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liUlo aid from factors and other outsiders. Camden : In corn, oats, and beef, with 

 benefit to producer. Campldl : General increase, especially in sorghum. A firm con-' 

 viction that it is cheaper to raise supplies at home. Calhoun: Some increase. Those 

 who produce home supplies are more independent. Catoosa : Very perceptible, with 

 greater independence rather than much money-profit these hard times. The increase of 

 manure and improvement of land from pea-crop a substantial benefit. Carroll : Largest 

 crop of cereals last year ever made, and bringing only half usual price. Clayton : Those 

 prosper beet who raise their own supplies. Coffee : For three or four years past less 

 cotton and moro corn, oats, and pork. Seldom buy western corn and bacon now. 

 Decatur: Much increase in corn and oats. Chufa being rapidly introduced. Many 

 hogs raised, but beef scarcer and higher priced. Dooly: Considerable. Can be pro- 

 duced as cheaply here as in the West, saving freights. Albert : Increase last year in 

 corn and hogs, aftorwiird destroyed by fiood and cholera. Emanuel: Great increase, 

 and while prices are lo\TOr, the producer has identy for home use. Fayette: Marked. 

 Those prosperous v/ho raise home supplies, while the all-cotton policy brings poverty 

 and ruin. Forsyth: In corn, oats, wheat, pork, and beef, profits increased. County 

 Belf-sustainiu<r as to pork. Gwinnett: General increase, with benefit, though prices are 

 lower. Rahersham : Customarily, home supplies are produced first, and cotton extra, 

 as a money-crop. Harris : Yes; with Avouderful eiiect in increasing profits of cotton, 

 and improving soil by rotation, and increasing independence. Jaclcson : Yes ; and will 

 be still greater this year. Raising of homo supplies necessary to the prosperity of our 

 farmers. Jefferson : Decided, with growing conviction that home supplies should be 

 raised at hoino. Corn and meat cheaper than since the war. Liberty: Corn, oats, and 

 pease are considered most profitable in proportion to capital, except rice, which grows 

 on naturally rich land. Home supplies increasing, and no prosperity otherwise. Lin- 

 coln: Decided, with a saving of large sums formerly sent away for their purchase. 

 Macon : None in corn and pease ; much in oats, which promises to be the best crop for 

 cheapening mule-feed ; very slight in pork and beef. Mcintosh: Decided, in all. Sec- 

 tion well adapted to stock-raising. Marion : Ten per cent, in corn and pork in 1876. 

 Decrease of 25 per cent, in price of corn and 12^ per cent, in pork from January, 1876, 

 to 1877. Ma-iwether : In corn, oats, pease, pork, with increased profit. A more healthy 

 condition as to supplies than for ten years. Milton : In corn, 30 per cent. ; oats and 

 pease, 25 per cent. ; fodder, 50 per cent. ; pork and beef, 10 per cent. No surplus, the 

 profit being the saving of purchase from abroad. Mitchell : Oats nearly doubled, and 

 most profitable crop, giving fine pasturage for hogs, which must have pasture here. 

 Morgan: Near 50 per cent., through fertilizers, cultivation, and good season. Most 

 prosperous, those raising home supplies, or a good portion of them. Murray : Increase 

 in product, but prices lower and inconie not larger. Oglethorpe : Great in oats, corn, 

 pork, and beef, especially in 1876. We have learned that the only key to success is to 

 raise supplies. Fortunes have been made by such as do, but none otherwise. Pike : 

 Corn, 25 per cent.; oats, 40.; fodder, &c., 50; pork, 20; beef, 5; pease, no increase. 

 Increase on profit of whole farm not over 10 per cent, ticldey : Twenty-five per cent. 

 in corn ; plenty for first time since the war ; sells near towns at 75 cents. Oats, pease, 

 and fodder in abundance ; 50 per cent, of a supply of pork, worth 5 to 7 cents. Taking 

 all together, they are a surplus ; cotton being profit. Stewart : In a few years cotton 

 will be a surplus, when all will prosper. Talbot : One hundred per cent, in corn ; 400 

 in oats. Not much change in others, except, of course, in corn-fodder. Taliaferro : 

 Considerable in corn, oats, pease, and German millet. Taylor: At least 25 per cent. ; 

 the increase of cereals and meat have materially improved the condition of the farmer. 

 Terrell: Yes ; with happy effect. In a few years cotton will not be half as much grown. 

 Thomas : High prices of guano, provisions, and poor labor makes cotton cost 'i^ cents 

 more than price in homo market. Troup : If farms were self-sustaining, cotton made 

 a profit if sold at 10 cents. Walton: Corn and pork were with many to spare, while 

 exclusive cotton-growers are always hard up. Washington : Great increase in profit, as 

 they use the same labor which is employed on cotton, but at seasons Avhich do not in- 

 terfere. WiUces : Yes ; increases profits, as it only slightly diminishes cotton. 



Florida. — Columbia : Increase in oats as laborers abandon farms. Gadsden : Marked, 

 witli decided decrease in cost of raising. EUlsborough : Wo propose to produce all sup- 

 plies possible, as cotton-culture does not pay. Have introduced fine Berkshire hogs 

 from the North. Jaclcson : Large in oats and pork. Home raising of supplies the secret 

 of success. Madison: Yes; the main source of profit. Cotton mostly raised only be- 

 cause of the ready money. La Fayette : Some increase in corn, oats, pease, and pork — 

 say 5 per cent. — but not enough to meet increasing demand. Orange: In corn and 

 Guinea grass. Suwannee : Ho who produces his supplies makes tho money. Santa 

 Eosa : Very large, with much addition to home comforts and resources of producer. 

 Taylor : Corn, 36 per cent. ; oats, 100 per cent. ; pease, 33 per cent. ; pork and beef, 10 

 percent. Increased profit, 25 per cent. , 



Alabama. — Bullock : Decided among small farmers, giving a larger surplus of cotton. 

 A large proportion raised by small farmers and thrift following the policy. Butler : 

 Greater last year than at any time since the war. Material benefit. Calhoun : Con- 



