The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-10-21
In Japan, Native Home of the
Orange, 1t Grows in a Section
Where ii Shows Every VIM
ter-All Should Attend Meet
ing to be Held Here.
Brunswick and This Section Has
Higher Mean Temperature
Than the Alabama Territory
Where Experiment Has Prov
ed to be Such a Success.

ocore anotner one for the hardy
0atsuma organge! 1t grows where
snow falls every winter in japan. its
native home, and it has proven itself
lrost-proof in southern Alabama and
III Glynn county, toe; but now comes
report from Mobile that there was
no serious damage tC the crcp. now
rlpenlng, from the 110-mile an hour
hurricane of Wednesday. The great
hurricane Cf July 5th. which made a
wreck OF the timber in that sect on
ana damaged practically every build
lngiN2nd residence in Mobile. failed
TO hurt the Satsuma trees at all. The
iruit was then green, and there were
no W1nd-falls, but it was feared that
the hurricane of Wednesday. coming
when the fruit is ripe, or fast ripen-
ing, would cause great loss.
copy of the Mobile Item, rcce we'd
by the Board of Trade this morning.
ana filled with accounts Of the hurri-
cane and reports of damage. quotes
Dr. 0. f. E. Winberg, president of the
Gulf coast horticultural society and
also the head of the Gulf coast citrus
exchange, which markets the Satsuma
orange crop, to the effect that there
was very little loss of fruit on ac-
count of Wednesdays hurricane. DR..
Winberg says that the satsuma is
both windproof as well as frost
proof.
This S of special interest to the
people of Brunswick and Glynn coun-
ty because recent investigations bv
Government experts and others, with
chemical analyses of soils, have
shcwn that the soil of Glynn county
is at least as we'll, adapted to this
settler-drawing orange as that at Mo
bile, while the records of the 4. S.
weather bureau, covering period
of many years show that Brunswick
has higher mean temperature for
the five winter months than Mobile,
by three and seven-tenths degrees.
the minimums at Mobile have been
10 to Is degrees lower than the low
est at Brunswick due to the nearness
of Mobile to the Billiards that sweep
down into Texas and the fact that the
warm Gulf stream (Which does not
enter the Gulf of Mexico at alb
sweeps within thirty miles of tire
shore off Brunswick.
Wind-proof qualities are not as
essential in the satsuma at Brunswick
as at Mobile. A recent bulletin of
the weather bureau states that obser-
vations covering many years shows
conclusively that the West Indian hur-
ricanes. if they enter the Gulf from
the Caribbean sea, generally go
straight northward, or turn West and
strike the Texas coast and those, few
er in number, that dc not enter the
Gulf, usually pass nOrthward in the
Atlantic, seldom striking Brunswick
with force because tn IS city is situat
ed in the extreme wetern curve OF
the Atlantic coast.
number of Government. State and
railroad horticulturists have been in
vited to the mass meetinAg called by
the Board of Trade to meet in the city
hall at 1880 Tuesday night October
oath The bankers OF Brunswick and
a very large number Of the leading
business men are very greatly inter
ested in the plans to secure organized
land development and colonization in
the hands Of experts who have made
a success of similar work in Mobile,
and are aiding the Board Of Trade
in every way possible. At the mass
the committee from the three
banks of Brunswick and County Agri-
cultural Agent. j. l.. Dunn, will report
and answer questions on which any
one may wish information. Also, the
experts who have been invited to at
tend, will give information as to their
and answer questions.
The meeting will be Of unusual inter
est in this way and beyond the fact
that It is the crucial moment whom
Brunswick must decide whether she
VIII act now and secure settlers and
land development similar to that at
Mobile, which the bankers and agri-