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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ion to fruit. Vegetables of every variety are raised, and between $7,000and $8,000 worth are marketed annually. Almost every family raisesthem for home consumption. Very fine melons are raised, almost ex-clusively for home use. Only a few farmers pay any atten-tion to the cultivation of hay, but those who do, find it very profitable.They generally raise the crowfoot and crab grasses with peas and har-vest them together. The soil belongs to the tertiary formation. It is generally gray witha red clay subsoil. There are outcroppings of red surface subsoil in thenorthern and eastern parts of the county. It is an elevated region, withlands for the most part slightly rolling. The average production to theacre on these lands is: corn, 10 bushels; oats, 12 bushels; wheat, 8 bush-els; rye, 6 bushels; Irish potatoes, 60 bushels; sweet potatoes, 200 bush-els; cow-peas, 5 bushels; ground-peas, 10 bushels; rice, 40 bushels (up-land); sugar-cane syrup, 300 gallons; seed cotton, 600 pounds; hay from
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ABUNDANCE. ICqualing in thrift and beauty any known fruit tree ; an early and profuse bearer ; llcsh li)j;htyellow, tender and juicy, with a rich sweetness, ripeninp; early in the season. GEORGIA: HISTORICAL AXD INDUSTRIAL. 807 crowfoot and crab-grass and peavines, harvested together, 3,000 pounds.Under the best methods of cultivation the average of nearly all thesecrops is greatly increased. There are in Randolph comity 85,000 peach-trees, 6,000 plum-treesand 1,200 apple-trees. More attention than ever before is being paid to the improvement ofthe breeds of both dairy and beef cattle. In 1890 the county had 4,829cattle, of which 1,860 were milch-cows. About one-fifth of the cowswere of improved breeds, a fair percentage being of pure blood. Therewere 258 working oxen, 992 horses, 1,492 mules, 13 donkeys, 14,425swine and 57,467 domestic fowls of all varieties. Among the farm products are 317,045 gallons of milk, 75,472pounds of butter, 180 pounds of cheese, 107,667 dozens of eggs and2

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