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STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
COLUMBUS ROBERTS COMMISSIONER
STATE CAPITOL ATLANTA GEORGIA
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iGEORGIA AGRICULTURE
The following Information Agriculturally and
otherwise about Georgia is issued in response
to numerous reouests for uptodate facts con
cerning the State
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Columbus Roberts Commissioner
Compiled by Stiles A Martin Statistician
Farming is the oldest and has always been the leading occupa
tion of the people of Georgia
The first inhabitants of the land now comprising Georgia the
Indians were ita first farmers They cultivated the open spaces
planting corn and other crops to supplement their food supply of
game Corn or maize re it was called was grown chiefly and was
even fertilized by the Indians placing a dead fish in the ground
near each stalk
Small plats usually the bottom lands only were cultivated
the forests being kept intact for game of which the Indians kill
ed only enough for their immediate needs and none for sport only
They used the dead trees for firewood thus the forests were not
slashed nor denuded The forests held practically all the water
that fell in them and the cultivated plats ere not large enough
Cause much flow of water so the Indians may rightfully be call
first soil and forest conservers
the first occupation of General Oglethorpes set
tlers at Savannah in 1753 i
as
Farming
Sav
Included in each build
Then the town was laid out a plat was
ing lot and the settlers thereon were re
paired to plant and cultivate a garden SI Ikworms were grown at
first to further silk manufacture and hen that Was found to be
impractical other major crops were grown including tobacco and
rice
Cotton has been the leading money crop grown in the State
since the invention of the Cotton Gin at Savannah In 1793 by Eli
Whitney This invention caused the growth of a fiber that found
a ready market in England and at home in making cloth This plant
set the South up as an agricultural empire which position it has
held Corn leads all crops in acreage in the State
The value of farm products in Georgia annually totals more
than 30000000000 and many of these when manufactured into
other products become even more valuable and afford employment for
thousands of people Crops that are sold for cash and are manu
factured Into other products include cotton cottonseed peanuts
wheat tobacco sugar cane made Into syrup livestock dairying
and mineral or ground products including timber

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VALUE OF GEORGIA CROPS
The value of Georgia crops in 1936 as compiled by the State
College of Agriculture at Athens was as follows
CROP
Cotton
Cottonseed
Corn
Wheat
Oats
Rye
Irish Potatoes
Sweet Potatoes
Tobacco
Hay
Sorghum Syrup
Sugar Cane Syrup
Watermelons
Peanuts for nuts
Cow peas for peas
Soy Beans
Velvet Beans
Peaches
Apples
Pears
Pecans
TOTAL
ACREAGE
2284000
PRODUCTION
090000
4203
195
386
18
16
102
86
1045
15
35
60
605
182
12
1188
8000
000
000
000
000
000
000
000
000
000
000
000
000
000
000
000
000 trees
05624000
1560000
6948000
99000
768000
6630000
84080000
080000 lb
581000
uyoooo
484000
33624000
560
948
99
768
530
080
581
375
330
12600
447700000
1110000
68000
475000
5751000
851000
189000
9220000
bales
tons
bu
bu
bu
bu
bu
bu
975000
4830000
tons
gals
gals
cars
lbs
bu
bu
ns
bu
bu
bu
lbs
VALUE
67035
16940
31607
1732
4794
123
998
5636
17700
6940
488
2125
1638
14774
1421
112
5700
6901
1030
123
1255
000
000
000
000
000
000
000
000
000
000
000
000
000
000
000
000
000
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000
10520000 acres cultivated
191123000
The following is an estimate by the Department of Agriculture
of the annual value of other crops livestock dairy and factory
products
Vegetables
Livestock processed
Dairy products
Poultry and Eggs
Mineral products power
Manufactured products
10000000
40000000
15000000
30000000
20000000
500000000
Minerals produced include granite marble clays kaolin clay
Granite marble clays kaolin cement lime sand
the leading minerals
ty
and gravel are
Manufactured products include textiles or cloth made from
cotton cottonseed oil and meal from cotton seed foundry products
furniture fertilizers flour and meal lumbering candy soft
orinks naval stores leather gooes brick tile clothing canned
goods medicines cigars cigarettes chemicals

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LEADER IN TEXTILES
uLy ff13299 Vle and turn out oroducts
annually yaluea at more than 20000000000 1
ing with foundry products second Georgia
1300000 bales of cotton annually
eaa m manufacture
mills use more th
m
lndJIPlnSi iS theunit of capacity of production in the textile
Tnt4lrRTTTTlvr l5Q000Aspindles in theworld 26 990 000
East NorthV Jr 18900000 in the South 7128000 in the
5 o i Carolina lends all states in spindles with 6061000
4 013 ooo rT SCf With 5636000 Massachusetts third Sith
4013000 Georgia fourth with 3307000 spindles
1 SRtp1 Ootton pf0P in the United States was 12400000 bales
i re Texr5ooaooonf flftlY T6 l0adlnS states nd hir
T Ilk nr i J bales Mississippi 1900000 Arkansas
1295000 Alabama 1145000 GEORGIA 1090 000 balesY Burke led
ail Georgia jountiej with 39052 balesWens second with 51586
2ii84So01acies S525 tt0n
Lumbering is an important industry in the State Saw mills
operating m all sections of the State at all times produce lum
valued at millions of dollars The Pine the chief lumber
over the State and in South Georgia is also the
tree grows
source of
timber is
over the S
naval Stores or
rosin and turpentine Much hardwood
also sawed in the State much of it growing in swamp lands
Two large pulp mills built in Georgia one at Savannah nno one
at Brunswick the cost of both being more than twelve million
dollars will use much Georgia Pine
Eirinf livestock growing have become important industries
in the State within the last 25 years much of the milk and butter
GonsuiHejby Georgians being produced bylocal dairies and creamer
ies Thousands of hogs and cattle are processed annually at a
number of packing plants that have located in the State Georgia
contains more packing plants than any State in the South and is
said to be the only State in the Union in which Pl of the large
packing companies operateArmour Cudahy Swift and Wilson Rip
Packing Pianos are located at Atlanta Moultrie Tiftcn Augusta
Columous Macon nui i
Thomasvilley9a7
Natural grazing lands which are green in sections of the State
almost the year round afford excellent pasturage both for dairy
cows ana livestock for slaughter Thousands of hogs are rzed
in peanut fields
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GEORGIA FARM FACTS
State Acreage Area
Area in Square Miles
Total Population 1930
White Population
Negro Population
Rural Population
City Population
Nvrober of Frrms 1935
Pj c C ers
Ten n 1bi
White Farmers
o Farmers
Acres in Farms
Acres C lb rted
or in id
Owner Farm j i re
Tenants Farm Acreage
37 584 000
58 725
2 908 000
1 836 974
13 071 125
p 013 000
895 000
250 544
75 357
10 000
164 000
177 000
73 000
25 300 coo
10 ooo coo
11 575
11 000 000
13 500 000
UNITED STATES FARM FACTS
Area In Square Miles
Total Population 1930
Farm Acreage 1335
Acre age CultIvated
Total Number Farms
Full Owners
Part Owners
Tenants
White Farmers
Negro Farmers
Value Farm Crops 1936
3026789
122775043
1055000000
336000000
6812350
5210000
683000
2865COO
5957000
855000
6084932000
Carroll vith 4699 has the largest number of
Farms of any county in Georgia Echols With 250
has the fewest number of farmsPage 5
GOVERNMENT
United States
PRESIDENT Franklin D Roosevelt
CABINET MEMBERS Secretary of State Cornell Hull
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A Wallace Secretary of Commerce Daniel C Roper
Secretary of Navy Claude A Swanson Secretary M War Harry
A Woodring Secretary of Interior HaroldL Ickes Secretary
of Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr Attorney General Homer S
Cummings Postmaster General James A Farley
SUPREME COURT MEMBERS Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes
Associate Justices Hugo L Black Louis D Brandeis Pierce
Butler Benjamin N Cardozo James C McRoynolds Owen J Roberts
Harian F Stone George Sutherland Retired Justice Willis Van
Devanter
United States Senators from Georgia
Sixyear term
Walter F George of Vienna Richard B Russell Jr of Winder
GEORGIA ELECTIVE OFFICERS
GOVERNOR E D Rivers
Commissioner of AgricultureColumbus Roberts Secretary
of State John B Wilson Comptroller General William B Harrison
Treasurer George B Hamilton School Superintendent M D
Collins Attorney General M J Yeomans Commerce and Labor
Commissioner Hal M Stanley
Term of Commissioner of Agriculture and Commissioner of
Labor four years others two years
PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSIONERS Sixyear term Walter
R McDonald Chairman Perry T Knight Matt L McWhorter
James A Perry Jud P Wilhoit
SUPREME COURT MEMBERS SIxear tera Chief Justice
Richard B Russell Sr Justices Samuel C Atkinson R C
Bell John B Hutcheson Frank Jenkins Warren Grice Justice
Ermeritus Marcus Beck
COURT OF APPEALS MEMBERS Sixyear term Chief Judge
Nash R Broyles Judges Jule W Feltan John 3 Querry Hugh
J Maclntyre Alexpnder W Stephens I H Sutton
PRISON COMMISSION Sixyear ttermG A Johns
Chairman V L Stanley Clem E RaineyPage 6
CONGRESSMEN
Twoyear term
FIRST DistrictHugh Peterson of Alley CountiesBryan
Bulloch Burke Candler Chatham Effingham Emanuel Evnns
Jenkins Liberty Long Mclntosh Montgomery Screven Tftttnsll
Toombs Treutlen Wheeler 18 counties
SECOND DistrictE E Cox of Camilla CountiesBaker
Brooks Calhoun Colquitt Decatur Dougherty Early Grady
Miller Mitchell Seminole Tift Thomas Worth 14 counties
THIRD DistrictsStephen Pace of Americus CountiesBen
Hill Chattahcochee Clay Crisp Dodge Dooly Harris Houston
Lee Macon Marion Muscogee Peach Pulp ski Quitman Randolph
Schley Stewart Sumter Taylor Terrell Turner Webster
Wilcox A counties
FOURTH DistrictEminctt Owen of Griffin CountiesButts
Carroll Clayton Coweta Fayette Heard Henry Lamar Meri
wether Newton Pike Spalding Talbot Troup Upson 15 oountie
FIFTH DistrictRobert Ramspeok of Decatur Counties
DeKalb Fulton Rockdale 3 counties
SIXTH DistrictCarl Vinson of Milledgeville Counties
Baldwln Bibb Bleckley Crawford Glascock Hancock Jasper
Jefferson Johnson Jones Monroe Putnam Twiggs Washington
Wilkinson Laurens 16 counties
SEVrH DistrictMalcolm C Tarver of Dalton Counties
Bartow Catoosa Chattooga Cobb Dade Douglas Floyd Gordon
Haralson Murray Paulding Polk Walker Whitfield 14 counties
EIGHTH DistrictBraswell Deen of Alma CountiesAppling
Atkinson Bacon Berrien Brantley Camden Charlton Clinch
Coffee Cook Echola Glynn Irwin Jeff Davis Lanier Lowndee
Pierce Telfair Ware Wayne 20 counties
NINTH District Frank Whelchel of Gainesville Counties
Banks iow Cherokee Dawson Fannin Forsyth Gilmer
Gwinnett LI Habershara Jackson Lumpkln Piokens Rabun
Stephens Towns Union White 18 counties
TENTH DistrictPaul Brown of Elberton CountiesClarke
Columbia Elbert Franklin Greene Hart LincolnMcDuffie
Madison Morgan Oconee Oglethorpe Richmond Taliaferro
Walton Warren Wilkes 17 counties
There are more than 1000 Postofflees in Georgia
There are 590 incorporated cities and towns in the StatePage 7
LEGISLATIVE
Georgia Is divided into 159 Counties Burke being the
largest with 956 square miles and Slarke the
smallest having
114 square miles of territory The State has more than 1800
militia districts and approximately 1700 voting precincts
The Judiciary is divided into 53 Superior Court Circuits
There are 52 Senatorial Districts the Legislature being
composed of 52 Senators one from each 11 strict and 205 mem
bers of the House The eight counties having the largest
population have three members each as follows Bibb Chatham
DeKalb Floyd Fulton Muscogee Richmond Trouo
The next 30 Counties having the largest population
nve
two members each They are Baldwin Bartow Brooks Bulloch
Burke Carroll Clarke Cobb Colqultt Coweta Decatur Dodge
Dougherty Ebanuel Jwinnett Hall Jackson Laurens Lewndes
Heriwether Mitchell Polk Spalding Sumter Thomas Walker
Walton Ware Washington Worth
The other 121 counties have one member each
The eight largest counties have six unit vote thirty
haTe four and 121 have ffi each There are 410 unit votes
The General Assembly meets in Atlanta every two years
odd years on the second Monday in January to organize and
install officers and may adjourn at the end of ten days or
vote to remain in session sixty more days the lengthof
session rather than wait and
meet
gain on the second Monday
after the 4th of July for the 60day session
COUNTIES AND COUNTY SEATS
Narad and Population of each
County Appling 13314 County Seat Baxley 2122
Atkinson 6894 Pearson 712 Bacon 7055 Alma 1235 Baker
781S Newton 517 Baldwin 22878 Milledgeville 5534 Banks
9703 Homer 248 Brvvw 12408 Winder 3233 Bartow 25364
Cartersville 5210 Ben Hill 13047 Fitzgerald 6412 Bcrrien
14646 Nashville 1672 Bitb 77042 Koon 53829 Bleckley
9133 Goohran 2267 Brantly 6805 fohufttf 32 Brooks 21330
Suitman 4l49 Bryan 5252 Pembroke 788 Bulloch 6509
Statcsboro 3996
Chatham 105431 SrtWinnftfc 85Cfc4 Chettaheooheo 8894 Cusseta
343 Chattooga 15407 Summerville 953 Cherokee 20003
Canton 2892 Clarke 25613 Athens 18192Page 8
Clay 6943 Fort Caines 127 Clayton 10260 Jonesboro
1065 Clinch 7015 Homerville 1150 Cobb 55408 Marietta
7638 Coffee 19739 Douglas 42C6 Colraitt 30622 Moultrie
8027 Columbia 8793 Appling 162 Cook xl311 Adel 1796
Cowcta 25127 Newnan 6386 Crawford 7020 Knoxville 180
Crisp 17343 Oordele 6380
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Dade 4146 Trenton 370 Dawson 3502 Dawsonville
Decatur 23622 Bainbridge 6141 DeKalb 70278 Decatur 13276
Dodge 21599 Eastman 3022 Dooly 13025 Vienna 183 Dougherty
22306 Albany 14507 Douglas 9461 Douglaaville 2316 Early
18273 Blakely 2106 Echols 2744 Statenville 206 Effingham
10164 Springfield 402 Elbert 18485 Elberton 4650 Emanuel
24101 Swainsboro 2442
Evans 7132 Clapton 1584 Fannin 12969 Blue Ridge 1190
Fayette 8665 Fayetteville 796 Floyd 48567 Rome 21843
Forsyth 10624 Gumming 648 Franklin 15902 Carnesville 404
Fulton 335220 Atlanta 270366 Calmer 7344 Ellijay 657
Glascock 4388 Gibson 442 Glynn IS400 Brunswick 14022
Gordon 16846 Oalhoun 2371 Grady 19200 Cairo 3169 Greene
12616 Greensboro 2125 Gwinnett 27853 Lawrenceville 2156
Habersham
8624 Hancock
Harris 11140
9102 Franklin
Perry 1398 Ii
1869 Jasper 8
1378 Jefferso
2527 Johnson
12
13
Hani
512
win
594
n 2
12
784 Clarkesville 617 Hall 30313 Gainesville
070 Sparta 1613 Haralson 13263 Buchanan 429
ilton 433 Hart 15170 Hartwell 2048 Heard
Honry 15924 MoDonough 1068 Houston 11280
12199 Ocilla 2034 Jackson 21609 Jefferson
Monticello 1593 Jeff
0727 Louisville 1650
681 Wrightsville 1741
Davis 8118
Jenkins 12
Jones 8992 Gr
Hazlehurst
908 Mi11en
y 653
Lamar 9745 Borne sville 3236 Lamer 5150 Lakeland 1006
Laurens 32693 Dublin 6681 Lee 8523 Leesburg 691 Liberty
8153 Hinesville 416 Lincoln 7847 Lincolnton 916 Long 4180
Ludowici 615 Lowndes 29994 Valdosta 13482 Lumpkin 4927
Dahlonoga 905 McDuffie 9014 Thomson 1914 Mclntosh 5863
Darien 937 Macron 16543 Oglethorpe 953 Madison 14921
Danielsvllie 293
Marion 6263 Buena Vista 1097 Merlwether 22437 Green
ville 672 Miller 9076 Colouitt 832 Mitchell 23620 Camilla
2025 Monroe 11306 Forsyth 2277 Montgomery 10020 Mount
Vernon 779 Morgan 12488 Madison 1966 Murray 9215 Chatsworth
607 Muscogec 57558 Columbus 43131 Newton 17290 Covington
3205 Oconse 8C32 Watkinsville 423 Oglethorpe 12927 Lexing
ton 455
Pauiding 12327 Dallas 1412 Peach 10268 Fort Valley
4560 Pickens 9587 Jasper 53 Pierce 18522 Blacksherr 1817
Pike 10853 Zubulon 576 Polk 25141 Cedartown 8124 Pulaski
9005 Hawkinpvilie 2484 Putnam 8367 Eatonton 1876 Quitman
3820 Georgetown 345 Rabun 6351 Clayton 798 Randolph 17174Page 9
Outhbert 3235 Richmond 78980 Augusta 60342 Rockdale 7247
Conyers 1495 Schley 5347 Ellaville 764 Screven 20503
Sylvania 1781 Seminole 7389 Donalsonville 1183 Spalding
23495 Griffin 10321 Stephens 11740 Toocoa 4602
Stewart 11114 Lumpkin 1103 Sumter 26800 Americus
8760 Talbot 8458 Talbotton 1064 Taliaferro 6172 Crawford
TOllle 840 Tattnail 15411 Rcidsville 631 Taylor 10617
Butler 857 Telfair 14997 McRae 1314 Terrell 18290 Dawson
3827 Thomas 32612 Thomasville 11733 Tift 16068 Tifton
3390 Toombs 17165 Lyons 1445 Towns 4346 Hiawassee lf9
Treutlen 7488 Soperton 1081 Troup 36752 LaGrange 20131
695
Turner 11196 Ashtourn 2073
Union 6340 Blairsville 298
Twiggs 8372 Jeffersonville
Upson 19509 Thomaston
4922Walker 26206 La Fayette 2811 Walton 21118 Monroe
3706 Ware 26558 Waycross 15510 Warren 11181 Warrenton
1289 Washington 25030 Sandersville 3011 Wayne 12647
Jesup 2303 Webster 5032 Preston 321 Wheeler 9149 Alamo
613 White 6056 Cleveland 498 Whitfield 2808 Dalton 8160
Wilcox 13439 Abbeville L018Wilkes 15944 Washington 3158
Wilkinson 10844 Irwinton 561 Worth 21094 Sylvester 1984
HISTORIC SPOTS AND IATURAL WONDERS
Compiled by Miss Ella Mae Thornton State Librarian
HISTORIC SPOTS City of Savannah St Simons Island
Wormsloe Estate ChiGkamauga Battlefield Etowah Indian
Mounds in BartowuCounty University of Georgia oldest in
the United States City of Milledgeville
NATURAL WONDERS Amicalola Falls in Dawson County
Tallulah River Gorge in Rabun County Okefenokee Swamp
Stone Mountain Marble Deposits in Pickens County Warm
Springs Great Coastal and Sea Island Forests
EDUCATION
Educational Facilities are available to every child in
Georgia The 1937 session of the Legislature provided for a
minimum seven months school term and for free school books
for all pupils from the First through the High School grades
The University of Georgia is the oldest chartered State
University in the United States and Wesleyan College was the
first in the nation to grant a diploma to a womanMiss
Catherine Brewer
In 1936 there were 748537 pupils enrolled in 6149 state
schools and were taught by 20783 teachers
Georgia is traversed by a network of paved highways
The State Flower Cherokee Rose Bird Brown Thrasher
Tree Oak
LIBRARIES
OF GEOfcG
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IEQRGIA INFORMATION
Founded by James Edward Oglethorpe in February 1733
Named in honor of King George 11 of England who granted
the charter of settlement
Called Empire State of the South Motto Wisdom
Justice Moderation
Capital Atlanta Former capitals Savannah Augusta
Louisville Milledgeville
LEGAL HOLIDAYS New Year January 1 R E Lee birthday
January 19 Washington birthday February 22 Confederate
Memorial day April 26 Jefferson Davis birthday June 3
Independence day July 4 Labor day 1st Monday in September
Columbus day October 12 Armistice day November 11 Thanks
giving dy last Thursday in November Christmas day Dec
25
SPECIAL DAYS Georgia day February 12 Temperance day
4th Friday in March Mofchfcs day second Sunday in May
Pulaski day October 11 Arbor and Bird day 1st Friday in
December Uncle Remus birthday December 9
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
The Georgia Department of Agriculture was created by the
Legislature in 1874 Dr Thomas P Janes being the first
Commissioner The Commissioner is elected for a term of four
years He is the Executive officer of the Department which is
divided into the following subdivisions Marketing division
Fertilizer division Food and Drug department Veterinary
department State Chemist and Statistician
The Marketing division was created for the purpose of
promoting proper sufficient and economical handling packing
transporting storage distribution inspection and sale of
Agricultural products of all kinds The Market Bulletin is
sent free to Georgia citizens
The Fertilizer division keeps a record of sales of fer
tilizer in the state and the State Chemist analyzes fertilizer
bought by farmers
The Food and Drug department has supervision over inspec
tion of foods sold or offered for sale all eating places all
drugs and drug stores
Anyone desiring information concerning Agriculture in
Georgia is invited to write to
THE GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
COLUMBUS ROBERTS COMMISSIONER
STATE CAPITOL ATLANTA GA
October 15 1937
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