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Georgia’s Debt to Grady.But Grady gave Georgia new impulses. He took up the ideas of keen people'and-advocated; them so strongly and so strenuously and so seductivelym .in the columns of the Constitution that * • . *he forced people to adopt them. The mere enumeration of the things he has aecoinidished in this way for the benefit of Georgia would consume more time than either you or I could spare. Let me, however, cite a few examples, lie urged the people of Georgia to cultivate watermelons on a large scale. A trifle, you say. So much of a trifle that to-day the melon product of Georgia represents nearly ten million of dollars. Some jieople were ruined bv their watermelon schemes, and tliev blame Grady for the disaster, but a majority of those who followed his published advice rise up and call him blessed. He called attention to the success that had followed the efforts of a man named -Mitchell at Thomasvillc to grow the Leconte pear, and now that luscious fruit is found throughoutthe State.lie wrote ravishing lines about the beaut v of the soft-cved Jersev cattlew *and glowing words about the Angora goat, exemplifying his remarks with facts concerning the venture of Hi chard Peters with both these animals. Today the value of the graded Jersevcattle of Georgia is exceeded only by the herds of New York State. Through his instrumentality: there was intro-mtduced into Georgia the Japanese persimmon, the beagle dog, the Guineacow, which is so well adapted to a profitable existenceupon the pine barrens, and his arguments led to the introduction in Atlanta of broom factories, match factories and soap factories. Georgia marble and Georgia railroads found in him an enthusiastic culogizer. And before I forget it ]tmust sav a word about his eotton-seed*achievement. The Georgia plantershrew a wav their cotton seed as refuse♦material. Gradv, in a series of his convincing’ articles, showed how a valuable oil could be expressed from the seed, and the material that remained could be utilized as a desirable food for cattle. To-dav 011c of the greatest sources of Georgia’s wealth is its cot-ton seed.—Philadelphia News.
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Winamac Pulaski County Democrat
Winamac, Indiana, US
Wed, Mar 19, 1890
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