The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-12-23
1850 was 214, 600, 900 bushels, equal to SO per

| per cent. New \ Ork, New Jersey, IennsyNs
MIA, Delaware, and Maryland, increase
| 20,8l2000 bushels moro than so per cent. i
the production of this crop, no State has retro
graded. Ohio which in 1910 occupied tn
fourth place az n corn producing State, nov
ranks az the first Kentucky is second lllinoi
third, Tennessee fourth. The crop of lllinOi
has increased from 2 00OO 900 to $500, 900 bush
els, or at the rate of 90 per cent. in ten year,
OF tho numerous varieties, some are bes
adapted TO the Southern States, while other
are better suited for the Northern and Eastern
Those generally cultivated in the former are
the Southern big and small yellow the South
crn big and small white flint the yellow Peru
Wan, and the VirgHian white gourd-seed II
the more northcrly 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 il
! chiefly confined to the Eastern, Middle anC
! Western States, though much more successful
ly grown in the latter The amount exported
| from South Carolina in l74S, was 80, 3OS bush
els; from North Carolina, in 1853, 81, $50
bushels; from Georgia, in 1855, 600 bushels
from Virginia, for several years preceding the
! Revolution, annually 600 900 bushels from
| Philadelphia, in 1896, 90, 2O5 bushels il
| III, 259, AL bushel.
! The total amount exported from this coun
| try, in 1870, WAS 578,349 bushels; in 1871
! 2G46, 936 bushels, 35l ,695 Of which were In
dian meal IN 1900, 1902, 1875 bushels, 33S, lOs
Of which wore in meal; III 1910, LAO. 900
| bushels S6,7it Of which were in meal III
| lS20-2l, thOrG were exported 607, 277 bushels
| of corn. and 3 500 barrels of Indian meal
| in ls30-3l, 57l,3 l2 bushels of oOrn and
| POI Goa barrels of meal in 1840-'4I 535 727
bushels of cora, and 232 ,2Sl barrels of meal
in 1876, l2SG,06S bushels of corn, and
2gS 100 barrels of meal in 1867 1896, $50
bushels of corn and $3.50 barrels of meal
in 1901, 3,426Sll bushels Of corn, and
203 G22 barrels Of meal More than eleven
millions of bushels Of Indian corn wore con
sumed in 1880, in tho manufacture of malt and
spirtuous liquors.
According 10 tho census Of $40, the corn
crop of tho United States was 377,53l,S75
bushels in 1850, 592, 1876 6l2 bushels
Oats-Ihe oat like rye, has never entered
much INTO our foreign commerce, KS tho domes-
tic consumption has always been nearly equal
10 the quantity produced. Tho annual average
exports for several years preceding 1917, were
10000 bushels
BY tho census returns Of 1910. it will be seen
that the total produce of tho United States was
l23O7I ,3il bushels; Of 1850, lao, 678, 879 busr-
OILS
Riee-the chief food, perhaps of one-third
OF the human rsee--possesses the advantage at
tending wheat maize, and other grains, OF pre-
serving plenty during the fluctuations of trade
ar,I ull ,f
too low and moist for the production of most
other useful plants,
The present culture Of rice in the United
States is chiefly confined to South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and
Texas. The yield per acre varies from twenty
20 sixty bushels, weighing from forty five to
forty-eight pounds when cleaned Under IA
v0rable circumstances, as many as ninety bush
els to an acre have boon raised
Another variety is cultivated in this country
TO q limited extent, called Cochin China, dry,
or mountain rice from its adaptation 10 dry
soil, without irrigation. 1t will grow several
degrees further north or south than tho Car
olina RICE and has been cultivated with success
in tho northern provinces Of Hungary, China,
Wostphalia, Virginia, and Maryland bat the
yield is much less than that of the preceding,
being only fifteen to twenty bushels to an acre
1t was first introduced into Charleston, from
Canton, by John Brodly Blake in l772.
The amount of rice exported from South Car.
Dina in 1874 was $4,000 barrels; in 1871. |
IL 1857 barrels; in 1740, 90,l10 in I747-ts
$1,000 barrels in 1854, l04, 682 barrels; in |
760-'6l 100000 barrels; from Savannah, in |
us, 2299 barrels besides 235 bushels of pad
iy, or rough rice i'll l760 1888 barrels, be-
Iides 20S bushels of paddy in 1910, 22.12O |
barrels, besides 1864 bushels of paddy; from
in l77l, 248,37 pounds The
amount exported from the United States in
l77O, was l50,229 barrels; in 1891, 069SO
tierces; in 1900, ll2,056 ticrcos; in 1910
1871, 3il terco-; in lS2O-'2l, 1921 tierces
in ls30l3l, 1867 tcrccs; in I84OJ4I,
1867 ticrces; in lSl5-'46, l2i007 tierces
in lSi6-17, l44,427 terccs; in ls5OJ5i
lO5590 tieroes
According to the census Of 1870, the rice
rOpOf the United States amounted to 80 Sal, 422
pounds; in 1850, 2l53l2,7IO pounds
Tobacco.-Tho principal varieties cultivated
IN the United States, arc tho Virginian, the
largo lcalcd, tho dwarf, tho Cuba, and the COM
mon green tobacco.
In 1862, there were raised in Virginia &C, 900
pounds; the amount exported from that colo
ny in 1889 was 10000 pounds; annually for
ten years preceding 1909, S,S68,666 pounds
for several years preceding tho Rev
oluti0n, $4,000 hogRheads; in 1883, 10000
from North Carolina, in 1853, 100
hogsheads; from Georgia, in l772, 1912
pounds. The amount exported from tho Uni
ted Colonies, in l772, was 97,799, 263 pounds
IN 1880, l7i2i,267 pounds from tho United
States in 1887 990il 900 pounds in 1891,
IOl,272 hOgshoads, 81 1872 pounds manufacture
ed, and II, $50 pounds Of snuff; in 1900 $3.50
hogNheads, 457,7l3 pounds manufactured, and
Il ,i53 pounds of snuff; in 1910, saba hogs
heads, 4g5 427 pounds manufactured, and
5000 pounds of snuff; in lS20-'2l, 66 S5S
hogsheads, 1872, 040 pounds manufactured,
and a 500 pounds Of snuff; in lS30-'3l, S67I8
hogshoads 3,639,S5 pounds manufactured,
and y 967 pounds Of snuff; in isIO-4l, i47s2S
hogshoads, 7, 503,6ii pounds manufactured and
Gs. 553 pounds of snuff in l850l5l, 95945
hog-hcnds, 1895, 1853 pounds manufactured
and p. I22 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, 752,6l6
pounds--showing decrease in its culture OF
l9,dl0,673 pounds
tUHon-lhO earliest record OF Sondng cot
ton from this country to Europe liz in the ia
bla Of exports from Charleston in l7a7Jas,
whom several bags were shipped tho next par
eel, consisting of 1000 pounds, was shipped in
no; and third shipment of seventy-ono
bags was made in 1884, which England seized,
ON the ground that America could not produce
a quantity so great Tho amount exported
from the United States in 1901, was is9, 3l6
pounds; i'll 1893, lS7,600 pounds; in 1894,
l60l7 go pounds; in 1898, 6,276, 300 pounds I;
in 1900, l7,7S9,SO3 pounds; in 1910, 1921 ,462
pounds; in lS20-2l, l24 1893, 405 pounds; in
lS30-3l, 276,9797S4 pounds; in ISl0J4l,
$40, 2O4 100 pounds; in ls5O-'5l, s27, Os9
pounds
According to the census returns of lSaO, the
amount cultivated WAS 79O,i79,27 pounds; of
1880, 9S7 AIS 600 pounds--showing an increase
of 1920, 325 pounds.