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FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA
Ready-Maae Opportunities
There is no need for any Georgia farmer to buy for his family
or employees a pound of grain, or a pound of hay or forage, or
of meat, dairy products, vegetables or fruits; and there should
be no need for any resident of Georgia, rural or urban, to buy
any of these from other states. Georgia soil and climate are all-
sufficient for its home requirements. Yet the case can be cited
of a wholesale grocer and grain merchant in Middle Georgia,
doing only a comparatively moderate business at that, who in one
recent year sent his checks for over $300,000 to states North, to
pay for corn, oats, hay, meat, lard, flour and meal to supply local
demands, when every dollar©s worth of it might have been pro
duced in his own county.
It was conservatively estimated by the editor of a Georgia
farmers© journal a few years ago that there was sent out of the
State in one year to pay for things that should have been produced
at home, sixty million dollars for corn, forty million for oats, the
same amount for meats and dairy and poultry products, twenty-
five million for hay and ten million for mules and horses. This
is a strange situation, in view of the fact that the lands in the
EXHIBIT OF HAMS BY BOYS' PIG CLUBS, ATLANTA. 1915