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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-
FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA 181 bound homes and farms. Snow plows, snow shoes, ice boats and skates may be left behind. It will be winter here too, but winter with the bitter sting taken out, and no long heart-freezing spells to blast hopes and wither ambitions. Something green can be found growing in a southeastern garden all winter long. It is the expectation of its promoters in the Georgia Chamber of Commerce that the Southeastern Land Show at Atlanta in February, 1917, will be the nucleus of a permanent all-year-round land show and general exposition of southeastern products, in dustrial as well as agricultural. Ola Roman vv riter Summarizes Georgia s Resources In his endeavor to sum up all the wonderful resources of Georgia and tell the whole story simply and comprehensively in the fewest possible words, the editor of Facts About Georgia was almost in despair when his attention was called by Managing Editor George Long, of the Macon Telegraph, to a passage in a book written many, many years ago. As some of the best de scriptions of places and events have been written by men who BILUNGS HOME, NEAR THOMASVILLE.
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FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA 181<br />
bound homes and farms. Snow plows, snow shoes, ice boats and<br />
skates may be left behind. It will be winter here too, but winter<br />
with <strong>the</strong> bitter sting taken out, and no long heart-freezing spells<br />
to blast hopes and wi<strong>the</strong>r ambitions. Something green can be<br />
found growing in a sou<strong>the</strong>astern garden all winter long.<br />
It is <strong>the</strong> expectation <strong>of</strong> its promoters in <strong>the</strong> <strong>Georgia</strong> Chamber<br />
<strong>of</strong> Commerce that <strong>the</strong> Sou<strong>the</strong>astern Land Show at Atlanta in<br />
February, 1917, will be <strong>the</strong> nucleus <strong>of</strong> a permanent all-year-round<br />
land show and general exposition <strong>of</strong> sou<strong>the</strong>astern products, in<br />
dustrial as well as agricultural.<br />
Ola Roman vv riter Summarizes<br />
<strong>Georgia</strong> s Resources<br />
In his endeavor to sum up all <strong>the</strong> wonderful resources <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Georgia</strong> and tell <strong>the</strong> whole story simply and comprehensively in<br />
<strong>the</strong> fewest possible words, <strong>the</strong> editor <strong>of</strong> Facts About <strong>Georgia</strong> was<br />
almost in despair when his attention was called by Managing<br />
Editor George Long, <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Macon Telegraph, to a passage in a<br />
book written many, many years ago. As some <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> best de<br />
scriptions <strong>of</strong> places and events have been written by men who<br />
BILUNGS HOME, NEAR THOMASVILLE.
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