A FARM MANAGEMENT SURVEY IN BROOKS CO., GA. 
able part of the coastal plain of this and the adjoining States. 
Farther north in the comity the soils become gradually heavier, grad- 
ing into the Kuston and Tifton series, but this survey has been con- 
fined to farms on the lighter soils found in the southern half of the 
county. 
The climate of Brooks County is warm and equable. The winters 
are mild, and the summers, though long and warm, are tempered by 
Gulf breezes. Snow falls rarely, and temperatures lower than 30° 
F. seldom occur, though thin ice frequently forms during the winter 
months. Killing frosts may occur any time between November 15 
and March 1. The annual precipitation amounts to 52 inches; the 
heaviest rainfall occurs during the months of June, July, and Au- 
gust. In figure 2 the 
average precipitation 
and that for the year 
1914 are shown by 
months. 
Quitman, the county 
seat, with' a popula- 
tion of about 4,000, is 
just south of the cen- 
ter of the county and 
in the northern part 
of the area included 
in this survey. The 
Atlantic Coast Line 
Eailroad crosses the 
county from east to 
west and the South 
Georgia Railroad 
from north to south, 
both passing through Quitman. These two railroads provide most 
of the area with good transportation facilities to outside markets, 
though some parts of the area, notably in the southwestern part of 
the county, are 8 to 10 miles or more from shipping points. The 
public roads of the county are of sandy clay, and the principal roads 
are being rapidly improved. 
For years Brooks County has grown nearly all the live-stock 
feedstuffs consumed, together with a surplus to be sold in other 
markets. As a result, the local prices for such feeds are appreciably 
lower than those that prevail in the near-by counties which continue 
to purchase a part of their feeds from outside sources. Thus, in 
this county, the 1914 prices of corn and oats averaged about 75 cents 
and 50 cents per bushel, respectively, as compared with $1 and 75 
cents throughout the greater part of the State. 
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