Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-07-10

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But the states which yield the best
and most profitable crops of Irish
potatoes do not find the sweet potatoes,
at all lpsoftalla,-if.~we.nayjudge ~we from
this report, New York raising; only
1O. 900 bushels, Vermont sc bushels,
New sHampsinreT 160a bushels, and
Maine $50 bushe!s.:, New ,JersaE. how
ever, proves that the sweet potato may
be raised probably farther north than
Was suppressed 7before thsfwar.s That
81 T i; 500 Iooo bushels, s~hicf L shout
ths5oayeraee yield Of the Southern,
States.s Il is singular that vNaxylend
and Delaware do not cultivate this
vegetable more extensively their
returns" g,~s""1especslvely only
200 Q0OOt, and. a as, ,00 II; 4. bushels.
North Carolina leads in this crop,
returning 5000, coo bushels Georgia
follows with 2,60Q. 600 bushels, and
Texas with ,O00, 600 bushel% Alabama
Louisiana, Mississippi, South Caro-
lima, and Tennesseez zeaeh return more
than LOCO, OOQ, while Virgins returns
only $50 O00 hnshals.--- -Tnxaing now to
the eighth census, We find that the
Southern 8tates raised enormous crops
Of sweet pbtetoea before th6 war;, Ala
bama having returned {, ,0O0, 900, bush
els, Georgia 6,O0d 900, Misslssippi
4o0O, Geo, North Carolina 6, OO0, $50,
South Caroline QQ0, 0Q0 ard the other
Southern States in proportion. Such
q crest reduction as this IN one Of tie
principal II 5Ps II the South seems
almost Of itself enough to cripple, if
not e bapkFppt tbs ssstea: 4 basocaa q
Among tho one.sided Statistics Of the
beaDaGaSe tAososreletiA9 t0athe sugar
and molasses crops. The only STATES
that make xetpxna Of apGaxtxom;:cane are
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana,
lfississiprpi, Missouri, North Carotna,
Honth Caroline, Tennessee, and Te1nss
Tennessee returns only Two hOgsheade.
The only states returning more than
| /. 600 hogsheads are Louisiana 221, 600,
Texas S. 0O0;s and Fl5rida md Georgia
eadk has little moro than E0OO.S OF
molasses from oanes Louisiana pro-
duces r., OO0, 600 gallons, and the other
ststes named return about the same
yield relatively 70 their sugar crops,
except that .So1A Carolina makes no
return.
The returns OF maple sugar reverse
the scale, few of these Southern States
making any account of this crop Yer.
mont is the banner State for maple
sugar, repairing yield of, almost To-
OO0, 600 pounds. The production of
New York il somewhat larger, but
nothing oonparsd with the difference
in area. I, The only other States which
return more than 1000, 900 pounds
are:s Michigan, 1000, 900; Ohio. g.
26O, 600; Pennsylvanisy nearly 3,00O,e
600; New =, HampsAlre,, $3.50, 600;
Idniana, 1,5OO, 900; Massachusetts, i
few pounds moro than I, ,OOO, 600. The
total productiop ,iss 40 O0O, 600 ponnds.,
The total production Of maple molass-
ses is I, SOC, ESQ gallons, Of which Ohio
returns nearly 400, 900 gaHons, Indiana
nearly 800. 900. Kentucky 14Q 900. and
the other States smallers amounts7
Vermont being away toward the foot
OF the list, only returning 10000
A study of these statistics shows that
no part Of the country is SO barren and
suppose. The other atates of.the, East
nnly be pretty good stntes to, emigrate
from, but they are also pretty good
states to stay in, for the real value Of =
crop il not measured BY bulk or by the
am0nnt yielded, and latatoes and su-
garsmay be1re,ativeE askttell worth
raisiug - wheat and Nn1h.. Hhs United
States are what might he called>a well,
balanced conmunity in an agficnlt
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