The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-01-14
GEORGIA FARM FIGURES
CENSUs BULLETIN SOON TO BE
rSsvrED GIVES FIGURES ON LIVE
STOCK AND FIELD CROPS.
STATE IS RICH IN PRODUCTS

Totat Value of All Crops in 1909 Was
S226. 500, 900. Two-Thirds of the
Total Contributed by Cotton. POul-
try and Dairy Products Mount Up
Into the Millions.
WASHINGTON, D. statistics
for products for Georgia are present.
ed in bulletin soon to be issued by
director Durand of the bureau of the
census. department Of commerce and
labor. 1t was prepared under the
supervision of John Lee Coulter, ex-
pert special agent for agriculture.
The returns for livestock products
obtained at the census of 1910, like
those for crops, relate to the activl-
ties of the calendar year 1903. 1t is
impossible to give total represent
ing the annual production of live
stock products for the reason that
the total value Of products from the
business IF raising domestic animals
for use, sale or slaughter cannot be
calculated from the census returns.
Only a snail proportion of the
milk reported as produced by Geor-
gia farmers in 1909 was sold as
such. The butter made on farms in
1909 was valued at $5,636,O00.
Wool.
The total number of sheep of shear
ing age in Georgia on April Is, 1910,
was $4,000, representing a decrease
of 40.8 per cent as compared with
the number on June 1, 1900, C25O,-
OOO). The approximate production
of wool during 1909 was 165, 900
feeces, weighing 428,000 pounds and
valued at $11S,OOO. OF these totals
about one-fourth represent estimates.
The number of fieeces produced in
1909 was Ais per cent less than in
1899. The average weight per fleece
in 1909 was 20 pounds as compared
with 81 pounds in 1899, and the av-
erage value per pound was % cents
Poultry Products.
The total number of fowls on Geor-
gia farms on April 25, 1910, was
5.329.OOO. OF the 244,719 farms
reporting fowls 1899 did not report
any eggs produced in 1909, and 49,
PSI did not report any poultry rails
ed in 1909. The production of eggs
actually reported for the year 1908
was 18,163,000 dozens, valued at So
100000. According to the twelfth
census reports the production OF
eggs in 1899 was 5,505, 900 dozens,
the value being $1,616,000. The lat
ter figures, however, are somewhat
in excess of the actual returns at that
census. because they include estl-
mates made to cover those cases
where the schedules reported fowls
on hand without reporting the pro-
duction of eggs. In order to make
the returns for 1909 comparable with
those published for 1899 similar es-
Inmates have been made, the method
of estimate and the Justification
therefor being substantially the same
as in the case of wool. The total
production of eggs in 1909, includ-
ing these estimates, was 20,79S, 900
dozens. valued at $3,927,000. The
total production of poultry in 1903,
including estimates made on the
same basis as for eggs, was 14,93l,-
600 fowls, valued at $4,12O,O 900.
Animals Sold or Slaughtered.
The total value of domestic AMI
mails sold during 1909 was 5,4o9'-
600 and that of animals slaughtered
on farms $10,41O,OOO, making an ag-
gregate of $15,S7O,000. This total,
however, involves considerable dupll-
cation resulting from the resale or
slaughter of animals which had been
purchased by the farmers during the
same year.
The value of mules sold during
1909 represented somewhat more
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