Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-22

and the value of the early vegetable crop
il about $4,000. 600. The trucking" bust
ness is new in these parts. bpt growing
rapidly and within decade win be one OF
the most important money producers. Its
establishment came about in an interest
man paid visit to Savannah for the pur-
pose Of establishing q laundry. Upon in
vestigation he found that line Of business
already overcrowded by his countrymen.
two averaged sized city lots for q period
Of five years. After paying the first in
stallment Of his lease and purchasing fer
tilizer and seed most of his available cash
was, exhausted, so he employed an old
negro who owned a mule and plow to
break the land for him. The first year
the Chinaman planted nothing but let
tuce. After putting out his crop he COW
cred the plants with old newspapers.
weighted down with clods and other
things to keep them from blowing away.
and his farm presented such a COM
ica1 sight that it became the standing
joke of the nefghborhood. Failure was of
course freely predicted by local wiseacres
In such quantity. and everybody naturally
sympathized with poor john"
Solemnly and seemingly oblivious to the
merriment he was causing the celestial
cultivated his crop with hoe and when
marketed 1t was found to have brought
its owner money enough clear to pay for
the two lots. Thus the profit in lettuce
growing was demonstrated, but the vege-
table has not yet taken it's place as one
of the important crops of the district.
One strong feature OF the Savannah dis
trict is the fact that almost every grower
takes three crops annually from his soil
two OF vegetables and one Of forage; but
In many instances three crops Of vegeta-
bles are grown. The average yield per
acre for cabbage is 600 crates: Irish po-
tatoes. 60 barrels: English peas 100 bias.
kets; tomatoes, 800 crates; snap beans,
200 baskets; cucumbers. 500 baskets;
strawberries. 1000 quarts. and onions,
500 bushels. are the figures for one crop.
State Dairy Products.
Georgia has the second-best dairy in
the United States. according to Prof. W.
]. Spillman of the United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture, and one of her
creameries, at La Grange, took second
butter prize at the recent exposition at
Paris. Georgia dairy products, including
poultry. eggs. honey and wax. amount to
about $1O,C00.O0O. and 60 to IS per cent is
consumed on the farms.
GeOrgia's premier dairy is located near
Commerce. Jackson county, and IL owned
and managed by w. L. Williamson. 1t
OF the state. which usually sell at from
ten to twenty dollars an acre. and there
fore the success of the enterprise cannot
depend much on the soil.
Gainesville, Hall county, is the center
of the poultry industry It's trade amounts
to something ike 100000 per annum in
chickens and eggs. and its market ex.
tends over eastern Carolina. southern and
southwestern Georgia. Florida and Cuba.
Many carloads OF Georgia chickens and
eggs find ready market in Havana and
thence throughout the island.
Largest Tobacco Plantation.
Tobacco is not a staple crop in Georgia.
but Georgia has the largest tobacco farm
in the world. embracing 5000 acres and
employing $500 persons This plantation
is the property OF A. Cohn & Co.. and is
located at Amsterdam. Decatur county.
In the hearing before the Senate commit
tee on the recent Philippine tariff bill
Mr.. Samuel A. Einstein, the general
manager. testified under oath that this
farm produced one-third Of all the suma-
ira tobacco used for wrappers in the
United States. and it is probably the best
financial venture in the state. Cohn &
Co. plant every year 1000 acres OF
Shade" tobacco, from which they harvest
100000 pounds and derive therefrom
profit OF $1.0OO.Ooo. The firm purchases,
besides. all that the outside farmers raise
perhaps 100000 pounds additional-so
It Is safe to say that their annual profit
Is from 100000 TO $500. 600.
Most of the help employed on the plan
tation are colored, and they are given
two great holidays. The first is .Manci-
patton day (May 20, the anniversary Of
President Lincoln's proclamation freeing
the slaves. and the other is Christmas.
Emancipation day the $500 negroes on the
Amsterdam plantation are given their
annual picnic and fish fry. which they cell
citrate in grand style and enjoy thorough
ly. A brass band is brought from one Of
the nearby cities. and in beautiful pine
grove the different groups stake off their
own grounds. light their fires and fry
from forty to fifty barrels OF sea trout,
snappers, mullet and other Ash.
Competition for Prize Team.
During the cooking the farm teams.
with beautifully decorated wagons, at
least twenty-five in number, pass in re-
view before a grandstand and line up in
the field beyond for inspection. 1t is
hard matter to select the winners-all the
teams are first class-mules fat and sleek
and we'll kept, presenting a grateful sight
to those who know what good live stock
should be. The prize is s. in gold for the
best team. and the teamster who wins is,
Of course, overjoyed.
Lemonade, cold as ice can make it is
furnished to all. and it is q rare sight
to see $500 negroes, big and little. men
"oihoA' n.y. o.ie. On 80, uSSs.SN w. 40 sA'S
gay holiday attire they love. dancing
about a maypole, and afterward falling
upon the long tables groaninG under a
load Of every luxury in the eating line
afforded by the fertile country.
1t would certainly be inspiring to a
student of the race problem to be per-
mitted to gaze upon these $500 happy,
thrifty and contented laborers, negro
laborers prosperous through their own
energy. thrift and industry. proud and
content to work for a company that uses
them well and treats them with fairness.
Col. Einstein has reduced the labor prob
lem to a science. He not only gets the
greatest possible amount of work out Of
each individual negro, but they are cheerful
and willing, and seem proud to be enrolled
among the Amsterdam workers. Each
negro knows exactly whRt he is to receive
for his work. and he knows that if he
faithfully performs his portion of the
contract the company will absolutely keep
its. Many of the prosperous and
thrifty tobacco farmers of the neighbour
hood attend this annual outing, and their
dinners are served separately in an old
oak grove near the ante-beilum mansion.
SAYS BROKER TOOK HIS WIFE.
Percival 1. Harden Demands $780,
600 as Balm From W. T. Hoops.
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