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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 2813*so efficiently served speak of him with a pride and affection that are truly welldeserved and a confidence -that cannot be over-estimated.GEORGE F. HUNNICUTT. Within the past quarter of a century therehas been a wonderful and all-important advancement in the agricultural andhorticultural industries in Georgia, and it may be said with all of consistencythat this splendid progress has been furthered in significant degree by noone medium more effectively than by the Southern Cultivator, which is theoldest and undoubtedly the ablest paper in the Southern States that claimsas its province the promotion of the best interests of agriculturists, stockgrowers and horticulturists, besides exploiting with equal facility and efficiency the varied allied lines of industrial enterprise. George FrederickHunuicutt, who is the able and popular editor and publisher of this admirableexponent of the basic industries of the South, is a man of broad scientificand practical knowledge of agricultural art and industry, and in his presentposition he is upholding the high prestige of the Southern Cultivator andproving a worthy successor of his honored father, Rev. James B. Hunnicutt,who had previously been its editor and publisher. The Southern Cultivatoris a semi-monthly journal and its publication offices are in the City ofAtlanta. Concerning the general attitude of Mr. Hunnicutt perhaps nobetter estimate can be given than that afforded in the following quotationrelative to the man and his achievement:"Since assuming his present position Mr. Hunnicutt has devoted himselfin the most single-hearted fashion to the building up of Southern agriculture,and it is- but fair to say that for a number of years past no man has donebetter work for Southern farmers. He is a widely-read man of diversifiedtastes, being an omniverous reader of history and of scientific works, especially those pertaining to the science of agriculture. He believes that thebest interests of the South are to be promoted by concerted and continuedefforts to develop not one but all of our resources, and that we should givespecial attention to agriculture, which is the foundation-stone of our prosperity and in connection with which he insistently and ably advocates thediversification of crops as well as the incidental promotion of the growingof good grades of live stock. Good work and clean morals is his sloganfor our people, and he says that he knows of but three things that areessential hard work, clean morals, and strenuous effort for the attainmentof higher and better ideals. In justice to Mr. Hunnicutt it must be saidthat he strives faithfully to live up to his ideals and to be of definite serviceto his fellow men."George Frederick Hunnicutt was 'born at Turin, Coweta County, Georgia,on, the 20th of October, 1862, and is a son of Rev. James B. and EmilyJane (Page) Hunnicutt. Rev. James B. Hunnicutt was a son of Dr. JamesE. P. Hunnicutt, who came from Petersburg, Virginia, to Georgia andsettled in Coweta County, where he not only became a representative physician and influential citizen but where also he was a prominent agriculturist, both he and his wife having passed the remainder of their lives inthat county. Mrs. Emily J. (Page) Hunnicutt was a daughter of the lateDr. George H. Page, who came to Georgia from Newberry, South Carolina,and who was identified with mercantile pursuits in addition to practicingsuccessfully as a physician and surgeon. Rev. James B. Hunnicutt was aman of fine mentality and became a revered clergyman of the MethodistEpiscopal Church, South, as a representative of which he labored long andfaithfully with consecrated zeal, besides which he was a successful agriculturist in Coweta County. His ability as a farmer finally led him to becomean effective exponent of this line of industry, and he attained to high reputation and distinct success through his services as editor and publisher of theSouthern Cultivator. When he assumed the supervision of this paper itsVol. VI—g