Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-03
GWLNNETT HAS PROGRAM
TO>CONQUER ADVERSELY
BY RALPH SMITH

a two-fisted fight with adversely.
and they are going to win. They
are going to win because they have
set about winning in the right way.
The boil weevil, we'll entrenched in
their fields, played havoc with their
cotton this year. The normal pro-
duction was reduced from 10000 to
10000 bales, and practically every
one of the 4,646 farms suffered from
the infestation.
| But the sturdy sons of Gwinnett
| have not been routed by the weeVil,
and in the end the visitation of the
pest will have proved a blessing.
They are going to continue to plant
SOME cotton, accenting the some
as a means of indicating consider
1 able curtailment in the quantity
that will be planted.
The county program for the next
year, outlined by one of the most
| thorough, painstaking and best in
| formed county agents have met.
| provides for two things, chiefly:
| 1. An abundance Of supplies for
| home consumption.
2. So much cotton as can properly
| be attended.
"Our people," said County Agent
A. G. Robson, "are not prepared to
| abandon entirely the business of a
lifetime and turn to something en-
tirely new. Self-preservation will be
| the first considerations considera-
ton, may add, that will enable us
| to proceed in the orderly develop
ment of an industry that will afford
a permanent prosperity. During this
transitory period we will produce
| such cotton-and enough cotton,
hope-as will bring satisfactory
| cash return"
Cattle and Live Stock
| The farmers of Gwinnett county
are going to seek permanent pros
| perity through the medium of cattle
and live stock production. They are
| going to yoke the dairy COW and
| the brood sow together" as sug-
gested by DIR. Milton P. Jarnagin, of
| the State college, and they believe
they are going to have a team that
| will pull them out of the ditch.
The manner in which the farmers
Of Gwinnett are going about the
cattle and live stock business is re-
assuring. They are not jumping
| headlong into the industry. In the
| first place, they haven't the money.
and, in the second place. a natural
spirit Of conservatism bids them
| move slowly. That's why they are
| going to produce. first. an abun-
dance of supplies for home consump-
| ton and raise "some" cotton.
The 'Gwinnett County Agricultural
| and Industrial Fair association is
sponsoring the cattle and live stock
movement. This association is COM
| posed wholly of farmers. with a
| single exception-G. Fred Kelley. it's
president. who is a lawyer at Law
renceVille. but whose inclinations
and sympathies for the farmer
| make him a capital man for the
position.
In the spring of 1920. the fair as
| ISOLATION bought anu imported thirty
registered pigs. This was the start
| ing point. These pigs were allotted
| to boys throughout the county. by
| drawings in each militia district.
| Half of the pigs We're Hampshires
| and half Durocs.
Two pig clubs were formed by the
holders of the lucky numbers. the
winners Of the pigs-a Hampshire
| club and a Duroc club.
The Illinois Hampshire association
| gave to the Hampshire club a regis
| tered boar, valued at $100.
The banks of Lawrenceville in
vested 500 in a Duroc boar. which
| they gave to the Duroc club.
Under hard and fast agreement.
the boys winning pigs at the origt-
nal drawing were obligated to re-
| turn to the fair association two pigs
| out of the second litter of the SOW
won by them at the original draw
ing.
The sixty pigs received from the
association from each of the thirty
sows originally imported were. in
turn, distributed by drawings, under
similar conditions. and the 100 pigs
turned into the fair association are
now being distributed throughout
the county by another drawing.
| Thus, 1t will be observed. an endless
chain Is under way. and it won't be
a great while before Gwinnett coun.
ty is overrun with Durocs and
Hampshires.
when the movement began we
had four registered boars in the
county and today we have twenty
eight" said the county agent. "At
| our recent county fair over 200 reg
istered hogs were on exhibition"
The steady growth and assured de-
velOpment of the swine industry in
the county accounts for Agent Rob-
| ison's disagreement with a popular
impression that Gwinnett produced
a surplus corn crop.
II actually am afraid we haven't
enough corn to carry us Through
the year." he said. Certainly our
farmers need what they have pro-
duced for their stock, and next year
am hoping they produce enough
to feed the ever increasing number"
Arrangements are being perfected
| for the establishment of sour
cream station at Lawrenceville for
the shipment of sour cream to the
| Belmont dairy, in Atlanta.
"Our farmers are beginning to
| take an interest in the sour cream
business" said the agent, "and I
| look for a steady development of the
dairy industry throughout the coun-
ty. Our people recognize the value
of a dairy cow to the production
Of hogs, and certainly they are in
the hog business to stay.
GAS in the hog business, however.
we are going to feel our way in
the dairy industry. AS it's posi-
bilities develop look to see more
and better COWS imported and bred
in the county, and eventually it is
my belief it will be one Of the big
| gest assets Of the county"
County Agent Robson, in coop
Grafton with leading farmers, Is try
ing his level best to impress upon
the people, particularly those who
| have engaged in cattle and stock
| production, the necessity Of rails
ing enough feed stuff on their own
| farms to carry them through the
winter.