In wheat there is an increase of 22.000.000. in oats. of 45.000.000 bushels. Comparing it with the production of the rest of the country. we find that. notwithstanding the fact that the West produced last year the largest crop of corn ever made. the increase as compared with 1879 was only 31 per cent.. while that of the Sonths corn crop was 55 per cent. When we consider the poverty of the South at the start and the lack of immigration and contrast it with the wealth of the North and West this agricultural progress of the South is astonishing. It is a monumen t to the energy of the people and a complete refutation of the statement that the people of that section devote their entire time to hunting down and shooting the colored men o~the South. who constitute in the main the labor that harvests this immense crop. The magnitude of the investments in Southern railroads since the 1st of January. 1880. is almost beyond comprehension.
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