APPENDIX II ANSWERS TO CIRCULAR. 381 



Cotton has been grown in this county (Dale) since 1825. I have lived here from then 

 until now. [J. C. Matthews, Dale. 



Very little in the State was grown previous to 1820, and that little was grown for 

 domestic use. [David Lee, Lowndes. 



Cotton was first grown in the southern part of Sumter County about 1830. [ J. N. 

 Gilmore, Sumter. 



Alabama was admitted into the Union as a State in 1819, and it is known that cotton 

 was cultivated before that time. [H. Tutwiler, Hale. 



Cotton was generally grown in Alabama in 1819 and 1820, when the State was ad- 

 mitted into the Union, and had become a staple article. And as Alabama is one of 

 the best cotton regions in the cotton-belt, its cultivation increased rapidly, and became 

 a paying industry to the first settlers. [Dr. John Peurifoy, Montgomery. 



About the year 1816 or 1817. [J. S. Hausberger, Bibb. 



ARKANSAS. 



Cotton was first grown in 1867 for market in this county. [John T. Wickham 

 Clay. 



Cotton was grown in this county as early as 1846. [Norbourne Young, Columbia. 



Prior to the war there was little more cotton made in this county than for home use. 

 Since the war there has been a good deal of cotton raised for shipment, say 1,000 to 

 2,000 bales per year. [S. W. Cochran, Fulton. 



I am unable to obtain any trustworthy account of the early history of the produc- 

 tion of cotton in Miller County, which was a portion of Lafayette County until re- 

 cently. The earliest date I can obtain is 1835. [E. T. Dale, Miller. 



First cotton grown in 1835. There was but little raised until 1840. [T. S. Edwards, 

 Pope. 



FLORIDA. 



No definite knowledge. [F. M. Meekin, Alachua. 



The first cotton grown in this county for market was in 1851. [John B. Carrin, 

 Taylor. 



There is very little cotton raised in this section, and the habits of the growers are a 

 series of old time superstition ; all evils are chargeable to the influence of the moon. 

 [W. E. Woodruff, Duval. 



There is very little cotton grown in this part of Florida, and no worms have ever 

 affected it. [John M. McGehee, Santa Rosa. 



Cotton was cultivated in Middle Florida as early as 1827. [Robert Gamble, Leon. 



GEORGIA. 



Cotton first planted in the county in 1848, bnt not generally raised until 1854. 

 [Timothy Fussell, Coffee. 



Cotton was introduced into Georgia as a crop between 1790 and 1800. [William 

 Jones, Clarke. 



From the best information that I can get, about the year 1822 or 1823. [S. P. Odom, 

 Dooly. 



Cotton was grown in Jackson County first about 1781, but to a very small extent. 

 This county was then called the Cherokee Nation, abounding with savages, wild beasts, 

 &c. [E. M. Thompson, Jackson. 



Cotton was not grown in our county earlier than 1820. [A. J. Cheves, Macon. 



Cotton, to a small extent, was grown by aborigines, the Indians, long before I was 

 born. I was born in 1828. [William A. Harris, Worth. 



From the best information I can get, the first cotton raised in Georgia was in the 

 year 1739 or 1740, on the Island of Saint Simon's, by a Mr. Harton. The first year it 

 was grown in this county was 1828. The first I ever saw grown was in 1812. [Mor- 

 gan Kemp, Marion. 



1805, in the county. [John T. Wingfield, Wilkes. 



Cotton has not been raised as a crop in this county till within the last ten years ; 

 have had but little trouble with the worm. [James R. Brown, Cherokee. 



There is bat little cotton planted in Chatham County. [George P. Harrison, Chat- 

 ham. 



We do not raise cotton in this county to any considerable extent; know nothing of 

 its enemies. [M. D. Lansford, Catoosa. 



There was but little cotton grown in this county up to 1845. [H. W. Hammett, 

 Cobb. 



LOUISIANA. 



No cotton grown in this parish. [G. W. Thomas, Saint Mary's. 

 In Carroll Parish, Louisiana, in 1827. [C. B. Richardson, E. Carroll. 

 According to tradition, it was raised here at the beginning of this century say 

 seventy-five years ago. [Douglas M. Hamilton, West Felinciana. 

 I have no records. [I. U. Ball, M. D., West Feliciana. 



