GrA fffO GIA INFORMATION1940 LEADS ALL STATES IN f5s S M0 1 q g SWEET POTATOES IMPROVED PECANS K WATERMELONS PIMENTO PEPPERS VELVET BEANS NAVAL STORES ID PEANUT HAY LEADS SOUTH IN PEACHES y HT tJp5iS PEANUTS Al rCCS O V f I MEAT PACKING PLANTS 1 MW 0im V YM ACRES IN TIMBER 4TH IN COTTO7 PRODUCTION 1STER FILE F J 7 w tr Issued By 0 STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE COLUMBUS ROBERTS COMMISSIONER STATE CAPITOL ATLANTA GEORGIA GEORGIA AGRICULTURE The following information agriculturally and otherwise about Georgia is issued in response to numerous recuests for uptodate facts concerning 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 Indians were its first farmers They cultivated the the inuiniB wwxe xua iirsi x axiitxn xnvy uuxixvruuu uilc open spaces planting corn and other crops to supplement their food supply of game Corn or maize ps it as exiled even fertilized by the near each stalk Ino lans p1nc1ng wps grown chiefly and was dead fish in the ground Small plats usually the bottom lands only worn cultivated the forests being kept intact for game of which the Indians killed only enough for their immediate needs and none for sport They used the dead trees for firewood thus the forests were not slash ed nor denuded The forests held practically all the water that fell in them and the cultivated plats were not large enough to cause much flow of water so the Indians may rightfully be called our first soil and forest conservers Farming as the first occupation of General Oglethorpes set tlers at Savannah in 1733 When the town was laid out a plat was included in each building lot and the settler thereon was required to plant and cultivate a garden Silkworms were grown at first to further silk manufacture and when 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 since held Corn leads all crops In acreage in the State The value of fartfl 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 thou sands of people Crops that are 3old for cash and pre manufactured into other products include cotton cottonseed peanuts wheat tobacco sugar cane made into syrup livestock dairying and mineral or ground products includi ng timber LIBRARIES GEORt VALUE OF GEORGIA CROPS IN 1939 From report of Crop Reporting Service Athens CROP Cotton Cotton Seed Corn Wheat Oats Rye I Potatoes S Potatoes Tobacco Hay Sorghum Syrup Sugar Cane Syrup Peanuts Harvested Peanuts Watermelons Cantaloupes Peas Soy Beans Harvested Velvet Beans Peaches Apples for Market Pears Pecans Pimiento Peppers Commercial truck crops TOTAL ACREAGE 1938000 4346000 177000 426000 21000 18000 117000 127100 1198000 16000 34000 650000 418000 62600 9000 179000 13000 1287000 PRODUCTION 20900 16500 916 407 36941 1770 8946 136 1386 8892 96620 675 1024 4794 341250 Interpl 9390 270 1102 79 476 4290 450 281 8700 18 000 bale 000 tons 000 bu 000 bu 000 bu 000 bu 000 bu 000 bu 000 lbs 000 tons 000 gals 000 gials 000 lbs anted for 000 melo 000 crat 000 bu 000 bu 000 bu 000 bu 000 bu 000 bu 000 lbs 810tons VALUE s 41669000 8506000 24750000 1575000 3757000 136000 1026000 7114000 12695000 7340000 563000 2301000 11261000 Hog Grazing ns 1174000 es 270000 1553000 150000 5712000 6864000 405000 183000 1009000 514000 1406000 10031000 acres 141933000 Other Products Estimate of Plants Shipped Bees Honey Forest Products Ravr Forest Products Mfd Vegetables Gardens Livestock Dairy Products Poultry and Eggs Minerals Electric Power 20000000 Mpnufnctured Products1937 708000 000 Total 1030552500 1000000 1552500 50000000 100000000 10000000 60000000 40000000 40000000 Entomology Dept Forestry Dept Statf I Ag Dept i 11 11 11 11 11 it 11 U S Dept of Com Minerals include granite marble clays kaolin clay products bauxite Fullers earth cement limestone lime talc slate mica tripoli sand gravel barite ocher manganese coal iron ore Kyanite gold silver water power electricity Granite marble clays cement lime are the leading minerals Manufactured products include textiles made from cotton oil meal anu hulls from cotton seed foundry products furniture ferti lizers flour meal lumber pulp naval stores candy soft drinks brick tile clothing canned goods medicines cigars cigarettes oUemivoJl a and leather goods 3 LEADER IN TEXTILES Two hundred textile mills which employ 85000 people and turn out products annually valued at 250000000 lead in manufacturing with foundry products second Georgia mills use more than 100 000 boles of cotton annually The spindle is theunit of capacity of production in the tex tile industry There are 150000000 spindles in the world 24943000 in the United States on December 31 1939 18309 000 in the South 5967000 in the East North Carolina leads all states in spindles with 5823000 South Carolina second with 5567 000 Massachusetts third with 3343000 Georgia fourth with 3222000 spindles The total cotton crop in the United States in 1939 was esti mated on December 8th to be 11792000 bales oooIp The lending states in production were Texas 2830000 bales Sssissipp 1585OOoArkansas 1410000 GEORGIA 916000 bales grown on 1938000 acres Total United States acreage 24 832000 UP to December 13th Burke County had ginned 36234 bales Laurens 2359V Walton 23144 Carroll 21407 These ore the four leading counties Lumbering is an important industry in the State Saw mills ooerting in all sections the State at all times proauce lum be valufd t millions of dollars The Pine the chief lumber tree erows all over the State and in South Georgia is also the source noval stores or rosin and turpentine Much hardwood timber is also swed in ZeHeXe Two large pulp mills in Georgia one a a nh nd one t Brunswick the cost of both being more than 15 000 OoS use much Georgia Pine Forestry proaucts in Georgia are valued at 50000000 annuallv Dairying and livestock growing have become important indus tries in the State within the last 25 years much of the milk and butter consumed by Georgians beirg produced by local dairies and creameries Thousands of hogs and tattle areprocessed annually at n number of pcklnp plants that have located in the State Oeorgia Contains Sore pacing plants than any State in the South and is said to be the only State in the Union in which all of the lrge packing companies operateArmour Cuaahy Swift anujilooru Big packing plants are located at Atlanta Moultrie Tifton Augusta Columbus Macon Thomasville Albany Natural grazing lands which are green in sections of the State almost the year round afford excellent Pasturage oh for dairy cows and livestock for slaughter Thousands of hogs are grazed in peanut fields and then soldPage 4 GEORGIA FARM FACT3 State Acreage Area Area in Square Miles Total Population 1930 White Population Negro Population Rural Population City Population Number of Farms 1935 Full Owners Part Owners Tenants White Farmers Negro Farmers Acres in Farms Acres Cultivated 1939 Acres in Woodland Owners Farm Acreage Tenants Farm Acreage 37584000 58725 27968b00 1836974 1071125 2013000 895000 250544 75857 10000 164000 177000 73000 25300 000 10031000 11675000 11500000 13500000 UNITED STATES FARM FACTS Area in Square Miles Total Population 1930 Farm Acreage 1935 Acres Cultivated 1939 Total Number of Farms 1935 Full Owners Part Owners Tenants White Farmers Negro Farmers Value Farm Crops 1938 Cash Value Farm Crops 1938 3026789 122775046 1055000000 325449000 6812350 3210000 688000 2865000 5957000 855000 8878000000 7625000000 Carroll with 4699 has the largest number of Farms nf any county in Georgia Echols with 250 has the fewest number of farms There were 970000 Cows 370000Milk Cows and Heifers 8142000 Chickens 1544000 Hogs 32000 Sheep 31000 Horses 337000 Mules on Georgia Farms January 1 1939 Georgia led all Southeastern States in the number of hogs There are approximately 400000 Tung trees in southwest Georgia with a Tung Nut Crushing Plant at Cairo Grady County 5 GOVERNMENT United states PRESIDENT Franklin D Roosevelt of New York Vice President John N Garner of Texas Speaker of House W B Bankhead of Alabama CABINET MEMBERS Secretary of State Cordell Hull Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins Secretary of Agriculture Henry A Wallace Secretary of Commerce Harry L Hopkins Secre tgry of Navy Chrrles Edison Secretary of War Harry A Woodring Secretary of Interior Harold L Ickes Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr Attorney General R H Jackson Postmaster General James A Farley SUPREME COURT MEMBERS Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes Associate Justices Hugo L Black Felix Frankfurter James C McReynolds Frank Murphey Stanley Reed Oen J Roberts Harlan P Stone W 0 Douglas Retired Justices George Suther land Willis van Devanter and Louis D Brandeis 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 Agriculture Columbus Roberts Secretary of State John B Wilson ComptrollerGeneral William B Harrison Teasurer George B Hamilton School Superintendent M D Collins Attorney General Ellis Arnall Commissioner of Labor Ben T Huiet Term of Commissioner of Agriculture four years others two years PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSIONERSSixyear termWalter R McDonald Chairman Perry T Knight Matt L McWhorter James A Perry Jud P Wilhoit SUPREME COURT MEMBERSSixyear termChief Justice Chrrles S Reid Justices Samuel C Atkinson R C Bell W H Duckworth Warren Grice Frank Jenkins JusticeEmeritus Marcus Beck COURT OF APPEALS MEMBERSSixyear termChief Judge Nash R Broyles Judges Jule W Felton John B Guerry Hugh J Maclntyre Alexander W Stephens I H Sutton The average annual rainfall in Georgia is 5266 InQhee The average temperature in the State over a 12month period is 671 degress in JJorrtfo Georgia and 574 degress in north Georgia There are 270 plant growing days in sections of Georgia6 CONGRESSMEN Twoyear term FIRST District Hugh Peterson of Alley Counties Bryan Bulloch Burke Candler Chatham EffinghamEmanuel Evans Jen kins Liberty Long MclntoshMontgomery Screven Tattnall Toombs Treutlen Wheeler 18 Counties SECOND District E E Cox of Camilla Cdurttles Baker Brooks Calhoun Colquitt Decatur Dougherty Early Grady Miller Mitchell Xeminole Tift Thomas Worth 14 Counties THIRD District Stephen Pace of Amerieus Bounties Ben Hill Chattahoochre Clay Crisp Dodge Dooly Harris Houston Lee Macon Marlon Muscogee Peach Pulaski Quitman Randolph Schley Stewart Sumter Taylor Terrell Turner Webster WilcoH 24 Counties FOURTH District A Sidney Camp of Newnpn Counties Butts Carroll Clayton Coweta Fayette Heard Henry Lamar Meriwother Nekton Pike Spalaing Talbot Troup Upson 15 Counties FIFTH District Robert Rpraspeck of Decatur Counties De Kalto Fulton Rockdale 3 Counties SIXTH DistrictCarl Vinson of Mllledgeville Counties Baldwin Bibb Bleckley Crawford Glascock Hancock Jasper Jef ferson Johnson Jones Monroe Putnam Twiggs Washington Wil kinson Laurens 16 Counties SEVENTH District Malcolm C Tarver of Dalton Counties Bartow Cptoosp Chattooga Cobb Dade Douglas Floyd Gordon Haralson Murray Paulding Polk Walker Whitfleld 14 Counties EIGHTH District W Ben Gibbs of Jesup CountiesAppling Atkinson Bacon Berrien Bmntlcy Camden Charlton Clinch Coffee Cook Echols Glynn Irwin Jeff Davis Lanier Lownces Pierce Telfair Ware Wayne 20 Counties NINTH District B Frank Whelchel of Gainesville Counties Banks Bprrow Cherokee Dpwson Fannin Forsyth Gilmer Ginnett Hall Habershpjn Jackson Lumpkin Pickens Rabun Stephens Towns Union White 18 Counties TENTH DistrictPaul Brown of Elberton Counties Clarke Columbia Elbert Franklin Greene Hart Lincoln McDuffie Madison Morgan Oconee Oglethoroe Richmond Taliaferro Walton Warren Wilkes 17 Counties There are more than 1000 Post Officesin Georgia There are 590 incorporated cities andtowns in the State Georgiahas 6500 miles of paved highways State FlowerCherokee Rose BirdBrpwn Thrasher TreeOak LEGISLATIVE Georgia is divided into 159 Counties Burke being the largest with 956 square miles and Clarke the smallest having 114 square miles of territory The State has more than 1800 militia dis tricts and approximately 1700 voting precincts The Judiciary is tivided into 33 Superior gourt Circuits There are 52 Senatorial Districts the Legislature beinjT com posed of 52 Senators one from each District and 205 members of the House The eight counties having the largest population have three members each as follows Bibb Chatham DeKalb Floyd Ful ton Muscogee Richmond Troup The next 30 Counties having the largest population have two members each fhey are Baldwin Bartow Brooks Bulloch Burke Carroll Clarke Colquitt Coweta Decatur Dodge Dougherty Emanuel Gwinnett Hall Jackson LaurensLowndes Meriwether Mitchell Polk Spalding Sumter Thomas Walker Walton are Washington Worth The other 121 counties have one member each The eight largest counties have six unit votes and 121 have two each There are 410 unit votes 30 have four 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 60 days the length of the regular session rather than wait and meet again on the second Monday after the 4th of July for the 60day session COUNTIES AND COUNTY SEATS Name and Population of each son County Applii 6894 Pearson ng 13314 County Seat Baxley 2122 Atkin 712 Bacon 7055 Alma 1235 Baker 7818 Nekton 517 Baldwin 22878 Mllledgevllle 5534 Bajiks 9703 Homer 248 er 3283 Bartow 25364 Cartersville 5250 tzgerald 6412 Berrlen 14646 Nashville 1672 53829 Bleckley 9133 Cochran 2267 Bfantley Brooks 21330 Qultnan 4149 Bryan 5952 Pen 26509 Statesboro 3996 Burke 29225 Waynes Barrow 12400 Wind Ben Hill 13 047 Fi Bibb 77042 Macon 695 Nahun ia 352 boro oke 786 Bulloch 3922J Butts 9345 Jackson 1776 Calhoun 10576 Morgan 249 Carden 6338 Woodbine 335 Candler 8991 Metter 34272 Carrollton 5052 Catoosa 9421j Rlnggold 684 4381 Folkston 506 Chatham 105431 Savannah 85024 8894 Cusseta 343 Chattooga 15407 Sunmerville 933 20003 Canton 2892 Clarke 25613 Athens 18192 Cl Galnes 1272 Clayton 10260 Jonesboro 1065 Clinch 7 ville 1150 Cobb 35408 Marietta 7638 Coffee 19739 4206 Oolquitt 30622 Moultrie 8027 Columbia 8793 Cook 11311 Adel 1796 Coweta 25127 Newnan 6386 C Enoarllle 180 Crisp 17343 Cordele 6880 Dade 4146 DaWGon3ur02 Jiviirflle rwntui i X ci o o f Bnlnbri 1424 Carroll Charlton Chattahoochee Cherokee ay 6943 Ft 015 Honer Dcuglas Appling 162 rawford 7020 Trenton 3T0 de 6141DeK Dooly 18 9461 D Statenvi Elberton Claxton Fayettev Cumming Atlanta 8 alb 70278 Decatur 13276 Dodge 21599 Eastman 3022 025 Vienna 1832 Dougherty 22306 Albany 14507 Douglas ouglasvllle 2316 Early 18273 Blakely 2106 Echols 2744 lie 206 Effingham 10164 Springfield 402 Elbert 18485 4650 Emanuel 24101 Swainsboro 2442 Evans 7102 1584 Fannin 12969 Blue Ridge 1180 Fayette 3665 ille 796 Floyd 48667 Rome 21843 Forsyth 10624 648 Franklin 15902 Oarnesville 404 Fulton 335220 270366 Gilmer 7344 Ellijay 657 Glascock 4388 Gibson 442 Glynn 19400 Brunswick 14022 Gordon 16846 Calhoun 2371 Grndy 19200 Cairo 3169 Greene 12616 Greensboro 2125 Gwinnett 27853 Lawrenceville 2156 Habersham 12784 Olarkesvllle 617 Hall 30313 Gainesville 8624 Hancock 13070 Sparta 1613 Haral son 13263 Buchanan 429 Harris 11140 Hamilton 438 Hart 15170 Hartwell 2048 Heard 9102 Franklin 312 Henry 15924 McDonough 1068 Houston 11280 Perry 1398 Irvin 12199 ncilla 2034 Jackson 21609 Jefferson Jeff Davis 8118 Hazlehurst 13 Jenkins 12908 Millen 2527 J Jones 8992 Gray 653 Laraar 97 Lakeland 1006 Laurens 32693 Liberty 8153 Hinesville 416 4180 Ludowici 615 Lowndes 29 Dahlonega 905 McDuffie 9014 937 Macon 16643 Oglethorpe 1869 Jasper 8594 Mon 78 Jefferson 20727 L ohnson 12681 Wrightsv 45 Barnesville 3236 L Dublin 6681 Lee 8328 Lincoln 7847 Llncolnto 994 Valdosta 13482 Thomson 1914 Mclntosh 953 Mad is o n 14921 D a ticello 1593 ouisville 1650 ille 1741 anier 5190 Leesburg 691 n 916 Long Lumpkin 4927 5763 Darien nielsville 296 Marion 6968 Buena Vista 1097 Merlether 22437 Greenville 672 Miller 9076 Colquitt 832 Mitchell 23620 Camilla 2025 Monroe 11606 Forsyth 2277 Montgomery 10020 MtVernon 779 Morgan 12488 Madison 1966 Murray 9215 Chatsworth 607 Mipscogee 57558 Columbus 43151 Newton 17290 Covinpcton 3203 Oconee 8082 Watkinsville 425 Oglethorpe 12927 Lexington 455 Paulding 12327 Dallas 1412 Peach 10268 Ft Valley 4560 Pickens 9687 Jasper 563 Pierce 12522 Blackshear 1817 Pike 10853 Zebulon 576 Polk 25141 Cedartovrn 8124 Pulaski 9005 Hawkinsville 2484 Butnm 8367 Etonton 1876 Quitman 3820 Georgetown 345 Rabun 6331 Clayton 798 Randolph 17174 Cuthbert 3235 Richmond 72990 Augusta 60342 Rockdale 7247 Conyers 1495 Schley 5347 Ellaville 764 Screven 20503 Sylvania 1781 Seminole 7389 Donalsonville 1183 Spalding 23495 Griffin 10321 Stephens 11740 Toccoa 4602 Stewart 11114 Lumpkin 1103 Sumter 26800 Americus 8760 Talbot 8458 15411 Talbotton 1064 Taliaferro 6172 Crawfordville 840 Tattnall Reidsvllle 630 Taylor 10617 Butler 857 Telfair 14997 McRae 1314 Terrell 18290 Davson 3827 Thomas 32612 Thomasville 11733 Tift 16068 Tifton 3390 Toorabs 17165 Ly0ns 1445 Tor 36752 Jefferso Thomasto 37 06 Wa Washingt Webster land 498 1018 Wi Worth 21 ns 4346 Hiawassee 169 Treutlen 7488 Soperton LaGrange 20131 Turner 11196 Ashburn 2073 T nville 692 Union 6340 Blairsville 298 Upson n 4922 Walker 26206 LaFayette 2811 Walton 2 re 26558 Waycross 15510 Warren 11181 Warr on 25030 Sandersville 3011 Wayne 12647 Jes 5032 Preston 321 Wheeler 9149 Alamo 613 Whi Whitfield 20808 Dalton 8160 Wilcrox 13439 Ikes 15944 Washington 3158 Wilkinson 10844 094 Sylvester 1984 1081 Troup iggs 8372 19509 1118 Monroe enton 1289 up 2303 te 6056Cleve Abbeville Irvdnton 561 Fage 9 HISTORIC SPOTS AND NATURAL WONDERS Compiled by Miss Ella Mae Thornton State Librarian or HISTORIC SPOTS Cfty of Savannah St Simons Island Wormsloe Estate Chickamauga Battlefield Etowah Indian Mounds in Bartow County University of Georgia oldest in the United States City of Milledgeville NATURAL WONDERS Amicalola Palls 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 On June 30 1938 there ere 782047 pupils enrolled In 6072 state schools and were taught by 22276 teachers The University system of the State comprising 18 educational institutions is under the Board of Regents of which Dr SV Sanford is Chancellor The University of Georgia is located at Athens Dr Harmon W Caldwell Presi dent The State College of Agriculture is also located at Athens Mr Walter S Brown Extension Director Two major Experiment Stations under the Board of Regents are the Georgia Experiment Station Experiment Ga Griffin ana the Coastal Plain Experiment Station Tifton Georgia There are also many private and institutional Softools colleges and universities in the State The University of Georgia is the oldest chartered State University in the United States and Wesleyan College at Macon was the first in the nation to grant a diploma to a woman Miss Catherine Brewer in July 1840 More than 80000 boys and girls enrolled in 4HClub Work in Georgia in 1939 says Director GV Cunningham Tourists spent 112000000 cash in Georgia in 1939 reports the State Parks Department Approximately 1000 car loads of fruits and vegetables arecanned commercially in Georgia annually More than 60000 Georgia farm families have electri city in their homes and there is electric power in every county in the State A Georgian Hon Thomas E Watson while in Congress in 1893 obtained an appropriation for the first free rural mall delivery in the United States LIBRARIES y 10 GEORGIA INFORMATION Founded by James Edward Ogledthorpe 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 KE Lees birthday January 19 Washingtons birthday February 22 Confederate Memorial Day April 26 Jefferson Davis1 birth day June 3 Independence Day July 4 Labor Day 1st Mon day in September Columbus Day October 12 Arnistice Day November 11 Thanksgiving Day in November Christmas Day December 25 Dresident Franklin D Roosevelts birthday January 30 Special Days Georgia day February 12 Temperance Day 4th Friday in March Mothers Day 2nd 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 Depart ment which is divided into the following subdivisions Marketing Division Fertilizer Division Food Drug De partment Veterinary Department State Chemist and Statisti cian The Marketing Division was created for the purpose of promoting proper sufficient and economical handling packing transporting storage distribution inspection and sale of Arricultural products of all kinds The Mar ket Bulletin is sent free to Georgia citizens The Fertilizer Division keeps a record of sales of fertilizer in the State and the State Chemist analyzes fertilizer bought by farmers also other food products The Veterinary Department supervises the livestock dairying and poultry industries in the State The Food and Drug Department has supervision over Inspection of foods sold or offered for sale all eating places all drugs and drug stores also all feedstuffs Anyone desiring information concerning Agriculture in Georgia is invited to write to THE GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE COLUMBUS RCBERTS COMMISSIONER STATE CAPITOL ATLANTA GA January 194 P 54 tUXXPZ