Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1891 — An Insurmountable Objection. [ARTICLE]

An Insurmountable Objection.

Although the people in. the northern part, of Georgia have the finest Boil on earth, for raising vegetables,, they stick year after year to, cotton and corn, and import vegetables at heavy cost, says the New York Herald. The country is developing rapidly, and the manufacturing towns, springing up give an increasing, market for aJl' kinds of stuff called garden truck; but the farmers go placidly along in the footsteps of their feibhers, arid raise cotton or corn whether they make money or not. “Why don’t you plant potatoes?* said a recent arrival from the North to, a farmer who was complaining about the small profits of cottongrowing. “Oh, I can’t raise no pertatoes,” said the man, despondently. “Why not?* persisted the Northerner. “Yon have lots of land just right for potatoes, and you can get $1 a bushel tor them right here in town. Why, man alive, you can get $5 a bar. rei fur- all yon raise.” “No use talkin’,” says the farmer, “can’t do it noways." “Well, but why not?” | “Why, yo’ see, boss, wbero’d. I get ! the barrels?*