The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1903-05-22
THE COMMISSIONER GOES INTO
THE HEART OF GEoRo:A's
CROP CONDITION
THE TRUE COTTON SITUATION
Whole Bunch of interesting Facts
Touching on Many Subjects
of General In
terest.

This has been an unusually back
ward season for our two staple crops
The long, continued wet weather de
layed planting, and in consequence
caused much dependency among some
OF our farmers. But Nature as q
general rule brings in a compensa
tion somewhere and somehow The
backward seasons will probably be
followed by such conditions that dur.
ing the next two or three months, by
Intelligent, Well directed labor, assist.
ed by improved modern machinery, all
disadvantages may be overcome and
Georgia retain her high rank as a corr
and cotton state.
The present conditions are about as
follows:
In the counties of north Georgia cot.
ton planting is well advanced, and in
some of them about completed; in
some Of the more southern counties
of the northern belt the cotton is
coming up and doing fairly we'll, al
though in some places the stands are
poor owing to continuous rains and
cool weather. In some places the
early corn has poor stands, in others
It is doing fairly well.
In Middle Georgia there are in many
places complaints that cotton is being
retarded by rain and cool nights and
want of sunshine, which is true also
of corn to some extent. At the same
time good stands Of both are reported
in many places.
Southern Georgia reports in some
counties cotton and corn both doing
well. others report cotton greatly re.
tarded and much of It replanted
Corn Is generally reported in good
condition, though in some localities
much damaged by bud and drill
worms. In both Middle and Southern
Georgia good reports are made con-
cerning sugar cane. Looking over
the general field, oats are doing fairly
well, which is for the most part true of
wheat Both of these crops, how.
ever, are in some sections suffering
from rust.
the 18th OF May was 111a cents. The
November aud December cotton sold
at cents a pound but now that it is
out OF the farmers hands, the price
has gone up. If farmers should now
have an opportunity to dispose of the
coming crop for future delivery at
91a cents, it would probably pay them
to sell at that price; for, although the
season is backward, there may yet
be a good crop, and, if a very large
one, prices may go down.
The Middle and South Georgia SUI.
gar cane is for the most part doing
well.
In North Georgia peaches are report.
aed as scarce; in Middle Georgia from
a slight crop to so per cent, while
apples are stated to be plentiful in
both sections
Strawberries are of superior size
and flavor and our home markets are
full of them at 10 a quart, while many
truck farms are sending thousands OF
crates to the north and west.
AS they are exhausted, dewberries,
blackberries and raspberries will come
in. Georgia, already renowned for
peaches and melons. is coming to the
front among the great berry states.
The fact Is, all kinds of trucking
do well In Georgia and no one need
fear any danger of over production.
Does Trucking Pay In Georgia?
Those who have gone about this
business in an intelligent manner say
that it does.
Of course we do not mean to say
that every farmer should give all his
attention to trucking, because some
have grown wealthy by SO doing. Geor.
gia is admirably adapted to be just
what she has long been-a great corn
and cotton state, and is rapidly be.
coming a great grass and hay
State and though in some
places truck farming is the best busi-
ness that a man can enegage in, we
would not be understood as advising
any neglect of our two staple crops.
But every farmer who is in easy dis
lance Oh shipping pOlnC on one OF
the many great lines of railways that
traverse cur state, would do well to
devote few acres to the raising of
some one Of the table products for
which there is such a great demand in
every part of the United States.
One who will take the proper pains.
can easily make from $50 to $500 to
the acre on strawberries and raspber.
ries, the latter Of which mature
Just as the strawberries are exhausted.
These luscious fruits always have a
great demand, not only in the large
cities of the north and west, but also
in the cities of our own and neighbor.
ing states. While the father and old.
or sons are cultivating the cotton,
corn and peas the mother, the girls
.na .a-- t~ys can raisa bcrrio1.
the ssle of which will greatly increase
the ready money Of tne family.