Census Reports Tenth Census. June 1, 1880: Cotton production in the United StatesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1884 - United States |
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... weeds of the fields and gardens are prominent Richardsonia scabra , or Mexican or Florida clover , crab - grass , Cassia nictitans , Polypremum procumbens , Ambrosia artemisiafolia ( hogweed ) , and Erigeron Philadelphicum ( rag - weed ) ...
... weeds of the fields and gardens are prominent Richardsonia scabra , or Mexican or Florida clover , crab - grass , Cassia nictitans , Polypremum procumbens , Ambrosia artemisiafolia ( hogweed ) , and Erigeron Philadelphicum ( rag - weed ) ...
Page 89
... weed . The usual yield per acre is from 200 to 1,000 pounds , i . e . , from two - thirds to five - sixths of a 400 - pound bale , and varies but little for the first ten or twelve years of culture . Rag - weed and hog - weed are most ...
... weed . The usual yield per acre is from 200 to 1,000 pounds , i . e . , from two - thirds to five - sixths of a 400 - pound bale , and varies but little for the first ten or twelve years of culture . Rag - weed and hog - weed are most ...
Page 92
... weed , hog - weed , and purslane are most troublesome . One - third of the old lands are not cultivated ; but after several years of rest they produce nearly as well as when fresh . There is not much injury from washings except on ...
... weed , hog - weed , and purslane are most troublesome . One - third of the old lands are not cultivated ; but after several years of rest they produce nearly as well as when fresh . There is not much injury from washings except on ...
Page 93
... weed grows so rank that the plant rots the freest and warmest , and give best returns . and molds ; they are also too much shaded by the hills . The second bottoms are generally rolling , with no hills so high as to shade them too much ...
... weed grows so rank that the plant rots the freest and warmest , and give best returns . and molds ; they are also too much shaded by the hills . The second bottoms are generally rolling , with no hills so high as to shade them too much ...
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... weed is crab - grass , but briers and other weeds are often bad . Not more than 10 or 15 per cent . of the originally - cultivated land is turned out , and when this is again taken into cultivation it produces very well , especially if ...
... weed is crab - grass , but briers and other weeds are often bad . Not more than 10 or 15 per cent . of the originally - cultivated land is turned out , and when this is again taken into cultivation it produces very well , especially if ...
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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...