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

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Georgia, according to statistics, has
attained fourth place agriculturaIly
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 prQduc-
ton, It's Importance in live stock
and poultry raising is increasing
daily.
Georgia is indeed field of oppor-
tunity. As high as $4,000 a year has
been made from an Intensely culti-
waited Georgia acre. Profits of $500
to $500 an acre are rather common.
A Colquitt county man began farm
ing ten years ago, when he was
twenty with no capital. He now
owns 500-acre farm, makes 200
bales of cotton, SO tons Of hay, plants
% acres in sweet potatoes, supplies
cream from 25 cows to creamery
In Moultrie sells 100 head Of
hogs to tine packing plant and Is
beeves. A Chicago man went to Fort
Valley few years and went in debt
to the amount of 800 for a farm.
Eight years later he wrote friend
he had paid off that debt, purchased
lover $4,000 worth of live stock, and
had built farm houses and bought
implements to the amount of $4,000.
A Baldwin county farmer began
few years ago as a farm laborer and
today he lends $4,000 year to his
neighbors. Story after story of the
wonderful achievements Of farmers
who started in Georgia without -<1y-
thing at all, could be recounted; some
of them too glowing TO seem possible.
Chief among Georgia's claims to
fame as an agricultural state are her
melons and fruits. Georgia and
peaches are SO inseparably linked that
they should be classified together in
the dictionary. Ii Georgias fame
rested on nothing but her peaches,
her place in international esteem
would be secure,
And while her peach orchards are
enough TO make her famous, her APP
pies, melons, berries and other fruits,
are equally as well known. II is esti-
mated there are anywhere from 12,-
100000 to 15,000,000 peach trees in
the state and this years crop will
amount to between 5000 and 10000
cars. 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
comer-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
average is 68 degrees We have a
growing season in North Georgia of
210 days and 260 days in the SOUTH
ern part of the state.
While Georgia is largely an
agricultural state, her manufacturing
and mining opportunities are wonder
full 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
terial remain i'll the ground for fu-
ture development. They are at the
door Of the manufacturer who Gomez
here and locates.
Walled off from the rest of the
world, Georgia could support popz
ulation three or four times as great,
or more.
Both agriculture and industry are
served by a network Of 5000 miles
Of railroads which traverse every
part of the state. Three important
ports, Savannah, Brunswick and st.
Mary's, are upon ITO miles Of At
lantic coast line. Georgia has all the
benefits of the Panama Canal