The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11
The BEST COUNTIES
FOR RAISING PEACHES
TERRELL IN SECTION OF STATE
BEST ADAPTED TO GROW
ING THAT FRUIT.

The Georgia State Horticultural
Society divides the state into four
sections, known as the northern, the
middle, the southern and the coastal
regions. The northern section is
bounded by line drawn south of the
following counties: HARRISON. Pauld-
ing, Cobb Milton, Forsyth, Hall,
Banks and Franklin. The middle re-
glon is between the line south of the
above counties and line south of
the following counties; Clay, Ran
dolph, Terrell, Lee, Dooly, Wilcox,
Telfair, Montgomery, Tattnall, Bull
loch and Efingham. The coastal
section is composed of the counties
OF Chatham, Bryan, Liberty, McIn-
tosh, Glynn and Camden. The rest of
the state is known as the southern
section. Various types of peaches
are adapted to all sections of Geor-
gia, though it is probable that the
central and northern sections of the
state should be considered the peach
growing regions. The first main
peach growing section of Georgia
was around Fort Valley and Mar
shallville. This development extend
ed south of Americas. 1t has now
gone out among the Central of Geor-
gia railroad from the Fort Valley
section towards Columbus.
Another peach section has develop
ed north of Macon toward Monticel-
10. We find peaches also being grown
in large amounts along the Georgia
railroad around Sparta
An early peach section to develop
was in the northwestern sections of
the state between Cedartown and
Chattanooga. One of the most pros
porous and forward peach growing
regions is to be found on the South
| ern railroad between Lula and Cor
nelia. The development of peach
growing centers in South Georgia has
been rather slow. Some rather large
| peach orchards were set this fall a
year ago, but the unprecedented cold
weather of last winter seriously in
jured the young paintings. There are
some varieties, however. which will
undoubtedly be found we'll adapted to
the southern sections of the state.
The fault line runs from Columbus
to Macon, Macon to Milledgeville,
Milledgeville to Augusta, and by
studying the peach areas of the state
it will be found that the majority of
them are north of this line The Fort
Valley Marshallville area, which is
just south of this line, has conditions
very similar in many respects to the
territory north of the fault line.
There is no reason why thousands of
acres heretofore devoted to other
crops, mainly cotton, should not be
turned into peach orchards, as many
a small farmer is naturally going to
look for something to take the place
of the cotton that he has normally
been planting, when the boil weevil
necessitates a curtailment of his cot
ton acreage. The peach seems to be
so universally adapted to the general
Georgia conditions, that serious con-
sideration to the development of a
small orchard in conjunction with his
general farm operations.
There is hardly state in the un-
ion that can boast of as many hOr-
ticultural products as Georgia, and
the greatest of these at this time is
the peach. More than an ordinary
profit can be easily secured by the
production of this fruit provided it
is carried on in business-like manner.