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South Carolina

Resources and

population

WHITNEY LIBRARY,

MUS. COMP. ZOOL.

SOUTH CAROLINA.

RESOURCES AND POPULATION.

INSTITUTIONS AND INDUSTRIES.

PUBLISHED BY THE

STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE

OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

Governor HUGH S. THOMPSON, Chairman.

A. P. BUTLER, Commissioner.

CHARLESTON, S. C.

WALKER, EVANS & COGSWELL, PRINTERS,

Nos. 3 Broad and 109 East Bay Streets.

1883.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PART I.

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. LOCATION. AREA: Maps. GENERAL FEATURES.

RIVERS. REGIONS. AGRICULTURE: Small Grain, Rice, Indigo, Indian Corn, Cotton,

Sea Island Cotton, Remarks. DIAGRAM OF CROPS. 1670 to 1880................................................................. pp. 1–13.

CHAPTER II. COAST REGION. LOCATION: Area, Characteristics. GEOLOGY:

Subsidence, Erosion, Sedimentation, Formation of Islands, Topography, PHYSICAL:

Features, Tides. SOILS: Uplands. Bays, Salt-Marshes. ANALYSES: Error, Occurrence.

of Marls, &c. CLIMATE: Health. STATISTICS. PRODUCTIONS. COTTON: Three Kinds of

Seeds, Hybrids, Origin, Improvement, and Characteristics of Sea Island. FARMS :

Number, Value of Land. LABOR: Tenures, Credits, Diagram, Enclosures, Drainage,

Plows, Hoes, Fallows. CULTURE: Of Sea Island Cotton. ENEMIES: Of the Plant,

Handling. SEED: Santees and Mains. LIMITS: Of Culture. Cost of Production,

Yield, Itemized Statement of Expenditures.........

pp. 14-43.

CHAPTER III. LOWER PINE BELT, OR SAVANNA REGION. LOCATION.

PHYSICAL Features, Rivers, Lakelets, Elevation, Drainage, Irrigration, Freshets.

GEOLOGY: Cretaceous, Buhrstone, Santee Marls, Ashley and Cooper Marls. PHOS-

PHATES: Occurrence, Characters, Fossils, Changes, Origin, Extent. Mining. Sons:

Uplands, Analyses, Swamps. GROWTH. CLIMATE: Health. STATISTICS. PRODUCTIONS:

Rice Culture, Oats, Grasses. AREA: In Cotton. FARMS: Labor, Wages, Rents. Value

of Land, Credits. TILLAGE: Fallowing, Rotation of Crops, Manures. COTTON: Culture,

Handling. Cost: Of Production. Disasters to the Plant. Abstract of Township Cor-

respondence........
..............................pp. 44–70.

CHAPTER IV. UPPER PINE BELT. LOCATION. ELEVATION: Water Courses

GEOLOGY: Cretaceous, Miocene, and Eocene Marls, Buhrstone. SOILS: Analyses. Pee

Dee Lands, River Lands, Swamp Lands. CLIMATE: Frost Diagram. GROWTH: Indian

Fires. PRODUCTIONS STATISTICS. ADVANCES: To Farmers. SIZE of Farms. LABOR:

Wages, Rent, Value of Land. TABLE: Exhibiting Production in Relation to Credits,

Size of Farms, those Rented and those Worked by Owners. ENCLOSURES: Drainage,

Fallows, Rotation, Tillage, Growth on Lands Lying Out, Manures. CoTTON: Culture,

Handling. RATIO: Of Lint to Seed Cotton. SHIPPING. Grass, Lice, Rust. Cost: Of

Production. Ditto in 1848. ABSTRACT; Of Township Correspondence.........pp. 71–109.

CHAPTER V. RED HILL REGION. LOCATION. GEOLOGY: Sienna Colored

Clay, Gravel Bed, Buhrstone, Siliceous Rock. SOILS: Analyses. CLIMATE. GROWTH.

STATISTICS......
........pp. 110–116.

CHAPTER VI. SAND HILL REGION. POSITION and Area: Elevation, Contour,

Diagram, Streams, Lakelets, Blowing Wells. GEOLOGY: Granite, Sandstone, Loose

Sand, Kaolin Clay. SOILS: Analyses. GROWTH and Productions.

TISTICS...........

CLIMATE. STA-

pp. 117-195