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ture and the few simple manufactures and other occupations subsidiary to it. But within a generation several branches of Manufactures have grown up to some importance, especially those of Turpentine, Cotton, Tobacco, Iron and Lumber. Mining has also received a considerable impulse within the last 50 years, especially in Iron, Gold, Copper and (to some extent) Coal.
AGRICULTURE.
The habits of the people have been agricultural from the beginning—land being very cheap and the population scattered, the great marts and markets of the world, until recently, distant and difficult of access, the principal forms of agriculture very profitable, and the conditions of climate and soil being favorable for the production of a great variety of crops, almost every crop grown in the United States being produced here, as may be seen from the columns of the Census Reports. Half of the territory of the State is adapted to the culture of
Cotton, of which in 1870, nearly 150,000 bales were produced, and last year probably 175,000, worth more than $13,000,000, and the number will nearly reach 200,000 this year.
Tobacco is the principal market crop of at least one-third of the State, more than half of the middle and all of the western district. The product as given by the Census of 1870, is still small compared with what it was before the war, but is extending very rapidly, and the quality is very high, the soils of more than a dozen counties, producing the highest grades in the United States, the product of a single acre frequently reaching 500 and $600.
The Grains, (Cereals,) of all latitudes flourish in one or another of the three districts. Wheat is an important crop in every section of the State, flourishing alike on the clayey champaigns of the extreme east and the high plateaus of the