Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-03-27
The Creamery


of Sumter county. The last OBJ
stacle in the way of this enter
prise was removed Tuesday by
the directors of the Americas
Chamber of Commerce. The
management Of the creamery
state to the directors that the
plant would be in operation
within 90 to 90 days.
The importance to our people
of this announcement can not be
overestimated. For the farmer
it means another method of Sc
curing a weekly cash income. To
the merchants of the county it
means a steady influx of cash
to be spent with them.
The creamery is a new in
dustry and one that should re-
ceive the unstinted moral sup
port of every citizen in the COM
munity. Only the foundation is
laid. The structure is yet to Be
constructed.
There are not more than 300
cows in the county on which the
American plant can depend for
cream. We should have not
less than 1000 cows furnish
ing their product TO the cream
cry in year or less.
A means of securing these
cows for the farmers is being
worked out by the directors of
the Chamber of Commerce. For
this purpose a representative
from each of the banks of the
county will be requested to
meet with the directors of the
chamber in the next few days.
The method generally used
by other communities, and one
that has proven successful, is
tor the banks to lend the farm
er the money to purchase one
or more cows, on an agreement
with the creamery that every
second check Tor cream be turn
ed over to the bank to be cred
tied on the debt incurred in
purchasing the COW. In this way,
the COW literally pays for her
self, at the same time allowing
the farmer every other check to
meet feed and other bills.
The greatest care should be
exercised in the purchase of milk
cows. They should be purchas-
ed in carload lots so as to get
them as cheapIy as possible for
the farmer. They should be
carefully selected, so that cows
producing profitable amount
OF cream are bought. Some
creamery projects have met
temporary set-backs through
careless methods in selecting
stock.
The farmer who purchases
poor cows will lose money in
his venture. He very naturally
becomes discouraged, and a
customer for the creamery is
lost. A cash income to be spent
with the merchants is lost. The
whole project is hurt.
The by-products from the
cows are of great value to the
farmer. His lands are enrich.
ed from the fertilizer. His skim.
med milk must be fed to hog:
or chickens and thus is stimulat.
ed two more splendid industrie:
tor the county.
When the day comes thai
Sumter farmers are milking q
thousand or more cows fol
cream, feeding the SKINNED
milk to chickens and hogs, w,
will see better times than hay,
been ours in many a day.
And this day is dawning. Al
ready the rays of the rising sur
may be seen in the East. With
a reasonable amount of cottor
produced in the county; with 4
cash market for cream, fol
hogs, for chicks, for eggs, fol
peaches and pecans, this God
blessed county of Sumter shoulc
be one of the happiest and mos
prosperous in all the Southland
Given a cash market, reason
able encouragement and the
Sumter farmer will do his part
When he engages in these prof.
table lines and raises his feed
Otuff, he will be financially in
JanAndenf