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VOL. XLVII.
DIVERSIFICATION STARTED IN THE COUNTY Or HENRY
Several Progressive Young Men,
by Hard Work, Are Making
Money Out of Cows, Hogs
and Vegetables.
By RALPH SMITH, in Atlanta Journal
En Route, Dec. 3. —There is a
•blind prodigy at McDonough, a
negro—Blind Bob, by name —
whose sightless accomplishemnts
are so amazing that he, or they,
threatened seriouly to interfere
with an agricultural survey of
Henry county. Blind Bob can,
and does, perform much manual
labor about'the Fouche hotel as
well or better, and certainly in a
finer spirit, than it possibly would
be performed by the average ne
gro.
But Blind Bob is a subject for
the Sunday magazine, and his
ability to chop wood, start fires,
handle trunks, even to checking
them at the depot, and do other
chores about the hotel, wili be
dismissed for the present, that
atention may be devoted to
the inspiring efforts of a handful
of men 1n McDonough to save the
county from the evils of one-crop
system.
Conditions in the county are not
much different from those else
where ill the weevil-infested sec
tion of middle Georgia. The cot
ton crop was a failure, but not
withstanding this fi£t there are
today scores of farmers through
out Henry who cannot be, or have
not been, interested in efforts to
promote prosperity by means of
sound diversification.
As a starter, the first thing I learn
ed at McDonough was that the
county is without a demonstrator
! county agent, arr-.i there is i im
position in cert in quarters to the
employ nr. nt of such a man.
The next thing that I path red
was that dforts in McDonou, h to
interest the entire county in ;■ co
oper dive and organized move
rn •: has met with relatively little'
encouragement.
“But v are 1 to succeed,”
deem red Julian T. Wremr, who
has devoted lots of time and wor
rv to iru, situation. \v • are not
dish trier. >d, and the ox is coming
ou oi la* ditch, and com ; \ out
in II -y conn y just • c rt-i Ay
as h com i out id . where in the
boll w viih H.”
Otiject Lesson Planned
A doz >o or more progressive
citizens or the county are going
to demons:rate what can be ac
complished throu h diversified
forming, and it L n t to be doubt
ed that they will find hundreds of
others in tha county adopting a
c ours a.
Mr. Wee nm, quoted above, is
concentrating ou the production
of fine hogs and the sale of sour
cream in Atlanta. He doesn’t ex
pect to make a “killing” all of a
sudden, but he expects in time to
make both, activities profitable.
The fact of the matter is that
dairyingS*id live stock offer the
most pro® sing prospect in Henry
county, and Mr*. Weems’ program
is not my&h different from the ef
forts of other leading spirits. It
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has demonstrated, with
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measurable success, that dairying |
can be conducted profitably in
the county, and logic points to the
production of hogs as the natural
accompaniment.
W. H. Peace, and energetic
young fellow, and A. N. Brown,
one of the well-known and highly
respected citizens, are shipping
ten gallons of sweet cream to
Framkiin & Cox, in Atlanta, every
day of the world,- and they are
and they are not comolaining at
the returns. Mr. Peace milks
twenty cows, and Mr. Brown milks
forty cows. They are also ship
ping a quantity of whole milk.
“From the ten gallons of sweet
cream we are shipping, we get
thirty-five gallons of skimmed
milk which is being fed to hogs,”
explained Mr. Peace. “This quan
tity oi milk will feed twenty brood
sows, and their.yalue must be cal
culated in estimating the return
from the cows. In addition, last
year I got 300 tons of fertilizer
from my cows, and this is of
course a big element of value.”
It is pertinent to remark, to il
luminate Mr. Peace’s statement as
to his sales o£ sweet cream and
whole milk, that the sweet cream
nets him $1.40 a gallon, and the
whole milk brings him 32 cents a
gallon.
Fertilizer Grows Onions
Wlnf Messrs. Peace and Brown
have accomplished and are doing
in the dairy business can be, and
will be, done by many others in
Henry county, although the sour!
cream aictvity carries a stronger
appeal to most of them, because
of the skimmed milk it will afford
for hog and chicken feed.
And now consider for a-minute
the yalu i of the fertilize r th \t Mr.
Peace obtained from his c >.v >» irn
—960 tons in a single yw\ ho j
said, and lie is milkin r only t wo
tv cows. That tli" f Jiz ris be j
iug put to good use is evident d i
by the,sneers Mr. P -cc ■ eX;o ri !
enefd in the product: m of onsov. i
“i planted only- or : rune of B. r j
muda onions.”. hS oi l “otr I h .r-j
vested ninety - bushels of fine!
onions, which I sold at $1.70 per
bushel. The actual cost of pro
duCtion amount J to sls ”
And the boil we vi! didn’t p.ay
havoc with this pro r.s iw vou •
! m in, ither. He m ,-.i ■ t . My
! nine fnides of cotton o l forty-five
I acres.
“Bu<,” he added, “I am not de
luded about the weevil I know
he is here, and here to stay, and
; I beat him only by the hardest
sort of work and the closest at
tention to my crop, which was
; highly fertilized,”
| This same yffuag man planted a
| lot of b n ms—how many he doesn’t
l know —in with his corn, and he
I got one hundred bushel-, which
he sold at $1.75 per bushel.
“ This next year I am going to
put in a loPmore Bermuda onions,
andafter Iharvest them I am going
to put in a lot of fall Irish potatoes,”
he said.. “I believe I have the
secret of successful.production of
Irish potatoes.”
And with this remark Mr. Peace
turned to D. T. Carmichael, who
is vitally interested in diversifica
tion. and.jojd Inm th ■ secret.
“I !ia*SsCßwffl& much impressed
McDonough, Georgia, Friday, decemder 9, 1921.
with the success of Mr. Peace in
trucking that I am almost per
suaded at times to devote more
attention to this phase of pro
gressive agriculture and less to
cattle and live stock which I have
chosnen as the best thing,” said
Mr. Carmichael, who is another
one of the few who did relatively
well with cotton this last season.
T hrough With Cotton
“I am through with cotton, I
know that, and I doubt whether I
plant a single seed this coming
year,” he continued. “Isay this
in face of the fact I did fairly well
with cotton, notwithstanding the
weevil. But I did well by the
hardest work of my young life.
In the fields, with my men until
11 o’clock at night, and back again
at daybreak fighting the weevil —
that’s tiie way I got a fairly good
cotton crop.”
Mr. Carmichael has two of the
prettiest farms in the county, and
to see them is to appreciate the
care and attention he devotes to
them. The artisically terraced
rolling lands suggest the work of
a landscape gardener.
“Live stock and dairying appeal
to my judgement and fancy,” con
tinued Mr. Carmichael. “ 1 be
lieve they can be developed into
profitable industries, and 1 just
naturally love a fine -cow and
blooded hog They are good to.
look at, and [.like ’em.”
Mr, Carmichael has made an
ambitious beginning with his hogs.
He now has twenty brood sows on
his place, and expects to have
.a bundled young pigs very short
ly to be follo wed by a steadily in
creasing tribe of porker so
“And t ley will be purebix -1
stock, t"0, which is a big consid
eration,” he continued. “I am
going to raise pigs in town, and
rais< ho s in the country, because
this will enable me to personally
dir; ct the c ire of "the young pigs,”
Mr. Carmichael is no,/ inw st
ing a lot of cash money in arran -
ing pasturage for his hogs, the
appearance of which attest their
quality and ti. ? attention he is giv
ing them.
Dary Cattle Essential
I believ th it dairy cittle are the
b st, if not the chief’asst t oi' Lie
stock business, ” ho said. “In
other words, I realize that the
§ access of iny Ing venture de
p no- in p iit upo too prod a
of a fine lot or i dry cattel. The
sour cream industry appeals to
me in this connection, and just as
soon as I can g t my barns in
shape and my pasturage in condi
tion, I am going to begin dairying.
I am going to begin right, with
quality co .vs, because I n a be
iievt r in well-brod stock.”
It seems superfluous to remark,
in connection with Mr. Car
michael’s activity, that he pro
duced this year an abundance of
feedstuff for his cattle, and while,
he is “off cotton” next vear, he is
not going to diminish the pro
duction ot corn, oats, velvet beans
and hay.
“I know dairynig can be con
ducted successfully if the cattle
feed has to be purchased,” he
s'id. “I am going to broduce an
abundance.”
Among the crops Mr. Csrm
michael made this last’ year was
a lot of sorghum, which isn’t for
sale.
"I didn’t put up my sorghum to
sell,” he remarked. "I made it
for my cattle and stock. 1 am
going to make my own seed feed
by mixing this sorghum with
velvet beans and corn, and I am
going to get my money out of it in
that way.
Chickens-hundreds of them
are in prospect for the Carmichael
farms. He is specializing in White
Leghorns, and expects to sell the
eggs. Already tie has 150 line
hens, and he will increase this
number very largely.
li.M. Amis is in the boat with
Mr. Carmichael ahd others who
are engaging in diversification
through the production of dairy
cattle and live stock. He had a
bad year with cotton, getting
onlv thirteen bales on 370 acres
of land. Fortunate!'., his lands
produced quantities of corn and
velvet beans.
“I figure that I suffered in pro
portion as others in the county
suffered from the weevil,” said
Mr. Amis. “Our normal production
is around 30,000 bales, and this
year we got only 5.000 bales.
“Unfortunately, I am so situated
that I cannot abandon cotton en
tirely at this time, but I am not
going to Dittot more than f 1 v■
acnfci to th : plow. lam going to
increase my production of eW-n
and velvet beans, and I am g >iag
to produce lots of soy beans.”
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Mr, Amis is putting in a large
number of registered hogs, and
expects to breed several hundred
during the year. Like Mr. Car
michael, He is going to rni-lk a h rd
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of cows. He is now engaged in
fitting out a farm for the dairying
industry, and will specialize in
sour cream, using the skimmed
milk to fatten pigs.
It would not do to mention the
activities in Henry county without
making some reference to the
splendid co-operation the move
ment is receiving from J. E Hoot
en, the mayor of McDonough.
Not a farmer himself, Mr. Hooteu
feels a deep interest in the
development of the country, and
he is lending every aid to the ef
forts that have been made, and
are continuing to arouse people
throughout the county to the
possibilities of cattle and stock
raising.
“I regret that the movement
has not received the county-wide
support to which it is entitled,’
said Mayor HoOten, “but I believe
before the next crop is planted
enough of our farmers will have
joined in individual efforts to
make for the prosperity of the
whole county.”
McDonough’s chief of police —
C. J. Dickson—is something be
sides being the peace officer of
j the community, and a good one.
; He is much interested in farming,
i and in a small way,is one of the
I leading divrrsificationists of Hen
! ry. Ilq h i breeding blooded
I hogs and he plans to ship sour
cream, til-, product of a couple of
| fine cows he has acquired.
Henry county produced a qu n
tity ofswe t potatoes, and there
| is a euriu . house at Locust Grove,
which has helped in the present
emergency. It is believed likely
■that oth- rs will be erected.to help
care for m xt year’s crop.