00,000,000 ; potatoes, 165,000,000; and buckwheat (introduced within the century) 15,000,000. The haycrop averages about 28,000,000 tons ; the tobacco crop, about 265,000,000 pounds; flax,28,000,000 pounds ; and hemp, 12,-000 tons. To these agriculturalproducts there have been added,within the… … A CENTURYS PROGRESS. 35 culture has been marvelous. In 1784, eight hales of cotton sentto England from Charleston were seized by the custom-houseauthorities in Liverpool, on the ground that so large a quantitycould not have come from the United States. The progress of itsculture was slow until the…
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