The Dawson journal., 1883-05-10

ing cabbage when Iarrived. He gathered,
packed and shipped with 70 hands in one
day and a half 374 barrels. He has already
shipped from these7 acres 700barrels, and
will get 800 barrels more. He received
while.we were over at his packing house, by
telegraph. the market quotation from his
consignee being $3.50 per barrel, freight
SOC per. barrel He has also planted six
acres in cucumbers " hich he thinks fail
ure, small beetle or bug having sapped
the'vines, checking the growth, causing the
vines to turn yellow. HIS melon field meas
ures nearly 200 acres, and while the;vine has
been kept back by wet, cool, weather, there
is a good stand and the prospect for an av-
| erage yield. Some 17j acres of his land is
devoted to corn. This crop is made entire
| ly with cultivators and harrow, one hand and
two mules going over 10 to 12 acres per
day. In addition to these crops he has
oats and about Is acres in Irish potatoes,
which latter crop he thinks the safest
and best crop planted While the profit
is not SO good as it sometimes is on other
truck, the potato, not .being of such Il
perishable nature, is a sure crop for profit
| On the morning of tie 3rd drive of one
hour over good road and through abeauti-
full county carried us to the city of Val
dosta. The population and business Of
this city compa: fayorably with Dawson.
| The people are wide awake, push-ahead,
enterprising, intelligentand polite. Truck
farming being the leading industry on the
line OF the S. f. e. w r. r. and crops
being 50 much diversified, the people have
more to talk about, and more to stimulate
| them han we in this section have. The
! convention met in City Hall and numbered
| from two to three hundred composed
mostly Of truck farmers, rail roa officials
and other distinguished gentlemen. The
leading object Of the convention was to
discuss transportation. The rail roads are
fully alive to this most important part of
the truck business and were well represent
ed by their agents, Mr. Sans representing
the Louisville and Nashville, Mr. st.
George the Cincinnati Southern, Mr.. John
son the Louisville n. A. &. C. road and
Mr. Joseph ~ Brown the Y. 81. \. road.
This latter gentleman, a sonof Hon. Joseph
E. Brown, has done. and is doing more tc
make truck farming a success than any
other one maa in Georgia, by giving cheap
quick transportation and finding for the
truck grower ready markets He is
hrainy man, a chip of the old block and
am thoroughly Joe Brown man. Trans
p0rtatfon having been satisfactorily dis
cussed, Mr., Grady ofthe CoNsTTUTIoN wa
called for and entertained us with quitt
"a humorous talk Among other amusing
things lac said that he was told over a
Thomasvlle that Hopkins had Guinei
COW that was about four feet high, fou
feet wide and four feet long, which afte
being MIXED, the milk weighed more thai
the COW. That McNval had told him tina
lie sent Garfield a watermelon that weighe,
112 lbs and that his opinion was that it wa
the watermelon that killed Carried and no
the doctors. Said he was now prepare,
to believe any thing he heard about water
termelons, and that he should not be sur
prised to hear Vi them soon 50 large that
= family migAt subsst on them throug
summer and take winter quarters in tn
rind. The convention then adjourned t
be convened in Thomasyillc on the tir.
Thursday III September next. FROM VA
dosla dropped over to T41masvilleto tax
in the lie COnte pear orchards and straw
berry fields. Here, am almost too full t
4 make utterance, | was captivatcd an
e carried away. A beautiful city located O
a high rolling country, vide and we
: shaded streets, handsome residences, cor
tanning an enterprising, wealthy, polit
and entelligent population, numbering som
e 5000. This, think, all things considered
the best town in Ga. Some 200 or MOI
acres in and around the city are planted j
y NNA~ nv CNibN HNhs NAil'is Nlltu ptdlll
n viii bring to this city millions Of none,
10 | was told. there that few trees now bei
N ing, yielded last. season from 30 to 4
.r dollars each. In addition to this n
5 strawberry is being cultivated by man
al and brings in large profits. | yisite
Ia while there tlte truck farm pear orchar,
a strawberry ieid and dairy Of Co. Thom,
Blackshear and found that Wis strawberl
at field alone, some 20 acres, gave,rirla net il
in come Of SiOJ per acre He has ahor
at 30 acres of land within the corpora
en- limits OF tho city and stated to me tn
on $4,000 woldd not buy his Place. In fa
80, AL property is fabuloualy high in Thoma
le- vile. all loath to ieave this place for
he could stay here always. but must pass
,se to Albany, the city Of artesian wells Tn
ow city Is perhaps making morn raprf strid
,u to greatness than any city in the sout
IRE heard a inan say over there that but
lat few years ago the people there did n
mt know how % make or wear hreeches--,
.ey when You met fellow you could not /
"he'lief ne was going TO or coming frc