MISSISSIPPI 



3846 



MISSISSIPPI 



THE FACTORY 



Lumber,Timber 

 Cottonseed Oil.CaKe 

 Railroad Car Repairs 

 Cotton Goods 

 Fertilizers 

 PrintingPu Wishing 

 Foundry,MachineShop 

 Bread etc. 

 Manufactured Ice 

 Canning,Preserving 

 BricKJile 

 Men's Clothing 

 Rosin 

 Turpentine 

 Carr iages,Wagons ' 

 Furniture 



MISS^SIPPI PRODUCTS CHART 



Figures Based on U.S. Government Reports 



Millions of Dollars Annual ly 

 10 20 30 40 



THE FARM 



Cultivated Hay 

 Green Grain Hay 

 Mules sold 

 Peaches 

 Cane Syrup 

 Sugar Cane 

 Oats 

 Poultry raised 



Sweet Potatoes 



Butter 



Garden Vegetables 



Hogs slaughtered 



iiiiiibiimmii| Cotton Seed 

 Corn 

 Cotton 



The southern part is free from frosts during ten 

 months of the year. The average annual rain- 

 fall is fifty inches in the north and sixty inches 

 in the south, and is evenly distributed through- 

 out the year. 



Forests. Almost the entire region was for- 

 merly covered with dense forests, and even now 

 about 17,500,000 acres, or nearly sixty per cent 

 of the total land area, is classed as timber land. 

 In the south the long-leaf pine predominates; 

 the Yazoo valley is covered with cypress, and 

 farther north are hardwoods, such as cotton- 

 wood, hickory, ash, elm, maple and oak. The 

 forests of Mississippi are noteworthy for the 

 great variety of trees they contain, over 120 

 species of trees being found. 



Agriculture. Agriculture is the chief occupa- 

 tion of the people, and is favored by the highly- 

 fertile soil. The black loam of the prairies and 

 the silt of the bluff or hilly belt are exceedingly 

 productive, but the most fertile soil in the state 

 is the alluvial bottom lands of the Mississippi. 

 Perhaps nowhere else in the world is to be 

 found soil of such depth and richness as that 

 which covers these bottom lands. It is, there- 

 fore, not strange that nearly two-thirds of its 

 total area of over 29,500,000 acres is occupied 

 by farms. About sixty per cent of the farmers 

 are negroes, and nearly all of these are tenants. 



Cotton and corn are the two chief crops, and 

 these are grown in every part of the state. The 

 largest yield of cotton is obtained in the Yazoo 



delta, which is one of the greatest cotton-pro- 

 ducing regions in the world. With about 3,000,- 

 000 acres planted to cotton Mississippi ranks 

 fourth in acreage, coming after Texas, Georgia 

 and Alabama. With a production usually over 

 1,000,000 bales, it ranks fifth among the cotton- 

 producing states. Corn is the leading cereal 

 produced, covering over 3,000,000 acres, which 

 yield about 60,000,000 bushels. Oats, with an 

 area of about 200,000 acres and a production 

 sometimes over 5,000,000 bushels, is the only 

 other cereal cultivated to any extent. In sweet 

 potatoes, with 70,000 acres cultivated, and a 

 production of 6.000,000 bushels or more, Missis- 

 sippi is sometimes the second state in produc- 

 tion. Garden vegetables, hay and sugar cane 

 are the other chief products. 



Except peaches, no orchard fruits are grown 

 to any extent. Figs grow well in the southern 

 half of the state, and a few oranges and grapes 

 are raised on the Gulf coast. Apples, strawber- 

 ries, pears and plums are the most prominent 

 among the minor fruits, and the pecan, the 

 most important nut, is increasing in impor- 

 tance. 



Manufactures. The industries of the state 

 are not yet well developed. Until recently the 

 lack of coal, the absence of a good seaport and 

 the scarcity of labor were all causes that hin- 

 dered any great industrial activity. The most 

 important single industry is that connected with 

 lumber and timber products. This represents 



