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Vidalia, Ga.
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Vidalia, Georgia
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ATTORNEY AT LAW
VIDALiA, GA.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW
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How An Alabama County
Developed Dairying Industry
(By Ralph Smith ia Atlanta Journal) t
SELMA, Ala.—Some six years ago
when the shadow of the boll weevil j
like a blight, swept across the Miss
issippi state line and darkened the
Alabama horizon, the Selma Chamber
of Commerce embarked upon an en
terprise to save the situation that was
at the time aggravated by the “huy
a-bale” movement.
The encouragement of the pro
duction of dairy cattle and the male
of dairy products through a eream
ery at Selma, was the course select
ed for the meeting a condition which
| spelled utter and absolute ruin un
i leas satisfactory menas were adapt
ed far relieveing it
That was in the spring of 1915
and in the six years that have in
tervened dairying has supplanted
cottoa as the chief agricultural ac
tivity *f Dallas county, which prior
to the advent of the boll weevil and
the milch cow was the greatest cot
ton county in Alabama, and one of
the greatest in the world.
Queen Bossy Bnthrouod
How completely Queen Bossy has
usurped the throne and crown of
King Cotton in Dallas county is ac
curately reflected by the agricultur
al census for 1986. Morgan Rich
ards, the wide-wake secretary of
the local ehamber of commerce, fur
nished me with the figures, which
represent a digest of the census re
port as follows:
Corn, bu 1,356.666 51.125.69 C
Cotton, Wales
Cotton seed, tons ....8,60# 266,60#
Peanuts, bu. ......88,666 63,666
Hay, tons 46,666 640,666
Velvet benas, tons ..8,16# 138,666
Cow peas, bu ....136,066 268,666
I. potatoes, bn ....66,066 216,666
S. potatoes, bu ...468,66# 286,606
Sorg. syrup, gals 346,666 2*9,60#
Cane syrnp, gals. 346,606 346,666
Soy beans, hu 6,660 13,666
Oats, hn 266,666 226,666
Total val. of field crops ..$6,316,000
Business Cards
L. B. GODBEE
INSURANCE.
FIRE, LIFE, TORNADO, PLATE
GLASS, ACCIDENT.
BONDS
LEADING COMPANIES
VIDALIA, GA.
John T. Ragan I. D. Stewart
Vidalia Vault 8 Tile Co.
Manufacturer of
THE NATIONAL Steel Reinforced
Waterproof Cement Burial Vault.
Tile, Brick, Coping, Flower Boxes.
Phone 131.
VIDALIA, GEORGIA
O. K TAXI CAB COMPANY
Next to New York Case
CARS FOR RENT DAY OR NIGHT
WITH OR WITHOUT DRIVERS.
GAS, OILS, GREASES.
CARS WASHED AND STORED.
TIRES CHANGED.
PHONE NO. 268.
P. H. HASKINS, Manager
VIDALIA, GEORGIA.
INSURANCE
FIRE, LIFE, THEFT, TORNADO,
BONDS, AUTOMOBILE AND
LIVE STOCK LIFE.
LEADING COMPANIES.
V. B. HERRING
Office over Citizens Bank; Phone 183
VIDALIA, GEORGIA
R. A. MAYER
LOCAL AGENT
DELCO LIGHTING SYSTEM.
PARTS IN STOCK.
VIDALIA, GEORGIA.
BUILDERS SUPPLIES.
Lumber, Brick, Lime, Sand, Cement,
Sash and Doors Beaver Board,
Roofing, Shingles, Hardware,
and Nails.
Mill Work oi All Kinds.
Sherwin-Williams Paints.
JOHN T. RAGAN A COMPANY,
Phone 131
VIDALIA. GEORGIA
THE VIDALIA ADVANCE, VIDALIA, GEORGIA.
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Live Stork Products
And now, if you please, note the
value of live stock products:
Milk, gals 7.000.000 $2,450,000
Horsese and mules ..1,200 95,000
Hogs, kead 75.600 975,000
Poultry 113,000 79,000
Eggs, ioz 340,000 136,000
Cattle, hd 19,600 635,000
j Total value of live stock
and products $4,270,000
i Thus it appears from the census
that in a little more than five years
the dairy tattle and dariy products
of Dallas county have been devel
oped to a point where they yield
the farmers $240,006 more than they
received for their cotton, including
the returns received from the sale
of eottoa seed.
I And in considering the dairy
products returns, it should be re
membered, also, that the abundant
corn, hay aud velvet beam crops, not
to mention the hog industry, were
the result of tho growth of tb# dai
ry husiseos ia Dallas eouaty.
The Lessoa Toaehos
But wbaF has tho prosperity of
Dallas eouaty, Alabama, to do with
tho difficulties that confront the
! farmers of Georgia? you ask.
j Nothing, directly, but it points the
way to beuer things. P. demon- (
strates as nothing else can the pos
sibilities of diversification along the
right lines. That explains my visit
Ito Selma. It was inspired by my
trip to Ashburn and the efforts of
j Turner county to promote the dairy
ing industry in South Georgia.
Georgia T. Betts, a dynamic force
in the establishment of the cream
ery at Ashburn, directed my atten
tion to the venture in Dallas coun
ty, and my investigations here have
confirmed everything Mr. Betts told
me about the Selma enterprise.
But, as heretofore remarked, it
would be financially ruinous, and do
inealeuable injury to the develop
ment es the industry in Georgia, if
every enterprising community should
undertake te establish a creamery of
it* ewa.
There isa’t enough milk and cream
produced ia Georgia at the present
time to keep a modern creamery sup
plied. In these circumstances, the
sensible thißg is to encourage the
productions of more and better cows,
to the end that the creameries al
ready established may be assured an
abundance of raw material.
That was the program followed at
Selma. The orginal creamery was
a small, simple thing—a churn and
a pasteurizer. But it was amply ade
quate to handle all the cream that
the scrubby, under nurtured cows o *
Dallas county and vicinity could fur
nish. ,
As the farmers were made to real
ize the possibilities of dairying and
to appreciate its certain return in
dollars and cents, they began the
importation of more and better cat- j
tie, thus increasing the supply of
cream andm lik for the modest, little
creamery at Selma.
And now they have two very large
creameries at Selma, another at
Montogemry, and others at Demop
olis, Marion and Talladega. Middle
Alabama fast is becoming a dairy
country, and the products of these,
several creameries not only are
plying all local requirments, but |
are bnnging in money received from j
the distribution of dairy products
throughout the country.
A Logical Step
That Selma turned to dairying in
the emergency that confronted Dal- >
las county was entirely logical. Even
before the boll weevil appeared, the
farmers had made some little prog
ress in raising beef cattle, and it had
been demonstrated that the county
afforded excellent pasturage. But;
the beef cattle business hadn’t been |
a success, and 40-cent cotton had
operated to eheck its development.
“But cattle-raising had a toe-hold
in the community,” remarked Mor
gan Richards, who is a real secre
tary of a real chamber of commerce.
"We decided on dairying on this ac- i
count, but we were confronted with ;
the necessity of providing a market!
for the milk from the farms.
“The Selma OH, Ice and Fertilizer
company agreed to invest $2,000 in
a creamery, after we had secured an
assurance of the milk from 1,600
cows, scattered throughout Dallas
county. A 300-gallon churn was in
stalled, with such other equipment as
was required for a sour cream plant
the idea being to make butter.
“We found very shortly that the
product of tho 1,606 oows would noil
begin to meet the full requirment*
of the creamery, and we found, too,
that we had no real cow* In the
county. They were runt* and scrubs
and gar* relatively littl* milk.
A Testing Association
“It became obvious in Selma and
in the country alike that such cowb
I as we had were losing propositions;
i nnd to demonstrate this clearly w*
! organized among the farmers a ‘test
ing association,’ employing an expert
to test the milk-giving qualities of
I every cow. This was very simple.
The expert weighed the feed given a
' cow and then weighed her milk. It
was a cost accounting scheme, noth
ing more. The cow that ate more
feed than she gave milk was retired.
It wasn’t difficult for the farmers to
see the advantage either of killing
the cow for beef or retiring her for
breeding purpose*.
“We got other and better cows ”,
Mr. Richards waa continuing, when
interrupted.
“But times were hard, so where
did the farmers get the money to
buy well-bred dairy cattle?”
“We had some difficulty at first,"
he answered. “The chamber of com
merce took up this question with a
co-operative dairy association in Wis
consin. We learned that the farm
ers in that organisation purchase
their cattl* on a eo-*perative scheme,
that is to say, every member of the
association indorses for the fellow j
! member who desire* to liny more
cattle.
“We had no co-operative buying
organization in the county, and the
plan wasn’t practicable on this ae- j
count. The banks were a bit timid
when we first approached them, but
a plan was devised that met every
requirment of sound businees.
Cow* Buy Themsolve*
“The creamery imported the well
bred cattle and distributed them
among the farmers, who gave their
| individual notes, secured by a mort
gage on the cnttle purchased and
additional cattle in their possession.
“The purchasers entered into an
agreement with the creamery to de
duct a certain percentage from their
cream checks, payable semi-monthly,
' this deduction to be applied to the
curtailment of the note. Witih the
indorsement of the creamery, the lo
cal banks discounted the notes, and
experience proved that the cream
check deduction paid for the cow
or bull in eight month*.
“It is gratifying to remark in this
connection, now, that the farmers of
Dallas county are no longer import
j ing well bred «attle. They are raising
them in the county, and have them
for sale. The banks are no longer
discounting cattle paper, because
there is no longer any such paper
offered for discount.
“And now let me revert to the
initial stages of the dairying indus
try in Dallas county. In 1915 there
were 12,000 cows in the county, pro
ducing annually 1,000,006 gallons of
milk; today there are 15,000 cows
in the county, producing 7,000,000
gallons. By good breeding and prop
er care, the production of milk has
been increased 700 per cent in six
years, while the number "of cattle has
been increased only 25 par cent.”
Another Angle Discussed
Mr. Richards now turned his at
tention to another aspect of the
dairying industry, remarking upon
improvements in other lines of farm
activity that have accompained the
dairy development.
“It has been established beyond all
questions that the farmers cannot
produce milk profitably on purchas
ed feed stuff,” he said, “They real
ize this full well, and in consequence
1 the production of corn, velvet beans
and hay has multiplied in the coun
ty. We don’t sell these products in
the bulk or hale m Dallas county.
We sell some of them on the hoof
in hogs, but we sell more of them In
. dairy products.
“The farmer who engages in dairy
ing on purchased feed stuff is bound
to fail, and there is no sense In such
an undertaking. We have excellent
pastures throughout the dairy sec
tion, and we produce ever increasing
® You Do More Work,
You are more ambitious and you get more
enjoyment out of everything when your
| blood is in good condition. Impurities in
1 the blood have a very depressing effect on
| the system, causing weakness, laziness,
! nervousness and sickness.
! GROVE’S TASTELESS Chill TONIC
, restores Energy and Vitality by Purifying
and Enriching the Blood. When you feel
its strengthening, invigorating effect, see
now it brings color to the cheeks and how
it improves the appetite, you will then
appreciate its true tonic value.
GROVE’S TASTELESS Chill TONIC
is not 8 patent medicine, it is simply
IRON and QUININE suspended in Syrup.
So pleasant even children like it. The
blood needs Quinine to Purify it and IRON
to Enrich it These reliable tonic prop
erties never fail to drive out impurities in
the blood.
The Strength-Creating Power of GROVE’S
TASTELESS Chill TONIC has made it
the favorite tonic in thousands of homes.
More than thirty-five years ago. folks
would ride a long distance to get GROVE’S
TASTELESS Chill TONIC when a
member of their family had Malaria or
needed a body-building, s<rength-giving
tonic. The formula is just the same to
day, ard you can get it from any drug
More. 60c per bottle.
! quantities of earn and hay and velvet
beans.
“The creameries in Selma are Mw
j prepared to, and do handle, whale
milk or separated cream. Some farm
ers prefer to sell the whole milk,
while < thers sell only their cream,
feeding the skimmed milk to figs.
We have milk shipping depots scat
tered for a distance of 156 miles
from Selma.
Law Freight Rate*
“And this thought brings to mind
something else that is pertimt,, the
cost of transporation. The rail
roads appreciate the importance of
the dairying industry and its possi
bilities in the south, and they have j
lent every encourgement to its de- j
velopment. The rates on milk and
! cream are lower than on any other
farm commodity. Milk and eream
move at a nominal rate, as baggage
on passenger trains, and the empty
cans are returned to the sender with
. I
ont charge.
After talking with Mr. Richards,
I visited the City National bank of
Selma, and there talked with H. C.
Armstrong, its president. Ho is en
thusiastic over the dairying industry
in Selma and vicinity. It has keen
> a wonderfnl thing for the whale com
munity.
“We would have been out of ht«k
except for our dairying Industry,”
said Mr. Armstrang. "This has been
and still in a eat ton scanty. We
; don’t intend to quit cotten, hut we
( have made it surplus erep, and we
expect to maintain it ns a surplus
crop and increase ear cettea produc
tion as we conquer the bell weevil.
Hew Baahg Helped
“Yes’’, he answered a question,
“the banks helped the farmers Maaa
cially iu biulding up their herds and
establishing the industry, and we are
thankful that we did. We lest me
money on our advances and we eea
tributed to the permancy es the
dairying business in this sectieu. I
am sure the City National at eue
time bad out as much as S6P *o# la
dairy cattle loans, all es which has
been retired.
“eVry few cattle are being import
ed now. Our farmers have them ter
sale—pare hred stoek that pay Aer
NEW FALL MILLINERY
My fall line of Sylish Millinery is being received.
Modish Felts, Beavers, Patter Hats, Sport Hats Trimmed and
Untrimmed. ,
A nice line of Childrens Plats in Beaver and Felt, up-to
! date colors and materials.
Will be glad to have you inspect my line.
Mrs. F. E. Dennis
MT. VERNON, GEORGIA
M. D. & S. SCHEDULE
Arrival and Departure of Passenger
Trains, Vidalia, Ga.
ARRIVES LEAVES
10:55am Macon, Dublin 8:00am
7:2opm Macon, Dublin 7:4opm
For information as to through schedules fares, etc,,
apply to Ticket Agent or
C. J. ACOSTA, Trat. Mgr
Macon, Ga,
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Georgia & Florida Railway
PASSENGER TRAIN SCHEDULES
“THROUGH THE LAND OF/OPPORTUNITY*’
3Kx Sun. 5 Daily Eastern Time 2 Ex Sun. 4 Daily
3:00p 8:00a Lv Augusta As 10:30a 6:05p
4:40p 9:25a Keysville 8:50a 4:40p
10:50a Midville 3:20p
11:30a Swainsboro 2:40p
12:35p Vidalia 1:40p
1:55p Hazlehurst 12:28p
3:05p Douglas 11 ;20p
3:50p Willacoocliee 10:32a
4:32p Nashville 9:50a
5:35p Ar Valdosta Lv 8:45a
5:48p Lv Valdosta Ar 12:05a Jj
9:50p Ar Jacksonville Lv 8:20 I i
ll:05p Lv Valdosta Ar 8:" W
12:30p Tr Madison Lv f
IS* 3x 43x TenuiUe Branch 44* 2x lft J
8:00a 3:00p 8:00x Lv Augusta Ar 605 p I
9.30a 4:40p 9:30a Lv Keysville Av 6:35p B: 4 '
l2:01p 7 :30p 1 :01p Ar Tennille Bv 2:50p 6
11 Daily 9 Daily Milieu Branch 8 Dai’
2:15p 7:10a Lv Augusta I
4:30p 9:20a Ar MiHe# "dC) Lv
4:40p 9:55a Lv Millef V) 9:A tj V
6:08p 11:28a Ar Strii U "
7 :15p 12:35p Ar Vidalia J'. '
J. A. STREYER. Traffic Mnaagcr D- F. A. 1
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themselves with proper care mad at
temtlon. But whom the industry wan
getting started carloads of cattla
were unloaded here.
“I know many dairy farmers who
receive monthly from $76 to $l6O ia
cash from the creameries for their
milk and eream, in addition to their
returns from other farm products.
“Just now we arc helping the
creamery in its cheese making en
terprise, which is comparatively a
new thing. The manfacture of
cheese is highly important ia the
operation of a creamery, particularly
with reference to the farmer. There*
are times, during the dul season,
when the supply of milk exceeds th®
demand of a creamery. At such
times, unless the creamery ia equip
ped to manfacture cheese this sur
plus supply of milk is thrown back
on the farmers. But if the cream
ery is equipped to make cheese then
it can always handle all milk offer
ed for sale.
“But it requires capital te handle
cheese in commercial qualities. The
product must remain iu a refrigerat
ing giant for thirty days after its
manufacture before it eaa he sold.
In the meantime. Hie ereamery must
continue to put Mt eaeh Do the farm
ers for their milk and eream.
"We have here, ia connection with
the creameries a regularly aad legal
ly bonded refrigerating plant. A*
the cheese is manufactured and plac
ed in the refrigerating plant, ike
hanks advance money on tho re
frigerating plant receipts, just ac
house receipts. The only difference
in that none es this paper has a
later maturing than sixty days.
There must he complete turnover ia
this time.”
GINNING NOTICE.
Beginning Monday, November 7tf*.
our ginnery wUI be ia operation ore.
Monday and Saturday only of eacbt
cck until further notice.
VIDALIA OIL MILL CO.
The Qu trine That Boas Rrt Jtftect the Read
Because el its tonic and laxative -fleet. LAXA
TIVE BROMO QUININE is better than ordinary
Quinine and doea not cause nervousness nor
ringing iu head. Remember the luU name and
took for the signature of £ W. GROVE. 30c.