The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-01-23
Group No. | OF State College of
Agriculture Campaigners Are
Here.
Meeting Opens Today. Many
Notable Georgians Interested
in the Subject Arrived Here
Yesterday.

Group No. l of the State College
of Agriculture Hog and Hominy"
campaigners reached Brunswick yes
-crday and open their first meeting
If the week III Glynn county today
rhe speakers are all picked men of
,noWn ability who are scEt out by
the college to encourage and instruct
he farmers Of the county in meeting
me coming OF the boil weeyi
The group is in charge of j. G. Ol
yer. Of Americas, an experienced farm
demonstration agent, thoroughly ac-
luainted with Georgia farm condi.
tons, Mr.. Oliver is directing the cam
paign with four groups Of speakers
ana is travelling as Il member Of
Group No !.
Mr.. b. j. Moore, of Jackson, Miss.
lS an experienced farmer. who has
successfully grown cotton in Missis
sippi under boil weevil conditions
Mr. Moore will have his headquarters
at Savannah and will accompany
Group No. /. He has been employed
~ WV NJ Al i'Nldi vi AEIlCul-
ture to instruct farmers OF South
Georgia in cotton growing and will
be associated with the State College
Of Agriculture
Jas f.. Downing. of Athens, has
harge of boys pig clubs in. Georgia
He will give instructions in hog
growing and meat making 'at
Every county in South Georgia can
produce meat cheaper than the states
that provide the supply shipped in II
is not so much a problem of raising
the hogs as it is of saving the meat
Experiments that have been conduct
ed at Valdosta the past four winters
show conclusively that the best way
TO cure meat and the best place to
cure il is in the surplus ice room Of
an ice-making plant Last winter the
plant at Valdosta cured one hundred
and forty tons of good sweet meat
for the farmers of LOwndes county
1t was worth, when cured. $4,000
Four years ago these same farmers
were buying meat apd paying mucn
higher price for 1t than it could be
produced at home
Brooks county farmers usually sell
about $40 900 worth OF meat each win
ter season 1t is cash winter cron
that does not hinder any other farm
ing operations. eXcept preparing some.
thing for the hogs to eat.
Grady county farmers raise enough
meat for home needs and supply the
merchants. Last winter Grady coun.
tv shipped fifty carloads of hogs to
Moultrie. At the present time buy
ors are paying eight cents pound
liveweight at Cairo, and Grady is re.
garded as more of a syrup county
than anything else
Glynn county does not attempt tn
produce much cotton, but there seems
to be no good reason why more hogs
could not be raised and more good
home-cured meat made and sold in
Brunswick. Live hogs at eight cents
pound: dressed hogs at ten cents
a pound or country cured hams at
twenty-five cents a pound sounds like
good business.
The men composing Group No ]
from the college. who are talking
to the farmers of the county TODAY
and tomorrow are preaching doc.
trine Of living at home and producing
vOur food supply The coIleTe Is en-
deavoring to send good sound advice
10 the very door Of the farmers in
Glynn county and point ont some OF
the neglected opportunities that
should be taken advantage Of Glynn
county should be hog raising and
meat producing county and Brunswick
business firms will provide a good
market for these home-raised prod.
ucts.