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Identifier: georgiahistorica00geor (find matches)
Title: Georgia, historical and industrial
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Georgia. Dept. of Agriculture Stevens, O. B. (Obediah B.) Wright, R. F. (Robert F.)
Subjects: Georgia -- History Georgia -- Economic conditions
Publisher: Atlanta, Ga. : G.W. Harrison, State Printer
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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roasting ears, a favorite article of food in everyAmerican community. But when we have considered the acreage and production of com,we have by no means exhausted the subject The leaves, or fodder, andthe shucks that are stripped from the ears constitute, when properlycured, a forage highly prized on every farm. Sometimes while in agreen state, the stalk, fodder and shucks are cut up together, and beingdeposited in a silo, constitute the corn ensilage, so useful as a food forthe milch-cow and other stock. The old-time custom of pulling fodder is not so much in vogaie now asformerly. At the proper time, before the grain is fully ripe, the stalks,with their leaves and corn still on them, are cut and shocked likewheat or other grain. Then, when the ears have been taken out of theshucks, the shucks are shredded by means of a machine made for thatpurpose, and the material then baled is ready for the market. Sometimesa field of corn is purposely planted so closely as not to produce ears, and
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GEORGIA:^HISTORICAL AND INDUSTRIAL. 201 the whole mass, at the proper stage of advancement, being cut down, af-fords most excellent forage. Further mention of the uses of corn as a forage crop will be madein the section on grasses and forage crops. Wheat.—Although Georgia, being a leading cotton State,, has neverranked in wheat production with the jSTorth Central grain States, yet hersoil, when sowed in that important cereal^ is capable of producing greatresults. Before the days of low freight rates from the great west, wheatcultivation was very remunerative in Georgia, and Georgia flouringmills declared large dividends. But the grand trunk lines, with their lowrates of transportation, made it so difficult for Georgia millers to com-pete with the west, that many of the leading mills abandoned the con-test Then the farmers sowed but little more than enough for theirown use, and Georgias acreage and production rapidly declined. At thetime of the census of 1890 her wheat area was 196,6

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