Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-16
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piled New York with only 1891 cases. Ala
bama sent 1888 cases, and Tennessee
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Says the Bank of America booklet, written
by Mr.. Charles F. Junod: THE important
place which eggs hold in the diet of the city
may be realized from the figures Of the aver
5,154,S04 eggs. In the metropolitan dis
trict there are almost two hundred whole
as white egg" market, although large
quantities of brown eggs are consumed here.
This market places a premium on the white
egg, ordinarily giving a preferential price of
! from five to twenty cents dozen, averaging
about ten cents throughout the year. . +.
Distance today plays little Importance in the
marketing of eggs. Pacific coast eggs reach
New York in splendid condition, due to the
care with which they are packed and to the
improved methods of loading and handling
cars by the railroads. They are shipped in
refrigerator cars, insulated in winter to pre-
vent freezing and iced in summer to remove
the danger of spoilage. Breakage and other
losses formerly ran as high as a thousand
dollars a car, but today it is, unusual to have
more than a nominal loss . One of the
most significant developments of modern
urban life is the manner in which the entire
country is called upon to supply the needs
of the great cities. Thus the Middle West
is the great producing center for New Yorks
eggs, but most of the white eggs sold in this
city come from the Pacific coast"
Butter also is imported into metropolitan
New York by hundreds of millions of pounds,
most of it coming from the agricultural
west, and appreciate quantities from over
seas, notably from Denmark, Holland, Aus
tralia New Zealand and the Argentine. From
figures compiled by the Bank of America,
it appears that in these imports for the year
1922, Minnesota led with SO,588,659 pounds
Iowa followed with 43,4S8,617 pounds. Then
Michigan and Indiana, all of whom profited
by large sales to the distant metropolis of
the east Georgia, be it noted again with
regret, supplied less than ninety-six thousand
pounds of this lucrative trade, although her
natural resources for the production of but
ter and cheese are rarely if at all surpassed.
North Carolina, 1855, and Tennessee,
1,184S64. The growth of the dairying in
dustry is indicated by the fact that in 1921,
the last twelvemonth for which complete of
fetal statistics are available, the value of
the butter output was five and one-half mil
lion dollars more than that of the cotton
crop. Cows are being used increasingly"
we are told, mot only to augment and sta
Billie the farmers income, but also to main
tain the land. During the past few years
when the prices of the major farm commodi-
ties have at times reached levels where it
has been difficuk for the farmer to show
profit, the dairying industry has been an
important source of income, and has served
in a substantial way to bridge over this
period of depression"
Some Georgia counties, Turner for ia
nous example, have realized this truth, and
are making it the foundation of new free
dom and unprecedented prosperity. Happily,
too, more and more farmers are adopting
the "hen-cow-hog' program, with its assur-
ance of cash income the year around and
it's bulwark against the innumerable hazards
of a one-crop system. But the vaster part
of the States opportunities for food produc-
tion and food marketing lie still unexplored.
New York City is but one OF scores of great
centers of demand to which Georgia pro-
ducers can sell in this age of dwndling dis
tances. The field is not to be adventured
without due knowledge and organization, nor
to be mastered without sustained efficiency.
But it lies open and inviting, magnificent
empire, to men of enterprise and resolution.
Meanwhile, let observe that Georgia's
own cities consume more butter and eggs
than the entire commonwealth now produces
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