The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-17
BILL SYKES FINDS
 MUCH | F|NTEREST
 INPEACH COUNTRY
Georgia Is Naming a New County Peach" In Honor
 of a Great Industry

Fort Valley, Ga, October 16.-CSpe- cial.) .)-These Georgians never do anything by halves-having cleaned up the tidy sum of sl7,0oo, 900 on this years peach 'crop, they are celebrar- ing by naming a new county Peach. and this goodly city is to be the county seat. It is We'll located, and while I doubt the wisdom of mak- ing county out of half a dozen farms, it does seem fitting Shat Miss Elberta should be honored for all time by having a county named in her honor
 I have ridden today over some of the finest peach farms the world ever saw, and I have had the good for tune to see a man with an idea live to see that idea Towering into frui- tion, as ideas all do when well found ed and based on tickling mother earth They have just about eliminated the drudgery from farm work as I knew it: Here Uncle Henry shines because on numerous farms you see tractors running and practically everything Is brought to market on trucks of the Ford make. My1 what market Uncle Henry will have when he gets Muscle Shoals to humming and mak- ing tractors for all this wonderful country. so well adap pted to them. But do not get the idea that you do not have to work peaches-when I tel you that they pay as much atteu- ton to them. as Mrs. Sikes does to her complexion you can easily under- stand the work and time put out, be- n is living in mortal dread of wrinkles coming in her face.
 At this season of the year they are busy blowing the fields and har- vesting the pea vine hay that is grown in so many of these orchards Tie trees are planted in rows about 20 feet wide and this area Is culti vated at all times, because Miss Ell berta is damsel that does not like a lazy man. Some of the growers plant cotton between the rows, but most of them seem to favor the com mon old whippoorwill pea that Ed Norman used to eat when he was Il boy over in Randolph. Each farm has it's own packing shed, with all grading machinery ready to run on moments notice. These sheds arc also used as storage for the canned peaches which are put up in such large quantities in most years. They are bare this year. however, because markets were so good that every thing was shipped.
 Traffic at Fort Valley
 Fort Valley is the gateway for practically everything south of Grif- fin, and the agent of the Central of Georgia has to be on his toes all the time. It often happens during the peach season that he has to bill out two trains per day. and frequently manifest q great many more. In this section they start the cars to roll ing, put the wires to work, and sell the car sometimes before it hits Fort Valley, so the agent has to change routing and divert to best market He is live wire-one of these quiet kind of fellows that never gets in g. hurry but manages to turn out twice as much work as the fussy fellow.
 All this rot about the negro pos having a chance does not apply to this section of Georgia, l have seen any number of well clothed negroes here, every one of whom has pros perous air l met one today that had his children along with him-they had their school books under their arms, and were we'll dressed and happy. l asked this negro how his