Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-05

September and matured all right
Endive may be planted in August
and September and a good crop pro-
duced. If you wish to plant kale as
a fall crop, your planting dates will
range from August to October. The
same is true of parsley. You might
like to have a few English peas.
Plant them in August. Plant radish
and spinach from August to NoVem-
Der for the fall crop.
Activities of Georgia Swine Growers
Association
Since 1914 every agency in Geor
gia has been working intensively to-
ward increasing the production of
swine within the state. In 1918 the
college, through its extension forces,
organized the Georgia Swine Grow
ers' association. 1t was about this
time that the number of hogs on
farms reached the point where mar
keting of surplus stock became a Sc
rious problem, and the farmers be-
gan calling on the college for as
sistance in finding satisfactory
market for their hogs.
The county agent in Sumter coun-
ty, with the assistance of the mar
keting agent and live stock special
list from the college, conducted the
first cooperative hog sale ever held
in the state of Georgia. This sale
was such a success that other coun-
ty agents began calling on the col
lege for similar assistance in the va
riOus counties. During the past four
years these cooperative sales have
been of inestimable value to the
farmers of Georgia.
During the past year the prices of
hogs reached the lowest level they
have attained since 1914, and with
the ravages of the boil weevil there
was very dark future facing farm
ers in many sections. The Georgia
Swine Growers association, in CO.
operation with the college forces, be-
gan campaign to double the num-
Der of hogs in the state, and at the
same time to improve the quality
1t was planned to hold meetings in
several sections of the state. Pro-
grams were provided that would
bring the latest and best Informal
ton to the farmers along the lines
of hog production. Provision was
also made for cooperative sales of
market hogs in order to assist the
farmers in getting the highest cash
price for their fattened animals, and
in order ITO improve the quality of
stock sales of pure bred and regis
tered animals, consigned by mem
bers of the Georgia Swine Grow
ers' association, was arranged for
The first meeting of this kind was
held in Turner county, and the re-
suits were most gratifying. No such
sale had previously been held in that
section of the state, and it was diff
fiCult to persuade the farmers that
this was a feasible method of selling
their hogs. However, they respond
ed to the advice of the county agent
to such an extent that 526 hogs were
consigned to the cooperative sale.
Local buyers had been paying from
$3.50 to $4.75 per one hundred
pounds, but the hogs put through
the cooperative sale sold for $5.93
per one hundred weight. The sat
iSfactOry prices obtained has done
much to put new heart and enCOur-
agement into the farmers of that
section. On the following day sixty
three head of pure bred hogs, sup
piled by members of the Georgia
Swine Growers association, We're
sold at auction, and fifty three of
them were bought by farmers in
Turner county. New life was put
into the community, and since the
meeting the farmers have been
holding cooperative sales regularly,
not only Of hogs but also of poultry
The next meeting was held in
Spalding county. The hog industry
is not as well developed in that sec
ton of the state, and there was not
a sufficient number of available fat
hogs to warrant the holding of q
cooperative sale in conjunction with
the meeting. However, the county
agent arranged for q cooperative
sale of poultry on the first day of
the meeting. and this was the first
carload lot that was ever sold in
the state on cooperative basis
Four thousand, one hundred chick
ems brought $40. They sold at
from 20 per cent to 50 per cent more
than they had been bringing by in
dividual sales. On the second day
Of the meeting forty-stx pure bred
hogs. consigned by members Of the
Georgia Swine Growers association,
were sold, and thirty-three of then.
were bought by farmers in Spalding
county.
The third of these meetings, held
under the auspices Of the Georgia
Swine Growers association, was he'd
at Tennille on April and 7. A total
of 761 head of hogs were offered
for sale by farmers of Washington
county. Cooperative sales had been
held previously in this section, and
the number and quality of hogs of
fered indicate the value of such
sales. On the date of the sale hogs
were quoted at $500 per hundred
weight at the killing plants. How
ever, this shipment of nine carloads
brought $8.79 f. o. b. the shipping
point for number ones. 1t is graft
flying to know that practically sew
enty-five per cent of the entire lot
of hogs graded as number ones. On
the second day of the meeting forty
five head of pure bred animals were
sold for breeding purposes and sixty
per cent of them stayed in Wash
ington county.
Since the TenniIle meeting the
Georgia Swine Growers association
held another sale of six carloads of
market hogs, and secured the price
of $3.50 per hundred, when IS was
quoted as the top of the market.
Two more meetings of the associa-
ton have been planned, and each of
them will be held in sections of the
state where but little interest has
been deVelODe6 in tha DrO6uptiOO oT