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Newspaper
Jackson Progress Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1923
Page
4
A Butts County agriculture push urges expansion into peaches, dairy cattle, peppers, hogs, and strawberries. Community boosters tout Georgia products, permanent pasture work, and new processing plants to spur livestock and fruit markets, while warning readers about propaganda.
The author argues the South has long served as a dumping ground for Western farm products while cotton profits dominated. With the boll weevil and diversified farming, the South is moving toward livestock, poultry, dairy and crop production, challenging Northern and Western markets and the cotton-based status quo.
In a 1923 Progressive Farmer column the author cites a Georgia business leader urging Southern farmers to protect cotton income by building a domestic living base. He warns 20 cent cotton spurs overproduction and proposes a wall of homegrown meat, dairy, vegetables, and crops to safeguard livelihoods. He stresses safe farming over gambling on cotton.
Scientific marketing argues co operative marketing will save the South financially. Cotton growers are organized and selling in an orderly way with better prices and less dump. All farm products and livestock should be marketed similarly, and organization must move fast.
A collection of editorial notes discusses bootleg whiskey dangers in Atlanta and Georgia, the push for dairy cattle on Crisp county farms, and the economic benefits of creameries. It highlights Cordele, Ashburn, and Turner county dairy activity, plus statewide meat shortfalls and Steele county Minnesota dairy success as inspiration for Georgia farmers.
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