. Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries . by wind-power, and cleaned fivehundred
. Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries . by wind-power, and cleaned fivehundred bushels a day. Later, Cal-vin Emmons of New York inventeda machine with toothed beaters,which cleaned from seven hundredand fifty to eight hundred bushelsa day. This process leaves the grainwith a thin hull on; and in thiscondition it is called paddy, orrough rice. Our export is chieflyin that form. To complete the workof cleaning, the rice goes throughanother mill, between stones andunder pounders like those of aquartz-mill. Formerly rice wascleaned by hand in pitch-pinemortars holding a bushel, by meansof an iron-shod pestle. Nearly everylarge plantation has one of the newmills for cleaning. The climax of our rice-culturewas reached in the year 1850, whenwe raised 215,313,497 pounds, of which South Carolina is credited with 159,-930,613 pounds, Georgia with 38,950,691, North Carolina with statistics of5,465,868, Louisiana with 4,425,349, and the other Southern together with less than 7,000,000. The returns of i860, showing the. KICE-HLLLER. 112 INDUSTRIAL HISTORY crop of the previous year, gave a total of only 187,167,032 pounds, of whichSouth Carolina produced 119,100,528, Georgia 52,507,652, North Carolina7,593,976, Louisiana 6,331,257, and the other States together less than 2,000,-000. In South Carolina all but 2,765,729 pounds were raised in Georgetown,Colleton, Charleston, and Beaufort Counties, the first-named yielding nearlyhalf of the whole. Nine-t
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