The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-09-03
TOBACCO TOUR
STARTS SEP. 26

AT conference in Atlanta TODAY
OF representatives of the State College
OF Agriculture, the Georgia Associa-
ton, County Agents, Boards of Trade,
ana railroad officials, it was decided
mat the inspection tour of Georgia
FARMERS, to the tobacco farms and
markets of the Carolinas, will leave
south Georgia points September 26.
* trough sleeping cars will leave
ordele, Thomasvile, Moultrie, Tif-
ton' Fitzgerald, Douglas, Nichols, AL
ma, over the A. B. & A., via. Offerman,
from which point the A. C.. L. will be
used, going thence directly to Rocky
Mount and Wilson, N. C..
A new and highly interesting fea-
tue will be introduced on this tour:
nFtact, something which has never
9een offered before on similar tour
through the cooperation of Mr.. F.
II. Abbott, OF the Georgia Association,
and MI. E. c. Westbrook, Tobacco,
Specialist, of the State College of
agriculture, a moving picture will be
provided tor the entertainment of the
travellers while enroute. Messrs. ABB
Dott and Westbrook will explain the
many interesting scenes which will be
thrown upon the curtain placed in the
rear OF the car in which the pictures
will be shown. The picture to be
shown was made by the United State
Reclamation Service and beyond a
doubt is one of the most interesting of
its kind ever produced. The idea is
that every Georgian should know the
wonderful resources and possibilities
OF his own State, that he may be bet
ter qualified to explain the opportuni-
ties OF our State when he comes in
contact with intending settlers from
other States
these pictures will also be shown
at night at points In the Carolinas.
Wilson and Rocky Mount are To-
Gated in the very heart of the great
bright tobacco producing section of
Eastern North Carolina. The farm
ers of Wilson County, North Caro-
lima, last year sold on the Wilson mar.
= ket over 100000 pounds of the gold
en- weed" for the fabulous sum of
vi 1885, or an average price of
$54.5l per one hundred pounds.
While an inspection of the markets
will, of course, be interesting, an in,
spection of the tobacco farms, curing
I housAI, study of the methods, and the
oppe s%'nity of discussing with the ex-
peE.n>Ad growers themselves, to as
certain first-hand the exact manner in
which the Carolina farmer grows and
I+as his crop, will be of the greatest
.7alue from an educational standpoint
to our Georgia farmers, and it is this
feature particularly which will be
stressed upon the trip.
Mr.. E. H. Matthewson IN charge of
the Government Experiment Station
at Reidsville, N. C., and the best in
15f1ned expert of the Government on
the growing and curing of bright to-
bacco, has consented 10 meet the party
upon arrival in the Carolinas and &C
company them throughout their field
inspections, and he will be able in that
way to render invaluable assistance.
A visit will also be made to the
mammoth tobacco factories at Dur
= ham, N. c., and the great A. & M.
College of North Carolina, at Raleigh
where further valuable information
may be gained fgrom the demonstra-
ton work conducted on the College
farm of that Institution.
The experienced Carolina farmer
has heretofore been able to cure his
stpbacco so much better than the Geor-
GA farmer that he has, as a rule, re-