Americus times-recorder., 1919-10-27
PATRIOTISM AND PORK.

We talk great deal of how we love Georgia
and the Southland, and OF the great strides we are
making to become a sef-supporting state, but it
remained for transplanted Yankee-who proudly
proclaims that he has been Georgia cracker since
l9l4-to bring home the startling information that
the South will not eat its meat and that this
is of the chief reasons for the discrepancy in
the price of hogs in the South, as compared with
the North
This assertion was made at the big commun-
ty packing house rally last Thursday evening by
c L. Brooks, of the Macon Packing company, for
ger for the Allied Packers.
One of the greatest ways in which the hog
market can be helped in the South said he, is
for the housewives every time they buy piece of
bacon, ham side meat, or a pound of lard, to
ask for Southern stuff and insist upon getting it. Not
only is Southern pork just as good as Northern and
Western, but, to my way of thinking and that of
many Northerners, better. But because of the fact
that the packer cannot sell Southern meat in the
South, he has to send it north to be disposed Of AS
consequence, he is unable to pay as much for the
hogs, because of the necessity of going into the
Northern markets with long freight hauls in com
petition with local stuff Here is a concrete exam
pie OF what this fact means. At this time Eastern
pork bellies quoted at about Is IL cents
Western. % IL cents, and Georgia | to l9
cents. The Southern pork shows shrinkage oi
to 10 per cent. than the hrmer Western OF
Northern product. and the combined shrnkage
and difference in market price represents differ
ence OF hve cents per pound~n live weight
To my own mind there is no comparison be
tween the Georgia pork and the Northern woulc
rather pay cents pc, pound more for native
Georgia ham for my home table than for the fin
est Western or Northern ham ever produced Al
for Georgia lard, III tell you something probably
none of you know. Three-quarters of pound O
native lard will go far as one pound of North
lard, this having been proven time and agair
by test An Atlanta baker has discovered this fac
and is cashing in on it.
If we would all get together in the Soutl
and demand Southern pork and lard, instead O
the shipped-in stuff the farmers would soon be get
ting as much for their hogs as the Northern ant
Western farmers
Mr.. Brooks also made plea for more con
sistent marketing of hogs matter which Th
Iimes-Recorder has repeatedly called to the atten
ton of the hog grower
Cut out marketing all of your hogs in No
vember December, January and the first half O
February, he said; keep the packing houses hun
cry and they will pay the price for your hogs Fee,
your hogs so that you can market them few at
time all along through the year. The capacity O
the packing houses is limited. They can handl
only certain number of hogs daily. When NOR
than they use are thrown onto the market i
the months named if they buy them they have t
hold them until they are ready to use them This
expensive and, ct course, they are not going t
pay fancy price under this condition
And Mr. Brooks had another bit of valuabl
advice: Feed your hogs, don't starve them
he urged. Get EN- on the market at and
months. You can do it down here if you will
with your open winters. Also because of thi
and the ease with which feeling can be done hog
be raised here at about half the cost in tn
North and West. That is why Georgia is about t
become the leading hog producing state of tn
nation