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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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o the peo-ple of city and country. The great abundance of good native grasses, es-pecially of the crab and crowfoot varieties, afford opportunities for ex-cellent hay, and the farmers of this section produce it in large quantities.Egyptian corn, German millet and sorghum forage are cultivated withgreat success. Dougherty county has some of the most productive lands in Georgia.Under skillful farming the lands will yield to the acre: seed cotton, 1,500pounds; corn, 20 to 30 bushels; wheat, 30 to 40 bushels; oats, 30 to 40bushels; upland rice, 50 bushels; Irish potatoes, 100 bushels; sweet pota-toes, 200 bushels, and sugar-cane syrup, 300 to 600 gallons. There arein the county three vineyards producing the best varieties of grapes.Melons, peaches, pears, and all varieties of vegetables do well.The county is well timbered and has an annual output of 1,000,000superficial feet. There are three large sa^vmills valued at $40,000.According to the United States census of 1900 Dougherty county c
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GEORGIA: HISTORICAL AXD INDUSTRIAL. 639 ginned in ISUU, 12,493 bales of uplaaid and 342 bales of sea-islandcotton. By the United States census of ISJO there were 2,672 cattle, 972milch-cows, 146 working oxen, 4,110 hogs, 14,215 poultry of all kinds;36b horses, 1,318 nudes and 1 donkey. Among the farm productions are94,810 gallons of milk, 6,933 pounds of butter, 851 pounds of honey and31,651 dozens of eggs. The area of Dougherty county is 339 square miles, or 216,960 acres.The population by the United States census of 1900 is 13,679, an in-crease of 1,473 since 1890. According to the report of the Commission-er of Education the school fund is $8,656.82. In the 6 schools for whites tliere is an average attendance of 276 pupils,while 24 schools for negroes show an average attendance of 1,110. According to the report of the Comptroller-General for 1900 thereare: acres of improved land, 201,898; of wild land, 6,000; average valueper acre of improved land, $4.19; of wild land, $1.69; city

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