Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-01
Resolutions IndorSing Ford
Offer for Muscle Shoals
Unanimously Passed
Governor Delivers Address

J. S. Peters, of Manchester, war,
elected president of the Georgia
Country Bankers association at the
close of the annual convention Tues
day afternoon. Other officers named
were M. L. Lee, Moultrie, first vice
president; Wilson M, Hardy, Rome.
second vice president, and L. r..
Adams, Atlanta. secretary and treas
urer.
The Georgia Farm Market fedora
ton was unanimously Endorsed, tbs
bankers declaring that they believed
that the organization would be OF
great benefit to the farmers, bank
ers and business men generally
throughout the state.
Henry Ford's bid for Muscle
Shoals also was Endorsed, as was the
work of the war finance board.
y Cooperative purchasing and al
vertising by the members, advised
by Wilson M. Hardy, was recon-
'mended, as was also cooperation in
aiding member banks in emergency.
A resolution indorsing a bill now
in congress to place a tarlff on al
foreign oils and materials imported
into this country was passed, and
copy ordered sent to Herbert !
Hoover, secretary of commerce, ana
to, the finance committee OF the sen.
ate.
At the concluding session, Cover
nor Hardwick Haynes Mctadden.
Eueene r. Black, and D. n. Otis,
banker of Madison, Wis, spoke.
Mr.. Otis delivered an interesting
address on the future of live stock
and dairying in the south, declaring
both were in <heir infancy and des-
| tined to be of great comn1erclaA
value to the south in coming years
ssIt is said" said Mr.. Otis, that
the number of cows and the amount
of milk or dairy products CONSUME
ed is an index to, the civilization q
any nation Thine greater the intel.
lectual development, the greater the
consumption of dairy products. ~
| also measures the prosperity or the
country. This is well Illustrated by
noting the distribution of the dairy
cattle in the geography or the
| world.
DAIRY products are among the
cheapest food products on the
market. When beef is worth 20
| cents a pound on the basis of foodi
value, cheese is worth 45 cents per-
pound and milk IL cents quart
while skim milk is worth cents per
lsuuart. About one-SiXth OF our 1000
/ supply is from milk and it's products. 4
| The butter may be worth nearly a.
much as the bread we eat. When,
/ the crops of the farm are concenr
trated into dairy products, trans-d
| portation charges are greatly re-
duced. They remove but very little
fertility from the soil.
"That there is q bright future for
| the dairy business is shown by the
census figures. In 1870 there was
| one COW for every 3.8 people; in 1880 !,
| there was enc cow to every 4 peopleS
| in 1890 there was one COW to every !
3.9speople; in 1900 there was one cow,
! to every As people; in 1910 there
was one COW to every 81 people,
| This shows that consumers are irl-s
creasing much faster than cows. 81
| necessity, the price Of milk pfodNctm
must keep up under such conditions.
1.-THE ultimate SUCCESS in dairFing
is dependent upon the factor OF pro-
ductivity of the cows. True success /
Is not a question of premiums ats
the fairs, but of achievements. Too
| often good looks get the prizes 10 ,
the ring. This point is web Illus
trated in the results of a test OF /
the Illinois experiment station with !,
the various dairy herds in the state
The report shows that twenty-five OFT
the best cows produced as much
profit as 1921 ordinary or poor
The average cow Of today is poor
economical producer.
''In conclusion let me urge that
we aim not to land one type OF farm
ing over the other, but to encourages
all types of farming, crop, livestock,
fruit raising and SO on, and have
permanent agriculture where Ter
tility will not only be maintained,
hut nt1Ia lI1k iranron sod - - "