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FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA 183
growing in untilled places. I can not help admiring the
forests full of all kinds of trees, which supply timber for
ships and houses. All these materials are ready at hand,
for the coast is near, and there are many rivers that
water the land and make easy the exchange of every
thing the country produces.
Hot water springs, also, have been discovered in many
places, affording pleasant baths and cures for chronic
sickness. There are mines of various sorts, plenty of
beats for hunting, and a variety of seafish, besides other
things innumerable, some useful and others worthy of
admiration. But the most advantageous of all is the
happy temper of the air, suiting itself to every season.
So that neither the formation of the fruits nor the con
stitution of the animals is in the least injured by exces
sive heat or cold.
The Georgia Bankers Association through a special agricultural
committee has established scholarships to enable high school grad
uates in rural Georgia to obtain short courses in the State Agri
cultural College. Last year fifteen boys and fifteen girls were
thus provided with a technical course in scientific farming.
ON DIXIE HIGHWAY, NEAR THOMASVILLE.