SOUTHWESTERN PINE HILLS. 



83 



co, peanuts, peaches, and figs. In Mobile County the order 

 was quite different, namely, "vegetables," Irish potatoes, 

 corn, sweet potatoes, hay, sugar-cane, cotton, pears, tobacco, 

 strawberries, figs, cowpeas, pecans. The leading "vege- 

 tables" in that county, in order of acreage, according to 

 unpublished census data obtained in Washington, were cab- 

 bage, green beans, watermelons, sweet corn, tomatoes, green 

 peas, cantaloupes, onions, and asparagus. 



There are many groves of Satsuma oranges in the south- 

 ern parts of both coast counties, and the acreage devoted to 

 this crop seems to have increased considerably since 1910. 

 Numerous other crops are being experimented with by 

 new settlers, and there is no telling which ones may become 

 of considerable importance hereafter. 



A fact worth mentioning here is that two of the sixteen 

 creameries operating in Alabama in 1919 were in the south- 

 ern part of Baldwin County. Along some of the roads lead- 

 ing to Fairhope nearly every farm has a stand or receptacle 

 for milk-cans at its gate. 



TABLE 17. 



Census returns of manufacturing in Mobile, 1909. 



