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FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA 157
is largely profit. Intelligent study and great care is necessary in
order to obtain the best results. Mr. Wilder finds it impossible to
supply the demand for honey, and gets good prices. In one
week he shipped three carloads, each car bringing him approxi
mately $1,000.
Five Gallons of Milk a Day
Anna's Dorothy is the name of a thoroughbred cow whose milk
brings two dollars a day to her owner, E. Pierce Wood, of San-
dersville, Ga. Her record is 56 pounds of milk a day. She
averages 40 pounds, or five gallons, which is sold at 10 cents a
quart in the local market.
Big Family on Small Farm
Just how large a family a small farm in Georgia will support
may never be definitely ascertained. In a mountain valley up
near the Tennessee line, A. J. Pickett is doing fairly well with 35
acres and a wood lot, not very rich land at that. He has eight
children, ranging from five to eighteen years of age, all of whom
are getting at least five months of school a year. It was a run
down farm when he bought it, paying $600 cash, and giving $600
in notes, all of which were taken up in three years. In the mean-
WHEAT FIELD—32 BUSHELS TO THE ACRE—AT VILLA RICA