Alabama: As it Was, as it Is, and as it Will Be. A Work Exhibiting the Agricultural Actualities of the Soils of the State, when Properly Cultivated and Tilled, in Comparison with Those of the Other States of the Union; Its Present Agricultural Deformities, and the Remedy Therefor; Its Mineral and Other Industrial Interests, Founded Upon Statistics and Actual ResultsBarrett & Brown, printers, 1876 - 209 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 74 - ... constituent parts, necessarily sterile ; and that of the remaining part, although well constituted for fertility, is, from the absence of rains at certain seasons, except where capable of irrigation, as uncultivable and unproductive as the other. This general character of extreme sterility likewise belongs to the country embraced in the mountain region. From the western slopes of the Rocky mountains...
Σελίδα 155 - The number of colored births was one less than the number of marriages, and the deaths exceeded the births in the proportion of nearly two to one." In Providence, where a very correct registry has been in operation under the superintendence of Dr. Snow, the deaths are one in twenty-four of the...
Σελίδα 86 - States, that the westward progress of its population has nearly reached the extreme western limit of the areas available for settlement, and that the whole space west of the 98th parallel, embracing one-half of the entire surface of the United States, is an arid and desolate waste, with the exception of a narrow belt of rich lands along the Pacific coast.
Σελίδα 87 - ... border along the Pacific, is a country of comparatively little value to the agriculturist ; and perhaps it will astonish the reader if we direct his attention to the fact that this line, which passes southward from Lake Winnipeg to the Gulf of Mexico, will divide the whole surface of the United States into two nearly equal parts. This statement, when fully appreciated, will serve to dissipate some of the dreams which have been considered as realities as to the destiny of the western part of the...
Σελίδα 171 - The South & North Alabama Rail Road section shows, also, one of those peculiar contortions in the rocks which we frequently find in the coal fields ; it is very well defined at this point, and has the effect of greatly interfering with mining operations, for such plications are the results of a crushing of the measures which makes the coal faulty and not unfrequently sulphury, even at some distance from the anticlinal and synclinal axes. In general we may remark that wherever the disturbance of the...
Σελίδα 69 - Mississippi, scarcely anything exists deserving the name of vegetation. The soil is composed of disintegrated rocks, covered by a loam an inch or two in thickness, which is composed of the exuviae of animals and decayed vegetable matter.
Σελίδα 68 - ... vegetable and animal life features of its own. The most remarkable and apparent difference between this region and those of the States of the Union generally, and that which perhaps creates as much as any other one cause the difference in its botanical and zoological productions, is the hygrometric state of the atmosphere. For while the plants and animals assume new forms in life, the crust of the earth, the soil, and the rocks, are everywhere familiar and have many types, indeed fac-similes,...
Σελίδα 101 - ... of which not less than 89,000,000, including swamp and tule lands capable of reclamation, are suited to some kinds of profitable husbandry. Of these over 40,000,000 are fit for the plough, and the remainder present excellent facilities for stock-raising, fruit-growing, and all the other branches of agriculture. This agricultural area exceeds that of Great Britain and Ireland, or the entire peninsula of Italy.
Σελίδα 150 - Whilst houses, fences, and everything have gone and are going to ruin and decay, the poor farmer can only get advances to make cotton. These advances all come from the class of non-producers, and are made for the purpose of keeping their commissions and other business alive, and not for the benefit of the producer. If this business of advancing on cotton should stop in the Black Belt for one year, all farming would cease.
Σελίδα 87 - Pacific, with the exception of the rich but narrow belt along the ocean, the country may also be considered, in comparison with other portions of the United States, a wilderness unfitted for the uses of the husbandman ; although in some of the mountain valleys, as at Salt Lake, by means of irrigation, a precarious supply of food may be obtained...