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Georgia has indirect
ly paid a large propor
tion of the cost of the
fine white houses and
Ug red tarns on the
farms of the Western
prairie states, by 'buy-
the products of those
farms at from 75 cents
to $1.10 for corn; $18
to $%5 a ton for hay, 35
to 50 cents for outter,
and high prices for
packing-house meats.
Georgia intends to have
such homes and tarns
of her own, and here
with invites the prairie
farmers to come and oc
cupy them, and on
Georgia soil grow all
these and infinitely
more, where there is a
Ttindly climate and a
hungry market. Sun
shine and rain and soil
combine in proper pro
portions here to create
ideal farming condi
tions.
FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA
safe and conservative estimate places the added value with each
year's growth at $50 an acre. Successful pecan growing requires
the exercise of business diligence and foresight, but no more
attention than other fruit trees and they have fewer insect pests.
According to their variety, the trees begin to bear in from four
to six years after planting.
The great commercial success attained by the Georgia pecan
industry is due to the scientific methods of budding and grafting.
The native pecans of Southern forests are renewed naturally
from seedlings. Valuable time is saved and the element of un
certainty removed by planting young trees that have been grown
from buds or grafts. Pecans are also successfully grafted on
native forest hickory trees, which belong to the same botanical
species, and wonderful possibilities are predicted in that line of
endeavor. Any farmer in Georgia may have a few profitable
pecan trees about his place even if he does not have a commercial
grove.
To sum up: He who plants a pecan tree is conferring a two
fold benefit: i. On the surrounding country as a whole in that
it makes the climate and rainfall more uniform. One reason why
our rainfall is becoming more irregular, and many streams which
twenty-five years ago were unfailing, now dry up every summer,
is that our forests are being cut down. For this reason he who
adds even a few trees is helping to restore nature to its normal
condition. 2. On himself and on his descendants for a hundred
years, both in the healthy food that is provided, and the profit
which comes from the sale of surplus nuts.
GEORGIA CANNING CLUB GIRL