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In Fulton County,
near Atlanta, live the
Deckner Brothers, three
of them, and own to
gether a lo-acre farm.
It is just an ordinary
farm, with the same
type of soil ana the
same climate ana the
same weeds as' many
other Georgia farms,
but they have made it
support in comfort
three families, build
three excellent farm
houses, and bring
them, an increasing
profit each year. They
raise winter vegetables
for the Atlanta market,
and 'make every field
yield three crops a
year. They make three
or snore plantings of
each kind of vegetable,
and as fast as one vege
table runs out another
takes it place.
178 FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA
WHERE MARTHA BERRY'S SCHOOL STARTED.
They say, oh well! The boll weevil will soon destroy the cotton
and then the southern farmer will be forced to adopt other
methods. But through improved varieties of early maturing
nature, and the proper attention to burning the stalks those sec
tions that suffered a few years ago are now growing cotton again
in practically the same quantity as before the weevil came. Then
too, the shortening of the crop raises the price and all the powers
on earth can not turn the cotton planter.
$100 An Acre for Sweet Potatoes
Four hundred dollars from four acres of sweet potatoes is a"
pretty fair crop, and means more net cash for the grower than,
cotton at twenty cents a pound, even in a good year to raise cotton.
A farmer near Tifton from four acres in sweet potatoes has
sold this season 171 bushels at $1 a bushel and 125 bushels at 80
cents a bushel; a total, $271. He has for sale one hundred bush
els more that he is holding for $i and will get it. Besides this,
he has his seed potatoes and has fed the culls to the hogs. Esti
mating his potatoes or sale and the others at $129, he has $400
from his four acres. And this is a very poor year for sweet
potatoes.
A sweet potato crop can be made in four months, leaving the
use of the land for other crops two-thirds of the year.