The Shreveport weekly news. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1861-1861, 1861-06-24
Agricultural Resources Of the
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cultural resources Of IRE SoulA.
We find everybody, almost, enter
tanning the mistaken notion (Which
find in the London Times of the Sd
inst, too-but don't wonder at it, TO,
1t gets it's information from the North,
that the northern States are, and the
southern States are not producing
States. There never was greater
mistake. With your consent will
call public attention to some striking
and interesting facts in this conncc-
ton, to show that the bugbear Sc of
starving out the South. and cutting
OF supplies, etc" may be said with
ease, but done with much difficulty
Twill select first, South Carolina
to run the parallel with, for several
reasons. the chief of which is that
she has been supposed to produce no.
thing but cotton and rice, and she is
the most derided and condemned of
all the southern States. Not many
persons suppose that this State, alone.
produces nearly fvc-sixths of all the
rice grown; but the seventh census Of
1860 shows this TO be the fact. Be
sides she produces within 5000 bush
els OF as much wheat as is grown by
all the New England States put to-
gether. She produces as much corn
almost as the State of New York and
5000 bushels more of that grain than
I'LL tho New England States; being
upwards of 100000 Of bushels
She produced, in that year, more oats
than Maine; more by million bush
els than Massachusetts; more than a
million bushels of potatoes over what
Maine produced; moro beans and peas
by 100000 bushels than all the nor
them States put together,cxcept New
York: more beef cattle than Penn
eylvania by 1870, and almost as NIX
NY as all the New England States;
more sheep than Iowa and Wiscon-
sin by 1869: more hogs than New
York by 1929; more than Pennsyl-
vania by 25,1i7, and $4,000 more
than New England, with New Jersy, |
Michigan, Wisconsin and California
in the bargain; more horses and mules
by 10000 than Maine, New lamp.
shire, Massachusetts and Rhode Is
land. Besides which she produces
largely of oxen, cows and variety
Of products of smalle, kinds.
Virginia and North Caroliua pro-
dnced Jointly 13,374,ooo bushels of
wheat, or 2i1,00O more than the
great wheat State of New York, and
a quantity equal to the whole product
Of the six New England States, with
New Jersey, Michigan, Iowa. and Wis
cpnsiu,- al put together
Virginia. North Carolina and Ten
nessee produced tI5,f7l,593 bushels
Of corn, a quantity exceeding by up
wards of 100000 bushels the ioi2t
product Of New York, Pennsy lvania,
Ohio, New jersey. Connecticut. Mas
New Hampshire Vermont
and Maine,
Tennessee alone produced 1850
more hogs than the six New England
States, with New York, Pennsylvania
New jersey, Iowa and Michigan. for
that State produced a,1o4,So0 hogs,
while the eleven northern States here
produced but 3,OSS. 1874. Most
people have thought that the North
is really the hog producing section,
but such is by no means the fact
she whole number Of hogs produced
in 1850, was 30,3I6,60S-of which
number the slaveholding States pro-
duced 20,770,730, or more than two,
thirds of the whole.
1t will doubtless surprise MANY per-
sons to be told that these seven Gulf
States, South Carolina, Georgia, Ala
oama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Tex
is produced 45,IS7 more beef cattle,
han the six New England States, land :.
New York, PENIS ylvania, Ohio, New
Jersey Indiana, Michigan and Wis
:onsin altogether: but such is the fact
;or the census, of $3.50 tells u that
hese seven cotton States produced
1857 ,4S9 beef cattle, while the thir-
cen Northern States named only pro-
luced 3,312,327.
4 single glance at the live stock
columns of the seventh census, will
prove to the inquirer, that the slave Z
lolding States produced more beef.
:attle than the non-siaveholding by
!, 49,, 5S7. That while the North
Produced 3.5il,12i cows, the South
produced 2,S29,SlO. That the nor.
.hern States produced S6G,397 work
,xen, against S2O,34O produced by the
southern States That while north
m States produced 2,31O,o62 horses,
md mules, southern States produced
1858 more.
In conclusion, as people have been
10 much in the habit of conced ne
to the North. in these aud
many other points of view, maybe,
he above statement may be doubted,
t so, refer the skcptieaa to the 9TH
census, 1850, the latest date we have.
SIN.
An Example .Set.-We We're told