The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-12-27
BUTTER AGAIN.

1t was suggested through these col
umns several days ago that cream
cry is a necessity here. Every time
we have to pay forty cents for pound
of country butter and fifty cents for
pound from Elgin, ILL.,, we feel more
like saying it again and again till we
have made somebody believe there is
some truth in it. We wonder what
our neighbors do for butter? But this
little individual necessity is not the
most serious part of it. We do not
need creamery for one or dozen
families alone. We ned it for COM
munity that consumes several hun
dred pounds of butter weekly and gets
most of il from Elgin ILL.,, a tremen-
dous cost.
1t has not been five years since one
could buy all the butter needed at
wenty cents. Cheese went at rea-
,onable price no longer than last
year. AS long as we are forced to
)uy and bring in these products none
If us need feel proud of it, for there
money to be made and lots of it on
he marketing of that which can be
Produced locally.
Many people are becoming interest
ID in the proposed creamery. This
something we must have sooner or
alter. The longer we delay the estab-
ishment Of an enterprise which will
insure local output of butter sufficient
or our needs, the longer will we have
o pay the middle man to sit on the
lutter box and wait for his profits.
People who have cows are learning
low to produce feed for them and
hose who have good cows are pro-
ucing more milk than they can use.
Why not have the creamery here so we
an buy up and use this surplus from
he small producers all over the coun-
y? Why not provide an industry
Jhich will make it possible for the
BOD crop grower to make more cattle
eed and turn it into money from his
ows?
We are now to the point where 1t is
lmost a necessity to try to cut off
he Flgin products for the price is
ext to prohibitive We have larger
arms We grow more velvet beans
nd more hay. We know how to get
hese crops and they are going to
ONE at smaller cost the more we
earn about making them. The milk
ows and the big hay and bean crops
re all we need. What we need is a
larket for the milk as it is produced
nd the milk will come by the car
Dad. { We are not producing milk
ow because there is no market for
and there is little good Judgment in
9eding the farm output to cows for
lilk where we have not learned to
tilize it except as feed for the fat
ming porkers.
A local creamery will provide a
iarket for the milk from every place
he farm with one COW can do as
ell as the farm with twenty head for
lie reason that there will be demand
or all that can be produced. If this
community ever needed an enterprise
needs the creamery. Five or six
the big farmers who white sticks
ometimes ought to be looking into
his thing Moultrie. they have as
arted over and over again, has never
ad to hunt market for pound OF
S butter. A good article is produced
nd it brings the highest price.
We need the creamery to turn the
ich food crops of our farms into but
ar We need it now to help find use
Il the crops other than cotton which
aust be produced on some of the
ands. We need it above all to elimi
late the food products gambler so that
e can no longer draw his wealth from
IS.
Only few days ago car of eggs
,tarted in Indiana at a price Of "a l.
,ents per dozen and finally found the
consumer in New York hotel where
4 price of As cents per dozen was paid
Investigation proved that the car OF
Of