. Yearbook of agriculture . upa-tion by cotton planters and was being rapidly addition of large areas of new land that was well suitedto the cultivation of cotton increased production so rapidlyin the decade 1839-1849 that prices fell to a very low low prices, production increased 50 per were better during the decade 1849-1859, and produc-tion continued to increase in all parts of the Cotton Belt,the greatest gains being made in the Southwestern this decade Texas and Arkansas began to contribute tothe annual crops of the United States.
. Yearbook of agriculture . upa-tion by cotton planters and was being rapidly addition of large areas of new land that was well suitedto the cultivation of cotton increased production so rapidlyin the decade 1839-1849 that prices fell to a very low low prices, production increased 50 per were better during the decade 1849-1859, and produc-tion continued to increase in all parts of the Cotton Belt,the greatest gains being made in the Southwestern this decade Texas and Arkansas began to contribute tothe annual crops of the United States. In this and the pre-ceding decade, railroads were constructed from the coast tothe interior in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, andAlabama, increasing the transportation facilities and therebyencouraging the further development of cotton productionin the interior of these States. The Cotton Situation. 331 The blockade during the Civil War temporarily ruined theIotton industry of the South. During the war some cotton. Fig. .5.—More than three-fourths of the cotton crop of was grown eastof the Mississippi Rivr-r. Mississippi was the leading State and Georgianext. Several counties in Illinois and Missouri reported cotton.
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