The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1920-04-29
MISSISSIPPI DAIRY
BUSINESS GROWING
Report Shows That Butter Sold From
the State During 1919 Amounted
to $2,4OO,OO0--In 1912 It Was S4,-
400.


Great strides are being made in the
dairy business in Mississippi, accord
ing to E. G. Wade and H. G. Grant
ham, agricultural agents for the Illi-
neis Central and Yazoo & Mississippi
Valley lines, which have just complet-
ed a survey of this business for Of
fetal reports to be made to H. J.
Schwietert, general development ag-
ent at Chicago.
The dairy products from Mississip-
pi in 1919 brought $2,400,000 to this
state. For the IL months in 1912 the
sale Of these products amounted To
but $4,400. Numbers of new cream
cries have been established during the
past year and many more will be
working by the last Of this year, said
Mr.. Wade.
"Dairying has done more to develop
the rural industries in Mississippi
than any class Of farming said Mr..
Wade. Farmers are going into the
pureblood stock business. Very few
will harbor COW unless she is the
best. They have realized the value Of
pureblood stock and in those sections
where dairying has been more devel-
oped than other parts Of the state
farmers are showing more prosperity.
Last week we passed through a
section where a few years ago farm
ers came to town in their wagons,
through mud almost axle-deep. They
were poorly dressed. They bought q
side Of meat, small sack of corn
meal or flour, some other trinkets and
left early for home, knowing that bad
roads would prevent rapid travelling.
when ] saw some Of these same
people coming in last week / Was sur
prised to see their families in auto
mobiles. Instead Of buying side Of
meat they had a butehered hog for
sale. The man wore new suit of
clothes and the members Of his family
were well dressed. While the old man
attended to banking business the FAM
lily went to a moving picture show.
Il asked leading merchant 10 ex-
plain the change. He said II was
dairying. | was told that this man
quit growing cotton on his land, got
some fine dairy cows and now gets
a monthly check Of $3.50 a month for
the cream he is selling to the cream
cry located in that town. He owns a
pretty good farm His dairy cattle
have enriched it and he is raising all
the feed to carry his cows through
the winter. He has electric lights in
his house and barns. He is going to
build a new residence this summer
and next winter will send his oldest
boy and girl away to college.
Il could relate many other similar
cases." continued Mr.. Wade. II must
say that / have never observed more
development in the dairying line in
Mississippi than has been established
along the main line Of the Illinois
Central Railroad and it is all due to
the work Of the agricultural depart
ment, which has for years flooded the
state with propaganda with view to
inducing farmers to take up this class
Of work"
Mr.. Wade told Of towns where
ereameries had been established with
in the past few months. One Of these
he said was at Brookhaven. There
most Of the farmers for 10 miles a.
round the city have gone heavily in-
to dairying. The creamery is pros
porous and is making the farmers
rich.
Another large creamery is located
at Aberdeen. This creamery was es-
tablished in 1915. The first year there
were 80, 800 pounds Of butter fat ham
died by it and S10,562.50 paid to dairy
farmers. In 1916 this creamery han
died 293 ,404 pounds Of butter fat and
distributed $98,533.65 among the
farmers.
In 1917 the creamery handled 3l0,-
418 pounds Of butter fat, distributing
s127,12S.68 among farmers. IN 1918
there were 316,T74 pounds Of butter
fat handled and $157 ,298.89 distribut-
ed among farmers. In 1918 the
creamery handled 407 ,495 pounds Of
butter fat and distributed among the
farmers S233,019.s2.