. Yearbook of agriculture . FIG. 6.—Theie was a great shift in area and a great increase in productionbetween and 1859. The black prairie of Alabama and Mississippiand thp alluvial lands along the Mississippi contributed largely to tbeincrease in production. New territory was added in eastern Texaa. was produced, but for the most part agricultural activitieswere diverted to the production of food. In 1865 the South 99912=—YBK 1921 22 332 Yearbook of the Departrtient of Agriculture^ 1921. was again free to return to a high degree of specialization incotton. The recovery of production was
. Yearbook of agriculture . FIG. 6.—Theie was a great shift in area and a great increase in productionbetween and 1859. The black prairie of Alabama and Mississippiand thp alluvial lands along the Mississippi contributed largely to tbeincrease in production. New territory was added in eastern Texaa. was produced, but for the most part agricultural activitieswere diverted to the production of food. In 1865 the South 99912=—YBK 1921 22 332 Yearbook of the Departrtient of Agriculture^ 1921. was again free to return to a high degree of specialization incotton. The recovery of production was necessarily Fig. 7.—By 1879 production had practically recovered from the effects of theCivil War. It had shifted farther westward in Texas and Indian Terri-tory. In the East the effects of the use of fertilizers on the upper CoastalPlain and Iiedmont began to show in increased prodnction.
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