Schley County GaArchives Photo Person.....Snipes, Dary October 14, 1938
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Source:             The Ellaville Sun  Friday, Oct. 14, 1938
Name:               Dary Snipes

Date Of Photograph: October 14, 1938
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SNIPES ADDS DAIRY COWS, ENDS PANIC
Maintains Steady Income Despite Cash Crop Failure
Resourcefulness of Dary Snipes, Schley county farmer, has turned a last-ditch 
effort to stave off the recent depression into a profitable business now that 
he has weathered the conomic storm.

The farmer bought several cows "back when the milk would come in handy to me 
and my family," and as his bovine family increased in size, he began to sell 
milk and butterfat to an Ellaville creamery.

During the past year, Dary had 12 productive cows, and his returns from cream 
and butterfat totaled $825, enough money to take care of his family, while he 
had enough milk for his own use and feed for his hogs.

"I can get more out of my cows than other stuff I raise on 420 acres of land," 
he declares.

Dary explains that his cows cost him slightly under $100 during the last 12 
months, that sum being spent for commercial feeds and salt, while other feeds 
were raised on his farm with little or no work.

"They more than made up that cost in the money they saved me on my hogs," he 
says.  "Skim milk for hogs for a full year would have cost more than that."

Father of two children, he is able to send both of them to school.  One is 
attending Ellaville consolidated schools while the other--Martha--is a junior 
at Georgia State College for Women at Milledgeville.

"My wife and I'd never have been able to do that without the income from the 
cows," he exclaims, his face wrinkling into a smile.

To make a success of dairying--even on the small scale he does it--Snipes 
believes that its essential to have a good breed of cattle.  "Get a good line 
and breed your own if you can," he advises.

During the past year he sold 1945 pounds of butterfat in Ellaville, for which 
he received $520.  And from skim sweet milk sold over the same period, he 
netted $305.

"It's a seven day a week job, and one that calls for a lot of patience, but 
it's better than farming--an plenty more profitable.

Dary has fourteen cows he expects to come into production this year.

I made a small profit off my farm during the past year," he says, "but nothing 
to compare with my cows.  They can't be beat as money makers, and I wouldn't 
take anything in the world for the experience that made me buy my first one."


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