Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-20
COLQUlTT COUNTY'S UNIQUE
SETTLEMENT PLAN ALREADY
BEARING ABUNDANT FRUIT

directed at North Carolina particu
larry because it has recently been
demonstrated beyond all peradventure
that the lands of Colquitt county are
better adapted for the production of
bright tobacco than the famed Pied
mont section of Carolina. The Caro-
lima farmers themselves confirm this
belief. They are convinced from per-
sonal investigation that Colquitt
county lands, and lands in adjoining
counties of southwest Georgia, are
better suited to tobacco production
than any other soil in the country.
For instance, not one, but a dozen
tobacco farmers, told me at Moultrie
that whereas the average yield in
Carolina today is about 800 pounds
ITO the acre, the Colquitt county lands
Will produce an average of 1,500
pounds of as good or better tobacco.
Moreover, the Colquitt county lands
range in price from $25 to 500 an
Iacre, whereas the Carolina lands run
| from $50 to $3.50 an acre.
Land Free of Wilt
| But the fact that the Colquitt lands
are more productive of tobacco is
! only one of several considerations
that are influencing the influx of
| Carolina farmers. The season down
here is further advanced and far
shorter than the Carolina season. Up
there it lasts a full twelve months;
down here, a full crop may be pro-
duced, cured and marketed within
eight months at the outside. That
gives the tobacco grower time for
other things-a crop of peas and
ISpare time in which to produce hogs
and cattle.
There is a striking similarity be.
tween the tobacco soil of North
Carolina and the soil in Colquitt
Icounty that has yielded so abundant
Ily of bright tobacco. In appearance
there seems little difference in the
gray, sandy loan, with yellow clay
Isubsoil of Colquitt county, and the
lands of Carolina, but there is this
very important differences: the Col
quit land is free of wilt, and that
isn't true in Carolina.
1t is the confident belief of the
ICouquitt County Chamber of Com
merce that within year no fewer
than 1000 new families will have
migrated from Carolina to Colquitt
and that, too. is the belief of many
ICarolinians who already have made
arrangements to settle here.
But the sale of lands to tobacco
farmers is only one feature of the
program The motion picture thai
has stimulated so much interes
iamong North Carolinians in Colouit
county is arousing just as much in
terest and attention in Iowa, where
it is now being shown.
Tuesday, | saw number of LET
tiers from Iowa farmers to the
chamber of commerce, seeking more
detailed and definite information
about the Colquitt plan, and
learned. too, that next week a doz
en- Iowa farmers will arrive a
Moultrle to make investigations OF
their own account
One of the most impressive fea
lures of the activity here is tha
while the movement was Launched
primarily to develop Colquitt coun
ty, the men behind it apparently are
just as much interested in bringing
farmers to other sections of soutH
Georgia. They make no eXtrava
CANT claims for Colquitt which they
do not admit apply in some measure
to other counties in this section
The lands are much the same, so i.
the climate, and SO, indeed, are the
people.
Markets
Colquitt modestly points to what
the people believe to be their SUI
perior advantages for marketing
their crops - notably the Swift
d Co. packing house, the cream
cry, the cooperative poultry asso
citation and other things at Moultrie
but they are willing that adjoining
counties of the section shall share
! these.
The plan as originated here has
! the support of every interest in the
county The bankers, the railroads
! the merchants, the farmers them
selves are in hearty accord. All of
them have contributed to the gen.
eral fund for financing the promo
!