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FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA 133
diversified farming. The climate of Georgia is much better for
live stock, and also the soil, on account of the changes in the
seasons. All live stock is better for some winter. The frost also
killing the insects is a great help to the crops."
Mr. Horswell's observations on the negro labor question are
of interest. "When I left home," he said, "I would have said,
'If I locate in the South I want Northern help.' Since coming
here I have changed my mind. The negro is certainly a part of
the South, and one of its great assets. I would not care to
educate the older ones to my ways, but I feel sure I could the
younger ones, and would soon teach them to do their work as
required of them."
Cow Pea Hay
Near Adrian, J. M. G. Scruggs sowed sixty acres to oats, and
gathered fifty-three tons of oat hay, after which he sowed to
peas and cut one hundred and seventy tons of peavine hay the
first cutting, and twelve tons the second cutting. This latter he
hauled to his barn, selling the former 170 tons, and the 53 tons
for $24.50 a ton, aggregating $3,810. He had used no fertilizer.
SOT BEANS ON FARM OF W. C. LEWIS, HOUSTON COUNTY