The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1905-03-09
A CHERRY LETTER
FROM sunny SOUTH
Ohio People Think Well of
Georgia and Enjoy
it Greatly.
From Xenia Ohio Gazette)
MARIETTA, Ga, Feb. 18th, 'O5

last article IN the OdZeIIe saying JnG
South was not what it is cracked up to
be. We have lived here now over a
year and have kept our eyes open. I
know if we had come here three years
ago, we would today be worth eight
| thousand dollars. / know the South is
not up to date like Ohio, but it is COM
ing fast. We are having better roads,
good school, and we have pure free
stone water that is surely more health
full than limestone water. Then we
have three months more of summer
weather than Ohio. We had stock on
| pasture the past year in December, and
it seems to me persons who live here
ought to know as much about the South
as those who just pass through on the
train. l have been in fourteen States
and have never seen a climate that
beats this the year round.
What kind of land would Ohio have
today if you would pillow it for 40 years
in succession and plant nothing but
corn and never SOW clover or put any
thing on but little fertilizer? think
the land is rich here when you stop to
think how it has been farmed and
treated. But it is easily made rich and
easy to work The land here never gets
hard like Ohio land. One farmerraised
last year 40 bushels of wheat per acre.
By turning in under crop of clover,
one farmer had 100 bushels Of corn per
acre.
Several have asked me why produce
here is so high, 1t is because the farm
ers' whole mind is on cotton. We have
several kinds of soil here. A gray
mslatto soil, we'll adapted to small
grain, Irish potatoes, etc. A large part
is red land, productive of cotton and
corn. Glover and grasses grow to per-
lection. Vegetables, fruits and berries
are easily produced. The average yield
per acre: Wheat, Is TO 80 and 40 BUSH
els corn, 20 to 100; oats, 20 to 40; Irish
and sweet potatoes, 100 to 200 bushels;
sorghum syrup, $50 gallons crab-grass
hay. 5000 pounds; clover hay 5000 to
5000 pounds; pea-vine hay 1000 to
5000 pounds. Bermuda grass is used
for pasture during six months of the
year, crab grass four or five months
and clover the year round.
Peach growing is a great industry
here. Judge Gober. of Marietta, who
owns large orchards here, has more
than 100000 peach trees in this county,
besides apple trees and many varieties
of grape vines.
Poultry is another industry and pays
we'll here. Chickens thrive in won
derful manner, and little chicks never
have the gaps. Eggs always bring 8
good price-from Is to 80 cents the year
round. Suppose you do not raise as
many potatoes or corn per acre as you
do in Ohio, look at the price you get
for them-corn so cents per bushel,
potatoes $l.40 per bushel-that's for
Irish, and two crops per year.
Marietta, the beautiful city, is l,l00f
feet above sea level. Noted as health
resort. 1t is blessed with pure water
and q delightful climate, and with all
the entire district has a population of
5000; has an excellent school system,
fine churches and good hotels. The
city is lighted by electricity, latest tel
ephone systematic court house is val
ued at $40,000-hss the largest paper
mill in the South, two large chair
factories, one large knitting mill, four
large marble yards, wagon factory, and
needs box, crateIand canning factory,
which would pay we'll. In Marietta is
the National cemetery, beautifully laid
out and well kept. In it lie over 10000
federal soldiers. In full view of Mari
eta stands the doubled peaked kenne-
saw Mountain, which is always beau
tiful view, and on clear day from the
summit Atlanta can be seen 20 miles
away. Extending nearly to the top of
: this mountain is large peach orchard,
which was loaded last year with Elberta
peaches, Austell, ten miles from Mari
eta, is fine place. That is where we
get the famous Lithia water to drink
that cures kidney complaints. The red
land here will produce from one to two
bales of cotton per acre.
Among the new corners here who have
bought farms and who are delighted
with this part of the South. are Mr.
Spencer and AIR. adams, from Cleve-
land Ohio; two AIR. Gamers, from In
diana; Mr.. Gray, from Dixon, Ill. Mr..
Curtis and mother, from Sandusky,
Ohio, and others too numerous to men.
ton. Mrs. Curtis is So years old, and
says if she had come here 10 years ago
she would not be over 40 years old now
in appearance. On one line alone from
Chicago 4S7 persons have left in the
past six weeks for points in the South
to settle. Now, let some OF the North
orD Deonle come here Snpnd ono vaar