Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-02-06
Georgia Land VIII
Support a Family
And Pay for Itself

In Georgia, What II Ofters YOU the
state department OF agriculture has COM
piled few instances OF successful farm
ers in the state. how they started and
what they did. as follows:
Hundreds OF individual farmers. be
ginning with no capital but their energy
and determination. have demonstrated
that farm land in Georgia will support
n family in comfort, and at the same
time. pay for itself within a few years
The detailed story OF GeorEia's agrI-
cultural growth is rich in such instances.
and in other remarkable individual
achievements
Here are a few OF them. chosen from
many:
W. s. Shepard. OF Fort Valley. came
% Georgia from Chicago in 1901. pur-
rhassd asa acres. assumed debt o.
500. Eight years later ne wrote. Il
paid that debt. purchased over
~ OF live stock and farm imple-
ATS. have built barns and houses worth
Ovs- $4,000. I live as we'll As l could
ask to live anywhere in the world, and II
has all come out OF the proceeds of my
plantation"
]. b Hunter. OF SpaIding county, who
has a large family. bought sixty-eight
acres seven years ago at SIS an acre
The farm supported his family in com
fort and paid for itself in three years
He now has a splendid paying property
DsversIficaticn and rotation of crops eN-
plain IL.
W. e. Richardson. OF Baldwin county,
started as a day Iabo-er, saved and
bought a small piece OF land, ano sradu-
ally added more from his profits He
now advances $4,000 a year TO other
farmers. He plants q general crop, but
makes a Specfalty of corn.
H NJ PEBBLES. Of Swainsboro, tells
his own story: Il married seven years
ago and bought a farm which l have
worked out and paid for The farm Is
A small one of IS acres with 5S acres
cleared, which / cultivated with Two
mules. / am not an all-cotton farmer, as
1 always raise plenty Of supplies TO run
my farm and feed for my STOCK. ana
always have some meat and lard Tor
sale"
John n Mcclellan of Whitfield eoun-
IL. has earned a farm OF his own, though
he Is only seventeen years old lie hVes
nj home with his father, and stu goes 10
school but takes his stock OF mix 10
his customers every morning. works ms
land and tends his cattle At the start
he borrowed money TO buy an old mule
traded that for a COW, saved his milk
earnings. and bought more cows. In two
years ne nAQ SaNEu sAsNNN
$500 he borrowed from a bank he paid
for an so-acre farm adjoining his faith
ers land. His milk sales now average
SEQ a month
Georgia is famous for sweet potatoes.
and the average yield is greater than
eny other state in the union J. G.
Thomas. OF Baldwin county. makes as
much as 500 bushels 10 the acre, and
on ground which he says would not
make half a bale OF cotton L. G
Oliver on the Chatham and Ehingham
county lire. gets $3.50 an acre from a
double crop of potatoes. Irish followed
10y sweets.
Alfalfa hay brings from $40 to SIS
ton John Moore, near Macon made
three tons Of alfalfa per acre in 1915.
despite the drouth. c. W. Fowler. Of
Cobb county made $T2.50 in 1915 from
IniIlet and cOwpes hay on one and a
Eaif acres OF land.
Oats. followed by sweet potatoes. are
making money for r L Wade. of Lau-