Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-05-22

Grafton the $125, 100000 in revenues
obtained from animals. We now
stand seventeenth in the matter OF
animal production, and so in this
particular we have left behind a
great majority of the other states.
If we add these two huge sums to-
gether, namely, the money derived
from crop production and that des
rived from animal production, we
obtain the huge total of $75O,OOO, 600
a year. This represents new wealth.
1t has been generated out OF our
agency of the animals maintained
from crops raised on our lands. 1t
represents the applied skill, the
brains and the enthusiasm and pur-
poseful efforts of our people. 1t
shows that we are among the most
favored states in the union ana IN
the great outside world as we'll. 1t
is an indication of our future pos
sibilities as an agricultural and in
duStrial state.
The aggregate of wealth manufac-
tured annually is so large as to make
it appear at first sight that Geor--
gia is, indeed, paradise OF rural
wealth and progress. In many re-
spects this is true, but let us remem-
Der in this connection that our yields
per acre are still astonishingly low.
Our average yield of corn is around
fifteen bushels per acre, of wheat
about ten bushels; of Irish potatoes
seventy bushels, and of sweet pota-
toes ninety-two bushels. Our yield
of cotton last year was around l5o
pounds of lint per acre All our 9TH
er crop out-turns are proportlonate-
ly low. If we could bring the aver
age of production UP by one-th1rd,
what a marvellous increase it would
mean in our wealth. If we could dou-
vin16c and thew H01116 he
easily doubled, we would be literally
rolling in wealth." If we trebled
or quadrupled our average yields, as
is already done on small percentage
of our farms, we would hardly know
what to do with the money. At best,
our agricultural practice is still crude
and undeveloped. Thousands of our
farmers are making but a mere ex-
istence from the soil. Our average
yields are entirely too low.
We can change all this very cas-
lily and quickly. BY doing so, we
would put our state on an entirely
different economic basis. I paint this
side of the picture to let our people
see that in spite of the marvellous
amount of money made from our
lands last year, we are still operating
on very inefficient and unsatisfac-
tory basis and that the future holds
unlimited possibilities for the wise,
j
culturist. There is practically no
limit to the development and adj
Vancement which we may make
through the replacement of mere
music and Drawn with scien-
tific skill and intelligent concentrat-
ed effort.
In this connection we must remem-
Der that the result of doubling our
yields on the present cultivated
areas would bring an annual revenue
to Georgia farmers of 1900, 900, 600.
Suppose now we take the other four
land on our farms and make them as
productive as the other twelve and
half million acres we now Guilt
vate. We would then be raising more
than $780, 100000 of agricultural and
live stock products a year. Suppose
we take the fourteen million acres
and double The present average yields.
We would then be making about 3d.
900, 100000 worth of agricultural and
animal products per year. Is the
attainment of this end possible?. 1t
certainly is, and 1T could be brought
about in a surprisingly short time:
We do not need to secure additional
information to consummate this I'M
dertaking. We already possess the
scientific facts on which to base a
much higher and more profound agrl-
cultural practice than we are now
following.
After we have accomplished this
stupendous development program, we
would still have left more than ten
million acres of land to be devoted
to any purpose we see proper. No
doubt an area as large as this could
profitably be set aside for the growth
and maintenance of state forests
These lands could be made to yield
an annual increment of at least $40
per acre, thereby adding each year
S100,000,0O0 to our wealth and pro-
viding us with the tim Der SO essen
tial to the support of our varied in
dustries. ~.
In spite of the marvellous growth
which has taken place in the last de-
cade, therefore, Georgia, the great
est of the southern states, the en-
just begun to suspect the boundless
possibilities for development which
lie ahead. Like the young athlete
freshly trained and ready for the
race, she stands at the mark ready
to go forward and lead the vanguards
of civilization to new heights of ad-
vancement and success. If we mix
brains with Drawn, if we take ad-
vantage of our local conditions and
opportunities, there is no way of de-
termining the progress which we
shall make in the next decade. Geor-
gia offers the most alluring field of
privilege to the young manhood of
the state and nation. He who. so de-
sires may carve out for himself a
patrimony of the richest character
and at the same time contribute his
proper quota to the total of human
happiness and prosperity.
Controlling Bud Worm Damage
w. P. G., Groveland, Ga,
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