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FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA 205
corn, oats, wheat, peas, potatoes, alfalfa, clover, pecans, peaches,
some hogs. Manufactures: Cotton mill, brick yard, ice plant,
cotton oil mills, ginneries, cotton compress, sawmill, fertilizer
plants, white hickory axe handle factory. Average altitude, 350
feet. Average value farm land per acre, $30.
PUTNAM County, 13,876; Eatonton, 2,000; area, 350 square
miles; taxable property, $3,078,837. Farm products: Cotton,
corn, potatoes and all kinds of vegetables, cattle, live stock, pe
cans, peaches. Manufactures: Cotton mills, cotton oil mill, grain
mill, canning factory, dairy. Average altitude, 700 feet. Average
value farm land per acre, $20.
QUITMAN County, 4,600; Georgetown, 500; area, 272 square
miles; taxable property, $692,390. Farm products: Cotton, corn,
potatoes, peanuts, oats, wheat, cane, peaches, pecans, hogs, cattle.
Average altitude, 410 feet. Average value farm land per acre,
$15.00.
RABUN County, 5,562; Clayton, 600; area, 344 square miles;
taxable property, $1,388,000. Farm products: Corn, grain, pota
toes, hay, especially apples, grapes, berries. Manufactures: Great
Tallulah Falls power plant of Georgia Railway & Power Co.,
asbestos, gold and mica mines. Average altitude, 2,200 feet.
Average value land per acre, $6. Best bottom land sells at $75
an acre and more.
RANDOLPH County, 19,000; Cuthbert, 3,400; area of square
miles, 476; taxable property, $3,502,725. Farm products: Cot
ton, corn, oats, hay, peaches and pecans. Manufactures: Oil
mills, fertilizer plants, harness factory, grist mills, 20 sawmills.
Average altitude, 400 feet. Average value farm land per acre,
$15.00.
RICHMOND County, 72,000; Augusta, 55,500; taxable property,
$30,000,000. Farm products: Cotton, grain, hay, garden truck,
live stock. Manufactures: 96 manufacturing plants, including
big cotton mills, lumber mills, brick yards, foundries, and kaolin
beds. Average altitude, 273 feet. Average value farm land per
acre, $10 to $100.
ROCKDALE County, 9,875; Conyers, 2,350; area, square miles,
121; taxable property, $2,347,069. Farm products: Corn, cotton,
wheat, oats, hay, potatoes, sugar cane, apples, peaches, melons,
berries. Minerals: Granite in large quantities. Manufactures:
Granite quarries, oil mills. Average altitude, 900 feet. Average
value farm land per acre, $12.
SCHLEY County, 5,499; Ellaville, 700; area, 188 square miles;
taxable property, $1,383,270. Farm products: Cotton. Manu
factures: Guano. Average altitude, 400 feet. Average value
farm land per acre, $10.
Peanuts will "be a live
crop in Georgia in 1917.
The demand for seed
nuts has raised the price
of the 1916 crop natu
rally, and preparations
are already under way
for extensive planting in
the spring. R. F. Colson
of Lake Pail, Lowndes
County, netted $2,-
000 in 1916 from 63
acres, at $1,25 a bushel,
and left enough in the
field to fatten 100 hogs.
I. G. Saunders of the
same place made 10,000
bushels, and claims that
$1.25 a bushel for pea
nuts beats even 60 cents
for Sea Island cotton.
The demands of the oil
mills also make for a
high price, and encour
age extra planting.
There is always a cash
market for peanuts for
either oil or feed.