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QUARTERLY BULLETIN
ISSUED BY THE
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
ElGENE TALMADGE, COMMISSIONER
State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia.
PART I. Contains information concerning Georgia, Historically and its Products, etc., compiled by the Department of Agriculture.
PART II Contains Statistical Information concerning the State, compiled by the Georgia Co-operative Crop Reporting Service of the Georgia Department of Agriculture, Co-operating with the United States Bureau of Agricultural Economics, and State College of Agriculture.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT: Acknowledgment is made to Trade Boards, Chambers of Commerce, County Agents, the Railroads, many Firms and Individuals, who have aided in the publication of this Bulletin by furnishing information and photographs, and to Miss Ruth Blair, State Historian, who loaned the lithographs of the State Flag and State Flower.
SERIAL NUMBER 107 Quarterly Bulletin of the Georgia Department of Agriculture for First Quarter-- January, February and March, 1928.
Entered at Atlanta, Georgia as second-class matter October 7, 1900, under Act of June 6. 1900. Accepted for mailing at a special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized on June 29, 1918.
CONTENTS OF PART I.
State Capitol and Seal. Governor's Statement. Commissioner's Foreword Sketch of Georgia.. Where Georgia Leads What Georgia Offers.. Billion Dollar State . Agricultural Department Farm Products.... Livestock and Poultry Minerals. 'Manufacturing, Lumber, Naval St ores. Forestry Power Education.... Stone Mountain Memorial.. Highways and Automobiles Transportation Game and Fish Churches, Cities, Towns, Resorts Ports Health Banks and Newspapers Marketing.. Opinions of Georgia Map of Georgia Sketch of Counties... Part Two--Statistical Matter, beg ms
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Picture of the official Seal of Georgia and the State Capitol in Atlanta, with the monument in the foreground erected to the memory of General John B. Gordon.
GOVERNOR S STATEMENT.
BY L. G. HARDMAN, GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA.
It is with a great deal of pleasure that I contribute a message to the citizens of Georgia, present and prospective, through this Bulletin issued by Mr. Eugene Talmadge, Commissioner of Agriculture of Georgia.
Georgia is a great state and its citizens have long kept it the "Empire State of the South," a slogan rightfully placed and honorably maintained. Enjoying many advantages, such as a temperate climate, productive soils, plenty of water, good health conditions and fine educational facilities, and with markets in every direction for its products, this State occupies a strategic position in the southeast section of the United States.
In farming, manufacturing and mining, the State offers three opportunities that are unlimited in their scope and possibilities. The farmer who will till its soil can produce any crop grown in the United States, with livestock thriving at the same time on green pastures covering the uncultivated lands.
Georgia's factories have an annual output valued at eight hundred million dollars, her resources along this line being practically untouched, and with enough electric power developed and undeveloped to turn all the wheels of the industries of the State.
There are as many as thirty-four minerals found in Georgia mines, many of which are shipped to every state in the union and to foreign countries. These minerals vary from granite to gold, many of which rank in quality with any produced in America, such as Georgia marble and granite, which are used in many of the finest buildings throughout the country.
Georgia offers mild winters, cool summers and temperate weather generally to those who would make this State their home, and who would engage in either farming, manufacturing or mining.
INTRODUCTION BY COMMISSIONER.
Bv EUGENE TAUVIADGE, COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE
OF GEORGIA.
One of the duties of the Department of Agriculture of Georgia is to collect information and compile statistics concerning the agricultural products of the State, therefore, it is in compliance with that Act creating the Department in 1874 that this Bulletin is published.
In issuing this Bulletin I have a two-fold purpose. It is intended, first, to renew and strengthen the faith of the citizens of Georgia in their State and to call their attention to the many advantages enjoyed by them in this commonwealth. Second, it is intended as a source of information as to the opportunities offered in this State to the person who would consider coming here to live.
Possessing natural advantages hardly equaled by any state in the Union, Georgia offers unlimited possibilities in any line of endeavor any citizen might desire to engage in, whether it be on a farm or in a factory. Favored with a mild climate both winter and summer, and containing soils suited to the luxurious growth of any plant grown in America, Georgia presents unusual opportunities to those who -would farm, with markets already created for more farm products than are now being produced in the State.
The Department of Agriculture is devoted to the promotion of Agriculture in the State, in giving desired information on any subject pertaining to the farm, and in aiding the farmers to sell their products, marketing being the key to the success of farming in Georgia today. All citizens and prospective citizens are invited to confer with this Department on any subject concerning farming in Georgia. Bulletins on a number of subjects relating to farming and its allied interests in the State are issued by the Department, which will be mailed upon request.
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SKETCH OF GEORGIA. Georgia, known as the "Empire State of the South," was founded in 1733 by James Edward Oglethorpe, who landed an English colony of 116 persons at Yamacraw Bluff on the Savannah River on February 12. Eight days later work was begun upon the first house in the new city, which Oglethorpe laid out and named "Savannah." The settlement was called "Georgia" in honor of King George of England who granted the charter to Oglethorpe. The colony was soon strengthened by the arrival of other settlers who engaged in farming the rich soil adjacent to the Savannah River. Among the new arrivals were John and Charles Wesley, founders of Methodism, and later another celebrated minister, Rev. George Whitfield, came and founded an orphanage at Bethesda, said to be the first orphanage established in America. Oglethorpe permitted neither slavery nor the sale of rum in Georgia, but in 1743 the restrictions were removed and both were allowed in the colony. Oglethorpe made treaties with the Indians who inhabited the land and promoted farming as an industry among the settlers. The territory of the colony was gradually extended from the Savannah River on the east to as far west as the Mississippi River, and embraced all the territory that is now Alabama and Mississippi. In 1802 Georgia ceded to the United States all claims to the region between its present western boundary and the Mississippi River and also established the northern boundary line near the Thirty-Fifth parallel. Thus the boundaries of the State have been unchanged since 1802. Georgia joined the other colonies in America which resisted the mother country in 1776 and during the Revolutionary War furnished some of the powder used in the Battle of Bunker Hill. The signers of the Declaration of Independence for Georgia were Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall and George Walton. Georgia was one of the Original Thirteen States which united on July 4, 1776, and which formed the basis of the United States of America today. Georgia was invaded by the British army and almost the last battle fought during the Revolution was Wayne's victory over the British near Savannah on June 23, 1782, which was followed on July 11th by the evacuation of Savannah by the British army.
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Georgia has always taken an important part in all affairs affecting the welfare of the United States. In all Avars, including the Eevolution, the Indian, the War Between the States, the Spanish-American and the World War, this State furnished its full quota of soldiers and supplies.
FOUNDED ON BENEVOLENCE.
The State has been no less renowned in peace. Founded on benevolence, the motto of the founding colony being "Not for Ourselves, But for Others," nurtured in religion and education and having for its present motto, "Wisdom, Justice and Moderation"--wisdom in making laws, justice in their administration, tempered with moderation--the welfare of its citizens has always been the goal of the State.
In literature, science and medicine Georgia has contributed a notable array of luminaries. The folk-lore stories of Joel Chandler Harris are printed in many languages, while the poems of Sidney Lanier and Frank L. Stanton have world-wide fame. Dr. Charles Herty and the LeConte brothers have contributed much to scientific research and Dr. Crawford Long in 1842 used ether in an operation on one of his patients, the first time ether had ever been used for that purpose, thus painless surgery with the use of this drug came into existence.
In education this State points with pride to the fact that the University of Georgia was the first chartered (1785) state university in America, and that Wesleyan College, at Macon, in 1840, was the first college in the United States to grant a diploma to a woman. The State system of education is supplemented by a number of religious and private schools and colleges.
Georgia is the largest State east of the Mississippi River and ranks twentieth in size with those in the United States. Its area, .59,265 square miles, is composed of 58,725 square miles of land surface and 540 miles of water. Its seacoast on an airline is more than 100 miles long. The greatest length of Georgia is 320 miles from north to south and is about 225 miles across at its widest point. It is bounded in part by three rivers--the Savannah on the east, the St. Marys on the south and the Chattahoochee on the west
The surface of Georgia varies from sea level on the coast to an altitude of nearly 5,000 feet in the northern part. The State
is divided into three distinct sections. The northern area is mountainous, being traversed by the Blue Ridge chain of the Appalachian mountains. Middle Georgia, known as the Piedmont or foot-hills section, consists of broadly rolling upland surface, trenched by deep and narrow valleys and is traversed by a large number of water courses. The section lying south of a line drawn from Augusta, through Milledgeville and Macon to Columbus, and comprising about three-fifths of the whole State, although hilly in sections, especially in the northern part, is on the whole so gently rolling and level that it appears as a broad and even plain. The southern part of this section is called the Coastal Plain.
MILD CLIMATE.
Situated in the temperate zone and bordering on the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf Stream, Georgia has a mild climate, the mean temperature of the State being 62 degrees, with an average temperature of 47 degrees in winter and 77 degrees in summer.
The climate is hardly excelled by any state in the Union. There are no heat prostrations in summer nor deaths from freezing in winter. The summers are warm but not extremely hot, while the winter period is usually mild, the coldest weather being confined to three months, December, January and February.
The average rainfall in the State is 51 inches during the year and the growing season runs from 260 days in South Georgia to 230 days in North Georgia.
Georgia's climate is so mild that all farming, industrial and mining activities continue throughout the year without interruption from either hot or cold weather. Livestock, poultry and farm animals are enabled to graze the year around on all-year pastures.
Georgia could truly be called the "Sunshine State."
POPULATION.
The population of Georgia in 1920, according to the United States Census, was 2,895,832, being the twelfth state in popula-. tion in the United States. The rural population consisted of 2,167,841 people.
The native-white population totaled 1,642,697, while 30,231 were of foreign or mixed parentage and only 16,186 were of for-
eign birth. Thus it will be noted that Georgia is populated almost wholly by native-born citizens, the farm population being practically 100 per cent native-born.
According to an estaimate made by the Bureau of the Census the population of Georgia in 1928 is 3,203,000, an increase over 1920 of 307,168, the State moving up to eleventh place in population in the United States.
The 1920 Census further showed that of the 37,584,000 acres of land in Georgia, 25,441,000 acres were in farms, the remaining 11,500,000 acres being in woodland, cities and "wild" lands. There were 310,732 farms in the State on which 1,685,213 people lived, 33.4 per cent of the farms being operated by owners, while 66.6 per cent were operated by tenants.
It is estimated that approximately 10,000,000 acres of land are cultivated in Georgia each year.
Georgia farm property in 1920, according to the Census Bureau, was valued at $1,356,685,196.00, being divided as follows: Land and buildings, $1,138,298,627.00; implements and machinery, $63,343,220.00; livestock, $155,043,349.00.
The value of farm products in Georgia in 1927 is set at $335,000,000.00. Cotton and the seed, valued at $125,000,000.00. by far exeeded any other crop grown in the State, but the plan of diversification followed in recent years is bringing other crops to the forefront with the Georgia farmer. Among these is tobacco, which within a few years has forged ahead of many other products and is now second in value of the State's commercial farm crops.
Other crops grown extensively in the State include peaches, peanuts, corn, oats, sweet potatoes, watermelons, apples, pecans, and sugar cane. Livestock, poultry raising and dairying are also engaged in on an extensive scale in Georgia.
While farming is the principal occupation in Georgia, manufacturing and mining also are leading industries. Products valued at approximtely eight hundred million dollars are manufactured in the State each year, while the mineral production is estimated to be worth $20,000,000.00. The total value of Georgia products each years is more than one billion dollars.
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WHERE GEORGIA LEADS.
Georgia grows twice as many watermelons as any other State in the Union, ships more peaches and paper shell pecans than any other State, and leads the Nation in the production of sweet potatoes. More pure cane syrup is made in Georgia than in any other State and Cairo, in Grady county, is the largest pure cane syrup market in the world.
Many Georgia products have nation-wide fame. The Elberta^ the most famous peach in the world, was propagated in Georgia, as were other popular varieties shipped. The nation awaits the appearance each season of Georgia watermelons, while the Georgia yam and Georgia cane syrup are served on many tables, throughout the nation. The paper shell pecan was developed in Georgia and exceeds in flavor and richness any nut grown in the south.
Georgia produces more than half the yellow ocher and two thirds of the barytes mined in the United States, while this State leads the south in the production of manganese ore and clay products mined and sold. In marble production, Georgia leads all States except Vermont and leads the south in the output of granite. Georgia is only exceeded by Florida in the production of Fullers Earth. With 34 varieties, Georgia leads all the southern states in the number of minerals.
Georgia leads the nation in Naval Stores and Savannah is the leading export city in the world of turpentine and rosin.
More than 65 per cent of the fabric used in automobile tires. is manufactured in Georgia. In 1927, Georgia with 31 per cent,, led all states in the Union in new textile spindles placed and out of 69 cotton mills moving to the south in three years, 17 came to Georgia, more than were located in any other one State. Of 12,832 looms added in the south in 1927, Georgia with 4,047" showed the greatest gain of any State. Georgia is the fourth State in the Union in textile spindles in operation, being exceeded only by Massachusetts, North Carolina and South Carolina, Georgia has 3,061,000 spindles.
Tests show that bright leaf tobacco grown in Georgia is superior in quality to that grown in any other State for the manufacture of cigarettes.
Georgia with 7,049 miles, leads all states in the south except Texas in railroad mileage.
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WHAT GEORGIA OFFERS
Few states in the Union are gaining population more rapidly than Georgia, especially the cities, and this increase naturally calls for the production of more food.
Georgia, it appears, produces watermelons, peaches, pecans, sweet potatoes greatly in excess of the local demand, yet millions of dollars worth of many other products that could be raised in the State are shipped into Georgia each year.
During 1927 there were 4,640 car loads of farm products, the kind grown in Georgia, shipped into Atlanta alone, of which Georgia furnished only 1,074 cars, which means that 3,566 carloads that might as well have been sold by Georgia farmers came from without the State.
A notable example for Georgia farmers is shown in Irish potatoes. Of 906 carloads shipped into Atlanta, only 36 were grown in Georgia, which indicates there was a market in Atlanta alone last year for Georgia farmers to sell 870 cars of Irish potatoes. Other examples in the Atlanta shipments include, apples, from Georgia 129 cars, from outside 436 cars; cabbage, Georgia 16 cars, from outside 382 cars; celery, Georgia 0, from outside 183 cars; lettuce, Georgia 0, from outside 272 cars; onions, Georgia 0, from outside 238 cars; rutabagas, Georgia 0, from outside 86 cars; tomatoes, Georgia 2 cars, from outside 246.
While many of the products received in Atlanta were distributed to the surrounding territory for consumption, a proportionate number of shipments were also made from without Georgia to other cities in the State during the year.
In addition to the home markets, there are approximately fifty million people within a radius of 1,000 miles of Georgia who buy much of their food from other states and Georgia should furnish a large percentage of these products. New York City alone consumes three billion pounds of vegetables, fruit, butter and meats and one billion quarts of milk and one hundred and fifty million dozen eggs annually, and this city is within 24 hours'' ride from Georgia, with rapid transportation facilities from here there.
With excellent ports on the Georgia coast and with adequate shipping facilities, there are also great possibilities in Cuba and South America for Georgia products if markets there are developed. Many Georgia hogs are being sold in Cuba.
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BILLION DOLLAR STATE.
The products of Georgia's farms, factories and mines are valued annually at more than one billion dollars, as the following table shows:
FARM PRODUCTS.
Cotton, Lint and Seed Corn Tobacco Hay.... Peanuts.... Peaches Sweet Potatoes Oats. Sugar Cane Watermelons Irish Potatoes. Wheat Peas Sorghum Syrup... Apples Pecans Rye Pears Soy Beans Rice Miscellaneous, Fruits, Vegetables Dairy Products Livestock, Cattle, Hogs, etc Poultry and Eggs...
$125,000,000.00 44,157,000.00 11,463,000.00 9,431,000.00 8,596,000.00 8,023,000.00 7,920,000.00 6,962,000.00 4,080,000.00 2,829,000.00 2,048,000.00 1,782,000.00 1,578,000.00 1,538,000.00 1,012,000.00 959,000.00 429,000.00 140,000.00 114,000.00 58,000.00 11,981,000.00 15,000,000.00 30,000,000.00 40,000,000.00
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FACTORY PRODUCTS.
Textiles.. Foundry Products Oil Mills Furniture, Fixtures, etc
$247,897,961.00 165,342,246.00 42,080,463.00 36,027,648.00
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Fertilizers Flour, Grist Mills, etc Lumbering Candy, Bakeries, etc Soft Drinks Naval Stores Leather Goods Printing and Publishing Brick, Tile, other Clays Wearing Apparel Marble, Granite (finished) Ice Plants Canneries Medicine Compounds Cigars, Cigarettes, etc Chemicals Miscellaneous
Total
MINERALS.
Brick, Tile, etc Cement, Beauxite, etc Marble Granite Fullers earth, Manganese Clays. Lime, Limestone Slate, Sand, Gravel Barytes Iron Ore, Ocher.. Asbestos, Coal, Coke Mica, Talc, Soapstone Mineral Waters (Estimated) Pottery Gold.
Total Grand Total.
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34,160,849.00 27,563,572.00 27,500,000.00 25,678,465.00 25,340,466.00 23,000,000.00 20,005,659.00 18,739,735.00 15,713,394.00 14,152,935.00 13,446,532.00 13,948,038.00 7,097,683.00 ... 3,494,514.00 2,475,756.00 1,088,901.00 46,321,581.00
$811,076,401.00
$ 5,975,486.00 2,799,723.00 2,815,149.00 2,243,491.00 1,614,134.00 1,398,061.00 553,178.00 541,090.00 532,706.00 349,198.00 206,528.00 97,461.00 30,000.00 9,999.00 3,708.00
$ 19,169,912.00 $1,165,246,313.00
TRIBUTES TO THE FARMER.
BY THOMAS E. WATSON.
Farmers won the nation's independence when there were vast areas of wilderness to be cleared, with slow, arduous work of the axe and the ox, he cleared them. When there were potential marshes to be drained, he drained them. When there were deserts to be reclaimed he watered them until they were made to bloom as the rose. When there were savages to be driven back, it was the crack of his rifle that heralded the advance of the banners of civilization. When national independence was to be won by the struggling colonies, it was the armies of the farmers, led by a farmer, that met Great Britain in the shock of arms.
At the dark crisis of the revolution in the north, when the treason of Benedict Arnold threatened the whole American cause, it was three farmers who saved the day. To his captors, the Hritish spy, "Major Andre, a scion of the aristocracy of Great Britain, in an agony of fear, made every tempting offer--his magnificent gold watch, his well-filled purse, the promise of riches to each of the poor farmers who were his captors--to secure his freedom. To his offers the reply was as prompt and simple as it was sub'ime, "We are poor men, but the King of England has not money enough to buy us."
At the crisis of our affairs in the south, during the same revolution, the day was saved by southern farmers. Furnishing their own guns and ammunition, their own horses and provisions, the farmers of Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia and the Carolinas sprang into their saddles and gave of their own initiative chase to the left wing of the army of Oornwallis. which was ravaging the country with fire and sword, surrounded it, fought to a finish, annihilated it and thus turned the tide of the war, making one success the stepping stone to another, until the consummation of British destruction and the American triumph at Yorktown.
Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling,
for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.--Thomas Jefferson.
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AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.
EUGENE TALMADGE, COMMISSIONER.
Realizing the necessity for an organized agency to aid in the promotion of agriculture in the State, the Georgia Legislature in 1874 created the Georgia Department of Agriculture, Dr. Thomas P. Janes, being the first commissioner. Since its creation the department has been an important factor not only in supplying information concerning Georgia as a farming land, but also in the promotion of agriculture in the State.
The Commissioner of Agriculture, the executive officer of the department, who is elected by the voters of the State for a term of two years, must be a practical farmer.
The following sub-divisions which are under the supervision of the commissioner, are a part of the Agricultural Department: Bureau of Markets; Apple, Peach and Fertilizer Inspection; Food and Drug Department; Veterinary Department; State Chemical Department and Statistician.
The Commissioner of Agriculture is also by virtue of his office, chairman of the Board of Entomology, Commissioner of Immigration, Board of Directors of the Georgia Experiment Station at Experiment, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the State College of Agriculture, at Athens, Board of Trustees of the Georgia Coastal Plain Experiment Station, at Tifton and State Board of Geology.
The Executive office of the Agricultural Department is under the direction of the commissioner, who supervises the entire department, correlating the activities of the various branches and outlining the policies to be carried out. The sale of revenue stamps and fertilizer tax tags is handled by the Executive office. T. M. Linder is Chief Clerk in the executive office.
Information concerning agriculture in the State, geological formation of various counties, adaptation of soils for the various products that may be grown in the State, together with information on other subjects of interest to those who till the soil, are compiled by the Agricultural Department for general distribution. Bulletins on special subjects, such as Food and Drug Inspection, Fertilizer Laws and Inspection, etc., are issued monthly and quarterly by the various departments.
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FERTILIZER INSPECTION.
Inspection of fertilizer sold for use on Georgia farms is under the supervision of the Commissioner of Agriculture and is carried on by the Chief Fertilizer Inspector and six full-time Assistant Inspectors, located in different sections of the State, together with a number of short-term Inspectors who are employed for four months only, during the busy season when the fertilizer is bought by the farmers.
It is the duty of these Inspectors to draw samples of commercial fertilizer from the original containers after they have reached the hands of the farmers, sealing the samples in bottles under their official seal and forwarding them to the Commissioner of Agriculture with their reports thereon. The samples are turned over to the State Chemist, Dr. W. A. Morgan, for analysis.
In the analysis of fertilizer, the available phosphoric acid, total nitrogen, water soluble nitrogen and potash are determined as a check on the guaranteed commercial value. The availability of the nitrogen is also determined.
Every sack of fertilizer sold in Georgia must bear a tax tagauthorized by the Department of Agriculture and in order that the farmers may become familiar with the ingredients of the fertilizer used by them, the department issues a Bulletin which shows the commercial values of the various brands of fertilizer sold in Georgia.
Georgia is the second largest user of commercial fertilizers in the United States, only being exceeded by North Carolina. Approximately 800,000 tons, costing $16,500,000.00 were used in Georgia in 1926. The use of commercial fertilizer can be cut down in Georgia by the improvement of the soil through rotation of crops and by planting soil-building legume plants. In this way livestock thrive on the legume plants and the farmer, while building up his soil at the same time is cashing in on the transaction through the sale of cattle, dairy products and hogs.
PEACH AND APPLE INSPECTION.
The inspection of apples and peaches in Georgia under a law passed by the Legislature in 1927, is under the direction of the Department of Agriculture. The law provides that any one who offers for sale or sells a covered package of apples and peaches in
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Georgia is required to label the package and have plainly marked on the container the grade and standard. The grades and standards have to be promulgated by the Commissioner of Agriculture, the Act specifies.
The law also provides that a one-half cent tax stamp shall be attached to each package, this stamp, which is furnished by the Department of Agriculture, is to pay for the inspection of the fruit and for the enforcement of the law by the department.
The 1927 apple crop in Georgia was standardized and marketed under the provisions of the law, growers reporting that they were aided by the law being put into force, a standard pack enabling them to better market the apples and to get higher prices for them because they were graded.
Standards for peaches which will be put into effect with the sale of the 1928 crop include the United States standards which are, U. S. Fancy, U. S. Number Ones; Number Twos. Peaches not coming within one of these three grades are to be handled as "unclassified".
BULLETINS.
The following bulletins have been issued by the Georgia Department of Agriculture, copies of which will be mailed upon request: Market Bulletin, published weekly; Food, Drugs and Feed Stuffs, issued monthly; Laws relating to Adulteration and misbranding of Foods, Drugs and Feed Stuffs, Narcotic and Poison laws and Sanitary laws and other information on Georgia Food standards; Laws, rules and regulations governing the manufacture, sale and inspection of fertilizer, fertilizer materials and cotton seed meal in Georgia; commercial fertilizers inspected and analyzed during the season of 1927; Georgia and her resources, illustrated.
STATISTICIAN.
The Statistician of the Department of Agriculture works in conjunction with the United States Department of Agriculture and the State College of Agriculture in compiling statistics of the various farm products in Georgia. The statistical information concerning Georgia contained in Part Two of this Bulletin was compiled by the Statistician, Marcus P. McWhorter.
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BUREAU OF MARKETS.
The Bureau of Markets of the Department of Agriculture was created by the Legislature in 1917 "for the purpose of promoting proper, sufficient and economical handling, packing, transporting, storage, distribution, inspection and sale of agricultural products of all kinds" within the State and also to assist producers and consumers of farm products in selling and purchasing same under fair conditions and at fair and reasonable prices.
The Director of tke Bureau of Markets, Arthur D. Jones, appointed by the Commissioner of Agriculture, employs experts in marketing who assist the farmers in selling their products and who also conduct sales of livestock and other products throughout the State, usually in co-operation with the County Farm Agent.
Market conditions throughout the country are closely studied in order to secure the best prices at all times, thereby increasing the benefits of this department to the farmer.
The value of the Market Bureau is seen from the report of its activities from July 1, 1927, through March, 1928, nine months under the present administration, during which time 1,174}4 car loads of products were sold for Georgia farmers for $1,030,738.34. Hogs led the sales with 328 cars, corn was second with 272 cars, while potatoes with 242 cars was third. Other products in the car-lot sales included poultry, wheat, melons, hay, oats, velvet beans, peas, shucks, cattle, sugar cane, peanuts, wheat, rye, syrup, pecans, eggs, goats, cotton seed and soy beans.
These sales were made by employees of the Market Bureau by correspondence, telegraph, telephone and by field men who conducted sales throughout the State. The sales do not include those made through ads appearing in the Market Bulletin each week, of which no report is made to the Bureau. It is estimated that the sales of farm products perfected through the ads in the Bulletin exceed those made by the office force.
The sale of more than eleven hundred car loads of farm products in Georgia in a period of nine months is the direct result of the plan of diversified farming now followed in the State and of the activity of the Market Bureau in aiding the farmers in finding a market for their produce and in getting the highest possible price for same.
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MARKET BULLETIN.
The Market Bulletin is a weekly publication issued by the Bureau of Markets and sent free to the farmers of the State and is devoted to the interest of selling and buying farm products. Approximately 1,600 "For Sale" and "Wanted" ads from farmers are printed free in the Bulletin each week. The Bulletin, which contains from eight to 16 pages, has a circulation of 60,000 copies each week.
The Bulletin also prints the current market prices for all farm products in the principal markets therefor within the State and elsewhere. Available supplies and demands for various products at the markets are also given, thus each subscriber to the Bulletin can ascertain each week the current price of practically all farm products which he may have for sale or which he may want to buy.
The most urgent need to enable the profitable marketing of vegetables, truck crops, fruits and other farm produce is cooperation of the farmers in preparing and shipping the products in merchantable condition and in standardized quality and containers. The Bureau of Markets is authorized to formulate and announce proper and fair standards, grades and classes of agricultural products of all kinds placed on sale and standards adopted for packing eggs, apples and peaches have already been put into effect in Georgia.
RATE DEPARTMENT.
When the Bureau of Markets of the Department of Agriculture was created by the Legislature in 1917 the Act provided that freight rates, express charges and other transportation matters be investigated by the Bureau, and in compliance with this law, a Traffic Manager, B. B. Cheek, has recently been named to represent the farmers in these matters.
The Traffic Department has a complete freight rate file and furnishes rates in connection with the sale of agricultural products, which enables the Bureau to determine instantly the cost of transportation from one point to another.
Complaints of farmers on rates charged are investigated and in many instances overcharges are collected. Information is
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also furnished on rates on different products sold or bought by the farmers.
Constant study of the freight rate situation is made and when charges on farm products are considered high or unreasonable, reductions are sought with the Railroad Commissions, both state and national, and with the railroads affected.
FOOD AND DRUG DIVISION.
The Pure Food and Drug Division of the Department of Agriculture is charged with the sanitary inspection of all places preparing, serving or offering for sale to the public food or drinks, also the inspection of the food and drinks served. It is also the duty of this department to inspect all commercial feed-stuffs and all oyster beds or the water where these beds are located along the Georgia coast.
Food Inspectors are required to take samples of all foods and drinks and commercial feedstuffs that are manufactured or offered for sale within the State, sending same to the State Chemist who analyzes them and reports thereon. J. C. Thrasher is Chief food inspector.
The Inspectors of the Drug Department are charged with the duty of seeing that all United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary preparations offered for sale in the State are up to the standard, taking samples of same which are analyzed by the State Chemist.
It is also the duty of the Drug Department to see that every drug store advertising as such, has a registered druggist of the State of Georgia in charge; to see that merchants selling family medicines do not dispense from broken packages of the same, nor sell poisons such as are restricted by law; to detect and correct any misbranding of family medicines and to supervise the manufacture and sale of drugs, chemicals and family medicines offered for sale in the State. Dr. A. M Stead is Chief drug inspector.
The State Chemical Laboratory also analyzes the various classes of materials to enable the enforcement of the laws regulating their sale. All official samples procured by duly authorized Inspectors are sent to the State Chemist under seal.
In feedstuffs, the protein, fat and fiber are determined. , Feeds are also examined to detect adulteration.
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The Insecticide Laboratory analyzes the various Insecticides and Fungicides, commonly used on cotton, field crops and fruit as a check on the guaranteed analysis.
The Food Laboratory examines milk samples taken by the State Veterinarian to ascertain if only pure, healthy milk is being sold. The Bacteriology laboratory prepares the various inoculations of nitrogen-gathering bacteria for legumes, which are sold to the farmers at cost
VETERINARY DEPARTMENT.
The Veterinary Division of the Department of Agriculture has charge of combating the animal and poultry diseases in the State the work being under the supervision of the State Veterinarian, Dr. J. M. Sutton.
An important work of the Veterinary Department for the last few years has been the eradication of the cattle tick and the prevention of re-infestation in Georgia counties. As the result of the diligent work of the department, the cattle tick has been entirely stamped out in Georgia, with the exception of a few reinfestations in some counties. Every county, as a whole, in the State is free of quarantine laws, only local re-infestation cases being quarantined.
Elimination of the cattle tick marks an important step in Georgia as this pest has been a serious draw-back to cattle raising and dairying ever since the State was founded more than 100 years ago. Georgia now offers a field practically clear of cattle ticks to those farmers who would raise beef or dairy cattle for sale, or who would engage in dairying.
This department also has charge of the work of stamping out tuberculosis and other diseases in cattle in the State, quarantines being established when necessary to prevent infested cattle from being brought into the State. The work of stamping out tuberculosis in Georgia cattle is also making rapid progress.
The Veterinary Department has charge of the inspection of meats, poultry and hogs offered for sale within the State. Hog cholera is being eliminated from Georgia farms by the vigilance of the Veterinary Department in treating promptly al cases reported to it.
The State Dairy Inspector works under direction of the Veterinary Department. It is his duty to see that all dairies producing
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milk for public consumption are kept and operated in a sanitary manner.
Testing poultry for disease germs is an important work, with the Veterinary Department, especially since that industry is growing so rapidly in the State.
DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY.
The Department of Entomology is composed of a board of three members of which the Commissioner of Agriculture is chairman. It is the duty of this department to handle all cases of plant disease and insect pests, also to inspect potato plants and nursery stock offered for sale and to establish, when it is deemed necessary, quarantines to prevent infected plants and insect pests from being brought into the State. Dr. E. Lee Worsham is State Entomologist.
Combating boll weevils, fleas, boll worms and all other pests and diseases that affect cotton is under the direction of the Entomology Department.
This department also handles all diseases and pests affecting the fruit and nut trees in the State and inasmuch as Georgia has a large number of peach, apple and pecan orchards, the work of the department is most important.
The State Entomologist, who must have had training and experience in entomology and plant pathology and be familiar with the various diseases affecting plant life in the State, is elected by the members of the Entomology Board.
EXPERIMENT STATIONS.
Two experiment stations are operated in Georgia, the Georgia Experiment Station at Experiment, Ga., near Griffin, and the Coastal Plain Station located at Tifton.
The station at Experiment renders valuable service in testing various seeds and in doing general experimental work in plant life that is of interest to the farmers of the State. The work at this station will be greatly facilitated with the completion of a new building there that is now in course of construction. This building was authorized by the 1927 Legislature which appropriated $35,000.00 for its erection. It will contain modern lab-
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oratories and other equipment needed in the futherance of research work at the station.
Dr. H. P. Stuckey is director of the station and the Commissioner of Agriculture is chairman of the Board of Directors.
The Coastal Plain Experiment Station was created by the Legislature in 1918 and is located at Tifton. It was established for the Coastal Plain Region of the State for the purpose of making scientific investigation and experiments respecting agricultural subjects, and more particularly as they may be affected by soil and climatic conditions in South Georgia.
Tests are conducted and experiments made as regards seeds, soil, plants and fertilizers. Tests made in connection with growing tobacco is an important work at this station since this crop has made such rapid gains in that section.
Dr. S. H. Starr is Director of the Station and the Commissioner of Agriculture is a member of the Board of Trustees.
A laboratory for the study of peaches is maintained at Fort Valley and study and control of apple diseases is directed at Cornelia.
IMMIGRATION BUREAU.
The Commissioner of Agriculture is also ex-officio Commissioner of Immigration and as such he is charged with collecting and distributing such information concerning the State as will be informative to home-seekers, investors and the general public.
Therefore, much information is furnished by the Department of Agriculture to parties desiring facts concerning Georgia and who are considering making this State their home.
HOMESEEKERS' RATES.
Homeseekers desiring to come to Georgia and see for themselves the wonderful advantages offered in this State may take advantage of special Homeseekers' rates offered by many railroads in the United States. Parties of five or more traveling together may obtain passenger rates for one fare plus $2.00.
These rates are in effect, usually from April through November, and are limited to about 20 days from date of sale. Local railroad offices can give full particulars as to these rates.
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COTTON.
Cotton, truly called the wonder plant of the south, is the leading money crop in Georgia, there being 3,412,000 acres planted in 1927, the yield therefrom being 1,099,000 bales. The value of the lint and seed from the 1927 crop is placed at $125,000,000.00 which equals the amount received for all the other crops grown in the State combined.
Georgia was the fourth State in cotton production in 1927, being exceeded by Texas, Mississippi and Alabama.
Cotton and its products are valued annually in Georgia at almost a half billion dollars. Farmers grow one million bales which sell for $100,000,000.00. and 203 textile mills employing 65,000 persons use raw material worth $100,000,000.00 and turn out products valued at $247,897,961.00. Then 50 plants with 3,881 employees make the cloth into garments and other articles valued at $18,710,336.00.
The cotton seed which are sold for $18,710,336.00 are turned into meal, oil and hulls by 122 mills, employing 2,486 people, the products being valued at $42,080,463.00. In addition, there are 26 compresses in the State that have 1,025 employees.
Cotton has been the leading farm crop in value in Georgia since the invention of the cotton gin in Georgia in 1793 by Eli Whitney and since the introduction of commercial fertilizers in the State. Being the natural home of cotton, its cultivation was started by the early settlers of Georgia.
Cotton not only furnishes a fiber that is used largely in clothing the human race and many other purposes, but its seed also contain products that are important in the feed of both humans and animals. Cotton seed oil is used extensively in cooking while the meal and hulls form an important food for animals, especially cows.
In 1866, immediately following the War between the States, Georgia grew 205,000 bales of cotton and in 1880, a million bales were grown for the first time in the State's history. The production has ranged around one million bales annually until 1911, when 2,768,000 bales were ginned, which was the largest crop ever grown in the State. Production in 1921-2-3 fell below the million mark, due to the invasion of boll weevils, the low mark
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1--Cotton scene in the streets of McRae; 2--Cotton Held of Bennett Hllburn In Laurens county, near Dublin; 3--Growing cotton field in Telfair county; 4--Field of J. M. Glass, Gratis, Ga., Walton county, on which in 1927 he grew 62 bales of cotton on 40 acres: 5--Luke Pittman of Gordon county shown in his cotton field; 6--Cotton field in Hall county near Gainesville.
being 588,000 bales in 1923, the smallest crop of cotton grown in the State since 1878 when 558,000 bales were ginned.
After combating the weevils for three years an intensive system of cultivation of cotton was instituted in the State, and as a result, the production since 1924 has been more than one million bales annually. Diversified farming has also cut the crop some, the farmers turning to other crops.
The average yield of lint cotton in 1927 on Georgia farms was 154 pounds per acre, but the yield on improved land will average more than one half bale to the acre, an average bale being 500 pounds. Luther S. Strickland, of Royston, Franklin County, winner of the highest prize in the 1927 Five-acre contest in the State, grew 6,438 pounds of lint on five acres, an average of 1,287 pounds or more than two bales per acre.
The high production of cotton on Georgia land is obvious when it is pointed out that 131 farmers who competed in 71 counties in the Five-Acre contest conducted by the State College of Agriculture, grew an average of 535 pounds of lint, or more than a bale per acre, at an average profit of $76.70 per acre. The average cost was given at 8 1-3 cents per pound.
Production of a fine grade of cotton in Georgia is being aided by the use of improved seed, which produce a long staple lint, so much desired by textile mills.
AGRICULTURAL FAIRS.
A number of fairs are held in Georgia every fall when quite an assortment of farm products, livestock and poultry are displayed. Fairs of a statewide nature are held at Atlanta, Macon and Savannah and in addition thereto, there are many district and county expositions held throughout the State.
Attractive premium lists draw large displays which show the varied resources of the State.
SMALL DEBT.
The W. & A. railroad which extends from Atlanta to Chattanooga is owned by Georgia the annual income from which totals $540,000.00. It is valued at $25,000,000.00 nearly five times as much as the bonded indebtedness of the State, which is $4,983, 000.00. Georgia has the smallest bonded indebtedness of any State in the Union.
1--Display at Southeastern Fair in 1927 by State Bureau of Markets showing correct method of grading products; 2--Entrance to Georgia State Fair grounds Savannah: 3--weighing a day's pick: 4--Cobb county exhibit at Southeastern Fair: 5--Proud of his basketful; 6--F. M. Bishop shows 90 farm products at Cherokee county fair at Canton in 1927.
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TOBACCO.
Tobacco is known as the "Miracle plant" in Georgia, because of the rapid strides this crop has made in the State within the past few years. Beginning with a production in 1917 of 350,000 pounds which sold for $80,000.00, the acreage has been increased each year since until 59,088,000 pounds were grown in 1927 on 81,000 acres which sold for $11,463,000.00. This plant is next to cotton in money value in farm products of the State, having climbed to second place in 1927.
Tobacco has been grown in Georgia since the State was first settled, but not on a commercial scale until recent years. About 2,000 acres have been planted in Decatur County for several years, it being the cigar filler and Sumatra wrapper type, better known as "shade" tobacco.
Bright leaf tobacco, largely used in cigarette manufacture, was planted in the State more or less as an experiment since 1911, the first warehouse being built in 1914. With the advent of the boll weevil into the State a number of farmers in South Georgia counties turned to tobacco as a substitute crop for cotton and it was intended to be a part of the diversified plan of farming then being fostered in the State.
The success of the plant was instantaneous and more and more farmers planted the weed each year, a large number of warehouses being erected at a number of cities in the 60 counties growing tobacco. The production of tobacco in large quantities has been confined to South Georgia, yet counties in the Athens territory and north of Atlanta have also grown the plant in salable quantities.
Bright leaf tobacco grown in Georgia is of superior quality in manufacturing high grade cigarettes and for fine smoking tobacco, tests of the grades produced in this State show.
The fields are set in the spring from plants grown on beds, which is followed by rapid and intensive cultivation. The tobacco ripens in early summer, is cut and cured and the sale season opens in Georgia around August 1 and continues for about 60 days. It is a cash crop, is disposed of as soon as cured, as the Georgia crop matures earlier than in the other states growing like tobacco, and planting of this weed offers attractive opportunities to many farmers who are following the diversified plan of farming.
1--Tobacco ready for sale in a Valdosta warehouse; 2--Office of the Imperial Tobacco Company's stemmery and redrying plant at Tifton; 4--Thomas county tobacco field; 5--Laurens county tobacco field; 6--.Field with curing house in Toombs county, near Vidalia; 7--Tobacco curing barns near Douglas.
PEACHES.
Georgia peaches are famed throughout America and England for their lusciousness and this State leads the South in the production of this juicy fruit. There are approximately 12,000,000 trees in the Georgia orchards which produced 12,015 cars in 1927 which sold for $8,023,000.00. This fruit is shipped from Georgia to practically every state in the Union, to Canada, Cuba and car lot shipments are also made to England.
Georgia has more peach trees than any other southern state and grows one-third of all the peaches sold in the United States each year. Peach County, named in honor of the peach, is called the peach center of the world, more cars being shipped from Fort Valley than any other point in the State.
Georgia farmers are pioneers in peach growing, the most important varieties are the ones that were propagated in this State. The Elberta, famed the world over for its beauty and flavor, was propagated by Samuel Rumph at Marshallville, in Macon County. This popular variety was followed by the propagation of the Georgia Belle by Lewis H. Rumph, also of Marshallville. Later the Hiley Belle was produced by the Hiley family of which Eugene W. Hiley, of Fort Valley, was the leader.
Other varieties sorxe of which were propagated in Georgia, which are grown in Georgia in large quantities include the Carmen, Early Rose, Uneeda, Hale, Mayflower, Red Bird, Alton and Brackett.
The peach orchards of middle Georgia cover a vast area and there are also large commercial orchards in northeast and northwest Georgia. The early varieties ripen in May and after they are shipped, the heavy season comes in June and July. The Elbertas are among the last to ripen and move to market.
The ripe peaches are gathered in baskets and carried to a packing shed where they are graded according to standards and packed into boxes and baskets. The baskets are packed in bulk, while the boxes contain six small baskets. They are then loaded into refrigerator cars and are rushed to market for sale. New York is the largest consumer of Georgia peaches, more than 4,000 cars being eaten in that city each year. Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Massachusetts and Illinois each consume more than 1,000 cars annually.
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1--Carmen peach; 2--Belle; 3--Elberta, three Georgia favorletes. Pictures furnished by Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington: 4-5--Spraying and dusting peach trees at Fort Valley under direction of the Peach Laboratory there; 6--Peach tree near Helena loaded with fruit; 9--Modern packing shed of J. D. Duke in Peach county; 10-- Peaches gathered for packing near Macon.
PECANS.
The paper shell pecan is a nut that was developed largely in Georgia and which has become famous, not only in America, but also in foreign lands. The pecan was just an ordinary nut growing wild in the river swamps and on farms of the South until the seedling was developed into the paper shell variety. The first commercial orchards were planted less than 30 years ago.
While a majority of the counties of the State contain some pecan trees, the commercial orchards are confined almost exclusively to south Georgia, Albany being known as the "Pecan center of the World." In the Albany area and in other sections of the State, much land is given over entirely to pecan growing, while in other sections of the State there are small groves and scattering trees.
Approximately 100,000 acres in Georgia are set in pecans, the yield of which in 1927 was 3,094,000 pounds of nuts, valued at $1,000,000.00.
Pecan culture has become quite a science with Georgia growers and it is recognized as one of the most valuable nuts grown in America. Pecans are not only eaten in their natural state as a food, but large quantities are used in the manufacture of confections.
The pecan trees are propagated by nurseries and the small trees costing from 75 cents to $2.00 each are transplanted, about 20 to the acre and are thinned out as they grow older and cover the ground too thickly. Trees begin to bear from five years and up, depending upon the variety and they usually come into full bearing when from 20 to 30 years old. While the young trees are growing, the land may be planted in other crops, there being no loss of the land while the trees are growing large enough to bear nuts.
The yield from a well-cared for pecan orchard is from 500 pounds and up per acre which sell for from 20 cents to 60 cents per pound. The nuts are gathered in the fall, graded and shipped to all parts of the United States for sale. The crop for the most part is marketed co-operatively.
A small pecan grove not only furnishes the grower with a delectable nut, but also often furnishes him a surplus income, as single trees have been known to bear $100.00 worth of nuts in a single year.
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1--Pecan grove near Thomasvtlle; 2--Budding Pecans at a Telfair county nursery; 3--Pecan grading machine; 5--Solid car loads of Pecans on Central of Georgia tracks at Albany; 6--Shipping platform of the National Pecan Growers' Exchange at Albany; 7--Pecan harvesting scene in the fall.
PEANUTS.
Peanuts are grown in the Southern States only, Georgia leading all states in acreage planted. In 1927 a total of 304,000 acres was planted in Georgia, the yield being approximately 80,000 tons, valued at $8,596,000. North Carolina, Virginia and Alabama also grow many peanuts.
Peanuts, which have been planted in Georgia since the days of colonization, yield a three-fold crop--the peanuts for commercial purposes and for livestock and the vines for hay. For a long number of years peanuts were planted on Georgia farms as a part of the crop program and when matured, the hogs were turned into the fields and allowed to graze upon them, only a few bushels for home eating being harvested.
With the discovery of the many products that may be obtained from the peanut, such as oil, butter and meal, the growth of this crop has been greatly increased in the State. The use of peanuts in confections has also made great gains within the last few years and roasted peanuts are being eaten in large quantities. As the farmers have engaged more extensively in hog and cattle raising, peanuts have been planted more heavily each year because of their value for grazing and for hay.
It is estimated that every three acres of peanuts will yield one ton of hay, valued at $25.00 per ton. Tests show that two pounds of peanuts will produce a pound of pork when hogs are allowed to run in peanut fields. Many farmers let their hogs fatten on peanuts and then "finish" them off by feeding them corn and other feeds before they are sold or slaughtered.
Peanuts for commercial purposes are grown principally in middle and south Georgia, there being a number of warehouses in those sections in which they may be stored. They are planted in March and April and require light cultivation. They are harvested in the fall and are usually stacked in the field or housed until thoroughly dry and ready for market. Peanuts usually sell for from $75.00 to $100.00 per ton.
Peanut growing offers attractive opportunities to farmers because the whole plant may be utilized and because of the growing demand for this nut.
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1--Spanish Peanuts in Lowndes county; 2--Peanut field, 50 acres, of William Tern near Oordele, Crisp county; 3--Growing peanuts on J. L. Wheeler's farm near Fitzgerald; 4--Threshing peanuts near Valdosta, the yield of which was 65 bushels and one and one-half tons of hay an acre; 5--Peanut threshing machine; 6--A local market for peanuts at Valdosta.
SWEET POTATOES.
Georgia leads every state in the union in the production of sweet potatoes. This State grows around nine million bushels yearly on approximately 100,000 acres of land, the crop in 1927 being valued at $7,920,000.00.
Sweet potatoes are grown on practically every farm in the state for home use, but the acreage planted for commercial purposes is mostly in middle and south Georgia where a number of curing houses have been built. Large quantities of potatoes are kiln dried, which rids them of surplus moisture whereby they may be kept indefinitely and shipped to distant points.
Sweet potatoes do not require a rich soil and are not expensive to grow. They are grown from "slips" transplanted in the spring. Harvest season starts in June and continues until fall.
The Georgia yam has long been an important item of food with Georgia farmers. They may be baked whole, sliced and fried, made into pie or candied. They may be served in some form at every meal of the day.
The sale of sweet potato plants or "slips" is quite an industry in south Georgia.
IRISH POTATOES.
Irish or white potatoes are grown on practically all farms in Georgia for spring harvest and principally for home use, small plats usually being planted in the garden. A total of 17,000 acres with a yield of 1,241,000 bushels valued at $2,048,000.00, was planted in 1927.
There are only about 2,500 acres planted each year in Georgia for commercial purposes, the yield being 200,000 bushels. The State offers unlimited possibilities for the growing of Irish potatoes for market as hundreds of cars shipped into Georgia each year for consumption are grown outside the State.
Few fall potatoes are grown and no plan is followed whereby the spring crop is stored, therefore the marketing season only continues during a few months in the spring and early summer.
The United States is divided into nine zones of climate and Georgia has eight of them.
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1--Gathering Potatoes on the farm of J. C. Counclll in Wheeler county; 2--Loading Big Stem Jersey Potatoes in carload lots at McRae; 3--Irish Potato field near Savannah: 4--Potatoes and sugar cane grown in the same field at Astoria; 5--Sweet Potato "slips" being loaded into cars at Baxley, Appling county; 6-7--Digging and shipping Irish potatoes at Chatham county farms.
WATERMELONS.
Among the products made famous by Georgia growers, none stands out more prominently than the Georgia watermelon, this State leading all others in the Union in growing this juicy melon. Beginning in June and continuing through the summer, the famous Georgia melons may be found for sale at groceries throughout the United State.
The melon is grown in all sections of the State but the acreage devoted to commercial purposes is in middle and south Georgia. In 1927 more than 16,000 cars were shipped from this State, the income therefrom being $2,829,000.00.
Melons are easily grown, thriving on a light loamy soil. They grow rapidly without much cultivation and are picked as they ripen and are loaded into railroad cars and are rushed to the markets over the United States. The opening of the watermelon season has become quite an event throughout the United States^ the arrival on the markets of this juicy melon being hailed with delight by all races.
The melon fields are usually sown in peas and after the melons, have been removed, a luxurious crop of peavine hay is grown and harvested.
CANTALOUPES.
While only about 100 cars of cantaloupes are shipped from Georgia each year, the growing of this melon offers an attractive future to the farmers of the State. The acreage now is almost confined wholly to small patches planted for home consumption, while thousands of crates of cantaloupes are being shipped into> the State from the West.
The soil of Georgia is well suited to the growth of cantaloupes. Fewer than 1,000 acres are planted for a commercial crop in the State each year, which produce approximately 75,000 crates,, which by far fails to supply the home consumption.
This is just one instance of the opportunities offered in Georgia to farmers who who would supply the local demand for products.
Carroll grows more cotton than any other county in the State.. In 1927 the five leading counties were, Carroll, 36,086 bales; Burke, 28,160; Laurens, 25,269; Walton, 23,134; Jackson 22,582.
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1--Slice of a juicy Watermelon: 2-5--Types of Cantaloupes developed by the Georgia Experiment Station, near Griffin: 3--Loading watermelons on Atlantic Coast Line cars at Boston, Ga.; 4--"Peaches" in a melon patch: 6--Melon field at Lumber City: 7--Shipping melons from a Thomas county farm: 8--Melon field near Moultrie: Miss Margarette McMillan of Telfair county eating the heart of a melon; 10--Melon loading in Lowndes county.
APPLES
The apple crop is fast taking high rank among the leading commercial crops of the State, there being approximately 2,000,000 apple trees in Georgia, the commercial orchards containing about 1,000,000 trees.
Apples have long been included in the home orchard of the Georgia farmer, but not until about 20 years ago did the State begin to grow this fruit in commercial quantities.
The large orchards are in the counties of northeast and northwest Georgia, Habersham and Rabun counties leading in the number of commercial trees. The crop in 1927 was approximately 1,000,000 bushels, about 600,000 bushels of which were marketed for $1,012,000.00.
The apple is said to be the "King of fruits," having the largest consumption of any fruit in the world and the varieties grown in Georgia are taking their rightful place as being among the most choice grown in America.
The lands of north Georgia not so well suited to other crops, the mountain foot-hills, are particularly suited to apple growing and an investment in an orchard in that section stands to bring in fine returns.
About 80 per cent of the apples sold in Georgia are marketed co-operatively, after having been graded and packed according to standards adopted.
PEARS
Among the small commercial fruit crops in Georgia may be included the pear, which brings into the State each year approximately $200,000.00. Pears may be grown in all sections of the state and many trees are included in the home orchards of farmers who sell the fruit locally, large quantities being preserved by the housewife.
Several years ago, pears were grown extensively in Georgia, but the presence of blight caused interest in the fruit to wane, and few commercial orchards have been set in recent years.
The quince and apricot are fruits also grown in the home orchards of many Georgia farmers, for home consumption, no attempt having been made to grow the fruit in commercial quantities.
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1--Apple orchard in north Georgia; 2--Big red Apple built of concrete at Cornelia, apple center of northeast Georgia and headquarters for the Consolidated Apple Growers' Exchange; 3--Apples packed for shipment at Ellijay; 4--Gathering apples in a Gilmer county orchard.
SUGAR CANE AND SYRUP
Georgia cane syrup is another product, famous the country over, in which this State leads in production, Louisiana being second. In 1926 Georgia farmers planted 35,000 acres in sugar cane from which 6,125,000 gallons of syrup, valued at $4,593, 750.00, were made.
Louisiana planted 29,000 acres from which 4,068,000 gallons of syrup, valued at $3,864,600.00 were made. It is pointed out however, that Louisiana plants a vast acreage in sugar cane but that the cane is used in manufacturing sugar, the acreage used for syrup being very small. Georgia's crop in 1927 totaled 34,000 acres, the yield being 5,100,000 gallons of syrup, valued at $4,080,000.00.
Sugar cane is grown commercially in South Georgia, Grady county leading al! counties in the State in its production, and Cairo, the county seat, is headquarters for the industry and is the largest pure cane syrup market in the world. Grady county's income alone from cane syrup is almost one million dollars yearly.
The counties adjacent to Grady also produce much syrup which is put into cans and barrels, labeled and marketed cooperatively all over the United States. Every container sold must bear the label "Georgia Cane Syrup."
Sugar cane is grown on practically all farms in middle and south Georgia for use in making the family supply of syrup. The cane grows to a height of five feet and more and is cut before frost and local mills grind the cane and convert the juice into syrup by boiling it in "evaporators" and kettles.
Much of the cane is also sold in its natural state for chewing, Atlanta alone consuming more than 50 cars of sugar cane each fall.
SORGHUM
Sorghum cane is grown extensively in north Georgia where the season is too short for sugar cane to mature before frost. Sorghum is made into syrup in north Georgia just as sugar cane is in south Georgia.
Georgia farmers in 1927 planted 25,000 acres in sorghum, the yield being 2,050,000 gallons of syrup the value of which was $1,538,000.00.
Sorghum usually matures during the summer months.
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1--A typical south Georgia sugar cane field; 2--Where Sugar Cane is made into syrup at the plant of W. B. Roddenberry at Cairo; 3-4--Sugar Cane stripped and topped on the Roddenberry farms in Grady county.
CORN
Corn leads all crops in acreage planted in Georgia, the acreage each year being larger than that of cotton. The crop in 1927 totaled 3,893,000 acres with a yield of 54,502,000 bushels, valued at $44,147,000.00, or 81 cents per bushel.
Corn is the most universal crop in Georgia, being planted on practically every farm and in every garden in the State. It is one of the chief foods of man, livestock and poultry on Georgia farms. Corn is served in a great many different ways for human consumption.
Corn and its products, the shredded stalk and fodder, are fed in some form to farm animals, cattle and poultry. Georgia farmers are also selling much corn in carload lots each year.
Corn is a native of the western hemisphere and was found to be the chief food of the American Indians when discovered, they calling it "maize." It is now cultivated in other sections of the world, seasons permitting. Carvings found in Central America indicate that corn was used as a symbol of prosperity hundreds of years before Columbus discovered America.
That large yields of corn may be grown in Georgia is shown by the fact that Georgia club boys have grown more than 200 bushels on a single acre. The winner in the five-acre corn contest conducted by the State College of Agriculture in 1927, grew 131.05 bushels per acre at a profit of $101.04 per acre. An average of 65.36 bushels of corn per acre were grown by 109 farmers in the contest.
RYE
The value of the crop of rye grown in Georgia each year is approximately one-half million dollars. In 1927 the value of the crop was placed at $429,000.00, being grown on 26,000 acres, the yield being 260,000 bushels.
Very little rye is planted in Georgia for commercial purposes, because most of the acreage is used for grazing. A small rye patch close to the home furnishes excellent grazing ground during the winter for livestock and poultry. Rye is also cut before it heads and is fed to farm stock and cattle.
Rye can be grown in every section of the State.
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1--A Corn. Vetch and Bean field on Jekyl Island; 2--Corn and flour mill near Cedartown in Polk county; 3--Feed mill at Tifton; 4--40 bushels of Eye grown to the acre on this Clarke county Rye patch; 5--Corn on the farm of R. L. Blackwell, near Calhoun in Gordon county; 6-7--Corn fields near Brunswick in Glynn county.
PIMIENTO PEPPER
Pimiento pepper growing is an industry that has sprung up within the last twenty years in a number of middle Georgia counties, especially in Spalding, Butts, Henry, Lamar, Upson, Jasper, Monroe, Clayton, Pike and Meriwether counties. Truck growers near Griffin developed the Perfection Pimiento Pepper after many experiments and this variety is grown principally in the State.
So successful has been the growing of this plant in middle Georgia that a number of other counties, some in south Georgia, are beginning to grow this crop also and with the acreage expanding each year, pepper growing promises to become an important industry in the State.
About 5,000 acres are planted in Georgia each year the yield running as high as 6,000 pounds to the acre, with a price average of from $30.00 to $40.00 a ton for the peppers. Factories which can the pepper pods are located at Griffin, Jackson and Woodbury the production of which totals from 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 cans each season, the value of the entire crop in Georgia being estimated at from $350,000.00 to $500,000.00. The cans of pepper are marketed all over the United States.
Hot beds are planted in February from which growers transplant in fields during April and as late as July 10th. Peppers are cultivated similar to cotton, the rows being about the same width, the plants being set in the drill and fertilized with a high grade commercial fertilizer. A bed on which is planted a half pound of seed will grow enough plants to set one acre of land, about 5,000 plants being set to the acre.
RICE
Little attention is given to rice growing in Georgia, only 3,000 acres being planted in 1927, which produced 48,000 bushels, valued at $58,000.00.
Rice was formerly grown extensively in Georgia, 19,000 acres being planted in 1890, the yield being 15,000,000 pounds or 800 pounds an acre. In 1900 the production dropped to 7,500,000 pounds and since that time production has steadily decreased.
There is a tendency, however, on the part of the farmers on the coastal lands of Georgia to revive rice growing.
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1--Rice on Satilla plantation which averaged 60 bushels an acre: 2--Pepper field ol the Peninsular Company near Brunswick; 3--Bell peppers: i--Picking peppers in Spaldtng county; 5-6--Wagon loads of peppers at the Pomona Products Company's canning plant at Griffin.
OATS
Oats are grown on a majority of farms in Georgia mostly for livestock feed. In 1927, 442,000 acres were planted, the yield being 9,282,000 bushels, which were valued at $6,962,000.00.
Oats are used almost exclusively by the farmers in feeding the livestock, the grain being harvested in early summer, long before corn is mature and is fed to the stock during the summer months.
Most farmers sow oats in the fall, although many acres are also planted as late as February, especially if the fall crop should be injured badly or killed entirely by freezes. May and June are the harvest months, individual or community reapers being used, on the whole, to harvest the crop. The grain is usually shocked in the field or housed awaiting the threshing machines, which come during the summer months, after the other crops have been "laid by," and there is a lull in farm work. Many farmers own their own threshers, while others haul their grain to a community machine.
Many farmers plant peas in the fields after the oats are harvested and a fine yield of peas and hay is gathered in the fall. Much late corn is also planted following oats.
WHEAT
Wheat is grown in all sections of Georgia, 125,000 acres being sown in 1927 from which 1,150,000 bushels were harvested, the value of which was $1,782,000.00.
There are a number of community flour mills located throughout the State which convert the wheat into flour for the farmers who then use it for home consumption. There are several large flour mills in the State that use quantities of wheat grown in Georgia in milling flour for commercial purposes.
Wheat grown in Georgia is of a hardy variety and compares favorably with that grown in the larger wheat growing states.
There is a great opportunity for wheat growing in the State, not only for home consumption, but also for sale, as the Georgia mills are anxious to buy Georgia grown wheat. Thousands of barrels of flour are shipped into the State each year for consumption, which might as well be produced on Georgia lands.
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1--Berry School students at Rome harvest 50 bushels of Oats an acre, using modern machinery: 2--Wheat field near Waycross; 3-5--Wheat fields of Mrs. H. M. Warren, Fitzgerald's famous woman farmer, who threshed 30 bushels an acre: 4--Harvesting Wheat on J. C. Bush's farm in Ben Hill county: 6--Sumter county Wheat field of 160 acres: 7--W. A. Pound's Oat field near Thomasville, the yield of which was 51 bushels an acre: 8--H. A. Carter gathers 65 bushels an acre from his 50-acre Oat field: 9--Grain elevator and feed mill at Valdosta.
HAY, PEAS AND BEANS
The climate and soil of Georgia are well adapted to the growing of all grasses, therefore much hay is produced in the State, although not near enough to supply the local demand, many tons of hay being shipped into the State each year.
The hay crop in Georgia in 1927 was valued at $9,431,000.00, a total of 582,000 tons being grown on 825,000 acres of land. Bermuda and other native grasses grown with peas and other legume plants such as alfalfa, soy beans, velvet beans and clover give a fine yield of hay. Alfalfa grows luxuriantly in Georgia, several cuttings being obtained each season, with re-seeding not being required very often. Beans are also planted with other crops such as corn and are used for grazing for livestock.
Approximately 7,000 acres of soy beans were planted in Georgia in 1927, the yield being valued at $114,000.00 for 42,000 bushels, which are used in feeds and for seed.
The value of the cow pea crop in Georgia in 1927 was $1,578. 000.00, a total of 1,088,000 bushels being grown on 272,000 acres. A number of other varieties of table peas are also grown in the State, peas being an important item of food on the Georgia farmer's table. Peas are regarded as great soil builders and many are planted on lands from which grains have been harvested.
VEGETABLES, FBUITS AND FLOWERS.
^ Vegetables, fruits and flowers of many varieties thrive in Georgia, the soil and climate being especially suited to their luxuriant growth.
Many vegetables are not only grown in the gardens for home consumption, but large quantities of cabbages, turnips, tomatoes, onions, collards and seed, asparagus, lettuce, okra, carrots, peas, cucumbers, string beans and peppers are grown for commercial purposes. From 500 to 1,000 cars of vegetables are shipped from Georgia each year, in addition to the large quantities trucked to local markets. Gross income from $500 to $1,000 an acre is reported from some of the truck farms in Georgia.
In 1927 there were 5,000 acres planted in asparagus in Georgia, the yield therefrom being 120,000 crates which sold for $500,-
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1--Alfalfa field on Key Farm near LaGrange. Troup county. 2--Hairy Vetch field at Milan. Ga.: 3-4--Alfalfa and Hay scenes on the Trion Farms at Tnon, Ga.; 5--Baling hay on farm of W. B. Bice. In Laurens county; 6--Lowndes county peavlne hay grown following oats: 7--Peavlne hay at Oordele; 8--Hay grown on farm of A. E. Nunnally in Morgan county which he is hauling to market.
000.00. The crop moves about March 15, and is equal in quality to any asparagus sold in the United States.
Vegetable growing for sale is getting to he an important industry in Georgia in the coast territory, and in other south Georgia counties. Vegetables are grown in large quantities and shipped to large soup and canning factories in the east. Many vegetables are canned in the State each year, by the housewives, canning club girls and by commercial canneries.
In addition to the large quantities of fruit grown in the State, such as apples, peaches, etc., the home orchards of farmers contain a great variety, such as pears, plums, figs, quince, apricots, currants, cherries, grapes and usually a scuppernong arbor. Plums, blackberries, muscadines, persimmons, dewberries and such nuts as walnuts, hickory, chestnuts, chinquepins and also pecans, grow wild in Georgia. Satsuma oranges are also being grown successfully in south Georgia.
Dewberries are grown on a commercial scale in Telfair and other counties, Dr. W. H. Born, at McRae, having the largest dewberry farm in the south. He averages a carload to an acre on his 40 acre farm each year. Many Strawberries are also grown for sale in Georgia.
Flowers of many hue are grown to some extent around practically all farm houses in the State and much time is given to the cultivation of flowers in gardens and yards. Native flowers grown in Georgia are hardly rivaled in beauty by those of any other State. Bulb growing for commercial purposes is also getting to be an important industry on the coast section of Georgia, bulbs grown there rivaling those imported, florists say.
Georgia farmers may grow any edible plant produced in America, it being possible to obtain vegetables from Georgia gardens every month in the year, if a variety of seeds suited to the different seasons are planted.
Conditions are favorable in Georgia to every farmer owning a few cows, which furnish milk and butter for the family and chickens to supply eggs and poultry, which are almost indispensable to the housewife in preparing a meal. These with a good garden added would enable the farmer to materially cut down his food bill and to "live at home and board at the same place."
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1--Grapes on the Brown farm in Wheeler county; 2--Cluster of Dewberries on Dr. W. H. Born's farm in Telfair county. He ships 40 cars of Dewberries each year; 3-4--Cauliflower and Figs produced at Georgia Experiment Station; 5--Flowers on the T. L. Huston farm on Champney Island; 6--Rose walk at Thomasville home of J. H. Wade, of Cleveland, Ohio: 7--Georgia Lettuce field; 8--Mills B. Lane among his Satsuma orange trees on his farm in Chatham county; 9--Narcissus bulb field near Brunswick; 10--Famous flowerlined "Victory Drive" from Savannah to the sea; U--Cabbage field of Mrs. S. M. Winchard at Fitzgerald; 12--Tomatoes in Thomas county; 13Lowndes county cucumber farm.
BEES AND HONEY
The first settlers of Georgia found bees here and honey is said to have been the only sweets of the Indians that inhabited the land. Among the large trees of the Georgia swamps today can be found portions of trees gnawed open by honey-eating bears many centuries ago, which proves that bees have existed in this State for a long time, the flora of this section being especially favorable for bees and honey making.
The first settlers kept the bees in log gums and domesticated them and with the advent of sawmills, hives were made of lumber. This method continued about a century or until about 40 years ago, when modern movable frame hives came into use which caused this industry to make substantial gains in the State.
Bee-keeping in all its branches in Georgia engages more than 3,000 persons, who are caring for approximately 150,000 colonies of bees for commercial purposes. Many farmers also keep a few hives of bees to furnish honey for home use.
The industry is confined to no special section of the State, which shows that bees thrive all over Georgia. Citizens of this State eat much honey, but on account of the rapid development of bee-keeping in Georgia within the last few years, more honey is produced in the State than is consumed, consequently large shipments of honey are made to other states.
Georgia honey is fine in body, color and flavor and will not granulate, but will keep indefinitely in warm and cold climates. Beginning in the mountains of north Georgia and extending to the coastal plains, Georgia abounds in honey-producing plants, which include the nectar-secreting plants of the mountains to the field-crops and flowers throughout the State.
Bee-keeping has a bright future in Georgia. The bee disease law will control diseases and will safeguard the business of honey production and the capital invested therein. The mild climate of Georgia is not only favorable to the life of the bees, but also furnishes a long blooming season for plants.
The "Dixie Beekeeper," devoted to southern beekeeping is published monthly at Waycross by J. J. Wilder, a leader and a pioneer in beekeeping in Georgia.
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1--Clover in bloom on farm of F. C. Newton, Morgan county; 2--Two honey plants. Saw Palmetto and Gall Berry; 3--Clover in bloom; 4-5--Apiaries in Ben Hill county; 6--Party of visiting bee-keepers viewing Fitzgerald apiaries; 7--Stoner apiary at Helena, owned by Mozley Pettit, native of Canada; 8-9-10-11--Bee-hiving scenes.
SOILS
Georgia has soils adapted to every crop suited to the climate of the State, and a variety of soils is found in the three distinct areas that divide the State--the mountainous section in the north, the Piedmont area in middle north Georgia and the Coastal Plain area that takes in practically all of south Georgia.
In north Georgia may be found a variety of soils, brown and red loam, silicious and sandy soils in the table or mountain lands, either gray or yellow and more or less gravelly, while alluvial soils predominate in the valleys. A number of shales underlie vast areas in north Georgia and many of the gravelly lands have a clay sub-soil. The table lands are especially suited to vegetable and fruit growing, while all farm crops thrive in the valleys.
The "Red Hills of Georgia" are found principally in middle and north Georgia and the lands include both, red sandy and red clayey soils. The red soils which are caused by the decomposition of certain minerals, have a more or less deep red-clay subsoil. The surface of the red lands is usually hilly or rolling, these soils being well suited to fruit growing, the soil giving the fruit delicious flavor and rich color.
Many i(d lands are also found in the northern section of the Coastal PL'.in belt. These lands, while containing more sand than the red areas farther north, are of red-clay formation, associated generally with silicious shell rocks, with a heavy subsoil of clay loam. The pine belt soil is sandy with generally a clayey subsoil, underlaid by white limestone, with red clay loam in some localities.
The wiregrass region of south Georgia covers an area of about 10,000 square miles, the surface of which is generally level, underlaid in sections by sandstone. The soil is pebbly and loamy with a clay and sand subsoil.
The coast lands have a dark loamy soil with a clayey subsoil. These lands are especially adapted to truck growing and yields from $500.00 to $1,000.00 an acre are being reported from the truck farms in the Coast area.
Soil surveys have been made of a number of counties in the different sections of the State, copies of whch may be obtained upon request from the Georgia Department of Agriculture, Atlanta, or the State College of Agriculture, Athens.
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LIVESTOCK IN GEORGIA
That livestock raising in Georgia is materially on the up-grade is shown the fact that all classes of animals, except horses, which may be giving away in favor of the automobile, showed a substantial increase in number on Georgia farms during 1927.
While tractors and other improved machinery are used on Georgia farms, mules and horses are used principally in cultivating the crops, stockraising not being engaged in to any large extent, although it could be followed with profit. Thousands of mules are sold in Georgia each year, Atlanta being the largest mule market in the world.
There were 398,000 horses and mules in Georgia on January 1, 1928, their value being set at $40,562,000.00. The total value of all livestock in Georgia including horses, mules, cows, sheep and hogs is estimated to be $75,640,000.00. The division according to number and value is as follows: Horses: 41,000, value $3,214,000.00; Mules: 357,000, value $37,348,000.00; Cows: 863,000, value $24,915,000.00; Sheep: 52,000, value $195,000.00; Hogs: 1,424,000, value $9,963,000.00.
SHEEP
Sheep raising in Georgia is not confined to any special section but is carried on in various parts of the State, especially in north and in south Georgia.
There were 52,000 sheep on Georgia farms on January 1, 1928, which were valued at $200,000.00, there being a slight gain in number and value over the previous year.
Great opportunities lie in the development of sheep raising in the State, there being an increasing demand for lambs and for wool. As livestock raising in the State grows the sheep industry is expected to have more attention given it.
GOATS
While no especial attention is given to raising goats in Georgia, the number in the State is estimated to be 200,000, they, for the most part, run at large in the timber and cut-over lands and on the large farms throughout South Georgia. The goat being a good forager, takes care of himself without the necessity of either special food or pastures being provided for him.
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1--Goats on a Georgia farm; 2--Southdown sheep on farm of A. H. Barnett, in Wilkes county; 3--Flock of ewes and lambs on Bayne farm in Greene county; 4--Flock of sheep owned by the Babun Gap-Nacoochee Institute; 5--Prize winning calves at the Boys' Calf Club show at Athens in 1927; 6--Jersey calf winner at the National Dairy Show at Memphis in 1927 entered by Dallas Batchelor. calf club member of Muscogee county; 7--Beef cattle bred by P. S. Cummings & Son at Donaldsonville; 8--Bonnie J,, Georgia Hereford, International grandjchampion in 1919; !9--Type of horse on Trion Farms, at Trion, Ga.
HOGS
A State survey shows that there were 1,424,000 hogs, valued at $9,963,000.00 on the farms of Georgia on January 1, 1928, an increase of more than 200,000 during 1927 over 1926.
Hog raising in Georgia is growing in interest, many farmers getting rid of their "razor-back" stock and substituting therefor purebred swine, both for sale animals and for home-cured meat. Spring and summer pastures afford excellent grazing ground for hogs from early spring into late fall when they are turned into peanut and corn and velvet bean fields for the final "fattening."
Winter grazing fields are also prepared in many sections of the State, which afford grazing for the hogs and pigs "carried over" during the winter. Pigs, as far as possible, are farrowed in the spring so that they will be large enough to be sold or killed with the first cold spells of winter. Most farmers slaughter their own hogs during a cold spell, curing the meat at home. If the weather is too mild, ice is used to cure the meat or it is placed in a nearby cold storage plant.
Formerly Georgia's bill each year for meat bought outside the State was a staggering sum, but this has been materially cut down in recent years, farmers in this State marketing hundreds of cars of hogs each year. An instance of the gain in hog-growing in Georgia is shown by the report of the Market Bureau of the Georgia Department of Agriculture which sold during nine months, from July 1927 through March 1928, a total of 328 carloads of hogs for Georgia growers which brought $413,292.30.
At Moultrie is located the Swift Packing Plant which has been in operation several years and which has stimulated hog growing in that section of Georgia by affording a cash market for swine. The White Packing Company, in Atlanta, also uses a large number of Georgia hogs, as do several small packing plants at other points in the State, also many are handled by dealers who sell hogs to local markets.
Pig clubs, fostered by the Boys' and Girls' clubs of the State have done much to prove the value of raising pure-bred hogs in Georgia, both for home consumption and for sale. In the ton-litter contest in Georgia in 1927, Charles Slappey, of Sumter county, broke the world's ton-litter record, his litter averaging 308 pounds at six months old, the 11 pigs weighing 3,395 pounds.
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CATTLE AND DAIRYING
The cow has been called the "Mother of Prosperity" and she is occupying a more and more important place on Georgia farms as her real worth is recognized. The cow, perhaps, is the farmer's best animal friend and literally turns grass into flesh and supplies him with milk, cream and butter, so important as foods. In addition, the cow is the source of the beef supply, a principal meat dish in America.
There were 863,000 cows, valued at $24,915,000.00, on Georgia farms on January 1, 1928, there being a gain in value of $6,000, 000.00 in a year's time, although the gain in number during 1927 over 1928 was only 9,000 animals. The great increase in the value indicates that the farms and dairies in Georgia are being rapidly stocked with pure-bred cows.
Cattle raising has always been a part of Georgia's farm program, but little attention was given until late years to improved herds of cattle and to dairying. Now there are hundreds of purebred herds owned by Georgia farmers and dairymen and the sale of cream and sour milk is an important industry in the State.
Cream stations have been built in many sections and routes established, the farmer selling his cream and sour milk at his door, or selling his cream and feeding the skimmed milk to his hogs and poultry. Dairy products in Georgia are valued annually at $15,000,000.00
Natural or Bermuda grass pastures are green in the State several months in the year, which afford excellent grazing lands for the cattle. Permanent pastures are also provided by seeding with such grasses as Carpet, Lespedeza and Dallis grass. Supplementing this with fall-sown grains, alfalfa and other legumes, cheap year-round grazing may be obtained, hay and other homegrown concentrates furnishing feed during the winter months or during the time the pastures may be lean or bare.
In devoting much land to pastures, Georgia farmers not only reap a harvest from the sale of the dairy products but at the same time are building up their land by pasturing livestock upon it.
With an abundance of pure water, and other natural advantages, and with the stamping out of the cattle ticks in Georgia coupled with the intensive fight that is now being made by the State Veterinary department to eliminate entirely or curb perceptibly tuberculosis and other diseases, cattle raising in Georgia both for beef and dairy purposes faces a bright future.
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POULTRY IN GEORGIA
While Georgia still consumes a great deal more poultry and eggs than it produces, yet this industry has made great gains with Georgia farmers within the last few years and promises to become even more important in the future.
Until a few years ago chicken growing and egg production was confined almost wholly to the few hens on practically every farm in the State, only the surplus of poultry and eggs being sold. But within the last five years more than one hundred commercial hatcheries with a capacity of more than one million eggs at a hatching have been put into operation over the State and the industry has been lifted, almost overnight so to speak, from that of a minor to a major one, with many farmers.
The poultry industry is valued at $40,000,000 each year in Georgia, yet the State consumes eggs alone valued at $22,000, 000.00 with only $15,000,000.00 worth of eggs being produced in the State. This means that the State is sending $7,000,000.00 out of the State annually for eggs alone, to say nothing of the enormous amount also spent outside the State for poultry consumed over and above the supply grown in Georgia.
The poultry industry has been given great stimulus since 1924 by the operation throughout the State of poultry cars, the railroads co-operating with the State Agricultural Department, the State College of Agriculture and the County Agents in furnishing these facilities to the farmers. Cars equipped to hold chickens stop at various stations on stated days, and buyers who accompany the cars purchase the poultry for cash from the farmers who are notified of the train's schedule and bring their chickens to the "moving market."
The chicken cars have been so successful and the poultry industry has been so greatly increased therefrom, that operation of cars exclusively for eggs has been started, the first car being operated from Lavonia to Athens on March 13-15, 1928.
Poultry raising in Georgia offers unlimited possibilities because the State is consuming more chickens and eggs than it produces and because of the mild climate, which is especially favorable to poultry. Green fields the year round afford excellent pickings for chickens and the mild weather means that the laying season in this State is thereby extended.
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MINERAL RESOURCES
The mineral resources of Georgia are both extensive and varied, there being thirty-four different kinds of minerals produced in commercial quantities in the State. This large number and the varied kinds of minerals are due largely to the great diversity in the geological formations in the State.
The mineral production is confined largely to the northern half of Georgia, although there are some produced in all sections of the State, fullers earth having been found almost as far south as the Florida line.
The value of the mineral resources as compiled by S. W. McCallie, State Geologist, for the year 1926, totaled $19,169,912.00, which was an increase of $721,654.00 over the previous year. The largest industry contributing to the mineral output of the State was brick and tile manufacturing, which totaled $5,975, 486.00, with marble second, its products being valued at $2,815, 149.00.
The following is a list of the minerals and their value:
Brick and Tile Marble Portland Cement and Bauxite Granite Fullers earth and Manganese Clays Lime and Limestone Slate, Sand and Gravel Barytes Iron ore and ocher Asbestos, Coal and Coke Mica, Talc and Soapstone Mineral waters (estimated) Pottery Gold and Silver.....
$ 5,975,486.00 2,815,149.00 2,799,723.00 2,243,491.00 1,614,134.00 1,398,061.00 553,178.00 541,090.00 532,706.00 349,198.00 206,528.00 97,461.00 30,000.00 9,999.00 3,708.00
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BRICK AND TILE.
Brick and tile manufacturing represents the largest item in the mineral output of the State, there being 76 plants thus engaged. Common, face and paving brick are largely manufactured and the tile products include terra cotta and flue linings, hollow building tile, roofing and drain tile. Other products include sewer pipe, wall coping, pottery and earthenware and stoneware. The total value of these products is approximately $6,000,000 each year.
With the era of construction, in buildings, roads and streets, now going on in Georgia and other States, there is a great demand for brick and tile products and the output of the plants operating in this State is expected to increase each year, as the demand for these materials grows.
The clays of Georgia are especially suited for the manufacture of brick and tile products and this industry is facing a bright future in the State.
CERAMICS.
The word ceramic is used in a general way to cover all the products of the potter's art. Primitive man discovered that clay could be moulded into vessels, that fire hardened these vessels and that a glaze applied preserved them. Due to the vast quantities of kaolin and bauxite in Georgia and because of the excellent refractory properties of these minerals, this State is expected to become one of the important refractory producing centers of the United States.
Georgia's raw ceramic products for making brick, tile, building blocks, terra cotta, roofing, floor and wall tile and fine pottery, vases, table and other white ware, are unequaled in America. In recognition of the potential wealth of the State's clay resources, the Georgia School of Technology, in Atlanta, four years ago organized a Department of Ceramics and erected a building in which students are trained in the science of ceramics.
The result of the study of ceramics at Georgia Tech show that Georgia clays are widely varied, appear practically inexhaustible in supply, and are equal in value to those found in any State in the Union. The output of clay products in the State each year is valued at approximately $10,000,000.00.
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1--Cherokee Brick Company, Macon, Ga., which uses Georgia clay; 2--Plant of Plainville Brick Company, at Plainville, Ga.; 3--Georgia-Carolina Brick Company, Augusta; 4--Chicopee Manufacturing Company's plant at Gainesville, built of Georgia brick; 5--Home of Dr. W. H. Holbrook, of Atlanta, built of Georgia brick; 6--Ceramics building at the Georgia School of Technology, Atlanta, where Georgia clays are studied; 7--College Park high school erected of Georgia brick.
MARBLE.
The use of Georgia marble as building and ornamental stone has made great gains within the past 40 years and the output of the quarries exceeds that of any State in the Union, Vermont excepted. The most valuable marbles are those found in Pickens, Cherokee, Gilmer and Fannin counties, the belt running parallel to the Louisville & Nashville Railroad from near Ball Ground, in Cherokee county north to the State line, a distance of more than 60 miles. The yearly output is valued at approximately $3,000,000.00.
Georgia marble usually has a course texture, but admits of a very fine polish and is admirably suited both for building and memorial purposes. In color, the stone varies from white to almost black, a flesh color also being found. Tests made of the physical and chemical properties of Georgia Marble demonstrate that its durability equals or exceeds that of any marble now being produced.
At Tate, in Pickens county is located the largest marble plant in the State, operated by the Georgia Marble Company, of which Colonel Sam Tate is President. Here is found a chrystalline marble that is used largely in buildings and memorials, this stone being used in the erection of memorials to three former presidents of the United States, Lincoln, McKinley and Harding.
The statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial at Washington is made of twenty-eight large blocks of Georgia marble, totaling approximately 3,000 cubic feet. The statue weighs 175 tons. The Memorial, including the building and statue, erected at Niles, Ohio to the memory of former President William McKinley is built entirely of Georgia Marble. The memorial at Marion, Ohio, in which the body of former President Warren G. Harding rests, is erected of Georgia marble. The design of this memorial, a complete circle conveying the idea of eternity, without beginning or end, is supported by a number of large and stately columns.
Other noted buildings and memorials in which Georgia marble was used includes the State capitols of Minnesota, Rhode Island and Utah; the United States Government building at Boston, St. Luke's hospital, New York, the Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Buckingham Fountain, the largest of its kind in the world, at Chicago, the
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1-2--Statues of Crawford W. Long and Alexander H. Stephens erected of Georgia marble, which are in the National Hall of Fame, Washington; 3--Interior of the plant of the McNeel Marble Company, at Marietta; 4--Marker on Paris Island carved from Georgia marble; 5--Gangsaw used in sawing marble at Tate; 6--Marble quarry at the Tate plant of the Georgia Marble Company; 7-8--McKinley memorial at Niles, Ohio, built of Georgia marble; 9--Lincoln statue in memorial at Washington carved of Georgia marble from Tate; 10; Marietta plant of the Georgia Marble Company; 11-- Memorial at Havana, Cuba, erected of Georgia marble to memory of sailors and. marines who lost their life on the battleship Maine.
Maine Memorial at Havana, the Augusta, Ga., Post-office, the New Orleans Post Office, the Federal Reserve Bank at Cleveland, Ohio, New York Stock Exchange, and the statues of Crawford W. Long and Alexander H. Stephens placed in the Hall of Fame at Washington by the State of Georgia.
The output of marble from the quarries in Georgia each year totals several hundred thousand cubic feet, which is shipped to practically every State in the Union. Modern and improved methods of mining and finishing marble are used in the quarries, which enables Georgia firms to compete with any other marble produced in the world.
GRANITE.
The granite industry in Georgia ranks close to marble in importance, the yearly output being valued at more than two million dollars. Granite is one of the most important and extensive building and monumental stones in the State.
Granite is found in an almost inexhaustible supply in the Piedmont Plateau and big quarries are located in DeKalb, Elbert, Greene, Gwinnett, Rockdale, Newton, Hall, Hancock and other Georgia counties. One of the most interesting and the largest barren granite masses in the United States is Stone Mountain in DeKalb county.
Granite quarrying in Georgia was started at Stone Mountain as early as 1845, but systematic quarrying began about 1869 and is now an important industry in those sections where the stone is found in large areas.
In addition to the granite used in buildings and construction work, such as paving material and curbing, very fine monumental granite is found in the State that has few equals, if any superiors, in the United States, which is used extensively for monuments and memorials.
Georgia ships granite to practically every State in the Union and some adjoining countries. This State leads the south and stands seventh in the United States in the production of granite, being exceeded only by Vermont, Massachusetts, Maine, Colorado, Wisconsin and Maryland.
Inasmuch as the quarries can operate continuously, not being hindered by extreme cold weather, the Georgia plants run full time and are able to fill all orders promptly.
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1--Granite auarry at foot of Stone Mountain; 2--Block of granite ready for the saw: 3--Ledge of Georgia granite, note its height: 4--Surfacing machines at work in plant of Stone Mountain Granite Corporation's plant; 5--Taking granite from a Georgia auarry; 6--Extensive auarry at Elberton in Elbert county: 7--Latest type lathe used for turning granite; 8--General auarry view of the Stone Mountain plant showing ledge 35 feet high.
CEMENT.
Cement ranks third in value of the mineral products in Georgia, this commodity being valued at nearly three million dollars each year. Both natural and portland cements are made in Georgia. Natural cement plants are located in Bartow and Walker counties, while portland plants are operated at Rockmart in Polk county and at Clinchfield in Houston county. A plant is also in course of erection in Washington county. The Polk county plants produce approximately 3,000 barrels of cement daily, while the output at the Clinchfield plant in 1927 totaled 699,356 barrels.
The cement industry is growing rapidly in Georgia as shown by the fact that the Clinchfield plant has been in operation only a few years and the Washington plant is just opening. With the large increase in road and street paving and structural building, the demand for cement is growing each year, a ready market being found for the entire output in the State.
WATER.
Water, so necessary to all life, human, animal and plant, is abundant in Georgia, there being a number of rivers, creeks, and branches in all sections of the State, and in addition, there are natural springs, wells, ponds and lakes. The boundary lines on three sides of the State for long distances are formed by rivers, the Tugalo and Savannah on the east, the St. Marys on the south and the Chattahoochee on the west.
Being a watershed State, practically all the large streams rise in the northern part and flow southward. Pure water is found on practically all farms in the State, some counties having a natural spring or small stream of running water on every land lot.
Mineral springs, high in medicinal value, are found in various sections of the State, from which much water is sold, principally in cities for drinking water. Many of these springs are also used as resorts, such as Indian Spring, which is owned by the State of Georgia, Warm Springs and the Sulphur Springs in Meriwether county, White Sulphur Springs in Hall, Radium Springs at Albany, Lithia Springs, Miona Springs and others.
Georgia has no better advertisement than its water, most of which is "soft."
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ASBESTOS: This mineral, which is fibrous, resembling petrified wood, is found in Georgia in the Piedmont plateau, White, Rabun, Barrow and Habersham counties having mines. There are two varieties, chrysotile and amphibole, mined in this State, the finer products being spun and woven into fireproof materials and for electrical insulations.
Asbestos is a non-conductor of heat and electricity and is therefore used extensively for insulation, and for steam pipe and boiler coverings. It is also used in the manufacture of fire-proof paint and in various building materials, such as lumber shingles and plaster.
BARYTES: Georgia is one of the leading producers of barytes in this country, the value of the output yearly being approximately $600,000.00. Barytes deposits which are worked in a commercial way in Georgia are in Bartow county and at Eton in Murray county.
This mineral is used largely in paints as a substitute for white lead, and in the manufacture of paper, rubber, oilcloths, paper collars and barium salts. It is also used in refining sugar, glazing pottery and for enameling metals. Georgia produces about two-thirds of the Barytes mined in the United States.
BAUXITE: The first bauxite found in America was discovered in Floyd county in 1887. Later deposits were found in Polk, Bartow, Gordon, Chattooga, Walker, Wilkinson, Sumter, Macon, Meriwether and a number of other Georgia counties.
Bauxite is a hydroxide of alumina and the ore is found in the form of large pockets and in beds and is mined in the same manner as clay.
Georgia bauxites are used largely in the manufacture of alum and metal aluminum. It is also used in making fire-bricks and adundum, an artificial abrasive.
CHLORITE: This mineral is a magnesian aluminum silicate, composed of greenish or grey mica-like scales, and because of its soapy appearance is often mistaken for talc or soapstone.
Chlorite is found in commercial quantities near Canton in Cherokee county, the deposits being mined within the last three years, the product being hauled to Canton where it is ground and prepared for market. It is used for foundry facings, coating tarred roof paper, in the manufacture of electrical insulations and for lubricating purposes.
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CHROMITE: This mineral, as far as known, is found in commercial quantities in only two Georgia counties.. Towns and Troup. A limited quantity of the ore has been mined at the Troup deposit. It is usually found in the form of boulders in residual clays.
Chromite is used in the manufacture of hard chrome steel and chrome brick, which stand intense heat. It is also used in calico printing and in electrical batteries and in such compounds as potassium bi-chromate.
COAL: Coal is found in Georgia in Sand, Lookout and Pigeon mountains in Dade, Walker and Chattooga counties. The total coal area of the State is approximately 170 square miles, which is estimated to contain 921,000,000 tons of coal, or enough to last the State at the present rate of consumption, for more than 200 years.
Two mines are operated in Georgia and it is estimated that 12,000,000 tons of coal have been removed so far, the coal from these mines is semi-bituminous, has a high heating value and is used largely for steam and coking purposes.
Approximately 75,000 tons of coal, valued at $375,000.00 are mined annually in Georgia.
COPPER: The most extensive copper deposits found in Georgia are in Fannin, Cherokee and Haralson counties. Deposits have also been found in Lincoln, Lumpkin and Fulton counties. The deposits are of the Cambrian and Archaean rock types.
The Fannin deposits are near the Ducktown mining district of Tennessee. The Cherokee deposits have been worked at one mine, near Canton.
Copper was mined in Georgia as early as 1850 and it is considered a valuable metal, being used for copper wire and for other purposes. The United States one-cent coin contains 95 per cent copper, while all gold and silver coins contain 10 per cent copper.
CORUNDUM: This is an aluminum oxide and is next to the diamond in hardness. There are three varieties, sapphire, corundum and emery, and two varieties, sapphire and corundum, have been found in many north Georgia counties, particularly in Towns, Union, and Rabun, the chief output of the State being from a mine in Rabun county.
In addition to gem material, corundum has an extensive use as an abrasive.
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FELDSPAR: The feldspars are widely distributed throughout the Piedmont and Appalachian areas of Georgia and are associated with mica and quartz. There are mines in Paulding, White and Rabun counties. The Georgia output are potash feldspars and have been used for fertilizer purposes, after being chemically treated to make the potash soluble.
Besides a potash, feldspar is used extensively in making china, porcelain, whitewash, glazes and in all metal polishes.
FLUORSPAR: This mineral is used largely in smelting ore and in the manufacture of opalescent glass and hydro-fluoric acid. It has a variety of colors, the most common being violet and green.
Fine specimens of this mineral have been found in northwest Georgia, especially in Gordon and Chattooga counties.
FULLERS EARTH: Georgia is one of the main producers of Fullers Earth in the United States, the yearly output being valued at $1,750,000.00. This State is exceeded only by Florida in the production of this mineral, which is found in a number of Georgia counties over a more or less scattered area. Extensive deposits are in Bibb, Columbia, Decatur, Twiggs and Stewart counties. There are plants in Decatur, Stewart and Twiggs counties, the output of which in 1926 was valued at $1,614,134.00.
Fullers Earth is a clay-like material used largely in decolorizing and clarifying oils and fats and in the preparation of medicines, in the manufacture of soap and as an absorbent.
GOLD: This metal has been mined in Georgia for threequarters of a century and the outlook for a revival of this industry is seen with the opening up of new mines in Lumpkin county, the work of which is going forward rapidly.
Gold was discovered in Georgia in the Dahlonega section in 1829. By 1830 the "gold fever" had fairly developed in Georgia and the Government established a mint at Dahlonega in 1838 which continued in operation until the outbreak of the War Between the States in 1861. The greatest output of any one year in Georgia was in 1843, when over a half million dollars were coined. A total of $6,115,569.00wascoinedbythe Dahlonega mint during its operation. The total amount of gold produced in Georgia from the time of its discovery until the present time is estimated at $20,000,000.00.
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The gold deposits of Georgia belong to the Appalachian gold fields that extend from Nova Scotia to Alabama. The gold in Georgia is found in a number of narrow, parallel belts, having a northeast-southwest trend. While the most important belts are in the Dahlonega and Hall county area, yet another belt traverses Lincoln, Columbia, McDuffie and Warren counties, in the eastern part of the State.
The gold output in Georgia now is a little more than $3,000.00 annually, but intensive mining operations are in progress again at Dahlonega, which are expected to greatly increase Georgia's gold production.
GRAPHITE: Both amorphous and crystalline varieties of this mineral are found in Georgia, particularly in Bartow, Pickens, Elbert, Hall, Madison, Douglas, Cobb and Troup counties. A mine is located at Emerson in Bartow county which produces an abundant supply of this mineral, which is used as a filler for commercial fertilizer.
IRON ORE: Several kinds of iron ores are found in Georgia, the most common being the brown, limonites and fossil or hematite ores. Brown ores are most abundant in Polk, Bartow and Floyd counties, with workable deposits in other northwest Georgia counties. The red or fossil iron ores are found in Dade, Walker, Chattooga and Catoosa counties. These ore beds average more than two feet in thickness and are approximately 175 miles long, and may be mined to a depth of several hundred feet.
The iron ore mined yearly in Georgia has an approximate value of $400,000.00.
LIMESTONES: Cambrian, Silurian and Carboniferous limestone, suitable for lime, fluxing and building materials, exist in great abundance in northwest Georgia. A formation of magnesian limestone furnishes much of the lime used in the State, as well as a large quantity for concrete and general building purposes.
A lime-producing plant is located near Cartersville, the product being largely hydrated, although quick lime is also produced. Limestone, found principally in Pickens, Gilmer, Bartow, Dade, Catoosa and Polk counties, is used largely for tarazza, etc. Lime beds suitable for agricultural purposes, also are found in sections of south Georgia.
The output of limestone in Georgia each year is valued at more than a half million dollars.
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MANGANESE: These ores in Georgia are confined chiefly to Bartow, Floyd and Polk counties, large deposits being found near Cartersville in the residual clays. Manganese ores have been worked in Georgia for a number of years, the product formerly being sent to England, but of late years the ores have found a ready market in this country, where they are used in the manufacture of steel and for bleaching flour.
MARLS: Marls of good quality are found over a large portion of the State. They carry a considerable amount of phosphoric acid and potash, two of the most important plant foods and they have been used as a natural fertilizer with good results.
Practically all south Georgia counties carry marl deposits of more or less agricultural value.
MICA: Mica, found in a number of Georgia counties, is being worked extensively in sections. It is used in the electrical industry and ground mica is used in wall paper and roofing and as a lubricant.
This mineral, which glistens in the sunlight, is known in Georgia as isinglass and as "Poor Man's Gold."
OCHER: The ocher mines in Georgia produce more than one-half of the yellow ocher output of the United States. The deposits in this State are confined to a narrow belt about eight miles long and less than two miles wide on the Etowah river in Bartow county. Three plants in that belt are active in the production of ocher, the output being approximately 1,000 tons annually.
PRECIOUS STONES: While there has been no systematic mining for gems in Georgia, a number of valuable precious stones have been found accidentally in sections of north Georgia during other mining operations.
Gems found in this State include diamond, ruby, amethyst, rose quartz, rutilated quartz, smoky quartz, agate, jasper, opal, beryl, garnet, rutile and moonstone.
POTASH-BEARING SLATES: Slates containing from seven to ten per cent of potash are found in north Georgia. The slate, which is mined in Gordon county, is used in the manufacture of roofing and it also believed that Georgia slates are exceptionally fine raw material for the extraction of potash for fertilizer and other purposes.
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PYRITE: This is an iron sulphide used chiefly in the manufacture of sulphuric acid. The mineral is found and is mined in a number of north Georgia counties, particularly in Haralson, Lumpkin, Cherokee, Paulding, Cobb, Douglas and Fannin.
ROAD MATERIALS: Materials which may be used in building roads are found extensively in Georgia and are evenly distributed throughout the different sections of the State. Nearly all varieties of stone, lime, cement, gravel, chert, sand and natural soil, used in highway and street construction are produced in this State.
SAND AND GRAVEL: Production of sand has become quite an industry in a number of middle Georgia counties where there is a belt of natural sand extending almost across the entire State. This sand is "washed" by the latest processes, graded and loaded into cars and shipped all over the country and is used in buildings, or in any material where sand and lime are mixed.
Counties in which large sand beds are found are Crawford, Taylor and Talbot, and others which ship much sand include Chatham, Warren, Telfair, Thomas, Quitman, Dougherty and Wheeler. Sand is also obtained from a number of streams in Georgia and prepared for sale.
SERICITE: Sericite, a variety of mica which resembles talc, of exceptional purity is found in Pickens county in beds from a few inches to six feet or more in thickness, interlined with quartz schist This sericite has recently attracted much attention as a raw material for the extraction of potash.
Two companies are mining this material in Georgia. SERPENTINE: This mineral, which is a silicate of magnesia, usually carrying more or less impurities, is found principally in Cherokee county, where it is mined The stone is used almost exclusively for interior finish and decorations for stairways, corridors, mantels and pedestals.
TALC AND SOAPSTONE: Talc has been found in a number of localities in Georgia, mines being located in several north Georgia counties Soapstone is considered an impure form of talc.
Talc is used principally for pencils, gas tips, paper filler, lubricants, fire-proof paints and in toilet powders.
TRIPOLI: This mineral is found in a number of northwest Georgia counties and is used largely in the manufacture of scouring soaps and polishing powders.
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MANUFACTURING.
Although Georgia has always been regarded largely as an Agricultural State, yet manufacturing has made marvelous progress within the last few years. The industries in Georgia in 1926, the latest figures available, manufactured products valued at $811, 076,401.00, which compares with the farm products valued at approximately $300,000,000.00
Textiles led in manufactures, their value being $247,897,961.00, with iron and steel products valued at $165,342,246.00 second, while oil mill goods valued at $42,080,463.00 took third place.
More than 150,000 employees, receiving approximately $275, 000,000.00 annually in salaries and wages, are employed in the 5,000 establishments in the State, which manufacture a large variety of articles
The presence of an abundance of raw material, an ideal climate which favors high production, unlimited power, and native-born Anglo-Saxon labor, are factors that enter largely into the great increase in manufacturing in Georgia.
Manufacturing industries have always been encouraged in Georgia as demonstrated by the Act passed by the Legislature giving counties and cities the authority to exempt from taxation for a period of five years new industries and extensions of old operations. So far 84 counties and 118 municipalities have held elections and voted the tax exemption
The following list shows the products and the value thereof manufactured in Georgia in 1926 as compiled by the Georgia Manufacturers Association and the State Department of Commerce and Labor:
Textiles.... Foundry Products Oil Mills Furniture, fixtures, etc...... Fertilizers Flour, Grist Mills, etc Lumbering... Candy, Bakeries, etc Soft drinks Naval Stores Leather goods..
$247,897,961.00 165,342,246.00 42,080,463.00 36,027,648.00 34,160,849.00 27,563,572.00 27,500,000.00 25,678,465.00 25,340,466.00 23,000,000.00 20,005,659.00
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Printing and Publishing Brick, tile, other clays Wearing Apparel Marble, Granite (finished) Ice Plants Canneries Medicine Compounds Cigars, Cigarettes, etc Chemicals Miscellaneous
Total
18,739,735.00 15,713,394.00 14,152,935.00 13,446,532.00 13,948,038.00 7,097,683.00 3,494,514.00 2,475,756.00
1,088,901.00 46,321,581.00
$811,076,401.00
TEXTILES.
Georgia stands fourth in the number of cotton spindles in operation in the United States, being exceeded only by Massachusetts, North Carolina and South Carolina. Massachusetts leads with 10,111,846 spindles, North Carolina is second with 6,200,292, South Carolina being third with 5,461,614, while Georgia is next with 3,061,000.
Georgia's rapid gain as a textile center is indicated by the fact that 180,688 spindles, or 31.5 per cent of all the new spindles in the south in 1927 were placed in Georgia, exceeding the number added by any other State. Out of the 69 mills moving to the south from other states during the last three years, 17 plants located in Georgia, more than were placed in any other one State. Of the 12,832 looms added in the south in 1927, Georgia showed the greatest gain with 4,047, with North Carolina second with 3326 looms.
Textile products, valued at approximately $250,000,000.00 annually, leads all industries in the State.
Georgia is now producing more than 60 per cent of the fabric for automobile tires manufactured in America, some mills beingdevoted entirely to the manufacture of this material.
The largest spinning unit on one floor in America is at the Bibb Manufacturing Company's plant at Columbus, there being 100,000 spindles in operation on one floor.
That the south is rapidly becoming the textile center of the United States is shown by the fact that at the close of 1927 there
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1--Seaboard Silk mill at Elberton; 2--Atlantic Refining Company's plant at Brunswick; 3--Cotton mill at Tifton; 4--Furniture company at Rome; 5--Inside scene in the Pepperell Manufacturing Company's plant at Lrndale; 6--Plant of Georgia White Brick Company at Gordon, Georgia, which uses Georgia clay; 7--Unit of the manufacturing plants of Bona Allen, Inc., at Buford, Ga.; 8--Employee's home at wGhitihcospideeewMaalknsufaancdtusrtirnegetCs opmavpeadn.y. Gainesville. They contain modern conveniences
were 18,424,000 spindles operating in the cotton states compared with 16,280,696 spindles in the eastern states, the south leading by 2,000,000 spindles.
Factors favoring the continued growth of the textile industry in Georgia are abundant electric power, plentiful and loyal labor, proximity to the raw supply of cotton, favorable climatic conditions for full-time operation, and adequate transportation facilities.
Textile mills in Georgia are being built along modern lines, the welfare of the employees being given due consideration. Some plants have provided for their employees brick homes, fitted with electricity, water and other modern conveniences, while the streets and sidewalks are paved, and schools, churches, and community centers are provided.
In 1927 southern mills used 5,404,714 bales of cotton, or 72.97 per cent of the total consumption for the year, while mills in all other states used only 2,001,923 bales or only 27.03 per cent of cotton consumed. Southern mills operated 67,865,118,776 spindle-hours, while mills in other states operated 36,540,348,849 spindle-hours. Southern mills, by virtue of favorable conditions, worked 65 per cent of the total spindle-hours in that year.
Georgia mills consumed more than one million bales of cotton in 1927.
NAVAL STORES.
Georgia is the leading Naval Stores producing State in the Union and Savannah is the largest export city in the world for these products. Brunswick also ships large quantities of these products.
Naval Stores, which include turpentine, rosin, etc., valued at $23,000,000.00 were produced in 65 south Georgia counties in 1926, this industry employing 12,500 people.
This industry is confined exclusively to south Georgia. The process includes scarifying or cutting the bark off the trunk of trees a distance of several feet, at the bottom of which is attached a cup into which the gum oozes. This gum is distilled into turpentine, the residue being rosin.
There are approximately 600 naval stores operators in the State, each of which produces an average of 354 barrels of turpentine annually.
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1--Lee county forest showing turpentine boxes in place: 2-3-4-5-6-7--Show process of turpentining trees in south Georgia. These photos were made in Irwin county, near Ocilla. by the U. S. Forest Service, which supplied pictures; 8--Turpentine still in Jeff Davis county; 9--Naval Stores plant of the Hercules Powder Company at Brunswick; 10--Thousands of barrels of rosin ready for export at Savannah.
LUMBERING.
Georgia has 23,000,000 acres of forest land which represents 60.7 per cent of the entire area of the State and in 1926 a total of 1,087 saw mills cut 1,145,489 thousand-board feet of lumber valued at $27,500,000.00. Yellow pine represented 85 per cent of the lumber, 982,245 thousand-feet being valued at $20,000v 000.00, with other trees, such as ash, maple, sycamore, walnut, cypress, oak, gums, poplar, beech, chestnut, elm, hickory, producing the remainder, valued at $7,500,000.00.
Georgia is the sixth State in lumber p oduction in the sou'h being exceeded by Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. It is fifth in production of yellow pine lumber, being exceeded by Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama and Texas.
While more than one billion feet of lumber are being sawed in the State each year, the local demand is not supplied, there being approximately $5,000,000.00 worth of lumber brought into the State each year.
The pine is the State's most valuable tree. It furnishes an income of $43,000,000.00 annually to the State from lumber, naval stores and poles alone, to say nothing of the value of the firewood used in the homes and in industries, and even the stumps, are dug up and utilized for making pulp used in the manufacture of paper. Pine straw is used for a number of purposes on the farm, such as bedding for animals and for fertilizers.
The pine belt covers about 15,000,000 acres principally in south Georgia. In addition, there are valuable hardwoods in Georgia, in both north and south Georgia. There are 1,000,000 acres of virgin timber in the State.
Georgia hardwoods are used largely in the manufacture of automobile bodies. The Savannah River Lumber Company recently received an order for approximately 100,000,000 feet of hardwood timber, valued at $7,500,000.00, which is to be shipped to Detroit for use in the motor vehicle industry.
Furniture, fixtures, building material and other woodworking plants in the State manufacture products each year valued at. $40,000,000.00
There are approximately 500,000 poles used in Georgia by the power companies, telegraph and telephone companies, creosoted pine being largely used.
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1--Giant Pines being hauled to mill in Sumter county; 2-3-Shows different methods of hauling logs to mills: 4--Big trucks are used for hauling logs at Americus; 5--Loading rosin for export at Brunswick; 6-Oxen are used in clearing woods for power Projects in north Georgia; 7-Naval Stores plant of Hercules Powder plant at Brunswick: 8--Where Appalachian highway winds through virgin forest near Albany GineoDrgoiuaghpeorrttyfcoor^uenxtpyo;rt9.--A sawmill in Jasper county; 10--Lumber being loaded at
FORESTRY.
In order that the forests of Georgia might be protected, conserved and increased, the State Legislature in 1921 created the State Board of Forestry, but as there were no funds provided and the duties of the Board were purely to investigate and make recommendations to the General Assembly, the law was strengthened by the legislature in 1925 when the Forestry Act was passed, which clothed the Board with authority and provided funds for its maintenance.
Georgia has 23,000,000 acres of forest land which is more than 60 per cent of the entire land area of the State. Trees are already growing on this land, or it is not needed for agricultural purposes, some of it being hilly and streaked with gullies, being suitable to re-forest, which would not only reclaim much of the land but at the same time would grow valuable timber and in a measure, protect the State's water supply.
The tree has been called the farmer's best friend. It gives wood for all purposes, such as fuel and building material, furnishes shade, and the leaves take up poisons of the air and also fertilize the soil. Forests protect both the soil and the water supply.
Georgia is rich in forest flora, the wide difference between the climate of the northern and southern part of the State brings into the compass of 320 miles north and south, most of the trees found from Florida to Pennsylvania. Of a list of 163 varieties of trees growing in Georgia, 53 of them are regarded as producing valuable timber. In addition to the large pine acreage, valuable hardwood trees, cypress and gums, grow in Georgia.
There is a great opportunity for the growing of hardwoods in Georgia, such as dogwood, persimmon, black locust, sourwood, mulberry, oak and walnut. The textile industry uses dogwood and persimmon trees in the manufacture of shuttles and the demand for the trees is increasing. Besides the timber value of these hardwoods many of them produce fruits and flora for honey that would bring good returns to the farmers while the trees are growing large enough for saw-wood.
The State Forestry Board is conducting an intensive campaign to encourage reforestration in the State, it being estimated that lands set in trees now will yield lumber in 20 years. An aggressive campaign is also being conducted to prevent forest
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1--Students at Tallulah Falls Institute being taught how to care for a tree; 2-- Loblolly pine reforestration scene near Lumber City; 3--Longleaf pine forest protected from fire; 4--Giant white pine in the Vogel State park, in North Georgia: 5-- Pine tree in Greene county apparently killed by fire; 6--Live Oak at Thomasville, one of the largest in the south: 7--Shows methods of lumbering which are being discouraged by State Forestry Department; 8--Water Oak at Douglas: 9--Forest scene in Okefenokee Swamp, which contains a wealth of timber, both pine and hard woods; 10--Well protected forest in McDuffie county.
fires, it being estimated by the Board that approximately twomillion acres of forests are burned over every year, causing damage estimated at from three to five million dollars. Local organizations are being formed to protect timber from fires, the legal time when woods may be burned in Georgia being between January 1 and March 1 each year.
The Forestry Board states that Georgia's 23,000,000 acresof forest land, if protected from fire and handled under forest management, are capable of maintaining an industry that should contribute at least $75,000,000.00 annually to the wealth of the State.
FOREST FIRE LAW.
So important to the Georgia farmer is the law regarding "burning off the woods," the legal time being during January and February only each year, that the Act and its provisions are herewith printed for general information:
Extract from the code of the Georgia law of 1910 as amended by the Legislature in 1927:
ARTICLE 2
SECTION 227. WHO MAY. NO person but a resident of the county where the firing is done, owning lands therein, or domiciled thereon, outside of any town in-corporation, shall set on fire any woods, land or marshes, nor shall such persons, except between the first of January and the first of March annually.
SECTION 228. NOTICE. When such person shall desire to set. fire within a said time, he shall notify all persons who occupy lands adjoining him, by residence thereon, or cultivation, or enclosure of any portion of the tract or settlement, of the day and hour of the firing, at least one day prior thereto. Such notice^ need not be given if, on sudden emergency, due caution should: require firing to render one's premises safe.
SECTION 229. PENALTY. Any person setting fire in violation; of the preceding sections shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
SECTION 230. PENALTY FOR LETTING WOODS CATCH FIRE.. Persons, either by themselves or agents, who permit fire to get into the woods, lands, or marshes, through neglect, are withirn the meaning of the three preceding sections
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1--New building at the Georgia Experiment Station, near Griffin, named In honor of Hon. J. J. Flynt, of Spalding county: 2--Laboratory scene of State Chemist showing tests being made of fertilizer samples of State Department of Agriculture; 3-7--Coastal Plain Experiment Station at Tifton; 4--Farmers observing tobacco tests at Tifton Station: 5--Laboratory section of the State Veterinarian where tests for animal and poultry diseases are made; 6-9--Sections of Pure Food and Drug Laboratory of the State Chemist where official samples of foods, drugs, feedstuffs are being analyzed for the Department of Agriculture; 8--Fruit tree thriving under care of entomologists.
POWER.
Use of electricity in Georgia is coming to be more general as the power of the streams is developed, there being power service in 149 of the 161 counties in the State. Only 12 counties are without electricity. There are 370 cities and towns in Georgia with population of more than one million people using electricity.
Georgia's power, developed both from water and steam plants, is approximately 500,000 horse power which is under utility and municipal management. It is estimated that approximately a half million horse power is still undeveloped in the streams in the State.
Power is more and more in demand as industries open up in the State and as electricity is more generally used both in the cities and towns and on the farms. As power stations are established in different sections of the State it is more easy to place electricity on the farms with which to light the homes and to operate machinery of various kinds.
Development of electric power in Georgia on a large scale dates to the building of the Tallulah Falls plant by the Georgia Power Company in 1913. Since that time this company has developed other power plants in northeast Georgia on the Tallulah, Tugalo and Chattahoochee rivers. Other companies that have also been active in power development in the State include the Columbus Electric & Power Company, and its subsidiary the South Georgia Power Company, which has built power plants on the Chattahoochee river and other streams in southwest Georgia; the Central Georgia Power Company, at Macon, with plants on the Ocmulgee river; the Savannah Electric Company and the Baker County Power Company
It is estimated that approximately $25,000,000.00 will be spent in Georgia in 1928 on power plants. The Savannah River Electric Company plans a 120,000 horse power project to cost $20,000, 000.00 on the Savannah river, 20 miles north of Augusta. Crisp county has voted more than one million dollars with which to develop a power plant on Flint river in that county.
Georgia was fourth in the states of the south in 1927 in the development of water power
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1--Tallulah Falls power plant of the Georgia Power Company; 2--Hydro-electric plant of the South Georgia Power Company on Flint river at Albany: 3--Bartlett's Ferry electric plant at Columbus on the Chattahoochee river. Unit of Columbus Electric and Power Company; 4--Dam and power house on the Ocmulgee river, near Jackson, in Butts county, owned by Central Georgia Power Plant, of Macon; 5-- Tugalo dam which forms Lake Tugalo, unit of Georgia Power Company; 6--Credille hydro-electric plant at Fort Gaines of the South Georgia Power Company; 7--North Highlands power plant at Columbus of the Columbus Electric and Power Company.
EDUCATION.
Georgia has always taken much interest in the education of its citizens since the founding of the State in 1733. The educational system of the State consists of elementary and high schools, agricultural and industrial schools, and colleges.
The Georgia University, at Athens, was the first State University chartered in America and Wesleyan College at Macon, was the first college in the United States to grant a diploma to a woman, Miss Catherine Brewer.
Community schools supported by tuition paid by the patrons gave way to a system of state-supported schools following the adoption of the State Constitution in 1868, which provided for ""A thorough system of general education to be given forever free to all children of the State." The legislature in 1870 passed the first school laws and General J. R. Lewis was appointed by the governor as the first State School Commissioner. Dr. M. L. Duggan is the present State Superintendent.
The system has been greatly enlarged so that today a child may obtain a complete education in the State from the first grade and continuing through college. Schools for the elementary grades and also junior and senior high schools are accessible to practically every child in the State.
Consolidation of rural schools has eliminated a large number of one-teacher schools, the number of such schools in the State in 1926 being 882, Georgia being exceeded by only two other southeren states, Mississippi and Texas in consolidated schools. Consolidated schools provide graded classes, better buildings higher average attendance and more efficient teachers.
Pupils from the distant communities are transported to the schools in busses, there being approximately 600 such vehicles now in use by the consolidated schools in the State.
The State Department of Education reports that in 1926 the public school fund in the State totaled $19,289,759.87. The value of school property was set at $37,574,124.54. There were 7,158 schools in the State system, the report showed, and 17,881 teachers were employed to teach the 692,907 pupils enrolled.
There were 614,386 pupils enrolled in the elementary grades, while 75,617 attended the high schools. The number of four-year accredited High schools in Georgia increased from 167 in 1918
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1--Troup county schools holding a rally at LaGrange; 2--Valdosta district high school; 3--Modern Georgia school, showing pupils and school bus; 4--Grammar school building at Rome, designed by Robert & Company, Atlanta; 5--One of Bibb county's 46 public schools; 6--School at Woodbine; 7--Flowery Branch school; 8--Lakeland Consolidated and Lanier county high school buildings; 9--Cedartown high school building; 10--Wayne county high school at Jesup; 11--New school building at TallaDoosa; 12--Eatonton public school.
to 345 in 1927 and the enrollment of pupils grew from 23,000 to 49,000, and the number of graduates from 3,600 to 9,500.
Counties and districts are enabled to provide additional funds by local taxation with which to operate the schools for a longer term than the State funds provide for.
Classes in Vocational Education, such as agricultural, home economics, and trades and industrial subjects, are being taught in many Georgia schools, the funds for same being provided by the State and National Government. The Smith-Hughes law which provides federal funds for Vocational education was sponsored in congress by United States Senator Hoke Smith and Congressman Dudley M. Hughes, both of Georgia.
COLLEGES.
STATE UNIVERSITY: The State University, of which Dr. C. M. Snelling is Chancellor, is located at Athens, and was chartered by the legislature in 1785, and is said to be the first State University chartered in the United States. It opened in 1803 with between 30 and 45 students enrolled. Several thousand students receive training each year at the University
The University offers courses in the various arts and sciences, including pharmacy, journalism, agriculture, forestry, engineering etc. The Medical department of the University is located at Augusta.
In addition to the regular term that extends from September to June, a Summer School is held at the University each year which is attended by thousands of students and teachers from over the State.
^ STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE: The Georgia State College of Agriculture, which is an integral part of the University system of the State, is located at Athens, and as at present constituted, was organized in 1906, for the purpose of expanding agricultural education and training in farm subjects in the State. Dr. Andrew Soule is president of the college.
Subjects pertaining to all phases of farm life in the State such as crops, soil, livestock, poultry, marketing, etc., are taught at
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1--Terrell Hall at University at Athens; 2--Entrance to Georgia State Teachers' college; 3--Pound auditorium at the same college at Athens; 4--Physical education class at State College of Agriculture. Athens; 5--Memorial Hall at University of Georgia, Athens; 6--Hardman hall; 7--Soule hall; 8--Connor hall, three buildings of the State College of Agriculture at Athens; 9--Historic chapel at University of Georgia; 10--Lucy Cobb Institute entrance at Athens.
the college. Farm agents receive training there, approximately 100 counties in the State employing Farm and Home Economics agents at present, who give general agricultural information to the farmers in the counties in which they are assigned.
The State College holds institutes at the college and in various sections of the State during the year, and a radio lecture on some farm topic is broadcast each week day from Athens over W. S. B., the station of the Atlanta Journal.
GEORGIA TECH: The Georgia School of Technology, which is located in Atlanta, was established in 1885, in order that the youth of the State might be given education and training in technical subjects. Dr. M. L. Brittain is president.
Georgia Tech offers courses in general technical, engineering and mechanical subjects. Textile engineering is one of the main subjects taught, there being a great demand for men with such education and training since the south is becoming such a textile center. Electrical engineering is another course that is popular at Tech, following the power development in Georgia and other southern states.
Realizing the possibilities of the clays of Georgia, a Department of Ceramics was organized at Tech several years ago, which is devoted to the development of the uses of Georgia clays.
OTHER STATE COLLEGES.
Other State colleges, agricultural and normal schools include the Georgia State Teachers College, Athens; Georgia State College for Women, Milledgeville; Georgia State Woman's College, Valdosta; North Georgia Agricultural College, Dahlonega; Bowdon State Normal and Industrial College, Bowdon; Georgia Normal College, Statesboro; Middle Georgia Agricultural College, Cochran; South Georgia Agricultural and Mechanical College, Tifton; South Georgia Junior State College, Douglas; State Agricultural and Normal College, Americus.
District colleges are located as follows: Fourth district, Carrollton; Fifth, Monroe; Sixth, Barnesville; Seventh, Powder Springs; Eighth, Madison; Ninth, Clarkesville; Tenth, Granite Hill, near Sparta.
Special State Institutions are the Academy for the Blind, Macon; Georgia School for the Deaf, Cave Spring, Georgia Training School for Mental Defectives, Gracewood.
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; 1--Georgia Tech. Atlanta: 2-3--Wesleyan College. Macon; 4--Administration building Georgia Normal College. Statesboro: 5--Library at Emory University. Atlanta; 6-Airplane scene of Emiry University; 7--South Georgia A. & M. College at Tifton; 8--Mercer University. Macon; 9-10--Gymnasium and First building erected at Agnes Scott Coll ge at Decatur; 11--Students of the Georgia Military Academy at College Park in sitting-up exercises.
A number of private and denominational colleges in Georgia include Agnes Scott College, Decatur; Andrew College, Cuthbert; Berry Schools, Rome; Bessie Tift College, Forsyth; Brenau College, Gainesville; Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur; Darl ngton School for Boys, Rome; Emory University, Atlanta, with branches at Oxford and Valdosta; Georgia Military Academy, College Park; Georgia Military Institute, Milledgeville; LaGrange College, LaGrange; Lucy Cobb Institute, Athens; Marist College, Atlanta; Mercer University, Macon; NacoocheeRabun Gap Institute, Nacoochee; Norman Park Institute, Norman Park; Oglethorpe University, Atlanta; Piedmont College, Demorest; Piedmont Institute, Waycross; Reinhardt College, Waleska; Riverside Military Academy, Gainesville; Shorter College, Rome; Tallulah Falls Institute, Tallulah Falls; Wesleyan College, Macon.
CLUB WORK.
An important work sponsored by the State College of Agriculture is the Boys and Girls 4-H-Heart, Head, Hands, Healthclubs in the State. The results obtained by these clubs members show the possibilities of diversified and intensified farming in Georgia.
In 1927 there were enrolled 8,384 members in the girls club in 58 counties, which were organized into 539 groups. The value of the work of these clubs was estimated to be $652,860.00, which included the growing, selling and canning of vegetables and other foods.
There were 13,134 boys enrolled in the boys clubs, who specialized in growing corn, cotton, potatoes, peanuts, pigs, chickens, dairy calves and sheep. The boys grew 409 pounds of lint cotton per acre as compared with the general farm average in the State of 154 pounds, while 53.58 bushels of corn were grown per acre as against a general State average of 14 bushels. Frank Crew, of Paulding county, grew 182 bushels of corn on one acre. Ninety odd bushels of sweet potatoes were grown by the club boys as compared with the State average of 80 bushe's per acre.
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1--Original cabin in which Berry school at Rome was founded; 2--Chapel at Berry; 3--"Gate of Opportunity" at Berry, showing mountain youth entering; 4-- South Georgia College at McRae; 5--Looking across the court from Upshaw Hall at Bessie Tift College at Forsyth: 6--Darlington School for Boys, at Rome; 7--Terrell Hall and general view of Georgia State College for Women at Milledgeville: 8-9--Building and inside craft work scene at Tallulah Falls Institute, at Tallulah Falls; 10-- Georgia State Woman's College at Valdosta.
Charles Slappey, of Sumter county, broke the world's tonlitter record, his pigs averaging 308 pounds at six months old, the 11 pigs weighing a total of 3,395 pounds at that age.
The Grand Champion Jersey club heifer shown at the 1927 National Dairy show was exhibited by Dallas Batcheldor, member of the Muscogee county calf club.
FARM CLUB WORK.
"Nothing about the activities of the farm has impressed me more than the work of the training of the youth of the farm, through boys and girls clubs, for the places they are to fill in their country's future. These young men and women are the most important products of the American farm. Let me join you in the hope and faith that the boys and girls, your jewels, will take the burdens where we lay them down, and carry them forward with courage and fortitude in the interest of our whole people and to the glory of Him who rules over the destinies of nations."--General John J. Pershing.
TELEPHONES.
Rural telephones are increasing rapidly in Georgia, there being 18,600 on Georgia farms, which enable the farmers to keep in constant touch with the outside world and also to get quick information as to the market quotations on products. The telephone is also largely used in selling and routing shipments of produce, especially perishable fruits.
There are approximately 169,465 telephones in the State, 136,964 of which are owned by the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company, the remaining 32,501 being operated by local lines. There is a complete network of telephone lines over the State ,. which enables local connection to be made easily.
There are 470,403 miles of wire and 4,644 miles of poles in the Southern Bell system in the State. Frequent use of the telephone in Georgia is indicated by the fact that there were 371, 500,000 local calls and 4,121,490 long distance calls made over the Southern Bell lines in the State during 1927.
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1--La Grange College dormitory at La Grange; 2-3 -Campus scene and Basketball team of Georgia School for Deaf at Cave Spring; 4-5--Model farm home, barn and Building in course of erection at Rabun Gap-Nacoochee Institute in the north Georgia mountains: 6--Calf club winners at Athens in 1927; 7--Brooks county Pig Club members selecting their gilts at Quitman: 8--4-H Club boys raising "Old Glory" at Camp Wilkins, Athens; 9--Ben Hill county club members exhibiting th( ir pigs.
STONE MOUNTAIN.
DeKalb county, Georgia, possesses the largest solid rock in the world, which has been termed the "Eighth Wonder of the World"--Stone Mountain, upon which is being carved the huge Confederate Memorial.
This mountain of solid granite is 700 feet higher than the surrounding country, which is 1,200 feet above sea-level, thus the top of Stone Mountain is approximately 2,000 feet high. It is seven miles around the mountain and 563 acres of granite show above ground and altogether it contains more than seven billion cubic feet of granite, which if sold at prevailing prices would bring more than five billion dollars. The entire mountain includes 2,200 acres of land. This mammoth rock is not in a mountainous section, but is in a farming country.
This monolith which juts up out of the ground like a huge boulder, surrounded by farming land which extends to its very base on all sides, presents a scene unequaled in the world and has long been the center of interest of scientists and geologists. The east, south and west sides are generally sloping, and may be climbed, but the north side presents a sheer precipice several hundred feet high.
It is on the bold relief of the sheer north side that the Confederate Memorial is being carved, the central group of which will be equestrian figures of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis. The figures of General Lee, which is being completed first, including his horse, "Traveler," is 130 feet in length. General Lee's head is 18 feet long and the horse alone is 95 feet high.
Other figures representing the Confederate Army and a Memorial Hall are also planned as part of the Memorial, the funds for which are, in part, being obtained from the sale of a special Stone Mountain Memorial coin, a 50-cent piece, which was authorized by Congress.
The mountain is composed of an even-textured medium-grained muscovite granite adapted to all kinds of structural and street construction. Quarries located at the sloping base of the mountain ship the granite to all parts of the United States.
Springs at the base of the mountain afford drinking water and thousands of picknickers visit the spot each year, especially in summer.
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HIGHWAYS.
Following the general use of motor vehicles, Georgia realized the importance of improved roads and the General Assembly in 1919 created the State Highway Department, which is engaged in building a system of highways over the State from countyseat to county-seat.
There are 7,048 miles in the State aid road system and the amount of money spent by the Highway Department since itsorganization through 1927 totals $58,945,515.95, according te the report of the department which also stated that there had been "constructed in round numbers 4,000 miles of roads, of which 1,211 miles have been paved." A total of 145,957 lineal feet, or 27.6 miles of bridges have also been built by the Department, the report says.
The work of the Highway Department is divided into nine divisions over the State with headquarters in each and with offices in Atlanta and shops and offices in East Point.
The roads are built with funds furnished by the State, counties and the federal government, the State funds being derived from the sale of motor vehicular license tags and from part of the tax on gasoline sold in the State. The funds available for highway construction in Georgia are increasing each year, the total amount spent by the Highway Department in 1927 being $13, 624,600.09, according to its report filed in January 1928.
AUTOMOBILES. The number of motor vehicles operated in Georgia is increasing rapidly each year, 262,602 passenger cars, 38,133 trucks and 792 motorcycles being registered in 1927 the license fees totaling $3,712,978.42. Indications are that the number of passenger cars operating in the State during 1928 will total more than 300,000' there being a big gain in tags bought during the first three months of 1928 over the same period last year.
STEAMSHIP LINES. Huge ocean liners and smaller craft operate on regular schedule to and from Georgia ports, particularly Savannah and Brunswick, and traffic is heavy on these vessels which afford Georgia, citizens an opportunity to take an ocean voyage when desired. Georgians from all over the State patronize these steamers.
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1--Bridge across Chattahoochee river at West Point: 2--Winding road between Macon and Perry in Houston county; 3--Concrete span across Savannah river near Elberton; 4--Brunswick and Darien road; 5--Draw span across Savannah river near Savannah; 6--Athens to Lexington highway in Clarke county; 7--Route 26 in Effingham county; 8--Flint river bridge at Bainbridge; 9--Columbia county sand-clay road near Harlem; 10--Macadam road in Floyd county; 11--Bridge in Camden county near Kingsland across St. Marys river; 12--Richmond county road; 13--Monroe county road near Forsyth: 14 -Dixie Highway near Thomasville; 15--Oconee river bridge at Dublin: 16--Sumter county road; 17--Resaca memorial bridge near Calhoun; 18-- Route 7 in Tift county; 19--Mountain road near Cloudland Park, north Georgia.
RAILROADS.
Georgia is traversed by forty-eight steam railroads, the total number of miles being 7,049. This State stands twelfth among all the States in the Union in railroad mileage, and is second in the south, being exceeded only by Texas.
The railroad building period began in Georgia between 1830 and 1840, the Georgia road from Augusta to Decatur and Atlanta and the Central from Savannah to Macon being among the first roads in the State to be put into operation. After about 1845 railroad building became active in Georgia, and as the State grew in population and industry other lines were built and today almost every county in the State is traversed by a railroad.
Ten trunk lines operate in Georgia as follows: Atlanta & West Point, Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast, Atlantic Coast Line, Central of Georgia, Georgia Railroad, Georgia and Florida, Louisville & Nashville, Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis which is the lessee of the Western & Atlantic, State-owned road, extending from Atlanta to Chattanooga; Seaboard Air Line, and Southern, including the Georgia, Southern and Florida road.
A number of railroads operating in Georgia maintain agricultural departments and employ farm experts to aid in developing the lands through which the roads pass.
The Georgia Public Service Commission, created by the State legislature of 1878-9, has supervision over all common carriers in the State.
The Western and Atlantic Railroad, extending from Atlanta to Chattanooga, was built by the State of Georgia from 1837 to 1851 and is leased to the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway for annual rental of $540,000.00. The property is estimated to be worth $25,000,000.00.
MAIL FACILITIES.
Georgia is well equipped with mail facilities, the counties of the State being literally honey-combed with rural mail routes. There are 1,580 rural mail routes in Georgia, served by 1,579 carriers. The total length of the routes is 49,420 miles, the number of families served being 306,511. The number of pieces of
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1-Tourist train of the Southern railroad; 2--Local passenger train of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast road: 3--Giant engine of the Atlanta and West Point railroad system; 4--Trucks moving cotton on a Savannah highway; 5--Bridge of the Atlanta and West Point road across Chattahoochee river at West Point; 6--"City of Chattanooga" type of steamship operated between Savannah and New York by Ocean Steamship Company; 7--Rural mail carrier starting on his route using automobile; 8--Dixie Safety Coach, the type which operates in Georgia; 9--Atlantic Coast Line train, showing double tracks and signal towers; 10--Autoist entering Georgia at Neel's Gap; ll^Street car of Georgia Power Company which operates between Atlanta and Stone Mountain.
mail handled during 12 months prior to September 1, 1927 totaled 152,383,560.
Thus it will be seen that practically every farmer in the State Is served every week-day with mail service and the large number of pieces of mail handled by the carriers indicates that the farmers are taking full advantage of his mail facilities by subscribing to agricultural and other papers.
Interest in the rural free delivery of mail in Georgia is heightened by the fact that a Georgian, the late Thomas E. Watson is credited with being the father of the rural mail service to the farmers, it being claimed that he, while a member of congress in 1893 secured an appropriation to experiment with the "free delivery of mail to the people living in the country." It is also claimed that the first rural free delivery route in the United States was established at Quitman, Ga. and that J. E. Ponder was the first carrier.
BUS ROUTES. With the development of the automotive industry and the building of a system of State highways, an almost complete network of motor busses now operate throughout Georgia, especially from city to city. The railroads are also beginning to operate busses over the highways, especially for short distances. More than 600 school busses also operate in Georgia, transporting pupils to consolidated schools. Coaches are also used to supplement trolley service in cities. In addition to the passenger and school busses, many motor trucks operate in the State, carrying produce, poultry and dairy products to the cities for the farmers and in turn convey supplies to the farmers. Many large firms in the various cities of the State operate fleets of trucks for interurban hauling
HENRY FORD. Henry Ford has signified his belief in the value of Georgia soil by becoming a large landowner in this State. He owns 9,000 acres of land in Bryan county on the Ogeechee River and about 25 miles from Savannah. Experiments in growing a variety of foods will be undertaken on the Ford farm, his representatives announce. It has reported that he may experiment in growing trees for rubber there also. Mr. Ford pays annual visits to his Georgia farm.
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1--Above the clouds in north Georgia; 2--Lookout Mountain scene in Dade county; 3--Sunset scene on Lake Rabun in north Georgia; 4-Beach scene at St. Simons Island; 5--Old canal in Okefenokee Swamp (Photo by State Geologist): 6-- Various craft anchor on the Georgia coast as the sun sets; 7--Little River near Cloudland Park in Walker county.
GAME AND FISH.
Hunting and fishing have been popular sports in Georgia ever since the State was founded in 1733, the game that roamed in the primeval forests and the fish found in abundance in the coast waters and inland streams, contributing the principal food for the first settlers until crops were raised.
In order, however, that the game and fish of the State might be protected to a certain extent, and that game especially should not be entirely killed out, the Georgia legislature in 1924-5 created the State Game and Fish Department, which consists of three members who are given general supervision over the Department.
A law was also passed regulating fishing and hunting. There are also laws regulating the open and closed season for hunting.
Georgia also has many fur-bearing animals and during the trapping season, more than one million dollars worth of hides and furs are shipped annually by trappers, the principal animals caught for this purpose being mink, otter, beaver, bear, muskrat, raccoon, opossums, wildcat and skunks. All trappers are required to secure a license to trap animals and to deal in hides and furs, these licenses bringing about $10,000.00 annually to the State.
The fishing industry on the coast of Georgia gives employment to approximately 7,000 persons and the products are valued at from eight to ten million dollars annually. Fish, shrimp for canning, oysters and crabs are the principal products taken from the coast waters.
The game department reports that a survey shows that there are more game birds and animals in all sections of Georgia than in many years past, due to the excellent breeding seasons and to the strict observance of the closed season for hunting.
The most popular sport in Georgia is quail shooting, the open season extending from November 20 to March 1 each year. The bag limit being 20 in one day. Dove and duck shooting is also popular with huntsmen.
The United States Government maintains a fish hatchery at Warm Springs in Meriwether county and another is being established near Valdosta, Grassy Lake, having been purchased for that purpose. Many large lakes and many ponds created by power projects are all stocked with fish.
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1--Fishing wharf at Savannah; 2--Drum caught near Cumberland Island; 3-- Hunters in Okefenokee Swamp (Photo by S. W. McCallie, State Geologist); 4--Grassy Lake, near Valdosta, where government is establishing fish hatchery; 5--Giant sea turtle; 6--Deer snapped on Georgia highway; 7--Shrimp boats at Brunswick; 8-- Sorting shrimp catch out from Darien and St. Marys; 9--Several fawn snapped while browsing in a Georgia forest; 10--Georgia auail; 11--The return from the hunt; 12-- Fishing at Dews pond in Gordon county; 13--Fox hunting scene in Georgia.
CHURCHES.
Religious freedom is exercised generally in Georgia, there being churches in all communities. Many of the early settlers of the State came here in order that they might worship according to the dictates of their own conscience and as a result many denominations are represented in the State.
In many of the rural communities the schools and churches are located on the same grounds, each forming a unit of community interest. Many beautiful church edifices are found in all sections of the State, both in the country and in the towns and cities.
CITIES AND TOWNS.
Georgia is honeycombed with cities and towns. The State contains 161 counties and each has one or more cities. Each city and town form a nucleus for business enterprises, thereby creating markets for the farmers' products.
Atlanta, the capital of the State, with a population of 250,000 is the largest city in Georgia. It is known as the "Gate City of the South," many railroads and highways entering the south passing through Atlanta. It is a large manufacturing center, leading all cities in the south annually in the value of manufactured products. Atlanta has many large office buildings and is headquarters for numbers of firms doing business in the southeastern states. A total of 146 passenger trains run in and out of Atlanta daily on 15 main lines and 343,753 freight cars are loaded or unloaded annually in that city.
Savannah is the second largest city in the State and besides being Georgia's leading port, many manufacturing plants are located there. Truck farming, dairying and poultry raising are followed by Savannah and Chatham county farmers, who ship, much early truck to the eastern markets. Savannah is a city of much historic interest, being laid out in 1733 by Oglethorpe, founder of the State.
Macon, in middle Georgia, is a railroad and manufacturing center. Located near extensive clay mines, brick, tile and other clay products are manufactured there, as are many textile goods. A fine farming and fruit area surrounds Macon. Two leading
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1--Postoffice at Brunswick; 2--Telfair county courthouse: 3--Scene at West Point. Ga.: 4--Paved street at Wadley: 5--Methodist church. South, at Tallapoosa; 6--Wheeler county courthouse; 7--Street scene at Cairo in Grady county; 8--First Baptist church at Canton in Cherokee county, built of Georgia brick made at Plalnville.
educational institutions, Wesleyan College and Mercer University, are located at Macon.
Augusta, on the Savannah river on the east side of the State, has many manufacturing plants, textiles, clay products, tile, brick, etc., lumber, cotton seed products, etc. are manufactured in large quantities. The largest silk-throwing mill in the south and the largest cotton waste mill in the United States are in Augusta. This city is a popular winter resort, several large tourist hotels operating there during the winter.
Columbus, on the Chattahoochee river on the west side of the State is a manufacturing center, being its said, the second largest textile manufacturing city in the south, having more than a half million spindles. Much power has been developed on the Chattahoochee river at Columbus. There are also many brick, iron and woodworking plants there. Fort Benning, a government reservation of several thousand acres, is located at Columbus.
Other cities include Athens, the educational center; Albany, pecan center; Brunswick, an important port; LaGrange, textile manufacturing point; Rome, an educational and manufacturing city; Valdosta, Americus, Cordele, Dublin and Tifton, each located in a fine farming section; Waycross, where extensive railroad shops are located; Moultrie, the home of the Swift Packe ing plant, which slaughters 150,000 hogs each year; Thomasville, popular winter resort; Griffin, which has many manufacturing plants and is in the center of the pimiento pepper industry.
RESORTS.
Georgia is an admirable resort State in both winter and summer. The coast section, where "Ocean breezes blow," affords an ideal place to spend the summer, Tybee and St. Simons Islands having excellent beaches and are popular during the warm weather for vacationists. Many homes are maintained on the coast islands both winter and summer. Jekyl and Cumberland islands are owned by eastern capitalists who spend the winter there.
Augusta, Thomasville, Savannah, Brunswick and other Georgia cities have resort hotels which are thronged during the winter by tourists seeking a mild climate. A large area around Thomasville is owned by wealthy citizens of other states, their plan-
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tations and hunting preserves including thousands of acres. The mountain section of north Georgia is rapidly developing
into retreats for tourists, vacationists and others who seek the cool summer breezes. This section is traversed by a system of roads which makes it accessible, the streams and lakes are stocked with fish, and withal, the mountains of north Georgia divide interest with the coast resorts as an ideal place to spend the summer. Georgia mountain scenery compares favorably with that of any State in the Union.
A number of resorts, such as Warm Springs, Indian Springs, which is owned by the State, White Sulphur Springs, Cloudland Park, Skywater Park, and others are also popular and draw throngs during the year.
North Georgia from the Clayton area on the east across the State to the Lookout Mountain section in the northwestern part of the State is developing into a tourist center.
GEORGIA FABRIC USED IN LINDBERGH'S PLANE.
FROM THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION.
Among the records being established by textile industries of Georgia, one not to be overlooked is revealed in the reports tracing a textile product used in construction of Lindbergh's famous Spirit of St. Louis to a Georgia mill, according to a statement made by T. M. Forbes, secretary of the Cotton Manufacturers' Association of Georgia.
When the parts that composed the plant of the world's most celebrated aviator, which is known as the mechanical half of the "We", were traced to their sources, it was found that the cotton fabric base from which the artificial leather that covered the upholstering of Lindbergh's plane was made, was a product of the Manchester Cotton Mills, Manchester, Ga. Mr. Forbes said, The Manchester Mills is a unit of the Callaway mills.
Mount Airy in Habersham county, with an elevation of 1,614feet, is the highest point on the Southern railroad between New Orleans and Washington, D. C.
Wilkinson county is said to contain enough clay to supply needs of this nation for 600 years.
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1--Biltmore Hotel, Atlanta, showing towers of W. S. B., broadcasting station of the Atlanta Journal; 2--Ansley Hotel, Atlanta; 3--Daniel Ashley Hotel, Valdosta; 4--Doucoff Hotel at Douglas: 5--Oglethorpe Hotel at Brunswick; 6--Olub casino overlooking spring at Radium Springs, near Albany; 7--New General Oglethorpe Hotel on Wilmington Island, near Savannah; 8--Hotel at Warm Springs; 9-"Three, Toms Tavern" at Thomasville; 10--Bon Air-Vanderbilt Hotel at Augusta.
PORTS
Georgia has two ports of major importance, Savannah and Brunswick, and the value of the exports from the State each year totals more than one hundred million dollars. The exports from Georgia ports in 1926 were valued at $114,004,373.00 and the imports at $19,489,000.00.
Cotton leads in the export items from Georgia with rosin second and turpentine third. Other items exported include cotton goods, lumber, machinery, tobacco, fruits, cotton seed products and fish. Jute and burlap form the largest import items, along with much raw material and finished articles from foreign countries.
Savannah is a landlocked harbor on the Savannah River, 18 miles from the Atlantic ocean. Vessels drawing 31 feet and up to 500 feet in length can enter the harbor with ease. Steamships make regular sailings from this harbor.
About one million bales of cotton are shipped annually from Savannah, more than from any other Atlantic port and this city is the leading naval stores export city in the world.
During 1927 a total of 1,205 vessels entered the Savannah harbor, an average of more than 100 each month. The total tonnage for the year was 3,544,498, an average of 295,375 tons per month.
Brunswick has a natural landlocked harbor of 31 square miles area, with approximately 40 miles of water frontage, five miles of which has docks and wharves. The depth of the water over the bar is 34 feet at mean high tide and the channel entrance is more than 500 feet wide, permitting vessels to enter the harbor under their own steam. Brunswick has 15 wharves and docks and the tonnage of the vessels entering the port runs into the millions each year, cotton, naval stores, and lumber etc, making up the cargoes.
Many imports are unloaded at Brunswick and steamships make regular calls there.
Georgia has all-year ports, being free from congestion due to ice and snow.
Smaller ports on the Georgia coast include Darien and St Marys from which a number of smaller craft, such as fishing vessels, operate.
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1--Cotton being loaded at Savannah for export; 2--Lumber and cross ties ready for export at Brunswick; 3--Loading rosin on lighters at Savannah; 4--Harbor scene at Savannah and birds-eye view of city; 5--Launching the concrete ship "Atlantus" by the government at Brunswick; 6--Boat landing at St. Simons Island, with Jeky Island showing in the distance.
HEALTH
Georgia has shown the lowest death rate of any State east of the Mississippi river since 1922, the death rate for 1927 being only 9.9 per thousand, a drop of 52 per cent as compared with 1911, according to the State Health Department.
This rate is much lower than the national average for several years. In 1922 the death rate in the United States was 11.8, in 1923 it was 12.3 and in 1924, the latest figures available, the national rate was 11.8.
Georgia's infant mortality rate was lower in 1927 than in any previous year recorded in the State, being also one point lower per thousand than the 1925 rate in the United States registration area, the latest available figures.
The State has a vital statistics law and has been admitted into the registration area of the United States for births and deaths.
Approximately 25 counties in the State have full-time health physicians and the State Board of Health operates a healthmobile, a gift of the Phi Mu Sorority, and conducts diagnostic clinics in rural sections of the State.
The Health Board also maintains a laboratory and manufactures vaccines and antitoxins for the prevention and cure of diseases. It also examines the drinking water of wells and streams and waterworks generally over the State.
TAXES.
The ad valorem tax system prevails in Georgia, that is taxes are levied on a property assessment. The county rate is set by the Board of County Commissioners after a budget for the year is prepared. The rate for the State funds levied in a county is limited to five mills and is always included in the total levymade in each county.
The assessment for all classes of property in 1927 in the State was $1,275,000,000.00 Realestate, city and town, was assessed at $449,000,000.00, or 35 per cent of the total, while farm lands, were valued at $301,000,000.00 or 24 per cent of the total. Manufacturing plants, public utilities and other industries made up the remainder of the subjects.
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1--Archbold Memorial Hospital at Thomasville; 2-3-4--Scenes in connection with operation of the Phi Mu Healthmobile over the state by the State Board of Health: 5--Georgia Academy for the Blind, Macon; 6--Laboratory scene at the State Board of Health, Atlanta; 7--Wesley Memorial Hospital at Emory University, Atlanta; 8--Macon City Hospital.
STRONG FINANCIALLY.
Georgia has adequate banking facilities, there being 466 banks, both State and National, doing business in the State on January 1, 1928, with total deposits of $392,768,643.40 and resources of $492,498,879.35.
There were 383 State banks, branches and trust companies, with resources of $202,659,879.35 and deposits of $150,805,643.40, while the 83 National banks showed resources of $289,839,000.00 and deposits of $241,963,000.00.
That Georgia people are thrifty is indicated by the fact that of the total deposits, $151,758,458.00 were in savings' accounts.
Every county in the State has a bank located in it, or is accessible to banking facilities. The State banks are under the supervision of the State Banking Department.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, with branches in Birmingham, Ala. Jacksonville, Fla., Nashville, Tenn., and New Orleans, La., serves the Sixth Federal Reserve district which is comprised of the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia and parts of Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee. Eugene Black is governor of the bank.
PUBLICATIONS.
There are more publications issued in Georgia than any State in the southeast, there being approximately 25 daily and 200 weekly newspapers printed in the State and in addition, every major industry has a class journal. Periodicals devoted to agriculture and a number of trade papers are also printed in the State.
Atlanta has 64 publications which are read by more than 2,000, 000 people. There are 80 commercial printing plants in Atlanta alone with a proportionate number in other cities in the State.
Excellent mail facilities enable Georgia farmers and others to receive daily and other publications promptly.
MILITARY.
Three large Military forts are located in Georgia--Fort Oglethorpe, in north Georgia, Fort McPherson at Atlanta, and Fort Benning, at Columbus. The Georgia National Guard is made up of military units over the State and is composed of 3,500 enlisted men, commanded by 250 officers.
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1--Federal Reserve Bank, Atlanta: 2--Atlanta Constitution building; 3--Bank at Scotland; 4--Target practice at a Georgia Fort; 5--Atlanta Labor Temple; 6-Home of A. B. Rogers, near Moultrie; 7--Country home of W. G. Middlebrooks near Macon; 8--A north Georgia farm home; 9--Starting a day's work on Champney Island, showing the farm home and modern machinery used.
MARKETING
Marketing, without a doubt, is largely the key to successful farming in Georgia and much progress has been made toward finding a ready market for the farmers' products. The Bureau of Markets of the Georgia Department of Agriculture employs a staff of marketing experts who are rendering great aid to Georgia farmers in selling their produce. These men go all over the State and help in conducting sales of produce offered in car lots, such as poultry, hogs, cattle, eggs, corn, etc. These sales are conducted, usually, in co-operation with the County Agent and the farmers.
In addition to the sales made out in the State, the marketing experts also make many sales in the office by personal calls on the trade, by use of the mails, telephone and telegraph lines. More than eleven hundred carloads of farm products that brought more than one million dollars were sold through the Market Bureau for Georgia farmers from July 1927 through March 1928.
In addition, sales totaling thousands of dollars each month are made through ads published in the Market Bulletin, which is issued each week by the Market Bureau, the ads being printed free for the farmers.
Many farm products are sold co-operatively, such as cotton, peaches, pecans, apples, melons, syrup and many vegetables.
There are a number of co-operative marketing bodies that handle many Georgia products each year, which are doing much to establish the co-operative marketing system in the State. Included in these are the Georgia Cotton Growers Co-Operative Association; the Georgia Peach Growers Exchange; the Sowega Melon Growers Association; the Consolidated Apple Growers Exchange; the National Pecan Exchange; the Southern Pecan Exchange, the Paper Shell Pecan Growers Association; the Georgia Cane Growers Co-operative Association. There are also organizations in the State that handle co-operatively many other fruits and vegetables.
Correct grading and attractive packing of products are also factors that are aiding the farmers to receive the highest market price for their products.
Of a total population of 2,895,000 in Georgia in 1920, only 10,186 were of foreign birth.
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Georgia farmers selected for outstanding accomplishment in 1927 by the Progressive Farmer and the State College of Agriculture. 1--J. R. McElmurray. of Richmond county: 2--J. E. Davidson of Peach county. 3--W. J. Mathis. of Terrell county; 4--O. H.Ellis, of Wayne county; 5--W. E. Morgan, of Haralson county; 6--George O'Kelly, of Clarke county; 7--C. E. Oliver, of Chatham county; 8--0. P. Bulloch. of Meriwether county; 9--Floyd C. Newton, of Morgan county; 10--J. W. Allgood. of Cobb county: 11--S. W. Brown, of Turner county; 12--W. H. Smith, of Bulloch county.
GEORGIA
By T. M. Linder. We people who share the great honor so rare As in Georgia to have been born Should always take glory in telling the story That her pages of history adorn. Both tree and vine in Georgia clime With cows and hogs and mill and mine Producing wealth and health and ease Without extremes of heat or freeze. In every nook with map and book Our children learn of the things it took To make old Georgia the Empire State And we invite others to come and not to wait.
COTTON GIN PERFECTED IN GEORGIA.
Eli Whitney, a native of Massachusetts, while visiting the home of the widow of Nathaniel Greene, near Savannah, in 1793, perfected the Cotton Gin after making a study of the needs of a machine that would separate the lint from the seed, which had been done exclusively by hand until that time.
The first gin was a simple arrangement of cylinders, saws and brushes and one man could gin more cotton in one day with it than he could pick out by hand in a whole winter. Thus the invention of the cotton gin had great effect on the increase of cotton planting in the South.
Whitney died in New Haven, Connecticut in January 1825.
Mrs. Rebecca Latimer Felton was the first woman to serve as a member of the United States Senate, she being appointed to that office in 1922 by Governor Thos. W. Hardwick to succeed the late Senator Thomas E. Watson. She was succeeded by Senator Walter F. George.
Senator Augustus O. Bacon, of Georgia, was the first United States Senator to be elected by a direct vote of the people after that plan was adopted by Congress, substituting their election by the legislature in each State.
The "Savannah," a 350 ton steamship sailed from Savannah on May 24, 1819 and 26 days later reached Liverpool, being the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
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1--Oglethorpe monument at Savannah; 2--"Wrens Nest home of Uncle Remus"-Joel Chandler Harris. Atlanta; 3-Home on 9.000-acre farm of Henry Ford, in Bryan county; 4-Council chair of " Grey Eagle'' chief of the Cherokee Indians, which now rests on grounds of Tallulah Falls Institute; ^Wesley Oak on St .Simons Island; 6--Lanier Oak and Marshes of Glynn near Brunswick; 7-Birthplace of Sidney Lamer in Macon; 8-Boulder in honor of Tomochichi, Indian chief .in Savannah; 9-Marker on "Bloody Marsh" battlefield on St. Simons Island: 10--Mclntosh Rock at Indian Spring, marking spot where Indian treaty was made; 11--Indian Sprmg. near Jackson.
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OKEFENOKEE SWAMP.
Rivaling in interest the Dismal Swamp of Virginia and the Everglades of Florida, the Okefenokse Swamp in Georgia shares fame with Stone Mountain as a natural wonder of the State. Occupying sections of three south Georgia counties, Charlton, Ware and Clinch, and parts of northern Florida counties, and covering an area of approximately 500,000 acres, this swamp is the largest fresh water swamp east of the Mississippi river, with the exception of the Everglades. It is about 40 miles long and 26 miles wide, with the line separating Georgia and Florida running through it.
Two rivers, the St. Marys and the Suwanee, the latter famed in the song, "Down Upon the Suwanee Ribber", have their source in the swamp and in the wealth of its historic associations, the beauty of its scenery and the richness and diversity of its plant,, animal and bird life, it has no counterpart in America.
THE FARMER BY HENRY W. GRADY
When every farmer in Geo gia shall eat bread from his own fields and meat from his own pasture, and disturbed by no creditor and enslaved by no debt, shall sit amid his teeming gardens and orchards and vineyards and dairies and barnyards, pitching his crops in his own wisdom and growing them in independence, making cotton his clean surplus, and selling it in his own time, and his chosen markets, and not at a master's bidding--getting his pay in cash and not in a receipted mortgage that discharges his debt, but does not restore his freedom--then shall be the breaking cf the fullness of the farmers' day.
GEOI1GIA LAUDED.
"During my connection with the farmers' union work I have been in every State in the Union, with the possible exception of Vermont, and in most of them many times, and I give it as my calm, carefully weighed judgment that Georgia is the best the greatest and most promising State on the North American continent."--Chas. S. Barrett, President of National Farmers Union.
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COW, HOG AND HEN PROGRAM. The Cow, Hog and Hen program of farming was started in Turner County in 1922 following the invasion of that section by boll weevils and has not only spread to all sections of Georgia but throughout the south as well. This plan simply means that a diversified plan of farming is followed whereby attention is given to having more cows, hogs and poultry upon the farms. As a result of the success of this plan many purebred cows have been placed on Georgia farms and the dairy industry has grown rapidly, much cream and milk being sold daily and the number of hogs on Georgia farms has shown a large increase during the last few years, thousands being sold each year. The poultry industry has grown to such proportions that there are more than 100 commercial hatcheries in the state and eggs and chickens are sold in car load lots, pick-up cars being operated throughout the state. Adoption of the Cow, Hog and Hen plan has not only revolutionized Georgia farming but the large increases in the number of livestock on the farms has been a great aid in soil improvement. The Georgia Association of which F. H. Abbot is Secretary has done much to promote the Cow, Hog and Hen plan of farming in the state.
DECATUR WINS PRIZE.
Exhibit of Decatur county, prepared under direction of D. E. Sawyer. County Farm Agent, which won first prize at the Savannah Fair in 1927.
OPINIONS OF GEORGIA BY ADOPTED CITIZENS.
Georgia is not only proclaimed a great State by its native citizens, but it is also highly lauded by a number of persons who have moved here from other states, their opinion of Georgia being printed herewith:
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, of New York, owner of Warm Springs,:
'I happen to have the good fortune to know almost every State in the Union, and I am very certain that not one of them holds within itself a greater future than the State of Georgia
"I am attracted to Georgia for many reasons which may be summarized under four heads: Climate, Natural resources Its people, Its future. The nation is coming to understand that Georgia, a sleeping giant, is awakening, and that opportunity knocks at the door. In material development, the field is both industrial and agricultural. Manufactures are increasing and will, we hope, become more and more diversified. Farming also is tending to greater diversification and this should continue in view of the simple fact that almost every known crop can be successfully cultivated in Georgia.
"It is also true that more and more people every year from the north and from the west are discovering the delights of the winter climate of Georgia-not too hot and not too cold."
EX-GOVERNOR CHASE S. OSBORN, of Michigan, who has a home near Poulan in Worth county
"Having seen all the earth and every place thought to be attractive in winter it was easy to discover the advantages and attractions in South Georgia. There is a tranquil
jT,anibeaUty that SCarCe,y exists elsewh-e. It is one of the healthiest regions of the earth. There is none of the enervations of a warmer climate nor any of the dangerously exacting
ttiooTnttThaat VkeepsnOoTnetheartnhuW is ibuteesrtSa'llJUthSet taimPe^ctl/balanced condi" "First of the advantages of this section are its people. And if
mmnuusstt1Saa,lrwigaysV be T the'Tfirost*co"nsti0derPahtiilo0ns.^I foaunndd TM the^m>wPftehopane honesty and realness and grace that I had not seen elsewhere or since or before in all the earth. There was no pretense no pose, no frills, no 'dog'-jurt plain, honest-to-God people
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COLONEL TILLINGHAST L. HUSTON, eminent engineer owner of Butler and Champney island off the Georgia coast, and former owner of the New York Yankee baseball team, who is reclaiming thousands of abandoned rice fields along the Georgia coast near Brunswick tells of his experience in truck growing on some of his land:
"On some of the acres, there were raised 400 hampers of cucumbers, 300 crates of peppers, 325 hampers of egg-plant, 250 crates of tomatoes, 400 hampers of radishes, 40 barrels of Irish potatoes, 350 hampers of beans, and 250 hampers of beets, all of which sold for good prices. This means a gross of about $1,000.00 an acre f. o. b. New York or about $500.00 an acre f. o. b. Brunswick.
"The attractive and outstanding features of our Georgia project are these: First, the high natural fertility of the soil, and second, the magnificient natural irrigation and drainage faci-
lities." Colonel Huston has just set out 2,000 Satsuma orange trees
on his islands.
HOWARD E. COFFIN, automobile manufacturer of Detroit, also has extensive interests in Georgia, being the owner of Sapelo Island, off the Brunswick Coast. He owns a palatial home on the island and is interested in several big developments in the Brunswick area.
MISS JEANETTE RANKIN, of Montana, first woman in the United States to be elected a member of Congress, who now lives on a farm near Athens says:
"Peace and freedom are what I came to Georgia to find and they are what I have found on a 65 acre farm near Athens. I am satisfied with my farm".
H. H. KEITH, who moved to Jenkins county from Indiana, reports the following results from one month's operation of his poultry farm:
Three hundred and twenty White Leghorn hens in fair production contributed $217.58 to his bank account, besides $19.50 worth consumed by the family. Of this amount, he expended $20.52 for 774 pounds of grain, $40.77 for 1,100 pounds of mash and his net profit was shown to be $177.39 for the month, with only 51 percent production.
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MAP OF GEORGIA.
SKETCH OF COUNTIES.
Georgia contains 161 counties, 12 Congressional districts, 51 Senatorial districts, 31 Superior Court circuits and approxi-
mately 1,800 Militia districts. Atlanta is the Capital of the State. The State Legislature,
composed of the Senate and House members, meets every two years on the Fourth Wednesday in June for a 60-day session. The Senate is composed of 51 members and the House of Representatives contains 207 members. The eight counties having the largest population have three members each. They are Bibb, Chatham, DeKalb, Floyd, Fulton, Laurens, Muscogee, Richmond. The 30 counties next in size have two members each. They are Bartow, Brooks, Bulloch, Burke, Carroll, Clarke, Cobb, Colquitt, Coweta, Decatur, Dodge, Elbert, Emanuel, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson, Jefferson, Lowndes, Meriwether, Mitchell, Screven, Sumter, Thomas, Troup, Walker, Walton, Ware, Washington, Wilkes, Worth. The other 123 counties have one member each.
The following county matter gives the name, population, county seat and population, county size, taxable property according to the 1927 tax digest, Congressional and Senatorial district
and Judicial circuit:
APPLING: 10,594; Baxley, 1,142; area, 454 square miles; taxable property, $3,807,759.00; Congress, Eleventh district; Senate, Third; Brunswick circuit. Products, cotton, corn, cane, sweet and Irish potatoes, hay, melons, cattle, hogs, tobacco, pecans, honey, poultry, naval stores, lumber, cross-ties, barrel staves. Average altitude 206 feet. Soil, sandy loam, clay, subsoil. Has two tobacco warehouses.
ATKINSON: 7,656; Pearson, 792; area, 330 square miles; taxable property, $1,546,922.00; Congress, Eleventh; Senate, Fifth; Alapaha circuit. Products, tobacco, cotton, corn, potatoes, hay, melons, all vegetables, lumber, naval stores. Average altitude 205 feet. Excellent water supply. Pebbly clay soil.
BACON: 6,460; Alma, 1,061; area, 357 square miles; taxable property, $1,961,048.00; Congress, Eleventh; Senate, Forty-sixth; Waycross circuit. Products, tobacco, cotton, corn, melons, vegetables, poultry, hogs, lumber, building material, oil mill products. Average altitude 205 feet. Sandy loam soil.
BAKER: 8,298; Newton, 377; area, 357 square miles; taxable property, $1,642,683.00; Congress, Second; Senate, Ninth; Albany circuit. Products, tobacco, cotton, corn, cane, potatoes, pecans, hogs, poultry, vegetables. A big hydro-electric plant has been built in this county which supplies power for a number of towns in this section. Average altitude 200 feet; sand loam soil.
BALDWIN: 19,791; Milledgeville, 4,619; area, 307 square miles; taxable property, $4,110,518.00; Congress, Tenth; Senate, Twentieth; Ocmulgee circuit. Products, corn, cotton, cane, potatoes, wheat, oats, hay, peas, pecans, peaches, poultry, hogs. Extensive clay deposits; altitude, 276 feet; red sandy soil. Seat of Georgia State College for Women, Georgia Military Institute, State Sanitarium and State Farm. Former capital of State.
BANKS: 11,814; Homer, 291; area, 222 square miles; taxable property, $1,625,261.00; Congress, Ninth; Senate, Thirty-third; Piedmont circuit.
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Products, poultry, eggs, cotton, corn, wheat, oats, rye, potatoes, peas, peaches, apples, pecans, dairies, asbestos. Average altitude, 1,700 feet: red and gray soil.
BARROW: 13,188; Winder, 3,335; area, 168 square miles; taxable property, $2,588,266.00; Congress, Ninth; Senate, Twenty-seventh; Piedmont circuit. Products, cotton, corn, peas, hay, wheat, oats, cane, apples, peaches, pears, pecans, textiles, furniture, foundry. Average altitude, 941 feet; soil, gray and red.
BARTOW: 24,527; Cartersville, 4,350; area, 471 square miles; taxable property, $6,953,782.00; Congress, Seventh; Senate, Forty-second; Cherokee circuit. Products, corn, grain, cotton, potatoes, hay, peaches, iron, manganese, ocher, barytes, bauxite, cement, limestone and textiles. Average altitude, 748 feet; red and gray soil. Cartersville has many manufacturing plants and is the center of mining activities. Adairsville also has several manufacturing plants.
BEN HILL: 14,599; Fitzgerald, 6,870; area, 256 square miles; taxable property, $3, 632, 634.00; Congress, Third; Senate, Forty-fifth; Cordele circuit. Products, poultry, livestock, cotton, corn, potatoes, hay, pecans, pears, peaches, tobacco, textiles, oil mills, cigars, implementsalso has railroad shops and stone plants. Altitude, 515 feet. Two tobacco warehouses are located at Fitzgerald. Much honey is produced in the county.
BERRIEN: 15,573; Nashville, 2,026; area, 500 square miles; taxable property, $4,232,070.00; Congress, Third; Senate, Forty-fifth; Cordele circuit. Products, cotton, corn, grain, peanuts, fruits, strawberries, livestock poultry, tobacco, lumber, turpentine, canneries, textiles. Average altitude 290 feet. Sandy loam, clay sub-soil. There are three tobacco warehouses at Nashville.
BIBB: 71,303; Macon, 60,100 (1927); area, 277 square miles; taxable property, $47,434,160.00; Congress, Sixth; Senate, Twenty-second; Macon circuit. Grows practically all farm products and is a large manufacturing center, especially in clays and textiles. Mercer University and Wesleyan College are located here. Altitude 373 feet. A state-wide Agricultural Fair is held at Macon every fall.
BLECKLEY: 10,532; Cochran, 2,021; area, 205 square miles; taxable property, $2,462,534.00; Congress, Twelfth; Senate, Fourteenth; Oconee circuit. Products, cotton, grain, hay, peanuts, potatoes, cane, livestock, poultry textiles, oil mills, lumbering, fullers earth. Altitude, 342 feet.
* ,,,LEY: 6'500*; Hoboken, 316; area, 400* square miles; taxable property $1726,006.00; Congress, Eleventh; Senate, Third; Waycross circuit. Products, all farm products, including tobacco, lumber and naval stores. (*Estimated.)
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circuit. Products, cotton, corn, hay, hogs, cattle, cane, grain, fruits,
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BURKE: 30,836; Waynesboro, 3,311; area, 956 square miles; taxable property, $8,438,872.00; Congress, First; Senate, Seventeenth; Augusta circuit. Farm products in 1927 were valued at $6,000,000.00, of which $4,370,000.00 worth were sold, the remainder being used for home consumption. Corn yields of from 60 to 100 bushels per acre and high cotton yields reported. There are 15 soil types in county, which will grow variety of crops. Practically all schools consolidated. Average altitude 86 feet.
BUTTS: 12,327; Jackson, 2,027; area, 203 square miles; taxable property, $1,940,696.00; Congress, Sixth; Senate, Twenty-sixth; Flint circuit. Products, pepper, poultry, eggs, hogs, pure bred cattle, cotton, corn, grain, hay, potatoes, peaches, apples, melons, textiles. Average altitude 720 feet. Gray, clay sub-soil. A large power plant has been developed on the Ocmulgee river near Jackson and Indian Springs, containing water of medicinal properties, and owned by the State, is in Butts county.
CALHOUN: 10,225; Morgan, 341; area, 284 square miles; taxable property, $2,242,280.00; Congress, Second; Senate, Ninth; Albany circuit. Products, tobacco, cotton, corn, grain, hay, sugar cane, potatoes, peaches, grapes, melons, peanuts. Average altitude 337 feet. Soil, red pebble.
CAMDEN: 6,969; Woodbine, 172; area, 711 square miles; taxable property, $2,397,897.00; Congress, Eleventh; Senate, Fourth; Brunswick circuit. Products, corn, sugar cane, rice, grain, potatoes, all vegetables, tropical fruits. Fishing is an important industry at St. Marys, on the coast. Dark hammock gray soil. Average altitude 25 feet.
CAMPBELL: 11,709; Fairburn, 1,600; area, 211 square miles; taxable property, $2,957,932.00; Congress, Fifth; Senate, Thirty-sixth; Stone Mountain circuit. Grows all farm products suitable to that section including much poultry, eggs and truck. Manufacturers textiles, harness, brick, implements, fertilizer. Average altitude 1,030 feet. Soil, gray, red pebble.
CANDLER: 9,228; Metter, 908; area, 228; taxable property, $1,993,186.00; Congress, First; Senate, Forty-ninth; Middle circuit. Products, tobacco, cotton, corn, grain, potatoes, peas, livestock, hogs, poultry. Two tobacco warehouses. Altitude 300 feet. Soil, red pebble and loam.
CARROLL: 34,752; Carrollton, 4,363; area, 492 square miles; taxable property, $6,971,127; Congress, Fourth; Senate, Thirty-seventh; Coweta circuit. Diversified farming has made great strides in Carroll, 75 per cent of farmers being white, every land lot has running water on it. Much poultry, eggs and pure bred livestock sold. Manufacturers textiles, cotton seed products; has three flour milles. Fourth district A. & M. School located at Carrollton and Bowdon State Normal & Industrial College is at Bowdon. Average altitude 1,100 feet. Gold and pyrites mined.
CATOOSA: 6,677; Ringgold, 472; area, 169; taxable property, $2,026,210.00; Congress, Seventh; Senate, Forty-fourth; Cherokee circuit. Products, cotton, corn, grain, potatoes, especially Irish potatoes, peaches, apples, fruits, berries. Minerals, sand, limestone, iron, bauxite, road materials and gold. Average altitude 784 feet. Soil, red clay.
CHARLTON: 4,536; Folkston, 397; area, 881 square miles; taxable property, $1,808,010.00; Congress, Eleventh; Senate, Fourth; Waycross circuit. Products, tobacco, corn, tropical fruits, vegetables, sugarcane, poultry, eggs and livestock, lumbering and naval stores. Average altitude 80 feet. Soil, sandy loam, clay sub-soil.
CHATHAM: 100,032 (1920); Savannah, 99,700 (1927); area, 370 square miles; taxable property, $59,017,688.00; Congress, First; Senate, First; Eastern circuit. Truck growing extensively engaged in, big yields per acre being reported. Savannah is State's largest port, more cotton being shipped from there than from any port on the Atlantic Ocean and it is
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the leading export city in the world for naval stores. Much lumber and other wood products are also exported. It is also a large import city. Many large manufacturing plants operate here. Average altitude 65 feet. Has 21 types of usable soils. A i arm Fair is held here each fall.
CHATTAHOOCHEE: 5,266; Cusseta, 276; area, 218 square miles; taxable property, $665,925.00; Congress, Fourth- Senate, Twenty-fourth; Chattahoochee circuit. Products, all generally grown on farm, including cattle, hogs, poultry. Average altitude 65C feet. Soil, sandy loam, clay sub-soil.
CHATTOOGA: 14,312; Summerville, :,003; area, 328 square miles; taxable property, $4,108,250.00; Congress, Seventh; Senate, Fortysecond; Rome circuit. Products, cotton, corn, grain in abundance, many fruits, vegetables, poultry, eggs and fine livestock. Minerals: Iron, bauxite, clay, manganese, coal, slate, talc, sandstone. Manufacturers textiles, etc. Average altitude 780 feet. Soil, red apland sandy loam.
CHEROKEE: 18,569; Canton, 2,679; area, 429 square miles; taxable property, $6,913,959.00; Congress, Ninth; Senate, Thirty-ninth; Blue Ridge Circuit. Products, cotton, corn, wheat, oats, poultry, eggs, cattle raising; dairying, all fruits, such as apples, peaches, etc. Manufactures textiles and marble plants. Minerals: Gold, mica, soapstone, iron ore, asbestos, clays, marble. Average altitude 894 feet. Soil, gray, red, mulatto.
CLARKE: 26,111; Athens, 16,748; area, 114 square miles; taxable property, $14,641,680.00; Congress, Eighth; Senate, Fiftieth; Western circuit. Grows all farm products favorable to that section, including much poultry, eggs and fine livestock. Manufactures many textiles and textile goods, etc. Athens is the seat of the State University, State College of Agriculture, State Teachers' College and Lucy Cobb Institute. Average altitude 705 feet. Soil, red clay, gray loam.
CLAY: 7,557; Fort Gaines, 1,237; Area, 203 square miles; taxable property, $1,616,438.00; Congress, Third; Senate, Eleventh; Patula circuit. Products, cotton, corn, grain, sugarcane, potatoes, peanuts, hay, peaches, pecans, much truck, poultry, etc. Average altitude 190 feet. Soil, sandy loam, clay sub-soil.
CLAYTON: 11,159; Jonesboro, 1,060; area, 142 square miles; taxable property, $2,234,788.00; Congress, Sixth; Senate, Thirty-fifth; Stone Mountain circuit. Soil highly productive and grows 38 cash crops, which with proper rotation and diversification a year-round income is assured. All staple crops are grown, also much truck, poultry, eggs and livestock, such as cattle and hogs. Has fine railroad, concrete highway and power facilities. Average altitude 917 feet.
CLINCH: 7,984; Homerville, 627; area, 900 square miles; taxable property $2,176,836.00; Congress, Eleventh; Senate, Fifth; Alapha circuit. Products, tobacco, cotton, corn, grain, sugar cane, potatoes, sweet and Irish, peaches, fruits, vegetables. Altitude 176 feet. Soil, sandy loam.
COBB: 30,437; Marietta, 6,190; area, 353 square miles; taxable property, $9,934,450.00; Congress, Seventh; Senate, Thirty-ninth; Blue Ridge circuit. All farm crops suitable to this section are grown, dairying and poultry raising making rapid strides during the last few years. Much truck is also grown in the county. Marietta has many manufacturing plants, such as textile, marble, oil, paper, fertilizer, etc. Pyrites and other minerals are mined. Average altitude 1,118 feet. Red, mulatto soil. Acworth, population 1,117, is another town in Cobb that has many several manufacturing plants.
COFFEE: 18,653; Douglas, 3,401; area, 632 square miles; taxable property, $4,417,067.00; Congress, Eleventh; Senate, Forty-sixth; Waycross circuit. Douglas has four tobacco warehouses and led in number of pounds of tobacco sold during 1927. Soils are especially adapted to
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growing of fruits, such as strawberries, blackberries, and dewberries; melons, tomatoes, peppers, peas, peanuts, tobacco, dairying and poultry raising largely engaged in. Average altitude 275 feet. Soil, sandy loam, clay sub-soil.
COLQUITT: 29,332; Moultrie, 6,789; area, 529; taxable property, $6,735,511.00; Congress, Second; Senate, Forty-seventh; Southern circuit. Products, tobacco, a warehouse located at Moultrie handling nearly three million pounds in 1927. Swift Packing Plant at Moultrie slaughters 150,000 hogs each year, stimulating hog raising in that section. Many melons are shipped from county each year, also much poultry, eggs and farm proucts, such as cotton, corn, peanuts, potatoes, pecans, hay, peppers, cane syrup. Manufactures lumber products. Average altitude 325 feet. Soil, sandy loam and clay sub-soil.
COLUMBIA: 11,718; Appling, 170; area, 350 square miles; taxable property, $1,811,050. Congress, Tenth; Senate, Twenty-ninth; Augusta circuit. Farm crops grown in east Georgia thrive on the clay, greyish loamy soils of the county. Some truck is grown and dairying is being engaged in, much sour cream being sold. Pure bred livestock are being introduced on farms. Much poultry and many eggs are sold. Gold, fullers earth and clay are mined. Average altitude 263 feet.
COOK: 11,180; Adel, 1,720; area 241 square miles; taxable property, $2,689,492.00; Congress, Eleventh; Senate, Sixth; Alapaha circuit. Products, tobacco, Adel having two warehouses, and other crops generally grown in this section, with much livestock, poultry and eggs being sold annually. Average altitude 246 feet. Soil, pebbly loam and clay sub-soil.
COWETA: 29,047; Newnan, 7,037; area, 443 square miles; taxable property, $8,755,193.00; Congress, Fourth; Senate, Thirty-sixth; Coweta circuit. The red and gray soils produce all farm crops in abundance, dairying and livestock, and poultry raising making great gains in county. Textiles and foundry products are manufactured and gold and granite are mined. Average altitude 959 feet.
CRAWFORD: 8,893; Knoxville, 183; area, 319 square miles; taxable property, $1,636,009.00; Congress, Sixth; Senate, Twenty-third; Macon circuit. Cotton, corn, many peaches, asparagus, peanuts, sugar cane, grain, melons, livestock and poultry. Extensive clay and sand mines are located in county. Roberta with 404 population is largest town in county. Average altitude 375 feet. Soil, sandy loam.
CRISP: 18,914; Cordele, 6,538; area, 277 square miles; taxable property, $4,933,540.00; Congress, Third; Senate, Forty-eighth; Cordele circuit. More than three million dollars worth of products are sold each year, which includes cotton, peanuts, corn, peavine hay, pecans, melons, potatoes, peaches, asparagus, hogs, poultry and eggs, cattle, dairy products, naval stores and lumber. Average altitude 250 feet. Soil, gray, pebbly, clay sub-soil. Cordele has a number of manufacturing plants.
DADE: 3,918; Trenton, 295; area, 186 square miles; taxable property, $1,447,574.00; Congress, Seventh; Senate, Forty-fourth; Cherokee circuit. General farm crops and vegetables grown and coal, limestone, road materials and iron are mined. Soils, red and gray. Farmers are diversifying and much livestock, poultry an eggs are sold annually.
DAWSON: 4,204; Dawsonville, 198; area, 216 square miles; taxable property, $658,299.00; Congress, Ninth; Senate, Thirty-second; Northeastern circuit. Products, cotton, corn, grain, potatoes, sorghum, apples, hardwoods, gold. Average altitude 1,700 feet. Soil, red and gray.
DECATUR: 31,785; Bainbridge, 4,792; area, 823 square miles; taxable property, $7,185,470.00; Congress, Second; Senate, Eighth; Albany circuit. Products, tobacco, a large warehouse being located at Bainbridge, peanuts, corn, cotton, and other crops favorable to this section. Many hogs, cattle, poultry and eggs are sold annually. Bainbridge is a
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large manufacturing center. Average altitude 119 feet. Soil, Norfolk orange, fine loam.
DEKALB: 44,051; Decatur, 12,000; area, 272 square miles; taxable property, $29,631,380.00; Congress, Fifth; Senate, Thirty-fourth; Stone Mountain circuit. Dairying, poultry raising and truck growing are engaged in largely by the farmers. Many manufactures are located in the county, including extensive granite quarries which turn the stone into the finished product. Stone Mountain, largest solid granite mass in the world and upon which is being carved the Confederate memorial, is in this county. Agnes Scott College, Columbia Seminary, Emory University, Oglethorpe University are located in DeKalb. Average altitude 1,019 feet.
DODGE: 22,540; Eastman, 2,707; area, 431 square miles; taxable property, $5,097,499.00; Congress, Twelfth; Senate, Forty-eighth; Oconee circuit. Products, cotton, corn, grain, potatoes, hay, melons, peaches, pears, pecans, peanuts, poultry, livestock and dairying, textiles, fertilizers. Average altitude 361 feet. Soil, dark gray, sandy loam.
DOOLY: 20,522; Vienna, 2,019; area, 397 square miles; taxable property, $4,741,542.00; Congress, Third; Senate, Fourteenth; Cordele circuit. Products, cotton, corn, grain, melons, pepper, tobacco, peanuts, sugar cane, potatoes, peaches, pecans, pears, livestock, hogs, poultry and eggs, textiles, oil mills, lumbering. Average altitude 350 feet. Soils, Norfolk sandy loam.
DOUGHERTY: 20,063; Albany, 11,555; area, 342 square miles; taxable property, $15,278,581.00; Congress, Second; Senate, Tenth; Albany circuit. Albany is in the center of the pecan industry in the State, more pecans being marketed there than in any other city in the South. More than 70,000 acres of pecans are in the Albany area. Many other farm crops, such as cotton, corn, melons, peanuts, hay, and grain are grown and much livestock, hogs, poultry are sold. Radium springs containing high medicinal properties are near Albany. This city has 20 manufacturing plants. Average altitude 184 feet. Soil, sandy loam, clay sub-soil.
DOUGLAS: 10,477; Douglasville, 2,159; area, 208 square miles; taxable property, $2,087,724.00; Congress, Fifth; Senate, Thirty-ninth; Tallapoosa circuit. Products, hardwoods, cotton, corn, grain, potatoes, peaches, apples, melons, fruits and vegetables, livestock, poultry, eggs, graphite. Average altitude 1,215 feet. Soils, red mulatto.
EARLY: 18,983; Blakely, 1,985; area, 524 square miles; taxable property, $4,764,870.00; Congress, Second; Senate, Ninth; Pataula circuit. Products, tobacco, cotton, corn, grain, hay, peanuts, livestock, hogs, poultry, eggs. Plan of diversification is followed in Early, a solid train load of local products being shipped from the county in one day during 1927. Many saw mills operate. Altitude 300 feet. Soil, red clay, sandy loam.
ECHOLS: 3,313; Statenville, 210; area, 362 square miles; taxable property, $809,278.00; Congress, Eleventh; Senate, Sixth; Southern circuit. Products, tobacco, and other crops grown in south Georgia. Lumber and naval stores are main products and many livestock, hogs and poultry are sold. Average altitude 152 feet. Soils, sandy loam.
EFFINGHAM: 9,985; Springfield, 377; area, 448 square miles; taxable property, $2,842,469.00; Congress, First; Senate, First; Ogechee circuit. Products, cotton, corn, tobacco, pecans, sugar cane, peas, grain, fruits and vegetables, poultry and livestock. Average altitude 75 feet; soil, sandy loam.
ELBERT: 23,905; Elberton, 6,475; area, 361 square miles; taxable property, $4,962,036.00; Congress, Eighth; Senate, Thirtieth; Northern circuit. Products, cotton, corn, grain, hay, alfalfa, soy beans, sudan grass, silage, legume crops, sorghum, peaches, pecans and many fruits and vegetables. Dairying is engaged in on a large scale and much poul-
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try an eggs are sold, the farms generally stocking up with purebred animals and poultry. Elberton Is the center of the granite industry, several large quarries operating here which ship stone to every state in the union and to foreign countries. Fine monumental, memorial and building stone are quarried. Other industries include textile mills, oil mills, creamery, hatchery, machine plant, cotton compress and a silk mill that weaves goods from silk imported from Japan. This mill and its village is one of the most modern in the south. Average altitude 670 feet. Soils are highly productive and are being Improved with dairy herds and legumes.
EMANUEL: 25,862; Swainsboro, 1,578; area, 889 square miles; taxable property, $5,227,755.00; Congress, Twelfth; Senate, Sixteenth; Middle circuit. Products, tobacco, corn, cotton, truck, melons, potatoes, pecans, peaches, grain, hay, poultry, eggs, hogs, dairying and livestock for market. Has ten months growing season and year-round pastures with reasonably priced land, fine schools, good roads and power. Swainsboro, on seven state highways and two railroads, has two ice plants, planing mill, turpentine stills, cotton gins and other plants. Average altitude 350 feet.
EVANS: 6,594; Claxton, 1,265; area, 287 square miles; taxable property, $1,544,250.00; Congress, First; Senate, Forty-ninth; Atlantic circuit. Products, tobacco, corn, cotton, cane, potatoes, grain, hay, cattle, hogs, sheep, poultry and eggs. Average altitude 350 feet. Soil, gravel surface, clay sub-soil.
FANNIN: 12,103; Blue Ridge, 904; area, 401 square miles; taxable property, $2,097,205.00; Congress, Ninth; Senate, Forty-first; Blue Ridge circuit. Products, corn, rye, wheat, oats, potatoes, sweet and Irish, apples in abundance, peaches, livestock, poultry and eggs. Coal, marble are mined. Average altitude 1,760 feet; clay soil, abundant water supply. Many hardwoods are found in the forests of the county.
FAYETTE: 11,396; Fayetteville, 952; area, 234 square miles; taxable property, $1,544,127.00; Congress, Sixth; Senate, Twenty-sixth; Griffin circuit. Products, corn, cotton, potatoes, grain, hay, apples, peaches, livestock, hogs, poultry, eggs, many vegetables which are trucked to markets. Average altitude 1,100 feet. Soil, sandy loam, clay sub-soil.
FLOYD: 39,841; Rome, 13,252; area, 502 square miles; taxable property, $18,457,090.00; Congress, Seventh; Senate, Forty-second; Rome circuit. All farm crops suitable to north Georgia are grown in Floyd, with the farms being stocked with purebred cattle, hogs and poultry, many of which are markted. Many apples, peaches and other fruits and vegetables are grown. Rome is a large manufacturing center, having 75 industries. This city which is reached by several railroads and main highways has abundant power and is the center of educational facilities, Shorter College, Berry Schools, and Darhngton School, being located there. Average altitude 614 feet.
FORSYTH: 11,755; Cumming, 607; area, 247 square miles; taxable property, $1,692,498.00; Congress, Ninth; Senate, Fifty-first; Blue Ridge circuit. Products, cotton, corn, grain, potatoes, apples, other fruits and vegetables, poultry, livestock. Gold and other minerals are found in the county. Average altitude 1,316 feet. Soil, red and gray.
FRANKLIN: 19,957; Carnesville, 400; area, 279 square miles; taxable wealth, $3,165,511.00; Congress, Eighth; Senate, Thirty-first; Northern circuit. Products, cotton, corn, potatoes, wheat, oats, rye, hay, peaches, apples, grapes, livestock. Poultry raising engaged in extensively much poultry and many eggs being sold each month. There are several manufacturing plants in the county. Average altitude feet. Soil, 1,000 red, pebble, clay sub-soil.
FULTON: 232,606 (1920); Atlanta, 249,000 (1927); area, 185 square miles; taxable wealth, $254,904,530.00; Congress, Fifth; Senate, Thirtyfifth. Atlanta is the capital of the State and is one of the largest cities
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in the South, having a city and urban population estimated at 300,000. It leads all cities in the South in industries, its products being valued at more than one hundred and thirty million dollars annually, approcimately 1,000 plants manufacturing more than one thousand different articles. It is a railroad, and highway center with adequate transportation facilities. It has abundant power for industries. This city is the headquarters for many firms doing business in the southeast, as its large number of office buildings attest. It is a leading educational center, many colleges and universities being located near Atlanta. Altitude 1,050 feet. The Southeastern Fair is held in Atlanta in October every year.
GILMER: 8,406; Ellijay, 632; area, 440 square miles; taxable property, $1,741,282.00; Congress, Ninth; Senate, Forty-first; Blue Ridge circuit. Products, corn, wheat, rye, potatoes, apples, peaches, livestock, poultry and eggs. Many hardwood mills operate in county and marble, iron ore and other minerals are mined. Average altitude 1,312 feet. Soil, red, sandy loam. Gilmer county apples are of many varieties and finest color and flavor and large quantities are shipped each year.
GLASCOCK: 4,192; Gibson, 462; area, 170 square miles; taxable property, $762,046.00; Congress, Tenth; Senate, Eighteenth; Toombs circuit. Products, corn, cotton, hay, oats, wheat, rye, livestock, hogs, poultry and eggs. Average altitude 500 feet. Soil, sandy, gray red.
GLYNN: 19,370; Brunswick, 14,413; area, 439 square miles; taxable property, $10,503,307.00; Congress, Eleventh; Senate, Fourth; Brunswick circuit. Brunswick is an important port, much cotton, lumber, turpentine and rosin and other products being shipped from there annually. It is the center of a large fishing industry and has approximately 30 manufacturing plants of major importance which spend in salaries an for raw materials approximately $4,000,000 annually. Brunswick is also the center of a large trucking area, cucumbers, Irish potatoes, both spring and fall, cabbage, strawberries, dewberries, asparagus, sweet potatoes, beans, tomatoes, lettuce, celery and onions being grown. Profits of from $500 to $1,000 an acre have been reported from Brunswick truck farms. Brunswick and adjacent islands afford fine climate for tourists both winter and summer.
GORDON: 17,736; Calhoun, 1,955; area, 375 square miles; taxable property, $3,955,228.00; Congress, Seventh; Senate, Forty-third; Cherokee circuit. Products, cotton, corn, all grains, alfalfa, vetch, clover, cattle, dairy products, poultry and eggs, fruits and vegetables. County ships annually 70,000 gallons of milk, 131,685 pounds of butter, 212,490 dozen eggs. Manufacturers brick, several large plants being located in county, textiles, tile, lumber, hardwood materials. Gordon county was the home of Sequoya, the chief who formed the Indian alphabet and who has been selected by Oklahoma to occupy a place in the National Hall of Fame at Washington. The treaty with the Indians which caused their removal from this section was made in this county. Average altitude 716 feet, deep loam, red sub-soil.
GRADY: 20,306; Cairo, 1,908; area, 444 square miles; taxable property, $4,197,126; Congress, Second; Senate, Seventh; Albany circuit. Grady county sells products valued at approximately $3,500,000.00 annually, composed of syrup, $650,000.00; corn, $650,000.00; tobacco, $625,000.00; cotton and seed, $400,000.00; peanuts, $250,000.00; poultry and eggs, $250,000.00; vegetables and plants, $90,000.00; pecans and nursery stock, $250,000.00; naval stores and lumber, $200,000.00; sweet potatoes, $100,000.00; melons, $90,000.00; collard and other seeds, $50,000.00; other truck, $25,000.00. Grady is the center of the syrup industry in the State and more pure cane syrup is shipped from Cairo than any other point in the world. Average altitude 324 feet. A tobacco warehouse is located at Cairo.
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GREENE: 18,972; Greensboro, 2,128; area, 416 square miles; taxable property, $3,220,220.00; Congress, Eighth; Senate, Nineteenth; Ocmulgee circuit. Pi ">ducts, corn, cotton, grain, hay, fruits, truck, pecans, livestock, poultry and eggs. Dairying is becoming an important industry in county, many sour cream stations being established. Much poultry and many eggs are also sold. Textiles and cotton products, lumber, brick are manufactured and kaolin and other minerals are mined. Average altitude 598 feet. Soils, red and gray.
GWINNETT: 30,327; Lawrenceville, 2,059; area, 400 square miles; taxable wealth, $5,894,013.00; Congress, Ninth; Senate, Fifty-first; Piedmont circuit. Products, cotton, corn, grain, hay, peaches, apples, cattle and other livestock. Much poultry and many eggs are sold. Several manufacturing plants are located at Lawrenceville. At Buford are located the extensive plants of Bona Allen, Incorporated, which manufacture harness, collars, bridles, saddles, men's and boys' shoes, and leather specialties, valued annually at $6,000,000.00. The plants use 250,000 hides annually, employs 1,500 people with a payroll amounting to $900,000.00 annually. Average altitude of county 1,082 feet.
HABERSHAM: 10,730; Clarkesville, 542; area, 290 square miles; taxable property, $3,126,461.00; Congress, Ninth, Senate, Thirty-first; Northeastern circuit. Products, corn, hay, grain, cotton, potatoes, apples, peaches, other fruits, dairy cows, poultry and eggs. Manufactures hardwood products, saddles, etc., mines, asbestos and graphite. Large quantities of apples are shipped from Habersham, Cornelia being the center of the apple industry in northeast Georgia. Average altitude 1,363 feet. Soil, red, clay sub-soil.
HALL: 26,822; Gainesville, 6,272; area, 437; taxable property, $8,831,441.00; Congress, Ninth; Senate, Thirty-third; Northeastern circuit. Farm crops suitable to northeast Georgia are planted in Hall with dairying making great gains recently, a creamery having been established at Gainesville; the poultry industry has grown to such extent that commercial hatcheries are operated. Many farms are stocked with purebred hogs and other livestock. Many minerals are mined. Gainesville is the center of a large number of textile and other manufacturing plants. Average altitude 1,200 feet. Soils, red clay. Brenau College and Riverside Academy are located at Gainesville.
HANCOCK: 18,357; Sparta, 1,895; area, 530 square miles; taxable property, $2,883,547.00; Congress, Tenth; Senate, Twentieth; Ocmulgee circuit. Products, cotton, corn, grain, fruits, nuts, truck. Permanent pastures are planted which are encouraging dairying and hog raising in county. Much poultry and many eggs are sold each month. Manufactures flour, textiles; mines, granite, kaolin, clays and chalk. Average altitude 557. Soil, red, gray.
HARALSON: 14,440; Buchanan, 491; area, 284 square miles; taxable welath, $2,673,014.00; Congress, Seventh; Senate, Thirty-eighth; Tallapoosa circuit. Products, cotton, corn, wheat, oats, rye, peaches, apples, other fruits, livestock, poultry and eggs. Textiles are manufactured and gold, pyrites and copper are mined. Tallapoosa and Bremen are other towns. Average altitude 1,000 feet. Soil, red, gray.
HARRIS: 15,775; Hamilton, 437; area, 501 square miles; taxable property, $2,621,631.00; Congress, Fourth; Senate, Twenty-fifth; Chattahoochee circuit. Products, cotton, corn, grain, potatoes, peanuts, hays, apples, peaches, melons, berries, livestock, poultry, and eggs. Power on streams is being developed in county. Average altitude 786 feet. Soil, sandy loam, clay sub-soil. Chipley is located in this county also.
HART: 17,944; Hartwell, 2,323; area, 261 square miles; taxable property, $2,607,789.00; Congress, Eighth; Senate, Thirtieth; Northern circuit. Crops favorable to east Georgia are grown and plan of diversification followed by farmers in recent years has caused dairying, live-
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stock and poultry raising to bring thousands of dollars into county. Many eggs are also sold. Textiles are manufactured. Average altitude838 feet. Soils, gray, gravelly, which is being improved by legume plants.
HEARD: 11,126; Franklin, 317; area, 285 square miles; taxable welath, $1,340,654.00; Congress, Fourth; Senate, Thirty-seventh; Coweta, circuit. Products, cotton, corn, peanuts and all grains, poultry and eggs. Mines graphite and other minerals. Average altitude 696 feet;
Soil, red and gray. HENRY: 20,420; McDonough, 1,263; area, 324 square miles; taxable
property, $3,721,028.00; Congress, Sixth; Senate, Thirty-fifth; Flint circuit. Products, cotton, corn, wheat, oats, rye, peaches, apples, hogs, poultry and eggs, textiles, fertilizer, textile products. Average altitude 866 feet; soil, clay, sandy loam, clay sub-soil.
HOUSTON: 12,000*; Perry, 678; area 450* square miles; taxable property, $3,300,521.00; Congress, Twelfth; Senate, Twenty-third; Macon circuit. Products cotton, corn, peas, potatoes, hay, melons, pecans, peaches, hogs, poultry and eggs, textiles, and foundry products. The Clinchfield cement plant is located in this county and in 1927 manufactured 699,356 barrels of cement. Average altitude 300 feet. Soil, red and gray. (*Estimated.)
IRWIN: 12,670; Ocilla, 2,180; area, 378 square miles; taxable property, $2,611,702.00; Congress, Eleventh; Senate, Forty-fifth; Tifton circuit. Products, tobacco, corn, cotton, grain, peanuts, potatoes, hay, fruits, hogs, poultry and eggs, lumbering. Average altitude 686 feet. Soil,
gray, pebble, clay sub-soil. JACKSON: 24,654; Jefferson, 1626; area, 355 square miles; taxable
property, $4,670,115.00; Congress, Ninth; Senate, Thirty-third; Piedmont circuit. Products, cotton, corn, grain, peas, peanuts, potatoes, sorghum, peaches, apples, pecans, pears, livestock, hogs, poultry and eggs, textiles. Average altitude 1,000 feet; soil, gray, red, pebble, clay sub-soil. Commerce, with population of 2,459, is also located in this county.
JASPER: 16,362; Monticello, 1,823; area, 321 square miles; taxblea property, $2,009,580.00; Congress, Sixth; Senate, Twenty-eighth; Ocmulgee circuit. Products, cotton, wheat, grain, corn, peaches, pecans, pepper, dairying, pure bred cows, poultry and eggs, lumber mills, bobbin spool factory, farm implements, fertilizers, flour mills, ice factory. Average altitude 800 feet. Soil, clay and loam. Much alfalfa, vetch and other cover crops are planted to improve soil.
JEFF DAVIS: 7,322; Hazlehurst, 1,383; area, 400 square miles; taxable property, $2,101,187.00; Congress, Eleventh; Senate, Third; Brunswick circuit. Products, tobacco, having two warehouses, cotton, grain, corn, peaches, livestock, poultry, eggs, fruits and vegetables for market, potatoes, sugar cane, peanuts, pecans, naval stores, cross ties, lumber. Average altitude 256 feet. Soil, sandy loam, clay sub-soil.
JEFFERSON: 22,602; Louisville, 1,040; area, 646 square miles; taxable property, $4,724,546.00; Congress, Tenth; Senate, Eighteenth; Middle circuit. Products, cotton, corn, grain, hay, potatoes, peanuts, peas, peaches, apples, melons, fruits and vegetables, livestock, hogs, poultry and eggs, limestone, marl. Louisville was former capital of Georgia. Wadley, with population of 1,423, has several manufacturing plants. Average altitude 236 feet. Soil, red and gray.
JENKINS: 14,328; Millen, 2,405; area, 342 square miles; taxable property, $2,936,984.00; Congress, First; Senate, Seventeeth; Ogeechee circuit. Products, tobacco, cotton, corn, sugar cane, potatoes, grain, apples, peanuts, peaches, fruits and vegetables, pecans, hay, hogs, poultry and eggs, textiles, fertilizers, ice. Average altitude 158 feet. Soil, red, pebble, clay sub-soil.
JOHNSON: 13,546; Wrightsville, 1,476; area, 292 square miles; taxable property, $2,684,317.00; Congress, Twelfth; Senate, Sixteenth; Dublin circuit. Products, tobacco, cotton, corn, grain, sugar cane.
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potatoes, peas, fruits and vegetables, livestock, hogs, poultry, eggs.
Altitude 567 feet. Soil, sandy loam, clay sub-soil. JONES: 13,269; Gray, 559; area, 377 square miles; taxable property,
$1,761,007.00; Congress, Sixth; Senate, Twenty-first; Ocmulgee circuit.
Products, all crops grown in middle Georgia, many Peaches are
grown, also many hogs, poultry and eggs are sold. Average altitude duu
feet. Soil, red, gray. Kaolin is mined. LAMAR: 12,148; BarnesvUle, 3,059; area, 182 square miles; taxable
property, $2,730,252.00; Congress, Sixth; Senate, Twenty-second; Flint
circuit. General crops grown in middle Georgia produced on farms,
including many peaches, pecans, etc., much livestock, hogs, poultry
and eggs being sold. Many manufacturing plants are located at Barnes-
vUle, textiles leading. Milner is another town in the county. Lanier: 10,000; Lakeland, 860; area, 225 square miles; taxable prop-
erty, $1,409,599.00; Congress, Eleventh; Senate, Sixth; Alapaha circuit.
Products, tobacco and other crops grown generally in south Georgia,
much interest being taken in hog and poultry raising. Much lumber
and naval stores produced. LAURENS: 39,605; Dublin, 7,707; area, 806 square miles; taxable
property, $9,272,145.00; Congress, Twelfth; Senate Sixteenth; Dublin
circuit. Products, tobacco, cotton, corn, grain, hay, potatoes, fruits
and vegetables, sugar cane, hay, many hogs and much poultry and eggs
sold. Creamery affords market for local dairy products. Hundreds of car loads of farm products sold annuaUy. Dublin has many manu-
facturing plants, the payroll of which totals $1,000,000 annually. Aver-
age altitude 452; soil, sandy loam. Many fine yields of cotton and corn
are reported by Laurens farmers. LEE: 10,904; Leesburg, 786; area, 326 square miles; taxable prop-
erty, $2,178,672.00; Congress, Third; Senate, Tenth; Southwestern
circuit. Products, tobacco, cotton, corn, peanuts, potatoes, grain,
sugar cane, hay, pecans, peaches, fruits, vegetables, hogs, poultry,
egss. Average altitude 279 feet. Soil, sandy loam, clay sub-soil. Naval
stores and lumber are important products. LIBERTY: 12,707; Hinesville, 315; area, 936 square miles; taxable
property, $2,050,791.00; Congress, First; Senate, Second; Atlantic cir-
cuit. Products, tobacco, corn, cotton, rice, potatoes, oats, sugar cane,
figs, grapes, pecans, hogs, poultry and eggs, naval stores and saw mills,
using pine and hardwoods. Average altitude 30 feet. Soil, sandy,
clay sub-soil.
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LINCOLN: 9,739; Lincolnton, 657; area, 291 square miles; taxable
property, $1,375,112.00; Congress, Tenth; Senate, Twenty-ninth; Toombs
circuit. Products, cotton, corn, peaches and other fruits and vegetables
grown in this section. Much interest is being taken in livestock, cattle,
hogs and poultry. The cream sales total about $50,000 annually and
many hogs, chickens and eggs are sold. Gold and granite are mined.
Average altitude 500 feet. Soil, sandy loam, clay sub-soil. LONG: 4,700; Ludowici, 515; area, 450 square miles; taxable prop-
erty, $1,375,326.00; Congress, First; Senate, Second; Atlantic circuit.
Products general in southeast Georgia are produced, including a lively
interest in livestock, hogs, poultry, eggs. Many vegetables are grown
for market, also fruits. Clay products are manufactured, also rosin,
turpentine, lumber. LOWNDES: 26,521; Valdosta, 10,783; area, 476 square miles; taxable
property, $13,907,390.00; Congress, Eleventh; Senate, Sixth; Southern
circuit. Large variety of crops grown, also plants for sale, nuts and
fruits. Vegetables a, e grown for shipment to markets north and south and permanent pastures afford grazing ground for livestock the year
round. County has 16 towns, each being a shipping point. Much
tobacco is grown, there being six warehouses in county, three at Val-
dosta and three at Hahira. Government is establishing large fish hatch-
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ery at a large lake in county. Valdosta has 40 industrial plants, 15 wholesale houses and 230 retail concerns. It is the seat of the Georgia State Woman's College and of the Junior College of Emory University.
LUMPKIN: 5,240; Dahlonega, 690; area, 280 square miles; taxable property, $1,351,245.00; Congress, Ninth; Senate, Thirty-second; Northeastern circuit. Products, corn, wheat, rye, potatoes, apples, peaches. Mines, gold, mica, pyrites. Dahlonega has long been the center of gold mining in Georgia, a mint being located there several years prior to 1861, which was discontinued. Mining for gold is being resumed on a large scale in the county. Average altitude 1,519 feet. The North Georgia Agricultural College is located at Dahlonega.
McDUFFIE: 11,509; Thomson, 2,140; area, 287 square miles; taxable property,$2,404,607.00; Congress, Tenth; Senate, Twenty-ninth; Augusta circuit. Products, cotton, corn, peaches, wheat, oats, rye, cane, potatoes, hay, vegetables, apples, melons, hogs, poultry and eggs, gold, clay. Average altitude 503 feet. Soil, sandy clay.
McINTOSH: 5,119; Darien, 823; area, 470 square miles; taxable property, $1,480,342.00; Congress, First; Senate, Second; Atlantic circuit. Crops suitable to tropical climate are grown, including much truck for market. Much poultry and eggs are sold. Darien is a port and many fishing vessels operate from there, the catches being sold or canned. Average altitude 25 feet. Gray, black soil.
MACON: 17,667; Oglethorpe, 871; area, 369 square miles; taxable property, $3,984,979.00; Congress, Third; Senate, Thirteenth; Southwestern circuit. County has 50,000 pecan trees, 40,000 acres in corn, 40,000 acres in cotton, more than 1,000,000 peach trees. Grows many melons, peanuts, potatoes. Asparagus growing was started in Marshallville territory several years ago, several thousand acres being planted each year, the yield being large. S. H. Rumph, at Marshallville, propagated the Elberta peach, the most famous in the world. Practically every train passing through county takes on shipments of food grown locally for other markets. There are manufacturing plants at Montezuma, Marshallville and Oglethorpe.
MADISON: 18,803; Danielsville 355; area 284 square miles; taxable property, $2,395,745.00; Congress, Eight; Senate, Thirtieth; Northern circuit. Products, cotton, corn, grain, hogs, poultry, eggs and dairying, much cream being sold annually. Graphite is mined. Average altitude 900 feet. Soil, sandy loam, clay sub-soil.
MARION: 7,604; Buena Vista, 1,230; area, 360 square miles; taxable wealth, $1,580,380; Congress, Fourth; Senate, Twenty-fourth; Chattahoochee circuit. Products, cotton, corn, hay, grain, sugar cane, peanuts, potatoes, tobacco, peas, peaches, hog, cattle and poultry raising, naval stores, lumbering. Average altitude 800 feet. Soil, sandy clay.
MERIWETHER: 26,168; Greenville, 760; area, 496 square miles; taxable property, $5,248,655.00; Congress, Fourth; Senate, Thirty-sixth; Coweta circuit. Products, cotton, corn, apples, peaches in large quantities, pecans, pepper, peanuts, vegetables, dairying, hogs, poultry and eggs. Woodbury with a population of 923 has several manufacturing plants, including a pimiento pepper canning factory. Soil, gray, gravelly and red. Manchester. Population, 2,776; has railroad shop and several manufacturing plants.
MILLER: 9,565; Colquitt, 810; area, 253 square miles; taxable property, $1,985,979.00; Congress, Second; Senate, Eighth; Pataula circuit. Products, tobacco, cotton, corn, potatoes, hay, grain, cane peas, fruits and vegetables, hogs, cattle, poultry, eggs, naval stores, lumbering, limestone. Average altitude 250 feet. Soils, sandy loam.
MILTON: 6,885; Alpharetta, 379; area, 145 square miles; taxable wealth, $1,207,720.00; Congress, Ninth; Senate, Fifty-first; Blue Ridge
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circuit. Products, corn, cotton, wheat, oats, potatoes, hay, apples, peaches, melons. Altitude 1,100 feet. Soil, red clay.
MITCHELL: 25,588; Camilla, 2,136; area, 548 square miles; taxable property, $5,774,267.00; Congress, Second; Senate, Eighth; Albany circuit. Products, tobacco with three warehouses, two at Camilla and one at Pelham. During first nine months of 1927 a total of 3,500 bushels of corn, 301 cars of watermelons, 31 cars of sweet potatoes, 5,000 tons of peanuts, 2,737,700 pounds of tobacco, 500,000 pounds of pecans, 51 cars of cattle, 102 cars of hogs, 204 cars of lumber, 1,941 cans of sour cream, 2,500 cases of eggs, 175,000 pounds of poultry, 2,800 crates of snap beans, 600 crates cabbage and other vegetables, were shipped from county. Pelham, opulation 2,640, is located in county.
MONROE: 20,138; Forsyth, 2,241; area, 484 square miles; taxable property, $3,952,828.00; Congress, Sixth; Senate, Twenty-second; Flint circuit. Products, cotton, corn, potatoes, wheat, oats, peaches, pecans, lumber, livestock, poultry and eggs. Dairying is making much progress with farmers, cover crops being planted for grazing and for soil improvement. Many manufacturing plants are operated at Forsyth, textiles leading. Average altitude 704 feet. Mica is mined. Soil, loam, mulatto, red clay sub-soil. Bessie Tift College is located at Forsyth. Culloden is another town in the county.
MONTGOMERY: 9,167; Mount Vernon, 722; area, 190 square miles; taxable property, $1,808,429.00; Congress, Twelfth; Senate, Fifteenth; Oconee circuit. Products, tobacco, corn, cotton, potatoes, sugar cane, grain, hay, peaches, pecans, grapes and other fruits and vegetables, hogs, poultry and eggs and dairying. Average altitude 125 feet. Soil, sandy loam.
MORGAN: 20,143; Madison, 2,348; area, 390 square miles; taxable property, $3,853,905.00; Congress, Eighth; Senate, Twenty-eighth; Ocmulgee circuit. Products, cotton, corn, hay, grain, peaches, pecans and many fruits and vegetables, livestock growing is gaining in county with much milk, many hogs, poultry and eggs sold. Average altitude 677 feet. Soil, red, gray.
MURRAY: 9,490; Spring Place, 208; area 342 square miles; taxable wealth, $1,965,024.00; Congress, Seventh; Senate, Forty-third; Cherokee circuit. Products, cotton, corn, oats, wheat, hay, apples, peaches, pears, clover, many other fruits and vegetables, cattle, hogs, poultry and eggs. Average altitude 1,400 feet. Soil, andy loam, clay sub-soil. Talc, pyrites, limestone, road materials, barytes and gold are mined.
MUSCOGEE: 44,195 (1920); Columbus, 45,800 (1927); area 235 square miles; taxable property, $41,262,300.00; Congress, Fourth; Senate, Twenty-fourth; Chattahoochee circuit. Crops suitable for west Georgia are grown and many hogs, poultry and eggs are marketed. Columbus is said to be the second largest textile manufacturing city in the south with more than a half million spindles. This city also manufactures brick, iron and wood products. The Columbus Electric and Power Company, with its subsidiary, South Georgia Power Company, has developed much power on the Chattahoochee river and other streams, its lines serving approximately 200,000 people and an area of 12,000 square miles. Fort Benning, containing approximately 80,000 acres, United States army post, is near Columbus.
NEWTON: 21,680; Covington, 3,203; area, 262 square miles; taxable property, $5,292,835.00; Congress, Eighth; Senate, Thirty-fourth; Stone Mountain circuit. Products, corn, hay, cotton, peanuts, sweet and Irish potatoes, peaches for market, hogs, poultry and eggs and cattle with dairying making rapid progress. Has many breeders of Jersey, Hereford and other pure bred cattle and has some of the finest permanent pastures in the State. Many pure bred cattle are sold; also many dairy products, hogs and poultry. Large textile mills are located
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at Porterdale and. Covington. Emory University Academy is located at Oxford.
OCONEE: 11,067- Watkinsville, 465: area, 172 square miles- taxable property, $1,732,550.00- Congress, Eighth; Senate, Twenty-seventh; Western circuit. All crops favorable to middle east Georgia are grown, with dairying, hog and poultry making great progress. Average altitude 800 feet. Soil, red, gray.
OGLETHORPE: 20,287; Lexington, 469; area, 504 square miles; taxable property, $3,643,131.00; Congress, Eighth; Senate, Fiftieth; Northern circuit. Products, cotton, corn, wheat, oats, peas, hay, textiles, granite. Some tobacco was grown in county in 1927 and larger acreage for 1928 is planned. Average altitude 299 feet. Soil, red clay.
PAULDING: 14,025; Dallas, 1,245; area, 324 square miles; taxable property, $2,079,413.00; Congress, Seventh; Senate, Thirty-eighth; Tallapoosa circuit. Products, cotton, corn, wheat, oats, potatoes, sweet and Irish, peaches, apples, pecans, cattle; hogs, poultry, eggs, iron ore, copper, pyrites, textiles and textile products. Average altitude 1,500 feet. Corn and cotton club boys reported high yields for 1927, twentytwo made 44 bales of cotton on 22 acres, and corn records were 182 bushels on one acre and 111 bushels on one acre, with other high yields reported.
PEACH: 11,000*; Fort Valley, 3,223; area, 150* square miles; taxable property, $3,205,911.00; Congress, Twelfth; Senate, Twenty-third; Macon circuit. Although this county is known as the Peach center of the world, more peaches being shipped annually from Fort Valley than from any other southern point, many other crops are grown extensively, including cotton, corn, pecans, peanuts, asparagus. Livestock growing is making rapid headway in county, many cars of hogs being shipped annually; also many chickens and eggs. Fort Valley is a large manufacturing center, the products including textiles and textile goods, crates, baskets, flour, ice, oil mill, bottling plants, dairies, etc. (*Estimated.)
PICKENS: 8,222; Jasper, 336; area, 231 square miles; taxable property, $1,818,373.00; Congress, Ninth; Senate, Forty-first; Blue Ridge circuit. Farm products, such as corn, some cotton, apples and other fruits and vegetables thrive in county. At Tate is located the Georgia Marble Company, which produces marble and granite used in erecting buildings and memorials all over the United States and other countries. Georgia is only exceeded by Vermont in the annual output of marble, a large percentage of which comes from Pickens. The quarries of Pickens county give employlent to several thousand persons. Average altitude 1,500 feet.
PIERCE: 11,934; Blackshear, 1,329; area, 517 square miles; taxable property, $3,993,846.00; Congress, Eleventh; Senate, Forty-sixth; Waycross circuit. Products, tobacco, four warehouses in county handled 6,991,678 pounds in 1927; corn cotton, sweet potatoes, peas, peanuts, hogs, poultry and eggs. Average altitude 106 feet. Soil, sandy loam.
PIKE: 21,212; Zebulon, 629; area 200 square miles (estimated); taxable property, $2,098,397.00; Congress, Sixth; Senate, Twenty-second; Griffin circuit. Products, cotton, corn, grain, pecans, peaches, potatoes, hay, apples, pepper, vegetables, dairying, hogs, poultry and eggs. Average altitude 700 feet. Soil, red, gray. Concord has a large grain mill and nursery. Meansville, Molena and Williamson are other towns.
POLK: 20,357; Cedartown, 4,053; area, 317 square miles; taxable property, $7,927,279.00; Congress, Seventh; Senate, Thirty-eighth; Tallapoosa circuit. Cotton, corn, grain and many other crops flourish in Polk, with much fruit also being grown, one apple orchard containing 40,000 trees. Dairying, poultry-raising are thriving. Cedartown and Rockmart contain many plants which manufacture textile goods, paper, foundry products, marble, lumber, cotton oil. The Clearwater mill of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber manufactures tire fabric at Cedar-
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town. The cement'plant at Rockmart is one of the largest of its kind in
the South. PULASKI: 11,587; Hawkinsville, 3,070; area, 258 square miles;
taxable property, $3,063,345.00; Congress, Twelfth; Senate, Fourteenth; Oconee circuit. Products shipped in 1927 include milk, $90,000.00;
cream, $6,000.00; peaches, $35,000.00; hogs, $45,000.00; cattle, $8,000.00; corn, $5,000.00; poultry and eggs, $6,000.00; melons, $4,000.00; vegetables,
pears, potatoes, etc., $8,000.00; hay, straw, grain, etc., $3,000.00; cotton and seed, $945,000.00; pecans, $6,000.00; peanuts, $39,000.00; total $1,191,000.00. (Estimated value). Textiles, creamery products, ice, lumber,
etc., are manufactured. Both pine and hard woods found in county.
Average altitude 817 feet. PUTNAM: 15,151; Eatonton, 2,519; area, 361 square miles; taxable
property, $2,190,515.00; Congress, Eighth; Senate, Twenty-eighth;
Ocmulgee circuit. Most agricultural crops of the United States, including cereals and grasses thrive here. Dairying is growing rapidly one local creamery in 1927 paid Putnam farmers $114,888.36 for sweet cream, with many thousands of dollars worth of sour cream also being shipped out of the county. Much poultry and many eggs are sold also. Average
altitude 577 feet. Soil, red chocolate. QUITMAN: 3,417; Georgetown, 244; area, 144 square miles; taxable
property, $643,446.00; Congress, Third; Senate, Twelfth; Pataula circuit. Products, cotton, corn, peanuts, hay, grain, pecans, potatoes, cane, peaches, hogs, cattle, poultry and eggs. Iron ore is mined. Aver-
age altitude 600 feet. Soil, loam and clay. RABUN: 5,746; Clayton, 677; area, 377 square miles; taxable prop-
erty, $1,878,876.00; Congress, Ninth; Senate, Fortieth; Northeastern circuit. Products, corn, grain, potatoes, sweet and Irish, hay, apples,
grapes, berries. Asbestos, graphite, gold, mica are mined. Many large apple orchards are located in Rabun and the Tallulah Falls power plant and others of the Georgia Power Company are in this county. Average altitude 2,100 feet. Many tourists visit this section during the summer
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RANDOLPH: 16,721; Cuthbert, 3,022; area, 412 square miles; tax-
able property, $3,405,546.00; Congress, Third; Senate, Eleventh; Pataula
circuit. Products, tobacco, asparagus, peaches, peanuts, melons,
truck, poultry and eggs, hogs, dairy cows, and creamery products,
pecans, apples, pears, Satsuma oranges, blueberries, bauxite, lime-
stone, kaolins, lumber, both pine and hardwoods, naval stores, many
manufacturing plants, one college, many schools, excellent roads and
railroad facilities. Loamy soils, clay sub-soils. Average altitude 446
feet.RICHMOND: 63,692 (1920); Augusta, 56,200 (1927); area, 319 square miles; taxable property, $40,983,170.00; Congress, Tenth; Senate, Eighteenth; Augusta circuit. County has 32 distinct types of soil adaptable to growing almost any crop. Ten months growing season permits yearround pastures for grazing, thus encouraging livestock and poultry raising. There are 13 large textile mills in and around Augusta producing annually more than $25,000,000.00 worth of goods. Augusta is second largest inland cotton market in the United States. Thirteen plants produce clay for 175,000,000 building brick and 50,000 tons for hollow tile annually. This section produces more than five million feet of gums and other hardwoods each year. Augusta has many other plants that manufacture a variety of products. This city is a famous winter resort, having many tourists hotels that draw patronage from
all over the United States. ROCKDALE: 9,521; Conyers, 1,817; area, 119 square miles; taxable
property, $1,882,788.00; Congress, Fifth; Senate, Thirty-fourth; Stone Mountain circuit. Products, corn, cotton, oats, wheat, peaches, forage, Irish and sweet potatoes, truck, peanuts, strawberries, alfalfa, clover,
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livestock and poultry and eggs. Granite quarrying is an important industry, the county being rich in deposits of granite, a continuation of the Stone Mountain stratum, 16 miles away. Average altitude 880 feet. Soil, sandy loam.
SCHLEY: 5,243; Ellaville, 693; area, 154 square miles; taxable property, $1,479,028.00; Congress, Third; Senate, Thirteenth; Southwestern circuit. Products, cotton, corn, hay, potatoes, grain, hogs, poultry and eggs, peanuts, pecans, lumbering. Average altitude 400 feet. Soils sandy loam.
SCREVEN: 23,552; Sylvania, 1,413; area, 794 square miles; taxable property, $4,089,568.00; Congress, First; Senate, Seventeenth; Ogeechee circuit. Products, tobacco, cotton, corn, oats, wheat, rye, cane, potatoes, hay, peaches, peanuts, hogs, poultry and eggs, naval stores, lumbering. Average altitude 250 feet. Soil, red and clay.
SEMINOLE: 11,000*; Donaldsonville, 1,031; area, 266 * square milestaxable property, $2,070,947.00; Congress, Second; Senate, Eighth; Patula circuit. Products, tobacco, peanuts, corn, potatoes, cotton, hay, hogs, poultry, and eggs, lumbering. The Hereford cattle herds of P. S. Cummings & Sons, at Donaldsonville are among the largest of the kind east of the Mississippi river. *Estimated.
SPALDING: 21,908; Griffin, 8,240; area, 209 square miles; taxable property, $8,205,785.00; Congress, Sixth; Senate, Twenty-sixth; Griffin circuit. Griffin is the center of pimiento pepper growing in middle Georgia, canning factories being located here. Other crops grown generally include peaches, cotton, corn, potatoes, grain, hay, pecans, truck. Livestock, hogs, poultry and many eggs are sold. Griffin has a large number of manufacturing plants, about 20 in all, textile plants leading. Spalding is a pioneer in concrete highway building in the State. The Georgia Experiment Station is located near Griffin, at Experiment. Average altitude 965 feet. Soil, loam, clay.
STEPHENS: 11,215; Toccoa, 3,567; area, 166 square miles; taxable property, $2,369,252.00; Congress, Ninth; Senate, Thirty-first; Northeastern circuit. Products, cotton, corn, grain, peas, peaches, apples, cattle, hogs and poultry, much poultry and many eggs being sold annually. Toccoa has several factories. Average altitude 1,045 feet. Sou, red and gray.
STEWART: 12,089; Lumpkin, 934; area 411 square miles; taxable wealth, $3,109,640.00; Congress, Third; Senate, Twelfth; Southwestern circuit. Products, tobacco, cotton, corn, peas, beans, peanuts, sugar cane, all grain, potatoes, peaches, pears, apples, cattle, hogs and eggs. Fullers earth is mined. There are several manufacturing plants at Lumpkin and Richland, the latter city having a population of 1,529. Average altitude 650 feet. Soil, loam and clay.
SUMTER: 29,640; Americus, 9,010; area 456 square miles; taxable property, $8,594,860.00; Congress, Third; Senate, Thirteenth; Southwestern circuit. All farm crops common to south Georgia are grown in Sumter in abundance, including, cotton, tobacco, corn, peanuts, potatoes, pecans, all grains. Livestock thrive on all-year pastures and many hogs, poultry and eggs are sold annually. Forests include 32 varieties of valuable pine, hardwood and other timber. Has 22 different kinds of soil, winters short and mild, snow seldom seen, summers temperate. Kaolin and bauxite are mined. Many manufacturing plants are operated at Americus and other towns in the county are Leslie, Plains and DeSoto. Average altitude 360 feet.
TALBOT: 11,158; Talbotton, 1,093; area, 312 square miles; taxable property, $1,858,584.00; Congress, Fourth; Senate, Twenty-fifth; Chattahoochee circuit. Products, corn, cotton, oats, wheat, hays, rye, potatoes, reaches, sugar cane, cattle, hogs, poultry and eggs. Average altitude 415 feet. Soil, loam and clay.
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TALIAFERRO: 8,841; Crawfordville, 784; area, 212 square miles:
taxable property, $1,449,099.00; Congress, Tenth; Senate, Nineteenth;
Toombs circuit. Farm products planted in east Georgia are grown here
including corn, cotton, peaches, peanuts, grain, etc. Livestock, liogs,
cream and other dairy products, chickens and eggs are marketed. Aver-
age altitude 589 feet. Loam and clay soil
TATTNALL: 14,502; Reidsville, 553; aiea, 466 square miles; taxable
property, $3,842,879.00; Congress, First; Senate; Second; Atlantic cir-
cuit. Products, tobacco, corn, pecans, pineapple peais. watermelons,
sugar cane for syrup, Irish and sweet potatoes, hay, fruits in commer-
cial quantities, all grains, Satsuma oranges, peanuts, cover crops, live-
stock, hogs, poultry, eggs. Long leaf pine abounds in forests, also many
hardwoods. Rich soil and fine climate. Average altitude 245 feet.
TAYLOR: 11,473; Butler, 758; area, 340 square miles; taxable prop-
erty, $1,961,215.00; Congress, Third; Senate, Twenty-third; Chatta-
hoochee circuit. Products, cotton, corn, potatoes, peaches, hay, grain,
cattle, hogs, poultry and eggs, kaolin, textiles. Average altitude 606
feet. Soil, loam and clay. Reynolds, 926 population, is another town
in the county.
TELFAIR: 15,291; McRae, 1,273; area, 373 square miles; taxable
pcirrocpueirt.ty,Fa$r4m,40p4r,4o1d0u.0c0t;s
Congress, Twelfth; Senate, Forty-fifth; Oconee include cotton, corn, peanuts, tobacco, peaches,
watermelons, cantaloupes, pecans, sugar cane, Irish and sweet potatoes,
many grains and hay, many of which are sold in large quantities. All-
year pastures afford grazing for cattle, hogs and other livestock, many
carloads of which are sold annually. Vetch and other cover crops
are grown for winter roughage. Much poultry and many eggs are sold
each year. Berries, such as raspberries and dewberries are grown in
commercial quantities. Dr. W. H. Born has a dewberry farm containing
40 acres, the largest of its kind in the south, from which he ships about
40 cars of berries annually. Naval stores is an important industry, also
much lumber, both pine and hardwood, is sawed. Average altitude 230
feet. Soil, dark, loam, red, Lumber City and Helena are other towns
in the county.
TERELL: 19,601; Dawson, 3,504; area, 322 square miles; taxable
property, $4,183,638.00; Congress, Third; Senate, Eleventh; Pataula
circuit. Products, tobacco, cotton, potatoes, pecans, peanuts, corn
and all farm crops grown in south Georgia. Terrell farmers are diver-
sifying and many cattle, hogs, poultry and eggs are sold annually in
carload lots. Many vegetables are grown for market including aspara-
gus and turnips. The Southwest Georgia Exposition is held at Daw-
son every fall, at which a number of adjoining counties make displays.
Much pine and hardwood in county. Average altitude 352 feet.
THOMAS: 33,044; Thomasville, 8,196; area, 530 square miles; Tax-
able property, $12,772,644.00; Congress, Second; Senate, Seventh; South-
ern circuit. Thomas is another county that is diversifying its crops,
many hundreds of carloads of farm products moving from the county
each year, made up of hogs, cattle, poultry, eggs, truck, vegetables,
melons, sweet potatoes, peaches. Tobacco is planted extensively, a
warehouse being located at Thomasville. Cattle raising is given impetus
by presence in county of many pre-bred herds, such as the Herefords
bred at the E. E. Mack farm and the Jerseys at the Pebble Hill Farm.
Pine and hardwood forests. Average altitude 250 feet. Con, sandy
loam. Many tourists spend the winters at Thomarville and large areas
in the county are owned by capitalists who spend the winters there.
TIFT: 14,493; Tifton, 3,005; area, 243 square miles; taxable prop-
erty, $4,128,334.00; Congress, Second; Senate, Forty-seventh; Tifton
circuit. Tift crops are widely diversified, principal products being
cotton, corn, peanuts, pecans, melons, plants for sale, vegetables, live-
stock, poultry and eggs. Much acreage is devoted to tobacco, there
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being three warehouses also the large re-drying and stemmery plant of the Imperial Tobacco Company located at Tifton. Soil is red pebble, sandy loam, highly productive on which a variety of crops are grown. Many manufacturing plants operate at Tifton and the Coastal Plain Experiment Station and the South Georgia A. & M. College are also located there. Average altitude 370 feet.
TOOMBS: 13,897; Lyons, 873; area, 393 square miles; taxable property. $4,376,276.00; Congress, Twelfth; Senate, Fifteenth; Middle circuit. Toombs crops are widely diversified, food crops and livestock and poultry leading in products. The early sweet potato industry, Blue Stem Jerseys and Porto Ricans, centers in Toombs, hundreds of cars being shipped each year. Many carloads of livestock, cattle, and hogs, poultry, eggs and much truck and corn are also sold annually. Naval stores are also produced. Average altitude 300 feet. Soil, sandy loam. Vidalia, population 2,860, also in Toombs county, has three tobacco warehouses.
TOWNS: 3,937; Hiawassee, 146; area, 181 square miles; taxable wealth, $828,561.00; Congress, Ninth; Senate, Fortieth; Northeastern circuit. Products, corn, wheat, rye, oats, apples, peaches, Irish and sweet potatoes and many fruits and vegetables. Corundum and other minerals are mined. Average altitude 1,963 feet. Many hardwoods abound in the forests of the county. Young Harris, population 281, is the home of Young Harris College.
TREUTLEN: 7,664; Soperton, 1,033; area, 137 square miles; taxable property, $1,657,416.00; Congress, Twelfth; Senate, Sixteenth; Oconee circuit. Products, cotton, corn, tobacco, grain, vegetables, hogs, poultry, eggs, cattle, naval stores. Sandy loam soil,
TROUP: 36,037; LaGrange, 17,038; area 435 square miles; taxable property, $12,511,52100; Congress, Fourth; Senate, Thirty-seventh; Coweta circuit. Has eight types of soil, grows peaches, pears, apples, berries, vegetables, corn, cotton, peanuts, pecans and all general farm crops, the industrial cities of the county furnishing ready markets. Many hogs, poultry and eggs are sold in carload shipments. LaGrange and West Point contain many large manufacturing plants, some of the largest textile and textile product plants in the South being operated in these two cities. Abundant electric power is a factor in the development of this section from an industrial standpoint. Average altitude 786 feet.
T0RNER: 12,466; Ashburn, 2,116; area, 231 square miles; taxable property, $2,827,164.00; Congress, Third; Senate, Forty-seventh; Tifton circuit. Adopting the "Cow, Hog and Hen" plan of farming several years ago, Turner is one of the pioneeT counties in the State to get away from all-cotton farming, and as a result many farms are stocked with pure bred cattle, hogs and poultry, many carloads of each being shipped from the county annually. All-year pastures aid dairying in the county and much milk and cream are sold. Co-operative hog and poultry sales are held and many eggs are also shipped from the county. General crops grown, includes pecans, potatoes, peanuts, tobacco and peppers. Average altitude 450 feet. Soil, red pebble.
TWIGGS: 10,407; Jeffersonville, 842; area, 314 square miles; taxable property, $1,460,202.00; Congress, Twelfth; Senate, Twenty-first; Dublin circuit. Farm crops planted in this section are grown, such as cotton, corn, potatoes, sugar cane, grain. Cattle, hogs, poultry and eggs are sold extensively. Fullers earth and clay are mined. Average altitude 470 feet. Soil gray and loam.
UNION: 6,455; Blairsville, 230; area, 324 square miles; taxable propproperty, $945,399.00; Congress, Ninth; Senate, Fortieth; Northeastern circuit. Products, corn, Irish and sweet potatoes, oats, wheat, rye, apples, peaches, grapes, vegetables, mica, hardwoods Average altitude 1,926 feet Soil, red clay
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UPSON: 14,786; Thomaston 3,560; area 317 square miles; taxable property $4,715,930.00; Congress, Sixth; Senate, Twenty fifth; Griffin circuit. Products, cotton, corn, pepper, peaches, apples, grain, potatoes, vegetables, iron, mica, lumber. Thomaston is a manufacturing center especially for textiles, large mills being devoted exclusively to the production of fabric for automobile tires, a large per centage of the fabric used in the automobile industry being manufactured by the Hightower mills. Average altitude 576 feet. Soil, red and gray. YatesTille and The Rock are other towns.
WALKER: 23,370; LaFayette, 2,104; area 432 square miles; taxable property $7,404,805.00; Congress, Seventh; Senate, Forty fourth; Rome Circuit. Crops grown, cotton, corn, potatoes, soy beans, peas, sorghum, much truck. Pure bred hogs are being placed on many farms also pure bred cattle, there being more than 125 dairies each with 10 cows or more in the county. There are 20 different types of soil in the county which .grow crops in abundance and the soil is further improved by planting legumes as rye, vetch, clovers, soy beans and peas. Much poultry and sold. Coal, iron, bauxite, kaolin, shale, cements, clays, ocher, spar, manganese are mixed. Rossville, population 1,427, is in Walker county.
WALTON: 24,216; Monroe 3,211; area 331 square miles; taxable property $4,519,748.00; Congress, Eighth; Senate, Twenty seventh; Western Circuit. Products, cotton, corn, potatoes, peaches, hay, grains, vegetables, hogs, much poultry and many eggs are sold annually. Pure bred cattle are on many farms, which with cover crops are used to improve soil and to furnish dairy products at same time. T. M. Glass, of near Gratis, reports growing 62 bales of cotton on 42 acres of land in 1927. Several manufacturing plants operate at Monroe. Average altitude 1,100 feet. Soil, red and loam.
WARE: 28,361; Waycross, 18,068; area, 771 square miles; taxable property, $9,444,299.00; Congress, Eleventh; Senate, Fifth; Waycross circuit. Products, corn, sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, grain, fruits and vegetables, naval stores, lumber, poles, cross ties, piling. Much pine and hard wood timber. Tobacco crop growing in importance, many acres being planted in this weed, more than two million pounds being handled annually at the two Waycross warehouses. Waycross is an industrial center, large railroad shops being lc cated there. Other towns in the county are Waresboro, Fairfax, Ruskin, Millwood, Glenmore and Hebardville. Soil, sandy loam, clay sub-soil.
WARREN: 11,828; Warrenton, 1,407; area, 404 square miles; taxable property, $2,020,965 00; Congress, Tenth; Senate, Nineteenth; Toombs circuit. Products, cotton, potatoes, hay, tobacco, vetch, corn, wheat, rye, melons, peas, oats, peanuts, cantaloupes, pecans, peaches, pears, figs, grapes, hogs, poultry and eggs; excellent pastures which encourage placing pure bred cattle on farms, much cream being shipped annually. Warren-\>lascock farm fair held each fall. Beall springs has high medicinal properties. Average altitude 500 feet. Soil, red, loamy. Jewell, Camak, Barnett and Norwood are other towns.
WASHINGTON: 28,147; Sandersville, 2,695; area, 669 square miles; taxable wealth, $5,591,431.00; Congress, Tenth; Senate, Twentieth; Middle circuit. Products, cotton, corn, peanuts, oats, hay, other grains, beans, potatoes, berries, melons and fruits. Clay and sandstone are mined, a large cement plant is being erected at Sandersville. Washington is one of the pioneer counties in the State in diversified crops, many pure bred herds of cattle with cover crops being used for many years to improve the soil and at the same time develop the dairy industry. Some of the finest pure bred cattle herds in the State are in this county and much milk and cream are also sold. Farms are being stocked with pure bred hogs and many are sold each year, also many chickens and eggs. Manufacturing plants are located at Sandersville and Tennille.
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The population of the latter city is 1,768. Average county altitude 400> feet. Soil, sandy loam.
WAYNE: 14,381; Jesup, 1,941; area, 788 square miles; taxable wealth $4,274,071.00; Congress, Eleventh; Senate, Third; Brunswick circuit. In 1927 Wayne farmers grew 230,000 bushels of corn, 1,000,000 pounds of tobacco, 110,000 bushels of sweet potatoes, 9,000 bushels of oats, 1000 tons hay, 12,000 acres in velvet beans, 5,000 acres in peanuts, 20,000^ pounds pecans, 500 bushels peaches, 1,200 bushels of pears. Many hogs, chickens and eggs are sold. Naval stores is important industry. Average altitude 100 feet. Soil, sandy loam. Several manufacturing: plants are located in the county.
WEBSTER: 5,342; Preston, 252; area, 302 square miles; taxable property, $1,230,378.00; Congress. Third; Senate, Twelfth; Southwestern circuit. Products, cotton, corn, potatoes, grain, peas, sugar cane, hay, apples, peaches, cattle, hogs, poultry and eggs, lumber. Average altitude 325 feet. Soil, gray, sandy.
WHEELER: 9,817; Alamo, 563; area, 264 square miles; taxable property, $2,065,465.00; Congress, Twelfth; Senate, Fifteenth; Oconee circuit. Products, cotton, corn, potatoes, hay, grain fruits and nuts, lumber, naval stores, cattle, hogs poultry and eggs Average altitude 300 feet. Soil, sandy loam. Crops are widely diversified in Wheeler, the soil being especially adapted to a variety of fruits and vegetables, many of which are shipped in carload lots.
WHITE: 6,105; Cleveland, 339; area, 245 square miles: taxable property, $1,278,564.00; Congress, Ninth; Senate, Thirty-second; Northeastern circuit. Products, cotton, corn, grain, potatoes, sorghum, apples, peaches, cattle, hogs, poultry and eggs. Much sour cream is sold, also poultry and eggs. Forests abound in valuable hardwocds. Gold, limestone, asbestos are mined. Average altitude 1,550 feet. Soil, red and loam.
WHITFIELD: 16,897; Dalton, 5,222; area, 283 square miles; taxable property, $7,786,458.00; Congress, Seventh ; Senate, Forty-third ; Cherokee circuit. Farm crops planted generally in north Georgia are grown in Whitfield, which include corn, apples, peaches and other fruits and many vegetables and berries, especially strawberries. Fine pastures have encouraged cattle and hog raising, many fine herds being found on farms. Poultry and egg business is large. Dalton is a manufacturing city. The products are varied, many textile, woodwork, and printing: plants being among the industries. Average altitude 774 feet.
WILCOX: 15,511; Abbeville, 1,119; area, 403 square miles; taxable property, $2,993,295.00; Congress, Twelfth; Senate, Forty-eighth; Cordele circuit. Products, cotton, corn, grain, pecans, peanuts, potatoes, naval store, lumber, cattle, hogs, poultry and eggs. Average altitude 180 feet. Soil, gray, gravel. Rochelle, population, 1,046, is another town in the county.
WILKES: 24,210; Washington, 4,208; area, 458 square miles; taxable property, $4,855,880.00; Congress, Eighth; Senate, Fiftieth; Toombs circuit. Products, cotton, corn, sweet and Irish potatoes, peas, beans, alfalfa, clovers, truck, berries, pecans, peaches, peanuts, wheat, oats, rye, vetch. Products valued at $15,000,000.00 are grown annually on the farms of the county. Livestock thrive on the fine pastures and as result many dairy products, hogs, poultry and eggs are sold. Average altitude 630 feet. Soil, clay loam. Tignall, population 630, is another town in the county. There are several manufacturing plants in the county.
WILKINSON: 11,376; Irwinton, 379; area, 472 square miles; taxable property, $2,421,767.00; Congress, Tenth; Senate, Twenty-first; Ocmulgee circuit. Products, cotton, corn, potatoes, oats, wheat, rye, hays, sugar cane, pecans, apples, peaches, melons, berries, vegetables, hogs, poultry, eggs and many cattle, cream routes being established in the county.
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Clays, kaolin and limestone are rained. The clays are being extensively mined. Altitude 488 feet. Soil, sandy loam. Gordon, population 1,081, is also located in the county.
WORTH: 23,863; Sylvester, 1,547: area, 651 square miles; taxable property, $4,358,833.00; Congress, Second; Senate, Tenth; Tifton eir cuit. Products, cotton, melons, corn, peanuts, velvet beans, pecans, sugar cane, sweet potatoes, hay, tobacco, dairy products, hogs, poultry and eggs, truck crops, lumber, cross-ties, naval stores. Diversified plan of farming is followed generally in Worth. The county is honeycombed with a number of towns, several of which have manufacturing plants. Average altitude 181 feet. Soil, pebble, loam.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: "Georgia is a joyous State in which to live, a promising State in which to do business. The State is thriving, growing and progressing in all that constitutes true progress. Its countryside, no longer given over to the cultivation of cotton alone, presents a smiling succession of profitable crops. With a population overwhelmingly AngloSaxon in character and with natural advantages and resources second to none, Georgia faces the future with calm confidence, even as she points to her past serene pride."
A. M. APPLEBY, who moved to near Cartersville from Wissin: "I found the people here very friendly and congenial.
"I found business of all classes prospering, plenty of money, and have not heard any one crying hard times.
"I have been looking over the farming country here and found the farmer in a prosperous condition.
"I find that farming land here will produce abundantly, and I believe at the low cost of farms here that farming can be made a great success.
"I being from Wisconsin and having had a wide experience in dairying, I believe that the State of Georgia has untold possibilities in the production of butter, cheese, cattle, hogs and poultry, and anyone wishing to take up such an operation will make no mistake in this State."
Georgia industries consume more than 1,500,000 tons of coal each year.
A total of 217 bushels of corn has been grown on one acre of land in Georgia and more than 90 counties have produced as much as 100 bushels to the acre.
A Georgia Jersey cow has produced 777 pounds of butter in 365 days.
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GRADY'S TRIBUTE TO COTTON.
"Not the fleeces that Jason sought can rival the richness of this plant, as it unfurls its banners in our fields. It is gold from the instant it puts forth its tiny shoots. The shower that whispers to it is heard around the world. The trespass of a worm on its green leaves means more to England than the advance of the Russians on her Asiatic outposts. The utmost missionary woos the heathen with a cotton shirt in one hand and the Bible in the other, and no savage, I believe, has ever been converted to one without adopting the other. It peeps from the satchel of every business and religious evangelist that trots the globe. Its fiber is current in every bank. The dominion of our King is established, and princely revenue assured, not for a year, but for all time. It is the heritage that God gave us when He arched our skies, established our mountains, girded us with the ocean, tempered the sunshine and measured the rain--ours and our children's forever"--Henry W. Grady.
"GEORGIA: A great State to work for, my countrymen; a great State to live for; a great State to die for, and be buried in her soil"--Ex-Governor Nat E. Harris.
Eighty four counties and 188 cities and towns have voted to exempt from taxation for a period of five years all new manufacturing plants.
Out of 161 counties, in Georgia, 149 have power service, only 12 being without electricity. A total of 370 cities and towns in the State are using electricity.
It is estimated that there are 96,000 radio sets in Georgia homes, and that approximately a half million people in the State listen over the radio each day.
Nearly 1,000,000 tons of sand are produced in Georgia each year, the value of which is set at a half million dollars
Some purebred hens in Georgia lay more than 300 eggs during a year's time.
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PART II
GEORGIA AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS
1926-1927
Issued By
GEORGIA CO-OPERATIVE CROP REPORTING^SERVICE
Atlanta, Georgia
V. C. CHILDS, Agricultural Statistician, (Federal) D. L. FLOYD, Assistant Agricultural Statistician (Federal)
MARCUS P. MCWHORTER, Statistician, State Dept. Agriculture.
Co-operating Agencies
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Bureau of Agricultural Economics LLOYD S. TENNY, Chief Washington, D. C.
GEORGIA STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE EUGENE TALMADGE, Commissioner Atlanta, Georgia
STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE
A. M. SOULE, President. Athens, Georgia
805-7 Commercial Exchange Building Atlanta, Georgia
FOREWARD
For several years there has been an insistent and increasing demand for county agricultural statistics. Appreciating the need of this basic information, we are presenting county estimates for as many items as it has been possible for us to prepare with our limited facilities for such work. The need of county statistics in more detail, including yield per acre and total production estimates, is fully realized and we hope that provision will be made for a more complete and thorough county program within the next few months.
The State and County figures contained herein are, for the most part, estimates based upon reports supplied by several thousand regular and special crop reporters. Most of these reporters are farmers, serving without cash remuneration, and much credit is due them and other reporters for their conscientious assistancein this work. Without their public-spirited co-operation, county statistics would have been entirely impossible.
The county statistics should be accepted for what they are: namely, the best information it has been possible to obtain. No claim is made to absolute exactness, although the estimates are sufficiently accurate for most purposes of study and comparison. All agencies interested in agriculture are invited to co-operate with us in perfecting these estimates.
All State figures in the following tables are the official statistics of the United States Department of Agriculture, the statistician in charge of this service being also in charge of crop and livestock estimate work of the United States Department in this State. As to the accuracy of the Georgia State reports, they are usually within a few per cent of the exact truth. For six consecutive years the final estimates of the Georgia cotton crop have been within about one per cent of the amount actually ginned, as reported by the Census, and last year the estimate and ginnings were practically identical.
Monthly reports are issued on crops and livestock and may be obtained free upon application.
GEORGIA CO-OPERATIVE CROP REPORTING SERVICE
V. C. CHILDS, Agricultural Statistician (United States Department of Agriculture) In Charge.
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SUMMARY OF CONTENTS.
Crop Statistics, State Summary, 1926-1927. Tables 1 and 3
Page 160
Xivestock Statistics, State Summary, 1927-1928. Table 2
160
Bright Tobacco Warehouse Sales Report, 1927. Table 4
162
Historical Crop Statistics-State Basis:
(Acreage, yield per acre, production and value)
Cotton. Table 5
166
Corn. Table 6
168
Wheat. Table 7
169
Oats. Table 8
170
Tobacco. Table 9
171
Irish Potatoes. Table 10
172
Sweet Potatoes. Table 11
173
Tame Hay. Table 12
174
Peanuts. Table 13
175
Sorghum for Syrup, Sugar Cane, Watermelons, and other Miscel-
laneous Special Crops
175
Crop Reporters-Map showing number and distribution
179
County Crop and Livestock Statistics. Cotton. Acreage harvested, yield per acre, ginnings. Table 22 __ 181
Corn, Wheat and Oats, Acreage, 1926-1927. Table 23
185
Tobacco, Acreage, 1926-1927. Table 24
191
Irish Potatoes & Sweet Potatoes, Acreage, 1926-1927. Table 25 193
Peanuts & All Hay, Acreage, 1926-1927. Tables 26
199
Watermelons, Carlot shipments, 1925-1927. Table 27
203
Special Crops. Map showing sections where grown
204
Apples, Peaches & Pecans. Number trees January 1,1925. Table
28
207
Peaches, Carlot shipments, 1921-1927. Table 29
211
Horses & Mules. Number on farms January 1,1927-1928. Table
30
213
Swine. Number on farms January 1, 1927-1928. Table 31
219
Cattle. Number on farms January 1, 1927-1928. Table 32
223
Chickens. Number on farms January 1, 1925 and number
chickens raised in 1924. Table 33
227
Commercial Hatcheries in Georgia Creameries and Cheese Factories in Georgia Pork Products Shipments into Georgia
230 233
- 234
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TABLE NO. 1. SUMMARY--CROP STATISTICS--1926-1927.
CROP
Cotton (1) (bales)
Cotton Seed (tons)
Corn (bus.)--
Wheat (bus)
Harvested
Oats (bus)
Harvested
Rye (bus)
Harvested
Potatoes (bus.)
Irish
-
Potatoes (bus.)
Sweet
Tobacco (2)
(lbs.).-
Eice (bus)
Hay, Tame (tons).-.
Hay. Wild (tons)-
Sorghum (gals.) Syrup.
Sugar Cane (3) (gals.)
Watermelons Com. (cars) --
Peanuts (lbs.) Harvested
Cowpeas* (bus.)
Soybeans* (bus.)
Apples (bus.)----
Peaches (bus.)----
Pears (bus.)-
Pecans (lbs.)-
Year 1927 1926 1927 1926 1927 1926 1927 1926 1927 1926 1927 1926 1927 1926 1927 1926 1927 1926 1927 1926 1927 1926 1927 1926 1927 1926 1927 1926 1927
1926 1927 1926 1927 1926 1927 1926 1927 1926 1927 1926 1927 1926 1927 1926
Acreage
Yield per Acre
Production
Price December Total Value
1.
Value per Acre
3,412,000 154
1,100,000
3,965,000 180
1,496,000
.143 488,400
.168 664,200
3,893,000 14.0 54.502,000
3,817,000 14.5 55,346,000
125,000 9.2 1,150,000
104,000 15.0 1,560,000
442,000 21.0 9,282,000
475,000 23.0 10,925,000
26,000 10.0
260,000
22,000 12.0
264,000
17,000 73
1,241,000
19,000 63
1,197,000
132,000 80
10,560,000
110,000 86
9,460,000
81,500 725
59,088,000
51,900 770
39,963,000
3,000 16
48,000
3,000 20
60,000
803.000 .70
565,000
522,000 .77
400,000
22,000 .78
17,000
18,000 .80
14,000
25,000 82
2,050,000
25,000 90
2,070,000
34,000 150
5,100,000
35,000 175
6,126,000
54,060 .325
17,570
53,600 .391
20,958
304,000 725 220,400,000
211,000 525 110,775,000
272,000 4.0 1,088,000
166,000 5.0
830,000
7,000 6.0
42,000
14,000 6.0
84,000
595,000
1,827,000
5,943,000
9,400,000
104,000
257,000
3,094,000
6,732,000
.194 $106,700,000
.111 83,028,000
38.50 18,803,000
21.00 13,948,000
.81 44,147,000
.76 42,063,000
1.55 1,782,000
1.60 2,340,000
.75 6,962,000
.69 7,538,000
1.65
429,000
1.60
422,000
1.65 2,048,000
1.90 2,274,000
.75 7,920,000
.80 7,568,000
.194 11,463,000
.240 9,591,000
1.20
58,000
1.10
66,000
16.30 9,210,000
18.00 7,200,000
13.00
221,000
13.50
189,000
.75 1,538,000
.70 1,449,000
.80 4,080,000
.75 4.594,000
161.00 2,829.000
121.00 2,536,000
.039 8,596,000
.049 5,428,000
1.45 1,578,000
1.80 1,494,000
2.70
114,000
3.10
260,000
1.70 1,012,000
.95 1,736,000
1.35 8,023,000
.74 6,920,000
1.35
140,000
1.05
270,000
.31
959,000
.28 1,885,000
31.27 20.94 5.51 3.52 11.34 11.02 14.26 22. SOIS. 75 15.87 16.50 19.18 120.47 119.68 60.00 68.80 140.65 184.80 19.18 22.00 11.47 13.79 10.05 10.50 61.52 63.00 120.00 131.26 62.33 47.31 28.28 25.72
5.80 9.00 16.20 18.60
Total Above Crops .
1927 9,652,560 1926 9,609,500
$238,612,000 202,799,000
Total all Crops--- 1927 -
-
(Hypothetical)
1926
..$250,685,000 211,804,000
(1) From official cotton report, as of December 1. (2) All types included. (3) Acreage harvested for syrup. "Acreage from which peas or beans were harvested.
TABLE NO. 2. LIVESTOCK ON FARMS JANUARY 1, 1925, 1926, 1927 and 1928.
GEORGIA
ITEM
Horses and colts...
Mules and mule colts
TOTAL horses and mules
(Including colts)
--
Milk cows and heifers (2 yrs.
old and over, kept for
milk)
Heifers (1 to 2 yrs. eld kept
for milk cows)
All cattle and calves (incl.
milk cows).
Sheep and lambs
Swine (incl. pigs)
STATE TOTAL VALUE
(Horses, mules, all cattle.
sheep and swine.)
NUMBER (000 omitted)
1925 1926 1927 1928
56
51
46
41
338
347
347
357
394
392
393
354 84 938 51 1,275
340 73 854 51
1,109
343 77
854 51 1,187
346 81 863 52 1,424
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TOTAL VALUE
1927
3,385,000 t 32,879,000
36,264,000
1928
3.214,000 37,348,000
40,562,000
12,348,000 16,954,000
18,917,000 24,915,000
182,000
195,000
10,683,000 9,968,000
66,046,000 $ 75,640,000
DIAGRAMS SHOWING ACREAGE AND.VALUES OF GEORGIA CROPS FOR YEAR 1927.
NO. 1. Acreage of crops in percent of hypothetical total won acreage.
NO. 2.
Values of crops in percent of hy-
pothetical total value.
&
* TOBACCO INCLUDED UNDER OTHER C~oP5.
TABLE NO. 3. ACREAGES AND VALUES OF GEORGIA CROPS FOR 1927 IN PERCENT OF TOTALS^
CROP
Percent cf Hypothetical Total Crop
Acreage
Acreage of Crop
Percent of Hypothetical
Total Value
Value of Crop
Cotton lint-. Cotton seed.
Total cottonCorn
34.6
3,412,000
50.1
39.i
3,893,000 17.6
Total corn..-
Wheat harvested.. Oats harvested-.. Rye harvested--
125,000 442,000 26,000
Total small grain
593,000
3.6
Irish potatoes-Sweet potatoes -. All hay Tobacco" --Peanuts
1.5
8.4 .8
3.1
17,000
132,000
3.2
825,000
3.8
81,500
4.6
304,000
3.4
Total-
1,359,500
Sugar cane* Watermelons*- Rice* Sorghum for
Syrup* Other field
crops*
ACREAGES for these crops shown under "All Other Crops"*
Total* Apples*-Peaches*Pears*-- Pecans*.-
6.0
594,500
(All
other
crops) *
ACREAGES for these
crops shown under
"All other crops"*
106,700,000 18,803,000 44,147,000
1,782,000 6,962,000
429,000 2,048,000 7,920,000 9,431,000 11,463,000 8,596,000 4,080,000 2,829,000
58,000 1,538,000 13,765,000
125,503,000 44,147,000 9,173,000 39,458,000
22,270,000
1,012,000 8,023,000
140,000 959,000
Total fruits and nuts*
4.0
10,134,000
TOTAL (Hypothetical
9,852,000
$ 250,685,000
"'Acreages not given are included under "All other crops," but values are shown
**Tob^cor|?r?agfe0incluCded"nP"All other crops" in acreage diagram.
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TABLE 6
CORN--PRODUCTION STATISTICS, 1866--1927
GEORGIA
Year.
Yield
Price Farm Value
Acreage. Per Acre. Production. Per Bu. Dec. 1
Acres Bus.
Bus.
Cts. Dollars
1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 ,, 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893__^_1 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902^_ 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927
2,296,296 1,956,310 1,902,160 1,952,358 2,206,667 2,010,000
2,147,272 2,133,333 2,218,000
2,218,000 2,384,700 2,338,700 2,747,005
2,829,415 2,857,700 2,857,700 2,886,277 2,915,140 2,923,885 3,011,602 2,981,486 3,100,745 2,945,708 3,034,079 3,003,738 3,244,037 2,984,514 2,924,824 2,954,072 3,249,479 3,411,953 3,785,758 3,889,331 3,938,324 3,977,707 4,295,924 4,338,883 4,426,000 4,300,000 3,383,000 3,585,000 3,692,000 3,910,000 4,066,000 4,000,000 4,330,000 4,000,000 4,500,000 4,590,000 4,376,000 4,393,000 4,665,000 4,385,000 4,034,000 3,975,000 3,895,000 3,817,000 3,893,000
13.5
10.3
12.5
12.3
11.1
10.0
11.0
10.5
11.0 9.3 9.2 8.3 13.3 8.7 10.8 11.3 10.8 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 11.5 10.7 14.5 14.0
31,000,000 81 25,044,883 20,150,000 84 16,852,068 23,777,000 76 18,111,798 24,014,000 76 18,132,118 24,494,000 83 20,319,639 20,100,000 75 15,070,619 23,620,000 55 12,989,918 22,400,000 66 14,817,121 24,398,000 61 14,853,074 20,627,400 70 14,439,180 21,939,240 69 15,138,076 19,745,000 97 19,152,650 36,617,500 65 23,801,375 24,615,900 67 16,492,653 30,925,000 70 21,647,500 32,162,000 58 18,653,960 31,197,000 60 18,718,200 32,067,000 63 20,202,210 28,069,000 60 16,841,400 33,730,000 55 18,551,468 31,306,000 69 21,600,866 37,829,000 69 26,102,071 32,992,000 56 18,475,481 33,678,277 56 18,859,835 35,143,735 58 20,383,366 42,172,481 41 17,290,717 32,829,654 43 14,116,751 32,173,064 48 15,443,071 26,586,648 48 12,761,591 32,494,790 50 16,247,395 34,119,530 57 19,448,132 37,857,580 82 31,043,216 35,093,979 73 25,618,605 46,078,391 69 31,794,090 47,334,713 71 33,607,646 47,255,164 70 33,078,615 52,066,596 67 34,884,619 57,538,000 76 43,729,000 53,750,000 82 44,075,000 39,375,000 86 33,862,000 51,982,000 78 40,546,000 59,072,000 83 49,030,000 53,958,000 85 45,864,000 63,023,000 91 57,351,000 56,000,000 85 47,600,000 64,950,000 78 50,661,000 62,000,000 100 62,000,000 72,000,000 160 115,200,000 68,850,000 165 113,602,000 68,452,000 160 101,523,000 65,895,000 105 69,190,000 69,975,000 53 37,087,000 52,620,000 86 45,253,000 49,215,000 107 52,660,000 45,712,000 112 51,197,000 41,676,000 100 41,676,000 55,346,000 76 42,063,000 54,502,000 81 44,147,000
168
Tear
1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 . 1921 1922 1923_ 1924 1925 1926_ 1927
TABLE 7
WHEAT--PRODUCTION STATISTICS, 1866--1927.
GEORGIA
Yield Per
Acreage Acre Production
Acres Bus.
Bus.
Farm Farm Value
Price
Dec. 1
Cts.
Dollars
298,375 343,COO 345,444
310,857 357,671 406,666
473,333 400,000 394,000
401,900 484,980 477,200 510,000
504,900 487,500 453,375
385,954 382,094 374,452 378,197
344,159 309,743 216,820
240,670 235,857
214,630 212,484 173,824 260,736
297,239 550,674 370,996 284,531 299,958
291,370 305,298
316,107 297,000 240,000
93,000 141,000
145,000 132,000 140,000 140,000
325,000 334,000 244,000 280,000
141,000 124,000 138,000 190,000 189,000
76,000 99,000 104,000 125,000
8.0 5.0
9.0 7.0 7.3 7.5
6.0 9.5
7.0 9.0 6.3 6.1 7.5 5.1 6.4 6.2
4.4 6.6 5.1 6.3 4.1
7.5 6.8 7.2
6.9 6.2
8.0 9.4
10.0 6.8 9.1 8.2
6.0 6.2
8.8 6.9 10.0 9.0 9.2
8.1 10.5 12.0 9.3 12.2
12.1 11.0 11.4 8.5 10.2 10.5 10.0 10.5 8.0 9.2
9.5 10.5 15.0 9.2
2,387 ,000 132
1,718 ,000 149
3,109 ,000 153
2,176 ,000 161
2,611 ,000 138 3,050 ,000 131
2,840 ,000 123
3,800 ,000 132
2,758 ,000 118
3,617 ,100 126
3,055 ,374 136
2,933 ,000 163
3,812 ,900 108
2,574 ,900 120
3,130 ,000 105 2,817 ,000 109 1,690 ,000 105 2,522 ,000 95
1,910 ,000 110 2,383 ,000 98 1,411 ,000 110
2,323 ,000 110 1,474 ,000 90 1,732 ,824 90
1,627 ,413 76 1,330 ,706 82 1,699 ,872 89 1,633 ,946 103
2,607 ,360 2,021 ,225
5,001 ,133 95 3,042 ,167 94 1,707 ,186 98 1,859 ,740 96 2,564 ,056 126 2,106 ,556 107 3,161 ,070 102 2,670 ,000 115 2,208 ,000 121
753 ,000 145 1,480 ,000 130 1,740 ,000 114 1,228 ,000 122 1,708 ,000 120 1,694 ,000 134 3,575 ,000 129 8," ,000 186 2,074 ,000 290
2,856 ,000 266 1,480 ,000 263 1,240 ,000 240 1,449 ,000 175 1,520 ,000 150 1,739 ,000 147
722 ,000 169 1,040 ,000 182 1,560 ,000 150 1,150 ,000 155
3 149,811 2 564,,640 4 764,,012
3 506,,446 3 602,,191
3 988,,666 3 488,,176 5 027,,237
3 247, 944
4 557,,546 4 155,,309 4 780,,790 4 117,,932
3 089,,880 3 286,,500 3 070,,530 1 774,,500 2 395,,900 2 101,,000 2 334,,988 1 552, 157 2 555, 379 1 326,,938 1 559,,542
1 236, 834
1 091,,179 1 512, 886 1 682,,964
2 555,,213 1 980,,800
4 760,,576 2 859, 637 1 673,,042
1 785,,350
3 230,711 2 254, 015 3 224,,291 3 074,,000 2 672,,000 1 092,,000 1 924,,000 1 984,,000 1 498,,000 > 050,,000 2 270,,000 4 612,,000
7 083,,000
(i 015,,000
7 597,,000 3 892,,000 2 976,,000 2 536,,000 2 280,,000 2 556,,000 1 220,,000
1 893,,000 2 340,,000 1 782,,000
169
Year
1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1S85 1880 1S87 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1S18 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927
TABLE 8
OATS--PRODUCTION, 1866--1927.
GEORGIA
Yield Per
Price Farm Value-
Acreage Acre Production Per Bu
De^. 1
Acres
Bus.
Bus.
Cts.
Dollars
___ .
.___'
86,301 141,308 145,120 358,209 447,059 372,727 491,379 407,692 428,400 449,800 618,470 612,300 765,375 780,682 702,614 709,640 589,001 612,561 618,687 624,874 562,387 618,626 569,136 597,593 561,737 460,624 423,774 394,110 433,521 476,873 467,336 296,644 264,013 256,093 235,606 233,250 216,922
300,000 300,000 412,000 404,000 404,000 364,000 420,000 450,000 905,000 860,000 550,000 550,000 310,000 344,000 412,000 474,000 521,000 275,000 413,000 475,000
442,000
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 8.9 9.0 9.0 11.5 11.5 11.0 9.7 11.7 10.7 13.3 13.4 14.5 12.0 14.0 16.6 9.0 15.0 14.8 11.1 13.6 14.8 15.1 15.5 16.7 17.2 15.1 18.2 21.5 20.8 22.0 20.0 19.5 19.5
16.0 20.0
20.0 21.0 21.0 18.0 18.0 15.5 17.0 23.0 21.0
1,260,000 75 1,512,000 72 1,814,000 74 4,800,000 69 4,560,000 79 4,100,000 78 5,700,000 62 5,300,000 63 7,154,280 55 6,747,000 57 6,184,700 75 5,566,000 87 7,235,800 55 7,018,700 56 6,270,000 57 6,395,000 53
5,301,000 60 7,044,000 58 7,115,000 53 6,874,000 50 5,455,000 60 7,238,000 60 6,090,000 52
7,947,987 52 7,527,276 51
6,679,048 46 5,085,288 41 5,517,540 42 7,196,449 48 4,291,857 48 7,010,040 49 4,390,331 67 2,930,544 53 3,482,865 55 3,486,969 55 3,522,075 53 2,362,291 56 5,010,000 72 6,160,000 72 6,199,000 71 7,353,000 64 8,686,000 70 7,571,000 65 9,240,000 68 9,000,000 70 17,648,000 66 16,770,000 79 8,800,000 117 11,000,000 119
6,200,000 115 7,224,000 108
8,652,000 64 8,532,000 75 9,378,000 85
4,262,000 95
7,021,000 87
10,925,000 69 8,282,000 75
938,779 1,087,770 1,333,587 3,314,917 3,618,395 3,181,343 3,552,704 3,351,167 3,927,000 3,845,790 4,638,525 4,842,420 3,979,690 3,930,472 3,573,900 3,339,350 3,180,600 4,085,520 3,770,950 3,436,807 3,273,092 4,342,754 3,169,673 4.132.953 3,838,911 3,072,362 2,084,968 2,317,367 3,454,296 2,060,091 3,434,920 2,941,522 1,553,188 1,915,576 1,917,833 1,866,700 1,882,883 3,607,000 3,715,000 4,401,000 4,706,000 6,080,000 4,921,000 6,233,000 6,300,000 11,648,000 13,248,000 10,296,000 13,090,000 7,130,000 7,802,000 5,537,000 6,399,000 7,971,000 4,049,000 6,108,000 7,53S,000 6,962,000
170
TOBACCO Tobacco grown commercially in the State of Georgia may be classified into three types: First, "shade tobacco", or wrapper tobacco, U. S. Type Number 62,
grown in the southern parts of Grady and Decatur counties; second, Sun Sumatra, or "filler" tobacco, U. S. Type Number 45, grown in the same territory; third, and most important, is the "bright leaf", flue cured tobacco, U. S. Type Number
14, now grown throughout most of southern Georgia. The acreage of bright tobacco has increased tremendously during recent years and it is one of the principal cash crops grown in the State. This type now constitutes about 99% of our total tobacco acreage.
The annual report of bright tobacco warehouse sales, and county acreage
estimates for all types appear in other parts of this booklet.
TABLE NO. 9.
TOBACC 0--ALL TYPES.
Year
Acreage
Yield Per
Price
Acre Production Per Lb.
Cts.
Value Dollars
1866. 1867 _ 1868. 1869 _ 1871. 1872 _ 1873. 1874, 1875. 1881. 1882.
mo.
10C0. 1001. 1002. 19C3. 10C4 1005. 1906. 1007. 1008. 1909. 1010. 1911. 1012. 1013. 1014. 1015. 1910. 1917. 191S. 1019. 1020. 1921. 1022. 1923. 1924. 1025 1020. 1027.
1,912 2,504 2,071 2,666
857 700 457 502 2,454 1,004 1,034 2,304
2,066 1,990
2,050 2,030 1,868 2,036 3,000 3,700 2,775 2,000 1,600 1,200 1,400 1,800 1,900 1,700 1,300 1,600 4,500 27,000 22,000 14,000
11,000 17,000 40,000 67,000 51,900 81,500
625 515 585 375 350
500 750 580 550 242 254
480 495 494 670
640 650 525 675 860
975 734 680 900 830 1,000 1,000 680 1,180 1,000 800 530 600 564 540
661 777 720 770 725
1,195,113 1,290,000 1,212,000 1,000,000
300,000 350,000 343,000 291,000 1,350,000 242,758 262,179 1,105,600 1,023,336 982,691 1,373,500 1,299,200 1,214,200 1,068,900 2,025,000 3,182,000 2,705,625 1,486,000 1,088,000 1,080,000 1,162,000 1,800,000
1,900,000 1,496,000 1,534,000 1,600,000 3,600,000 14,310,000 13,200,000 7,896,000 5,940,000 11,237,000 31,080,000 48,240,000 39,963,000 59,088,000
22.3 21.5
22.3 15.4 19.2
15.8 19.1 11.7 20.7
14.0 14.0 11.9 15.0 18.0 9.0 15.0 20.6 17.0 30.0 40.0 35.0 34.0 20.0 28.0 30.0 31 .0 25.0 23.0 27.0 57.0 46.0 21.5
37.0 25.0 26.0 30.0 26.6 15.0 24.0 19.4
265,950 277,221
270,536 153,724 57,734 55,182 65,378 34,112 278,945 33,986 36,705 131,566 148,431 176,972
260,965 194,880 250,125 181,713 607,500 1,273,000 946,969 505,000 218,000 302,000 349,000 558,000 475,000 344,000 414,000 912,000 1,656,000 3,077,000 4,884,000 1,974,000 1,544,000 3,371,000 8,267,000 7,236,000 9,591,000
11,403,000
171
Year
1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908
1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927
TABLE 10
IRISH POTATOES GEORGIA
Yield Per
Acreage Acre Production
Acres Bus.
Bus.
Price Farm Value
Per Bu.
Dec. 1
Cts.
Dollars
% 4,487 78 2,364 96 2,195 92 2,590 78 2,271 70 5,000 68
350,000 120 227,000 128 202,000 112 202,000 106 159,000 98
340,000 105
421,005 289,874 227,228 213,904 156,276 355,711
5,150 5,000 4,800 8,407 8,827 9,268 9,175 9,175 9,083 9,355 10,291 6,163 6,225 6,474 6,539 6,539 6,539 6,277 5,524 5,137 5,651 5,594 5,762 9,078 8,715 8,628 8,542 8,627 8,627 10,000 10,000 12,000 12,000 12,000 12,000 12,000 13,000 16,000 15,000 19,000 23,000 17,000 22,000 23,000 25,000 22,000 20,000 17,000 19,000 17,000
67 64 92 35 45 61 67 63 65 52 62 73 72 74 70 74 52 58 55 52 54 46 68 64 58 73 70 65 77 83 78 75 82
72 78 81
60 65 60 84 70 70 74 75 68 70 72 49 63 73
172
345,000 320,000 441,600 294,245 397,231 565,348 615,000 578,000 590,000 486,000 638,000 449,899 448,200 479,076 457,730 483,886 340,028 364,066 303,820 267,124 305,154 257,324 391,816 580,992 505,470 629,844 597,940 560,755 664,279 830,000 780,000 886,000 984,000
864,000 936,000 972,000 780,000 1,040,000 900,000 1,596,000 1,610,000 1,190,000 1,628,000 1,725,000 1,700,000 1,540,000 1,440,000 833,000 1,197,000 1,241,000
92 111 110 60 65
86 104 94 95
90 90 65 95 80 80 92 81 71 75
100 75 83 72 106 90 94 107 112 110 100 110 100 105 110 87 105 105 99 175 195 185 217 208 165 140 160 150 210 190 165
316,812 355,200 485,760 176,547 258,200
486,199 539,600 543,344 560,500 437,400 574,238 292,434 425,790
383,261 366,184 445,175 275,423
258,487 227,8b5 267,124 228,866 213,579 301,698 615,852 454,923 592,053
639,796 628,046 730,707 830,000 858,000 886,000 1,003,000 950,000 814,000 1,021,000 819,000 1,030,000 1,575,000 3,112,000 2,978,000 2,582,000 3,386,000 2,846,000 2,3SO,000 2,464,000 2,160,000 1,749,000 2,274,000
2,048,000
Year
1870 . 1871 1872
1873 1874
1875 . 1878 1879 1880 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895
1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902
1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912
1313 1914 1915
1916 1917 1918
1919 1920 1921
1922 1923 1924
1925 1926 1927
TABLE 11
GEORGIA- SWEET POTATOES
Yield Per
Price
Acreage Acre
Production Per Bu.
(Cents)
108
59
99
62
88
64
90 89 64
100 76 102
90 69 71 98 76 72 90 84 82
86 89 81 87 78 59 60 105 71,000 72 71,000 85 72,000 86 73,000 81 74,000 89 74,000 67 77,000 80 78,000 83 79,000 95 82,000 86 85,000 88 85,000 83 81,000 81 81,000 90 83,000 87 79,000 85 95,000 85 94,000 80 125,000 93 130,000 92 125,000 92 132,000 93 146,000 85 152,000 83 137,000 84 100,000 70 110,000 47 110,000 86 132,000 80
57 53 59
"is"
45 65 53 52 44 48 52 44 47 43 45
"il"
41 43 45
5,088,000 "49" 6,035,000 46 6,192,000 48 5,913,000 53 6,586,000 51 4,958,000 70 6,160,000 55 6,474,000 65 7,505,000 65 7,052,000 58 7,426,000 62 7,055,000 65 6,561,000 73 7,290,000 66 7,221,000 68 6,715,000 69 8,075,000 61 7,520,000 81 11,625,000 105 11,960,000 125 15,500,000 110 12,276,000 97 12,410,000 63 12,616,000 61 11,508,000 76 7,000,000 100 5,170,000 125 9,460,000 80 10,560,000 75
Value Dollars
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 7,000,000 6,462,000 7,568,000 7,920,000
173
Year
1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876^ 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 18S9 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 19C0 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 19C6 1907 1908 19C9 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1910 1917 1918 1919 *1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 _ 1925 1926 1927 -
TABLE 12
TAME HAY
Yield Per
Price Farm Value
Acreage Acre
Production Per Ton
Dec. 1
Acres 41,044 12,000 11,972
Tons 1.34 1.50 1.47
Tons (Dollars) 55,000 20.94 18,000 20.74 17,600 22.42
Dollars 1,151,840
373,273 394,558
18,571 1.05 15,909 1.10
19,500 18.88 17,500 20.14
368,094 352,367
15,714 1.40
22,000 15.41
339,111
18,153 1.30
23,000 13.50
318,632
17,440 1.25 23,000 1.73
21,800 15.56 37,790 13.08
339,300 520,606
22,436 1.50
35,000 14.59
510,650
18,431 1.88 12,103 1.25
34,050 16.00 15,129 17.24
554,400 260,824
15,129 1.20 15,583 1.20
18,155 10.50 18,700 13.50
190,027 252,450
15,128 1.30
19,668 13.30
201,584
16,642 1.00
16,642 13.84
230,325
33,000 1.06
34,980 13.00
454,740
39,600 1.20
47,520 14.92
708,998
39,996 1.20
47,995 13.46
646,013
03,834 1.09
69,7o9 13.52
943,277
168,985 1.35
228,130 14.25 3,250,852
162,226 1.17
189,804 13.50 2,562,354
163,848 1.35
221,195 11.80 2,610,101
162,210 1.32
214,117 12.06 2,582,251
150,855 1.16
174,992 12.38 2,166,401
147,838 1.60 137,489 1.38
236,541 10.90 2,578,297 189,735 11.05 2,096,572
123,740 1.35
167,049 13.00 2,171,637
113,841 1.75
190,222 11.75 2,340,858
109,287 1.45
158,460 13.15 2,083,828
112,506 1.69
190,237 12.75 2,425,522
90,791 1.46
141,315 14.33 2,025,044
88,080 1.36
119,789 13.40 1,605,173
88,961 1.53
136,110 15.15 2,062,066
89,851 1.52
136,574 15.14 2,067,730
88,054 1.50
132,081 15.75 2,080,276
88,054 1.65
145,289 15.75 2,288,302
95,000 1.75
166,000 18.00 2,988,000
87,000 1.75
152,000 14.35 2,181,000
213,000 1.01
215,000 15.80 3,397,000
213,000 1.40
298,000 16.40 4,887,000
213,000 1.35
288,000 17.00 4,896,000
234,000 1.35
316,000 17.00 5,372,000
250,000 1.40
350,000 17.90 6,265,000
250,000 1.35
338,000 16.20 5,476,000
300,000 1.15
345,000 15.10 5,210,000
400,000 1.15
460,000 16.20 7,452,000
594,000 1.03
612,000 20.00 12,240,000
683,000 .90
615,000 23.50 14,452,000
557,000 1.10
613,000 25.30 15,509,000
060,000 .81
535,000 23.50 12,572,000
093,000 .88
610,000 15.80 9,638,000
728,000 .84
612,000 17.00 10,404,000
772,000 .66
510,000 18.90 9,639,000
703,000 .51
392,000 19.00 7,448,000
500,000 .33
109,000 21.00 3,549,000
522,000 .77
400,000 18.00 7,200,000
803,000 .70
505,000 10.30 9',210,000
"-Reasons for decline in yield, greater use of peanut hay, a surpl us crop, but a light yield.
174
Year
1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927
TABLE 13
PEANUTS FOR HARVEST--GEORGIA.
Yield Per
Price Farm Value
Acreage Acre
Production Per Bu.
Dec.
Cts.
Dollars
40,000 31.0 1,240,000 126
255,000 37.0 9,435,000 160
314,000 28.0 8,792,000 160
202,000 25.0 5,050,000 246
224,000 718 160,832,000 5.0
202,000 660 133,320,000 2.5
160,000 602
96,320,000 4.7
152,000 512
77,824,000 6.9
399,000 600 239,400,000 4.2
278,000 500 139,000,000 3.4
211,000 525 110,775,000 4.9
304,000 725 220,400,000 3.9
1,562,000 15,096,000 14,067,000 12,423,000 8,042,000 3,333,000 4,527,000 5,370,000 10,055,000
4,726,000 5,428,000 8,596,000
NOTE: After the year 1919, the official estimates were made in pounds. This applies to Yield per Acre, Total Production and Price.
Year
1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927
TABLE 14
SORGHUM FOR SYRUP--GEORGIA.
Yield Per
Price Farm Value
Acreage Acre
Production Per Gal.
Dec. 1
Gals.
Gals. Cents
Dollars
7,800 95 7,900 94 7,900 90 7,900 95 7,600 106 7,200 108 8,000 85 7,600 105 12,000 96 15,000 91 37,000 92 35,000 94 37,000 94 30,000 83 26,000 83 25,000 71 19,000 45 23,000 90 25,000 82
740,000 74 743,000 48 711,000 50 750,000 49 806,000 50 778,000 49 680,000 798,000 1,152,000 "73" 1,365,000 89 3,404,000 102 3,290,000 104 3,478,000 40 2,490,000 55 2,158,000 69 1,775,000 84 855,000 95 2,070,000 70 2,050,000 75
348,000 357,000 356,000 368,000 403,000 381,000
841,000 1,215,000 3,472,000 3,422,000 1,391,000 1,370,000 1,489,000 1,491,000
812,000 1,449,000 1,538,000
Year
1922 1923 1924 1995 1926 1927
TABLE 15
SUGAR CANE FOR SYRUP--GEORGIA
Yield Per Production Farm Price Farm Value
Acreage Acre
(Gallons) Dec. 1. (Dollars)
(Gallons)
(Dollars)
40,000 176 37,800 135 30,000 125
32,000 110
35,000 175 34,000 150
7,040,000 .50 $3,520,000 5,103,000 .69 3,521,000 3,750,000 .95 3,562,000 3,520,000 1.00 3,520,000
6,125,000 .75 4,594,000 5,100,000 .80 4,080,000
175
Year
1920. 1921. 1922. 1923. 1924. 1925. 1926. 1927.
Year
1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927
TABLE 16.
COMMERCIAL CANTALOUPES--GEORGIA
Yield Per Production Price Per
Acreage Acre
(Crates) Crate
(Dollars)
Farm: ValueDollars
1,330 164 1,520 195 8,410 100 5,070 44 2,980 97
750 110 700 110 710 80
218,000 296,000
841,000 223,000 289,000
82,000 70,000 57,000
1.45 1.33 1.54 2.00 1.12 2.35 1.38
.76
316,000 394,000 1,295,000 446,000 324,000 193,000
97,000 43,000'
TABLE 17
COMMERCIAL WATERMELONS--GEORGIA
Yield Per Production Price Per Farm
Acreage Acre
(Cars)
Car
Value
(Dollars) (Dollars)
41,890 373 39,700 499 66,550 310 40,390 178 45,890 365 45,890 346 53,600 391 54,060 325
15,625 141 2,203,00* 19,810 221 4,378,000 20,630 166 3,425,000 7,189 228 1,639,000 16,750 118 1,976,000 15,878 244 3,874,000 20,958 121 2,536,000 17,570 161 2,829,000
Year
1924. 1925. 1926. 1927.
TABLE 18
COMMERCIAL ASPARAGUS--GEORGIA.
Yield Per Production Price Per Farm Value
Acreage
Acre
(Crates)
Crate
(Dollars)
(Crates )
(Dollars)
2,660 12
2,820 19 4,380 16 4,900 24
32,000 54,000 70,000 118,000
3.79 3.70 3.42 3.82
121,000 200,000 239,000 451,000
-Crates containing 24 pounds.
176
Tear
1921 _ 1922 _ 1923. 1924_ 1925_ 1926. 1927-
TABLE 19
COMMERCIAL TOMATOES--GEORGIA.
Yield Per Production Price Per Farm Value
Acreage Acre
(Bushels) Bushel
Dollars
(Bushels)
(Dollars)
420 117 400 75
460 80 2,000 33
1,040 71 1,850 60 2,090 78
49,000 30,000 37,000 66,000 74,000
111,000 163,000
1.86 2.37
1.53 1.43 2.55 2.50 1.3G
91,000 71,000 57,000 94,000 189,000 278,000
222,000
TABLE 20
Year
1926. 1927 _
COMMERCIAL PIMENTO PEPPERS-GEORG!A
Yield Per Production Price Per Farm Value
Acreage Acre
(Tons)
Ton (Dollars)
(Tons)
(Dollars)
2,115 1.39 3,700 1.62
2,950 37.85 5,994 36.09
111,650 216,518
-Subject to minor revisions.
Year
1921 1922" 1923"" 1924^ 1925~~ 192fi"" 1927
TABLE 21
COMMERCIAL SNAP BEANS--GEORGIA.
Yield Per Production Price Per Farm Value Acreage Acre (Bu.Hampers) Bu.Hamper (Dollars)
(Bu.Hampers)
140 120 230 150 650 105
1,850 56
1,300 52 1 740 62 2,380 33
17,000 34,000 68,000
104,000
68,000 108,000 79,000
1.50 1.50 2.38
1.47
1.65 2.08
.97
20,000 51,000 162,000
153,000
112,000 225,000 77,000
177
GEORGIA SOIL DIVISIONS. 178
LOCATION OF GEORGIA CROP REPORTERS. In addition to the
2.E00 regular reporters shown, there are about 3,000 special correspondents.
179
COTTON -- ACREAGE PICKED IN 1927
No cotton or under 1,000 acres 1.000 to 5,000 acres 5,000 to 10,000 acre
10,000 to 20,000 acres 20,000 to 30,000 acres 30,000 to 60,000 acres 60,000 to 100,000 acres
180
TABLE 22
COTTON
Acreage Picked, Yield Per Acre, and Quantity Ginned. 192H927
Dlst. Counties
Acreage Picked
1926
1927
Yield Per Acre
Lint Cotton
1926
1927
Ginnings- -Census
(Runnins Bales)
1926
1927
Northwestern Counties:
1 Bartow
50,000
44,500
160
187
16,406
17,670
Catoosa
7,100
5,000
190
182
Chattooga
27,100
22,300
188
182
10,645
9,177
Dade.. Floyd Gordon Murray
400
300
220
197
44,300
34,200
205
207
17,745
14,252
30,500
27,400
188
205
12,344
13,593
17,300
14,900
175
193
5,187
4,976
Paulding
Polk--
-
Walker
Whitfield
23,100 33,600 16,100 13,700
22,800 31,600 12,600 12,400
198 195 197 165
197
9,247
9,451
177
15,005
13,736
217
6,572
6,033
197
7,356
7,349
District Total
263,200 223,000
186
194 100,507 98,237
Northern Counties 2 Barrow Cherokee Clarke Cobb Dawson DeKalb
30.E00 29,300 17,300 31,500 4,000 11,700
27,800 25,800 11,900 28,900 2,900 9,100
170 180 170 190 150 160
210
11,071
12,281
189
11,139
10,221
194
7,028
7,203
201
12,986
12,435
155
876
724
189
3,506
3,567
Fannin Forsyth -
25,100
22,700
165
200
9,803
11,162
Fulton
2,200
2,000
185
194
Gilmer
Gwinnett
Hall
-
Jackson
Lumpkin
Milton
Oconee ---
Pickens ---
400 40,500 31,500 46,800 2,900 21,000 22,500 10,100
300 41,100 26,000 38,500 2,800 20,800 23,400 7,100
180 168 142 149 163 166 160 163
169
212
14,753
19,210
192
13,582
14,418
237
17,409
22,532
165
295
361
203
6,733
8,335
198
6,137
7,811
188
3,597
3,005
Towns
--
Union.Walton White
52,400
52,000
185
198
19,197
23,134
4,200
3,400
115
169
857
District Total
384,200 346,500
167
202 138,112 157,261
Northeastern Counties:
3 Banks
-
22,700
Elbert
38,400
Franklin-
41,700
Habersham
4,800
Hart
.-
47,200
Lincoln
13,400
Madison
37,100
Oglethorpe
34,300
20,300 33,900 43,400 3,300 41,300 13,900 37,700 31,400
155 150 130 115 105 177 150 164
196
5,741
7,913
186
11,605
13,256
189
15,423
20,615
189
998
1,397
184
7,538
13,000
140
3,920
3,104
205
13,451
18,378
192
10,177
11,135
Rabun -.. Stephens Wilkes
17,800 30,400
15,200 26,700
107 185
176
3,535
152
12,618
5,132 9,786
District Total
287,800 267,100
143
184 85,006 103,716
'Fannin. Towns. Rabun. Glynn and Union are non -cotton counties. Other counties not specified have gin returns under "All others."
181
TABLE 22.--Con't.
COTTON
Acerage Picked, Yield Per Acre, and Quantity Ginned.
1926-1927
_, Dist. Counties Western Counties:
4 Campbell Carroll Chattahoochee-- Clayton Coweta Douglas Fayette Haralson Harris Heard Henry Lamar Macon Marlon Men wether Muscogee.Pike Schley Spalding Talbot Taylor Troup TTpson
Acreage Picked
1926
1927
10,600 78,100 9,300 20,000 40,400 15,700 30,100 22,500 27,600 37,100 41,600 15,300 56,800 . 14,700 56,400 5,800 38,500 15,000 26,300 14,400 26,500 40,300 17,400
9,200 76,300 9,000 18,800 39,100 15,500 27,400 21,000 24,800 32,800 44,500 15,000 49,900 16,000 54,100 4,100 39,700 14,100 21,000 13,500 28,500 39,700 16,500
Yield Per Acre
Lint Cotton
1926
1927
150
145
210
198
159
134
171
160
185
139
198
176
160
121
175
181
177
108
192
152
180
160
186
136
196
143
185
136
186
111
166
116
194
131
195
139
158
145
190
134
209
138
194
108
169
117
Ginninss--Census
(Running Bales)
1926
1927
5,062 40,152 2,918 4,788 16,680 5,279 8,779 9,037 12,060 12,090 15,514 7,153 20,614 4,898 22,400 2,892 13,458 7,219 10,274 5,586 14,551 22,552 6,775
3,831 36,036 2,289 4,532 11,635 5,239 5,856 8,323 5,990 8,957 15,182 5,014 13,261 4,107 12,190 1,459 10,063 4,669 7,936 3,648 10,064 10,196 3,885
District Total
660,400 630,500
187
143 270,731 194,412
Central Counties:
5 Baldwin Bibb Bleckley Butts-.. Crawford-- Dodge Greene Hancock Houston Jasper Johnson Jones.. Laurens Monroe Montgomery Morgan Newton Peach Pulaski Putnam Rockdale Taliaferro Treutlen TwiggsWashington Wheeler Wilkinson
11,200 16,000 24,200 20,700 24,100 68,300 24,500 31,900 25,700 21,200 45,600 _ 12,000 103,600 13,100 26,600 31,000 33,400 10,700 31,000 12,000 11,700 11,500 32,500 15,400 57,700 29,100 12,000
11,300 12,900 20,700 17,800 18,900 57,000 20,300 29,900 26,200 16,800 37,000 12,800 90,100 12,300 20,200 32,400 29,500 12,800 27,700 9,700 10,000 10,900 26,400 18,300 52,700 28,000 10,800
211 160 185 174 175 170 160 175 190 180 200 175 189 180 170 184 166 207 168 180 144 183 165 177 199 176 190
147
7,830
138
6,416
140
8,091
179
7,519
99
3,674
142
25,890
114
6,749
111
11,375
135
9,730
133
5,603
109
19,016
94
138
38,506
128
6,702
123 1 9,658
163
9,731
171
9,719
138
7,391
139
10,022
97
3,857
194
3,893
118
5,090
108
8,440
132
4,882
113
20,168
128
7,525
116
3,876
4,953 3,605 5,294 6,888 1,946 IS^ 4,557 6,300 6,554 3,312 8,238
843 25,269 4,325 6,017 10,159 9,122 5,582 7,033 1,592 4,577 2,982 4,588 4,251 11,682 5,038 2,044
District Total
756,700 673,400
180
132 261,403 175,490
Eastern Counties: 6 Bulloch Burke Candler Columbia Effingham Emanuel Glascock Jefferson Jenkins McDuffie Richmond-- Screven Warren-. District Total
77,100
65,700
168
97,300
90,500
265
33,800
26,800
235
20,500
15,900
188
8,000
6,100
170
67,600
58,800
215
14,100
15,000
182
56,900
50,000
215
39,500
36,600
216
23,400
18,100
190
19,700
15,500
200
66,300
53,700
170
32,000
31,500
190
556,200 484,200
182
131
29,087
19,018
140
58,130
28,160
112
12,243
4,619
99
6,765
2,786
117
1,899
1,011
136
35,925
19,303
141
4,875
4,029
143
29,870
16,672
141
16,888
9,596
134
10,324
5,749
136
9,584
4,951
125
25,000
14,895
120
11,211
6,709
133 251,801 137,503
TABLE 22 Con't.
COTTON
Dist.
Acreage Picked, Yield Per Acre, and Quantity Ginned. 1926-1927
Counties
Acreage Picked
1926
1927
Yield Per Acre
Lint Cotton
1926
1927
Ginnintrs- Census
(Running Bales)
1926
1927
Southwestern Counties:
...
...
7 Baker
18,500
13,200
152
155
Camoun".":::::.. 21 600
16,400
194
166
12,951
8,643
Clay
28,800
19,900
195
160
7,406
4,513
Decatur""""
11 100
7,200
150
137
3,593
2,088
Dougherty
11000
9 000
188
160
5,497
3,621
Early .:::::: 33000 26,500
iso
155 13,482
s,m
LGeready
1u1',m 200
8,000
wm
175
m
1164,,9
1,628
5233
12,|316193
Miller"
18,900
12,600
205
160
Mitchell
54,700
36,700
145
165
14,726
10,411
ORuaintmdoalnph:::::::: 1is1.TM400 374,:220000
116905
1m32 213,,534317 112,,299550
Seminole
11,100
7,900
163
151
5,031
3,314
Stuart
22200 17 800
188
148 8,809 5,701
Sumter
71500
St:::::::: eliwo
55 200 ,m
207 200
140 i
3a2.,6TM61
17,104 17.442
Thomas
11,900
9,200
195
182
7,944
5,716
Webster
9.800
8,600
159
140
District Total
478,500 355,600
186
153 173,579 105,151
Southern Counties:
,,,,,
...
. ..,,
.,,.
8 Atkinson- - 3,800
2,300
160
126
1,568
59o
Ben Hill
-- 18.000
13,700
138
142
5,431
4,546
Berrien
13 300
7,500
185
145
2,778
1,344
Brooks
U.m
llioOO
185
189
4,398
3,649
Clinch
400
300
160
143
coMet::::---- 24,500
u.soo
m
m
7,443
4,026
Oolmiitt
44 400
31,100
180
191
17,114
12,678
Cook
""" 6:600
4400
166
162
3,162
2,063
Dooly
" 58!100
5i:600
216
153
26,772
16,896
Echols
600
400
130
107
Irwiri
"""" 24,100
19,300
150
124
6,494
4,661
Jeff Davis
7,900
5,700
170
131
Tanier
800
700
160
139
LowSes:---- 12,500
9,600
185
174
3,423
,03
Telfair
35.600 33,000
170
131
13,803
9,381
Tift
22,000
14,400
172
175
11,104
7,584
Turner
20,700
15,600
1C0
03
9,334
7,681
Wilcox
-- 39.600
32,100
160
159
5,115
12,169
Worth
50,500
40,700
150
153
11.923
^^L
District Total ^437^00 337,100
173
156 154,567 103,414
Southeastern Counties:
...
9 Appling-
- 15,700
10,200
155
Bacon
9,100
5,700
145
Brantley
800
500
190
Bryan
3,200
2,500
160
Camden
100
100
190
Charlton
200
100
175
Chatham
500
400
170
Evans
17,000
11,300
160
'Glynn
200
100
160
Liberty
1,600
1,100
150
Long
- 2,300
1,700
164
Mclntosh
100
100
140
Pierce
12,000
5,200
160
KSfc:::::::: S:SS $8
&:::::::::::: iHB _AJS B8
District Total--- 140,800 89,600
163
AS:llatOetThoertaCl ounties3,965,000 #3,41, 2,0,,0,,0,,
1..8.0
...
. .,,
116
4,627
116
131
116
1,207
26
126
116
123
5,924
126
116
114
116
149
3,787
|
,, --a 2,o^6
588
3,368
1,857
MS
S i:S8 3,210
123 44,505 22,077 1..5.4 1. ,4,9$8',?47,,3 1, ,1i1i0n,9'o,5n3
^Fannin. Towns. Rabun. Glynn and Union are non^otton counties. Other counties not specified have gin returns under all others . Subject to mi-
nor revision.
183
CORN Acres Harvested in 1927
|%8%1
Less than 5,000 acres 5,000 to 10,000 acres 10.000 to 15,000 acres 15,000 to 25,000 acres 25.000 to 40,000 acres] 40,000 to 60,000 acres 60,000 to 85,000 acres
184
TABLE 23
CORN, OATS AND WHEAT
Acreage 1926-1927.
. .
,,
t-'ist. Counties
CORN
Oats
WHEAT
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
Harvested Harvested Harvested Harvested Harvested Harvested
1926
1927
1926
1927
1926
1927
Northwestern Counties:
1 Bartow
23,100
Catoosa
9,200
Chattooga
20,200
Dade
5,100
Floyd
33,100
Gordon
21,300
Murray...
12,000
Pauldlng.
20,300
Polk
20,500
Walker
26,700
Whitfield
14,500
22,600 10,600 21,900 5,200 34,000 22,900 12,000 19,900 21,500 25,600 13,100
2,200 260 590 330
2,310 1,340
230 1,910 1,690 1,910
930
2,090 240 530 270
2,440 1,700
250 1,430 1,100 1,240
560
1,460 330 180 240 395
1,640 1,260
830 2,080
880 450
1,680 440 215 300 495
1,990 1,575
915 2,250 1,100
545
District Totals Northern Counties:
2 Barrow Cherokee Clarke Cobb Dawson DeKalb Tannin Forsyth FultonGilmer Gwrnnett Hall Jackson Lumpkin Milton Oconee Pickens Towns Union Walton White
206,000 16,100 21,000 12,100 28,900 9,800 22,100 14,400 19,800 4,500 15,300 43,100 32,500 24,800 9,900 11,500 14,800 11,800 7,600 13,600 28,800 12,000
210,200 15,800 20,000 10,900 26,000 9,000 24,300 14,100 19,200 4,500 14,500 45,300 34,100 23,600 9,700 12,600 14,800 11,000 7,700 13,700 30,000 12,000
13,700 4,450 1,330 5,040 3,680
220 2,460
150 1,450
670 210 4,750 3,680 8,290 220 1,060 4,960 630 300 280 11,360 700
11,850 3,560 1,400 3,780 3,860
220 2,340
130 940 750 200 4,510 3,050 6,220 200 1,100 4,220 450 250 250 8,860 650
9,745 2,005 1,475 1,165 1,370
720 1,095
230 2,125
80 135 4,560 3,675 3,100 260 610 2,725 485 3,035 1,185 4,650 200
11,505 2,305 1,770 1,100 1,715
820 1,040
260 2,230
90 155 5,470 4,190 3,400 295 795 2,590 510 3,460 1,350 5,5,0 230
District Totals
374,400
Northeastern Counties:
3 Banks
11,700
Elbert
24,700
Franklin
26,100
Habersham
14,900
Hart..
19,900
Lincoln
13,000
Madison
23,200
Oglethorpe
26,100
Rabun
.- 7,900
Stephens
10,300
Wilkes
31,300
372,800 12,300 25,400 27,400 16,100 19,900 12,400 24,600 27,900 8,700 9,300 26,600
55,890 2,680 7,460 11,620
850 11,200 8,450 11,180 7,210
80 2,880 10,510
46,940 3,560 7,090 14,290
880 8,960 7,600 11,520 6,850
70 3,600 10,620
34,885 910
2,005 2,965
590 2,735
495 4,745 3,555
55 855 1,950
39,355 1,320 3,010 4,445
885 3,555
595 5,220 5,330
65 1,110 2,925
District Totals
209,100 210,600
74,120
76,040
20,860
28,460
185
WHEAT Acres Harvested in Spring of 1927
Less than 100 acres 100 to 200 acres 200 to 500 acres 500 to 1,000 acres
gjg%| 1,000 to 2,000 acres 2,000 to 4,000 acres 4,000 to 6,000 acres
18G
Dlst. Counties Western Counties:
4 Campbell Carroll ChattahoocheeClayton Coweta Douglas Fayette Haralson Harris Heard Henry Lamar Macon Marion Meri wether Muscogee Pike Schley Spalding Talbot Taylor Troup Upson
District Totals--Central Counties:
5 Baldwin Bibb Bleckley Butts Crawford Dodge Greene Hancock Houston Jasper Johnson Jones Laurens Monroe Montgomery--. Morgan Newton Peach Pulaski Putnam Rockdale Taliaferro Treutlen Twiggs Washington-- Wheeler Wilkinson
District Totals-.. Eastern Counties:
6 Bulloch Burke Candler Columbia Effingham Emaneul Glascock Jefferson Jenkins McDuifie Richmond Screven Warren
District Totals
TABLE 23.--Con't. CORN, OATS AND WHEAT
Acreage 1926-1927.
CORN
OATS
WHEAT
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
Harvested Harvested Harvested Harvested Harvested Harvested
1926
1927
1926
1927
1926
1927
14,100 43,900 9,300 10,400 38,500 13,700 18,600 17,300 21,500 24,100 29,700 13,500 38,200 20,800 39,100 4,800 24,900 11,500 16,900 14,300 18,900 25,700 21,900
491,600
14,500 50,500 9,100 10,800 34,700 13,000 19,500 17,500 21,000 22,000 31,000 14,200 38,500 19,800 37,100 4,400 23,200 11,700 16,900 14,700 18,000 24,400 20,800
487,300
1,310 5,080
110 1,870 5,530 1,060 1,400 1,600 2,090 1,970 6,000 2,790 4,200 1,890 8,290
470 4,110 1,140 6,290 1,800 2,720 2,840 3,070
67,630
1,000 3,610
100 1,960 5,940
850 1,070 1,550 1,680 1,500 4,600 2,130 3,160 1,780 7,200
450 3,600 1,070 4,620 1,150 1,800 2,920 2,870
56,610
120 695 385 720 630 435 320 240 30 330 3,120 930 30 35 740 35 1,640 30 2,190 170 175 230 500
13,730
145
1,390 460 825 820 650 385 310 35 295
2,800
1,025 35 40 985 40
1,805 30
2,080 205 210 275 575
15,420
13,400 19,600 28,800 17,200 18,300 68,300 24,400 30,700 28,900 21,800 34,500 19,400 83,700 17,200 27,900 24,500 24,100 14,200 22,300 14,600 12,900 8,800 22,900 19.200 72,900 28,100 28,900
747,500
14.700 21,600 24,500 15,500 18,700 69,700 22,000 32,300 29,500 19,600 37,300 17,500 82,000 18,400 28,400 23,300 23,800 14,500 24,500 15,400 13,700 9,700 19,500 19,600 69,300 27,800 25,400
733,200
2,030 2,190 2,300 3,680
850 2,720 2,850 2,280 4,300 2,870 1,010 1,350 6,720 3,250 3,860 6,660 3,930 3,670 2,320 2,260 2,350 1,560 2,510 1,090 6,700 3,850 1,340
80,500
1,990 2,090 2,050 2,580
810 1,900 2,990 2,510 3,440 2,300
910 1,120 5,910 2,440 2,510 5,990 3,850 2,940 2,440 1,920 1,760 1,640 1,760
930 5,030 3,080 1,410
68,300
280 60 100
1,315 475 160 850 435 300
1,075 245 50 775 635 290 970
1,530 255 85 355
1,405 270 240 210 825 385 155
13,730
350 50 115
1,365 595 200
1,060 545 375
1,345 320 60 750 950 360
1,455 2,140
320 100 320
1,375 400 300 265
1,070 480 195
16,860
66,100 60,900 24,300 19,500 14,800 70,600 12,900 48,500 33,600 17,600 20,900 54,300 17,700
461,700
69,400 63,900 25,500 20,100 15,100 72,700 13,300 50,000 34,300 17,600 21,500 55,900 18,400
477,700
9,800 4,640 3,480 3,590 2,110 2,780
790 6,030 3,040 2,480 3,090 5,110 1,010
47,950
187
8,820 4,800 3,650 3,050 2,000 3,060
700 5,100 2,380 2,230 3,240 4,550 1,110
44,690
600 510 295 145 125 230 410 1,260 265 215 470 30 220
4,775
800 460 400 180 170 310 555 1,700 355 270 635 40 295
6,170
OATS Acres Harvested for Grain in ihe Spring of 1927
Less than 1,000 acres 1,000 to 2,000 acres 2,000 to 3,000 acres 3,000 to 5,000 acres %j0%| 5,000 to 8,000 acres , 8,000 to 10,000 acres 10,000 to 15,000 acres
TABLE 23.--Con't. CORN, OATS AND WHEAT
Acerage 1926-1927.
_, Dist. Counties
Harvested Harvested Harvested Harvested Harvested Harvested
1926
1927
1926
1927
1926
1927
Southwestern Counties:
7 Baker
22,500
24,800
1,390
1,420
20
25
Calhoun
- 17,500
18,000
1,210
1,300
25
35
Clay
17,000
18,700
1,240
1,310
40
50
Decatur
41,000
42,200
2,390
2,270
15
20
Dougherty
15,800
16,000
1,690
1,440
15
20
Early
34,500
37,900
3,110
3,020
125
160
Grady
46,000 48,300
1,790
1,780
10
15
Lee
19,300
18,500
2,730
2,460
10
15
Miller
24,200 24,900
2,360
2,510
15
20
Mitchell
54,600
60,000
2,070
2,800
10
15
Quitmen
9,300
9,800
430
450
15
20
Randolph
30,300 31,800
1,770
1,580
35
45
Seminole- ._ 21,100
21,700
1,680
1,520
180
220
Stewart
21,200
23,300
2,200
1,600
205
265
Sumter
52,200
50,100
13,070
12,650
520
660
Terrell
32,500 33,000
5,390
5,390
170
220
Thomas
50,100
54,200
2,850
3,260
215
275
Webster-
14,700
15,100
570
600
25
35
District Tot .Is
523,LOO 543,300
47,940
47,360
1,650
2,115
Southern Counties:
8 Atkinson
Ben Hill
Berrien
Brooks--
Clinch
Coffee
Colauitt
Cook-
----
Crisp
Dooly
Echols
Irwin-..
JeffDavis
Lanier.---
Lowndes
Telfair
Tift
Turner
Wilcox
Worth
13,300 16,400 24,700 42,500 5,000 51,600 49,200 19,100 25,800 39,800 4,900 43,600 21,800 7,900 27,500 38,200 24,600 32,200 31,800 48,000
14,600 15,600 26,400 43,400 5,200 56,800 54,100 19,900 26,500 43,800 5,200 45,800 22,900 9,100 29,400 42,000 28,300 33,800 32,500 46,100
1,990 2,090 3,190 2,310
480 9,860 7,430 2,080 2,820 4,110
440 6,220 2,760
830 1,800 2,920 3,180 2,560 3,750 2,480
1,990 3.200 3,410 2,800
500 10,540 7,700 2,500 2,960 4,400
480 6,310 2,900
870 1,900 3,000 3,020 2,850 3,180 2,800
20 125 15 145 15 180 35 25 155 1,075 45 25 75 10 15 540 345 455
25 140 15 165 15 200 40 30 175 1,200 50 30 85 10 15 675 420 525
District Tot Js
567,900 601,400
63,300
66,310
3,303
3,815
Southeastern Counties:
9 Appling
27,400 29,100
2,590
3,370
30
35
Bacon
16,800
18,000
1,880
1,320
25
30
Brantley
7,500
7,100
2,070
2,380
10
10
Bryan
9,900
10,200
1,610
1,770
70
80
Camden
2,100
2,200
120
140
10
10
Charlton
5,000
5,200
470
500
5
5
Chatham
5,300
5,600
520
500
90
100
Evans
17,300
18,200
1,680
1,650
60
70
Glynn
2,100
2,200
350
350
10
10
Liberty
11,700
12,300
760
800
25
30
Long
8,500
8,700
1,400
1,500
25
30
Mclntosh
2,400
2,500
60
60
Pierce
14,400 15,100
2,200
1,760
Tattnall
34,600 36,300
2,180
2,510
180
205
Toombs
35,100 36,800
2,750
2,850
130
150
Ware.
14,100 14,800
1,220
1,520
115
125
Wayne
20,800 21,800
2,160
2,300
115
125
District Totals
235,000 246,100
StateTotals -.3.817,000 3.892,600
24,020 475,050
25,230 442,330
900 103,575
1,015 124,715
189
TOBACCO-- VLL TYPES Acreage Harvested 1927
I ess than 50 acres 50 to 200 acres
200 to 500 acres 500 to 1,000 acreaH 1,000 to 2,000 acres !|||lll 2 000 to 4,000 acres i, 00 to 6,500 acres
190
TABLE 24.
TOBACCO.
ALL TYPES.
ACREAGE 1926-27
Dist. Counties
Central Counties: 5 Johnson Laurens Montgomery-.. Treutlen Washington Wheeler
District Total--.-
Acres 1926
200 150 250 630
Eastern Counties: 6 Bulloeh Burke Candler Effingham Einanuel Jenkins Screven
District Total-.-
690 10
180 40 30
1,190
Southwestern Counties:
7 Baker
Calhoun
Decatur
Dougherty
Early
Grady
Lee
Miller
Mitchell
Randolph
Seminole
Stewart
Sumter
_
Terrell
Thomas
60 10 l ,500
20 7.5 l ,300
20 150 2 ,100
10 50 10 50 50 1 ,320
District Total-
6,725
Acres 1927
30 400 225 75 10 420
1,160
1,000 100
2,400 20
300 200 2S0
4,300
110 10 1,500 20 200 2,150 75 200 3,000 25 75 10 90 75 2,550
10,030
Dist. Counties
1926
Southern Counties: 8 Atkinson Ben Hill Berrien Brooks Clinch Coffee Colcuitt Cook Dooly Echols Irwin Jeff Davis Lanier Lowndes Telfair Tift Turner Wilcox Worth
900 625 4,250 1,650 200 4,000 1,600 1,900 100 650 2,400 820 2,950 50 1,500 10 120 450
District Total--- 24,175
Southeastern Counties:
9 Appling
2,900
Bacon
2,000
Brantley
1,900
Bryan
100
Camden
100
Charlton
400
Evans
500
Liberty
50
Long
250
Pierce
4,500
Tattnall
3,250
Toombs
1 600
Ware
1,000
Wayne
330
District Total...- 18,830
All other counties 300
State Totals
51,900
Acres 1927
1,350 675
5,300 2,800
300 5,000 2,950 3,550
25 150 1,300 3,800 1.100 4,700 50 2,370 45 160 800
36,425
4,450 3,240 2,150
100 200 450 00 500 400 6,420 5,360 3,000 1,250
29.000 500
81,475
191
IRISH POTATOES Acreage Harvested 1927
Less than 50 acres 50 to 100 acres 100 to 200 acres 200 to 300 acres 300 to 500 ceres 500 to 1,000 ac-cs
1,000 acres and over
192
TABLE 25.
SWEET POTATOES AND IRISH POTATOES
Dist.
Counties
Acreage 1926-1927
SWEET POTATOES IRISH POTATOES
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
1926
1927
1926
1927
Northwestern Counties:
1 Bartow
Catoosa.
Chattooga
-
Dade.
Floyd
Gordon
Murray
Paulding
Polk
Walker
Whitfield
-
District Totals-
Northern Counties:
2 Barrow
Cherokee
Clarke
-
Cobb
Dawson
DeKalb
Fannin
Forsyth
Fulton.--
Gilmer
Gwinnett
Hall
Jackson
Lumpkin
Milton
Oconee
Pickens
Towns
Union
Walton
White
District Totals
-- ---
175 365 360 75 385 170 145 325 180 690 220
3,090
190 375 360 1,360 80 780 195 230 500 190 290 460 300 105
85 135 115 125 190 675
60
6,800
260 375 380 95 525 200 190 455 250 700 210
3,640
240 490 540 1,770 90 700 220 300 600 220 510 640 400 110 150 160 140 160 240 740
70
8,490
310 110 135 195 255 125 115 175 170 335 210
2,135
105 235 90 405 145 350 775 190 155 410 245 405 180 335
65 70 165 235 415 90 145
5,210
255 95 140 175 200 110 110 150 140 275 180
1,830
100 250 95 350 140 335 700 160 170 355 225 425 135 305
55 60 155 225 405 85 150
4,880
Northeastern Counties: 3 Banks.. Elbert Franklin Habersham Hart Lincoln Madison Oglethorpe Rabun.Stephens Wilkes District Totals
--
130
600
355
240
225
290
155
--
270
--
195 130
535
-- 3,125
130 570 550 380 360 390 310 400 290 190 720
4,290
135 80 90 260 45 ;' 105 80 . 60 355 75 135
1,420
125 70 85 240 40 95 95 70 375 85 120
1,400
193
14
SWEET POTATOES Acreage Harvested--1927
Less than 500 acres 500 to 750 acres 750 to 1,000 acres
1,000 to 1,250 acres |%jg0| 1.250 to 1,500 acres IHHII 1.500 to 2,000 acres
2,000 to 4,500 acres
194
TABLE 25-- Con't.
SWEET POTATOES AND IRISH POTATOES
Acreage 1926-1927
Dist.
Counties
SWEET POTATOES IRISH POTATOES
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
1926
1927
1926
1927
Western Counties:
4 Campbell
Carroll
Chattahoochee
Clayton
Coweta
Douglas
Fayette
Haralson
Harris
iffiS::::::::::::::....
Henry
Lamar
Macon
Marion
Meriwether
Muscogee
Pike
-
SchW
-
Spalding
--
Talbot
Tavlor
TrC::::::::::::::::::
Upson
District Totals
,, 665
n8n0n0
40
30
ToO
1,005
80
16o
190
20
1,395
1,670
55
840
925
70
315
440
40
410
470
35
, 305
355
60
1,015
1-065
330
320
670
740
35 40 50
155
195
20
340
410
,600
725
25 15
1,140
1,450
95
52o
b30
25
220
240
40
200
200
3
415
485
600
215
260
15 40 20 35
590
315
MO 360_
60 30
85 15 40 55 45 25 65 40 45 35 15 20 10 75 40 45 10 30
15 25 50 20
11,990
14.205
945
835
Central Counties: 5 Baldwin Bibb Bleckley Butts Crawford Dodge Greene Hancock Houston Jasper Johnson Jones Laurens Monroe Montgomery Morgan Newton Peach Pulaski Putnam Rockdale Taliaferro Treutlen Twiggs Washington.. Wheeler Wilkinson
, , 755
1,265
T2o
360
- --
, 215
.
1,530
3du
too
----
540
j>i>0
---
-go
-
525
<in
410
695
2u
580
255
635
j
20U
240
60S
615
go
'>
---
415
720 1,520
910 480 270 1,820 395 960 650 325 690 580 2,480 615 760 465 770 305 890 380 340 420 665 710 840 870 520
20
80 20 15 10 40 55 20 15 15 10 15 90 20 10 30 30 10 35 15 20 20 30 20 30 15
5
15 75 15 10
5 30 50 15 10 10 10 10 75 15 10 25 25 10 30 10 15 15 20 15 25 10
5
District Totals
17-050
20,350
695
560
Eastern Counties: 6 Bulloch Burke Candler Columbia Effingham Emanuel Glascock Jefferson Jenkins McDuffie Richmond Screven Warren District Totals
,, ,,..
--
2,0TM45
, TM?2
l1'-44TM5
*="
'JJ
j~"
2JO
TMTM =3jV!
1-510
195
2,350 800 605 750
1,670 1,775
130 780 355 250 1.130 870 295
n'760
280 75 175 85 1,440 80 30 70 130 55 235 170 85
2,910
255 65 155 75 1,200 75 30 80 115 50 225 170 75
2,570
TABLE 25.--Con't.
SWEET POTATOES AND IRISH POTATOES
Acreage 1926-1927
_. . Dist.
_ Counties
Southwestern Counties: 7 Baker Calhoun Clay Decatur Dougherty Early Grady Lee Miller Mitchell Quitman Randolph Seminole Stewart Sumter Terrell Thomas Webster
District Totals
Southern Counties: 8 Atkinson BenHill Berrien Brooks Clinch Coffee
COIQUIW
go.okCrisp Dooly Echols lJervf/fHDkavis Lamer Lowndes Telfair Tift Turner Wllcox Worth
District Totals
Southeastern Counties: 9 Appling Bacon Brantley Bryan-- Camden... Charlton Chatham Evans Glynn Liberty iMiocnlgnit--osuh Pierce. Tattnall Toombs Ware.. Wayne
District Totals State Totals-
SWEET POTATOES IRISH POTATOES
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
1926
1927
1926
1927
240
265
5
5
205
205
10
' 5
240
215
5
5
1,365
1,570
35
45
560
615
30
25
625
870
10
15
1,660
1,990
70
60
_
310
435
25
20
460
530
10
15
2,060
2,780
15
10
270
300
25
20
280
335
15
10
395
450
15
10
355
320
5
5
890
1,025
75
80
380
440
20
20
2,575
3>6oo
155
165
240
275
5
5
13,110
16,220
530
520
745
635
25
20
865
1,135
50
35
1,120
1,010
35
40
4,080
4,490
190
155
425
425
15
10
2,155
2,870
45
40
2,600
3,120
90
90
1,120
1,345
20
15
840
880
35
30
1,765
1,765
30
25
220
220
25
20
- 2,046850
2,558500
30 30
25 30
560
615
5
5
1,800
2,700
120
110
1,120
1,290
15
10
1,470
1,910
45
50
_
675
1,010
15
20
1,205
1,265
35
30
_ 1,520
1,820
25
25
26,830
31,635
785
_ 2,100
1,300
605
720
505 450
865
755
660
355
- ---
485
390
\,m 1,315
2,095 1,275
2,160
1,990 1,725
855 750 650 580 1,045 950 810 450 651000 1,850 1,680 2,610 1,570 2.535
70 50 75 365 70 25 2,065 75 355 150 75 25 165 175 145 115 275
55 85 300 65 20 2,250 70 290 125 60 20 130 140 120 90 215
17,495 110,000
21,210 131,800
4,275 19,000
4,115 17,495
196
PEANUTS -- FOR HARVEST (Peanuts planted alone. Peanuts planted in corn are not included)
T.ess than 500 acrea 500 to 1,000 acres
1,000 to 2,5-00 acres 2,500 to 5,000 acres 5,000 to 10,000 acres 10,000 to 15,000 acres 15,000 to ST,000 acres
197
ALL HAY (All hay, including peanut hay)
Under 1,500 acres 1,500 to 2,500 acres 2,500 to 3,500 acres 3,500 to 5,000 acres 5,000 to 7,500 acres 7,500 to 10,000 acres 10,000 to 25,000 acres
198
TABLE 26
PEANUTS AND ALL HAY
Acreage 1926 1927.
Dist.
Counties
All Hay (Inelud-
Peanuts grown alone ing Peanut Hay)
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acres
1926
1927
1926
1927
Northwestern Counties: 1 Bartow Catoosa..Chattooga Dade Floyd Gordon Murray... Paulding Polk Walker Whitfield
50
120
8,200
12,200
10
20
6,200
7,100
80
180
4,500
5,100
10
20
3,600
4,100
70
140
7,000
9,600
20
50
3,300
4,400
10
20
7,100
9,200
50
120
2,300
2,500
30
30
2,600
2,800
10
20
10,400
11,800
10
20
10,000
10,100
District Totals
350
740
65,200
78,900
Northern Counties: 2 Barrow Cherokee Clarke Cobb Dawson DeKalb Fannin Forsyth Fulton Gilmer Gwinnett Hall Jackson Lumpkin Milton Oconee Pickens Towns Union Walton White
100
150
1,600
2,700
30
50
1,400
1,900
20
50
3,500
5,800
200
300
4,500
5,800
20
30
600
1,100
30
50
2,100
2,800
10
20
3,400
4,400
40
40
1,000
2,000
60
80
700
1,000
10
20
1,400
2,300
40
60
4,400
5,700
140
140
1,100
2,000
20
60
2,100
4,000
10
10
1,200
2,300
10
20
700
1,700
300
450
1,400
3,300
10
20
700
1,100
1,300
1,900
10
10
1,900
2,400
70
140
3,900
7,780
10
10
1,100
1,400
District Total
1,140
1,710
40,000
63,300
Northeastern Counties: 3 Banks Elbert Franklin Habersham Hart Lincoln.Madison Oglethorpe Eabun Stephens Wilkes District Totals
10
20
900
2,300
20
40
4,600
6,500
30
70
2,000
3,800
10
20
1,800
2,600
20
40
2,000
3,500
20
40
1,100
2,500
10
30
3,100
5,600
70
130
5,600
7,800
10
20
1,400
1,700
10
20
1,100
1,500
70
140
2,900
5,100
280
570
26,500
42,900
199
Dist.
Counties
Western Counties: 4 Campbell.. Carroll Chattahoochee Clayton.. Coweta Douglas Fayette Haralson Harris Heard Henry LamarMacon Marion Meriwether MuscogeePike Schley Spalding Talbot Taylor Troup Upson
District Tota,ls
Central Counties: 5 Baldwin Bibb Bleckley Butts Crawford Dodge Greene Hancock Houston Jasper Johnson Jones Laurens Monroe Montgomery Morgan Newton Peach Pulaski-.. Putnam Rockdale Taliaferro Treutlen Twiggs Washington Wheeler Wilkinson
District Totals--
Eastern Counties: 6 Bulloch Burke.. Candler Columbia Effingham Emanuel Glascock Jefferson Jenkins McDuffie Richmond Sereven Warren
District Totals
TABLE 23.--Con't.
PEANUTS AND ALL HAY
Acreage 1926-1927.
Peanuts grown alone
Acres
Acres
1926
1927
All Hay (Includ-
ing Peanut Hay
Acres
Acrs
1926
1927
100 70 100 150 900 30 120 30 200 70 80 300 700 900 320 140 90 240 130 220 800 100 100
5,890
210 100 130 260 1,230 50 210 50 350 140 160 540 1,350 1.440 400 110 160 490 160 230 1,280 250 150
9,500
1,600 2,800
400 3,100 7,000
900 1,500 2,300 1,000
900 3.000 2,300 2.800 2.600 3.400
900 1.300 1.000 2.300 1.200 2,000 2.500 1.900
49.700
2.600 5,500
500 5,000 8,000 1.000 2.000 3,000 1,400 1,100 4.200 3 800 4.500 3,800 3,800 1.400 2.400 1.600 3.200 1.800 2.800 3,400 2,800 69,600
1,000 400 600 50 200
1,700 160 400
1,720 930 200 210
2,400 30 300 850 400 240 650 210 50 30 180 440 800 540 790
15,530
950 450 630 100 250 1,770 320 550 2,140 2.200 270 320 3,600 50 400 1,690 600 290 1,140 320 80 40 250 400 1.800 760 1,380 22,750
2.900 4,200 3,200 2,300 1,300 3,200 3,500 2.700 4.900 4,400 1,300 1,800 5,700 2,100 1,000 4,100 3,400 3,500 4.000 2.700 1.300 1.200
900 2,300 5,200 1,400 2.400 73.900
3,400 5,400 4,200 3.900 2.100 3,800 5,400 4.100 7.100 8,000 2,200 3,200 9.200 2.900 1.500 7,500 6.000 5,700 5,200 4,500 2,400 2.000 1,200 3.700 8,900 2,500 4,000 120.000
3,200
440
360
100
.
350
350
110
390
20
20
350
250
30
5,970
200
3,6:0 970 610 100 530 650 220
1,360 120 40 460 240 50
9,030
4,500 2,600 2,900 l/goo 1,900 3,100
300 2,100
700 900 3,700 2,400 700 27,600
7,800 4,300 3.300 2,600 3,000 5,000
600 4.000 1,300 1,300 4,600 3,000 1,000 41,800
TABLE 23 --Oon't.
PEANUTS AND ALL HAY
Acreage 1926-1927.
TMst.
Counties
Peanuts grown alone
Acres
Acres
1926
1927
All Hay (Includ-
ing Peanut Hay)
Acres Acres
1926
1927
Southwestern Counties: 7 Baker Calhoun Clay Decatur DoughertyEarly Grady Lee Miller Mitchell Ouitman Randolph Seminole Stewart.. Sumter Terrell Thomas WebsterDistrict Total
7.500 9,000 10,200
12,700 12.600 16,300
6,100 8,400 8,400
11,100 12,500 14,500
5,900
8,600
5,700
9,700
. .
3,300 16,670 14,100 15,200 8,300 19,500 1,300 3,POO 7,500 4,100 3,200 9,100 13,000 - 6,000
5.000 20,800 21,600 18,200 11,800 27,300
2,100 5,500 11,200 5,300 5,100 14,200 19,800 6,600
4,000 13,600 11,400 12,700 6,600 15,000 1,500 4,500 6,200
4,500 4,800 8,100 10,200 5,500
7,200 19,400 19,100 16,900 10,400 23,400
2,500 7,100 10,600 6,400 9,100 14,100 18,200 7,000
115577,6,67700 224,700 137,200 219.200
Southern Counties:
8 Atkinson
Ben Hill
Berrien
Brooks---
Clinch
Coffee
ColQUitt
Cook
Crisp
Dooly
Echols
Irwin
Jeff Davis
Lanier
Lowndes
Telfair
Tift
-.-
Turner
Wilcox
Worth
District Total
-
1,400 950
1,350 6,000
200 2.F00 4,700 2,400 11,500 9,000
700 4,000
100 1.620 5,100
420 2,100 8,100 5,200 15,200
2,450 1,430 2,230 10,560
300 4,540 7,050 4,400 18,800 15,000 1.400 6.400
640 2,270 10,700
740 4,200 13,870 7,540 21,500
2,200 2,200 2,000 6,900
600 4,000 7,000 3,200 9,000 12,000 1,100 4,900
800 1,300 5,400 5,300 5,900 7,900 6,000 11,800
3,500 3,600 3,000 12,900
800 8,100 10,000 4,900 14,800 17,000 2,000 8,100 1,300 2,000 9.400 10,800 8,500 12,500 8,800 17,900
83,140 136,020
99,500 159,900
Southeastern Counties:
9 Appling
Bacon
Brantley
Bryan
Camden - -
Charlton
Chatham
---
Evans
Glynn
.
Liberty-..
Long
Mclntosh
Pierce
Tattnall
Toombs
Ware
Wayne
District Total State Total
250 370 590 140 10 200 20 150
IO
40 180 50 3,000 350 390 170 110
6,030 276,000
380 740 610 210 20 290 30 220 20 60 260 70 4,350 510 570 250 160 413,770
1,000 1,200 1,000
800 500 800 2,200 500 600 600 500 500 2,600 1,400 1,200 1,400 1,100 17,900 510,500
2.800 2,100 1,800
800 500 1,400 3,000 700 1,000 800 1,000 900 4,100 2,800 1,900 2.600 1,500
29,700 825.300
201
COMMERCIAL WATERMELONS Carlot Shipments--1927
KgXXJ
1%K1
None reported 1 to 100 cars
100 to 200 cars 200 to 400 cars
400 to 80 cars
800 to 1,600 cars 1,600 to 2,000 cars
202
TABLE 27.
WATERMELONS
Carlot Shipments--Georgia Watermelons 1925--26--27
Carlot Shipments
Cars Dist. Counties 1925
Northwestern Counties:
1 Chattooga
23
Paulding
District Total.-- 23
Northern Counties: 2 Barrow Gwinnett Jackson
District Total---
Western Counties:
4 Campbell
Clayton
30
Coweta
Fayette
14
Harris
5
Henry
79
Macon
196
Marion
116
Meriwether
5
Pike
Schley
636
Spalding
1
Talbot
1
Taylor
67
Troup
District Total.... 1,150
Central Counties:
5 Baldwin
229
Bibb
227
Bleckley
7
Crawford
112
Dodge
116
Greene
Houston
1,612
Johnson
Jones
285
Laurens
194
Monroe
1
Montgomery-.. 2
Peach
Pulaski
73
Taliaferro
Twiggs
9
Washington-- 5
Wheeler
13
Wilkinson
337
District Total---. 3,222
Eastern Counties:
6 Bulloch
330
Burke.--.
2
Candler
47
Columbia
61
Effingham
26
Emanuel
2
Glascock..
9
Cars 1926
72 174 13 76
6 113 250 190 25
1 746
9 77 2 1,754 330 210 26 39 301 1 646 3 354 460 2 534 50 4 39 41 571 3,611 338 12 127 44 42 8 25
Cars 1927
43 5
22 1
35 112 30 84 153 127 20
4 357 60 990 317 170 31 39 443 465
6 324 421 221 39 31
3 66 421 2,997 498 11 162 6 41 15 18
Cars St. Counties 1925
Jefferson Jenkins McDuffie Richmond Screven Warren
19 74 53 . 113 9
District Total-. - 745
Southwestern Counties:
7 Calhoun
Decatur
Dougherty
633
Early
5
Grady
258
Lee
65
Mitchell
248
Randolph
33
Seminole
6
Sumter
402
Terrell
115
Thomas
1,191
Webster
1
District Total--2,957
Southern Counties:
8 Atkinson
38
Ben Hill
14
Berrien
154
Brooks
1,558
Coffee
40
ColQuitt --- 1,343
Cook
362
Crisp
107
Dooly-.- -- 524
Echols
6
Irwin
64
Jeff Davis
Lowndes - 317
Telfair
145
Tilt
527
Turner
317
Wilcox
101
Worth
409
District Total- ,026
Cars 1926
25 20 26 98 133 12 910
1 56 19 348 143 387 29 26 502 228 2,081 20 3,840
38 21 84 2,349 51 2,175 368 183 1,083 3 130 10 567 143 575 178 145 510 ,613
Cars 1927
12 24 25 33 123 9 977
26 46 7 309 113 566 7 10 397 104 1,840 16 3,441
12 20 50 1,957 69 1,885 258 229 756 6 160 3 388 258 706 261 183 660 7,:
9 Appling Bacon Brantley Bryan Camden Chatham Evans Tattnall Toombs Ware Wayne
24
8
1
12
6
2
2
3
47
51
37
1
13
15
4
191 227 198
124 93 159
2
1
1
1
1_
District Total--- 414 403 407 StateTotal 14,538 19,169 16,744
203
MISCELLANEOUS SPECIAL CROPS -- 1927
S^Aj IIIHII 1IIBMI
--Pimento Pepp'ra
--Asparagus --Cigar Tolacco
--Rye (Commercial>
--Early Tri-h Potn^o*. Cabbajre. Toront-e* r~* other early truck fc r shipment.
--Strawherrics
204
APPLES (Trees of all ages, January 1, 1925)
Under 2,000 trees 2,000 to 5,000 trees 5.000 to 10,000 trees 10,000 to 15,000 trees 15,000 to 50,000 trees
50,000 to 100,000 trees 100,000 and over
205
PECANS (Number of trees of all ages, January 1, 1925)
Under 4,000 trees 4,000 to 10,000 trees 10,000 to 15,000 trees 15,000 to 25..000 trees
|%%| ST.,(JOU to 50,000 trees IHIIII 50,000 to 100,000 trees
100,000 to 700,000 trees
206
TABLE 28
NUMBER OF APPLE, PEACH AND PECAN TREES, JAN. 1, 1925,
'As Reported by Bureau of Census)
APPLE TREES
PEACH TREES
January 1, 1925.
January 1, 1925.
Non-
Non-
Bearing Bearing Bearing Bearing
Dist.
Counties
Age
Age
Age
Age
Northwestern Counties:
1 Bartow
12,298
4,947 40,000 60,300
Catoosa
12,072
9,663
20,600
13,800
Chatooga-
17,088
17,340
59,200
48,500
Dade
12,904
3,850
17,300
4,300
Floyd
22,894
18,071
39,700
32,400
Gordon
40,239
5,661
45,800
34,600
Murray
15,015
11,509
10,800
5,600
Paulding
16,724
3,849
19,500
2,600
Polk
13,950
4,897
11,400
3,800
Walker
47,336
22.881
61,900
41,300
Whitfield
22,574
7,918
34,600
31,800
PECAN TREES
January 1. 1925.
Non-
Bearing Bearing
Age
Age
345 34 1,216
563 42 1,393
602
574
145
186
44
156
114
192
208
123
123
266
90
556
District Total
233,094 110,586 360,800 279,000
2,926
4,051
Northern Counties:
2 Barrow
Cherokee
Clarke
..
Cobb
Dawson
DeKalb
Fannin
Forsyth
Fulton
Gilmer
Gwinnett
Hall
Jackson
Lumpkin
Milton
Oconee
Pickens
Towns
Union
Walton
White
6,650 34,849 3,879 29,653 11,189 24,285 51,505 16,741
8,087 102,385 36,571 35,269 12,070 13,362 16,202
3,343 17,057 15,564 31,078 9,076 26,416
1,494 23,054 1,938
7,496 2,193 7,444 35,250 4,183 3,485 33,279 10,149 23,094 2,995 3,774 8,015 4,587 10,185 6,721 8,053 11,047 22,943
7,500 73,800 10,100 41,900 5,400 31,600 11,100 16,300
8,400 5,600 19,700 29,500 69,500 3,300 6,600 24,800 9,900 2,200 6,000 29,000 6,400
21,300 18,400 15,200 14,800 2,000 6,900 3,800 3,100 5,200 3,000 23,200 7,400 69,600
800 11,600
8,200 5,300
800 2,700 11,800 3,400
400 69 2,546 564 26 3,300 60 293 1,236 125 1,509 43 631 27 15 2,275 21
905 85 8,795 662 69 458 137 457 1,047 917 942 101 446 11 39 1,851 12
District Total
505,231 231,379 418,600 238,500
13,140
16,934
Northeastern Counties:
3 Banks
13,222
Elbert
8,739
Franklin
17,516
Habersham
293,938
Hart
10,552
Lincoln
5,420
Madison
7,663
Oglethorpe
6,832
Rabun
36,333
Stephens
16,698
Wilkes
5,276
14,210 4,414 7,380
157,837 4,403 1,407 3,479 3,458 15,245 7,959 3,099
13,200 22,300 18,200 167,700 13,000 16,100 14,700 8,100 1,500 11,100 14,700
11,700 7,400 4,600
50,100 5,300 2,600 3,700
12,100 200
3,700 5,000
43 715 1,574 13 1,588 361 442 697 327 3,938
124 1,434 356 112 4,243 439 350 650 337 1,180
District Total
422,189 222,891 300,600 106,400
9,698
9,225
207
NUMBERS OF APPLE, PEACH AND PECAN TREES, JAN. 1, 1926-
Dlst.
Counties
Western Counties
4 Campbell
Carroll
Chattahoochee..
Clayton
Coweta-- -
Douglas
Fayette
Haralson
Harris
Heard
Henry
Lamar
-
Macon
Marlon
Meriwether
Muscogee
Pike
Schley
Spalding
Talbot
Taylor
Troup
Upson
District Total
Central Counties: 5 Baldwin Bibb Bleckley Butts Crawford Dodge Greene Hancock Houston -Jasper Johnson Jones Laurens Monroe Montgomery.. Morgan Newton Peach Pulaski Putnam Rockdale Taliaf erro Treutlen.. Twiggs Washington-.Wheeler Wilkinson
District Total--
Eastern Counties:
6 Bulloch
Burke --
Candler
Columbia
Effingham--
Emanuel
Glascock
Jefferson-
Jenkins
McDulfie
Richmond Screven
Warren
District Total.-
TABLE 28--Continued
(As Reported by Bureau of Census)
APPLE TREES
PEACH TREES
January 1. 1925.
January 1. 192o.
Non-
Non-
Bearing Bearing Bearing Bearing
Age
Age
Age
Age
PECAN TREES
January 1. 1925.
Non-
Bearing Bearing
Age
Age
10,578 33,949
239 8,695 9,922 11,814 19,646 45,125 3,092 12,207 4,776
835 417
12,942 45
4,095 20
4,811 1,929
452 6,125 2,901
194,615
3,598 12,724
160 6,029 16,594 7,044 3,269 12,307 1,685 5.065 1,615 1,646
899
17,438 80
4,512 40
10,772 8,516 260 3,839 4,603
122,695
14,700 36,000
1,300 17,600 103,100 11,800 18,000 14,200 22,800 27,500 , 38,600 20,400 .,376,700 16,100 401,500
1,800 188,500 40,500 106,300 108,500 263,500
23,100 406,100
5,700 36,100
300 11,800 229,600 2,300 35,100 15,900 12,400 9,600 57,900 22,100 446,800 10,800 141,000
1.900 110,700
10,100 98,000 137,000 113,000 73,000 332,300
3,258,600 1,913,400
281 1,046
870 480 2,100 230 230 183 1,869 167 518 13,026 21,432 1,676 3,524 1,406 1,656 150 1,825 1,922 847 1,752 3,461
60,651
653 2,053 1,174 4,208 7,876
54 551 471 5,137 1,269 310 19,975 35,458 5,122 20,816 1,020 24,854 1,868 6,816 2.230 2,868 9,421 20,906
175,110
1,078 247 34
3,909 343 504
7,189 2,374 6,349 8,235
828 917 1,457 687 84 1,942 9,518 231 181 1,750
6,118 2,595
219 3,381 2,603
163 860
63,796
584 849 146 1,993
1,381 883
9,200
1,262 4,055 13,557
463 1,717 3,113 1,727
157 928 1,867
417 293 711 822 1,155 277 384 1,567 142 1,454
27,700 275,900
46,400 42,100 357,100
7,700 13,000 53.500 1,014.500 262,000 5,200 1,165,400 30,000 132,800
3,800 50,600 33,400 1,201,700 52,300 74,100 12,000 30,200
2,300 73,500 25,800
9,000 12,900
51,104 5,014,900
21,700 92,000 11,600 28,000 106,700
3,300 3,400 22,900 112,800 141,100 3,200 215,700 6,600 74,800 1,500 35,200 46,100 228,900 13,100 47,300 4,000 16,400 1,600 17,400 5,000 1,200 1,800
1,263,300
5,937 5,675 2,388 1,071 1,820 3,996 2,599 8,190 8,796 1,901 1.379
576 5,743 1,437 2,721 1,216 1,733 16,681 4,222 1,420
967 1,630
920 1,026 3,712 5,926 1,960
95,642
8,625 20,958
6,787 2,869 3,136 59,374 1,026 7,700 25,464 10,085 2.180 8,746 13,440 3,025 9,325 1,905 1,195 15,881 38,256 3,186
389 1,678 1,293 4,155 24,818 10,541 2,049
288,086
888 1,010
540 2,907
944 2,173
996 1,957
471 1,607
757 1,396
103
15,749
1,411 748 675
1,232 632
1,370 473
1,671 726
1,841 2,935
948 20
16,500 6,000 8,500 17,000 4,400 10,100 11,500 9,800 7,600 22,000 42,900 6,000 20,700
14,682
183,000
208
2,600 1,600 2,100 17,500
900 5,700 23,300
800 3,300 4,200 10,700 2,600 4,900
80,200
12,277 5,326 2,090 1,630 4,645 5,491 1,732 1,778 2,303 1,131 982 4,110 14,417
57,912
12,303 7,909 4,232 5,647 4,135 12,361 3,859 3,725 4,971 5,479 3,571 5,333 9,252
82,777
TABLE 28--Con't.
NUMBERS OF APPLE, PEACH AND PECAN TREES, JAN. 1, 1925.
(As Reported by Bureau cf Census)
APPLE TREES
PEACH TREES
jSrylTlSZB.
JanuiOTl.ua.
_.-,,, PECAN
TTMRw EEob
January 1.^5.
Dist.
Counties
Bearing Bearing Bearing Bearing Bearing Bearing
Age
Age
Age
Age
Age
Age
Southwestern Counties:
7 BCaaklheor un
-
2304
Clay-
32
Decatur
82
EDaorulygherty
1863
Grady
104
Lee
41
Miller
19
Mitchell
16
Quitman
126
Randolph-
28
Seminole
32
Stewart
279
Sumter
205
Terrell
113
Thomas
|79
, 7nn
152
fl.a9u$u
52
l.uuu
110
5,4uu
42160
%b,3'0mU
767
5,700
86
27,300
110
\-^
24
1,900
142
b.fcOO
49 13|,uuo
47
2,300
492 461 93
1253558,,,TM 1TM00
687
11.700
,, 900 ^'3^00
is 3a,.1iu0u0 4,,TMiuuu <=$",
ouu i^u
IS.IU
l.uuu 4,uuu Ob <uu ,<uu 3,3^
j J05 7,748
Q3 Qa gJ
1,840
34i744 33
gQ
^ 7
1,905 33,374
64g3
754,35 4,037
lg 2
^ 67^,5^24
mm
m 9
6 lg6u
6^ 3406
District Total.
1.815
4,042 553,600 179,500 701,933 721,122
Southern Counties: 8 Atkinson-- Ben Hill.--
Berrien
Brooks
Clinch
Coffee
---
Colaultt
Cook
Crisp
Dooly
Echols--
Irwin
Jeff Davis--
KTM TTM urnferr-e-":-- ":::::
20 320
10
7(unnu
216
15,200
30 00 b.ouu
281
1,247
5293
g g9
225
469
7,600
J,4uu
g 412
134
1.816
8,000
l.uuu
^^
9
11J
500
iuu
169
951
15,400
o,/uu
g g61 x 42
534
588 36,100
a.uuu
7J22
41
28
l.buu
ouu
g9
65
6,112
14,700
3,500
10
Q2
517
748 141,300
2,800
1^
33
,5
102
1,500
iuu
1T6
529
9,900
d.auu
71
437
2,600
uu
5101 4 ?
g0(.
i21j6|3IJ|^2^33 6^j5'_,;5il00j^_^*_&suiu^l_,,S_:SJ4nMfi_^ :8S8_
District Total ." 3,578
i4l0^1^00
51,800 105,655 178,017
Southeastern Counties:
9 Appling
127
Bacon
-91
Brantley
151
Bryan
295
CCahmardletonn
252
Chatham
18
Evans
-91
Glynn
194
Liberty
10
Long
6
Mclntosh
5
Pierce
164
Tattnall
179
Toombs
125
$Sne
sS
7 400
j 700
2,783
5,664
nil 414
i-^i 6,300
J'JQQ
i.iuu
2,083
2,289
4484
396
6,500
l.iuu
459
2,100
4uu
,
^^
n
,, """.
j 500
3,743
2,588
70
2,800
l.ouu
im
94
700
ju"
12
7822
jfj
4, ouu
i,g
2141
152
1,800
ouu
^m
58
1,800
buu
^
^
23
o.iuu
14
<w
114
4,500
578
12,900
i. 4i,b^ uu i ouu
4J5 7 443
3 591 11,021 u ^m ^
64
6,400
i.uuu
5
S
sS ]^__M63^
M_
203
PEACHES (Number of trees of all ages, January 1, 1925)
\y///A rrfr? "*TM Bwwffl 1HIII1
Under 10,000 trees 10,000 to 40,000 trees 40,000 to 100,000 trees
100,000 to 200,000 trees 200,000 to 500,000 trees 500,000 to 1,000,000 trees 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 trees
210
TABLE 29
CARLOT SHIPMENTS GEORGIA PEACHES
1921-1927
Dist. Comities
Cars 1921
Cars 1922
Cars 1923
Cars 1924
Cars 1925
Northwestern Counties:
1 Bartow
83
Chattooga
64
Dade
Floyd
2
Gordon
4
Polk
5
Whitfield
54
District Total-
212
45
61
101
123
15
48
57
57
5
53
15
5
3
12
6
3
2
3
24
18
70
34
92
136
300
231
Northern Counties: 2 Cherokee Cobb Hall Jackson Oconee District Total
19
19
19
36
54
2
14
120
103
184
119
141
122
220
173
Northeastern Counties:
3 Elbert Habersham Stephens
241
251
157 21
408 16
277 22
District Total
241
251
178
424
299
Western Counties: 4 Clayton Coweta Fayette Harris Henry Lamar Macon Marion Meriwether Pike Sehley Spalding Talbot Taylor Troup Upson District Total
26 1 3 20 1.999 38 269 134 3 2 39 506 332 3,372
26 3 4 7 1,442 8 209 96 12 46 465
2,575
37 5 10 20
1,361 27 309 184 15 3 54 443 324
2,792
47 16 20 1,272 25 492 449 79 14 123 543
2 3,978
109 7 18 66 35
1,587 26 821 518 99 81 165 578 43 953
5,106
Central Counties: 5 Baldwin Bibb Bleckley Butts Crawford Hancock HoustonJones-- Laurens Monroe Morgan Newton Peach Pulaski Putnam Twiggs Washington Wilkinson District Total
27o 32 143 93 4,254 834
60
223 16 109 44 2,945 51 645 101
21 3
5,814 4.142
406 17 70 70 3,468 92 909 81
33 33
5,179
556 95 5 262 96 1,251 155 1,035
3 266
4 4,064
87 1 7,906
455 158 24 260 77 916 304 735
3 255
1 25 3,399 1 17 81 6,711
Cars 1926 193
90 1 14 34 5 84 421
280 17 383 1 623 15 639
1 477 42 12 229 49 1,464
12 1,221
850 107 159 231 472 144 1,358 6,828 10 463 174
24 189 80 915 652 1,262 23 380 42 129 3,697 34 86
8,160
Cars 1927
2 34 36 20
3 23 71
2 20 70 32 1,080 10 723 473 91 61 370 401 106 1,426 4,936 10 338 166 11 218 85 714 434 1,264
3 411 28 41 2,706
2 42 60 1 6,531
211
TABLE 29.--Con't.
CARLOT SHIPMENTS GEORGIA PEACHES
1921 -1927
Dist. Counties
Cars 1921
Eastern Counties:
6 Columbia
Glascock
19
McDuffie
7
Richmond-..
4
Warren
2
District Total
32
Southwestern Counties:
7 Dougherty
29
Grady...
Lee
_
5
Mitchell
1
Quitman
Randolph-- .-. . 200
Stewart
_
17
Sumter
- 120
Terrell
- 33
Webster
_
Cars 1922
4 9 9 22 9 3 71 2 63 5
Cars 1923
9 10 3 22 13 3 82 104 10
Cars 1924
5 8 9 22 124 4 12 1 180 23 320 47
Cars 1925
7 7 5 8 27 77 5 172 10 507 50 20
Cars 1926
9 6 16 16 47
89 45 5 284 13 720 85 15
District Total
- 405
153
212
711
841 1,256
Southern Counties:
8 Ben Hill
4
9
17
Colquitt
5
Crisp
2
12
25
Dooly._ Irwin
68 _. ...
39
57
925
63 1
73 3
Lowndes
4
1
8
Telfair
1
1
24
58
Tift
1
Wilcox
16
29
Worth
40
District Total State Total
113 -10,330
39 7,370
60
103
125
218
8,701 13,664 13,528 17,952
Cars 1927
3 20 6 14 5 48
30 12 337 20 3 402
1 41 5
1 48 12,027
aia
Dist. Counties
TABLE 30.
HORSES AND MULES
TOTAL
HORSES Number Number on Farms on Farms
MULES Number Number on Farms on Farms
WORKSTOCK Number Number on Farms on Farms
Jan. 1, Jan. 1. Jan. 1, Jan 1. Jan. 1. Jan. 1.
1927
1928
1927
1928
1927
1928
N^^~S: -
sSr6"= is
Murray pTuIdniK Polk Walker wnrtffcd:::::::::
District Total
530 280 420 1.090 64o
6,410
510
3
460 250 370 970 570 5,610
3,910
-s
2,160 2,430 3,100 3,170 2,220 29,220
3,9,
24fo
2,200 2,520 3,100 3,250
29,730
4,500 1,690 3,480
950 5,180 3,790 2,690 2,710 3,520 4,260 2,860
35,630
4,460 1,660 3,450
960 5,110 3,750 2,660 2,770 3,470 4,220 2,830 35,340
Northern Counties:
? SHarFrow----' 88380
8obbe::::::::::::
S--
TM76o
S - S ?lr7nin v;:::::::: 510
::::::::::::
210
Gwinnett
0
Taoksbn
400
Lumnldn
150
Wilton
170
& "--
190
PirkmY
240
Towns
220
nSnjit?aTMi " """
220 420
District Totals..- 6,860
SobO SS*TM710
490
200 K0 380 150 160 180 230 210 210 390
6,520
:S3'i'i,!,,?x
82.-TM
'IB1,410
i.o 4 go 3,670
800 1,340 1.750 1,240
810 1,320 3,580
42,750
2,240 2,960 1,580 3,650
820 2,460 1,480 2,530
850 1,540 4,510 3,880 3,920
820 1,400 1,820 1,290
830 1,370 3,750
840
44,540
2,530 3,420 1,730 4,240
870 2,850 1,920 2,670 1,030 1,690 4,880 4,270 4,070
950 1,510 1,940 1,480 1,030 1,540 4,000
990 49,610
2,600 3,510 1,780 4,360
890 2,930 1,970 2,740 1,060 1,740 5,030 4,320 4,300
970 1,560 2,000 1,520 1,040 1,580 4,140 1,020 51,060
Northeastern Counties:
3 Banks-
-----
Albert --- --
Franklin
Habersham -
HartLincoln Madison Oglethorpe
Rabun -
iikes"-::::::::: District Total
|gg *" 5iu 380 TM " 370 |40 |00
w 3,710
^ 5o0u0u 360 f^650" 350 420 uu
" 3,600
: M0
3260 3 , 690 1,430 ! 620 ii,'3iw60 3,060
o 2:800
27,060
x 820
3,390 3i82o ^ 1,660 3o,*4*40 0,140
2'890 27,940
1,940 3,650 4,200 1,810 3,980 1,780 3,730 3,500
810 2,090 3,280 30,770
2,010 3,780 4,320 1,850 4,100 1,820 3,790 3,560
830 2,130 3,350 31,540
213
HORSES Number on Farms, January 1, 1928. (Does not include animals in towns and cities)
der 100 100 to 200 200 to 300 300 to 400 400 to 500 I 500 to 600 600 to 1,000
214
TABLE 30 ^Con't.
Dist. Counties
HORSES AND MULES
TOTAL
HORSES NjNuummboer iNNuuminbueir
MULES Nimummubceir N.^iu^muvb.e*r
WORKSTOCK N*'~u^mTb"e~r N:~um^.b..e.^rc,
on Farms on Farms on Farms on Farms on Farms n Farms
Jan. 1, 1927
Jan. 1. 1928
Jan. 1, 1927
Jan. 1, 1928
Jan. 1, 1927
Jan. 1, 1928
Western Counties:
4 Campbell- --
Carroll
Chattahoochee...
Clayton
Coweta
Douglas
Fayette
Haralson
Harris
Heard
Henry
Lamar
Macon
Marion
Meriwether
Muscogee
Pike
Schley
Spalding
Talbot
-
Taylor
Troup
TJpson
District Totals
220 850 80 230 360 140 210 350 210 180 230 170 280 HO 350
90 130 80 140 180
80 380 150
5.210
210 830 80 220 380 130 190 340 220 170 220 170 250 110 360
80 130
70 130 170
80 370 140
5,050
1,480 5,650
530 1,560 3,530 1,620 2.090 2.160 1,710 2,310 3 280 1,240 3,410 1,380 4,200
540 2,520
760 1.830 1.140 1,590 2,790 1,900 49,220
1,510 5,730
520 1,530 3,440 1,670 2.060 2,220 1,680 2,290 3,260 1.220 3,420 1,330 4,140
530 2,470
750 1,870 1.120 1,620 2,780 1,890 49,100
1,700 6,500
620 1,790 3,890 1,760 2,300 2,510 1,920 2,490 3,510 1,410 2.690 1.490 4,550
630 2,650
840 1,970 1,320 1,670 3,170 2,050 54,430
1.720 6,560
600 1,750 3,820 1,800 2,250 2,560 1,900 2.460 3.480 1,390 3,670 1,490 4,500
610 2,600
820 2,000 1,290 1,700 3.150 2,030
54,150
Central Counties: 5 Baldwin Bibb Bleckley Butts Crawford Dodge Greene Hancock Houston Jasper Johnson Jones Laurens Monroe Montgomery Morgan Newton Peach Pulaski Putnam Rockdale Taliaferro Treutlen Twiggs Washington Wheeler Wilkinson District Total
250 170 120 180 230 230 530 450 190 260 150 HO 300 260 130 300 250 90 130 270 HO 350 90 240 470 130 190 6,210
220 160 110 170 210 210 490 410 170 260 140 130 270 240 120 310 250
90 110 240 110 320 90 210 430 120 170
5,760
1,330 1,540 1,480 1.720 1,530 3,960 2,320 2,440 2.450 1,950 2,190 1,420 6,380 1,660 1,820 2,580 2,360 1,550 1,330 1,540 1,120 1,210 1,650 1,320 4,250 1,740 1,400 56,240
1,380 1,570 1.500 1,750 1,520 3,920 2,390 2,440 2.500 1,990 2,150 1,470 6,340 1,680 1,810 2,610 2,400 1,570 1,320 1,600 1,140 1,280 1,610 1,390 4,250 1,750 1,680
57,010
1,580 1.710 1,600 1,900 1,760 4,190 2,850 2,890 2,640 2,210 2,340 1,560 6.680 1,920 1,950 2,880 2,610 1,640 1,460 1,810 1,230 1,560 1,740 1,560 4,720 1,870 1,590 62,450
1,600 1,730 1,610 1.920 1,730 4,130 2,880 2,850 2,670 2.250 2,290 1,600 6,610 1,920 1,930 2,920 2,650 1,660 1,430 1,840 1,250 1,600 1,700 1,600 4,680 1,870 1,850 62,770
Eastern Counties: 6 Bulloch Burke Candler... Columbia Effingham Emanuel.-Glascock Jefferson Jenkins McDuffie Richmond Screven Warren.-. District Totals
520 540 170 320 210 400 HO 270 160 250 230 320 150 3,650
430
5,090
490
5,460
150
2,040
270
1,850
190
1,380
340
4,560
100
780
230
3,630
150
2,450
220
1,620
200
1,860
270
3,710
130
1,930
3,170
36,360
215
5,370 5,660 2,100 1,970 1,420 4,620
820 3,720 2,500 1,690 1,950 3,860 2,010 37,690
5,610 6,000 2,210 2,170 1,590 4,960
890 3,900 2,610 1,870 2,090 4,030 2,080 40,010
5.800 6,150 2,250 2,240 1,610 4,960
820 3,950 2,650 1,910 2,150 4,130 2,140 40.860
MULES Number on Farms, January 1, 1928. (Does not include animals in towns and cities.)
ffig&fl |%{JSj{|
Under 500 500 to 1,000
1,000 to 2,000 2,000 to 3,000 3,000 to 4,000 4,000 to 5,000 5,000 to 7,000
216
Dist. Counties
TABLE 30.--Con't.
HORSES AND MULES
TOTAL
HORSES
MULES
WORKSTOCK
Number Number Number Number Number Number
on Farms on Farms on Farms on Farms on Farms on Farms
Jan. 1. Jan. 1. Jan. 1. Jan. 1, Jan. 1. Jan.l.
1927
1928
1927
1928
1927
1928
S1o7utohwtihesotieirnnvC;:o:u::n::ti:es:
160
m
nD&Siena*,cyra*gthu~evrt:y:.:-::.::::::::::
no
950
388
miier".::::::::::::
So
Mitchell.
440
ffife::::::: ,8
Seminole
440
QfamaH-
990
inmfe?
350
ferrelf
150
Twheobmsates r::::::.--
49400
District Total
5J50
HO
1,520
1,570
1,680
1,710
IS 1,530 i.wo 2,050 ,oso
Q0
1 450
1,510
1,560
l.blw
m lw 2570 3,390 3,410
f3f3i f;:l888 f:ffi i::3g8 I::gg
410
Oeo
1,570
2,010
2,080
410
4,340
4,430
4,780
4,840
18
390
3,
1,230
,1? ,310
3,
1,670
..$
1,700
190
1,580
1,610
1,800
1.8UU
300
4 930
4 990
5,280
5,290
140
3 500
3 560
3,650
3,700
38so0
31,042100
31,,502700
3i,,8n5o0
3u,950o0 _
4,840
42,970
44^400
48,420
49,240
Southern Counties: 8 Atkinson
n9n0
BS IIenIH--il;l":":::1:":":"---
170
S8
70
860
a8a8n0
am 950
950 sou
130
1,570
1,660
1,740
l.JSU
88 i:S i:SS i:ig I:g
iS 3,18 3,!^ 3,f6 ..
grfsP
30
Doofy
IS3-"1""--
TM350
Savis::::::::
Lanier
120
STe5lJfSai?r88 --
221iu0
TS^frTM neV
170 210
worth::::::::::::
290
District Total-- UM
110
2630
2,690
2,760
2,800
280
&
42,.0TM70
4,220
^ 0
4,420
2.ISS
4,500
3,of
1S00
i: MU
i. oiu
^f60
^
i1i7u0
l*l, m
2890
3,010
3,060
2 420
40
2 230
2 320
2,400
2,460
160
2,470
2,620
2,680
2,780
230
4,090
4,220
4,380
4,450
3^o"
ii^o"
47^S
5^40
BO/ST
Southeastern Counties: 9 Appling Bacon Brantley Bryan Camden-- CChhaarthltaomn Evans GL1iTM ber?t-y-- -- iMir0c?lEn;t-oVsh;--" --
STaSttEn^alili-- " -
g?= BSWSfc.-
280 160 f2U 1 250 2i8o0 140 Hug
?|7700
117700
B AS8
230 140 isu 100 210 24TM0 "" o38u0
224400
1i*4u0
l S:S!
2,4W i,u*u
ig| 660 igu 6?3;x0 l^f0 660
2*0u0u
2< 62^0
ai?:ll8
2t.o5f2o0 i,
'" 680 7STM00 ^ 750
j2o5u0
2780
1:& &-SS
2 740
, 77R800
9q1l00
440
1,100 610 470
2,790
2 430
1:8! iI
2|750 4Q
9?0
78w0
500
g940 450 1,130
610
49^0
2,920
2460
MS &S!
217
SWINE Number on Farms and Ranges, January 1, 1928.
(Does not include animals in towns and cities.)
Under 3,000 3,000 to 5,000 5.000 to 7,000 R555J 7,000 to 10,000 |%gfi}| 10,000 to 15,000' mill 15,000 to 25,000 25,000 to 45,000
218
TABLE 31.
SWINE
Dist. Counties
SWINE
Number Number
on Farms on Farms
Jan. 1, Jan. 1,
1927
1928
Dist. Counties
SWINE Number Number on Farms on Farms
1927
1928
Northwestern Counties: 1 Bartow Catoosa Chattooga Dade Floyd Gordon Murray Paulding Polk Walker Whitfield
2,000 900
2,400 1,800 2,600 1,600 1,700 1,600 2,200 3,200 1,200
District Totals
21,200
2,400 1,200 2,900 1,900 2,700 1,800 1,900 2,100 2,300 3,400 1,300 23,900
Northern Counties: 2 Barrow Cherokee-. Clarke Cobb Dawson DeKalb Fannin Forsyth Fulton Gilmer Gwinnett Hall Jackson Lumpkin Milton Oconee Pickens Towns Union Walton White
District Total
1,200 2,100 1,500 2,300
900 1,700 3,100 2,000 2,000 3,000 2,700 3,000 2,400 1,200
900 1,400
900 3,500 3,700 3,100 1,200 43,800
1,400 2,400 1,900 2,900 1,100 1,800 3,700 2,600 2,100 4,300 2,700 3,200 3,100 1,500 1,300 1,600 1,300 4,500 3,600 3,500 1,300 51,800
Northeastern Counties: 3 Banks Elbert Franklin Habersham Hart Lincoln Madison Oglethorpe Rabun Stephens Wilkes
1,400 3,300 2,800 1,900 3,100 1,500 2,200 3,300 4,000 1,800 3,700
District Totals
29,000
1,500 4,500 3,600 2,200 4,900 2,200 2,400 4,500 4,400 2,300 3,700 36,200
Western Counties: 4 Campbell Carroll Chattahoochee.. Clayton Coweta Douglas Fayette Haralson Harris Heard Henry Lamar-- Macon Marion Meriwether Muscogee Pike Schley Spalding Talbot Taylor Troup TTpson District Total..
Central Counties 5 Baldwin BibbBleckley Butts Crawford-- Dodge. Greene Hancock-- Houston Jasper Johnson Jones Laurens Monroe Montgomery Morgan Newton Peach Pulasli Putnam Rockdale-- Talipferro... Treutlen Twiggs Washington. Wheeler Wilkinson. .. District Total
1,100 4,100 2,000 1,300 4,600 ),400 2,200 1,400 5,000 3,200 3,400 2,300 9,400 3,400 7,200 1,100 3,200 3,300 3,300 2.800 5,200 5,100 2,900
1,400 5,600 2,500 1,600 5,400 1,400 2,900 2,400 5,400 3,300
3,500 4,000 12,000 3,500 10,700
1,400 4,000 4,500 4,500 3,000 6,600
6,600 4,400
78,900 100,800
4,900 4,100 12,700 3,100 4,200 18,500 2,600 7.100 6,900 3,900 6,400 4,100 27,800 2.200 10,900 2,600 2.600 3,100 8 000 2,400 1,200 2,200 9,300 6.900 20,000 9.400 5,600
193,fOO
7,200 5,COO 17,900 4.000 4,700 25,200 3,400 7'400 8,00 4,700 8,200 5,600 27,500 2,300 10,200 3,400 4,000 3,600 8 300 2,300 1,800 2,200 11.400 11,600 31,400 12,000 9,700
244,300
219
TABLE 31.--Con't.
SWINE
Dist. Counties Eastern Counties:
6 Bulloch Burke Candler. ColumbiaEffingham Emanuel Glascock Jefferson Jenkins McDuffie Richmond Screven Warren
District Total.
SWINE
Number Number
on Farms on Farms
Jan. 1. Jan. 1,
1927
1928
25,200 17,100 12,000 ' 4,800 12,900 21,700 3,800 10,600 10,000 3,600 4,800 21,600 4,200 152,300
29,000 22,700 13,000 5,200 13,300 19,900 4,100 11,400 11,800 3,600 4,300 22,300 4,500 165,100
Southwestern Counties:
7 Baker Calhoun... Clay Decatur DoughertyEarly Grady Lee Miller. Mitchell... Quitman... RandolphSeminole... Stewart Sumter Terrell Thomas-- Webster
12,800 7,100 4,600 23,000 4,900 17,300 30,400 8,100 17,200 30,800 2,900 9,300 13,700 5,600 11,300 11,200 27,200 3,000
District Total
240,400
13,200 8,700 4,700 29,500 5,700 20,000 43,000 9,400 21.600 40,500 3,300 9,600 15,700 6,100 12,200 13,700 33,400 3,200
293,500
Dist. Counties
SWINE
Number Number
on Farms on Farms
Jan. 1. Jan. 1.
1927
1928
Southern Counties: 8 Atkinson Ben Hill Berrien Brooks Clinch Coffee Colauitt Cook Crisp Dooly Echols Irwin. Jeff Davis Lanier Lowndes Telfair Tift Turner Wilcox Worth
5,300 5,400 15,500 26,000 6,000 20,700 25,700 15,900 11.900 16,600 3,700 21,000 10,100 5,500 20,200 15,400 10,400 10,700 9,400 23,900
6,200 5,800 19,800 23,000 6,800 27,400 39,600 18,200 12,300 16,400 4,900 22,600 13,400 4,900 17,900 16,900 15,800 14,700 14,700 37,600
District Total.
279,300 338,900
Southeastern Counties:
9 Appling
13,600
Bacon
8,100
Brantley
6,400
Bryan..
8,600
Camden
5,400
Charlton.
6,600
Chatham.--
2,000
Evans
8,100
Glynn
5,900
Liberty
7,000
Long..
6,300
Mclntosh --. 3,800
Pierce..
10,900
Tattnall
18,900
Toombs
13,800
Ware
8,200
Wayne--
14,800
13,900 9,500 6,900 8,000 6,100 5,900 2,300 9,100 5,800 7,600 7,100 4,300 12,800 26,800 18,200 9,500 15,900
District Total
148,400 169,700
State Total
- 1,187,100 1,424,200
220
MILK COWS Number on Farms, January 1, 1928. (Does not include animals in towns and cities)
|%g%|
Under 1,000 1,000 to 1,500 1,500 to 2,000 2,000 to 2,500 2,500 to 3,000 3,000 to 4,000 4,000 to 7,000
221
OTHER CATTLE (Excluding Milk Cows) Number on Farms, January 1, 1928
|
| 'under 1,000
1,000 to 2,000
2,000 to 3.000
3,000 to 4,000
4,000 to 6,000
6,000 to 10,000
10,000 to 16,000
222
TABLE 32.
CATTLE
Dist. Counties
MILK COWS
OTHER CATTLE TOTAL CATTLE
Number Number Number Number Number Number
on Farms on Farms on Farms on Farms on Farms on Farms
Jan. 1. Jan. 1. Jan. 1. Jan. 1, Jan. 1. JMI.1.
1927
1928
1927
1928
1927
1928
Northwestern Counties: 1 Bartow Catoosa Chattooga Dade Floyd Gordon Murray Paulding Polk Walker Whitfield
2.700 2,400 2,300
900 4,000 2,600 1,800 2,200 2,400 4,400 2,500
District Total
28,200
2,800 2,200 2,300
900 3,800 2,500 1,700 2,000 2,400 4,200 2,400 27,200
1,200 300
1,300 800
1,600 1,400 1,000
700 600 2,600 700 12,200
1,100 200
1,500 600
1,000 1,100 1,000
500 800 2,500 500 10,800
3,900 2,700 3,600 1,700 5,600 4,000 2,800 2,900 3,000 7,000 3,200 40,400
3,900 2,400 3,800 1,500 4,800 3,600 2,700 2,500 3,200 6,700 2,900 38,000
Northern Counties: 2 Barrow Cherokee Clarke Cobb Dawson... DeKalb Fannin Forsyth Fulton Gilmer
Hall Jackson Lumpkin Milton
Pickens
--
Towns
Union
Walton
White
District Total
1,600 3,000 1,300 4,300
800 6,600 2,100 2,400 3,100 1,600 4,600 3,400 2,900 1,000 1,400 1,600 1,200 1,200 1,700 3,000
800 49,600
1,700 3,100 1,400 4,400
800 6,900 2,200 2,500 3,200 1,600 4,700 3,400 3,000 1,000 1,400 1,700 1,200 1,200 1,700 3,100
800 51,000
400 1,100
600 1,400
500 1,400 1,600
900 600 1,800 2,000 1,200 1,300 600 300 300 800 2,400 1,200 1,200 700 22,300
300 1,100
500 1,900
500 1,900 1,600
900 600 2,000 1,600 1,400 1,300 600 400 400 900 2,400 1,200 1,300 600 23,400
2,000 4,100 1,900 5,700 1,300 8,000 3,700 3,300 3,700 3,400 6,600 4,600 4,200 1,600 1,700 1,900 2,000 3,600 2,900 4,200 1,500 71,900
2,000 4,200 1,900 6,300 1,300 8,800 3,800 3,400 3,800 3,600 6,300 4,800 4,300 1,600 1,800 2,100 2,100 3,600 2,900 4,400 1,400 74,400
Northeastern Counties: 3 Banks Elbert Franklin Habersham Hart Lincoln Madison Oglethorpe Rabun Stephens Wilkes
2,000 3,700 3,700 1,700 3,600 1,600 2,900 2,900 1,300 1,900 3,500
District Total
28,800
2,000 3,900 3,900 1,600 3,700 1,700 3,000 3,000 1,400 2,000 3,600 29.800
700 1,500 1,200
900 600 300 300 1,500 1,300. 900 1,400 10,600
500 2,100 1,300
700 900 400 800 1,800 1,600 900 1,100 12,100
2,700 5,200 4,900 2,600 4,200 1,900 3,200 4,400 2,600 2,800 4.900 39,400
2,500 6,000 5,200 2,300 4,600 2,100 3,800 4,800 3,000 2,900 4,700 41,900
TABLE 32.--Con't.
CATTLE
MILK COWS
OTHER CATTLE TOTAL CATTLE
Number Number Number Number Number Number
on Farms on Farms on Farms on Farms on Farms on Farm,'
Jan. 1, Jan. 1. Jan. 1, Jan. 1. Jan. 1, Jan. 1.
1927
1928
1927
1928
1927
1928
Western Counties:
4 Campbell
Carroll
Chattahoochee--
Clayton
Coweta
Douglas
Fayette.--.
Haralson-
Harris-
Heard--.
Henry--
Lamar
Macon
Marion
Meriwether-
Muscogee-
Pike
_.
Schley
Spalding
Talbot
Taylor
Troup
Upson
2,300 5,500
800 2,000 3,000 1,700 1,600 2,600 2,300 2,400 2,400
900 1,700 1,500 3,400 1,200 1,500
900 1,700 2,100
900 3,400 2,500
2,400 5,700
800 2,100 3,100 1,700 1,700 2,700 2,400 2,500 2,500 1,000 1,800 1,500 3,500 1,300 1,600
900 1,800 2,200
900 3,500 2,500
1,200 2,500 1,700
700 2,300
400 100 2,200 3,400 2,300 800 1,000 2,000 1,600 2,800 500 800 700 1,000 2,900 1,500 1,900 1,500
1,100 3,300 1,800
300 2,700
600 200 2,200 2,600 2,200 1,000 1,400 2,300 1,200 2,000 300 600 800 1,300 3,200 1,400 2,300 1,200
3,500 8,000 2,500 2,700 5,300 2,100 1,700 4,800 5,700 4,700 3,200 1,900 3,700 3,100 6,200 1,700 2,300 1,600 2,700 5,000 2,400 5,300 4,000
3,500 9,000 2,600 2,400 5,800 2,300 1,900 4,900 5,000 4,700 3,500 2,400 4,100 2,700 5,500 1,600 2,200 1,700 3,100 5,400 2,300 5,800 3,700
District Total
48,300
50,100
35,800
36,000
84,100
86,100
Central Counties:
5 Baldwin
Bibb
Bleckley
Butts
Crawford
Dodge
Greene
Hancock
Houston
Jasper-
Johnson
Jones
Laurens
Monroe
Montgomery
Morgan---
-
Newton
Peach
Pulaski-- -
Putnam
Rockdale
Taliaferro
Treutlen
Twiggs
Washington.
Wheeler-- -
Wilkinson
2,500 3,700
900 1,700 1,200 3,800 3,300 2,600 1,300 2,300 1,400 2,400 4,500 2,000 1,800 2,700 3,300
600 1,100 3,000 1,100 1,600 1,300 1,300 3,100 1,300 1,200
2,600 3,800
900 1,800 1,300 3,800 3,500 2,700 1,400 2,500 1,500 2,600 4,500 2,100 1,700 2,900 3,600
600 1,100 3,200 1,200 1,700 1,300 1,400 3,300 1,300 1,300
2,200 1,000 1,600 1,800 1,400 4,700
800 1,900 1,800 1,800 1,700 1,600 5,600 1,900 3,600 1,100
500 600 500 1,600 700 600 3,000 2,100 3,200 3,800 1,600
2,600 1,100 1,500 1,800 1,500 4,400
900 2,200 1,900 2,200 2,000 1,700 4,700 2,600 3,200 1,700 1,000
700 500 1,700 800 700 3,000 2,500 3,800 3,800 2,100
4,700 4,700 2,500 3,500 2,600 8,500 4,100 4,500 3,100 4,100 3,100 4,000 10,100 3,900 5,400 3,800 3,800 1,200 1,600 4,600 1,800 2,200 4,300 3,400 6,300 5,100 2,800
5,200 4,900 2,400 3,600 2,800 8,200 4,400 4,900 3,300 4,700 3,500 4,300 9,200 4,700 4,900 4,600 4,600 1,300 1,600 4,900 2,000 2,400 4,300 3.900 7,100 5,100 3,400
District Total
57,000
59,600
52,700
56,600 109,700 116,200
Eastern Counties: 6 Bulloch Burke Candler Columbia -- EifinghamEmanuel. Glascock Jefferson Jenkins McDuffie Richmond Screven-. ...Warren
4,700 3,300 1,800 2,000 1,900 4,300
600 1,800 1,400 1,300 2,700 3,300 1,200
4,600 3,300 1,700 2,100 1,800 4,400
600 1,800 1,300 1,400 2,700 3,200 1,300
11,600 2,000 3,500 2,600 5,800 6,200
500 2,600 2,900 1,200
800 7,900
800
10,100 2,300 3,300 2,700 6,100 6,800
500 3,200 3,200 1,100
800 9,000
700
16,300 5,300 5,300 4,600 7,700 10,500 1,100 4,400 4,300 2,500 3,500 11,200 2,000
14,700 5,600 5,000 4,800 7,900 11,200 1,100 5,000 4,500 2,500 3,500 12,200 2,000
District Total
30,300
30,200 484,000
224
49,800
78,700
80,000
TABLE 32.--Con't.
CATTLE
MILK COWS
Number Number
on Farms on Farms
Jan. 1, Jan. 1,
1927
1928
OTHER CATTLE
Number Number
on Farms on Farm;
Jan. 1. Jan.-1;.
1927
1928
TOTAL CATTLE
Number Number
on Farms on Farms
Jan. 1. Jan. 1.
1927
1928
Southwestern Counties:
7 Baker
Calhoun
Clay
Decatur
Dougherty
Eaily
Grady
Lee
--
Miller
Mitchell
Quitman
Randolph
Seminole
Stewart
Sumter
Terrell
Thomas
Webster
}TM0 LI"0 ?'S52 1.600
4.1W 3,500 1.400 2,100 3,700 l.oojj 2,600 1.300 1.800 2,600 1.900 5,300
400
District Total--- 40,400
Southern Counties: 8 Atkinson Ben .Hill Bernen Brooks Clinch Coifee Colauitt ---
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frcw^s::::::::::::
Jeff Davis
Lanler--
-
Lowndes
Telfair
Tift
Turner
Wilcox
Worth
100 1.W0 1.900 3,100
900 1-900 5,000
:3S
2,300
2.SS
1.200 500
2,800 3,800 2,500 2,600 2,400 3,700
District Total - 41,700
Southeastern Counties:
9 Appling
Bacon -
Brantley
Bryan
Camden
Charlton--
Chatham
Evans
Glynn
Liberty
Long
Mclntosh-
Pierce
Tattnall
-
Toombs
Ware
Wayne
8TMTM > l.fOO
500 ou 600 2,500 l.j> 700 600 600
900 1.500 1.500 2,200 2400^
District Total
,,!H!$
State Total -- 343,400
700 1,300 1,000 3,800 1,600 4,000 3,400 1,300 2,000 3,800
900 2,500 1,200 1,700 2,600 1,900 5,100
400
39,200
100 1,500 1,800 3.000
900 1,800 5,000
900 2.200 2,200
100 2,000 1,200
500 2.700 3,700 2,500 2,500 2,300 3,600
40,500
800 1,700
500 600 600 2,400 1,200 700 600 600 200 900 1,600 1,500 2,000 2,100
18,800 346,400
5,300 1,500 1,900 10,600 1,700 5,200 10,600 1,300 6,100 8,000 1,100 2,400 14,100 2,600 1,800 1,900 8,100 1,200 85,400
6,400 2,100 8,500 5,200 14,800 13,700 11,900 4,400 2,500 2,300 5,400 5,300 5,900 4,100 9,200 5,900 4,200 3,200 2,800 4,900 122,700
11,500 5,800 7,100 5,000 5,800 9,000
900 3,400 5,400 9,900 6,500 4,500 8,700 8,000 6,200 11,100 11,300 120,100 510,200
5,000 1,500 2,300 11,400 1,900 4,800 10,000 1,100 5,800 7,300 1,100 2,000 13,000 2,300 2,200 2,100 7,000 1,100 81,900
6,000 2,900 3,000 14,500 3,300 9,300 14,100 2,700 8,200 11,700 2,100 5,000 15,400 4,400 4,400 3,800 13,400 1,600
125,800
5,700 2,800 3,300 15,200 3,500 8,800 13,400 2,400 7,800 11,100 2,000 4,500 14,200 4,000 4,800 4,000 12,100 1,500
121,100
2,200 8,200 5,100 15,100 13,200 11,000 4.500 3,000 2,600 5,600 5,500 6,100 3,900 9,900 6,200 4,500 3,600 3.000 5,800 125,600
10,300 5,900 7,400 5,100 5,900 9,400 1,200 3,500 5,500 9,900 6,300 4,500 8,800 7,700 6,600 11,200 11,600 120,800 517,000
6,500 3,600 10,400 8,300 15,700 15,600 16,900 5,400 4,800 4,600 5,500 7,400 7,100 4,600 12,000 9,700 6,700 5,800 5,200 8,600
164,400
12,300 6,600 8,900 5,500 6,400 9,600 3,400 4,600 6,100 10,500 7,100 4,700 9,600 9,500 7,700 13,300 13,400
139,200 853,600
6,700 3,700 10,000 8,100 16,000 15,000 16,000 5,400 5,200 4,800 5,700 7,500 7,300 4,400 12,600 9,900 7,000 6,100 5,300 9,400 166,100
11,100 6,700 9,100 5,600 6,500 10,000 3,600 4,700 6,200 10,500 6,900 4,700 9,700 9,300 8,100 13,200 13,700 139,600 863,400
225
CHICKENS Number on Farms, January 1, 1925. (Does not include poultry in towns and cities.)
LJD W&
Under 20,000 20,000 to 30,000 30,000 to 40.000 40,000 to 60,000
V//A
mini
60,000 to 80,000 80,000 to 100,000 100,000 to 200,000
Ik
226
TABLE 33. CHICKENS (As Reported by Bureau of the Census)
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, si'"'
m t-i d *-< trf
P3v* WCTs . d f-1
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Nortliwestern Counties:
1 Bartow Catoosa Ohattooga Dade Floyd Gordon Murray Paulding Polk Walker Whitfield
81,423 38,723 56,017 20,803 82,705 68,565 46,123 58,768 59,454 88,885 53,005
O Z 128,485 51,424 84,138 26,108 149.944 119,783 94,229 106.194
90,251 141,772 79,348
District Total
654,471 1,071,676
Northern Counties: 2 Barrow Cherokee Clarke Cobb Dawson DeKalb Fannin Forsyth Fulton Gilmer Gwinnett Hall Jackson Lumpkin Milton Oconee Pickens Towns Union Walton White
District Total
37,488 81,501 36,910 97,485 21,989 77,221 41,680 64,192 34,083 42,546 106,547 84,722 69,698 25,417 38.285 36,283 34,406 26,040 41,607 69.082 26,096
92.745 126,164 62.415 189,218 36,451 117,453 61,020 122,735 68,132 70,414 200,948 174,443 149.293
41,201 91,731 77,065 60,967 50,231 62,202 157,852 51,018_
1,093,278 2,063,698
Northeastern Counties:
3 Banks Elbert Franklin Habersham Hart Lincoln Madison Oglethorpe Rabun Stephens
43,820 74,005 78,471 43,205 66,982 31,906 64,389 59,744 19,299 36,995
88,823 190,267 200,807 80,880 178,172 78,010 171,2 0 144,043
32,345 71, 04
Wilkes
5o,178 _1**'^_
District Total
573,994 1,379,896
Western Counties: 4 Campbell Carroll Chattahoochee.Clayton Coweta Douglas Fayette-- -- Haralson Harris Heard Henry Lamar Macon Marion Meriwether Muscogee Pike Schley Spalding Talbot Taylor Troup Upson
o o
41,807 179,040 14,863 41.299 69,497 46,748 41,403
61,049 39,228 50,019 69,364 21,523 37,026 24,948 63,917 11.021 38,493 18,007 43,175 20,255 24,843 50,805 32,493
61,414 312,067 23.379 59,801 120,508 67,364 60,490
94,504 86,223 93,836 118,127 39,409 44,913 65,039 118,310 15,154 69,056 17,431 76,290 33,927 53,065 98,206 50,559
District Total
1,040,823 1,779,072
Central Counties: 5 Baldwin Bibb Bleckley Butts Crawford Dodge Greene Hancock Houston Jasper Johnson Jones Laurens Monroe Montgomery Morgan Newton Peach Pulaski Putnam Rockdale Taliaferro Treutlen Twiggs Washington Wheeler Wilkinson
21,631 36,167 33,636 45,779 29,350 43,555 37,277 68,962 33,285 53,323 63,691 104,581 40,301 83,705 40,674 93,265 30,378 55,166 45,514 83,018 32,399 60,392 23,615 34,502 101,069 185,057 30,035 41,749 28,027 46,497 56,305 73,253 47,708 88,641 16,281 30,673 24,233 34,338 28,254 63,232 27,790 52,078 21,916 56,368 26,388 47,419 24,941 30,453 77,725 144,491 32,398 56,405 27,009^ 49,264^
District Totals 1,001,830 1,762,333
227
TABLE 33.--Con't. CHICKENS
(As Reported by Bureau of the Census)
1
Eastern Counties: 6 Bulloch Burke Candler Columbia Effingham Emanuel Glascock Jefferson Jenkins McDuffie Richmond Screven Warren District Total
flirt08
D!Z;
23s
O CD g
o Is
126,488 66,833 41,645 32,735 43,845 75,644 18,079 64,810 39,656 28,272 46,778 68,774 31,245
198,333 116,423 82,124 79,873 46,958 141,833 32,416 116,399 55,043 57,562 72,085 109,763 52,710
684,804 1,161,522
Southwestern Counties:
7 Baker Calhoun Clay Decatur Dougherty Early Grady Lee Miller Mitchell Quitman Randolph Seminole Stewart Sumter Terrell Thomas Webster
24,162 22,043 18,199 51,272 22,892 52,810 71,097 26,734 26,620 86,545 11,616 40,787 26,179 28,460 55,617 46,731 72,162 19,259
36,702 40,824 27,590 81,779 29,920 70,818 114,253 38,631 44,722 150,242 22,219 72,560 49,243 43,715 91,101 69,489 100,666 27,174
District Totals
703,165 1,111,648
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Southern Counties: 8 Atkinson Ben Hill Bernen Brooks Clinch Coffee Colauitt Cook Crisp Dooly Echols Irwin Jeff Davis Lanier Lowndes Telfair Tift Turner Wilcox Worth
o
o
17,275 29,814 39,823 60,271 14,367 59,816 89,416 41.333 33,697 56.905 9,457 53.843 23,546 15.207 55,615 50,245 42,697 33,105 41,821 67,486
26,465 48,746 60,969 96,675 11,738 95,706 150,308 56,130 61,093 91,105 10,734 80,657 44,525 21,046 79.974 88,180 67,205 62,535 55.831 102,106
District Total
835,739 1,311,728
Southeastern Counties:
9 Appling
38,342
Bacon...
22,146
Brantley
23,192
Bryan
21,566
Camden
10,918
Charlton
13,475
Chatham
21,586
Evans
25,629
Glynn
12,872
Liberty
19,569
Long
11,449
Mclntosh
8,325
Pierce
39,708
Tattnall
63,596
Toombs
46,140
Ware
32,044
Wayne
44,722
53,372 31,780 28,758 19,690 17,076 14,742 16,470 38,059 17,326 33,561 16,475 13,428 53,010 91.069 99.016 38.549 59,614
District Total State Total
455,279 641,995 7,043.40313,283,568
COMMERCIAL HATCHERIES Each symbol represents a hatchery, and indicates approximate capacity.
A Incubator capacity, 1,000 to 5,000 eggs
X Incubator capacity, 5,000 to 10,000 eggs
Incubator capacity, 10,000 to 20,000 eggs
Incubator capacity, 20,000 to 40,000 eggs
Incubator capacity, 40,000 to 100,000 eggs
229
COMMERCIAL HATCHERIES IN GEORGIA.
County
P. O. Address
Incubator Capacity
Name of Hatchery and Party Operating.
Appling Graham..
1,008 E. Anderson.
Bacon
Alma
12,096 Rozier Poultry Farm.
Baldwin Milledgeville
2,304 J. C. Baston.
Ben Hill Ben Hill Bibb
Fitzgerald Fitzgerald Macon, Eoute No. L...
4,608 Naomi Poultry Farm. 30,000 Ben Hill Co-Operative Co. 1,200 C.M.Powell.
Bibb Bibb Bibb
Macon Macon Macon
15,000 Carson & Denneson. 12,000 A. S. Crosby. 1.200 Mrs. G. E. Knight.
Brantley Bulloch Bulloch
Nahunta Statesboro Register
10,368 Knox Motor Company. 2,772 Frank Smith. 8,400 Register Hatchery.
Bulloch Bulloch Burke
Statesboro, No. 6 Gordon St. Statesboro Sardis
4,600 12,400 2,772
East SideEggery. W. H. Smith. D. T. Mulkey.
Butts
Jackson
Calhoun Edison
Camden Woodbine
Camden Woodbine
Carroll
Carrollton..
Carroll
Carrollton
Chatham--Savannah. Route A. Box 10!
10,000 The Jackson Hatchery. 24,000 Fain's Hatcher". 8.000 J. K. Bedell. 1,144 Mrs. James Monson. 20,000 W. H. Kenney. 20,000 Fourth Dist. A. & M. Hatchery. 1,600 Lanier's Park Poultry Farm.
Chatham.--.Savannah. 745 E. 35th St Chatham--Savannah. Montgomery Rd.
8,000 Wiehrs Poultry Farm. 1,600 Jones Poultry Farm.
Chatham.-. Savannah. P. O. Box 1434 . 14,400 Graham's Poultry Farm.
Chatham.---Savannah. Ogeechee Rd.
10.368 Law's Leghorn Farm.
Chatham.-.-Savannah, 110 Jefferson St .
Clarke
Winterville
Clarke
Athens. Box 347
Clarke
Athens, R. F. D... .
Clarke
Athens
Cherokee Canton
Cobb -..Marietta
Cobb
Austell. P. O. Box 192.
Cobb
Smyrna
Coffee
Douglas
Colauitt Moultrie
. .
Cook
Adel
Crisp-
-Cordele. P. O. Box 313
Decatur Bainbridge
DeKalb Decatur
DeKalb Lithonia
Dodge
Eastman
47,000 8,000 25,000 2,300 7,463 2,400 1,200 5,000 1,008 12,000 10,368 12,096 10,000 22,000 2,400 4,608 4,000
Savannah Hatchery, Inc. George O'Kelly. Strain's Hatchery. Mrs. W. L. Childs. Georgia State College. Canton Hatchery. C. W. Fowler. Merriwood Farm. J. P. Parks. Dr. W. H. Hughes. The Moultrie Hatchery. Pineview Leghorn Farm. Cordele Hatchery. DecaturC ounty Hatchery. Mrs. Donald Donaldson. Mrs. E. W. Chupp. C. C. Burch.
Dougherty-.Albany
11,368 A. B. Childs.
Dougherty-.Albany
Early
Blakely.-.
__
Elbert
Elberton
Elbert ..Elberton
.
Fayette Woolsey
Floyd
Rome
Franklin Lavonia
Fulton
Atlanta, Forsyth St
"
Fulton
Atlanta. Route No. 1, Box 87
Fulton
College Park
Fulton
Atlanta. Williams Mill Road
Fulton ..Atlanta. Davis-Fisher San.-.
Fulton. -Atlanta, 201 Whitehall St.
Fulton
Atlanta, 209 Cascade Ave. .
Fulton ..Atlanta. 173 Waverly Way-..
Fulton
Atlanta, 301 Plaza Bldg.
Glynn
Brunswick
1,600 5,000 10,368 2,640 48,000 13,000 6,912 63,000 2.772 1,008 47,000 2,772 7,300 2,000 3,300 1,000 1,000
W. A. Cooper. Early County Hatchery. Elbert Community Hatchery. T. W. Nations. Bakersfield Hatchery. Lester's Hatchery. H. H. Bonner. Blue Ribbon Hatchery. J. O. Pitts. Cascade Road. JohnD. Rung. Woodlawn Hatcheries. D. A. Dickson. M. T. Roberson. Hillard Way. Jas. B. Mitchell. Inman Gray. Mrs. G. V. Cate.
230
COMMERCIAL HATCHERIES IN GEORGIA-Continued.
County
p. O. Address
Incubator Capacity
Name of Hatchery and Party Operating.
Glynn
Brunswick -
12,000 Mrs. J. B. Church. g 300 Mrs. K. G. Berrie.
Glynn Glynn
Brunswick Brunswick
---
--
i4;m
Mrs. J. B. D. Paulk. H. A. Link.
HIaX bersShnaamm.::.FBraolwdweriynB- -ranchVBouteNo. 3
16,700
J. N. Wallis. R. H. Head.
HHaalrlt
H^IarPtw10e^ii
HtrTry-'-.-.-Stockbrldge
1
12'o,094600 *
Hartweii Hatchery. COlcaiulldaeHAa.tcShmeriyth. .L.
D.
TFuTl,l,e!,r^tTM on.
IJrewfflenrson----W,creilnlas
10,368 9200
Wrens Hatchery. Jenkins County
J. K. Callahan. Hatchery.
Jenkins Millen LLaouwrenndses---DVualodTM os.t-a
7|50o Knight & Rachels. 13,000 A. J. Bartlett. 4 608 S. B. Finklea
Lowndes Valdosta McDuffie---Thomson
- 10 368 P H. Geers. 19 000 Harris' Hatchery.
Mitchell Pelham Monroe Dyas-----Muscogee--Columbus-- Oconee Watkynsyille Oglethorpe--Crawford-
4i000 H. J. Hardin.
254]000000
l 000
Joseph S. Beall. BiancharfTarter & Shehane.
23 700 Spring Hill Hatchery.
PPeiearcche
SB?larct,kvsSheatlr
5,000
15 000
EP.ecJa. nMGcrKoivnenFeya.rmJr,. W. C. CPllnouueghn.
Pike's Poultry Farm.
C W. Elliott.
SfflSS::i3SS5: ^---"-
g-.gS
Haynie's Hatchery. Consumer's Grocery.
Richmond--Augusta Richmond--Augusta
4200
24 00o
Linwood Hospital. Erwin & McElvaney
Hatchery.
Rockdale--Conyers
Screven
Sylvania--- - -
Seminole---Donaldsonyille
Spalding----Orchard Hill
Stewart .Richland
Sumter Amencus
10000 Ostrica Poultry Farm.
10 368 A. G. Hagan.
g 30Q Hill Crest Farm.
9000
44 ooo
?mer?crHatecrnery&SapplyCo.
---- 4 QQO Sumter Red Farm.
Sumter Taylor Terrell Terrell Thomas Tift TToifotmbs Troup
Amencus Butler Dawson Parrott JJeigs Tiftn ?Leynodnes,r-R6,,oVu,ttep-cp Hogansville
".
6 800
30 000 7 500 x 000
10i440 5,400 1.500
m
Austin E. Guinn. F & K. Hatchery. C C. Fletcher. Sunnyslope Poultry A & M. Hatchery. Owen's Hatchery. M M. Coleman. Jr. Empire Hatchery.
Yards.
6m West Point Hatchery.
Troup
West Point
4 700 C. E. Williams.
Walker
Rossvule
Walker
LaFayette
Washington Sandersville
lui I. D. Day. 7 200 A A. Bennett. 2 100 S H. Young.
Washington Tenmlle-
8>0oo L. A. Nichols.
Wayne Wayne
Jesup Jesup
12 000 Wilkins' Hatchery. 2,500 J. B. Bryant.
Wayne Wayne Wayne WWiillckoexs
Jesup Jesup ..Jesup-- SWPasehJ>ien^g-tTM on
! 000 3>00o 2i0oo 10,000
20 700
Terrell Surrency. Mrs Carroll Odum. Pebble Hill Poultry Farm. Beech Haven Hatchery. Sylvester Hatchery.
Worth .-Sylvester
Total Capacity-
Geor'lSstlte College of Agriculture.
List prepared by Poultry Division
Corrected to March. 1928.
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CREAMERIES AND CHEESE FACTORIES IN GEORGIA
Creamery M^ Cheese Factory
CREAMERIES AND CHEESE FACTORIES IN GEORGIA.
CHEESE FACTORIES
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Euharlee Cheese Factory
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^ . Five Forks Cheese Factory
Bush Arbor C_,heese F_act. ory
Rockmart Cheese F^act, ory Lexington Cheese F_act. ory
Newton Cheese FT.actLory
Palalto Cheese Factory
Calvin Cheese Factory Mark's Cheese ,,Factory
"0ST FF'CE __ Cartersville
Cartersville Rome _ Rockmart _ .Lexington ....Covington Monticello Monticello ... .Hillsboro
CREAMERIES: Ashburn Creamery Columbus Creamery
Ashburn Columbus
Cordele Creamery & Cold Storage Co.-
Macon Creamery Co ,,
Fitzgerald Creamery Co ~
Hummer's Creamery Co
Moultrie Creamery Co
..Cordele Macon .Fitzgerald
_ _ _ .Macon _ ..Moultrie
Ga-Carolina Dairy Products Co Dublin Creamery Co Hawkinsville Creamery Co
..Dublin Hawkinsville
Georgia State College of Agriculture Cooperative ^^
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Eastman Creamery Co _
Waycross Creamery Co
Americus Creamery Co
Valdosta Creamery Co , .
Atlanta Butter Co., Edgewood Ave
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. .Waycross
Amencus
Valdosta
Atlanta
.Elberton
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Georgia State College of Agriculture.
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PORK PRODUCTS.
Number of pounds of Pork products shipped into Georgia during 1926 and 1927 as reported by the Georgia Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Live Stock Industry, Dr. J. M. Sutton, State Veterinarian.
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-Smoked Mau, Sugar Cured. --Smoked Meata, Ory Salt.
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