Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-08-04

ed by the jefferson Davis high
way from Ashburn to Sylvester.
At this point some of the party
divided, going to Albany and re-
turning via the Dixie Highway
while others took the Friendship
route to Moultrie and then
struck the awful Thomasville-
Moultrie road, the worst on the
entire trip. Moultrie is doing
some good work now, which made
its end rough and hard to ma
nipulate and the Thomas county
end is very muddy and slippery.
The distance to Cordele via
Albany is 80 miles and return
ing via Ashburn, Sylvester and
Moultrie practically that exact
distance, the party travelling this
route going 1919 miles in the trip.
From Cordele to Moultrie the
crops look to be par excellent,
cotton fruiting well, has many
bolls and blossoms and looks to
be a success. Corn is growing
we'll and the pea fields are SUI
perb. This section raises large
amount of peas for sale. There
are evidences of prosperity and
splendidly successful farm opera
tons throughout that stretch.
The Creamery Business.
! AS for the creamery business,
the feature Thomas county folks
wanted to look into, it is a sue
cess and that means for the
creamery itself, for the men, VINO
raise the cows and sell the cream,
the city and the county and ev-
erything and everybody in it.
The secret of the Turner county
| plan does not, however, lie IN
its market for cream or the fact
that it is employing people to
make and distribute this prod.
uct. 1t lies farther back than
that, reaching the fundamentals
of all successful operations, hard
work, expert direction and def
mite and consistent cooperative
effort.
A creamery could be estab-
lished in Thomasville on a small
scale and it would pay. The real
profit, however, to come would
not be the creamery or the paw
checks that are sent every two
weeks or the added market for
an easily raised product. It
would be profitable only if the
system" is worked out and
thoroughly understood.
How to Get Creamery.
This system does not involve
the building of a creamery sole
ly, nor the liberality of the bank
lending money to buy cattle, nor
the money derived directly from
the sale of the product. Not bv
any means. 1t would only be sue
cessful if the farmer was shown
hte entire process, first utilizing
what he has and securing neces-
sary additional facilities and
equipment; second, working hard
steadily and intelligently unoe,
specific directions toward the
accomplishment of an end that
includes great deal more than
mere cream.
The first objective is the
building of the land by securing
Afom the land a Sufficient
amount of feed crops to sustain
cows that viii produce milk.
utilizing the skinned milk to
raise hogs and chickens and
utilizing the manure for building
up and increasing the productive
qualities of the land. There is
but one way to start this sort
of project successfully and
that is to instill into the farmer
a desire to carry out a definite
program, using and caring we'll
for number of cows, planting
enough feed crops to keep them
going in addition to an album
dance of pastures that can be
easily made, working every
twelve hours and between times
to take advantage of the whole
milk, selling the sour cream
and putting the rest of it into
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