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Broilers are pictured in 1950 on a farm in Barrow County. Jesse Jewell of Gainsville first encouraged the development of a broiler industry in 1930. Today Georgia produces more broilers than any other state.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
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