Mobile Advertiser & Register

June 16, 1861

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            CHEROKEE GEORGIA CAN BREAD THE ARMY- look at these figures. Floyd county will make a surplus of 200,000 bushels of wheat.  Cass, Gordon, Whitfield and Murray will average a like amount, making 1,200,000 bushels.  One bushel of wheat will make 40 pounds of flour, which will feed one soldier one month, 12 bushels will feed him twelve months, and by the rule of three, 1,200,000 bushels will feed 100,000 troops for one year.

            If six counties in Cherokee, Ga. can from her surplus grain, supply our army with bread, we inquire can we not find six counties in Tennessee that will supply the pork?  We have no doubt of it.

            We can fight and feed, and with the spirit of our Floyd county farmers, it makes no difference whether their wheat brings 50 cents or fifty dollars a bushel, it’s all for the boys anyway.  [Rome Southern]