Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-02-11

GEORGIADAY- -SOMEFACTS
AND FIGURES TO PASS ON

| z0,0u0,u00 are beng cultivated. Yet
Georgia, according to statistics, has
attained fourth place agrieulturallS
speaking. Only Illinois, Iowa and
Texas lead in the total annual value
OF farm products.
Gerogia is FIRST in peaches. She
is second only to Texas, the largest
state in the Union, in the production
of cotton, and is third in meat produc-
zion. It's Importance in live stock
and poultry raising is increasing
laily.
Georgia is indeed q field of oppor-
sunity. AS high as $4,000 a year has
been made from an Intensely culti-
yated Georgia acre. Profits of $500
$500 an acre are rather common.
A Colquitt county man began farm
ng ten years ago, when he was
wenty, with no capital, He now
lwns a 500-acre farm, makes 200
,ales Of cotton, so tons of hay, plants
'8 acres in sweet potatoes, supplies
ream from 25 cows to a creamery
n Moultrie sells 100 head of
iogs to the packing plant and is
)eevcs. A Chicago man went to Fort
Talley few years and went in debt
the amount Of $500 for farm.
Sight years later he wrote a friend
e had paid off that debt, purchased
>ver $2,500 worth of live stock, and
lad built farm houses and bought
Implements to the amount of $4,000.
\ Baldwin county farmer began a
few years ago as farm laborer and
today he lends $4,000 a year to his
leighbors. Story after story Of the
wonderful achievements of farmers
Who started in Georgia without -qy-
thing at all, could be recounted; some
1f them too glowing to seem possible.
Chief among Georgia's claims to
same as an agricultural. state arc her
Melons and fruits. Georgia and
peaches are So inseparably linked that
hey should be classified together in
the dictionary. JIG Georgia's fame
rested on nothing but her peaches,
Ter place in international esteem
1ould-hes%aelre. ss-s--s~-s,..s-.Hs ].
And while her peach orchards are
enough to make her famous, her APP
oles, melons, berries and other fruits,
ire equally as well known. 1t is esti-
mated there are anywhere from 12,-
100000 to 100000 peach trees in
ihe state and this years crop will
amount to between 5000 and 10000
ears. The Georgia peach is known
The world over.
Let US not overlook another very
desirable thing to consider about
Georgia, as home for the new
;omer--her wonderful climate. The
average annual temperature in North
Georgia is So degrees; in Central
Georgia the annual average is 63 de-
grees; in South Georgia the annual
lverage is 68 degrees We have a
growing season in North Georgia of
210 days and 260 days in the south
arn part of the state.
While Georgia is largely an
agricultural state, her manufacturing
and mining opportunities are wonder
ful. There are more than 5000
manufacturing establishments of va
rious and many classifications in
Georgia. Nearly every important in
dustry is represented in the list. Mil
lions of dollars worth of raw ma
serial remain in The ground for fu-
sure development. They are at the
1oor of the manufacturer who Gomez
here and locates.
Walled off from the rest of the
world, Georgia could support a pop
ulation three or four times as great,
or more.
Both agriculture and industry arc
served by network of 5000 miles
of railroads which traverse every
part of the state. Three important
ports, Savannah, Brunswick and st.
Mary's, are upon TO miles of At
lantic coast line. Georgia has all the
benefits of the Panama Canal.