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FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA
North and West where these products were grown, are worth
two or three times an acre the value of the lands in Georgia
where they could have been grown. There is a reason. After
the war the Southern farmer was forced by poverty to grow
cotton, the one crop that Northern states could not grow, and
for which the North gladly paid cash. Naturally it is difficult
to get the average Georgia farmer to give up his lifelong habit
of depending on cotton for a living. Great progress has been
made in this direction, however, in the past few years and home
farming is becoming popular, but the results as far as the sup
plying the market is concerned are, as yet hardly perceptible, and
the constantly increased requirements of the industrial population
are not touched.
Cotton No Longer Best Crofi
It is significant of the general acceptance of this view of the
situation, that of the hundreds of articles received from Southern
farmers in a recent best-crop competition inaugurated by a lead
ing agricultural journal, not one gave cotton the preference, and
FIGS MATURE PROFUSELY IN GEORGIA