Hints to homeseekers; a handbook of agricultural opportunities . s region is traversed with railroads which connect it withthe leading markets of the north and east and provide excellenttransportation facilities for the handling of the early truckcrops. While trucking is being quite extensively carried on, itcould well be extended, as could also general farming and dairy-ing, the raising of hogs and the growing of a number of specialcrops. The state as a whole presents opportunities which should becarefully considered by those desiring an investment or a homewhere land is cheap and where excel
Hints to homeseekers; a handbook of agricultural opportunities . s region is traversed with railroads which connect it withthe leading markets of the north and east and provide excellenttransportation facilities for the handling of the early truckcrops. While trucking is being quite extensively carried on, itcould well be extended, as could also general farming and dairy-ing, the raising of hogs and the growing of a number of specialcrops. The state as a whole presents opportunities which should becarefully considered by those desiring an investment or a homewhere land is cheap and where excellent returns can be securedfor labor expended. The climate is healthful, and while thesummers are long, the maximum temperature is no higher thanin the states further north. Many living in the Coastal Plainspend a portion of the summer in the mountains or on the Pied-mont Plateau where the summers are especially delightful. Thewinters are very mild and snow is almost never seen. Pasturescan be so arranged that stock can graze all year. 96 Eints to Homeseeliers. Map and Agricumral Map of Georgia. Agricultural Opportunities 97 Map Legend. 1. Coastal Plains region. Light colored timbered soils. Sur-face level along coast, becoming more undulating inland. Sur-face usually sandy with red or yellowish sandy clay large tracts of deep sand. Cotton chief crop. Com andsmall grains are successfully grown. Well adapted to truckingcrops, peanuts, cowpeas, etc. Fruit. Diversified farming en in-crease. Native growth chiefly long leaf pine along coast andshort leaf pine in northern part of region. Considerable timberstanding—much unimproved land. 2. Piedmont Plateau. Two types of soil extensively devel-oped—a red clay with two to four inches of sandy loam coveringit and a gray sandy loam or sand which extends to depth of twoor more feet. Surface gently rolling, becoming quite broken innorth where it forms the foot hills of the Appalachian Moun-tains. Cotton, corn, tru
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