Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-11-06
POULTRY POSSIBILITIES IN THE
SOUTH.

Millions Of acres of land all over the
South, close to good railroad station:
and easy OF access to large cities car
De had at S. to 500 per acre. Thi:
land will grow just as many fowls
more months in TIE year than land
that cost several times this much in
the East and West. All of our South
ern lands yield readily to good cultiva-
ton and high fertilization and it is nc
trouble at all to produce fifty to one
hundred bushels of corn per acre or
fifty to one hundred bushels Of winter
wheat per acre during the time that
they will not grow in the East and
West. This same land will also make
from two to four hundred bushels OF
fall Irish potatoes that have a ready
market of 80 cents per bushel for eat
ing purposes or 81 per bushel for
seed
The wonderful little dairy COW, the
Jersey, thrives over the entire South
equally as well as on TIE Island of
Jersey. We can keep her at low
cost and she will yield from one to
two pounds of butter per day which
will readily sell for 50 cents per
pound.
Our great city of Atlanta has over
eight hundred dairies and it is impos-
sible to supply the demand for milk al
40c per gallon and cream at $1.2O per
gallon, retail. The poultry and dairy
business work hand in hand. "A milk
customer is almost always glad to get
a supply of fresh eggs at IS to 40
cents per dozen with the delivery OF
milk.
Anyone, says a writer in the South,
ern Financier, in discussing these
features Of Southern life, can start in
small way with small amount OF
capital in the South and if they will
use business Judgment and energy and
work anyways near as hard as they do
in the average city store, they will
soon become Independent and have a
business of their own for a very small
amount invested, And the writer con-
tinues.
After travelling over good portion of
the United States, l know of no place
that has a brighter future for young
man to win fame and fortune than in
any of the Southern States. With
poultry, an old man, frail woman or
even child can provide good living
without hard physical labor or half
the number of hours to work as do
millions of the women and children;
who are absolute slaves to labor IN
the great cities of the East and West.
AS rule, most of our Southern
people have made money too easy and
have been satisfied with an ordinary
living and they cared very little for
laying up fortunes or providing for a
rainy day We see so many thrifty
people from the East and West com
ing into different sections of the South
who soon become rich. This is Gre
ating new life in our Old South and the
day is coming, not SO far distant VIXEN
Georgia and many of her sister states
will be The garden spot of the world.
Cotton is the King and always will
be as money crop. AS a vegetable
growing center, no place can equal the
South. Fruits and nuts of all kinds
grow like weeds Cattle, hogs, horses
and an abundant supply of corn,
wheat, oats, cotton and every other
noted crop is produced so abundantly
in the South that she will never go
hungry.
The poultry business is certainly
on the boom in the Southern States.
With the millionaires at the great
winter resorts in the South during tina
winter waiting for our products, we
lave the best market in the world for
the high quality stuff that can be pro-
duced here