Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-06
Several Progressive Young
Men, by Hard Work, Are
Making Money Out Of
Cows, Hogs and Vege-
tables
BY RALPH SFNIITH

ed seriously to interfere with an az
ricultural survey of Henry county
Blind Bob can, and doe.s perforr
much manual labor alb out tn
Fouche hotel as we'll or better
and certainly in finer spin 1T, tina
it possibly would be performed b
the average negro.
But Blind Bob is a subject TO
the Sunday magazine, and his a.maz
ing ability to chop wood, start 1iref
handle trunks, even to checAIn
them at the depot, and do oShe
chores about the hotel, will be dis
missed for the present, that attdT
ton may be devoted to the insph
ing efforts of a handful of men iT
McDonough to save the county from
the evils of the onercrop system.
Conditions in the county are not
much different from those else
where in the weevil-infested section
of middle Georgia. The cotton CROP
was a failure, but notwithstanding
this fact there are today scores oil
farmers throughout Henry who can
not be, or have not been, interested
in efforts to promote prosperity by
means of sound diversificatioE.
AS a starter, the first thing ]
learned at McDonough was that the
county is without a demonstration
a county agent, and there is opposi
ton in certain quarters to the EN-
ployment of such man.
The next thing that I gathered
was that efforts in McDonough tC
interest the entire county in a CO
operative and organized movement
has met with relatively little en-
couragement.
''But We are going to succeed
declared Julian T. Weems, who has
devoted lots of time and worry te
the situation. 1--WE are not dis
heartened, and the OK is coming out
of the ditch, and coming out in
Henry county just as certainly as
he comes out elsewhere in the boil
Weevil belt
Object Lesson Planned
A dozen or more progressive citi
zens of the county are going tc
demonstrate what can be accom-
plished through diversified farming
and it is not to be doubted that they
will find hundreds of others in the
county adopting a similar course.
Mr.. Weems, quoted above, is con
centrating on the production of fine
hogs and the sale of sour cream
in Atlanta. He doesn't expect tC
make a killing" all of a sudden
but he expects in time to make botf
activities profitable.
The fact Of the matter is tina
dairying and live stock offer the
| most promising prospect in Henry
county, and Mr.. Weems' program i:
| not much different from the efforts
| of other leading spirits. 1t has beer
| demonstrated, with measurable sue
cess, that dairying can be conduct
| ed profitably in the county, anC
| logic points to the production Of
hogs as the natural accountant
ment.
w. H. Peace, an energetic young
| fellow, and Ed Brown, one of tn,
well-known and highly respected cit
liens, are shipping ten gallons O.
| sweet cream to Franklin & Cox, il
Atlanta, every day of the world, ant
| they are not complaining at the re
turns. Mr.. Peace milks twent.
| COWS, and Mr.. Brown mil1s fort.
cows. They are also shipping ;
quantity of whole milk.
"F'rom the ten gallons of swee
cream we are shipping, we ge
thirty-five gallons of SKINNED milk
which is being fed to hogs" explain
ed Mr.. Peace. "This quantity o
milk will feed twenty brood sows
and their value must be calculated
| in estimating the return from thu
cows. In addition, last year go
| 300 tons of fertilizer from my cows
and this is, of course, a big elemen
! Of value"
It is pertinent to remark, to il
| Illuminate Mr.. Peace's statement al
| to his sales of sweet cream anC
whole milk, that the sweet cream
nets him $1.40 a gallon, and thu
whole milk brings him 50 cents :
| gallon.
Fertilizer Grows Onions
What Messrs. Peace and Brown
| have accomplished and are doing il
! the dairy business can be, and will
| be, done by many others in Henry
county, although the sour cream &C
| tivity carries a stronger appeal t.
| most of them, because of the skim
med milk it will afford for hog ant
| chicken feed.
And now consider for a minute
| the value of the fertilizer that Mr.
Peace obtained from his COW barn!
300 tons in a single year, he said
| and he is milking only twenty cows
| That the fertilizer is being put t.
| good use is evidenced by the sue
| cess Mr.. Peace experienced in thu
| production of onions.
'I planted only one acre Of Der
muda onions," he said, ''but har
vested ninety bushels of fine onions
which I sold at $1.7O per bushel
The actual cost Of production
amounted to SIS"
And the boil weevil didn't pla.
havoc with this progressive youn!
man, either. He made twenty-nin
bales of cotton on forty-five acres
But" he added, "I am not de
luded about the weevil. I know h
is here, and here to stay, and
beat him only by the hardest sor
| of work and the closest attention
to my crop, which was highly fer
tilted"
This same young man planted !
lot Of beans-how many he doesn'
KNOWN with his corn, and he go
one hundred bushels, which he sol
at $1.75 per bushel.
"This next year am going to pu
in a lot more Bermuda onions, an
after I harvest them 1 am going t
put in lot of fall Irish potatoes,
he said. 81 believe I have tn
secret of successful production o
Irish potatoes.'
And with this remark Mr.. Peac
turned to D. T. Carmichael, who i
vitality interested in diversification
and told him the secret.
ST have been so much impresse
with the success of Mr. Peace il
trucking that 1 am almost persuad