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The Fitzgerald Leader Enterprise And Press
Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Georgia
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Wilkes County, Georgia, offers 20,000 acres of improved farmland worth about $750,000 to skilled farmers from the Midwest to offset farm labor exodus to industrial centers, with listings handled from Cleveland, Ohio, and sales promoted by the Washington Kiwanis Club.
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WASHINGTON, Ga. - In an effort to offset the exodus of farm labor to the industrial centers to back up the full farm program of the Georgia association, Wilkes county in well organized and supported plan is offering to high-class, skilled farmers of the middle west some twenty-thousand acres of her improved farm lands for approximately three quarters of a million dollars.
The listings which are now being handled from Cleveland, Ohio, range in acreage from 13 to 1,350 acres and in value from $1,300 to $72,565, scattered throughout the county, held under option for four months and sales will be promoted and regulated at this end of the line by the Washington Kiwanis Club under the golden rule.
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Wilkes County, Georgia
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offering 20,000 acres of improved farm lands for approximately three quarters of a million dollars, with listings ranging from 13 to 1,350 acres valued $1,300 to $72,565, held under option for four months.
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In an effort to offset the exodus of farm labor to the industrial centers to back up the full farm program of the Georgia association, Wilkes county in well organized and supported plan is offering to high-class, skilled farmers of the middle west some twenty-thousand acres of her improved farm lands. The listings are now being handled from Cleveland, Ohio, scattered throughout the county, and sales will be promoted and regulated by the Washington Kiwanis Club under the golden rule.