Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-05-16
BIZ GoRING RRowN.


Editor The journal: During the past
few days 1 have read. with much inter-
est, or the large number of people VIVA
have immigrated to Canada during
1910. one hundred and seven thousand
gone into Canada instead of coming in
to the south. Why? Simply because
they had no idea of the opportunity
offered in this country compared with
that offered in Canada
1 do not believe there is place on
the globe where opportunity is greater
for any man with a limited amount or
capital, who will use his brains and
energy 365 days in the year, than pre-
sents itself in our southern states. III
he will work and take care of what he
mukes, he cannot help but succeed ana
make money in this country. OF course
he cannot expect to make it if he does
not work, but you cannot possibly keep
him down if he does work.
Our climate is so much better than
that of Canada and the opportunities
so much greater that If there could
possibly be come way of advertising
this country, we could soon have 1t
inhabited and cut up into small farms
which would be the very making or IL.
We would have rich farms instead OF
WORKOUT farms. There would be
great demand for everything we pro-
duce There would be more money IN
circulation and our lands would in
crease in value tenfold.
ADVERTISE THE SOUTH.
1 do not believe that anything could
be done that would be worth more In
time to come to our southern states
than to organize with plenty of cap
ital behind ,it) an advertising bureau
to put the advantages of our country
before the thickly settled cities OF the
east that have so many thousands In
them that can scarcely make living,
and thousands that have money enough
already saved up to buy them cheap
little farm in our southern country
The railroads of the south now have
about all the business they can pos
sibly look after and they do not seem
to care at all for any more but the
time will come when the competition
will be so great that the railroads VIII
make an effort to locate more settlers
on their lines. 1 am glad to say there
Is one live wide-awake railroad in the
south that has located several hundred
families on their line during the season
that Will eventually mean many. doll
lars to them for only a small cost.
In my visits to most of the eastern
and western fairs, / notice with much
interest the large displays made by
the railroads leading into California
and into Canada and other sections OF
the country, with their varied displays
and piles of literature, with a smart
man in charge of these displays, ready
and willing to give any information
possible to any intending travellers who
contemplate going over their roads.
The literature is usually so attractive
that even if a person never thought or
going to this section of the country,
he will take the literature home, pre-
serve it and read every word of 1t. Of
ten they nave a desire in years to come
to see this section and many passen-
ger for their railroad lines are secured
in this way, and often these people Oe-
come interested and make purchase OF
property while in these sections. Ev-
cry one of our southern railroads could
be easily and cheaply represented at
many of the eastern and western fairs
this fall, where thousands and thous-
ands of farmers with money visit IL
and this would be the means OF bring
ing money, to this country. One who
has never located here soon sees tho
possibilities and he will usually bring
ten more in a short time. Tne oppor-
tunities are too valuable and too great
for US to sit idle and let these chances
go by
We need more people to cultivate the
thousands of acres of waste land in our
southern states, who know the value of
stock and fertilizer. It is almost impos-
sible to make large yields and profitable
crops that our ground is capable of pro-
ducing without the use of plenty of home
made fertilizer and without the keeping
of live stock on the farms. II is folly
for any man to plant thousands of acres
T,ok
ern states to use little dab of CONNER
cial fertilizer that is scarcely a drop in
the bucket after being mixed with the
many tons of dirt that is contained in an
acre of soil. We can only bring up this
land to its highest stage by the rotation
of crops and by the use of homemade
manure. When we get our lands to the
stage that We can use a ton of fertilizer
to the acre. then it can be done prohtably
and | only wish that every acre in Geor-
gia had been brought up by the use of
homemade fertilizer and rotation of
crops to a stage where we could well af-
ford to use not less than half a ton of
fertilizer at the least. We would then
see a rich and prosperous country. We
could then have plenty of grasses and
feeds of all kinds. With plenty of these
feeds on hand, we would naturally have
cattle, hogs and colts to consume it,
LnaL WOulO IN turn make our IeTllllLeF
to make our land richer and bring us
money from the sale of these animals all
along during the year at time when
there is no money coming from the sale
of the cotton crop.
LIVE STOCK.
1t does look like folly to send from ten
to fifteen million dollars out of Georgia
every year for mules and horses that
could be raised here on our cheap land
for less than one-third of this amount.
If a man has mule to sell and does not
have to dig up the money to buy one
with, it is practically twice as much
money saved in his pocket but few
of them look at it this way. One can
scarcely miss what the average colt will
consume on a farm, and when he is 3
years old and ready to go to work, you
will certainly see a difference in having
him and having to dig up the money
and go out and buy one to take his place.
The same thing applies to cows-both
milk and beef cows. The time has come
when a good frst-class four or five-gallon
COW will readily sell (even if she is a
grade) for $50 to 500 by the carload in
our cities A first-class steer of the
beef type If properly raised, will do the
same thing at years old, but we can
never hope to do our best or get the most
out of cattle until we get rid of ticks
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