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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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business of Chatham county amounts to$225,000 a year; of Eichmond county, $85,000; of Bibb, $35,000; ofMuscogee, $30,000; of Fulton, $150,000. These are the counties in which are the largest cities, viz.: Savannah,Augusta, Macon, Columbus and Atlanta. Brunswick, the Georgia portof the Southern and Plant systems of railway, is the center of a largetrucking business, which in that vicinity has taken a great bound for-ward. All kinds of vegetables and early fruits do well there. The bot-tom lands of the rivers of Southeastern Georgia are admirably suited,after drainage, to celery, cabbage, potatoes, strawberries and other prod-ucts. The sea-islands cannot be surpassed in healthfulness of climate,and with the advantage of the fish and shell-fish, the market gardenernear Brunswick cannot fail to live well and prosper. With some vege-tables as many as three crops can be raised on the same ground in oneyear. The value of the trucking business in the vicinity of Brunswickis $50,000 a year. c
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GEORGIA: HISTORICAL AXD INDUSTRIAL. 237 Besides the more important centers already named are numeroustowns and stations along all the railway lines of Georgia. Some of thecounties with a large trucking business are: Houston and Burke, theproduct of whose market gardens is $15,000 a year for each; Spaldingcounty, with a product of $16,000, and Macon county, with a productof $12,000. While Eastern Georgia supplies the markets of the I^orthand East, Middle and ISTorthwest Georgia should supply Louisville, Cin-cinnati, Chicago and the northwest with early vegetables. Men of intelligence and thrift here and there throughout Georgia haveshown the great capacity of our soil for high cultivation. What hasbeen done by some can be done by all with the same good skill and man-agement. Georgia is so famous for melons that this subject should not be closedwdthout reference to them. The Georgia watermelon stands unrivaled,both in quality and quantity, and enjoys a national reputation. So ex-tensive

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