Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-16
Gives Him Steady Cash In
come the Year Round That
viii Pay Many Expenses
BY ROLAND TURNER
General Agricultural Agent South
ern Railway System.)


age farmer.
A business community serving a
back country, whose farmers pay
cash for their supplies throughout
the year, and can lay aside the pro-
ceeds from their main crop as sur
plus.
Where such conditions prevail
prosperity reigns. There is hardly
a community in Georgia where the
opportunity to bring about such con-
ditions does not exist if the business
men and farmers will get together
and take up dairying on the sour
cream basis.
Sour cream dairying means the
manufacture Of butter in centrally
ers bring their cream twice a week.
The necessary machinery can be in
stalled in any town which has an
at an outlay of only a few thousand
dollars.
Enough cream to warrant the OPP
GRAFTON of such creamery can be
provided by number OF farmers
e meh ooNs anG as e2 k1sp to se
their cream to the creamery.
The market for the product is at
hand as Georgia and the other
southern states are now importing
thousands of dollars worth Of but
ter every year. Butter which can
duced on the average farm, but any
farmer can keep few COWS and ar
range to ship his cream to the cream
cry twice week.
Interest in dairying upon. a sour
cream basis or the sale of cream,
feeding to pigs and poultry and rails
ing calves, is growing by leaps and
bounds in most of the south.
The reason is that farmers have
never before realized so forcefully
portance of a steady cash income
twice a month. An income. usually
twice a month, from the sale Of
cream and the almost constant cash
income from the sale of eggs and
finance his farm and thus. remove
the necessity of borrowing from the
bank or arranging for credit at the
supply store for the necessaries for
the family and the farm Throughout
the crop maAing perltoa reo 3 iiga qSat
debt is as a milestone about their
necks and that the old idea of de-
pending upon a loan from the bank
or credit at the supply store or, H.
nance their crops means something
approximating slavery.
There was never q time so FAVOR
able for adding a few cows to the
farming scheme and increasing the
hogs and poultry produced as now.
The cotton acreage has been greatly
reduced. The land thus released from
cotton has largely been planted to
corn and feed crops. We apparently
will have more feed the coming fall
than ever before and thus will be in
better shape to feed a few additional
COWS. BY commencing now greatly
every farm by another spring.
There are two propositions that
are fundamental and that farmers
must strive to meet if our agriculture
perity to which we are entitled by
virtue of our many advantages of
soil and climate is to be reached and
maintained.
First, we must realize that we
cannot make profitable crops on poor
system of agriculture that will en-
able us to build up and maintain
our soils in a high state of pro-
ductiveness must be worked out. Crop
to prevent washing and the addi-
ton of humus both from the resi-
due of crops and from manure from
live stock will solve the problem OF
soil building and maintenance.
Second. we must get away from
the necessity of going into debt for
the current expenses of the family
and farm during the crop making
period. We must work out such
system as will give US
cash income from month to month
throughout the year, thus proceed
four to eight or ten dairy COWS upon
the average of two or three-horse
farm will greatly facilitate the meet
ing of both these problems.
The number of cows here suggest |
ed, If kept on the farm, the cream
and hogs. would give the farmer a
sufficient cash income from the |
cream sales. the sales of poultry |
and eggs, to pay running expenses
Of the farm. Upon the average farm |
the number of cows here suggested |
would receive from 80 per cent to
SO per cent Of their feed from
dairy cows would not reckon at all |
In other words, the dairy cows would |
utilize the waste about the farm to |
the extent of fully 80 per cent to
so per cent of their keep. Another |
advantage is that where cows are |
are grown and from the residue of |
these crops and from manure result |
ing from feeding these to live stock, !
fertility would be restored to the |
soil, meeting the proposition of build |
ing up and maintaining our soils in |
a higher state of fertility and the |
making of much more profitable |
yields of whatever crops we may |
elect to grow that we are now get |
ting.
This type of dairying would add to
the family food supply the most |
wholesome, health giving foods, oh
and butter. but eggs as well. Many |
southern farm families do not have |
as abundant a supply of milk and |
butter and poultry and eggs upon |
their tables as they should have in |
Of these most desirable and health
full foods.
No great amount of money is |
necessary to start into dairying up |
on the scale here suggested. Pure |
bred cows are not necessarily. re- |
begin with any good COW that will |
produce as much as two gallons or |
milk per day. Of course better cows |
may be bought as the business |
grows and besides cows should be |
bred for increased production. The |
problem OF breeding Tor nlgner pro-
duction can be very well met by |
cooperation in the ownership of |
bulls from high producing ancestors. !
The average farm COW, giving two |
gallons of milk a day, if bred to |
a good bull with a record OF 500 |
pounds of fat or better per year,
Should produce a heifer that Will |
at freshening milk almost double
that Of her dam.
The essentials of this type of !
dairying are feed and pasturage.
Pasturage is important and the MAX
ing Of the pasture should be upon
the same basis as the production
of a crop. The land should be well |
and seeded to grasses of the !
right kinds and after that grasses
should be given a chance to get
welE set before being grazed too
heavily. Cow peas, soy beans, velvet
beans sudan grass, sorghum ana