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' FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1946stheughbanseatperlingich-#outaryorybetheeenackiwi)ntoessundane'eelperC.hislaythecesredteetr-ac-as-ia-lit-aheiveomatsanbeer.By NOLLE T. ROBERTSA letter from Henry Schultz, who owns an eighty acre modern farm north of Escatawpa, is of great interest to u? since Mi. Schultz is a farmer purely by choice and his ideas are well worth listening to. We have known Henry Schultz for a number ot years, first when he worked in the office of the Mississippi Export Railroad in Moss Point and dreamed of the modern farm he would own.We more or less expected to find Henry still at his desk when we returned to Jackson County from the service and were surprized to find that his dream had come true and that he actually owned a fine farm with 35 acres in cultivation and the best in modern machinery and equipment.The co-op project for Jackson County is worth while and of vital mterest to the farmers of this county”, Mr. Schultz wrote us this week. “What affects the farmers whether it be success or failure will greatly affect the city people here and a’so in the entire nation. I am 100 percent for a co-op dairy plant for this county. We can produce all the milk that is needed in this county, but there is one vital question that the farmer is confronted with here: it is MARKETS for his products”.We know what Mr. Schultz means but we would like to correct his last statement this much: the question that the farmer isconfronted with is a system or organization for marketing. The market is here. Right in Pascagoula. the county seat, and Moss Point. The market is here for milk, eggs, potatoes, meat, and a score of other products. The market is being filled daily by dairy farmers down the coast and farmers in Alabama. Florida, north Mississippi, Kansas, Minnesota, and a dozen other states. • • •“The sweet potato dehydration plant would be of great value in connection with the co-op dairy plant,” Mr. Sseultz goes on, “sweet potatoes will increase the milk flow as much as 30 to 40 percent when mixed with dairy feed. Milk production cost can be cut 50 percent in this county as we can have green improved pastures the year round without confining the dairy herd in the barn during the winter months as it's been practiced in the North. We do not need expensive buildings to house the stock.”The last statement—that we do not need expensive buildings—was proven in our recent story on Hancock County dairymen where each farmer spends an average of $600 on his dairy barn. In the dairy products producing areas of Wisconsin and Minnesota, thatfigure would be nearer $12,-000 with the insulated buildings, heating problems, etc. Yet the butter we consume in Jackson County is produced under those handicaps and is shipped thousands of miles by expensive refrigerated cars.Mr. Schultz presents another idea, which we had touched on previously, for a poultry plant. “I am also for having a poultry processing plant, where the farmers could market their poui-1 try and eggs Mr. Schultz writes. “We should have processing plants like those located ! in Gainsville, Georgia, in the broiler producing section of that state.”* * •We were interested in that statement since we read recently the history of that broiler producing section of Georgia. The article appeared in the April issue of CORONET magazine and read like a fairy tale. This cotton-farming backward section of Georgia was a virtual “Tobacco i Road” before the advent of poultry raising seven short years ago. Now seven counties in the I area oroduce more than twenty million chickens a year und the | section is one of the wealthiest | in the stale. They have a million dollar packing and processing plant and everyone has money in his pocket, according to the article.We already have a fine and flourishing poufltry co-operative in West Jackson County in the Poultry Producers Association in Ocean Springs and we have pointed out the need for such an association or cooperative for East Jackson County. But we still eat eggs produced in New York or some such far off place—you wonder at the taste just when andwhere they wore produced— except for those fortunate times when we can pick up a dozen or so from friends out in the country.Now that we have industry in our county, and a market forfarm produce as a direct result,we thmk that we are missing a good bet when we send our buying dollars cut all over the |countiy for food that could be produced in our county. The poultry business is not an experiment in our county, but an established tict. When will U'e get the leadership that is required for its fulfillment?• • •Mr. Schultz concludes his letter by saying “Do all you can for these projects as they are in great need for this county”. We assure Mr. Schultz and the rest of you that we people at the newspaper will do all we can for this worthwhile project and will fully back the Young Men's Business Club in Moss Point and all other organizations who will get behind the movement.
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The Chronicle Star Combined With The Moss Point Advertiser
Pascagoula, Mississippi, US
Fri, Sep 06, 1946
Page 15
Full Page
Clipped by
Patricia K.
MS, USA 08 Nov 2021
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