By reason of its more than 4W of latitude and different altitudes of its various sections, Georgia produces the crops and fruits of every section of the Union, and on its sea islands and extreme southern section of its mainland many of those of the tropics, such as oranges, lem ons, bananas, etc. Pomegranates and figs are found all over the State.
The census of 1900 gave the total value of Georgia's agricultural products at $86,345,343. The census of 1910 gave the value of Georgia's agricultural products as $226,595,436, an in crease of 162.4 per cent. The value of all farm 1228 roperty according to the census of 1900 was ,374,637, and by the census of 1910 was 580,546,381, an increase of 154.2 per cent. The Georgia cotton production for the five years from 1911 to 1915 gives a five-year average of 2,323,000 bales per annum, The largest yearly production during that period was 2,794,000 bales in 1911 and the smallest was 1,812,000 bales in 1912. The crop of 1915 was 1,937,000 bales. The five-year average of Georgia's cot ton crop was $142,429,000. The largest yearly value of the cotton crop in Georgia was $174, 540,000 in 1913, and the lowest $119,400,000 in 1912. The value of the crop in 1915 was $139, 570,000. In any ordinary year the peach crop of Georgia is worth at least $4,000,000, and in some years it will far exceed those figures. Georgia outranks all the States in the number and quality of her watermelons.
Stock raising is very profitable to those who engage in it. In southern Georgia cattle and sheep need very little shelter and for only a few weeks of the winter. The number of specified domestic animals in 1918 was: Dairy cows, 435,000; other neat cattle, 755,000; horses, 130,000; mules and asses, 334,000; sheep (lambs not included), 144,000; swine, 2,766,000. Of poultry there were 4,549,144 chickens, 103,416 turkeys, 208,997 geese and 64,895 ducks. The total value of domestic animals, poultry and bees in 1900 was $35,200 507 and 1910 it was $80,393,993, an increase of 128.4 per cent. The average value of land per acre was $525 in 1900 and $13.74 in 1910, an increase of 161.7 per cent.
Geology and are three main geological divisions of Georgia. The Palaeozoic in the northwest embraces the counties of Dade, Walker, Catoosa, Whitfield, Chattooga, Floyd, and the greater parts of Murray, Gor don, Bartow and Polk. Cambrian, Silurian, Devonian and Carboniferous formations are represented. The rocks are chiefly shales, sandstones, limestone, quartzites and cherts.
This is a region of parallel valleys and moun tain ridges in which are found valuable de posits of coal, iron, aluminum (or bauxite), manganese and roofing slate. Hydraulic cement rock is found in large quantities in Bartow County. The crystalline area includes that por tion of the State not in the Palieozoic area that runs north of a line extending through Colum bus, Macon, Milledgeville and Augusta. In this area are granites, schists and gneisses, and in the region which borders both the Palmozoic and crystalline areas are found the marbles for which Georgia is so famous. The marble belt traverses Fannin, Gilmer, Pickens and Cherokee counties, the most important quarries being in Pickens County. Large quantities of granite and gneiss are found in many localities in the crystalline area.
The gold deposits are found in four belts. The first runs through Rabun, Habersham, White, Lumpkin, Dawson, Forsyth, Cherokee, Cobb, Bartow, Paulding, and Haralson count:es. The second belt traverses Rabun, Habersham, Hall, Gwinnett, Forsyth, Milton, De Kalb and Fulton counties. A third belt traverses Cobb, Paulding and Carroll counties. A fourth belt goes through Lincoln, Columbia, McDuffie, and Warren counties in the southeast part of the crystallne area. There are some irregular de posits in Towns, Union, Gilmer, Fannin and Meriwether counties. The iron ores are in the Palaeozoic area. The brown iron ores are mined in Bartow, Polk and Floyd counties. The red iron ores arc mined in Walker and Chattooga counties. Ochre occurs in Bartow County, manganese in Bartow and Floyd. The largets bauxite deposits are in Floyd and Bar tow counties, but it occurs also in Polk, Walker and Chattooga counties. Corundum deposits are found in Rabun, Towns, Union, Haber sham, Carroll and Heard counties. Laurel Creek mine in Rabun County near the Carolina line is the largest in Georgia, and one of the most noted in the United States, Pyrite is found in Lumpkin County; copper in Murray and Fannin counties; graphite near Emerson; asbestos in several localities in the crystalline area; talc in Murray, Fannin and Cherokee; mica in Union and Fannin; barite in Bartow. Of precious stones amethysts are found in Rabun County, a few diamonds in Hall County, some good moonstones in Upson County. Rubies and sapphires of small size have been found in the northeast part of the crystalline area. The coal fields of Georgia are in Dade and Walker counties.