Americus times-recorder., 1918-04-25
AN OLD PLANTATIONS INSPIRING
"COME BACK"


into the rich virgin soil.
But it is a much finer thing to renew
the youth of land that has been long
cleared and whose fertility has been
dissipated through wasteful methods.
We know of nothing more stimu-
lating to the hopes of those who look
forward to a greater South, more
Inspiring to those who believe that the
agricultural development of the section
is really but beginning, than to see
one of the old, rundown plantations
OF Georgia touched with the transform
ing magic of modern methods.
Hon John D. Little, former speaker
OF the Georgia House of Representa-
tives and a Georgian widely known,
has been waving his wand over the
old Fowltown plantation, six miles
north of Albany, and it is inspirational
to see what transformations have al
ready been wrought there.
The old place is one of the most
famous in Lee county. 1t embraces
something like $500 acres, and both
before and after the Civil War produc-
ed splendid crops, chiefly cotton. Of
late years it has lost the glory of its
earlier years, the result of those care
less farming methods so largely in
vogue in the South UP to the very
recent past. But Mr. Little is not only
bringing the old glories back to this
famous old plantation, but is preparing
to eclipse them with projects more am
bilious than any in this section of
which we have knowledge.
For instance, there's the 1S-acre
cabbage patch on this old plantation.
Where was there ever before IS acres
il. cabbage in a single patch in south
west Georgia? The field was planted
last fall, and now daily shipments of
Fowltown cabbages are being made.
Three hundred housand cabbages
are a sight for sore eyese anywhere.
Growing in Albany district, they are
enough to make a blind man open his
eyes and see.
That cabbage patch is symbolical
Itsprepares the visitor to this old place
for other things he sees. New barns,
new silos, new dwellings for those who
live on the place, new fencing and
ample farm machinery-these are
some Of the evidences of the regenra-
tion of the plantation which, half a
a century and more ago, was one of the
show places of this section
This year Mr. Little is taking about
1,100 acres under cultivation. He is
raising a great deal of small grain, and
will give preference to food crops. He
is planting various crops that have
been tested and proved, and is expert
menting with certain others for the
sake of the knowledge thus to be gain
ed.
But by far the most notable thing
that is being done on the Fowlton
plantation is the establishment of the
Little herd of registered Hereford cat
tie. Mr. Little has spared neither
pains nor expense to bring to Fowl
town the finest Herefords in America.
Bulls and COWS that are among the
most famous in the United States, and
known all over the world, are in Mr.
Little's pastures, and there will be ex-
hibited at some of the forthcoming
Hereford shows Fowltown-bcrn ami
mails that will ask no odds of the best
that any state in the union can enter.
Nowhere has there been more
striking case of the redemption" Of
an old plantation than on the Fowl
town place The process is not yet
complete, for many more acres of
neglected land are to be brought un>
der cultivation, and the herd of pure
bred Herefords will be much larger.
Fields on the place are now under cul-