The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-25
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no.atrr county, with few exceptions,
De'Inn,',raqed and aided by as progress
EN- en-, and enterprising a set OF business
I've as can be found anywhere in the
IlI ,,,,trv either are operating or pre-
o9ring to operate.
Pdt,Hft9 er several years of cotton crop
les each resulting in an increase
!; ia' the number of discouraged, lmpov-
nnr;shed small farmers and OF aban-
Inned farms-rehected in CORE
ouooonding condition among the bust
Sp 5sl men whose prosperity IS de-.
nnoodent upon the soil-the people OF
P Rncatur county generally, business
Ian as we'll as the farmers, finally
!rla,cCnonized the fact that the agricul-
lei orob1em is the most vitality I'M
sut problem confronting all class
Po' of people, not of Decatur county
Sione but of every county IN Geor-
@ a;o that it is not merely a financial
sah1em but a human and an eco
pic nno;c problem; and that failure to
ed and apply solution for it spells
!!ll, l ruin. And among them
lr iers leaders with minds big enough
ond broad enough to see in the plan
az diversifcation and cooperative
orlarketing of farm products some
hing that promised to prove the
songht-for solution to that paramount
oroblem and they were alert to give
it a trial -
MEETING AT CAMBRIDGE.
It was presented first to group OF
leading Decatur county bankers and
BUSINESS men at a meeting held in
cambridge; then mainly by them to
similar groups of dirt" farmers who,
hard hit by successive onslaughts OF
the great cotton pest, were tiounderlng
in the darkness of despair and crop
ing to find way out.
Among all classes the response was
almost electrical; and, after the Cow,
Hog and Hen" program had recelv-
ed the approval of the "best minds"
of the community, the logical next
step was to employ a thoroughly
competent and experienced county
AGENT to supervise its application.
Such man was found in the person
Of DR.. D. F. Sawyer, a veteran IN
that line Of work in Georgia, who
came to cambridge and got aggreS-
sively on the job last November.
Other county agents had been en-
ployed by Decatur county in the years
gone by, but in turn their services
had been dispensed with because what
thew accomplished under cotton con-
ditions was not considered of value
iustifying the expense, and when Or.
SAWYER came the county was without
an agent.
The first important act OF County
Agent Sawyer upon coming to Deca-
tur was to enlist the active assistance
of a group of the leading local bust
ness men and land owners as an ad-
visory board to counsel him and aid
him in reconstructing the morale OF
the whole community, urban as well
as rural, and in firmly implantlng the
Cow, Hog and Hen" idea in the
minds and hearts and spirits OF the
farmers.
BUSINESS MEN LEAD.
The personnel of this advisory
committee includes the heads of the
cambridge and Decatur County
Board of Trade, the Kiwanis and
Lions clubs and other Sivic organi-.
cations, the county superintendent OF
schools and other leading officials
whose duties bring them in to more
or less constant and immediate con-
tact with folk both in town and coun-
try.
The response of these and the 9th
er prominent men and women of the
countv-the manner in which they are
cooperating with and unfolding the
hands of DR.. Sawyer, standing ready
at all hours of the day and night to
leave their personal business and at
tend meetings or make journeys with
him into the country at his call per
haps to "sell' the Turner County
Plan" to some unconverted doubt
ing Thomas" on the FARMS more
than commendable; it is picturesque!
And it is that-that spirit, that will
ingness to serve unse1hshly, that evil
dence of interest in the other fellows
welfare and OF mutual confidence and
trustfulness between men, that sub
ordination Of personal interest or con
venience to the well-being of the COM
munity as a whole-it is that which
is putting over" the COW, hog and
hen idea in Decatur county and put
ting it over big!
Illustrating the results being &C
complished by this system of COOP
Grafton between business men and