The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-06-19

crop and it would give good OppOr-
tunity for reports to be padded, and
I claim they were padded, and if any
readers will put themselves to little
trouble they can verify the facts.
l began with my own County. I
got the population and figured that
40 per cent were farmers, but since
figuring on it that way, l have dis
covered that about 40 per cent would
have been nearer correct; but to
figure it 40 per cent we would have
made 3 1-3 bales Of cotton to every
man, woman and child in the County
on the farm or about 16 bales to
each farm family / knew that was
absurd, for this County. Then to
verify the theory that this County
had not produced near as mucn as
was reported in bulletin No. ia, I
went over carefully and counted the
number Of gins in this County and
find only IL in the County, and there
fore to have ginned the amount
claimed they would have ginned an
average of 1926 bales each, which
would have been over double the
average of the whole United States,
and nearly double the entire State of
Georgia. This led me co believe
there were too many gins beng re-
ported, as in the event the reports
were to be greatly padded and the
exact amount of gins given then the
average per gin would run so high
we might detect the fault at once.
Then l began to figure on how many
square miles there would be to each
gin in Georgia, and to my surprise I
find that the gins would only be
little over miles apart all over the
State, including cities, rivers,
swamps, mountains and several
counties not producing cotton. Right
here is where I want to show you
how they came so near deceiving the
elect. No individual can tell how
many gins are in State, but most
any one can tell how many gins are
in q County. Therefore, the num-
Der of gins are given by States, so
we can't tell if the report is correct
or not.
No individual can tell the number
of bales of cotton produced in a
county, SO they consider it safe to
give the number of bales produced in
each county, as that gets up a kind
of rivalry between counties and
serves as an advertisement for the
large landowners.
An adjoining county to this lacks
thirteen gins of having it's. pro rata
of gins. That makes twenty-six gins
short in these two counties. Now
multiply the twenty-six gins by 657
bales which is the average for Geor-
gia, and we have 1852 bales in
these two counties which were never
ginned because there were no gins
to give them. If you say these
twenty-siX gins are to be accounted
for in other counties, then where are
they? Maybe we will find them in
Dooly county, as it is the second larg-
est cotton producing county in the
State, according to Bulletin ia.
figure from the map that Dooly con-
tains about 400 square miles, and
would have to have seventy gins,
ginning an average of 657 bales each,
which would place the gins a little
over two miles apart all over the
county; and if the map is correct
there are some rivers and lakes in
Dooly county, and if we count that
mileage out the gins in DoOly would
be thick enough to burn over, if there
were any farm houses and barns,
towns and cities in the county, If
we say that Dooly has not her pro
rata Of gins, and they ginned more
than 657 bales each, then you come
up with a dozen or more gins short,
which | suspect, ana if I'VE should
trace this thing all over the cotton
belt | think We will find an average
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