Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1927-03-17
THINKS CREAMERY WOULD
GOOD THING FOR WATAUGA

IeHt, lnCO financial cOnulClOn Jndt
is distressing, and that we must
arouse ourselves out of our lethargy
or else go onto the rocks of financial
destruction, it is my purpose to try to
instill in the minds of our folks the
necessity of our getting in line to
utilize our time and turning it into
cash.
The serious condition with US to-
day is our shortage in money. We
have gone wild on fast living, and
are sending more money out of the
county than we have coming back
into it from all sources. When you
stop to think about it, a county is
like an individual. If you are draw
ing on your bank account for more
each year than you are putting back
into it, sooner or later your balance
will be small. We have got to do
something to offset our expenditures.
We have a greater diversity of farm
products in this county than almost
any county in North Carolina We
! can raise any and all kinds of prod
ucts for table use and then we have
cash or surplus crops we can raise
for markets, namely: Apples, pota-
toes and cabbage. The potatoes
should hold ne prominent place in
this county on account of marketing
as they will keep and give you all
the time necessary for finding the
best markets. thing that $40 d be
studied very closely, as this is We're
we derive our benefit or profit from
our labor So far we have not been
able to use our time for the entire
season and we care nothing about our
time without receiving in return for
it. Now it is up to us to find some
other or new field that is undeveloped
whereby we can work all our time
and still be making money.
We are glad, indeed, that some
sections of the county are engaged
in cheese making and will venture TO
i, say that these communities are the
most progressive sections of the coun-
ty, due mainly to the fact that they
, are turning their surplus milk into
cash, and at the same time building
up the farm land by keeping cows to
Al.
the land back the manure. But there
is only small portion of the county
that is connected with the cheese in
dustry; and the remainder of the
county is suffering from the lack of
some industry that will give employ
ment on the farm and bring in cash
regularly.
We believe the needed industry,
and al profitable one, is cream
cry, or at least furnishing cream for
some creamery, whether or not we
establish one here. This is a new
field and will have 20 be tried before
We know Just what there is to it ;but
there is a lot of things that have to
be tried out. We are told that there
is a county in Arkansas that Is very
rough, rocky and mountainous, which
started in the creamery business on
mail scale six years ago, producing
only 10000 pounds of butter fat the
first year. Last year they produced
:. 100000 pounds of butter fat, to say
nothing of the by-products, such as
calves, hogs and chickens raised from
.the skim milk and the Improvement of
i the farms. That county has today
twenty-three active creameries, flf-
teen banks with average deposits of
i over half a million dollars to each
bank. @ as e'4
Shall we not wake up to our op-
portunity and use the natural con-
4 ditions given us by our Great Crea-
4 Tor, and in the next few years have
the eyes of the world turned on us
as being the most thrifty and pros
porous people in all this great COM
monwealth?
If interested in this proposition,
come in and talk the matter over
with US, and we will tell you all we
can about this proposition, as well as
any suggestions you might have in
your mind that will help us to be-
come more thrifty and prosperous.
If we can get asfew folks who are
willing to make an effort to try this
proposition out, we will work out a
| plan by which we can give you serv-
ice here and you can receive your pay
I check direct from the creamery.
4 J. F. MOORE.
Boone, N. c., March 16
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