The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-01-18
handsome returns to it's progressive
and farsighted owners.

handsome returns to its progressive
and farsighted owners.
South Georeia's Greatest Need.
The man Of greatest value to South
west Georgia is not the man who can
make two blades of grass grow where
one grew before, but the man who can
make one hog grow where none grew
before and who can make two pounds
Of meat grow on the hog where only
one grew before. And wha. : true OF
hogs is true of cattle For Southwest
Georgia will never prosper, as God ill
tended the section to .)r,s>er when He
endowed it so lavishly with fertility
and climatic conditions so c.. on
al, until the farms in tbs section pro.
duce the meat for which hundreds OF
thousands Of dollars have been sent 10
Tie West every year What if oal cot
ton does sell for 80 cents aSpodnd. If
we have to pay 80 cents a pound for
meat and have to buy DIS many pounds
Of meat as We sell of cotton9 Row
can our section become richer urda..
such & system? 1t is like pouring VI
Ter in a siere
A Hog, Fioniny and Hay Farm.
Churbro Farm is just such a hug
has been pleading for for 20 yacrs. Il
IS farm which is self-sustaining. Ii
is farm on which cotton is a surpiuj
money crop entirely. 1t is a farm
which raises large quantities of corn,
hay and velvet beans and sells them Oh
the ho0f
Churbro Firm is owned jointly by :
Fl and A. f. Churchwell, and the
Drother-in-law, NJ p. Calhoun, each OF
whom is equally interested in the Ell
terprise Mr. A F. Churchwell was fer
many years resident of Albany, mov-
ing to Cordele where he has built
splendidly upon the fine success which
he began here. 1t is fortunate for
this section that two men of such arr
Gle means should have had the vision
and that they should have found in
their brother-in-law, man with the
practical ability to make Churbro Farm
such a success
Has Ante-BeIIum Air.
Nh Calhoun lives on the farm and
gives it his undivided attention. II
takes the ability Of a real farmer AMI
stockman to keep a farm of 100 acres
such as the Churbro Farm going as il
should go. The thing that first i'm
pressed me about the Churbro Farm
was the house of Mr.. Calhoun and its
surroundings The house is d big, Two
stored white house of pleasing colo
nial design that sits in a grove of LARGE
water oaks and that is surrounded Dr
beautiful flowers and hedges, with
everything .crupulously clean and woIl
ACpt' u mas d SUI Vi dHleDSlluiG . =.
about it, like the places that our Ia.
| theirs used to tell us abiut as making
country life in this section such
pleasure in the fifties. And thu.
when ! saw Mr.. Calhoun out among his,
pigs and his COWS, when saw how IN
terested he was in them, how lie really
loved them, how he knew them all and
called them by name, like the good
shepherd, then | understood what was
behind the success of the interpriae
which he and his brothers-in-law haG
launched there at Coney On such an uy-
tensive scale
Head of Hog Herd Weighs $50 Pounrc.
| did not take many notes when /
visited Churbro Farm. was looking
at the big idea of the farm than at the
details which made it big. was in.
pressed with the big silo loaded with
ensilage for the winter, with the great
barn which stood in its shadow, with
the arrangements for housing the piss
and the cows, with the system of pr-
vate houses and yards for each proCd
sow with her family of pigs And then
The pigs and the cattle came in fCl'
their share of admiration | could not
look on them with the eye of an e.,
pert, because, having been raised in
Southwest Georgia, my opportunities
or seeing highly bred hogs and cattle
have been all too limited But :"
would not require an expert to see the
quality in the 200 and odd Duroc Je.'
sey hogs on the Churbro Farm. From
the big old boar, the head of the herd
which weighs over $50 pounds, down
to the tiniest little pigs few hours
old, you can see the "class" in ever.
animal. Perfect Imperator" in TIC
animal Perfect Imperator' is the
deserves just that high sounding
name and that he is living fully fully