Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-08-07
FARM EDUCATION
BY DR.. ANDREW NJ SOULE
Building Up Georgia

The greatest live stock develop
rHnents in Georgia during the past
year have been along the lines of
clarifying. This is reflected in the
- enormous increase of creameries and
cheese factories.
At the present time there are six
Teen creameries operating in Geor-
gia as against five in 1921, turning
out from 200 pounds of butter to
- Snore than $4,000 pounds per week
from, each creamery. At prevailing
-s1hfarket prices, the value of cream
'bery butter alone produced in Geor-
gia amounts to more than $3.50. 900. :
annually, AS against less than $780,
) 600 in 1921.
Three cheese factories are now
IN operation and five are under con-
struction, and many more farming
"'eemmunities are considering build
ing in the near future. The small
amount of capital required and the
s'Cfaet that a cheese factory can be
supported with less than 100 cows
make them particularly adapted to
the communities in the northern
part of the state starting into dairy
s"ing
Sixteen years ago, the college be-
gam the first systematic work in
establishing dairying as a part OF
1.-the regular farm operations. The
a ,spendid results now in evidence are
the results of the founda ton laid
many years ago. There is practi.
.cR1ly no county in the state that is
not participating in this great de-
" Velopment.
90 Through educational work, which
has taught average farmers hbW to
At,
nhest advantage, a large quantity of
:, inferior country butter has been
= kept off the market. The inferior
butter was formerly sold at from
- 12 to IS cents per pound. For the
past year, the average retail price
OF creamery butter has been APP
proximately so cents per pound.
When an appreciate volume of
H'Georgia made cremerY butter was
offered on the market, very keen
competition was found from north
ern creameries and much difficulty
was found in disposing of the pro-
.sduct. In order to meet the situation
the butter scoring contest among
the creameries of the state was ar
ranged for. Samples of the best but
ter shipped in from the northern
markets were obtained. Representa-
fives Of the Georgia Federation OF
-aWomen's clubs, newspaper men and
other Were invited to the demonstra-
tion. 1t was shown that better butter
= was being made in our creameries
than average butter that was shipped
in. This demonstration has gone far
towards making a satisfactory mar
ket for locally prepared butter.
- In spite of all of the development
that has occurred, Georgia is still
OF the butter consumed within the
e.state.
In every community there are good
farmers and poor farmers. In deter |
mining which systems of farming
will give the greatest profit to the
operator. it is just as important to
know why certain systems are prof
table is it is to know why certain
other systems do not return a prof
1t TO the operator.
There is no system of farming
that will be profitable from year to
year unless it is based upon princi-
pies thai are economically sound. In
order to determine which systems
are economically sound for the farm
ers in the various sections of the
stale, number Of farm manage.
msnt surveys are made. To make
these surveys, detailed records are
taken on a large number of farms
and every item Of the business on |
each one is recorded for one year
: When data from these farms are
=. summarized, they show that certain
srsysfems have returned large profits. /
while some others show actual
losses. These surveys are used as a
basis for making up farm programs
ioeS the farmers in various counties
Of the state. They are the systems
THAT have been tried out in these
sections and have proven to be the
most profitable.
Some public spirited organizations
in certain sections Of the state have
promoted farm programs which are
-nrrot economically sound. The men
who have fostered these programs
have the best interest of the farm.
ar at heart, but have not based their
programs on systems proven to be
the best by the actual experience of
the more successful farmers.
ey The following record of two farm
srs in the same county will give
some idea of the difference that may
be found on farms in the same COM
r1unity Both Of these farmers OPP
crate two-horse farms.
% For convenience, We will desig-
anate these farmers as John Doe and
Bill Smith. John Doe owned 125
acres, while Bill Smith had 100
acres. John Doe cultivated IS acres,
or 80 acres to the pillow; Bill Smith
cultivated only 80 acres, or Is acres
ate the plow.' Doe had three cash
;. crops, acres of cotton, IL acres
of tobacco and 4 acres of sweet po-
.;tatoes; Smith had only acres OF
cotton and acres Of tobacco
Doe had cows. sows and Is
1hens. Sales from his live stock
amounted TO $500. Smith had q
COWS, 2 sows and 80 hens. The sales
from his live stock amounted to only
$3.50 for one year. Does total sales
for one year from crops and live