The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1917-05-11


R. R. has its southern terminus at
this place. The scenery and health
inspiring atmosphere along its COM
pleted line has had little told about
it as yet, bat it will not remain hid
den long.
Marietta. then, as place of resi-
dence or temporary resort, either for
health or comfort, with enjoyments
of country life, is chiefly to be priz-
ed. If you have no income-or wish
to obtain the most moderate livli-
hood at a trade or profession with
the hope of making it pay-at pres
ent, you had better try somewhere
else. Every line of business seems
more than filled. But for those hav-
ing a moderate competency it is THE
place, a perfect home! Cost of liv-
ing is exceedingly moderate, the land
cheap, averaging the cultivatable
land of the county-ranging from
SIP to SIS per acre. The country
is well wooded. Pine, Poplar, Chest
nut, Hickory and many kinds of
oak prevail The soil is of two kinds
Red clay and gray sandy clay
both stiff, the former preferable, the
whole, whether seperate or mixed,
requiring thorough working for gen
eral returns. In general appearance
the soil seems to be of poor quality
and is very Disappointing to look at,
but all of it pays when built up If
the careful, faithful labor of the
North could be put upon this soil,
with the intelligence and thrift that
goes with such labor, do not know
what might be done here. For in
stance-and / do not call myself a
farmer-I took one acre of the poor
est soil one would suppose could be
found-indeed | do not think with
the average treatment of farmers
around me, it would have borne five
bushels of corn-by thorough plough
ing, cultivation and a good season,
with the use of acid Phosphate a.
lone, | harvested so bushels of corn.
1t was good corn! Still, with the
slipshod labor we have, black of
course, our gardens yield abundant
ly, with reasonable composing and
attention; and as every one has, for
most part, heretofore relied upon
their own gardens, garden-truck has
not been much on sale in town, un-
til recently. Now, however, most
vegetables are to be had in their
season.
AS to seasons-what we have of
winter is short land sometimes to
the point our summers are long, so
that of many things we have spring
and fall crop. Fruit flourishes here,
and is abundant. | have eaten
"Hale's Early" peach in flavor
and appearance very like "Rare-
ripe" as early as June 18th from my
orchard. Strawberries and Rasp-
berries are cultivated and do splen-
didly, while Dew and Blackberries
: are weeds which we find difficult to
) weed out. Of fruit trees-there are
peach, apple, pear, plum, apricot,
cherry, crab-apple, and if you wait
till ripe l will mention Persimmon
and the fig, which sometimes yields
: thrao cropc in n coocor OF +L,oro
growing wild, English walnut hick-
Dry, beach, chestnut, chinquepin and
} oilers.
The resident society is excellent,
and as Marietta occupies a middle
ground as to heat and cold (never
being either as hot or as cold as New
York;, two classes of annual visitors
make it their resort-those from
! northern states coming in the win
ter, while those from the southern
sea-board and low countries visit us
in summer, And this influx of
strangers, so diverse in many things,
adds change, variety and piquancy
to our social atmosphere.
Live stock averages well, but as
} after Sherman's trip through here,
in the matter of stock, as, well as
many other important things, there
was so to speak, beginning anew.
1t is thousand pities that they per-
united the custom of turning stock
loose to forage, which has a deterior-
atlng tendency, which in cow, goes
4 by the name of "Scrubb," and the
country people think they are too
poor to keep up a fence; that is the
reason they give for turning cows.
horses, mules and hogs loose to range
while, if the truth was truthfullv
told, mean without reserve. their
object is to feed their stock at some
other persons expense" 1t is not
yet apparent to them that such a
policy won't pay. | heard lately of