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rows white soup beans, 4 rows butterbeans, a half bushel of onion
sets, 400 cabbage plants, 200 tomato plants, 8 rows English peas,
10 rows Spanish peanuts, 104 squash and cucumber hills, no
watermelon and muskmelon hills, 2 rows sunflowers, 8 pie plant
or rhubarb roots, 7 rows popcorn, 4 rows okra; also have planted
turnips, radish, lettuce, eggplant, pepper, mustard, rape, and
tomato seed. Now, this is all planted and up. Have had onions,
salad and radishes to eat the past two weeks, and as a good many
folks have said, the finest garden they have seen,"
Increased "^Mieat Acreage
Ten thousand bushels of wheat will be grown in 1916 in the
immediate vicinity of Cleola, Ga., in the Oak Mountain section of
Harris County, as compared with a merely nominal crop the pre
vious year. The wheat was planted largely through the influence
of Jesse Milner, whose home is at Cleola, and who owns thousands
of acres of land in that section and elsewhere in West Georgia, and
operates a store, ginnery and flour and grist mill at Cleola, which
is the Oak Mountain station of the Southern Railway. From his
store many of the farmers in that section are supplied.
A good corn crop was produced in that section in 1915, and
the oat acreage was also large. Mr. Milner decided that the peo
ple would grow wheat if the market was provided for it, and so
he installed a roller mill at his grist mill plant, so that now forty
barrels of flour can be turned out daily there, in addition to the
output of meal.
Mr. Milner bought seed wheat and supplied it to all his tenants
and also other farmers who wanted it, and as a result more wheat
has been planted in that section than any year since Civil War
times. He estimates that with a normal yield fully 10,000 bushels
will be brought to his mill, and so the flour department will be
kept busy and at the same time the fanners will make good money
on their wheat crop.
The situation in the Oak Mountain section typifies that in many
other communities in Georgia and other Southern states. Mr.
Milner made a thorough investigation of the situation before he
installed his flour-making equipment. He was much impressed
with the experience of a miller not a hundred miles from Cleola.
This man put in a flour mill. At that time no wheat at all was
grown in that section. The next year the yield was fairly good,
and in 1915 there was a big wheat crop that taxed the capacity
of the mill.
A. recent visitor to
Georgia from old Ken
tucky, replying to an
inquiry of his host, said
farm lands in his neigh
borhood were worth
$300 an acre. "Why
are your lands worth
$300 an acre, while ours
in Georgia are held at
not more than $50 to
$100 an acret" asked his
host. His reply was,
"You all haven't waked
wp yet, but the time
will soon come when
your Georgia lands will
be worth more than
ours, because you have
longer seasons, and can
raise everything, while
we can raise only grain
and live stock." While
Georgia farmers are
getting thoroughly
awakened, the Northern
farmers' opportunities
to acquire lands here
are all the greater.