The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-28
GEORGIA GROWERS
URGED TO ORGANIZE,
Central Offers Free Advertisements
to Farmers Along It's Lines.

Central Ouers Free AdYert1se m e n IN
to Farmers Along It's Lines.
The Central Railroad, in the October
bulletin of the land and industrial de-
partment, counsels the peach and the
truck growers of Georgia to organize
for their mutual protection and bene-
fit The article, which is written by e.
A. Ross, after referring to two articles,
also printed in this bulletin, on cooper
alton amongst the Dutch market gar
deners, and cooperative agricultural
associations, says: while we cannot
follow the plans to the letter as here
set forth, we think that our peach and
truck growers on the Central of Geor-
gia Railway system might learn a
profitable lesson from studying these
and other plans of cooperation with
the view of organizing before the next
crop is ready for the market. Local
societies might he formed, the mem
bers of which should join the State
Horticultural Society. thereby strength
ening that body, not to mention the
good that they would surely acquire
from attending it's meetings and keep
ing in touch with it,
There are now in Georgia about
1900, 900 peach trees. While 1t is true
that many of these will never make a
crop, owing to neglect and other causes
we'll known to the initiated. the crop
will, some time in the near future.
prove enormous. The planting of more
trees, too, continues. 1T being reported
that sales of nursery stock exceed those
of any former season. We confidently
expect the next report to show 10000, 900
to 25,000000 trees in Georgia.
What are we going to do with the
fruit? Shall we consign it or sell it at
home? We can sell 1t IL we adopt
some such method as these Dutch and
English farmers have put into success
full practice. We may have to consign
a few carloads until the system gets
on good working basis, but we can
force buyers to take our crop If the
home auction system is adopted.
Let us put our heads together and
devise some plan Of action and not
wait until the crop is right on US be-
fore we act. In this connection l would
state that the Melon-growers Associa-
ton at Albany. Ca, have just passed
through highly successful season, be-
cause of cooperation. North Georgia
sold her strawberry and peach crops in
the field at satisfactory prices this
year"
In addition to the articles mentioned,
the bulletin contains an article on the
strawberry, on laws governing the i'm
portation of nursery stock. and the
shipment of cotton seed into Georgia
from Louisiana and Texas. The pub
lication also contains the following no-
tice of unusual interest:
Feeling the necessity of finding a
market for the crops of the farm other
than those we'll established staples
cotton and grain, we will publish free
of charge a list of advertisers. Those
having pigs, cattle, seed, strawberry,
or other plants, fruit trees or in fact,
anything grown on the farm. for sale,
may by sending their names to this
department. have their advertisements
inserted in the bulletin without charge.
This is also open to those having
lands for sale. and is available to any
one engaged in agriculture and living
in territory reached by the Central of
Georgia Railway Company.