Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-01
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the individual classes of ANIMALS
must be considered and met. In this
country, we enjoy climatic and soil
conditions which will enable us to
expand live stock industries almost
\ indefinitely provided we have two
things: First, suitable grazing areas,
and second, plenty of corn. Can we
grow more corn in Georgia than we
are now raising at a profit? Is it
desirable to do so? What benefits
yield? These are pertinent questions.
They are of vast economic concern.
| They strike at the foundation of our
agricultural progress. Their correct
answer will determine whether we
shall be able to superimpose a new
! Georgia agriculture economically
| speaking on our common wealth as
| it exists today. I answer all of these
questions in the affirmative. We
| have been pursuing a certain line of
policy in our farming operations. We
| have reached the zenith of our de-
lvelopment along this particular line
We must now change our points of
view and our tactics. We must be-
come a great state from the ANNA!
| industry point of view. How shall
We accomplish this? By doubling
the corp crop. Our present produc-
ton is around 7O,O0O,OO0 bushels in
a normal crop year. Can we make
! it 100000 bushels? I again an
swer yes. Will it pay us to produce
the amount of corn indicated? 1t
surely will. VIII there be maEket
for it at home? There certainly will
be. The time is not far distant for
instance, when Georgia must double
the number of beef animals she now
maintains. She must treble her dairy
cow and double the number of swine.
This can only be done profitably and
with advantage if we increase OR
corn yield. We can make pork very
cheaply on peanuts and sweet pota-
toes and other grazing crops. The
quality of it, however, is not salts
factory. If we feed some corn, how
ever, we change this whole situa-
ton. Hence, corn becomes essential
to the doubling of the number of
hogs we are maintaining in the state.
We must double the number or hogs
to provide profitable employment on
many of our farms and supply the
needs of our state in regard to meat,
lard and other essential food prod
ucts. We have velvet beans, pea
nut meal and cotton seed meal; but
we need corn in order to combine
these highly concentrated feeds into
satisfactory rations for beef and
dairy cattle. We can never expect
to be rich and prosperous if we de-
pend on buying our corn somewhere
else. It costs us too much, and it
represents too great a drain on our
present stage of our development
becomes the liking pin" of the situa-
ton, and just in proportion as we
increase our available supply of corn
will We make the fundamental prog
ress which is necessary along the
lines indicated.
How shall we proceed to increase
the yield of corn? We might double
the acreage. This is possible and
practicable. We have millions of
acres of land that has not yet
been brought under the pillow. I
| would be opposed to this plan, how
ever, though 1 think a large in
| crease in our acreage is desirable.
My first thought would be, to util-
hitherto not been cleared up and
of this type of land added to the
corn crop by fifty million bushels.
ance through the selection of seed
can obtain an increased yield Of
| five bushels per acre. This would
add twenty-five million bushels to
our present output Of corn and
| would insure a solution of the
problem.
At the present time we are grow
not we'll adapted to the soil or eli
matte conditions under which they
are being cultivated. How much
purebred corn are we really Guilt
waiting? Only a negligible quantity.
The wild sweet Dea contains one