Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-01-27
GEORGIA AS A MEAT RAISING
STATE.

Some of our exchanges are
pleading for slaughter houses in
Georgia 1t has been suggested
by some one that small packing
houses might be established to
advantage in every town where
there is an ice plant There can
be no doubt that pork raising
would be encouraged and increas-
ed if there were safe means close
at hand of saving meat. The risk
of losing ones meat after it is
butchered is a great draw back to
the usiness-Moultrie Observer.
The existing general cutlery against
the extortionate and almost prohibits
i've prices of meats has renewed in
terest in the possibility of develop
ing Georgia as meat producing state.
It seems to be an acknowledged fact,
with the passing of the great areas of
government land on which cattle
could be grazed at a minimum of ex-
pense, the increased cost of produc-
ing beef, and the greater consumptive
requirements of world population
that calls more and more for a higher
standard Of living and all that it i'm
plies in the way of more and better
food supplies, that prices for animals
on the hoof, or for the finished pro
ducts, are not apt to fall hereafter TO
a point where it will not be remuner-
alive to raise cattle, sheep and hogs
Such being the case it may we'll repay
Georgia farmers to turn their atteu-
ton more to the stock raising line,
as one step in that diversifcation of
agriculture that is looked to to make
the South exceedingly and permanent
ly prosperous.
No one question that Georgia, and
especially South and Southwest Geor-
gia, is especially adapted for stock
raising The climate is all that could
be desired for that purpose. reducing
the care of the stock to a minimum,
and lessening the actual feeding re-
CURED The supplies of food that are
best suited for cattle raised for mar
ket, are at hand in the cotton seed pro-
ducts, the hay and other crops that the
soil here yields so abundantly The
country is exceptionally we'll watered
and experts declare that no reason ex-
lists why stock raising should not be
made one of the most profitable indus
tries of this section.
The great drawback has been the
absence of modern packing houses
Meats spoil quickly unless the proper
arrangements exist for their preser-
yation The individual farmer cannot
afford to provide and maintain plant
for this purpose. But county or neigh
,borhood packing houses would appear
to be clearly within reach if proper
steps we're taken to secure them. Take
Americas, for instance, or Columbus.
or any other city located in the centre
of large agricultural district. Why
should not each of these places have a
packing house, equipped for the work
it is designed to do, and sufficiently
capitalized to buy the stock direct
from the raisers. For the output If
such concerns there would be an ade-
quate demand inside of the state. and
in competition with the high priced
products of the West the native meats
and other supplies should certainly he
able to easily hold their own Georgia
meats can be made succulent, tender.
and in eyerywise satisfactory if proper
conditions are observed in the raising
of the stock. Such local meats would
have the advantage of being free from
chemical treatment and their purity
from disease could be guaranteed by
proper local or state inspection.
The time must come when the South
will raise its own meat supplies in a
much greater quantity than it has yet
done. The only barrier SENS to be