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i6o FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA
Cantaloupes, Hay and Cow Peas
A concrete illustration of the fertility of Georgia soil is given
by C. H, Strangward, who came to Worth county, Ga., from
Ohio in 1903. Writing to the editor in 1916, he says:
"This season the Sylvester, and the Indiana Fruit Companies,
of which I am president, planted 300 acres in cantaloupes, be
ginning to plant March i5th. This crop yielded a net profit of
$9,000.00. After cantaloupes were gathered, the land was planted
in cow peas; 150 acres used as pasture for 120 head of cattle; 150
acres harvested as hay crop, averaging one ton of hay per acre.
Value of hay $3,000.00; cost of production $1,125.00; net profit
$1,875.00. Total profit on 300 acres (not counting values from
beef made in pasturing), $10,875.00.
"We also planted 300 acres in oats, which produced 20 bushels
to the acre. Cost of production, $5.00 an acre; net profit per
acre, $5.00. After harvesting the oats, that land is planted in
cow peas for pasturing, or for harvesting for hay; some of it in
ground peas, some in velvet beans and corn. Any one of these
after crops is a good money maker, and is easily cultivated. The
majority of the stockholders of these two companies live in Mun-
cie, Ind., and Cleveland, Ohio. The lands which we cultivate
are average Worth county lands."
MOULTEIB PACKING PLANT, MOULTKIE, GA.