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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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. Nor is this industry confined to South Geargia; bearinggroves are located in Spalding and Hancock counties, and young treesare in great demand for planting in North Georgia as well as furtherBouth. Eichmond county also has a few pecan-trees, which bear nuts offine quality. Berries.—Georgia raises abundant crops of strawberries, for home con-sumption and the northern markets. They reach New York and Bostonin the interval between the berries of Florida and those of the Middleand New England States. Blackberries are abundant, both wild and cul-tivated. Raspberries with proper attention make good yields. Georgia has many advantages over California. It requires only twoor three days to transport fruit from this State to New York at a costof about $208.00 a car, while it takes nine days from California at acost of $3C0.00 a car. Besides, Georgia fruit being so much nearer tothe eastern markets, can be picked at a much more advanced stage ofmaturity than the fruit of California. o o Q QO
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GEORGIA: HISTORICAL AND INDUSTRIAL. 249 The eleventh census of the United States showed that no farmer couldmake as much in any other agricultural pursuit as in truck raising andfruit-growing, the average profit from which was $150.00 to the acre.In making out this average the South stood the highest, which fact wasdue not only to its great productiveness, but also to its cheap labor, andthe higher prices which result from the early seasons. Common laborerscan be hired at sixty to seventy-five cents a day of twelve working hours,while a better class of laborers command from eighty cents to one dollara day. The laborers provide their own board and lodging. CHAPTER VIIL DAIKYING AND CREAMEKIES. ) Among the new industries that are claiming more and more the atten-tion of our people is that of dairying. Within the last decade encouragingprogress has been made and quite a number of dairy farms and creamer-ies have been established. Much interest in the subject has been arousedby the Georgi

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