Census Reports Tenth Census. June 1, 1880: Cotton production in the United StatesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1884 - United States |
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... analyses of soils and subsoils given have been made at the expense of the state geological survey , and acknowledgments are due also to Messrs . McCalley , Cory , Durrett , and Langdon , students in the chemical laboratory of the ...
... analyses of soils and subsoils given have been made at the expense of the state geological survey , and acknowledgments are due also to Messrs . McCalley , Cory , Durrett , and Langdon , students in the chemical laboratory of the ...
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... analyses of soils from those localities where the so - called granite makes the country are at hand . The gneisses vary in composition from granitic gneiss to mica - schist , which contains only quartz and mica , and vary in fertility ...
... analyses of soils from those localities where the so - called granite makes the country are at hand . The gneisses vary in composition from granitic gneiss to mica - schist , which contains only quartz and mica , and vary in fertility ...
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... analyses show a large percentage of insoluble matter and a deficiency of lime and vegetable matter . The hardening of No. 40 is probably due to this lack of organic matter . In potash and phosphoric acid , considering the amount of ...
... analyses show a large percentage of insoluble matter and a deficiency of lime and vegetable matter . The hardening of No. 40 is probably due to this lack of organic matter . In potash and phosphoric acid , considering the amount of ...
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... analyses indicate soils of a fair degree of fertility and durability , which , while they contain a large proportion of insoluble matter , are yet thrifty , by reason of a comparatively large percentage of lime and magnesia . In ...
... analyses indicate soils of a fair degree of fertility and durability , which , while they contain a large proportion of insoluble matter , are yet thrifty , by reason of a comparatively large percentage of lime and magnesia . In ...
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... analyses show that all these soils are of rather more than average fertility ; and while they do not contain unusually large amounts of phosphoric acid and potash , yet the large percentage of lime in each case renders the soil thrifty ...
... analyses show that all these soils are of rather more than average fertility ; and while they do not contain unusually large amounts of phosphoric acid and potash , yet the large percentage of lime in each case renders the soil thrifty ...
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ABSTRACT acres per square acres.-Area planted Alabama average cotton product beds black-jack bottom lands brown-loam calcareous cent Chattahoochee Chattahoochee river chert clay subsoil clayey Coal Measures color Coosa corn Crab-grass creek Cretaceous cultivation depth drift feet fertilizers flatwoods fresh land gneisses gravelly gray sandy greensand growth hickory hills hornblendic hummocks Hygroscopic inches lime limestone loam manure marl metamorphic mountain mulatto oak and hickory oats pebbles phosphoric acid pine barrens pine lands pine uplands planted in cotton post oaks potash pounds cotton lint pounds of seed-cotton pounds seed-cotton prairie product per acre red clay red lands ridge river rocks run to weed sand sandstone sandy lands sandy loam sandy soils seed-cotton per acre short-leaf pine siliceous southern southward square miles square miles.-Woodland staple streams subsoil surface swamp sweet potatoes table-lands Tennessee thickness Tilled lands timber underlaid usually washings wheat wire-grass yellow yield
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Page 25 - Of the two principal soil varieties above named, that of the red lands is derived from the decomposed hornbleudic gneisses and slates, which in many places, where exposed in washes or gullies, are seen to be mere stratified clays, containing fragments more or less angular of the quartz veins or seams which are nearly always interbedded with the other rocks of this region. This red soil (the color of which comes from the iron of the hornblende) is considered best adapted to the production of corn...
Page 74 - ... whites, there are the originally most fertile lands of the State. The natural advantages of the soils are, however, more than counterbalanced by the bad system prevailing in such sections, viz : large farms rented out in patches to laborers who are too poor and too much in debt to merchants to have any interest in keeping up the fertility of the soil, or rather the ability to keep it up, with the natural consequence of its rapid exhaustion and a product per acre on these, the best lands of the...
Page 74 - ... 1. That, where the blacks are in excess of the whites, there are the originally most fertile lands of the State. The natural advantages of the soils are, however, more than counterbalanced by the bad system prevailing in such sections, viz : large farms rented out in patches to laborers who are too poor and too much in debt to merchants to have any interest in keeping up the fertility of the soil, or rather the ability to keep it up, with the natural consequence of its rapid exhaustion and a...
Page 24 - There are all gradations between the hard, almost indestructible quartzites to the easily-eroded marble ; from the warm, fertile and undulating granitic and gneissic land to the much broken, often sterile tracts formed by mica slates and other highly siliceous rocks. With the varying composition of the rocks come varying degrees of resistance to decay and erosion, and hence the great variety in the scenery of this region, where high and almost mountainous ridges alternate with rolling and sometimes...
Page 42 - In this estimate are included also those calcareous lands derived from the limestones of the Mountain Limestone formation where they occur in the valleys and not upon the mountain slopes. The general character of the valley lands has already been alluded to. They are nearly level or gently undulating, especially near the Tennessee river, on both sides ; but in the gaps between the mountain spurs the surface is more broken. On account of the fertile nature of the soil most of these lands are cleared...
Page 25 - The top stratum of this soil, from two to three inches in depth, has often a dark chocolate-brown color, but below it becomes a brighter red, and at varying depths, from ten to fifteen feet, becomes a yellowish hard clay. Where the freshly decomposed rocks are seen the color is yellowish rather than red, the latter color being darker and more intense apparently the further removed the soil is from its original position and the more it is affected by the decay of the vegetable 'matter. When first...
Page 20 - ... south, but the yearly mean directions are nearly evenly balanced. Temperature. — Extremes of temperature are comparatively rare, and the extremes of heat during the summer months are especially moderated by the tempering winds from the Gulf of Mexico. In those parts of the State most remote from the Gulf their elevation above sea-level secures immunity from excessive heat.
Page 72 - The system of credits in the large cotton-producing regions prevails to such an extent that the whole cotton crop is usually mortgaged before it is gathered ; and when we consider that the prices charged for provisions, etc., thus advanced are at LEAST 50 PER CENT. HIGHER than regular market rates, and that the cost of producing cotton is given by our correspondents, almost without exception, at...