. North Carolina and its resources. t tend to stimulate and exchange among themselves of their sur-plus products, securing thereby better prices by the saving of freightsover long lines of transportation. While, therefore, North Carolina may not compete with some ofthe other great agricultural states in such special product as eachmay excel in, yet combining the variety and universality of produc-tion, the capacity for self-sustenance, the some one thing that eachsection excels in; and added to these things the healthfulness andpleasantness of the climate, the beauty of the landscape, the hosp
. North Carolina and its resources. t tend to stimulate and exchange among themselves of their sur-plus products, securing thereby better prices by the saving of freightsover long lines of transportation. While, therefore, North Carolina may not compete with some ofthe other great agricultural states in such special product as eachmay excel in, yet combining the variety and universality of produc-tion, the capacity for self-sustenance, the some one thing that eachsection excels in; and added to these things the healthfulness andpleasantness of the climate, the beauty of the landscape, the hospital-ity of the people; the assertion is boldly and confidently made thatshe surpasses all the others. The soil of the eastern counties is mostly of alluvial formation,and remarkably easy of cultivation; cotton, corn, tobacco, peanuts,sweet and Irish potatoes vie with each other in making generousresponse to intelligent and kindly treatment of the soil; while stonefruits and pears, small fruits and garden products attest its almost. Agricltlture. 157 universal adaptation to all agricultural productions for the susten-ance of mankind. It is in the eastern counties where the trucking industry hasreached its highest development, rapidly increasing its productionsfrom small beginnings, some ten years ago, to its present great com-mercial value. Here is the natural home of the sweet potato, NorthCarolina excelling all other states in the quantity and quality of itsproduct. The Coastal Plain region gradually merges into the PiedmontPlateau, the divisional line between which may be said in a generalway to transverse the State from northeast to southwest, passing alittle east of Raleigh, the capital of the State; the Piedmont extend-ing westwardly from this line to a tier of counties, bordering the BlueRidge, where the Mountain region fairly begins. The Piedmont isthat favored region where blend harmoniously the climate, soil andproducts of the east and the west, the north and the sout
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