The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-22
Farming in the South.

The Southern States of Baltimore,
publishes a number of letters from north
ern farmers who have recently found sat
isfactory homes in the south, from which
we condense the following synopsis. E.
n Smith, formerly of Illinois, and now
engaged in fruit and vegetable culture in
Alabama. writes:
With twenty years experience in fruit
and vegetable growing, Ihavenever found
A better soil for this business, and no more
fertilizer is needed here than is required
there for equally fine crops. The lands
are cheap and the climate all that can be
wished Our relations with the people
have been very pleasant"
G. H. Jordan. from Michigan, now in
the same locality in Alabama as the pre-
ceding writer, says:
All kinds of fruits and vegeta bles
thrive wonderfully here, and are so much
earlier than in the north that they can be
nut in the market there at time when
they will bring the best prices. More
money may be made from ten acres, here
than from eighty in the colder north. The
climate is free from the rigors of the
north, and is excellent for persons of
weak health. This is an excellent place
for the fruit-canping industry. Figs, pears
peaches tomatoes, and all fruits and
vegetables may be grown here in abund-
ance, and very cheaply."
T. G. Graybill, formerly of Illinois,
finds another part of Alabama to be
natural sheep country. Thousands of
sheep roam in the woods, free from dis
turbance and feed without attention
cheaply and successfully. There are no
burs and no vermin or parasites to injure
the tOcks Two men in this locality
Deer Park own 10000 sheep each and
feed them inexpensively on the forest
range, with one man to watch them. AS
fruit country, this region, he thinks, can
not be eXcelled anywhere. Grapes,
peaches, pears, ounces, apricots and APP
pies all DO well. A pear orchard returns
$500 an acre, and all small fruits may be
grown and dried for the northern markets
with great profit.
D. c. Green. also of Alabama, cleared
81 per cent profit on his investment of
$1,000 in 400 acre farm the first year,
with all the unavoidable drawbacks Incl
dent to a new beginner. Corn cost him
% per acre to grow, and IA cents bushel
in the crib; it sells at so cents a bushel
twenty-siX acres in clover paid $50 an
acre for the hay for three years hay sells
at Sl5 ton. The water from abundant
springs is pure as can be- and ranges in
temperature from 81 to Sc degrees sum-
mer and winter. He is satisfied that any
industrious man may make twice as much
fran his investment and labor as he can
IN any nothern state, on account of the
long seasons and mild winters, thus max
ing short feeding seasons. The native
people are kind and agreeable and poll
Llcs gives rise to no personal feelings.
Inc schools are quite equal to those he
mas been used to in the north, although
improved
Levi Shoemaker, from Ohio, now in
Alabama, raises all the crops. he did in
ONO, and can grow cotton if he wished,
ont there Is more profit in the grass and
In fruit. The climate is all that can be
wished
D. D. Ames, also from Ohio, but now in
Arkansas, is engaged in growing fruit.
rom twenty acres of strawberries he
realized S2,7O0 net; four acres of black
oerrles cleared S295. IS. His land cost him
- TO $40 an acre. and nets him 500 per
acre from what he has under culture. He
sends his fruit to the north.
D. Wing, from New York, now in Ben
ION county, Arkansas, is in the fruit-dry-
ing business. He runs nine evaporators,
mas eighty acres in nursery, and large
apple orchard, the fruit of which he sells
N 81 Louis, netting 50 barrel on ac-
eount OF the tine quality. He has forty
qcres IN peaches, and finds no trouble from
north
= A. K. Fisher moved from Canada to
tIIeorSla Had been engaged in the Ium-
OeI business, but found such excellent
prospects from farming that he changed,
auu has been well pleased with his ex-
pgllence. He is in the wiregrass region,
wnere there is perennial pasture, and
ayue ana sheep are never hand fed at
any Jime at the year. The wild grass
makes hay that sells for $50 a ton, in com
IeLu0n with hay from Michigan. Millet
10y also sells for the same price, and two
Stops may be grown in one summer.
9leeP are very profitable, and every lamb
udy De sent to Baltimore or Washington
"uAe the north is all under snow. The
BSar and peach growing industry is grow
,Ls rapidly, the early fruit being sent to
'HT u9rtlern market before any others.
~ r, DeWolf went from Ohio 10 Geor-
ga Her found the soil excellent, want
eug only blowing, which, so far, few acres
81 mad Deep blowing brings up the
-ngn fertility of the soil that has so far
fo ser been reached by the common, inef-
aeCSNe culture. Clover grows all winter,
fo. may be turned under in the spring
III COTTON or corn. The native Bermuda
ttL5Gss Affords the best of pasture. Every
.a tut az grown on farm finds good mar
-; vue oId-tlme farmers, who give all
customers.
ND w. d. Brown, from Michigan, is now in
o,aay land. Land is cheap, and, under
ffoIol uliage is productive Early vege-
c c11o-es, fruits and truck pay we'll The
fa ,laI'aVe Is pleasant a healthful, and the
,a, eilg season is short. The best mar
ron ,9 N the country are close by, and rail
'oan transportation is easy and cheap.
frdr- -, Gregory, from Illinois, writes
y zen mississippi, where he has been ten
So IuIs. AS farming, stock and trucking
anu pnIalUry 1t is not to be beat. Stock live
mHt get fat on the native grasses. The
na 'st cllmate affords a long season for
5reasSSurIlng, and thus makes cattle cheaply
lg Trg9. Clover grows with the greatest
well nIGji lance, and peppermint succeeds as
vs S,a ds anywhere in the north This is a
scb 1S profitable crop. There are as good
noii,G;a-ss and churches as in Illinois, and
there. uo more 'fouDie mere than
Hij1o22.. smith is a Grand Army man from
ve s5uols. He has been in Mississippi five
S aTas, and, after having Travelled through
it, 81,