The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-04-26

valuable grain tor the whole Mon amounts to 56I
$50 1856 bushels. Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Vir-
gnia and Indiana are their ORDER the greatest pro-
ducers of this crop is also cultivated extensively
in Illinois, North Carolina, Georgia Alabama, Mis-
souri, Pc .nsyI wanna, South Carolina, New York,
Maryi land, Arkansas and the New England States
As an article OF food for and Tor domestic AMI
mails this grain is highly important staple. The
cent discovery that has been made of lis capacity to
yield excellent oil will doubt be still
more extensively cultivated, specially in the West
Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Maryland and N.
Carolina, the great Tobacco grooming States. The
culture of tobacco is also making steady progress in
Missouri where the crop Of iS4l is estimated IL,
600 hhds.> The census return show aggregate
crop for all the Tobacco growing Saies of $40 1877,
l Is lbs. Ofihis Virginia produced 10 450 1872 lbs
Kentucky So 61S 674 lbs Tennessee, 49, OiO lbs;
Maryland, about twenty six millions of pounds and
North Carolina, about twenty millions of pounds
The quantity of tobacco exported in 1910 about
l44 millions of pounds The greater part of this went
TO England France, Holland, and Germany. Ii this
valuable staple of soil were admitted fair terms
Iuto foreign ports the annual export would be much
greater than 1t is at present.
We come to the Cotton crop-the most important
of our national products, as 1t respects foreign
commerce. The great Cotton growing States are in
cir order Mississippi, Georgia. Louisiana, Alabama,
South Carolina and North Carolina. The crop OF
Mississippi reported by the census, amounts to 49,
5O4 1896 pounds; that of Georgia, to ll6,5i4,2ll
pounds; that Of Louisiana to 1881 ,263 POuads
Alabama produces upwards OF elghty-our millions OF
pounds; South Carolina nearly forty-four millions
and North Carolina upwards of Thirty four millions
of pounds. The aggregate crop OF all the cotton
growing States is set down at 57S008, 473 lbs.
The cotton crop of the United States is more than
one half of that of the whole world. The rapid
tension of the cotton culture in this country Is re-
markable In 1888, eight bales of cotton seized
on board of American brig, at the Liverpool Gus
t m house, because it not believed that much
coton could have be, sent at one time from the uni
ted States. The invention of Whitneys cotton gin
gave great impulse to the growth of the article ant
tended facilitate its introduction into general
by giving easy adaptation for manufacturing pur
! poses.
| Another important Southern staple is Sugar. This
| is produced chiefly in Louisiana. The annual croF
of that State is upwards of eighty eight millions OF
pounds. The increase Of domestic production in this
article has considerably lessened the Importation OF 1t
In 1889 the import Of sugars was 1875 81 273 pounds
expense of millions of dollars in lS4O was
about 100 millions of pounds at expense of some
thing over millions Of dollars More than thirty
millions pounds Of sugar were produced in lS4l from
the maple and beet root in the Northern, Middle ant
| Western States.
There are various other articles of agricultural pro
duce to which have not referred, such as barley
rye buckwhea,, potatoes, hay, fax and hemp, hops
rce silk &c; to which may be added, wool, horses
and mules, cattle, sheep swine poultry, products
of the dairy, ofthe orchards gardens, &call making
vast aggregate and ministering largely to domestic
subsistence
But in general view of our great staples, as wei
as of the minor items of agricultural produce, what
variety is exhibited Cotton, Tobacco, Sugar, Hemp
Wool-on the one hand adapted to manufacture or I
: the enjoyments of luxury; and on the other hand
Wheat, Indan Corn, Oats, with Live Stock fol sub
sistence. Thus one portion of the Union may ex
change its products for those of another, and both b
gamers by the exchange. In this diversity of pur
suits may recognise unity ofinterestsi and wheI
the Manufacturing and Mechanical Arts are added
affording employment to muudes, and furnishin!
consumers for The agricultural products of the coun
try when to all these are Joined the Commercial
classes, from the shipping merchant who trades will
the remotest regions beyond the seas to the retail
dealer Of the interior-we behold in tho industrious
ayocations of each and all common bond of harmo-
NOUS agreement connecting every department of labor
| in one common and mutual fellowship The prosperl-
ty of branch of employment, or of one section OF
the country, must tend to advance the prosperity OF
other pursuits and Of other sections The producer
and the consumer depend on one another, and both
prosper or suffer together.