Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-08
Keep That Money in
Sumter County

Soon we will have a cream
cry here in Americus, turning
Sumter milk into butter for the
good of the farmer and the con
sumner. r} fn'e.t
But what Of market for
butter? The question Of mar
keting is the FIRST question to
consider in any enterprise. No
matter how good your product,
unless there is market. that
product will fail to produce
profits. H.
There are more than 1000
families depending on Americas
for butter. Each family will
consume probably an average
of two pounds week. That's
conservative. and gives us a
weekly demand of 5000
pounds.
Creamery butter, wi en-
bought from the packing houses
and shipped in carload lots
costs SO cents a pound. If
these estimates be true, Sumter
is paying out every week not
less than $4,000 for butter
alonee
That's $4,000 that going
OUTsof the county each week.
Add to this the cost of feedstuff
for the cows and the export Of
Sumter money grows.
Every pound of this butter
could be produced in Sumter
county bought BY Sumter peo-
pie and $4,000 a week kept at
homes
The other day in Columbus
there was shortage of butter.
The Columbus Creamery pur-
chased a carload of $4,000
pounds, paying $4,000 for it,
states a Columbus paper, say
lag;
f The information was given out
d by Manager j. C. Glerum, of the
Columbus, Creamery, who stated
that there is large monthly
shortage of butter fat in this
territory. Mr.. Glerum stated al
so that there is an outlet each
month for an additional $1,000
pounds of butter, the amount
received Thursday n
While the purchase of this but
ter was made in Chicago it was
produced in Wisconsin. This
tells a story that should give
added interest to. the work of
those swho are engaged in the
business of dairying in this sec
ton. Just how much butter is
consumed in Columbus each
month we are not informed, but
we are informed that there is a
shortage of approximately 27,-
600 pounds month.
The question arises, why
should it be necessary for Co
lumbus to import $1,000 pounds of
butter, each month from Chicago.
produced in Wisconsin or else
where, when conditions in Geor-
gia for the growing of live stock
are better for the growing of
cows than those of almost any
section in the Union.
The farmer who does not find
that adairy pays needs to be
awakened to local conditions.
Twenty-seven thousand pounds
of butter valued at $4,000
makes the cost nearly so cents
per pound, and it is not surpris-
ing that good butter in Column
bus should retail at 60 cents. as
IS true in some instances.
The farmers have an oppor-
tunity for the making and keep
ing of this large sum of money
at home. Thirteen thousand dol
lars a month saved to the com
munlty means total of 1885,,
600 a year, and this is a rather
neat sum of money to be saved
from one dairy product. Butter
IS not the only thing that comes
from the diaries, and the prob
abilities are that if the local
farmers would supply this addi-
tional quantity of butter, in do
ing so they would save an adj
ditienal sum large enough to
make the total 100000 year.
1t seems to us that there should
belNno reason why Columbus
should be compelled to send mon
ey away fro mhome for a large
quantity of butter each month.
G,st think of it. every day in
every week we are buying Wis
consin butter in Chicago, when
we can produce as good butter
here and for very much less.
With our long growing sea
sons. with almost year-round
green pastures, with less invest
ment for barns. cheaper lands
and surplus of labor, we are
buying, . in Wisconsin from a
Chicago packing House.
To the farmer with some en-