[42] See De Bow’s “Resources,” art. Tobacco.
[43] Vol. i., p. 175, “Resources.”
[44] In my Notes on Eastern Virginia, it was mentioned that a tobacco planter informed me that he could not raise the finer sorts of tobacco with profit, because he could not make his slaves take pains enough with it; and in certain localities in Ohio, having a favourable soil for the production of fine or high-priced tobacco, it appears that free labour is engaged more profitably in the cultivation of tobacco than in the cultivation of corn. It is the same in parts of Connecticut and of Massachusetts. Except in these limited districts, however, it is found that the labour of Ohio, as of Connecticut and Massachusetts, is more profitably directed to the cultivation of Indian corn and other crops than of tobacco.
[45] “Resources,” p. 175.
[46] Virginia, with 10,360,135 acres of improved land, produced, according to the last census returns,
| 35,254,319 | bushels of corn, |
| 56,803,227 | pounds of tobacco. |
Ohio, with 9,851,493 acres of improved land, produced
| 59,078,695 | bushels of corn, |
| 10,454,449 | pounds of tobacco. |
The aggregate value of these two products alone, at present New York prices, would be
| Ohio | $5,127,223,565 |
| Virginia | $3,564,639,385 |