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FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA 177
bushels per acre. The value of soy beans and cow peas is too
well known to require comment. The peanut produces an average
of one ton of nuts and a ton of hay per acre with a market value
in unlimited quantities of $50.00 and $20.00 respectively.
South Georgia will soon have several up-to-date packing plants,
and a number of crusher plants for the grinding and mixing of
feed from beans, peas, corn, peavine and peanut hay. The cotton
seed oil mills are already prepared to handle peanuts in any
quantity at the price mentioned.
So it will be seen that a farmer engaged in feed growing and
stock raising in South Georgia has three to four chances to make
good. If disease should attack his herds and he has a surplus
of feed stuff, by having same planted so that harvesting may be
done, a ready market awaits him, and at prices that give a return
of from $50.00 to $100.00 per acre on lands that can be bought for
$30.00.
Why don't the Southern farmer do this ? The Southern farmer
has been a cotton planter for generations and .the habit is bred in
the bone. Son has been trained by father and father by grand
father so many years until he is as fixed in the one crop idea as
the Chinese in the worship of Confucius.
A GEORGIA BEEP FACTORY.
Just how interested
Georgians are in pure
bred cattle was illus
trated by o sale of
Shorthorns in Willces
County recently, when
at auction thirty head
brought an average
price of over $300, ana
of the whole number
only seven went outside
of the county. This is
a fine record under the
circumstances, as it
was in a section long
known as an all-cotton
county. Georgia farm
ers are alive to the
value of live stock, and
it is a safe prophecy
that Georgia and the
Southeast will in the
qourse of a few genera
tions become the chief
meat producing section
and smoke house of the
United States.