Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-08
Georgia VS.. Dakota.


interesting letter to it from H.
V. Davis, of Richland, in which
MIR. Davis says the time is op-
perfume for Southwest Georgia
to advertise its attractiveness to
worthwhile Western farmers,
many of whom Mr.. Davis claims
are dissatisfied and want to
come South. Says the Herald;
Mr.. Davis gives various rea-
sons, including the part played
by freight rates in determining
the value of farm produce, why
farming is a very much more at
tractive proposition in this section
than it is in the West.
Mr.. Davis mentions the fact
that farmers in the Dakotas have
been appealing to the federal gov
eminent for relief on account of
the low price of grain and feed
products. We are reminded by
this reference of the case of a
Southwest Georgia farmer who
moved to South Dakota several
years ago, and has been doing
fairly well there. But he is COM
ing back to Georgia. The severi-
ty of Dakota winters may have
had something to do with his de-
cision, but not as much as certain
other things.
For instance, it is necessary
when some of the severer Dakota
billiards. rage for some member
of this former Georgian's
family literally to "sit up
with the stock to protect it. In
the morning the pigs can't
get their eyes open till warm salt
water has bathed them and dis
solved the frozen or CONCEALED ac-
cumulations of moisture, for that
is one of the tricks of folty-below
zero weather.
It appears that this former
Georgia farmer did fairly well
in the Northwest, and yet his
experience in farming in Geor-
gia and in South Dakota has
taught him this; says the Herald;
That if hogs and other live
stock can be laised at profit in
"a state where housing, feeding
and care are as troublesome and
expensive as these things are ir
South Dakota, hogs and cattle and
poultry can be raised at double
profit in South Georgia, where
stock can be comfortable in the
open the year round, and where
1t Is an easy matter for farmer
to have good pasturage for his
stock IN every one of the twelve
months.
This Georgia farmer is coming
back home because he realizes,
after farming both in Georgia and
in South Dakota, that a year of
hard work and intelligent direc-
ton viii produce so much more
here than there that it is a waste
of time and effort to give prefer
ence to the Western state. So
he is coming back. He has learn
ed something, and he proposes to
turn what he has learned to profit
able account.
If the Northwestern farmers
knew the many advantages this
section has over his country, in
climate, water, freight rates,
cheap lands and long seasons,
they would flock to the South
and especially Southwest Geor-
gia.
He does not know this and
therefore it is up to us to tell
hims through advertising. The
suggestion of Mr.. Davis that
the chambers of commerce of
this section pool their interest
and advertise, is good and the
commercial bodies would readi-
ly go to it. if the funds were
available.
lhe gigantic cotton farms of
South Georgia are a thing of
the past. The advent of the
boil weevil and the migration
of the negro have made cotton
farming impossible, under the
old methods. Smaller farms,
with a white family on every
farm should be the aim of every
South Georgia county. Therein
lies wealth for all,