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FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA 129
Cotton \Varehousing Facilities
The marketing of cotton is undergoing a revolution through
the construction of new fireproof warehouses at central points
and of unprecedented capacity, combined with special facilities
for financing. One of these new enterprises, operated by the
Atlanta Warehouse Company, at Atlanta, is rapidly enlarging its
capacity to cover an area of 40 acres and provide storage for
250,000 bales. When completed, according to present plans, it
will represent an investment of $1,300,000. Another, to cost a
million dollars, is in process of organization at Savannah.
The Atlanta warehouses are constructed of reinforced concrete,
provide for future double decking, will have four and one-half
miles of private railroad tracks, an overhead trolley system for
handling the bales quickly and economically, include a compress
of fifty per cent, higher density than that of the compresses in
ordinary use, and will have an additional storage capacity of
227,000 feet for general merchandise. The advantage of this
high density compress is shown by the fact that it effects a saving
of $1.00 a bale in ocean freight charges. Automatic sprinklers
and electric fire alarms supplement the special construction,
enables the insurance companies to make the exceptionally low
rate of 20 cents per $100, which means only 10 cents a bale for
insurance for a year.
The methods adopted for handling the cotton make possible
an unusually low storage charge, and the warehouse company
provides extraordinary facilities for financing farmers or mer
chants on their stored cotton or other merchandise, and acts as
a factor in selling for their account. The possibility of securing
such extensive storage capacity means much to the business inter
ests of the State. One item of storage in the new general ware
house at Atlanta is 1,000 automobiles owned by one concern,
while another item is 4,000 cases of spaghetti.
Hog Industry a Science
The hog industry has become a science in Brooks county,
Georgia, having ten or fifteen years ago passed the experimental
stage. Such farmers in that county as John M. Stanley, E. J.
Young, W. T. Galden, and scores of others, have demonstrated
beyond the shadow of a doubt that hogs can be raised in Georgia,
to the average weight of 150 pounds a hog, at a cost of 2^ cents
to y/i cents a pound. The situation in Brooks county is very
little different from what it can be made in dozens of other
counties in the State, and is simply due to the fact that the Brooks
In its Boys' Corn
Clubs, Georgia has the
largest enrollment of
any State of the Union.
It also has the largest
number of farmers,
farmers' wives and
farm boys and girls en
gaged in organized ef
forts for agricultural
improvement. Accord
ing to the latest official
report, forty-one thou
sand rural people in
Georgia were doing def
inite work of this char
acter. That is a record
to be proud of. It
means that our human
resources, which are of
all the most important,
have been enlisted, in a
systematic plan for the
State's progress and up
building. The results
are already manifest.