The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-12-23
1850 was 2i4OOO,OOO bushels equal to SO per

MIA, Delaware, and Maryland, increased
20,Sl2OO0 bushels moro than SO per cent. In
the production of this crop, no State has retro
graded Ohio, which in 1910 occupied tho
fourth place "a corn-producing State now
ranks az the first. Kentucky is second Illinois
third, Tennessee fourth The crop of Illinois
has increased from 2 100000 to $500, 900 BUSH
els, at the rate OF 100 per cent. IN ten years.
OF tho numerous varieties some are best
adapted to the Southern States, while others
are better suited for the Northern and Eastern.
| Those generally cultivated in the former arc
the Southern big and small yellow, the South
orn big and small white flint, the yellow Peru
Wan, and the Virginian white gourdsecd In
the more northery and easterly States they
cultivate the golden Sioux or Northern yellow
! flint, the King Philip or eight rowed yellow,
the Canadian early white the Tuscarora, the
white -four, and the Rhode Island white flint.
The extended cultivation Of this grain is
chiefly confined b. the Eastern, Middle, and
Western States, though much more successful
ly grown in the latter The amount exported
from South Carolina, in l74S, was 39, 30S bush
els; from North Carolina, in 1853, 1850
bushels; from Georgia, in 1855, 500 bushels
from Virginia, for several years preceding the
Revolution, annually 10000 bushels: from
Philadelphia in 1865 SO, 60 2O5 bushels; in
| hi, 259, 44l bushel..
The total amount exported from this cOuu-
! try, in 1870, was 578,349 bushels in 1871,
! 2,GI6, 936 bushels 30 1875 Of which were In
dian moal ia 1900, 2,O32 1876 hnshcis 33S, lOS
Of which were in meal; in 1910, l,I4O98O
bushels, S6,5ii of which were in meal In
| ls2O-'2l, thoro were exported PIT bushels
of corn. and I3l 500 barrels of Indian meal
in If nd
| POI 6Oi barrels Of meal in IS4O-4l, 535.727
bushels of corn and 1872 2sl barrels of meal
in 1876, l,2S6O6S bushels Of corn, and
29S 100 barrels Of meal in 1867 1926, $50
bushels Of corn and 948,O6O barrels of meal
in 1901, 3,426,8ll bushels of corn, and
203G22 barrels of meal. More than eleven
millions q bushels Of Indian corn wore CON
sumcd in 1850 in tho manufacture of malt and
spirituOus Liquors..
According to the census of $40, the corn
crop Of tho United States was 1881, S75
bushels in 1850, 692, 1876 6t2 bushels
Oat-The Oat, ike rye, has never entered
much INTO our foreign commerce. rs tho domes-
tic consumption has always been nearly equal
To the quantity produced Tho annual average
exports for several years preceding 1917 were
10000 bushels
by tho census returns Of 1870 il will be seen
that the total produce OF tho United States was
l23O7l, 31l bushels; of 1850, lao, 678 87y buslr.
OILS
Rice-the chief food, perhaps Of one-thrd
OF the human race-possesses the advantage ut
! tending wheat maize, and other grsins of pre-
serving plenty during the fluctuations of trade,
and IL also susceptible of cultivation on land
too low and moist for the production of most
other useful plants
The present culture Of rice in the United
States il chiefly confined to South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and
Texas. The yield per acre varies from twenty
TO sixty bushels weighing from forty five to
lOrty-eight pounds when cleaned Under IA
v0rable circumstances, as many rs ninety bush |
els to an acre have boon raised
Another variety is cultivated in this country |
TO 4 limited extent, called Cochin China, dry, |
or mountain rice, from its adaptation to dry |
soil, without irrigation. II will grow several |
degrees further north or south than tho Car
olina rice, and has been cultivated with success
in the northern provinces Of Hungary China,
Wostphalia, Virginia, and Maryland; but the
yield is much less than that of the preceding,
being only Gltoon TO twenty bushels to an acre
IL was first introduced into Charleston, from
Canton, by John Brodly Blake, in l772
The amount of rice exported from South Car
olna in l724 WAS $4,000 barrels in 1881,
IL, 957 barrels in l7l0, 90,lI0; in l747-4S,
$4,000 barrels; in 1854, 1O4, 6S2 barrels; in
l76O-'6l, 100, 900 barrels; from Savannah in
1878, 1929 barrels, besides 235 bushels of pad.
dy, or rough rice; in 1860, 1888 barrels be-
sides 208 bushels of paddy in l770, 22l2O
barrels, besides ,06i bushels of paddy; from
Philadelphia in l77l, 248,375 pounds The
amount exported from the United States in |
1870, was l502 29 barrels; in 1891, 90 $50 |
tierces; in 1900, ll2056 ticrcos in 1910, |
1884 terceH in l820-2l, S8,22l terces
in IS30-3l, 1857 tcrccs, in 1904, |
l0I6l7 tierces; in ISi5-46, l24007 terces
in lsi6-A7, I44,427 tierces; in l85O|5l, |
1916, $50 teroes.
According to the census of 1910, the rice |
crop of the United States amounted to 80 "a 400
pounds; in 1850, 2l5,3l2,7I0 pounds.
TobdCcO--Iho principal varieties cultivated |
in the United States, arc tho Yirginian, the |
large.lcaled, the dwarf tho Cuba, and the CON-
mon green tobacco.
In lG62, there were raised in Virginia 90, 900 |
pounds the amount exported from that colo
ny in 1889 was 10000 pounds annually for
ten years preceding 1909, ~, sos, Goo pounds
annually, for several years preceding tho Rev
olution, $4,000 hogsheads; in 1883, 10000
hogshrais; from North Carolina, in 1853, 100 |
hogsheads; from Georgia, in l772, 10. 1872 |
pounds. Tho amount exported from tho Uni |
tod Colonies, in 1872, was ", 799, 263 pounds |
ia 1880 I7i2i, 267 pounds; from tho United |
States in 1881 99,0il 900 pounds; in 1891, |
I0I, 272 hogshoads, 81 % pounds manutactur-
ed, and r., 6S9 pounds of snuff; in 1900 76, $50 |
hOgSheads, 4577l3 pounds manufactured, and
Il ,i53 pounds of snuff; in 1910, 81, - hogs |
heads, 495, 427 pounds manufactured, and
l6,64O pounds of snuff; in lS20-'2l, 90, 85S |
hogshcads, l,332OI0 pounds manufactured, |
and A 500 pounds Of snuff in lS30-3l, S67IS |
hogshoads 3,639,S56 pounds manufactured
and - 967 pounds OF snuff; in lS40-4l, l4782S
hogshoads, 1903, GA pounds manufactured and
az 553 pounds of snuff; in lS50-'5l, 95945
hog-honda, 1858 pounds manufactured,
and 27.l22 pounds of snuff
According to tho census returns of 1910, tho
amount OF tobacco raised in tho United States
WAS 2l9, l63,3l7 pounds; of 1850, 1873, 752, SAC
pounds--showing n decrease in its culture OF
l9.4lO673 pounds.
Coiion-rho earliest record of sending cot
ton from this country to Europe ia in the Ia
bio of exports from Charleston in l7i7JiS,
whom several bags were shipped; tho next par
eel. consisting of , 600 pounds, was shipped in
1870; and third shipment of seventy-ono
bags wa4 made in 1884, which England seized,
on the ground that America could not produce
quantity so great Tho amount exported
from the United States in 1871, was 1891
pounds in 1898, ls7,600 pounds in 1894,
! 60l go pounds in 1898 6,276,3O0 pounds |;
in 800 1879 500 pounds; in 1910, 1921 ,i62
pounds, in lS2O-'2l, l2i, 1893, lO5 pounds; in
1890 81, 276,979,7S4 pounds; in lS4OJil,
$50, 2Ol 100 pounds, in ls5O-'5l, s27, l370S9
pounds
According 10 the census returns of 1910, tho
amount cultivated was 790,i79,27 pounds; of
1850, 9S7, lAS 600 pomds--showing an increase
| of 1916, $40 325 pounds.