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410. Tobacco and Flax are raised in large .

quantities in various sections of the country.

The principal tobacco-producing States are
Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee,
Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

The entire yield of tobacco in 1893 was 483,023,963
pounds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

Fig, 133, Tobacco Field.

The principal flax-producing States are Minne-
sota, Iowa, South Dakota, and Nebraska.
The total value of flax-products in 1893 was $11,137,896.

411, Cotton, Rice, and Sugar are cultivated
mainly south of the 36° north latitude.

The principal cotton-producing States are
Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina,
Georgia, Arkansas, and Louisiana.

 

Fig, 134, Cotton.

The cotton-crop of the year 1894 in the United States
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amounted to 7,527,211 bales, of an average net weight of
440 pounds per bale.

412, The principal rice-producing States are
South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, and North
Carolina. The rice-fields are confined to low, flat,
marshy tracts, near the coast or river bottoms.

 

Fig, 185, Rice Swamp,

The principal sugar-producing State is Louis-
jana, the plantations being confined mainly to the
rich lands in the neighborhood of the Mississippi
Delta. Sugar is also grown in South Carolina,
Tennessee, and Texas.

   

Fig, 186, Sugar-Cane Field,

The total production of cane-sugar in 1893 amounted to
450,000,000 pounds.
Beet-sugar is produced in several of the States, princi-