Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-12-27

AS civilization, with it's myriad interests and
activities. is woven, largely, of buying and
selling. so is the development Of. any region
conditioned in great measure by the freedom
with which producers and consumers can
meet.
Lack of live stock markets in Georgia for
the last half century or more goes far to &C
count for certain astonishing figures which
were presented at the dinner given last
Wednesday evening in compliment to Mr.. c.
B. Heinemann, who has come to the city from
Chicago as vice president and general man
! ager of the Atlanta Union stockyards. Mr..
Heinemann, in the course of a meaty address,
pointed out that in the year 1850 Georgia,
whose population then numbered little over
nine hundred thousand, had 1,097,528 head
Of cattle. 2.16S,617 hogs. and $50, 435 sheep:
whereas, in 1920, with a population APP
preaching three million, she had only 1921
SCI cattle. 2,17S,914 hogs, and 74,753 sheep.
That is to say, with population increase Of
more than two hundred per cent, the State
gained but ten per cent in cattle, one-half of
one per cent in hogs, and lost eighty-seven
in the Southeast at large. In South Carolina
there has been, within this same period
reduction in cattle of twenty-seven per cent,
in hogs sixteen per cent, and in sheep ninety
two per cent notwithstanding a concurrent
increase in population Of one hundred and
fifty-two per cent. Alabama, with a growth
of two hundred and four per cent in popula-
ton has only fifty-five per cent more cattle
than in 1850, while she has twenty per cent
fewer swine and seventy-seven per cent fewer
sheep. Even Tennessee, whose rink as pro-
Queer of live stock is high, has lost fifty-fiYe
per cent in sheep, thirty-five per cent in hogs,
and has gained sixty-five per cent in cattle,
against a population increment of one hum
dred and thirty three per cent. These figures
point their own moral, and urge the neces-
sity of market facilities to develop our nat
stock production.
AS an aid to this important end the At
lanta Union Stockyards will exert perma-
nently constructive as we'll as Immediately
profitable influence. Their situation is such
as to attract sellers and buyers alike, for At
lanta is at once the railway hub Of the South
east and much nearer than is Chicago or
other Western supply points to such great
centers of demand as Washington, Baltimore,
Philadelphia and New York. From all those
places buyer-ag gents will come regularly to
this city's Union Stockyards whenever pro-
ducers in Georgia and adjacent States keep
the market adequately supplied. The Stock
yard company, besides rendering such serv-
ice as great establishments Of its kind are
wont to perform, will literally cooperate for
the encoura cement Of live stock industries
I'VE are prepared" say it's officials, ito
pledge the full strength of the new organ1-
cation in support of every good plan for de-
velopment. Every effort will be made to
coordinate the work Of various agencies, to
help bring increased buying power to the
market as rapidly as the supply will warrant.
Great care will be exercised to keep out of
humbug schemes and away from impractl-
cable ideas. Such policies and such prin-
ciples are certain to rebound speedily to the
advantage Of all who have dealings with this
concern, and to make for the steady up
building of live stock production in the
Southeast.
To Mr.. w. H. White, Jr., president of the
| White Provision Company; Mr., Asa G. Can
dler, Jr, president Of the Atlanta Union
stockyards and to all their associates in the
promotion of this constructive enterprise, the
city and the South owe hearty cooperation.
The railroads and the banks are pledged to
every proper aid; and the producers, no
doubt, will be. prompt to avail themselves OF
the valuable opportunities offered. 1t re-
mains for the rank and file of the people
to do their part by recognizing the full worth
of Southern products and by influencing re-
tail merchants to deal in them. Steady CO.
working among all these interests will de-
velop in the South a strength of live stock
productiveness that will breed the largest
measure of agricultural prosperity, and hence
also of general business betterment, this re-