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surplus of wheat are Lancaster, (producing 2,000,000 bushels of 

 wheat,) Bucks, Lehigh, York, Cumberland, Perrj^, Snyder, Fulton, 

 Erie, Chester, Dauphin, Franklin, Adams, and Westmoreland. This 

 is the great wheat-growing State of the East, producing nearly as 

 much as California ; in 1869, according to the census, 3.000,000 bushels 

 more than that wheat-exporting State. Some of the counties have oc- 

 casion to bring in considerable flour and grain. Susquehanna buys half 

 its home consumi)tion of flour, Tioga a larger proportion, and Butler, 

 Warren, Wayne, Clearfield, Clinton, and McKean are also purchasers; 

 and wheat is imported by Luzerne, Cameron, Lehigh, and Lawrence. 

 Steers for feeding are brought into Erie, Columbia, and Lehigh. Three- 

 fourths of the beeves of Elk are imported, and 50 per cent, of those of 

 Clinton and Dauphin, and other counties buy largely. Some counties 

 have a small surplus of horses and mules, and others a deficiency ; but 

 the stock of the State is mainly grown within her border, except some 

 animals for fattening. 



The surplus of Delaware is largely fruit and vegetables ; Sussex, the 

 southern county, though exclusively agricultural, imports half its flour 

 supplies. Most of the animals in use are bred, though a few horses and 

 mules are bought. 



Tobacco is the surplus product of Maryland agriculture, nearly all 

 going out of the State. The counties producing the bulk of the crop are 

 Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, Prince George's, and Saint Mary's. 

 These counties lie between the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay. 

 The eastern-shore counties, lying west and south of Delaware and 

 east of the Chesapeake, ship largely of peaches and sweet-potatoes. It 

 is the surest peach section of the country. The cash-bringing product 

 of Montgomery is hay; of Washington, wheat; of Frederick, wheat 

 and corn. Mixed farming x^revails in all the counties of Western Mary- 

 land to the Alleghanies- Flour is extensively purchased in the tobacco- 

 growing and fruit-produciug counties. Frederick, Harford, Baltimore, 

 Carroll, Cecil, and Washington are most extensively interested in stock- 

 growing. 



The x>rincipal surplus of Virginia is tobacco, which is grown more or 

 less in nearly all the counties, but extensively for shipment only in coun^ 

 ties east of the Blue Ridge and in the southern portion of the State. 

 Most prominent among these are Pittsylvania, Halifax, Mecklenburgh, 

 Charlotte, Nelson, Bedford, Albemarle, Amherst, Amelia, Brunswick, 

 Campbell, Franklin, and Henry. It also furnishes a portion of the reve- 

 nues of many other counties, among them Chesterfield, Floyd, Luuen- 

 burgh. King William, Buckingham, and Prince Edward. Wheat is 

 shipped from Clarke, Augusta, Craig, Madison, Prince George, Richland, 

 Botetourt, Loudoun, Pulaski, Frederick, Montgomery, Washington, Cul- 

 peper, Tazewell, though not in large quantities. The great wheat 

 region is the Shenandoah Valley and the slopes of the Blue Ridge in 

 IsTorthern Virginia. Princess Anne and Norfolk are truck-patches for 

 the northern market. Cotton is grown in Prince George, Sussex, Rap- 

 pahannock, to a limited extent, and a few bales in several other south- 

 ern counties. In Prince George, wheat formerly exceeded in value all 

 other crops, but rust so prevails that it is now confined to the banks of 

 the James River, and cotton, pea-nuts, and winter oats are cultivated 

 in its place. Wheat is drawn from the valley to Richmond, where it is 

 manufactured into a superior quality of flour, of which 250,000 barrels 

 annually are shipped to Rio Janeiro. Cattle and sheep for the sham- 

 bles are shipped from the section west of the Blue Ridge and from 

 J^orthern Virginia to the markets of Washington and Baltimore. Horses 



