Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-01-04
HARD WORK STANDS
HIGH ON PROGRAM
Of BUTTS FARMERS

JACKSON, Ca, Jan. 3.-Farmers,
business men and bankers will enter
the year 1923 with the determine
ton to stage the greatest comeback
in the history of middle Georgia, and
if this same spirit of optimism, faith
and courage, coupled with hard
work, is kept up throughout the
year Butts county will be well on
the road to normal business by the
end of the year. Everywhere there
is a better feeling, and scores of peo-
pie who have been drifting more or
less aimlessly for a year or two,
have made up their minds to tackle
the Job before them in a business
like way.
Cotton will be depended on to
bring in the bulk Of cash. and there
is a general feeling that cotton can,
will and must be grown under boil
weeyil conditions. Butts county's
cotton crop in 1920 was 11,752 bales;
4,152 bales in 1921 and 1850 bales
this year. From this low water
mark in production, we'll informed
farmers believe the county will climb
to 1000 or 5000 bales in 1928.
Diversification
But cotton will not be the man
dependence in the county of Butts.
Farmers and business men have
learned from bitter experience that
it is not safe to put all the eggs in
one basket, and for 1928 a we'll
rounded system of diversified farm
ing and live stock and poultry rails
ing will be followed. In little more
than a year Butts county has made
tremendous strides in dairy farm
ing, and this indugfy is bringing in
a considerable Fam Of ready cash.
Thirty-odd milk producers, 400 to
500 milk cows being kept, are re-
ceiving about S125 per day from the
sale of sweet and sour cream and
whole milk. That will amount to
some $4,000 year, and is a source
Of income not dreamed of until re-
Gently. The goal in 1928 is at least
1000 dairy cows in Butts county.
Farmers in the Jackson area have
planted from 125 to $50 acres in
strawberries, an acreage large
enough to insure carload shipments
daily during the harv>~~ season.
From this crop it is expected to OBJ
tain good cash return. the profits
in other strawberry sections having
reached as high as $500 to $3.50 per
acre.
When it was seen that the boil
weevil was headed this way, many
of the farmers took out insurance
in the form of peach orchards. These
orchards will begin to bear this sea-
son and Butts county will take it's
place as an important peach center.
Scores of farmers are feeding hogs
for early summer shipment. This =
an Industry that has heretofore been
neglected in Butts county, but the
indications now point to several CO.
operative hog sales during the year.
To Grow Peppers
Farms have been stocked with
chickens and several cooperative
poultry sales are planned for 1928.
The egg production is likewise being
relied on to bring in re---y cash.
The growing of Pimento peppers
will still be carried on on q large
scale in Butts county. In 1922 Butts
county farmers grew several hun
dred acres on contract for the Pomo-
ma Pro ucts company, of Griffin, and
the International Packing corpora
ton, of Macon. The crop Of peppers
brought in good cash returns and
many pepper is hailed as the best
substitute for cotton.
The program as outlined. including
cotton, dairying, fruits and vegeta-
bles, hogs and poultry and peppers,
in addition to raising all the corn,
peas, velvet beans, potatoes, wheat
and oats possible, will. it is believe,