BIENNIAL REPORT
OF
Georgia Department of Agriculture
FROM JUNE 25, 1927, TO DECEMBER 31, 1928,
TERM OF EUGENE TALMADGE, Commissioner.

Contains Reports of
COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE, BUREAU OF MARKETS, STATE CHEMIST, FOOD AND DRUG DEPARTMENT, STATE VETERINARIAN, STATE STATISTICIAN.

QUARTERLY BULLETIN

Second Quarter, 1929

Serial Number 113

Entered at Atlanta, Ga., as second-class matter, Oct. 7, 1900, under Act June 6, 1900. Accepted for mailing at a special rate of postage provided for in Sec. 1103, Act of Oct. 3, 1917, authorized on June 29, 1918.

BIENNIAL REPORT
OF
Georgia Department of Agriculture
FROM JUNE 25, 1927, TO DECEMBER 31, 1928,
TERM OF EUGENE TALMADGE, Commissioner.

Contains Reports op
COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE, BUREAU OF MARKETS, STATE CHEMIST, FOOD AND DRUG DEPARTMENT, STATE VETERINARIAN, STATE STATISTICIAN.

QUARTERLY BULLETIN

Second Quarter, 3929

Serial Number 113

Entered at Atlanta, Ga., as second-class matter, Oct. 7, 1900, under Act June 6, 1900. Accepted for mailing at a special rate of postage provided for in Sec. 1103, Act of Oct. 3, 1917, authorized on June 29, 1918.

STATE AUDITOR'S COMMENT ` ` The books of the Department of Agriculture are neatly and accurately kept. Vouchers are onjiand to sustain all disbursements. "The Department shows a great amount of activity. More fertilizer samples were analyzed last year than before. The Bureau of Markets presents activity in all lines. "I have been impressed with the fact that the Department is trying very hard to accomplish results. "Both myself and my examiners were afforded every help and courtesy by the officials and employees of the Depart ment."--From the 1928 audit of the Department of Agricul ture by Hon. Sam Slate, State Auditor.
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REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE

Hon. L. G. Hardman, Governor of Georgia, State Capitol, Atlanta.

Jan. 1, 1929

Dear Sir:--

In compliance with the laws of Georgia I herewith submit my report of the activities of the Georgia Department of Agriculture for my first term in office, dating from June 25, 1927, to December 31, 1928.
The reports of the heads of the divisions of the Depart ment are also included herewith, which show that all the departments have been active in a faithful performance of the duties assigned to them.
The Bureau of Markets is marketing more products for the Georgia farmers than ever before in its history. Re corded sales totaling $1,802,739.19 were made during the last 18 months. Included in these sales were 636 car loads of hogs which brought $758,569.82; 438 cars of corn, $188,447.66; 206 cars of poultry, $495,794.55; 304 cars of sweet potatoes, $119,696.38; 95 cars of hay, $26,197.02; 87 cars of velvet beans, $33,611 01.
These are just some of the important items sold, the volume of which shows to what extent these products are now being grown on Georgia farms, whereas just a few years ago none of these products were sold in carload lots, but on the other hand, were bought in carload lots in huge numbers from outside the state and shipped into Georgia. Other products included in the sales, in carload and less than carload lots, show the wide diversity of the crops now being grown on our farms.
These sales were made by the field men and by the office force, in person, by telephone and telegraph, and the poultry and hog sales were made in co-operation with the County

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Agents of the State College of Agriculture. The sales do not include those made through advertisements printed in the Market Bulletin and if it were possible to know the number and amount of these sales the total amount would be several million dollars.
The sales conducted throughout the state, principally of hogs and poultry, provide a cash market for the farmers' products which shows that farmers will diversify their crops if they can sell what they produce, as these sales, held at the farmers ' door, have caused a tremendous increase in those products for which a cash market has been provided. And herein lies the remedy for Farm Belief, which is--Pay Farmers a Profit on What They Grow.
The Market Bulletin, published weekly by the Bureau of Markets, which prints free, advertisements of farm products offered for sale by farmers and which is sent free, has 59,731 subscribers, and is the largest paper of its kind printed in the United States. During 1928 there were 45,836 ads printed in the Bulletin.
This paper furnishes an excellent medium for the farmers and their families to sell or exchange many products that might otherwise go to waste.
The General Assembly of 1927 passed the Standardiza tion Act, for the marking, grading and inspection of Apples and Peaches and this law was put into effect for the first time with the inspection of a large percentage of the 1927 Apple crop. In 1928 both the Peach and Apple crops were marketed according to standards proclaimed by the Com missioner and growers state that they received much benefit from the improved grading and standard packing of both Apples and Peaches.
Your attention is called to the recommendation of the Director of Bureau of Markets as to the change in placing the tax tag on the bill of lading instead of on the container of peaches and apples as at present.
An important addition to the work of the Bureau of Mar kets has been the employment of a Traffic Manager, whose
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duty is to investigate transportation rates on all farm prod ucts, file claims of overcharges, and when necessary, to institute proceedings before the proper authorities to im prove or adjust rates. Any farmer in the state who desires to know the rates on different products, shipped by him or to him, or who has a complaint to make concerning rates charged may confer with the Traffic Manager.
The State Chemist reports that 12,578 samples of fer tilizer were analyzed during the season of 1928, almost twice as many as had ever been analyzed in one season before. Reports of all these analyses have been published and copies mailed to farmers from whose fertilizer the sam ples were taken and also to the firms from whom the fer tilizer was purchased.
The large increase in the number of samples of fertilizer taken for analysis has overcrowded the Laboratory and in order that these analyses may be made and the farmers get a report on them in the shortest time possible, I recommend that a larger laboratory be fitted up adjacent to the Capitol building, which would not only be adequate for all needs, but would also release enough space in the Capitol to permit both the Yeterinary Department and the Entomology De partment to occupy the offices vacated by the laboratory, thus grouping all of the divisions of the Department of Agriculture together on the same floor.
Fumes from the fertilizer laboratory now permeate the first floor of the Capitol, which is very objectionable, and the removal of the laboratory from the Capitol would also remove this objection.
The reports of the Chief Food and Drug Inspectors show that these departments are giving efficient service and are vigilant in seeing that the citizens of Ceorgia get pure drugs and feedstuffs and that food served is pure and that eating places are kept sanitary. These departments are also active in preventing adulteration, misbranding and imitation of foods, feeding stuffs and drugs sold and con sumed in Georgia.
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The Statistician's report gives the consolidated sales of Tobacco on the Georgia markets for the 1928 season and especial attention is called to that part of his report which states that weekly sales reports of the poundage handled and prices paid at the varioiis warehouses at the several markets in the state were collected and given out by him, which enabled the growers to know each week the price that was being paid at all the warehouses, thus enabling him to carry his tobacco to the warehouse paying the highest price.
The 1927 crop statistics by counties in the state, compiled by the Statistician, were printed in the Department's year book.
The Veterinary Department has been active in the three major divisions of its work, to wit: (1) Control and eradi cation of communicable live stock diseases; (2) Develop ment of live stock production through the control and eradi cation of parasite diseases; (3) Inspection of animal prod ucts intended for human consumption.
The cattle fever tick has been eliminated from the state as a whole, it only being necessary now to quarantine local cases of reinfestation wherever they may appear. This is a forward step in the dairy and cattle raising industries of the state, as our mild climate coupled with the easily grown natural pastures, afford an excellent field for dairying and cattle raising.
This department is now engaged in an active state-wide eradication of Tuberculosis in cattle, several counties in the state having already been declared free entirely of this disease.
The poultry industry in the state, which is growing to enormous proportions, is being greatly aided by the Veteri nary Department which makes inspections for poultry dis eases, such as bacillary white diarrhea, a disease prevalent in chickens.
It will be noted that the Veterinarian warns against treat ing for cholera all ailing or sick hogs, as in many cases the
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animal may not be afflicted with this disease and if not, then the cholera serum would have no effect. Farmers are ad vised to communicate at once with the State Veterinary department when their hogs show any signs of being sick. A trained veterinarian will be sent to investigate the matter.
I recommend that the state provide an ample quantity of hog cholera serum with which to combat this disease in Georgia free of cost to the farmers.
The Veterinarian's report also shows that large quanti ties of foodstuffs, principally meats, are being shipped into the state. Many of these products can be raised at home, especially many of the meats and dairy products, and it is gratifying to know that the quantity of foodstuffs bought outside the state is being steadily reduced as the hog, dairy and poultry business grows in Georgia.
Laboratory work of the Veterinary department has in creased to the extent that it was necessary to enlarge the laboratory facilities during 1928.
During the spring of 1928 the Department issued an illustrated booklet of 234 pages, titled "Georgia and Her Resources," which has had wide circulation not only in Georgia but throughout the United States, copies being mailed to all persons and firms seeking information about Georgia.
This book was published in compliance with the Act cre ating the Department which requires the Commissioner to collect information and compile statistics concerning the agricultural products of the state.
Part One of the book was compiled by the Department and Part Two, or the statistical section, was compiled by the State Statistician in co-operation with the United States Department of Agriculture and the State College of Agri culture.
There has been an unusual demand for this book from the schools as it contains the latest available information on the state and as it appears that there is no other publi

cation accessible to the pupils that gives informaiton and latest figures on agriculture, I recommend that some pro vision be made to make the hook which is printed every two years, available to the schools of the state, if not to all the pupils, to the teachers and to the students in the grades that make a special study of Georgia.
Other publications and bulletins issued during my admin istration by the Department and its divisions include the Market Bulletin issued weekly by the Bureau of Markets; "Food, Drug and Feed Stuffs," issued monthly by the Food and Drug Division; "Regulations Governing the Suppres sion, Eradication and to Prevent the Introduction of Infec tious and Contagious Diseases Affecting Livestock in Geor gia, " a pamphlet issued by the Veterinary department; "Laws, Rules and Regulations Governing the Analysis, Manufacture, Sale and Inspection of Fertilizer, Fertilizer Materials and Cottonseed Meal in Georgia," a pamphlet; "Names and Location of all Manufacturers and Manipu lators of Fertilizer and Fertilizer Materials Registered with the Department of Agriculture for 1928," a pamphlet; "Standard Grades for Peaches and Apples."
Serial Number 105--"Laws Relating to the Adulteration and Misbranding of Foods, Drugs and Feeding Stuffs, Nar cotic and Poison Laws and Sanitary Laws of Georgia," issued by Food and Drug Division.
Serial Number 106--"Commercial Fertilizers Inspected and Analyzed in Georgia, Season of 1927. ' '
Serial Number 107--"Report of Individual Samples of Commercial Fertilizer Inspected and Analyzed in Georgia, Season of 1927, which were Subject to Penalty for noncompliance with the laws of the State."
Serial Number 108--Yearbook--"Georgia and Her Re sources."
Serial Number 109--"Individual Samples of Commercial Fertilizers Inspected and Analyzed in Georgia, Spring Sea son 1928, which were subject to Penalty for Non-compliance with the Law. ' '
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Serial Number 110--"Commercial Fertilizers Inspected and Analyzed in Georgia, Spring Season 1928, by Brands."
Serial Number 111--"Individual Samples of Commercial Fertilizers Inspected and Analyzed in Georgia subsequent to Publishing of Bulletin 109, which were Subject to Penalty for Non-compliance with the Law"--(Supplement to Bulle tin 109).
Serial Number 112--"Commercial Fertilizers Inspected and Analyzed in Georgia, Season 1928 by Brands."
The Department also had 10,000 official maps of Georgia printed which have had wide distribution in the state, espe cially among the farmers and schools.
The Georgia farmers were pretty hard hit last year, 1928, due to over-production in some crops such as peaches and under-production in others, such as cotton and all feed stuffs, the excessive rains during the year causing more or less inferior grades. The cotton and feed crops in South Georgia were failures but North Georgia made good cotton and food crops.
Yet the state maintains its supremacy in growing many crops. The state grows twice as many watermelons as any other state in the union, ships more peaches and pecans than any other southern state and leads the nation in pro duction of sweet potatoes and peanuts and more pure cane syrup is made in Georgia than any other state. 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 and more than 65 percent of the cotton fabric used in automobile tires is manufactured in Georgia and this state leads the world in naval stores production.
Georgia ground yields numerous valuable minerals many of which are mined in commercial quantities and rank high in quality, notable among them being marble and granite.
As the state grows industrially and manufacturing plants locate in Georgia and the cities and towns grow, this should not be viewed with alarm by the farmer, as it only means
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more and better markets for his products, as the farmer necessarily grows food for the man who works in the city.
There is a tendency on the part of the Georgia farmers to cut down their acreage and by intensive cultivation and use of high grade fertilizer produce more on fewer acres. This program is brought about by the scarcity of labor and by the demand for a higher grade or longer staple cotton. The number of farms in Georgia was reduced from 310,000 in 1920 to 250,000 in 1925 according to the Census Bureau. This decrease was caused by the after-war deflation and by the advent of the boll weevils into the state, which re sulted in many farmers seeking work in other lines.
Beduction in the number of farmers and the cutting down of the acreage by the present-day farmer leaves much of the land idle or uncultivated, which could well be used as pastures to further our growing dairy industry and by let ting much of the land grow up in forests. The pastures will graze many cattle and the forests will not only yield much timber in a few years but will also keep the land from washing. There is no reason why all land should be culti vated if there is no demand for the products thereof.
As Immigration Commissioner I have given especial at tention to all inquiries concerning Georgia and to prospec tive settlers and have given all.possible information and booklets on the resources of the state in an effort to have our idle lands settled by farmers from other states who desire to move here. Many copies of the Yearbook, "Geor gia and Her Resources," have been sent upon request to parties throughout the United States and to foreign coun tries who have sought information about Georgia.
Numerous requests for information about Georgia have eoihe from many school pupils outside Georgia, which indi cate that the resources of the state are being studied in many schools throughout the United States.
I recommend the enactment of six laws by the General Assembly which would materially benefit the farmers of the state. They are as follows:
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First--A pure seed law whereby all seed sold in the state could be tested for germination and variety value. A large number of the states have such laws.
Second--A weights and measures law whereby all public scales and measures in the state could be checked and tested.
Third--A law requiring all operators of cotton gins in the state to report weekly to the Department of Agriculture the number of bales of cotton and number of pounds ginned by them. Blanks for filing ginning reports can be furnished the ginners without cost to them. It is very important that the Department collect and distribute this information each season. Absolute correct figures on the number of bales of cotton ginned in the state each season can be obtained by requiring the ginners to file the information with this De partment and failure to do so being classed a misdemeanor.
Fourth--Amendment of the Fertilizer law. As I observe the operation of the Fertilizer law it is apparent that the present law is weak in two fundamental respects. When a penalty is incurred and the manufacturer refuses to make settlement with the consumer for shortage, the only recourse left with the buyer is to bring suit for settlement. In many cases the amount involved is too small to warrant such action. The Commissioner of Agriculture should be au thorized by law to proceed, by attachment or otherwise, to make these collections. The state tax paid by the farmers in the end is sufficient to defray the cost of such collections.
Another point in which the law is weak is the fact that the manufacturer is not required to state the proportion in which the various ingredients are used to manufacture fertilizer. The present law requires the manufacturers, when registering their brands, to state the source from which the plant food is derived, but this requirement could be met by putting in a handful of cottonseed meal and a handful of tankage and the remainder of the nitrogen be derived from cyanamid or other synthetic products. There is a vast difference in the price of the various nitrogenous materials per unit and there is a corresponding difference
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in the effect of these different materials on crops. In order to use fertilizers intelligently the farmers should know the contents thereof.
Advisability of having fertilizers inspected at the point of mixture or manufacture, or point of entry into the state, instead of taking individual samples from farmers, might also be considered.
Fifth--A law requiring the state to provide an ample quantity of hog cholera serum with which to combat this disease in Georgia free of cost to the farmers.
Sixth--I recommend that the Judges of Superior Court be required to charge each grand jury on the law in Georgia regarding setting woods and fields on fire. Also that all sheriffs and other enforcement officers of the counties give special attention to the enforcement of this law. There are only two months in the year, January and February, in which the woods or land may be legally burned off and even then only the owner or tenant may set the fire and before so doing is required by the Act to notify all adjoining land owners. Forest fires in Georgia do millions of dollars worth of damage each year and the law on this issue should be rigidly enforced.
In the interest of the farmers of the state it is hoped that the Legislature will give consideration to these recom mendations.
Yours very truly,
EUGENE TALMADGE,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
BUREAU OF MARKETS
March 22, 1929. Hon. Eugene Talmadge, Commissioner, Department of Agriculture, State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia. Dear Sir:
' Complying with the Act of 1917 creating the State Bureau of Markets, I beg to submit the following report for the
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first eighteen months of your administration from June 25, 1927, to January 1, 1929.
On August 4, 1927, by revising the mailing list of the Market Bulletin, the circulation was reduced to 21,732. Since this date, the circulation has increased to 59,731. Each year we revise our mailing list by having the postmasters check it, and in this way we at all times keep a live and active mailing list for the Market Bulletin. The total num ber of ads carried in the Market Bulletin for 1928 was 45,836.
The Georgia Market Bulletin is the largest publication of its kind in the United States, both in circulation and in number of ads carried. The most difficult proposition that we have is to hold the size of the Bulletin to eight pages each week, but after exerting every effort possible we were compelled to publish fifteen issues carrying sixteen pages during the year 1928.
For the first eighteen months of your administration, the Bureau of Markets sold farm products, and has an itemized record of each sale, totaling $1,802,739.19. This amount does not include sales made through ads carried in the Bulletin. If it were possible to know the number of sales made through the Bulletin, am convinced our sales would be increased by several million dollars. The results re ceived from ads carried in the Bulletin are nothing less than wonderful. It is a common occurrence for advertisers to advise us that they have received several hundred replies from one advertisement.
The following is an itemized statement of sales made through this office from June 25, 1927, to January 1, 1929:

JUNE 25, 1927, TO JANUARY 1, 1928:

Cars
Beans, Velvet............ --- 12 Cantaloupes .............. --3 Cane, Sugar stalks__ ___ 4

Amount
$ 4,601.00 1,132.10 1,232.00

Total

Cedar Posts ........... ....... 3 Cattle ....................... Corn........................ ...... 186 Corn ....................... ........ L.C.L. Hay ........................ ....... 29 Hogs ...................... ....... 137 Hogs ....................... ........ L.C.L. Lumber ................... ........ 4 Melons ................... ....... 104 Oats ........................ ....... 31 Oats..............................-...L.C.L. Peas ................... ..... ....... 5 Peas ............. .......... ........ L.C.L. Peanuts ........ .......... ....... 1 Pecans ............ :....... Poultry ................... ....... 35 Poultry ................... ....... L.C.L. Potatoes, sweet ...... ....... 213 Potatoes, sweet...... ........ L.C.L. Potatoes, Irish........ ........ 2 Potatoes, Irish ............... L.C.L. Potato Plants......... Eye.......................... ___ 1 Rye....... ...................... .L.C.L. Shucks .................... ....... 2 Squash ..................... ....... 1 Syrup ...................... Straw, oat............... ....... 5 Straw, wheat .......... ....... 2 Wheat ....... -........... ....... 2 Wheat..................... ..... ..L.C.L. Miscellaneous.........

840.00 1,107.00 81,587.02
409.25 9,714.50 172,342.64 2,977.90
900.00 15,957.75 21,785.80
480.00 4,925.00 2,396.95
480.00 11,264.70 71,238.40 4,372.01 86,705.87 3,726.70 1,865.50
294.50 1,174.37
500.00 465.00 250.00 400.00 381.00 1,155.00 230.00 1,420.00 335.00 14,526.17

TOTAL ......................... 780 $523,173.63 Total of sales from June 25, 1927, to January
1, 1928 .............................................................. $523,173.63

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January 1, 1928, THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 1928:

Cars
Apples ............ --....... Beans, green ....... ...... Beans, Velvet ............ .... 75 Bean, Velvet, Hulls..... .... 1 Beans, Soy .................. .... 2% Cabbage ..................... .... 3 Cantaloupes ................ Cotton Seed ................ .... 5 Corn............................. .... 252 Eggs............................. .... 2 Hay ......................... . .... 66 Oats ............................. .... 3 Peas .................... ........ .... 23
Potatoes, Sweet.......... .... 91 Potatoes, Irish ........-... .... 1 Poultry ....................... .... 171 Pepper.......... .............. .... 1 Peaches ....................... ... 6 Syrup ......................... Squash....... ...... ..... ..... Tomatoes ................... Sheep......... ................. Hogs ........... ...... ......... .... 499 Cattle.............................. 11 Goats ................... --.... .... 1 Melons ........................... ... 178 Cucumbers ........... ...... 3 Onions ......................... Honey ......................... Hairy Vetch Seed....--. Agricultural Lime...... .... 1 Oat Straw................... .... 2 Walnut Meats ............ Pecans ...............

Amount
$ 8.00 294.50
29,010.01 64.00
2,297.50 1,904.00
7.67 3,960.00 106,860.64 2,853.08 16,482.52
932.00 16,638.38 32,990.51
87.62
424,556.15 287.00
1,544.30 439.25 12.00 237.00 100.00
586,227.18
21,098.01 600.00
24,766.64 387.00 150.00 26.84 24.20 150.00 318.00 26.00
3,433.39

Total

Melon Seed............................. Shucks ............................. 2 Incubator ............................

420.00 355.00 15.00

TOTAL.......... .......1,3991/2 $1,279,565.56

GRAND TOTAL FOR FIRST EIGHTEEN
MONTHS OF ADMINISTRATION.........$1,802,739.19
During the first eighteen months of your administration, in co-operation with the County Agents, we sold 206 cars of poultry, amounting to $500,166.56, which represents a total of 569 different sales in 176 towns of 112 counties. During this same period we sold 536 cars of hogs amounting to $761,546.72, which represents a total of 323 different sales in 85 towns of 68 counties.
For the year of 1928 this Department sold 171 cars of poultry and 499 cars of hogs, which shows an increase of 60 cars of poultry and 63 cars of hogs more than this office had ever sold before in one year.
We give special attention to every complaint made to us regarding sales made through advertisements carried in the Market Bulletin, and am delighted to advise that we settle satisfactorily to all parties concerned more than 95 % of all these complaints.
This Department could render quite a good service if we were in a position to have a representative attend every co-operative hog sale, and also every poultry run. We have not had a single complaint regarding the service we have rendered on such sales since my connection with this De partment. Buyers of both poultry and hogs have at all times accepted our weights and grades. No greater service could he rendered our farmers than to give them more assistance in grading and standardizing the product which they are offering for sale.
We need at all times two or three representatives in the Eastern markets to assist this office in the sale and distri bution of the fruits and vegetables offered for sale with us.

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A new and very important division of the Bureau of Mar kets is the Traffic Department. During the past year this Department has furnished the sales force of the Bureau of Markets with rates from original points to prospective de livery points. This has enabled the sales force to render better service to the producer and buyer.
The Traffic Department has taken an active part in the revision of freight classifications during the year of 1928. This Department has also been very vigorous in demanding reductions on commodities from points in Georgia. The Traffic Manager is investigating rates on dairy products and poultry with the idea in view of securing standard rates from all Georgia shipping points.
This Department has advocated the concentration of cotton at compresses or at principal warehousing points for the purpose of grading, stapling, and assembling into round lots of even running grade.
An additional service rendered which is very significant is the investigations made on freight charges for eggs, hogs, sweet potatoes, and other such commodities produced by Georgia farmers.
In co-operation with United States Senators and Con gressmen, this Department sought the reduction of rates on peaches to the Eastern and Western markets.
I feel that this Department, which has recently been added to the Department of Agriculture, has rendered a conspicuous service to the farmers in the first year of its existence.
The General Assembly of 1927 passed what is commonly known as the Standardization Act, for the marking, grading and inspection of peaches and apples. This act directed that the Commissioner of Agriculture must from time to time promulgate the standard grades for all closed packages for peaches and apples. The Commissioner adopted the U. S. Standard grades for all Georgia peaches and desig nated a size requirement for each variety. This law did
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not become effective in time for the inspection of the 1927 peach crop, but we did inspect about 75% of the 1927 apple crop. Out of a total movement of 15,907 cars of peaches for 1928, this Department issued Federal-State inspection certificates on 10,708 cars. Fully 50% of the remaining 5,199 cars were inspected but no certificate issued. The peach deal for 1928 was anything but satisfactory to the Georgia grower, due to the fact that we had a very poor quality of fruit. This was caused by an unusual amount of rain, both during the growing and harvesting season; yet under these unfavorable conditions it is my honest opinion that the Standardization Law added thousands of dollars to the price received. There is no question in my mind but that the law has been a success, inasmuch as it has given the Georgia peach shipper a standard product recognized and accepted by all buyers.
The Standardization Act, as passed by the Legislature of 1927, requires a %c stamp tax on every closed package of peaches and apples. This stamp is both a trouble and expense to the grower. I would therefore recommend that the Legislature change Section 2 of the Standardization Act and have the stamp or stamps attached to the bill of lading. Not only would this simplify matters, but it would insure the collection of revenue on every package shipped.
The work of the Bureau of Markets is not all it should be, but the results obtained for the first eighteen months of your administration are very encouraging.
Respectfully submitted,
A. D. JONES, Director,
State Bureau of Markets.
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STATE CHEMIST

Hon. Eugene Talmadge,

February 4, 1929.

Commissioner of Agriculture,

Atlanta, Ga.

Dear Sir:

Permit me to submit the following report covering briefly the work done in the Laboratory of the State Chemist dat ing from July 1st, 1927, to January 1st, 1929.
Since almost all of this work has been published in detail in bulletin form, I shall only give a brief outline of the work of each Laboratory, and refer to the various published reports. We have carefully carried out official analyses of all samples submitted to us by official inspection forces of the Department, and have drawn conclusions as to whether or not the goods they represent were adulterated or mis branded, or both, within the meaning of the particular regu latory law under which the sample was taken.

FERTILIZER
At the time of your assuming office the Laboratory had approximately 1,600 samples of fertilizer on hand to be analyzed. This work was completed under the supervision of Mr. W. A. Morgan, State Chemist, who directed the policies of the Laboratory until he resigned, November 1st, 1928. The results will be found together with the previous 1927 fertilizer analyses in bulletin No. 106, entitled "Com mercial Fertilizer for the Season of 1927."
In compliance with the provisions of the law, we analyze fertilizer for Phosphoric Acid, Total Nitrogen, Water Solu ble Nitrogen, and Potash in order to see if the particular sample under consideration meets the guarantee claimed. During the year 1928 the inspection force was very active and the Laboratory received 12,685 official samples, more than doubling the number of samples which the Laboratory

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had usually received. Two thousand of the above samples, as per your instructions, were contracted for and analyzed by Law & Co., Inc. Analysis can not be started on all sam ples as soon as they reach the Laboratory, since our capacity is about 1,600 samples a month, and a greater part of the samples are taken during a four months period. The re sults of the routine analysis are reported direct to your office. As soon as the routine analysis for the season was completed, we took up the determination of the nitrogen activity in representative brands. The variety of nitrogen materials, some of which are good and some bad, permits of considerable manipulation. Scientific experiment has shown it necessary that the nitrogen shall show an avail ability, of at least 85 % by the neutral permangenate method. Eleven hundred representative samples were analyzed for nitrogen activity. Of the samples submitted, less than 1% fell below the 85% requirement.
A summary of the 1928 Fertilizer work has been pub lished in Bulletins Number 109, 111 and 112.
All samples were prepared in the State Laboratory, and all reports of analyses from Law & Co., Inc., were handled through the office of the State Chemist just as if they had come from the State Laboratory.
FOODS
The purpose of the Food and Drugs Act of Georgia is to prevent adulteration, misbranding, and imitation of Foods, Feedingstuffs, and Drugs. We have endeavored, as far as possible, to carry out this work systematically by projects, which means that we plan the work before it is undertaken, instead of making a miscellaneous inspection. Some of the major projects we have handled are vinegar, beverages, butter, candy, canned goods, sausage, oysters, and fruits. We have also done considerable investigational and regu latory work on poisonous residues on apples and peaches. This was done to protect the public health, to secure analyti cal data, and to help the growers so that they would not
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find too late that their fruit contained excessive amounts of poisonous spray residue, which would lead to the fruit being embargoed by State, or Federal officials. In our investigation of apples in 1927, we had the hearty coopera tion of the growers, and in some cases where the brushing machinery, then in use, was not giving the best results, the most modern brushing equipment was installed. In only a very few cases was the amount of arsenic excessive, and in such cases the fruit was recleaned. Our work on peaches in 1928 shows that in no case was the amount of arsenic excessive.
Another project to which we have devoted a considerable part of our time is the oyster industry along the coast. A full time inspector has been active during the entire shuck ing season. Samples are drawn from each shucking house from time to time and submitted to the Laboratory for bacteriological examination. The high standards under which Georgia shell fish are being produced has been main tained. In some cases it has been necessary to summarily stop shipment from certain shucking houses when a sus piciously high score was found in the bacteriological exami nation. In connection with the oyster work, we have made bacteriological examinations of the water from oyster beds on the coast, and only oysters from certified water beds are permitted to be sold.
Samples analyzed and results obtained have been pub lished in detail in our monthly bulletins, entitled "Food, Drugs, and Feed-Stuffs. "
A total of 750 food samples were analyzed and reported. Approximately 25% showed adulteration or misbranding, the violation in most instances being that of misbranding.
A total of 65 oyster samples and 791 oyster bed water samples were analyzed.
DAIRY PRODUCTS
Samples of dairy products are submitted to the Bacte riological Laboratory for a complete examination and analy
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sis to determine the percentage of butter fat, the bacterial count, the presence of dirt, and evidence of adulteration by the addition of water. These results have been published in our monthly bulletins, entitled "Food, Drugs and FeedStuffs."
A total of 1,157 samples were analyzed. 30% showed a violation of set standards, such violations being mostly due to high bacterial count, and dirty milk.
COMMERCIAL FEEDS
A rigid inspection of commercial feeds is necessary to prevent sub-standard feeds from being sold. All feed sam ples are submitted to the Laboratory for somplete analyses, which include protein, fat, fibre, ash, carbohydrates, and moisture. Our analysis also detects adulterants and pre vents damaged grains from being sold. The results have been published in our monthly bulletins, entitled "Food, Drugs, and Feed-Stuffs." In general, satisfactory feed conditions prevail. The exceptions have been few, and the average quality of feed on the Georgia Market is good.
The total number of samples analyzed 869. Samples showing irregularity with guarantee in one or more con stituents, 15%.
DRUGS
The Food and Drugs Act requires that all drugs sold, or offered for sale in Georgia, must comply with the standards given in the U. S. Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary. The samples analyzed, and the results obtained are pub lished in our monthly bulletins, entitled "Food, Drugs, and Feed-Stuffs."
Total samples analyzed 150. Number of samples differ ing from standards 12 %.
INSECTICIDES
A careful analysis of insecticides is carried out in the Insecticide Laboratory. We have given preference to the analysis of Calcium Arsenate, because we realize the ex-
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treme importance of this insecticide to the agricultural

interests of the State. The following samples have been

analyzed and reported to your office:

Calcium arsenates ............................................ .......-..... 75

Lead arsenates ..............

54

80-5-15 dust mixtures................................

72

0-5-95 dust mixtures ....................................................... 4

Sulphur and sulphur mixtures....................... ................ 17

Soluble sulphur compounds ............................................ 3

Lime sulphur solution ................................................. 1

Copper sulphate ....... .............................................,,....... 1

Hydrated Lime .............................

1

Kerosene emulsion .........

1

Total................ .................................................. 229
None of the Calcium Arsenates showed excessive water soluble arsenic. Calcium Arsenates showing low total arsenic................ 2 Calcium Arsenates showing low density....................... 11 Calcium Arsenates showing high density..................... 5
All of the samples of Lead Arsenate met the State Stand ards.
MISCELLANEOUS SAMPLES
A large number of unofficial-miscellaneous samples were analyzed in the State Laboratory.
Miscellaneous Samples ..................... 214

SOIL INOCULATION BACTERIA FOR LEGUMES
The Laboratory prepared 4,574 acres of nitrogen-fixing bacteria for distribution to the farmers at cost.
All work has been done at a minimum cost, consistent with good laboratory practice, and the employees in the various Laboratories and office have shown themselves industrious, accurate and efficient.
Respectfully submitted,
J. F. KING,
State Chemist.

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FOOD AND DRUG DEPARTMENT FOOD DIVISION

Hon. Eugene Talmadge, Commissioner of Agriculture.

January 31, 1929.

Dear Sir:

We hand you herewith biennial report covering period from June 25, 1927, through December 31, 1928.
We have maintained a strict inspection over the state, realizing that this Division is charged with the responsi bility of enforcing the regulations as set forth in the Food and Drugs Act of the State, to the end that the citizens of the State shall be safeguarded against the adulteration, misbranding, and imitation of foods for man or beast, of beverages, candies, and condiments.
Your food inspectors have endeavored at all times to work in closest harmony and co-operation with the munic ipal authorities, as well as county officials, in an effort to find the best means of serving the State; and we have also co-operated with the federal inspectors in the handling of interstate shipments of canned goods, fruits, and vegetables. A total of 20,792 inspections have been reported; many trips are necessary, however, which are not given on our special form for reporting inspections, as we endeavor to follow through and investigate fully any complaints, or requests coming into this office. At present, we have 2,425 commercial feeds registered by 335 manufacturers or ship pers.
To prevent the lowering of standards, and in order to protect the consumers from fraudulent and adulterated feeding-stuffs, regulatory samples have been taken of feeds sold over the State, and analysis made of these samples by the chemist. We have observed the project plan in the taking of samples, and have taken up and followed through

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the following projects: beverages, vinegars, canned goods, candies, sausage, butter, oysters, eggs, peaches, and apples.
We have co-operated with the State Chemist in his in vestigational work for poisonous spray residue on Georgia apples and peaches, furnishing samples, and securing infor mation from the various packers over the State.
Where insanitary conditions were found to exist in places handling for sale, or serving food to the public, notices were issued and the conditions abated. A total of 223 notices have been issued. These are often issued and followed up in co-operation with the municipal authorities.
In co-operation with the Game and Fish Department, we have carried a full time oyster and shell fish inspector, who also co-operates with the United States Public Health Serv ice through the health officer with the State Board of Health. A rigid inspection of the oyster packing and shipping plants, as well as the beds along the coast is maintained throughout the entire shucking season, thus insuring that all oysters offered for sale in the State are from certified houses. We have 46 certificates on file.
A total of 497 withhold from sale notices have been issued. In many instances your inspectors have avoided issuing withhold notices on foods and feeds, where there was only some slight deviation from the letter of the law, but have stayed on the job, and have had the irregularity corrected, and the law complied with. A large percentage of viola tions in regard to foods is due to misbranding, and in most instances the manufacturer or shipper was permitted to properly relabel the product.
Your cotton oil mill inspector has worked in the closest co-operation with the cotton oil mills in the State, most of which manufacture feeding-stuffs as Well as other products.
We have made every effort to encourage the manufactur ing industry of the State, which utilizes the raw materials from our Georgia farms. We have tried at all times to give them just and liberal treatment, and at the same time as
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officers of the law to uphold the standards, in order that the consumers in the State may be protected.
Our interpretation of the law is in the interest of the public safety, that the lives and health of the citizens of our State may he protecte.d
I am attaching hereto table showing summary of work in. this Division.
Respectfully submitted,
J. C. THRASHER,
Chief Food Inspectar.

TABLE OF FOOD DIVISION

December 31, 1928.

Registrations, concentrated commercial feeds........... . 2,425 Manufacturers, or shippers registered....................... 335 Certificates, shellfish, oysters........................................ 46

Inspections

Expenses

(Seizures) AbateWithhold ment Cafe
Notices Notices Closed

Six Mos., 1927 5,870 $2,892.04 92 52

Six Mos., 1928 7,031 3,271.49 125 126 1

Six Mos., 1928 7,891

4,843.90 280

45

....

Totals ..... 20,792 $11,007.43 497 223 1

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PRODUCTS WITHHELD FROM SALE JUNE 2S, 1927 TO DECEMBER 31, 1928.

Commodity Feed

No. No. Bags No. Bags No. Bags No. Bags
Seizures No Stamps No Tags No Stamps Improp No Tags erly
Labeled

No. Bags Below
Standard Shipt out

No. Bags
Damaged Notified

No. Bags Damaged
Used Other Purposes

Damaged
Returned Shipper

Below Standard Remixed

Alfalfa Meal.......... ..

4

Apple Pulp __ _ . _

1

Beet Pulp _ _ _ 23

Bone Scraps _ __ _

1

Brewry Grains

1

Corn Meal _ _ ,

1

Corn_________

1

Cotton Seed Hulls _ _

1

Cotton Seed Meal __ 10

Mixed Feed..............

101

Oats__ ....____

2

Meat Scraps _ _ , _

1

62

1000

20

631

27627

17

18

148

14

142

709

183

327

20

20

95

33

28

80

7 1 Car

587

600 55 Bags 1 Car

147

1585

197

29136

143

113

594

1 Car 600 55 Bags 1 Car

No. Seizures Feed 147 Amt. "
No Stamps or Tags 30,918 Bags.

PRODUCTS WITHHELD FROM SALE JUNE 25, 1927 TO DECEMBER 31, 1928.

Commodity Food

No. Seizures

Betd. No. Cases

Shipper. Retd.

below

Shipr.

Standard Short Wt.

Spoiled Damaged
Other Purposes; Destroyed

Improperly Labeled

Brought up to
standard

No. Con tainers
No labels Incorrectly
Labeled

Fruit Sorted

ftiittar

4

OheftSR

..

#2

Candy___________

2

Oftnupd Orubric

12

Com

1

Witrcra

5

Fish

1

Flour

8

Fruit

1

TTotiov

6

ATfiftt

1

Oran^fts

1

Oysters

2

Oil or lard

7

ftaiiaagrp

1

Syrup

287

Vinegar ...___

8

Walniitq

1

No. Seizures, Food, 350

22 cases 2 cars
10 cases

17

21#

mi

6000#

(3 bbls.

\5 boxes

1592 Cans l

{ 5 jars )

U98 cases j

1 bbl. 9 bbls.

8J cases 394 bags

100#

5i gal. 22 cans
1 can

16 cans

123 bbls. 1 10 bbls. <2000 gal. { 153 pts. (215 pts. 1 81 cases 25#

56
61 77 8674

50 bbls.

Short Weight Repacked
150 bags

DRUG DIVISION

Hon. Eugene Talmadge,

December 31, 1928.

Commissioner of Agriculture,

Atlanta, Georgia.

Dear Sir:

I herewith submit report of drug inspection in the State of Georgia since June 25, 1927, which is divided into three periods of six months each, the first division covering a period of six months, from June 25,1927, through December 31, 1927, and the second division covering a period of six months, from January 1, 1928, through June, 1928, the third covering a period from July 1, 1928, through Decem ber, 1928.
A detailed report is rather difficult inasmuch as during the major portion of the first period our inspection was based on enforcement of the old pharmacy law, while the latter periods were based on enforcement of the new phar macy law enacted August 20, 1927.
Whatever may have been achieved in pharmacy law en forcement during these periods is largely accredited to your generous co-operation and that of other departments under your supervision. Your excellent judgment in matters of law pertaining to this department and unstinting expendi ture for necessary equipment is indicative of your usual policy of curtailing unnecessary expenses and putting the State funds where they are most needed.
For years previous to your entering office there was no such thing as a consolidated pharmacy department in the State Capitol, there being usually only one inspector whose time was divided between two offices, and the necessary field inspections (one office at the Capitol and one in Macon), under which condition the maintaining of such files as are herewith reported was impossible. In the consolidation of

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the pharmacy department as functioning at present, this department has reaped untold benefit from your adminis tration during which time more constructive work has been done than can be given in this report.
In addition to nearly 7,000 inspections, this department has written several hundred letters on pharmacy law en forcement, published 3,000 pharmacy bulletins, of which over half have been distributed. These bulletins contain the pharmacy laws, food and drug act relating to drugs, rulings regarding the same by the Department of Agricul ture, rulings made by the Board of Pharmacy, and a twopage synopsis under title of "Pharmacy Laws Simplified," and has installed the following files as a means of record: a card file record of druggists ' licenses inspected, with date, grade, number of license, and address; a card file of inspec tions by counties, a card file for complaints, a numerical record of registered druggists, as inspected, a record for drug clerks desiring positions, a record for pharmacists needing drug clerks, and an inspection sticker which desig nates the license as to its file record, and indicates the change of drug clerks from one firm to another.
At the time of my entering this department, there were over 200 so-called drug stores and soda companies adver tised as "drug stores," selling poisons and other medicines contrary to law, some of them bottling their own medicines, including poisonous medicines. Some manufacturing estab lishments were running without registered pharmacists, in violation of the law. Most of these violations have been corrected, either by the firms putting in registered drug gists or taking down the drug signs and discontinuing sales in violation of the law.
It is the purpose of this department to make a full inspec tion of the State every six months, but due to unavoidable hindrances, the State was not fully covered during the last period of 1928.
Our inspections come under the following heads and are listed for periods of six months each.
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Number of General Inspections: Six months, 1927 ................................ 2432 First six months, 1928......................... 2542 Last six months, 1928......................... 1853

Total ...........................................
Number of Drug Stores Inspected, wholesale and retail:
Six months 1927 ................................ First six months 1928 ....................... Last six months 1928 .........................

6827
810 924 694

Total ............................................
Number found keeping' poison registers: (Some retail drug stores do not sell poisons, and wholesale drug stores are not required to keep a poison register, under the law) :
Six months, 1927 ................................ First six months, 1928 ..................... . Last six months, 1928 .......................

2428
788 868 645

Total.............................................

2301

Number of druggists' licenses inspected: Six months, 1927 ................................ 1153 First six months, 1928 ....................... 1109 Last six months, 1928 ......................... 838

Total ............................................

3100

Number of Licenses registered with Ordinary:

(Law repealed Aug. 20, 1927) :

Six months, 1927 ................................

904

Number of Licenses registered with

Secretary of Board of Pharmacy:

During 1928 !.................................. 112b

General Sanitary Condition of Drug Stores,

(Good), (Some deserve criticism).

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Due to the fact that so many outside companies, such as cigar companies, etc., have financial interest in drug signs, and sign writers were not immediately available, the chang ing of drug signs has not been done with the greatest dis patch.

Number of drug stores displaying drug signs illegally

(under Act of Aug. 20, 1927); notices served:

Six months, 1927 ...............................

126

First six months, 1928 ............ ...........

30

Last six months, 1928 .........................

13

Total ......................... .............. --.

169

Number of soda companies displaying drug signs illegally

(under Act of Aug. 20, 1927): notices served:

Six months, 1927 ..................... ...........

78

Number of soda companies legally managed

(under Act of Aug. 20, 1927):

First six months, 1928 .......................

84

Last six months, 1928 .........................

102

Total ............................................

186

Number of doctors' offices in connection with Prescrip

tion Department, doctors filling their own prescriptions:

Six months, 1927 ..................... ...........

43

First six months, 1928 .................. --

24

Last six months, 1928 .........................

20

Total.............................................

87

Number of violations of Poison Act, etc., notices served,

and abated:

Six months, 1927 .......... -................... 410

First six months, 1928 .....................

95

Last six months, 1928 ................... .....

15

Total.....................................................

520

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Number of wholesale and retail general merchants ' estab lishments inspected:
Six months, 1927 ...................... -...... 1,375 First six months, 1928 ....................... 1,404 Last six month, 1928 ......................... 1,073

Total ...............................................

3,852

Number of samples of drugs taken, most of which were

up to IT. S. P., and N. F. Standards:

Six months, 1927 ...............................

39

First six months, 1928 .......................

84

Last six months, 1928 ...................

33

Total.................................................

156

To the best of our ability, the law is being construed and enforced in the interest of public health.

The Food and Drug Division has been charged with in spection of paint and paint oils. Since the 15th of Octo ber, our field man has made about 430 inspection covering 71 counties and found between 75 and 100 irregularities which have been corrected. Paint manufacturers and deal ers inside and outside of the State have been notified of these irregularities and have been mailed a copy of the "Georgia Paint and Linseed Oil Law."

Respectfully submitted,

A. M. STEAD,

Chief Drug Inspector.

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STATE VETERINARIAN January 1, 1929.
Hon. Eugene Talmadge,
Commissioner of Agriculture,
Atlanta, Georgia.
Dear Sir:
Services rendered by the Veterinary Division of the De partment of Agriculture present three distinct phases.
1st. Control and eradication of communicable live stock diseases.
2nd. Economic stabilization and development of live stock production through the control and, if possible, erad ication of parasitic diseases.
3rd. Inspection of animal products intended for human consumption.
In the main these services interlock. To illustrate: some communicable diseases are propagated through the spread of a specific cause of the disease as, for instance, hog chol era and tuberculosis; other communicable diseases are transmitted by and through specific parasites who transmit the specific contagion, as tick fever in cattle by the cattle fever tick (Margaropus annulatus).
Some infectious live stock diseases are of primary impor tance because they are transmissible to man as, for in stance, cattle tuberculosis through the milk supply; or through local infection as with anthrax or glanders; or through direct inoculations as with rabies. The control and final eradication of these infectious diseases are veterinary problems that depend largely on State organization, State appropriations and State control for their final successful solution.
Some forms of parasitic infestation, though not direct carriers of specific infection, become prominent factors in many preventable live stock diseases when intensive enough to lower the vitality of the host. Many infectious swine dis eases are aggravated by extensive parasitic infestations; both internal and external parasitic infestations are respon
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sible for great losses among young cattle; and parasitic in festations, with its various complications, is one of the ma jor handicaps against the development of a profitable sheep industry.
Inspection of animal products intended for human con sumption presents a very important function of this de partment, because under certain conditions animal food is detrimental to our health.
HOG CHOLERA
In the public mind all diseased conditions in hogs are collectively classed as--Cholera. This is very unfortunate because this general opinion has led to the use of serum and virus as a "cure all" against hog diseases. Immuniza tion of hogs against hog cholera has been practiced under conditions when the use of virus was detrimental instead of helpful to the health of the herd.
Differential diagnoses of hog diseases offer many diffi culties even to those who for many years have specialized in this work. No layman can hope to rapidly acquire suf ficient knowledge in pathology to enable him to establish a reasonably correct diagnosis in hog diseases, and serum and virus should never be given except to control or to pre vent hog cholera and then only when the conditions of the herd justifies such treatment. Many symptoms of sickness in hogs are similar in various diseases; not a single symp tom observed in cholera can be pointed out as unfailingly characteristic of this disease. Even post-mortem lesions are by no means uniform and pathognostic.
Fifteen years ago when our knowledge of swine diseases was more limited, differential diagnoses in hog diseases re ceived much less consideration; hog cholera serum--a true specific against hog cholera--simply worked wonders and the public was enthused. Prior to the discovery of hog cholera serum and virus, most sick hogs died. With the advent of a more general use of serum, we expected all im munized hogs to live and great was our disappointment when, under any condition, serum failed to cure and protect a herd against further losses. Even more grievous was
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our disappointment when material losses occurred in herds recently immunized, with apparently unmistakable evidence of active cholera in the herd.
Careful observations and investigations have established the fact that virus injection of hogs extensively infested with parasites, as well as those infected with necrotic en teritis, flu, pneumonia and other diseases or conditions which materially lower the vitality of an animal, are prone to set up new and virulent centers of hog cholera. The grad ually growing practice of laymen to secure virus and to serum-simultaneous treat all hogs, regardless as to their condition, is largely responsible for the extensive spread of hog cholera in Georgia during the year 1928.
Intelligently used--when indicated--hog cholera serum and virus is a most dependable treatment in the control and prevention of hog cholera. Virus injected into hogs under any one or more of the contra-indicated conditions previ ously referred to invariably establishes new centers of hog cholera infection. Therefore, in order to control cholera in hogs, it is very necessary to control the distribution and use of hog cholera virus. Only men qualified by special educa tion and experience to recognize and differentiate between numerous hog diseases and conditions which in some re spects resemble hog cholera, should be permitted to use serum and virus.
Growing pork for profit is an economic problem, the suc cess or failure of which frequently rest upon the health of the herd. Swine growers cannot afford to--they should not be expected to--experiment with communicable disease con trol. Twenty-five thousand dollars per annum invested by the State to investigate and control communicable swine diseases will return an almost unbelievable dividend in more and better hogs; and more and better hogs will help to re establish farms and farmers, on a basis of independence and better homes.
From January 1st to December 31st, 1928, veterinarians from this department made 2,580 field investigations in 133 counties and treated 76,278 hogs against cholera and other
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communicable swine diseases. In addition 1,049 special investigations were made of reported contagious diseases.
TUBERCULOSIS IN CATTLE
From a human health viewpoint tuberculosis in cattle is the most important disease of cattle.
Though much preliminary work had been done by my predecessor in testing cattle supplying milk to the various cities, no systematic effort had been made to eradicate bovine tuberculosis until 1927, at which time the Oeneral Assembly passed an Act authorizing and requiring the State Veterinarian to eradicate tuberculosis in domestic animals. A sum of $12,500.00 annually was appropriated for this purpose.
Since this appropriation became available systematic test ing of all cattle in the following eight counties has been completed: Dade, Catoosa, Habersham, Murray, Rabun, White, Walker and Whitfield and county-wide tuberculin testing of cattle is nearing completion in Chattooga and Towns counties. This work is conducted by the State Veter inarian in cooperation with each respective county and the U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry.
All reactors to the tuberculin test are slaughtered and an effort is made to prevent the movement of tuberculous or untested cattle into the cleaned-up area, which is desig nated as the "Accredited Tuberculosis Free Area."
In addition to the "Accredited Tuberculosis Free Area" work just mentioned, we also continued the testing of dairy herds supplying various cities with market milk. During the last six months of 1927 we tested 19,026 cattle with 188 reactors and from January 1st to December 31st, 1928, we tested 58,804 cattle with 182 reactors. These figures indi cate a relatively slight degree of infestation among our native cattle. Many herds were absolutely free of tubercu losis, but in a few herds more than 50% of the cattle re acted to the test.
Bovine and avian tuberculosis are also transmissible to hogs. However, under a competent system of meat inspec tion, tuberculosis in hogs presents practically no danger to
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man. Whether or not avian tuberculosis is communicable to man is as yet debatable. As we progress in live stock sanitation I am sure we will find suitable methods and means to ultimately eradicate every form of tuberculosis among our domestic animals.
But for the generous cooperation of counties and Federal Government, we could not have made the progress we have to date. This department ought to have not less than $35,000.00 per annum to carry on this work until completed.
CONTAGIOUS ABORTION
During the early part of 1924 the State Veterinarian established a laboratory to aid in and confirm field investi gations. This service has been exceedingly helpful to live stock and poultry owners and, judging from the demand for this service, is very much appreciated by the public.
Primarily the laboratory was installed to determine the extent of contagious abortion in cattle and to test cattle for this disease before permitting them to be shipped into Georgia. During the past few years this service has ex panded so as to include examination of all seriological and pathological specimens sent in by our field forces and cooperators.
In order to take care of the increased demands for labora tory service, it was necessary to enlarge our quarters and add additional equipment, during the year 1928, at a cost of approximately $1,000.00. Demand for this service has again so greatly increased that additional equipment and personnel are necessary.
When in 1923 the State Veterinarian of Georgia promul gated regulations seeking to prevent the spread of conta gious abortion, the attempt was considered premature if not preposterous. But for the past two years this disease is recognized as of paramount importance in profitable live stock development. From a strictly economic viewpoint, contagious abortion is more disastrous to the breeder than is bovine tuberculosis.
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Should recent professional opinions, which associate Malta Fever (Undulant Fever) in man with the presence of contagious abortion organism in the milk of dairy cattle or milk goats, prove well founded, an active campaign with a view of controlling or eradicating this disease from a purely human health viewpoint must be inaugurated. But, even without this possible danger to man, the disease is of paramount importance. The Chief of the U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry, in his 1928 report, gives it as his opinion that contagious abortion levies a toll of more than fifty million dollars annually on the live stock industry.
Contagious abortion is a serious live stock disease, be cause it strikes at the very foundation of the herd--the calf.
After one or more premature deliveries, some cattle ac quire a more or less permanent immunity against this disease. Many such immune individuals, though they may breed regularly, continue to harbor and spread the infection of this disease which from time to time reappears among the susceptible members of the herd. But not all cattle in an infected herd acquire immunity and regain their normal breeding ability. Quite a number of cattle remain sterile as a result of this disease; many others breed irregularly after an attack of contagious abortion. In contagious abor tion infected herds mastitis (Garget) is of distressingly frequent occurrence. The death rate of living calves car ried to near maturity is within itself of considerable impor tance because of their low vitality. In dairy herds the loss in milk production by aborting cattle is a vital economic factor. From an economic viewpoint alone, no cattle dis ease is of greater importance.
Though this disease is unquestionably transmitted through the digestive tract, it does not at any time affect the animal's appetite. Figuratively speaking, many con tagious abortion infected herds have eaten their "heads off" and finally forced the owner to retire from dairying, or beef production.
It is an unwise policy for any breeder of live stock to keep on his premises a carrier of this disease, or to permit
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his healthy animals to associate with animals infected with contagious abortion.
In its last analysis the staggering loss to the live stock grower through contagious abortion (estimated by the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry at fifty million dollars annually) is passed on to the ultimate consumer as an inevi table sequence of the law of supply and demand. Therefore, the problem of control or eradication of this disease is a state and national problem as well as a vital, economic fac tor to every live stock grower.
So far immunization against the ravages of this disease have been very unsatisfactory. The various methods of treatment suggested cannot be considered satisfactory or specific. There is much need for continued investigation and experimentation. During this period of research every effort should be made to control the spread of this disease by locating infected individuals and premises and, through proper quarantine, sanitation and, perhaps, condemnation of reactors to the agglutination test, reduce the infection to a minimum.
Regulations of this department, now in effect, require that all breeding cattle, over six months of age, must have passed a blood test for contagious abortion before being allowed to enter the State. It may be advisable, or even necessary, to amend this regulation so as to prohibit the sale or exchange of cattle within the State infected with bacillus abortus (Bang) and of reactors to the seriological test for conta gious abortion. The history of practically every newly infected herd, when investigated, reveals the recent intro duction of an infected animal into the herd.
The laboratory of the State Veterinarian is eager to ren der service to the breeders of cattle in the control of con tagious abortion as far as our financial resources permit.
During the period beginning August 1st, 1927, and ending December 31st, 1928, we tested 6,265 blood samples for con tagious abortion, revealing quite a large number of infected herds in various sections of the State. Every effort has been made to control the infection found and to assist the owner in an effort to eliminate the disease from his herd
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and premises. Bat, being without funds, we were not able to keep as closely in touch with the diseased herds and the disposition of the reactors as should have been done.
BACILLARY WHITE DIARRHEA
A continually increasing interest in diversification of farm activities is manifest in the growing of hogs, the estab lishment of dairies and the production of poultry and poul try products as major market crops.
From a very small beginning less than fifteen years ago poultry products in Georgia have increased to a valuation in excess of $30,000,000.00, a ratio of increase possibly not exceeded by either the cattle or swine industries. Every where small commercial units of this industry are spring ing up.
It is a very prevailing opinion that all that is necessary to become financially independent is to engage in the "chicken business." But experienced poultrymen know it requires as much fundamental knowledge and application of business to make a success in the poultry industry as in any other line of business.
Those who engage in the poultry business without a fair degree of knowledge of feeding and care of the flock fre quently invite failure. Many beginners have been put out of business overnight by improper brooding of the chicks. It is a business that can and frequently does end in failure after a few weeks or months of inattention to necessary sani tary measures.
The greatest handicap to success in poultry raising are bacillary white diarrhea and coccidiosis, two very prevalent diseases of chicks. Thousands of dollars are wasted annu ally hatching chicks infected with bacillary white diarrhea. This disease is primarily transmitted to the chick by the parent stock through the infection in the egg. Coccidiosis is an infection that spreads rapidly if insanitary conditions are permitted to exist during the brooding and growing of chicks. Both of these diseases can be controlled, bacillary white diarrhea by eliminating this disease from the breed
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ing flock and coccidiosis by continuous attention to sanita tion of the premises on which the chicks are brooded.
Many thousand dollars are spent each year by Georgians for poultry and eggs shipped in from other states and even from other nations. Georgia can and will be self-sustaining in these requirements, if help is given the breeders in the eradication of these diseases.
The commercial value of the poultry industry in Georgia justifies a reasonable appropriation by the State to control these very devastating poultry diseases, and thus encourage the upbuilding of this great business.
For the past four years this department has labored with out an appropriation, trying to control the insidious ad vances of bacillary white diarrhea infection in baby chicks. Capitalizing the enthusiasm and loyalty of our field, labora tory and office workers, we succeeded in testing annually about thirty thousand birds that supplied eggs to the lead ing hatcheries in the State. All birds reacting to this test were removed from the flocks and all pens, buildings and premises cleaned and disinfected.
Great credit is due the Georgia Baby Chick Association for their enthusiastic cooperation and the financial aid of breeders in securing blood samples for our laboratory tests. But if this disease is to be controlled and, if possible, eradi cated the State must finance the work. Not less than ten thousand dollars annually should be appropriated for this service.
TICK ERADICATION
With the exception of minor reinfestations in twelve counties along the lower border of the State, tick eradication was practically completed in the State of Georgia when the writer came into office in July, 1927. Since then these infes tations have been cleaned up, but from time to time we have been called upon to make investigations of reinfestations in various sections of the State. In the majority of these instances harmless ticks were found; however, when the cattle fever ticks were found we immediately quarantined the infested areas to prevent the scattering of ticks and, in order to clean up, we dipped infested and exposed cattle.
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During the years of 1927 and 1928 some tick eradication work was necessary in Atkinson, Berrien, Bibb, Brooks, Camden, Clinch, Cook, Charlton, Decatur, Early, Echols, Glynn, Miller, Seminole and Thomas counties. On Decem ber 31st, 1928, some active tick eradication work is being conducted in Cook, Camden, Charlton and Glynn counties.
So long as counties in neighboring states that border on our State line remain tick infested we may expect some reinfestation in our free area from this source, as it is almost impossible to prevent all the illegal movement of animals from these infested areas. Owing to our efficient and per sistent State line patrol, these movements have been re duced to and maintained at a minimum.
The Georgia-Florida State line fence that was built some few years ago for the purpose of preventing reinfestation of the cattle fever tick, has proven of untold value and with out it there is doubt whether Georgia could have made the progress she has in tick eradication work.
Now, since all the Georgia and Florida border counties west of the Suwanee River have been released from State and Federal quarantine on account of tick infestation, we have issued permits to land owners along this part of the line to install gates in the State line fence so that they may move horses and mules back and forth to work, thereby re lieving them of the burden of keeping work horses on both sides of the State line where it was necessary for them to do so in order to cultivate their fields that had been divided by the line fence.
In the meantime, in order to protect Georgia's free area, it is necessary that we still maintain an efficient patrol between those counties in Florida that are tick infested and. our free territory, which includes all that part of the State line east of the Suwanee River. It is also necessary to maintain guards on the main highways offering direct con nections with the tick infested and quarantined areas of Florida, because cattle may easily be moved a hundred miles or more on trucks. On some of these main highways, crossing the State line, it has been necessary to keep a
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twenty-four hour guard service. Through this service many tick infested animals have been turned back that would have moved into and reinfested our free territory.
Our tick eradication work has been carried on as hereto fore in cooperation with the U. S. Bureau of Animal Indus try, and we wish to express our appreciation to the officials of the Bureau for their splendid cooperation and assistance in tick eradication and for helping to safeguard the State against reinfestation.
Georgia offers the live stock industry a field clear of cattle fever ticks. One of the greatest drawbacks to a profitable development of the cattle industry in the State has been eliminated. Now let us get together and eliminate the scrub bull--it can and must be done.
RABIES
For years the control of rabies has been a subject of spirited public discussion, but, as Mark Twain said about the weather--nothing has been done about it.
The General Assembly of 1927 had under consideration an Act requiring all dogs to be annually immunized against rabies. This could be done at a very small expense; an expense very few dog owners would object to pay, because the immunization unquestionably confers a temporary im munity.
A number of Georgia cities have passed ordinances re quiring immunization of dogs against rabies with highly satisfactory results.
The homeless, stray dog is without doubt the prime factor in the spread of rabies. If a dog is worth keeping--and most of them are--the owner cannot make a better invest ment than to have him immunized against rabies. An ounce of prevention is worth a ton of cure. The proper methods for controlling rabies is through immunization of dogs. I sincerely hope the General Assembly will again take this matter under careful consideration at the approaching session.
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DAIRY AND MILK--SLAUGHTER HOUSE AND MEAT INSPECTION
The Acts of 1914 require the State Veterinarian to inspect slaughter houses, meat markets, meat food products, dairies and dairy products and to secure reliable statistics upon home production of meat, meat food supplies, milk and milk products, but it failed to provide a definite appropriation for this service. This is a very vital and necessary public service; a service that calls for men especially trained and experienced in this work. Incidentally such service should function unremittedly and in order to so function, a definite appropriation should be fixed so as to enable this depart ment to establish and maintain a specific organization for this specific purpose.
Insuring a sanitary milk supply for town or city is a very difficult task. Without an assistant, it was impossible to give proper attention to all dairies operating throughout the State. Through our efforts six additional cities em ployed a qualified veterinarian to supervise their local milk supply. This makes twelve cities in Georgia having local meat and milk inspection.
1,729 visits to dairy farms were made during the year. Practically all those dairies furnished milk to cities and villages that have not a properly trained veterinarian in charge of milk and dairy inspection.
857 milk samples were taken in the field and sent to the State Chemist, in specially constructed ice-boxes, for analy sis. They reached the laboratory at an average temperature of 38 degrees F. Of these samples 57 showed a higher bacterial count than our regulations allowed, 25 samples were diluted or part of the cream removed, 541 samples showed an excessive amount of sediment or dirt. Of 49 butter samples taken, 37 were either adulterated, mis branded or under weight. Some of the above butter samples contained oil substitutes for butter-fat.
All milk depots and creameries were periodically in spected. Reports on milk samples have been published
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regularly in your monthly bulletins. Lack of funds makes it impossible to keep an accurate registration of all dairies and the kind and number of cattle kept at each, though such information would be of great value in the constructive development of dairying in Georgia.
The ideal milk supply comes from a healthy cow cared for, milked and the milk properly handled by a mature mem ber of the family, promptly cooled, and, in addition, any or all whole milk, used as such, consumed within twelve hours from time of milking.
Troubles with our milk supply, providing the cow is healthy, begin with the process of milking and is aug mented by each handling preceding delivery to and its use by the consumer. Cleanliness of the utensils used in stor ing, handling and delivering milk and the temperature at which milk is kept after milking are the vital factors in distributing fresh market milk.
Large cities receive their milk supply from a wide radius, conveniently referred to as the cities milk-shed. Naturally large cities have a large milk-shed. Time and distance in transportation, especially when complicated by insufficient refrigeration, favor bacterial development in milk. Just what happens to milk as a result of bacterial multiplication depends on the kind of bacteria that infect and predominate in the milk. Under normal conditions, when the lactic acid bacteria predominate the milk sours, clabbers and when churned makes that delightful, wholesome and refreshing beverage known as buttermilk. Unfortunately milk is also an excellent media for the propagation of other bacteria, some of which may be detrimental to health.
In order to make reasonably safe for human consumption the contaminated milk supply of the large cities, pasteuriza tion was inaugurated. Unquestionably pasteurization has been a very important economic factor in making available for human consumption large quantities of milk which would otherwise be unfit for human consumption, but, at best, pasteurized milk is a makeshift and can not in quality com
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pare with pure raw milk from healthy cows cared for by clean people, kept cool and properly covered in clean uten sils, and used by the consumer within thirty hours from time of milking.
Public welfare demands rigid inspection of all dairies and distributing agencies as to health of cattle supplying the milk, health of those handling the milk, sanitation of barn, cattle and utensils and last, but by no means least, proper refrigeration until used by final consumer. By far the largest burden of these requirements fall on the dairyman and unless such requirements are made and enforced with a clear understanding of every problem involved in dairy ing, it is easy to make regulations and their enforcement burdensome and prohibitive to the producer. This would be a calamity. In order to develop dairying dairymen must have the sympathetic cooperation of the public, the dis tributors, the transportation company, and, above all, the help, understanding and cooperation of those who control and enforce the sanitary production and distribution of milk.
Milk production is a business proposition which must be carefully planned and conscientiously executed. The cow is the nucleus of successful dairying. Cows that do not produce in excess of 6,000 pounds of milk, or 240 pounds of butter-fat annually are not profitable in commercial dairy ing. Many dairies fail to make money because they haven't the right kind of cows. A good judge of dairy cattle can form a fairly correct opinion as to the value of a milk cow, but accurate information as to production can only be ob tained by weighing the milk and testing it for butter-fat.
Though the cost of dairy equipment does not necessarily bear a direct relation to the sanitary conditions of the milk, yet experience has shown the need of certain fundamental equipment requirements in the production of market milk. This necessary paraphernalia is fullv outlined in our Bulle tin No. 12 S. V.
Dairy products on Georgia farms have increased until dairying is now recognized as one of the important branches
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of our agriculture; one on which many depend for a reliable source of income.
The greatest quantity of milk produced in Georgia is sold as whole milk to supply the cities. Creameries and ice cream factories offer additional, though less remunerative, markets for either milk or cream. In the past many com plaints from producers have reached this department in regard to the prevailing system of grading, testing, weigh ing and paying for milk and cream. If dairying is to suc ceed in Georgia, every reasonable complaint, of the pro ducers must he adjusted. A uniform system for weighing and testing milk or cream should be established and only testers who have passed a careful examination as to their ability and fitness for the job should be licensed by this department to weigh and test milk. Each license should be revokable for malfeasance or nonfeasance in official duties. Such provisions would go a long way towards eliminating mistrust and suspicion on part of the producers, many of whom feel that their business is over-inspected and under protected.
Communities remote from whole milk markets could profitably establish cheese factories. More than two and three-quarter million pounds of cream cheese was shipped into Georgia during 1928. It required 25,882,200 pounds of milk containing 4% butter-fat to produce this quantity of cheese. It took 4,314 cows each producing 6,000 pounds of milk annually to produce this much milk. Estimated at only 20c per pound this cheese bill represents $559,056.00. Here is an industry for Georgia whose products would find a ready home market. Let us organize, get busy and produce our daily food.
We probably cannot boast of any extraordinary strides in dairy development, yet our progress has been in the main satisfactory. Great progress has been made in the quality of milk cows maintained on farms and improvements in equipment and dairy sanitation have been remarkable. No state in the Union produces a higher, purer grade of market milk than Georgia.
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MEAT INSPECTION
Meat inspection in the United States was originally inau gurated to curtail condemnation of meats exported to Ger many and there condemned because of Trichinae infestation. From a very crude and humble beginning, meat inspection in America has advanced until today our Federal meat inspection service is recognized as the most efficient system of meat inspection in existence. At present Trichinae in festations of swine are considered of minor importance; but, stimulated by public demand, Federal meat inspection has expanded so that during the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1928, a total of 75,272,510 animals were inspected, of which 252,074 whole carcasses and 1,138,800 parts of car casses were condemned by Federal inspectors in 829 estab lishments, located in 255 cities and operated under super vision of the U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry.
These Federal inspections are only maintained at large abattoirs engaged in foreign and interstate traffic of meats and meat food products and their respective branches. The figures quoted do not include uninspected meats handled at 964 establishments operated under Federal exemption from meat inspection, by whom no condemnations are recorded, or by, maybe, five hundred or more privately owned and operated slaughtering places in the State of Georgia.
In order to more completely safeguard public interest, Federal exemption from meat inspection should be curtailed or even abolished and should be replaced by a complete sys tem of municipal meat inspection at every slaughter house under adequate state supervision.
To be of value a complete post-mortem inspection of each carcass, by competent men especially trained in animal path ology, is necessary.
In addition to slaughter house inspection for evidence of pathological lesions rendering the carcass unfit for human consumption, it is necessary to maintain suitable sanitary conditions and refrigeration to prevent premature spoilage of meats which might render such products dangerous or
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unfit for human food. To illustrate the importance of these subsequent inspections of meats, I again quote from the report of the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry at Washington, jD. C.: During the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1928, the following quantities of meat and meat food products were condemned on reinspection and destroyed for food purposes on account of having become sour, tainted, unclean, rancid or otherwise unwholesome: 1,923,362 pounds of beef; pork 7,327,385 pounds; mutton 31,720 pounds; veal 10,794 pounds; goat meat 199 pounds; horse meat 10,195 pounds; a total of 9,222,655 pounds. Congress appropri ates in excess of $3,000,000.00 annually to carry on this work, which is under the direct supervision and control of veterinarians.
Handicapped by limited appropriation for this service, we have been restricted to periodic inspection of most meat markets and some slaughtering places. In all 1,613 such inspections were made. Several hundred pounds of tainted and unwholesome meat was condemned and destroyed.
An effort has been made to encourage the installation and operation of municipal abattoirs, but progress in this matter has been slow.
I believe a reasonable number of municipal abattoirs would help to stabilize the price of cattle and hogs sold for slaughter and, at the same time, furnish communities with a dependable, inspected meat supply. As matters now stand, much of the differential between what the farmer gets for his live stock and what the consumer pays for his meats is invested in transportation, shrinkage, commission, more transportation plus refrigeration and more commis sions.
Attached to this report is a consolidated monthly record of meat and meat food products shipped into Georgia dur ing 1928. This report offers a very interesting study as to our essential home markets. In addition to pork products grown, killed and consumed in Georgia during 1928 we shipped in 99,429,648 pounds of pork products. Estimated
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as an average value of only 12y2c per pound this part of our meat bill cost us $12,053,706.00.
Accepting the dry salt pork item--44,568,691 pounds-- most of which is sold to farmers, as a basis for calculation it required 928,514 hogs weighing 200 pounds each to pro- ~ duce our dry salt pork meat item. At 8c per pound on foot these hogs were worth $14,848,224.00, every dollar of which should have gone into the pockets of Georgia farmers. But before we succeed in producing live stock on a large scale, we must grow more feed, then more feed--and still more feed. The poorest investment imaginable on a farm is any kind of live stock and no home grown feed.
Very respectfully, J. M. SUTTON, State Veterinarian.
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Monthly Statement of Pounds of Meats, M eat Food Products and Dairy Products Shipped into the State of Georgia During the Six last Months of 1927

Other

Dressed Dressed Dressed Dressed Smoked Smoked Dried and Barreled Boiled Dry Salt Fresh

Dry Beef Cuts Pork Cuts Canned

Lard

Packing

Oleo. Butterine Butter

Cheese

1927

Cattle

Hogs

Sheep Calves Meats-- Meats-- Cured

Pork

Hams

Pork Sausage Sausage

Meats

House

S. C.

D. S.

Beef

Meats

Products

July.......... ......... August______ September_____ October______ November_____ December ____

996,478 1,270,274 1,035,969 1,475,624 1,016,872 1,080,008

Totals .. .. 6,875,225

3,435 740
3,174 19,311 167,842 51,986
246,488

74,201 81,232 81,655 128,841 393,664 80,996

150,197 178,450 251,817 249,291 160,196 181,635

661,940 859,429 301,491
729,177 556,415 482,676

226,747 303,380 373,548 408,819 400,338 567,602

840,589 1,171,586 3,591,128 2,280,434

8,250 5,399 5,500 9,784 3,772 7,620
40,325

143,241 146,561 229,874 180,612 128,599 109,937
938,824

65,017 5,918,075 66,948 6,024,763 68,299 4,820,292 61,496 5,998,080 121,010 3,441,242 51,596 2,693,993

177,446 225,799 234,861 330,576 181,416 295,565

434,366 28,896,445 1,445,663

71,300 90,763 184,761 191,147 61,427 45,271
644,669

142,132 1,532,414 132,732 1,345,014 125,650 1,745,710 173,109 1,843,276 90,426 1,289,288
86,699 1,546,722

37,099 1,554,614 134,920 315,303 1,554,984 1,602,036 294,999 2,095,325 1,258,286
819,579 1,618,390 1,602,753 159,487 1,156,860 1,099,058 206,565 1,173,491 1,254,605

750,748 9,302,424 1,833,032 9,153,664 6,951,658

8,270 29,463 25,706 31,030 30,352 39,213
164,034

43,989 15,344 29,367 22,986 25,497 34,976
172,159

88,403 96,375 90,332 148,111 72,716 112,628

192,154 245,842 247,269 467,418 211,225 235,876

608,565 1,599,784

Monthly Statement of Pounds, of Meats, Meat Food Products and Dairy Products Shipped into the State of Georgia During 1928.

Other

1928

Dressed Dressed Dressed Dressed Smoked Smoked Dried and Barreled Boiled Dry Salt Fresh

Dry Beef Cuts Pork Cuts Canned

Lard

Packing

Oleo. Butterine Butter Cheese

Cattle

Hogs

Sheep Calves Meats-- Meats-- Cured

Pork

Hams

Pork Sausage Sausage

Meats

House

S. C.

D. S.

Beef

Meats

Products '

January_______ 813,738 February______ 889,377 March________ 787,726 April__________ 927,387 May..................... 1,120,726 June__________ 908,921 July -------------- 1,028,874 August________ 818,666 September_____ 1,030,888 October,-____ 1,091,385 November_____ 608,114 December_____ 717,265
Totals.,__ 10,743,067

14,089 19,862 19,544 9,550 4,183 3,500
1,790 40,986 236,458 18,304 28,414 14,535

94,603 115,583 97,941
115,964 102,022 106,318
104,568 81,748 52,905 168,579 98,302 102,297

124,732 135,399 86,673 118,284 166,365 151,233 163,356 175,302 83,040 214,109 109,369 123,769

425,466
598,818 660,374 645,354 893,277 711,320 653,862 785,531 938,735 719,877 533,391 355,438

207,227 177,663 368,007 319,477 317,302 560,249 315,928 340,024 423,200 287,570 460,878 215,686

411,215 1,240,830 1,651,631 7,921,443 3,993,211

4,048 5,467 7,287 10,336 9,388 28,497 8,679 8,577 6,712 7,952 3,443 4,284

176,849 122,380 130,905 127,991 198,180 181,503 214,894 147,242 190,497 316,466 172,749 119,601

39,725 45,729 118,182 62,106 64,329 78,616 89,971 88,262
54,363 457,377
45,570 26,155

2,463,309 2,638,906 3,803,689 3,822,249 3,636.981 4,660,036 4,988,377 4,112,288 3,253,778 5,049,722 3,556,915 2,582,441

175,651 206,710 190,761 199,505 170,265 173,951
140,293 469,102 1,025,888 299,268 188,413 137,051

359,959 43,237 54,034 64,157 63,184 152,635 84,845 76,943 97,777 90,790 62,437 40,832

125,994 1,296,854 108,031 1,795,087 196,869 1,983,595 192,704 2,028,589 208,035 1,368,627 66,912 1,282,689 95,455 1,494,186 116,050 1,181,380 132,797 1,007,516 103,346 1,422,138 87,499 1,710,355 63,068 1,171,866

232,761 140,008 1,162,767 123,300 1,265,697 984,688 336,125 1,281,330 968,174 256,456 1,081,659 1,598,166 396,607 1,243,064 1,189,282 387,009 1,227,272 878,651 426,890 1,404,466 893,393 306,915 1,609,674 954,831 704,515 1,704,313 990,630 493,425 1,451,559 1,476,392
183,247 1,271,028 696,292 167,173 1,076,861 312,893

104,670 2,099,257 1,170,385 44,568,691 3,376,858 1,190,830 1,496,760 17,742,882 4,014,423 15,556,931 12,106,159

41,718 84,882 87,500
7,520 34,590
6,812 10,670 7,180 47,064 16,082 5,386
950
350,354

32,254 38,273 38,351 40,007 30,278 20,424 16,563 25,066 42,757
43,923 50,565 51,481

92,332 109,822
105,283 117,183 123,653 108,135 103,533 105,575 103,727 154,308 68,926
95,213

175,038
229,231 170,688
208,873 206,062 176,849 237,309 273,765 304,575 410,809 215,749 186,333

429,942 1,287,690 2,795,281

STATISTICIAN'S REPORT

Hon. Eugene Talmadge, Commissioner of Agriculture, State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia.

January 1, 1929.

Hear Sir:

Herewith is transmitted to you the official consolidated report of Tobacco sales in Georgia for the season of 1928. The reports of the warehouses operating, the number of pounds handled and amount paid therefor are made to the Department of Agriculture in compliance with a state law and are of much value in compiling complete figures on tobacco production in Georgia.
During your administration it has been the policy to release weekly reports for distribution among the producers throughout the tobacco belt. These reports are of great value as an aid to the farmers in marketing their tobacco from week to week during the season, and I recommend that you continue the same policy in the future.
Appreciation is herewith expressed to the Warehousemen in the Tobacco area for their interest and co-operation in filing their reports promptly and accurately with the De partment.
Other activities of the Statistician during your first term as Commissioner included the compilation of crop and other farm information in Georgia by counties, which was printed in Part Two of the Yearbook, "Georgia and Her Re sources," published by the Department in 1928. These figures were compiled in co-operation with the United States Department of Agriculture and the State College of Agri culture, of Athens, whose assistance is gratefully acknowl edged.
Compilation of farm statistics by counties in Georgia is more in demand each year and it is hoped that this work will be pushed by the Department.
Yours very truly, marcus p. McWhorter, State Statistician.

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Official Final Georgia Consolidated Tobacco Warehouse report for 1928:

Location and Name of Warehouse

Adel: Cook County Tob. Whse, Warren's Warehouse............

Adel Market....... .......................

Bainbridge: Bainbridge Tob. Whse.......

Bainbridge Market...................

Baxley:

05

Piedmont Warehouse.......... Planters Warehouse............

Baxley Market.........................

Blackshear:
Big "Z" Warehouse______ Brantlei 'a Warehouse........ Farmers Warehouse ........ Planters Warehouse..........

Blackshear Market........ ..........

Cairo: Planters Warehouse_____

Cairo Market............................

Camilla: Camilla Tob. Whse............ . Planters Warehouse..........

Camilla Market ...... ..............

Pounds Sold First
Hand

Value

Av.

Pounds

Price Sold For

Per Lb. Dealers

Amount

Av.

Received Price

Per Lb.

Pounds Sold For Own or
other
Whses.

Amount Received

Av. Price Per Lb.

Tobacco Grown in other States but sold in
Georgia Whse.
(Pounds)

2,020,003 $ 290.468.84 977,320; 137.627.85
2,997,323,$ 428,096.69

14.38 14.08
14.28

197,664 $ 61,592
259,256 $

29,984.18 8,110.50
38,094.68

15.17 13.17
14.69

202,555 $ 154,498
357,053

28,323.34 20,137.25
48,460.59

13.98 13.03
13.57

820,888$ 114,744.17 820,888,$ 114,744.17

13.98 13.98

62,794 62,794

7,887.15 7,887.15

12.56 12.56

732,760 3 85,216.64 1,252,5441 148,742.07
1,985,304,$ 233,958.71

11.63 11.88
11.78

45,702 68,806
114,508 $

5,202.66 8,624.14
13,826.8

11.38 12.53
12.07

123,122 $ 249,530
372,652 $

13.237.43 28,258.23
41,495.66

10.75 11.32
11.14

3,305,138 1,542,399 2,702,106 1,733,752

432,752.07 192,783.79 355,623.03 214,732.35

9,283,395 $ 1,195,891.24

13.09 12.50 13.16 12.39
12.88

47,820 63,037 128,032 129,426
368,315

5,114.48 7,553.15 15,700.87 15,853.19
44,221.69

10.70 11.98 12.26 12.25
12.01

86,968 63,876 128,924 62,626
342,394

8,279.96 6,393.35 13,487.82 6,331.18
34,492.31

9.52 10.01 10.61 10.11
10.07

871,644 $ 103,014.39 871,644$ 103,014.39

11.82 11.82

128,918 128,918

13,474.21 13,474.21

10.45 (b)50000(a)10000 10.45 60G00(a&b)

937,938$ 114,764.51 549,1141 65,873.74
1,487,052$ 180,638.25

12.24 12.00
12.15

3,434 $ 3,434$

402.11 402.11

11.71 11.71

51,612 51,612

3,556.45 3,556.45

60000(a) 6.89 23784(a)
6.89 83784(a)

Official Final Georgia Consolidated Tobacco Warehouse report for 1928:

Location and Name ot Warehouse

Pounds Sold First
Hand

Value

Av.

Pounds

Price SAd For

Per Lb. Dealers

Amount Received

Av. Price Per Lb.

Pounds Sold For Own or
other Whses.

Amount Received

Av. Price Per Lb.

Tobacco Grown In
other States but sold In
Georgia Whse.
(Pounds)

Ciaxton: Farmers Tob. Whse. ___________ Tapes Warehouse______________

950,682$ 92,688.19 9.75

735,318

78,886.51 10.73

5,954$

543.97

9.14

16,078

1,387.92

8.63

82,804 $ 6,853.77

112,596

11,079.08

8.28 10.030(c) 9.84

Ciaxton Market......................................

1,686,000 $ 171,574.70 9.18

22,032 * 1,931.89

8.77

195,400 $ 17,932.85

9.18 10.000(c)

Douglas: Big O. K. Whse____ ________ _____ Farmers Brick Whse... _______ Growers' Warehouse _________ The Red Warehouse __________

2,500,480 $ 2,689,593 3,089,815 2,805,354;

301,254.64 329,203.43 423,621.06 362,793.26

12.05 12.24 13.71 12.93

39,764 64,842
71,523 23,5701

5,576-71 7,000.42 9,860.58 2,506.64

14.02 10.80 13.79 10.63

214,898 $ 271,982 260,600 181,944

26,656.31 33,392.21 30,106.79 27,020.52

12.40
12.28 19.106(b) 11.52
14.85!...................... . .....

Douglas Market .................................. 11,085,242 $ 1,416,872.39 12.78

199,699 $ 24,944.35 12.49

929,424 $ 117,175.83 12.61 19.106(b)

Fitzgerald: Lon Dickey Whse................................ Planters Whse. & Loan Co_____

635,310$ 79,636.77 12.54

360,399j

42,721.20 11.85

10.450$ 18,039

1,331.93 1,853.39

11.18 10.27

70,362 $ 40,694i

5,946.13 3,579.71

8.45 8.80

Fitzgerald Market....................................

995.709 $ 122,357.97 12.29

28.489 $ 3,185.32 11.18

111.056 $ 9,525.84

8.58

Hahira:
Farmers Independent.............-- Gold Leaf Whse. ................................ Hahira Warehouse.............................

1,409,582 $ 209,214.95

375,994

55,911.65

875,940 124,000.61

14.84 14.87 14.16

48,3?6 $ 800
1,860,

4,114.24
94.78 253.10

8.50
11.85 13.61

106,454 * 23,076 81,432

12,436.03 2,957.82 9,409.99

11.68 12.82 11.56

8.000(d)
3.000(b) 2.500(a)

Hahira Market.........................................

2,661,516 $ 389,127.21 14.62

51,036 * 4,462.12

8.74

210,962 $ 24,803.84 11.76 13,500(abd)

Hazlehurst:
Foxhall & Moye Whse...................... Planters Tob. Whse...........................

1,183,598 $ 158,136.56 13.36 803.966: 102,038.56 12.69

48.440 $ 6,070.61 12.53

62.022 $ 5,928-82

9.56

Hazlehurst Market................................

1.987.564 $ 260,175.12 13.09

48.440 $ 6,070-61 12.53

62.022 $ 5,928.82

9.56

Metter:
Central Tob. Whse............................ Gorman's New Whse....................... Growers' Tob. Whse.-......................

1,004,512 $ 112,489.62 1.992.344 238,812.74 1,374,896 145,114.04

11.20 11.99 10.55

66.056 $
173,084 81,286

7,789.70 20,532.09 11,182.16

11.79 11.86 13.76

87.886 $
141,404 93,326

8,382.07 15,978.71 10,116.88

9.54'_________
11.30 10.84

Metter Market.....................................

4,371,752$ 496,416.40 11.36

320,426 $ 39,503.95 12.33

322,616

34,477.66 10.69

Official Final Georgia Consolidated Tobacco Warehouse report for 1928

Location and Name of Warehouse

Pounds Sold First
Hand

Value

Av.

Pounds

Price Sold For

Per Lb. Dealers

Amount

Av.

Received Price

Per Lb.

Pounds Sold For
Own or other Whses.

Amount Received

Av. Price
Per Lb.

Tobacco
Grown in other States but sold In
Georgia Whse.
(Pounds)

Moultrie: The Ffl.rmftrs WtlSfl. The Peoples Whse..............................

2,334,060 $ 309,387.35 13.26 1,882,954 229,392.59 12.18

4,312 $ 49,912

555.31 12.88 8,216.98 16.46

113,252

15,371.74

5000(b)3000(a) 13.57 5000(b)5000(a)

Moultrie Market .....................................

4,217,014 $ 538,779.94 12.78

54,224 $ 8,772.29 16.18

113,252 $ 15,371.74 13.57 18,000(a&b)

Nashville:
Brown's Warehouse................ -- Planters Warehouse........................ Union Warohnuso............................

2,418,984 $ 372,578.45 2,240,175 351,760.82 1,116,295 173,217.67

15.40 15.70 15.52

159,100 $ 118,360
70,982

21,719.74 16,727.25 10,779.70

13.65 14.13 15.19

211,770 $ 26,875.13

90,344

12,910.69

12.69 175,218(b) 14.29

Nashville Market....................................

5,775,454 $ 897,556.94 15.54

348,442 $ 49,226.69 14.13

302,114 $ 39,785.82 13.17 175,218(b)

Pelham: Pfilham Warahnnsfl

Pelham Market ____

__

.........

1,732,498 $ 194,704.20 1,732,498 $ 194,704.20

11.24 11.24

01.248 $ fil.2481*

6,546.78 6,546.78

10.69 10.69

Quitman: Rroo'ks nonnty Whfifi. *
Quitman Market....... ..........................

1,245,218 $ 143,794.05 1,245,218 s 143,794.05

167.118'* 16,553.93

9.91

167.1181* 16,553.93

9.91

Statesboro:
Farmers Warehouse ...................... Holt & Cobb.........................................

1,004,260 $ 102,499.07 10.21 1,302,028 145,747.00 11.19

63,606 $ 64,666

7,138.46 11.22 7,492.87 11.59

120,380$ 13,424.71

136,820

16,321.92

11.15 11.93

10.330(c)

Statesboro Market ................................

2,306,288 $ 248,246.07 10.76

128,272 $ 14,631.33 11.41

257,200$ 29,746.63 11.57 10,330(0

Thomasville: Thomas County Whse............. --
Thomasville Market

1,362,228 $ 150,441.60 1.3A2.22ft't 150,441.60

11.04 11.04

70,390$ 70.2.00*

5,917.20 5,917.20

8.41 50,000(b) 8.41 50.000(b)

Tifton:

Farmers Warehouse.-...............--

`F'ennar's WarfthmiQA

. . ...

Twin Brick Warehouse

2,527,892$ 336,862.35 2,965,664 404,435.10
2,840,776 364,562.41

13.33 13.64 12.83

70,476 $ 114.010! 160,272

10,077.02 15,194.59 21,422.84

14.30 13.33 13.37

191,638$ 171,063 336,970

22,496.65 20,764.95 4M78.90

800(b) 11.74 200,000(a) 12.14 12.31 3606(b)6000(cj

Tifton Market..........................................

8,334,332$ 1,105,859.86 13.27

344,758$ 46,694.45 13.54

699,671$ 84,740.50 12.11 210.400(a-b-c)

Official Final Georgia Consolidated Tobacco Warehouse report for 1928

Location and Name of Warehouse
Valdosta: Alliance Warehouse Farmers Tob. Whse. Planters Warehouse.. B. B. Saunders_____ Nat Smith's Whse.
Valdosta Market...............
Vidal la: Georgia Tob. Whse. . Growers' Warehouse
e< Vanns Warehouse ...
<o Vldalia Warehouse ..
Vidal la Market ..............
Waycross: Farmers Warehouse Waycross Tob. Whse.
Waycross Market..............
Total Tobacco _______
Tobacco from other states.
Georgia Tobacco................

Pounds Sold First
Hand

Value

Av.

Pounds

Price Sold For

Per Lb. Dealers

Amount

Av.

Received Price

Per Lb.

Pounds Sold For Own or
other Whses.

Amount Received

Av. Price Per Lb.

Tobacco Grown in
other States but sold In
Georgia Whse.
(Pounds)

,023,951 *
575,106 382,308 ,893,584 ,759,128

138,200.35 76,754.96 51.108.48 579,301.58 234,600.78

7,634,077 $ 1,079,966.15

13.50 13.35 13.37 14.88 13.34
14.15

94,367$ 61,534 45,( 39,004 145,738
385,731

13,909.13 5,564.45 7,956.04 5,311.43 16,998.38
49,739.43

14.74 9.04 17.65 13.62 11.66
12.89

88,260 $ 37,9~ 40,028 192,656 72,502
431,404 $

11,855.45 4,991.46 4,391.59 25,347.83 7,312.17
53,898.50

13.43 13.55 10.97 20.000(b) 13.16 1250,000(b)2000 10.09 850.000(b) (d)
12.49 2122,000 (b & d)

122,070 $ 284,534 405,728 126,888

231,137.60 251,411.79
275,869.47 355,229.12

939,220$ 1,113,647.98

10.89 11.00 11.47 11.36
11.20

140,362 139,022 72,486 242,580
594,450

15,358.45 20,655.70 10,106.42 29,466.05
75,586.62

10.94 14.86 13.94 12.15
12.72

104,586$ 220,584 226,114 235,124
786,408

10,439.40 30,571.24 27,088.05 25,218.43
93,317.12

9.98 13. 11.98 10.73
11.87

120,502 $ 146,838.11 826,952 226,273.04
2,947,454 $ 373,111.15 85i,727,172 $10,958,975.18 21,849,838 364,209.30
821,877,335 $10,594,765.88

13.10 12.39 12.66 12.78 12.78 12.78

21,605$ 101,718
123,323
!,394,835

2,926.94 13,740.19
16,667.13
437,961.46

13.55 13.51
13.52
12.90

62,694'$ 5,666.23 158,776| 15,158.73
221,470 1 20,824.96
6,257,178 $ 725,914.39

9.04 7,500(b)(c) 9.55 50.000(b)20,000
9.40 77,500(b &c)
11.60 2,849,838

Tobacco grown in the other States but sold in Georgia Warehouses, as reported to this office. (a) Tobacco grown in Alabama--sold in Georgia Warehouses. (b) Tobacco grown In Florida--sold in Georgia Warehouses. (c) Tobacco grown in South Carolina--sold in Georgia Warehouses. (d) Tobacco grown in Mississippi--sold in Georgia Warehouses.
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Marcus P. McWhorter. State Statistician.

FINANCIAL REPORT MAINTENANCE. FUND

June 27,1927

to

1928

Dec. 31,1927

Combined

Receipts: From State Treasurer _ Advances outstanding

$ 6,697.68 $ 13,332.32 $ 20,030.00

--100.00

150.00

50.00

$

Disbursements:

Salaries__

$

Travel Expenses

Office Supplies, Expense, and Equip-

ment -

_

_

Telephone and Telegraph _

Postage, _____

_ __

Association Dues -

Auto Repairs and Supplies _ _

Auto Insurance,

Gasoline and OiL _ _ __ __

Auto Equipment,

Advertising

Market Bureau (old advance repaid)

Newspapers and Magazines. _

Typewriter Repairs and Supplies___

Furniture and Fixtures

Bond Premium

Attorney's Fees,

Advance Expense (W. E. Irvin)___

6,597.68 $
4,113.99 $ 340.00
636.78 330.80 166.30
383.88
61.54
9.00 2.14 108.00 37.50 357.75 150.00

13,482.32 $
5,928.34 $ 3,560.23
926.93 672.80 614.48 35.00
56.95 97.14 85.45 1,325.00 80.00 100.00

20,080.00
10,042.33 3,900.23
1,563.71 1,003.60
780.78 35.00 440.83 97.14 146.99 1,325.00 80.00 100.00
9.00 2.14 108.00 37.50 357.75 150.00

Balance due Market Bureau

$ 6,697.68 $ 13,482.32 $ 20,180.00

--100.00

--100.00

Total

$ 6,597.68 $ 13,482.32 $ 20,080.00

FOOD AND DRUG FUND

June 27,1927 to
Dec. 31,1927

Receipts: From State Treasurer,

$ 3,131.64 $

$

Disbursements:

Salaries. _ _

$

Travel Expenses

Laboratory Expenses and Supplies, _

Office -Supplies and Expense _

Telephone and Telegraph

Postage. _ _ _ _

Express and Drayage__

__

3,131.64 $
2,568.87 $ 31.35
427.21 14.49 73.66 3.81 12.25

$ 3,131.64 $ 60

1928

Combined

9,804.55 $
9,804.55 $
7,925.88 $ 10.75
1,615.70 128.96 100.17
23.09
9,804.55 $

12,936.19
12,936.19
10,494.75 42.10
2,042.91 143.45 173.83 3.81 35.34
12,936.19

STATISTICS FUND

Receipts: From State Treasurer
Disbursements: Salaries. Travel Expenses . Postage and Box Rent Stationery and Printing

June 27,1927

to

1928

Dec. 31,1927

Combined

$ 1,518.07 $ $ 1,518.07 $ $ 1,451.66 $
66.41
$ 1,518.07 $ INSECTICIDE FUND

2,962.34 $
2,962.34 $
2,815.00 $ 115.34 17.50 14.50
2,962.34 $

4,480.41
4,480.41
4,266.66 181.75 17.50 14.50
4,480.41

June 27,1927

to

1928

Dec. 31,1927

Combined

Receipts: From State Treasurer

$ 1,005.80 $ 2,444.63 $ 3,450.43

Disbursements: Salaries. Laboratory Supplies. Insecticide Stamps . _ .

$ 1,005.80 $

$

998.55 $

7.25

2,444.63 $
2,374.86 $ 34.77 35.00

3,450.43
3,373.41 42.02 35.00

$ 1,005.80 $ 2,444.63 $ 3,450.43

FERTILIZER INSPECTION FUND

June 27,1927

to

1928

Dec. 31,1927

Combined

Receipts: Balance January 1, 1928____ Inspection Fees:
Sale Fertilizer tags______ Bulk Tax on Fertilizer___ Sale Insecticide Stamps__ Sale Meal Tax Tags__ ___

$

125.00

$ 7,452.55
225.63 293.26 60.00

264,837.33 $ 272,289.88

3,348.86

3,574.49

1,058.91

1,352.17

122.50

182.50

Less imbursed to State Treasurer.

8,031.44 8,031.44

269.492.60 269.392.60

277,399.04 277,424.04

Balance Beginning period... State Treasurer from Fees..

$

0$

100.00 $ --25.00

100.00

100.00

25,361.82 $ 106,601.32 $ 131,963.14

$ 25,461.82 106,701.32 132,038.14

61

Disbursements:

Salaries--Office, Laboratory and

Inspectors __ _ _

$

Travel Expenses^--Office and In-

spectors-- _

Auto Equipment - _

Auto Supplies and Repairs

Office Supplies, Expense and Equip-

merit

Laboratory Supplies and Equipment

Publicity, Printing, Postage, Bulle-

tins

Telephone and Telegraph

Postage,

Express, Freight and Drayage.. _

Premium on Surety Bond..

Library.. _

Tax Tags

Stationery and Printing.

Membership Dues

Gas and Electricity

Attorneys Fees and Court Cost

Fertilizer Analysis (Law & Co.)___

Georgia Book

Miscellaneous

Advance Wiley Galloway Cancelled..

$ Advances Outstanding:
Wiley Galloway (4-5-26).. _ W. F. Brandt (Repaid 1-4-28)___

$

12,025.90 $ 47,423.83 $ 59,449.73

1,181.00 265.00 362.95

.22,845.07

24,026.07 265.00 362.95

1,489.05 3,355.71

1,101.06 3,901.43

2,590.11 7,257.14

1,685.37 255.17 285.62
132.71 137.50 64.50 4,096.34

973.70 1,142.44 1,334.25
136.25
2,545.62 4,458.62
60.00 1,700.68 2,611.34 10,000.00 6,352.89
14.14 100.00

1,685.37 1,228.87 1,428.06 1,466.96
273.75 64.50 6,641.96 4,458.62
60.00 1,700.68 2,611.34 10,000.00 6,352.89
14.14 100.00

25,336.82 $ 106,701.32 $ 132,038.14

100.00 25.00

25,461.82 $ 106,701.32 S 132,038.14

FEED INSPECTION FUND

June 27,1927

to

1928

Dec. 31,1927

Combined

Receipts:

From Sale of Feed Stamps

$ 32,388.53 $ 60,187.10 $ 92,575.63

Less Imbursed to State Treasurer__

32,388.53

60,187.10

92,575.63

State Treasurer from Fee Fund Sale of Automobile.. Balance Jan. 1, 1928 .

25,596.63

58,854.21 150.00 .01

84,450.84 150.00

$ 25,596.63 $ 59,004.22 $ 84,600.84

62

Disbursements:

Salaries _ _

$

Travel Expenses -

_. _

Office Supplies and Expense

Office Equipment _ _

..

Laboratory Supplies and Expense-_

Laboratory Equipment--

Publishing Bulletins and Booklets, _

Tax Stamps .

.

_

Telephone and Telegraph

Postage,-

_

Express and Drayage _ . _,

J. H. Andrews expense taking sam

ples___

Balance in Bank Dec. 31st.

$

16,693.31 $ 5,034.46
376.15 50.05 208.35 78.40 1,164.95 1,006.38 77.27 156.18
3.87
747.25 .01
25,596.63 $

39.546.96 $ 16,319.73
790.52 108.93 116.36
980.80 497.48 139.50 503.93
.01
59,004.22 $

56,240.27 21,354.19
1,166.67 158.98 324.71 78.40
2,145.75 1,503.86
216.77 660.11
3.87
747.25 .01
84,600.84

BACTERIA LABORATORY FUND

June 27,1927
to Dec; 31,1927

Receipts:

Balance on hand June 27, 1927-. . - $

Sale of Bacteria

Less Refunded

_. . _

227.27 $ 478.55
8.10

$

Disbursements:

Laboratory Supplies . _.

Laboratory Repairs

__ .

Postage - ,

__ _

Express and Drayage

Telephone and Telegraph_________

Travel Expense

___ ...

697.72 $
313.64 37.25 25.00 5.11

$ Balance in Bank Dec. 31st ...... .

381.00 $ 316.72

$

697.72 $

1928

Combined

316.72 $ 785.25
6.00 1,095.97 $
455.07
.85 107.84
563.76 532.21
1,095.97 $

227.27 1,263.80
14.10
1,476.97
768.71 37.25 25.00 5.11 .85 107.84
944.76 532.21
1,476.97

63

CONTAGIOUS DISEASES

June 27,1927 to
Dec. 31,1927

Receipts: From State Treasurer _

_. $

1,789.44 $

Disbursements:

Salaries _ _

$

Travel Expenses . _

Stationery and Office Supplies

Telephone, Telegraph and Postage. _

Supplies..

Water, Ice and Towels

Repairs .

_' _

Laundry...

Association Dues

Freight and Express _

Library. . _

._ _ _

1,139.00 $ 567.99 43.08 29.37
10.00

$ 1,789.44 $

1928

Combined

3,453.34 $ 5,242.78

2,675.00 $ 265.59 124.39 140.20 133.82 59.45 20.15 3.00 25.00 6.74
3,453.34 $

3,814.00 833.58 167.47 169.57 133.82 59.45 20.15 3.00 25.00 6.74 10.00
5,242.78

TICK ERADICATION AND QUARANTINE

June 27,1927

to

1928

Dec. 31,1927

Combined

Receipts:

From State Treasurer

$

Disbursements:

Salaries -

__

$

Travel _

Office Supplies and Expense _ _

Laboratory Supplies and Expense--_

Attorneys Fee and Court Cost____

Telephone and Telegraph__ . _

Fields Supplies and Equipment

Dip Supplies (Chemicals).- .

Vat Repairs __

Vat Expense ...

Labor (Vat and Fence Repairs)___

Patrolmen _ _ _ _

Auto Expense _

........................

Printing __ _ _ _

Postage ... _

___

Autos Purchased . ........................

Claims paid by Direction of

Legislature to

Colquitt County______________

Liberty County__________ ____

19,864.05 $
16,731.38 $ 184.92 1.85
1,574.73 325.00 53.77 992.40

48,113.20 $
32,731.54 $ 948.04 8.00 25.00
158.92
3,449.04 1,695.89 1,674.17
387.25 261.56 416.89 80.88 30.00 1,847.50
2,784.16 1,614.36

67,977.25
49,462.92 1,132.96 9.85 1,599.73 325.00 212.69 992.40 3,449.04 1,695.89 1,674.17 387.25 261.56 416.89 80.88 30.00 1,847.50
2,784.16 1,614.36

$ 19,864.05 $ 48,113.20 $ 67,977.25

64

HOG CHOLERA SERUM

June 27,1927 to
Dec. 31,1927

Receipts:

From State Treasurer

__ $

Disbursements:

Salaries _

$

Travel Expenses--

Auto Supplies and Repairs-

Laboratory Supplies

Office Supplies and Expense

Telephone and Telegraph

Ice and Water

Printing

Express.

3,333.51 $
1,822.92 $ 1,466.18
5.40 4.03 13.25 21.73

$ 3,333.51 $

1928

Combined

9,034.86 $
5,565.75 $ 3,242.19
37.95 139.22
13.34 4.80 24.25 7.36
9,034.86 $

12,368.37
7,388.67 4,708.37
43.35 143.25
13.25 35.07
4.80 24.25
7.36
12,368.37

CHEMICAL LABORATORY FUND

June 27,1927 to
Dec. 31,1927

Balance June 27, 1927 Receipts:
From State Treasurer _

$

249.16 $

$ 6,013.19 $

Disbursements:

Salaries__ _

$

Laboratory Supplies and Expense-

Office Supplies and Expense

Office Equipment

Telephone and Telegraph

Apparatus and Replacements

Apparatus Repairs

Laundry___

Postage

6,262.35
6,110.40 $ 85.91 38.35 7.50 20.19

$ 6,262.35 $

1928

Combined

$
14,893.69 $
14,893.69
14,118.01 $ 188.46 35.77
96.97 375.96 37.93 30.56
10.03
14,893.69 $

249.16
20,906.88
21,156.04
20,228.41 274.37 74.12 7.50 117.16 375.96 37.93 30.56 10.03
21,156.04

65

MARKET BUREAU

June 27,1927 to
Dec. 31,1927

Receipts: Balance June 27,1927 ___ From State Treasurer. Less Refunded

$

347.10 $

31,384.65

--200.00

$

Disbursements:

Salaries _

$

Travel Expenses

Auto Repairs and Supplies__

Office Supplies and Expense

Printing, Postage Bulletins

Office Equipment

Postage, Office

Telephone and Telegraph.

Express and Drayage

Market Bureau. __

Auto Equipment

Printing, Miscellaneous .

Paper Supplies

Extra Help

Office Rent _

Dues and Subscriptions

Iee__ _

Fair .Exhibit, Froduce

Photos. _

Engraving. _ _

Surety Bond

Miscellaneous Expense.

Disbursements as per House Bill

N umber 290

Old Advances, Uncollectible

J. M. Morgan (Deceased)

R. F. Whelchel (Claims--off set.) _

31,531.75 $
15,082.63 $ 2,468.76
74.80 530.62 9,392.71 355.25 352.93 1,493.65 158.63 774.67

$

Advances Outstanding:

Maintenance Fund

$

J. M. Morgan __

R. F. Whelchel________________

G. B. Carreker, Petty Cash Fund..

Deposit U. S. Post Office

Fruit Inspection Fund

30,684.65 $
100.00 81.72 165.38 500.00

$ 31,531.75 $

1928

Combined

847.10 $

347.10

95,809.31 127,193.96

125.00

--75.00

96,781.41 $ 127,466.06

36,571.16 $ 10,420.65
1,200.49 24,357.34
622.10 4,981.13
333.91
4,260.00 568.38 529.10 284.50 70.00 39.85 46.20 20.80 16.00 22.02 12.50 36.43

51,653.79 12,889.41
74.80 1,731.11 33,750.05
355.25 975.03 6,474.78 492.54 774.67 4,260.00 568.38 529.10 284.50 70.00 39.85
46.20 20.80 16.00 22.02 12.50 36.43

9,912.33

9,912.33

81.72 165.38

81.72 165.38

94,551.99 $ 125,236.64

500.00 85.00
1,644.42

500.00 85.00 1,644.42

96,781.41 $ 127,466.06

6(1

FRUIT INSPECTION FUND

1927

1928

Combined

Sale of Inspection Stamps _

S

Fruit Inspection Fees____

Less Refunded'______

Balance due Bureau of Markets___

Disbursements:

Salaries. .

_.

Travel Expenses

Printing . _

...

Express._ _ _

___ ____

Telephone and Telegraph

Stationery.

_ . ,,. __

Extra Sten. Work _ .

Postage..__ _________ _ ,,

Balance in State Treasury Dec. 31,. _ Claims on Closed Banks:
1st National Bank, Dublin, Ga___ Bank of Bradley _ . _ . Hogansville Banking Co. . .

557.25 $

557.25 36,243.47 --243.62
1,644.42

$ 38,201.52

$ 24,490.84
10,820.17 1,984.81 115.73 72.84 17.35 15.90 30.00

$ 37,547.64 109.36

17.21
67.66 459.65

S 38,201.52

TUBERCULAR ERADICATION FUND

Receipts:

From State Treasurer

$

Disbursements:

Salaries. _

$

Travel Expenses.

___ . __

Auto Repairs and Supplies

Telephone and Telegraph

Laboratory Equipment and Supplies

Labor, Construction Laboratory___

Auto Insurance _

Express, Freight and Drayage_____

Postage ._

.

...

Office Supplies and Expense. _

Office Furniture and Fixtures_____

Laundry ._ __ .

__ _____

Auto Expense

....

Reference Book_____

Water, Ice and Towels .

Purchase of Chevrolet Car

$ Less Refunds Health Certificates___

$

1927
5,784.86 $ 2,766.28 $
752.92 174.74
18.25 1,367.89
248.20 70.00 11.73 30.00 239.10 105.75
5,784.86 $
5,784.86 $ 67

1928

Combined

`Sr 9,445.31 $ 15,230.17

6,406.25 $ 1,485.51
90.18 655.18
22.52
57.73 63.03 37.64 104.66 15.00
4.85 616.00

9,172.53 2,238.43
174.74 108.43 2,023.07 248.20 70.00 34.25 30.00 296.83 168.78 37.64 104.66 15.00
4.85 616.00

9,558.55 $ 15,343.41

--113.24

--113.24

9,445.31 $ 15,230.17