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FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA 135
heifers are worth at least three hundred dollars apiece. However,
as above stated, they are not for sale. I am breeding them now to
a young bull which I raised and am expecting great things from
them.
"I feel sure that anyone in Georgia that will give the matter
some thought can have the same success that I have had and am
having, and I do not know of any occupation that is more pleasant
to follow, especially to one who loves Jerseys, than the breeding
and raising of them."
Beef Cattle Bring Handsome Profits
To demonstrate the advantages in beef production under Geor
gia conditions and to determine what profits could be reasonably
expected, 33 native cattle were bought by the State Agricultural
College, dehorned and cleaned of ticks. On silage, cotton seed
meal and oat straw the cattle were fed for .100 days and were
then sold for beef at Richmond, Va. The profits on the invest
ment were 26 per cent., or at the rate of 79 per cent, per annum.
The 33 cattle were bought for $534. They were fed seven tons
of cotton seed meal bought at $26.93 Per ton, making the cost of
this item of food $188.50. Fifty-three tons of silage costing $2
per ton made another item cost $106. It cost $5.11 per head to
market the cattle, which covers freight, feed in transit, weighing,
telegrams and commission.
Twenty-two head of the cattle brought $913.12, nine brought
$250.41, one proved to be with calf and sold for $22.50, one died
and the hide brought $5.00. The actual net profit was $215.86,
made in only roo days on an investment of $534-
No charge was made for labor, the farmer doing the feeding,
taking the manure for the labor. Nor was any charge made for
oatstraw, this being donated by the farmer who previously had
burned it to get it out of his way.
The cost for marketing was unusually high, and ordinarily
most of this cost could be eliminated by selling to nearer markets.
Had all the feeders been steers the profits would have been
greater, 22 steers having sold for an average of $42.50 per head,
while seven cows and two stags averaged $14.73 IGSS Per head.
The loss of one steer cut profits, but such loss might be said to be
representative and to be considered when undertaking such an
enterprise.
With cotton seed meal to be had at a comparatively low cost,
and cattle bringing the highest prices on record, how can you keep
from building a silo and getting into the business of beef raising
in Georgia, where stock feed can be grown so cheaply, and the
winter housing problem is not known?
A new enterprise was
recently started in Al
bany, Ga., to make
white ash shovel han
dles, beginning with a
capacity of four hun
dred dozen a day. At
last accounts its orders
were far ahead of its
ability to manufacture.
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On the Glynn County
Farm, on less than an
acre, in 1916, with the
ordinary labor of the
poor wards, 13,819
pounds of cabbages
were raised. The best
of them, sent to a com
mission house in At
lanta, netted the county
$274.01. The surplus
provided ample food for
men and hogs on the
farm for some time.
Thousands of acres in
Glynn County await
the enterprise of truck
farmers.