Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-10-10

(which meets the requirements or a gwen
market and which have been properly
lhtted can be sold to fair advantage
When the Individual or community de
cldes to go into the production of live
stock on a sufficient scale to afford the
enterprise an opportunity for success
AN effort should Immediately be made
to find a market. This would be the
policy which any manufacturer would
pursue. In other words, he would not
/ a ttempt to put on the market a hun
dred mattresses until he thought he had
found a place where he could sell them
al a profit. 1t will not do for the in
dividuais i'm a community to determine
that they will feed a few carloads Of
cattle and then expect buyers To come
and offer them top prices for thelr cattle
without making an effort to let the con-
Stunning centers know that they are feed
ing animals in considerable numbers and
4 which can be handled TO advantage on a
particular market. Whenever locality
starts an enterprise of this character
however, and advertises that fact in
the proper manner, they should be able
TO interest buyers and even though The
price be somewhat less than might be
realized after shipment. the cash In
nand is much to be preferred TO The
risk which must otherwise be ran. Espe-
cially is this true of any infant industry
which is likely to be destroyed at its
inception, if marketing losses prove eX-
cessive.
| 1t may be taken for granted with safe
| ty that in most communities in the
south there is no real local market, and
that the transportation of live stock by
rail to more or less distant centers must
/ be figured on from the beginning. The
larger the scale on which the enterprise
can be carried forward the better. AS
with all new undertakings, however, a
modest beginning is to be commended.
There is no line of effort wnicn may
be introduced into a community and
made a permanent success unless those
concerned acquire through time and OK
t.erience an inner knowledge of che bust
ness Il is best, therefore, to go slow
from the start and then to enlarge oper-
atoms from year to year until they
really assume a scale of considerable
magnitude.
Any enterprise which has succeeded in
the United States has been extensively
advertised, and this is true of the live
stock business. An investment in this
direction must be made, even though
costly. 1t will be necessary to await
returns, but this would be true OF any
other business. Advertising is best and
most successfully done by placing on
the market to be served animals which
more nearly meet it's requirements than
those coming from any other section.
This phase of the business must neither
be overlooked nor neglected, or else
failure is certain to follow.
There are certain other things which
community must take into considera-
tion. The farmers must either buy or
possess feeders or uniform type and
quality, no matter what the grade may
[, be. OF course, the better the grade the
greater the chance of handling the cat
tie with profit. Uniformity in type, COL
or and quality are matters OF the great
est Importance. This point may be
nicely illustrated by the sale of lot of
cotton in which, say there are twenty
bales OF strict good middling, ten bales
of low middling, ten bales of badly
stained and tinge and Ave bales of blue
cotton or dog tails. The buyer will
average the value of all the bales to-
gether and pay a given sum for the
round lot, or he may buy the different
grades separately, but even then he will
have several lots of cotton to handle and
deal with, whereas, if the whole lot were
of one grade, he could afford to pay a
much better price and could handle and
dispose of his purchase to bet
ter avantage. In the same way cattle
should be of uniform grade and quality,
out
so per cent of. the live weight, others so
per cent and still others in the same lot
40 per cent, the purchaser has to handle
and dispose of several grades of animals
within a single carload. The purchaser
necessarily has to bear the expense in
cident to the handling of cattle of this
class. Size, age, color finish and quality
all have a marked influence on price.
For instance a carload of Herefords
their riGfia rlyi
present much more uniform and at
tractive appearance in the sale lot than
carload made up of cattle of all colors.
even though they be fairly uniform as
TO size and finish Some people NAV
imagine these are the fine points in the
business, but in that they are mistaken.
They are the major points, and their
neglect accounts for the failure of many
feeder to secure a profitable return
from his investment.
VARIETIES OF COTTON FOR GEoR:
GIA.
r. A. Y, Granville, Ca. writes: | would
like information in regard to the best va
rleaes OF COTTON to plant in boil weevil
Prolific, TOole and Broadwell? Have YOU
ever tested the first variety mentioned?
Hawkins Prolific variety of cotton has
not been tested in our demonstration
plats. and therefore we would not be in
position to give an official opinion con-
corning its merits. From what we know
of this variety, however. we do not think
II so desirable as some others which
| can be grown in your section of the
state We believe that you would not
make mistake in planting a well-se-
lected strain of Clevelands Big Boil,
College No. 1 or Trice. 1t is very i'm
portant that you secure good seed Some
strains of these varieties are undoubted-
ly earlier than others, and sometimes
| seed is offered for sale, as you doubtless
know, at high prices, which has not been
well selected, and therefore is very dis
| appointing when grown. We know from
several years of test and observation,
however, that these are excellent varie-
ties for north Georgia conditions as to
earliness, yield and other desirable quail
| tiles which will advantage farmers cult,
waiting them in meeting the destructive
effects produced by the boil weevil in
vasion.
| GFt UR SOULE MONDAY
SIZE AND CAPACITY OF SILOS.