The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-27
Letters From the Public



many of the successes which attend
well-directed management. From one
acre 400 crates of cabbages were gath
cred, and sold for $40. Another
farmer gathered 500 bushels of cucum-
bers from single acre which sold for
a little more than 1910 Another truck
farmer sold from one acre $500 worth
OF beets. One farmer reports a net
profit from two acres of English peas
OF over 5000. A farmer made $3.50 net
from less than one acre of tomatoes
Many other instances of a similar ma
ture could be cited.
The commercial orchard is compar-
atlvely new enterprise in Georgia,
! but now in good fruit year the peach
crop alone is worth about $4,000. 900.
Georgia is one of the best fruit -grow-
ing countries in the world. Samuel Fl.
Rumph. the originator of the famous
alberta peach, resides in Georgia. /
nave read the statement that in easv
sight of the veranda of his home in
Macon county are 100000 peach trees.
and far beyond the vision stretch thou,
sands OF other trees. He has accumu-
lated fortune from fruit.
Two brothers near Fort Valley
cleared n one season $4,000 from a
20o-acre orchard. A grower in the vi.
elnlty of GAINESVILLE cleared $4,000
from thirty acres, a net profit of sl33
per acre Speaking of the Georgia
peach, leading newspaper IN Chicago
said: 'The finest peach that comes to
Chicago is the Georgia liberia, richer
hny - It'll
gia peach is the best in point of size,
flavor and frmness that comes to this
market. -
Then Senator Bacon goes on to say:
within a radius of sixty miles Of
Macon, my home city, there are $4,000
farmers who own their farms-every
man under his vine and under his fig
tree.
Many thousands of farmers in
Georgia have through their intelligent
industry and thrift greatly advanced
their condition. They are the owners
of fertile fields, and dwell in comfort
able homes, nicely furnished and
equipped with the telephone and other
modern conveniences. Newspapers and
other periodicals are their daily visit
ors and help furnish entertainment and
instruction for them and the members
of their families, and in other ways
the sphere of domestic culture is en-.
, larged
The Senator is undoubtedly mistaken.
When he intended to say was, "Sixty-
six thousand limited corporations and
"many thousands of agricultural COM
panies.'' You know yourself that edi-
tors always get things mixed.
Our George should have put Senator
Bacon wise on labor matters. The fol-
lowing is, of course, mere tommyrot:
at is mistaken opinion, entertain
ed by some at a distance, that the eli
mate at the South is too severe for
white labor in the fields There is not
an acre in Georgia upon which the
white man can not work efficiently and
with health and comfort. At least
ene-third of the cotton produced in the
State of Georgia is cultivated and
made exclusively by white labor. In
the great State Of Texas the negro pop.
ulation is only about 20 per cent One
third of the entire cotton crop is pro-
dueed in that State, and while it is in
the extreme South, much the larger
part or TINS crop must IN the mature
of things be cultivated and made ex-
clusively by white labor. -
Senator Bacon mentions that the
property values in the State of Geor-
ga aggregate over $1,500,o 100000; that
there are SOS State and National banks
capitalized at $29,000,00o, with depos.
its of $74,oo0,o0o; s35,ooo,ooo invested
in cotton mills; $172,000,00o in farm
lands; 1921, 100000 in railroads; $177,.
100000 in city property; and, as quoted
above, that the farm products for 1905
were worth $30O,o00,o00.
Would it not be a good thing for
Hawaii if the failure of the small
/, farmer in Georgia could be repeated
here on limited scale?
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