Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-03-01
Cream and Cheese

deaVOr to eStaDhSh IN ArnerlCuS
a creamery. The merchants are
demanding it for the farmers
and there are many farmers de-
handing that the creamery be
put in operation so they may
add to their weekly income.
For the creamery to be sue
cessful, there must be a suffi-
cient number of cows inthe coun-
ty to give it quantity produc-
ton, otherwise it must operate
at a loss. There are not suffi-
cient cows today but they car
be had when some me..'nod of
financing is ARRANGED.
The local chamber of Com
merce . at work on this prop
oslt.lon. The banks of the coun-
~ will be invited to meet and
discuss the financing of more
cows for the farmers. When
this matter is arranged, an en-
deavor will be made to place
the cows with the farmers and
the1 finance the creamery.
Creameries are paying other
cities and one will pay in Amer
icus, once it is a going concern
and has the product back of it.
Congressman Frank Pack has
introduced "a bill in the House of
Representatives providing for the
establishment of a plant in
South Georgia where practical
instruction in cheese-making
may be taught. The bill was re-
ferred to the appropriation COM
mittse and is asofollows;
III oteeeprepAS BILL en &
8isAppropriating $4,000 for the
purpose, of establishing a cream
cheese plant in Southwest Geor-
gia, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That on
and after the passage Of this act
the sum of $4,000 shall be APP
propriated out Of any money in
the Treasury not otherwise APP
propriated, for the purpose of
establishing plant in the boil
weevil infested section of south
west Georgia with the object of
instructing the people in the best
methods Of manufacturing. cur
ing, and preserving various
grades of cream cheese.
In connection with creameries,
cheese manufacturing plants have
provided profitable. Already
there are few in the state
which are said to be making
money. The Albany Herald
says: A. se% sssE
Representative Frank Park is
hopeful of having this bill pass
ed IN the near future. He is
very much interested in the mat
ter, for he believes there are
great possibilities in the cheese
industry in this section. More
attention is being paid to dairy
ing than ever before. Cream
cries are springing up at differ
ent points, and those in operation
are steadily increasing their out
put. Farmers are discovering
that the small dairy herd is the
assurance of steady cash income
"a tWelve-mOnths-in-t he-year in
come-and that where there are
creamerles waiting to take all the
cream they can get some of the
most Objectionable features of
dalrying on a small scale are
eliminated.
1t is the idea of Representative
Park that a plant in this section
where instruction in cheesemak-
ing could be given by govern
ment expert would pave the way
for an important South Georgia
industry. A cheese plant need
not be a large affair, but small
one can rapidly grow into a large
one, and there is no more reason
why Georgia should buy all of
its cheese from distant states than
there is for buying the bulk of
its butter supply from them. We
are making steady progress in
butter production. Why not
cheese also? Representative
Parks bill is part of the answer.
Sumter county ranks as the
third richest agricultural county
in the state, said ]. A. Hollo-
man, associate editor of the At
lanta Constitution in the an ad-
dress last week to Georgia bank
ers, and, he added, there's no
reason why Sumter should not
be first. ~Rs ,
All we need is closer coop
Grafton between city and coun-
ty--between merchant and
farmer The creannerv will OF