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any other part of the state. In the middle part of the 

 Great Valley we find truck farming and the canning indus- 

 try highly developed. Staple agricultural crops and fruits 

 are grown to perfection on every hand. Further to the 

 southwest, in that portion of the Valley which is drained 



FIG. 221. SHEEP FARMING ONE OF THE IMPORTANT PHASES 



OF FARMING IN THE MOUNTAINS AND VALLEY OF 



VIRGINIA. 



by the New and Holstein Rivers, grazing becomes of 

 greatest importance. In this section, as also in certain 

 portions of Appalachia, we find the cattle growers finishing 

 export cattle on grass, a practice which is possible only 

 in a very few sections of the United States (Fig. 222). 

 Wythe and Smyth counties constitute the most important 

 cabbage-growing section of the South. 



The Appalachian region. This is the extreme western 

 region of the State and extends from the Valley to the 



