Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-28
why Buy What We Should GrowP

natural resources and the marvellous
adaptability of our soil and climate
food crop, We are guilty of importing
enormous amounts of. food into
Georgia each year. The figures pre-
sented are thought TO be fairly rep
resentative Of the existing conditions
in 1914. They indicate that we were
bringing into each county in Georgia
on the average meat and fats worth
approximately $4,000; stock feeds
such as hay. corn, oats and mill feed
worth $4,000; canned goods to the
value of $4,000; poultry and eggs to
the extent of $4,000; fresh vege-
$150,000, and butter and cheese worth
$4,000. We also were bringing in
work animals to the value of $4,000
per county each year. These figures
in the aggregate to $1,006,000
per county, $157, 100000 for the state,
depending on the estimate placed on
the present population of Georgia.
This seems incredible, and yet the
hgures are surely conservative, be-
cause values have advanced very
materially all along the line since
1914.
We must reduce the vast volume
or our agricultural wealth accord
ing to these figures to about $780,
10000 Ga year. In other words, we
0OO.O 900 year. In other sections
of $157,000,000 annually. One might
suppose under the circumstances
thas we could not grow these food
variety and abundance. Such a con-
clusion would be entirely "beside
the mark" Our failure in this d.
rection is due to not placing the
Fundamental facts more specifically
b beIore an our ZIP, people and giving our
the possibilities of Georgia soils.
We must train the rising generation
TO understand how to rotate crops
ana conduct a diversified and spe-
clallzed agriculture. This is the only
argument needed to show how DAM
come to great commonwealth. If
the money spent for foodstuffs ONT
sue the state were retained at
ilod1e' we could easily have schools:
Poaos, farm homes, orderly towns
a. ~ wages and great educational
De Lound In any other state in the
union. Is an end so desirable NOT
worth struggling to attain?
The conditions indicated exist in
a. state where the number of hogs
mas been increased in a decade nv
nearly 100000 head, a tribute to
the valuable and Importance of the
educational work promoted primarily
through the agency of the extension
DIVISION of the Georgia State Col
tege OF agriculture. We can raise
n t6es anu al other animals needed as
cneap4y ana of satisfactory quality
ana grade as can be finished in any
other section of the country. What
we need In Georgia is another mil
ION hogs. We have packing plants
fab5r ar TO handle them, and it is
gage off the farm, defeating "Billy,'
Dol Weevi1 and keeping at home about
$90.0OO,OOO worth Of money that we
sun send to the west for meat and
tats: a silo on every farm and
I uWieaty11 1t acres in grain would
we marketed our surplus fruits and
vegetables Systematically and gave
this industry just a little worth
Wh1le encouragement, we would soon
be growing and canning a surplus
OF these crops, and it is certain that
every g;d9g nome nci1s in Georgia could be pro,
s s1cen with locally packed foods OF
there that our poultry industry
should not be increased to an unlim-
tied degree? Why should be import
fresh vegetables in a state where
there t are square miles of undeyeloped
territory adapted to trucking? Geor-
gia now holds a leading position in
supplying the nation with peaches,
Watermelons and muskmelons. Why
should we not include tomatoes,
greens, beans, cabbage, lettuce and
flour should be imported because
every, farm, If properly organized,
would follow a diversified practice
that would insure the planting of a
sufficient area to wheat each year
to supply the needs of the family
a nd of l.
the residents of our towns and cities.
Butter and cheese Of the first quail
ity can be made in almost unlimited
quantities. This has been demon
strated SO frequently that the reitera-
ton of this statement does not seem
State College of Agriculture has es-
tablished, through the agency of it's
extension division, five cheese fac
tories in Georgia where an article
of the choicest character is now be-
ing made at a profit to the patrons.
work stock that is needed. The
progeny of a pair of high grade Per-
cheron mares, which cost the Geor-
gia State College of Agriculture $40,
were sold for $3.50 After ten years
Of service, these mares were sold for
$3.50. They certainly earned their
board and keep" for they did as
much per head as any mule on the
farm. There is left in the possess
sion Of the college at this time "a
pair of three-year-old fillies which
are worth at least $500.
Ali that we need is education alo~S
the lines indicated so as to develop
the knowledge and energy which will
enable us to branch out in all these
new lines Of effort. If we handle
properly, if we provide for them
ton in relation to agricultural and
home-making Industries, they will
solve this problem and make Geor-
gia self-sustaining in all respects.
It's attainment would place, Georgia
in the forefront of the sisterhood
of states. A state that pays $780,
100000 income tax to the federal
government should not balk at an en-
terprise of this character. We-can
us give the boys and girls the priv
ileges and opportunities to which
they are entitled. Let US stop the
leaks once and for all by learning to
live at home.
Classifying Hogs for Exhibition
the hogs for show il the following
manner; this classification is com
piled so as to fit conditions for the
shows of 1920:
Aged Boar-Two years old or
over.
Senior Yearling Boar-Must have
been narrowed Va. - ofte: September
l, 1918 and before March I, 1917.
Junior Yearling Boar-Must have
been narrowed or Or after March /.
1918, and before September 1, 1919.
Senior Boar Pig-Must have been
narrowed on or after March l, 1920,
1919 and before March l, 1920.
Junior Boar Pig-Must have been
narrowed on or after March 1, 1920
and before September :, 1920.
Aged Sow-Two years old or over.
Senior Yearling Sow-Must have
been narrowed on or before Septem-
Der 1, 1918 and before March 1, 1919.
Junior Yearling Sow-Must have
been narrowed on Or after March 1,
1919, and before September /, 1919.
Senior Pig-Must have been far
rowed on Or after September 1, 1919,
and before March l, 1920.
Junior Sow Pig-Must have been