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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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broom factory, four barrel factories, one wagon and onebuggy factory, and two harness factories. There are on the line in Georgiafive brick yards, four being in Macon and one near Lenox in Berriencounty. There is not much dairying along this line, but those engagedin the business are prosperous. Considerable upland rice is produced for home consumption, and insome years considerable is shipped. The yield is 30 bushels to the acre. Both cigar and smoking tobacco have been grown along this road, theformer producing from 1,000 to 1,200 pounds to the acre, and the lat-ter averaging 750 pounds to the acre. A good local market would causea renewal of the growth of this plant. This region is especially adapted to the growth of sugar-cane, whichis true also of the sections traversed by the Central, Southern and Plantsystems. Many families from the northwestern and other States aresettled along the Georgia, Southern and Florida. The Western and Atlantic di\Tsion of the Xashville, Chattanooga C
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GEORGIA: HISTORICAL AXD INDUSTRIAL. 183 Railway system operates in Georgia 139 miles, of which eight-een are known as the Rome Railway. This road connects Atlanta withMarietta, Acworth, Cartersville, Rome, Calhoun, Dalton and Ringgoldin Georgia, and Chattanooga in Tennessee, passing through seven coun-ties, embracing a splendid agricultural section, whose crops of cotton,grain and hay are excelled nowhere in the State. Fruit trees, especiallypeach, have been planted in great numbers and with wonderful success.From Cartersville to the Chattahoochee river grape culture is success-fully carried on, and from Ringgold and vicinity strawberries are gro^vnand shipped in abundance. The section about Ringgold is best adaptedto small fruits and grain; about Dalton to vegetables, fiTiits and gTain;about Calhoun to corn, small grain and peaches; about Adairsville towheat and peaches; about Cartersville to fine staple cotton, corn andwheat; around Marietta to cotton, peaches and grapes; around Smy

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