Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1925-04-23
Georgia Will Be
Worth Millions
More Than Ever
EXCHANGE NATIONAL BANK)

By ]. E. TURNER, Cashier
The brain of Georgia has undertaken
the task of working out program on
the farm and in factory that will make
her state just what she ought to be-
the richest and healthiest and most
habitable state in the Union. This is
the vision. We are to grow enough
to feed our own people and sell mill
ions of dollars worth to the outside.
We are to get factories by the thous-
ands to manufacture our own Georgia
raw material for our own use and to
sell to the outside. We are to revise
our health and educational systems so
that no state shall exceed US in both.
These will double and quadruple our
population. Markets for our various
products will be close at home and
prices will be good Good concrete
roads are to be built for permanency,
Homes and churches and schools are
to be beautified and enlarged. Truth
and learning are to be advanced.
Any state geographically located as
is Georgia which has the soil and cli-
mate needs only intelligent effort and
determination and work to bring about
such a cherished and happy condition.
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with more golden opportun Ihou-
sands upon thousands in every walk OF
life in other states less favored natur
ally than Georgia are sure to cast their
lots in Georgia, just as soon and as
sure as they learn of what is here.
Never until our best friend, the
weevil, came and interrupted our fool
ish cotton growing, our ru'nous one
crop system and our dependence upon
other states for food for man and for
beast, did we deem it necessary to turn
to real money-making. We have now
awakened Some of the men of vision
of Georgia have just recently raised
a hundred and fifty thousand dollars
for the purpose of telling the industrial.
the agricultural and professional world
to come into Georgia and take their
places in the wonderful transformation
that is bound to take place. The move
ment has already started and the out
loo is brighter by far already than it
has been for several years.
A new interest has been aroused in
making ours a leading dairy state, the
greatest bright leaf tobacco section in
America, the home of the poultry in
dustry as we'll as of hog and cattle
raising
Dairying and live stock sales last
year amounted to seventy seven and
one half millions dollars, including
what was consumed in Georgia. Once
we bought this from other sections
Ten or twenty times as much will be
produced in Georgia few years hence
Our states increased population will
demand it and we shall have enough
people in this line of endeavor to pro
duce it.
No more shall we be forced to send
these millions away from Georgia for
these products.
Where else in America can feed for
dairy cows be grown each month in
the year-all the year around-and so
cheap1y? What other cline is so pro-
ductive of the very food that poultry
needs? What other section can grow
such variety of profitable crops!
What other state can afford SO much
health and agreeable temperatures
from January to December?
Tobacco, that crop which has made
the Carolinas and Virginia rich and
famous is transferring to Georgia and
the growers of this crop are coming
each year in increasing numbers from
these states and the tobacco belt of
Kentucky and Tennessee. The very
lands in Georgia which we thought
worth least are becoming the highest
priced acres, these tobacco lands.
Cotton-when all other profitable
and home consumption crops are
grown and grown until all our large
farms are cut up and sold into smaller
ones and the rural population hsa doub
led and quadrupled-when all of this
is done-there will still be enough
choice cotton land on which by in
creased use of higher class fertilizer
and weevi1 preventative methods, to
produce just the right quantity of cot
ton not to over stock the market, but
just enough to secure high prices for
what we do produce In Ben Hill
county in 1924 it was shown by twen-
ty-two small boys that right fertiliza-
ton and proper methods against the
weevil gave a yield of bale to the
acre for each boy. Yes. cotton will be
grown. but the acreage is to he cut