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FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA 145
the sugarcane patch, the potato patch, and on home. By this time
it was dark, but mere darkness does not daunt Mr. Flournoy. He
went in the house and got his large flashlight and he showed us
three fine colts—two horse colts and a mule colt. From the lot
we went to the garden and he flashed his light along the fine rows
of cabbage, beans, beats, parsnips, tomatoes, lettuce, and so
forth and so on, that go to make up a good home garden. Then
we went on the porch and as he sat down in a rocking chair, we
ventured to remark: 'Mr. Flournoy, a man who is so enthused
with his farm work as you are, must get some pleasure as well as
profit out of it.' 'Yes,' he replied, 'I make a good living and I
would not swap places right now with President Wilson or even
-Rockefeller !""
This Farmer on Right Track
A plain story of a modest farmer is told by H. M. Peebles, of
Swainsboro, Ga., and shows what can be done with "gumption"
and two mules, in seven years. He says:
"I married seven years ago and bought a farm which I have
worked out and paid for. My farm is only a small one of 75
acres with 55 acres cleared, which I cultivate with two mules.
SECTION OF HEREFORD CATTLE EXHIBIT, SOUTHEASTERN FAIR, 1915