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FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA 69
of the outside corn brought to the State, notwithstanding the fact
that over sixty million bushels were produced in Georgia during
the same time. This state grew 3,S75,ooo bushels of wheat in
1915, and over two million bushels of outside wheat were sold
in Atlanta. Nearly six hundred thousand barrels of flour from
other state mills were sold in Atlanta that year. Georgia has
several busy flour mills, but there is evidently room in the State
for more mills as well as more wheat growers. Seventeen million
bushels of oats were produced that year in this State, and nearly
three thousand cars of oats from other states were marketed in
Atlanta alone. North Georgia can produce wheat equal to the
best. Georgia soil is unsurpassed for growing tomatoes, but
Atlanta consumed a quarter of a million cases of them canned,
and all from other states. Look at but further comment on the
figures would seem to be superfluous.
MRS. W. W. MONK, CHAMPION FARMER OF THE SOUTHEAST
Many northern people
•whose wealth enables
them to choose from the
whole world, have found
their ideal winter home
in Georgia. Col Oliver
H. Payne, of New Tork,
is one of these, and
from November to May
is - generally on his
beautiful estate in
Thomas County. Near
Thomasville is the fa
mous winter colony of
millionaires, their com
bined estates aggregat
ing 2,1,000 acres. J. Wy-
man Jones, of New York,
was the pioneer winter
colonist some thirty
years ago. Senator
Mark Hanna, of Cleve
land, was one of the
earliest. His daughters,
Mrs. R. R. Ireland and
Mrs. Colburn Haskill,
now spend their winters
there.