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County
Covering an area of 920 square miles, or 588,800
acres, and approximately the size of Rhode Island or
Delaware, Coffee County, situated on the ridge lands
of the coastal plain in Southeast Georgia, when de
veloped, her capacity will rank as an empire within
the Empire State of the South. Of her broad fertile
acres less than one-fourth is in cultivation.
The cut-over lands are easy to clear and will produce
well the first year with little cultivation. Nowhere
can a greater variety of crops be grown. Corn and
cotton are the leading products. High-grade sea-
island cotton (now worth thirty cents per pound) is
grown extensively and yields of one bale per acre are
not unusual. Records of from one to two bales of
upland cotton are frequent.
In 1915 a number of the boys' corn club members
each made above ninety bushels per acre, showing a
net profit of $60, and above. ,
Elisha Lott, a farmer near Douglas, in the same year
planted fifteen acres in peanuts, McGovern variety,
from which he realized a net profit of more than six
thousand dollars. The above statements can all be
verified at the County Demonstrator's office.
Oats, fieldpeas, velvet beans, sorghum, sugar cane, sweet potatoes, watermelons,
cantaloupes, and all garden truck thrive in the loamy soil of this section and
fabulous yields are common. Three years' experience in tobacco culture engaged
in by several farmers in practically every district in the county thoroughly demon
strates that high-grade tobacco can be grown at great profit. This industry is now
permanently established.
On account of the long mild seasons, as many as three crops a year may be
grown on these lands. The growing of peanuts, velvet beans and sweet potatoes at
minimum cost makes stock raising very profitable and increased attention is being
given this important branch of diversified farming.
Four lines of railway penetrating every part of the county and the Ocmulgee
river, a navigable stream, forming the northern boundary, afford ample transporta
tion facilities for marketing every crop. Douglas, the county seat, and the pro
gressive towns of "Willacpochee, Pearson, Nicholls, West Green and Broxton, are all
important local markets and trading centers. Desirable farm lands can be bought
at reasonable prices and on easy terms. Health conditions are good. Church and
school facilities are adequate. An efficient system of free rural schools, fostered by
the state and by local taxation on the county -wide plan is the most potential in
fluence in developing latent forces in Coffee County. A number of the rural schools
have recently been standardized and others will follow soon.
Among other agencies active in developing our resources and exploiting same are
the weekly papers, the county fair, and the Douglas Chamber of Commerce.
If what we have said above appeals to you, we urge you to address the Secretary
of the Douglas Chamber of Commerce for further information.