The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1911-05-04
GEORGIA
NEWS

Macon. When the Legislature
meets in June, the report Of the leg
lslative committee of the Georgia Ed.
ucational Association, containing sew,
eral recommendation for much-need
ed reforms and innovations in the
state school system, will be present
ed 1t will probably receive the sup
port of a number Of the leading rep
resentatives. Succinctly, the legisla-
ture will be urged to correct the
evils of the present financial scheme;
to make liberal appropriations for all
phases of public education; to reor.
ganize the state board of eduu0 ton;
to substitute a state superintendent
Of schools for the state school com,
missioner, enlarging his duties and
powers, increasing his salary and pro.
viding for assistant supervisors; to
amend and improve the laws regulat-
ing the county superintendent of the
schools and county supervision, and
compulsory education" These rec
OAlAO4AOnI1O1S WCI6 uOClUOu upOA w
the convention which met here.
Thomasville. the Georgia
peach and the LeConte pear may have
off, years or may yield to the at
tacks of Jack Frost, there are two
crops of fruit which South Georgians
may always count upon to tickle paa-
ates in the hot summer weather, and
these are the fig crop and the black
berry crop, both of which bid fair to
be unusually fine this year.
Dublin.-The largest crowd that has
assembled in Dublin in long while
voted unanimously for continuance
of the road development in Laurens
county, and instructed the commits
sioners of roads and revenues to levy
special tax in order to carry on
the work. While the sentiment Of
majority of those in the meeting was
against bonds, a committee was nam
ed to consult with the representatives
in the general assembly in the prep
aration of bill naming a bond COM
mission to order an election for bonds
and have charge of the work of road
development, if the bonds are author"
lied.
Macon.-R. G. Snow, staff CORE
spondent Of a national product news
paper, after an extended trip into
the peach-producing sections of Geor-
gia, gives as a conservative estimate
1,2OO cars for this years peach crop
In talking of the outlook, Mr.. Snow
said. "The famous Fort Valley sec
ton will ship more than fifty per cent
of the entire Georgia crop. Included
in the Fort Valley territory is Mar
shalville, Lee, Pope, Byron and sever
al smaller fruit points. Last year
there were approximately $500 cars
of Georgia peaches shipped and hun
dreds of cars were lost on account OF
car shortage; hence it will be seen
that the present year is badly an on
season. Prices are ranging from 81
to, S1.15 per crate and number OF
orcharGs have been bought by spec
ulators on this basis. New York COM
mission rulers advise that they antic-
ipate very high prices for Georgia
peaches the coming season.
Gainesville Gainesville is just now
very much interested in the exten"
sion of the Gainesville Midland rail-
way to Robertstown. White county,
a distance of IS miles, where four
timber companies have bought up
100000 acres of timber lands and are
now preparing to place it on the mar
ket In order to get this timber 10
the various markets the timber COM
NAMES are preparing to build a line
of railway to some point on the South
ern railway. In addition to Gaines
vile they are considering two or three
other points, but the people OF TINS
citv are determined to have the
Gainesville Midland extended to the
mountains, believing that this VIII ul-
timatelv mean extension of the road
to some point giving it connection
with the West.
Mount Airy.-Since it is generally
conceded that the peach crop for TINS
season will not be the main one, much
interest is being manifested among
the apple-growers Of this section. Stlll
there are a great many peaches left
nv the cold. Especially it is found
that the native oldtime peach in the
corner of the garden, the fence row
and other places over the farm under
similar conditions survive the cola
Far better than the peaches now
grown by the average peach grower
The success of growing the peach
seems to depend more on soil than
climatic conditions. Intensive propa'
cation in the future may overcome
this susceptibility to the cold: The
annie Is more hardy fruit. There Is,
an orchard of the oldtime varieties OF
mountain apples on very high noun
tain in North Carolina that has not
had complete failure of perfectly
rinened fruit in a great number OF
Years An average yield of apples
I NAV safely be expected within five
mile radius of Mount Airy.
Clarkesville.-W H. Alley, a farmer
living a few miles north Of this city
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