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FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA 175
munity life. Last year we entertained between three and four
hundred visitors, teachers and people from schools, farms and
other institutions, who came here to study this school in order to
duplicate it, or to get ideas or inspiration for similar work. Our
school motto is 'Be a lifter, not a leaner.'
"We need buildings and funds so that we can help more boys
and girls. The work is not denominational but Christian in char
acter, and is supported entirely by voluntary gifts from friends
throughout the country. We have no paid agent in the field and
our only advertisement has been the simple story as I have writ
ten and told it whenever I could find the opportunity. Our school
runs twelve months in the year—three terms. In this way, we
can help the boys in school and also help those who have to drop
out and work for a term. Prayer and work have made the Berry
School."
A SUN-KIST GARDEN JEWEL.
Peanuts are money
winners in Georgia. In
1915, Elisha Lott, of
Coffee County, made a
net profit of $6,195
from the peanuts grown
on 150 acres, not count
ing the value of the
nuts left in the soil
after harvesting, and
upon which he grazed
300 hogs. These hogs
made an average gain
of 7o pounds each.
Figuring the cost of
preparations, planting,
cultivating, fertilizing,
liming, land rental and
harvesting at $26.30.
and the value of the
crop being $6~.SO an
acre, he had a net profit
of $41.30. This sort of
experience is giving pea
nut production an im
portant place in the
State's record of diver
sification.