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FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA 211
ons, berries, other fruits and vegetables. Minerals: Clays, lime
stone. Average altitude, 450 feet. Average value farm land
per acre, $12.
WORTH County, 20,000; Sylvester, 3,000; area, 651 square
miles; taxable property, $4,532,329. Farm products: Cotton,
pecans, cantaloupes. Manufactures: Cotton mills, fertilizer
plants, oil mills. Average altitude, 200 feet. Average value farm
land per acre, $20.
Canadian Makes Favorable Comparison
At Pomona, Ga., A. Sutherland, formerly of Woodstock,
Ontario, has a prosperous farm. He came to Georgia on account
of his health, of which he has no complaint to make since his
arrival, and notes particularly that while we have long summers,
there is no such extreme heat as in his Northern home. Com
menting on his experience in Georgia, Mr. Sutherland says:
"One great advantage of this country is that we make two crops
a year. It is a fine section for stock and hogs. Cotton is a good
paying crop and can be grown to great advantage in rotation with
other crops. I always figure on making a second crop following
any grain. I once made eighty bushels of oats per acre, and
followed it with corn on the same land, making thirty bushels
per acre. Another time I made thirty-five bushels of wheat, and
then fifty bushels of corn as a second crop. For a number of
years I was engaged in dairying, shipping my milk to Atlanta,
but had to give it up owing to being injured by my Jersey bull. I
am now farming only twenty acres on my own farm, and make
a good living from it. I think the mistake of most farmers in
this country is that they try to farm too much land."
Capabilities of One Plow-
Well-balanced farming in Georgia is illustrated by R. P. Bur-
son, of Monroe. His plan is to grow two hundred bushels of
corn, the same of oats, and ten bales of cotton to the plow. The
ordinary farmer thinks he is doing well to make the ten bales of
cotton with one plow. Mr. Burson makes two bales of cotton
to an acre in some fields, and also gathers 720 bushels of corn
from ten acres. He has grown sixty bushels of oats per acre.
He bales up his straw, and this fall sold 1,600 bales of it at six
dollars a ton. He believes in the liberal use of fertilizers, but
buys in bulk for cash. He exchanged his cotton seed for meal
and bought acid in bulk at $9.60 a ton, so his guano, mixed, cost
him $14.00 a ton.
The third, annual
Georgia animal indus
try convention will be
held in June, 191T, in
Rome, under the auspi
ces of the Georgia
Chamber of Commerce.
The two previous con
ventions were held at
Quitman, in the South
ern portion of the State.
The Rome event will as
sist in stimulating the
live stock industry in
North Georgia. The peo
ple of Rome and adjoin
ing counties anticipate
a large attendance of
visitors from the West
ern States, and the ex
hibition of cattle and
hogs will be representa
tive of the entire South
ern country. Large land
owners are expected to
demonstrate the oppor
tunities for extensive
cattle ranching in Geor
gia.