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The negro farmer
plays an important role
in the agriculture of
Georgia, and the aver
age low production of
the state is largely due
to his inefficiency. Com
paring' tieo groups of
counties, eight coun
ties in each group, one
with 8,000 white farm
ers and 3,000 negroes,
makes a Dale of cotton
on from one to two
acres. In the other
group, with 4,000
whites and 1,000 ne
groes, it requires three
acres to make a bale.
An active campaign of
education among the
negro farmers is being
conducted by the exten
sion department of the
State Agricultural Col
lege, in co-operation
with the federal gov
ernment.
i8o FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA
BLACKSTOXE HALL. MARTHA BERRT SCHOOL, ROME.
Here among a homogenous and congenial people are lands
that may be purchased for the proverbial song, as compared to
land values in the north arid west.
Here are the thousand hills awaiting the cattle; and smiling
valleys and plains where milk and honey may flow unhindered.
Succulent grasses everywhere abound, and soils by nature
adapted to all sorts of fruits; in certain localities apples, plums
or apricots thrive best, while in others pecans or peaches or
grapes or figs or melons or oranges or grapefruit, mature more
readily and successfully. Homeseekers can find whatever they
desire somewhere in Georgia, Florida, Alabama or South Carolina.
At the Southeastern Land Show will be found representatives
of the state governments, of counties and cities, chambers of
commerce, state and district fairs, agricultural colleges, railroads,
real estate owners and managers, bankers, development com
panies, packing houses, cattle, dairy and hog men, mine and
quarry owners, merchants, fruit growers, and farmers. They are
a.ll interested in exploiting the resources of the Southeast, and
in settling the big untilled areas with thrifty farmers and busy
factories. They announce to the ambitious people of other states,
the opening of the new shop, where by charts, maps, photographs
and books, as well as by actual samples of products, will be shown
the quality and price of their wares.
The Southeastern Land Show provides a clearing house of op
portunities. It is held at a season of the year when it is compar
atively easy for northern men and women to leave their snow-