The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-05-05
REPRESENTATIVE OF COMMITS
SION FIRM VISITS DAWSON TO
LOOK OVER PROSPECT.
PACKING IS VERY IMPORTANT

His House Buys Hundreds OF Car
Loads of Potatoes, Beans, Peas'
Etc That Could Be Grown by the
Farmers of This Section.
6 f. Cornelius & company, COM
mission merchants of Birmingham
Ala. sent a representative to DaW-
son to look into the condition OF the
notato and cucumber crops planted
IN this vicinity. This representative
mot a number of those who are grow
ing notatoes, in the office of the sec
rotary of the chamber OF commerce
and gave instructions on how to pack
notatoes. cucumbers, etc, for SNIP
ment He insisted on uniform SACKS
for potatoes holding ninety pounds,
and gave the growers to understand
that potatoes shipped in ANY old
sack would not bring the top OF the
market, and in some instances would
not sell at all. His instructions for
shining comprehended new sacks
that had not been used for anything
else. and he demonstrated that it will
nav growers to get sacks for the pur-
pose.
While here the representative OF
the Birmingham firm, who has had
twelve years in the business, gave
some idea of the vast amount of veg
etabIes which are shipped here from
the North that should be grown IN
the South. His firm handles more
than five hundred cars of Irish pOta-
toes per year, and more than four
hundred cars are from Wisconsin and
Maine and a few cars from Holland.
In all his firm has handled seven cars
from Holland the past few months.
Down in this section, where the
finest turnips in the country can be
grown, only a small per cent of the
amount consumed are produced here.
Last autumn the Birmingham firm
imported twenty-six car loads of tur-
nips from Canada.
More than thirty carloads of lima
beans and black-eye peas were
bought in California at cost, in ex-
cess of freight, of about $4,000 per
car. The freight on car Of beans
from California is about 1915. This
man, who has been in the business
until he knows it in all it's details,
maintains that Georgia can grow as
fine lima beans as California If the
farmers will turn their attention to
the business, but he is quite sure that
they cannot be grown with large
majority of our white farmers hsh-
ing or Coy riding" during the crop
ping season.
Calling attention to the cabbage
handled annually by his firm he said
that more than 200 cars of the 800
cars his firm handles come from Vir-
ginia and several cars from Wiscon-
sin. 1t is his opinion that as fine
cabbage as can be grown in the world
can be produced here in Southwest
Georgia Of all his firm handles not
a car load is from Georgia.
Illustrating what can be done in
the matter of growing sweet pota-
toes he called attention to what
colony of yankees" are doing at
Foley, Ala. These people last year
shipped 456 cars of sweet potatoes
and received a fancy price for them.
There is no reason he said, why
Terrell county cannot make as fine
sweet potatoes as are grown in the
country and make as many bushels
to the acre If the farmers will give
attention to their culture"
After riding out to some of the
potato patches about the city he
said that his firm would send man
here when the crop was ready to
move to buy them. This action on
the part of this commission firm is
exactly in line with what the secre-
tary of the chamber OF commerce has
maintatned-produce the stuff and
the market will come.
If the farmers who have potatoes
and cucumbers planted will report
the condition of their crop to the
secretary of the chamber Of COM
MERGE he will keep in touch with
those who buy and have buyers here
when the crop is ready to move. But
the secretary cannot give out infor
nation if those who are growing the
stuff do not keep him posted.
TEA SERVICE FOR MISS WILSON