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Show 9 An Insurmountable Objection. New York Herald. Although the people of the northern part of Georgia have the finest soil on earth for raising vegetables, they stick year after year to cotton ami, corn, and import vegetables at heavy cost. The country is developing rapidly, and the manufacturing towns springidg up ijive an increasing market for allKuda of tliVytft called garden truck, but the farmers g , Y Jacidly along in the footsteps foot-steps of their fliers and raise cotton and corn whether-'' make money or not. "Why don't" j Ju plant potatoes?" said a recent arrival from the north to a farmer who was complaining about the small profits of cotton growing. "Oh, I can't raise no potatoes," said the man despondently. "Why not?" persisted the northerner. "You have lots of land just right for potatoes, pota-toes, and you can get $1 a bushel for them right here in town. Why, man alive, you can get $5 a barrel for all you raise." ''No use talkin', " says the farmer, "can't do it nowadays." "Well, but why not?" "Why, yo' see, boss, where'd I get the barrels?" |