Southern good roads . of almost ev-ery ^•ariety of crop. In addition to the staple crops,fruits and vegetal)les can be grown every inonth in thevear, and with pr(_iper transportation facilities thenorthern markets can iDe supplied with these duringthe winter months at highly re^munerative prices. Atpresent the staple crops of the south are corn, cotton,and tol^acco. but statistics show that these are not themost profitable, for the averag-e value per acre ofwheat produced in the United States is $, of , of corn $, and of cotton $, while theaverage value per acre of \-eget
Southern good roads . of almost ev-ery ^•ariety of crop. In addition to the staple crops,fruits and vegetal)les can be grown every inonth in thevear, and with pr(_iper transportation facilities thenorthern markets can iDe supplied with these duringthe winter months at highly re^munerative prices. Atpresent the staple crops of the south are corn, cotton,and tol^acco. but statistics show that these are not themost profitable, for the averag-e value per acre ofwheat produced in the United States is $, of , of corn $, and of cotton $, while theaverage value per acre of \-egetables is $48 and ofsmall fruits $ If the most profitable crops areto be produced more attention must, therefore, begiven to trucking and fruit gTowing. Bad roads, how-ever, place an emlaargo on this class of farming, the immediate vicinitv of market or railroad station,because such ]iroducts must be put upon the marketwhile fresh, and in an unbruised condition, which can-not 1ie dune o\-er bad Concrete Culvert Built With Collapsible Form, Near Greenville, S. C. Considering the staple crops, however, enough mon-ey could be saved annually in the cost of transporta-tiiin ti> pay fur the improvement rjf the roads. The av-erage cost per mile of hauling corn in the UnitedStates is about 7 cents per hundred pounds, but the av-erage cost in North Carolina is 12 cents per hundredpounds. In eleven of the southern states the averagecost of hauling corn is 15 cents per hundred pounds, ormore than double what the average is for the UnitedStates. ^Nlost of the corn crop of the south is for homeconsumption, and therefore it will not be a fair calcu-lation to assume that all of it is liauled to market. Theeleven states referred to, however, produced 855,279,-000 bushels of corn in 1910, and if we assume thai onlyone-fifth of it, or 171,000,000 bushels, was hauled tomarket, the total cost at the prevailing rate was $14,-.|oo,ooo. If corn were hauled as cheaply in th
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