Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-09-28

and he remembered Georgia as a
state that made cotton almost exclus-
lively and bought her meat and bread
in the middle west. In fact, he start
ed out to give me some advice and
advised that | go back to Georgia
and tell the Georgia people to go to
making their own meat ana bread.
You should have seen how surprised
he was when | told him we were al
ready doing that.
They have told me the wonderful
Sacramento valley out here and what
it will produce. One of the crops they
boast of in the Sacramento valley IS
Tobacco. They were very much surpris-
ed when | told them that in Georgia
we had the largest tobacco plantation
in the country, $4,000 acres with 81
500 employees. They have been boost
ing to me ever since | came out here
that CALIFORNIA; rice crop last sea-
son amounted to $72,000,O00. 1t may
interest you Georgia people to know
that the by-products alone from one
Georgia cotton crop brought more
than $72,000,000. Remember, by
products only.
They tell you only of their success
es out here. That is why their descrip-
lions are so glowing. | have gotten
some of the less romantic side OF Cal
ifornia, however. | have talked with
! hard-headed bankers-men who are
not accustomed to romancing-and
their information has always been
that there is "seamy" side that
there are failures as we'll as success.
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Not So Great
One real estate man was boasting
to me of how friend of his lad
! sold his crop of grapes this year for
$500 an acre, and the buyer is to
do the picking. That sounds fine, but
that land is worth $1,000 an acre.
Considering the investment, the cost
to produce-and don't forget it GER
tainly costs something to look after
a grape vineyard-together with now
and then failure, do you think it is
such large yield? l told him of one
Rabun county farmer who sold S1,4O0
worth of celery from one acre in
1913. He was surprised of course, be-
cause they didn't think we, could raise
celery in Georgia. Most Geor-
gia people don't know it
either, but you can if you
prepare for it like they do out
here and in Florida. One Dougherty
county farmer has produced as high
as 1856 bushels of sweet potatoes to
the acre, and you know what they
are now worth. A Loyndes county
weighed lat pounds. have been told
that one Georgia farmer made S4,-
600 on one intensively cultivated acre
| don't propose to vouch for that, but
just give you this to show that we
make some claims as well as Califor-
MIA. | do know this, that from $500
to $500 an acre profit are common in
Georgia, according to agricultural re-
ports in my hands.
! They are very proud of the fact out
here that California is only sixth
from an agricultural and horticultural
standpoint, but did you know that
/ Georgia is only fourth? &c rgia is
first in peaches. She is second only to
Texas in cotton, and if it were not
! for> the area of Texas she would be
first. Georgia is third iii meat produe-
ton. Whiel Georgia is largely an ag-
ricultural state, her mining oppo1tuTT-
tiles are wonderful | p Nd a visit to
the California State Fair this week
and had rather an interesting talk
with the man in charge of the mining
exhibits. He took a great deal OF
pride in showing me an exhibit of as
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