Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-08-01
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Of the bureau in organizing.
farmers cooperative selling or
ganization, with warehouse facl-
hties, live stock pens, ETC., we de-
sire to cooperate with this organl-
ZatIon, lending in every way pos
slbie our moral and financial sup
port to the end that the farmers
Of Turner county may receive the
greatest possible returns for their
products
Thus it wa sable he writes ito
handle more than $4,000 worth
of products for farmers last year
on a working capital of only
around $40 So fast has it grown
and the demand for its services
widened that it will be incorporat-
ed this year and a trained business
man hired to operate 1t. 1t will
greatly expand it's marketing Of
surplus field crops, will buy feed,
seed and fertilizer for the farmers,
will conduct hog and poultry sales
run the chicken hatcheries, and
perhaps buy dairy cattle. 1t is be-
coming one of the biggest business
institutions in the county, but one
in no way opposed by the majority
of business men who feel that it
has largely created its own field Of
activity.
The writer in The Country Gen
tleman wind up his story on Turn
er county's victory with several
citations of individual farmers.
There was no chance to get
ahead under the old way of farm
ing, one farmer said to Mr..
Taylor 1t was just an endless cir
Gle of getting in debt, paying up
when the cotton was picked and
starting in debt all over again. But
I'm on cashpaying basis now and
| hope some day to own a farm.
But if we had to go back to the
old kind of farming, I'd quit
AT the creamery | talked with
many farmers as they brought in
their daily supply and the tenor of
their talk was the same.
'In Winfield Brown the farm
bureau has a president who can
very well advocate the prosperity
plan Of farming. 1t is the one he
has been following for over 20
years, for Brown is one of the few
farmers in the county who has
long maintained a balanced system
of crops and live stock.
Il came to Turner county TWEEN
ty odd years ago with nothing but
mule and a buggy he said.
Now he owns $50 acres Of fer
tie farm land with considerable
other property.
81 have always raised my own
food and feed crops, in fact, we've
never bought even a pound of lard
he told me. Out of nearly thirty
years in farming there have been
only two when | failed to make
money. That has not been due to
any exceptional skill in farming,
for | do not have that, but rather
TO the plan have followed ga
Showing that the farmers have
not altogether abandoned the rails
ing Of cotton, Mr.. Taylor gives an
instance where a farmer "scrupul-
ously follows a rotation that pre-
vents cotton or corn following it
self on field. His planting this
year tells his well-balanced crop
ping plan: Forty five acres in cot
ton, fifty in peanuts, eighteen in
lespedeza and the remainder in
corn, soy beans, oats, velvet beans
and field peas. His hogs, cows
chickens provide a profitable mar
ket for his feed crops, though he
usually has a surplus to sell, and
they maintain the fertility Of his
laad, which is producing heavier
each year.
The plan we have adopted
here offers the only hope for the
great run Of tenants and troopers
ever to own their homes, he said.
Past experience has proved that
they cannot win under the old
cotton and credit system"
How thoroughly the Turner
county plan has revolutionized ag-
riculture there may be seen also
from the observation of Mr.. TaV.