The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1908-12-10

Mt Edltor:
With the completed organization nf
our Greater Brunswick Association
and the personnel of It's governing
board, much has been accomplished
for start in that direction Now
let us all become enthused members
Of 1t. There is something of an idea
in our midst that their associations
are for the business men alone. Let
Us get rid of that idea. Every man
who is making living out of Bruns-
wick is a business man in the sen se
Of this organization. Let every uIle
come into its membership.
Now, suppose we begin to start
something TO give life to the associa-
ton. II We do not get busy 1t will,
like its predecessors, die of heart
failure. For beginning ! think Mr.
A. " Wood sounded the keynote last
night. Our Greater Brunswick is in
the section around IT, II we do not
people the country around US we can
not become prosperous. rapidly
growing city. ! wish he had told Of
that North Carolina town that Is
shipping carloads Of headed lettuce to
New York every day in the season,
until the women have caught the
fever and are farming their gardens
with IT. It's an income of several mill
lions for lettuce alone. A man came
who knew how 10 do It, and the coun;y
took II up. Suppose we organize
Produce Exchange, buy 10000 acres CT
land cut II into twenty acre truck
farms and put the ball In motion rs
q factory where the opexatives viii
take alletEs - the lands,
pay ind us a diyi
dend{ investment This
wop farmer citizens ard
0 " $500 people. The sue
esS~5r would bring demand for
all the available lard in the county
and adjoining; until population Of
10000 would surround US, and by It's
very force OF evolution make room
for as many more in Brunswick. There
Is no line Of enterprise upon which
We can embark for the same capital
that will give us so much producing
population and such sure returns, such
increase of taxable values, and make
a returnable investment
:
Just as guess that there are prob
ably 100000 acres Of untitled tillaule
land in Glynn county. If the half OF
this were sub divided into equal pro-
cells Of twenty and forty acres. re-
spectiveIy, II world accommodate r.
500 families, or say 1880 people
4 II each of these farmers would plant
une-fourth of this land in COW peas.
/ velvet beans and casaya in the pro-
4 portion of one acre of casava and two
sacres OF velvet beans to seven acres of
Aow peas normal yield would be
900 tons of the best COW or dairy
good that can be grown. At SO per
ron II would bring $1,300,000 TO these
Farmers This product processed.
j ground and mixed in the proportion
in which it is grown can be sold for
81 FER ton, or s2,6oo,000,
II each OF these 1900 farmers would
keep two good cows they could sup
ply separated cream to a Brunswick
creamery equal to $4,000 pounds of
butter daily. which, at 20 cents per
pound, would be worth S1.05o,0o0 an
nually.s
II the presumable four gallons Of
Skinned milk kept at home by these
farmers were fed 10 a good stock OF
hogs it would easily produce 2.225,oOo
pounds OF pork. sold in our market
at 6 cents a pound, would yield slSS,-
500 annually.
Ii each Of these farmers would
plant one acre in Irish potatoes, and
the yield was only 100 bushels per
acre, and one acre in sweet potatoes.
and the yield was 200 bushels per