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GEOLOGY OF NpRJH CAROLINA. 
Tobacco, 
Rice, 
Potatoes (Sweet), 
Potatoes (Irish), 
Peas, &c., 
Naval Stores, (value) 
Orchard products, “ 
Forest products, “ 
Mining products, “ 
Fisheries products, “ 
i ' 
11,150,087 pounds. 
3,738,803 “ 
532,799 “ 
3,071,840 bushels. 
2,059,280 “ 
2,338,309 dollars. 
394,749 “ 
1,089,115 “ 
638,302 “ 
265,839 “ 
To these add rye, barley, buckwheat, hay, wool, sorghum, maple sugar, 
honey, wine, cheese, butter, &c. 
The total annual value of farm products is $57,849,940. It is apparent 
that the leading crops are the cereals ; next to these in value, are the 
market crops, cotton and tobacco. 
The production ot all these crops, except cotton, has largely diminish- 
ed since the war, that of Indian corn having fallen off nearly 12,000,000 
bushels, wheat 2,000,000, tobacco more than 20,000,000' pounds, and rice 
more than 5,500,000. The production of the sweet potato has also been 
reduced to one half, and that of peas and beans to one-fourth of the 
quantities given for 1860. 
Manufactures . — Agriculture being the leading occupation, as above 
stated, manufactures have always occupied a secondary and subordinate 
place. Put the facilities for many branches of manufacture are unsur- 
passed. Among the advantages may be mentioned first, an unlimited 
water power ; second, an abundance and wide distribution of fuel ; third, 
a wide range and great abundance of raw materials at hand, as cotton, 
tobacco, lumber of all sorts, iron and other ores, and a great variety of 
farm products; fourth, abundance and cheapness of labor / fifth, facili- 
ties for producing everything required by a manufacturing population ; 
and sixth, a favoring climate — no obstructive ice. And as a matter of 
fact, those few T capitalists who have embarked in enterprises of this sort 
find them very profitable ; as for example, the cotton manufacturer, whose 
profits often exceed 20 per cent. 
The following list of manufactures will show that already some atten- 
tion has been diverted from the production of cotton and tobacco to the 
more profitable business of converting these and other agricultural pro- 
ducts into more valuable forms : 
