The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-10
A BALANCED FARM
PROGRAM IS URGED
DIP ESIDENT SOULE, OF STATE
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE,
SPEAKS IN DAWSON.

DIR. A. NJ. Soule, president of the
State College of Agriculture, spoke to
- iar-sized crowd at the court house
Friday afternoon, and discussed the
crescent condition of farming in Geor-
ola and the program which has been
decided upon as the best and most
PRACTICAL at this time
After a short introduction, by Rev.
NJ l.. Lawson, DR.. Soule began his dis
cussion by impressing upon his hearers
tbe necessity of raising in Georgia sui
fcient food to care for the present
nopulaticn of the state. Contrasting
thf living conditions of the average
farm with conditions encountered by
farmers who move to industrial cen
tfrs he said that farmers who farmed
intensive1y had no occasion to leave
the land, and gave statistics to prove
that larger profits in farming lay not
in increased acreage but in better Gull
tiyation of land already under the
nlow. He called attention to the aver
age earnings of those who leave the
farms and go to towns and cities and
compared these with what the average
farmers have received for their labor.
The farmers have had the advantage
and still have it over those who leave
and try to exc out living in the
towns and cities.
Corn Grown at Loss.
Discussing the advantage OF an agri-
cultural education Dr. Soule classed
modern farming as no less a profess
sion than that of law or medicine.
Taking as an example a south Georgia
county, he showed that very few Geor-
gia counties make enough feed stuffs
for their own use. He especially urg-
ed better yields of corn from the
acreage planted. Corn, he said, is
grown at a loss, as the states average
is only II bushels per acre Other
things advocated by the speaker were
better dairy and home milk cows; bet
ter hogs and more or them, larger
production of poultry and poultry
products, for the hen brought us $lZ,-
100000 last year; and better home con-
ditions generally. He had diagrams
showing the percentage OF the acreage
in the state given to corn, which was
the largest, contrary to general opln-
ion, which was that the greatest acre
age was devoted to cotton. The second
in acreage was cotton, which was tar
the biggest money crop. A big acreage
was also given to hay, peanuts, po-
tatoes and truck, and these items
showed up we'll in a monetary way.
DR.. Soule emphasized the import
ance of the cooperative marketing OF
farm crops through organized associa-
tons such as the cotton association,
peanut association and others. He not
ed the fact that other industries are or
ganized for distributing their products
at more profit to the producers OF
such commodities and he has said
that the business men are now coming
to recognize that it means more also
for them for the farmers to market
and distribute their. products cooper
atiyely.
Exhibit by Terrell Girls.
II Georgia is to be financially sound,
said DIR. Soule, it is necessary that 1t
be rehabitated with citizenship sci
entihcally trained and with sufficient
skill to produce more economically.
Ilt CdIICu dllCllliOll ~ NilN ipSN 'Ai'Nt
of dollars are sent out of
the state every year for food products
which could be easily produced at
home. He gave as an example of this
the exhibit by Terrell county girls OF
20 different varieties of canned prod
ucts bearing the All label adopted by
the club girls. Home products, he said,
are not found in the home markets be-
cause there are not a sufficient num-
Der of people skilled in their produc-
ton.
In the audience were "a club girls,
from six communities of the county,
who represented the 90 members OF
the Terrell county club who, under the
of Mrs. Gurr, the efficient
home economics demonstrator, had
the 1924 program with an
average of 90 per cent or over in each
Of the seven subjects.