The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1908-12-04


Brunswick has ever received in the
way of write-up is contained in this
weeks Southern Field an industrial
paper published at Washington, D. c.,
by the Industrial department OF the
Southern railway. Brunswick and
Glynn county are given prominence
in the paper with a long article, IL
lustrated with many farm scenes
around the county. The article, which
is a well-prepared one, is as follows:
Glynn county is situased in the
southeastern part of Georgia, its en-
tire eastern boundary being the Alta
maha river and the Atlantic ocean.
The principal streams are the Alta
maha, the Little Satilla, the Turtle aud
the ST. Simons rivers. St Simun's
Sound, and numerous creeks. Form
erly most of the uplandS OF the conn-
| " We're covered with a magni fceut
growth of yellow pine. but these, rs
! pecially along the lines of railroad.
nave largely been converted into lum-
Der CT utilized in the manufacture Of
I trpentine. Today the forest timber
consists of cypress. sweet gum, beech.
gum. poplar white oak. live oak. post
oak, hickory, ash and yellow pine. The
cut-oyer pine lands are covered with
wire grass, which furnishes excel
lent pasturage for cattle during the
spring and summer months. the cam
brakes along the streams supplying
splendid feed during the fail and win
ter months. The timber lands along
the streams also afford the finest mast
foE hogs. Both cattle and hogs run
OF the range throughout the entire
year keeping in the best physical con-
dition, and to the time OF their mar
keting cost practically nothing for
their feeding The cattle and hogs
are mostly of native breeds, but here
and there is found herd of Jerseys
or OF the beef breeds, where a pas
ture has been enclosed with fence.
better grazing prepared and more
suitable forage crops provided. and,
/ consequently, greater profits realized
from the sale OF beef cattle and from
dairy products. rae markets arc the
nearby cities Of Brunswick, Savannah
and Jacksonville.
Owing to the great forest wealth Of
Glynn county. numbering and allied
industries have Tor generations been
the principal pursuits. Of the people
The county. therefore, is largely un-
developed agriculturally. and lands,
both improved and unimproyed are
low in price
The types of soil vary from the light
sandy SOIL suited to the growing of all
root crops, including cassava, to the
black hammock lands-producing tx
cellent cereal crops-and the gray
loan where garden and market truck
( grow to perfection. The farm pro-
ducts are mainly sua-Island cotton,
4 corn, sugar cane, oats, rye, rice, Irish
and sweet potaNes, COW peas, ground
peas, and hay frsm Bermuda and crab
grass; while the horticultural prod
ucts consist of peaches, plums, pears,
! ounces, figs, grapes, berries, and
melons, with all OF the vegetables. The
cut-over pine lands, and especially The
sayannahs and palmetto fats. when
drained and put into cultivation, pro-
duce abundant crops and yield large
profits to the general farmer and more
particularly to the gardener and the
trucker. The yields OF the different
crops, and their prices, are thus quot
ed; corn, twenty-five to forty bushels
per acre, and under more intensive
methods fifty to seyenty-five bushels
I per acre-now worth more than DOL
lar per bushel; sugar cane, three hun
dred to six hundred gallons of syrup
! per acre, worth locally fifty cents per
single gallon; two hundred bushels Of
irish potatoes per acre, netting grow
ers seventy eight cents per busael:
three hundred TO four hundred busl-
els OF sweet potatoes per acre. sell
lng on the Brunswick market from
fifty cents 10 one dollar per busial:
twenty bushels OF COW peas ner acre
thirty bushels OF ground peas 1cr.
acre, and as many as five tons of
Bermuda and crab grass hay from
one acre in one season Truckers make
over and above all expenses from $3.50
TO $500 per acre growing cabbage for
}.1uswick and other nearby mal}~e5.
Tie figures indicate the possibilities Of
'flTan county jn az lines Of farmias
70 The dairyman and the poultry
mas GlTnn county should be an al
srac'.Te section That handsome pro-
's ave made is evidenced by present
prices and returns Most Of the dairy
and poultry products for the Bnns-
'ck market come from points to the
Horrh- Butter is worth from thirty
five to forty cents par pound chic6
ems fifty 70 seventy cents each, small
friers from thirty 10 thirtyGye cents.
and eggs from twenty-five to thirty
aenls per dozen. Largely these pro-
dgr+e rome from, c5ltsfd4s tho Cc7,nt4-