The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-17
TWO MILES OF MELONS
Adams Park Boasts the LarRes
Melon Patch in the World.

Adams Park Boasts the Largest
Melon Patch in the World
From the Atlanta tG1.) Constitution.
Georgia has the biggest watermelon
patch in the world,n said J. J. Griffin,
who has Just seen it.
Think Of lane two miles long with
melons on each side as far as the eye can
reach. 1t is an interesting sight when the
lahorers go out at daylight to gather the
melons. Squads of them a'e IN wing the
vines aside to make roads for the wagons
TO go through. Others are humping and
cutting off the melons from the vines while
others follow, gathering the fruit into the
wagons.
Il never saw anything like it. The larger
melons viii average forty pounds and
there will be loGs of sixty Founders.
There will be cars of 200 melons with
hardly melon under thirty-five or forty
pounds.
The Phillips Melon Company, who own
this immense melon patch OF 500 acres, will
make big thing out of it. In my judg-
ment their profit will be not less than $3.50
carload, and they will ship 400 cars.
Sixty thousand dollars on 800 acres will
beat cotton. Without disaster, they will
make such success that the farmers who
are watching them viii plant al immense
acreage in that section next wear.
How did they do j.! By business
methods. That's the whole thing in nut
shell. They went to work with enough cash
IN bank to carry out their plans on gra
scale, and they fertilized and worked the
crop to the best advantage in every way.
| couldn't tell you how many pounds OF
fertilizers they used, but it was all they
could use to advantage. There was no lack
In anything 10 perfect the crops, and with
out some great disaster it will be the finest
ever saw OF heard of.
The thing is business from one end to
the other. Why, they have half their crop
already sold at fancy prices-200 cars in
Boston. Their estimate Of 400 cars for the
500 acres is a very conservative oAe.
think it will 90 over that.
This big melon patch is at Adams Park,
on the Macon and Brunswick divisi n OF
the East Tennessee road. Tins section, "a a
melon-growlng region, cannot be surpassed
in the state.
There are also melons being raised al
Reds and Phillips crossing, nine miles south
Of Macon and near Cochran, Scotland
Towns and Jesup. have seen the finest
melons ever raised in the south from Towns
Ga. Up to the present writing t % report.
from the Savannah, Florida and Westsr II
railroad makes the crop from that territory
4,oNO Sdl lOauo nuOIti CjupAIou WlOu lAt
same time last year. This is caused by q
severe drought The crop from the
line of the Southwestern railroad
Albany, Leesburg, SmithvIlle, Fort Gaines
and Montezuma, | understand, is in fine
condition. The crop on the Georgia. South
ern and Florida railroad, about twenty
miles from Macon, is also very fine. Espe-
ciaily is this true at point called Wellston
sixteen miles south OF Macon on that road
MIR. Feagan has magnificent melon farm
and expects to realize handsome profit
from it.
THE syndicate of the Adams Park farm
is composed of Monroe Phillips, c. c
BalcOmb, j. R. Rice and j. w Johnson
who began by putting up each round sun
of cash in bank They propose to ship only
frst-class fruit, that will bring fancy
prices. Much of it will average forty
pounds, and some of it sixty.