The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-12
For Good of
 the Community

least money when alive and, slaughtered, Is still food until the last atom is disposed of Her hide goes into boots and shoes, trunks and handbags. Her hoofs are made into merchandise; the hair of her hide is not lost.
 What a wonderful state Alabama is to be'when thelcow comes into her very own. The perennial pastures, the mild climate and the endless variety of food constitute condition that requires nothing beyond most ordinary endeavor to bring 1t all about. Where there has been right effort there has been success.
 The Selma Creamery is to put in a cheese factory. It is to do that so that the farmer patrons have steady market for their milk, an unlimited source of disposal of the product of their herds The cheese department follows the success of the other departments.
 It is no small industry which pays out S75O000 per annum to the farmers of a vicinity. That is what the two Selma creameries more than did last year. While the boil weevil was doing it's worst in the black belt, Miss Cow has kept on giving milk and her owner has kept on getting cash money for the milk which he put on
 
 out the double labor of milking and peddling.
 The Selma creameries ship products to eight states. Why not? Cattle are reared at lowest cost in the nation in the black belt of Alabama and labor is had at low est cost. The Selma creamery is ideally situated for economic manufacture Ex- pansion of the industry was mere mat ter of modern business management. That is obtainable in Alabama as we'll as elsewhere.
 The railroads have put on special re- frlgerator car service between Selma and New Orleans attached to passenger trains to haul the product of the creameries. The railroad does this because the business justifies it. Quiet, classic Selma famed for it's statesmen has become a creamery center.
 And how came it that the Selma cream cries get so much milk and milk of such quality? Because, in cooperation with the bankers of that place, they bought car loads of pure bred cattle and sold them to the farmers at cost. The farmer got back the cost of the cows in the milk which he sold to the creameries for cash and their usufruct is his in addition. A perfection of community effort. Proof that the town and country are best off when each real izes that it's interests and that of the other are identical.
 The record as to these cows is an in- spiration. Not one of the pure bred ani- mals sold at cost to the farmers has been sold under the mortgage under which she was given to the farmer Every farmer has made good on the aid extended him by the banker and the creameries. Mans confidence in man has been justified.
 Wherever Alabamians have realized the base and fundamentals of their pros perity they have achieved money and suc- cess Just as industrial captains have built on contiguity or coal, iron and limestone so agricultural Alabama is building on the varied character of her production and the advantages of soil and climate De- culiar to her.
 What Selma has done, Birmingham is about to do. The matter of getting the butterfat is dis posed of. Scores of farmers have written that they have the product and are praying for steady cash market for that product. Birmingham is the natural distributing center of 8 territory consum ing millions of pounds of butter annually. h. stead of importing this butter, Birmingham is to make 1t herself, sell it herself and realize tha