The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1902-04-17
GEORGIA CROP REPORT
Commissioner Stevens Inter.
esting Talk Resumed.
DEPARTMENT HAS BUSY TIME

"Geor9ia' Industrial and Historical"
Have Been Distributed-Some Peril
nent Questions Answered.
Department of Agriculture, Atlanta
April 1, 1902
Several months have passed since a
monthly talk has gone out from this
department, but so heavy has been the
correspondence, not only from our own
state, but also from every section of
the Union, that the commissioner has
been compelled to assist the clerical
force Of the department in answering
che floods Of letters that have poured
in. The ordinary business of the Office
had also to be attended to. Thousands
OF copies of the usual annual bulletin
have been and are still being distrib-
uted. Besides these, more than $4,000
district maps of Georgia have been
scattered throughout our own and
other states, and many thousands of
the new book, Georgia: Historical and
Industrial" have been sent into every
county of our state, as we'll as to pub
lie libraries and individuals who have
written for it from every state in the
Union and from foreign countries. one
capy having been sent to a gentleman
who wrote for it from Natal, South
Africa.
The following letter, received day
or two ago, is very similar to many
others that the daily mail brings to
this office:
MY Dear Sir: 1 beg to acknowl-
edge the receipt of your valuable book.
Georgia. Historical and Industrial
While l have not read it near as care
fully as I will, I have read it sufi.
GENTLY to pronounce it gem, and
must say it will surely draw a crowd,
II it is circulated enough. | wish
there were 10000 copies distributed
in the Northwest, so that homeseek.
ers and investors could see what we
haye to offer. have lived in Georgia
only five years, having come from
western Indiana, but l must say there
are more opportunities here than any
where else know of for men of small
means. Land is cheap and is easily
cleared; timber is plentiful to build
and fence with, and the soil is as pro-
ductive as that of most of the land
IN the north. Il am speaking of South
Georgia, for that is all l am personally
acquainted WITH What is needed
most here is to rotate crops, as they
have to do in the Middle States, except
that here we will use peas and velvet
beans in place of clover, and the peas
are just as good as clover and the
beans superior to it. Follow beans
with corn; follow corn with oats; fol.
low with peas the same season; follow
peas with cotton; then beans again,
and If that doesn't break the guano
business it will make it look mighty
pale. Then intensity, diversity and in.
tensify, and your bank account will
multiply. You will see, l have wan.
dered from the subject. But l love
farming so we'll and am in such a
good place and have such nice farm
that l can't refrain from giving it a
word.
Thanking you for the book and
wishing you success, l remain, your
humble servant,
"a. ]. BEVER.
Douglas, Coffee Co., Ga.
"P. ST. know not what will be my
future fate; but l think I'll live and
die in the Empire State.-A. ]. B."
We feel sure that our readers will
pardon us for publishing this letter in
full, on account of it's many excellent
hints to farmers.
letter from Mr.. E. S. Towne, 81
Ashland boulevard, Chicago, ILL.,, re-
ceived March 6, says: Il have examin
ed the new book, Georgia: Historical
and Industrial which you kindly sent
ne, and find it a handsome volume OF
fine paper and print, voluminous, but
without dull page, embellished with
a profusion of pictures and many fine
colo"ed plates.
4 congratulate you on your success
and believe it will help much in pro
noting Georgia's welfare. | am show
Ing it with pleasure to my friends.
After studying all the land and i'm
migration schemes of the different
states from California to New Jersey
and British America to the Gulf, l be
heve Georgia is the best, all things
considered, and my land is not fol
sale unless at fancy prices"
Another letter was received few
days ago from Louis E. Van Norman
OF Springfield, O., editor of Home
and Flowers" an illustrated magazine
published in the interest of a more
beautiful American home. In this let