Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-15
AUGUSTA DESTINED TO BE
BIG FARM MARKET CENTER


that it's satisfactory experience will
encourage the establishment Of in
dustries to handle some Of the di-
versif1ed farm products that can be
produced in profitable profusion in
the Augusta territory.
There is a creamery at Augusta
the Georgia-Carolina Dairy Products
company-capable of 'churning 1900
pounds of butter a day. It is an
established success, but it's develop
ment is, hindered because of ina
bility to secure an abundance Of
cream.
The presence of the creamery at
Augusta suggests itself as g. solu-
ton in the Encouragement of diver
sification Throughout the valley of
the Savannah river, The experience
of the farmers OF Dallas county,
Alabama, as shown by investigations
Of the creamery business at Selma,
demonstrates the practicability and
wisdom of dairying as a profitable
enterprise for farmers.
Paying q Premium for Cream
The Georgia Carolina Dairy Prod.
ucts company Is paying a premium
for cream; that is to say, it is pay
ing bonus of cents per pound
above the Elgin market for butter
fat. Its daily receipts Of creamy in
butter fat content, amount to 500
pounds. Most of it Is shipped from
Columbia and Burke counties, al
though some comes from South Car
DINA points.
On the basis of the prices prevail
ing at Augusta for cream, a gallon
Of milk will yield about IL cents,
but-and this is important-the dali
ryman keeps the skinned milk,
which can and should be used to
feed to pigs.
At the creamery learned that
every effort is being made by it's
managers to encourage dairying in
the territory adjacent to Augusta,
but thus far these efforts have met
with only limited response, so
that the creamery has been unable
to develop it's full capacity.
1.-THE Georgia Carolina Dairy
Products company stands ready at
any time to install machinery for
manufacturing cheese, if the farmers
Of the territory prefer to ship whole
milk and will engage extensively in
it's production, an official Of the
company stated. a>
"As it is, we are making about
ESQ pounds of Golden Cream but
ter, which Is being sold locally in
Augusta. We could sell ten times
as much If we could get the cream,
sweet or sour, with which to manu-
facture it.
But under present conditions we
find it necessary at times to import
our raw product from Selma. We
are hopeful that the farmers will
awaken to the advantages Of dairy
ing, and that we will soon find it
possible to enlarge our. output of
butter and other dairy products"
Raise No Cotton at All
The fallacy of the belief that cot
ton, and cotton alone, can be pro
duced successfully in the Augusta
territory is demonstrated by the ex-
perience of. several successful farm
ers in Richmond county who do not
raise a bale of cotton. There are
lands within two miles of Augusta,
in the neighborhood of the magnif1-
cent levees that protect the city
against river overf1ows, that are as
rich as the delta of the Nile On
these there are farmers making
money producing corn, hay, oats and
all sorts of truck.
John r. McElmurray is the type
Of successful farmer who doesn't
pay any heed to cotton, and who
makes a handsome living in Rich.
mond county by diversified products
of his farm. But he produces only
the best commodities, and he has
small difficulty in finding a ready
market.
The Wingfield Orchard, Inc, has
proved that it is possible to produce
amongst the finest peaches in the
world at Augustus very door, and,
of course, there is no trouble about
selling peaches. The orchard have
mentioned was set out few years
! ago-12 900 trees. Its first big re-
turns came last season, when its
fruit brought SO cents per crate
above the Atlanta market, as pre-
MUM because Of its high quality.
The completion and opening of
the Sand Bar bridge over the Savan-
nah, to which allusion already has
been made, will, it is believed, lend
local encouragement to the necessity
for providing facilities for handling
other crops than cotton. =
AS the rich farming country OF
South Carolina is brought nearer to
| Augusta by the bridge, it will be-
come more and more apparent that
Augusta wilt lose what is justly hers
unless she prepares to handle the
| abundance of asparagus, MELONS,
fancy truck, rice and field peas that
will be offered for sale.
Circular Court
The Georgia Carolina fair was in
progress during my visit to Augusta,
and it was question whether to in.
spect the exhibits at the fair or Visit
| Circular Court, which Is considered
| as the finest farm in Georgia.
Jacob Phinizy's magnificent farm
| won the toss, and visit to Circular
Court vindicated fate. 1t is won.
derful farn-500 acres of highly cul
| tivated and well kept land, tribute
| to Mr.. 'Phinizy's interest in farming
"a farmer should produce on his
lands everything that it is possible
to produce" observed Mr.. Phinizy
who is president of the Georgia
Railroad bank. "I come very nearly
living up to this standard. Sugar
and rice are the only things that ]
purchase. Everything else comes of
of or out of the soil at Circular
Court"
Mr.. Phinizy is a believer in diversi
fled farming in every sense of the
word. #
my father, the late Ferdinand
| PhiniZy, of Athens had contepono1.