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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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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laid out in 1777, and named in honor of JohnWilkes, the great champion of American liberty. In 1790 a part of itwas set off to Elbert county; part to Warren in 1793; a part to Lincolnin 1796; part to Greene in 1802, and other parts to Teliaferro in 1825and 1828. It is bounded by the following counties: Elbert on the north,Lincoln on the east, McDuffie, Warren and Taliaferro on the south,Taliaferro on the southwest, Oglethorpe on the west and northwest. Broad river is on its northern and Little river on its southern border.The creeks are Beaverdam, Fishing and Kettle creeks. The surface of the country in undulating and the soil varied. Thelight sandy lands produce well for a few years. By careful cultivationand judicious fertilizing they can be built up and enabled to retaintheir productiveness. The best lands are on Broad and Little riversand their tributary creeks. The a-verage yield to the acre is, accordingto location and culture, as follows: corn, 15 to 25 bushels; oats, 20 to 30;
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MILLER RASPBERRY. Canes of strong growth with heavy rich fohaKe. Very prolific and so hardy as to have endured a temperature of 25 degrees below zero unharmed. Berries large, very bright in color, of excellent flavor and the firmest of all Kaspberries. It never fails to produce a heavy crop and picks for a long season. GEORGIA: HISTORICAL AXD INDUSTRIAL. 881 wheat, 10 to 15; rye, 10 to 12; Irish potatoes, 50 to 75; sweet potatoes,80 to 120; field-peas, 12; gi-ound-peas,50; seed cotton, 800 pounds; corufodder, 400 pounds; crab and bermuda grass hay, 3,000 pounds each;sorghum syrup, 80 gallons; sugai-cane syrup, 90 gallons. Nearly everypart of the county is well adapted to the grasses and clover. Ber-muda and crab-grass furnish good pasturage for six month of the year;for the other six, rye, clover, barley and the stubble fields, aided byswamp cane. Dairying is carried on to some extent, and more attention is beinggiven to beef cattle. In 1890 Wilkes county had 5,525 cattle, 282 beingwo

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