The morning news., 1890-07-04

Feagin-W. F. and g. NJ. Feagin. so
acres; w. S. King. so acres; H. n. Feagin,
40 acres; ". J. Hunt IS acres.
Bonaire-W. 7. Feagiu, 40 acres; r. g.
Watson, 25 acres.
,KAthleen-J. J. Taylor, IS acres; J. ].
Marshburn, 25 acres.
Vienna-G. W. Busbee, ]. P. Heard,
Eugene Turner, J. F. Waters, % acres each.
Cordele w lillian Bailey, 25 acres.
Ashhurn-Dr. j. T. Dudley, 70 acres.
Cycloneta Farm-Seventy-fiy acres.
Tifton-W. o. Tiff, 80 acres.
Lenox-S. Harrell, so acres.
Sparks. A. Williams. 35 acres
Naturalization & Scruggs, 80 acres.
Mineola-Williams Bros, % acres.
Dasher-J. NJ. Boslin, 40 acres; J. A.
Campbell, so acres; j. c. Hunt, 40 acres; ].
y. Wisenhaker, 25 acres, j. C. Wisenbaker.
% acres; c. w. Wells, 80 acres
Lake Park-Combs 81 Zeigler, so acres;
NJ. G. Ulmer, 45 acres.
Oceana-Hunt & Glyatt, 100 acres; II. j.
Mosely, 40 acres; r. |. Henley, 25 acres.
Naldosta-J. w. Bradford, 20 acres; w.
b. cunningham, 40 acres; j. g. Chisolm, so
acres; Alexander Dasher, 100 acres; g. r.
McCree, 80 acres; NJ. Jones, rs acres At
this point $50 carloads have already passed
through the hands of the melon exchange,
aud they will handle 100 additional.
GOOD MELON COUNTY.
Brooks county also comes grandly TO the
front with her melon statistics. Ouitman
will receive 400 carloads the present season,
W per cent. of which will be sold TO the
melon exchange for spot cash. This county
raises melons that cannot be surpassed any
where. Two instances will amply suffice TO
prove the statement, as follows: S. NJ.
Griffin recently shipped from Quitman 12
carloads, which netted him 81 1928. One
OF the lot was sold in Chicago for
SIT above expenses. james Tyson sent
single carload to Philadelphia which
brought 1924. or course the samples were
excellent. A practical gentleman in Brooks
county assured me that melons could be
raised here at total outlay OF but SIS an
acre. This includes the cost Of fertilizers,
to-wlt: Twenty-Five bushels of cotton seed
and 3OO pounds of guano; also, the cost of
melon seed, cultivation and the wages of the
labor employed. But these prices, OF course,
do not obtain in every community. Mr.
james Tyson of Quitman has already real
lied from twenty acres of melons over 81 900
In cash, and still large part Of the crop is
yet to be gathered.
STARTLING FACT.
Albeit to TO the Impractical eve of the
stranger melon patch seems literally COW
cred with the temptit & fruit, when it comes
to be gathered experience demonstrates that
the merchantable portion dwindles into
comparative insignifcance. Thus, when
subjected to the standard required by the
trade, to wit. eighteen pounds apiece, it is
found that the average yield of marketable
melons Is only one and half TO every vine,
or three melons to two vines The vast re-
mainder, save few of the larger ones.
which may find sale at some price In the
home markets, is left to rot in the fields.
Hogs and cattle will eat them, but do not,
1t is said, appear to derive any nutriment
from them.
The melon exchange is doing a great work
for this growing industry by seeking out
new markets, not only in the commercial
centers of the north, east and west, but in
hundreds of country towns where a melon
has seldom been seen before. Once intro
duced they are eagerly sought after every
year, and thus the Georgia melon is be-
coming to be esteemed as one of the earliest
and most refreshing luxuries of early sum-
iner in all parts of the north. H. H.J.