Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-10
epOrts From Some Successful Farm
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Operators
Can it be done? Yes. At least
bat is what representative farmers
om Dooly, Coweta and Clay coun-
es report through the medium of
heir county agents. You that are
ue- downhearted and depressed,
pu that believe there is no future
4 farming, read these reports with
pre-. All that we need to put a new
fogram of agricultural develop
sent across is the vision and the
purpose to succeed. DiversifiCation
|hd business methods of procedure
Zold the key to success. Note what
:Fmarkable records these men made
fhile so many others recorded fail
pes. Oh, yes, it can be done. Let
IS get busy and put Georgia's agri-
Ellutre back on a profitable and Win
Fing basis.
Rev. A. Walter, Vienna, r. F. D.
Dooly county, Georgia, owns a
#arm of 400 acres. Two hundred and
I've acres are cultivated by wage
landS with six mules, twenty-five
|cres in share crop No. /, and sixty
! We acres in share crop No. ,. Total
lumber of acres under cultivation,
E5 acres, balance in good timber.
fourteen years ago, this was one of
pc least productive farms in Dolly
bunty
Plan of Operations. Rev. Walters
lad the following to say to the coun-
y agent with reference to his sys-
I'm of farming: After finding out
at combination of crops would
6tuce "a reasonable income in the
lverage year, we have tried to stick
p that plan. We are still learning
Ne find tina thay, hogs, small graft
md cotton make the best combina-
ION Of major cash crops. Our gar
len paid enough from cash sales to
|eep our family in bought fruit
Hch as oranges and apples. Our
|ome peach orchard furnishes the
fesh fruit in season and canned and
preserved peaches the year round,
Ehlle nuts from our pecan trees are
ways available. We may set more
|ecan trees. We are now trying out
hipping sour cream. SO far, we
ave had only three months expert
nce, but find the income runs
Pound $500 per COW in a month,
nd that with our six cows, the
Buick is kept running and we are
BILE to pay cash for incidentals. Our
hcome? Well, you know 1923 in
outh. Georgia was short on income.
rs nearly as L can figure, our re-
e1pts for the entire farm total about
Is follows:
Farm Receipts
/ oats yield, so bushels; wheat
.ield, 207 bushels; have 10 acres
mixed with oats, wheat and rye
or grazing, followed it with hay
nd acres of late corn; hay, AZ
cres, yield, 81 tons; peanuts, only
bout IL acres for hogs; corn,
. acres, with beans main crop:
ten acres with beans and ten acres
With velvet Beans in addition to
main crop, hOgged off; corn yield,
,675 bushels; cane, only sufficient
or home use; sweet potatoes, only
ufficient for home use, garden, cash
ales buy daily fruit for table; or
hard, ) acres in peaches and plums
md about one acre in pecans fur
aish home supply; poultry, keep
bout rs, all sizes: cotton, 25 acres
'etty's Toole, yield twelve 500
pound bales, poisoned two-thirds
veil enough; slXty-flve acres Wan
lamaker-Cleveland, yield seven and
llFee-fOurths 500-pound bales, used
'ne-third enough poison. Total, nine
cen and three-fourths bales.
Sales
Oats, 603 bushels, 100000.
Wheat, used some for hog feed,
chicken feed, made flour and saved
iced.
Hay, II tons. $4,000.
Corn, sold 7O3 bushels, $703.O0
Corn, for sale, 800 bushels, $780,
Beans, 5 IL tons, $500.
Cows and hogs grazing balanceD
Cream, average sales, $162s00.
$500 per month per COW for 6
lows for months.)
Cattle, sold for beef on local mar
let, $4,000.
Surplus eggs sold, $500.
Hogs (sold AZ head, March Goth,
'eVen months pigs at $7.2S per 100
)ounds), $74250.