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GEORGIA AGRICULTURE
State and County
PART I
GEORGIA BY SKETCH AND ILLUSTRATION
PART II
AGRICULTURAL AI.DS A D FACTS
PART III
STATISTICS, STATE A D COU TY
Issued By .
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE State Capitol-Atlanta, Ga. J. J. Brown, Commis ioner.
For Further Iuformation-Write s
OFFICIAL GEORGIA STATISTICS FOR 1923 f', Compiled and Published by the
GEORGIA CO-OPERATIVE CROP REPORTI G SERVICE Co-operating Agencies
United States Bureau of Agricultural Economics State Dept. of Agriculture State College of griculture
1710-13 Citizen ~ Southern Bank Building ATL NTA, GEORGIA
(APRIL MAY JU E )
Quarterly Bulletin, Georgia Department of Agriculture, Serial o. 96. Entered at Atlanta, Ga., as second-class matter, Oct. 7, 1900, under Act June 6, 1900. Acceptance for mailing at a special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of Oct. 3, 1917, authorized on June 29, 1918.
Georgia's Governor
T EE limit of thi word of greeting will not permit even a reference to the unlimited natural r ource of the.: tate of G orgia. Indeed, thi entire book could not catalogue the natural and artificial advanta o' of the tate. I need only say here that in all the world no ection will furnish a better
opportunity for d v lopment along aOTicultural and indu trial line than the tate of Georo'ia. It i the larO" t tat ea t of the Mi i ippi; it i marvelou to contempIat that within it bord rand immediat lyon it border are to be found ven of th nine climatic zone. In the mountainou ection to the north it rai es apple which took the prize at the pokane, Wa hington, Apple , how; on the coa tal plains to the south are rai ed at uma oranO"es and other tropi al fruit, while on th lope between is the mo t fertile oil in all the world, producing' in O'reat luxuriance every variety of agri ultural product. Near Atlanta is a county that ha more minerals than any oth r county in the world. Ind ed, G oro'ia ha forty-four of the fifty-two commercial mineral. Notate in all the nion can compare with GeorO"ia in it advantaO' for dairying and dairy product, with it full tw lve-month pa turage year. The people of the State are ninety- even per cent. Anglo-Saxon-a train of blood which produce the most table and sati factory labor. The most efficient engin ering firm in the worll, perhap , has recently made a urvey of the nion and has declared that north and northwe t Georgia are included in the territor mo t favor d in all America for the d ,elopment of indu trial enterpri e . Unlimited water uppl with it cheap power, fertile fields, rich mines, wonderful forests, all invit the investor and laborer from other section, who will find a cordial welcome and profitable employment within our oate. To appreciate it unequaled natural and artifi ial re ource, -ou mu t come to Georo'ia. The people of the tat invite ou here.
LIFFORD WALKER,
Governor.
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A Foreword
T o you who are all' ady citizen of thi o-reat Oommonwealth, a well a to tho e who are eekinO' citizen hip in a land of attractive opportunitie ~llld va t re ource , I addre thi for word.
I am deeply intere t d in the ucce of every legitimate activity in Georgia, wheth l' it b on the farm, in the mines, in the manufacturing plants, in the development of our tran portation tern or of our wondrou water power, or what oever may contribute to our wealth and happin ,becau e the um to~al of all the e uce e mark our relative po ition in that highly d irable condition -known as pro perity. The activity lying clo e t to my heart is Georgia' ao-riculture, a it now i and a it can be. Toda only about one-third of our tillable
land i under cultivation. Takino- into con ideration the crop grown within the nited tate, Georgia i one of two or thr e State which lead in number. he ranges all th way from apples of :fine t quality in her northern countie to the Satuma orano'e and uo-ar cane in the coa tal plain ection of Georo-ia. Thi con ervative tatement can be v rified b a tudy of the tati tic appearinO' in Part III of thi booklet.
The value and volume of Georoia' agricultural product are a tounding. Georgia' developed aOTicultur can upport man time our pre ent population, and can supply all our rural, urban and indu trial population with ev r taple food product ao-ood a the be t; it i up to u to ee that we do it. It i true that we mu t me t harp comp tition from th adjoinino- ao-riultural tate, but why, with our uperior natural advantage, hould we not meet it uc e fully
Above all, I de ire to ee Georo-ia' land owne 1 and operated by tho e who live on the soil; then her fertile field, her beautiful vall and h r broad plain will alway be the hom of a pro perou , happy and contented p ople. Our wonderful "oil, lying a it doe in a delio-htful climat free, alike, from the rio-or of the north rn winter and extreme of the tropical ummel', pre nt today, to every citizen of thi tate as well a those who contemplate ca ting their lot a.mono us, a mo t at-
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tractive offer in the way of land value. Doubtle s this and
coming generation will never again witness a duplication of
the pre ent attractive price at which good farming lands can now be purcha ed in Georgia.
In our endeavor to pre ent current, repr entative and
e ential agricultural fact cone rning the "Empire tate of the
...-:outh," much ffort" and re earch work wa given to the com-
pilation and editing of the material for this booklet. We have
rm'i ed and brought up to late the standard matter of two of
our former publication ,-" Georgia Invite You" and" gri-
cultural.Aid and Fact ." Thi revi d matt l' and appropriate
illustration hav been u ed wherever vital to the consideration
of Georgia's agriculture, a dev loped by the additional matter
together with many new illu tration hown in this publication.
In the compilation of the entire content of thi booklet,GEORGIA AGRICULTURE, ST ~TE D CO TY, we have
received valuable aid from variou ource; thi acknowledg-
ment carrie with it an expre ion of our deepe t appreciation
for every contribution.
For the comprehen ive tate and county stati tic appear-
ing in Part III of thi booklet, we are indebted to our Co-oper-
ative Crop Reporting Service, under the able direction of Mr.
Z. R. P ttet, local
tati tician, who, on paO'e one of Part
III, acknowledge in detail the receipt of valuable tati tical
data.
In collecting material for Part I and II of thi booklet, we
have been favored by receiving valuable ketche and appropri-
ate illu tration from tate hou e official , State Colleo'e of gri-
cultur , the new pap I' , the railroad , agricultural organiza-
tions and various co-operative organizations.
o re triction or limitations have b en placed on us rela-
tive to the u e of eith I' the illu tration or matter furni hed u .
Con equently, exerci inO' thi carte blanche permission, we have
in ome in tance u ed the ketch contributions in full or have
combined them with other imilar matter; while in other, they
have been u ed in connection with other material a a basis for
leveloping the tory of G orgia' re ource and po ibilities.
pace and fund pre lude the u e of all contributed illu trations
and make nece ary th condensation of some sketches. As far
a po ible, credit for contribution will appear in conjunctioTl.
with the data furni hed.
J.J. BROW,
Commi ioner of Agriculture.
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Georgia in 1923
Georgia is your opportunity whether at pre ent you are a citizen or whether you contemplate Georgia citizenship now or later. It is to the ambitious man today what the Golden West was to the pioneer in 1849. It i far greater becau e Georgia's resources today are highly developed, yet there are untold possibilities within her border. No uncertainty faces the agricultural, indu trial or bu ine s pro pector in Georgia. Thi booklet proposes to show what Georgia is today.
From general tatements, verified by official tati tic found in Part ill of this booklet, you can form your own judgment as to our present and our future and al 0 as to the future you can m<tke for yourself as a citizen of this great State.
History i not the function of this story entirely, but forms an integral part of the tory. Georgia, the heart of the new south, cheri hes her traditions but he doe not live in the past. Georgia lives and works and build in the living pre ent for the eternal today and the coming tomorrow. Georgia is a highly developed tate, yet two-third of it va t cultivatable acreaO' remains undeveloped. Thi is due to its great ize and to the fact that she is the youngest of the original thirteen colonie . Georgia is the larO'e t State ea t of the Mi i ippi River and contains 58,725 square miles and only about 10,000,000 of its 34,000,000 acres of tillable oil are under cultivation.
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IN GEORGIA' BIG ITIE
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DIVERSIFIED AGRICULTURE
The advent of the boll weevil ha O'iven great impetus to the movement in Georgia for the diver ification and rotation of crops. he i favorably ituated to make till adjustment, in fact the boll weevil found ome of our most pro perous citizens already practicing a y t m of agriculture which utilized our p culiar advantage. After judiciou ly providing for a supply of all the' product termed nece itie for man and bea t they were then O'rowinO' an additional acr aO'e of cotton a a cash crop. The fact that our State produce uch bountiful yields ill return for the acre d vote I to diver ifie I crop will alway have a beneficial eff ct on land value in GeorO'ia.
INVESTMENTS IN GEORGIA
You may be e k.inO' a place to inve t capital rather than your labor or time in busine or industrial development. Georgia mines and mineral I' sources contain incalculable wealth ready for capital to aid it d velopment. It potentialities in tIle clay indu try are up rior in ome I' pect to tho e of any other State. It granite occur in inexhau tible quantities and is widely di tributed over much of the Piedmont plateau:
The ph ical and ch mical propertie of till O'ranite, ' as bown by the numerou te t made by th State GeoloO'ical Surv y, demon trate that it durability equal or exc ds that of any other now b ina' put upon th market. Your capital P.ut into Georgia land will be in ured by a steady increa e in the values of our lands. In teaa of supporting a population of three million Georgia ( hut off fi'om the re t of the world) eould easil~ u tain a population of ten million. tati tic how that Georgia's indu trial and bu ine s activities are developing by leap and bound. The e O'rowiJ;lg center of increa ed population' are rapidly expandinO' our local market for GeorO'ia prodllce. Let GeorO'ia' agriculture ee to it that thi va t population con ume. GeorO'ia's products; give them "the be t for the ,arne money or a good for Ie mon y" and it i accompli hed.
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GEORGIA'S CLIMATE limate laro' ly determin living condition verywhere O!l thi planet. By living on lition i m ant not m re phy ical comfort, but al 0 condition whi h ontribute to material ucce and prOOT G oro'ia' favorable limate i bown by the fact that the growing ea on in North G orgia i 210 lay, in central G orO"ia 230 day ancl in the outh rn part of the tate 260 day .
.A GEORGI
A Kaleidoscopic View ot GeOl'gia Products,
o area of imilar ext nt in the nited tate how 0'1' ater vari ty of product grown than Georgia, and no tat a t of th Ro k fountain a O'l'eat. In it outhern part tropical fruit and flower Ta'; and matur , while on the highe t peak of om of it mountain OTOW plant indio' nou to th far north.
(See precipitation map in Part III of this booklet)
GENERAL WEATHER CONDITIONS
The average annual temperature in orth Georgia is 52 df'grees; the coldest mean temperature is 42 and the warmest 76, which gives an average range from cold to hot during the year of 34 degrees.
In central Georgia the annual average is 63 degrees; winter 47; ummel' 7 ,which gives a range of 31 degrees.
In South Georgia the annual average temperature is 68 degroos; winter 55; summer 1, giving a range of 26 degrees.
Rainfall for the year in Georgia averages 51 inches. The longe t days in the summer are about 14 hours; the shorte t in wiuter about 10 hour ; the length of the nights are the same, but reversed.
Rainfall, sunlight and general weather conditions are so evenly balanced that ometimes two or three crops are possible on the be t acre during one and the same year.
Georgia- Cotton
Cotton is till Georgia' great taple money crop. The reluced production for the pa t few year is attributable both to the boll weevil and unfavorable easons; perhaps the latter is the gr ater cause as orne counties where seasons were favorable made a fair yield in 1923 de pite the weevil, for long ago he spread over the entire State and farmer expect d hi depredation and pI' pared to meet him by diver i:fication, reduced acreaO'e and the judicious u e of poison. They did not expect and could not foresee the unfavorable weather conditions. With the exception of four or :five counties, cotton may be grown ~ each of the 160 counties of our State.
n is probable that the GeorO'ia crop of 1923, of 587,969
equivalent 500 pound bale , records the low water mark in the State' production, and that with rea onably favorable sea ons and an increa ed u e of calcium ar enate the production will gradually ri e; thouO'h probably it will never again reach the crop of 2,700,000 bale made in 1914.
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GOTTO GROWl G I GEORGI 1.
1. 1 % bales an aC1'e.
2.-3. G1'een fields of Georgia cotton. 4, F1tll bloom cotton, ripe for the 1Jicking, 5. Baling for a shipment fr01lt a gin.
IN GEORGIA' COTTO
FIELD
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As a Corn State
Every County Grows It
THE'n DISPFANS ~BLE GR IN, CORN, may be successfully grown in every ection of the State. The yield averages from 12 to 25 bushel an acre, depending largely upon the kind or soil on ,vhich it is, grown, the variety of seed used and the ffilthods of cultivation.
In the pioneer days of Georo'ia's agriculture, especially in the northern and Piedmont sections, it was thought that corn couJd not be successfully grown except in the valleys or "bottom lands," as it wa more generally designated.
Modern methods of agriculture have demonstrated conclusively that tho e who wisely take the advantage of our soils and seasons may grow corn and expect bountiful yields on the hills and plains as well as in the lowlands.
The 1;lsual time Jor planting this grain, taking into consideration the whole State, ranO'e from the first of March to the last of April, however, in some in tances it is planted earlier and in many instances later. A late crop usually can be easily produced by planting in June, especially the first part of the month and using early maturing varieties. Citizens of Georgia are familiar with local conditions and Imow these things. The prospective farmer, knowing how indispensable this grain is to farming operation, may ask whether or not corn can be profitably grown in our State. A clo e scrutiny of the County Statistics given in Part III of this booklet will how that it i grown ovel: the entire area of our State. One of the unique f atures of corn growing in Georgia, which will be new to pro p ctive set-' tIers, is the practice of interplantinO' corn with peanuts, soy beans, cowpeas and velvet bans. '
This practice does not appreciably decrea'se the production of corn, but adds materially to the value per acre of the combined crop. For example, if the average yield of corn is fourteen bu hel , there is an additional yield per acre of ten bushels of peanuts, which, under the present circumstances, will bring as much a the corn.
The growino' of leo'urnes in the corn also acts beneficially in building up the oil fertility.
Dnles one takes into con ideration all the facts ,:mentioned above, an accurate idea of the value of an acre of corn in the State can not be ecured. '
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THE WHEAT BELT Wheat i produced in a number of the countie Tho e desiring to pecializ to a con iderable xtent in wheat and at the ame time o-row COl'll, oat , cotton, etc., hould locate in the wh at belt. To find thi belt on the map beo-in in Ooolethorpe County, run a line throuo-h Walton, Gwinnett, obb and Bartow. You will th n have a dividino- line north of whi h the ountie I ad in wheat produ tion. everal counties south of the line produ e wheat to a OT ater or]e extent.
'OK),!, GRAl A D HAY FIELD L\ DO GHERTY COTj-~.Yl'r.
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OATS
Oats may be profitably grown in Georgia and thu add considerably to the farmer's revenue. The best season for planting oats is the Fall, e pecially September and October, however, they may be planted later lind in many in tances are planted in February and termed" Spring oat ." The grain produced by oats planted in the Fall is heavier and the general yield greater than the Spring.
Modern methods have shown that oats, especially in the northern half of the State, should be drilled and planted in rather deep furrow. Such fields are rarely ever seriously damaa'ed by the cold during the winter. Thi crop often grazed in the early spring- months and harve ted in the late spring months gives Georgia farmer valuable source of food supply neces ary for the farm stock which, at thi time, mu t be used continuou ly in the cultivation of O'rowing crops anc~ the harve ting of small grain. This is e pecially true if for an reason whatever hi supply of corn and hay stored durina' the previou year ha become short or emau ted.
RICE AND RYE
These are among the minor crops of Georgia; however, the yield from these crops is of such importance as to justify their growth to a limited extent. Rice is grown for the grain while rye is grown for grain, for grazing and also as a green cover crop.
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GEORGI A OJIIXG GR,JTS T JTE.
l.A hat'vest field ot oats and vetch in Bibb county,
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Om'roll cOlmty wheat field at hm'vest time,
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GEORGIA
TOBACCO
ince the early day tobacco ba been O'rown in Georgia to a
o'l'eat l' or Ie ext nt. However, only within tbe la t decade 01'
0, ba it b n 0'1'own in u h quantitie a to become comI'll 1'-
cially imp rtant.
nd I' the lirection of xpert, tb yi lcl of brio-bt leaf to-
bacco in outh Georoia i givino' more and more atisfaction
ach year. Durin o- tb year 1923 more than nin million pound
of till pro luct wa market 1 on the floor of G oro-ia' tobacco
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tati tic for G or ia and oth I' tate O'1'o'\\7J.ng
brio-ht leaf toba 0 will how that our product old for a bio-her
averag price than the average price of bright leaf tobacco in
other tat .
The latitud of Georo'ia I lace our toba co on mark t in ~ugu t. The e t ba co mark t clo e about th time orth arolina and "\ irO'inia mark t open. rrbe above tati tic 10 not in-
clu 1 the cigar leaf tobacco 0'1'own uncleI' partial bad in outh we t Georo'ia. We ar informed that tbe yiell and return of
thi toba 0 are quaIl) ati factory. Indication em to point to a on iderable increa e in Geor-
gia' brio'ht leaf toba co acreao-e for 1924. World stati tic
how a laro'e increase in the con umption of moking and cigarette tobacco. A hi trade principally ab orb our briO'ht leaf tobacco we can I' a onabl hope for a continuation of the pre ent inter t in Georoia tobacco production.
GrOWing Tobacco in GeOl-gia Under Shade.
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SWEET POTATOES Georgia u ually rank fir t or econd amon O' th weet potato producino' tate. There ha alwa b en a O'ood d mand for thi commodity, but ince the e tabli hment of numerou Ul'inO' hou e throughout the State, eli tant mark t can be reach d for them and thu a broader outlet be obtain d for thi ju tly popular product. Th potato curinO' hou e in the. tate lJa,e torage capacity of approximately two million bu hel . In addition to the potato which are tore 1, con id rable attention i beino' oi, n to arly ''1eet potatoe in G oroia. Thi type of weet potatoe , which i u 1 for hipm nt in Jul e m to be in rea ino' from y ar to y ar. .r ine-t nth of th ntire crop icon umed on the farm pro lucino' it. It i po sible to rai e 300 bu hel to the a reo The variety mo tly rai d i Porto Rico, though recently ome ati factory and profitabl experiment hav been ma Ie in the Bjo Stem Jer ey .
1/; et Potatoes.
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IRISH POTATOES Irish potatoe are 'l'own in every county in the tate. In north Georgia, thcre arc one 01' two e tion which will d vote attention to corom rcial rop, and which are likely to hip in carload lot in 1924. For year th avannah area ha been growing, at a coniderable profit, early Iri h potatoe. r:J:h croI is planted in the winter and matures after the Florida crop and before th arolina an 1 Vir 'inia earli om on the mark t. It i , therefore, u ually very remunerative. The e potatoe require vel' heavy f rtilization, o'ood drainage and con iderable kill to 0TOW. large number of our outh Georgia farmer are now acquirino' thi kill. The entire southeast i adapt d to them, and our acr aO'e i o'l'owil1O' from year to year. Thi early crop doe not at all conflict or compete with the main cr p of Georo'ia Iri h potato ,which are grown at a later date in the upper or Pie lmont e tion.
pecial Crop Map in Part III of this booklet)
lhat the boys aTe doing on Ute tann. Just a salltple.
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Peanuts
Last year outh G orgia witched from peanut to cotton,
and wi hed it had not. Central Georgia tried peanuts on a large
scale, and i glad it did.
The sea on was very unfavorable, 0 far a vields were con-
cerned, but this wa off et by very fine prices. In con equence,
with the help of the growers' a ociation, mo t of the farmers
made money, and will take unu ual intere t in the crop the com-
ing season. Indeed, there is a pos ibility that the planting may
be overdone.
Commercial peanut are of the pani h type, and the statis-
tics in Part III of this booklet contain data only on peanut
planted for harve t, which are u ually planted alone. Be ides
the commercial peanut, it i a general practice in the coastal
plain to plant peanut in corn for hog. Thi practically pro-
duces two crop per acre. The peanuts 0 grown are principally
orth arolina runners, and eldom enter comm rcial channel ,
except when the price is unusual, and then they up t all calcula-
tions. As a rule the e peanuts ar grown a the principal item
of feed for thou and of Georgia porker .
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Prize-winning Geo1'gia Peanuts.
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THE VELVET BEAN Recognition of the value of the velvet bean ha at la t accorded it a place of con iderable importance in GeorO"ia agricnlture.
GeOl'gia Velvet Beans-a Prolific C1'Op.
The GOY rnm nt put it pat when it ay "Th v Ivet bean ha eff ted a bloo He l' Yolution in the aO"ricultural m thod of the tate of Georo'ia. It ha demon trated the advantage and po ibilitie of a diver ifiec1 y tem, an I the uccess of thi plant ha been wonderful on account of it high feed and fattening value for wine and cattl ." To thi , the Government mio-ht have- aid al 0 for oil buildino'; a Georo'ia farmer have found it ha great value alono' this line. bout tw Ive bu h Is i the u ual yield per acre. much laro' I' yield ha been harve ted wher pecial attention, und I' favorable condition, wa given the plant durino' it growing and fruiting tage.
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THE TABLE PEA
The table pea is generally cIa sed with beans by Eastern and
Western folk. They are entirely different from beans and fully
as good, or better.
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, 'Boston Baked Bean ," nice as they are, stand second to "Hop and John"-Southern table pea and rice served together.
Table peas are good also for the milch cow, for pigeons, and for poultry in general.
There are several varieties: the black-eyed crowder, sugar crowder, lady pea, speckled pea and the regular cowpea.
When vegetables are off the market or, when on, at too high a price, every good Southern housewife begins at once to put edible Georgia peas into circulation.
The value and usefulness of the Georgia table pea are recognized not only within our own borders, but in many markets outside our State.
HAY
There are perhaps a dozen grasses and lernmes which are profitably grown for hay. Cowpea and combinations of cowpeas with gra ses are of great importance. They rank high in proteins, beinD' almost equal to alfalfa. To the e may be added Soy Bean, Alfalfa, Velvet Bean and Clover. There is never enough raised to supply the State' need, and Cowpea, Soy Bean and Alfalfa hays are always in demand. Velvet Beans are largely used for cattle and hogs by lettinD' the animals graze them in the fields. The kernel' are quite hard and remain in good condition for the animals for many months in the winter.
The recent addition of the O-Too-Tan and Laredo varieties of Soys have added to the profitable ha and grazing possibilities; yield of two to three ton per acre being po ible, with a resultant soil improvement. With proper care, a high quality Alfalfa can be raised that equals any brought into the State and a satisfactory price assured. .
With the favorable conditions eri ting in Georgia for hay making and the feeding of animals by grazing, there eems to be no plausible reason why hay hould have to be shipped into the State for our live to k.
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GEORGIA GRAIN PRODUOTS.
1. C1ltting ensilage to,' a pai,' at 1noclern GeOl'gia silos,
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2. A wheat field in Georgia.
3, P,'oot at the State's good hay yielcl.
Sugar Cane
no'ar cane is grown in about four-fifth of the Georo'ia counties. '1h main commercial area ha its c nter at Oairo in Grady Oounty.
The inc1u try has had it up and 10'wn , but i now on a firm ba i , and can be depended upon for rea onable profit in mo t years, In other place in th coa tal plains there are numerou point which are beo'inning to grow enough cane to be of importance commercially.
Practically all our u o'ar cane i u e 1 in making yrup. How vel', not all of it i cru b. d for the juice. The full talk mu t be planted as ee 1 for the followin o' crop, con equently, a con i lerable percent of ach year' u o'ar cane i banked for
ed. In some of the ugar cane conntie of GeorO'ia, the crop i OTown from the tubble of the year previou
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CANE GRINDINGS In the cane groWIng ection of outh GeorO'ia, CA:t\TE GRI DIN GS are popular ocial affair durin o' the long, cool autumn evening. Fun, frolic and drinkin o', without restriction, the whole o;me cane juice fresh from the near-by mill make the occaSIOns long remembered by tho fond of innocent social pastimes.
Georgia Sugar Oane
SORGHUM Sorghum cane may be grown in all part of the State. It is extensively grown for yrup in the Northern portion of the State. It is grown alone, or in connection with cowpeas as a general stock feed. By varying the plantings from early to late, it can be used
. as a green feed for pigs for several month during the Summer.
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\Vatermelons
Our watermelons have a national reputation for earliness nnd quality. Georgia usually ranks fir t in quantity, shipping anywhere from ten to fifteen thousand cars each a on. Occaionally, in a bad ea on, Texas and Florida may threaten our superiority. Tom Wat on , Iri h Gray, Rattlesnake and Excell are among the principal hippinD' varieties. However, everybody knows all about G oro-ia melons, so why expand. Detailed lata will be found in the statistical supplement.
Melons for home u e and for market in nearby towns are even better than the hippinD' ort, and thou ands of acres of . uch melon ar not inclu Ie I in the tabulated data.
Wtll'ER1I1ELO 7 MrlICE 1I10"tl EY FOR 111A Y GROll ER
CANTALOUPES
The three mo t important antaloupe tate are alifornia, Colorado and Georo'ia, in the ord l' nam d. Our hipping season i uch that it doe not compete with either of the other tate directl ,except that it occa ionally overlap that of southern California.
The Georgia cantaloupe i 0' nerally conceded to be superior in flavor. orne peciali t ar of the opinion that the proceed from thi product would be even O'reater if more care was used in packing and crating.
Valdo ta and Camilla have been the center of production for many years. Recently north Georgia communities have been experimenting with thi crop, with varying success.
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Pecans
IN GEORGIA PEG iN
The Georgia pecan is in a cIa by itself. Over five-sixths of the tree are of the improved variety, aud the balance principally good eedling of a nperior kind. There were about one million tree of bearing age in 1923, and in 1924 the number will be far iu exce of that amount.
In addition, there are a number of young trees, which were et during the current winter, and which were not included in our e timate.
This great industry, with its center at Albany, has grown up in the la t few yeals. About fi ve million pounds are produced for market, and are largely handled by co-operative marketing a socia tiOllS. La t season the price was 37 cent per pound aU around, with a net valuation of lightly under two million dollar.
The time is in sight when the pecan indu try in Georgia will rival the walnut indu try in alifornia, if it does not already do o.
Dimensions ot mtts one-halt ot the natural size.
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FORTUNES IN GEORGIA TR 'K OROP .
GeOl"gia CatLlitloweT.
Cabbage ana Tomatoes.
TRUCK CROPS With a wid sea onal and soil ran<Ye, there is carcely one of the truck crops that can not be grown in Georo'ia. Since the invasion of the boll weevil the farmers have been c1eveloping other sources of cash income than cotton. Among the e are truck crop. They require a maximum of kill and market knowledge, and there is considerable ri k in some of them. However, the possibilities of these crops may be seen when we quote the official figure for" cukes" for last year. This crop brought $160 per acre, althouo'h it was a very bad year. Among other crops grown on a considerable scale are: snapbeans, Engli h peas, tomatoes, cabbage, lettuce, pimento peppvI'S, cantaloupes and watermelons. The truck crop industry is in its infancy, and shows promise of vast expan ion during the coming s a on.
(See Mi cellaneous Special arop Map in Part III of this booklet)
The Georgia Peach
The Georgia peach is prop rly cla ed a one of the mo t delightful and lu ciou fruit placed upon the American market. The eagerness shown for Georgia peaches by a consuminlY public in paying a fancy price for this popular fruit, relYardle s of small or large supplies, proves their value beyond question.
The largest peach orchards in the world are in Georgia. Fort Valley, one of the growing and thrivinlY cities in this ection of our State, ha in tituted an annual FE TIVAL ba ed upon the beauty of the orchard in the mid t of their full bloom sea on. It might "sell be t rmed PE CR BLO OM D Y. (See Some Georgia el britie in back of Part I.)
The annual crop i ,alued at between nine and ten million dollar ; there are about eleven million bearing trees in the State.
In the production of peaches, Georgia i econd in the tates of the nion, beino' urpa ed only by California.
THE HOME ORCHARD During the 'fortie and 'fiftie no typical hom plantation or home farm wa regal' led a prop rly quipped unlcs there wa within ea y I' ach of the home an orchard of elected eec1ling fruit, peache , apples, nectarine , pears, plum , cherrie , apricot ,:fig , quince, pomegranate and the malleI' fruit. The home orchard of the la t mid-century hell a warm place in the heart of the South. To get maximum re ult in marketing the crop the Georgia Peach Grower' Exchange, with headquarters in bcon, Georgia, offer it ervices to all member . larg p r cent of the peach grower are member of thi organization.
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GEORGIA'S FRUIT ORCHARDS.
The lm'gesl Peach Orchal'd in the World, at Fort Valley, Georgia.
Ftal Bloom Geol'gia Peal's, DougheTty COtmty,
Mechanical Spraying in a Georgia 01'chal'd,
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Apples
ommercial apple are grown principally in the foothills and .the Piedmont region of GeorO'ia.. How vel', apples for home u e are OTown 0,," I' larger ar a of the tate-practically all countie , with few exception, reportin o' ome apples.
Thi indu try in the northern ountie of our State has grown rapidly within rec nt year ; an 1 to la), there are many
commercial or hard of bearino' tr e , and tr e ju t oming into
bearing; also, many other orchardi tare ju t beginning to pecializ in thi particular fruit.
In 1923 G orgia' total apple crop amounted to 64,000 bu hel .
TheI' .i. an ever increa ing local and foreio'n demand for Georgia apple of the b tter varietie .
The varietie which hav been O'rown mo t ucces fully are the Yellow Transparent, Re 1 June, Red trachan, Rome Beaut, Wine ap, Grime' Gollen, "' ealthy, Kinnard, hockley, Yate , Horse, Deliciou , Ben Da, i , York, Terry Winter and Limbertwi 0'.
THE HONEY BEE
In the con ideration of G orgia' di, er ified products, bees are entitled to a prominent plac. Within the borders of Georgia is found the laro'e t apiary in the nited State. Thi apiar consi t of more than eleven thou and tand of bees, from which both honey and bee are hipped in large quantitie ; strained honey often bing shipped by thi and other apiari t in car-load lot .
Recently Georo'ia' leo'i lature enacted a bee-keepers law which, by police in pection, protect thi in Iu try in GeorO'ia from the d v lopment 01' pread of foul brood and other eli ease detrimental to b e culture. Thi in pection prevent the introduction of bee eli ease from other tat ,and equally protect tho e \, ho purcha e bee from GeorO'ia apiarie. It i administered a one of the activities of tb tat Board of Entomology.
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OTHER FRUITS AND BERRIES Pear, per Unmons, oran<Ye , plum, prune, chen'ie and quince are ucce fully OTO'I\TJ1, althouo'h at pre nt on a malleI' cale than the fruits alread mentioned. Of the kind named, pear an i plum are grown in greate t volume. The trawberry i generally adaptable throu<Yhout the tate. There are many varietie ,mo t of them excellent. Preference and attention figure prominently in succe ful trawberry culture. Recently trawberry culture for commercial purpose ha received pecial attention in the northwe t part of our tate. Thi berry can be OTOwn for commercial purpo es allover Georgia. The acres devoted to berry culture in the counti s on the outhern border beino' able to plac ripe berrie on the market coincident with the north rn countie of Florida, which will be something like five or six week before the time when this berry I' ache it full maturity on the border of Georgia and Tenne see. Recently in orne section of outh Georgia dewberry culture ha b en developed on a mall cale, and blueberrie ar no' beino' planted. What i true a to yi ld and profit with the trawberry and dewberry, i equally true with the ra pberry, blackberry and other berrie ; but, perhap , none have received the attention which ha been given to trawberrie. e 1i cellaneou Special rop fap in Part III of thi booklet)
The Girls' Canning Club Exhibit at the Southeastent Fai1', Atlanta, Ga.
H011'I G TilE PROGRE' OF THE A I G MOVEME T.
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Live Stock In Georgia
Raising live stock in Georgia is not an experiment. In
the 'fifties, live stock farming was the successful practice of the
farmers and planters. The results of the war between the sec-
tions wrought a revolution in that respect. Apparently condi-
tions at that time justified the disastrous" one-crop-all cotton"
practice. Cotton was in demand at a high price per pound and
was accorded "standing at bank."
These facts constitute the "reason why" Georgia farmers,
generally, gave the larger part of their attention, through a long
series of years, to cotton culture. It was practically and exclu-
sively THE MO EY CROP.
In the present re-adjustment period, live stock has had a
continued and healthy increase, and the cotton farmers are rap-
idly realizing that it is the best insurance policy on the farm.
Thousands of dollar are going into creameries, cheese fac-
tories, fences, poultry feeding plants an 1 hatcheries, reflecting
the faith of our people in the future of the industry.
(See "Live Stock Po ibilities in Georo"ia"-Page 51, Part I)
GRASSES AND PASTURES
The climate and oil are adapted to the gra se.s and clovers
nece sary for a long and heavy grazinO" p riod. Soiling crops
and feed crop, mo t of which can be graz d off aving the expense of gathering, storino and feedin o', grow in great abun-
dance and variety. This in ure a teady, profitable increase in
our live stock industry.
Recently considerable attention ha been given in variou
portions of Georgia to what is known a permanent pastures.
This may be a combination of foreign or native gra es. Tho e
grazing their live stock on such pa tures are quoted as reporting
sati factory re ults.
BERMUDA A STAYER
Bermuda gra i easily grown in all ection of Georgia. It
has not only staying qualitie , but binding qualities also. Some
one has said that "Bermuda will tie the ground so tight that
you may run a mill dam over it without disturbing it in the
least." It die down after the first fro t, but reports for duty
at the first blush of spring.
There are many valuable grasses indigenous to Georgia soil.
In large areas of Georgia these wild gra es furnish ample
pasturage on which live stock may graze for a large portion of
the year.
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GEORGIA'S CATTLE INDUSTRY.
2. Geol'gia Hereford Calves. 3. Stock pens at the S01,thcastel'n Fair, Atlanta. 4-5. Georgia Prize B1tlZs. 6. GeOl'gia Beet in a GeOl-' gia Packing House.
IT IS GROWING EVERY DAY.
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Hog Raising in Georgia
The hog industry in Georgia i as yet in it infancy. Georgia's meat bill, in addition to home grown and home killed meat, ranges between fifteen and twenty million dollars annually. To illustrate the plendid opportunitie in Georgia's agricultural development, we de ire to call attention to the fact that during the year of 1923, throuO'h packing hou e ao'encie exclusively, 30,164, 46 pounds of dry salt meat, 5,015,667 pounds of sugarcured smoked meat and 4,12 ,740 pound of dry alt moked meat , or a total of 39,309,263 pound of" ide meats" were shipped into the State of Georgia. Converted into 150 pound hog, estimating" ide meat" to av raO'e 12 per cent of each hog, it required 2,1 3, 4 hog, weighin o. 150 pounds each, to upply this part of our meat bill. Each of Georgia's 160 counties would have to produce an additional 13,649 hogs in order to put Georgia on a self- u taining basis for" ide meats" alone.
Those who are interested in greater details as to the amount purcha ed and the months during which these purcha es are heaviest, are re pectfully referred to the chart apparing in Part III of the stati tical ection of this bulletin.
Thi chart indicates plainly the neces ity of :fini hing fall pigs for spring and summer markets. 0 state in the nion i better suited for this than is the State of Georo'ia with its unexcelled climatic and oil conditions.
CHOLERA AND TUBERCULO~S
In this connection it hould be tated that the office of the State Veterinarian ha been quite active in protecting our citizens from loss against hog cholera. Also a vigorous campaign has been waged against tuberculosi among dairy herds; thus rendering valuable service by way of protection to the consumer of milk and dairy product. A laro'e per cent of the pure-bred breeding herd of cattle in the State are on the tate and federal accredited tuberculosis free herd list.
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MONEY I GEORGIl IIOG .
1. "Uncle Billy" and his IJrize hog. 2. A p,'ize winning pen at the olttheastern 1Cti,'. 3. Pals at the fai,'. 4. Ready 101' the judges. 5. A cool corner in an Atlanta packing IJlant.
FROM PE TO Pi1 KING PLA ... T. ERADICATION OF THE CATTLE TICK Durino' th pa t two decade much ucce ful work has been accompli hed in th eradication of the cattle tick in G orgia. The re ult "on are due principally to the fact that every availalIe agency ha co-op rated to a greater or 1 :stent to ecure the de truction of the cattle tick ov r the entire area of G orO'ia. The work of di eminating information relativ to the need of tick era lication ha been TIO'orou ly pro ecut d by both fedoral and tate authoritie intru ted with thi police work. Their co-operation ha been functionin o' principally tbrouo-h the office
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of th tate eterinarian-a divi ion of the GeorO'ia Department of griculture.
Thi ubje t i one of inter t to all the citizen of our tate, as well a to tho e of other ction, who may contemplate makinO'th ir future home in Georo-ia.
ucce ful and profitable live tock operation cannot be conducted in an area inf t d with the deadl cattle tick.
U present thi work of the tate i almo t complete, lacking only three or four counti on or near the Flori la border; the ear now engaO'ed in y tematic tick radication.
( ee Tick Eradication Map in PART III of thi 1ooldet)
PRIZE TIl
'TOCK.
Georgia Here/ora Cattl at the S01dhcaste1'n Fai1',
DAIRYING IN GEORGIA.
Scenes on One 0/ Georgia's Up-to-date Dai1'y Fanns. 34
Poultry
The " ilver lining" of the ao-ricultural ituation is furui hed by the poultry indu try. Thi ilver linino- i not metaphorical, but i r pre ented by actual currency of the realm.
The increa e in the number of chicken has been so rapid that it has been impossible to ch ck the ri e or to compute accurately the amount of the net pr fit ecured. However, there
P,ominent in the Prog1am ot DiVlrsifted Aglicult1tle.
He l'epTesents a host ot m01'e than Ten Millions in Geo/"gia to-clay.
i no que tion that our production of chicken and ego- xceed' in value any of our crop , with the xception of cotton and corn, and that it rivals, if it does not surpa s, our dairy and swine indu trie. Poultry and poultry pro lucts are in value somewhere between b\ enty-five and thirty million dollar.
In the pa t, va t quantitie of chicken anI ego- have been imported into the tate, but ince about 1915 our production ha been gradually ri ing until last year about one hundred cooperative carlot sales were held in this State; and a good many of these were shipped to ea tern markets. Georo-ia' opportunitie alono- this lin will be found in a favorable climate throughout the year. Early Spring hatche can be made very ucce sfully in this tate, o-ivino- u the opportunity to d velop a o-reat indu try here in the early broiler trade for the markets further north.
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What the future has in tore for this industry may perhaps be vi ualiz d by the Ii t of commercial hatcherie , which i append d, with capacity of approximately 600,000 egg per hatch. Most of the e machines are now in operation and have been running teadily ince January. (See poultry tati tic, part III, of thi booklet.)
A further, and also very important, fact i that practically
all the ego u ed in the commer ial hatcherie come from the
highest cIa of thorough-bred tock. We may expect, there-
fore, not only incr a e in poultry rai ing and selling, but also
a va t improvement in the tock on farms.
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laro'e proportion of the pullets rai ed will be retained for . layer the coming ea on, i\'hile the urplu fry l' will take care
both of the local demand and the carload hipment to the great con uming center "
In pite of the OTeat advance indicat d by the official fismres, our county reporter eem to think that we have been con ervative rath l' than otherwi e.
Govent7ltent Tehabilitation veterans ot the World Wal" st1~dying POUltTy at Georgia ~ tate College ot Agricl~ltul'e"
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TIlE TATE OAPITOL
AT ATLA TA
From the dome of th capitol you can ee the cre t of
THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS
"Unerican lp"
Travelers who are fond of striking comparisons call the Blue Ridge chain of 1110tmtains in northeast Georgia "the American Alps".
A nttmber of wealthy admirers of this ntggedly beatttiful ect,ion o emphatically pl'efer the Blue Ridge lothe n'i Alps thett they have built home there.
The mo t notable of the e scenic mountain are Yonah, Tray, Black Rock and creamer. Among them are Wlnmer hotel, which are annually popular with many tow'i t and 1'egular visitors.
The natttral beattty of these mountain has to be seen to be appreciated. Apply all the adjectives customary in sttch de criplions and you will disappoint tho e who have een them.
ll'ith the growing realization by American that they do not have to go ove?' ea for wonderful mountain and scenery, the Blue Ridge ection seems destined to win a place of its own that will make it not only nationally but intentationally famed.
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The Georgia Department
of Agriculture
Thi i one of the great departments of our tat Governm nt, and function through variou divi ion.
FERTILIZER AND INSECTICIDE INSPECTION
The Divi ion of Fertilizer In pection, through a corp of in p ctor ,protect our aOTicultural intere t in it use of commercial f rtilizer. The e in pectors, in the di charO'e of their dutie ,take ample of comm rcial f rtilizer throughout the state and, on r que, t, take pecial ample, which are ent to the Department for analy i in the state laboratori ,where complete official record are k pt and official report i u d to tho e reque ting nch pecial anal e. .An in pection tax tag of the ~gricultural Department guaranteeing the analy i mu t b placed on each ack of commercial fertiliz r.
R cently a tat law ha placed all in ecticide un leI' the arne regulation as fertilizer.
PURE FOOD AND DRUG DIVISION
The Pure Food Diyi ion, in like mamler, throuo'h it corp of in pector who are on the job twelv month in th year, protect man and bea t in the u e of food and concentrat d commercial feeds marketed in our tate. These product mn t likewi e carry a Department in pection tamp.
The Dru 0' Divi ion O'ive the arne protection to all who patronize the pre cription and medicin I partment of our drug tore and phal'macie. The whole tate i under the juri diction of our tate Drug In pector.
OIL AND GASOLINE DIVISION
The Oil and Ga oline Divi ion conduct , throu o'h local oil inp tor, an in pection te t of every ar of o'a aline and illuminating oil enterino' our tate. By making the e in pection te L and watching for all violator of the O'a oline and oil law of our tate, the tate and local oil in peetor give protection, both to the lif and pocketbook of the purcha er of these commoditie .
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AT THE GEORGIA EXPERBfE T TATIO
1. Japanese pl1L?nS 1Lsecl in st1Ldy ot Pl1L1n Wilt. 2. ElbeTta peach tTees. 3. Cm'man peach tree gl'o1On on stock ot lOild
peach ot China, in a seal'ch tOl'
Toots l'esistant to the ne?1wtode.
4. Young figs lJrOpeTly pnmed.
~=:iiiii'iiY"'''~''''>,,'''.'''''''''''''~~''fu~~~~~~~~~e'. 5. A. fertilizel' eX1Jeriment 10ith MaYflower peach trees. 6. Soy beans grolOn in connection with torage crop
investigations. 7. Oats grolOn by the open fun'o1/) method. 8. Conm'ete mule
barn.
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INSPECTORS ARE STATE OFFICIALS
All the above mentioned in pe tor are tate official under oath. All sample properly ealed are ent to the Department for analy is in it laboratorie. The official analy e of the e amples become a part of the permanent record kept by the laboratory for each of the above named divi ion. The record ar u ed a eviden e in court action between fertiliz I' companie and fertiliz I' con umers.
SELF SUPPORTING
No funds from ad valorem tax are u ed by the tate Department of Agricultur. It i If-su taining and annuall place in the State Trea ury more money than it draw out for maintenance.
SOIL BACTERIA
n expert bacteriologi t in the tat laboratorie upervi e the production of oil bacteria for use on Georgia farms; it i ~old at co t, which is thirty c nt p I' acre. ~ccording to our information, this low price for oil bacteria cannot be duplicated anywhere else.
Each year the farmer of Georgia ar u ing more and more of thi inoculation for their acre planted to th variou legume . One of the principal obje t in plantin o' leoum in our tat i for the purpose of oil improv ment. The ability of the e plant to gather and tore nitrogen in our oil i greatly incr a ed by treating the ee i, or the oil, with oil bact ria; al 0, the vigor of the plant produced when thus tr ate i, a "ell a the increa ed yieli ecured, will man time over repay the farmer for the additional initial cost of thirty cent per acr .
few of the crop mo t o'enerally treat d with oil bacteria ar mention 1: field pea , gard n p as, bean , alfalfa, clover and peanut.
STATISTICS
Co-operative rop Reporting rVl e
The G orgia D partment of o'riculture, through it Diviion of tati tic , too-ether with the . Bureau of oTicultural Economic ani the Stat CoIl o'e of oTicultur, maintain a
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Co-op rative Crop Reporting Service, under the direction of Mr. Z. R. Pettet, Stati tician in charge of the local office of the U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics.
ThrouO'h this co-operation, the Georoia Department of griculture i able to publish in Part III of this bookl t more complete state and county stati tics as to acreage, yield and ,-alue than it has ever published before. In fact, none of these ag ncies operating alone could secure such complete statistic , or could issue such frequent crop reports as are now secured an I i sued through thi co-operative arrangement.
All other tates i suing county statistic, with one exception, have co-operation, and in most cases have the benefit of basic yearly tax as es or' data on crops.
All statistics given in Part III of tbis booklet, except tho e where author hip i otherwise acknowledo'ed, were compiled by thi Co-operative Crop Reportino' Service.
Weare quite sure that the tati tical information contained in thi booldet will answer many urgent inquiries and add much to the u efulne & and efficiency of the Department's records.
Twin silos, moclm'n 1nilking barn and the clairy he1'cl at the Gem'gia Masonic Orphans' Home, Macon, Geo1gia.
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State Bureau of Markets
By L. B. JACKSON, Director
THE
D NOW
Looking backward to the year nineteen seventeen when the Georgia State Bureau of i[arkets wa created by an ct of the General embly, we remember that the newspaper of the State were constantly editorially deploring the fact that Georgia diver ified farm products had no market and that for this rea",on we were tied to the one crop y tern. It was true that if a farmer grew ornething other than cotton and carried it to a n arby town to try and realize orne ca h he wa doomed to bitter disappointment. Realizing that omething mu t be done to I' lieve our farmer of thi situation Commi ioner of Agriculture J. J. Brown, in hi succe sful campaign of 1916, forcefully called the attention of the p ople of the tate to this deplorable condition and pI dged that if elect d Commi ioner of Agriculture he would u e every mean in hi~ power to set up machinery within the Georgia Department of Agriculture that would correct the wrongful condition, and provide a market for those diver ified product that our farmer might grow. Commi ioner Brown al 0 drove home the fact that our principal crop-cotton-had been for years struggling under a y tern of marketing whereby the farmer had no voice or influence in the malting of the price. So, when Commi ioner Brown was elected and came into office in the Spring of 1917, he et about to carry out the reform about" hich he had been peaking to the people.
A modest beginning was made by the ne,v-born babe, the State Bureau of Market. One of the fir t act of it en tence ha had a wond rful effect in the y aI'S that have ince pa sed. This Bureau discovered that w et potatoes had been left off the ration list for the Army and avy. GatherinO' data howing the superior food value of weet potatoe the Bureau went to the Quarterma tel' G neral of the Unite I State and pre ed th claim of the Sweet Potato. But the Quart rma tel' General made the announcement that the ration Ii t wa clo ed and the
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weet potato would not 0'0 on. Rallying our fri n 1 in Con9'1' th matt I' wa carried 0 th Pre id nt and he l' coo-nized the unju t and unwi e omi ion and ord red that weet potatoe hould go on the ration li t. nd 0 it came to pa that boy from the north who trained in outhern camp cam to know ih merit of 'outhem w t potato and have been a wonderful help vel' ince in acquaintino' other with our potatoe. nd 0, only a few month old in the umm I' of 1917, we appealed to the General emll} for 1 gal cr a ion and appropriation. They gave u our legal pow rs and a mode t appropriation. At nce we put men in the fi ld an 1 at every mall trading point in the tate we sought to in luce ome one to become a buyer of diver ifie 1 farm products. Our field men pledo'ed to such a buyer that if he would buy the e product from our farmers in small or large lot \\ would o'ive uch buyer all th a. i tance within our power to help him l' 11 the e product at a fair margin of profit.
We then commenced our weekly "Market Bulletin." Our
fir t i sue wa on a mimeograph and only containe 1 about a
dozen item. But the thouo'ht wa a winner. Pretty oon our
Bull tin a umed uch proportion that we ha 1 to abandon the
mimeooTaph and u e the multio'!'aph. nd a littl later our in-
crea e in matter and reader wa 0 0'1' at that we had to go to
th ommercial Printing PI'
0, today our" 1arket Bulle-
tin" i farm pap l' ize containino' orne week ixt en pao-e
and every word in it fre h for that week. ar to a hun ired
thou and copie a week and very one that o'et it ay they
would not be without it. Th " 1ark t Bulletin" ha borne 0
int rwoven in our farm life a, to be indi pen able. The "Mar-
ket Bulletin" i lov d by everyone, except a lfi h O'1'OUp of
profite I' and peculator 'who have b en trying to de troy it
ever ince it birth. Cunning political trick of every nature
have been re orted to in their effort to kill the" 1ark t Bulle-
tin." Perhap a little later this story will be told in full in
order that the farmers of the State may lmo" how hard their
organ, the" Market Bulletin," ha had to fight for its existence.
The elling power of the" Market Bulletin" i truly marvelous.
nle one ha had experi nce with it you can hardl conceive
the re ult you obtain by adverti ino' your farm product in it
column. The Bulletin i free to everyone who need it. It
column are fr e to everyone who ha a Georgia farm product
that they wi h to sell or buy. We regret to say that we have
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had to deny the use to orne who e dealings with their fellow man proved unreliable. The Bureau of Markets .an 1 the" Market Bulletin" do not co t the a 1 valor m tax payer of Georgia a penny. It i maintained altoo-ether fr m the fertilizer tax. The money that now maintain the tate Bureau of brket and the "Market Bull tin," prior .to 1921 went into the pockets of the fertilizer companie. Th law of 1921 corrected thi and compelled the fertilizer companie to pay the State of Georgia the same a th y W re paying other outhea tern states, and provided that out of thi money 0 reco,ered that the Bureau of Markets and the "Market Bulletin" hould be maintained.
omparatively few citizen of th tate know thi a toundino' fact. Th farmer of G oro'ia carcely know the battle it took to o'et this service for them out of money that wa rio'htfully for their ervice.
And 0 the work continued to broad n until it became an e tabli hed fact that the farmer had for th m elve located in the State Capitol Builclino., at Ulanta, a mammoth clearing hou e for farm pro luct. The lin ext ndino' from the office in the Capitol to every nook an 1 corner of the tate and to all the buyer of the ation- Jorth, Ea t, outh and West. A OTeat big clearing hou e where ever farmer feel perfectly at home no matter if he ha only a dozen eo'O' or a carload of product. Ev ry man conn cted with the Bureau of Market i picked for hi peculiar fitne for the job he hold. Every man i~ in tructed to con tantly feel him elf in the hoe of the farmer and to han II the farmer' problem a if it were hi own. Every man with hi han 1 outstretched to help the farmer 'with any marketino- problem he may hav. And a the work proO're ed we find our field men holding hog and poultry ale all over the State. The offi e force reache out all over the land for the best price and then our expert are ent to grade the product .
Soon aft I' the birth of thi Bureau w undertook under the leader hip of ommi ioner of oTiculture J. J. Bro',','u a fight for a better price for cotton. We call d th Commi ioner of ~ griculture and Market Director of the variou cotton tate into conference at New 01'1 an , anI there wa organized the Cotton tate dvi ory hrketlll0 ' Board, of which Commi ~ioner Brown wa ma Ie Chairman. Th functio of thi Board were purely advi ory. From tim to time th Board met and from data gathered on the cotton ituation gave out uch
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statement a they believed would enlio'hten our cotton farmers on the cotton market. Thi i th Board that wao' d the succe ful battl aO'ain t the Bill that were introduced in on!lTe by member from the orth eem o' to fix a price of fifteen cent a pound for our cotton, when it wa then bringing over thirty-five cent. This i the Board that uccessfully resi ted the effort that wa made before the Food Administration to take our cotton eed for Ie than what they were worth.
The merican Cotton A 0 iation havino' been organized
tbe Board di olved. The battle for b tter price for cotton
was kept up by the i. ociation und I' the leader hip of Mr. J. S.
Wannamak 1', of t. Matthew,
Then f 11 the unnece ary
blow to o-riculture, 'which \Va truck b the Federal Reserve
Banle We con ill' thi the OTeate t mi take of thi oeneration.
It wa not nece ary to. kill farmin o' and industry in order to
brin o' about deflation. It could have b en accompli hed by th
F deral R erve Boar 1 I' trictino'loan for peculation in Wall
treet. The Am rican otton sociation made a plendid
effort to protect cotton, but the F ler31 Re erve Board wa uc-
ce sful in ending the price to the bottom. t a meeting of tbe
~merican Cotton A ociation held in Monto'omery, ' Ua., Mr.
Aaron Sapiro, the noted California marketino' expert, wa in-
vited to peak. uch an impre ion did be mak that he was
invited to peak later in Georgia. And then tep were taken
to oro'anize tbe Georgia Cotton Grower Co-operative As ocia-
tion. The tat Bm au of {ark t , under the leadership of
Commi ioner Brown, cam out un quivocally for co-operative
marketino' on th alifornia plan. ,Ve are proud of our work
in helpin o' oro'aniz our pI' S nt cotton o-op rative a ociation.
nd then came our fforts in b balf of the Can Growers of
South G oro-ia. i.nd later, e brouo'ht Mr. apiro back to the
tate for a pee hat Ibany, Ga., on February 9, 1923, and from
tbi meetino' prang th G rgia P anut Grow l' o-operative
ociation, in the oro'anization of which our field force ma-
terially a i ted. Our co-operative marketing pecialists are
bu y organizing local co-operativ marketino' groups-that is
on product that bave no tat -wide organization.
Wear furni hing in co-operation with the . S. Depart-
m nt of ~griculture a market news service on peache , water-
melon, etc., that is of great value to the grow rs of those
product. Aloin co-operation ,vith the
. Department of
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O"riculture we are maintainin oo a hipping point in pection service whereby our in pector will in pect and certify a to the car at 10adinO" point. Th Peach Grower o-operative
ociation have already reque te i that thi ea on we in pect every car of peache they will hip.
nd so we might 0'0 on indefinit ly, but the point we would especially tre s is to call attention to the complete I' v I' al of marketinO" condition in tbi tate now a compared to 1917. If anyone today ha a Georo'ia farm product in merchantable condition that he cannot ell, it i beau e he doe not acquaint tbi Bureau with the fact. If he will let u know about it we will ell it for bim and at a O"ood a price a that product i bringinO" any where in the nited tate
We want to ooet over to our citizen th fact that we are here for their u e. 0 matter how larg or how mall we invite your marketing problem. PI a e look upon very man connected with the Bureau of :Market a your p ronal employ ready and anxiou to erve you.
A GFJOR(lIA PJ.VE PORE T.
The SOll1'ce ot Tm'pentine ana Rosin.
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Agricultural Education
There i in Georgia, as in the other states of the nion, a college of agriculture, operated in accordance with the Merrill Act of 1862.
Georgia's State Oollege of Agriculture is located at Athens on a large tract, adjoining the State University. This institution gives pecific instruction on agricultural and home economic subjects pertaining to the general welfare of Georgia people. Its extension work is supported by the co-operation of the State and Federal Government, and i conducted through the office of the Director of thi Extension Service.
(See cut of college buildings on next page)
l-The \.dministration Buildino' of the Georgia State Oollege of Agriculture, Athens, Georgia.
2-Harc1man Hall, the mo t modern nimal Husbandry Building in the South, used for in truction, livestock judging and experimental work at the State Oollege of Agriculture, Atbens, Georgia.
3-A partial view of the campus. 4--The Woman's Buildino', State Oollege of Agriculture,
Athens. 5-Engineerino' Building. 6-0ne of the modern barns of the State 011 ge of Agricul-
ture, thens.
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS
THE EXPERJ i[ENT ST ~TION, located at Experiment, Georo'ia, is oro'anized in keeping with tbe provisions of the Hatch and Adams \.ct. This station has done an l is doinO' an important work in furthering agriculture in Georgia. The State Oommis ioner of griculture is ex-officio president of the Board directing the affairs of this station.
THE OOASTAL PLAI1~ EXPERIMENT STATION, at Tifton, Georgia, recently authorized by an Act of the General As embly of Georgia, bas already functioned for a few years, and is rendering invaluable service to agriculture in the coastal plain of our State. The Oommission I' of Agriculture i an exofficio member of this Board.
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DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS The e chools afford to hundred of girls and boys ample opportunity to prepare for a univer ity or college cour e, or, in the event they may not be financially able to realize their ambition in that particular, the e chool offer intellectual training that will qualify them for the battles of life.
O'riculturally, the e chool are doing much good, and are improvinO' year b year. They have pa ed the experimental ~ tag-e, and are now confirminO' the wisdom of the legislation "'hi h authorized their e tabli hment and provided liberally for tli ir upport.
District Agricult~lral School at Tifton
SMITH-HUGHES VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS
In addition to the twelve district a oTicultural chool, vocational agriculture under the mith-Huo'he plan i taught in forty-one hio-h chools for white and twenty-one for colored. In the e chools a practical four-year cour e in ao-riculture i giH'n a a part of the high chool trainin 0'. pproximately 2,500 pupils are emolled in the vocational aOTicultural cla es. Last year, these bo produced farm products to the value of $BO,322.18. Thi work was carried on as a regular part of their CllOOI instruction through "home projects." Thi amount was considerably in excess of the total co t of thi work for the la t year. It i , in fact, a return of $1.57 for every dollar invested in this type of education. The project returns for this year exceed those of last by $41,914.77.
That cotton can be ucce fully produced in pite of the weevil was clearly shown in an exhibit at the Southea tern Fair, which gave the re ult of the cotton projects of the boys in the
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hio'h schools of the tate, who were enrolled ill agricultural classes last year.
The e bo produc d an averao'e of two bale of lint on three acre of land. Had the av rao'e production for the tate a a whole been a laro'e a that of th e boy , the crop la t year would ha",e been 'worth $101,000,000 more than it actually brouoht.
More than 500 boy in chool repre enting all part of the tate carried on cotton project and, almo t without exception, the}T mad excellent yield.
The tock ju ]ging team from Georgia GEORGIA FIRST that ha",e O'one to the International IN STOCK JUDGING Live tock Expo ition in Chicago for
the pa t four year and judO'ed tock in comp tition with eyery state in the country tand at the top of the Ii t of tate in the total point ma Ie for the four-year period. Thi is an honor in which Georo'ia hould take no little pride in view of the fact that our boy have y ar after year con i tently ranked above team from the be t live tock producing tates in the country. The rank of th fir t ix tate in the contest i O'iven below:
tate Georoia Iowa Incliana Illinoi fi ouri Michio'an
Point
4422 43 6 4361 4297 4222
4195
Rank
1t 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th
The team repre entinO' Georo'ia have always b en selecte 1 from boys in the Di trict . & M. School. The state contest ha been arranO'ed by upervi or and teacher of vocational agriculture and ha b en won by the ixth, Fifth an 1 Second Di trict School .
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The following is from the pen of B. H.
LIVE STOCK
Heide, Secretary and General Man-
POSSIBILITIES IN ager, International Live Stock Expo-
GEORGIA
ition, mon tock Yar 1, Chicago.
Mr. Heide is one of the most eminent
authorities on live stock in America:
"The Southern tates, e pecially Georgia and the surrounding territory, offer one of the greatest fields for live stock development in the immediate future. The Gulf States have unu ual advantag s which so far have only been scratched on the urface so far as the raising of live stock for the market is concerned. The mild winter, which make expen ive equipment unnecessary, the abundant rainfall which insures against the drouo'hts of Ie s favored ection of the nited State, the large variety of native gra ses an 1 clover which thrive on many types of soils, the abundant supply of cheap nitrogenous concentrates for feeding, such as cotton seed meal and peanut meal, and many
This picture shows an attl'active field ot vetch lying near the Geol'gia raill'oaa. The region about Augusta grolVs more vetch than any othel' section ot the S01ah.
Cut Furnished by Coul'tesy ot Ml', E, S, Cento', J1"" Agr, Agt, Geol'gia Railway,
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ther featur ,make the outh rn tate the n xt logical region for live tock d velopment on thi continent.
That the outh can pro luce a high quality of live tock ha been amply proven b the ucce of entrie from this ection in the large t fail' and expo itions of th country. At the International Live Stock Expo ition, which i h ld annually in December at Ohicago, the Southern exhibitor haye time after time carrie 1 away the highe t honor in the face of the strono'e t competition to be found anywhere on the globe. During recent years there have been o'athered at Ohicago the champion judgi~g team amono' high chool tudent from every section of the country. In the e national competitions the team from the Southern tates hav captured their full share of the coveted honors. Georgia, in particular, ha made an enviable I' cord in thi field, rankino' fir t amono' all the tates that hav sent team to the hicago expo ition; and much of the succes of the t am from that tate i lue to the untiring work of the Supervi. or and teacher of l.gricultural Education for the Georgia tate Boar 1 for Vocational Education, who have fostered the tudy of live tock among the tud nt in GeorO'ia chool ."
GEORGIA HIGII CIIOOL .
1. High School, Savannah. 2, Ina1lst1'ial High School, CoZtlmbus. 3. Hig ana Ma1t1lal T1"aining School, Ashb1l1"7t. 4. Inaust1"ial High School, Bainb,'iag(
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Public Schools
Georgia i making plendid pI'ogre in the development of it public chool. The pa t four year have witne ed a wonderful improvement in the high chool of the tate. In virtually every county two and three-year high schools have been e tablished at accessible points. Only six counties are without the four-year high chool. Consolidation of school in a large number of counties ha not only bettered elementary chool training, but has been quite a factor in the development of county high chools-many of which are located out in the rural districts convenient to farmin o' communities. For the past three or four years, counties, di tricts and municipalities have spent, approximately, three million dollar a year in chool improvem nt , con i tin<Y of new building , equipment, etc.
There i a state law requiring that one-half the State' total income be et a ide for public school education, amounting during the last fiscal year to approximately four and one-half million dollar. To upplement the tate fund, countie , di tricts and municipalitie levy a local tax for the upport of their ,chools. ccording to the la t report of the State Superintendent of School ,over ixteen million dollar wa rai ed, from all ource, during the year for the common schools.
HIGHER EDUCATION Ample opportunitie for cIa ical and t chnical trainino' are aff')rded by the State niver ity and it branche and the Georgia School of Technology-" Geor<Yia Tech." Be ide the e, orne of the leading religious denomination of the State maintain y terns of High School , Colleges and niver ities.
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HIGHER EDUOATIONAL IN TITUTIONS.
1. GeOl'gia School ot Technology, Atlanta, 2. Education Building, Uni, versity ot GeOl'gia, Athens. 3. University ot Georgia Law Building, Athens 4. Dormitm'y, Ge01'gia Norrnal and Industrial College, Milledgeville.
SOME LEADING GEORGIA SOHOOLS.
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Mineral Resources of Georgia
The mineral re ources of Georgia are both varied and exten ive. The tate is producino' at present more than 25 different kind of mineral in commercial quantitie. Thi great diver ity of mineral re ource i accounted for in a large measure by the OTeat diver ity in the geological formations.
ASBESTOS
b to i xtensively min I in Habersham and White countie , near Nacoochee, thi' tate. The Whit County mine have been the chief produ er of a be to in thi country for everal year .
BARYTES
Georgia la t year produced more than half of the baryte mined in th nited State, aU of whi h came from the arterville di trict.
BAUXITE
Sin e 1 a hiO'h percentaO'e of the bauxite mined in thi country ha b en obtained from rkan a , G orgia and labama.
COAL
We have an area of 170 quare mile of coal field till con taining 921,000,000 ton of unmined coal, enough to la t the State, at our pre ent rate of con uml tion, for more than 200 year.
CLAYS
GeorO'ia at pre ent exceed any other tate in the nion in the production of paper cIa). Thirt en larg clay plant are now in operation- on iderabl amount of clay al 0 goe into the potter indu tr , fir -brick , etc,
FULLERS EARTH
Georgia tand e ond in the production of fuller earth, being ex eeded only b Florida.
GRANITES
The O'ranite of Georgia, too"eth I' with the gnei e, con titute the mo t xten i e and one of the mo t important building
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IMPORTA T GEORGIA MINERALS.
Mm'ble tor Ready
hipllt
Works in Pickens CalmLy.
Museum. State Capitol,
m
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STATE FAMOUS FOR QUARRIES.
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and monumental tones in the tate. They occur in inexhaustible quantities and are widely di tributed throughout the Piedmont Plateau.
MARBLES
Previous to 1 84, the marbles of Georgia were practically unknown as building and ornamental stones, but at present the output of the quarrie exceed that of any State in the Union ,vith the exception of Vermont.
The State capitol of Minne ota and Rhode I land; the United States Government building, Bo ton; St. Luke's Hospital,
ew York; the Oorcoran Art Gallery, Washington; and the Field Museum of atural Hi tory, Ohicao'o, TIl., with numerous other hand ome buildino' throughout the nited tates, are constructed wholly or in part of the Georgia marble. There is probably no building tone in this country, in recent years, which bas gained such a wide-spread use and given such universal sati faction a the Georgia marble. The growth of the use of the ~ton ha al 0 been equally as phenomenal in monumental work.
MINERAL WATERS
Mineral springs of o-reater or less importance are widely distributed throughout the State. They are abundant in the Piedmont Plateau and Appalachian Valley, where one or more havinO' a local reputation ar met ,vith in nearly every county. The e pring are especially abtmdant in the mountainous reO'ions of the Piednnont area, wher many of them have become site of prominent summer re orts.
ARTESIAN WELLS
The arte ian wells of Georgia are practically all confined to the Ooa tal Plain, which is the only part of the State where the geological condition are favorable for artesian water upply in large quantities.
WATER POWER
It i estimated that the streams of Georgia at low water will furnish an aggreO'ate of 500,000 horsepower, only a small part of which i now developed. The money value of this power, reckoning a hor epower at $20.00 per annum, is $10,000,000, which i now nearly equal to the State's annual income from tax and all other sources.
Data taken from hand-book, "Mineral Resources of Georgia," by S. W. McOallie, State Geologist.
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Stone Mountain Memorial
Rapid progress being made in the carving of the greatest monu-
ment in the history of mankind.
By Rogers Winter
As thi i ue of "G orgia griculture" went to pre " Gutzon Borglum, the great sculptor, wa carving the head of President Jefferson Davis and General Stonewall Jackson on the precipice of Stone Mountain, preparatory to unveilino' them on June 3, the anniversary of Pre ident Davi 'birth.
The head of General Robert E. Lee wa unveiled on th precipice on Lee' birthday, January 19, with memorable ceremonies attracting national attention, and ince that time the great granite portrait of the outh' beloved chieftain has been seen and admired by thou and of vi itor .
Although the three head of the three principal figures in the central group of the Memorial are by far the o-reatest portraits ever carved in tone or ca t in bronz , they repre ent relatively a mere beginning of what i de tined to be the upreme monument of all time.
Davis, Lee and Jackson are the principal fio-ures of the central group; with them will ride four other mounted figures, representing four lieutenant-o'eneral of the Corr(ederacy, elected by a historical commi ion; while to rio-ht and left of the central group will weep a panorama repre enting the mobilization of the Confederate armed force .
From the artillery group on the right end of the panorama to the la t man in th infantry column on the left end of the panorama, the sweep of the carvin O' "vill mea ure approximately 1,500 feet, and the height will. be approximately 200 feet from the top of the top figure to the bottom of the lowe t figure.
Some idea of the magnitude of the arvin o' may be imao'ined from the following mea urement :
Lee' head i twenty- ight feet hio-h from the top of hi hat brim to hi coat collar; hi no e i ix fe t long; fifte n men can sit on his hat brim. Lee's whole figure from hat crown to hor e's fetlocks will be 165 feet high, or a high a a fifteenstory office building; the other figures in the central group will
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HISTORY'S SUPREME MONUMENT.
Central Group 01 Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial as it Will Appear
When Carvecl on the Precipice.
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be in similar scale; while the entire panorama will be of the ame relative proportions.
J0 other monument in history compares with this. The Pyramids of Egypt are insignificant in compari on with it. Nowhere else can the Stone Mountain Confederat 1emorial be duplicated, for nowhere else exi t uch a mountain. The panorama carved across the precipice.will endure a long as the earth endures. A thousand centurie of ero ion will make no perceptible mark upon these colo sal figure cai'ved in bold relief in the living granite.
Gutzon BOl'glum estimates the co t of the work-including the great Memorial Hall to be quarried out of the mountain below the central group-at $5,000,000. He e timate the time required for the work at ten year. Engine I' of the highe t standing have checked his estimate and pronounced them conservative. The fea ibility of the plan has been thoroughly demonstrated. The work i going forward ,vith increa ing progress.
The money is being rais d by public subscription by the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial A ociation, of which Hollin . Randolph, a lineal de cendant of Thomas Jefferson, is pI' sident. The fund is o'!'owing teaclily and the rate of pro o'ress is increa ing month by month. Congre recently pa eel by unanimou vote a bill authorizing a special issue of five million ilver half-dollar commemorating the commencement of the work, and these will be sold by the A ociation for one dollar each, thereby bringino' into the A ociation treasury a very 0cJn:'Jiderable sum (more than a third of the cost of the work) in a comparatively short time.
Although the work was tarted Ie than a year ago, Stone Moantain Memorial alreadJ i known around the world. It has received more publicity of the very highest quality in newspapers and mao'azines than any other public enterpri e in the world today. It i drawing to Stone Mountain more vi itor than are going to Mount Vernon, and as the work proo,!, ses the public intere twill increa e and the attendance of vi itors will continue to grow.
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A TYPICAL CONSOLIDATED RURAL SCHOOL
0>
The plans for this school, which were approved by the State Department of Education,
>-' provide nine units of two standard size class-rooms each, giving eighteen class-rooms, besides an
adequate variety and number of service rooms. The auditorium comfortably seats one thousand
people. The building is of brick, tile and stucco construction, and was erected at a cost of $60,-
OOO.OO-the result of a district bond issue against which were only nine votes. The lot contains
nine acres, with beautiful school yards and ample athletic fields.
Two hundred twenty-five pupils who live within two miles walk to this school, while as many more beyond this distance are transported in large roomy trucks.
Many similar rural school buildings of fewer units have been constructed in various se\,;-
tions of Georgia in the last few years, and thus the problem of equalizing educational opportu-
nities in rural sections is being solved by consolidations of the" little one-teacher schools."
Public sentiment for consolidation is growing steadily throughout the State, and rapidly in
many sections.
M. L. Duggan,
Atlanta, Georgia.
Rural School Agent for State Department of Education.
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SOME GOOD ROAD SOENES IN GEORGIA. 62
The State Highway Department
of Georgia
The State Highway Department was organized in 1919. The tate Aid Road Sy tern con ists of 6,000 miles.
ince the oro'anization of the tate Highway Department, there has be n built or i under con truction 2,300 mile of Federal id Road on the State Sy tern. This has been constructed according to the regulation governing the Federal Aid System, which matches dollar for dollar the funds appropriated by the
tate. The fund u d b the State in road con truction is derived
principally from two ource, namely, the automobile tag tax, and one cent of the tax on each gallon of gasoline.
The co t of road building in Georgia runs from $5,000 per mile on andy cIa and top oil road to $34,000 per mile for bituminou concrete.
The tate Aid Road S) tern includes 170,000 lineal feet of bridge, 65,700 feet of this at present has been constructed or are under con truction.
Thi modern y tern of road buildinO' and road improvement in Georo'ia function und I' the direction of the State Highway Department, and i upported by Federal and State funds, a m ntioned above, together with local county funds.
The State Highway Department report -" The very be t kind of co-operation from the countie of the tate in carrying on it proO'ram of road buildinO' and improvement."
It also report -" This year the tate will make the best showing it has ever made since the organization of the State HiO'hway D partment in the onstruction and improvemeI1t of the tate Aid Road Sy tem of Georgia."
( ee Hio'hway Map Part III of this booklet.)
HUNTING AND FISHING
It can be aid truly that Georgia is a veritable sportsman's paradi e. The mo t popular mall gam bird are quails (partridge ) and dov . Other bird found in Georgia in large quantities are wild turkey, ducks, woodcocks, grou e, pheasant and plovers. The popular game animals in Georgia are del', fox, squirrel, rabbits and opossums, with some small furbearinO' animal , al 0 ome bears and wild cats.
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Georgia's Atlantic Ooast produce enormou quantitie of OJ sters, shrimp, and other sea foods. Be ides the splendid saltwater fishing on the coa t, there are cores of fre h water streams which abound in mountain trout, bream, black ba s, and hundred of others that make the fine t kind of eating and affo~d the fi herman real port.
Steamers Loading at the Wharves, Bnmswick.
BANKS
State and Federal The banking facilitie of Georo'ia are excellent. Within the State there are 577 State Bank and Tru t Oompanie , including 43 branches and 97 ational Bank . At the close of bu ine s Dec mber 2 , 1923, the Georgia State Bank had a total capital of $33,063.970, an increase over the year previou of $1,101,669. The entire banking y tern i und r the uperintendency of the tate Banking Department. In addition to thi excellent tat bankino- sy tern, the sixth Federal Re erve Bank, servino' five tate, i 10 ated in tlanta and includes in its ystem the 97 ational Bank of our State and 3 State Bank . All of our bank, tate, ational and F d ral have provisiolls under the law and regulation governino' them through which financial aid may be extend d on approved paper to agricultural intere t . Money at a low rate of interest and on ea y term to be used by the farmer in paying for hi land may be ecured through the Federal Farm Land Loan Bankino- y tem. The branch of thi system which handle busines within the tate of Georo'ia is located at Oolumbia, outh arolina.
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Georgia's Industries
Data Furnished by H. M. Stanley, Commissioner of Commerce
and Labor.
Georo'ia offers excellent inducement to capital seeking investment in indu trial line . W have here plendid tran portation facilitie , both rail and water, abundant native white labor for indu trial purpo e, a lequat banking facilitie, exc llent
hool and churche an 1 hydro-el tric power at a r a onable pric and all this in a climate which, tak n the year around, is unex elled in the nited tate.
Georgia' indu trie are varied but the most important i that of textil , which have a combined capital of $130,000,000 in round :fio'ur . In 1922 th I' wa paid for raw material $ 7,05,000, and the :fini h d pro luct. of thes mill wa valued at $1 G5}000,000. This o'i" e employm nt to 41,369 people. The flo'me for this indu try for 1923 hav not y t been compiled.
!ndu tri , alli 1 to textile, uch a hirt, ov raIl, kirt, la<Jie ' ready-to-wear, etc., number 112 with a combined capital of $3,6 6,7 4 and employ 2,927 peopl .
ccording to tb latest tatisti , there are in Georo'ia 4, 03 manufa turinO' e tablisbment of variou kind with a total apital of $44 700,194. There are 141,000 emplo e who are paid , 252,371,524 annually. The value of the raw mat rial annually u d amount to '693,237,000 and the value aft I' manufa ture r ache $945,9 4,13 .
Georo'ia la t summer pa d a on titutional amendment authorizinO' municipal corporation and count authoritie, if they e :fit, to exempt new industries or addition to 011 on from taxation for a p riod of :five year .
In 1923 th r weI' ome very important textile mill added to th Georgia Ii t, among the mo t important b ino' the w England outhem Mill at Hoo'an ville, a $..,,000,000 plant; th Canton Cotton !(ill erect d a new mill at a co t of over $2,000,000. Th nit d tate Fini hing and Dyeing Plant at Cedartown and the Kincaid Mill and Lowell interest at Griffin erectd dy inO' and :fini hino' plant that a t altoO'ether over $2,000,000. new ImittinO' mill wa in tall d at Rome, Georgia.
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OTTOJi JIILL IN GEORGIA. MAKI G THE PI I IIED PROD T.
Willing ha71t Cotton Mill,Macon.
1. Lanett Mills,West Point.
4. TY1Jical Mill Employes H071te.
5. Cotton Mill at Elberton.
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Th mithport fanufacturin o' ompany, which manufactun' tamJi acid from oak an 1 heml ck bark and che 'tnut woo 1, pUl'cha d 42,000 a I' of land in orth Georgia and moved it~ plant there from orth arolina. Thi plant is op rat d both day and nio'ht and ha a capacit)7 of 500 barrel per day.
The Dunlevie Lumb I' ompany at Allenhur t in Libert ounty ha in talle 1 a plant for the di tillation of turpentine from tump and oth I' wa teo Extract are being made from pine burr.
avannah ha ecured a o'ood many important indu trie in the la t few year. \..mong them b ino' a uo-ar refinery, match factory, and a million dollar woo 1 pulp mill for the manufacture of pap r.
Brun wi k, anoth I' eaport town, ha ur dome very important indu tri , among them the Ulantic Refining Company, a plant l' pre ntin o million of dollar.
n lro- Ie tric companie ar 10ing much for Georo'ia in-
In trially. The e companie ha, d velop d thou and of bydro-el tric hoI' e-power. Th G oro'ia Railwa and Power Company alone dev loped 230,600 hoI' e-powerj ha 105,500 partially d veloped and 277,500 undeveloped, which will be dev loped a needed.
Other plant in Georgia O' nerating on id rable hoI' epow I' ar to be found at olumbn, {acon, Ath n (G orgia~\labama Power ompan 111 outhwe t Georgia), Waycro , . :lyannab, a w 11 a many malleI' plant cattered 0 er the ,'tat tog th I' with a 0'001 numb I' now in cour e of con truction.
There i no tat in the nion that ha more ad quate tran portation faciliti Th I' ar four very important aport in th tate: avannah, Brun wick, Darien and St. )[ary's. Then there i a o"!'eat net work of railroad all over th tat onne tino' with th main lin of th port and with the road to the north l'll citie. V\ e have, too, thousand of mile of o'ood road in Georo'ia and there are bu line runnino' lJ>tw en many point in the tate, o'ivino' th public good chednle to point not covered by rail line, and affordino- ea y t ran it from point to point for pI a ure car for travelin o. when til y do not wi h to go by rail.
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~Oi1IE GEORGIA ELEBRITIE.
'J'HE WORKS OF AT RE A D THE ART OF]fA HAVE COlfBI ED TO GIVE GEORGIA A GREAT ARRAY OF CELEBRITIE. WE GIVE A FEW UNIVERSALLY CONCEDED TO BE AMONG OUR MOST FAMOU .
PEA H FE TIVAL.
A bea1ltiful scene oj lJeach trees in bloO'Tlt nea?' Fort Valley. Georgia, on Peach Festival Day, 1924. 'i'he ttoat in the j01'egl'01mcl symbolizes the great 1l01t VaZl y peach s ction as a giant wheel. in which the h1Lb ancl spokes al'e l'e/Jl'escnt (1 by "Miss FOTt Valley" S1L1T01mclecl by Ot/Ul' attenclant Georgia beauties jl'Ollt neighboring towns ancl cities lying within this telTitory.
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OOKI G BARBECUE FOR PEACH FE 'TIVAL IlOW 0 PRECEDIJ. G PAGE.
THE GEORGIA BARBECUE
Of the many distinct Georgia institutions, nothing stands out more prominently than the GEORGIA BARBECUE', To Georgia people 'the name suggests the feast; to the uninitiated the description is sufficient to bring them to the "anxious bench," and participation in a 'cue immediately enlists their support and patronage for this popular Georgia institution.
This noon-day spread on long, pine board tables is an attractive feature of all-day political meetings, educational rallies, religious gatherings, fraternal convocations, and public occasions of every kind where there is "dinner on the ground_" Let it be announced previously that the dinner is to be a 'cue, and the interest manifested increases tremendously.
We are giving herewith an Blu. tration of a 'cue being cooked. First, trenches are dug in the earth three or four feet deep and three or four feet wide, over which the meats are cooked. By chopping the backbone of the carcass lengthwise it can be spread out with shanks extending from the four corners, through which iron rods are passed; these rods, being longer than the width of the trench, act as n-irders for the carcasses, which are thus suspended as a net-work over the open top of the trenches, where they are ooked from ix to twelve hours.
Dressed hogs, sheep, goats and cattle, of the desired size, are used. Large Quantities of hard wood are continuously burned in these trenches during the day and night before the 'cue, so that long before "daYbreak" they are veritable heated ovens, containing beds of live coals. These are now ready for the carcasses to be put in place. Many times this cooking begins at midnight; by careful attention and frequent basting of the carcasses with sauces skillfully prepared by our famous GEORGIA BARBECUE COOKS the meats are welldone "to a turn" by the dinner hour. In the meantime Brunswick Stew-Oh, mY!-has been prepared in great l,ettIes nearby-but we will not torture Georgia people longer-DI J ER IS NOW READY!
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GEORGI' T TE FLOHER
TilE CHEROKEE Ro 'E
The Cherokee Rose which grows luxuriantly in all sections of the State was adopted as Georgia's State flower by the Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs and confirmed by the State L gislature in 1916. Originally thought to be indigenous to Southern soil it i now the opinion of the ational Depart ment of Agriculture that the rose was introduced into the State perhaps direct Iy from China or from China by way oE England.
(Taken from Georgia's Official and Slati tical Register EoI' 1923, compiled by Department oE Archives and Hi tory.)
GEORGI.!' liATIVE QCAIL
A "CLO EUP"" OF TWO By Permission f1"0111 "The Land of Bob
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Georgia's Greatest Songster
Mocking Bird
A TRIBUTE TO THE GEORGIA MOCKING BIRD
By J. J. BROWN
The Georo-ia Mockin o' Bir 1, the w etest inger of them all. In the prinO'time when 1'0 e are bloomino', bee are humming an 1 all natur a ume n w lif ,he ino' from early lawn to ,eninO' twiliO'ht, carryinO' o'ood h er to all who hear him. the fre h foliao'e i ki ed b the unbeam, or wave in the <Tentle breeze to th moonlight, we h ar the clear note of the Iockino' Bird a he ino' to hi little mate clo e b hi ide in th honey uckle vine near th 11 homest ad. When umm l' ha O'one an 1 melancholy autumn come and the <Treen and il'" ry lea...- chanO'e to carlet an I 0'011; "hen the plain appear a flower gar len an I the hill a oiant varieO'ated chry anth mum, warnin o' u of winter, we till hear th ong of the 10ckino' Bird which waft away the autumn igh and o'1allen our heart in th fall no Ie than in th pring. For no a on daunt hi buoyant pirit, or till hi m rry voice. To the Georo'ia 10ckino' Bird "We ever top to Ii t n, almost breathle le t we mi a trill as he warble the melodies that alway comfort and in pire; and, in appr ciation, we alute him with thi tribute: ' , You are the rare t mu ician of them alL"
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PLENTY OF' IIYDRO ELECTRIC POTVER.
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Big Dam at Ta111t1ah Falls,
T7'anSlniss ion 3, Tallulah Falls Powe7' H01~se of Geol'gia Railtoay and PotOel' Co, The Stl'eams of GeOl'gia m'e Capable of Develolnng ,500,000 Hydl'o,Elect7'ic H ol'sepower,
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PART II
I PART II of thi booklet a number of CUlT nt mi cellaneou matters of prime importance are discu ed. They are:
O-OPERATIO is discu d in o'eneral throuo'h the official write-up of the variou co-operativ now active in Georgia.
FERTILIZER FORMUL uitable for Georgia crop in the lifferent type of oil found in our State.
B LLETIN LI TS referring the inquirer to the department havino- the information he desires.
STANDARD WEIGHrrS D ME cepted b the tate of Georo'ia.
RE a lopted and ac-
Q AR TINE L W ND REGl,TL TIO now in force in Georgia relatiH to b ,plant and live tock.
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A CO-OPERATION FABLE.
aid a wi e old bee at the clo e of day, "Thi colony bu ine doe n't pa . I put my honey in that old hive That other may eat and liv and thrive; And I do mol' work in a day, by o'ee, Than orne of th oth I' fellow do in three. I toil and worry and ave and hoard, And all I o' t i my room and board. It' me for a hive I an run my elf, And me for th swe ts of my hard- arne I p If."
o th old bee fI w to a m adow lone, nd tart d a bu ine all hi own. He gave no thought to the buzziu 0' clan, But all intent on his elfi h plan, H lived the lif of a hermit free" h thi i 0'1' at," ai I the wi e old bee.
But the ummel' wane 1 and the day grew drear, And th lone be wail d a he clroppe I a tear, For the varmint o'obble I hi little tore,
nd hi wax play d out an I hi heart wa or, o h wing d hi way to the 011 hom band, And took hi meal at th Helping Han 1.
Alon , our "Work i of littl worth, Togeth r"W ar the lord of the earth,
o it' all for each and it' ach for alluited tand, or divid d fall.
-Bu aw.
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CO-OPERATIVE MARKETING FOR FARM PRODUCTS
By J. E. Conwell, President, Georgia Cotton Growers' Co-Oper-
ative Association.
In marketing aOTicultural produ t ,th farmer of the state an 1 country have not kept apace with what wa o'oing on in all ott I' line of bu ine ,e p ciall} in th OTeat indu tries of the ountry. Y ar ao'o, the te 1, iron and oth I' OTeat manufacturinO' intere t commenc d to build up a y tem for marketino' their production and have applied the be t brain and thouO'ht in p rfectino' mer handi ino' policie . 11 of thi ha gone on "hil the e great lin of bu ine weI' turninO' out their produ t , whatever the. weI', becau e it ha been nec ary to O'et profitable pric for the product of the 0'1' at manufacturinO' in]u trie ,if uch line of bu ine were to be conducted on a pa)in o' ba i. The one bio'o'est sinO'l iudu try in this country i our agriculture. It i our ba ic indu try. pon it rest the permanent welfar of our ountry and the ultimate ucce of all oth I' line of bu in
Tho e of u who are producer of farm produ ~ , up until the b O'inning of thi d cad ,have not made a conc rted effort to orO'anize for m rchandi in o' and ellino' profitably our product by th application of tried and proven bu ine m thod. We hav been content to produce a crop of otton, peanut or potatoe, pending much in the production of the arne and then to tru t to a local mark t, o'lutted ofttime ,in fact, more times than wa not the ca . Be ide being in the po ition of off ring our product to p ople who were over uppli 1 locally, which nec arily meant low price ,w have, in mo t ca e ,a farm I' , fund our elv ompetin o' aO'ain t ea h other in th ale of our pI' ]u t and at that, to a omI arativ ly mall OTOUp of conurn I' in our I' pe tiv ommunitie who w re already wellto ked or over- upplied.
\\e have not produce 1 too many farm product but we have p nt all of our time produ inO' the product and, in harve t ea on, have not had lear trad channel through which to en 1 the product to the con urn I' of the world who needed th m and who \\ er willin' to pay a fair pri e for them. Such pra tice anI oudition' amono' our G oro'ia and meri an farm('1' have lev lop d from y ar to year a more chaotic condition, ~Ilaucially peaking, until th I' ult i that a!rriculture i In a cri i. The .condition ha becom more a ute during the pa t f w year and the ne ity to do ornething ha arou ed
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the producer in all ection of the country an 1 th J , in co-opration with many un elfi h bu ine m n, d pen 1 nt upon a pro perous aO'1'iculture for their ucce an 1 xi tenc in bu ine ,have determin 1 to olv the marketing problem for farm product in thi country.
Ju t prior to th beo'innin o' of the 20th entury, the producer of fruit on th Pacific Coa t found them elye in the am pI' licament. Th were producing fair crop but in the harv tea, on, du to the peri hable condition of 4-ho e product and to peculation in ellinO' them, they foun 1 that th T WeI' o'1'owin 0' farm pro luct at a pric far below the co t of production.
They looked to other countrie to improve the bu ine side of farmin o'. The~ found that th Dani h farmer had, through contract or collective mark ting, been able to 01'1' "ery largely their marketing problem anI have tran formed the Dani b agricultur from one of adversity to one of prosp rity. By the beD-inning of the 20th Century, California farm l' had demonstrate 1 e p cially to producer and bu ine m n in California and to many other throuo-hout th ation, that farmer can co-operatively market their produ t to the adYantage of the con um I' and for fair pric to the producer.
In the Fall of 1920, and th Winter month of 1921, the cotton, tobacco and p anut O'1'OW l' of th outh uff red unprece I nt I 10 e which erved to arou e our mo t prOOTe ive 1 ad I' hip in aO'riculture anI many of our bank I' and bu ine, men who, heretofore had not looked upon the agri ulture conlition with reference to narketino' y tern, becam very much concerned.
The fir t out tanding ffort made to improve our marketing y tern for tapl farm product in the outh wa in the orO'anization of the Burl y, the Tri- tate and the Dark 10bac 0 Grower ' Co-operative A sociation in Kentucky, "' irginia, Tenne ee and the two arolina.
Th tobacco 0'l'ower , face 1 as th y were with bankruptcy a ked Aaron Sapiro of alifornia, noted expert on o-operative marketing, to aid th m in th oro'anization and formation of a ociation to market their tobacco. In 1921, Mr. Sapiro vi ited Kentucky and the al'olina and, almost ov rnight, lmtiringly and un elfi hly pI' ented to the grower, banker and other bu ine men throughout the tobacco di trict, the principle of cooperative marketinO' and the b nefit that would re ult in the event orO'anization w re formed for eHinO' tobacco. The effort wa ucce ful and b thi time, within Ie than
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three year, approximately 250,000 tobacco grower or more than 75 per cent. of all of the tobacco grower in that di trict, have joined on or the other of th three co-operative a ociation for merchandi ing tobacco. It ha almo t completely tran formed bu ine condition, with the re ult that pric s hav b n in rea ed for toba co and in many way marketino- conlition have b en tabilize 1 that have redounde 1 in benefit to the tobacco growers and in pro p rity for th p ople who live in the tobacco ection.
The cotton farmer were in no better condition in the beginnino- of 19",1 than the tobacco grower and they were looking for omethino', they knew not what, to hano- their elling y tern. Th y w re immediat ly attract d by the ffort and ucc made by the tobacco O'rower un 1 I' the leader hip of Mr. apiro, The re ult wa that by the end of the umm I' of 1921, large cooperative a ociation for marketin o' cotton were formed in Texa , Oklahoma an 1 Arizona. Th e a ociatioll ucc fully mark ted the 1921 crop of their m mb I' and becau of their , u ce ,Mr. Sapiro wa invited to a numb I' of th oth I' tates to ai 1 in the formation of co-op rative elling oro'anization for cotton.
In 1922, oro'anization weI' completed for marketing the J922 crop in the, tate. of orth arolina, Georgia, labama and .\ rkan a.. For th pUr] 0 of gettino- th be t I' ult in elli11 0 ' an 1 o-orc1i11ating co-op rativ marketing for cotton in all of it branch ,the variou tate co-operative have formed the ~merican otton Grower. ' Exchan o'e. Th I' are now 12 of the tat that have association oro'anized and hart red, that belono' to th E_'change.
The Ex hange 11a employ d pxpert and technical ability for eUing cotton for all of the member tate a sociations in the dome ti mark t a well a in or of mark t in foreio'n
ountrie , t the pI' ent, Dr. B. W. Kilo'ore, a lea 1 l' in the d velop-
ment of aOTicu]ture in.r rth arolina, i pre id nt of the Exhan o' and Mr. . O. Io er of Dalla, T xa ,i th ecretary. Beginning with th next ea on, th headquarters of the American otton Grower Ex hange will b 10 at d at Iemphi Tenn ee.
Th big aim of th American Cotton Grower ' Exchano'e ito ell the otton of the tate a ociation co-operativ 1 rather than ompetitiv ly. By eUin o' otton for all of the tat throuo'h one agen y, th co-operative are able to exerci e a 0-1' ater influence on marketino- condition and, further, are able
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to market th cotton of the m mber of the various co-operatives, more economically, effici ntly and profitably.
Producers in Georgia have not only adopted co-operative marketing on the contract plan for cotton, but associations for the merchandising of other farm products have been organized. Our yrup and watermelon growers are lling their products co-operatively. In 1923, under the leadership of Mr. apiro, the peanut grower of thi tate organized" The Georgia Peanut Growers' Co-operative As ociation" which is now engaged in marketing the 1923 crop of it members and only a few week ao'O, a sign-up campaign wa completed by the peach growers of thi state who will market their p ache co-operatively for a period of year .
It was a big undertaking for a group of cotton growers or the grower of any oth I' product, a for that matter, to attempt to change the oIl or "dumping" sy tern of elling farm product. The han Her of and dealer in farm product (the peculative interest ) y aI'S ago had become efficient and powerful in their defense of a ystem that had meant more financially to them, than to tho e \\7ho actually produced the product. To change the old ystem ha. been and i an economic strugo'le. The effort has demanded un elfi h and able leadership and th movement has tried inde d the conviction and devotion of the grower who, although tired of the old y tern, were uninformed a to the method and workino's of the co-operative ystem.
The co-operative mov ment in the South and in G orgia has made won lerful trides. It has gained for it elf by actual practiced and d mon b'ated benefit, the co-operation of many grower and bu ines men who, in the beginning, for the lack of information, weI' either indifferent or the most outspoken oppon nt of the co-op rative plan. The re ult is that today bankers and busines men in all section are actively a si ting the variou co-op rative a ociations in their efforts to change the old or "dumping" y tern of marketing farm products so that we will have not only better return to the growers for the products they produce, but a more orderly selling y tern and stable price condition at all times.
In this great movement, the grower who have formed asociations have had co-operation from various forces that was almost indispensable to th ir ucce . In our tate, the pre s has rendered an unparall led ervice, thoroughly un elfish, courageous, and intensely intere ted at all times. We have had the co-operation of all of our agricultural organizations and state agricultural institutions. Such upport ha meant a great
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deal to all of the co-operative and without the active upport of the tat Bureau of Market in thi tate, in view of the hard con lition confronting oro'anization, it i v ry doubtful if the cotton o-operative would hav be n oro'anize l.
Other in titution in our tat, in fact our college and all of the agricultural fore ,ar upporting co-op rati, e marketino' without qualification which ha meant much in the u ce . achieved to date.
TATE OF GEORGIA 0 TRil0TIlI G 1T'ITH OTTON 0OPERATIVE A :OOIATIO .
Reading front left to right are ,G, McLendon, Secretary of State; J, E, onwell, Presiclent Geol'gia Cotton Growel's' Co-operative Association, and Hel'bel't Clay, Presiclent of the Geol'gia tate enate, 1921-1922,
eCl-etary McLenclon is seen signing the contl'act of the Cotton Marketing Association ~vhich 1J1'ovicles that all cotton pl'ocl1Lced on the farms of the colleges, schools, tc" belonging to the State shall be 1nQ1'lceted by the cotton co-opel'ative,
enator Clay was author of the Resolution in the GenC1'al AsSel1tbly of the tate of Georgia that authorized and e1n1JOWel' cl the Secr tal'y of tate to sign the Cotton Association contl'act bincling the State in all of its 1Jrovisions, A nU?nbel' Of instittttions have al1'eady delivered cotton for the tate in aceOl'dance with the tel'?ns of the contract,
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A we gain a greater control of the particular commodity handled by an as ociation, to that extent uch as ociation is nearer complete ucce. omplet succe s will give us fair price and tabilized market for our products.
The aOTicuItural and bu ine leadership of the country i committ d to co-operati e ;marketino- a a policy. In fact, the agri ultural and bu ine I a I I' hip of the country i a favorabl to o-op rativ marketino' a they are to any other financial policy that concern the welfare of any considerabl portion of our people. How vel', th OTeat t hindrance preventino' the rapid oTowth and ucce of o-operativ a ociation i the lack of information. When our farmer and bu ine men know the theory of co-operative marketino' and the a tual working of the variou a 0 iation , the oTowth will be greater an 1 the re uIt will incr a in benefit even in a gr ater proportion. Thi point was well tated a short tim ago, by the editor of the Progre ive Farmer when he aid in a masterful e litorial-" Only a lack of knowledo'e of all th facts prevent 90 per cent. of the farmers of the outh puttino- their cotton in the han I of their co-op rative marketing a ociation. Such action would prevent manipulation of the market by peculator and tabilize the market und I' th law of upply and demand to the benefit of the produc 1", pinner and consumer. The wonder i that at least the producer and spinner do not ee this and realize that no power on arth an destroy the co-operative , b cau e th yare fundamentally ound in onomic. The tim ha ome for every farmer to how on which ide he tand. If und I' pre nt conditions he will not join th fight for hi economic rights, he doe not de erve economic fre dom."
Whil our primary problem i the lack of information, the co-operativ ar ncourao'ed by l' a on of the fact that aunuall they are adding to their ranks thou and of producer which, in a word, mean that the G orgia and American farmer are at la t building an ord rly sellin 0' )7 tem for handling their product.
A con tant and continued tudy and pre entation of the theory and principle of co-operative mark tino- will erve not onl to educate t11 producers, who are primarily intere ted in a better price for farm product , on the principle of co-operation, but it will mean a better under tandino- on the part of our great public in thi country who e intere t in co-operative marketing will certainly promote rather than retard.
In organizing a co-operative association, Aaron Sapiro, who
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has proven him elf so valuable to co-operative groups in this country, lays down eight e ential that must be incorporated in the marketing agreement which all producing member ign, a follows:
1. Organize on the ba is of the commodity or clo ely related group of commodities.
2. Organizations to be non-profit and preferably non- tock.
3. Member hip confined to grower only.
4. Legally enforcible marketing contracts for a period of
years.
5. Internal pooling by variety, grade, and quality of product.
6. Employment of expert in all technical po ition .
7. Control of a sufficient volume of production to make the co-operative a market factor and to insure low overhead costs.
8. Federation of local associations into state exchanges and co-ordination of tate exchange into national groups for appropriate purposes.
It is n cessary to know the principles of co-operative marketing and to abide by them for co-operative marketing to succeed. Then, once a co-operative a ociation i organized, the next important step is to get capable management which will, in every ca e, be able to manage the affairs of the association economically and for the benefit of the member growers.
I want to tate again, however, that no greater service can be rendered the co-operative mov ment now than by helping the various association to educate and inform the growers and the public generally on the principle of co-operative marketing as well as the workino- of the variou co-operative associations that have been organized and are ucces fully functioning today.
In building up the co-operative y tern, we producers can be assured of more profitable and certain returns for our products. This is not the only benefit, however, that will accrue from cooperative marketing. It will help to make our agricultural peorle a free people financially. 0 nation can produce thinking men and women unless its citizen hip lives under an economic sy tern that will permit them to hold up their heads as free men. Our people:mu t be given the chance to have for themselves decent food, decent clothe and comfortable homes in which to live. They mu t have the opportunity to end their children to
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schools and good churches. These conditions can be had only under a system of economic freedom.
The peculative sellino' y t m for farm produ t , or the old y tem, i the arch-enemy of economic fr edom for the actual producer. The co-operative y tem i the one and only y tem that ha vel' giv n economic freedom and an int llig nt elling y tem to any cIa of producer of farm products. It i o'aining for it elf the co-operation of farm l' in all ection of the state and country. It de erve the un tinted and unselfish thought and help of ever man, woman and child who depend on farming, directly or indirectly, a w 11 a tho e who would have th produe l' receiv a fair price for the product they grow and equal opportunitie for I v loping the edu ational and piritual life and condition of ev ry farm community in our tate and ountry.
Ha1'bor Scenes, Savannah, Georgia.
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GEORGIA PEACH GROWERS' EXCHANGE, MACON, GA.
By J. G. Carlisle, Manager.
More than 30 year ago, before the boll weevil was even thought of, a OTOUp of Georoian , who w re large cotton planters, began to diver ify their crop and xperiment with peaches in a small way. In the beo'innino- the varietie of the pre ent day were unknown. The e grower continued their experiments through their nul' erie, hipping peache by expres to nearby market and later to more di tant mark t , and in the early day one of the pioneer, who e nam now tand hio'h in the Ii t of distingui hed Georgian, beo'an hipping under refrigeration (which in tho e days were crude) to Ea tern market. As time pas ed, varieti w re improved until to lay we have the armen, Hiley Belle, Georgia Belle and the Elberta, four well e tabli hed varietie known the countr. over, and from the mall beginning in ,middl Georoia th indu try has pread throughout middle Georo'ia, Northea t Georgia, North Georo-ia, and in some se tion of orthwe t Georgia.
The bu ines increa ed to a point where the marketing facilities were inadequate, a few of the markets on the Eastern Seaboard beino- the only mark t taku1 0 ' an intere t in Georgia peache and naturall th e mark t were over- rowded and there wa no di tribution. In 1907 th grower from all over the State met in Atlanta and oro'aniz 1the Georgia Fruit Exchange. At that time the maximum number of car moving out of the State was around 3,000. 'l"'hi organization function d until the indu try grew to it pre nt proportion, the high peak being reached in 1921 when more than 10,000 carloads were hipped. With the increa e in th production ame the n ce ity for expan ion of the marketino- faciJitie, 0 that in the fall of 1923 the growers held two ma me ting in {acon and d cided to reorganize their marketin o' ao'ency, e tabli oIling the Georgia Peach Growers' Exchange, which uc eeds the G orgia Fruit 'Exchange and which dir ctl control the laro'e t percentage of the crop of the tate. Thi Ex hano'e i oro-anized on a trictly cooperative, non-profit ba is. Only OTower are ligible to member hip. Each grower ion. a marketin o' agr ement, giving to the Exchano-e the exclu ive rio-ht of marketin o' hi crop. It i a
tock oro-anization, but hareholc1 I' are lhnit d to p ach growers and it is impo ible for the ontrol of the organization to pass out of th hand of th OTower. On of the problems confrontino- the indu try i an improvement in the o-rade and pack of peaches. In this the grower give the right to the Exchange
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to supervise the grading and packing of his fruit. This i of the utmost importance a experience ha hown that only the best fruit can be sold in the markets. There i no market for poorly graded and poorly packed peache. The expen e of grading and packing i ju t a much on inferior fruit as on good fruit. Government tati tics show that 25 to 30 per cent of the production of Georoia peaches have heretofore gone to the City of ew York. It i the purpo e of the Exchange to accomplish a wider di tribution of the crop so that the markets of the country may be well supplied without creating gluts.
The Exchange ha arranged for Government inspection of peaches at shipping point. The U. S. Department of Agriculture in co-operation with the State Board of Agriculture will send experienced men into the field to supervi e the grading, and only peaches which can pa s these grades can command the market prices.
In doing this we are not unmindful of the fact that a large number of over-ripes and culls must be provided for, and we have employed a Research Chemist who is now making a study of the various by-products of the Georgia peaches. Following are some of the uses for our Georgia peach products:
CRUSHED PEACHE: sed in the manufacture of true peach ice cream, jam and jelly trade, confectionery trade, for pies and icing layer cake , etc., in the bakery trade, hotels, restaurants, and home uses.
CO CE TRATED PE CH JUICE: ed in the manufacture of true peach juice by adding back the water. oda fountain trade, bottling trade, jelly trade, confectioner and ice cream trade. Dome tic trade for making a delightful fruit punch. This concentrated p ach juice will keep indefinitely in its yrup form.
GEORGIA PEACH BUTTER: Used as a delightful spread in homes, hotels and restaurants. Also takes the place of high grade jams and jellies.
The Georgia Peach Growers Exchange has arranged for crop insurance which protects its members from all hazards beyond the control of the growers.
These are some of the things that we hope to accomplish. The peach crop ranks second to cotton as a money crop in Georgia, and with improved grades and wider distribution we hope to realize its maximum value for Georgia growers.
J. G. Carlisle,
Manager.
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NATIONAL PECAN GROWERS' ASSOCIATION
Albany, Georgia.
By Wm. P. Bullard, President-Manager.
About eighteen years ago there were formed two nut growers' organization that have ince been functioning with progressive influence-the Georgia-Florida Pecan Growers' Association and the ational ut (Pecan) Grower' Association, which meet once a year in various sections of the United States to discuss que tions of variety and varietal adaptations, cultural, pruning, fertilizing, spraying and other problems incident to pecan development. After the industry got well on its way towards fruitage the question of marketing began to be discussed and at one of the annual meetings of the Georgia-Florida Pecan Growers' As ociation a committee headed by CoL C. A. Van Duzee, of Cairo, Ga., one of our oldest and best men in the industry, was appointed to study the broad question of marketing and, in its discretion, set up the machinery necessary to market the vast crops of pecans that were sure to come in the future.
This committee took up the problem and at the following Fall meeting of the ational ut (Pecan) Grower ' Association made a report, which report was adopted and the same committee was made a committee of the ational ut (Pecan) Growers' Association, thus constituting the same personnel as a committee of these two influential associations. Thus fathered the committee pursued its labors and in due time organized the
ational Pecan Growers' Exchange on the exact lines of the California walnut and almond growers' marketing associations that have done so much for the walnuts and almonds of California. The Exchange was the first co-operative to function in Georgia and at that time there was no co-operative marketing law and incorporation had to be effected through a very mall capital stock with shares placed at $1.00 each and only one share to each grower and tho e shares not to carry dividends -thus constituting as nearly as possible a non-stock, non-profit a~ ociation which is required of all co-operative marketing organizations. Later on a co-operative marketing act was passed in Georgia and the Exchange amended its charter so as to bring it wholly within the line of that law and also within a similar law that had been passed by the ational Congress. The Pres-
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Patented Pecan Grading Machine at Work, Albany, Geo1gia.
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ident of the ExchanO' vi ited California and traveled through the length and breadth of that tate tudying all of their great co-operative marketing a ociations in order to learn the underlying principle of tho e ucce ful one and to di cover the fault of tho e that had not b n prosperou. Thu equipped the National P can Grower ' Ex hang tarted on it way of true co-operative marketing in Georgia.
The Exchange ha b en fun tioninO' in an active way in the market for six year and i now known from Ocean to Ocean and the Gulf of M: xico to the Great Lake , and in fact beyond the Lak s to Canada wh re we have a OTeat many hipment a widely eparated a Montrcal in the Ea t and vVinnip g in the Canadian orth" t. We have al 0 made om hipment abroad and have laid plan to open up the European market a oon a economic condition b come favorable over th re, and thi will ab orb the urplu that we may have in the future and be a af ty valv to the indu try "hi h other I,rodu t do not have. Walnut, almond ,peanut and other pro luct uffer from th impendin o' dano' I' of foreio'n importation whi h the pecan is ingularly free from.
It i an axiom in marketin o' circle that co-op rative marketing i built on adversity-that any in lustry mu t first reach the aturation point 'in the market and th 0To~er become in a manner d perate before th yare ready for co-operative marketin o. Thi ha not been true in the p can indu try up to thi tim ,a omparatively f w gro~er have felt the n d of th Exchange to market their nut, and con qu ntly th Ex hano'e has not made the quick headway that co-operativ marketing a sociation are cxpected to make. However, it lla o"0ne on carefull an 1 laid the foundation af and ound for a broa] uper- tructure and not only ha it marketino' line be n well laid throughout the country with the good will of broker and jobb I' and con umer but has b come known among grower throuO'hout the length an 1 breadth of thi fair land, and i opening up a field of 0'1' at u efulne . The member hip of thi Exchange has doubled in the la t year and indication. are for a heavy increa e in member hip from now on.
When the Exchange first began operation the principle of co-operative marketing were little known-but in the la t three or four years co-operation among agricultural clas es has been sweeping over the country like a conflagration.
The ational Pecan Grower ' Exchange ha done a great
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deal for the pecan industry in Georgia and other States. When it wa :first organized, the price of nuts was quite low but through it efforts prices gradually increa ed until they were double what they were at it beginning, and it has been the means of putting hundreds of thousand of extra money in the pockets of pecan growers of thi fair State. Before we organized, the large t speculator in pecan at Albany brago-ed that he would soon be able to buy all the pecans he wanted at hi own prices, but at the clo e of the Exchange's fir t year's work thi peculator told one of our director that the Exchange had cau ed him to pay ten to twelve cent more per pound to the growers than he would otherwi e have had to pay.
The Exchange at lbany ha a ub idiary organization known a the Alban Di trict Pecan Exchano-e which ha built a property costing $40,000.00 at Albany for proces ing and preparing nuts for th market through this ational Exchange. Occa ionally a doubtino- Thoma come along and a ks if there really is anything in the p can bu ine ,but a glance throuo-h our big fine plant er ted for the ole purpo e of aidino- o-rower in the marketing of their product i a ompl te an weI' to that query and thus convinc s th inquirer that the pecan business in Georgia has one of the o-reate t future of an agricultural product of thi great Empire tate of the outh.
A P1ofitable Pecan Grove.
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SOWEGA MELON GROWERS' ASSOCIATION.
By J. J. Parrish, Secretary-Manager, Adel, Georgia.
Watermelons have been grown in Georgia for more than forty years and in the early days of the industry all shipments were consigned to commi ion merchants and a fair return received, but as the indu try 0'1' w, buyers from the principal markets came into the field and bought on track and for several year this method of marketing wa profitable, however, in later years, due to the peculative influence the profit in the industry became barely tlfficient to keep the growers interested. Some year the crop would be old at a los , while other sea ons it would show a mall profit.
By 1920 the melon industry had fallen largely into the hands of unscrupulous speculator , a condition brought about through the practice of several evils, the most important of which being on the part of the producer in loading out and placing on the market unripe and inferior quality melons. In a mea ure the producer was not entirely to blame, however, for he never received a fair price for but a few of the fir t cars each sea on. The balance of hi crop or the nicest, ripe t melons u ually old at greatly reduced price and ometimes actually were given away. With uch a condition exi tino- it became perfectly natural for both grow I' and buyer to swindle each other in their efforts to get by, resulting in a most disastrous effect upon the indu try a a whole. Man reliable dealer absolutely quit the watermelon bu ine and had it not been that a few of the dependable eli tributor remained in the bu iness watermelon growing would have been abandoned in Georgia. In the year 1920, which was a good crop year, and when business wa good in the orthern market , the average price per car received by the Geor!!"ia grower for their melons was only $64.65 per car.
n was in 1920 that the 0'1'ower began to realize that some-
thing had to be done to save the industry. They knew nothing of the modern co-operative method of mark ting, but they believ d that to produce better quality and carefully hanc1le, grade and pack them, would make their product sell for more money. Fortunately their idea was correct and the success of Georgia's first co-operative, the Sowega Melon Growers' Association, bears evidence of the fact.
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The principal objects in the promotion of a watermelon association were to produce a better quality and grade the shipments, thereby correcting the existing evils from the producers' standpoint. Havino' only a partial control of the melon shipments in the beginning, the task was vel' difficult, but through persistent efforts of the Association member hip a gr at change ha been brought about and the grower have practically abandoned the former methods of production, handling, hauling and loaclino', and are now producing a more perfect quality and are taking a peculiar pri h: in offering for sale a better watermelon.
When the A ociation wa organized it wa found that all the evils did not exist with the producer, for prior to 1921 twelve large cities received practically all of the watermelons shipped from Georgia, an 1 hardly a sea on pa ed but that these markets became glutted and demoralized, a condition that could not be avoided for the rea on that no one had control of the di tribution, and the peculative influence in the distribution made one shipment in direct competition with another.
It then became necessary for the As ociation to o'et a wider distribution, to open more markets and protect the existing markets against an over supply, and to do that the services of a nation-wide distributing agency were secured and during its three years of operation ha developed hundred of market ; has influenced many reliable dealer bac'k into the business and ha been in trumental in forcing out of th business many disagreeable and unscrupulous dealers. This ha been done by reason of an organization, for no individual could have accomplished it. During the sea on of 1923 the a sociation melons were sold in 776 different market in the United States and Canada, many of the markets never having received a carload of melons before in their history. Through thi systematic method of distribution, which is not possible where melons are sold individually, more people were encouraged to eat melons and a demand created that the ssociation could not supply. By increasing con nmption through a wider distribution the industry has become profitable, for during the 1923 season the Association netted to its members an average price of $205.55 per car, which is $140.90 per car more than they received in 1920, and not a single market of the country becanne glutted during the season.
It is not now, nor will it ever be the purpose of the Association to monopolize the industry, or to restrain trade, but
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instead, it de ire i to reduce peculation and wa te, and through National di tribution of a o'ood quality standardiz d product, increa e con umption, thereby making it po ible for the indu try to TOW and pro per.
The member hip of the A ociation has increa ed from 1 than _00 in it fir t y ar to more than 1, 00 in it fourth. Ther ba been no barn tormin o', no hio'h po"" ered drive, or emotional peech making. It ha adh red trictly to the co-operative id a and its growth can w 11 be attributed to the rvice it ha rend I'd the .melon grower. It is manao'ed an I controlled by th m exclu ively, without any out ide influen e, and b m I' incerity of purpo e ha advance I it ontrol from fiv per cent th fir t year to v nty-fiv per c n the fourth year.
normal waterm Ion rop in Georo'ia will yield to the o-rower , if marketed co-op ratively, a um in exce s of $3,000,000, and a melons are produced in rather a restricted area, the indu try can be cIa d a on of the mo t important money crop of the oa tal Plain reo-ion of Georoia.
GEORGIA PEANUT GROWERS' CO-OPERATIVE
ASSOCIATION.
Robt. E. L. Spence, President and General Manager, Albany, Ga.
Th a ociation"\\a oro'anized July 1, 1923, follo"\\in o' an inten ive memb I' hip drive which tart d in the 25 outhw t G orgia counti whi h led in peanut production in 1922 and W~ extended to th new peanut territory of middle G orgia, central around Monticello and ewnan. The object of the 0ciation i to promote orderl marketing and to eliminate wa te and peculation. Any Georo-ia peanut o-rower may b com a member on th payment of a member hi} f e of $5.00, provided he io-n a contract to d liv r all of the peanut o-rown by or for him, ex~ept uch a may be I' tained a e d for hi own u e, to the As ociation through 1927. All that i nece ary for him to retain his m mber hip is to comply with hi contract and to sign a new one on the expiration of hi contract at the end of 1927. All contract will expire with the delivery of the 1927 crop. The orio-inal contract sio-ned la t year were for five years; those being igned till year in a follow-up and exten ion campaign will be for four years; those in 1925, for three years; those in 1926, for two year ; tho e in 1927, for one year. Then the
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length of the new contract will be agreed on by the board of directors, who are elected by the members.
Accomplishments of the Association to date have been too numerous to recount, but probably the most ignal accompli hment is that credited to the ociation in being the large t ingle factor in peanut price averaging higher in the Fall of 1923 than the average price for peanut during the entire time they have been a money crop in Georgia. The As ociation also established the most complete warehousing y tern ever set up in Georgia for peanuts; develop d the be t o-rade of eed peanuts ever offered in the tate, and fo tered the Georgia Agricultural Credit Corporation, through which member of tandard cooperative marketino- a ociation may obtain even per cent money from the Interm diate Credit Bank at Columbia, S. C., for 1924 crop operation .
P"olific Georgia Peanuts.
CONSOLIDATED APPLE GROWERS' EXCHANGE J. L. Roper, Manager, Cornelia, Georgia.
I can ay our Exchange i working very sati factorily and we are obtaining prices for our grower, which are much more satisfactory than could be obtained by individuals. And after three year of experience in running the Exchange the rank and :file of all our grower are enthu ia tic supporter of the Exchange.
APPLES
They .Me Making N07th GeoTgia FamOlts.
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PRACTICAL FERTILIZER FORMULAS Revi e 1
(Taken from " ~gricultural Aid and Facts," 1920.)
This bulletin contains an up-to-date Ii t of fertiliz l' formula for the practical u e of Georo'ia farmer. Quite often reque ts come to u for information concerning soil in various parts of Georgia and fertilizers uitable for the growinO' of different crop on those soils. The farmer recoo'nize the value of the intelligent u e of manure and commercial fertiliz l' in securinO' be t crop re ult .
Recently there came to my de k a device in the form of a eli c, or rather two di cs attached, which wa not only unique, but, in my opinion, u eful in a certaining proper fertilizers for Georgia oils in th growing of her principal crop. Thi device was the work of Dr. J. . Harper of the Soil Improvement Committee. Recognizing great merit in the work that he was undertakino' for the advancem nt of Georgia agriculture, I addres ed a communication to him, reque ting that he prepare a li t of f rtilizer formula for Georgia, eliminatinO' a man a po ibl and thu implifying for the farmer the 'work of electing hi f rtilizer by reducin0' to the minimum the number of formula nece ary for all crop and all oil in our tate. Dr. Harper cheerfully consented to render this valuable ervice to Georgia' aoTicultur. Hi letter follow
"Hon. J. J. Brown,
Commi ioner of griculture, ~tlanta, Ga.
Dear SirIt o"i, me pI a ure to comply with your reque t to join
you in any undertaking that look to the welfar of th outhem farmer. In accepting your offer I feel that a mall part is af-
forded me in the p1en lid rvice your Department is rendering the farmer of Georgia.
I believe that there is a great need for the farmers of thi State to reduce the number of formula they are now demanding. It will re ult in a avino of the manufacturinO' co t, and, ther for , the cost of f rtilizer to th farmer. I have gone to o-reat pain to arrive at the re ult recorde 1 in the following
article.
V ry truly our,
J. N. HARPER, Director."
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT. The merits of thi Ii 1. of fertilizer formulas for Georgia oil are apparent at once, and be peak for it the commendation of all interested in the improvement of agricultural condition in Georgia. I desire to return my thank to Dr. Harper for hi kind co-operation in an effort to render a service to the agricultural intere 1. of Georgia. I feel ure that thi list will receive the approval of those farmer in our State who have already worked out the fertilizer problem, as applied to their individual farms. However, there ar many farmers in Georgia who have
not atisfactorily solv d this problem, and al 0 many who under
the e acute boll weevil condition are ub tituting for cotton other crop with which they are not entirely familiar. Thi Ii 1. is given with the hope that it may prove helpful by an wering various question relative to manure and fertilizers which are being asked in this day of intelligent farming.
In addition to what ha been said above and pI' ceding it from a point of importanc 0 far a it goe ,i the farmer' compo 1. heap. 0 farmer can afford not to collect, by cement floor and other en ailable means, all the refu e matter and plant food material that may be had in and around the barnyard and the farm premi e in general. Home-made manures applied to the . oil a early a po ible 0 a to avoid 10 by fermentation or ctherwis and the oTowing of leguminou crop, form one of the mo 1. sati factory and efficient mean of oil impro\ m nt for G orgia farm. ece sarily these processes can not extend over t.he entire farm, but hould alwa receive the farmer' cIo e 1. attention and, a rapidly as po ible, let him extend thv areas thu improved.
[The Ii 1. of formula begin on page 9 .]
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FERTILIZER FORMULAS FOR GEORGIA SOILS.
By J. J. HARPER, Director,
Southern Soil Improvement Committee.
The requirements of plants are the same, no matter where grown. Therefore, among the factors of plant feedin o', the kind [md quantity of nutrients that a plant needs are constant and well defined. If only the plants' food and feeding habits were all that entered into the makinO' of fertilizer formulas, the problem would be very simple indeed.
But the soil's part in feeding th plant mu t enter into the formula-finding equation. Soils vary in their plant food cont nt and also in their ability to release what they have for the u of the plant. The soil's variations, however, are not 0 numerou nor so complex in Georgia a to require a great num1> I' of fertilizer formula .
A practical balanc d ration of plant food can be obtained c.n all soil types for all crops without the great number now employed in the production of fertilizer .
It i true that the mo t popular formulas have been worked out through year of trial, adaptation, and elimination. They have the endor ement of experience. It i de irable that there hould be as few fertilizer formula a are practical for obtaining profitable production. The O'reater the number of formulas the greater the expen e of manufacturing fertilizers, and therefore, the greater the co t of fertilizers to the farmer.
When it is realized that a fertilizer plant must stop, that all parts of the mixer mu t be cleaned out in changing from one formula to another, it will readily be seen that a large number of formulas will add materially to the operating cost.
With the end in view of directing how the number of formula can be reduced without acrificing any necessary plant food combination, the writer brought under consideration the finding of outhem experiment tations; the practices of many leading farmers whose names the county agents supplied; the data contained in the oil surveys of the United States Department of Agriculture; and personal observations and studies.
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Out of thi data, the kind of fertilizer formulas found practical and profitable have been catalogued. They have been found to vary with general soil regions. Therefore, each soil region has been studied to determine the best formula to use on each crop grown therein. When this had been done for all of the main oil reo-ion, it wa found that the rano-e of formulas was not wide, that in fact, a comparatively few will serve all purposes.
The result of thi tudy leads to the recommendations here tabulated, which afford abundant variation in formulas for all differ nee of oil and for different crops when grown on the main soil types of Georgia.
These formula apply to general conditions and fit in with g neral farm practice. There are, however, conditions under which the formulas recommended should be modified as to their nitrogen content. For instance, where a legume has been grown or where manure has been applied, the percentao-e of nitrogen in the formula can be reduced. One can tell when there is an exces ive amount of nitrogen in the soil, as compared to the oth l' element , by the over-growth of the stalk.
Lime is rarely needed as a plant food but as a soil conditioner it can be widely used, especially as a correcter of soil acidity 0 that legumes will thrive.
In the tables given below, it will be observed that the main oil types are taken in each soil region of the state. These types are predominant. Others are so closely related to them in plantfeeding ability as to make the recommendations in the tables e entially all that the state as a whole requires. (THE THREE GRA D DIVISIO OF SOILS ARE SHOW ON COVER PAGE.)
In the following tables the first figure represents the percentage of pho phoric acid, the second the percentage of ammonia and the third the percentage of potash.
NOTE: Dr. Harper has revised the following list of fertilizer formula. They are up to date and give the most recent scientific information pertaining to this important feature of Georgia agriculture.- [Ed.]
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CROP
Alfalfa Apples Asparagus Beans Beets Cabbage Cantaloupe Cauliflower Celery Clover Corn Cotton Covvpeas Cucumber Egg Plant Lettuce Oats Okra Onions Peache , young Peache, bearing Pecans, young Pecan bearing Peanut Peas Peppers Potatoes Soy Bean Sorghum Strawberries Sugar ane Squash Sweet Potatoes Sweet Potatoe, e:nly Tobacco Tomatoes Velvet Beans Watermelon Wheat
CHERT IDLLS; BROWN AND RED
MOUNTAIN LANDS LIMESTONE
Chiefly Clarkesville,
VALLEY LANDS
Frederick, DeKalb and Hance,-ille oils.
hiefly Hager town
Iand Decalur oil.
--
_ 10-2-4
_ 10-4-4
_ -4-4
_ 12-4-4
_ -4-4
_ -4-4
_ -4-4
_ -4-4
_ -4-4
_ 10-2-4
_ 10-4-2
_ 12-4-4
_ 10-2-4
_ -4-4
_ -4-4
_ -4-4
_ 12-3-3
_ 12-4-4
_ -4-4
_ 10-4-2
_ 12-44 _ 10-4-2
_ 12-4-4 _ 10-2-4 _ 12-4-4 _ 12-4-4 _ -4-4 _ 10-2-4 _ 10-4-2
_ 04-4 _ 12-4-4
_ -44
_ 12-4-4
_ 8-4-4 _ 12-4-4 _ -4-4
_ 10-2-4
_ -4-4 _ 12-3-3
12-0-4 12-3-3 12-3-3 10-2-4 12-3-3 12-3-3 12-3-3 12-3-3 12-3-3 12-0-4 12-4-0 12-3-3 12-0-4 12-3-3 12-3-3 12-3-3 12-3-3 12-3-3 12-3-3 12-4-0 10-2-4 12-4-0 10-2-4 12-0-4 10-2-4 12-3-3 12-3-3 12-0-4 12-4-0 12-3-3 12-3-3 12-3-3 10-2-4 ]2-3-3 10-2-4 12-3-3 ]2-0-4 12-3-3 10-4-4
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OROP
Pletlmont Red Lands
Ohiefly Oecil, Davidson and Madison Olay Loams and <]Iays.
Piedmont Flatwoods Lands Chiefly Iredell and Mecklenburg Soils.
Alfalfa --
_ 10-2-4
A paragu ---------------- -4-4
Beans ----------------- _ 12-4-4
Beets
_ 8-4-4
Cabbage -----------------_
Cantaloupe ---------- _
Cauliflower
_
-4-4 -4-4 8-4-4
Celery -------------------- -4-4
Clover
_ 10-2-4
CCoortnton--------------------_-
10-4-2 12-4-4
Covrpeas ----
_ 10-2-4
Cucumber
_ 8-4-4
Egg Plant -----Lettuce
_ -4-4 _ -4-4
OOaktrsa ----------------------_
12-3-3 12-4-4
Onions
_ -4-4
Peacbes, young
_ 10-4-2
Peache , bearing
_ 12-4-4
y o u n g Pecan~
_ .10-4-2
Pecans, bearing Peanut
_ 12-4-4 _ 10-2-4
Peas
_ 12-4-4
Peppers Potatoe
_ 12-4-4 _ -4-4
oy Beans Sorghum
_ 10-2-4 _ 10-4-2
Strawberrie
_ -4-4
ugar Cane Squash
_ 12-4-4 _ 8-4-4
weet Potatoes
_ 12-4-4
weet Potatoes, early Tobacco
Tomatoe
Velvet Beans Watermelon Wheat
_ -4-4 _ 12-4-4 _ -4-4
_ 10-2-4 _ -4-4 _ 12-3-3
10-2-4 10-4-4 10-2-4 10-4-4 10-4-4 10-4-4 10-4-4 10-4-4 10-2-4 12-3-3 10-2-4 10-2-4 10-4-4 10-4-4 10-4-4 12-3-3 10-2-4 10-4-4 12-3-3 10-2-4 12-3:3 10-2-4 10-2-4 10-2-4 10-2-4 10-4-4 10-2-4 12-3-3 10-4-4 10-2-4 10-4-4 10-2-4 10-4-4 10-2-4 10-4-4 10-2-4 10-4-4 12-3-3
Ple.lmont Gray & Coastal Plain Iled Land.. Chiefly Cecil, Appling, Durham, Ruston, Orangeburg and Greenville Soils.
10-2-4 -4-4
10-4-4 -4-4 -4-4 -4-4 -4-4 -4-4
10-2-4 10-5-3 10-4-4 10-2-4
8-4-4 -4-4 -4-4 12-4-4 10-4-4 -4-4 10-5-3 10-4-4, 105-3 10-4-4 10-2-4 10-4-4 10-4-4 -4-4 10-2-4 10-5-3 8-4-4 10-4-4 8-4-4 10-4-4 -4-4 10-4-4 8-4-4 10-2-41 8-4-4 12-4-4
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OROP
Alfalfa
Apples
Asparagus
Beans
~
Beets
Cabbage
Cantaloupes Cauliflower
Celery
Clover Corn
Cotton
Cowpeas
Cucumbers
Egg Plant Lettuce Oats Okra
Onions
Peaches, young Peaches, bearing Pecans, young
Peeans, bearing Peanuts
Peas
Peppers
Potatoes
Soy Beans Sorghum
Strawberries Sugar Cane Squash
Sweet Potatoes
Sweet Potatoes, early Tobacco
Toznatoes
1Ielvet Beans
Watermelons Wheat
COASTAL PLAIN GRAY LANDS
WITH YELLOW SUBSOIL
COASTAL PLAIN PLASTIC SUBSOILS
Ohiefly Norfolk, Tifton and
Marlboro Soils.
Ohiefly Susque hanna Soils.
_ 10-2-4
_ 8-5-3
_ _
12-3-3 10-2-4
_ 6-7-5
_ 6-7-5
_ 7-5-5
_ 6-7-5
_ 6-7-5
_ 10-2-4 _ 8-5-3 _ -4-4
_ 8-3-5
_ 7-5-5
_ 8-4-6
_ _ _
6-7-5 10-4-4 8-4-4
_ 6-7-5
_ 8-5-3
_ 8-3-5
_ 8-5-3
_ 8-3-5
_ _
10-2-4 8-3-5
_ 8-4-4
_ 8-4-6
_ _
8-3-5 8-5-3
_ 7-5-5 _ 8-4-4 _ 7-5-5
_ 8-3-5
_ _
_
8-4-6 8-3-5 8-4-6
_ 8-3-5
_ _
7-5-5 10-4-4
12-3-3
12-4-4 12-3-3 12-4-4 12-4-4 12-4-4 12-4-4 12-4-4 12-3-3 12-3-3 12-3-3 10-2-4 12-4-4 12-4-4 12-4-4 12-3-3 12-3-3 12-4-4 12-3-3 12-3-3 12-3-3 12-3-3 10-2-4 12-3-3 12-3-3 12-4-4 10-2-4 12-3-3 12-4-4 12-3-3 12-4-4 12-3-3 12-4-4 12-3-3 12-4-4 10-2-4 12-4-4 12-3-3
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Bulletins and Information
Write to Them. Many requests come to this Department for agricultural bulletin and other information of a general nature concerning Georgia. Below we are giving information which will direct the student of Georgia ao-riculture and Georo-ia resource to the department havllO- in charge the particular divi ion of work coverino- the ubj ct, or subject, about which the inquiry ha been made. Bulletin on General Agriculture. Fertilizer and Fertilizer Analysis. Bacteria. State Maps. Addre -Georgia Department of Agriculture, tate Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia. 1arkets. 1arket Bulletin . G neral Market Information.
ddre -State Bureau of Markets, L. B. Jack 011, Director, tate apitol, tlanta, Georo-ia.
CO-OPERATIVE POUL'1'RY ALE AT GRIFFIN, GEORGIA Conducted Unde1" the DiTection ot the tate B1trea1t ot Mm-kets in Co-opel-ation
with C01tnty Agent.
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Pure Food and Fed, Druo' -Addr s ,0. . Lee, hief Food In pector, tate apitol, tlanta, Georo'ia.
Oil and Ga oline- ~ddre ,L. H. Glenn, General Oil Inspector, tate Oapitol, tlanta, GeorO'ia.
Stati tic -Addre ,Peter V. Rice, State tati tician, Georgia o-op rative rop ReportinO' ervi e, 1710 itizen & outhern Bank Bldg., Atlanta, Georgia.
Live tock Bulletin - ddre ,Dr. Peter F. Bahn en, tate Veterinarian, State apitol, tlanta, Georgia.
Plant Di a and Pe t -Addre ,Ira W. William, tate Entomoloo'i t tate Board of Ento'moloO'y, tate Oapitol, tlanta, Geor!ria.
Mineral Re ource - ddre , Dr. S. W. if alIi, tate GeoloO'i t, tate apitol, tlanta, GeorO'ia.
O'ricultural Experiment -Addre , Georo'ia Experiment Station, Experim nt G oro'ia, al 0 the Ooa tal Experiment tation, Tifton, G oro'ia.
Pimento Peppel's
Indu trie -Addre ,H. M. tanley, Oommi ioner of Oommerce an i Labor, tate apitol, Atlanta, GeorO'ia.
tate olleO'e of ~O'riculture- ddre ,Dr. n ir w 1. Soule, President, thens, Georo'ia.
arne and ~ddre of Oounty D mon tration gentWrite Prof. J. Phil Oampbell, Dir ctor of Exten ion Service, State olleO' of O'riculture, then, Georo'ia.
Public and High School Education- ddre ,Dr. . H. Ballard, State chool up rintendent, tate apitol, tlanta.
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DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS
ame of Principal
Location and Di trict.
E. V. Holli S. L. Lewis J. M. Prance I. S. Ingram J. H. Walker T. O. Gallowa *H. R. Hunt. B. F. Gay W. A. HatfieB L. F. Elrod J. M. Thra h F. M. Greene
Statesboro, Georgia, Fir t District. Tifton, Georgia, Second Di trict. Americus, Georgia, Third District. Carrollton, Georgia, Fourth Di trict. Monroe, Georgia, Fifth Di trict. Barne ville, Georo'ia, Sixth Di trict. Powder Springs, Georgia, Seventh District. {adi on, Georgia, Eighth Di trict. Clarke ville, Georgia, inth Di trict. Granite Hill, Georgia, Tenth Di trict. Douglas, Georgia, Eleventh Di trict. Cochran, Georgia, Twelfth Di trict.
*Recently decea ed- ucces or not ele te 1 at time of going' to pI'
SMITH-HUGHES VOCATIONAL WORK Organized in 6~ Hio'h chool of Georgia; 41 for white and 21 for colored. Addre -F. E. Lan 1, upervisor, Georgia Department of Education, Atlanta, Georgia. Hunting and Fi hing Laws-Addre , Peter S. Twitty, tate Game and Fi h Commi ioner, tate Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia. Department of rchive and Hi tory- ddre ,Dr. L. L. KniO'ht, tate Historian and Director, State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia. Crop Reports-Addre ,Z. R. Pettet, Director, Georgia Cooperative Crop ReportinO' Service, 1710-14 Citizens & Southern Bank Building, Atlanta, Georgia.
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WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
Standard weights and measures fixed by Act of Georgia
General Assembly are given below. We consider this valuable
information should appear as part of a handbook on Georgia
agriculture.
Wbeat, per bu.
Corn, shelled, per bu.
~
Corn in the ear, per bu.
:.
Peas, per bu.
Rye, per bu.
Oats, per bu.
Barley, per bu.
Potatoes, Irish, per bu.
.
Potatoes, sweet, per bu.
Beans, white, per bu.
Clover Seed, per bu.
Timothy Seed, per bu. Jrlax Seed, per bu.
Hemp Seed, per bu. Blue Gras, per bu. Buckwheat, per bu.
Peaches, dried (unpeeled) per bu. Peaches, dried (peeled), per bu. Apples, dried, per bu. Onions, per bu.
Coal, stone, per bu.
!Une, unslaked, per bu. Turnips, per bu.
Corn Meal, bolted or unbolted, per bu. Wheat bran, per bu.
_ 60 lbs.
_ _ _ _
56 " 70 " 60 "
_ _
56 " 32 47 "
~
_ _ _ _
_ _
_ _ _
60 " 55 " 60 " 60 " 45 " 56 " 44 " 14 "
52 "
_ 33 "
_ _ _
_ _ _
38 "
24 "
57 "
o" o"
55 "
_ _
4" 20 "
g~~~l~~s.~ee~s,P~erb~u~-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~==~=~=~=============
Hair, pIa tering, per bu.
_
Rice, rough, per bu.
30 25
43
"
"
""
Tan bark, per cord
.
2,250 "
Act of General Assembly, 1906, p. 118.
NOTE: All Georgia products are marketed according to
U. S. Standards of weights and measures where such tandards
have been established. In the absence of uch, Stat tandards
or established custom prevails. In this cIa are two of the new-
est seed crops originated in Georgia recently-O-Too-Tan and
Laredo Soy Beans. Their weight as establi hed by prevailing
custom follows:
Soy Beans, O-Too-Tan, per bu.
Soy Beans, Laredo, per bu.
.
60 lbs. .____ 60 "
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REGULATORY AND QUARANTINE LAWS
Administered by the State Board of Entomology
BRIEF SUMMARY OF GEORGIA NURSERY LAW
Georgia ur eries.
All nul' ery stock, greenhouse plants, sweet potato plants,
etc., must be inspected and certified before being moved from the property on which they are grown.
After the nursery stock or plants have been inspected the grower or nurseryman must secure certificate tags and attach one tag to each bundle of plants or trees leaving- his property.
In order to secure these tags a nurseryman must take out license and make a surety bond for $1,000.00. The nursery license i $5.00 annually, and the bond for "$1,000.00 may be signed by a surety company or a reputable individual not con-
nected with the nur ery and owning $1,000.00 worth of unincumbered property.
Certificate tags are i ued at actual cost after the grower
ha complied with the above requirements.
.
Movement of plants or nul' ery tock without a certificate taO" attached is a violation of the law and will be prosecuted.
OUT OF STATE NURSERIES
Out of tate nul' eries de irinO" to hip nul' ery stock to Georgia must :file with the Georgia State Board of Entomology a copy of their nul' ery certificate, along ith their urety bond for $1,000.00. Upon receipt of this bonel and nursery certificate, Georgia permit tag will be i ued. All nul' ery stock entering Georgia must have two tags attached, namely, the inspection tag of the state of origin, along with the Geor!ri.a permit tag. Out of state nurseries must al 0 file an invoice giving the amount and kind of stock shipped to Georgia, along with name and address of consignee.
Nursery stock and plants from Japanese beetle area in ew Jersey and Pennsylvania will not be admitted into Georgia.
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Georgia Stat Board of ntoll101og
QU R
E DEP RT E T
Anyone of these pests would cause thousands of dollars' damage if introduced into Georgia.
All of them would soon destroy our industries. Write us before ordering plants or nursery stock from other states.
.~
The Georgia State Board of Entomology is the protection of the horticultural and agricultural industries against these dangerous pests.
Co-operate with us in keeping them out of Georgia by sending specimens and receiving information.
GEORGIA STATE BOARD OF ENTOMOLOGY.
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GEORGIA STATE BOARD OF ENTOMOLOGY
Organization of Plant Quarantine Department
Xumerou complaint from grower throughout the tate to the ffect that they were I' ceiving di ea ed aJ1d in ct infested llant and nul' cry to k from other tat ,and th fact that many de tru tiye in et and di ea e uot pre eut in Georgia are playiug havoc in other tate and countrie , forcibly impre- ed upon the Department the nece ity of e tabli hing and maintaining an efficient quarantine y tem whereby all di ea ed and in eet infe ted material could be refu ed deli"ery in the tate.
DuriJ1g January of thi year thi department wa e tabli hed. ompetent in 1ector w re tationed at Atlanta, Macon and avaunah for tbe purpo of inp cting allilant and nur ery tock ntering the tate eith r b . boat pare I po t or rail. Due to the mall amount of money ayaiJable for thi work only one man could be placed at eacb tation and it wa oon di coyered that tbree in pector could in pect only a mall per cent of the plant entering the tate. Therefore, the activiti of the in pe tor were confined principally to the interception of illegal hipm nt of nur ry to k and plant which did not hav the proper inspe tion certificate attached. In thi manner orne valuable work i h ing ac compli h d. During one month we r turned to bippers or Ie troyed 166 bundle of illegal di ea ed or in ect infe ted lltJrS ry tock de tin d for G orgia point. everal very injuriou in e t not known to oc ur in Georgia baye be n iu ter epted.
From a prote tive tandpoint ayannah i pro ably th mo t irnportnn tn tion for ther we have on an average of three boat a day, one-third of which ar foreign. Without thi prote tion one of th e ship ould very ea ily brin~ u any day one of the everal for ign frnit :tlie wl1ich would wipe out our pea hindu tr~'; or a aek of cotton eed from ome foreign p rt infe ted with the Pink Bollworm, which would ruin our otton iudu try.
We f el tbat th Quarantine Departm nt i one of the mo.t imoortant pha e of the work being carried on by th Georgia. tnt Board of Entornolog~. e' ral of th mo de tru ti"e in ct and di ea.e known to exi t have not a Yet be II introduced into Geor~ia, aJ1(1 prey nting their entry afford. th horticnlt~ral anll agricultural iniu tri of the tat a prote tion worth million and million of dollar .
The D partment of Entolllololt" i de irou of inc rea in/! the cope of. thi work. Xext ea on we hope to b in a po ition to furni h nm ient protection along thi line and e tabli h more tation 0 that e,-ery plant ent ring tb tat will b given a thorough in. pection. The grow r throughout the tate ar invited and urged to make omplaint to thi D parhnent wh n the~r ptircha e nur ery tock which doe not ome up to pe ificatiol1 , 1111(1 we a ure you that we will u ev ry effort to e ure an adju tmel1t from the nur rym n making the hipment. Your cooperation i earne tly olicited.
JEFF HAFFIX
hief In pector.
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Don't waste your energy and money planting cotton and let the boll weevil eat it up. The products of this train, used according to the directions of the State Board of Entomology, will save -your crop. Not a single complaint has come to us for the past three years from any man who has used good calcium arsenate according to the Board's instructions.
GEORGIA STATE BOARD OF ENTOMOLOGY.
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GEORGIA STATE BOARD OF ENTOMOLOGY
The Use of Calcium Arsenate in Georgia
The Georgia tat Board of Ent mology began experim ntal work for the control of the boll weevil at the time of Its first appearance in G orgia. Calcium arsenate was found to be the best poison for ontrolling the weevil. In 1921 our present recommendations for the u e of calcium ar enate were worked out and distributed. That year we did not push the use of calcium arsenate because of the low pric of cotton, and the high price of calcium ar enate. The legislature, at Its session in 1921, pas ed a law requiring the Georgia tat Board of Entomology to buy and sell calcium ar enate to the farm rs at co t. In 1922 the Board put on a vigorou ami aign for early and sy t matic poisoning, and a large supply of calcium al'senate was pur ha ed and furni h d to th farmers at 9 c nts p I' pound. The farmel'S b came Interest d at this price in the us of calcium arsenate for th control of the we vil, and the campaign that was being pushed by the Board. Th Board th n, in co-op ration with the railroad. worked out a method of distribution by means of "P ddl I' Cars," These cars W re sidetracked at every important station. Although the p ople had scar ely hard of calcium ar enate th y came out to the trains. accepted the literature given out, and a large number bought, though some of th m only in small amounts to try out. They carried this horne and appli d it to their cotton according to the instructions of the Board and found that it would kill the w evil. They then wanted to buy more arsenate, and th ir neighbors seeing the results, al 0 wanted to purchase it. This created such a demand that the Board wa scarcely able to supply the calcium that eason and over 150 cars were sold.
By this method and the use of it through the ason of 1922 the cotton grow rs proved to thems Iv s the advantag s to be d rived from this poi on in the control of the weevil. Ince that time the demand for calcium ar enate has Increa ed very rapidly in the tate. wing to the very high price PI' "ailing last year, 1923, the distribution was not as large as It sh uld have been, but a great deal more was u ed than during the PI' vi us y aI', ev n at the high price. The price made by the Board wa 15c to 16c which was very much cheaper than the price PI' vailing in other states.
Th Board was able this year to make a price of 11* c nts in car-load lots, 12 cents On the "p ddl I' trains," and 12'h ents in Ie s than car-load lots, all dellvered to the farmer. The tate has purchased at the PI' sent time more than 10,000,000 pounds for u e this PI' S nt s ason.
Georgia poisoned last year 3 % of its acr age, while throughout the cotton belt an average of I than 60/0 was poison d. It is said by p ople who are in
position to know that Geor ia has purchas d this year one-third of all the calcium arsenate sold.
Owing to the weather conditions in south Georgia last y ar the crop in that section was almost a total failur , not so mu h by reason of the weevil, as on account of lhe inces ant rains. How "er, in north Georgia, \Vh I' calcium ar enale was generally u d, the crop was gr at I' than the y ar b fore. In 1922 they used approximately thirty cars in thi ar a. In 1923 the farmer decreased the acreage 14,700 acres and u ed ~O cars of al ium ar enate, and with this deer ased acreage and increa ed u e of calcium arsenat th y made an Increase of 19,700 bal s, giving an incr as d value wllh the d I' a ed acreag-e and incr ased use of calcium aI's nate of $5,5 6.900. This I' port Is tak n from the report of the Georgia and West Point Railroads agricultural departments and covers the territory along their lines.
Thi year the Board I running its Peddler Train again and by so doing is Increasing the use of calcium arsenat v ry much. The farmers, wher they have the money or can secure it, are buying the amount lhey ne d. Th yare not depending on th weather to save their crops, but are planning to insure them by the use of calcium ar enate. Th banks in th country districts throughout th state have be n a very gr at h Ip in n ouraging the farmers to buy calcium aI's nate, and In most instances furnish the money.
Th Farm Demon tration A ents have also b en very activ and have given splendid co-operation, with a f w exc ptions. in helping the Board to g t a supply of calcium arsenat to the fal'mer. They have advertised and made up carloads and have been of gr at benefit. Also we can not give too much praise to the railroads who hay in very way co-operat d and helped th Board in operating their trains in di tributing calcium ar nate. Every official of every road has complied with prac i ally every requ st mad f them by the Board of Entomology in connection with the di tribution of calcium ar nate.
IRA W. WILLIAMS,
tate Entomologist.
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GEORGIA NURSERIES SHIPPING STOCK TO OTHER
STATES
"'Vb naG ol'o'ia nul' ryman d ir to make hipm nt 01 plant t th r tat he hould ill with the hi f In p ctor f tho e tat a cop of hi nul' ery c rtmcate and ur p rmit tao' or compl "with wha verI' quir m nt th variou tat have in force.
GEORGIA BEE INSPECTION LAW
All hon y b e and ond-hand b e quipm nt mov d within I' int the tate of Geor ia mu t be in p t d and hay a erti:ficate a atta h d. All apiari mu t b c rti:fied and a lic n e mu t be i ued alono- with erti:fi ate tao- b for hipment of be an be made.
ddr all c mmunication to th G oro-ia tat Board of Entomoloo-y, tlanta, Georo-ia.
LIVE STOCK QUARANTINE LAWS
Th law of G oro'ia prohibit und I' mi d manor p nalty th hippino- of ti k inf t d cattl ,hoI' or mule for an purp , into, within or throuo-h th tat.
All cattle, hoI' and mul hipp d or driven or allowed tray into G oro-ia mu t b ti k fr. hipment or mo m nt f attl h I' or mul from ick infe t d or. quarantined ar a of oth l' tat mu t be in p t d an ill inf ted un 1 I' upervi ion of a f d ral in pe tor and th n load d in clean and di infect deal'. M v ment mu t b accompani d b f dral in p tion c rtmcate. Al 0 ( ee l' o-ulation 21 and pial rder Jo. ...). All hoo- hipp d into or within th tate of ro-ia mu t mov und rth pr vi i n of R o'ulati n 0.17, Bulletin o. 14, ri The provi ion of F deral 2 -hour law are ad pted, and apph to intra tat hipm nt of liv tock, e ReQ'ulation No. ~r.
11 inquirie in l' f l' n e to I' o-ulation hould be addr d to-
PETER F. B \..H E
tate Veterinarian, tlanta, Georgia.
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PART III
GRIC LT R L ST TI TICS
Issued By GEORGI CO-OPERATIVE CROP HEPORTI G ER ICE
tlanta, Georgia
z. n. PETTET, gri ultural tati ti ian (F deral
CHLLD , i tant gricultural tati tician (F deral) PETER . RICE, tate tati tician
Co-operating Agencies ITED T TE
DEP HTME T OF GRI JLT RE Bur au of !ITi ultural Economi
GEOHGIA T TE DEP HT lENT OF GHIC J. J. BRO\ Comrni ioner Atlanta, Georgia
TURE
T TE COLLEGE OF GHIC TURE A. M. 0 LE Pre ident then Georaia
1710-1 itizen and uth rn Bank Building Atlanta G orgia
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We de ir to mak acknowledlYm nt for the data l' ceiv d from the GeorO'ia P a h row l' ' ExchanO' , and other 0operative A ociation; the entral of G orgia, the G orgia, and other Railroad ; the Demon tration 0' nt , and other tate and Fed ral Deparlm nt ; and la t but not 1 a t our thou and of voluntm'Y crop orre pondent , without who e public pirit d co-operation county tati tic would have be n ntir ly impo ible.
During the coming ture i invited to co-op rate with u to the fulle t extent in order that Geor ia tati tic rna b made a accurate and a complete as po ible. GEORGIA O-OPER TIVE ROP REPORT G ERVI E,
Z. R. P tt t, tati ti ian in harge.
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LOCATION OF CROP REPORTERS
Weare v I' often a ked how rop I' port ar mad. Th Georo-ia o-operativ rvi e depend , I' laro' 1 upon it wonderful corp of volunteer aid in every county. The e men re-
c ive ab olut 1 no I' mun ration and erve b au th undertand the importanc of the "Work and becau their n e of duty impel them to do o.
To g t accurat tate tati ti onl a man or two i necear in ach county. To 0- t a urate county data the number mu t be 10 or mol' ; 20 ar pI' f rabl. The averao'e numb rin Georgia i now 15 to th county. Th ar di tribut d a well a can be done with our limited fa iliti . Durino- th pa t eaon the county timate mad b th eo- ntl men w I' 0 plendid a to ur favorable notic from ail tati tical ao-enci .
A gr at man look upon rop l' 1 ortino- a m re gue work. Of cour e one rna a that an x ell nt mark man who hit the bull - y nine tim out of t n or nin ty-nine tim out of a hlillell' d i am re o'u er. If th taro- t uld peak it would off I' vid nce to th contrar. Whil th I' i u uail a lio-ht variation of two or thr per cent from th xact truth, thi rror i normally in th arne dir ction and on tanto Tab) of orrection hav b n pI' par d by h tati ti al ienti t at Wa hington, ba d upon 40 y ar 'I' ord, 0 that till liO'ht ITOI' i laro- lover om ju a a rift man orr t th io-ht a ordinoto the di tan e, wind dir tion, lio-ht, condition , etc.
Anyone de irino- to look into the accurac of th national
report i invit d to , rite the Bureau of gricultural Economic,
Wa hino-ton D.
to the accura of th G oro-ia I' port
they are u uaily within a few p I' C nt. of the xact truth and for
three y ar runnino- we have almo t xactly foreca t the ea
I land cotton crop, the mo t diffi ult of ail crop to timate.
One y ar we weI' within 1 ,another 2 -, and the thir 1 350
bale. La t y ar the Georgia foreca t of the 1923 cotton crop
\Va within 31 bal of the amount a tuaily ginn d, a I' ported
by the c n u , and the y ar b for within a fra tion of on
per cent.
Monthly I' port are i ued on crop and liv to k and may be obtain d fr upon application.
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2000 VETER GE RGIA PONDEr T , J
PER TIVE R P ORREY 1 T 1 :..4.
(In addition to tho e hown below, th r ar about 4,000 p cial orr pond nt and 2 200 alt rnat .)
dot a Veteran Crop Reporter
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County Cotton Estimates
For ev ral ear there ha been an in i tent demand for e timat b counti for cotton. 0 method of e timatinO' damao'e done b th b 11 w viI i cientific unle the unit damaO' i a c rtain 1. In oth I' word we mu t know the yield p r a .re befor and aft rinf tation.
W tak pI a ure in pre entin o' figure which how th el v n-) ar av raO' yi Id p I' acre by countie pI' viou to the we viI infe tation, 1904 to 1914, th five-year average, from 1915 to 1919, and the averao'e th pa t a on. The e averaO' by counti ar d riv d from th re ord of the nit d tate Bur au of O'ri ultural E onomi (formerly the nited tate Bureau of rop E timat ), ombin d with th record of the 10 al crop I' portinO' rvic ince it e tabli hm nt.
One of the b t way to tudy thi table i to notice the del' a e by Ii trict in onn tion with th boll weevil map attached. In no a on ha e w uff I' d a much a la tear. The crop wa almo t a failur in many outh G orO'ia countie . On th oth I' hand th re i th iO'nifi anc of favorable I' action in a numb l' f north GeorO'ia ounti ,which had almo t di continued cotton winO' to th w evil and which are beO'inning to produce it ao'ain on a on id rable cal .
The early I' cor 1 of the number of boll weevil urvivinO' the wint I' m to indicate that f weI' will urvive than in any ea on of which w have I' cord. If thi i true, it i probabl that la t y ar l' cord the low-water mark for cotton in this tat , an 1 that in th nnar futur w "ill O'raduall incr a e our production.
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COTTON YIELD PER. ACR.E, POUNDS OF LINT COTTON, BY COUNTIES
ll-Year Average 1904-1914; 5-Year Average 1915-1919 and 1923 Average Production_ t
District No_ 1.
CountiesBartow Catoo a Chattooga Dade Floyd Gordon
~urray
Paulding Polk VValker Whitfield
190,1,-1914 193 227 214
---207 212 172
191 209 21
201
1915-1919
164 1 177 232 179 192 207 19 171 197 205
1923
120 121 115 60 115 115 107 123 129
2
134
District ,-era e
204
191
111
District No.2. Barrow
herokee larke obb Dawson DeJralb Fannin For yth Fulton Gilmer
G~nnett
Hall Jack on Lumpkin Milton Oconee Pickens Towns lJnion Walton White
Di trict Avel-age
202 191 191 212
11 2]7 ----
193 172 211 179 13 21
114 127
126 135 107 113
19, 222
-207
]9 201 16 223 200 10 --
15 253 12 210 232 179 179 201 209
16,1
11 113
103 115 125 95 152 104
9
----
206 ----
221 154
123 100
200
196
116
District NO.3. Banks Elbert Franklin Haber hum Hart Lincoln Madison Oglethorpe Rabun
tephen Wilkes
Di trict A,erage
207 16 199
212 197
11 19,1,
10 --
197 179 199 206 207
179 197
175
145 122 144 139 150 11
14 131
190 174
205 202
134 154
192
194
139
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COTTON YIELD pllR ACRE, POUNDS OF LINT COTTON, BY COUNTI1'lS
ll-Year Average 1904-1914;
District No.4.
CountiesCampbell
arroll battahoochee Clayton Co\veta Dougla Fayette Haralson Harris Heard Henry Lamar ]dacon ]darion }{eriwether }{uscogee Pike Schley Spalding Talbot Taylor Tronp Upson
5-Tear Avera"e Production. t
1915-1919 and 1923 Average
1904-1914 193 213
19 219 195 221 215
15 170 201
195
_ 175 164 11 172 19 160
217
177 13 190 191
1915-1919
16 12 112 179 14 179 14 160 11 155 171
143 122 141 132 175 135 215 143 157 144 170
1923
153 150
30 126 11
150 142 115 73 161 112 141
7 45 77 62 12 57 140
1 94 110 129
District Average
191
15
107
District No.5.
Baldwin Bibb
Bleckley
Butts Cra\vford Dodge
Greene Hancock Houston Jasper
Johnson Jones
Laurens llonroe
llontgomery llorgan l'ewton Pnlaski Putnam
Rockdale Taliaferro Treutlen
.
165 12
10
19 171 195
169 172 177 169
14 14
196 190
213 190 191 179 179
199 173
_
157 153 16 13 161 156 172 169 170 171 155 149 162 16 17 10 16 13 165 176
175
99
73 37 127
2 43 130 133 7 56
5 50 63 126 47
140 130 52 132 11 140 77
~~~~:~t~~~~::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: f6:
VViLkin on
172
136 161 150 157
59 135 56
61
Di trict Average
12
161
90
ee ]dontgomery County. 117
COTTON YIELD PER ACRE, POUNDS OF LINT COTTON, BY COUNTIES
ll-Year Average 1904-1914;
District No.6. CountiesBulloch Burke Candler ColUInbia Effingham Emanuel Glascock Jefferson Jenkins ]dcDuffie Richmond
creven VVarren
5-Year Average Production. t
1915-1919 and 1923 Average
1904-1914 220 205 ---12
259 211 162 196 223 162
192 233 165
1915-1919
247 227 13 153 202 194 15 19 213 16 19 203 16
District Average
201
193
105
BakeDristrict No.7.
Calhoun Clay
Decatur
Dougherty Early Grady Lee ]diller
171
199 12
179
13 193 177 196 190
135 124 126 11 149 127 160 153 130
31 60 70 27
41 26 20 2
16
]ditchell __ Quitman Randolph Seminole Stewart Sumter Terrell
Thomas VVebster
___ __ _
___ __ ____ _ 195 14 19
----
174
7 14
167 216 209
203 154
141
159 17 170
124
30 59 90 21
58 72 6 45 39
District Average
AtkiDnsiostnrict No.8.
Ben Hill
Berrien Brook
Clinch
Coffee
Colquitt Cook
Crisp
Dooly
Echols
Irlvin
Jeff Davis
Lanier
Lo'vndes
Teliair
Tift
Turner
VVilcox VVorth
__ __ __
16
141
45
.. _____ ~ _ 221
.___ 216 214 155 232
224 ----
210 200
3 244
293 ----
201 215 227
271
_ 226 210
~---
203 147 17 10 176 174 137 174 203
51 202 17
95 10 177 194 195 196
17 2 27 45
16 62 19 30 65
24 30 16 22 34 37 53 3 34
District Average --__________________________ 214
165
33
~ ee Coffee County. 118
COTTON YIELD PER. ACR.E, POUNDS OF LINT COTTON, BY COUNTIES
ll-Year Average 1904-1914; 5-Year Avera~e 1915-1919 and 1923 Average
Production t.
District NO.9.
CountiesAppling Bacon
Brantley Bryan CaUlden
Charlton ChathaIn Evans
Glynn
1904-1914 179 ----
---239 216
160 -------
150
1915-1919 149 105
153 166 131 170 21
1923 79 38 90 50
75
59
Liberty _._______________________________________ 209
Long
----
16
lIclntosh
----
Pierce
161
Tattnall
21
TOOUlbs _._______________________________________ 230
,Vare
170
lVayne
211
211
179 158 167 149 211
75 3
92 58 61 90 75
District Average
.__________ 195
165
67
State Averages
196
174
091
t As reported. 0Weighted state average yield equals 82 lbs. lint cotton.
119
COTTON
-ACREAGE
A
~ Eo<
Z
<j
H P-i
1866 1867
A
~
I:.:l
0
H
P-i
1,069,167 1,197,467
00
'0 l'<
0"
P-i
",-
....
<:.l
<j
....
P'"-i
'0 0;
~ 117 1 170
-
..,~
~"
..... 00
0'0 ~~ _0.- "0 ~P-i
"'0
.0... P-i =l:I: 125,093,000 203,569,000
00 00 00
C?5c'";
'd~
~..,
"""Obi)
'" P-i'''''
g~
It>
205,000 390,000
'0 l'<
"0
P-i .... ~~
~g
.... A
p';
Sa
r;,
"'"
c;~
PE..O. A'd"
rC;,"l
CONDITION
~
Z rP-;,
i>-t H
~
cS P
<j
~ P-i
~ CI2
~ 0 0
57
"4o
115
145
153 15o
1868
1,053,771 147 154,904,000 290,000
94
92
80
75
....
lo>:l.
1869 1870 1871
1872
1,243,450 150 186,518,000 1,330,491 173 230,174,943 1,170,832 120 140,499,840 1,311,331 180 236,039,580
473,934 495,000 320,000 595,000
103
101
80
78
101
100
105
99
82
82
80
96
101
104
78 I 72
96
88
1873 1874
1,455,577 184 267,826,168 577,150 1,678,856 136 228,324,416 519,000
94 80
I I 94
95
90
91
94
77
82
8o
1875 1876 1877
1,611,702 126 203,074,452 457,000
1
91
97
86
1,515,000 151 228,765,000 505,000
9.0 20,588,850 103 1 103
104
1,530,150 138 211,160,700 4(;9,000
89
90
85
76
71
90
88
77
77
1878
1,560,753 161 251,281,233 558,403 8.1 20,353,780 101
105
92
81
8'i
1879
2,617,138 156 408,273,528 814,441 10.0 40,827,353 93
86
87
82
7I
18801
2,878,851 163 469,252,713 1,009,260 10.01 46,925,271 98
97
98
95
88
1881
2,994,005 145 434,130,725 800,000
92
98
92
71
73
1882 1883
2,844,305 146 415,268,530 942,000 9.0 37,374,168 89
92
94 I 89
86
2,872,748 123 353,348,004 752,500 9.51 33,568,060 86
93
'18
70
66
1884
2,958,930 135 399,455,550 807,400 9.2 36,749,911 96
90
90
86
79
1885
3,047,698 150 457,154,700 960,025 8.5 38,858,150 95
97
100
91
87
1886
2,956,267 137 405,008,579 861,720 8.2 33,210,703 82
81
80
81
8]
1887
2,941,486 154 452,988,844 947,158 8.7 39,410,029 99
96
94
84
77
18881 1889\
2,970,901 156 463,460,556 953,623 3,345,104 1551 518,491,120 1,191,846
8.5 39,394,147 8.61 44,590,236/
92 80
II
90 86 1 \
90 91
85
7~
90
87
..
1890
2,969,713 165 490,002,645 1,210;000 8.6 42,140,227 94
95
94 I 86
82
1891 1892
2,821,227 155 437,290,185 1,050,000 7.4 32,359,474 80 2,369,831 160 379,172,960 800,000 8.5 32,229,702 87
85 88
I 86
82
84
79
78 75
1893
3,050,000 136 414,800,000 1,000,000 7.3 30,280,400 87
86
83
77
76
1894
3,610,968 1551 559,700,040 1,183,924 5.0 27,985,002 76
78
85
84
79
1895
3,069,323 1521 466,537,096 1,067,377 7.0 32,657,597 82
88
87
76
72
1896
3,468,335 182 630,262,508 1,299,340 7.0 44,118,376 95
94
92
71
67
1897 1898
3,537,702 178 629,710,956 1,350,781 6.7 42,190,634 84 3,535,205 183 646,942,515 1,378,731 5.6 36,228,781 89
85 90
95 91
80 80
7
75
1899
::l,698,000 159 588,053,000 1,231,060 7.2 44,318,160 88
85
79
69
64
1900 3,550,760 3,342,000 172 574,846,000 1,203,308 9.5 57,157,130 89
74
77
69
6
1901 4,122,309 3,762,000 167 628,225,000 1,314,881 7.2 47,335,716 80
72
78
81
73
1902 3,957,417 4,129,000 165 681,308,000 1,425,044 8.0 57,001,756 94
91
83
68
62
1903 4,131,543 3,834,000 ]58 605,780,000 1,267,364 10.7 67,803,965 75
75
77
81
68
1904 4,449,672 4,397,000 205 901,407,000 1,887,853 9.4 88,729,068 78 1905 3,826,718 4,020,000 200 804,090,000 1,682,555 10.9 91,699,520 84
85 82
I91
86
82
77
78 76
1906 4,728,000 4,610,000 165 760,710,000 1,592,572 9.8 78,036,420 86
82
74
72
68
1907 4,822,560 4,566,000 190 867,550,000 1,815,834 10.6 96,238,460 74
78
81
81
76
.....
1908 4,910,000 4,848,000 190 922,630,000 1,931,179 8.7 84,006,330 80
83
85
77
71
'.."...
1909 4,763,000 4,674,000 184 861,920,000 1,804,014 14.2 128,085,420 84
79
78
73
71
1910 4,970,000 4,973,000 173 844,310,000 1,767,202 14.2 125,471,200 81
78
70
71
68
1911 5,579,000 5,504,000 240 1,323,710,000 2,768,627 8.9 123,203,590 92
94
95
81
79
1912 5,390,000 5,335,000 159 848,920,000 1,776,546 12.4 110,145,480 74
72
68
70
65
1913 5,345,000 5,318,000 208 1,107,200,000 2,316,601 ]2.8 148,262,400 69
74
76
76
72
1914 5,510,000 5,430,000 239 1,299,619,000 2,718,037 6.9 93,772,380 80
83
82
81
81
1915 4,925,000 4,825,000 189 912,398,000 1,908,673 11.4 108,794,760 81
79
76
69
6
1916 5,450,000 5,277,000 165 870,659,000 1,820,939 19.9 181,183,430 73
80
68
62
58
1917 5,274,000 5,195,000 173 901,060,000 1,883,911 28.8 271,283,184 69
69
69
68
62
1918 5,425,000 5,341,000 190 1,014,865,000 2,122,405 27.5 291,831,000 78
80
77
66
6
1919 5,494,000 5,220,000 152 799,474,000 1,658,253 35.8 296,827,287 81
72
67
55
4
1920 5,000,000 4,900,000 138 676,200,000 1,415,129 15.3 108,257,000 55
63
68
58
5
1921 4,346,000 4,172,000
385,480,000 787,084 16.6 65,328,000 63
64
59
41
3
1922 3,636,000 3,466,000 10900\ 346,600,000 714,998 23.9 85/442,00
71
58
54
44
3
*19231 3,927,000 3,433,000 82 281,506,000 587,969 32.0 94,400,000 1 65
5-6--
48
42
3
*Latest official figures, subject to minor revisions to harmonize.
#Product of acreage and yield.
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- ...,.....
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~
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"\oS)
F"ROM ,89::t TO 192:2.
~
CN~ PIl.,,,,tIO IV no. DUlluu DF
8. O.'AAT"'INT Of" AonICULTun .
1ftc b1.1t1lC' I~ 1M Illnil of ",""if dll","_10 Drumbn I, I?ll. wkik l~ b1ac;~ lIM: aMws ,he IIIlIIl III 1921. with ,he
nuplion ollhe OCUlI/elKC in 1M mll\lnl.,,,t III _Ihetun A",on.. 'fh." J..~ line.N:IWl 1M l,m,1I 01 <0I1oft fI'OWction in 1M
W~ ~.\ft, u<rpt lOt kw _II .lU. III AI1'00Ind C.I,IOI'lIwo.
A...",.!'l ia ""111"1 doll. lor 111 m.p hn b-l,t'iwd flln 1M Stalr ~lomoIot:nl' olthe S..ln JIlCetMd.
r. ...
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1""Ulil !\bICII, lin.
BOLL WEEVIL MAP Showing progl'ess of the wee viI since its first invasion.
(In 1922 the weevil practically reached the northern line of the belt, Hence. no infestation line is shown for 1928.)
CORN-GEORGIA
Yield
Price Farm Value
Year.
Acreage. Per Acre. Production. Per Bu. Dec. 1
Acres
1 66 1 67
______________________ 2,531,59 _____________________ 2,216,564
1 6 _____________________ 2,149,133
1 69 _____________________ 2,500,000
1 70 _____________________ 2,296,296
171 _____________________ 1,956,310 1 72 _____________________ 1,902,160 173 _____________________ 1,952,35 1 74 _____________________ 2,206,667
1 75 1 76
_____________________ _____________________
2,010,000 2,147,272
1 77 _____________________ 2,133,333
1 78 1 79
_____________________ _____________________
2,21 ,000 2,21 ,000
18 0 _____________________ 2,3 4,700
1 81 _____________________ 2,338,700
12
1883 18 4 1 85 16
_____________________ _____________________
_____________________ _____________________ _____________________
2,747,005 2, 29,415
2,857,700 2, 57,700 2, 6,277
1 87 1
_____________________ _____________________
2,915,140 2,923, 5
1 1 90 1 91 1 92
_____________________ _____________________
_____________________ _____________________
3,011,602 2,9 1,4 6
3,100,745 2,94570
1 93 _____________________ 3,034,079
1 94 1 95
_____________________ _____________________
3,003,73 3,244,037
1 93 _____________________ 2,9 -1,51-1
1 97 _____________________ 2,92-1, 2-1 1 9 _____________________ 2,954,072
1 99 _____________________ 3,249,479 1900 _____________________ 3,411,953
1901 1902 1903
_____________________ ______________ ._______
_____________________
3,7 5,75 3, 9,331
393 ,324
1904 1905 1903 1907
_____________________ _____________________ _____________________
_____________________
3,977,707 4,295,924 4,33, 3
4,426,000
190 _____________________ 4,300,000
1909 1910
______________________ _____________________
3,3 3,5
3,000 5,000
1911 _____________________ 3,692,000
1912 _____________________ 3,910,000
1913 _____________________ 4,066,000
1914 _____________________ 4,000,000
1915 _____________________ 4,330,000
1916 _____________________ 4,000,000
1917 _____________________ 4,500,000
191 1919
_____________________ _____________________
4,590,000 4,376,000
1920 _____________________ 4,393,000
1921 1922
_____________________ _____________________
4,665,000 4,3 5,000
1923 _____________________ 4,034,000
Bush.
6.2 13.1 12.7 11.0 13.5 10.3 12.5 12.3 11.1 10.0 11.0 10.5 11.0
9.3 9.2 .3 13.3
.7 10.8 11.3 10. 11.0
9:6 11.2 10.5 12.2 11.2 11.1 11.7 13.0 11.0 11.0
9.0 10.0 10.0 10.0
9.0 11.7 11.9 11.0 12.0 13.0 12.5 11.6 14.5 16.0 13.8 15.5 14.0 15.0 15.5 16.0 15.0 14.5 15.0 15.0 12.0 12.2
Bush.
15,695,909 29,037,000 27,294,000 27,500,000 31,000,000 20,150,000 23,777,000 24,014,000 24,494,000 20,100,000 23,620,000 22,400,000 24,39 ,000 20,627,400 21,939,240 19,745,000 36,617,500 24,615,900 30,925,000 32,162,000 31,197,000 32,067,000 2 ,069,000 33,730,000 31,306,000 37, 29,000 32,992,000 33,67 ,277 35,143,735 42,172,4 1 32, 29,654 32,173,064 26,5 6,64 32,494,790 34,119,530 37, 57,5 0 35,093,979 46,07 ,391 47,334,713 47 255,16! 52,066,596 57,53 ,000 53,750,000 39,375,000 51,9 2,000 59,072,000 53,95 ,000 63,023,000 56,000,000 64,950,000 62,000,000 72,000,000 6 , 50,000 6 ,452,000 65, 95,000 69,975,000 52,620,000 49,215,000
Cts.
Dollars
106 16,590,947
69 19,96 ,13
6
1 ,4 0,312
93 26,366, 7
1 25,044, 3 4 16, 52,06
76 1 ,111,79
76 1 ,132,11 3 20,319,639
75 15,070,619
55 12,9 9,91
6 14, 17,121
61 14, 53,074
70 14,439,1 0
69 15,13 ,076 97 19,152,650
65 23,801,375
67 16,492,653
70 21,647,500
5
1 ,653,930
60 1 ,71 ,200
63 20,202,210
60 16, 41,400
55 1 ,551,46 69 21,600, 66
69 26,102,071 56 1 ,475,4 1
56 1 , 59, 35
5
20,3 3,366
41 17,290,717
43 14,116,751
4
15,443,071
4
12,761,591
50 16,247,395
57 19,44 ,132
2 31,043,216 73 25,61 ,605
69 31,794,090 71 33,607,646
70 33,07 ,615 67 34, 4,619
76 43,729,000
2 44,075,000
6 33, 62,000
7
40,546,000
3 49,030,000
5 45, 64,000
91 57,351,000
5 47,600,000
7
50,661,000
100 62,000,000
160 115,200,000 165 113,602,000
160 101,523,000 105 69,190,000
53 37,0 7,000 86 45,253,000 107 52,660,000
123
WHEAT-GEORGIA
Yield Per
Year
Acreage Acre Production
Acres Bush.
Bush.
1 66 1867
-_______________________
31 ,114 2 6,250
4.0 .0
1,272,456 2,290,000
1 68 _______________________ 327,142 1 69 _______________________ 29~243 1 70 _______________________ 29 ,375
5.6 7.4 .0
1, 32,000 2,170,000 2,3 7,000
1 71 -______________________ 343,600 1 72 _______________________ 345,444
5.0 9.0
1,71 ,000 3,109,000
173 _______________________ 310,857
1 74 _______________________ 357,671
1875 _______________________ 406,666
1 76 _______________________ 473,333
1 77 _______________________ 400,000
1 7 _______________________ 394,000
1879 -----
401,900
1 0 _______________________ 4 4,9 0
1 1 _______________________ 477,200
7.0 7.3 7.5 6.0
9.5 7.0 9.0 6.3 6.1
2,176,000 2,611,000 3,050,000 2, 40,000
3, 00,000 2,75 ,000 3,617,100 3,055,374 2,933,000
1 2 -----
510,000
18 3 _______________________ 504,900
7.5 5.1
3, 12,900 2,574,900
1 84 -
487,500
6.4
3,130,000
18 5 ------
453,375
6.2
2, 17,000
1 6 -------------
385,954
4.4
1 7 ---____________________ 3 2,094
6.6
1 _______________________ 374,452
5.1
1 9 ------_________________ 37 ,197 1 90 _______________________ 344,159
6.3 4.1
1 91 _______________________ 309,743
7.5
1 92 ----
216,820
1893 _______________________ 240,670
6. 7.2
1 94 ---____________________ 235,857
6.9
1895 ----
214,630
1 96 _______________________ 212,4 4
1 97 _______________________ 173, 24
1 9 --_____________________ 260,736
1 99 _______________________ 297,239
6.2 .0 9.4 10.0 6.
1900 ---____________________ 550674 1901 _______________________ 370,996
9.1 .2
1902 ----___________________ 2 '531 1903 -______________________ 299,95
6.0 6.2
1904 -----__________________ 291,370
1905 -
305,29
6.9
1906 _______________________ 316,107 10.0
1907 ----
297,000
190 -______________________ 240,000
1909 -______________________ 93,000
9.0 9.2 .1
1910 ----___________________ 141,000 1911 -______________________ 145000 1912 _______________________ 132,000 1913 _______________________ 140,000
10.5 12.0
9.3 12.2
1914 ------_________________ 140,000
1915 1916
-______________________ _______________________
325,000 334,000
1917 _______________________ 244,000
191 _______________________ 2 0,000
1919 -
141,000
1920 1921
_______________________ -______________________
124,000 13 ,000
12.1 11.0 11.4
.5 10.2 10.5 10.0 10.5
1922 ---
190,000
.0
1923 -----__________________ 189,000
9.2
1,690,000 2,522,000 1,910,000 2,3 3,000 1,411,000 2,323,000 1,474,000 1,732, 24 1,li27,413 1,330,706 1,699, 72 1,633,946 2,<;07,360 2,021,225 5,001,133 3,042,167 1,707,1 6 1, 59,740 2,564,056 2,106,556 3,161,070 2,670,000 2,20 ,000
753,000 1,4 0,000 1,740,000 1,22 ,000 1,708,000 1,694,000 3,575,000 3, 0 ,000 2,074,000 2 56,000 1,4 0,000 1 240,000 1,449,000 1,520,000 1,739,000
Farm Farm Value
Price
Dec. 1
ets.
Dollars
19
2,406,871
16
3, 54,943
164
2,99 , 10
131
2, 37,163
132
3,149, 11
149
2,564,640
153
4,764,012
161
3,506,446
138
3,602,191
131
3,988,666
123
3,4 ,176
132
5,027,237
11
3,247,944
126
4,557,546
136
4,155,309
163
4,7 0,790
108
4,117,932
120
3,089,880
105
3,286,500
109
3,070,530
105
1,774,500
95
2,395,900
110
2,101,000
9
2,334,9 8
110
1,552,157
110
2,555,379
90
1,326,938
90
1,559,542
76
1,236,834
2
1,091,179
9
1,512,886
103
1,6 2,964
9
2,555,213
9
1,9 O. 00
95
4,760,576
94
2, 59,637
9
1,673,042
96
1,785,350
126
3,230,711
107
2,254,015
102
3,224,291
115
3,074,000
121
2,672,000
145
1,092,000
130
1,924,000
114
1,9 4,000
122
1,49 ,000
120
2,050,000
134
2,270,000
129
4,612,000
16
7,0 3,000
290
6,015 000
266
7,597,000
263
3 92,000
240
2,976,000
175
2,536,000
150
2,280,000
147
2,556,000
124
OATS-GEORGIA
Year
Yield Per Acreage Acre Production
Acres Bush.
Bush.
. 1866
92,098
1867
99,274
1 6 ----------------------- 90,560
1 69
97,560
1 70
6,301
1871
141,30
1872
145,120
1 73
35 ,209
1 74
447,059
1 75
372,727
1876
491,379
177
407,692
1 78
42 ,400
1 79
449, 00
18 0
61 ,470
11
612,300
12
765,375
18 3
780,6 2
1884
702,614
15
709,640
16
5 9,001
17
612,561
1
61 ,6 7
19
624,874
1890
562,3 7
1 91
61 ,626
1 92
569,136
1 93
597,593
10.7 12.4 12.5
12.3 14.6
10.7 12.5
13.4 10.2 11.0 11.6 13.0 16.7 15.0 10.0
9.1 9.5 9.0
.9 9.0 9.0 11.5 11.5 11.0 9.7 11.7 10.7 13.3
985,453 1,231,000 1,132,000
1,200,000 1,260,000
1,512,000 1, 14,000
4, 00,000 4,560,000 4,100,000 5 700,000 5,300,000 7,154,2 0 6,747,000 6,1 4,700 5,566,000 7,235, 00 7,01 ,700 6,270,000 6,395,000 5,301,000 7,044,000 7,115,000 6,874,000 5,455,000 7,23 ,000 6,090,000 7,947,9 7
1 94
561,737 13.4
7,527,276
1 95
460,624 14.5
6,1'79,048
1 96
423,774 12.0
5,0 5,2 8
1 97 19
394,110 14.0 433,521 16.6
5517540 7,196,449
1 99 1900
476, 73
9.0
467,33
15.0
4,291, 57 7,010,040
1901 1902 1903
296,644 14. 264,013 11.1 256,093 13.6
4,390,331 2,930,544 3,4 2, 65
1904 1905 1906 1907
235,606 14. 233,250 15.1 21(;,922 15.5
300,000 16.7
3,4 6,969 3,522,075 2,362,291 5,010,000
190 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915
300,000 17.2
6,160,000
412,000 15.1
6,199,000
404000 1 .2
7,353,000
404,000 21.5
,6 6,000
364,000 20.
7,571,000
420,000 22.0
9,240,000
450,000 20.0
9,000,000
905,000 19.5 17/'4 ,000
1916
60,000 19.5 16,770,000
1917 1918
550,000 16.0
, 00,000
550,000 20.0 11,000,000
1919 1920 1921 1922 1923
310,000 20.0 344,000 21.0 412,000 21.0 474,000 1 .0 521,000 1 .0
6,200,000 7,224,000
,652,000 ,532,000 9,37 ,000
Price Farm Value
Per Bu. Dec. 1
Cts.
Dollars
70
6 5,294
64
793 r-25
59
665;3 7
75
903.32
75
93 ,779
72
1,0 7,770
74
1,333,5 7
69
3,314,917
79
3,61 ,395
78
3,1 1,343
62
3,5-2,704
63
3,351,167
55
3,927,000
57
3, 45,790
75
4,63 ,525
7
4, 42,420
55
3,979,690
56
3,930,472
57
3,573,900
53
3,3 9,350
60
3,1 0.600
5
4,0 5,520
53
3,770,950
50
3,436,807
60
3,273,092
60
4,312,754
52
3,166,673
52
4,132,953
51
3, 3 ,911
46
3,072,362
41
2,0 4,96
42
2,317,367
48
3454,296
4
2060,091
49
3,434,920
67
2,941,522
53
1,553,1
55
1,915,576
55
1,917. 33
53
1, 66,700
56
1,8 2,8 3
72
3,607,000
72
3,715,000
71
4,401,000
64
4706,000
70
6,0 0,000
65
4,921,000
68
6,2 3,000
70
6,300,000
66 11,64 ,000
79 13,24 ,000
117 10,29",000
119 13,090,000
115
7,130,000
108
7, 02,000
64
5,537,000
75
6,399,000
85
7,971,000
125
TOBACCO
Tobacco grown in the tate of Georgia may be cIa ified
into four type: Fir t, " hade" tobacco, or the wrapper to-
bacco of outhwe t Georgia; econd," lill" tobacco, or filler,
grown in the same territory; third, "bright leaf" toba co, simi-
lar to that grown in the Carolina; and la tly, "patch" tobacco,
for home consumption, principally grown in north Georgia.
The tobacco indu try ha had many ups and down. At
one time we reached a total acreage of approximately 30,000
acres. Bad sea on and low price again reduced that to a few
thou and acre. For the la t couple of year the receipt have
been very sati factory and, con quently, the acreage aO'ain in-
crea ed to about 17,000. La t year tobacco made a splendid success in the al~ea where the boll weevil wiped out cotton, and
the pro peets are that the increa e of the present season will
make u one of the major tobacco-growin o' states.
Yiel1 Per
Price
Year
Acreago Acre P)'oduction Per Lb.
Cts.
1 66
1,912 625
1195,113 22.3
1 67
2,504 515
1,290,000 21.5
16
2,071 5 5
1212,000 22.3
1 69
2,666 375
1,000,000 15.4
1 70 171 1 72 1 73 1874
_________________________ _________________________ _________________________ _________________________
57 700 457 502
350 500 750 50
300,000 19.2 350,000 15. 343,000 19.1 291,000 11.7
1 75 _________________________ 2,454 550
1,350000 20.7
1 81 _________________________ 1,004 242
242,758 14.0
1882 _________________________ 1,034 254
262,179 14.0
1 99 _________________________ 2304 4 0
1,105,600 11.9
1900 1901
_________________________ _________________________
2,066 1,990
495 494
1,023,336 15.0 9 2,691 1 .0
1902 1903 1904
_________________________ _________________________
_________________________
2,050 2,030
1, 6
670 640
650
1,373,500
9.0
1,299,200 15.0
1,214,200 20.6
1905 _________________________ 2,036 525
1,06 ,900 17.0
1906 1907
_________________________ _________________________
3,000 3JOO
675 60
2,025,000 30.0 3,1 2,000 40.0
190 _________________________ 2775 975
2,705,625 35.0
1909 _________________________ 2,000 734 1910 _________________________ 1,600 6 0
1,4 6,000 34.0 1,0 ,000 20.0
1911 _________________________ 1,200 900
1912 _________________________ 1,400
30
1,0 0,000 2 .0 1,162,000 30.0
1913 _________________________ 1, 00 1,000
1, 00,000 31.0
1914 1915
________________________ _________________________
1,900 1,700
1,000 60
1,900,000 25.0 1,496,000 23.0
1916 _________________________ 1,300 1,1 0
1534,000 27.0
1917 191 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923
_________________________ 1,600 _________________________ 4,500
_________________________ 27,000 _________________________ 22,000 _________________________ 14,000 _________________________ 11,000 _________________________ 17,000
1,000 00
530 600 564 540 661
1,600,000 3,600,000 14,310,000 13,200,000 7, 96,000 5,940,000 11,237,000
57.0 46.0 21.5 37.0 25.0 26.0 30.0
126
Value Dollars 265,950 277,221 270,536 153,724
57734 55,1 2 65,378 34112 27 ,945 33,986 36705 131,566 14 ,431 176,972 260,965 194, 0 250,125 1 1,713 607,500 1,273,000 946,969 505000 218,000 302,000 349,000 55 ,000 475,000 344,000 414,000 912000 1,656,000 3,077,000 4, 4,000 1,974,000 1,544,000 3,371,000
IRISH POTATOES
Georgia Irish potatoe belong to two di tinct clas es. The early or commercial crop of the Coa tal Plain section and the medium early and late potatoe of the Piedmont. Chatham county very easily lead in commercial production with about 1,000 acres. Effingham i second.
Attempt to grow potatoe on a large scale hould be made only by tho e who hav experience and capital. Through a large part of the tate potatoes for home u e can be grown sati factorily. In the upper third of the State the lowly" spud" is much more at home and there should be at least one-third of an acre on every farm. t pre nt the major portion of the potato u ed are hipped tock.
Year
POTATOES-GEORGIA
Yie]c] Per
Acreage Acre Production
Acres Bu h.
Bush.
4,165
62
3,059 101
3,117 102
4,065
61
4,4 7
78
2,364
96
2,195
92
2,590
7
2,271
70
5,000
6
25 ,221 309,000 31 ,000 24 ,000 350,000 227,000 202,000 202,000 159,000 340,000
Price Farm Value
Per Bu. Dec. 1
Cts.
Dollars
54
138,268
44
137,235
110
350,179
111
275,119
120
421,005
128
2 9, 74
112
227,22
106
213,904
9
156,276
105
355,711
5,150
67
5,000
64
4, 00
92
,407
35
, 27
45
9,26
61
9,175
67
9,175
63
9,0 3
65
9,355
52
10,291
62
6,163
73
345,000
92
320,000 111
441,600 110
294,245
60
397,231
65
565,34
6
615,000 104
578,000
94
590,000
95
4 6,000
90
63 ,000
90
449, 99
65
316, 12 355,200 485,760 176,547 25 ,200 4 6,199 539,600 543,344 560,500 437,400 574,238 292,434
127
POTATOES-GEORGIA-Continued
Year
Yield Per
Price Farm Value
Acreage Acre Production Per Bu. Dec. 1
Acres Bush.
Bush.
ets.
Dollars
1 90 ------------------------ 6,225
72
44 ,200
95
425,790
1891 ------------------------ 6,474
74
479,076
0
3 3,261
1 92 ------------------------ 6,539
70
457,730
0
366,1 4
1 93 ------------------------ 6,539
74
4 3, 6
92
445,175
1 94 ------------------------ 6,539
52
340,02
81
275,423
] 95 ------------------------ 6,277
5
364,066
71
25 ,487
1 96 ------------------------ 5,524
55
303,820
75
227,865
1897 ------------------------ 5,137
52
2117,124 100
267,124
1 9 ------------------------ 5,651
54
305,154
75
228,866
1 99 ------------------------ 5,594
46
257,324
83
213,579
1900 ------------------------ 5,762
6
391, 16
72
301,69
1901 ------------------------ 9,07
64
5 0,992 106
615, 52
1902 ------------------------ ,715
5
505,470
90
454,923
1903 ------------------------ ,62
73
629, 44
94
592,053
1904 ------------------------ ,542
70
597,940 107
639,796
1905 ------------------------ ,627
65
560,755 112
62 ,046
1906 ------------------------ ,627
77
664,279 110
730,707
1907 ------------------------ 10,000
83
830,000 100
830,000
1908 ------------------------ ] 0,000
78
780,000 110
858,000
1909 ------------------------ 12,000
75
8 6,000 100
6,000
1910 ------------------------ 12,000
2
9 4,000 105
1,003,000
1911 ------------------------ 12,000
72
64,000 110
950,000
1912 ------------------------ 12,000
7
936,000
7
14,000
1913 ------------------------ 12,000
1
972,000 105
1,021,000
1914 ------------------------ 13,000
60
7 0,000 105
19,000
1915 ------------------------ 16,000
65
1,040,000
99
1,030,000
1916 ------------------------ 15,000
60
900,000 175
1,575,000
1917 ------------------------ 19,000
84
1,596,000 195
3,112,000
191 ------------------------ 23,000
70
1,610,000 1 5
2,978,000
1919 ------------------------ 17,000
70
1,190,000 217
2,5 2,000
1920 ------------------------ 22,000
74
1/~2 ,000 20
3,3 6,000
1921 ------------------------ 23,000
75
1,725000 165
2, 46,000
1922 ------------------------ 25,000
6
1,700,000 140
2,3 0,000
1923 ------------------------ 22,000
70
1,540,000 160
2,464,000
Year
1868 1869 1870 171 1 72 1873 1874 1 75 17 1 79 10 12
13
1 84 1 85 1886
GEORGIA-SWEET POTATOES
Yield Per Acreage Acre
102 5
108 99 88 90 89 64
100 76
102 90 69 71 98 76
128
Production Price Per Bu.
--------
62
--------
92
--------
59
--------
62
--------
64
--------
57
--------
53
--------
59
--------
--------
4
--------
45
--------
65
--------
53
--------
52
--------
44
-------- 48
Value Dollar
GEORGIA SWEET POTATOES-Continued
Year
Yield Per Acreage Acre Production Price
Per Bu.
1 87 ------------------------
72
--------
52
1 ------------------------
90
--------
44
18 9 ------------------------
4
--------
47
1 90 ------------------------
2
--------
43
1 91 ------------------------
6
--------
45
1 92 ------------------------
9
--------
1 93 ------------------------
1
--------
1 94 ------------------------
7 -------- 41
1895 ------------------------
78
--------
41
1 96 ------------------------
59
--------
43
1 97 ------------------------
60 -------- 45
1 9 ------------------------
105
--------
1 99 ------------------------ 71,000
72
5,088,000
49
1900 ------------------------ 71,000
5
6,035,000
46
1901 ------------------------ 72,000
6
6,192,000
48
1902 ------------------------ 73,000
1
5,913,000
53
1903 ------------------------ 74,000
9
6,586,000
51
1904 ------------------------ 74,000
67
4,958,000
70
1905 ------------------------ 77,000
0
6,160,000
55
1906 ------------------------ 78,000
83
6,474,000
65
1907 ------------------------ 79,000
95
7,505,000
65
190 ------------------------ 82,000
6
7,052,000
5
1909 ------------------------ 85,000
7,426,000
62
1910 ------------------------ 5,000
3
7,055,000
65
1911 ------------------------ 81,000
1 6,561,000
73
1912 ------------------------ 81,000 90 7,290,000 66
1913 ------------------------ 3000
7
7,221,000
6
1914 ------------------------ 79,000
5
6,715,000
69
1915 ------------------------ 95,000
5
8,075,000
61
1916 1917 1918
-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ 19245,,000000 ________________________ 130,000
0
7,520,000
1
93 11,625,000 105
92 11,960,000 125
1919 1920 1921 1922 1923
________________________ 125,000 ________________________ 132,000 ________________________ 146,000 ________________________ 152,000 ________________________ 137,000
92 15,500,000 110
93 12,276,000
97
5 12,410,000
63
3 12,616,000
61
4 11,508,000
76
Value
Dollar
--------
--------
--------
----------------_.:._---
--------
---------------
--------
--------
--------
2,493,000 2,776,000 2,972,000 3,134,000 3,359,000 3,471,000 3,388,000 4,208,000 4,878,000 4,090,000 4,604,000 4,586,000 4,790,000 4,811,000 4,910,000 4,633,000 4,926,000 6,091,000 12,206,000 14,950,000 12,650,000 11,908,000 7,818,000 7,696,000 8,746,000
PEANUTS FOR HARVEST-GEORGIA
Year
Acreage
1916 ---------------------- 40,000 1917 ----------------------- 255,000
1918 ----------------------- 314,000
1919 ----------------------- 202,000
1920 ----------------------- 224,000
1921 ----------------------- 202,000 1922 ----------------------- 160,000 1923 ----------------------- 152,000
Yield Per
Price Farm Value
Acre Production Per Bu.
Dec.
ets.
Dollar
31.0
1,240,000 126
1,562,000
37.0
9,435,000 160 15,096,000
2 .0
8,792,000 160 14,067,000
25.0
5,050,000 246 12,423,000
718 160,832,000 5.0
8,042,000
660 133,320,000 2.5
3,333,000
602 96,320,000
4.7
4,527,000
512 77,824,000
6.9
5,370,000
NOTE: After the year 1919, the official estimates were made in pounds. This applies to Yield per Acre, Total Production and Price.
129
TAME HAY
Year
1866 1867
16 1 69 1 70 1 71 1872 1 73 1 74 1 75 1876 1 77
1878 1 79 1880 18 1 18 2 18 3 18 4 18 5
18 6 17 1 19 1 90 1 91 1 92 1 93 1894 1895 1896 1897 189 1 99 1900
1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 190 1909
1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 . *1920 1921 1922 1923
Acreage Acres
51,610 45,3 4
61,000 32, 76
41,044 12,000 11,972 1 ,571 15909 15,714 1 ,153 17440
23,000 22,436 1 ,431 12,103 15,129 15,5 3 15,12 16,642
33000 39600 39996 63, 34 16,9 5 162226 163, 4 162,210 150, 55 147 3 137,4 9 123,740 H3, 41 109,2 7 112,5'16
96,791 00 ,961
9 51 ,05-1 ,054 95,000 7,000 213000
213000 213000
234,000 250000 250000 300,000 400000 594,000 6 3,000 557,000 660000 693,000 72 ,000 772000
Yield-Per
Price Farm Value
Acre Production Per Ton Dec. 1
Tons .90
Tons 46,44 16.43
Dollars 762,952
1.30
59,000 15.46
912,049
1.00
61,000 16.29
993,973
1.46
4 ,000 17.00
15, 4
1.34
55,000 20.94 1,151, 40
1.50
1 ,000 20.74
373,273
1.47
17,600 22.42
394,55
1.05
19,500 1. 8
36 ,094
1.10
17500 20.14
352,367
1.40
22,000 15.41
339,111
1.30
23,600 13.50
31 ,632
1.25
21, 00 15.56
339,300
1.73
37790 13.0
520,606
1.56
35,000 14.59
510,650
1.
34,650 16.00
554,400
1.25
15,129 17.24
260, 24
1.20
1 ,155 10.50
190,627
1.20
1 700 13.50
252,450
1.30
19,66 13.30
261,5 4
1.00
16,642 13. 4
230,325
1.06
34,9 0 13.00
454,740
1.20
47,520 14.92
70 ,99
1.20
47,995 13.46
646,013
1.09
69,769 13.52
9-13,277
1.35
22 ,130 14.25 3,250, 52
1.17
] 9, 04 ]3.50 2562,35-1
1.35
221,195 11. 0 2,610,]01
1.32
214,117 12.06 2,5 2,251
1.16
174992 12.3
2,166,401
1.60
2365n 10.90 257 ,297
1.3
1 9735 11.05 2,096,572
1.35
167049 13.00 2,171,637
1.75
190,222 11.7- 2,340, 5
1.45
15 ,466 13.15 2,0 3 2
1.69
190,237 12.75 2,425,522
1.46
141,315 14.33 2,025,044
1.36
119,7 9 13.40 1605,173
1.53
136,110 ]5.15 2062,066
1.52
136,574 15.14 2,067,730
1.50
132,0 1 15.75 2,0 0,276
1.65
14-5,2 9 15.75 2,2 ,302
1.75
166,000 1 .00 2,9 ,000
1.75
152000 14.35 2,1 1,000
1.01
215,000 15. 0 3,397,000
1.40
29 000 16.40 4, 7,000
1.3-
2 000 17.00 4, 96,000
1.3-
316,000 17.00 5,372,000
1.40
350,000 17.90 6,265,000
1.35
33 ,000 16.20 5,476,000
1.15
345,000 15.10 5,210,000
1.15
460,000 16.20 7,452,000
1.03
612,000 20.00 12240,000
.90
615000 23.50 14,452000
1.10
613,000 25.30 15509000
.1
535,000 23.50 12,572,000
610,000 15. 0 9,63 ,000
.4
612,000 17.00 10,404,000
.66
510,000 1 .90 9,639,000
*Reason for decline in yield, greater u e of peanut ha~', a urplus crop, but
a light yield.
130
GEORGIA WILD HAY
Yield Per
Price
Year
Acreage Acre Production Per Ton
1909 ----------------------- 16,000 1.09
17,000
1910 ----------------------- 16,000 1.30
21,000
1911 ----------------------- 16,000 1.30
21,000
1912 ----------------------- 15,000 1.30
20,000
1913 ----------------------- 15,000 1.35
20,000
1914 ----------------------- 14,000 1.15
16,000 13.00
1915 ----------------------- 14,000 1.20
17,000 14.00
1916 ----------------------- 14,000 1.25
18,000 16.00
1917 ----------------------- 13,000 1.10
14,000 19.70
1918 ----------------------- 13,000
.91
12,000 21.50
1919 ----------------------- 1 ,000
7
15, 07 23.30
1920 ----------------------- 19,000
.90
17,000 1 .00
9121 ----------------------- 19,000 1.00
1922 ----------------------- 16,000
.92
19,000 12. 0 15,000 13.50
1923 ----------------------- 16,000
.90
14,000 14.80
Value Dollar
208,000 238,000 2 ,000 276,000 25 ,000 36 ,303 306,000 243,000 202,000 207,000
SORGHUM FOR SYRUP-GEORGIA
Year 1909 ----------------------1910 ----------------------1911 ----------------------1912 ----------------------1913 ----------------------1914 ----------------------1915 ----------------------1916 ----------------------1917 ----------------------1918 ----------------------1919 ----------------------1920 ----------------------1921 ----------------------1922 ----------------------1923 -----------------------
Yield Per
Acreage Acre
Gals.
7,800
95
7,900
94
7,900
90
7,900
95
7,600 106
7,200 108
,000
85
7,600 105
12,000
96
15,000
91
37,000
92
35,000
9-1
37,000
94
30,000
3
26,000
83
Price Production Per Gal.
740,000
74
743,000
4
711,000
50
750,000
49
806,000
50
77 ,000
49
6 0,000
798,000
1,152,000
73
1,365,000
9
3,404,000 102
3,290,000 104
3,478,000
40
2,490,000
55
2,15 ,000
69
Value Dollars 34 ,OOQ 357,000 356,000 36 ,000 403,000 381,000
--------
--------
841,000 1,215,000 3,472,000 3,422,000 1,391,000 1,370,000 1,4 9,000
COMMERCIAL CABBAGE-GEORGIA
Year
Yield Pel' Acreage Acre
1920 ----------------------- 120
7.
1921 ----------------------- 250
7.0
1922 ----------------------- 520
5.0
1923 ----------------------- 220
5.5
Production TOllS
900 1, 00 2,600 1,200
Price Per TOll Dollars 37.33 35.50 25.2
35. 7
Farm Value
Dollar~
34.000 64,000
66,000
43,000
COMMERCIAL WATERMELONS-GEORGIA
Year 1920 ----------------------1921 ----------------------1922 ----------------------1923 -----------------------
Yield Per Acreage Acre
41,890 373 39,700 499 66,550 310 40,390 178
Production Price Per Farm
Cars
Car
Value
Dollar
Doll::ns
15,625
141
2,203,000
19, 10
221
4,37 ,000
20,630
166
3425,000
7,1 9
22
1,639,000
COMMERCIAL CANTALOUPES-GEORGIA
Year
Yield Per Acreage Acre
1920 ----------------------1921 ----------------------1922 ----------------------1923
--~--~-----------------
1,330 1,520 8,410 5,070
164 195 100
44
131
Productioll Price Per Farm
Crates
Crate
Value
Dollars
Dollars
218,000
1.45
316,000
296,000
1.33
394,000
841,000
1.54
],295,000
223,000
2.00
446/000
PRECIPITATIO MAP OF GEORGIA-YEAR 1923
Inches of Rainfall
132
COTTON-ACREAGE PICKED BY COUNTIES, 1923
O
No cotton or under 1,000 acres
_
1,000 to 5,000 acres
~ 5,000 to 10,000 "
~ 10,000 to 25,000 "
I~I 25,000 to 50,000 "
1111111 50,000 to 90,000 "
~IIIIII~:I~I ~
,." 90,000 acres and
133
dOTTON-GINNED BY COUNTIES, 1923 Running Bale Reported by the Bureau of the en u
o
No ginnings reported
separ"tely.
IIIIIIIlIJ Less lha!l 1,000
m~
1,000 to 5,000 5,000 to 10,000
~ 10,000 to 15000
liliiii15,000 to 20,000
l1li 20,000 and over
134
GEORGIA COTTON 1922-23
(Qnantitie are in runuing bale, counting round as half bales.
not included.)
Bureau of Census
Northwestern Counties Bartow " atoosa
hattooga "Dade Floyd Gordon lIurray Paulding
\PVoalklke-r ---------------\Vhitfield
Running
Bale
1923
_ _
9,210
_ _
3,430
_ _ _ _
6, 67 6,25 2,472 3696
__ _
7, 39 2,04 4,904
Running Bales
1922 10,515
3,616
6, 52 7,954 3011 307 7,721 3,161 6,770
Linters are
Acreage Cotton Picked 1923
41, 00 3,900
17,700 00
31,900 29,550 12,300 16, 00 2 ,000 14,500 1'7,200
Di trict Total
46,724
52,67
214,450
Northern Counties-
Barrow
_
Cherokee
_
Clarke -------------------------------CDoabwb on--------------------------------_-
D"FKa uanlbin -------------------------------_
For yth
_
'FultoD
_
*GilDler
_
G,,-iDnett
_
Hall
_
Jack on
_
Lumpkin
_
Milton
_
Ocouee
_
Picken
_
"Towns
_
"Union
_
Walton
_
White
_
District Total
_
4,322 6615 4,117 6,4 2
426 1,271
6,491
6622 70 1
11,6~6
257 4,01 2696 1,627
,067 243
71,961
4,231 7,629 3,340 5, 4
591 1,045
7,7 6
7,225 10,157
9461 356
3,709 1, 15 1,923
7,.72 595
73,439
21,000 23,700 19,500 29,000 3,500
5,600
25,000 950
35, 00 34,500 50,000
2,200 15,700 13,700
9,000
36,000 1,800
326,950
Northeastern Counties-
Banks
_
Elbert
_
Franklin
_
Habersham Hart
~
_
_
Lincoln
_
Madi on
_
?Site~pthte~n~sr~~_===========================_=
Wilkes
_
2, 0 9,655 12, 0
992 11,273
1,476 ,5 2
4,563
3,4 6 5,427
3, 14 ,769
12,503 1,116 11,200
759 6,547 3,057
4,136 2,539
14,500 3 ,000 43,000 4,300 37,500
6, 00 29,500 20,000
14,000 23,000
District Total
61,214
54,440
230,600
135
GEORGIA COTTON 1922-23-Continued
Bureau of Census
Western Counties-Campbell Carroll Chattahoochee Clayton
Co\veta Douglas Fayette IIaral on IIarris IIeard Henry Lamar ]dacon ]darion
]deriwether ]!uscogee Pike
. Schley palding
Talbot Taylor Tronp Upson
District Total
Running
1923
_ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _
_ _ _ _
_ _ _
_ _ _ _ _
_
1,576 22,921
979 71 5,549 2,69 3,422 4,465 3, 93 5,197 5,5 2 3,001 ,196 2,0 7 ,249 1, 32 7,127 2,523 4,7 1 1,643 6,2 3 10,174 3,170
_ 115,976
Running 1922
781 17,928
1, 08 458
4,087 1, 50 1,402 4,361 3,357 5,290 2, 5 1,423 9,606 3,700 5,799 2,224 4,453 5,193 1,723 1, 2 7,355 9,679 2,023
99,240
Central Counties-Baldwin Bibb Bleckley Butts Crawford Dodge Greene IIancock IIouston Jasper Johnson *Jones Lauren
~Ionroe
]!ontgomery ]!organ Newton Pulaski Putnam Rockdale Taliaferro Treutlen Twiggs Wa hington Wheeler Wilkinson
District Total
_ _
_ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _
2,220 1,712 2,549 3,677
7 7,365 1,526 2913
6,605 717
4,746
_ _ _ _
_ _ _ _
_ _
_ _ _ _
12,000 2,039 3,507 2,413 2,516 2,523 776 2,114 2545
3,16 995
6,7 6 1,776
641
78,717
136
902 1,494 3, 40 2,342
934 15,937
345 761 7,107 297 4,494
14,774 579
6,5 4 1,555 1,524 4,9'75
164 1,144
919 *
1,174 5,394 4,33
716
82,293
Acreage Cotton 1923
7,000 69,000
5,300 4,600 25,000 12,500 14,000 18,000 24,000 22,300 23,500 12,700 40, 00 19,400 50,000 10,700 26,500 1 ,000 19,000 12, 00 26,000 42,400 16,000
519,500
6,200 13,200 23,000 17,000
7,200 67,000
7,000 12,500 43, 00
6,000 2 ,400
3,100 90, 00 11,700 21,600 10000 12,500 23,000
2,300 11,000 10,600 20,300
,200 41,300 26,000
5,400
529,100
GEORGIA COTTON 1922-23-Continued
EBualsltoecrhn Counties-Burke Candler
Colum bia Effingham Elnanuel Glascock Jefferson Jenkins
~cDuf!ie
Richmond creven
Warren
Bureau of Census
Running
Bales
_ _ _
1923 13,057 21,343 4,097
_ _ _ _ _ _
_
_ _ _
3,586 723
11,74 1,774 11,419
5,955 4,977 5,526 11,11 4,931
Running Bales 1922
15,658 15,466 5,579
1,67 1,207 14,970
993 7,929 7,219 2,794 3,013 13,337 2,563
District Total __:
_ 100,947
92,406
Southwestern CountiesBaker Calhoun Clay Decatur Dougherty Early Grady Lee
~iller
~i tchell Quitman
Randolph eminole
Ste'Vart Sumter Terrell Thomas *VVebster
District Total
_ _ _
_
_ _ _ _
_
423 3,7 3,066 1,249 1,471 4,340
391 22
1,125
_ _
4,554 547
_ _
_ _ _
_ _
10,520 1,704 3,119
12,303 10,6 1
2,629
_-
--
62,732
1, 75 7,105 4,345 3,4 2 4,267 9,231 1,205 3, 50 4,453 10,441
959 16,110
4,627 6,307 22,343 21,547 4,615
126,762
SAotkuitnhseornn CountiesBen Hill Berrien Brooks *Clinch Coffee Colquitt Cook Cri p Dooly *Echols Ir,rin *Jeff Davi *Lanier
Lo~des
Telfair
~ft
Turner Wilcox Worth
District Total
_
_ _ _ _
463 1, 01
735 2,945
_
_ _
_ _ _
1,731 5,914 1,265 3,206 7,170
_ _
1,
_
_
_ _ _
1,173 3,103 3,753
_ _
3,725 5,031
3,747
_
-
-----''---
47,650
137
603 5,130 3,1 2 5,391
7, 16 11,504
3,303 ,117
14,396
7,014
2,66 9,435
,657 7,657 11,164 10,266
116,303
Acreage Cotton Picked 1923 62,000 94,300 24,500 14,000 5,500 74,000 10,000 53,000 33,000 22,000 23,000 55,000 1 ,000
488,300
1 ,200 23, 00 17,000 17,000 15,700 37,500
, 00 25,000 12,500 44,000
8,000 40,000 19,000 21,000 65, 00 59,500 24,000
9,000
465, 00
9,000 21,000 14,000 29,000
1,200 25,000 45,000 19,500 40,000 60,000
2,100 23,000 10,500
2,500 20,000 29,000 27,000 32,000 47,000 53,000
509,800
GEORGIA COTTON 1922-23-Continued
Bureau of Census
Southeastern Counties*Appling *Bacon *Brantley Bryan *Camden *Charlton *Chatham Evans *Glynn *Liberty *Long *Mclnto h Pier e Tattnall Toomb
*~are
~ayne
Di tI'ict Total
All other Connties State
Equivalent 500 bale
_ ----
_
_ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Running Bales 1923
503
2,979
3,354 4,163 5,406 3,396
_ 19,801
_ 6, 09 _ 612,531 _ 579,969
Rnnning Bale 1922
o
4,316
1,9 1 5,419 ,366 3,265 24,155 14,15 735,74 714,99
Acreage Cotton Picked 1923
14,500 ,000
5,000 2,500
100 600
90 21,000
2,500 2,200
300 1 ,000 2 ,500 31,000
3,500 20,000
157,790
3,442290
*Fannin, Town, Rabun, Glynn and Ilion are nOllCotton Conn tie. Other Counties not specified have gin return inclucled under all other.
138
CORN cres Harve ted in 1923.
139
CORN, WHEAT, OATS AND RYE
Corn Acres
Northwestern CountiesBartow -----------------------Catoosa -----------------------Chattooga ---------------------Dade --------------------------Floyd -------------------------Gordon ------------------------Murray -----------------------Paulding -----------------------
Polk ---------------------------
Walker ------------------------Whitfield -----------------------
1923 28,000 10,000 20,700
5,600 29,200 22,500 13,500 22,600 19,400 20,000 13,000
District Total -------------- 204,500
Wheat Acreage Harvested
1923 3,000 1,490 1,400
700 1,307 3,340 2,775 1,011 2,559 3,470 2,374
23,426
Oat Acreage Harvested
1923 1,100
464 1,110
74 1,461 1, 73
412 1,580 1,401 1,420 1,173
12,742
*Rye Acres
1923 132 6 66 22 0 427 174 35 25 314 323
1,6 4
Northern Counties-
Barro~
Cherokee Clarke Cobb
o n Da~ De}(alb Fannin Forsyth
Fulton Gilmer
G~nnett
Hall
Jackson Lumpkin
Milton Oconee
Pickens
To~s
~
Wnailotnon
White
District Total
_ _
_ _
_ _ _ _
16,500 26,500 5,200 41,500 13,200 1 ,400 14,500 20,600
_ _ _ _
7,500 1 ,500 46,500 32,000
_ _ _ _
_
.
32,000 13,200 14,700 14,500 14,300 11,000
__ _
14,500 34,000 13,000
422,100
2,013 3,200 1 123 3,575 1,500 1,045 1,779 3,0 1
200 670 4,100 3,94 3,29 900 1,600 1,679 1, 23 3,050 4,101 2,400 957
46,042
1,500 1,211 1,123 2,06
15 74 200 1,09 500 154 1,450 1, 5 1, 00 72 469 2,100 51 203
27 2,200
975
22,5 1
150 133 103 101 203 60 2,630
34 50 1,170 456 154
9 290 13
74 342 2,09 2,296
9 35
10,733
Northeastern CountiesBanks Elbert Franklin Habersham Hart Lincoln Madison Oglethorpe Rabun Stephens Wilkes
District Total
_ _ _
19,500 29,000 2 ,000
_ _ _
_
15,600 23, 00 1 ,000 2 , 00
_ _ _ _
37,000 9,600
12,000 42,000
253300
140
2,]30 2955 5,096 2500 4,100 1,372 5,915 2,956
335 1,3 2 4,0 3
32, 24
3,400 7,000 6,100
793 , 66 9,240 4,670 3,923 253 1,420 12,19
57,863
59 17 60 921 110
4 124 1,150
27 52
2,56
WHEAT Acre Harve ted in the pring of 1923.
DNone reported.
_
Less than 500 acres
~ 500 to 1,000 "
~ 1,000 to 2,000 ..
I~I 2,000 to 3,000 ..
[111111 3,000 to 5,000 ..
I I 5,000 acres and over.
1-11
CORN, WHEAT, OATS AND RYE-Continued
Western Counties-
Campbell Carroll
Chattahoochee Clayton
o,veta
Douglas
Fayette Haral on Harris Heard Henry
Lamar 1facon 1farion
1feriwether 1fu cogee Pike Schley
Spalding Talbot Taylor Troup lJp on
Corn Acre
1923
_ _
17,600 54200
_ _ _
7,600 14,000 50,000
_ 17,000
_ 20,000
_ 1 ,600
_ _ _
_ _ _
29000 24500 35,000 15,700 40,000 23,400
_ 46200
_ _
_
11,900 17,000 17,000
_ _
_ _
_
21000 1 ,300 2 -00
33;500 24,000
Wheat Acreacre Harve ted
1923
69 4,035
36 1,31 3,109 1,020
700 1,137 1,145
959 2,964 1,777 2,537
327 3,26
10 2,33
739 3,600
957 1,000 1553 2,33
Oat Acreage Harve ted
1923
975 4,900
13 1,520 3,159
36 912 1,540 2,754 1761 2,400 4,200 9,703 2,217 4,400 1,407 5244 1,700 4,500 1, 67 3,797 2,31 2,641
Di trict Total
5 4,000
37,663
64,4 4
*Rye cre
1923
50 4
32 4 14 20 7 3 7 30 66 190 2 55 22 90
o
16 60 22 34
87
Central Counties-
Baldwin Bibb BlecKley Butts
rawford Dodge Greene Han ock Hou ton Jasper
Johnson Jones Laurens 1fonroe
1fontgomer~r
1forgan ewton
Pulaski Putnam Rockdale Taliaferro Treutlen Twiggs Wa hington Wheeler Wilkinson
Di trict Total
~____
29,200 17,600 21,000
1 ,500 22,000 60000 26,000 29,300
42,000 25,700
31,600 27,600 92,000 35,000
23,700 2 ,300 23,600 24,600 25000 13,000 12,500 19,000 23500 70,500 31,000 27,300
799,500
142
21,551
2,3 1,700 1, 5 2,235 ],200 2,747 1,5 0 1,626 6,730 2,040 1,330
714 12, 93
4,070 4,462
795 1,64 3,131
o
1,395 1,491
00 1,090 3,700 3,293 1,17
66,902
66 140 43
30 20 9 16 27 270 20 2 12 335 49 15 12 2
3 17
5
172 350
27 6
1, 51
OATS Acres Harvested for Grain in the Spring of 1923.
D Less than 1,000 acres
1,000 to 3,000 .. 3,000 to 5,000 " 5,000 to 8,000 ..
143
CORN, WHEAT, OATS AND RYE-Continued
EBauslltoecrhn CountiesBurke
Candler Columbia Effiingham Emanuel Glascock Jefferson Jenkins McDuffie Richmond Screven VVarren
District Totals
Corn Acres
_ _
_ _
1923 52,000
0,000 24,000 34,700
_ 18,700
_ _
76,500 13,000
_ _
57,500 36,000
_ _ _ _
27,000 20,400 53,000 26,000
_ 51 , 00
Wheat Acreage Harvested
1923 29 1,121 120 397
39 406
1,2n00
523 750 100 335
5,702
Oats Acreage Harvested
1923 8,377 5,011 2,600 3,230 2,9 2 3, 02
600 4,541 1,496 2,244 2,639 5,942
766
44,230
BSoauktehrwestern CountiesCalhoun Clay Decatur Dougherty Early Grady
l~e
Miller Mitchell Quitman Randolph Seminole Stewart
ULnter Terrell Thomas VVebster
District Total
ASotkuitnhseornn Counties-Ben Hill Berrien Brooks Clinch Coffee Colquitt Cook Cri p Dooly Echols Irwin Jeff Davis Lanier Lowndes Telfair Tift Turner VVilcox VVorth
District Total
_ _ _ _
26,500 22,400 1 ,000 26,000
_ _ _ _ _
_
1 300 3 ,700 39,000 30,700 16,000 49,000
_ 12,000
_ _
30,400 24,000
_ _
_ _ _
23,700 50 00 34,000 42,000 15,900
_ 517,400
_ _ _ _ _ _
15,700 1 ,000 19,500 45,600
6400 40000
_ _ _
_ _ _
_ _ _
42,400 17,500 2 ,000 44,600
4,000 20,000 1 ,000
,000 31,000
_ _
_ _ _
39,000 17,600 21,000 34,600 50,600
_ 521,500
144
37 5 2
25 11 10
261 2
144 40 416 127 227 902 546 30 325
3,501
72 430 125 100
40 190 20 79600
704 140
2 46 542 450 650 700 150
5,7 2
4,091 2,927 1,877 11,148 5,049 5,009 5,300 7,1 2 3,740 4,954
390 3,509 5537 4,610 16,442 7069 5,300 1,204
95,338
4,523 ,862
6,200 22000
1040 10, 7
6,279 4,240 4,137 6,200
400 11,067
1,700 1,305 7,9 1 3,373 5300 5,890 9,384 8,211
128,970
*Rye Acres
1923 55 33 44 15
40 15 62 15 10 60 78
4
431
15
70 300
15 3
40
45 12 50 204 61
7 2
906
15 43 15 739
15 60 19 61 140
45 30
5 63
~o
23
no
1,443
CORN, WHEAT, OATS AND RYE-Continued
orn Acre
southeastern Connties-
1923
Appling Bacon Brantley
Bryan --------Carnien Charlton ----
hath am
_ _ _
20,500 14, 00
6600
_ _
11,000 2700
_ _
5500 3000
GEvlyannn
--------------------------_
1 ,000 1,600
Liberty ------------------------- 10,700
LMocnIgnt-o--h------------------------_-
Pierce
_
,900 2,000 10,000
TToaottmnbasll
~are
'Vayne
--------------------------_ _ _
27,000 26500 14,700 19,000
Wheat Acreage Harve ted
1923 6
2
5
2 460
10 46
Oat Acreage Harve ted
1923
416 700
2500 1,393
157 64
262 1,303
105 1,353 1,6 3
157 2592 4,100 2,215 1,07,1 4,16
Di trict 'fotal
202,500
33
27,994
tate Total
-4,033,000
177,321
251,104
*Rye Acre 1923
34
6
7 6 2 10 60 10
135 20,633
* ee Map Miscellaneou -Special Crop.
TOBACCO
All Types
D None reported
_
Under 50 acres.
~ 50 to 100 "
~ 100 to 200 "
I~I 200 to 500 "
1111111 500 to 1,000 "
I
1 1,000 acres and over.
1'16
Northwestern Counties-'Bartow Catoo a
hattooga Dade Floyd Gordon ]Jurray Paulding Polk Walker Whitfield
District Total
Northern CountiesBarrow Cherokee
larke Cobb Dawson DeKalb Faunin For yth Fnlton Gilmer Gwinnett Hall Jacksou Lumpkin Milton Oconee Picken Town
nion Walton White
Di trict Total
Northeastern CountiesBank Elbert Pranklin Habersham Hart Lincoln Mudi on Oglethorpe Rabun .'tephen Wilke
Di trict Total
TOBACCO
Acr age 1923
1 _
75 2 3 2 3 6 1 5 3
101
4 12
3 6 4 _ 1 2 _ _ 6 12 _ 7 1 _ .. 7 57 60 125 15
347
Western CountiesCampbell
arroll hattahoochee Clayton Co,veta Dougla Fayette Haral on Harri lieard Henry Lamar Macon ]darion Meriwether Muscogee Pike Schley palding Talbot Taylor Troup lJpson
District Total
CentraJ CountiesBaldwin Bibb Bleckley Butt
ra\vford Dodge Greene Haucoek Rou ton Ja per John on Jones Lauren
~[onroe
Montgomery 1 :Morgan 1 Newtou 1 Pula ki
2 Pntnam 70 Rockdale 12 Taliaferro
3 Treutlen
13 Twigg G vVa hiugtou 4 , heeler
20 Wilkin on
133
Di trict Total
147
Acreage 1923
_ _
1 5
_
_
_
_1 _
_4 _
_ _
3
_
_ _
24 2
_
_
_
_ _
20
_
_ _
5 3
_
_ 73
_
_
2
_
_
_
_ _
40
_ 17 _
_ _
5
_ _ _
2 10
_ 150 _ _ _ 30 _
_
_ _ _
2 20
_ _
15 65
_
_ 366
Eastern CountiesBulloch Burke
audler olumbia Effingham Emanuel Gla cock Jeffer on Jenkins
McDuffie Richmond
creven VVarren
Di trict Total
TOBACCO-Continued
Acreage 1923
_ 130 _ 110 _ 105 _ _ 15 _ 16 _ _7 _ 30 _ _ _7 _
_ 420
Southern Counties--
Atkin on Bell Hill Berrien Brooks
linch offee
olquitt ook ri P Dooly Echol Irwin Jeff Dayi Lanier
Lownde Telfair Tift 'furner VVilcox Worth
DUrict Total
Acreage 1923
500 400 90 134
65 2,100
250 430
90 5 5
400 550 70 1,100 160 460 150 101) 80
,029
Southwestern Counties--
Baker alhoull lay
Decatur Dougherty Early Grady Lee
Miller Mitchell Quitman Randolph
emi nole tewart mnter Terrell Thoma VVeb tel'
Di trict Total
Southeastern Counties-
Appling
370
20 E:LCon
470
12 Brantley
660
_
Bl',van
110
750 nmden
42
_
'harlton
10 hatbnm
39
.
_
4-0 Evan' 90 Glynn
220 _
-t Liberty 150 Long
~
_
105
10 fclntQ h 65 Pier e
40 2,431
_
'fattnall
550
50 Toomb
600
15 \\ are
.____________________ 4 0
20 Wayne
170
27
40
Di trict 'Iotal
6,2 7
'._ 1,721
. tate Total
17,477
148
IRISH POrATOES
Both Early and Late
o Less than 50 acres
_
50 to 100 "
~ 100 to ~200 to 1~1300 to
200 " 300 " 500 "
[1111) 500 to 1,000
I J1,000 acres and over.
149
SWEET POTATOES
o Less tban 250 acres.
ITIIIIIIIJ 250 to 500 aeres
~ 500 to 750 " ~ 750 to 1,000 .. 1~11,OOO to 1,250
11111111,250 to 1,500 "
[ ill 1,500 acres and over.
150
POTATOES
Iri h
Potatoes Acre
1923
Northwestern COlmties -
Bartow
197
atoosa
197
Chattooga
299
Dade
279
Floyd
467
Gordon
252
Murray
300
Paulding
117
.r'olk
176
Walker
539
'\ hitfield
252
Di tt'ict TotaL__ 3,075
Northern Counties-
Barrow
106
hcrokco
294
Clarke
62
Cobb
405
Daw ou
239
DeKalb
213
Fannin
735
For vth
115
Fl1lton
159
Gilmer
~63
Gwinnett
16
IIall
240
Jack on
240
Lumpkin
32
Milton
106
Oconee
53
Pickens
195
Town
24
L'nion
549
Walton
90
White
310
Di triet TotaL__ 5,236
Northeastern Counties-
Bank
167
Elbert
79
Franklin
106
Haber ham Hart
23 _
Lincoln
lr
~fadi ou
141
Oglethorpe
32
RRbuu
46(}
. tcphen
70
Wilke
265
weet Potatoe
Acre 1923
460 640 406 142 65 33 17 412 239 641 499
4,6 5
454 30 372
1,590 27 917 261 43 975 25
1,160 706 97 27 311 442 320 9 237 620 354
11 77
617 940 714 351 1,050 467 1,040 1,3 5 177 315 1,493
Irish Potatoes
Acres
1923
Western Counties-
ampbell
142
Carroll
15
hattahoochee
1
Clayton
115
Coweta
215
Douglas
79
Fayette
79
Haral on
195
Harri
115
Heard
142
Henry
71
Lamar
53
~acon
54
Marion
44
~eriwother ~uscogoe
Pike
10 1] 5
35
chley
60
paldin
54
Talbot
139
'l'aylol'
54
Troup
124
P on ----------_ 44
Di trict TotaL__ 2,312
Central Counties-
Baldwin ~________ 149
Bibb
413
Blcckley Butt
27 _
rawford Dodge
Greene
70 _
145
Hancock
126
Hon ton
132
Ja per
114
John on
44
Jone
70
Laurens
23
Monroe
97
Montgomery forgan
~ewton
Pulaski Putnam
_ 149 79
44 _
Rock<lale
Taliaferro Treutlen Twiggs
27
40 27 _
Wa bington
149
Wheeler
44
Wilkin on
46
weet Potatoe
Acre 1923
1,061 1,764
12 760 1,65 3 725 540 1,5 4 1,01 1,142 404
20 900 1,950 1,0 5 504 59 650 956 679 1,371 69
21,419
1,117 5
933 621 605 2,200 910 1,292 1,191
21 964 1,132 2,651 1,134 549 1,095 50
90 665 420 606 659
26 1,633
36 692
Di trict TotaL__ 2,057
,549 Di tri t TotaL__ 2,670 151
26,150
POTATOES-Continued
Iri h
Potatoe Acre 1923
Eastern Connties-
BaIloch ----------
70
Burke -----------
7
andler ----------
26
olumbia -------- 174
Effingham ------
600
Emanuel --------- 1 3
Gla 0 k ---------
26
Jeffer ou -------- 1 3
Jenkins ---------
7
JcDuffie --------
30
Richmond ------- 120
creven ----------
61
Warren ----------
61
Di trict TotaL __ 1,70
weet Potatoes
Acres 1923
1,915 1, 1
479 9 1,600 1,676 397 1,164 952 410 67 1,429 947
14,552
Irish Potatoe Acre
1923 Southern COlIDties---
Atkin on --------
9
Ben Hill ---------
Berrien ----------
70 '44
Brooks ---------- 201
Clinch -----------
7
offee ----------- 253
Colquitt --------- 122
ook ------------
26
Cri p ------------
72
Dooly ----------
7
Echol ----------
9
Irwin ------------
7
Jeff Davis -------
35
Lanier -----------
11
Lowndes --------- 131
T lfai!" ---------- 121
Tift -------------
70
Turner ----------
53
Wilcox ----------
35
Worth ----------- 157
Di trict Total -- 1,600
Southwestern Counties-
Baker -----------
53
alhoull --------- 30
lay ------------
26
Decatur ---------
44
Dougherty -------
35
Early ------------ 10
Grady ----------- 175
Lee -------------
35
Miller -----------
25
Mitchell ---------
Quitman ---------
26
Randolph --------
61
eminole ---------
17
Stewart ---------- 61
Sumter ---------- 88
Terrell ----------- 53
Thomas ---------- 149
Webster ---------
9
District TotaL __ 1,045
57!> 403 429 1,696 65
34 1,772
510 535 1,356 34
22 84
539 1,182
798 3,572
256
Sontheaster.n Counties---
Appling --------Bacon ----------Brantley --------Bryan -----------
amden ---------harlton -------hath am --------E au ----------G1YJlll ----------Liberty ---------Long -----------McInto h -------Pierce ----------Tattnall ---------
Toombs ----------
Ware ------------
Wayne ----------
2 22
121 25 50
7
1,300 2 50
132 132 264 10
2 50 t,3
62
Di~trict TotaL __ 2,782
17,164 State TotaL ___ 22,485
weet Potatoe
Acre 1923
457 974 1,377 2,3 5 321 1,503 2,000 554 651 70 192 1,071 500 412 1,516 1,020 1,01 671 99 995
19,395
974 699 50 343 263 550 622 39 344 597 596 332 1,026 1,091 909 905 1,488
11,978
135,769
l;)~
PEANUTS-FOR HARVEST
(Peanut planted alone. Peanut plallted in corn are not included)
o Less than 500 acres
_
500 to 1,000 acres
~ 1,000 to 2,500
~ 2,500 to 5,000
I~I 5,000 to 10,000
111111110,000 to 15,000
I
115,000 acres and over.
153
PEANUTS AND HAY
Peanut
Hay
(For Harvest (All
Except
Only) Peallllt Hay)
Acres
Acres
1923
1923
Northwestern Counties--
Bartow Catoosa
Chattooga Dade Floyd
Gordon Murray
Panlding
Polk
Walker Whitfield
100
5,000
10
6,400
25
6,000
10
4,400
]60
9,000
15
4,]00
_
5600
16
1,200
50
3,900
20
14 200
]5
600
District 'rotaL __ -65
67,400
Northern Counties--
BalTow
150
herokee
5
lal'ke
200
Cobb
100
Daw on
25
DeKaJb
30
Fannin
_
Forsyth
40
Fnlton
15
Gilmer
_
Gwinnett
] 25
Hall
110
Jackson
100
Lumpkin
5
Milton
50
Oconee
150
Picken
]0
'rowns
_
Union
_
Walton
00
White
_
Distri t TotaL __ 2,000
Northeastern Counties-
Bank
50
Elbert
220
Franklin
40
Haber ham
10
Hart
150
Lincoln
10
Madi on
165
Oglethorpe
600
Rabun
_
Stepheus
15
Wilkes
250
1,600 2,300 2,100 6,100
900 2,200 2,000 1,500 2,4.00 1300 3 00 2,050 7,100
400 2,100 2,900
500 00
1,000 4,600 1,600
4.9,250
3,600 4,000 5.100 2,600 4,500 1,900 5,900 4,900 1,700 1,900 5,300
Peanuts
Hay
(For Hal've t (All
Except
Only) Peanut Hay)
Acre
ACl'e
1923
1923
Western Counties--
Campbell anoll
_ 650 _ 260
2,900 5,100
hattahoochee layton
Coweta Dougla Fayette Harnlson UalTi TIeal'll
Hear,Y Lamar }f.acon
Mariou
_ 110
_ 140
_ 6,500
_ 25
_ 150
_ 50
_ 4.00
_ 90
_ 450
_ _
100 250
_ 50
300 1, 00 4,700 1,200 1, 00 1,700 1, 50 1, 00 3,300 4,250
,100 2,500
M riwcthcl'
_ 70
3,200
:i\oIuscogec Pik Sehle,\'
palcling 'ralbot
Taylor Troup Upson
_ 140 _ 00 _ 14.0 _ 150 _ 300 _ 00 _ 110
_o
00 2,900 2,700 6,300 1,700 3,400 3,300 2,200
District TotaL __ 12, 25
Central Counties-
Bal h,iu Bibb
_ _
1,350 200
Bleckley Butts Cl'awfol'd
_ 300 _ 50 _ 400
Dodge Greene
_ 760 _ 1,200
IIaneock Houston J'aspor
Johnson Joue
Lauren
:M:onroe
_ 600 _ 400 _ ,000 _ 300 _ 1,400 _ 1,900 _ 400
MOlltgomel')'
_ 2,000
1IorO'an Newton Pula ki Putnam
Rockdale
_ 3,000 _ 500 _ 525 _ 600 _ 120
Taliaferro
_ 225
Treutlell Twigg
_ 150 _ 300
'Va hington 'Vheeler
_ 2,2 0 _ 300
Wilkinson
_ 250
67, 00
2,300 5, 00 6,200 2,200 5,100 7,300 3,900 2,900 26,900 4,400 1,400 3,200
3:7 00 00 2,900 4,200 4,600 7,300 2,400 1,900 2,100 1,250 3,100 9,400 3,400 2,500
Di trict TotaL__ 1,6 0
41,4.00 District TotaL __ 2 ,230 154.
12 ,250
HAY
(All tame hay, exclu ive of l,eanut hay)
155
PEANUTS AND HAY-Continued
Peamit
Hay
(For Harve t (All
Except
Only) Peanut Hay)
Acre
Acre
1923
1923
Eastern Counties-
Bulloch Burke
andler olumbia Effingham Emanuel Gla cock Jeffer 0'11 Jenkins McDuffie Richmond creven
\~arren
_ 1,600
_ 30
_ 75
_ 105
_ 170
_ 770
_ 60
_ 235
_ 240
_ 275
_ _
1,400 190
_ 50
,400 4, 00
450 2,200 4200 3,500
150 2, 00 1,600
900 5,900 7,500
750
District TotaL __ 5,550
43,150
Peanuts
Hay
(For Harve t (All
Except
Only) Peanut Hay)
Acre
Acres
1923
1923
Southern Counties-
Atkin on Ben Hill Berrien Brook
linch Coffee Colquitt Cook
ri p Dooly Echol Invin
Jeff Davi Lanier
Lowndes Telfair Tift
~'Ulner
Wilcox Worth
_ 2,400 _ 360 _ 1,550
_ _
2,300 100
_ 950
_ _ _
3, 00 1900 4, 00
_ _ _
1,450 420 ]40
_ _
50 20
_ 6,200
_ 290 _ 670
_ 1,700 _ 1,300 _ 5,400
2,000 6,100 3,200 6,200 1,000 5,300 7, 00 3, 00 5,700 9,300
950 2,300 2,000
650 9,000 4,300 ,400 4,900 9,100 6,700
Di trict TotaL __ 36,060
9 ,700
Southwestern Counties-
Baker
alhoun lay
5,700
4700 4 00
Decatur
5,700
Dougherty Early Grady
Lee
Miller
Mitchell Quitman
3,750 ,600 2,500
4,400
3, 00
12,000 1,200
Randolph
3,800
Seminole Stewart Sumter
Terrell Thomas
Webster
2,400 2,400
620
3,600 3,200
1,550
District TotaL __ 74,720
1200 2150
2, 00 5,300 9,000 10,700 4,000 7,200 11,000 7,000 1,400 4,000 3,600 5,800 14,500 4,500 6,300 1,400
Southeastern Counties--
Appling
250
Bacon
30
Brantley
270
Bryan
150
Camden
10
harlton
30
Chatham
10
Evan
150
Glyllll
2
Liberty
300
Long
270
McIntosh
50
Pierce
150
Tattnall
550
Toombs
100
Ware
200
Wayne
30
District TotaL__ 2,902
101,850 State TotaL 164,532
4,100 2,400 2,100 1,100 1,100 1,70'0 3,500
50 450 600 600 100 2,100 2,700 3,000 2,900 6,900
36,200
634,000
156
SUGAR CANE
None reported Or
0 under 50 acres
50 to 100 a.cres
-Wj 100 to 200
~ 200 t~ 300 1~1 300 to 500 1111111 500 to 1,000
I_I 1,000 aCres and over.
157
SORGHUM FOR SYRUP
Dunder 50 acres
_
50 to 100 acres
~100 to 200 "
~200 to 300 .,
1~1300 to 500
acres and over.
I.,
SUGAR CANE AND SORGHUM
orghum ugar ano
For yrup
(All)
Acres
Acre
1923
1923
Northwestern Counties-
Bartow atoo a
160
93
10
hattooga
120
Dade
0
Floyd Gordon
Murray Paulding Polk
Walker
Whitfield
179
6
156
1
135
19-
7
11
219
167
Di trict TotaL__ 1,6-
24
Northern Counties-
Bal'l'ow herokee
larke obb
213
6JO
237 410
1
Daw- on
DeKalb Fannin For yth Fulton Gilmer
G"innett Hall
Jackson Lumpkin Milton Oconee Pickens Town
176
2
27
370
H2
130
376
7
360
4J
1
211
219
22
129
296
326
-nion
474
W'llton
20
White
334
7
Di tri~.t TotaL__ 65 6
30
Northeastern Counties--
Bank Elbert
_ 306
_ 450
11
Franklin
_ 273
Habor ham
_ 325
1
Hart
_ 960
Lincoln
_ 309
Aradi on
_ 367
10
Ogl thorpe Rabun
_ 21 _ 170
7
tOI ben
_ 22
Wilke
_ 61
orghum ugar ane
For yrup (All)
Acre
Acre
1923
1923
Western Counties-
Campbell
_ 133
3
arroll
_ 1,064
26
Chattahoochee _ 70
47
layton
_ 60
5
owota
_ 375
104
DoulYla<l --------- 123
2
Fayette
_ 15
3
Haral on
_ 425
33
lIarri
_ 535
26
Heard
_ 400
50
IIenry
_ 167
43
Lamar 1Iaeon
Marion
_ 101
97
_ 170
30
_ 201
123
:Meriwetb r
_ 561
277
Mu cOlYee Pike
_ _
50 91
90 97
chley
_ 123
135
palding
_ ll2
47
Talbot
_ 300
140
Taylor
_ 215
206
'{'roup Up on
_ 529
274
_ 257
206
Di trict TotaL __ 6,247
Central COlillties-
Baldwin Bibb
Bleckley Butts
rnwfonl Dod e Gr eno
IIancock lIou ton Ja per John on Jon s
Lauren MOlll'oe
:Montgomery
~Iorgan
::'\ewton Pula ki Putnam Rockdale rraliaferro Treutlen Twigg
Washington Wheeler Wilkin on
_r
_ 72
_ 25 _ )5
_ 1-1 _ 40
_ 453
499
_ 147
_ 255
_ _
7 212
_ 73
_ 474
_ 20
_ 219
_ 310 _ 47
_ 312
_ 100
_ 447
_ 15 _ 106
_ 117
_
11
_
74
2,791
12 60 171 43 191 91 15 150 393 65 437 113 1,316 105 390
17 25
37 1 11 41 130 723 393 15
Di trict TotaL__ 4,324
29 Di trict TotaL__ 4,499 159
6,731
SUGAR CANE AND SORGHUM-Continued
Sorghum Sugar Cane
For Syrup (All)
Acres Acres
1923
1923
Eastern Counties-
Bulloch ---------- 112
Burke ----------- 175
Candler ----------
4
Columbia -------- 238
Effingham --------
8
Emanuel ---------
44
GIa cock ---------
26
Jefferson -------- 119
Jenkins ---------- ------
McDuffie -------- 147
Richmond --------
57
Screven ---------- 10
Wan'en ---------- 162
603 440
250 30 670 1,114
80 327
336 77 65 66 15
Di trict TotaL __ 1,102
4,675
Sorghum Sugar Cane
For Syrup (All)
Acres Acres
1923
1923
Southern Counties-
Atkinson --------
11
Ben Hill ---------
28
Bel'l'ien ----------
16
Brooks ----------
13
Clinch -----------
4
Coffee -----------
80
Colquitt --------- 31
Cook ------------
11
Crisp ------------
47
Dooly -----------
46
Echols ---------- ------
Irwin -----------
53
Jeff Davi' -------
11
Lanier ----------
5
Lownde --------
81
Telfair ----------
21
'rift -------------
40
Turner ---------- 114
Wilcox ----------
54
Worth ----------
64
325 331 921
1,0 6 235
6 70
500 2 674 10 401
160 309 1,356 749
364 390 463 954
District TotaL __ 730
11,244
Southwestern Counties-
Baker -----------
10
Calhoun --------- ------
Clay -------------
50
Decatur ----------
38
Dougherty -------
20
Early -----------
66
Grady -----------
26
Lee -------------
30
Miller -----------
15
Mitchell --------- 10
Quitman ---------
61
Randolph --------
42
Seminole. ---------
19
Stewart ---------- 131
nmter ----------
77
Terrell ----------
30
Thomas ----------
7
Webster ---------
28
District TotaL __ 660
334 292 254 1,506 175 660 5,040 343 573 1,160
78 195 754 130 599 375 2,3 2
77
14,927
Southeastern Counties-
Appling ---------
31
Bacon -----------
23
Brantley --------- ------
Bryan ----------- ------
amden ---------
4
harlton --------
5
Chatham --------- ------
Evans ----------- ------
Glynn ----------- ------
Liberty ----------
7
Long ------------
7
McIntosh -------- ------
Pierce -----------
17
Tattnall ---------
23
Toombs ----------
21
'Vare ------------
10
Wayne ----------
83
District TotaL __ 231
State TotaL ____ 26,064
44 301 135 140 127 185 150 34
90 257 257 178 270 547 464 460 387
4,780
45,23]
160
COMMERCIAL WATERMELONS
Dunder 25 acres
l!IIIIIIIJ 25 to 100 acres
~ 100 to 500 ~ 500 to 1,500
1~11,500 to 3,000
11111113,000 to 5,000
I
15,000 acres and over.
LtiL
COMMERCIAL CANTALOUPES
0
Less than 50 acres
IIIIIIIID
Wj
~ ~I
50 to 100 acres 100 to 300 300 to 500 500 to 1,000
1111111 1,000 to 2,000
I_I 2,000 aCres and over.
162
REPORTED COMMERCIAL
Acreage of Watermelons for the tate of Georgia for the Years 1920, 1921, 1922 and 1923.
Connty
Appling Atkinson Bacon Baldwin Ben Hill Berrien Bibb
Brantley Brooks Bryan Bulloch Burke Calhoun Camden Candler Chatham Coffee Colquitt Columbia Cook Cra\vford Crisp Decatur Dodge Dooly Dougherty Early Effingham Emanuel Evans Grady Hou ton Irwin Jeff Davis Jefferson Jenkin Jones Laurens Lee
Lowndes McDuffie Maron Marion Meriwether
~iller
~itchel1
Plerc Pike Randolph Richmond Schley
creven umter Tattnall Taylor
1920 Acres
0/
_ _ _
10 365
_ _ _ _
------------
191 185 922 1,0 5
------------
255 15 705
1,150
_ _
_ _
------------ ------------
2, 97
2,775
761
575
2,102
2,399
_
200
231
_ _ _
_ :_
160
75
------------
60
------------ ------------
105
150
36
29
_ _ _
_ _ _ _ _
3,526 90
1,713 340 245
225
350 277
3,356 50
1,393 300
500 15 210 275
_ _
260 30
_
174
_ _ _
150 200 644
_ _
3,565 ]0
_
125
_ _ _
_ _
75 105 910 421
660
_ _ _
1425 100
1,530
_
50
25 25 323
50 456 515 3,102 170 75
65 0
500 71 450 1,104 100 1,465 14
_ _
55 20
0 40
_ _ _ _
2,1 0
1,850
------------1 ------------
250 I
40
_ ------3-4-5----1 ------31-0-----
_ _ _ _ _
415
355 560
50 200
1,32 625 471 34 137
163
1922 Acres
707 664
85 358 300
2,095 960 205
4,5 2
563 3,2
510
75 145 318 125 35
4, 26 50
2,020 465 26
61 1,145
1,1 5 510 246 391 226
1,197 700
6,296 50 208 491 590 465 976
505 1, 07
100
1,060 502 295
250 1,576 . 647
125 390 260
1,230 59
1, 67 1,674
203
1923 Acres
190 775 50 155 200 1,320 140
------------
3,220 450
2,500 300 25 50 50 50 20
2,277 40
1,710 130 30 200 420
1,125 175 50 245 50 460 300
5, 54 260 97 75 5 24 519 375
2,291 150 705 10 25 35
1,420 125 35
------------
35 953 319 49 340 110
REPORTED COMMERCIAL
Acreage of Watermelons for the State of Georgia for the Year3 1920, 1921, 1922 and 1923.
County
Telfair Terrell Thomas Tift
Tl'eutlen Turner Twiggs Wayne Web ter Wheeler Wilcox Wilkinson Worth Bleckley Echols Toombs Clayton Montgomery
eminole Ware Pnlaski
Total
1920 Acres
1921 Acres
1922 Acre
_
105
291
1,115
_ _ _
------------ ------------
3,695
3,256
2,955
1, 75
290
3,697 2,911
_ _
_ _ _
_ _
------------ ------------
640
760
490
350
------------
210
75
90
165
50
25
250
230
99 446
145 175 260 250
_ _ _
_ _
1,0 5
1,136
1,260
1,330
1,200
1,170
------------ ------------
40
------------ ------------ -----------672
_
100
_
123
_
605
_
190
_
150
_ 1
41,886
1 39,702
1 67,553
1923 Acres
910 50 2,415 1,760 25 860 138 65 50 200 240 543 250 100 205 160 10 20 115 50 150
40,394
REPORTED COMMERCIAL
Acreage of Cantaloupes for the State of Georgia for the Year 1920, 1921, 1922 and 1923.
County
Appling Ben Hill Brooks
Calhoun Dooly Grady Lee
Lovvnde
Mitchell Thomas Turner Worth
Randolph Colquitt Bibb
Bleckley
Irwin
Telfair
Tift
Coffee
Cook
:
Total
1920 Acres
1921 Acres
_
20
o
_ _
_ _ _ _
_
_ _ _ _
o
70
o
41
o
13
350
565 50
22
200
o
75
o o
o
o
350
500 120 20
200
_
_ ____________
100
_ ____________
25
__ __
1
15
1
30
_ _
-_-----------11 -------45-----
------=~---- _
_
_ 1 ====1=,=3=3=1====1I 1,520 I
164
1922 Acres
300 75
92 400
560 4,400
700
300 225 400 30 25 100 215 150 100 250 8,410
1923 Acres
50 300
150 1,350 2,575
30 50 90
50
75 5,070
COMMERCIAL CUCUMBERS
o Under 10 acres
_
10 to 25 acres
~ 25 to 50
~ 50 to 100 1~1100 to 200
IlIlIm 200 to 300
_
300 acres and over.
Acreage of Cucumber
County
Ben IIiU Coffee Cook Crisp Effingham Lauren Liberty Lowndes Mitchell Pierce 'fift Thomas Wilcox Worth
Total
for the State of Georgia for the Years 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923.
1920
1921
Acres _
Acres
_
_
_
_
_
_
_
.:
_
_
_
_ _
_
-=--=--=---=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=111 1------------1
-=--=-=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-------------1
1922 Acres
10 10 20 10 10 10 275 20 50 15 125 10 100
665
1923 Acres
30 10 20 00 10 10 200 20 50 50 110 10 75
595
165
MISCELLANEOUS SPECIAL CROPS
In addition to the laro-e number of ordinal' field crops, which have some importance in the tate, there are a gr at many which have become important commercially in certain localitie .
In northwest Georgia there is a con iderable acreage of strawberries grown. This indu try is attracting much attention this sea on.
In Fannin, Town, nion and Rabun Countie , rye i raised on a very considerable cale. A large part of the rye produced in these cOlmties is u ed for seed, and it has e tablished qui.te a reputation for hardiness. EI ewhere throughont the tate there are areas where rye has reached commercial proportions, but none which could be compare 1 with these countie .
Growing the pimento pepper first began at Experiment, Georgia, quite a number of year ago. From a mall beo'inning it has spread into all the counties surroundino' Spaldino-. Plants for canning this product will be in operation in Griffin, Macon and Moultrie durino- th coming sea on, with a po sibility of one or two other towns being added. Not only are these pepper canned, but large quantitie are being shipped every season to supply the growing demand in the great ea tern markets.
In Decatur and Grady Counties cigar wrapper tobacco has been produced for many ears. This is a highly specialized industry, requiring a very large outlay of capital to build shade, and special knowledge and skill to cultivate satisfactorily. The industry is so different from ordinary tobacco growing that it warrants special notice.
Early Irish potatoes in the Savannah section produce considerably more per acre than the general average state yield. These potatoes are put on the market in advance of the main crop, and also ahead of the Carolina and Virginia early potatoes.
During the Season of 1924 there will be something over 2,500 acres of asparagus in central Georgia, from which" grass" will ee cut. This industry is constantly growing, and bids fair to become one of our most important ones.
166
MISCELLANEOUS SPECIAL CROPS
o
llIIIIIIIJ -Pimento Peppers
m~ -Asparagus -Shade Tobacco I~I-Rye (Commercial)
IIIIIII-E:uly Irish Potat,cs
I-Strawberries
1(i7
REPORTED COMMERCIAL ACREAGE
Potatoes-Early in the State of Georgia for :he Years 1920, 1921, 1922 and 1923.
County
Brooks ----------------
Bryan -----------------
Chatham --------------
Coffee -----------------
Colquitt -
Effin~ham
-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-
Jenkurrs _______________
Pierce -----------------
Thomas ----------------
Total --------------
1920
1921
Acres
Acres
128
130
180
185
700
700
152
154
4
86
500
400
------------ ------------
175
10
85
50
2004
1.885
1922 Acres
130 200 1,000 160 90 700 150 10 50
2660
1923 Acres
100 200 1,300 100
90 600
50 10
50
2670
Asparagus for the State of Georgia for the Years 1920, 1921, 1922 and 1923.
County
IIouston _______________ Macon ---------------Terrell ----------------
Total ---------------
1920 Acres
309 14 2
1,151
1921 Acres
450 1,000
29
1,479
1922 Acres
45 1,000
30
1,515
1923 Acres
350 1,625
40
2,015
Cabbage in the tate of Georgia for the Years 1921, 1922 and 1923.
County
1921
1922
1923
Bibb Brooks Chatham Cobb
Acres 100
45
25
_
_
Acres
20 90 100
Acres
20 55 80
Colquitt Glynn
10 10
10
o
.'.
o o
ILIoowusntdoen ---------------------------- II ------5-0-----
Meriwether
10
Spalding
_
210 50 _
25 15
Sumter
_
_
Thomas
_
_
25
10
1------------ Tift --------------------------------
Total --------------------------- I
10
20
250 +-----=5:;1-5;;----if--"""""2"2':5:- - -
Snap Beans in the State of Georgia for the Years 1920, 1921, 1922 and 1923.
County
Chatham Effingham Grady
Total
_ _ _
_
I\
-----_1!3~5----II
------1~3~5----II
-----:2~3~0----II
-----~~~---650
16
APPLES
(Trees of all ages, not including trees planted during the past fall and winter)
o Under 2,000
UIIllIIIJ
~ ~
I~I
2,000 0 5,000 to 10,000 to 20,000 to
5,000 10,000 20,000 50,000
1111111 50,000 to 100,000
I_I 100,000 and over.
Hi~
Northwestern Counties-- . Bartow Catoosa Chattooga Dade Floyd Gordon Th[urray Paulding Polk VValker VVhitfield
District Total
Northern ConntiesBarrow Cherokee Clarke Cobb
Dawson
DeKalb
Fannin
Forsyth
Fulton
:
Gilmer
Gwinnett Hall Jackson
Lumpkin Th[ilton Oconee
Pickens Towns Union
VValton
VVhite
District Total
Northeastern CountiesBanks Elbert Franklin iIabersham Hart Lincoln
Madison Oglethorpe Rabun Stephens VVilkes
District Total
APPLES
-
_ _ _ _ :_ _ _ _ _
_ _
23,000 28,000 65,000 15,000 38,000 36,500 46,500 22,000 34,000 85,000 45,000
_ 438,000
_ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _
_
7,000 43,000
6,000 44,500 20,000 30,000 75,000 27,000 11,000 140,000
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ . _
52,000 44,000 19,000 21,000 20,500
5,500 30,000 26,000
_ 44,700
_
10,500 38,000
_ 714,700
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _
22,500 15,000 31,000 344,000 17,000
9,400 15,500 13,000
_ _
96,200 18,900
10,700
593,200 170
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1,600 2,800 3,900 2,000 4,100 3,500 4,100 1,300 1,700 20,700 3,500
49,200
500 4,500
400 3,600 1,800 2,600 8,200 1,200
900 1l,000
3,500 3,100 1,700 2,400 2,400
600 4,900 3,700 3,600 1,000 6,200
61,800
2,800 1,400 2,200 70,500 1,900 1,600 2,100 1,200 15,100 3,100 l,200
103,100
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24,600
30,800
G8,900
17,000
42,100
40,000 50,600
23,300
35,700
105,700
48,500
487,200
7.500 47,500
6,400 48,100 21, 00 32,600 83,200 28,200 11,900 151,000 55,500 47,100 20,700 23,400 22,900
6,100 34,900 29,700 48,300 11,500 44,200
182,500
25,300 16,400 33,200 414,500 18,900 11,000 17,600 14,200 111,300 22,000 11,900
696,300
Western Counties--Campbell Carroll Chattahoochee Clayton Coweta Douglas Fayette lIaralson lIarri IleaI'd lIenry Lanlar :l\facon
~1arion
Meriwether Muscogee Pike
Schley palding
Talbot Taylor Troup lJpson
APPLES-Continued
. ...0->
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0> .-<
-.. -'"0<;'-<
. ..8"",-,,0,-"",-
_ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _
17,500 52,000
210
15,000 12,700 20,200 12,700 29,000 8,000 18,000 31,100 5,100 13,000
400
_ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
10,500 420
6,000 130
9,500 6,400 2,100 6,300 2,100
District Total
278,360
Central Counties--Baldwin Bibb
Bleckley Butts Crawford
Dodge Greene lIancock JIouston Jasper
Johnson Jones Laurens
~1onroe
M:ontgomer;-
Morgan
.
~ewton
Pulaski
Putnam
Rockdale
Taliaferro ..
Treutlen
.
Twiggs
Washingto.n
Wheeler
"ilkinson
. --
. .
_ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ . _ _ _ . __
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ , _ _
2,000 750 800
1,900 1,000 1,800 5,400 3,100 4,100 5,000 1,000 12,000 3,000 6,000
350 3,900 7,000
630 2,400 5,500 5,000 1,300
800 6,500
250 3,000
District - __ . T(ltaL_~
_ 84,980 17]
i: G)..,.
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1,000 4,300
~O
800 1,200 1,000 1,000 1,400
700 1,600 1, 00
500 100 80 1,300
80 600
20 900 400 300 1,400 300
20, 20
250 200 220 330 400 500 500 700 1,400 2,900 300 420 700 600 100 600 600 170 500 500 650 400 130 1,400
50 600
15,120
.. '0 ..
. "" ~ d._
.....'" " E-i-c-I%lPl
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,..;
3~:c
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18,500 56,300
250 15,800 13,900 21,200 13,700 30,400 8,700 19,600 32,900
5,600 13,100
480 11,800
500 6,600
150 10,400
6,800 2,400 7,700 2,400
299,180
2,250 950
1,020 2,230 1,400 2,300 5,900 3,800 5,500 7,900 1,300 12,420 3,700 6,600
450 4,500 8,100
800 2,900 6,000 5,650 1,700
930 7,900
300 3,600
100,100
APPLES-Continued
Eastern CountiesBulloch Burke Candler Columbia Effingham Emanuel Glascock Jefferson Jenkins
~cJDuffie
Richmond creven
VVarren
JDistrict TotaL
Southwestern CountiesBaker Calhoun Clay JDecatur JDougherty Early Grady Lee
~iller
~tchell
Quitman Randolph Seminole Stevvart
umter Terrell Thomas VVebster
JDistrict Total
SAotuktihnesronn CountiesBen Hill Berrien Brooks Clinch Coffee Colquitt Cook Crisp JDooly Echols Irvvin Jeff JDavis Lanier Lovvndes
_ _ _
_ _
1,900 1,100
900
1,900
~650
_ _
_ _ _
_ _ _
4,800 450
2,800 700
1,300 2,200 1, 00 1,700
_ 22,200
_ _ _ _
_ _ _
_ _
_ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _
50 100
o
300
1,000 250
900 50 30 150 250 100 150 700
1,200 150 450 300
_ 6,210
_
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _
100
300 400 450 250
900 600 100 400 800
40 700
500
_ _
70 250
172
640 200 200 360 100 1,200 50 400 400 300 300 600 190
4,940
10 20 20 125 460 50 160 20 10 50 60 40 60 100 270 50 100 90
1,695
90 130 200 100
80 390 200 60 240 460 10 290 220 10 60
2,540 1,300 il,100 2,260
750 6,000
500 3,200 1,100 l,600 2,500 2,400 1, 90
27,140
60 120 100 425 1,460 300 1,060
70 40 200 310 140 210 00 1,470 200 550 390
7,905
190 430 600 550 330 1,290 800 160 640 1,260 50 990 720 80 310
APPLES-Continued
Southern Counties-Continued Telfair Tift Turner VVilcox VVorth
District Total
Southeastern Counties-Appling Bacon Brantley Bryan Camden
Charlton Chatham Evans Glynn Liberty Long
~clntosh
Pierce Tattnall Toonlbs VVare vVayne
District Total
.. __.
State Total
_ _
_ _ _
350 350
600 700
300
_ 8,160
_ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
600 350 100 200
15 100 50 300
100 50 40
_ _
_ _
_
150 00 700 100 450
_ 4,105
2,150,000
180 200 360 220 200
3,700
350 200 60 30
6 30 30 70
15 15
70 290 230 50 130
1,576
268,000
530 550 960 920 500
11,860
950 550 160 230
21 130 80 370 100 65 55
220 1,090
930 150 580
5,681
2,418,000
PEACHES
(Trees of all age, not including trees planted during pa t fall and winter)
o Under 10,000
10,000 to 40,000 to 100,000 to 300,000 to
40,000 100,000 300,000 600,000
174
PEACHES
Northwestern CountiesBarto\Y Catoo a Chattooga Dade Floyd Gordon
~urray
Paulding Polk Walker Whitfield
District Total
Northern CountiesBarrow
Cherokee
Clarke
Cobb
Dawson
:
DeIralb
Fannin
Forsyth
Fulton
Gi~er
Gwinnett Hall Jackson Lum pkin
~ilton
Oconee Pickens To\vns
1] nion Walton
White
Di trict Total
Northeastern CountiesBanks Elbert Franklin Habersham Hart Lincoln Madison Oglethorpe Rabun Stephens Wilkes
District Total
_ _
_
_ _ _ _ _ _
69,500 15,000 0,000 16,000 63,050 52,450 19,000 19,560 19,521
_ _
30,000 45,691
429,772
78,100 8, 43
35,3 2 7,966
31,208 20,968
4,928 10,161 10,142 63,580 16,750
28 ,028
_ _ _ _
_ _ _ _
21,900 17,772 15,379 54,147 9,414 30, 57 14,000 24,622
_ _
_ _ _
_ _ _ _ _
_ _
_
16433
5, 42,574 32,094 75,765
5,314 16,27 25,500 10,000
3,500 7,]96 30,243 10,1 4
469,060
6,285 37,100
7,473 26,346 4,575 14,995
7,074 11,965
7,9 6 2,861 20,6 9 15,595 37,000 2,5 2 ,357
,132 4, 06 2,06 3,497 14,696 4,949
249,031
~
~ ~
_
. _
26,699 25,000 33,300
_ _ _
228,914 25,194 20,881
_ 29,453
_ _ _
31,597 4,370
25,000
_ 33,711
484,119 175
32,700 22,161 16,000 98,113 10,136
8,467 12,171 13,001 1,691
7,813 14,449
236,702
147,600 23,843
115,382 23,966 94,258 73,418 23,928 29,721 29,663 93,580 62,441
717,800
28,185 54,872 22, 52
0,493 13,9 9 45, 52 21,074 36,5 7 24,419
,749 63,263 47,6 9 112,765
7, 96 24,635 33632 14, 06
5,568 10,693 44,939 15,133
718,091
59,399 47,161 49,300 327.027 35,330 29,348 41,624 44,598
6,061 32,813 48,160
720,821
Western OountiesCampbell Carroll Chattahoochee Clayton Coweta Douglas Fayette liaralson Harris Heard Henry Lamar Macon Marion Meriwether Muscogee Pike Schley Spalding Talbot T,aylor Troup Upson
District Total
Oentral Oounties--Baldwin Bibb Bleckley Butts Crawford Dodge Greene Hancock Houston Jasper Johnson Jones Laurens Monroe Montgomery Morgan Newton Pulaski Putnam Rockdale Taliaferro Treutlen Twiggs Washington Wheeler Wilkinson
District Total
PEACHES-Continued
C ~"Ifl
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0:::"';
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E":;'P''1'"''>'
16,534 50,300
1,075 16,978 38,000 16,577 . 12,577 15,021 29,410 23,532 35,973 57,500 1,503,090 46,600 300,000 3,067 79,950 71,500 29,753 63,900 400,000 22,000 292,000
3,125,337
8,436 24,134
548 ,663 237.,300 ,458 6,407 7,664 22,400 12,007 1 ,355 31,9 4 520,934 30,000 17 ,450 1,565 18 ,700 22,661 35,650 143,900 1 3,370 20,000 314,500
2,026,086
18,000 2 0,000
25,000 .___________ 9,970
466,000 12,300 19,470 60,135
2,917,229 180,000 8,273 76 ,015 18,203 120,000 3,742 15,520 27,980 70,650 29,417 16,736 9,190 4,623 74,700 21,515 3,946 20, 4
5,201,498
176
12,500 142,342
55,300 4,963
220,256 6,123 9,692
37,600 1,455,297
363,160 4,11
312,092 9,061
92,500 2,02
17,726 11,753 31,934 56,200 46,870 4,575
2,301 10,831 10,710
1,964 10,396
2,932,292
.-'" rn'g ~ 4) d,:"," 0> '"'"' e~~
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~P1Z<">
24,970 74,434
1,623 25,641 275,300 25,035 1 ,984 22,6 5 51,810 35,539 54,328 89,484 2,024,024 76,600 478,450 4,632 26 ,650 94,161 65,403 207, 00 583,370 42,000 606,500
5,151,423
30,500 422,342
80,300 14,933 686,256 1 ,423 29,162 97,735 4,372,526 543,160 12,391 1,080,107 27,264 212,500
5,770 33,246 39,733 102,5 4 85,617 63,606 13,765
6,924 85,531 32,225
5,910 31,2 0
8,133,790
PEACHES-Continued
Eastern Counties--Bulloch Burke Candler Columbia Effingham Ema nuel Glascock Jefferson Je,Ukins McDuffie Richmond Screven VVarren
Di trict Total
Southwestern Counties--Baker Calhoun Clay Decatur Dougherty Early Grady Lee
~iller
Mitrhell Quitman Randolph Seminole Stewart Sumter Terrell Thomas VVebster
District Total
Southern CountiesAtkinson Ben Hill Berrien Brooks
linch Coffee Colquitt Cook Crisp Dooly Echols Irwin Jeff Davi Lanier Lownrles
_ _ _
_ _ _
_ _ _
_ _ _ _
13,000 3,500 4,435 7,000 1,500
15,000 13,315 15,000
2,453 21,000 1 ,110
3,000 4,454
_ 121,767
_ _ _
_
1,618
3,11 1, 56 8,007
_ _ _ _ _
_ _
95,000 6,0 7
10,000 16,000
2,110 15,000
7.500
_ _
205000 4,391
_ _ _ _ _
24.350 170.6 4 35.000 12,000
6,000
_ 623,721
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _
2,000 9, 45 7.92 10,015 3,193 16,000 15,000 6.148 10,096
_ _ _
_ _ _
110.000 1.l03
12,423
6.432 1,615
5,037
177
10,701 3,000 3,356 5,720 1,253
10,452 9,739 8 02 2,111
14,700 11906
4,154 15,300
101,194
703 3,118 1, 56 8,782 137500 2,646 4, 70
,2 919 7,439 3,550 2,042 4,391 21.000 140.250 2 .3 2 6,105 2,404
464,245
1,044 21.000 3,93 5,203
1,659 10. 74
9.006 3,194 50.000 65 4~7
573 6.454 3,341
39 2,617
23,701 6,500 7,791
12,720 2,753
25,452 23,054 23, 02
4,564 3(i,700 30,016
7,154 19,754
222,961
2,321 6,236 3,712 16,7 9 232,500
.733 14, 70 24,2
3,029 22,439 11.050 2 7.042 8,7 2 45,350 310,934 63,3 2 1 ,105
8,404
1,087,966
3.044 30. 45 11.866 15,218
4.852 26. 74 24.006
9.342 60.096 175.437
l,fi76 1 .877
9,773 2,454 7,654
PEACHES-Continued
Southern Counties-Continued Telfair Tift Turner Wilcox Worth
District Total
Southeastern Counties-
~ppling
Bacon Brantley Bryan Camden Charlton Chatham Evans Glynn Liberty Long
~1clntosh
Pierce Tattnall T{)ombs Ware Wayne
District Total
_ _ _
_ _
6,75 17,729 11,639 10,906
9,517
_ 273,3 4
_ _
56;774
_ _ _
5000 1,000
_ _
_ _ _ _
_ _ _
_ _ _
650 3,500
450 3,975
250 600 500 610 5,000 10,0 1 4,79'5 2,1 9 7,44
_
3,511 9211 6,566 5,667 5,9 3
216,117
5,764 4,997 3,400 8,885
49 2,614
333 2,306
163 401 400 408 3,399 8,930 5,71 1, 75 4,6 2
54,764
6,56 ,459
10,269 26,940 18,205 16,573 15,500
4 9,501
12,542 10,845
8,400 9, 85 1,139 6,114
783 6,2 1
413 1,001
900 1,01
,399 19,011 10,513
4,064 12,130
113,43
17,355,791
PECANS
(Trees of all age, not including trees planted during pa t fall and winter)
Dunder 3,000
IIIIIIllIl 3,000 to 10,000
~ 10,000 to
m 15,000 to
15,000 25,000
I~I 25,000 to 50,000
1111111 50,000 to 100,000
~"f.;0 I
1100,000 and up
~
J7!J
PECANS
Northwestern Counties-Bartow CNtousa Cllattooga Dalle Floyd Gordon ]durray Paulding Polk Walker Whitfield
District Total
Northern Counties-Barrow Cherokee Clarke Cobb Dawson Dp Klllb Fannin Forsyth Fulton Gilmer Gwinnett Flail Jackson Lu mpkin Milton Oconee
Pir kens Towns Union Wnlton White
Di trict Total
Northeastern CountiesBnnks
Elbert
Fl'aukli'l
Habersham
Flart
LinMl n
Madi son
Oglethorpe
Hahun
Stenhens
.
Wilkes
District Total
_ _
505
_ _
779
_ _ _
1,200 329
_ _ _
_
6 138 312 29 245
_ 3,803
_ _ _ _
_
_ _
691 234
2,052 3,145
71 3,157
_ _
_ _ _ _
_ _ _
_
109 154
47 1,474
232 2,232
18 154 1,009
_
_
_ _
3 1,642
21
_ 16,445
_ _
192 967
_ _ _
_
_ _
_
_ _
1,042 79
7,906 783 349
1,332 1
90 4,587
17,32 180
303
467
720 197
4 82 187
173 147
2,280
415 140 1,231 1,8 7
43 1,894
65 92 28 884 139 1,339 11 92 605
2 985
13
9,865
115 580 625
47 4,743
470 209 799
]
54 2,752
10,395
808
1,246
1,920 526 10 220 499 462 392
6,083
1,106 374
3283 5,032
114 5,051
174 246
75 2,35
371 3,571
29 246 1,614
5 2,627
34
26,310
307 1,547 1,667
126 12,649
1,253 558
2,131 2
144 7,339
27,723
PECANS-Continued
Western C?untiesCampbell Carroll
Chattahooehee Clayton _.. Coweta Douglas Fayette llaralson Ilarris Ileard Ilenry Lamar ]dacon ]darion
]deriwether ]duscogee Pike Sehley Spalding Talbot Taylor Troup Upson
Distriet Total
_ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
373 2,072
275 448 2,242 113 303 247
_ _
_ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_
239 1,01)2 12,770 40,010
810 1,955 2,046 10,580 1,881 2,116 1,474 1,208 1,747 1,800
_ 85,801
BCaelndtwrailnCountiesBibb
Bleekley
~
Butts
Crawford
Dodge
Greene
IIancock
IIouston
Jasper
Johnson
Jones
Laurens
]donroe
]dontgomery ]dorgan
ewton
Pulaski Pu tllam Ro kdale
Taliaferro
TTwreiugtglsen Washington
Wheel er Wilkinson
_ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _
------ -_ _
- --
- --- ------ --- - -- ----_ _
-_ --------- -_
5,000 5,629 2,720
717 3,400 3,411 3,6 2 9,300 3 ,456 1,405 2,403 1,4 4 4,471 2, 7 2,146
925 1,372 3,969 1,654
572 1,414
03 1,623 2, 46
,156 3,219
District Total
113,664 181
~
o
uQe"-'of
z<~
_0"w. ..
8".11~,)"'d;": d"".
224 1,243
165 269 1,345
68 182 148
143 655 7,662 24,006 486 1,173 1,228 6,348 1,129 1,670 884 725 1,048 1,080
51,881
3,000 3,377 1,632
430 2,040 2,047
2,209
5,5 23,074
43 1,442
90 2,683 1,732 1,2
555
23
2,3 992 343 4 482 974
1,70 4, 94 1,931
68,197
...
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.....
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~ G.l 0 t:.ccs
t:~Z<;""
597 3,315
440 717 3,581 181 485 395
382 1,747 20,432 64,016 1,296 3,128 3,274 16,928 3,010 3,786 2,358 1,933 2,795 2,880
137,682
8,000 9,006 4,352 1,147 5,440 5,458 5,891 14,880 61,530 2,24 3,845 2,374 7,154 4,619
3,434
1,4 2,195 -6,349 2,646
915 2,262 1,2 5 2,597 4,554 13,050 5,150
181,861
PECANS-Continued
Eastern CountiesBulloch Burke Candler Columbia Effiugham Emanuel Glascock Jefferson Jenkins McDuffie Richmond
creven VVarren
District Total
Southwestern Counties-Baker Calhoun Clay Decatur Dougherty Early Grady Lee Miller Mitchell Qui tman :R andolph
eminole tewart umter Terrell Thonlas VV ebster
District Total
Southern CountiesAtkin on Ben Hill Berrien Brooks Clinch Coffee Colquitt Cook Crisp Dooly Echols Irwin Jeff Davis
-- _ _ _
- ---- --_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_
14.762 5,000 2,081 992 4,316 9,745 77 7,523 1,977 1,271 1,000 4, 59 1, 13
56,1l7
.733 3,000 1,249
595 2,590 5, -17
467 4,514 1,1 6
763 600 2,915 1,212
33,671
_ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
700 9,225 2,200 6,464 19 ,4 2 1,900 2 ,000 72,000
900 7 ,000
1, 3 15,000
6,000 4,592 39,311 7,000 22,000
_ 1,510
495,122
420 5,535 1,320 3, 7 125,0 9 1,140 16, 00 42, 00
540 46, 00
1,103 9,000 3600 2,755 23,5 7 4,200 13,200
906
302,673
_
_ _ _ _ _
_ _
_ _ _ _
_
1, 15 6,1 5 4,062 7504 3,470 5925 7, 90 3, 22 17,629 9,54 1,352 3,489 2, 50
12
1,0 9 3,711 2,437 4,502 2,0 2 3,555 4,734 2,293 10,577 5,729
II
2,093 1,710
23.4!l!i 8,000 3,330 1,5 7 6,906
15,592 1,245 12,037 3,163 2,034 1,600 7774 3,025
89,788
1,120 14,760
3,520 10,342 323,571 3,040 44, 00 114, 00
1,440 124,800
2,941 24,000
9,600 7,347 62, 9 1l,200 35,200 2,416
797,795
2,904 9, 96 6,499 12,006 5,552 9,40 12,624 6,1l5 2 ,206 15,277 2,163 5,582 4,560
PECANS-Continued
Southern Counties-Continued Lanier Lowndes Telfair Tift 'furner VVilcox VV orth
District Total
Southeastern Counties-.A. p p l i n g Bacon
Brantley Bryan
Camden Charlton
hatham Evans Glynn
Libel"ty Long
~clnto8h
Pierce
Tattnall
:.
Toomb
VVare
~
VVayne
District Total State Total
_
_ _ _
1,400 9,000 23,000 10,000
_ _
_
4,601 2,791
,000
_ 134,333
_ _
_ _
_
3,053 2,336 6,005
483 478
--_ _ _
_ _
_
_
8,131 2,706 3,521 3,746 1,127 1,126
91 7,300
_ 6 '7 4
_ _
_
1;699 12,451
7,043
_ 6 ,907
_ 991,520
840 5,400 13, 00 6,000 2761 1,675 4, 00
0,599
1, 32 1,402 3,603
290 27 4, 79 1,624 2,113 2,24 676 675 551 4,3 0 4,070 1,019 7,471 4,226
41,346
600,907
2,240 14,400 36, 00 16,000 7,362
4,466 12, 00
214,932
4, 5 3,73 9,608
773 765 13,010 4,330 5,634 5,994 1,803 1,801 1,469 11,6 0 10, 54 2,71 19,922 11,269
110,253
1,592,427
13
184
MULES o FARMS AND RA GES
(Does not include animals in towns and cities)
185
HORSES AND MULES
Horses
o. On
Farms
Jan.
1,1924
Northwestern Counties--
Bartow
860
Catoosa
691
Chattooga
844
Dade
399
Floyd
Gordon Murray
1,422
1,2 21
Paulding
595
Polk
41
Walker
1,443
Whitfield
1,092
District TotaL __ 10,2
Northern Counties.--
Barrow
1,419
Cherokee
907
Clarke
356
obb
1,27
Daw on
231
DeKalb
661
F,,=in
49
.J!orsyth
472
Fulton
352
Gilmer
332
Gwinnett Hall
1,105 717
Jackson
97
Lumpkin
190
Milton
426
Oconee
417
Pickens
335
Towns
252
Dnion
364
Walton
679
White
318
District Total __ 11,2 7
Northeastern Counties-
Banks
513
Elbert
96
Franklin
927
Habersham
556
Hart
748
Lincoln
452
Madi on
930
Oglethorpe
969
Rabun
329
tephen
413
Wilke
1,005
Mules o. On Farms Jan. 1,1924
Hor es o. On
Farms Jan.
1,1924
Western Counties-
4,740 Campbell
1,290 Carroll
2,719 Chattahoochee
677 Clayton
4,952 Coweta
3,460 Douglas
2,004 Bayette
2,537 Haral on
3,0 3,213
Harri Heard
2,443 Henry
Lamar
31,115 {acon Marion
401 1,687
112 429 762 319 392 630 467
__ 612 1,930 336 469
269
2,156 2, 57 1766 3, 50
969 2,5 3 1033 2,504 1,0 5 1,213 5,571 3,719 4,565
95 1,414 2,490 1,137
769 1,173 4,73 1,227
47,714
2,247 3,342 3,315 1,130 3,15] 1, 13 3,159 3,913
653 1,377 3,9 9
Meriwether
637
Muscogee
170
Pike
344
Schley
301
palding
370
Talbot
376
Taylor
253
Troup
561
P on
29
Di trict TotaL __ 12,125
Central Counties-
Baldwin
_
Bibb
_
Bleckley
_
Butt
_
Crawford
_
Dodge
_
Greene
_
Hancock
_
Hou ton
_
Ja per
_
John on
_
Jone
_
Lauren
_
Monroe
_
1fontgomery
_
Morgan
_
"ewton
_
Pulaski
_
Putnam
_
Rockdale
_
Taliafel'l'o
_
Treutlen
_
Twiggs
_
Wa hington
_
Wlleeler
_
Wilkinson
_
619
391
3421 309 564 1,073 20 704 464 400 502
1,015 504 260
555
4 1
6325 229
661 206 28 1,176 340 340
District TotaL__ 7,738
28,089 District TotaL __ 13,707
16
Mules o. On Farm Jan. 1,1924
2,019 5,560
514 1,745 4,395 1, 25 2,249 2,260 2,4 2,163 3930 2,043 3,110 1,447 4,431
819 2,528 1,1 7 2,435 1,976
1, 72
3,2 2,227
56,503
1,60 1,700 2,057 1,65 1,469 3,960 2, 51 2,616 4,010 3,02 2,315 2,199 6,322 2,293 1,3 9 3,043 2,6 5 1,751 2,249 1,322 1,243 1,393 1,694 4,3 5 1,746 1,772
62,75
HORSES AND MULES-Continued
Eastern CountiesBulloch
Burke Cand'ler Columbia Effingham Emanuel Glascock
Jefferson Jenkins McDuffie
Richmond Screven Warren
Horses TO. On Farms Jan. 1,1924
1,0 1 1,214
32 558 391 792 157 787 294 576 536 771 475
District TotaL__ 7,960
Mules No. On Farms
Jan. 1, 1924
4,293 6,175 1,666 2,0 0 1,403 4,999
802 3,706 2,455 1,707 1,811 4,306 2,072
37,475
Horses
No. On Farms
Jan.
1, 1924
Southern Counties--
Atkinson
153
Ben Hill
325
Berrien
406
Brooks
674
Clinch
18
Coffee
569
Colquitt
32
Cook
401
Crisp
448
Dooly
709
Echols
84
Irwin
336
Jeff Davis
303
Lanier
14
Lowndes
627
Telfair
484
Tift
393
Turner
342
Wilcox
477
Worth
675
Southwestern Counties-
Baker
453
Calhoun
353
Clay
311
Decatur
1,422
Dougherty
295
Early
663
Grady
912
Lee
350
Miller
554
Mitchell Quitman
1,209 107
Randolph
519
Seminole
797
Stewart
459
Sumter
749
Terrell
439
Thomas
915
Webster
251
District TotaL __ 10,758
District TotaL__ 8,610
1,73 1, 35 1,545 2,69 1,773 3,300 3,299 2,455 1,62 4,323
720 2,6 9 1,300 1, 70 4,480 3,425
3,439 1,026
l:ioutheastern Counties---
Appling
528
Bacon
314
Brantley
245
Bryau
29
Camden
242
harlton
272
hatham
24
Evans
210
Glynn
149
Liberty
467
Long
461
{clnto h
24
Pierce
339
Tattnall
467
Toombs
35
Wad
447
Wayne
742
District TotaL__ 6,089
43,543
State TotaL __ 88,619
Mules o. On Farms Jan. 1, 1924
1,100 1,643 1,825 3,849
613 2,8 9 4,409 1,518 2,899 4,009
341 2,537 1,112
639 2,770 2,589 2,030 2,227 3,137 3,718
45,854
1,861 1,116
925 966 228 442 51 1,188 174 744 64!! 313 949 2,600 2,395 1,096 1,839
18,336
371,330
187
SHEEP
ON FARMS AND RANGES (Does not include animals in towns and cities)
o Under 100
100 to 300 300 to 500 500 to 1,000 1,000 to 1,500 1,500 to 2,500 2,500 and up.
ISS
GOATS
ON FARMS AND RA GES (Does not include animals in towns and ctiies)
0
Under 100
IIIIIIIill 100 to 250
~ 250 to 500
~ 500 to 1,000
I~I 1,000 to 2,000
1111111 2,000 to 3,000
I _ I 3,000 a.nd over.
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190
SWINE o FARMS A D RANGES
(Does not include animal in towns and cities)
0
Under 5,000
!IIIIllIIl 5,000 to 7,500
~ 7,500 to 10,000
~ 10,000 to 15,000
I~I 15,000 to 20,000
1111111 20,000 to 30,000
I_I 30,000 to 40,000
191
. SHEEP, GOATS AND SWINE
" ...co
0o"~" 0>
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.. 8~.
~~~~
NorthweStern Counties--
BCaatrotoowsa --------r--- ------- --------- ---_
67 174
43 667
F2~lo~~ytdo~:~__~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _
361 550
345 752
Gordon
_
309
301
]durray Paulding
P~lk
Walker Whitfield
~
_ _ _
_ _
312 168
4 93 1,047 271
32
19 11
99 1,036
48
District Total
_ 3,356
3,353
Northern Counties-
Barro~
_
Cherokee
_
Clarke
_
Cobb
_
Dawson
_
De}(alb
_
Fannin
_
Forsyth
_
Fulton
_
Gilmer
_
Gwinnett
_
Hall
_
Jackson
~
_
]Lduilmtopnkin ,Oconee
Pickens Towns lInion
Walton White
~----------------------__
_ _
_
.:.
_
_
District Total
_
1 7! 29
63 5 1,359 21
1,161 10 33 88
323 13 42 '89
1,176 1,621
337
6,453
66 9 51
73 8
54 98 11 43 156 108 31 103 28
3 132
26 42 80 30
1,158
BNaonrkthseastern Counties-
Elbert
Franklin
Habersham
~
Hart
Lincoln ]dadison
Oglethorpe
Rabun
Stephens
Wilkes
District Total
_ _ _
_ _
_ _
_ _ _ _
32 32 58 83 23 220 17 168 1,604 20 51
2,308 192
53 100
41 22 19 109 180 314 297 39 416
1,590
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5,000 1,900 4,600 2,700 5,900 3,400 3,200 2,600 3,500 6,800 2,900
42,500
2,300 . 3,700
2,200 5,000 1.800 4,800 6,200 3.,100 3,100 6,700 6,000 4,800 4,800 3,200 - 1,800 2,900 1,600 4,700 6,600 5,400 2,600
85,300
4,200 6,200 5,400 3,500 5,500 5,100 5,100 8,900 6,300 2,800 10,300
63,300
SHEEP, GOATS AND SWINE-Continued
Western Counti_ Campbell Carroll
CClhaaytttoanhoochee Covveta
I>ouglas
IFIaayraeltstoen
IIarris IIeard IIenry Lamar
----------------------
4
~acon
~arion
~erivvether
~uscogee
Pike Schley Spalding Talbot Taylor
Troup lJpson
I>istrict Total
....
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_ _
81 54
_
_
_ _
183 24
__ _ _
7 28 82
_
113 12
_
_ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
26 101
2 33 10 26 19 31 38
_ _
8 63
7
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_
948
....
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.. El :f "
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38 147
13 4
173 28
58 42 80 72 84 202 266 126 217 85 67 '34 89 396 107 55
2,383
Central Count15-
Baldvvin Bibb
Bleckley
Butts Cravvford
I>odge
"
Greene
IIancock __ ~ IIouston
Jasper
Johnson
Jones
Laurens ._.,. ~onroe
~ontgomery
_ _
_ _ _
_ _ _ _ _
22
33 6 2
59 317 171
29 315
_ _
_ _ _
19 78 79 329 27 607
~P:u~la1s~k:i ~~~~~~~~===========~===========_
Putnam
_
Rockdale
_
Taliaferro
_
33 51
9 34
30 7
TTvrevuigtglesn Washington Wheeler
_
644
~
_ _
2 259 214
Wilkinson
~-------
7
160 204
74 80 "
187
1,681 346 254
371 170 486
371 1,812
130 832
183 45 230
203 25
134 476
386 766 781 319
I>istrict Total
3,383
10,706
193
....
"." ...'" .0", C'l 0 .. Z ao:f"'4" ;!l~:f,; .... .... co GI5 cO ~~~ tll
3,000 7,800 2,200 2,800 7,800 2,400 3,300 3,000 8,200 4,600 6,600 4,900 12,200 7,500 10,600 3,700 4,600 4,600 4,500 5,200 9,900 8,100 5,000
132,500
9,000 7,400 18,400 4,700 7,300 28,500 6,900 9,900 18,400 8,900 12,800 8,600 37,5(10 7,700 14,900 8,000 6,000 11,100 6,700 3,700 3,900 9,800 11,800 23,400 14,900 13,100
313,300
SHEEP, GOATS AND SWINE-Continued
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Eastern CountiesBulloch
Burke
. Candler
Coluznbia
Effinghazn
-,
Eznanuel
Glascock
Jefferson
~
Jenkins
.
McDuffie
Richznond
Screven
VVarren
_ _ _ _
_ _ _
597 240
65 40 974 2,105 . 60
_
_ _ _ _ _
83 41 153
2 754
2
6,200 619
1,427 1,106 2,314 3,919
120 2]9
957 464 321 904 704
Dsitrict Total
_ 5,116
Southwestern Counties-
Baker
_
Calhoun
_
Clay
_
Decatur
_
.~~~~he~~-~~~~~~~~~~:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~:
Grady
_
Lee
_
Miller
_
Mitchell
_
Quitznan
_
Randolph
_
Sezninole
~
_
Stewart
_
Suznter
_
Terrell
_
Thoznas
_
VVebster
~
_
District Total
_
39 15 11 2,111 118 206 605 99 1,191 2,700 57
3 1,407
13 3 7
468
9,053
Southern Counties-Atkinson
Ben Hill
Berrien
.
Brooks
Clin ch Coffee
Colquitt Cook
Crisp Dooly
Echols Irwin
~
~
Jeff Davis Lanier
~_.
''-'
_ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
805 998 1,545 2,620 821 2,690 2,417 359 301 77
4 2,043
679 338
194
19,294
1,107 211 40
2,220 3]2
1,390 1,803
407 1,063 1,300
85 58 1,052 76 695 190 1,524 93
13,626
1,151 170
1,133 1,315 1,816 3,791 1,217 1,045
348 131 173 577 2,387 494
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34,800 19,000 13,400 5,600 10,400 3],300
3,300 10,300 13,100 5,200
5,600 25,300
5,600
182,900
9,500 7,300 7,300 28,900 6,500 . 21,100 24,000 8,300 12,400 27,000 3,900 13,400 13,500 9,300 18,200 11,500 31,600 5,800
259,500
10,800 6,900
17,100 35,700
7,400 25,500 36,000 17,300 13,500 16,400
5,000 18,900
8,900 7,700
SHEEP, GOATS AND SWINE-Continued
Southern Counties-Continued Lovvndes Telfair Tift
Turner Wilcox Worth
District Total
Southeastern Counties-J!lppling Bacon Brantley Bryan Camden Charlton Chatham
EGvlyannns
Liberty Long
~clntosh
Pierce
~
Tattnall :
Toombs
Ware
Wayne
District Total
State Total
_ _ _
_ _
94 734 319 177
_
132
_ 17,153
_ _ _ _ _ _
_
206 1,147
212 429 1,041 1,733 74
__
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
145 800 566 475 5,613 286 268 392 633 710
_ 14,730
62,500
1,149 776 623 387 276 855
19,814
3,468 3,086 1,191
794 987 1,210 235 1,246 604 1,670 2,869 239 1,192 2,966. 2,348 2,302 4,105
30,512
1(\2,436
26,809 17,600. 14,700 13,400 10,400 2'7,900
337,900
12,200 6,400 6,300 7,300 4,2.00 5,300 7,900 6,200 3,000 6,000 6,200 4,400 6,300 17,000
14,000 8,000
14,100
134,800
1,550,000
195
TICK ERADICATION MAP
White Area.---Released Counties with Circles-
Conditionally Released Black Area.---Tick Eradica-
tion in Progress
]96
MILK COWS
(Doe not include animals in town and cities)
0
Under 1,000
IIIllllIIl 1,000 to 2,000
m~
2,000 to 3,000 3,000 to 4,000
I~I 4,000 to 5,000
1111111 5,000 to 6,000
I_I 6,000 and up.
]97
OTHER CATTLE
(Excluding Milk Cow) O~ FARM AND RAXGE (Doe not include auimals in town and citie )
Under 1,000 1,000 to 2,000 2,000 to 3,000 3,000 to 5,000 5,000 to 10,000
10,000 to 15,000 15,000 and up.
19
CATTLE
Milch
Cows No. On Farms & Ranges Jan. 1, 1924 Northwestern Counties-
Bartow -----------
CChataototosoaga--_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ Dade ------------GFlooryddon -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-__Mu;rray ---------Paulding --------Polk -------------
Walker ----------Whitfield ---------
4,300 2,300 3,100
950 5,400 4,100 2,400 3,500 3,000 4,900 3,400
District Total ___ 37,400
Northern Counties-
Barrow ----------- 2,500 Cherokee --------- 4,700
Clarke ----------- 1,800 Cobb ------------- 6,200
Dawson ---------- 1,500
DeKalb ----------- 6,800 Fannin ----------- 2,800 Forsyth ---------- 4,000 Fulton ------------ 2,500 Gilmer ----------- 2,600 Gwinnett --------- 7,700 Hall -------------- 4,900 Jackson ---------- 5,200 Lumpkin ---------- 1,600
Milton ----------- 2,500 Oconee ----------- 2,600 Pickens ---------- 1,900
Towns ------------ 1,500 Union ------------ 2,400
Walton ----------- 4,500
White ------------ 2,100
District TotaL __ 72,300
Northeastern Counties--
Banks ------------ 4,000
EFrlbanerktlin-
-------------------
5,700. 5,700
Habersham ------- 2,600
Hart ------------- 4,900
Lincoln ---------- 2,900
Madison ---------- 4,900
Oglethorpe -------- 5,300
Rabun ------------ 2,000
SWteilpkheesns---------------------
2,400 6,400
Other Cattle No. On Farms & Ranges Jan. 1, 1924
2,000 900
1,900 1,500 2,800 1,400 1,500 1,400 1,100 3,200 1,400
19,100
900 1,500
600 1,900
650 1,500 2,700 1,100
800 2,200 2,000 1,800 2,200
800 700 750 700 1,300 1,700 1,500 1,200
28,500
1,100 1,900 1,400 1,100 1,400 1,000 1,000 1,400 2,200 1,000 2,300
Milch Cows No. On Farms &Ranges Jan. 1, 1924 Western Counties--
CCaamrrpoollell___-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-
Chattahoochee ----
Clayton ----------
Coweta -----------
Douglas --------
Fayette -----------
Haralson ---------
Harris ------------
Heard ------------
Henry Lamar
- - - -.- - - - - - - -
------------
Macon -----------
Marion -----------
Meriwether -------
Muscogee ---------
Pike --------------
. Schley ------------
Spalding --------Talbot ------------
Taylor -----------
Troup . Upson
-_-__-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-
3,100 8,700 1,100 3,300 4,600 2,800 3,000 3,500 4,200 4,100 4,400 2,700 2,000 2,500 5,900 2,500 2,800 1,400 2,900 3,900 2,800 5,000 2,900
District TotaL ___ 80,100
Central Counties--
Baldwin ---------Bibb -------------
Bleckley ---------Butts -------------
Crawford --------Dodge -----------Greene ----------Hancock ---------Houston ---------Jasper -----------Johnson ---------Jones ------------Laurens ----------
Monroe ----------Montgomery -----Morgan ----------
Newton -----------
Pulaski ----------Putnam ---------Rockdale --------Taliaferro --------
Treutlen ---------TWwaisghgisngt-o-n---_-_-__-_-_-_-
Wheeler __________
Wilkinson --------
3,500 4,300 2,200 2,500 2,800 6,600 4,900 3,300 2,600 2,800 2,600 3,800 7,200 3,900 1,400 3,900 3,300 1,400 4,100 1,700 2,000
1,600 1,900 5,600 2,900 3,600
Other Cattle No. On Farms & Ranges Jan. 1, 1924
900 3,000
800 600 2,100 900 700 1,300 3,600 1,900 2,800 800 2,200 2,100 2,900 1,100 800 800 900 2,900 2,500 2,700 1,300
39,600
2,400 1,000 1,500
700 1,200 4,200 1,800 2,800 2,500 2,000 2,500 1,700 8,400 1,900 5,200
900 . 1,100
1,400 1,800
600 1,100 3,700 2,100 3,300 4,000 1,700
Dis~rict TotaL_- 41,soo
15,800 199
District Total
--- 86,40)
61,~00
CATTLE-Continued
Milch
Other
Cows
Cattle
No. On
No. On
Farms
Farms
& Ranges &Ranges
Jan. 1,
Jan. 1,
1924
1924
Eastern CountiesBulloch Burke Candler Columbia Effingham Emanuel Glascock
Jefferson Jenkins McDuffie Richmond Screven
. Warren
5,800 4,500 1,800 2,100 1,200 6,500 1,100
3,300 2,000 2,400 2,600 8,700
2,400
16,900 5,100 5,500 2,500 8,600
14,200 700
2,500 4,200 1,600 1,000 8,400 1,600
District Total
44,400
72,800
Milch
Cows
No. On Farms
& Ranges
Jan. 1,
1924
Southern Counties-
Atkinson --------Ben Hill --------Berrien ----------Brooks ----------Clinch ------------
Coffee ------------
Colquitt ---------Cook ------------Crisp -----------
Dooly ------------
Echols ----------Irwin -----------Jeff Davis --------
Lanier ------------
Lowndes --------Telfair ----------Tift -------------Turner ----------Wilcox ----------Worth ------------
1,000 2,000 3,100 5,000 1,100 4,600 7,200 1,900 2,600 3,200
400 4,000 1,700
600 6,700 5,900 4,700 3,300 3,000 5,100
Other Cattle
o.On Farms & Ranges Jan. 1, 1924
13,400 2,400
13,500 11,800 22,400 17,700 15,900
7,800 2,700 2,800 12-,500 5,800 8,000 6,600 12,600 7,900 4,600 4,000 2,400 10,700
District TotaL ___ 67,100
185,500
Southwestern Counties-
Baker
2,300
Calhoun
1,500
Clay
1,600
Decatur
4,200
Dougherty
1,600
Early
3,700
Grady
7,300
Lee
2,300
Miller
3,200
Mitchell
7,000
Quitman
1,300
Randolph
3,400
Seminole
- 2,200
Stewart
3,000
Sumter
4,300
Terrell
2,600
Thomas
5,200
Webster
1,300
5,600 1,700 2,100 13,300 2,100 6,300 7,000 1,800 7,300 8,300 1,400 2,200 6,700 4,400 3,100 1,900 10,800 1,100
Southeastern Counties-
Appling ---------Bacon. -----------Brantley ---------Bryan -----------Camden ---------Charlton --------Chatham --------Evans -----------Glynn -----------Liberty ----------Long ------------McIntosh --------Pierce -----------Tattnall ---------Toombs ----------Ware -----------Wayne -----------
3,100 2,300
700 4,300
500 600 3,000 1,100 500 700 600 500 500 3,000 2,700 600 2,600
District TotaL __ 27,300
10,500 8,500
12,600 6,100
16,4.00 16,200
2,900 6,000 8,000 14,900 10,500 7,300 8,500 14,200 9,500 12,500 18,500
183,100
District TotaL 58,000
87,100
State Total _____ 518,800
1l93,000
200
ALL POULTRY
OK FARM A~D RA~GE (Doe not include poultry in town and citie )
D
Under 20,000
20,000 to 4.0,000
4.0,000 to 60,000
60,000 to 80,000
80,000 to 100,000 100,900 to 150,000
150,000 and up.
201
POULTRY ON FARMS
Northwestern Counties--
Bartow
.:
Catoosa
Chattooga
Dade
Floyd
Gordon
Murray Paulding Polk
Walker Whitfield
District Total
~
_ _
_
_ _ _
153,180 70,380 113,586 73,857 185,700
_ _ _
113,783 94,997
115,389
_ _
114,594" 116,489 :1.09,597
1,311,552
Northern Counties-Barrow ,Cherokee Clarke Cobb Dawson DeKalb Fannin Forsyth Fulton Gibner Gwinnett Hall Jackson LULnpkin Milton Oconee Pickens Towns lJnion Walton White
District Total
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:
_
_ _ _
_
_ _ _
_ _
_ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_
49,520 104,104 33,982 115,851 32,616
88,673 51,346 83,079 39,248 56,968 147,326 100,950 114,932 32,164 50,629 49,906 48,206 30,240 50,530 96,182 35,976
1,412,428
Northeastern Counties-Banks
Elbert
Franklin
Habersham
'-
Hart
Lincoln
~
Madison
Oglethorpe Rabun
Stephens
~
Wilkes
District 'rotal
_ _ _
69,410
80,633 92,926
_ _ _
_
43,664 81,534 46,086 86,762
_ _ _ _
86,990 26,215 38,996 85,616
738,832 2U2
5,620 1,442 5,877 7,173 7,272 6,157 3,685 1,448 4,213 7,218 5,477
55,582
867 2,153 1,265 2,053 1,494 1,224 2,180 1,051 1,276 1,960 2,731 2,989 1,828 1,408
513 1,066 1,372 2,157 2,263 1,900 1,492
35,248
1,899 3,474 1,972 1,040 2,212 1,885 1,805 3,775
965 796 5,926
25,749
158,800 71,822 119,463 81,030 192,972 119,940 98,682 116,837 118,807 173,707 115,074
1,367,134
50,387 106,257 35,247 117,904 34,110
89,897 53,526 84,130 40,524 58,928 150,063 1D.3,939 116,760 33,572 51,142 50,972 49,578 32,397 52,793 98,082 37,468
1,447,676
71,309 84,107 94,898 44,704 83,746, 47,971 88,567 90,765 27,180 39,792 91,542
764,581
Western CountiesCampbell Carroll Chattahoochee ~ Clayton
Co~eta
Douglas
~
]layette
Ilaralson
IIarris
Ileard
Ilenry Lamar
]dacon
]5.arion
]deri~ether
]duscogee Pike Schley
Spalding Talbot Taylor Troup lJpson
District Total
POULTRY-Oontinued
_ _ _ _ _
_ _
73,094 215,826 13,980
57,303 107,893 67,852
_ _
_
71,827 85,357 68,128 80,230
~
..
_ _ _ _
_ _ _ _
109,957 52,008
.56,952 38,155
109,983 28,627 58,532 31,429
,-
~
.
_ _ _
_ _
58,674 47,747 5U,270 82,188 52,574
1,618,586
... ...
'::CD~
6Eit"'4
.. ....""11<"
"O.,''O 'o~o".
579 3,623
486 657 3,668 591 1,153 2,082 2,229 2,519 2,996 1,486 3,121 934 4,470 799 1,992 709 1,669 1,496 1,148 3,315 2,038
43,760
Central Counti_
lBald~in
lBibb lBleckley lButts
Cra~ford
Dodge
Greene
Ilancock
IIouston
~
Jasper
Johnson
Jones
Laurens
]donroe
]dontgomery
]dorgan
~evvton
Pulaski Putnam
Rockdale Taliaferro Treutlen Tvviggs Washington Wheeler Wilkinson
District Total ---------
~
_ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
47,374 49,121 46,284 49,921 46,314 102,747 73,731 62,975 73,554 64,118 54,012 57,340 158,341 64,688 44,004 73,753 73,162
_ 38,600
_ _
53,853 42,170
_ 37,868
_ _ _
38,325 44,782 120,663
_ 34,951.
50,318
1,602,49~
203
3,588 2,147 4,993 1,452 2,147 7,735 3,371 4,915 3,612 2,182 6,940 2,648 15,105 1,395 2,847 2,941 1,.791 3,038 2,265
649 1,776 4,968 2,673 9,567 3,943 2,708
101,396
...
co
:.t.:'.!...~...
" ~'"' .
_D .. :<0">
73,673 219,449 14,466
57,960 111,561 68,443 72,980 87,439
70,357 82,H9 112,953 53,494 60,073 39,089 114,453 29,426 60,524 32,138 60,343 49,243 51,418 85,503 54,612
1,662,346
50,962 51,268 51,277 51,373 48,461 110,482 77,102 67,890 77,166 66,300 60,952 59,988 173,446 66,083 46,851 76,694 74,953 41,638 56,118 42,819 39,144 43,320 47,455 130,230 38,894 53,026
1,703,892
Eastern Counties--Bulloch Burke Candler Columbia Effingham Emanuel Glascock Jefferson __ ~ Jenkins McDuffie Richmond Screven VVarren
District Total
POULTRY-Continued
_ _
_ _ _ _ _
_ _
_ _ _ _
128,901 110,752
49,334 39,724 56,839 120,409 22,714
87,15562,434 44,061 47,150 107,237 38,415
_ 915,125
I ...
..... -.g<t Sn'''"""
Po<" -
.o".....,"r"0:."""..
13,018 11,366
4,443 3,521
865 11,368
931 5,674 4,254 2,181 2,073 7,305 1,665
68,664
141,919
1~2,118
53,777 43,245 57,704 131,777 23,645 92,829 66,688 46,242 49,223 114,542 . 40,080
983,789
Southwestern Counties-Baker Calhoun Clay Decatur Dougherty Early Grady Lee Miller Mitchell Quitman Randolph Seminole Stevvarl Sumter Terrell Thomas VVebster
District Total
_ _ _ _
_ _
_ _
_ _ _
42,824 32,027 38,139 81,215 25,333 77,128 99,638 38,467 42,416 107,332 13,986
_ _ _
_ _ _
_
61,452 .40,609
39,722 84,836 60,803 101,425 28,604
1,016,056
4,245 2,781 1,697 5,648 4,701 5,226 5,731 5,59!} 5,476 9,555 1,165 2,385 2,825 3,053 5,954 3,383 4,824 1,713
75,867
47,069 34,808 39,836 86,863 30,034 82,354 105,375 44,066 47,892 116,887 15,151 63,837 43,434 42,775 90,790 64,186 106,249 30,317
1,091,923
Southern Counties-'
Atkinson
_
Ben Hill
_
Berrien
_
Brooks
_
Clinch
_
Coffee
_
Colquitt
~
_
CCroioskp Do6ly
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
~
-
-
-
-
~
-
-
-
-
-_
_
Echols
_
Ir~
_
Jeff Davis
_
Lanier
_
~
Lovvndes
----------------------
31,093 38,655 48,236 85,808 22,600 78,274 104,363 49,117 52,086 67,122 12,922 61,128 30,478 12,950 73,998
204
4,990
36,083
2,984
41,639
6,870
55,106
4,975
90,783
2,255 I
24,855
14,597
92,871
8,989
113,352
4,854
53,971
5,058
57,144
6,159
73,281
942
_ ~3,864
7,470
68,598
3154 .---- --' -. 33632
1;354 -
. 14;304
4,842 .. ~
+: -78,840
POULTRY-Oontinued
. .... ao .....
Southern Counties-Continued
...'6a,-:,""S".0'."1"..'
Telfair Tift
_ _
32,671
Turner VVilcox
_ _
80,464 77,209
VVorth
_
52,680 89,573
t: ..
=!:oIS .. ..""11< ....
., a.
..aa.
OO~
1,552 3,594 4,263 5,999 7,686
.District Total
1,101,427
102,587
ASopuptlhinegastern Counties-Bacon
_ _
55,733 32,731
Braynatnley ~---------------------------_-- 32,079
Camden Charlton Chatham
Evans Glynn Liberty Long
~cIntosh
Pierce Tattnall
T00mbs
VVare
~
VVayne
_ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _
31,009 11,759 22,279 21,402 33,151 12,892 26,467 26,465 10,732 32,079 87,574 66,818 39,970 56,463
District Total
_ 599,603
State Total
10,316,105
6,931 5,261 3,534 1,549
768 1,863
566 4,191
337 2,083 2,081 1,282 3,535 4,975 4,596 3,848 4,668
52,068
560,921
34,223 84,058 81,4.72 58,679 97,259
1,204,014
62,664 37,992 35,613 32,558 12,527 24,142 21,968 37,342 13,229 28,550 28,546 12,014 35,614 92,549 71,414 43,818 61,131
651,67]
10,877,026
205
COMMERCIAL HATCHERIES
Each circle represents a Hatchery
(Report up to April 1st.)
206
COMMERCIAL HATCHERIES IN GEORGIA
County Bartow -
Ben Hill -Bibb
Burke Butts
Butts --Calhoun
Camde!l Carroll
Cherokee ---Clarke ---Clarke
Clayton
Clayton
Coweta
Colquitt -Crisp
Decatur Dodge
Dooly Dougherty ~ Early
Elbert
Fayette l'loyd
Fulton ---Glynn --- __ .
Gwinnett Jacks()n
Jefferson Laurens
Lee -
Lowndes Mitchell Mitchell
Morgan Spalding Stephens Stewart Sumter ---Sumter Tattnall Tift Thomas Toombs Troup Trnup Turner Wilkes Wilkes Wilkes Worth
Town or City Cartersville
Capacity Machine Party Operating 10,000 Poultry Ass'n.
Fitzgerald Macon
10,000 Fitzgerald Hatchery. 10,000 Kastin & Wood.
Waynesboro Jackson
5,000 W. C. Hillhouse. 10,000 Butts P. Ass 'n.
Jackson Edison
3,600 Jackson Hatchery .______ 8,000 A. E. Gibson.
Woodbine Carrollton
4,000 A. K. Swift, Jr. 40,000 Carroll P. Ass'n.
Canton
2,400 Canton Hatchery.
Athens Winterville
9,000 Ga. State College. 9,000 Geo. 0 'Kelley.
Stockbridge
20,000 Claude A. Smith.
Riverdale
Ideal Hatchery.
Moreland
15,000 Jack Camp
Moultrie Cordele
10,000 Moultrie Com'l. Hatchery. 10,000 Cordele Hatchery.
Bainbridge
..
Eastman
10,000 Bainbridge Hatchery. 4,000 C. C. Burch.
Pinehurst
4,200 Dooly C. Hatchery;
Albany B1akely
10,000 Dougherty P. Ass'n. .___________ 4,200 Blakely Com'l. Ass 'no
Elberton
10,000 Elbert C. P. A.
Fayetteville Rome
3,000 Fayetteville Hatchery. 5,000 Floyd C. Hatehery
Kirkwood Brunsw.ick
20,000 Blue Ribbon Hatchery. 6,000 Gly Co. P. Ass'n.
.. _Lawrenceville Commerce
5,000 A. G. Robinson. 3,000 Fred Williamson.
Wrens Dublin
Wrens Hatchery. 7,500 Knight & Rachels.
Leesburg
88,000 A. C. Weller.
Valdosta
40,000 Continental Hatchery Co
Camilla Pelham
1Q,000 Patricks Hatchery. 3,600 J. J. Harris.
Madison & Rutledge
Griffin
Toccoa
Richland
Americus
Americus
Collins
Tifton
Thomasville
Lyons
Hogansville
.._ West Point
Ashburn
Washington
.,
Washington
Washington
Sylvester
20,000 Tillman Douglas.
15,000 Orchard Hill P. Farm. 3,200 Ryals P. Farm.
10,000 O. D. Watson.
4,200 Americus Hatchery. Diamond Poultry Farm.
3,000 Tattnall P. Association. 10,000 Tifton Hatchery Co.
21,800 Thomasville Hatchery. 3,000 Lyons P. Association.
40,000 Empire Hatchery. 2,400 West Point Hatchery.
10,000 Turner County Hatchery. 50,500 Wilkes C. P. Ass 'no
Beach Haven Hatchery. Continental Hatchery. 10,000 Sylvester Hatchery.
207
HIGHWAY MAP
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GEORGIA CROPS VALUED AT $236,000,000
In spite of one of the worst crop seasons on record, Geor~ia crops this year were worth approximatey '24,000,000 more than last season. This was principally due to increases in value of corn, potatoes and other major crops. Tobacco, peaches, pecans and oats made larger crops than last year, but nearly all of the other crops were below those
of 1922. Calculations are based upon the prices received by the farmers December 1st, except for the fruit crops.
SUMMARY-CROP STATISTICS-19231922.
Crop
IYear
Corn Ibu.) Corn (bu.)
I
1923 .1922
Wheat Harv'ed (bu.) 1923
Wheat Han'ed (bu.) 19~2
Oats (bu.)
1923
Oats (bu.)
1922
Rye (bu.)
1923
Rye (bu.)
1922
Potatoes, Irish (bu.) 1923
Potatoes, Irish (bu.) 1922
Sweet Potatoes (bu.) 1923
Sweet Potatoes (bu.) 1922
Tobacco (1) (lbs.)_ 1923
Tobacco (1) (lbs.)_ 1922
Rice (bu.)
1923
Rice (bu.)
1922
Hay, Tame (ton) __ 1923
Hay, Tame (ton) __ 1922
Hay, Wild (ton)
1923
Hay, Wild (ton)
1922
Sorghum Syrup (gal.) 1923
Sorghum Syrup (gal.) 1922
Peanuts Harv'd (Ibs.) 1923
Peanuts Harv'd (Ibs.) 1922
Apples (bu.)
1923
Apples (bu.)
1922
Peaches (bu.)
1923
Peaches (bu.)
1922
Pears (bu.)
1923
Pears (bu.)
1922
Pecans (Ibs.)
1923
Pecans (lbs.)
1922
Cotton (4) (bales) _ 1923
Cotton (4) (bales) _ 1922
Yield Per A. (lbs.)
Cotton Seed (tons) _ 1923
Cotton Seed (tons)_ 1922
Sugar Cane (gal.) (3) 1923
Sugar Cane (gal.) (3) 1922
Watermelons
(cars) (com.) _ 1923
Watermelons (cars) (com.)
_ 1922
Yield Per A. No.
Cantaloupes
(crates) (com.) __ 1923
Cantaloupes
(crates) (com.) __ 1922
Cucumbers
(hamper) (com.)_ 1923
Cucumbers
(hamper) (com.)_ 1922
All Other
_ 1923
All Other
_ 1922
Totals
Tot~ls
1923 1922
...,
.'.".,.
-"<
...,.
.-'0<"
" Qi ...
1><"-'
4,034,000 12.2
4,385,000 12.0
189,000 9.2
190,000 8.0
521,000 18.0
474,000 18.0
20,000
9.0
18,000 9.5
22,000 70
25,000 68
137,000 84
152,000 83
17,000 661
11,000 . 540
3,000 22.7
3,000 24.1
772,000
.66
728,000
.84
16,000
.90
16,000
.92
26,000 83
30,000 83
152,000 512
160,000 602
2,150,000 (2)
2,150,000 (2)
10,787,332 (2)
10,311,000 (2)
210,000 (2)
195,000 (2)
991,000 (2)
944,000 (2)
3,433,000 82
3,418,000 100
3,433,000 164 3,418,000 200
34,000 138 40,000 176
40,390 178
66,550 310
5,070 44 8,410 100
600 .80 660 180
--------
--------
b
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o.,~
I -. I
I
!
.""..-.-,. '.0.""..
49,215,000 1.07
52,620,000
.86
1,739,000 1.47
1,520,000 1.50
9,378,000
.85
8,532,000
.75
180,000 1.90
1-71,000 1.35
1,540,000 1.60
1,700,000 1.40
11,508,000
.76
12,616,000
.61
11,237,000
.300
5,940,000
.297
68,000 1.32
72,000 1.17
510,000 18.90
612,000 17.00
14,000 14.80
15,000 13.50
2,158,000
.69
2,490,000
.55
77,824,000
.069
96,320,000
.047
864,000
1.50
1,135,000 1.00
5,248,000 1.78
4,900,000 1.46
192,000 1.16
202,000
1.05
4,815,000
.37
1,583,000
.37
590,000
.32
715,000
.239
282,000 342,000 4,692,000 7,040,000
48.00 43.00
.69 .50
7,189 228.
20,630 166.
223,000
841,000
48,000
119,000
--------
--------
_
_
_
_
2.00 1.54 2.00 2.17
---. ".,
8o >..
52,660,000 45,253,000
2,556,000 2,280,000 7,971,000 6,399,000
342,000 231,000 2,464,000 2,380,000 8,746,000
7;,696,000 3,371,000 1,764,000
90,000 84,000 9,639,000 10,404,000 207,000 202,000 1,489,000 1,370,000 5,370,000 4,527,000 1,296,000 1,135,000 9,341,000 7,154,000 223,000 212,000
1,782,000 586,000
94,400,000 85,442,000
-..,.,j
>""-"..'.
13.05 10.32 13.52 12.00 15.30 13.50 17.10 12.82' 112.00 95.20 63.84 50,63 198.30 160.00 29.96 28.20 12.47 14.28 13.32 12.42 57.27 45.65 35.33 28.29
26.24 23.90
13,536,000 14,706,000
3,237,000 3,520,000
3.94 4.30 95.20 88.50
1,639,000 40.57
3,425,000 51.46
446,000 87.96
1,295,000 154.98
96,000 160.00
258,000 .390.00 15,489,000 11,911,000
236,390,000* 212,234,000
Valuation based on December 1 price to farmers (except fruit, etc.).
(1) All types il)cluded-subject to adjusted final revision.
(2) Number of trees bearing age.
(3) Acreage barvested for syrup.
(4) From official cotton report as of December 1.
*Subject to adjusted final revision-Hypothetical total. Z. R. PETTET, Agricultural Statistician.
v. O. OHILDS,
PETER V. RICE, Statistician, State Dept. of Agri. .
Assistant Agricultural Statist.