Americus times-recorder., 1919-12-01
LEST WE FORGET.

While the movement for the organization Of
packing plant in Sumter county is quietly under
way, with every prospect of early success it may
prove of interest here to read reprint of an
article printed two years ago-December a. 1917
in the Moultrie Observer, concerning the sue.
of the Moultrie packing venture which was
then in its infancy having been in operation only
year;
Notwithstanding the fact that the Moutrie
Packing Plant has been enlarged to several times
its original size, and although there are three plants
operating in South Georgia. one more than last
year at this time and although it is still early in
the season for a great rush of hogs on the market
yet it is fact that the hog receipts at this point
have been heavy for the past three weeks the To-
cal plant has been swamped and yestrday had to
ship entire train load of fourteen cars of live
hogs to one of the Swift plants in New Jersey.
his is simply one of the indications of how
fast the hog business is multiplying in the southern
part of Georgia, and those government experts
who claimed at the beginning that MouItre was
making mistake to build packing plant before
the livestock was on hand, have had their theories
entirely overturned for everybody now knows that
the market must proceed the livestock and that
business men must make market for it. which
holds good with all other products raised on the
farm
This principle has been demonstrated in
Moultrie on seven other products during the pres
ent season in connection with last year 8 announce
ments by the business men of this city. They
made positive announcement last year that there
would be markets this year for cream, peanuts vel
vet beans, corn, hay, oats and sweet potatoes and
the results were magic, for last Saturday one
man stood on and counted FIVE hundred
and SIXTY wagon loads of these products passing
to the warehouses of Moultrie, where standard mar
kets have been established for every one of thes,
products and where standard prices prevail
And now the women of the county have or
ganized and for the first time in the history o
Georgia, the women will have standard marke
tor everything a woman can produce and wher,
she can sell it without having to peddle it arounc
town. This market is under the general super
vision of Miss Texas Henderson, county economic
agent She has appointed supervisor from eacl
militia district of the county see that the prod
ucts from that district are brought into the mar
ket thoroughly prepared and in neat form for sal,
and the whole community has been notified tha
the market will be opened at a certain time and tn.
products that will be on sale Over hundred
products have been classified for sale and the in
dications that the woman s market of Colout
county is going to be the biggest trading place ii
town next Saturday when it opens
The Moultrie Packing Plant has been oper
ating three years. Its original capacity was 25C
hogs and 20 cattle daily. The summer followins
its FIRST winters operation the plant was enlarged
to 900 hogs daily, the addition costing somewha
over $4,000. Recently the plant was purchased
by the Swifts and they are just now completing ar
addition with a capacity of 500 hogs and 300 cat
tie daily The addition will cost over $500, 600
1t is said another addition is to follow immediateIy
which is to cost million dollars
Moultrie had $500 population when the plan
was built in 1914. 1t now has about 8, 900 with
fair prospect of $1,000 by 1920. The c. l.
Brooks Engineering Co. built the Moultrie plant and
MIR. Brooks managed it until he resigned to give
his time to the supervision of ten other plants he
has built and is building in the South.