only 145,200,000 acres out of 612,000,000 are now under cultivation, the
claim does not seem extravagant.
Loading cotton on the levee, New Orleans.
Southern farmers have learned that other products besides cotton pay
well. Less than twenty years ago practically no hay was raised for sale
in the Gulf States. The red clover and timothy which the planter thought
could only be raised in the North are now cultivated in the South. Iowa,
the greatest hay-growing State in the Union, has for the past ten years
averaged 1.58 tons per acre at an average value of $5.45 per ton.