The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-07-13
THE OPENING, WHERE is THE
MAN?

The following from the esteemed
Augusta Herald, is worthy of real
consideration at the hands of farm
ers all over Georgia:
Opportunities for success abound
everywhere, and are waiting only for
some enterprsing man to see the
opening and develop it, The bust
ness history of an Iowa farmer by
the name of Reuber illustrates this.
He lived near the town of Odebolt,
He saw how farmers generally plant
ed a few hills of popcorn, which the
children popped during the winter
nights, for amusement principally
| but which also provided a relished
edible. He determined to supply pop
corn to those who did not grow it,
and planted few acres. The sus-
cess he met led him to increase his
planting year by year. His neigh
bors also began to plant, he beco1n-
ing the principal purchaser. This
has resulted in a business that now
extends over the entire country and
to foreign countries. Reuber has be-
come a millionaire, and the little
town of Odebolt, the center of this
industry, has become a fiourishing
town. All due to an enterprising man
who recognized an opportunity that
was open, and supplied what was de-
veloped into a popular want.
Corn bread is of greater import
ance that pop corn, for the latter is
merely a relish of CONNECTION while
the former is a staff of life. Corn
bread has always been a staple arti-
Gle of food in this section and many
ueopIe desire it on their table at ev-
cry meal Properly prepared it is
relishable and wholesome food prep
aration, far superior to many of the
patent food preparations that now
flood the market under fanciful
names.
The large number of these, and the
extensive and costly way in which
they are advertised, conveys some
idea of the extent of this business
and the opening that exists for SUI
perior article of this kind.
And this is corn meal, plain, old
fashioned, water ground corn meal,
This is a rare article now. In re-
mote sections of the country it may
still be found but not in the towns.
The meal for sale in the towns in
principally ground of Western corn,
which is unfit for bread because the
grain is not fully matured. 1t is soft
and the meal it makes is fine, clam
my and more or less musty and bit
ter. Round, sweet meal cannot be
|
fully ripened and hardened before
frost, and then slowly ground between
great water turned stones can make
such meal.
The Southern farmer who shall see
the opportunity and supply this ready
want can make fortune greater
than Reuber's. TIC grow such corn,
carefully select it, grind it properly
and put it on the market in packages
| suitable for the retail trade without
| breaking them, would assure a ready
sale for the entire product at price
which would be profitable to the man
ufactwer and grower The demand
would increase steadily and rapidly,
especially if this superior meal were
properly advertised. and as the case
with Oderbolt and pop corn, some
now small village might be made the
center of this industry and become a
rich and iourishing community.
Some man. some time, will take adj
vantage of this inviting opportunity,
and make a fortune for himself
While he establishes a new and prof
liable industry for this section. Won
der who that man will be?