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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the John Judson Brown Papers, #93, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Walter Brown, prior to 1940.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, July 2010

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Agricultural administration--Georgia.
• Agricultural extension work--Georgia.
• Agricultural productivity--Georgia.
• Agriculture--Economic aspects--Georgia.
• Agriculture--Georgia--History--20th century.
• Boll weevil--Georgia.
• Brown, John Judson, 1865-1953.
• Brown, Walter J.
• Cooperative societies--Georgia.
• Cotton gins and ginning--Georgia.
• Cotton--Georgia.
• Dairy farming--Georgia.
• Elections--Georgia--History--20th century.
• Fertilizers--Southern States.
• Flax--Georgia.
• Georgia--Economic policy.
• Georgia--Politics and government--1865-1950.
• Governors--Georgia--Election.
• Peanuts--Georgia.
• Price, James D.
• Talmadge, Eugene, 1884-1946.
• Tobacco--Georgia.

John Judson Brown (1865-1953) was the Georgia state commissioner of agriculture, 1917-1927.

The collection includes papers of John Judson Brown and of his son, Walter J. Brown, relating chiefly to the duties and activities of John Judson Brown as commissioner of agriculture. Topics include state regulation of dairying; inspection and analysis of foodstuffs, cotton seed meal, oil, fertilizer, and peanuts; statistics on acreage of flax, tobacco, cotton, and peanuts; food production and crop reports; labor shortage; diversification; combatting the boll weevil; work of county agricultural agents; corn and canning clubs; cotton ginners' cooperative associations; use of fertilizer in the southern states; and the campaign for the economic development of middle Georgia, 1923. The collection also includes papers of Brown's predecessor, James D. Price, and papers pertaining to the election campaign of 1926 in which Brown was defeated by Eugene Talmadge.

• Photographs (PF-93/1)