The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-04-12
COLUMBIA.
Thursday Morning, April IL, 1855.
Southern Productions.


ration and development of her re-
sources, and from the statements of
one of these, located at Washington,
we gather some interesting statistics
of the productions of the South.
According to the cotton estimates
made up at the close of the cotton
year of 1s6O-61, the cotton crop of
1860 was 1856, GIG bales, but the CEN
sus Of that year shows the crop to
have been 5,196, 544 bales-a differ
ence of 1,540, 1868 bales. The former
figures are the actual receipts at the
different cotton ports, while the lat
ter is made up from the different esti-
mates gathered from the census taken.
The highest estimates of the crop for
the present year, with favorable sea-
son, do not place it beyond $500, 900
bales, while it, most likely, will fall
considerably Ielow that amount.
In 1860, the tobacco crop amounted
to 434, 183,561 pounds; sugar, $780,
9S2 hogsheads; cane molasses, IA, $685.
966 gallons; sorghum molasses, g.
69S, 191 gallons; and rice. 1877, 167, ,O32
pounds. It is estimated that one
fourth of these amounts will be pro-
duced this year. In the crippled
condition in which the people of the
South find themselves, after long
and exhausting war, they are unable
to bring the staple productio up:to
nearer approach to those of 1860
than one-fourth, except in the single
article of cotton, to the production of
which the best energies OF the great
body of Southern producers, in
Guiding all the newcomers, appear to
be devoted.
The association referred to, located
at Washington city, has put forth
some interesting statistics, showing
the immense productions of the States
named below. It will be observed
that some of the Southern States are
fomitted. But as all the Southern
States were in the same ratio product
i've, these statistics may be taken as
fair criterion, and we reproduce them
as q matter of general interest:
ALABAMA.
Alabama has under cultivation
e, 1856, 724 acres of land, and pro-
6uced
Cotton, bales. .......... 989,955
Corn, bushels. ........ 1925. 2S2
Sweet potatoes, bushels. 5,439, GIG
Live stock, value SAB, All, Gil
Slaughtered animals, va
Butter, pounds. s.......... 6,O23, 478
GEORGIA
Georgia has s,662, 75e acres of cul-
tivated lands:
Cotton, bales. ..... 7O2.S5O
Corn, bushels. 3O,776, 293
Sweet potatoes, bushels. 6,658, 541
Live stock, value. -. .$3S, 372, 734
OF land purchased of the Govern
mont by individuals, and under cult
walton, il had Il, ,5e7, 1852 acres.
ELoRDA.
Acres cultivated 654,213
Acres unculGvated, pur-
chased B. =. 1885, ,e25
Cotton, bales 65,753
Corn, bushels. ..:...... 1886, ,391
Sweet posatees, bushels 1,129, 759
Live STOCK, value. IS, 553, ,356
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Acres cultivated. 1873, 900
Cotton, bales. ..r.. 353, ,412
Corn, bushels. ......,.. -. 1905, ,6O6
Sweet potatoes, bushels. 4,175,6 ,6sS
Live stock, value -. 1923, 9S4, ,462
TEXAS.
Acres under cultivation. 1850, ,7s1
Acres uncnlhvated. ...... %, 693, 247
Cotton, bales. 431.4 1864
Corn bushels. ........ $500, 7O2
Sweet potatoes, bushels. l,129, 759
= Lave stccks value ~. .$42, ,825. AT
LOUISIANA. as
Acres under cultivation 2,7O7, ,1OS
Acres uncultivated. ...... 6,291, 463
Cotton, bales. ........ TIT, ,73S
Corn, bushels. ....:.. 1888, 783
Sweet potatoes, bushels. 2,066, ,981
Live stock, value. .$24, ,54e, $40
MISSISSIPPI.
Acres under cultivation. 5000, 7e5
Acres uncultivated. ). =. 10, 773, 939
Cotton, bales. ........... 1902, 507