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REFERENCES .- Hawkins, Sketch of the Creek Country (1848), p. 47; Handbook of American Indians (1907), vol. 1, p. 778; Gatschet, in Ala- bama History Commission, Report (1901), p. 403.
LUTHERAN CHURCH. This church is the mother of Protestantism and arose from the Reformation in Germany. The Protestant Evangelical church was organized between 1524 and 1530, in Germany. By 1540 almost the whole of northern Germany was Protes- tant. The movement also made great prog- ress in South Germany and in Austria as far south as the Alps. Scandinavia, Denmark, parts of Hungary and Finland became Luth- eran before the close of the sixteenth century. Later they were found in Hungary, Holland, Livonia, France, England, and the United States.
In 1619 a Lutheran pastor, Rasmus Jen- sen, came to America as a chaplain of a Danish expedition preaching at their quarters on Hudson Bay. The first Dutch colony in 1623 settling on Manhattan Island had a number of Lutherans among them. In 1638 a colony was estalbished in Delaware and the first Lutheran minister to settle in the territory of the United States, Roerus Torkil- lus, arrived in 1639, and became pastor of this colony; building the first church at Christiania. In Germantown and Philadelphia the first English Lutheran services were held in 1684. The first German Lutheran church
at Falckner's Swamp, Pennsylvania, is thought to date from 1703. Pennsylvania contained about 30,000 Lutherans by the mid- dle of the eighteenth century.
During the eighteenth century group set- tled along the whole Atlantic coast in New Jersey, Virginia, North and South Carolina and Georgia.
"The system of faith held by Lutherans is set forth in the Augsburg Confession. A number of other symbols, knows as 'Luther's Catechisms, Larger and Smaller,' the 'Apology of the Augsburg Confession,' the 'Smalcald Articles,' and the 'Formula of Concord,' are regarded as setting forth more or less fully the doctrinal system in the Augsburg Confession, and the differences between the various bodies, so far as they are doctrinal in character, are based chiefly upon deduc- tions made from these other symbols all alike accept the Augsburg Confessions."
In 1820 the General synod was founded. Its aim was the union of all Lutherans in America. The synods south of the Potomac withdrew from the General synod during the War of Secession and formed the United Synod of the South.
Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of America.
Birmingham:
Organizations, 1.
Members, 150.
Church edifices, 1.
Value of property, $10,000.
Expenditures, $2,769. Sunday Schools, 1.
Officers and teachers, 8. Scholars, 78.
Mobile:
Organizations, 1.
Members, 325.
Church edifices, 1.
Value of property, $6,000.
Expenditures, $2,271.
Sunday School, 1.
Officers and teachers, 15.
Scholars, 140.
Alabama Statistics, 1916 .-
United Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the South.
Total number of organizations, 2.
Number of organizations reporting, 2.
Total number members reported, 109.
Number of organizations reporting, 2.
Total number of members reported (Male), 45.
Total number of members reported (Fe- male), 64.
Church edifices, 2.
Halls, etc.,
Number of church edifices reported, 2.
Number of organizations reporting, 2. Value reported, $3,500.
General Council of the Evangelical Luth- eran Church in North America.
Total number of organizations, 3.
Total number of organizations reporting, 3. Total number members reported, 74.
Number of organizations reporting, 3.
Total number of members reported (Male), 32.
Total number of members reported (Fe- male), 42.
Church edifices, 3.
Halls, etc., 1.
Number of church edifices reported, 2.
Number of organizations reporting, 2. Value reported, $5,000.
Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of America.
Total number of organizations, 12.
Total number of organizations reporting, 12.
Total number members reported, 1,334.
Number of organizations reporting, 12.
Total number members reported (Male), 552.
Total number members reported (Female), 782.
Church edifices, 12.
Halls, etc.,
Number of church edifices reported. 15.
Number of organizations reporting, 12. Value reported, $33,157.
Evangelical Lutheran Joint Synod of Ohio and Other States.
Total number of organizations, 2.
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Total number of organizations reporting, 2. Total number members reported, 82.
Number of organizations reporting, 2.
Total number members reported (Male), 29.
Total number members reported (Female), 53.
Church edifices, 1.
Halls, etc.,
Number of church edifices reported, 1.
Number of organizations reporting, 1.
Value reported, $2,200.
REFERENCES. - New International encyclo- pedia; U. S. Census Bureau, Religious bodies,
1916, pts. 1 and 2.
LUXAPALLILA CREEK. A tributary of the Tombigbee River (q. v. ), having its source in Fayette County and flowing southwest- ward, through that county, and the southern end of Lamar, to its junction with the Tom- bigbee about 212 miles below Columbus, Miss. Data concerning its length, width, and depth are not available. The creek is not navigable, and no surveys have been made by the State or the United States Government, with the object of improving it for navigation. The name of this creek is sometimes given on old maps as Looksapallila, or "Floating Turtle Creek." This translation, however, is incorrect. It is properly "Taksi," terra- pin, and "boluli," to crawl, and is "creek" where the terrapin crawls.
REFERENCE .- Manuscript data In the Alabama Department of Archives and History.
LUVERNE. The county seat of Crenshaw County, in the central part of the county, on the Patsaliga River, 52 miles south of Mont- gomery, and the terminus of a branch of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. Population: 1890-451; 1900-731; 1910-1,384. It was incorporated February 6, 1891, and adopted the municipal code of 1907 in August, 1908. The corporate limits extend 1 mile in each direction from the courthouse. It has a municipal electric light plant, established in 1905, at a cost of $10,000, a waterworks plant, constructed in 1908, at a cost of $20,000, a fire department installed in January, 1908, 2 miles of sanitary sewerage, constructed in 1910, at a cost of $10,000. Its bonded in- debtedness is $40,250, $10,000 electric light bonds maturing in 1925, $20,000 water bonds maturing in 1928, and $10,250 sewerage bonds maturing in 1921. Its banks are the First National, the Bank of Luverne (State), and the Farmers Bank (State). The Cren- shaw County News, a Democratic weekly es- tablished in 1907, is published there. Its industries are a cottonseed and peanut oil mill, 3 cotton ginneries, a stave mill, a feed mill, a machine shop, 2 gristmills, water plant, and electric power plant. There is a mineral spring within the corporate limits, whose medicinal properties have attained a more than local reputation. The earliest settlers were the Moody, Brunson, Hawkins, and Knight families.
Under an election held in January, 1893,
the county seat was removed from Rutledge to Luverne.
See Crenshaw County; Rutledge.
REFERENCE .- Manuscript data in the Alabama Department of Archives and History.
LYNCHINGS. (Compiled by the Division of Records and Research of Tuskegee Insti- tute. )
In May, 1835, near Mobile, Alabama, two negroes were burned at stake for the murder of two children.
Year Number Lynched
1871-73
1 ( white, shot for murder)
1885
5
1886
6
1887
5
1888
11
1889
7
1890
7
1891
26
1892
21
1893
27
1894
19
1895
16
1896
15
1897
19
1898
12
1899
6
1900
8
1901
12
(constitution adopted this
year made sheriffs re- sponsible.)
1902
4
1903
2
1904- No data.
1905-No data.
1906-No data.
1907-No data.
1908
4
1909
8
1910
8
1911
2
1912
8
1913
2
1914
2
1915
9
1916
1
Details concerning lynchings in Alabama are as follows:
1901. (To September.)
Jan. 3-Louis McAdams, colored, murder- ous assault, Wilsonville, Ala.
March 6-Bud Davis, colored, unknown of- fense, Moulton, Ala.
May 6-Edward Mays, colored, sheltering murderer, near Selma, Ala.
May 6-Doc Mays, colored, sheltering mur- derer, near Selma, Ala.
May 6-Robert Dawson, colored, sheltering murderer, near Selma, Ala.
May 11-William Williams, colored, theft, Southside, Ala.
May 11-Unknown negro, mistaken iden- tity, Leeds, Ala.
May 30-Frank Reeves, colored, attempted rape, Butler County, Ala.
July 15-Alexander Herman, colored, mur-
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der, Portland, Ala.
August 2-Charles Bentley, colored, mur- der, Leeds, Ala.
August 7-John W. Pennington, colored, rape, Enterprise, Ala.
1902-1907. (No details for.)
1908.
Jan. 9-Cleveland Franklin, robbery and shooting, Dothan, Ala.
April 4-Walter Clayton, criminal assault, Bay Minette, Ala.
Aug. 4-William Miller, dynamiting, Brigh- ton, Ala.
Oct. 20-Tom Sover, attempted assault, Decatur, Ala.
1909.
Jan. 23-Douglas Roberson, negro, insult- ing white woman, Mobile, Ala.
Jan. 24-Sam Davenport, negro, incendiar- ism, Leighton, Ala.
Jan. 24-Unidentified negro, attempted at- tack on woman, Scottsboro, Ala.
Feb. 7-Will Parker, negro, attack on woman, Mexia, Ala.
April 25-John Thomas, negro, attack on woman, Bessemer, Ala.
Sept. 4-Josh and Lewis Balaam, negroes, murder of deputy sheriff, Jackson, Ala.
1910.
May 26-Jesse Matson, colored, murder, Calera, Ala.
July 3-Henry McKenny, colored, at- tempted rape, Dothan, Ala.
Aug. 1-William Wallace, colored, rape, Axis, Ala.
Sept. 14-Isaac Glover, colored, murder, Springville, Ala.
Oct. 4-Bush Withers, colored, rape, San- ford, Ala.
Oct. 9-Unnamed negro, rape, McFall, Ala. Oct. 9-Grant Richardson, colored, rape, Centerville, Ala.
Oct. 9-John Dell, colored, murder, near Montgomery, Ala.
1911.
Feb. 12-Iver Peterson, colored, attempted rape, Eufaula, Ala.
April 2-Abberdine Johnson, colored, rape, Union Springs, Ala.
1912.
Jan. 28-John Chandler, murder, Besse- mer, Ala.
Feb. 19-Unnamed negro, murder, Do- than, Ala.
Aug. 5-Samuel Verge, colored, murder, Hall's Station, Ala.
Aug. 28-Unnamed negro, murder, near Gadsden, Ala.
Nov. 2-William Smith, colored, murder, Bessemer, Ala.
Nov. 18- Berney, colored, murder, Wetumpka, Ala.
Dec. 7-Azariah Curtis, colored, murder, Butler, Ala.
Dec. 20-Unnamed negro, murder, Cuba, Ala.
1913.
Jan. 25-Jim Greene, colored, was whipped by his landlord, Sam Spicer. Greene, out of revenge, later fatally shot Mrs. Spicer, Anda- lusia, Ala.
Aug. 23-Wilson Gardner, colored, half- witted, for frightening women and children near Birmingham, Ala.
1914.
March 21-Charles Young, colored, charged with rape, Clanton, Ala.
Dec. 18-William Jones, colored, attempted rape, Fort Deposit, Ala.
1915.
Jan. 1-Dock Hartley, colored, charged with burglarizing a store.
Jan. 4-William Smith, colored, charged with murder, Wetumpka, Ala.
Jan. 4-Edward Smith, colored, charged with murder, Wetumpka, Ala.
Jan. 18-Herman Deeley, colored, for shooting a white man, Taylorsville, Ala.
May 3-Jesse Hatch, colored, charged with attempted rape, Fulton, Ala.
Aug. 9- Fox, colored, for dan- gerously wounding a Deputy Sheriff, near Tunnel Springs, Ala.
Aug. 18-Harry Russell, colored, accused of poisoning mules. Had been released on bail, Hope Hull, Ala.
Aug. 18-Kitt Jackson, colored, accused of poisoning mules. Had been released on bail, Hope Hull, Ala.
Aug. 18-Edward Russell, colored, accused of poisoning mules. Had been released on bail, Hope Hull, Ala.
1916.
Jan. 25-Richard Burton, colored, robbing store, Boyd Station, Ala.
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MACCABEES, KNIGHTS OF. A fraternal order organized with headquarters at Lon- don, Canada, and entered the United States at Port Huron, Mich., September, 1883. The first subordinate tent organized in Alabama was "Fidelta Tent, No. 1," at Florence, May 31, 1890. The supreme commander since February, 1892, has been Daniel P. Markey. The order has about 400,000 benefit mem- bers, with assets of about $22,000.00. The headquarters of the Alabama order are in Birmingham, where the first State conven- tion was held, March 13, 1911. Frank O. Croy was elected State deputy supreme com- mander at the time and has held the office continuously since. A State convention is held every four years. In 1917 there were 39 Tents in Alabama and a membership of 2,000. Osmond K. Ingram, who was killed in a naval engagement with a German U. Boat, October 15, 1917, the first man to lose his life in the
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naval service of the United States in the World War, was a member of the Maccabees, Tent 11, Alabama, and his heirs were paid a life benefit of $1,000 by the order.
REFERENCES .- Letters from L. E. Sisler, su- preme record keeper, Detroit, Mich., and Frank O. Croy, State deputy supreme commander, Bir- mingham.
MACCABEES, WOMAN'S BENEFIT AS- SOCIATION OF. An adequate rate fraternal order for women, founded October 1, 1892, at Port Huron, Mich., its present headquar- ters, known until 1915 as "The Ladies of the Maccabees of the World," and is an aux- iliary of The Maccabees. It was founded by Miss Bina M. West, supreme commander, and Miss Frances D. Partridge, the supreme record keeper. It is officered and managed solely by women for home protection, mu- tual fellowship and fraternal aid.
The Association in 1918, had 2,631 local bodies, with 195,000 members. The reserve fund September 1, was $11,518,826.51; death benefits paid $16,344,648.49. The in- surance protection includes women and chil- dren, and carries last illness and burial, and maternity benefits. It has free hospital service in every State for needy sick, and patriotic service for the aid of members af- fected by the war. The order entered Ala- bama October 6, 1896, the first local body having organized at Florence, October 16, 1896. In 1918, there were 21 local bodies with a membership of 1,175 in the State.
REFERENCE .- Letter written by Frances Part- ridge, Supreme Record Keeper, Port Huron, Mich., in the Department of Archives and His- tory.
McGILL INSTITUTE. See Roman Catholic Church.
McINTOSH BLUFF. A high point on the west side of the Tombigbee River in Washing- ton County. It was the ancient seat of the Tohomes (q. v.). Early records refer to it as Tomeehettee Bluff. It received its modern name from the celebrated Scotch family of McIntosh, prominent in the history of the Creek Indians. Capt. John McIntosh, chief of the clan, long attached to the British Army of West Florida, for his services re- ceived a grant of land from his government, including the bluff to which his name was subsequently given. Capt. McIntosh built a home near the bluff of the river, and here, while on a visit, his daughter, the wife of Troup, a British officer, gave birth to a son, George McIntosh Troup, later governor of Georgia and prominent in the history of that State.
This vicinity was one of the earliest set- tled portions of south Alabama. It was in- cluded in the first cession made by the In- dians to the British in 1765, and it was later included in the Mount Dexter cession of the Choctaws in 1802. Hundreds of Ala- bama families date from the coming of thelr pioneer ancestors to this particular region.
When Washington County was established, including at that date, 1800, all of the Missis- sippi Territory lying in what is now Alabama, it was at McIntosh Bluff that the first courts were held and other county business trans- acted. It was the first county seat of Bald- win County (q. v.), and in 1820 the old court house was ordered sold.
REFERENCES .- Pickett, History of Alabama (Owen's ed., 1900), pp. 417, 474-476, 676; Hamil- ton, Colonial Mobile (1910), index; Harden, Life of George M. Troup (1859).
McWILLIAMS. Post office and station on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, in the southern part of Wilcox County, about 4 miles southwest of Pineapple, and about 18 miles southeast of Camden. Population: 1910- 184.
REFERENCE .- Manuscript data in the Alabama Department of Archives and History.
MACON COUNTY. Created by an act of the legislature, December 18, 1832. The county was created out of territory acquired by the last cession of the Creek Indians, March 24, 1832. Its dimensions were thirty-four years afterwards reduced, by portions being set apart for the formation of Bullock and Lee Counties, respectively December 5, and 15, 1866. Its extreme dimensions, are 34 miles from east to west and 24% miles from north to south. The total area of the county is 397,440 acres, or about 622 square miles.
The county was named in honor of Na- thaniel Macon, a distinguished soldier and statesman of North Carolina, who was a rep- resentative in congress from 1791 to 1828.
Location and Physical Description .- Situ- ated in the east central portion of the state, Macon County is bounded on the north by El- more, Tallapoosa and Lee Counties, on the east by Lee and Russell, on the west by Bul- lock, Montgomery, Elmore and Tallapoosa Counties. Elevations vary from 200 to 500 feet. Annual mean temperature for the county is 65.2ºF., while the annual precipi- tation is 52.72 inches.
Macon County is situated in the Coastal Plain, and eleven soil types are recognized. The surface of the county is composed of gravelly hills and a large scope of prairie re- gion. The metamorphic rocks constitute the substratum of the extreme northern part of the county. The southern part of the county is underlaid with rotten limestone. Red ochre and vast quarries of granite are found. The soils are generally the yellow sandy loams of the uplands, and the clay loams of the bottoms, in many places these being cal- careous or prairie soils-all being easily tilled, and very productive.
The county is extremely well watered by many creeks, whose waters flow into the Tallapoosa, among them being: Uphapee Creek, Chervocklahatchee, Sawacklahatchee, Opintlocco, Tolockela, Jesse, Chowocola, An- gelina, Panther, Chohcochah, Wolf and Chin- capin, Calebee, Persimmon, Ofucskee or Old Town Creek, and Line Creek.
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Among the trees found in Macon County, are pine, various species of oak, hickory, poplar, red elm, gum, beech, maple and mag- nolia.
The principal crops are cotton, corn, pea- nuts, velvet beans, potatoes and forage trucks. Pecans, garden products and large and small fruits are also grown. Dairying is one of the chief industries.
The southern part of the county is crossed by the Seaboard Air Line Railway, and the Western Railway traverses the northern part. A branch road extends from Chehaw, a sta- tion on the latter road, to Tuskegee the county seat.
Aboriginal History .- The western part of the county which borders along the Talla- poosa River, was thickly settled by the Creek Indians, the most noted towns being Atassi and Talisa. About the middle of the eight- eenth century a town named Nafolee was situ- ated apparently at the mouth of Eufaubee Creek, and below this town were the Amissi or Massi, a tribe of unknown ethnic origin.
The birthplace of Osceola, the Seminole chief, is between Eufaubee and Chattabogue Creeks. Two battles with the Creeks in the War of 1813 were fought in Macon County, one at Atassi, November 29, 1813, the other at Calebee Creek, January 27, 1813. The territory embraced by the county became an American possession by the treaty of March 24,1832.
The western section of the county is rich in aboriginal remains, having been occupied by a thickly settled people from the very earliest times. Town and village sites are quite numerous along the Eufaubee and Cale- bee Creeks and along the Tallapoosa River, however with the exception of Autossee, on Calebee Creek, there is no record of any of the larger towns being located on the south- ern bank of the river. Like Lee, many of its place names are suggestive of its former people, the Upper Creeks. At the mouth of Calebee occurred the engagement on No- vember 29, 1813, between Gen. Floyd and his Georgians and Indians who had congregated here from the Coosa Valley, driven down by Jackson's army on the north. This being known as the "battle of Autossee." Fort Bainbridge and Fort Hull, both established in December, 1813, were located on the old Federal road, the highway leading through the county from Fort Mitchell in Russell to the southwestern part of the State. Fort De- catur at the present Milstead was established in March, 1814. Here died and was buried, Gov. John Sevier, who had come to adjust the troubles of the general government with the Creeks, on September 24, 1815. School- craft (History Indian Tribes [1856] vol. 5, p. 282), reports three mounds ten miles be- low Little Tallassee in Macon County. These however refer to a group a few miles above Montgomery on the Alabama River. One and half miles east of Hornady, north of W. of A. R. R. and one fourth mile south of Eufaubee Creek, on property of Dr. Baker of Gadsden, is a large flat top domiciliary
mound. A small one on the opposite side of the stream is now under cultivation. At the site of the town of Autossee just below Calebee Creek is a large flat top mound, often referred to by the early writers. It remains perfectly intact. The property is now owned by J. C. Pinkston. A small conical mound is found on the Cloud place, three miles from Shorters and one half mile from Calebee creek on property of Mrs. F. M. Letcher. Op- posite to Tuckabatchie and just below the Tallapoosa County line are the remains of an extensive site, this however may be a part of the town just opposite. Evidences indi- cative of villages extend all way up Watuhnee Creek into the present Tallapoosa County. Opil'-'Lako, or Big Swamp, an Upper Creek town was located on a stream of the same name, twenty miles from Coosa river.
The first white settlers in the county came from Georgia, Tennessee, the Carolinas and Virginia. Tuskegee was laid out in 1833, and after the removal of the Indians in 1836 the growth of both Tuskegee and Macon Counties in population was rapid.
Tuskegee (q. v.) the only town of im- portance is the county seat, and in it is located the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute for Negroes (q. v.) the greatest institution of its kind in the world.
Agricultural Statistics .- From U. S. Census 1910:
Farms and Farmers.
Number of all farms, 4,475.
Color and nativity of farmers:
Native white, 632. Foreign-born white, 1.
Negro and other nonwhite, 3,842.
Number of farms, classified by size:
Under 3 acres, 1.
3 to 9 acres, 434.
10 to 19 acres, 358.
20 to 49 acres, 2,299.
50 to 99 acres, 865.
100 to 174 acres, 329.
175 to 259 acres, 64.
260 to 499 acres, 93.
500 to 999 acres, 23.
1,000 acres and over, 9.
Land and Farm Area.
Approximate land area, 392,960. Land in farms, 251,265. Improved land in farms, 171,118.
Woodland in farms, 71,589.
Other unimproved land in farms, 8,558.
Value of Farm Property.
All farm property, $5,422,585.
Land, $3,136,986.
Buildings, $1,162,141.
Implements and machinery, $224,162.
Domestic animals, poultry, and bees, $899,- 296.
Average values:
All property per farm, $1,212.
Land and buildings per farm, $961. Land per acre, $12.48.
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Domestic Animals (Farms and Ranges). Farms reporting domestic animals, 4,025. Domestic animals, value, $872,963. Cattle: total, 11,375; value, $190,604. Dairy cows only, 5,175.
Horses: total, 1,912; value, $210,720. Mules: total, 3,244; value, $411,215. Asses and burros: total, 7; value, $950.
Swine: total, 14,531; value, $58,749.
Sheep: total, 119; value, $495.
Goats: total, 186; value, $230.
Poultry and Bees.
All poultry, 63,012; value, $25,279.
Bee colonies, 738; value, $1,054.
Farms Operated by Ouncrs.
Number of farms, 770.
Per cent of all farms, 17.2.
Land in farms, 91,202 acres.
Improved land in farms, 45,026 acres.
Land and buildings, $1,569,241.
Farms of owned land only, 662.
Farms of owned and hired land, 108.
Native white owners, 339.
Foreign-born white, 1.
Negro and other nonwhite, 430.
Farms Operated by Tenants.
Number of farms, 3,691. Per cent of all farms, 82.5.
Land in farms, 154,970 acres.
Improved land in farms, 124,441 acres.
Land and buildings, $2,509,916.
Share tenants, 705.
Share cash-tenants, 90.
Cash tenants, 2,767.
Tenure not specified, 129. Native white tenants, 291.
Foreign-born white,
Negro and other nonwhite, 3,400.
Farms Operated by Managers.
Number of farms, 14. Land in farms, 5,093 acres.
Improved land in farms, 1,651 acres.
Value of land and buildings, $219,970.
Live Stock Products. Dairy Products.
Milk: Produced, 931,605; sold, 69,566 gal- lons.
Cream sold, 300 gallons.
Butter fat sold, 183 pounds.
Butter: Produced, 304,444; sold, 32,322 pounds. Cheese: Produced, 800; sold, 775 pounds. Dairy products, excluding home use of milk and cream, $82,992.
Sale of dairy products, $27,435.
Poultry Products.
Poultry: Number raised, 149,813; sold, 20,- 831.
Eggs: Produced, 172,952; sold, 34,351 dozens. Poultry and eggs produced, $66,439. Sale of poultry and eggs, $11,654.
Special crops: Potatoes, 57 acres; 3,207 bushels.
Sweet potatoes and yams, 1,187 acres; 76,596 bushels. Tobacco, 235 pounds. Cotton, 89,796 acres; 21,168 bales.
Cane sugar, 490 acres; 3,514 tons. Sirup made, 43,327 gallons. Cane-sorghum, 61 acres; 200 tons. Sirup made, 1,913 gallons.
Fruits and Nuts.
Orchard fruits: total, 13,006 trees; 8,462 bushels.
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