Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-07-29
Local Growers
Enthusiastic
Over Prospects


Georgia will open and warehousemen
will be announcing tobacco breaks"
which will start Georgia off on what
is conceded to be the biggest and
best season in the history of tobacco
production in the state.
Local growers are enthusiastic
over the prospects for prices of this
seasons crop, due to the superior
quality. Geo. Kicker, who has a
number of expert tobacco growers on
several of his farms, speaks very en-
couragingly about this seasons crop.
"There is no reason why every farmer
in the county shouldn't plant at least
five acres in tobacco. Most any fam
lily can take good care of such small
track and the results will justify the
experiment. Compared with cotton
any year, tobacco will leave larger
net return per acre and man power,
and the cost does not exceed prop
erly worked cotton crop per acre."
Sidney Clare, another of our land
owners, who has had the initiative to
secure expert growers for his tobac-
co, reports also satisfactory prospect
for this season and if the prices come
up to expectation will put in con-
siderable increased acreage in tobac-
GO next year.
j. j. Dorminey, who has been
planting tobacco now for several
years, is well pleased with the out
look for this year and others who
have had experienced growers in
charge of their tobacco fields are
equally well satisfied with the pros
pect for a profitable crop. "Much
depends on the local markets whether
these landowners will increase their
tobacco acreage next season or cease
growing it entirely. The local ware
housemen have it in their hands to
make tobacco one of the real money
crops of the county if they will see
to it that the grower is receiving a
reasonable return for his investment
and labor" is the concensus Of opin-
=. ion of all of the tobacco growers in
the county.
Quoting J. E. Webb, of Hahira,
representative of the tobacco grow
ers of the lower part of the tobacco
belt: eff prices hold up to anything
like what the prospects offer, Geor-
gia tobacco producers will be sitting
on top of the world this year.
"Messrs. Satterfield and Stone have
just come into this territory from
North Carolina. Mr.. J. M. Hurdle
has been here a couple of weeks.
These gentlemen, operators of some
of the largest warehouses, have been
around among some of the largest
farms and have looked over some of
the heaviest barns in our territory,
and they report the finest crop and
curing cut of tobacco this year they
have ever seen in Georgia, and some
of the best tobacco they have seen in
any of the tobacco producing setates.
II have, of course, kept very close
ly in touch with the crop from its
earliest stages. It seems, to me at
this time that, with the shortage in
the Carolinas and the almost won
derful quality we have produced in
Georgia this year good prices should
prevail, and if that is true this one
crop will do wonders in the whole
state.
The outstanding point illustrated
by these gentlemen, and others from
Georgia's tobacco belt, is that farm
ing in Georgia has already gotten
away from the old idea Of planting
excessively large tracts of land in or
der to make a profit through the vol
ume of acreage. AS Mr.. Landlord
put it, in discussing the tobacco pros
poets: "The South Georgia farmer
is beginning to show by results that
he can make more profit and do a
better business on 40 to so acres of
good Georgia land than we used to
do digging and scratching on two or
three hundred acres"