INTRODUCTION. 



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The cultivation of rice is confined to a very few States. South Carolina and Georgia produced in 

 18GO 171,608,180 pounds; and the total product of all the States was only 187,167,032 pounds. In 

 1850 these same States produced still more the two together giving 198,881,304 pounds; but the 

 production of rice was greater in 1850 than in I860 in nearly all the States, making the total 

 215,313,497 pounds. Of this, South Carolina in 1850 produced 159,930,613 pounds, and in 1860 

 119,100,528 pounds. Mississippi, which in 1860 produced only 809,082 pounds, in 1850 raised 

 2,719,856 pounds; and Alabama decreased still more, producing 2,312,352 pounds in 1850, and only 

 493,465 pounds in 1860. Florida, in 1850, produced 1,075,090 pounds; but in 1860 only 223,704. 

 The only States that increased in production, were Georgia, North Carolina, and Louisiana. 



HOPS. 



Pounds of hops produced in the United States in I860. 



The total production of hops in the United States in 1850 was 3,497,029 pounds; and in 1860 

 10,991,996 pounds, showing a remarkable increase in the cultivation of this crop. 



New York produces nearly all the hops raised in the United States. In 1850 this State produced 

 over two and a half million pounds, while all the other States and Territories produced less thsn one 

 million pounds; and in 1860 New York produced over nine and a half million pounds, while all the 

 other States and Territories produced less than one and a half million pounds. 



Next to New York, Vermont raises more hops than any other State, producing 638,677 pounds 

 in 1860, against 288,023 pounds in 1850. 



In this country, as in England, the cultivation of hops is confined to a comparatively small area. 

 New York raises over eight-tenths of all the hops produced in the United States ; and in this State 



