13. Improved public roads-Continued. (4) Amount spent upon roads and bridges in 1911? ...... (5) Does your.county consume its roads money in patching roads? (6) Compare the county in all these particulars with other counties. (7) See Home's Good Roads Bulletin, University of South Carolina. 14. Public health: (1) Common diseases in the county? .... ....... Treatment? If so, state fully what the (6) What has been done toward cattle tick eradication? (7) Has your county a health board and health officer?....... If not, 15. Schools: (Consult latest State school superintendent's report.) (1) Schools, white.... (3) White pupils en- (4) Per cent of enroll ment upon age attendance (1) Schools, negro.... Results?..... Negro school population.... Negro pupils enrolled........ Negro average attendance..... Per cent of attendance upon How many counties show a (2) (1) Total fund for common public schools?...... (2) Amount raised by local taxation and all other sources?. (3) Per cent of the total fund derived from the State treasury?.. (4) How many counties derive a smaller per cent from the State treasury?..... (6) (1) Total amount invested in common school property?............. (2) Total amount invested in the county in automobiles?. (4) How many counties have a larger amount invested in common school property?........ (7) (1) How many schools have school libraries?.. (2) How many schools have corn clubs?... Canning clubs? ...... Garden clubs?... 16. Illiteracy (see new Georgia bulletin soon to issue from the Census Bureau). (2) How many counties show a smaller per cent of white illiteracy? .... 17. Churches (consult minutes of the church associations and investigate personally on the grounds). A few of the significant facts to be assembled, for each race, are as follows: (1) The number of strictly rural churches, .... .; (2) the number in towns and villages, ... (3) the number in cities, .... (4) the total membership, ......; (5) the per cent of the same of the total population, ; (6) the number of rural churches with ...... homes alongside them for the ministers, .; (7) number having preaching once a month, ......; twice a month, ................; (8) the number of Sunday schools, .... (9) the number of churches that have dwindled in membership and influence during the last 10 years, ................; (10) the number that have been standing still, ................; (11) the number that have been abandoned, ................; (12) the number that are served by nonresident ministers (coming from a distance each month), ..... Note: Set the ministerial associations of the county to work to collect these facts. The preachers ought to know these and many more such definite facts about the home field. 18. Suggested agencies and plans for community uplift. 19. Study: "The Challenge of the Country," Fiske, the Association Press, New York. Strong's "The Challenge of the City," Eaton & Mains. Kern's "Among the Country Schools," Ginn & Co. Foght's "American Rural Schools," Macmillan Co. 20. Sources of information in this report: The 1900 and the 1910 Census Reports; the reports of the capitol officials; the county tax digests. (Add such others as may be used.) VIII. A SPECIMEN COUNTY NARRATIVE. A BRIEF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SURVEY OF HENRY COUNTY, GA. For the Georgia Club; by Miss Mary M. Woods. (Sources of information: The census reports; the reports of the statehouse officials; the county tax digests; "Georgia: Historical and Industrial;" White's Statistics of Georgia; and every other available source of authoritative information.) LOCATION AND SURFACE. Henry County, created in 1821, is located a little west of the center of the Piedmont uplands. Like other counties in this section of the State, it is an undulating, hilly country, broken and well watered by abundant streams; by the South River, a branch of the Ocmulgee, by Cotton River, and by numerous creeks. The lands along these streams are rich and fertile. Elsewhere the soils are light and sandy; in some places they are "mulatto" and red-clay soils. Soils, climate, and railway connections make diversified farming possible and profitable. In the watercourses are many fine shoals, offering valuable water powers. In 1900 there were several small country mills for corn and wheat; among them a good roller mill at Island Shoals. These have not died out during the census period, as in so many other counties. POPULATION. In 1910 the population of the county was 19,927, a gain of 1,325 people, or 7.1 per cent during the last census period. (Between 1890 and 1900, it was 14.7 per cent.) Sixty-eight counties in Georgia grew at a greater rate during the past 10 years. The increase consisted of 530 white people, or 6 per cent, and 795 negroes, or 8 per cent. Henry is one of the 66 counties of Georgia having negro majorities. Until 1890 the county had a white majority, but 10 years later a negro majority, and in 1910 a still larger negro majority. Henry is one of the 28 counties showing an increased negro ratio during the last 10 years. The negroes at present are 51 per cent of the entire population. White reports 9,669 whites in the county in 1845, or only 74 fewer than in 1910. However, Henry has lost territory to three or four other counties since 1845. At present the population is 59 per square mile, and the rank of the county in this particular is twenty-eighth. Three towns absorbed the increase of population, or 97 per cent of it, as follows: McDonough, present population, 882; increase, 29 per cent; Hampton, population, 1,093, increase, 134 per cent; and Locust Grove, population, 716, increase, 181 per cent. 1910, acres, 1900, acres, (3) Oats: (a) Per cent improved land in corn? (b) How many counties had a smaller per cent of the cultivated area in corn? (c) How many counties had a larger yield per acre?...... Why? .... .; total yield, bu.; average yield, bu.; average yield, ..... (4) Wheat: 1910, acres, ..; total yield, (6) Hay and forage: Gain or loss (per cent), (5) Sweet potatoes and yams: .... NOTE. No census report in 1900 upon sweet potatoes by counties. 1910, acres, ; total yield, .... tons; average yield, (a) Are there more and better pastures in the county year 11. Home-raised food supply per person per year: (1) Meat: Divide total cattle, total hogs, and total poultry by the population of the county and tabulate results below: (a) Is it sufficient? ..... (b) Get from the merchants the facts about the annual shipment of meat into the county. (c) Deficiency. (d) Cost of the same. (2) Small grain: (a) Total bushels raised (corn, wheat, and oats), (b) Total needed for population and work animals (horses and mules). (Count 6 bushels per person per year and 50 bushels per work animal per year.) (3) Amount of money put into circulation in the county by the cotton crop reported in the 1910 census (multiply number of bales by $65 each), (4) Total aggregate wealth of the county on the 1910 tax digest, (5) How many such cotton crops equal the accumulated wealth of the county since the beginning of its history?. (6) Where goes this vast cotton wealth year by year? 12. Marketing facilities: (1) Railway outlets; (2) city markets-advantages to the country, to the city. 13. Improved public roads: (1) How many miles of public roads in the county? (2) Miles of improved public roads built to date? (3) Amount invested in roads machinery? ............ 13. Improved public roads-Continued. (4) Amount spent upon roads and bridges in 1911? ............. (5) Does your county consume its roads money in patching roads? (6) Compare the county in all these particulars with other counties. (5) Is the boll weevil in your county?...... If so, state fully what the (6) What has been done toward cattle tick eradication? (7) Has your county a health board and health officer? why not?..... ... If not, (8) Is there any medical inspection of children? ....... Results?....... 15. Schools: (Consult latest State school superintendent's report.) (1) Schools, white.... (3) White pupils en rolled..... ment upon (5) White average at- age attendance (7) How many coun- (1) White pupils, first White pupils, sev- Loss....... Loss per cent..... (2) How many counties lose a larger per cent of pupils between the first and last grades?........ Negro pupils in first grades.... Negro pupils in seventh grades. Loss... Loss per cent............. How many counties lose a larger |