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fruits and breadstuffs and meat. Tennessee, the last of the cotton States, 

 produces cotton largely in only a few western and southern counties. 

 The elevated portions, comprising a large part of the State, are better 

 suited to the farm-products of the temperate zone. Among the coun- 

 ties selling wheat are Grainger, Hancock, Greene, Meigs, Sullivan, Wash- 

 ington, Williamson, Dickson, Monroe, and Bradley. It was once the 

 great corn State of the Union, and many counties have now a surplus. 

 Horses and mules and other stock are sold by the eastern and central 

 counties generally. Dried fruit is a minor product of considerable im- 

 portance in a lai"ge portion of Tennessee. 



This whole section, with the exception of the most of Tennessee, a 

 jiortion of ISTorth Carolina, the mountain areas of Georgia and Alabama, 

 the most of Florida, and the western part of Texas, i. e. the cotton- 

 growing area, procures nearly all its flour, most of the stock of horses 

 and mules, a smaller percentage of beef-cattle and sheep, a large amount 

 of bacon and other hog-products, from Tennessee and the Ohio Valley, 

 and even from beyond the Mississippi. Some counties purchase all 

 flour and nearly all meats. Almost everywhere corn is a large product, 

 next in importance to cotton, but it is rarely sufiicient to meet the de- 

 mand, as it furnishes the principal support for both man and beast. The 

 State of North Carolina, suited to almost tropical growth and to all the 

 products of high temperate latitudes, having the sea-coast on one side, 

 and elevations of 6,000 feet on the other, with hundreds of miles between 

 of varied surface, should purchase less bacon and fewer horses from the 

 West. Even an inland county like Lenoir buys elsewhere a portion of 

 its supplies of flour, pork, and hay. South Carolina is still less inde- 

 pendent in respect to these supplies. Though most of the counties of 

 Florida are measurably self-supporting, the cotton-counties all obtain 

 provisions from abroad : in Santa Eosa " neiirly all the products of 

 agriculture consumed here are brought from the Western States." A 

 part of the hay, pease, and potatoes are the only exceptions. A large 

 number of the Georgia counties buy 50 to 100 per cent, of the consump- 

 tion of flour, from 25 to G7 per cent, of their corn, and from 30 to 75 per 

 cent, of bacon, and nearly the full supply of horses and mules. A small 

 number come much nearer self-support. Alabama and Mississippi 

 average still larger deficiencies than Georgia; and that portion of 

 Louisiana on the Mississippi depends upon the li^orthwest for nearly all 

 supplies, corn being a partial exception to the general deficiency. The 

 counti.es where cotton is grown in the other cotton-States have con- 

 siderable deficiencies to supply from abroad. That this disproportion 

 in crop-areas is neither necessary nor profitable is shown by the fact, 

 everywhere presented, that those who make cotton their surplus crop, 

 and make their own bread and meat, accumulate more money, and pos- 

 sess lands with fertility better sustained, than those who purchase most 

 of their supplies. 



West Virginia has a small surplus of mixed products, wool, beeves, 

 and mutton, poultry and eggs, fruits, «S:c. Kentucky sells mainly farm- 

 animals, horses, and mules, and tobacco. Hemp, once prominent, is 

 now little grown. Eastern Ohio sells large quantities of wool; the 

 bluffs and adjacent uplands of the Ohio River furnish for shipment by 

 water large quantities of apples, while the Lake shore and islands of 

 Lake Erie supply grapes and wine for distant markets; ]S"orthern Ohio 

 makes a specialty of the dairy, and has a large trade in wool ; Southern 

 Ohio fattens and ships cattle from the Scioto to the Indiana line, and 

 raises some mules for shipment; and the main tobacco-counties are 

 Montgomery, Monroe, Noble, Brown, Belmont, Clermont, Washington, 



