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FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA 201<br />

Cotton, corn, oats, wheat, rye, potatoes, hay, peaches, apples,<br />

melons, berries. Minerals: Gold and granite. Average altitude,<br />

700 feet. Average value farm land per acre, $10.<br />

LOWNDES County, 29,837; Valdosta, 14,473; area > 35 l square<br />

miles; taxable property, $9,267,351. Farm products: Sea Island<br />

cotton, hay, grain, melons, vegetables, fruits, thoroughbred hogs<br />

and cattle, dairying. Manufactures: Fertilizers, cotton mills, oil<br />

mills, foundries, machinery, wagons, buggies, cigars. Average<br />

altitude, 120 feet. Average value farm land per acre, $30.<br />

LUMPKIN County, 5,444; Dahlonega, 829; area, 282 square<br />

miles; taxable property, $1,400,000. Farm products: Corn, oats,<br />

cotton, wheat, potatoes, apples, hay, peaches. Manufactures:<br />

Cotton gins, gold mines. Average altitude, 1,500 feet. Average<br />

value farm land per acre, $10.<br />

MACON County, 15,020; Oglethorpe, 924; area, 750 square<br />

miles; taxable property, $3,265,000. Farm products: Corn, cot<br />

ton, hay, peaches and pecans (350 cars peaches shipped 1914) ;<br />

live stock valued $2,618,052. Manufactures: Oil mills, com<br />

presses, knitting mill, crate factory, bauxite mines. Average alti<br />

tude, 460 feet. Average value farm land, $10 per acre.<br />

MADISON County, 16,851; Danielsville, 325; area, 284 square<br />

miles; taxable property, $2,395,930. Farm products: Corn, cot<br />

ton, grain. Manufactures: Oil and guano. Average altitude,<br />

800 feet. Average value land per acre, $30.<br />

MARION County, 10,000; Buena Vista, 1,250; area, 360 square<br />

miles; taxable property, $1,876,455. Farm products: Cotton,<br />

corn, hay, cane, potatoes, oats, peaches, fruit, nuts, hog and cattle<br />

raising small but increasing. Manufactures: Fertilizers, turpen<br />

tine, sawmills, c<strong>of</strong>fins. Average altitude, 500 feet. Average value<br />

farm land per acre, $10.<br />

; McDuFFiE County, 11,875 '> Thomson, 2,340; area, square miles,<br />

258; taxable property, $2,256,295. Farm products: Cotton, corn,<br />

wheat, oats, rye, cane, hay, vegetables <strong>of</strong> all kinds, peaches,<br />

apples, watermelons, cantaloupes. Minerals: Gold, clay. Aver<br />

age altitude, 600 feet. Average value farm land per acre, $12.<br />

MdNTOSH County, 7,000; Darien, 1,500; area, 400 square<br />

miles; taxable property, $1,250,000. Farm products: Corn, rice,<br />

potatoes, peas, cane, cotton and all kinds <strong>of</strong> truck, pears, peaches<br />

and o<strong>the</strong>r fruits, pecans, cattle, hogs, sheep. Manufactures:<br />

Brick plant, porch and swing factory, handle factory, saw and<br />

planing mills, ice and electric plants. Average altitude, 25 feet.<br />

Average value farm land per acre, $10.<br />

MEKIWETHER County, 27,000; Greenville, 1,500; area, 545<br />

square miles; taxable property, $4,800,000. Farm products:<br />

Cotton and corn,.apples, peaches, pecans. Manufactures: Cotton<br />

<strong>Georgia</strong> grown to<br />

bacco is beginning to<br />

take a place in <strong>the</strong><br />

world's markets. The<br />

largest shade tobacco<br />

plantation in <strong>the</strong> world<br />

is at Amsterdam in<br />

Decatur County. Its<br />

product is Sumatra, for<br />

cigar wrappers, and<br />

brings <strong>the</strong> highest<br />

prices extant. Eighteen<br />

acres <strong>of</strong> bright leaf to<br />

bacco were planted in<br />

1014 at Nichols, in C<strong>of</strong><br />

fee County, and increas<br />

ed to 200 acres and more<br />

<strong>the</strong> following years. So<br />

successfully has Seen<br />

<strong>the</strong> experiment that<br />

farmers at Rockingham<br />

and Douglas have also<br />

entered <strong>the</strong> field. The<br />

present shortage <strong>of</strong> pot<br />

ash, - so essential to to<br />

bacco growing, is <strong>the</strong><br />

only drawback to <strong>the</strong> en<br />

terprise.

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