Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-22
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DE ESTABLISHED
BY MARKET BUREAU

ATLANTA, August 22.-ThrOu2h Leg
islaive recognition, in a special act
just passed, and accompanied by a
maintenance appropriation, the Geor-
gia state bureau of markets is an ac-
complished fact.
What the department proposes to
do now is to make the market bureau
the most efficient agency of its kind in
the South, in assisting the Georgia
farmer to find always a ready cash
market for his surplus food crops. To
do this we must have organization,
system and the hearty and cordial CO.
operation of each community in the
state.
For efficient service every county in
the state must have its local market
depot where the home farmer can take
/ his surplus food products, whether
carload or a wagonlOad or what-not
and dispose of them for cash. There
these can be combined into larger lots
for shipment to the most advantageou;
market.
One of the first works of the state
market bureau under the direction OF
IL B. Jackson will be the establish
ment of these local market depots, III
which the department urges the full
cooperation and assistance of farm
/ ers. local merchants and bankers. They
have already been organized in several
counties; but every county must have
its own. Those interested should write
the department at once, for the time
is here when prompt action is neces~
sary. The fall is on us and the har~
vest is ready. There must be no delay
in establishing ready markets.
"Now that we have the law" said
Commissioner J. J. Brown, and mod
est appropriation, we propose to give
Georgia farmers the most efficient
market service we know how. The SER
vices of the bureau are at the disposal
of all of them, and l urge them to come
forward and ask for just what they
want"
The state department of agriculture
is glad to be able to inform the far
mers Of Georgia that through the eff
forts of the Georgia market bureau, the
sweet potato, so widely grown in this
state, has definitely and finally been
added to the army ration and will be a
substantial part of the diet of the Unit
led States troops this fall.
When the market bureau discovered
that the sweet potato had been omitted
from the army ration, it took the mat
tel up with the chief quartermaster's
department, and failing to secure sat.
isfaction there, telegraphed all the
Georgia congressman, and got agri-
cultural departments of other states to
telegraph their congressman, asking
them to get busy with the problem az
once
The result is the announcement
which has just come from Washing
ton that the sweet potato has now been
made part of the army diet and will
be extensively used during the COM
ing fall and winter
Georgia, it is estimated, will make
10,5000G0 bushels Of sweet potatoes
this year, or 80 per cent. more than
last. Other southern states have also
increased their production, and it is
Of great Importance to the growers Of
this splendid food product, that on
of the most valuable of all markets
has been kept open to it.
Resolutions cordially thanking the
farmers of Georgia for their splendid
response to the fall for more fool
crops, were unanimously adopted al
the meeting Of the Georgia Food coun-
Gil just held in Atlanta, at the call OF
Chairman J. ]. Brown All parts OF
the state were represented. 1t was
agreed that go per cent Is a most con-
sentative estimate of the increase in
, food crops over last year,
In another resolution the Georgia
food council emphasized the import
ance and necessity of planting this