Georgia tobacco yields and prices vary by county
Georgia produced 10 327 530 pounds of flue cured tobacco last year with an average price of 17 73 per hundred pounds based on reports from eight warehouses. Yields ranged from 200 to 1600 pounds per acre across 15 counties, averaging 450 pounds per acre overall and 650 pounds per acre in Berrien, while gross returns per acre varied from 5 to 400 dollars.
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Georgia
E. C. Westbrook
Georgia Extension News
State College of Agriculture
Berrien
Tobacco Profits Rise Despite Poor Weather in Michigan
Farmers across Berrien county reported 28 farms averaging 136 dollars gross per acre for tobaccos planted in January and transplanted by April 20. Despite fields flooded and a late season, beginners in a new section achieved a solid profit under very bad weather conditions.
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Berrien
Our Chemical Independence
March Boys' Life notes the U S shift from foreign to domestic medicine production during wartime. It highlights former dependence on Germany for chemicals costing up to 70 dollars per ounce and ten dollar doses, contrasted with now affordable, self made medicines.
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United States
Germany
Florida Governor Catts Family Salaries Probed
The Washington correspondent for the Baltimore Sun reports Florida pays Governor Catts family members salaries for offices they hold by gubernatorial appointment. The article notes a total of thirty two thousand dollars per year.
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Washington
Baltimore Md
Sun
Florida
Catts
Florida Governor Catt family salaries draw over thirty thousand
A 1920s Florida notice lists Governor Catt’s kin filling posts with high pay. Daughter serves as Private Secretary at 2000 yearly, another daughter as Board of Institutions secretary at 1000, son as Adjutant General at 3000, another son as Naval Stores Inspector in West Florida with about 4000, son as Harbor Master at Key West with over 1000, and son in law as Tax Collector of Duval County earning 14000 in 1918. Governor’s own salary is 6000 with a 1200 fund. Overall taxpayer outlay from the Catt family nears 32000 yearly.
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Key West
Duval County
Jacksonville
Florida
Catt
Cascarets advertisement promises gentle relief
An old ad touts Cascarets as a small laxative tablet that removes poisons from the liver and bowels, relieves head dizziness and bad breath, and leaves the user feeling refreshed. It claims Cascarets are gentler than Salts, Oil, Calomel, or harsh pills and work while you sleep.
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Jackson
Butts
Fordson
Buttrill Bros
Jackson, Georgia
Ford and
Fordson Tractor Dealers
Kirschbaum
Ethridge-Smith & Co
J. Arenson
Settle & Robison
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