Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-12
EDITOR WILL WRITE
SERIES ON TURNER
COUNTY FARM PLAN

E. H. Taylor, associate editor of
the Country Gentleman, has come to-
Georgia to write a series of articles
for that publication concerning the
Turner county farming plan and
the Georgia associations program of
carrying the plan into effect in all
the farming counties of the state.
Mr.. Taylor was honor guest of the
agricultural department of the At
lanta Chamber of Commerce at
luncheon Monday attended by Alfred
G. Newell, president of the chamber;
| H. G.. Hastings, chairman of the ag-
ricultural department.; George T..
Belts, president of the Georgia as
ISOLATION and one of the prime
movers in establishing the Turner
county plan; l.. P. Huddleston, adj
vertising manager of the l.. w.
Rogers company; John S. Cohen,
editor of The Journal; James A.
Hollomon, representing Editor Clark
Howell, of the Constitution, and A.
B. Chivers, general manager of the
| Atlanta Georgian.
Asked by Mr.. Hastings to state
what he considered the relative op'
| portunities, agriculturally and other.
wise, between the southeast and the
west, Mr.. Taylor declared.
"I would hesitate to say how
many times greater I consider the
opportunities here than there. 1
know of no state which has such
potentialities as Georgia"
Will Study Turner Plan
Mr.. Taylor will spend week or
! ten days in Georgia and will thor
/ oughly familiarize himself with the
Turner county plan and the move
ment to put the plan in operation
| throughout the agricultural coun-
j ties of the state.
He will visit Turner county and
talk with farmers, merchantcs and
bankers in company with Mr.. Belts,
who heads a bank in Ashburn and
who was one of the leaders In the
movement which has worked such
wonders in that county since the de-
vastating advent of the boil Weevil.
Following the luncheon Mr.. Tay-
lor left Monday night for Bruins.
wick to attend the meeting of the
| Georgia County Bankers association
on Tuesday. The feature of their
program will be the Turner county
plan.
Meetings to promote the Turner
county plan will be started by the
Georgia association on April IL and
run through May %. Fl. S. Mobley,
dairy specialist of the international
Harvester company, will talk to the
business men at these meetings. Paul
Tabor, of the State College of Agri-
culture, will talk on pasturage, Civ
ing the farmers a definite schedule
of pasture paintings for each month.
His talks will cover the meetings in
the. north Georgia territory, while
similar talks will be made in the
south Georgia territory by S. H.
Starr, director of the coastal plain
experiment station at Triton.
Cooperative Egg Sales
An important feature of each
meeting will be a cooperative egg
sale. The farmers in the territory
adjacent to the place of meeting will
be invited to bring eggs to these
sales to be graded by J. B. Shields,
produce buyer of the l.. w. Rogers
company, and Elmo Ragsdale, poul-
try specialist of the state bureau of
markets. They will give the farm
ers an actual demonstration of the
proper methods of grading and sort
ing and packing eggs for market.
Buyers will be on hand to buy the
eggs.
The dates and places of the meet
ings are as follows:
April II, Townsend; April IS,
Jesup; April 10, Waycross; April 20,
Triton April %, Sylvester; April "a,
Albany. April rs, cambridge; April
rs, Donaldson; April 27, Colquitt;
April 80, Ashburn; May 1, Vidalia;
May 2, Swainsboro; May 3, Waynes-
borp May 4, Washington; May 5, Ell.
berton; May 7, Hartwell; May 8,
Madison; May 9, Jasper; May 10,
Monticello; May II, Forsyth; May IA,
Gainesville; May Is, Rome; May 16,
Cedartown; May II, Douglasville;
May IS, Cornelia; May %, West
Point; May %, Hawkinsville.