Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-10-14
FAlRFlELD'S STATEMENT CAUSES Il INDICTMENTS
Corn Growers Meet
And Discuss Plans
v
North Flor,da And South Georgia
Producers Confer

VALDOSTA, Oct 12-Announce-
nent by ]. M. Cutler, division freight
agent OF the Southern Railway, that a
new freight tariff granting intrastate
milling in the transit rates on corn had
r. been issued and would become effective
s,hrough the state of Georgia on Thurs.
day, Oct, Is was the outstanding fea-
ture of the corn convention which met
in Valdosta today.
~ .'mately fiftv peop:s repre-
sentlng the cora producing area of
South Georgia and North Florida in
GLIDING Mariana, Bradford. Lake City
and Jennings, Florida and Macon. Sa-
vannah, Dublin, Baingridge, Midtown,
' Naylor, Ashburn, Albany, Sycamore,
Abel, Fitzgerald, Douglas and Valdos-
ia attended the meeting.
= here were zine grain dealers ar 4
n @tufacture 5 aac eight rai'"oad
freight officials resent, the remainder
of the attendance t. l.g people inter-
rsted in the srcwrg and marketing
of corn,
T<1he conference was called by the
Valdosta Chamber of Commerce to in
duce the railroads to grant milling in
transit rates for Georgia and to dis
cuss growing corn for market the
0f r1ro+ onI
and all other matters necessary to dis
posing of to advantage the large sur
plus of corn in Georgia this year out
of the ninety million bushels lrop In
addition to this large Georgia yield
North Florida is also great corn pro-
ducing area and is seeking advantage
Gus markets for large surplus.
= The announcement that the railroads
had granted the milling in transit
Aates effective tomorrow disposed Of
the first object of the meeting, w. l..
Brandon of Mariana, Fla, engaged in
corn selling for thirty-eight years as
we'll as the elevator constructive bust
ness, discussed facilities of corn mar
Florida j IN corn on the Chicago
market at 'an advance of six cents a
.bushe1 above the price of Western corn
wfoy demonstrating the superiority
. 81 the North Florida corn over the
T77Western corn for feed purposes.
F. T. Bridges, special agent for the
state bureau of markets engaged in
finding market for Georgia corn.
IKE of marketing. He said grades
OF Georgia and Florida corn would
have to be established locally as none
of the Western grades would cover the
product of these two states but that
8 the corn grown in Georgia and Florida
II was generally superior for all pur-
.s As to the Western corn,
" For the markets of South Georgia
and Cuba. howev /. he said the white
corn would not be accetible at pres
ent as those markets demanded that the
yellow corn was better. This was I'M
true, he declared, but if these markets
I were reached it would be necessary to
/. either grow yellow corn or convince
!. the consumer that white corn was
good.
The meeting adopted resolutions de-
.claring that proper markets were es-
u xIneial for the prosperity Of South
NJ Georgia and North Florida and that ii
Twas also the sense of the meeting that
NJ the nearby ports should provide at
v once the proper facilities for handling
n corn for export which woull become
necessary with the development Of
.scorn growing in this section.
Those attending the meeting also
pledged themselves to encourage the
4production of surplus corn in the To-
u %es hereafter. Those attending the
= 1seeting, looking for market for corn
. elevator and bonded warehouse facili-
ties they found in Valdosta convenient
to them providing the necessary
equipment for corn market at once.
It was also of ir+erest to them to
know that Valdesta manufacturing
n concerns were already consuming 200,
e 200 bushels of corn year. The milling
I in transit rates now in effect places
the W1aldosta market now at the dis
posal of every owner of surplus corn
! in the state.
/ Prominent railroad men attending
!, the convention declared the Vaidosta
corn congress to be the most successful
meeting of its kind they ever attended
and that great good would grow out
III it for North Florida and South
!. Georgia corn growers.