economical methods of
production, better quality of pro
ducts and more economical market
ing, all of w’hich are receiving a
great deal of thought and effort for
accomplishment, are seemingly
bound to make the dairy industry
the most dependable and prosper
ous of any.
“The sooner merchants and bank
ers come to realize that the more
people they can get into the dairy
business in their respective commu
nities, even in a small way, thf f
Kooner prosperity will return to
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them, because the minute one starts
t
using a cream separator or a milk
er he has something to sell for
cash every day in the year.”
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