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Poultry, Pet and Live Stock
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The Atlanta Georgian
AND NEWS
DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO POULTRY. PET AND LIVE STOCK, PIGEONS AND KENNEL
/ ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, MARCK . 1911~
What Georgia and the South
Needs
Xleor-
'tion of the Georgia
ate. One of the last
: ■
as governor (now a
preme court) was to
. assembly appropnnt-
duetioi
There is no longer an excuse for the s
gia, through her legislature, not making an
tion for the benefit of poultry raisers a
ing of the industry within her borders, si’
States government, as well as a dozenfior more
vidual states, have done so, in recognition of the im
portance of this branch of animal husbandry.
The United States government is constructing an
experimental poultry plant at the national capital, and
issues bulletins from time to time containing, informa-
tion on poultry subjects, but thus far the§§Lr§uiletins
have been in the nature of compilations »rathgr - r
college had previously set aside fifty acres of choice
land ftmuthis building and the poultry yards.
people of Georgia and the great poultry
of the state remain unrecognized, have no
appropriation, nothing to foster it and to keep within
her holders the millions of dollars that are being sent
out annually for poultry and eggs.
i or more states have made annual appro-
for the benefit of poultry raisers, but the
Missdujd^legislature took the lead by creating a state
poutfjigpijfard, and made an annual appropriation of
$10,000/ teTbe expended in the promotion of the poultry
induatrv dm the state.
reports of experimental work done by the^gfevemment i Afcordiilg to the statistics furnished by Mr. T. E.
X&^Tg^j^uisenberry, secretary of the state poultry board, $46,-
000,000 worth of poultry products were marketed in
itself.
More than twenty states of the Union
ducting poultry work on experimental lines,'amna
jority of this number now teach regular courses in pohF-
trv husbandry, several of them giving jptwo annual
course.
In the Eastern states, New York. Rhode Island and
Connecticut lead in this work, with Maine, Massachu
setts, West Virginia, North Carolina an® Maryland
-well to the front; while in the West, Missouri has
taken the premier position, with Utah, Oregon, Mon
tana, Minnesota, Michigan, Indiana, Iowa^f*.
Kansas, Colorado, California and several
making excellent progress. Yet here atari
Empire State of the South, absolutely tg|K^wuR3in(
this galaxy of states giving recognition to~^ljeP*|‘bill-
lion-dollar industry” of the country.
During the last session of the Georgia legislature an
effort was made to get an appropriation withouLsuc-
cess. It won’t be done until the people^ jiMnyediaPbe-a
stir themselves and lend their inflfc^efjand active
in securing it.
In striking contrast to this
legislature is that of New York
official acts of Charles E. Hugh
member of the United States
sign a bill enacted by the gene
ing the sum of $90,000 to be use
j poultry instruction building at Ithaca, N. Y., as part
of the state college of agriculture,(The trtisteds of the
Missouri^ last year. The eggs were figured at fifteen
ozen, and the poultry at ten cents per
‘Their surplus of poultry products now amounts to
about three times that of the dairy, eleven times that
of fruit, arid exceeds either their surplus of com or
wheat, andjamounts to five or six million dollars more
than the combined surplus of farm crops.” *
WjF^ote these figures showing what Missouri has
done, jjgb&nse we know that Georgia, similarly recog
nized, c^jtccomplish as much, and what ap’plies to
>rgin applies likewise to all of our Southern states
that haveF^o appropriation for experimental work in
jlroTtIny/ifagtaandry.
Every poultrvman, every poultry association—in
factf every one interested in the welfare of the state
should give their support to a demand for an appro-
iufficiihjtly large to justify the employment of
to putiin charge of the work and to
enable them to cousjp^t and equip suitable buildings
for the purpose,
jg All this means
try industrv—a furth
igress and a still greater poul-
onderful increase in the pro-
ggs, and the keeping at home
nually sent elsewhere, to sup-
orgia is not now doing, but
which will be supplied if the encouragement deserved
is given. ' .