Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-29
THE COUNTRY HOME
LIZ II
BY MRS. w. H. FELTON,

! lsh letter concerning expert horti-
culture in upper Georgia. I feel sure
movements of this kind are interest
! ing to Country Home readers. We
experimental with peaches more
than twenty years ago, but we had
difficulties about shipping fruit at
that time-at a profit.
Barlow county has, I feel quite
sure, a quantity of land which would
be suitable for fruit culture. Be
cause there are other localities in
Georgia with similar advantages, I
am glad the subject is being thus
elaborated.
"Clarkesville, Ga, r. F. D. 3,
May %, 1928.
Mrs. w. H. FELTON,,
'Cartersville, Ga.
Dear LADY, have just read
your letter in The Tri-Weekly Jour
nal of May 10, which suggests to me
that there is possibility of opening
up a new and profitable business for
the people of Barlow county in sub
stituting the growing of fruits and
feed stuff for the growing CT cotton
under the present boil weevil and
labor conditions.
II know of a graduate horticulture
list, who is full of energy. and who
worked his way through the Georgia
State College of Agriculture, and
who for ten years (since his gradu-
atom has devoted himself to the
growing. of apples and peaches, a
real expert in horticulture, who is
looking for a suitable location in the
cotton belt of Georgia to grow
peaches on a commercial scale. He
wants to secure tract of land as
cheaply as possible, on a railroad, in
q good community where the dis
treSsed cotton growers would prob
ably like to cooperate in peach grow
ing to the extent that the northern
and eastern peach buyers would
have encouragement enough to send
representatives to the orchard to buy
the fruit on the railroad track There
is no reason, in my judgment, why
Barlow could not produce as fine
peaches and early apples as any sec
ton in north Georgia.
eff, in your judgment, such a
change in the conditions of agricul-
ture could be made in your section,
duU the p6OpIS ne IuuuC6u TO grow
foods and feeds with fruits for the
money crops; and if a piece of land
could be bought without the inter-
vention Of real estate agents or spec
ulators, and on reasonable terms,
this man would be glad to investi-
gate the practicability of entering
such field, plant an orchard, estab-
lish a nursery for growing young
trees for others who might want to
plant orchards, and to advise, teach
and assist those who have little or
no knowledge of the fruit business
in all it's details.
IF this letter strikes you favor
ably and if in your honest judg-
ment the growing of fruits in Bar
tow, under skillful management,
would be successful, then we would
be pleased to have you say so.
AT least a full and free express
sion from you on this subject would
be very much appreciated.
I'VE do not want to create a land
boom and try to induce present land
owners to sell out at high prices and
move off, but to secure a good or
chard site for ourselves, and coop.
crate with as many of the present
land owners as possible in bringing
about better conditions and greater
prosperity in the community.
Trusting to hear from you soon,
I am sincerely yours very truly for
the uplift Of Georgia farmers.
I'D. H. P. G."