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On his suburban farm
at Thomasville last win
ter, E. L. Whitington
grew enough lettuce to
supply the big winter
colony there, and ship
3,000 baskets to other
cities north, at good
prices.
The recent establish
ing of a large pickle
factory in Atlanta has
given a wonderful im
petus to the growing of
cucumbers, tomatoes,
beans, cauliflower, and
other small vegetables
used in their product.
These enterprising man
ufacturers are also in
the market for all the
grapes that can be
brought to them. No
Georgia vegetable
grower need hunt for a
market.
142 FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA
for a part of it. Land just as good as mine originally was,
located within three or four miles of the city of Griffin, can be
bought for from $25 to $35 per acre. I sold a 56-acre farm
when I left New York and bought 180 acres down here with the
proceeds, and we could rent this farm for three times what we
could get for the New York farm.
"Lumber here is much cheaper than in the North. I have just
contracted for fourteen thousand feet at a sawmill near here,
which will cost me $10 per thousand.
"I moved South on account of my wife's health, and I do not
believe there is any more healthful section in the world than
around Griffin. The doctor in New York told my wife if she
stayed there she would have consumption, but here she has gained
twenty-six pounds in weight, feels fine, and her health could
hardly be better. I find that we can grow practically everything
here that can be grown in the North, as well as a lot of things
they can not grow there. I like the country, like the people, and
would not consider going back to stay."
Sweet Potatoes
The grand total of 8,075,000 bushels of sweet potatoes was
Georgia's production record in 1915, according to government
reports. Nearly every farmer in the State plants more or less of
these. The prize bushel at the Southeastern Fair at Atlanta in
1915 was exhibited by H. C. Collins, of Newton, Ga. All through
the State the yield runs high. C. ^. and W. E. Williams, whose
farm is near Americus, produced 420 bushels to the acre that
year, bringing them $300 an acre. The land was plowed fourteen
-inches deep, and 600 pounds of fertilizer was used to the acre.
Some of the potatoes weighed seven pounds each. This record
shows what care and the planting of selected variety can accom
plish.
Renewing ^Vorn-out Lands
W. J. Oliver, Shellman, Ga., when he became of age in 1876,
succeeded to a worn-out plantation that had been continuously
under cultivation since 1836. It is now a farm paradise, and a
source of splendid profit, in spite of the handicap he labored under
for many years, of having to pay useurer's intrrest on an old debt.
There are over 1,000 acres under cultivation, and plowing is done
with a traction engine, and four gangs of disc plows. Mr. Oliver,
who makes a specialty of hogs, describes his feeding methods as
follows:
"I have about six hundred acres fenced. A part of this is cut
up into five fields, each of these fields is so arranged that the hogs