Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-05-18
VICE. DEN REVEALED
AT SCENE OF MURDER
HOW DAIRYING HAS KEPT
SELMA, ALA, PROSPEROUS
LEARNED BY MOUNTAINS

money-making dairy cows and
"boarders" and the absolute neces-
sity of a Cow Testing Association
so that the truth about production
night be determined.
A Georgia Example.
Mr.. Stratford offered pertinent
illustration of all of these essentials,
by citing the case of herd of dairy
cows in county in Georgia, which
under one class of management had
simply paid their feed bills and
broke even, whereas the same herd
of cows, with the boarders cUlled
out, with a change of ration and
few other practical points of hand
ling had been placed on a net earn
ing basis. | none month this same
herd under a more intelligent man
agement showed a gross earning of
$4,000 and net profit of at least
half that amount.
Sam WaXelbaum, proprietor of the
local creamery, interviewed the man
ager of the largest creamery in Sell
ma and offered some valuable in
formation on the development of the
business in that section. The farm
ers who live close to Selma bring
in their own products. There are
couple of private truck lines which
transport the products of the farm
ers from all over the territory, aside
from those that ship by rail. AT va
rious railroad points the creamerles
have established what is known as
cooling stations, in charge of a man
bo
the product is weighed and tested
and the farmers receive their pay
checks through the man in charge
at the cooling stations.
Mr.. Waxelbaum particularly en-
phasized the point CLEANED from the
managers of both of the creameries
in Selma that the business side of
industry had been impressed upon
the minds of any and all farmers
who decided to engage in the occu-
patton of dairying. The farmer who
followed the rules of the game sue
ceeded, thefarmer who did not failed.
The creamery market had been de
veloped one step after another in
Guiding butter making, ice cream
manufacture, condensed milk, and
finally they are now making cheese
products. In accordance with the
growth of the industry on the pro
ductiOn end, the scope of the mar
ket at the creamery had been widen
ed until the two creameries Wer'
able to take care of the farmer,
whether he wanted to sell sweet
cream, whole milk, sour cream, or
what not, every day of the year.
Doing Vida Business.
Today the two creameries of Sell
ma are shipping their products to
every state in the Southeast and
even beyond this territory Mer-
chants, bankers, farmers and every
body attribute the immediate flow
of, cash through the everyday chan
nels of prosperity to the dairy indus
try, despite the fact that this class
of agricultural income represents
only one-fifth of the total yearly
farm production of Dallas county.
This has been accomplished through
the cooperation of the Chamber of
management of the creameries, the
business men. farmers snd bankers
Here are some of the high lights
on the situation at Selma:
The milk cows have practically all
been paid for by the farmers from
their creamery checks, without any
loss to the bankers.
The larger creamery gets an aver
age of 1900 gallons of milk products
per day, the smaller about $500 gal
Ions.
Approximately two million dollars
a year goes back in the pockets of
the dairy farmers of that section and
they get this on the basis of a pay
roll on the first and fifteenth of
each month.
This amount of money would sup
port eighty business houses that
did business of $25,O00 yearly.