The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-02

world as being the most luclstive sta
pie crop, that the earth is pable of
producing. An admitted general av-
erage of syrup, per acre, il 900 gallons.
this at 30 cents per galloJ Will give to
the grower $500 per acE, at 10 cents
per gallon; $3.50 per acrg at 81 per gal
lon $500 per acre. SINE of the best
farmers in Southern Georgia and Flor
ida report having mde as much as l.
900 gallons per acre The growing Of
sugar cane in all arts of the South.
as a profitable money crop, is no long
er an experiment. but a veritabe
truth, and demon3trates beyond per-
adventure that il will become a source
of relief as we'll is redemption in show
ing a greater rOfit above the cost of
production than any crop that can be
grown in the United States or else
where. It seems to be in its native
elements all around the Gulf and At
lantic coast for about 200 to 800 miles
interior from the gulf, where it grows
to great perfection with all the ease
and aptitude of a native product.
1t thrives best or sandy soils, of
which there are vast millions of acres
in all the country contiguous to and
about the distances named from the
gulf coast. There is no crop that
grows that Withstands both extreme
drought and long spells of wet weather
so well as sugar cane. Hence, it is
the most certain and by far the best
all round money crop that can be
counted on with an absolute certainty
for profit, when converted into a fin
ished market crop, of any that can be
grown and at less expense.
A Comparison.
Louisiana is certainly in the lead of
all the cane growing states The cane
crop of that state is most entirely
grown on alluVial soils, and in a humid
atmosphere and necessarily absorbs
large quantity of water; and while the
stalks do not average in size and
length any better than the cane i'll
the seeming poor sandy lands of Ala
bama, Georgia and Florida, the rela-
tive sugar content stands in Louisiana
at II per cent. and in Georgia and
Florida, especially, 2312 per cent, max
ing the finished product in the two last
states more than double that of Louis
lana In Louisiana the sugar lands
are said to be worth 500 to 5000 per
acre; in Georgia and Florida, the best
improved lands sells for not exceeding
$40 per acre.
There are millions of acres of UNI
improved lands which can be bought
for two to three dollars an acre IN the
two last mentioned states.
Another very important desideratum
to be taken into account in Georgia
and Florida is that every farmer can
be a sugar cane grower in proportion 10
his means, and this will not prevent
him from growing all other necessary
crops at the same time. To bring the
reader to a more familiar understand
ing let us suppose that he will only
plant acres. being a One-horse farmer,
and his output being the usual general
average, namely, 600 gallons of syrup
to the acre; and he gets thirty cents
per gallon, that would give $4,000 per
acre. or for five acres 100000, and TINS,
in addition to a full crop OF all other
farm products. But suppose % cents
that will give $500 per acre or $l,ooo.
Then the question may be asked, Where
is the country to be found under the
wide canopy of high Heaven, that Of
fers such marvellous Inducements TO
settlers? The universal continued-aH
the wear round-goOd health OF lne
countrv is not surpassed by any IN the
wide wide world. This the seltlerS
will find to be true, let them come from
wherever they may. Here in TINS part
IF tbe South they will find the most
3o,saa HE cIir1ate-hence it's healthfui-
ness-of anv country under the sun
This fact properly considered IN con-
nec+ion with its vast resources, ts de-
Iigbtful and healthful climate me
great productivity of its SOIL ana lne
,7unoberless variety of its products oIlly
lack to be known of to be appreciated
Notwithstanding in a general sSii9V
the South is becoming recoghlzeu %
49, richest and most favored porlloH
~ ~ ointment Then why should not
tba tide of immigration be turned lIlls
Hrav There is nothing in the history
80 tho world to match the Wonderlul
deveIopments of the South, IN us pr
5rassiVe industries since-PhoeihN IN
its rise from the desolatloh anu ut
D,astation of the late ana uhIoItullo'0
war between the states. a,-
From all these unlortulldte 49,, $3.50
ZONE her rise has been unpreceoellleu'
and she stands to-day, the most prom
isi,I. section for honest and intelligent
a,,+arnrises in the United States. het
average annual products per ACRE ~
values are greater than the rest u
80 country. The reader should pear IN
mind that the returns from the ooutn
include the meager yield OF laIIIi9 ~ ~
tivated by shiftless and IMPROVE Sl lI
negro tenants, which greatly reuuce9
the general average. =. .ha
Tf such economical methods-ln tIlS
wav of farming implements-were useu
DC ie the case in the North ana west
the showing for the South Would pe
much greater per acre. 1t stands now
for the United States, $6.Sl as gen
eral average. In the Northern states,
az OF In the Western states, 500. IN
The Southern states. S.1S IN tle
specially-Georgia and Florlud'
can be grown a greater variety OF pIoI-
table crops than any other country
of which we have any knowledge All
that has been said only paVes the way
10 what may truthfully be said OF the
MANY advantages of the South.
There being so many that II is I'M
possible to enumerate them in one ar
ticle. II would require book Oh sew
eral pages to hold them.
Crops.
II is scarcely necessary to allude to
the fact that Of the money crops, cot
ton sways the scpeter-as king -put
there are other crops TO be considered
such as corn. rice, tobacco melons, nay,
Vegetables. and trucking generally, as
well as fruit crops. which shows iaou-
lous profits with very decided Ten
dency TO be increased to huge ana
prodigious proportions. TO alluae 10
them all would doubtless nave Ten
dency to worry the reader. But ! neg
pardon for bringing to the Afternoon OF
the farmers Of the North and west
hold a