The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-15
D|VERS|FICAT|ON OF CROPS ID BE
 THEME IN GEORGIA Democrats of State Making Effort to Raise $35,000
 for Campaign
PECAN ORCHARD IS
 SOLD FOR $1, 100000
Fair Opens and Races Prove Big Feature-Pr0hibition No Longer an Issue-Brittian
 to Speak in Alabama
By aufNHY MELTON

By GulMBY MELTON | Atlanta, Ga, October 14-(Special) )-The Georgia Chamber of Commerce has an-
 nounced that the subject of better mar kets for diversified crops will be the
 theme for discussion at All Georgia Prod ustc day celebration on November IS, throughout the state.
 1 Four years ago the first Georgia Prod ucts day was celebrated. The success of the first venture made it an annual af- 1 fair On this day every city is urged to l hold a public dinner at which Georgia products are served. prizes are offered l by the State Chamber of Commerce for | the best menu selected of Georgia prod | ucts.
 l The annual celebration has brought to 1 light some interesting figures that go to prove that any southern state can pro- duce all the necessary foodstuffs 365 days
 in the year to support the people living 1 within it's borders
 | Georgia democrats have organized to push campaign to raise $35, 600 for the
 national democratic treasury. Already | $10,000 has been pledged, and those behind | tn0 movement Deu6Ve that the money WILL
 be in hand before the time set for the completion of the campaign. Ben Lee Crew has been appointed field agent and l will make a tour of the principal cities 1 of the state. He has been put in complete | charge of the campaign, which will last | two weeks. John D. Walker of Sparta, 1 head of the Walker chain of banks is treasurer of the fund The three Atlanta newspapers are giving column day I to the campaign.
 | That southern farming land can be irp- | proved to such an extent that S1O0 an acre | is considered reasonable figure for same l was proved Friday when an Atlanta real estate firm handled deal for 10000 acres of Sumter county land, the consideration | being $1,000O00. The land that brought l this sum was largely of pecan groves l that had just reached the bearing state. Ten years ago R. P. Stackhouse of South l Carolina moved to Georgia and organized 1 the Stackhouse Land company. They bought the 10000 acres that was sold Fri l day for an average of $10 an acre and started to improve it.
 | During the 10 years from the time of l the purchase to the present sale this land
 was made to produce revenue sufficient l to care for all running expense, pay the
 interest on the money invested, taxes on l the place and salaries to the stockholders. One of the first things the officials of the | Stackhouse Land company decided to do was to plant the place in pecan trees. The pecan groves did not interfere with growing other crops, as cotton, corn, hay and other crops were grown between the rows of trees.
 l The purchasers of this tract of land are Georgia people, c. D. Terrell and his sons l of Covington being the parties who paid over the $1,000,000 The purchasers gave
 as part payment a business lot in Atlanta at nd m a r,qr l in Kansas City valued at s110,000. 1 The Southeastern fair opened here yes | terday. The exhibits on hand are many and varied and the attendance on opening l day guarantees the financial success of the undertaking. A big feature of the l fair drawing many is the Grand Circuit
 races that are being staged on the one | mile track.
 1 The board of directors of the fair have needed the request of the churches of Alt ltnta and will not open the fairgrounds I on Sunday to visitors This step was talk
 en despite the fact that it will probably
 mean many thousands of dollars to the 1 association as there was such wide-, 1 spread sentiment against keeping the | grounds open on the Sabbath.
 1 The Royal Cattle Show is feature of the fair that Is attracting more than | usual attention. The stock entered in this 1 show Is the center of attraction. A | short-term course in agriculture Tor farm- 1 CTS and farm boys is proving popular | The State College of Agriculture is in l charge of this course
 | That prohibition is a fixture in Georgia l seems sure since the leaders of the anti crowd in the state legislature have sig | nified their intention not to open the | question at the next session of the gen. eral assembly. It was generally under 1 stood that members of both houses who | favored local option and the open saloon {, would open the fight on prohibition at l the next session, but the ringeaders of this side of the question have been in At | lanta during the past two weeks and have l stated that they will not agitate the | question further.
 The republican party of Georgia has announced full ticket for the state election in November to oppose the dem- ocratic candidate nominated in the Sep tember primary. Roscoe Pickett, member
 of the senate from the Eleventh district, the only republican in the general assem- bly, is candidate for governor to oppose Hugh M. Dorsey, the democratic choice. A full list of presidential electors has also been named, and the republicans state that they will make better show ing in Georgia this year than ever be- fore.
 State Superintendent of Schools M L. Britain has been invited to stump Ala bama in the interest of the proposed
 amendment to strengthen the school sys- tenn of that state. MT. Britain has been
 the head of Georgia schools for ten years, and 1t has been during his regime that
 the school system of the state has devel- oped to the extent that it has. Local taxation was introduced during his term
 of office. and this one thing has figured I more toward making the schools efficient than any one other, according to MT. | Britain.
 | w. J. (BilD Seabrook. Atlanta news- paper man, has returned from France, where he was in the American Red i Cross service for the past two years. He was accompanied by his wife. who served by his side as a nurse. Seabrook brings
 some exciting tales and a full-fledged French mustache back with him to show
 for his two years of hard work. He gives as his reason for going to France two years ago. T had hpnch that might enjoy myself. And I always follow
 lunches"
 The Georgia troops encamped at Camp Harris, near Macon have been ordered to the border and will move as soon as transportation can be arranged Three regiments of infantry, two squadrons of cavalary and hospital sorps-in all, Georgia will send 5000 men to the border. The troop trains will pass through Bir-