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On a ten-acre tract a
few miles from Macon,
on indifferent looking
land, an enterprising
truck grower made over
$5,000 net in 1916. He
rotated Ms crops and
kept the ground ousy
from early spring to
late fall, and then had
collards and other win
ter greens. Perforated
pipes, set on posts fifty
feet apart, provided
cheap irrigation, sup
plied from a brook by
a small gasoline engine.
This made him inde
pendent of rainfall.
Hucksters from Macon
bought the growing
stuff on the ground and
gathered it as it ripen
ed. Thousands of fer
tile acres, near the
large cities in Georgia
provide equal opportu
nities for others.
138 FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA
MVoman is Soutk's Ckampion Farmer
The honorable title of champion farmer of the entire Southeast
was awarded at the Southeastern Fair in Atlanta in 1915, to a
Georgia farmer. It was not a mere man this time who carried
off the grand awards, but a woman, Mrs. W. W. Monk, of Syl
vester, Worth county. Mrs. Monk is the owner and operator of
several model farms in different sections of the State, and is her
own manager. Anti-suffragists, please give attention, and you,
man, look to your laurels! Mrs. Monk's exhibits won all three
of the grand prizes: $100 for taking the largest number of single
prizes, $50 for taking the most farm product awards, and $50 for
taking the most domestic product awards. Here is a challenge to
the plucky and energetic women of the North to come to Georgia,
and on equal ground, and with assurances of that courtesy and
respect which Georgians, in common with all true gentlemen, have
for the sex, compete in the honorable field of agriculture for the
grandest prizes in life.
Ideal Farm Estate
Between Rockmart and Cartersville is a noted group of pros
perous farms. These lands contain an abundance of lime. On
the Etowah River, near Cartersville, J. W. L. Brown has an
ideal farm estate, where nature has been unusually lavish in her
bounties, and scientific methods of cultivation are making the
most of the opportunities. His home and barns are on an eleva
tion overlooking a great bend in the river, embracing about 500
acres of rich bottom lands that yield immense crops of grain,
corn and cotton. Over 2,500 acres of fertile hill lands are also
under cultivation. Mr. Brown farms nearly altogether with
white tenants, having 22 white families and only one colored on
his place. He raises Southdown sheep extensively, and many
hogs, and is preparing to branch out into the beef cattle industry
on a large scale.
Secretary of Agriculture Houston says: "In point of climate
and in length of grazing season the South has a material advan
tage over the rest of the nation."
Chicago Man Now Georgia Farmer
W. S. Sheppard, a successful farmer of Fort Valley, who came
to Georgia from Chicago, purchased a 454 acre plot in 1901,
assuming a debt of $7,500. Eight years later he wrote:
"I have since paid that debt, purchased over $2,500 worth of
mules, farming implements, etc., built a number of cabins, barns,