The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1899-03-02
HOMESEEKERS.

Editors Marietta Journal I'm the
last few issues Of your paper, | notice
| articles calling attention. to the desira-
bility of Cobb county as place of resi-
dence, and also asking the citizens to
try and get people to occupy the vacant
lands in YOUR vicinity. In this l am
directly interested, as / am one of per-
| haps dozen who want to leave here
and settle in North Georgia to engage
] in raising beef cattle, some on a large
scale and some on a small, according to
their means, if the country is suited to
| it. Now some of US have not enough
to wait for beef cattle returns-we
must do something else at least part
of the year.
Your proximity to Atlanta ought to
make it a good place to ship either
whole milk or cream there,-but is
/, there a market there for it, or is it al
ready over-supplied ? Then again, you
have no natural pasturages around Ma
rietta-or free range-as | understand
Tit. If you have, why did your cream
cry have to close up Pa fact / have
| CLEANED from your paper Were your
roads so bad the farmers couldn't get
the milk to the creamery before it got
sour, or frozen?
| 1t may not be amusing to you, but it
certainly is here, to read of schools
closing, suspending of church services,
paralyzing Of business, etc, when the
| thermometer got 8 below zero. We
have had almost three weeks of zero
weather here, reaching 30 below sever
al times, in this land of eternal sun
shine" yet nothing of that kind has
happened.
| Seriously, though, any information
on the above that you could give us
might lead to the settling in your coun-
| ty Of a number of good citizens and pro-
gressive farmers.
| Your COLORADO SUBSCRIBER.
We are glad to get the above 1t
shows that the JOURNAL is to some ex-
| tent attracting attention to our section.
We believe that the raising of cattle
here can be successful as it is already
! in number of instances. Sale can be
had for every head placed on the mar
ket. Atlanta affords good market for
milk and butter and a number of citi-
zens, near Marietta, and others in the
county at Austell, have found it profit
able. Mr.. j. d. Perkerson and MIR. r.
w. Perkerson at Austell have found it
more remunerative than raising cotton.
Mr.. W. l.. Richardson, Mr.. Cogburn
and others, at Marietta shipdaily to
Atlanta great quantities of milk. There
are good rates there for all that can be
sent and demand for it.
The creamery here had too much
capital invested in it to get dividends,
and the farmers found that they could
| get more for the milk outside of the
creamery than the creamery could af-
ford to pay, consequently the supply of
milk was inadequate. Those in charge
of the creamery admit that they lack
ed information and experience to get
the very best results obtainable. But
there is more enthusiasm on the cream
cry business now than there has been
in some time, and the probability is
the creamery will start soon under new
and experienced management. The
farmers, too, find that they can make
money by taking less price than they
wanted, which gives brighter prospects
to the creamery.
The roads have been bad during the.
present winter, owing to unprecedent-
ed rains and cold weather, but as the
weather clears up and sunshine floods
the land, they will be placed in better
condition.
You will make no mistake in coming
to Cobb county, one of the healthiest
portions of Georgia, and with Atlanta
and Marietta both as markets, you
ought, with judicious management and
industry, do we'll.
Secretary Of Agriculture Wilson has
this to say of the South:
1.-The dairy COW and mutton sheep
would succeed admirably in the South,
but something for them to eat must be
provided first. Winters in the South
are mild, grasses grains and legumes
can be sown in the fall and grow
abundantly through the winter, upon
which the dairy COW and mutton sheep
may thrive and produce. The South
can prepare spring lamb much earlier
than the North can. The Southern
land owner understands horse raising.
There is always greater demand for
saddle horses than is supplied. The
world wants carriage and draft horses
and good roadsters. Early spring
chicken-broilers can be produced down
there because they have milder winters
and milder springs than we have, and
the Northern market can be supplied.
Should the market become over-sup-
Piled we can send this product abroad
! in the refrigerated oo,,,nort,,,a ,f