150 THE pip:dmont region. 



quantity of seed cotton would have to be liauled is greatly lessened. The 

 yield of lint cotton per acre varies from one hundred and eighty-eight 

 pounds, in Newberry and Lancaster, to one hundred and forty -four in 

 Abbeville. The average for the region being one hundred and sixty-six 

 pounds of lint per acre, which gives it rank as fifth in the State in point 

 of production per acre. The yield of lint cotton per capita of population 

 varies from four hundred and three pounds, in Fairfield, to two hundred 

 and three pounds in Greenville ; the average is three hundred and sixteen 

 pounds, being less than in the red hill region, but more than it. is else- 

 where in the State. The grain crop is 7,731,528 bushels, an increase of 

 one hundred and thirty-nine per cent, on the crop of 1870. The average 

 yield for the whole region is nine bushels per acre, and it varies from a 

 maximum average of eighteen bushels per acre in York, to a minimum of 

 eight bushels in Laurens ; these variations depending more on the amount 

 of attention bestowed on this class of crops than on differences in the 

 productive capacity of the soil. Per capita of the population the yield is 

 nineteen bushels, which is four bushels more than in 1870. If this were 

 all corn, or its equivalent, and were fed to the population at a rate of ten 

 bushels per capita yearly, and the work stock at the rate of seventy bush- 

 els a head, it would leave, counting nothing for the supply of other live 

 stock, a deficiency of 1,091,000 bushels, or about fourteen per cent. Es- 

 timated in the same manner, this deficiency was thirty-one per cent, in 

 1 870. Compared with the other regions of the State the yield per capita 

 is below that of the sand hills, which is thirty -two bushels, and that of 

 the Alpine region, which is twenty bushels, but above the four others. 



The work stock is one to every twenty-seven acres of tilled land, the 

 average for the whole State being one to eighteen. More land is tilled 

 here to the head of work stock than anywhere in the State, except in the 

 red hill region. As the lands themselves are not lighter or of easier til- 

 lage, this is chiefly due to a more economical use of this power. 



The live stock number 473,180. This gives forty-five to the square 

 mile, against an average for the State of thirty-seven. Although this 

 region ranks third in its proportion of live stock to area, it was here that 

 the first movements in favor of the law requiring the enclosing of stock 

 took place. It is also noteworthy that the counties here, in which the 

 enclosure of stock has been enforced by law, for some years support fifty 

 head of live stock to the square mile, while the four counties in which 

 the stock have enjoyed the freedom of ranging wherever they could, sup- 

 port only thirty-six head to the square mile. 



