The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-11-15
Land as an Investment.

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Beyond doubt the coming of the boil wee
vii to Southwest Georgia will cause much
! inconvenience and some hardships for
awhile, but there is no reason for those who
are interested in agriculture to become I'M
| duly alarmed and dispose of their land. A
recent issue of The News noted the pur-
chases of several pieces of farm property in
Terrell county, which clearly indicates that
there are those among US who have faith
in the future and the possibility of protita-
BILE farming despite the fact that it is neces-
sarv to abandon the all-cotton policy.
The News finds much encouragement in
current issue of a Texas contemporary,
The Waco Tribune, which says that dozen
years or more ago-when the boil weevll
was first ravishing the cotton fields of Cen
trail Texas-a meeting of farmers and bust
ness men, all anxious and some visibly de-
pressed, was held in that city to take coun-
sci of each other. local banker talked,
and is quoted as having said among other
things:
"There is no need to give way to
fears We can and shall deal with this
problem. Let no man talk or think OF
selling his farm interests and going
elsewhere. Those who do will regret it.
The man who has any sort OF start
or foothold here, on such land is fort
innate. Hold on to your land. You
will learn how to make cotton despite
this Mexican pest, and the value of
your land ten years hence will sur
prise you"
The talk impressed the listeners, says the
Tribune They took courage. More than
decade has passed. They have made crops
of cotton there year by year, despite the
boil weevil And farm lands-they have
doubled in value and more. The Texas pa
per further declares:
''Now another and far differnt stu
alton has developed. Depression, doubt,
and hard times are not the status of
the farmer Everything he produces
on his farm brings prices he did not
hope for decade agOne. He has mon
ey-in some instances considerable
money-and he considers how to invest
it safely and proftably. We think of
the counsel of our Waco friend years
ago, and our thoughts turn to land,
farm lands Our talk is now to the
farmer of moderate means. If he ever
hopes to get some land of his own this
is surely the time to do it. Never again
will farm lands be available here at as
low price as now"
The business Of farming, we believe, will
be profitable during the coming years. Next
years cotton autumn delivery, can be con-
tracted for now at fifteen cents pound.
Every product of the farm brings high,
profitable prices-small grain, forage, cat
tie, hogs, poultry, dairy products. Every
thing is money, good money, for the farmer
and it is our opinion that no safer invest
ment can be made than South Georgia farm
realty. The recent sales in Terrell county
show that men who do not want to farm
whose chief purpose is safe investments,
will put their money in farm lands. They
will bring higher prices than now, and the
man of small means who has an ambition to
own a farm of his own should start to ac-
curing some land now. 1t is in all proba-
bility the best chance he will ever have to
get a modest but remunerative holding
when in the years ahead he will sit under his
own vine and fig tree and be happy and m
dependent,