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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
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raised in this county. All the varieties of vegetables do well, and the truck sold in thecounty averages yearly between $35,000 and $40,000. The countyraises 5,000 bushels of Irish potatoes, 66,000 bushels of sweet potatoes,and 1,000 pounds of upland rice. There are 32,000 peach-trees, 4,600 apple-trees and of plum and pear-trees about 2,000 each. There are 25 dairy farms well stocked with Jerseys and doing a thriv-ing business. About 20 per cent, of fertilizers used is produced on the farms.Many farmers, especially those who have dairies, have silo pits and useensilage profitably. Bermuda grass furnishes good summer pasturage,while clover, Texas blue-grass, barley, rye, oats and wheat are used forwinter pasturage. More interest than formerly is being taken in the improvement ofbeef cattle. The timber products are small, consisting mostly of oak,hickory, cherry, walnut, etc., in the northern part, A little yellow pineis still left. The principal game of Bibb county is quail and doves.
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77H1IL iLYMUUlH HOCK COCK, From r.nl X„. j,. GEORGIA: HISTORICAL AND INDUSTRIAL. 549 The Ocmiilgee river and tlie numerous creeks furnish a considerablequantity of fish. Among the minerals are pottery clay (iu abundance), some ochre,granite and limestone. There are two granite quarries. According to the United States census of 1900 the county in 1899produced 6,568 bales of upland cotton. According to the census of 1890 there were 343 sheep, with a wool-clip of 834 pounds, 2,683 cattle, 1,137 milch-cows, 57 working oxen,6,024 hogs, 27,124 poultry of all kinds, 482 hoi-ses and 1,324 mules.These statistics do not include live stock in the city of Macon. Among the farm products were 253,507 gallons of milk, 48,042pounds of butter, 5,105 pounds of honey, and 41,192 dozens of eggs. Macon, the county seat, named for Honorable Nathaniel Macon, isappropriately called the Central City, for it is very near, if not in theexact geographical center of Georgia. In 1806 in what is now EastMacon, wa

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