Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-03-30
NUT growers CONVENTION
TO BE GREAT SUCCESS
Will Advertise County Widely
and PrOfitabIy

When the fourth annual convention
of the Georgia-Florida Nut Growers
Association is held here in May, it is
expected that the largest and moss
| representative g.,cudance in the his
tory CT the organization will be pres
eat 1t is with this end in view and
that the convention may be made a
success in every way that Mr. H. W.
Smithwick. the resident of the asso-
citation, IS now Justly working.
Though it is in reality a branch OF
the National Nut Growers Association,
the Georgia-Florida Nut Growers As
/ ISOLATION is younger than the ma
tional body. The May convention will
mark the fourth year of the organiza-
ton of the Georgia-FlOrida associa-
ton, which has grown within the four
years until it now numbers among its
membership nearly two hundred lead
| ing nut growers of the two states. The
aftiliation of the smaller association
with the national organization gives
the members Of the local body the ad-
vantage of securing not only the dis
cussions of the national growers, but
also those which deal more intimately
with local orchard conditions.
In addition to his holding the pres
idency of the Georgia-FIorida Nit
! Growers Association, Mr.. SmithwicI
lis a member of the Committee on Mar
kets and Marketing of the National AS
ISOLATION. The duties of this commit
/ tee are to devise and consider the
best plans for grading and marketing
! nuts and other questions of kindred
nature. Valuable discussions concern
ing local conditions of this kind will
be included in the program for the
May convention.
! The arrangement of the program for
, the convention has been considered
only in a general way. 1t will re-
quire much time to select the various
topics to be discussed and to assign
them to appropriate speakers. There
are other items of general business to
be arranged for the two-day session.
What should prove the most valuable
feature of the program to the people
Of the town and county is the visit
to be made by the delegates to the va
rious orchards and points of interest IN
the county. No better opportunity for
the practical demonstration of the
value of the farm lands of the county
could be afforded than this. AS the
value of Sumter county real estate,
climate and general advantages will De
stressed, the advertising features If
this part of the program will be I'M
surpassed All legitimate publicity
that is possible will be given to the
town and county. 1t is hoped that
automobiles may be secured for the
Transportation of the visitors on this
trip in order that Sumter's incompara7
BILE roads may be fully seen and duly
appreciated
The superiority of Sumter county
lands for pecan growing over most of
the lands of the entire South will also
be shown. In this particular it has
been pointed out that the local pecan
groves are free from the devastation
of the hurricanes from the West In
dies, which do more to wreck the or
cahrds in Mississippi and other Gulf
states than any other agency Sumter
county is sufficiently remote from the
! Gulf coast to be entirely free from the
dangers of such hurricanes. Situate
on the watershed between the Gulf and
Atlantic coasts, the local orchards
grow under the most favorable eli
matte conditions, which insure a good
crop of pecans every year. In many
other sections, various conditions exist
which make good crops every year I'M
certain, if not impossible.