Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-09-10
DEVELOP OR DAIRY INDUSTRY.

/ The value Of the COW 10 a family or
to a community is too little stressed
When the price Of milk goes mp 70 ten
cents a quart. or the price Of a goo4
quality Of butter advanced 10 forty or
forty-fiye cents a pound. the fact j.
broUg home t3at in the scheme o.
/ domestic economy the COW ike the
chicken, pays no small part.
/ Yet. despite the fact that there Is an
unfailtng demand for the product Of
the dairy, the expansion Of the dairying
industry signaHy fails to keep pace
with tie growth OF population anI
even SLOWS a tendency TO fall behini
its former proportions. In some sec-
tons dairymen have complained that
they have been at the mercy Of the
trusts that have held down the price
for their output, while gouging the
consumers through exorbltant profits
On cold storage goods later on While
this may be true in some sections 81
certainly does not apply hereabou.s.
where there are ample local marke.g
to absorb the products Of number o.
large dairies and the owners Of such
places would not be in the slightest 4.
the mercy OF tie great corporations
tiat manipulate things in some Of the
western dairyfng centres The dairy-
man located at or near Americas has
the option OF several good home mar
kets, ne has country eminentiy
adapted for the industry, and he has an
opportunity to raise food supplies, that
cannot be excelIed. cheaper by far tlan
| the farmers Of the west can do. Tie
advantages are all on the side Of the
tairyman Of this vicinity
In addressing the dairymen OF
Georgia the other day Judge Hammond
laid great stress on the importance of
developing the dairying industries OF
the state. and of also encouraging ey-
Iery family to keep a COW wien local
conditions will permit Of it. Said he III
this connection:
! want the Georgia Dairy AMI Live
Stock Association, our agricultural de-
| Dartment and experiment stations.
agricultural college and schools to tell
the individual isolated Georgia farme-
how to keep a cow Not only how IA
keep it, but persuade him TO keep IT.
tell him how to treat it. how to feed it..
COW to handle tie milk and butter
tell him the thousand and one things
THAT are A. B. G. to you. but a sealed
/ book TO him. want to ask You in the
name Of the Individual farmer living IN
the open country, IL he cannot success.
fluffy keep a COW?
Should lis COW not be of more value
to him, and ! might say dearer to him
than any earthly possession outside Of
wife and children? Considering tie
health, strength and happiness Of His
family, will not the milk Of his COW be
more valuable to them and to him than
/ the same amount of milk would be 20
the city resilient? Has not the CITY
man the run of the markets-the gro.
Ger around the corner, the butcher a
ID'ock away, the huckster and the milk
man at the front door? True fa4
countryman has his smoke house, and
a fine thing it is. but can you gentIA
men not prove to linn that his smoke
house il when compared to his dairy
II he rad one, awfully expensive AMI
very limited in its usefulness, satisfac-
ton and health Can you not prove to
the average farmer beyond peradyen.
/ ture that for every pound of corn.
Icornmeal, brand, wheat, oats. rye. CO..
ton seed meal, pasture, potatoes pump
klns, grass, weeds, Stops fed to goats
sheep, cattle, swine will be returned TO
him in value six times as great vixen
| Eel to his cow | asked a farmer If he
| did not think he ought to be shot for
not keeping a COW with which to COM
| fort his wife and children, and lie SAID
he thought he ought, but that his wife
wauld not milk the cow on account ,e
the lot being so sloppy / told him f.e
ougrt to be shot for not keer-
ing the lot clean, or for not providing
a nice little shed where the good wire
could milk the COW.