The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-07-06
AN ORGANIZATION TO AID in The
MARKETING OF FARM PRODUCTS

is improperly sacked. His oats and
wheat suffer from the same lack of
proper packages. His hay is often
poorly cured and poorly packed and
is usually a general mixture of crab
grass, peavines, clover, Bermuda,
weeds and anything that happens to
grow up in the fields.
I'm short, if the farmer would give
the same attention to the raising of
his food crops and offer them for sale
in the same marketable shape as he
does his cotton he would have less
trouble in disposing of them at the
market price. The requirements for
making these products bring their
true value are stated here briefly.
They are not unreasonable and in
reality would cause very little extra
trouble to the farmer.
Corn should be selected before
being shelled; that is, the damaged
or rotten ears should all be thrown
out, as they detract from the mar
ket value In sacking the corn use
strong, sound bag that will hold two
bushels or 112 pounds of corn and
put exactly that amount in every bag,
as this avoids the necessity of re-
weighing the bag every time it
changes hands. Also Tin case both
yellow and white corn are raised
keep the white and yellow separate
after Smelling and sacking so that if
you sell 100 bushels of white corn
you will know that you are deliver
ing so sacks of white corn and not
80 sacks of white and 20 sacks of yell
low, or vice versa as the case may be.
"Oats should be threshed and
cleaned and sacked in strong, sound
bags that will hold five bushels, or
100 pounds, and exactly that amount
put in each bag, the bags sewed at the
open end with strong twine.
Extended discussion of the proper
care of wheat cannot here be under
taken in a paper of this character. In
a general way, however, emphasis
should be laid upon the necessity for
sound dry storage after threshing.
If sufficient floor space is obtainable
the preferable plan is to spread the
wheat lightly Immediately after the
and keep it in bulk until
ready for market. If stored in sacks
let storage be as light and airy as
possible and the bags so stacked as
to give free access to air.
Our season is generally favorable
for the harvesting of wheat, in that
it is dry as rule; being earlier than
the West the farmer of this section
usually finds the market comparative
ly bare of grain and affording, there
fore, an attractive basis for trade.
THE principal difficulties hitherto
in handling Georgia |
wheat has been the Carelessness of
the shipper as to his package Rea-
sonable caution would of course, |
suggest that sacks should first Of all !
be sound and of sufficient strength |
to withstand the strain of handling. |
Usually the quantity of wheat to be
shipped is not sufficiently large to be
loaded in bulk, but where shipped in
bulk care should of course be exer-
cised to see that the car in which it
is shipped is clean and sound of floor !
and roof and well coopered and that |
grain doors of strong, tough timber
are securely placed.
'7Care should be exercised to see
that different grades of wheat are not |
mixed in one car. 1t oftentimes Oc-
ours that perfectly sound grain is
mixed with smut-damaged and wealth |
grain, thus deprecating the /
value of the good without apprecia-
bly, improving the poor. Where ship |
ment is in sacks usually the best con-