The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-11-09
READ THIS, FARMERS.
. NORTHERN MANS EXPERIENCE
IN SOUTH GEORGIA.
Poi.ing Stock and Making Money on
a Farm in LOwndes County HOW
He Does 1t

Tar
He Does It.
n +heIAugusta Chronicle of Sunday
letter from Mr.. Samuel W.
Cooda Of Atlanta, who encloses 10 the
od;,or of that paper letter written by
M G. $. Schofeld, New Yorker who
ao,t,ed in Georgia on a 1900 acre farm
;~1owndes county, and who writes bis
- to the DRIVERS Journal of
We want every farmer in southwest
Coorgia TO read Mr.. Schofield's letter. 1t
'O lake PARK, Sept. 2O.-Editor Dro-
,,ors, Journal-To one who is familiar
Nth the west and south, it is almost in
onmnrehensible how the people of the
UnTtb without comment pass the south.
II is with interest and profit that l read
+be Drovers' Journal. The northern
narers for the most part leave alone
What is. in many respects, for many PEG.
ME a most desirable country, and one
that most surely has the elements f, r
becoming a first-class stock country,
MINIS MANY of the drawbacks that BE-
long to the west, The question is, why
has the south, with it's many desirable
possibilities, been passed over by those
seeking home in the country?
During the past few months many
thousands of cattle hare been sent from
Georgia to the west to be fed and sold
in the Chicago market at good profit
WHY pay so much freight? Why take
cattle from a warm to cold climate to
fatten? Will not the same amount of
food make more fat in warm than a
cold climate? Is it more desirable to
live 10 country of ice and snow and
scorching winds than in one where none
of these things come? Is the Land so
much better in the west? This season
| cut 100 acres of oats, then planted
corn, put it by in cow peas, cut the C I'm,
shredded the stalks into hay, cut nearly
one ton of fine grass and peaYIne hay to
the acre, and then turned bunch o!
cattle into as fine after-feed as one would
wish to see. The cow-pea was the only
fertilizer used. Where could l do bet
ter?
have several hundred bead of steers
on natural grass pasture, growing and
doing nicely. One from bunch turned
into after>feed, mostly "5eggar" weed
have been weighing at the end of each
week. Here are the weights for four
weeks: Started with $50 pounds; first
week, 195; second week, S47!; third, 895;
fourth, 9j2. He is still growing. Where
could do better? Cattle can live here
through the winter without help. Where
can they do this in the west?
IA m = L {
the Chicago board of trade with broken
heath. l came to Georgia and now
have perfect health and a plantation in
south Georgia that is a pleasure to look
at, where fish and game are abundant.
and the pine gum-ladened air gives heal
ms to lungs that have been frosted by
living in Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota
and Dakota. If One-half of the energy
put forth in the north to keep warm
could be expended in the south in pro-
dlction OF the necessaries of life the
whole world would be filled with won
deFs at the result.
The farmers of the south have no en-
ergy; they don't have to; can live with.
out 1t, and they are content to live,
Meanwhile, the woIli, busy taking the
ADVICE of Horace Greedy, 500 west,
young man." have not had time to turn
Inelr eyes to the left, as they passed by
country of far greater promise than they
nave ever dreamed of. Pardon me for
!aA'ng SO much of your time, but read
IN .ag your valuable paper gave me this
thought. Yours truly,
q. S. SCHoFIELD.
-, Mr., Schofeld doesn't say anything in
MS letter about how much he has in.
Ms ,TS'eo or what money he is making, but
~. Mi. 0oode, who seems to know some
" Jung about him, writes to the Chronicle
Ilat he purchased his 1900 acres in
4 u;S county, Georgia, at So per acre.
q niS equipment on it cost him about
SSVOO; making his total investment not
;91oeedng S25, 900, and his net annual
o caC ONE has been 10,0OO, or 10 per cent
va WI HI9O,oO9, or 40 per cent on his in