Americus times-recorder., 1919-10-01


ning-the raw material to keep the wheels turn
ing
But Georgia compete with the great hog
raising West? you ask. Well the hog-raising
West is now being transferred to the South-to
Georga-for the very simple reason that THE
WEST CAN NOT COMPETE with the South.
There are many reasons why it can not.
For instance: The freight rate from Chicago
or Kansas City or Cincinnati to the Southeastern
seaboard-Savannah, Brunswick or Jacksonville
where the big South and Central American trade
is going, is 90 cents. The rate from Americus is
about IS cents. 1t requires eight or nine days to
ship from the West. Each car must be iced FIVE
seven times at a cost of $l4 or SIS per car.
A,nericus is only eight or ten hours from these
ports and the cars require only ONE icing. Some
saving there And when it is taken into considera-
ton that these big packers figure onehalf of one
cent profit the meat they ship you readily see
why the West not compete with us.
Another item-and big one. We have an
open season of twelve months in the year, when
hogs and cattle be fed out of doors, when food
stufs can be raised for them to fatten on In the
W est SIX or seven months is the limit and expensive
barns must be maintained to house hogs and cat
tie for the other half of the year and to for
age and grain for their feed
Very recently man came from the West to
Georgia to go into the packing house business. His
Western friends gave him the laugh A little later
ne returned to Chicago and was asked how he was
getting on down here in the South.
Where do you get the water for your plant? -
L., IL IL Il
Out of the ground, he replied
How the hogs you are getting?
Bad (That was three years ago.
Well, what's the prospects?''
Better"
What is the logical conclusion of your ex-
periment?"
The best hogs in the world" he replied
You fellows in the West will be coming down ir
South Georgia to buy me out before very long
And they have. Already Armour and Swift
have bought the plants at Moultrie and Tifton
They adding hundreds of thousand dollars ir
larger buildings and more equipment Moultrie
is jumping forward by leaps and bounds Moultrie
expects to have 10000 people in ten wears
"a jump from ten or twelve thousand.
Within the last few days one of America
iSodlAS packers came INTO Georgla-JuSt to see
He visited several places. He went into the hog
raising possibilities very exhaustively. He made
the most thorough investigation AS he boarded
train for home he said
1t is from this section that the world will b.
supplied with pork
l have thought for some time that these
possibilities existed, but they seemed to be in the
rather distant future. was wrong Your lead
ership of this great industry is already here. VIZ
of the West will be getting pretty busy from
now on
What of Americus2 Are we to sit tight and
let another good thing go by? Are we to wall
until the gigantic packers have taken what thev
want, going into the towns around us and leavine
US out in the cold?
Are we to raise the hogs and then ship them
: to Moultrie, or Tifton, or Albany, or Macon
swelling their weekly pay rosp
Are we good TAKERS and nothing rnorep
Today Americus and Sumter County face .ons
of its greatest opportunities. Have we the grit anc
! the determination to co AHEAD, or shall ",
| Just talk little longerp
Wake up. This is 1919