The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-04-25

valuable grain for the whole Union amounts to 3s7,
$50, lob bushels. Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Vr-
gna and In lana are In their order the creates pro-
ductr' Of this crop II is also cultivated extensively
IN Illinois, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, MIS-
sour, Pc 'nsylyania, South Carolina New York,
Maryland, Arkansas and the New England States.-
As article OF food for man and Tor domestic ami
mails this grain is highly important staple. The re-
cent discovery that has been made of lis capacity TO
yield excellent oil will doubt it TO be still
more extensively cultivated, especially IN the West
Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Maryland and N.
Carolina, the great Tobacco grooing States The
culture of tobacco is also making steady progress In
Missouri, where the crop of o4l is estimated at ~,
900 hhds, The census returns show an aggregate
crop for all the Tobacco growing States of 24O, 1877,
Is lbs. Of,his, Virginia produced 70 $50 1872 lbs
Kentucky 5667S GA lbs Tennessee 35 l6S0f0 lbs;
MARYLAND about twenty-six millions of pounds and
North Carolina, about twenty millions of pounds
The quantity of tobacco expor ell in 1910 was about
IA millions Of pounds The greater part of this went
to England France, Holland, and Germany. lfthis
valuable staple OF soil were admitted on fair terms
into foreign ports the annual export would be much
greater than II is at present.
We come to The Cotton crop-the most important
of national products, as it respects our ioeign
commerce. The great Cotton growing States are in
their order Mississippi Georgia, Louisiana Alabama
SJuth Carolina and North Carolina. The crop OF
mississippi reported by the census, amounts to l4S
5O4 1896 pounds; that of Georgia, to ll6 5l42ll
pounds that of Louisiana, TO 1881 1863 pounds
Alabama produces upwards of eighty four millions of
pounds; South Carolina nearly forty-four millions,
md North Carolina upwards OF thirty four millions
of pounds The aggregate crop OF all the cotton
growing States is set down at SIS 0OS,473 lbs.
The cotton crop of the United States is more than
one half Of that of the whole world The rapid ex-
tension of the cotton culture in this country is re,
markabe. In 1888 eight bales of cotton were seized
on board Of American brig, at the Liverpool
tim house, because II was not believed that so much
cotton could have be sent at time from the mi
ted States. The invention of Whney's cotton gin
gave great impulse to the growth OF the article, and
tended to facilitate its introduction into general
by giving it easy adaptation for featuring pur-
poses.
Another important Southern staple is Sugar. This
is produced chiefly in Louisiana. The annual crop
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
La 1889 the import OF sUgas was l95 23l 213 pounds
at expense Otter millions of dollars in lSi0it was
about 100 millions of pounds, at an expense of some
thing over six millions of dollars. More than thirty
millions pounds of sugar produced in s4 from
the maple and beet root, in the Northern Middle and
Western States.
There are various other articles Of agricultural pro-
duce TO which we have not REFERRED such barley
rye, buckwhea potatoes, hay, flax and hemp hops
rice, silk, &c to which may be added, wool, horses
and mules, cattle, sheep swine poultry, products
Of the dairy, ofthe orchards, gardens &c-all making
vast aggregate and minlslering largely to domestic
subsistence
But in general view Of our great staples, as well
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 10
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
change its products for those of another and both be
gamers by the exchange. la this diversity of pur-
suits we may recognise unity ofinteresis and when
the Manufacturing and Mechanical Arts added,
afording employment TO mutudes. and furnishing
consumers for the agricultural products Of the
try; when to all these are joined the Commercial
classes, from the shipping merchant who trades with
the renotest regions beyond the seas to the retail
dealer of the interoI-we behold in the Industrious
a,otations Of each and all common bond Of ha mo-
NOUS agreement connecting every department of labor
in one common and mutual fellowship. The prosperi-
ty Of branch OF employment, Of one section Of
the country, must tend to advance the prosperity OF
other pursuits and uf other sections. The producer
and the consumer depend on another, and both
prosper or suffer together.