Or A 61 325 GEORGIA INFORMATION1937 viV ft VJS i WlR5ii IrllfSK GG T teGftfGG IVV VG r KGr lGGx I F 1 i gG I Jiff Ofl BA TOTfiti KGG I V I fGG 31 jf5 1 wCv vvjyvMWATrvvv vvv vy v WWaWvvv Issued By STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE COLUMBUS ROBERTS COMMISSIONER STATE CAPITOL ATLANTA GEORGIA A 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 Page 2 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 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 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 Page 3 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 Page 4 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 CK o 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 Page 10 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 P 54