Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-02-21
TWELVE CREAMERIES
IN GEORGIA AFFORD
MARKET FOR MILK
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dairying has been well developed is
another case of getting the cart
, before the horse" The important
thing in Georgia today is not a
creamery in every county, but two
or more pure-bred COWS on every
farm.
Roland Turner, general agricul-
tural agent of the Southern railway,
has given much study to Georgia S
agricultural problem. No man in the
state has done more to encourage
the development of dairying. Mr..
Turner, yesterday. dictated state
ment outlining briefly his views as
to the future development Of the
state, as follows:
zone of the most important things
to consider in connection with the
| general business conditions in Geor-
gia and in the south is some prac-
ticable means whereby the eco
! nomic error of buying necessaries
from other sections, paying more
| for them than it would cost to
produce them upon our own lands,
| may be corrected. This economic err
| ror has cost the south immense
dulOuIIS VI lllOIlSy SclCI ySdI CIllU
if definite steps shall be taken to
correct this condition the results
will at once be revealed in the
generally increased condition of
prosperity for every line of bust
ness.
"Our problem is to devise some
! means whereby farmers may find
! it practicable to produce grain and
Ic,
| to be released from cotton and con-
vert this production into butterfat,
| poultry and eggs, pork, beef, etc.
Very splendid progress has already
been made along this line, and to-
| day practically every farmer within
the state is fairly convenient to a
| market for sour cream. The sour
! cream dairying, poultry and hogs
program is taking a wonderful hold.
Enough Creameries
1.-The important thing now is to
sell the idea of sour cream dairy
ing to the farmers and secure such
increased production for the cream
cries at present operating as to in
sure their success from a financial
standpoint. No business enterprise
is satisfactory which is operated on
creameries in many localities have
been established by far-seeing men
who have had no assurance of i'm
mediate profits, the time has come
L think, when we should have no
more creameries, but every cooper
alton and encouragement should be
given those already established.
Later on, of course. as the sour
cream dairying idea develops and
more farmers get to keeping a few
COWS there will be opportunities at
many points probably for. cream
cries, but at the present time
think it almost suicidal for the in
dustry to establish too many cream
cries.
1.-The agricultural policy of Geor-
gia should be for the production of
all the necessary food and feed re-
quired upon the farms and in the
cities or by the whole population
Of the state. 1t should be the fixed
and Well-established policy to ship
from Georgia farms only vegetables
and fruits, including sweet pota-
! toes, WatermelonS, ETC., cotton and
cOttonseed and butter fat, chickens
and eggs, hogs, beef cattle and
| sheep. No farm community should
| proceed upon the theory of produc-
ing and selling, in the raw state,
grain and forage and other things
suitable for feeding live stock.
An Urgent Necessity
"The most urgent present need
of Georgia agriculture is for a sys.
tenn of farming that will give the
! farmer cash income from month
| to month throughout the year, thus
| enabling the farmer and his family
to proceed upon a cash basis get.
ting away entirely from the neces.
sity of going into debt for supplies
! upon which to go while making the
, crop.
1.-THE keeping of a few. COWS or
every farm and the sale of soul
| cream to a creamery, the feeding OF
! skim milk to the farm poultry flock
I and to well bred brood sows anC
! pigs, will meet this urgent need and
at the same time will solve the
farmers problem of marketing such
production as corn, oats, hay, velvet
beans, ETC., that are most splendid
dairy COW feeds.
This program will enable the
farmer to get away from the prob
lem of selling country butter anC
at the same time will relieve the
housewife of much work in connec
ton with caring for the milk, churn
ing and making butter and at the
same time insure the market price
for the product, whereas the price
for country butter is practically al
ways much below that for cream
cry butter.
In fact the sale of country but
ter at anything like the market
value of butter is impossible except
upon the basis of a personal rela
ton. Mrs. Smith may live in the
country and have an acquaintance
with Mrs. Jones who lives in town
They are friends and, of course
Mrs. Jones will be glad to get .
pound or so of butter each week
from Mrs. Smith, but the very min
ute the butter of Mrs. Smith loses
| its identity and appears on the coun
| ter of the grocery store as country
! butter, the value falls to II to Il
! to 20 cents per pound, where
as when the butterfat is sold to a
! creamery it brings the price OF
! standard butter as quoted on the
Chicago market and is usually al
most double the price received for
country butter.
| Zone beauty about this type OF
dairying is that it may he carried
on upon the average farm without
in any way upsetting the farm labor
situation. 1t may be made one OF
| the phases of the farm operation
| and cows cared for, milk and cream
separated and kept in a cool place
and delivered to the creamery or
shipped once or twice each week
with no appreciate amount of in
creased labor required. From the
| frO,,7 COWS on