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Thousands of acres of
improved farms, with
houses and barns, can
be Had in Georgia at
from $35 to $15 on
acre, that by supplying
the necessary lime, will
make permanent stands
of alfalfa, giving from
•four to six cuttings,
and as many tons of
hay, a year, and this
after it has furnished
grazing for hogs. The
cotton farmers in the
state are paying $25 a
ton for western alfalfa
hay for their stock. Not
even in Kansas, whose
boast has been that al
falfa brought its pros
perity, are the returns
per acre from alfalfa so
profitable as in Geor
gia. Experienced, alfalfa
growers nave no diffi
culty in raising bumper
crops the first year they
are in this State.
FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA
CORN AND PEAS, I. A. FULLWOOD, TIFT COUNTY
ment, entirely separate from any existing department, and com
posed of township, county and state units, starting with the
individual farmers, and concentrating in a National chamber or
commission of agriculture, which would be truly democratic in
principle. The resolutions were endorsed by the agricultural
commissioners of Georgia, Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, North
and South Carolina and Texas. This project is independent of
the National Association of State Marketing Officials, organized
at Chicago in November, 1915, and which proposes to accomplish
the same object without congressional action.