Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-02-16
SUMTER SCENESIN
SEABOARD BOOK
Homeseekers' Volume
Tells Of F arming Re-
suits Here

Farming For Profit in Southern
Georgia and Alabama" is the title Cf
an attractive, interesting and pro-
fusely illustrated booklet of forty
pages just received from Jesse M.
Jones, general development agent of
the Seaboard Air Line railway COM
pany, Norfolk, Va, telling Of the ag-
ricultural advantages possessed by
the vast expanse stretching form Sa-
vannah south to Jacksonville and
west to Macon, Ocala, Albany, Co.
lumbus and Montgomery.
1t is particularly interesting here
because it contains a number of Sum-
ter county scenes and information
about Sumter county farmers re-
markable yields. Probably of chief
interest here is the reproduction of
a bill of sale of car of peaches.
shipped by John NJ. Council, of Am
CIRCUS, to Blalock & Jarvis, Norfolk,
Va, last year. The bill shows the
car contained 27O crates, for which
he received SIS per crate, or $3.50
for the car From this was deducted
$19505 for freight, $3.50 for dray.
age and $135 for commission, leav-
ing him a net payment for the car
of $1,01445. This is called attention
to in the section dealing with oppor
tunities for fruit and nut culture in
Georgia, and the profits to be realiz-
ed from them.
In another section Of the booklet
dealing with South Georgia as a grain
section, it says:
"Dr. E. M. Bridges, near Ameri.
Gus, this year threshed 5000 bushels
of oats on 80 acres, which sold for
$3.50 per bushel for seed. The land
was in cotton last year, the ground
broken in October and seeded, two
bushels to the acre. He estimates that
the peavine hay, after the oats, paid
all expenses of both crops,
Zone hundred and fifty acres of
oats on bermuda grass land averaged
35 bushels, worth 81 per bushel, on
'McRae Brothers farms south Of
Richland. After the oats, one-fourth
of ton of hay was cut per acre"
In the section devoted to rye the
booklet says:
"In Oct, 1919, DR.. Bridges SOW
ed go acres to Abruzzi rye and har-
vested 1900 bushels"
This broad area" states Agent
Jones, speaking of the territory en-
braced in the booklet. ''is rolling
prairie in contour especially suited
to cattle and hogs, and where any
type of general farming can be car
ried on successfully.
This booklet" he says, Greats of
every phase of agriculture, and is for
general distribution to inquiriers re-
garding this territory. 1t is prepared
especially for use in follow up work
in the Seaboard's advertising cam
paign, which is being carried on in
farm more than one hundred agricul-
tural and industrial publications,
magazines and newspapers in all
parts of the United States and Can
ada. These have a combined cir
culation per issue of more than 25,-
600 million copies. AS the actual
number freaders of newspapers and
magazines is close to three times
their circulation, this means that the
Seaboard advertising is reaching full.
ly 100000, or over two-thirds the
entire population of the United
States. Certainly, the campaign is at.
tracing wide attention, not only in
every state and province in America
but beyond the Gulf of Mexico, the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans. 1t is pos.
sible that this undertaking will be
one of the most valuable that has
ever been put on, not only for Soutf
Georgia and Alabama, but for the
whole South by calling attention t.
possibilities here.