Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-19
Nashville Is Illustration Of
How Town and Country
Are Cooperating to Make
Success of Crop
nv JEFF STORY

NASHVILLE, Ca, Aug. 17.-Up
to this year there has been a stub
born and friendly rivalry among the
several towns of south Georgia,
which had made preparations to
maintain a tobacco market. How
ever, many of the smaller markets
have ceased to do business, and
those towns, which by reason OF
their location, with reference to the
tobacco belt, have demonstrated
that they shall be able to maintain
permanent market for the staple,
are now able to determine how
much and which Of tn etobacco belt
each will be able to control with ref
erence to the market.
= On Friday, August IL, the receipts
at the two Nashville warehouses
were 299,63 pounds Of tobacco, 1884,
265.12 being the price paid therefor.
This represented only eight days
business, the market here having
opened August 2. The highest paid
for any one lot Of tobacco, up to the
present time, was SO cents per
pound. The market has been open,
with the exception of Saturday, each
day since the above named date, but
at this time the writer could not Sc
cure statistics of the business done,
except up to Friday, August II.
Goodbye Cotton
Farmers are to be seen from all
over Berrien county, as well as all
the adjoining counties, each market
day, and after the sales close, the
farmers carry the smile that won't
wear off, and they are unanimous in
saying Good bye cotton, for we
have found better and faster way
to make money"
The boom which the tobacco mar
ket is bringing to this city is not
only noticeable to her own business
men and farmers, but strangers,
who happen to be sojourners within
the town, almost without exception,
may be heard to remark t'What is
the cause Of the big business boom
in your town." A banker, of state
wide prominence, from Monticello,
Ca, spent Tuesday in Nashville, and
stated that he had recently been in
several Of the cities and towns Of
south Georgia but that an optimistic
business spirit was more manifest
in Nashville, Ca, than any other
town he had visited however, he state
ed that he had been agreeabIy sur
prised at the evidences and marks
Of prosperity to be seen in all the
towns situated in Georgia's tobacco
belt.
1t seems that this is going to be
banner year all along the line,
more money having been paid out
during the first weeks after the
market opened here than was ex-
pended for tobacco during the en-
tire season last year. This is ac-
counted for because of the extreme
~ low grade of tobacco which was
produced last year. Practically all
the farmers now understand how to
cultivate and cure tobacco exactly
as it should be done, and this knowl-
edge of how to handle the product
helps wonderfully toward raising the
price to the high level now being
maintained.
$3.50 Per Acre
Many farmers or this county are
now realizing more than $3.50 per
acre for the tobacco grown on their
lands this year.
The Nashville sales facilities are
equal to any other town south of
the Mason-Dixon line, great precau.
ton having been taken by the pro.
motors of the market to see that all
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forded an dshown the producers.
Alvah w. Gaskins, owner Of both
the large warehouses, has supplied
the farmer with all the necessary
truck-parking room in a shelter
where, Should they have to wait
their turn, they will have all the
necessary conveniences during the
time. Proper places for stock used
in transporting the tobacco to the
market has likewise been provided
feed and water may be had for the
stock, and everything else has been
done by the promoters of the mar
ket for the convenience of the farm
er, in order to show the apprecia.
ton the market promoters have for
those who produce and market the
staple in this city.
1t is stated that practically every
large tobacco concern on the globe
has a representative at this market
this year. Some Of the high officials
Of the larger companies have visited
Nashville recently and all have
have spoken in the very highest
terms of the market here.
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