Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-01-30
TO FREE GEORGIA FROM HIGH
PRICED MEATS.

In Atlanta modern abattoir and
packing house has recently been com
Dleted, representing an outlay of $780,
600. Mr.. w. H. White, president OF
the White Provision Co., the owner of
the plant, insists that there is no reas-
on why Georgia should not free itself
from its dependence from the West for
its meats, relieve itself from the tax OF
millions of dollars annually incurred
through the necessity of buying hog
and beef products from that section
and establishing itself firmly as a
state producing adequate meats for
its own necessities.
Mr. White insists that Georgia has
fully as many advantages as the West
for the cheap production of meats
Last year an experiment was made
/ here in Americas in the fattening of
cattle, large numbers of thin, cheap
COWS being brought here from other
points, pastured, fed literally on cot
ton seed products, and disposed of
after they had been put in condition
for market That experiment demon
strated that the cattle take on flesh
rapidly under favorable conditions and
the use of such feed Inasmuch as the
South produces the feed supplies of
this character in enormous quantities
it does appear but sensible that we
should use more of them at home for
this purpose. Today there is a large
steamer in the harbor of Savannah that
will take on a full cargo of cotton seed
cakes to be transported to the farmers
of Denmark, where it will be used in
feeding cattle in what is probably the
greatest dairying country in the world
How absurd that with such climate
as we have, such a country, and such
a food supply, we should be dependent
on others for our meats and our dairy
products
Mr.. White in discussing the matter
says:
If they will raise enough hogs and
cattle to supply the households of this
state, we VIII guarantee to furnish up
to-date facilities for marketing. Of
course, our one packing house will not
meet the needs of all Georgia, but our
success means that others sufficient to
that purpose will be established.
OF all states in the I'm ON Georgia is
ideal for cattle, sheep IA og raising
We have the land and a climate that is
open virtually nine months of the year
Our farmers need to learn the value of
producing selected breeds for beef
purposes, and also to cultivate pa
thence, since a great industry cannot
logically be revived in one or even
two years.
But with due care and energy,
within five years we can build up
splendid system of ranges in this
state, that will supply all we need IN
the way of domestic supplies and en-
able US also to become an export
state.
Why should Georgia pay freight on
the beef shipped here from the West,
when we can grow and slaughter and
pack here all that is required for the
appetite of the state?
Already we are receiving from every
pa IIGi VI bnC OIoLG duNlCGS Il Oll
ers to the effect that they are fattening
cattle for us. 1t is safe to say that we
will have no difficulty obtaining all
the stock we need to run at maximum
capacity.
Only as he raises his own food sup
plies and goes into raising cattle for
the market, will the Georgia farmer
solve the question of the cotton crop
Cotton should be more in the nature of
a surplus crop.
Single-shooting on it, as we now do
incures the risk each year of over
production, with a mortgage against
the crop to pay for beef brought from
the West. The same farm that pro-
duces forty bales of cotton can pro-
duce enough cattle to make almost as
much profit as from that cotton, with
little added labor.
Following this policy means that in
time We will be independent of the
West, and that we will have largely
solved the problem of the high cost of
beef, so far as Georgia is concerned.
OF course that is not coming today
nor tomorrow But the present work
ing is vivid warning to begin work |
ing in that direction. Consummation |
viii arrive more quickly than the
average man expects.