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FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA 187
BAKI41SD HOCKS, MIDDLEBROOKS FARM, NEAR MACON
Agriculture further states that "in nearly every county in Georgia
there are lands that sell as high as $50 and even $75 and $100
an acre, and yet these best lands, on which often as many as
three crops a year may be made, may be had at half the price
now paid for high-class Western one-crop lands. Likewise there
are many acres in most 'Georgia counties which may be had
around the average price given, and in some instances even
lower." Proximity to a railroad shipping station largely governs
values.
APFLING County, 14,000; Baxley, 1,500; taxable property, $4,-
129,019. Farm products: Cotton, corn, cane, potatoes, hay, mel
ons, cattle and hogs for shipping. Manufactures: Lumber and
naval stores. Average altitude, 206 feet. Average value farm
lands, $10 an acre.
BACON County, 12,000; Alma. 1,200; area, square miles, 332;
taxable property, $1,750,000. Farm products: Cotton, corn,
melons. Manufactures: Building material, oil mill, cotton gins.
Average altitude, 205 feet. Average value land per acre, $15.
BAKER County, 6,500; Newton, 460; taxable property, $1,501,-
ooo. Farm products: Cotton, corn, cane, potatoes, peaches,
pecans, hogs, cattle and horses. Average altitude, 200 feet. Aver
age land values per acre, $10.
Feed, mills are spring
ing up all over Georgia
and providing cash mar
kets for the farmers'
surplus crops, other
than cotton. Many farm
ers already have their
own small feed mills
and crushers, but there
is an increasing surplus
of velvet beans, peanuts
and corn, which, grown
in combination on the
same soil at the same
time in Georgia, is solv
ing many problems for
its farmers, ana fatten
ing their bank accounts.
When Northern farmers
realise the possibilities
of growing rich feed,
and grazing cattle on
lands they can purchase
now at low prices, they
will surely want a part
of Georgia's prosperity.