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The difference between here and there will then become mote 
evident. 
The cotton culture of North America covers an area 24 longitude 
and 15 latitude degrees, giving an area of more than 1.56 million 
square milimetres or more than l j 3 of the United States or three 
times the size of the Gerrpan Empire. It has a population of more 
than 8,000,000 whites and more than 5,000,000 natives, a total of 
about 13,000,000 of which each 100 produce 53 bales of^cotton, or 
250 lbs. of fibre per head. 
The Mississippi River divides the cotton country into nearly two 
halves, lying east and westwards of it. 
The ground on which cotton is grown is determined according 
to the geological state or condition. Accordingly the country is 
divided in the following: The Pine Levels ; The Pine Hills ; The 
Metamorphic or Piedmont Territory; The Sand Hills; The Prairie 
Territory ; The Oak and Hickory Territory; The Bluff and Brown 
Table Lands; The Alluvial Territory ; The Valley Territory ; and 
The Alpine Territory. 
The Pine-Levels , stretch from the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf 
of Mexico, from 50-150 miles landwards and attain a height of 200 
feet above the sea-level, covering an area of 19,000,000 bouws, of 
which 44 % consist of cotton land. The production is from 26 to 
32 % of the total. 
The average size of a cotton farm is 68 bouws, but the farms 
here are larger being no bouws. 
Of these farms about 69% are worked by their owners while the 
remainder are let out. The tilling of the land here is easy, for 21 
bouws, one requires only 1 draught animal while on the average 
one animal is necessary for 12.5 bouws. 
Three bales (1,500 lbs.) are produced by each animal (which is 
high as this number Is put to 2.1 bales for each animal, for the 
whole territory. The soil of this territory has the greatest need of 
proper irrigation. On these lands, the Sea-Island cotton, in South 
Carolina and Georgia, is grown. 
The Pine-Hills , border on the Northern boundaries of the Pine- 
Levels, attaining a height from 200-400 feet above sea-level. They 
cover an area of 22,300,000 bouws of which 58% is cultivated land, 
welding a product of 15% towards the total. In Georgia and South 
Carolina mules are used for the work, but in Missisippi, Louisiana 
and Texas where Europeans are predominant horses are employed. 
Here 19 bouws require one animal. 
The Met amorphic or Piedmont Territory , borders on the northern 
bounds of the Pine Hills, passing through North Carolina, South 
Carolina Georgia and Alabama. It covers an area of 18,800,000 
bouws of which only ten percent are cultivated with cotton, its 
product adding 16.8% to the total. The smallest farms have an 
area of 30 bouws and are 40% of all the farms. Here they count 
20 bouws to one animal, with an average production of 3.7 bales. 
1 he value of one bouw of land is C37. The cost of producing a 
pound of cotton is 17 ets. 
Between the Piedmont territory and the Pine Hills lie the Sand 
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