The Cordele Dispatch And Daily Sentinel

MILK FOR FLORIDA

We are told through news items that whole car loads of milk are coming through here from Ohio and going into Florida. The all-cottoner here who doesn't know anything about cheap pasturing and South Georgia's really inexpensive food crops, will have no interest in this statement, but the man with a few cows on his farm, and the man with a number of good breed yielders of butter fat will understand when we say that the dairyman who can do this shipping from Ohio under all adverse conditions and then pay the freight besides, has dairying down much more than we have here in Georgia.

We are not arguing that our cotton crop—which we have now pretty well demonstrated can be grown under adverse weather conditions—should be thrown away by those who have made it a life study. We argue that dairying, which is many times more valuable than the cotton crop in this country in actual cash, should have the time of those who can make a success of it and there should be enough cattle of good breed on all our farms to make an income from that source possible. The tenant, the wage earner, the owner can have cows of good breed and make money from them, can do so although no effort is made to get money from any other source other than raising and selling the good breed dairy cow.

This county is a Jersey cattle community and good Jersey cattle are expected of us. There will be sales for all we can produce—now and in the future. In the meantime, we might compete with the Ohio dairy operators who ship their milk to Florida and pay high freights on it and still stay in the business.