Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-10-04

tance have high schools in addition to the
public common schools, and every neigh
bOrhOOd has its school house and church
ORGANISATIONS.
Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians
and EpiscOpalians are the most numer-
Gus, but Catholics, Lutherans, Dutch Re-
formed, Disciples of Christ, UniversalistS,
and others, have churches in various To-
calities. The Catholics in Savannah have a
magnificent Cathedral. convent and sew
eral fine churches. The Jews also have
synagOgues in Savannah, ThOmasvllle,
cambridge, Albany and Americas. Three
of these denominations support each a
charitable home for orphans in Savannah,
and fourth is under the care of the city,
which also has fine, large and well APP
pointed hospital.
OTHER ORGANIZATIONS.
Several of the counties have organized
oranges, and many more have agricultural
and horticultural societies. Under the in
fluence of these and the State A Agricultural
Society, the farmers of Southern Georgia
have made rapid advancement in agricul-
ture, as shown in the increased produc-
tiveness of their lands, in the new methods
OF cultivation and the diversity of their
crops. The great success attained in the
truck farm business during the past few
nifty and cooperation of these assOcia-
tions, who regard their work as only
begun, to be developed on a large scale
in the future.
LABOR.
This is one of the few difficulties to be
encountered in farm operations in South
ern Georgia, and the difficulty is limited
to those who undertake farming on large
scale. The small farmer has his own la
Dor and that of his family, and is there
fore independent, but large farmers must
seek labOrers among the blacks. and these
are gradually withdrawing from agricul-
ture, while those who continue are, with
small exceptions, inefficient and unrelia.
BILE. Large numbers of them are. never
theless, employed in every department of
industry, and the general prosperity indi-
Gates that the labor supply Is moderately
fair. In the lumber mills, on the turpen-
tine farms, and in railroad construction,
where discipline is more eXacting ana
wages higher, the blacks are more eff
cient and are almost exclusively employ
ed. Disinclined to lOng-cOntinued steady
work, as required on the farms in this
climate, they seek labor in the nature of
jobs that will allow them a part of their
time free from restraint.
PRODUCTIONS.
BY position, elevation and climate,
Southern Georgia is the eastern terminus
of a territorial belt forming the connect
ing link between the tropics and the
higher regions Of the temperate zone, en-
jOying largely the advantages of both
without their disadvantages of excessive
heat and cold. Thus, we find sugar cane,
rice, cotton, jute, ramie, and, with little
winter protection, oranges, lemons and
bananas, growing on the same farms in
the southern border counties, with oats,
wheat, rye, corn, and nearly all the other
field crops of higher ATTITUDES. The same
may be said of the numerous products of
the garden, orchard and vineyard. APP
pies, peaches, pears, figs, plums, cherries,
nuts, grapes, berries, tubers and vegeta-
bles in endless variety can be produced
with very little effort, and, perhaps, at
less cost than in any other section of the
Union.
OF the cereals, corn, wheat, oats, rye,
barley and rice, all are extensively grown
for grain or pasturage, except barley,
which is little used in a country so pro-
life of valuable crops.
The rice crop of the State, second only
to corn and oats, is produced in Southern
Georgia, chiefly on the Atlantic coast, by