Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-06
aeorg1a,s undeveloped Potsnt1a1,ties


Georgia is the largest state eas1
Of the Missippi river. The area Il
59,475 square miles, equivalent to 81,
$4,000 acres. According to the most
recently available figures, 26,953,41a
acres are in farms. OF this amount
12,298.G17 acres would be regarded
as productive land and 14,600,39t
acres as unimproved land. This
leaves approximately 10,63o,587 acres
of wooded, cut-over, or unimprovec
wild land. It will thus be seen thai
area is devoted to crop growing al
this time. 1t is generally recognized
that our acre yields are relatively
low and that we have not yet at.
tanned anything like the high stand
ard of which we are capable in the
management and handling of our
land.
In spite of these facts, our sol
and climate and the fine energy and
capacity Of our people enabled US
to produce agricultural crops in 1915
worth 1925, 100000 in round numbers
We also raised and sold animal prod
ucts worth at very conservative fig
ures $125, 100000 more. Our total out
put of soil and animal wealth In
1919, therefore, aggregated the great
sum of $750,O00,000. This was &C
complished through the utilization
our landed area. It is true that g
considerable part of our unimproved
land and some of our wild land were
utilized for the maintenance of live
stock; but our improved pasture
areas are still negligible in extent
and the greater part of the food con.
sumed by our live stock was raised
on our cultivated land. In any event
it would be a simple matter to raise
the standard of production on the
improved land to where one-third OF
the states area would yield $780,.
100000 worth of new wealth year
| Already we stand sixth in crop pro.
| duction and seventeenth in ANNA
production.
Georgia is verging on the border
of a billion-dollar state in so fal
as the creation annually of agricul-
tural wealth is concerned. If al
the land capable of cultivation ir
| Georgia were handled along up-to
date and strictly scientific lines, we
could easily double the output OF
our agricultural wealth, making Geor
gia a $1,000, 100000 state. If an equa
area of our unimproved land to tina
now cultivated were brought under
the plow, we could attain this end
If we bring an equal area Of our I'M
improved land under the plow ant
raised the standard of production OF
all our cultivated land in a reason
able degree, we can make Georgia {
$3,000,000,0 900 state in the matter o.
agricultural production in relative
ly short time.
The need of the day and the hour
for industry. The standard of living
Of the American people has already
undergone a revolutionary change b,
reason of the era Of high prices b,
which we are now afflicted. Peopl'
Fare being crowded together in ou
towns and cities in a shameful AM
sort of hopeless manner. Food pro
duction is decreasing. The opel
country is being deserted by the rusl
to secure the supposedly high wage
which the city affords. These fact
show the future Of agriculture. Gu
basis industry is trembling in tn
balance. We must choose now as t.
whether we will continue to be pro
ducers of raw materials on a basi
commensurate with our own need
and those of the world or whethe
we shall drift into the position o
siderable part of the raw material
needed by our manufacturing enter
prises. This picture, which is no
overdrawn in any sense, shows tn
marvellous opportunities which Ii
ahead for making Georgia a yer
| pdIdolS0 OIL
and purveyor of essential raw ma
terials to the industries of this coun
try and the world at large. TIL
figures presented indicate the un
paralleled opportunities for advance
ment and development all along tn
full latent possibilities of Georgi
soils. They show that the alchem
of our climate and soils is blende
in proportions such as has seldor
, been brought together elsewhere i
any other section of the universe.
The young men and young won1e,
of Georgia, the farm owner, the Ia
borer and the capitalist should tax
heed Of the facts presented. The,
should catch a vision Of the marvel
\ Gus opportunities the constructiv,
development our agriculture al
field of service, of opportunity. o
reward than lies ahead for the sk1lle
and capable agriculturist who
through training, has prepared him
:, self to handle the soils of our~stat
in a capable and efficient manner. y
we direct into this channel suff1
cient percentage of our men an
wealth, Georgia will indeed go for
ward by leaps and bounds. Under
such circumstances, VINO mas
broad enough vision and big enough
conception of the future possibilltle
!, which will take place in the mex neg
twenty-five to fifty years? The f1eld
stand ready to the harvest. Inc ca
; is for skilled workmen, the rewara1
which lie ahead are certain; Geolsi
has already demonstrated tnaL S,ie
the "Empire State of the SOUTH ant
II takes no great stretch of the mag
alton no see that the development
. Of her latent resources has only JUS
In feeding mules doing hard fiF Woe
they should have apout +;on niA Cat
lie will not require so much: Neltn
az will sheep. Hogs in proportio2
to weight consume conslaerap
amounts of concentrated 1000
they use concentrates emery f foM
ever, we may eliminate lheh IN
the present discussion. o.
In preparing roughage ratlons ~
live stock, we may use corn stoSel
sorghum fodder, cowpea hay grow,
singly or in comb dn7,t nv ~ and vel
, YET Or bean soi h Ray. The principal rough
age available on the average farT
will be corn and sorghum FODDER. w
should take, ordinarily. about two
thirds by weight of these crops an
one-third by weight of rougha7 e e., Pre- pr
mentioned. Grind this up - 70
horses and mules. Mix one thou
sand to twelve hundred pounds Q
this roughege with eight aun neTe
hounds of a ration made up OF seVe
m muaqfe and p'o one hundred pounds o
high grade cottonseed meal or pea
nut meal without the hulls. 70
may add one hundred pounds %
bean an meal and the bran with tw,
hundred pounds of chopped oats !
the manner indicated. Mix tn
roughage and grain together yer
thoroughly after sprinkling. 1t wit
black Strap molasses. Moisten tn
mass slightly with water contain