The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-09-20
PROVIDING THE MARKET.

than cotton They are beginning to-
show it by bringing to market corn,
peas, hay wheat, oats, porkers and
beef. They have even begun to try
peanuts in no small way They have
made discoveries with the velvet bean
that will push them further into rails
ing this as a stock food product.
The question now is a market. The
merchant and the business man in
town have long urged other crops than
cotton. The argument is not likely
to go far in the face of fifteen cent
cotton, but just the same, the diversi-
fication of crops has begun to show
it's effect and now the farmer wants
a market He needs a ready sale for
! his stuff and he must have it, else the
argument is of small value.
The dreams of wealth for the Geor-
gia farmer of this section of the state
will in a large measure come true if
| in the future he can give the world
| his allotted bales of cotton on much
smaller acreage, where he can fight
the Weevil, and at the same time
gather thousands of bushels of pea
nuts, field peas, corn, oats, wheat, vel
vet beans, and raise as many hogs and
cattle as his farm will feed. The bus
mess man has little idea how close
at hand is this dream of wealth for
the farmer, for he is operating on
schedule that is in a very large meas
IRE to meet these requirements with
IN the coming two years.
Cordele is fast providing the large
milling plant for the wheat and corn.
We have it in the Powell Milling COM
pany This enterprise promises
large mixed feed manufacturing plant
before another season is open and it
will need thousands of bushels of
wheat, corn, oats, and hay of all kinds,
velvet beans, peas and every available
food product from the farm.
The Powell Mills will be able to use
Ill the surplus output of the county
md adjacent territory. We have prac-
ically a home market in the Moultrie
Packing Company for all our hogs and
cattle.
Satisfactory arrangements should be
made here for the use of hundreds of
thousands of bushels of peanuts in
he cotton oil mills. This provision,
t is understood, is being made, and
he market will be forthcoming. The
]. B. Ryals Wholesale company is call
'ng now for all the peanuts of every
kind that are for sale And so there
will be a buyer for every farm pro-
luct
When local business men get in
heir minds the advantages Of manu-
featuring the cotton here at home,
here will be the right kind of cot
ton mill, may be, more than one, to
make up the cotton into textiles ready
sor the home market. The cotton mill
we need badly and when we find that
The weevil is not going to clean up
with our farms, the cotton mill will
be Forthcoming.
AS a commercial center with bus
ness volume as great as any point in
the south to it's population, Cordele
will be making business strides OF
| me TlSIll KIM Wlell II plONkuCo q liOAAiN
market for all the farm output. The
cotton crop is to be but one OF the
numerous valuable farm products and
the years of the near future will re
uuire mills and factories here in the
midst of the farms to prepare the raw
material for use. Our farms will need
the big manufacturing plants and our
city must provide them.
There is nothing wrong with our
distributing advantages. Cordele has
great lead over sister cities in this
respect 1t is our business to see that
every farm product is stopped here
and changed into prepared merchan-
table article.
Ed Wohlwender and some of the