The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-09-13
4 BottomLess Hole
j. A. JOHNSON

j. a. JOF1NOON
One of the Souths leading econo-
,nists has pointed out with much force
and frequency that the great troupe
with the Southern farmer IS not lack
of wealth.producing power, Dut lach
of Notwithstanding power. Inc ldlhl'
ers of Georgia or of North Carolina
produce as much wealth in two years
nc thew have accumulated i'll all ms
forv of their state. The corn-belt
farmer gets some profit-makes some
addition to his permanent capital OUT
of almost every years work. Ihe aV-
erage cotton belt farmer produces year
after wear and holds practically noun
ing of what he makes.
With a product worth fifty to one
hundred dollars an acre it looks as II
tobaceo-belt farmers should be gettlng
rich but when the tobacco crop is SOLO
danendence and bread and meat ana
Grain and hay must be bought out OF
n SO long as Florida pays out three
auarters of her income from Gurus
fruits for hay citrus growing Will not
make the state rich.
This is not saying that it will not en-
rich the individual farmers who grow
hay as well as oranges. 1t IS llkely
10 do this, just as cotton and TOBACCO
real weathncreasing crops wheh
grown as a part of rational series Vi
farm crops Cocoon
II is usually cheaper for the farmer
IN produce the farm crops OF MS sec
ton than to buy them. He usually
has to buy them at retail prices,whlie
he sells his own products at Wholesale.
Dairvmen in the northeast who buy al
or nearly all their feeds, seem TO De III
the same fix as the cotton troopers
of the south Both are hard at WORK
irving to produce enough OF their sale
crons to fill a "BottomlesS Hole.
A better plan is to put bottom III
the hole with home grown hay ana
corn and meat and garden truck.
The above comes from a sane ana
sound farm paper. 1t is so good ailu
SO timely and fits our condition SO Wen
until it did not seem unWise to Drlhs IL
and it's thought before you
There is no denying the fact tha'
there are many of us doing our snare
hacking this "bottomless hole. II
ought to be stopped. And it might De
said incidentally, that right here III
orr section a sound and permanent
bottom is going to be put in this det-
riment to Notwithstanding system.
Whether YOU are willing to accept the
truth now or not, you will find 1t 1orc-
ing itself upon you in very snort
space of time 1t isn't going to be az
easy for many to pack in space with
a bottom in it as it has been when the
hacking material went on thru, but VIC
can learn, and we will be better Of
for the learning.
II isn't hard to see in looking around
the many things being shipped in
that we can raise cheaper than we car
buy them. Well take one product and
see what we are doing to produce Il
and what we might be doing. More
than two months ago more than 70
600 pounds Of bacon and hams were DC
ing sold each month in Cordele by the
retail merchants alone. And the lard
that is being sold-there's no telling
Through efforts of production right
here in our own county our farmers
could have been supplying very large
portion of this commodity. And they
certainly could have supplied and con
tinue to supply what they are buying
and will buy before their supply comes
in again
There has been a magnificent thing
to occur in this county this yearThere
is in one of Crisps trading centers, a
little town, large supply firm that
had not up to within a month ago
handled a single pound of white meat
to supply its trade. This product was
all home grown. The firm does NJ
meager business, either. What has
been done in this instance could be
duplicated over and over, and it ought
to be done.
We just have not done these things
but there is necessity just the same
1t is going to take some thought and
real effort to make success come along
these lines. But success can be made