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FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA 59
Georgia." One of the stanzas of the poem that brought that
prodigal family home is as follows:
She said "I know these Texas skies are mighty blue and bright;
There's lots o' joy by day time, an' rosy dreams at night;
But I'm thinkin' of my Georgia home—each dear loved hill and
plain,
An' all I'm wantin for to know is—Where's the Georgia train?"
The actual agricultural population of Georgia by the 1910
census was 1,784,668. The total area of the State is 37,584,000
acres. Only 12,298,017 of these acres were "improved." or under
cultivation. Allowing five million acres for pasturage, and ten
million for forests and mineral claims, there are 10,285,883 un
used arable acres, available for farming. All this in addition
to the very large percentage of so-called "improved" lands that
are not really cultivated, and the opportunity for more intensive
cultivation of the lands already under the plow. Divided into
80 acre tracts, the ten million and odd unused lands would pro
vide for 128,571 new farmers. The average value of farm lands
in the State was $13.74 per acre. The average net return from
the cultivated land was $19.08 an acre. The total number of
farms in 1910 was 291,027, an increase of 138,626 since 1880.
Of these, 100,047 were operated by owners and 190,180 by
tenants. Of tenants there are enough.
In 1880 there had been 76,451 ownership farms and 62,175
MACADAMIZED ROAD NEAK SAVANNAH, CHATHAM COUNTY
Links in the new Dixie
Highway are being rap
idly closed up in Geor
gia.