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and rallies are brought into eastern counties, and a few stock-growers 

 are securing well-bred animals for stock improveuient. 



Coming to the cotton section, which includes the coast States from 

 North Carolina to Texas, with Arkansas and Tennessee, the principal 

 money-receij)ts are derived from upland or green-seed cotton. For- 

 merly it was scarcely deemed reputable to grow and sell any other crop 

 in the cotton-districts proper. In northern Central North Carolina, a 

 few counties derive revenue principally from tobacco. Some of the 

 western CQunties sell cereals and a variety of products of the farm and 

 orchard. Corn is the main crop in Burke, Camden, Catawba, Lincoln, 

 Clay, Caldwell, and Pasquotank. Some of the best corn-lands in the 

 country are found in the coast counties of the northeast, in the vicinity 

 of Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds. Hyde County, in her deepest soils, 

 produces a growth of stalk that Illinois scarcely can equal. Ashe, Bun- 

 combe, Clay, and, to some extent, all the western counties have cattle 

 to sell. Apples are, perhaps, as abundant a crop in Western North Car- 

 olina as in Western New York, and so abundant that there is absolutely 

 no market at any price, except as cut and dried, and in the form of 

 cider-brandy, from a lack of railroads or other facilities for transporta- 

 tion. South Carolina has little for sale except cotton. The rice-district 

 comprises the coast counties, Georgetown, Colleton, Charleston, and 

 Beaufort, producing in the order named and yielding annually, before 18C0, 

 more than 100,000,000 pounds ; now scarcely one-third as much. The 

 Georgia rice region includes the coast counties, Chatham, Mcintosh, 

 and Glynn, in which production has declined materially. Florida is a 

 thinly-settled region, and has little to spare, mainly cotton, upland and 

 sea-island, some tobacco in one county, oranges, bananas, and various 

 fruits and vegetables in the east and south, though the trade in the lat- 

 ter product is mainly prospective. In the entire returns from Georgia 

 the money-crop is cotton in all the counties, excepting rice only on the 

 coast, corn in Forsyth and White, and vegetables in Lumpkin. In Hall, 

 W^hite, Johnson, Gwinnett, Telfair, Schley, and Forsyth farm-animals 

 of some kind are sold, beef, pork, or mutton. Hall, White, Schley, and 

 Forsyth have some horses and mules to sell. There are other counties 

 in the northern part of the State that supply wholly or in part the home 

 demand for farm-animals; Telfair, one of these, raises nine-tenths of the 

 home requirement. Camden sells this season 20,000 bushels of rice 

 and buys 1,000 bushels of corn, also sells 100 tons of hay. Alabama 

 and Mississippi counties, almost without exception, find cotton their 

 IDrincipal if not their only surplus. Only Jackson County, in Alabama, 

 reports any farm-animals sent elsewhere, and Kankin, in Mississippi. 

 Cotton and sugar are the only crops sold in Louisiana, except small 

 amounts of farm-produce in the way of local exchanges. Texas, a State 

 with a rapidly-increasing cotton-product, has other prominent interests. 

 x\ large proportion of the well-settled counties make cotton the main 

 crop, throughout the eastern and central counties, from the Gulf to 

 the Eed Eiver. Sugar is grown to some extent in the southeast. 

 Wheat is admirably adapted to the northern central counties, and 

 is mentioned prominently as a shipping-crop in Fannin, Coryell, 

 Kern, Lampasas, Gillespie, Collin, Williamson, Kendall, Medina, 

 and Bosque. The western and southwestern counties ship mainly 

 cattle and sheep, wool and hides. Some counties, ordinarily self- 

 sustaining, will require supplies this year for immigrants. Arkansas 

 is almost exclusively engaged in cotton-growing. A few counties 

 in the northern part of the State are better suited to mixed farming. 

 Brown ships wheat and corn, Madison wheat and pork, and Washington 



