The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1921-09-28
TURNING TO GEORGIA.

A few mornings ago a newspaper
of the great city of Chicago chroni-
cled the fact that many farmers in
the west were leaving to seek the
balmy climate and the fertile lands of
Georgia in future. Is there any won
der in this? Really there is not to
the thoughtful man who will give the
subject the very briefest considera-
| tion. ~
There are many thousands of peo-
pie who are threatened with hunger
and exposure in those unfortunate
sections because they have to make
preparations in six months for the
whole year. 1t is oftentimes eyiden-
ced that sturdy men and women to
say nothing of frail boys and girls,
succumb to the bites of the bitter cold
in an effort to provide the necessities
of the homes. For several months
children are kept indoors with nearly
all the ventilation cut off and subject
ed to the dreaded diseases which find
an ultimatum only in bitter DEATH
Three hundred and sixty-1ye days
are given over to sunshine and bslmy
breezes in Georgia each year, and
, there is never day that one is un-
comfortable thinly clad in summer
dress-wear. The laborers both young
and old go to and from work without
feeling single winters pang The
garden and farm remains green the
whole year round and the sweet melo-
dy of the many little birds voices
are never silenced
In the bitter cold snow-covered
north where thousands were attracted
because of attractive advertising, a
farmer cannot work more than six
months in the year, which is usually
consumed in the growing of one
staple crop. The Western farmer is
well pleased with gross return of
$3.50 to 5000 per acre-and under no
conditions do they ever realize more
than $500, and more often SIS. If
cne OF those oftrepeated drouths
should prevail during the crop season
and they oftentimes do--then they
realize nothing. They are then forced
to go through the entire year at a
dead expense. His only hope is to
have a farm with a hundred or more
acres so thta when fortune smiles up
on him 1t smiles big enough to hide
the frown when 1t takes the opposite
course the following season.
Adversely in farming pursuits Is
very rarely realized and never as a
result OF extended drouths lasting
from one season to the next. There
! Ii never a summer that brings heat
! and drought SO intense: or a winter
so cold but that the farm may be kept
green, and midsummer end mid-win-
ter are not our principal cropping
season; but, instead the most unprof-
table. The spring and fall are our
greatest producing seasons. We have
| four separate and distinct seasons
and 1t Is possible that four crops may
be grown successfully upon the same
ground In a single year. The Geor-
gla farmer would be disappointed II
his land did not yield 5000 per acre
gross with each crop. The Western
farmer may realize more net cash In
gross receipt o. 500 but the re-
ceipts ARE so much greater per acre
and the hazard so much less that the
comparison is altogether in Georgias
fevor.
Should the northern farmer be
burned out he must sit down and wait
the whole year through to get another
chance; should the same happen to a
Georgia farmer he has three more
chances before the Northerner gets
an opportunity.
These facts account for this contin'
uous inflow of immigration, and
Glynn county and all South Georgia
should be on the alert to get their
share of 1t.