The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1842-05-26
CHARLOTTE. NC. MAY ZIG. 1912.
EEE.GK ECO.SOsWY:

hIhAhhS ON HE A1RlC ILIO kAL
sTATISTICS.--CoyrNrrD.
RIcE.-TLis product is cultivated To
comparatively very little exten, in the
United States, except IN South Carolina
aud Georgia. In the former of these, it is
an object OF 90 small a,tea;on, and ranks
second ou.y 10 cotton. II forms a consld
erable article Of export from this country
to Europe. England, however, imports
annually large quantities Of rice from iu.
dia The crop Of rice in ls4I is said to
have been, on tho whole very good QUE
Equal, II not superior, 10 the usual average.
SILK Observation-Disclosures the
disappointment Of many who, since the year
1889 engaged in the culture Of the mo
rus mniticQH!iS aud other varieties Of the
mulberry, aud The raising Of silkworms,
there has been, on the whole, a steady 10.
crease in The attention devoted to this
branch Of industry. This may be, 10 par,
attributed TO the ease Of cultivation, both as
to time aud labor required, and in no small
degree, also, TO the fac, that in twelve Of
The States, special bounty is paid for the
production OF cocoons, or Of the raw silk
Several oil these promise mach hereafter 10
this product, II reliance can be placed on
Tie estimates given in the various journals
more parhculptly devoted to the record Of
The production Of silk. There seems, o,
!oast, no ground for abandoning the en,e.
PRISE, so successfully begun, Of aiming 10
supply our home Consumption OF this lmpor
laat article OF our imports. 10 MAssachu
sets, ConaecIca., New York, Pennsvl
yaaia, Delaware, Tennessee, and Ohio,
there mas been quite en- increase above the
amount Of 1889. The quantity Of raw silk
manufactured IN this ,ouniry the past year
IS esnaled at more then $4,000 pounds -
The machinery possessed for reeiine, spin
ming and weaving silk, in the production OF
rIbauds, ves.ings, dau.ask, &C., ADM, of its
being carried 10 great perfection, as may
be seen BY the beautiful specimens Of va.
rlous kinds deposited in the National Gal.
ery at the Patent Office, The amount OF
silk stutis brought into this country in some
single years, from foreign countries, is es
tlmated al more 10 value than $50 900 600.
The silk manufactured in France in 1910.
amounted TO $50, 100000; that of Prussia
10 more than 81 100000. Should one per
son in a hundred of the population of the
United States produce annually 100 pounds !
Of silk, the quantity would DO nearly Is,
600 900 pounds, which at So per pound
and much of il might command higher i
price would amount TO nearly $50 900 900 .
$40 Geo, GOO above our whole cotton ey |
port, nine times the value of our tobacco
exports, and nearly five or six times the ,
average value Of our imports Of silk. That ,
such produc.lyeness is not incredible, as
at first sight It may seem, may be evident
from the fact, that the Lombard Venetian
Of lii,le more than 1000 900 of
population, exported in one year 6,l32, $50
pounds Of rav silk which is a larger est,
mate, by AZ least one half, for each produ
Ger, than tho supposiion just made os to
our own country. Another fact, too, shows
both the feasibility and the Importance OF
= e',llivntien Of this product, The eli
mate OF our country, ITUSIi ~ y,,---,-. -.
der even up TO IA degrees Of north latitude,
is suited 10 the culture of silk. 1t needs
only rational and un6inching devotion to
this object, to place our country soon a
mone the greatest silk producing countries
Of the world.
SrGAR.-Louislana is the greatest sugar
distrIc, in our country. The crop Of 1911
appears to have been injured BY the early
frosts; the amount, therefore was not so
great as that Of 1899 by nearly one third.
The progress Of the sugar manufacture
and the gain upon our imports has been rap.
ID. In Isl 3 the import Of sugars was 3d..
93l ,213 pounds, at an expense OF al least
10000, 000 in $50, about 100, 100000
pounds at an expense of more than sc, 600.
300. A portion of this was undoubtedly
exported, but most of il remained for
lone consumption. Moro than 80 ,000, 900
pounds Of sugar, also, from the maple and
he beet root we're produced IN lS4l, in
he Northern, Middle, and Western States
md, should the production OF cornstalk ST., .
gar succeed, as it now promises TO do, this ,
lrticIe must contribute greatly 10 lessen the
AMOUNT of imported sugars. Indeed, such
las been the manufacture Of the sugar from
he cane for the last five years, that were
I 10 advance in the same ratio for the five d
o come, it would be unnecessary to import {
my more sugar for our home consumption.
Some further remarks on this particular
opic will be found below, 10 connexion with 9
he suhiec, Of corns.aik sugar.
WINE.-North Carolina, Pennsylvania, $
Virginia, Ohio. and Indiana, rank highest,
n their order, in the production OF wne.--
n Maryland, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine,
md kentucky, some thousands of gallons +
ire likewise produced. Two acres in Penn. i
yvania, cultivated by some Germans, v
laye the past autumn yielded 1900 gal r
ons of the pure juice of the grape, and s
,aid net profit of more than 81 ,O00.- C
Still, the quantity produced is small. The /
cultivation of both the native aud foreign q
,rape as fruit for the table, seems to be e
IN object of increasing iutcres, in particu.
ar sections of our country /; but any very a
lecded advances in this product are scarce Q