The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1920-08-27
YEARS OF PLENTY COMING

NONcl hiitcHI CIOp reports udt6 as
sume1 a condition which seems to
promise years of plenty in the near
future, says the Florida Times Union.
1t may be that the great h7r rests of
be needed for home and foreign use,
to the last bushel, but there can as
suredly be no shortage discovered no
need for rationing and stinting. The
country is in splendid condition. des
pite the still prevailing shortage of
labor in most rural districts. Spring
wheat is understood to have been 4 b:t
disappointing, but the winter wheat
has gone over the half billion mark
and there should be -four enough for
all in America and some for export
The latter proposition is rapidly as
Stunning a different phase, for Z. rope
despite the troubles that still keep
things uneasy. is getting on her feet
again. Reports from some countries
show amazing changes since the end
of the war and every day means ad-
vance toward the time when sections
will not only support themselves hut
also be ready to sell to outsiders.
The grain market is very naturally
one of the most important and IS
watched with great interest, and here
it is found that expectations are for
fine crops and general good times.
The cotton crop is not expected to be
larger than that of last yea,, and not
as large as in some previous years, but
prices are good and those who save
the crop will do we'll The most op-
timistic people at this time appear to
be, not the Fasteners. but those of
the great West and Middle West. The
New York Times a few days ago gave
space to an interview with an Iowa
man who had come to the metropolis
to buy goods. The story he told was
interesting. being in part rs follows:
Before starting on the present trip
made three day journey in motor
EAR through sections of Iowa, Illinois
md Wisconsin, and, far from reducing
acreage every farmer that I met and
alked with has planted more wheat
,Orn, oats, rye and potatoes. There
S no real shortage of farm hands fer,
rs one of the modern commercial farm
ars explained forcibly to me, he gets
skilled labor the same as every other
industry by paying a good wage. The
'armers in the Mississippi Valley are
scientific and studious business. men !
nerchant-farnt9rs, in the best sense |
They have every appliance for labor
saving and a very few men easily
handle several hundred acres. There
s no such thing as crops rotting in
he grounds in that section, and each
crop is planted, harvested and sold
Utmost on a certainty of results. They
ire going in for home establishment.
The farmers have and are building lux
lrious homes, with every accessory
COR convenience, and are in reality the
cal backbone Of the country. The
arm women are among the best dress
I'd anywhere They told me that
young men are returning to the farms,
The real lovers of the soil and that
hey command wages of $50, SIS and
100 per month with board With un-
Terrifying conditions absolutely sound.
very indication for bumper crops and
'teady demand for them, high and
steady wages in the plants and big
arms, the Middle West is exception
lily prosperous and every line Of bus
ness will consequently remain So
Georgia farmers are doing their best
o overcome the labor shortage. and in
his state, as in the Middle West, the
ractor and other farm machines can
veil be employed. The use of machin- !
:ry on the farms and the building of |
inc homes an dmaking the farm home !
attractive features that apply in Geor-
Tla. The whole situation appears
bright in view of the circumstances, /
ind for Georgia especially the outlook |
rose-colored. The very best reasons /
the world are held out for advance
md Georgia will grow and prosper in
he years ahead. There have been !
can years-and the past winter and |
pring We're not much to encourage !
he pessinist-but even as the man |
rom Dubuque declared our fields are |
landing strong with corn and rice
md cotton and peanuts and sugar cane
md everyone is looking forward to
he fall and winter with the expecta- |
ion of better times.