Starting in 1880 with total farm assets. which includes the value of farms. implements. etc.. of S2.314.000.000. the South made an advance by 1890 to $3.182.I0.000a gain of 37 per cent. During the same period the increase in all other States and Territories was from $..790.000.000 to $12.797.000.000. or 30 per cent. In studying these figures it should be remembered that the South had little or no immigration to help to swell the volume of its agricultural products. while other sections had the benefit of a large proportion of the 5.000.000 foreigners who had landed here during the decade. the number that settled on Western farms probably being a large majority of the total. The total value of farm products of the South in 1880 was $90.000.000. against 1 1.500.000.000 for the remainder of the country. In 1810 the South produneed 773.000.000. a gain of $107.000.000. or 16 per ceat while the gain in the rest of the country was only $141.000.000. or 9 per cent.
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