Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-20
TURNER BANKS OFFER.
HELP To FARMERS.

Editor The Journal: The perfect
ly truthful statement has frequent
ly been made that the greatest OBJ
stacle to the expansion of the dairy
and live stock industry in Georgia
and the south is the attitude of the
average banker towards reasonable
financing of same through conserva-
tive loans.
| It is the pitiful truth that up to
the advent of the boil weevil in Geor-
gia the average banker serving ag-
ricultural sections could see moth
| ing but bale of cotton as a basis
| for credit. 1t was not many years
| back that the country banker would
limit credit to the making of cotton
and turned an unsympathetic ear to
| the financing, for the producer, of
cotton already made.
One of Georgia's greatest deficien-
cies is the lack of both numbers and
quality of hogs and cattle. We are
not unmindful of the very consider
able progress made in this direction
| ly been made and our present status
must be expanded many fold before
Georgia will have a properly bal
| anced agricultural industry that will
insure relatively permanent farm
| prosperity.
If there is any one principle firm
| ly established in agriculture it is
| that no agricultural section can be
| norm Dnotlu ,oo,. oo,,
| fertility be maintained except where
live stock in it's various phases is
| coupled with general farm crops.
In our opinion the most significant
| advertisement that ever appeared in
a Georgia newspaper appeared re-
Gently in 1.-THE Wiregrass Farmer"
published at Ashburn, Turner coun-
| ty. The advertisement, which COW
cred a half page, reads as follows:
Notice
ITO the Farmers of Turner County:
Recognizing that farming is by
! far the greatest and most important
| industry of Turner county and that
| its successful pursuit is vitality i'm
portant to the success of not only
| every business institution of the
county, but of our schools, churches
| and welfare organizations; and be-
lieving as we do that good dairy
COWS, hogs and poultry are indis-
! pensable to profitable farming under
boll-Weevl conditions, we will, as
far as is in our power, lend to
worthy farmers of our coun-
ty financial assistance in providing
such live stock. 1t will be our policy
to lend such aid only to farmers
| growing on their farms sufficient
iced to properly care for all live
stock on their farms.
1--WE invite our farmers to con-
| suit with us and assure them of ev-
cry courtesy possible. (Signe0 Tur-
ner County bank, Ashburn, Ca; Ex-
change bank, Sycamore, Ca; The
Planters bank, Sycamore, Ga; The
citizens Bank of Ashburn, Ashburn.
Ga; Farmers and Merchants bank.
| Rebecca, Ga; Ashburn bank, Ash
| burn, Ga"
Ashburn Creamery
There is a creamery at Ashburn
now, which started operations last
September. It's output is approx
lmately 1000 pounds of butter per
day. The only obstacle to turning
out five to six thousand pounds per
| DAY Is lack of cream. This calls for
| more COWS, better producing COWS
and feed for them. The more cows
the more cream for the creamery
and the more cash distributed in
Turner county every two weeks.
AS a side issue comes the skim
milk for the hogs and poultry.
| These are essential as side lines to
the dairy business and we were not
| n ho fol
! prtsing Turner county citizen that
he was carrying in addition to his
! dairy cattle over sixty brood sows
as well as liberal supply of poul-
try.
Turner county has started a sys-
| tenn of constructive agriculture and
the Turner county banks have start
ed an era of constructive banking
that may be followed safely and
profitably by every county in Geor
gia.
Under the general system started
in Turner county their people will
largely cease to be sellers of raw
material. They become manufac-
turers, so to speak, of the farm
| crops grown on their acres. The
| product goes to market in a finlsl,-
ed or semi-finished state. They get
cash returns at least twice month
and spend cash with the merchants
of their trading towns instead Of
running up store debts to be paid
or not according to the quantity of
cotton produced under conditions Of
extreme hazard.
It's time for more bankers in the
farming sections to see the same
light that these Turner county bank
ers have seen. The situation in Geor'
gia makes imperative a readjust-
ment of relations between farmer
and banker and our Turner county
friends have shown the way.
| H. G. HASTINGS,
|