The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-10-15
NORTH CAROLINA
EXCELs VIRGINIA
In Many Ways Not Commonly
Known
More Tarheel Territory and Tar
heels Numerically, and n. {.
is Richer Otherwise
fRv THORNWELL HAYNEs.)

{By THORNWELL HAYNES.)
High Point, Oct. 12.-To he gen
eral reader it is a surprise to learn
that the area Of North Carolina is
greater thar that Of Virginia, the ex-
cess of the former over hte latter In
square miles being more than 5000,
the total for each. In the order
named, amounting to 4S,740 n 49,
262. Then, too, North Carolina eX-
ceeds Virginia considerably IN popu-
lation, the number OF inhabitants be-
ing in North Carolina 2,206,237, and
in Virginia 2,061,612, or nearly 49,
900 more Tar Heels than Virgin1ans,
or almost enough to make a city as
large as Richmond.
But Virginia with it's fifty-One n
habitants to the square mile Is denser
than North Carolina with its forty
five, and even South Carolina, though
containing a less number Of inhabi-
tants and only three-fourths as many
square miles as North Carolina, has
-four more people to the square mile
than the old North State. Further,
North Carolina with over a quarter
million farms has a far greater num-
Der than either Virginia or South
Carolina with their less than 200, 900
each. And though North Carolina
has a greater number of acres in farm
land, yet Virginia has the largest
farms, the average number Of acres in
the latter State numbering 1853,
while in the former the average is
S8.4 and in South Carolina 1855 acres.
When the value of land in dollars.
however, is considered, the Old Do
minion outranks the two C%arolinas,
the figures for the most southerly Of
the three states being s268,774,S54, for
the middle state S3~43,164,945, and for
the most northerly $394,65S,912.
Both Virginia and North Carolina
NVoI,,on1 oynr AZ nOn h00 h,,chnj. ~
corn each in 1911 with the latter ex-
ceeding the former by 1000, 600 BUSH
els, but in every other principal crop
North Carolina is surpassed by Vir-
ginia. In the production Of wheat in
1911. Virginia measured over 9,OOO,-
harvested only 6,e36,000; Of hay
North Carolina produced 10000 tons
II Virginia 100000; of tobacco the
Tar Heels raised 99,400, 900 pounds
and the V~irgintans 128,000,O00; while
Of apples, the raising Of which fruit
North Carolina boasts, Virginia gath
cred 100000 more bushels than
North Carolina, the figures being a.
662,7d and 9,835,9Sz.
In manufacturing Virginia slightly
takes the lead Of the Old North State,
the former containing $685. industrial
4,931, out the number engaged in in
dustry, the capital invested, wages
paid. cost of materials, and value of
products are nearly equal In both
states.
In the production of distilled spirits,
however, there is a striking difference.
In 1911 North Carolina produced only
SAT gallons (Which was quite a de-
crease from the 593,227 she produced
in 1860 while Virginia in 1911 dis
titled 1,31O,4s5 gallons, or more than
half a gallon for each one OF her
inha hifo nfo or All To Cixa wa
six gallons to every man. woman and
child, white and black, in the city Of
Richmond. And yet. strange as it
NAV seem, nearly as much internal
revenue tax was collected in North
Carolina in 1911 as was collected in
Virginia, the amounts being, aspect
lively, s7.272,11S and $S,2o5.2S7. And
still stranger, perhaps, not only did
Virginia produce 1,4O0 times as much
distilled spirits in 1911 as did North
Carolina, but she produced twenty
eight and a half million pounds more
Of tobacco.
To return to agriculture again in
the increased production Of hay and
forage Virginia, in street parlance,
puts it all over North Carolina.
During the last decade the fields OF
Virginia in the production Of hay and
the increase in North Carolina was
only 12.7; the value of this crop in
1910 in the former state was s1O,-
256,998 and in the latter S4,1S1,562.
North Carolina, however, has quite
sufficient revenge in her 774,752 bales
of cotton as compared with Virginia's
1905, although South Carolina, as
small as she is, outdoes them both in
producing 1.240,540 bales. Still this
is only a matter of climate.
But the mileage Of public roads is
not altogether a climatic affair. and
in this respect. too. Virginia falls a
little below North Carolina, the fig
ures for 1909 being 43,3ss and 49,
2s3. and ever in railroad mileage
North Carolina leads with 4,932,
against Virginia's 1895. The taxes
and assessments of these miles of
railroads, however, is greater in vir-
ginia. the figures in 1919 for this State
dina se51.7s1. And in miles If
railway the comparison Is de-