The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-04-19
Ex- GOpernOrBrOWn, Miller
From the Atlanta Constitution.

Upon the banks of Little river in Chero-
kee county just below dam that was built
to develop 900 horsepower, former Gov
ernor JOS NJ Brown has set a mill to grind
corn and wheat and to gin cotton. There is
a story and a lesson back of this mill and
the miller, which Hiram Rice Romans, spe-
cial correspondent for the Constitution, has
written into a most readable and interesting
page.
Mr. Romans well tells the story to The
Constitutions readers; it is the lesson, the
industrial and agricultural lesson, that
should be stressed.
There is nothing former Governor Brown
has ever attempted but he has done it well.
In turning miller he has pointed the way
one Of the most efficient ways-to the sue
cess OF agricultural diVersifcatiOn. When
he installed his roller flour mill and offered
cash at market price for wheat delivered
Governor Brown at once opened the way for
turning some Of the cotton fields into grain.
As yet the local supply is short: he has
already had to order wheat from Tennessee
to keep the wheels going around, but with
the market at their doors Cherokee and
neighbOring farmers will not be long in
meeting the demand for the product.
To free the farmers in his territory from
the yassalage of cotton" is Governor
Browns announced purpose; and in doing
best cereal products, so recognized the
country over, in water ground meal and
whole wheat -four Those who know them
seek them; and they are the healthier for
their consumption.
OF course, Governor Brown is not en-
gagged in purely eleemosynary effort; he is
conducting a business enterprise. 1t is his
intention that, at the end of the year, it
shall show a profit.
Governor Brown feels and knows that he
can make a success of handling and market
ing Georgia grain, We can and do grow
just as good corn and as good wheat as any
other state" he declares, "and it is only
necessary to reach the consumer with it,
prepared as the consumer wants it,
There are, perhaps a hundred little riv-
ers in Georgia upon which dams might be
built developing 100 to 500 horsepower;
powers too small to command the consid
GRAFTON of the great hydro-electric compa-
mics for commercial purposes, where they
need horsepower by the thousands and tens
of thousands. Suppose corn and flour mills
were set up on each of these, turning out ten
or hundred barrels or bushels of whole
wheat flour and water ground meal in the
place of one today. Figure what it would
mean, not alone for the farmer in impelled
diversiticatiOn and release from cotton
bondage, but as we'll in the better health
of the consumer of the more wholesome
product.
Where these mills have been set up they
have grown and prospered, even though
serving limited communities. Why not
more of them? The water powers are am
pie, are today going to waste for want of
development; when the development is
made the product will come, just as cattle
growing has followed extensively upon the
establishment of the Georgia packing in
dustry.
The only reason why city consumers do
not eat more water ground meal and whole
wheat flour is because they cannot get it.
Once developed this Georgia industry will
create a demand that needs but to be told
of the opportunity it offers.