For the tendency toward establishing a home in the South is not based alone on this desire for an agreeable, equable climate. It is founded on sound economic principles.
Where Winter Does Not Consume What the Summer Produces
In the North, the winter consumes the food which the summer produces. In the fertile sections of Southern Georgia a succession of crops, properly planned, makes the whole year productive.
Vegetation is so rapid that in a few years a home is surrounded by a growth of trees, shrubbery and growing crops.
Government statistics show a surprisingly slight variation between Winter and Summer in Southern Georgia. Here there is no enervating humidity compared to that found in the Northern and Central Atlantic States.
The home of our Assistant Horticulturist—shaded by the big bearing pecan trees.
Here is the ideal home—“Where the sun shines bright and the meadow’s in bloom”—where good fishing and hunting abound—where the call of the “Bob White” is heard from September to March—where the outdoor life is the natural, healthful life the year round.
A plantation house of the Keystone Pecan Company on its Calhoun County Orchard Plantation. From left to right: Elam G. Hess, President of the Company; M. G. Esbenshade, Secretary and Treasurer; and Thos. F. Miller, Sales Manager.