The Green Forest tribune., 1909-12-24
DAIRY BETTER THAN COTTON
More Money in Milk from Twenty Cows Than There Is in Eight
 Bales of the Staple.

LOWS man mere IS m Ei9nt
 Bales of the Staple.
 Everywhere in the south the farm CTS consider cotton their master. They consider cotton, not goodly king but harsh tyrant, writes N o. Nelson in Southern Cultivator The price of cotton is mere incidental. It is slave-driver and poverty maker, they say, at any price. It is not material whether cotton, contrary to all other commodities, can be forced to a high price, regardless of the crop. Most people will say that low price con tinued for several years, will so re duce the planting as to make 1t scarce and thus raise the price, and that high price will bring so much planting as to overdo it, and reduce the price. It is inevitably see-saW between high and low prices.
 Besides being hard work and poor pay cotton impoverishes the land as well as the man. It makes farmers poor There are poor improvements and few gardens on nine-tenths of the cotton farms, small schoolhouses and short terms, much credit and high prices for supplies. The universal verdict is against cotton.
 There is another industry to which the south Is peculiarly adapted by it's land and it's climate, which pays bet ter than cotton, is less arduous work, is less subject to the destructive weather and seasons, and which stead fly improves the land and the farmer. That is dairying. It is less work to raise pasture and feed for 20 cows, milk them and care for them, and get at least $1,00O year out of them, than it is to raise eight bales of cotton. and get from $200 to $650 for it.
 The fever tick has been a serious It is now well known how to destroy it. It only requires attention and union with the neighbors.
 Putnam county, Georgia, started an Anti-Tick society the members agreeing to conform to some simple rules for eradication. They went to work and got large number of farm CTS to join 1t. They sent for the raw material to make wash that will kill and effectively prevent the ticks. on any infested farm within the county.
 Preceding the organization of the Tick society, there had been organized i,, operative creamery. The creamery as- sociation was made up of farmers in the vicinity of Eatonton, who owned about 400 COWS. They signed a writ ten agreement that for period of two years they would deliver to the cream cry, all the milk they produced for sale. Each milk supplier gets the full proceeds of the milk and cream he supplies. They pay for the cost of the creamery by allowing to be re- tained certain per cent. of the pro- ceeds of the milk. All farmers are eligible. to join it. Having thus an as- sured market for their milk, and hay ing excellent grazing and feed pro- ducing land, cows will increase rap- idly in number Within a year the supply of milk will perhaps be doubled. They get their pay every two weeks, which is a new thing for cotton grow. CTS. r
 After the creamery had been going awhile, there was organized a Credit society, of such creamery members as wished to join it. The members of the society signed an agreement to become jointly liable for money to be borrowed with which to buy cows to be sold to it's members. They bor- rowed money on this ample responsi- bility at six per cent, and can borrow more as needed. They have bought quite number of COWS and in the future will bring them in by carloads from other localities in the state, where good cows can be found at req sonable prices. They resell them to the members at auction, the profit be- longing to the society, tnd thus they accumulate their own capital. One member can get only five cows until all have been supplied. They pay for the cows by allowing one gallon of milk per day for each COW to be re- tained at the creamery to be applied on the purchase price. If COW dies the buyer does not have to pay for it, but it is distributed on all the other cows. Title in the cows remains in the society until paid for, so there is no risk.
 This society enables the farmer to get money at a cheap rate. It enables the poor man, who would have no credit at bank, to get productive prop erty or capital. It enables each one to pay for the cows in an easy fash. ion, in fact the cows pay for them selves, and their feed besides.
 By cooperative association the farm CT gets the benefit of capital, good busi- ness management and the best mar keting. They get acquainted with each other and become better neigh bors.
 Quick Fattening.