Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-14
GEORGIA SWINE GROWERS ASSOCIATE
HEARS ROUSING SPEECHES AT ASHBU URN

growers now engaged in the hen bus
mess.
Monticello has walked up to this
industry and is marketing eggs.
These are graded and guaranteed.
Are you growing anything to take
the place of the boil Weevil cotton?
In growing cotton early maturing
varieties should be selected to cotton.
Plant this relatively thick, applying
early a quickly available nitrogen.
Don't worry about the top crop for
that is a thing of the past. Begin
the fight on boil weevil as soon as
the cotton is up. The safest way is
to kill the wevil, only then do you
know he is dead. Many of the pat
ents are worth very little or no good.
A good hand or motor spray is best
and begin early, spraying four times
in eight days to kill out that gener-
alton. If weevils then don't give up,
the fight is to be repeated when nee
essary. 1t is a mistake of the gov
eminent to allow patents on fakes"
He congratulated the county on
having the Ashburn creamery.
Now" he said, make it a go. Sup
port it. Two good producing COWS
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should be on every farm. Holsteins
where milk is shipped to cities and
Jerseys, when cream is shipped to
butter creameries. We should not
depend on buying feed but raise food
for them and only in this way will
it pay"
He spoke of the packing plant at
Moultrie. of the need of support
there. Plants of this kind must be
supported if the swine business is to
be a success, he declared.
'"The important thing is to select
the right breed. Plant crops to feed
all the year with corn to supplement-;
poultry, too, is an important indus
try to take the place Of cotton.
These three, poultry, cows and hogs,
should bring in more than cotton
ever lost US. Beef is shipped into
Georgia from the west. Carloads 'of
feedstuffs and hogs are also shipped
in. This should not be. One hun
dred thousand dollars has been ap-
propriated by the state for market
ing surplus crops. We should take
the soldier song as advice: Pack
up your troubles in your old kit bag
and smile, smile. smile.
Mr.. Roland Turner, agricultural
agent of the Southern railway, was
then introduced by Mr.. G. T. Belts.
Mr.. Turner said that there was a
Significance in the fact that bank
ers, business men, college presidents
and farmers are getting together
in this work with the farmers of
the country. He said something
definite must be done at this crisis
to correct the mistake that has
been allowed to grow up with us
in this country. If not, the situa-
ton will indeed be unfortunate. Pee
pie, he said, have heretofore grown
cotton to pay for the corn needed,
but hogs will prove to be the best
corn market.
Building elevators, he said, is a
mistake, for if we try to market
corn as corn we have to go up
against the whole corni belt, where
the slickest corn sellers are. Some
say it can't be raised as cheaply
as in Iowa, but it has been proven
that it can be raised as cheaply
as in any section of the country.
Heretofore stock has usually been
fed only as maintenance feed, but
they should be fed for the highest
state of excellence. Enough cash
should come from farm produce fer
the current expenses of the farm.
The question has been asked if it
is possible to place two SOY y on
every farm? 1t is as possible as it
is to get every farmer to thinking.
Some farmers had their first real
thinking when they tried to make
arrangements for the needs of the
farm with banks or business houses
and failed. Bankers, too, are be-
ginning to think, and most of them
are willing to advance money on
live stock. In 1908 I tried tc in
terest a banker in farm talk and
the answer was, I haven't got a
farm Since then lots of people
hvae seen the point. God has been
good to those who have been so
fortunate as to- be sons of this state.
Weather conditions are in our favor,
too"
Mr.. French, delegate, announc-
ed a three-reel show of dairy cattle
for Thursday night.