Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-01
Refrigerating Plant to Be
Added When Farmers En-
gage More Extensively in
Dairying and Hog Raising
BY RALPH SMITH

EN- ROUTE, Nov. 29.-The cree
ton of an ice factory at a cost of
$40, 900 marks an initial step in the
encouragement Of farm diversified
ton in Walton county through the
provision in Monroe of facilities for
helping the farmers to handle other
products than cotton. Ice in guam
titles sufficient to supply the local
requirements Of Monroe and farmers
throughout Walton will be manufac-
tured in the local plant.
when the ice factory is we'll es-
tablished and the farmers have been
persuaded to engage more extensive
ly in cattle and hog production, a
refrigerating plant will be installed
in connection with the ice factory"
explained Secretary Albert N. Mob
ley, of the Monroe board of trade.
"The refrigerating plant will at
ford ample facilities to the farmers
to store and preserve such meat as
they may kill on their farms, and
this advantage will, we believe, help
to encourage hog production"
And, as, Mr.. Mobley explained
further, the ice plant will eventual
ly be equipped with modern means
for handling dairy products.
"Of course said he, 1--WE do not
intend to establish creamery in
Monroe until it has been demon
strated beyond all question that we
have cows enough in the county
tc furnish the creamery with an
abundance Of cream and milk. Just
now, as we know in Monroe, there
is a creamery at the state college,
at Athens, which is crying for
cream with which to enlarge it's out
put, and until our Walton county
farmers avail themselves of the adj
We ntages Of this market it would be
futile for us to put in a creamery
in Monroe"
A Past Experience
Mr.. Mobley remarked that the
business people of Monroe will be
in the creamery enter
prise by a sad, but not an unusual,
that some of them had
several years ago with manufac-
turing plant.
"a smart young fellow came into
this section several years ago and
at a point not a million miles from
Monroe he established a handle fac
tory" said Mr.. Mobley. 1.-The plant
did we'll and made splendid profit.
1t was the envy of many men, and
we thought handle factory would
be fine thing for Monroe.
But new plant was not estab-
lished in our fair city. Instead,
some of our business men joined to-
gether and negotiated with the own
err of the prosperous plant for the
purchase of his enterprise. He was
al ~
summated. and the plant was moved.
lock, stock and barrel, to Monroe.
"For time the handle factory
hummed with life and activity. 1t
was a busy place. but all Of a sud-
den the hustle and hustle subsidized.
1t then developed that the handle
factory had used up all of the avail
able hardwood in the vicinity in the
of handles. There was
no adequate supply of raw material
available, and the handle plant
eventually quit business. Likely as
not, the fellow who sold out real
lied that sooner or later-probably
sooner-he would be hard put to 1t
for raw material with which to op-
crate his plant and was, therefore,
glad of the opportunity to unload"
is not going to be forgotten by the
business men Of Monroe, and before
they invest any money in a cream
cry they are going to be assured
good and plenty that there is IN
sight an abundance of raw material
milk and cream-to keep their
plant going That is why, for the
present, Monroe is going to encour-
age the shipment of sour cream to
the state college.
Dairying and Hogs
But there is an unmistakable in
terest in Monroe in the possibili-
ties of dairying and hog production,
and it is a fortunate circumstance
that two Of the county's most sue
cessful men have been placed at the
head of the two committees of the
board of trade that are going to de-
wise means for encouraging these in
dustries.
With John M. NOVEL;, president of
the Farmers bank, dairying and
dairy cattle is a hobby. He has
studied the question for a long
time, and the more he has studied
the more has he been convinced that
the industry offers a wonderful OPP
portunity for successful farming.
The men associated with him on
the committee feel no less interest
in the question, and between them
il is confidently believed in Monroe
that means will be evolved for en-