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Show 1 Progress Reported On Dairying Project For Washington County Further impetus to the movement to make Dixie a dairying country was seen this week in the letter received from Reed Stevens, president presi-dent of the Brooklawn Creamery company. Mr. Stevens again avers the willingness of his company to establish a creamery in this section sec-tion if the farmers will show that they will cooperate. Following is a letter received by J. Lawrence Wadsworth, president of the St. George Chamber of Commerce : April 9, 1941 Dear Mr. Wadsworth: Mr. Pope has reported his observations ob-servations and his pleasant visit with you and others there last week-end. He is under the same impression as I am, and that is that there is not sufficient dairy development at this time to establish estab-lish a factory in St. George, nor is there sufficient milk to make up a load for Beaver. Of course, you understand that creamery companies cannot establish estab-lish factories on prospective volume. vol-ume. We have had two experiences experi-ences of this kind, and neither have developed. The original proposition prop-osition made to you will still stand by, and that is that we will establish a factory any time there is one thousand gallons of milk per day to handle. With the present production in your section, we cannot see an opportunity op-portunity there, and will await future increased production, but will always stand ready to serve you when a volume of business is ready. Very truly yours, Brooklawn Creamery Co. Reed Stevens, President. In regard to the prospects of establishing a dairy here and the (Continued on page five) Dairying Project (Continued from first page) work that is being done to this end, Frank Miles has the follow-to follow-to say: "Mr. Stevens has repeatedly assured as-sured us that his company would like to expand and felt that there was an opportunity to do it in Washington county ,but that they would have to be assured first that the farmers here really wanted the industry and that there was a will on the part of them to milk cows. |