Addresses — A "Winter Month in Northern Georgia. 191 



Wisconsin farmer can get in Madison or Janesville. I could not 

 see why its culture in Georgia should not be profitable. Indeed, I 

 think many farmers there are finding it so, with the judicious use 

 of the fertilizers, now beginning to be largely used in that region. 

 I will add here, parethentically, that from the only partially deodo- 

 rized fertilizers, kept for sale in large quantities in a warehouse in 

 the center of the city, came smells more multitudinous and direful, 

 than those once counted in the city of Cologne. The drystn never 

 called out such from the turbid waters under Milwaukee or 

 Chicago bridges. They are, however, doubtless, full of hope for 

 the future of Georgia agriculture. Indeed, the intelligent use of 

 them is unquestionably helping to solve the problem of renewed 

 prosperity for the south, under conditions more like those prevail- 

 ing at the north — small farms under the personal direction of own- 

 ers, and a greater diversity of products. 



I should do injustice to the Georgia climate, if I allowed the 

 already brief allusion to it to go without further comment. A 

 Georgia winter is less mild and agreeable than I had supposed, but 

 it is nevertheless, in many respects, a pleasant season. There was 

 scarcely a day in the month of February, in which a fire was not 

 necessary for comfort indoors, and an overcoat out of doors. I be- 

 lieve that for the three months, December, January and February, 

 a good house, well warmed, is almost as much a necessity for health 

 and comfort in Northern Georgia, as in Wisconsin. The fuel re- 

 quired is less — probably not more than half the amount — but not a 

 little fuel is needed, and for proper comfort, stoves or furnaces, in- 

 stead of the prevailing open fire places, which during the three 

 months mentioned, are delusions in most southern houses. The 

 ground seldom freezes more than one or two inches, but the north- 

 ern and eastern winds are raw and cold. There is, however, a good 

 deal of sunshine in a Georgia winter, and whether the day be cold 

 or warm, the air in the hill country is as pure and bracing as any 

 within the borders of our own state. I believe a more healthful 

 climate cannot be found. In this respect it is doubtless even 

 superior to that of Wisconsin. Extremes are unknown there, as 

 well as sudden and great changes of temperature. Not only the 

 winter, but also the summers, are milder than with us. Fierce heat 

 and fierce cold are unlike unknown there. That our extreme mid- 

 summer heat is there rarely known, is proved by thermometrical 

 13— Hort. So. 



