The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-29
MARKET BUREAU
STARTS BUSINESS
COMMISSIONER BROWN URGES
PLANTING MORE WHEAT AND
GROUND CROPS.

Atlanta, Ga, August 27-tSpeciaD.
The Georgia State Bureau of Mar
kets IS now we'll organized and ready
to extend any assistance the farmers
OF Georgia may need i'll the market
ing of their surplus food products. \
Blanks have been printed which
any person may specify what he has
TO sell or what he wishes to buy.
These blanks will be furnished TO
anyone desiring lem. upon applica-
ton. This information is then kept
right before the Department, and at
the first opportunity the seller and
buyer are brought into touch with
each other.
Director l.. B. Jackson of the mar
ket bureau, in accordance with the
recent act of the Legislature, has al
ready made his bond of $500 and
filed it with the Governor. He is
now prepared to handle every cause
that needs marketing attention. All
who desire any information with re-
gard to the marketing of food pro-
ducts, or wish blanks upon which to
list what they have to sell or what
they wish to buy, should correspond
directly with the Department, and
each request will be given prompt at
tention. ,
With the sanction Of the State Leg
islature, the Georgian State Bureau
of Markets has already gone to work
upon the problem OF organizing local
market depots in every county in the
state 1t is giving fist attention to
those who have requested assistance.
Any county which wishes to organ
ize local depot for the purpose of
assembling food products in carload
lots for shipment and sale, or which
| wishes to join neighboring counties
in this work, should call on the De
| partment for assistance. Many of
! these local market depots have al
ready been organized; others are
simply awaiting their turn. Each
case will be taken UP in turn and or
ganization perfected as early as pos
sible The market bureau is anxious
to have every farmer in Georgia feel
that it is his, and to call on it for
what he wants.
The Department of Agriculture be
lieves the NEST important thing it is
doing right now-at least one OF
them-is urging the statewide plant
| ing of winter wheat.
No pillow should be idle this winter
Plant at least two acres of wheat to
every pillow you have, from October
! 1st to December 18th, according to
your climate, and where wheat grows
finest, plant more. The good wheat
growing counties should put cut at
least five to six acres to the pillow
no county should have less than an
average Of two acres to the pillow.
Figuring the lowest estimated yield
this must mean ten bushels to the
acre, or 100000 bushels in GeOr-
gia this year-enough to feed the en-
lire state But that is what we want
because it is what we have got to
have.
Wheat for seed is one of the big
and important agricultural problems
this fall. Many sections have all
they need; others are at a loss as to
where to get it.
Bankers, merchants and local
county food councils should get to.
gether NOW and solve the seed prob
! lem. The state market bureau stands
ready to help. Those who need seed
and cannot get it, should apply to the
market bureau. Those who have
seed TO sell should list it with the
market bureau.
But by all means, Georgia must
raise this fall and winter enough
wheat, rye, barley and cover crops
to take care of herself We can no
longer depend on outside agencies.
The market bureau is now in bust
ness ready to render service to the
producers and consumers The citi-
zens of the State, any and all Of
them, are welcome to call on it. It
will do its very best to respond to
their needs.