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FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA 179
Southeastern Land Snow, Atlanta, Ga.,
February 1 to 15, 1917
The work of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce and other
progressive interests in the State, in fostering increased agricul
tural and industrial development, resulted in 1916 in the organ
ization of the Southeastern Land Show, which will open at the
Auditorium in Atlanta for two weeks, February i to 15, 1917,
and annually thereafter. This is the first land show ever held in
the Southern States, and is planned to be the big mid-winter event
in Southern progress and prosperity.
Intended at the start to be limited in scope to the State of
Georgia, consideration of the mutual and compact interests of
Georgia, Florida, South Carolina and Alabama, led to an en
largement of the plans to include all four states. It will provide
a market place for land owners and land seekers, where maps
and soils and sample products may be studied, and sales con
summated.
To the many thousands of successful farmers in other states,
who for various reasons, good and sufficient, would like to better
their condition, these four Southeastern States offer a whole
world of opportunities. From the high mountain tops of the
other three states, where their corners join among the clouds, to
the southern tip of tropical Florida, can be grown everything and
anything any lands anywhere can produce. And climates and
soils may be found in equally great variety.
RECITATION HALL. MARTHA BEKRY SCHOOL, ROME
Since beef is naught
else but transformed
feed, if Georgia can
produce the feed as
cheaply as the North,
beef raising should be
more profitable here.
When Georgia boys are
making 50 bushels of
corn to an acre, on land
held at values less than
half that of western
corn belt lands; when
that same west is buy
ing Georgia cotton seed
meal as concentrates;
when in cowpeas, soy
beans, velvet beans and
Japanese cane, Georgia
has prime feeds; it then
becomes only a matter
of pasturage. And Ber
muda and other grass
es are Georgia's "long
suit." Both feeds and
climate favor Georgia
and proximity to the
markets is a big factor.