The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-07-01
LOCAL FEED MILL.

of sufficient capacity to meet require
ments in this community, but if a
condition now upon us is anything like
what it seems, the plant must be built
We are not to wait till we get our own
consent The plant must be built to
save our neighbors and ourselves from
serious complications that are prom
Used next year.
| High officials are whispering it in
the ears of southern farmers again
They told them early in the year
soon after war was declared, that the
government did not intend to let the
west and feed stuffs south again after
the war 1t is said now that the govern
ment means to do that very thing
Western products are going to be used
to meet requirements elsewhere, to
keep up the soldiers and the armies of
the allies. They are not coming south
When government food regulation sets
in, this thing may be looked for. 1t
is coming.
Now, we have not a dollars worth
of equipment to meet the needs here.
We have nothing absolutely moth
ing-with which we can encourage the
growing Of food stuffs here among us
on a large scale. The little home
plants are to the food products situa-
ton what the corn shelter is to the
elevator.
We need the big steam drying house
that can save Neighbor Jones' load of
hay that was caught in the rain and
hauled all the way to town in the
rain. We need the plant that can
make high standard feed stuff of that
load of costly pea vine hay, that under
other conditions would be lost. We
need that drying plant because it will
save thousand and thousands of dol
lars in feed stuffs from our own farms
that cannot be saved without it. We
need it for the beans alone.
We need the feed plant. because it
can put up from our farms a sack of
feed at cost of II to 80 cents, right
now, and to buy it on open market
means an expenditure of at least $3.50
The difference goes into freight, hand
ling, rehandling and shipping and
through various hands where a profit
has, to- be made each time. We, want
to prepare here in Cordele to put corn,
peas, sorghums, beans, hay and the
various forages into concentrated food
stuffs, because there is going to be a
great surplus of just this kind of
products from our farms and there
isn't going to be any other way to
put it into marketable shape, nor even
into shape for preserving and saving
fer mid-winter and off-season uses.
That must be done, because we can
not buy western products when the
government holds up shipments from
that section. Our farmers are willing
to make what we need. They are try
ing to do that right now and they are
wondering at the same time where in
the world they are going to put the
crops,-what they are going to do
with them when they are made. They
cannot sell their products in rough
Shape.
You may fool one of the live farmers
into growing great quantity of food
stuffs this season and let him fail to
fro sale for it,-fail to get it into
marketable shape where it can be used
to meet the absence of the western
orders, and evntually he will lose the
whole output You may do that just
one season, but you will not get him
il tc that another year.
Pass up the feed plant we need so
badly this year and next year you
could mot pull a farmer into making
tho very food stuffs that we really
must have from some source What
are you going to do about it?
Tifton Moultrie, Albany, valdosta,
and other Georgia centers are quietly
building the feed mills and adding the
drying plants. They know the neces-
sity. Somebody ought to be stirring
in Cordele,-in Crisp county. We call