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Tha Hnnn/ Pnim+y Wm^Hv * a A'*w> a iOi li j W/Ui r*,y V C/V/J\lj 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 V- -v-V; t has demonstrated, with A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to flu* Interests of McDonough and Henry County. 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.” McDonough Mayor Helps 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 ADVERTISE IF YOU WantaCook - Want a Clerk* Want a Pm tper Want a Situation Want a Servant Girl Want to SMI a Piano Want to S 41 a Carriage Want to Sell Town Property Want to S dl Y iur Groceries Want to Sell Your Hardware Want Customers for Anything. Advertise Weekly in This Paper. Advertising Is the Way to Success Advertising Brings Customers Advertising' Keeps Customers Advertising Insures Success Advertising Show/ Energy Advertising Shows Pluck Advertising Is “Biz” Advertise or Bust Advertise Long Advertise Well ADVERTISE At Once. IN . THIS PAPER $2.00 A YEAR 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.