The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1900-11-01
DAIRYING IN GEORGIA
AN INTERESTING AND INSTRUCT.
I'VE TALK On THE NEW
INDUSTRY.
ENCOURAGING PROGRESS.
Although Comparatively n New Fea-
ture In the State the Results
Are Most Gratifying.

Dairying is comparatively new indus
try in Georgia. In the antebellum days
cotton was king and brought wealth into
the Golfers of our people. There was SO
much profit in cotton and corn that it
was useless to talk TO our planters about
diversified farming. But after the war
everything was changed. Our land
owners suffered not only from the loss
Of their labor, but from the depreciation
Of every other species of property.
Northern spectators fixed the price of
our cotton, which went from bad to
worse, until we were compelled to make
a change of some sort. Some of our far
mers began to ask if Georgia, with its
mild CLIMATE, was not better suited to
dairying and the rearing of cattle than
the states of the bleak north and west.
where these industries had proved so
profitable. This thought took root in
the minds Of enterprising men and
brought forth fruit. Within the last
decade encouraging progress has been
made, and quite number of dairy
farms and creameries have been estab.
lished. Many who went into this bust
ness were without experience, and hence
suffered some discouraging failures, but
with that perseverance which conquers
ell things they pressed forward until
their efforts were crowned with do
served success. The report of the sixth
annual meeting of the Georgia Dairy.
mans association, held at Granville,
October 12 and 10, 1899, shows a mem.
bership of more than one hundred and
seventy. If success has crowned the
efforts of the inexperienced, Who reach.
ed the wished-for goal under che most
trying conditions, how much more can
be accomplished by the skilled dairy.
men of the North and West. To them
we extend hearty invitation to come
with their skill and capital, with the
assurance that they will improve their
own condition and ct the same time
help to make Georgia i'll dairying, what
she has long been in other things, the
Empire State Of the South. Of course
our Northern friends must be convinced
| that success awaits their efforts here.
We propose to give them the proofs.
First OF all the climate is a most import.
ant factor in our favor. The dairymall
! does not need to so to the expense OF
housing his cattle for months, but re.
| quires only such a simple shelter as will
afford protection to them for few
weeks. His cattle will find excellent
pasturage from eight to ten months OF
the year supplied by the best of all
grasses, our Georgia Bermuda, equal to
the Timothy of the Northwest, which
| grows luxm iantly and when cured
makes most excellent hay for our short
| winter.
There is no better food for our cattle
than the peavine hay, one of the easiest
crops grown on our land and very rich
in value as milk producer. We regard
it as the salvation of our lands and the
delight of the mich COW. Our lands
produce also rescue or arctic grass, and
crab grass, affording pastures new and
ample, the various clovers, barley, rye,
oats, sugar cane, sorghum and corn for.
age. Our cotton seed, after the oil has
been pressed out, also furnish the cakes,
considered among the best food for cat
tie, as well as the cheapest. "a penny
saved is penny earned" and one cent
a pound saved by cheapening food is as
good as one cent pound for butter
and cheese. By using cotton seed meal
cakes, cotton seed hulls and a little
wheat bran, a COW can be fed at cost of
seven cents day. Corn ensilage is
claimed by some to be the cheapest of
all foods for cattle. It's succulent and
beneficial effects make it doubly valu.
able. The experience of MIR. I. r. Saw.
tell OF Atlanta, will give some idea Of
OAAS AOW pILCe dG WHICH CtbIlc can be LED.
In letter to Ex-Governor w. J. Nor.
then he said:
'Below you have the results Of my
experiment with the thirteen months
calf that fed, exclusively, on cotton
seed meal and cotton seed hulls. /
botNht the calf from Mr.. M. A. Butler
OF Noah, Tenn, December 10th, 1899.
He was thirteen months old and weigh.
ed 800 pounds. l paid 80 cents per
pound, making the cost $3t.15a 1 took
him 70 my packing house andssfed him
until June 10Th ON cotton seed hulls and
meal. When slaughtered he weighed
1890 pounds. He was sold at 81 cents
per pound.
Bought 800 pounds at az cents
per pound. ..... .S31 Is
Fed 1870 days at cents. 10 S0--$1 81
Sold 1920 pounds at az cts. =. ~ 60
Net eco az