The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1895-02-28

may be put close together. But that's
just one Item. Cabbage could be rails
eel here, too There's no better country
imam Georgia for Irish potatoes, and
the huge pile o. money that goes out
OF the state every year for Irish pota-
toes could be saved Ii the farmers would
plant potatoes fcr ne market.
BUTTER Taking.
East Tennessee las every advant-
age over Georgia as a butter producing
country because of the attention and
care they give 10 the preparation of
butter. l. we. gel a consignment of
georgia butter, 1t !, made up of dozen
co!ors OF butter-s0me white, some pale
yellow, some deep yellow. A Tennes-
see Shipment OF butter is one color, and
for the reason that the Tennessee man
mas process of melting it all together.
What is the cost Of shipping butter
from Tennessee? well, it comes by
express, and should say that the ex-
press toll ana the cost of canning would
amount to about 2 cents a pound"
Mi. j. Z. Petty believes in Georgia as
producing state, and says it could
supply the market here if the farmers
would only turn their energy and at.
tention to it.
81 have an uncle" said he, "who
lives just over the line of Fulton. in
Cobb county. Last year he planted a
quarter OF an acre of ordinary farm
land in onions. bought from him my
self $48 worth Of onions"
This merely illustrates what the
Georgia farmers can do in this direc-
ton"
There IS hardly an article sold by
the commission men of the city," said
one of the best known commission men
IN Atlanta, "that the Georgia farmers
could not furnish us Farmers from
other states ship us the articles and
make great profit off of them, and if
they can do it, why certainly, in these
days Of cheap cotton, the farmers of
Georgia can do as WE'LL
Irish POTATOES.
LAS fine Irish potatoes as can be
grown anywhere can be grown in Geor-
gla soil. Magnificent cabbage can be
grown here, and you would little think
It, but celery. as good as we get from
Michigan, can be produced in Georgia.
All 1t requires is plenty of water Our
Georgia truck farmers could produce it
probably.
"The butter, chickens, eggs, onions
and other articles for which thousands
OF dollars go out of Atlanta to other
states every week, should be produced
right around Atlanta.
why, if had farm, situated con-
venient to shipping point, would not
thlnR OF putting my land in cotton. I
would run the northern and eastern
farmers out of the Atlanta market and
get some of the benefit Of it myself.
There are not only some 80 or 40 COM
mission houses in Atlanta which are
doing thriving business, but there are
IN Atlanta four or five brokers who
represent BIZ, producers in the west,
north and east and sell to the commits
sion men. These brokers get q good
profit on all their sales, the commission
man gets good profit, then add to that
the cost of shipping and the profit to
the producer and the article is neces-
sarily somewhat expensive before it
gets to the consumer. There's profit
all along the line. Georgia farmers
who are located convenient to market
should adopt this suggestion this year,
and instead of pinning their faith to
cotton try this. A good, ready and
profitable market can be found all the
year round"
RAISING FOR MARKET.
The Georgia farmers who sell their
products to the commission men are
very few. The few who do sell their
products do not make a business of rails
ing for the market, but finding that
they have more than is needed for home
consumption they dispose of the sur
plus. Within short radius of the city
there are number of thriving and
prosperous truck farms, but they never
deal with tho commission men. They
have their own.delivery wagons and sell
direct to the consumer. In nearly every
instance they have thrived There is q
progressive farmer, near Moore's mills,
II miles from Atlanta, who, three
years ago, gave up the planting of cot
ton for truck farming and made more
in one year from the latter than he did
in three from cotton. He now has
paying line of customers in the city.